# Transcript — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-09-01 Machine transcription of the recording of the Vigo County Commissioners meeting on 2026-09-01, 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=Tcj3MK3mt-A) 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] Thank you. you - **0:00:51** [t=51] **Speaker 1:** you there Scott how we air okay all right pledges allegiance please - **0:00:55** [t=55] **Speaker 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. - **0:01:14** [t=74] **Speaker 8 (chair):** Good morning, everyone. looks like the meeting will be - **0:01:25** [t=85] **Speaker 11:** you're gonna present this now? - **0:01:30** [t=90] **Speaker 14:** no that's an old - **0:01:33** [t=93] **Speaker 16:** alright alright here we are get on the right date here - **0:01:41** [t=101] **Speaker 8 (chair):** alright Mr. Is there any additions or corrections to the minutes? - **0:01:51** [t=111] **Speaker 22 (commissioner):** I make a motion to approve minutes from last week's meeting. - **0:01:54** [t=114] **Speaker 23:** Second. - **0:01:55** [t=115] **Speaker 22 (commissioner):** All by? Aye. Aye. Okay. - **0:02:00** [t=120] **Speaker 27:** Mr. Hutchins, claims. - **0:02:03** [t=123] **Hutchins (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. - **0:02:29** [t=149] **Speaker 31:** So I would ask for the commissioners to approve that, please. - **0:02:34** [t=154] **Speaker 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. - **0:02:43** [t=163] **Speaker 36:** Motion to approve. - **0:02:45** [t=165] **Speaker 25 (commissioner):** Second. All by aye. Aye. - **0:02:48** [t=168] **Speaker 37:** Thank you. - **0:02:48** [t=168] **Hutchins (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. - **0:03:03** [t=183] **Speaker 41 (commissioner):** Motion to approve payroll docket. Second. All by aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. Okay. - **0:03:09** [t=189] **Speaker 8 (chair):** Thank you. We have Verizon telephone purchase order for community corrections. - **0:03:23** [t=203] **Speaker 45:** Thank you, Mr. Watson. - **0:03:25** [t=205] **Speaker 46:** It's tough to see you, Bill. - **0:03:26** [t=206] **Bill 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 - **0:03:43** [t=223] **Bill Watson (staff):** to get into our network systems. And it's just an upgrade of that, the existing ones we have as old as. - **0:03:51** [t=231] **Speaker 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? - **0:03:59** [t=239] **Bill 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 - **0:04:08** [t=248] **Bill Watson (staff):** okay - **0:04:10** [t=250] **Speaker 58:** motion motion to second all my all right thank you guys thank you Bill all right - **0:04:20** [t=260] **Speaker 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 - **0:04:44** [t=284] **Scott (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 - **0:05:13** [t=313] **Speaker 33 (commissioner):** supposed to be today all right we were waiting with bated breath for that okay - **0:05:26** [t=326] **Speaker 41 (commissioner):** yeah the comments no I think I'll probably save a lot of my comments for - **0:05:33** [t=333] **Speaker 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 - **0:05:45** [t=345] **Speaker 72:** presentation ourselves about schools for people we had suggested that this - **0:05:57** [t=357] **Speaker 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. - **0:06:45** [t=405] **Speaker 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. - **0:07:04** [t=424] **Speaker 73 (chair):** Let's see. I think that's about all. Anything else? - **0:07:12** [t=432] **Speaker 74:** OK. - **0:07:13** [t=433] **Speaker 73 (chair):** We will recess.