Meeting of February 22, 2022
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Summary
Ohio County Fiscal Court – February 22, 2022
The court handled a routine slate of business including approval of the February 8th minutes and payment of bills and claims. Magistrates approved an amendment to the county's ankle monitor contract to allow combined GPS/alcohol monitoring bracelets, at a modest additional daily cost that is billed only when in use.
Several personnel actions were approved by roll call, including status/pay changes for a courthouse custodian and a clerk, and the hiring of a part-time van driver for the Senior Center funded through ARPA money. The court also discussed, but did not act on, creating an administrative assistant position to support the county's re-entry program coordinator, and formed a committee (Larry Kamuf, Jason Bullock, and Ann Melton) to study salaries for elected officials ahead of a state deadline.
The court passed the second reading of an ordinance authorizing a regional jail management agreement with Butler and Edmonson counties, after discussion of potential shared costs for feasibility and architectural studies.
A significant portion of the meeting was spent on truck purchases for the road department and the city of Fordsville. After extended discussion comparing a used 2019 Ram diesel and a new Ford F250, the court rescinded an earlier motion and ultimately approved purchases up to roughly $54,924, contingent on Fordsville confirming extended warranty terms with the dealer.
The court also approved adding two water line extension projects to its project list — one on Union Hill Road (contingent on a house actually being framed) and one along Highway 54 toward East Davis County — and corrected an earlier wage scale motion to ensure all eligible employees received retroactive pay to September 14th. Additional updates covered a new EMS stretcher, an increase in the steel-toe boot allowance for road department employees, and a request from the golf course for additional payroll funds due to staffing shortages. The meeting adjourned with no further business.
Agenda (18)
- 0:02
Call to order and prayer
Judge called the meeting to order and Ann Melton led an opening prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1:13
Approval of February 8th minutes
The court reviewed and approved the minutes from the February 8th meeting with no corrections noted.
- 1:29
Bills, claims, payments and transfers
The court reviewed and approved the list of bills, claims, payments and transfers for the period.
- 2:34
Ankle monitor contract amendment
The court discussed and approved amending the ankle monitor contract to add combined GPS/alcohol monitoring bracelets, billed only when in use.
- 5:35
Personnel status changes
The court approved status/pay changes for courthouse custodian Joshua Peach and for a clerk position, along with hiring a part-time van driver for the Senior Center.
- 8:23
Re-entry program administrative assistant discussion
The judge raised the idea of hiring a full or part-time administrative assistant to support the county's re-entry program coordinator, noting cost differences and the need for wage committee review; no hiring decision was made.
- 11:54
Wage committee for elected officials' salaries
A committee of Larry Kamuf, Jason Bullock, and Ann Melton was formed to research comparable county salaries ahead of a May 1st deadline for setting elected officials' pay.
- 12:59
Second reading of jail management ordinance
The court discussed and passed the second reading of an ordinance for a local jail management agreement with Butler and Edmonson counties, including discussion of potential shared costs.
- 16:00
Truck bids for road department and city of Fordsville
Extensive discussion of comparable truck bids led to rescinding an earlier motion and approving purchase of vehicles for both the road department and the city of Fordsville, pending warranty confirmation.
- 32:37
Water line request – Union Hill Road
A resident's request for a water line extension near Union Hill Road was added to the project list, contingent on the house actually being framed before construction begins.
- 35:24
Water line request – Highway 54/East Davis County
A second water line extension along Highway 54 toward East Davis County was added to the list, with hopes of reducing costs through a joint connection.
- 37:03
Wage scale correction and backpay
Joe Barnes reported that some employees were mistakenly left off the September wage scale increase and the court voted to back pay them to the original effective date.
- 38:46
Committee reports – jail and mental health
Larry gave an update on the regional jail agreement process, and Ann Melton reported on resuming mental health/suicide awareness committee meetings in March.
- 42:04
Steel-toe boot allowance increase
The court discussed raising the road department's steel-toe boot allowance from $100 to $150 to better match actual costs.
- 44:32
EMS stretcher update
An update was given that the EMS department received its new stretcher, though monitors are still pending.
- 45:07
Golf course mower purchase and payroll budget
An update on the delayed greens mower purchase through ARC funds was given, along with a request for additional payroll funds due to staffing shortages at the pro shop.
- 50:04
Road department staffing update
Discussion of open road department positions, including a retired employee working seasonally while obtaining his CDL license.
- 53:02
Adjournment
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Motions & votes (18)
- 1:14
passedApprove the February 8th meeting minutes
unanimous
- 1:53
passedApprove bills, claims, payments and transfers
Moved by Larry · seconded by Jason · unanimous
- 3:40
passedAmend the ankle monitor contract to include combined GPS/alcohol monitoring bracelets
unanimous
- 5:43
passedApprove status change for Joshua Peach, custodian, from level 1 to level 2
unanimous roll call
- 6:41
passedApprove status change promoting a clerk to Clerk III with pay increase
unanimous roll call
- 7:32
passedHire Lori Andrews as part-time van driver for the Senior Center at $10.33/hr
unanimous roll call
- 12:30
passedEstablish a wage committee to study salaries for elected officials
- 13:12
passedPass second reading of ordinance 2022-3 establishing a local jail management agreement
Moved by Sam Small · seconded by Larry Kamuf
- 18:11
tabledAccept initial truck bid of $49,999 for a road department vehicle
Moved by Larry
- 25:00
passedRescind the previous motion regarding the dodge pickup truck purchase
Moved by Larry
- 30:11
passedApprove purchase of a new Ford F250 for the road department up to $54,924
Moved by Larry
- 32:05
passedApprove purchase of a second truck for the city of Fordsville up to the same amount, contingent on warranty terms
Moved by Larry · seconded by Miranda
- 34:05
passedAdd Union Hill Road water line extension to the project list, contingent on the house being framed
Moved by Larry
- 35:20
passedAdd a water line extension along Highway 54 toward East Davis County to the project list
Moved by Sam · seconded by Joe Barnes
- 37:41
passedBack pay employees who were left off the September 14th wage scale adjustment
Moved by Joe Barnes · seconded by Larry Morphew
- 43:15
passedIncrease steel-toe boot allowance for road department employees to $150
- 46:10
unclearApprove additional $15,000 for golf course payroll budget
- 53:02
passedAdjourn the meeting
Transcript (43 segments)
- 0:01
[Music] college meeting of ohio came fiscal court to order uh it is uh february 22nd 2022 a little after 5 pm i'm going to ask ann melton to lead us in a prayer and a place to [Music] our play father we want to thank you for all the things you do whether we recognize them or not and watch over our country as we're entering into very troubled times and watch over our county and we all want to be thankful for all the volunteers that are helping us during the tornado and just watch over us in your name we pray amen amen of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you amy [Music] gentlemen you have the february the 8th man
- 1:13
[Music] any discussion corrections or additions discussion corrections auditions main nine authors say aye opposed like sign motion cares bill claims payments and transfers uh i would move some move uh judge and uh give me just a minute but we could get a second second second motion about larry the second by jason there is a light list on here yeah [Music] everybody contribute to the graduation i'm good for anybody anybody else gained questions on the bill's claim payments for transfers or discussion i should say it
- 2:26
being nine on favor say aye aye opposed like to sign the bill to the same our uh past we have an amendment to the ankle monitor contract adjustable tell us about that uh that's just with with uh jimmy now there's a an ankle monitor that we have that will tell us the location of the pendants that are on release pre-trial release we also have an alcohol monitor but there is a another bracelet that would allow us to do the gps and the alcohol jimmy's recommending that we go ahead and amend the contract to include those type braces as needed similar to the other contracts we are only billed when they're in use um and if the defendant's able to pay then they pay if not and we have some situations where we've set aside some of the fund for the to pay some of the cost of the engine that's a good question larry jimmy would have to tell us i think they're a little bit more because it's the combination they may be four to five dollars uh four dollars a day thank you prof i was just curious yeah well let's have a motion to
- 3:39
amend the contract it should have as recommended by justin but joe barnes when we originally talked about it was going to be about five dollars a day anyway and it ended up being cheaper than that that's correct yeah they said about 250 a day or something so we're back to where we originally thought we were going to be anyway or better or aren't they yeah those are a little bit better that's good they'll pick up a future any type of alcohol all in favor say aye aye opposed like saying motion carried uh miranda you wanna bring me the personnel things miranda i didn't get to drag down who was the second on the last one the other one is a status change uh uh flare it's not a one hiring oh wait man where's that van driver [Music] no it never went through are you talking about the one that's taking the mennonite stuff no no
- 4:52
no the van the one that for senior center that was the one i sent last court meeting and you said you didn't want to push it through but i was i didn't know i assumed that it was yeah i sent it back to you do you know what you did yeah i sent it back to you and used it no wait [Music] yeah that's right corey andrews laurie with an l lori andrews and she don't find that well uh the uh we're going we've got two status changes one is a custodian in this building and in the courthouse courthouse too joshua peach he's full-time when one moving from level one to level two that's from 1148 to 1188 so um you need emotions look no i need a roll call so you gotta get back here and do it sam yeah oh we're gonna let julie do the roll call
- 6:06
i'm gonna go ahead and do it uh sam yes jason yes joe yes larry yes blair yes david yes so that was done i'll sign in and the other one that you dealt stone mentioned this before but for some reason it did we didn't get it done i will move her she's been there a long time and she's full time and she's clerk ii will make her clark three from 13 49 to 14 even so 17 what 13 from 13 49 to 14 even in other words 50 cent range yes yes joe yes larry yes thanks yes okay yes the next one we have is
- 7:21
a van driver for the senior center that's the one that we budgeted from the harpa funds and brenda has selected lori and drew's uh and has a rate of pay of 10 33 an hour may be adjusted if it doesn't fit the uh 10 23 okay 10 23. okay roll call johnston yes count this morpheus yes small yes yes yes all right uh while we're on personnel just for discussion i don't think we're well we may do something but we're not going to hire anybody tonight as you know our uh reentry program is uh uh he's doing really well and there's a lot of documentation to show and uh he wants a uh administrative assistant uh
- 8:34
uh we would have to advertise and go through all the process but i want to bring it up to you guys first uh and you have the work up on what the annual cost would be well nobody's told me if it's going to be a clerk or an administrative assistant or full-time or part-time okay who's this for the for the uh yeah for uh jimmy kimmel or jimmy cantrell march program can it be paid out of our money yes uh i don't think we're gonna all we would do is let you all know about make sure no one has any objections and really go ahead and advertise and go through the process they would still bring the name in here and the costs and everything before they could hire anybody because i want y'all to know that we were talking about that and it was on the table but we need to know what we're going to as far as advertising are we going to do it part-time uh actually won't full time one of the things is he needs help with the ankle monitors and one thing and to be in the office when he's in the court so he has people coming in to see him he's up in the upstairs courtroom and uh do you think judge that it would uh that we