# Transcript — Vigo County Drainage Board, 2026-08-03 Machine transcription of the recording of the Vigo County Drainage Board meeting on 2026-08-03, aligned to the video timeline. **This is not the official record** — the clerk's minutes are, and this is unreviewed automatic speech recognition that mis-hears names and numbers. Check anything that matters against the recording. Each line is stamped with its position in the recording, both as a clock time and as `[t=SECONDS]`. Those are the same seconds the archive's source links use: open [the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD116o31UU) and add `&t=` to jump to any line. Speakers were separated automatically and named from the meeting's speaker roster where the evidence supported it; an unnamed voice is shown as `Speaker `, which is a machine label and not a person's name. ## Transcript - **0:00:00** [t=0] **Speaker 0:** Vigilance Board meeting to order. Roll call, please, Tammy. - **0:00:02** [t=2] **Speaker 1:** That's fine. Bruce Allen. Bob James. Here. Mike Farrell. Here. Terry Mossett. Here. Jamie Allen. Larry Robbins. Here. Evan Waller. Here. Mike Moore. Here. - **0:00:15** [t=15] **Speaker 0:** All right. Thank you for that. Everybody had an opportunity to look at the minutes. - **0:00:21** [t=21] **Speaker 7:** I would entertain a motion to. I motion. Make a motion to accept. Second. - **0:00:26** [t=26] **Speaker 9 (chair):** I've been moved in a second. All in favor, anybody say an aye? Aye. - **0:00:31** [t=31] **Speaker 10:** Alright, do we have something for the surveyors report today, Bruce? - **0:00:37** [t=37] **Bruce Allen (county surveyor):** The only thing I got is the pictures I gave you. That's of R.K. Miller. We got a phone by the landowner there about the sinkhole. We had an issue before and we just thought it was like a little gopher hole or something like that. Same spot? Same spot. This was in June when we had a lot of rain and we came up pretty big sinkhole there. We put barrels up and we said we was gonna wait till it dried up and go out and look at it see what was wrong with it I don't think there's enough room to put a truck in there with a camera unless we maybe went in this guy's got permission to the guy - **0:01:30** [t=90] **Bruce Allen (county surveyor):** to the south to go into his driveway into the yard maybe and get in there - **0:01:37** [t=97] **Speaker 11 (board member):** but it's going to have to be dry before we do that. How deep is that? I'm not exactly sure. I think it's about five foot in it. - **0:01:46** [t=106] **Speaker 15:** Possibly, yeah. - **0:01:49** [t=109] **Speaker 9 (chair):** Can we check the mini down there? Yeah, we can bring the mini in between the two fences. Okay. Maybe we can dig it up and see what's going on with it. - **0:02:01** [t=121] **Speaker 20:** Do we have an easement through there? - **0:02:03** [t=123] **Speaker 19 (chair):** Yes. Yes, we should have an easement through there. So we can't get a truck down there, but I think we get our mini excavator down through there from the highway department We can at least dig it up and see what's wrong with it - **0:02:14** [t=134] **Speaker 22:** Might be a simple repair could be a joint - **0:02:20** [t=140] **Speaker 23:** That's what I assume probably happened was yeah - **0:02:28** [t=148] **Speaker 19 (chair):** We have any budget in this in this - **0:02:32** [t=152] **Speaker 27:** Why - **0:02:35** [t=155] **Speaker 30 (county highway department staff):** sure yeah keep it under that well we can we can do some investigation with county - **0:02:44** [t=164] **Speaker 31:** forces to see what's going on with it and then hopefully we'll find that out - **0:02:48** [t=168] **Speaker 34:** for next meeting there might just be busy enough so yeah I've got enough to do - **0:02:53** [t=173] **Speaker 37:** yeah just driving around looking for holes stacking up work since he's been - **0:03:00** [t=180] **Speaker 40 (board member):** down on my street All right, any other issues with any others with all the rain we've been having in the summer? - **0:03:09** [t=189] **Bruce Allen (county surveyor):** Do you need me to call 811 or do you guys want to take care of that? We'll call 811. We'll call 811. - **0:03:16** [t=196] **Speaker 41:** We got in trouble for that last time. - **0:03:20** [t=200] **Speaker 44:** I paid $3,000 to get it daggone to radars and everything. - **0:03:24** [t=204] **Speaker 40 (board member):** Yeah, I know. - **0:03:26** [t=206] **Speaker 30 (county highway department staff):** And then we got our hand slapped for working on your locate request. All right. We had to take a special class and everything. - **0:03:39** [t=219] **Speaker 47:** Well you learned something then didn't you? - **0:03:41** [t=221] **Speaker 49:** Apparently county surveyor is not the same as county highway. Those are separate entities so you can't just lump it all into county. - **0:03:47** [t=227] **Speaker 52:** If anyone doesn't treat it that way. - **0:03:51** [t=231] **Speaker 51 (chair):** Alright anything else? That's all I have. Any questions for Bruce? Alright, moving on. Do we have any old business today? - **0:04:06** [t=246] **Speaker 19 (chair):** Hearing none. Any new business? Other than the same call. - **0:04:15** [t=255] **Speaker 9 (chair):** Hearing none, I would entertain a motion for adjournment. I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. Moved and second. All indicated by saying aye. Aye. Thank you. - **0:04:30** [t=270] **Speaker 58:** Thank you.