Meeting of January 25, 2022
1-25-22 Ohio County Fiscal Court Meeting · Watch on YouTube ↗
Summary
Ohio County Fiscal Court – January 25, 2022
The court opened with prayer and pledge, then approved the minutes of the January 11th meeting and paid the county's bills, claims, and transfers, including a routine roll-call vote on the county bonds that must be posted annually.
A major item was equipment for the ambulance service (Comcare). The court approved purchase of a new Stryker stretcher for $23,250.22 and six new ventilators for $14,700, both funded through ARPA money, with officials noting the equipment purchases fit within the amended ARPA resolution budget of roughly $88,850.
The court also approved purchase of an excavator for the City of Fordsville from McCoy Construction for $51,997.79, again using ARPA/federal recovery funds, and amended ARPA Resolution 202222 to reflect that change. A personnel matter was addressed: a new EMS/meal driver, Miranda Brown, was hired on an emergency basis after a previous hire failed her entrance exam.
A lengthy and notable presentation came from Jimmy Cantrell on the new ARCH reentry program, which has rapidly become operational, providing IDs, birth certificates, housing, child care assistance, employment placement, treatment referrals, and home/ankle monitoring for people coming out of incarceration. The program is showing dramatic cost savings compared to jail housing costs and is largely self-funded through ARPA dollars, with magistrates praising the program's early success and discussing the possible need for additional administrative support as it grows.
Committee reports covered progress on a regional jail interlocal agreement, tornado debris cleanup progress (with FEMA and volunteer crews continuing work, including in the Centertown area), and the Beaverdam Fund's finances. Magistrates thanked volunteers for tornado recovery help before the meeting was adjourned.
Agenda (11)
- 0:01
Call to order, prayer and pledge
Judge Johnson called the meeting to order and Sam Small led the prayer and pledge of allegiance.
- 1:22
Approval of January 11th minutes
The court reviewed and approved the minutes from the January 11th meeting.
- 1:59
Bills, claims, payments and transfers
The court approved payment of bills, claims, and a number of transfers via roll call vote.
- 2:50
Annual county bonds
Justin explained that county bonds must be posted annually, and the court approved the motion to do so.
- 3:22
Comcare/EMS equipment bids
Jim Duke reported on bids for EMS equipment, recommending purchase of a Stryker stretcher ($23,250.22) over a costlier Ferno unit, and six reconditioned ventilators from Master Medical for $14,700; both were approved by the court in separate motions funded through ARPA money.
- 10:15
Excavator purchase for City of Fordsville
The court approved purchasing an excavator for the City of Fordsville from McCoy Construction for $51,997.79 using ARPA/federal recovery funds.
- 13:55
ARPA Resolution 202222 amendment
The court amended Resolution 202222 to reflect the additional ARPA funds needed for the equipment purchases.
- 15:02
Personnel issue - meal driver hire
Judge Johnson reported that a previously hired meal driver had not passed her entrance exam, so Miranda Brown was hired on an emergency basis effective the previous day.
- 15:59
ARCH program report
Jimmy Cantrell gave a detailed quarterly report on the new ARCH reentry program, covering IDs, housing, employment, treatment, child care, and the ankle monitoring system, highlighting major cost savings versus jail incarceration.
- 39:36
Committee reports
Reports covered progress on the regional jail interlocal agreement, tornado debris cleanup with FEMA and volunteer crews, and the Beaverdam Fund finances.
- 46:13
Magistrate comments and adjournment
Magistrates thanked volunteers for tornado cleanup work before the meeting was adjourned.
Motions & votes (8)
- 1:32
passedApprove the minutes of the January 11th meeting
Moved by Sam Small · unanimous voice vote
- 1:59
passedApprove payment of bills, claims, payments and transfers
roll call vote, all yes
- 3:03
passedApprove annual posting of county bonds
unanimous voice vote
- 6:57
passedPurchase a new Stryker stretcher for $23,250.22
Moved by Joe Barnes · seconded by Larry Murphy · unanimous voice vote
- 7:21
passedPurchase six reconditioned ventilators for $14,700
Moved by Larry Cam · seconded by Sam Small · unanimous voice vote
- 11:26
passedPurchase an excavator for the City of Fordsville from McCoy Construction for $51,997.79
roll call vote, all yes
- 14:12
passedAmend ARPA Resolution 202222 to reflect the additional funding for equipment purchases
Moved by Larry Campbell · seconded by Larry Morpheus · unanimous voice vote
- 15:35
passedHire Miranda Brown as meal driver effective immediately at standard rate
roll call vote, all yes
Transcript (39 segments)
- 0:00
[Music] college meeting ohio camp physical court to order uh it's on the 25th of january 2022 at five o'clock i'm going to ask sam small to lead us in a prayer and a pledge to the flag about it was gracious heavenly father lord we just come to you tonight lord and we ask for your your mercy and your pray or your mercy and your help and all decision we make tonight lord we just ask that you would guide us and lead us in the path that would be pleasing unto you lord jesus we just ask that you be with all those that are sick and and in distress lord jesus we just ask you to undergird and strengthen them and help them through their times of need we ask these things in jesus name amen amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it
- 1:12
stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice [Music] before you you have the january 11th uh meeting uh minutes and i need a motion to approve most of the sam's model thank you secretary is there any discussion corrections or additions any discussion corrections or additions being none all folks say aye aye opposed life signs motion carrick before you have the deals claims payments and transfers a bunch of transfers so i need a motion to prove that secondly most of malaria morpheus check them by their campaign we also have a waitlist is there any discussion any discussion
- 2:28
bring that wrong comrade pull up yes yes johnson yes yes mark you yes yes okay the bill's claims are paid uh justin you want to tell us about the bonds on the agenda that's just what uh and it indicated we need on an annual basis uh the different bonds the county bonds so they need to be posted so she asked this motion to be uh be entertained so you'll have emotions [Music] is there any discussion any discussion our question be done i'll focus life sign motion carry uh next we have uh jim duke here to talk about the uh comcare bid i believe we uh opened them before but we didn't make the uh you know get with the avengers to do tell us what you got there thanks judge
- 3:43
last meeting or two meetings ago i can't recall now which i was out of town and i know you had taken bids for the equipment that you had requested that we we get prices on and there was a couple of items that we did not receive a bid on i don't know if it's because of colby but it seems like it's very difficult to get some of these vendors to to want to sell sell anything but anyway i was able to receive bids on the stretcher and i have a bid from inferno and from striker ann had asked me to get two beds tonight for a similar piece of equipment the stretcher we use is a striker a similar type of stretcher that's made by another company is inferno and we haven't used inferno in quite a few years uh yeah probably 40 years helen says it's been a while but i did get a price then their price was quite a bit higher the price for the new and i did get a price for a new stretcher with six batteries from striker was twenty three thousand two hundred fifty dollars and twenty three cents the similar piece of equipment from inferno was thirty five thousand seven
- 4:57
thirty eight thirty eight um obviously we we would recommend the striker the the lesser the two that's the equipment we're using we're having real good luck out of it um so that that would be what i would i would recommend on the the stretcher all the ventilators uh i guess once again because of cover i had a very difficult time getting folks i did get a quote from the company that you purchase the heart monitors from where we get a lot of reconditioned equipment equipment that's got a new warranty but it's it's not new and it's like new and that price for the ventilators from the same company which was master medical and that was a total for the six ventilators of fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars about two thousand four hundred fifty dollars each for the veterans total everything uh it's 14 json for the ventilators and 23 220 21 for the cot you need those in separate motions or uh also right on whatever you guys need it's just to be paid for market money good yes and when you do the math on that does it fit what we budgeted for the common care
- 6:12
uh equipment about five thousand dollars more uh okay well we can figure that out resolution 202 2-2-2 is 83 085 is that this is to be added on to that i think if you would make a motion well when we get to that we'll change that to 88.5 it needs to be 5 000 more than that it falls within that 88.85 let's do those in separate motions as far as the equipment okay that way because it's over there okay let's have one on the stretcher first motion most of the joe barnes distract the from striker and second by larry murphy for a purchase price of 23 250 dollars 22 cents so is there any more discussion on that no discussion all folks say i post like sign we've got the stretcher purchase motion for fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars for the ventilators section motion by
- 7:25
uh larry kam second with sam small to purchase purchase ventilators for how many six strokes ventilators for fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars um if there is further discussion being done on favor say aye aye opposed black sign that motion carrier judge of court i'd like to thank you for this we obviously this is equipment that will belong to the ohio county fiscal court and it just puts you all in a better position i think larry had asked a few months ago he said if you've got something you need that we can own jim said be sure you're asking for it and i like the way you frame that that was a good way to put it a lot of counties don't have that kind of foresight but that that's a good way to to make sure you do this well we take care of family service here we're proud and and it's what once again it's equipped that'll blow you and we'll we'll take absolutely good care of it and we will make it last as long as humanly possible right will you just keep doing the good service and keep them ambulances looking cleaner than everybody else that's in the country like you've been doing well we'll do it thank you not because you're here jimmy but you guys do an excellent job we certainly appreciate it well we we work on it every day to try to take good care
- 8:38
of people can i get a copy of those shirts and we went ahead and did it i thought we could post we at the hospital talking about y'all coming up to pick up a patient then people couldn't believe it they said they won't do it but y'all did a few years that was a few years ago and that was me and they yeah they said you you won't get an ambulance to come here for that there's no way you'll get amnesty oh i can't come here we we've gone as far as atlanta georgia to pick up an ohio county citizen that needed to be taken somewhere else this they're from here we take care of them and this was county fisher so that made it good and they were we were there in two hours and 35 minutes well you picked up helen one time didn't you jimmy but you won't be able to just pick her up we went down and made a nuisance of ourselves to the hospital let her go i do appreciate y'all coming up here