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Vigo County CommissionersSep 1, 2026

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Meeting
Vigo County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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0:07:16
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  1. 0:00:00 — open the recording at 0 seconds Thank you. you

  2. 0:00:51 — open the recording at 51 secondsSpeaker 1 you there Scott how we air okay all right pledges allegiance please

  3. 0:00:55 — open the recording at 55 secondsSpeaker 4 I pledge allegiance to the flag 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.

  4. 0:01:14 — open the recording at 1 minute 14 secondsSpeaker 8 (chair) Good morning, everyone. looks like the meeting will be

  5. 0:01:25 — open the recording at 1 minute 25 secondsSpeaker 11 you're gonna present this now?

  6. 0:01:30 — open the recording at 1 minute 30 secondsSpeaker 14 no that's an old

  7. 0:01:33 — open the recording at 1 minute 33 secondsSpeaker 16 alright alright here we are get on the right date here

  8. 0:01:41 — open the recording at 1 minute 41 secondsSpeaker 8 (chair) alright Mr. Is there any additions or corrections to the minutes?

  9. 0:01:51 — open the recording at 1 minute 51 secondsSpeaker 22 (commissioner) I make a motion to approve minutes from last week's meeting.

  10. 0:01:54 — open the recording at 1 minute 54 secondsSpeaker 23 Second.

  11. Highlight drawn from this moment: Vigo County commissioners approve $4,258,122.91 in claims for August 21-27, most of it public-safety-related

    0:01:55 — open the recording at 1 minute 55 secondsSpeaker 22 (commissioner) All by? Aye. Aye. Okay.

  12. 0:02:00 — open the recording at 2 minutesSpeaker 27 Mr. Hutchins, claims.

  13. 0:02:03 — open the recording at 2 minutes 3 secondsHutchins (staff) Good morning. I have claims docket dated August 21st of 26th through August 27th of 26th in the amount of $4,258,122.91. $3,408,187.49 of that was certified shares with public safety.

  14. 0:02:29 — open the recording at 2 minutes 29 secondsSpeaker 31 So I would ask for the commissioners to approve that, please.

  15. Highlight drawn from this moment: Vigo County commissioners approve $4,258,122.91 in claims for August 21-27, most of it public-safety-related

    0:02:34 — open the recording at 2 minutes 34 secondsSpeaker 33 (commissioner) Thank you for explaining a little bit of that. I think that's important, even if nobody's ever listening, but I think they are.

  16. 0:02:43 — open the recording at 2 minutes 43 secondsSpeaker 36 Motion to approve.

  17. 0:02:45 — open the recording at 2 minutes 45 secondsSpeaker 25 (commissioner) Second. All by aye. Aye.

  18. 0:02:48 — open the recording at 2 minutes 48 secondsSpeaker 37 Thank you.

  19. 0:02:48 — open the recording at 2 minutes 48 secondsHutchins (staff) And I do have a payroll docket dated August 21st of 26th through August 27th of 26th in the amount of $1,549,462.89. I would ask for the commissioners to approve that, please.

  20. 0:03:03 — open the recording at 3 minutes 3 secondsSpeaker 41 (commissioner) Motion to approve payroll docket. Second. All by aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. Okay.

  21. 0:03:09 — open the recording at 3 minutes 9 secondsSpeaker 8 (chair) Thank you. We have Verizon telephone purchase order for community corrections.

  22. 0:03:23 — open the recording at 3 minutes 23 secondsSpeaker 45 Thank you, Mr. Watson.

  23. 0:03:25 — open the recording at 3 minutes 25 secondsSpeaker 46 It's tough to see you, Bill.

  24. 0:03:26 — open the recording at 3 minutes 26 secondsBill Watson (staff) Good morning. Thank you. Now, this is just to upgrade our mobile hotspots that our field staff uses. is since Verizon's went to 5G, some of the towers in the field will not work as well with our older stuff, and it's making it difficult for them

  25. 0:03:43 — open the recording at 3 minutes 43 secondsBill Watson (staff) to get into our network systems. And it's just an upgrade of that, the existing ones we have as old as.

  26. 0:03:51 — open the recording at 3 minutes 51 secondsSpeaker 8 (chair) OK. Is Verizon working all right? I mean, they had an outage, what, about a week ago or so, or two weeks ago?

  27. 0:03:59 — open the recording at 3 minutes 59 secondsBill Watson (staff) Yeah, we dealt with that a little bit during that time, I think, like everybody did. but otherwise we've been doing really well with them out in the community so

  28. 0:04:08 — open the recording at 4 minutes 8 secondsBill Watson (staff) okay

  29. 0:04:10 — open the recording at 4 minutes 10 secondsSpeaker 58 motion motion to second all my all right thank you guys thank you Bill all right

  30. 0:04:20 — open the recording at 4 minutes 20 secondsSpeaker 8 (chair) at this time are there any comments from the public okay pretty quiet any comments from commissioners or other elected officials Scott thank you

  31. 0:04:44 — open the recording at 4 minutes 44 secondsScott (elected_official) good morning we were supposed to have a road acceptance today for the shrine farm roads but the petitioner did not submit the read receipts for the certified mail within five days of this meeting so I did not put them on the agenda as soon as they get those to me we will be on the next meeting so hopefully they'll get them to me this week but I don't know yet it was

  32. 0:05:13 — open the recording at 5 minutes 13 secondsSpeaker 33 (commissioner) supposed to be today all right we were waiting with bated breath for that okay

  33. 0:05:26 — open the recording at 5 minutes 26 secondsSpeaker 41 (commissioner) yeah the comments no I think I'll probably save a lot of my comments for

  34. 0:05:33 — open the recording at 5 minutes 33 secondsSpeaker 70 tonight big meeting tonight the lots going on budget will be read for the first time correct mr. auditor there's a lot on the agenda and we'll be making

  35. 0:05:45 — open the recording at 5 minutes 45 secondsSpeaker 72 presentation ourselves about schools for people we had suggested that this

  36. 0:05:57 — open the recording at 5 minutes 57 secondsSpeaker 33 (commissioner) meeting you know and if nothing else that is the adoption of the annual budget, which is important. The audience participation, they're going to allow 130 people in here. I don't know how we're going to get 130 people in here, but we'll see how that works out. Our IT department, we tried this with our commissioners meeting a couple of weeks ago, and it worked out. We will have some viewing and sound outside in the front of the building here for overflow people. Getting some seating and some water will be available. It'll be hot and sunny, I'm sure, on that wonderful asphalt.

  37. 0:06:45 — open the recording at 6 minutes 45 secondsSpeaker 33 (commissioner) But due to the council's insistence that this venue not be moved, why, We will make accommodations for the Beagle County citizens as well as we can.

  38. 0:07:04 — open the recording at 7 minutes 4 secondsSpeaker 73 (chair) Let's see. I think that's about all. Anything else?

  39. 0:07:12 — open the recording at 7 minutes 12 secondsSpeaker 74 OK.

  40. 0:07:13 — open the recording at 7 minutes 13 secondsSpeaker 73 (chair) We will recess.

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