County Administrator Gives Update On Justice Building Chiller
May 27, 2020 at 1:11 a.m.
By David [email protected]
County Administrator Marsha McSherry reminded the commissioners that back in February, they made a decision to order a new chiller for the roof of the Justice Building and one compressor for the existing chiller.
“Currently, one compressor is running. For the weekend, it got up to 85 in the Justice Building. We placed large fans throughout the building to get the air flow moving. By the end of tomorrow/Thursday, things should be better in the Justice Building as far as temperatures,” she said.
Commissioner Cary Groninger said the county does have a second compressor installed but was waiting on the representative to come in and certify it.
“We have a tech coming tomorrow and it may take up to 48 hours to get that up to speed, so things should start to cool off and the weather is supposed to start to cool off so things should be better at that point in time,” McSherry said.
Commissioner Bob Conley said the commissioners took action on it back in February.
“I remember vividly telling the sheriff that we got a jumpstart on the heat, we should have all this done before hot weather hits. With COVID-19, I think the compressor stayed in Florida for a couple weeks, it came here, we’ve been dragging our feet through this,” he said.
McSherry said that was correct and, “The compressor that was installed last week has to have a company technician come in and install it. There’s only one in the state of Indiana. Wednesday is the first they’ll be able to get that unit up and running.”
Commissioner Brad Jackson asked about the county firing it up themselves. McSherry said if the county’s employees do that, it’ll lose the warranty on it.
“We need that. It’s very expensive,” he said.
County attorney Chad Miner presented a resolution in regard to funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security (CARES) Act.
“This is on the CARES Act fund that has been made available for the county to get reimbursement for certain expenses,” he said.
It’s set up so that it requires the signature of the president of the board of commissioners, who is Brad Jackson. However, it does allow for a different individual to be authorized to sign for the funding, and Miner prepared a resolution for McSherry to sign it.
“That should just kind of speed up the process and make it a little easier so you don’t have to come in and sign” the reimbursement request forms, Miner said.
The resolution was unanimously approved.
McSherry then told the commissioners, “I feel like we need to revisit the county’s pandemic protective measures plan. There are several items on here. One that comes to mind first is the employees’ self-health screening. Due to the changes in the steps that are in place, I would like to recommend that we kind of follow the governor’s plan, which would put us to July 6, if we follow those measures.”
She said that would mean the employees’ self-health screening would end July 6 and would no longer be a part of the plan.
Conley made a motion to accept McSherry’s recommendation to follow the governor’s plan, and that was unanimously approved.
McSherry said the commissioners would then revisit the rest of the plan “at that time.”
The second half of the commissioners’ agenda came from the Area Plan Commission. Three unanimous recommendations from the Area Plan Commission for rezonings were presented by Area Plan Director Dan Richard, and all three were unanimously approved by the commissioners.
Those included:
• 9526 S. Ind. 15, rezoning from an agricultural district to Industrial II. The property is just north of Silver Lake and is 4.6 acres. There were no remonstrators.
• Petitioner Silver Lake Agri-Center, rezoning 1.45 acres from agricultural and residential to Industrial II for a solar farm. There were no remonstrators at the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, though Richard noted there was some concern voiced at the Area Plan Commission meeting.
• Luke Minear’s petition requesting the rezoning of 1.91 acres from commercial to agricultural. The property was formerly Clayton’s Garden Center in the town of North Webster. There were no remonstrators.
Another petition scheduled to go before the commissioners Tuesday was from Wawasee Marina Inc. to vacate public way within Jared’s First Addition to Yacht Harbor on Lake Wawasee in Turkey Creek Township.
Richard said the planning commission part is done with it, but, “I think they’re still trying to work over the dissolution” and he turned it over to attorney Steve Snyder, who was representing the marina.
Snyder requested the commissioners continue the petition until the June 23 meeting.
“We have modified the vacation request to eliminate one roadway vacation that was part of it, and there are numerous roads within this plat. We satisfied the remonstrators in that regard. Now the question is, with the vacation of a portion of the roads being Channel Drive, how does the configuration end up with the adjacent property owner, Mr. Bogart? We’re that close to having that resolution, but we don’t want to vacate things if all of a sudden we have to unvacate them as part of the settlement. So we’re just asking to bump it out for 30 days, we’ll get it resolved and come back and finish it at the June meeting,” Snyder explained.
Attorney Travis McConnell, representing Bogart, didn’t add anything other than to say they were “working things out.”
The commissioners unanimously approved to table the petition to the June 23 meeting at 9:15 a.m.
The next commissioners meeting is June 9.
County Administrator Marsha McSherry reminded the commissioners that back in February, they made a decision to order a new chiller for the roof of the Justice Building and one compressor for the existing chiller.
“Currently, one compressor is running. For the weekend, it got up to 85 in the Justice Building. We placed large fans throughout the building to get the air flow moving. By the end of tomorrow/Thursday, things should be better in the Justice Building as far as temperatures,” she said.
Commissioner Cary Groninger said the county does have a second compressor installed but was waiting on the representative to come in and certify it.
“We have a tech coming tomorrow and it may take up to 48 hours to get that up to speed, so things should start to cool off and the weather is supposed to start to cool off so things should be better at that point in time,” McSherry said.
Commissioner Bob Conley said the commissioners took action on it back in February.
“I remember vividly telling the sheriff that we got a jumpstart on the heat, we should have all this done before hot weather hits. With COVID-19, I think the compressor stayed in Florida for a couple weeks, it came here, we’ve been dragging our feet through this,” he said.
McSherry said that was correct and, “The compressor that was installed last week has to have a company technician come in and install it. There’s only one in the state of Indiana. Wednesday is the first they’ll be able to get that unit up and running.”
Commissioner Brad Jackson asked about the county firing it up themselves. McSherry said if the county’s employees do that, it’ll lose the warranty on it.
“We need that. It’s very expensive,” he said.
County attorney Chad Miner presented a resolution in regard to funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security (CARES) Act.
“This is on the CARES Act fund that has been made available for the county to get reimbursement for certain expenses,” he said.
It’s set up so that it requires the signature of the president of the board of commissioners, who is Brad Jackson. However, it does allow for a different individual to be authorized to sign for the funding, and Miner prepared a resolution for McSherry to sign it.
“That should just kind of speed up the process and make it a little easier so you don’t have to come in and sign” the reimbursement request forms, Miner said.
The resolution was unanimously approved.
McSherry then told the commissioners, “I feel like we need to revisit the county’s pandemic protective measures plan. There are several items on here. One that comes to mind first is the employees’ self-health screening. Due to the changes in the steps that are in place, I would like to recommend that we kind of follow the governor’s plan, which would put us to July 6, if we follow those measures.”
She said that would mean the employees’ self-health screening would end July 6 and would no longer be a part of the plan.
Conley made a motion to accept McSherry’s recommendation to follow the governor’s plan, and that was unanimously approved.
McSherry said the commissioners would then revisit the rest of the plan “at that time.”
The second half of the commissioners’ agenda came from the Area Plan Commission. Three unanimous recommendations from the Area Plan Commission for rezonings were presented by Area Plan Director Dan Richard, and all three were unanimously approved by the commissioners.
Those included:
• 9526 S. Ind. 15, rezoning from an agricultural district to Industrial II. The property is just north of Silver Lake and is 4.6 acres. There were no remonstrators.
• Petitioner Silver Lake Agri-Center, rezoning 1.45 acres from agricultural and residential to Industrial II for a solar farm. There were no remonstrators at the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, though Richard noted there was some concern voiced at the Area Plan Commission meeting.
• Luke Minear’s petition requesting the rezoning of 1.91 acres from commercial to agricultural. The property was formerly Clayton’s Garden Center in the town of North Webster. There were no remonstrators.
Another petition scheduled to go before the commissioners Tuesday was from Wawasee Marina Inc. to vacate public way within Jared’s First Addition to Yacht Harbor on Lake Wawasee in Turkey Creek Township.
Richard said the planning commission part is done with it, but, “I think they’re still trying to work over the dissolution” and he turned it over to attorney Steve Snyder, who was representing the marina.
Snyder requested the commissioners continue the petition until the June 23 meeting.
“We have modified the vacation request to eliminate one roadway vacation that was part of it, and there are numerous roads within this plat. We satisfied the remonstrators in that regard. Now the question is, with the vacation of a portion of the roads being Channel Drive, how does the configuration end up with the adjacent property owner, Mr. Bogart? We’re that close to having that resolution, but we don’t want to vacate things if all of a sudden we have to unvacate them as part of the settlement. So we’re just asking to bump it out for 30 days, we’ll get it resolved and come back and finish it at the June meeting,” Snyder explained.
Attorney Travis McConnell, representing Bogart, didn’t add anything other than to say they were “working things out.”
The commissioners unanimously approved to table the petition to the June 23 meeting at 9:15 a.m.
The next commissioners meeting is June 9.
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