County Administrator Marsha McSherry presented a number of list of things to the commissioners Tuesday for their approval.
The Occupational Health Services agreement is for the county’s health clinic for county employees. It’s for three years, and the commissioners approved.
She presented an addendum to the service agreement for grant administration services with the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG).
“This is a change. A few weeks ago, you approved the change of use for the RLF (Revolving Loan Fund) fund dollars that were coming back to the county. This just now re-engages MACOG for the service agreement for this grant,” McSherry explained.
Commissioner Cary Groninger said, “This was a Revolving Loan Fund that’s now going to be used for Combined Community Services (CCS) to buy food, but there’s still some reporting that has to happen to OCRA (Office of Community and Rural Affairs) because it was a federal grant.”
The addendum was approved.
Moving on, McSherry presented a service agreement for the UPS units at the tower sites for the public safety communications. She said they are installed in the shelters at the four tower sites. The cost for two services and anything else that comes up under contract for one year is $16,584.85. To this point, they’ve been under warranty but the warranty expires at the end of this month, she stated. The agreement was approved.
On courthouse renovations involving three offices - the assessor’s real property, the assessor’s personal property and the surveyor’s office - McSherry said all three of those offices will get painted, have new flooring put in and there’s some repair work that has to be done to the walls.
One of the paint bids was $36,202.39 from Matthews’ Painting Co., Leesburg, for painting and repairing. Another bid from Jack Laurie Group, Fort Wayne, was for $19,475 and included minor repairs to the walls.
Another request for flooring from another vendor was not received in a timely fashion so was not considered, McSherry said. A flooring quote from Jack Laurie was for $43,725.
“So the total for all those repairs, plus some painting and paneling that needs to be done, would be $69,350. The recommendation is to go with the Jack Laurie Group as the combined services,” she said, with the commissioners accepting the recommendation.
McSherry then presented a proposal from Anderson Property Management for spring cleanup at the Justice Building, courthouse and the Old Jail Museum for $13,000. She said it also includes the seasonal change of the flower pots around the courthouse and Justice Building, and all the maintenance that goes along with that for the summer. The commissioners accepted the proposal.
Next, she presented bids for mowing and other services, including weed control for all the county buildings uptown Warsaw, cleaning out the roundabouts, fall cleanup, etc. Two quotes were received, but she said one was not quite “apples to apples,” so she recommended the commissioners go with the quote from Turf Master for $22,523, an increase of about $2,600. The commissioners accepted her recommendation.
Finally, McSherry updated the commissioners on the Justice Building renovations.
“The project is complete - 10 phases just over a year to complete. We have one more meeting with them next Monday. They’re just packing up their stuff and getting everything out of the building. We have a punch list to go through, but that project will be considered complete then,” she said.
Groninger said he was glad to see that project winding down. “It’s been very disruptive to all of our offices over at the Justice Building, but I appreciate all of your efforts on that, and glad to see it’s winding down,” he said.