Transcript — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-08-25

Machine transcription of the recording of the Vigo County Commissioners meeting on 2026-08-25, 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.

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0:10:00 [t=600] Speaker 2: Thank you.
0:10:30 [t=630] Thank you.
0:11:00 [t=660] Speaker 9: ready please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
0:11:07 [t=667] Speaker 11: to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all good morning everyone
0:11:28 [t=688] Speaker 14: okay minutes
0:11:36 [t=696] Speaker 16 (chair): any additions or corrections motion to approve second all by aye aye thank you okay claims mr
0:11:51 [t=711] Speaker 18 (staff): auditor sir august claim docket for august 14 26 through august 20th of 26 in the amount of eight hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and sixty seven dollars and 38 cents we're asking the commissioners to approve that
0:12:06 [t=726] Speaker 21: please reviewed motion to approve second all by all right okay we have one thing
0:12:15 [t=735] Speaker 16 (chair): on the the docket this morning a proving change Joe are you here today Joe
0:12:26 [t=746] Speaker 23: Shackley no okay just ask for the request of this
0:12:32 [t=752] Speaker 25: Okay, so Honey Creek Fire Protection District.
0:12:44 [t=764] Speaker 16 (chair): Rock Phillips' term, he has moved out of the district, and they would like to appoint Joseph E. Kenworthy for the remainder of his term. So, any questions or?
0:13:06 [t=786] Speaker 27 (councillor): Motion to approve Joseph Kenworthy for the appointment to the Honey Creek Fire Protection District. Second.
0:13:15 [t=795] Speaker 16 (chair): Okay. All by aye. Aye. That concludes our commissioner's business, normal business. Any comments from the public at this time?
0:13:32 [t=812] Speaker 36: Jack one two thank you good morning morning one second hey Siri set a timer
0:13:46 [t=826] Speaker 38: for four minutes and five seconds
0:13:51 [t=831] Speaker 37: good morning my name is Danny Wayne I came today to introduce you and you to
0:13:57 [t=837] Danny Wayne (resident): Ileana Vision Connection. We are a non-profit 501c3 here in Vigo County,
0:14:04 [t=844] Speaker 37: Indiana. There are three of us non-paid staff members a part of this entity. Our
0:14:10 [t=850] Danny Wayne (resident): goal was to help individuals in Vigo County that are experiencing any type of vision loss to stay independent and keep their mental health. According to the CDC, 3.4% of the entire population of Vigo County experiences some type of vision loss. I have communicated with the Vigo County Health Department. They were very helpful to confirm the information I had. I've worked on several grants for another entity, and data mining is a challenge to get any type of information like that, so that's the best we could come up with.
0:14:47 [t=887] Danny Wayne (resident): about 3,500 persons in Vigo County that experience some type of vision loss. There's 12 ophthalmologists here in town and today one of them is going to tell someone that they're losing their vision. Our organization would hope to be there to help these individuals as they transition through a different phase of their lives. This may be somebody graduating from high school, this may be somebody from college, it may be some of these young people that are out here today. So my goal with this conversation today is I wanted to share a couple of three things that we have recently done.
0:15:25 [t=925] Danny Wayne (resident): We navigated and supported a young gentleman about 19 years of age who went to Germany seeking additional eye treatment and right now it's very successful. We helped raise funds, raise awareness for that. Another entity that Ileana Vision Connection does is we have monthly peer support meetings at the Beagle County Public Library lower level. These meetings help individuals deal with day-to-day challenges and we bring a plethora of knowledge to these because of the paths that the three of us that are a part of this team walk on a daily basis.
0:16:01 [t=961] Danny Wayne (resident): We also provided bowling rails that are available at Spring Hill Bowling Center right now. Olympics does go there and use the facility so we thought this would be something to help. If you've not seen the bowling rails they help someone with low vision or that is blind line up to where at least that first ball can get down the lane correctly. Now after that it's kind of tough to guesstimate and listen for how the balls the pins fall like that but we do have those there those are about four hundred dollars each so one of our staff found a grant to
0:16:37 [t=997] Danny Wayne (resident): provide those what I'm asking you for is there are three billboards setting up there right now that know a lot of people I'm asking for your help with supporting this in some way financially whether you do a fundraiser or whether you help us with some grants the second thing is we're looking for a brick-and-mortar place we have something but it's out in the county and it's not accessible to all types of transportation so those are the two most critical things we're asking for your help with and we hope that you can help us continue. I did
0:17:12 [t=1032] Danny Wayne (resident): apply for a grant through the Wabash Valley Community Foundation and they indicated they would let me know in June 2027 if my grant was approved. So between now and then we're looking for ways to raise funds. We do have a fundraiser coming up this Saturday night at 12 points public market. It's called a music trivia events and we'd like to ask you to let other people know about what we're doing that's the Ileana vision connection now can I put another hat on sure the Girl Scouts building there's the place to hold your you talked about
0:17:51 [t=1071] Danny Wayne (resident): doing a public place that was bigger to hold more people it that's got a stage that's most accessible for anybody having the use of a wheelchair etc
0:18:02 [t=1082] Speaker 52: Hey Siri, stop.
0:18:06 [t=1086] Danny Wayne (resident): So, and then the third thing is at the fairgrounds, I went out to one of the events and I was, there was a gentleman there that introduced me to the new concrete that had been poured. Are you guys somewhat familiar with what I'm talking about?
0:18:22 [t=1102] Speaker 56: Yes.
0:18:22 [t=1102] Danny Wayne (resident): You are? Yes. Excellent. When you have time, have someone go finish the grade as you're coming off of it. that's still got about an inch gap and that would be a little difficult for somebody. Some gravel would be kind of nice to go down there and help that transition off there and maybe it's already been done but I noticed it as I walked through there. Thank you for putting the concrete down that's wonderful for a lot of us who don't have the best balance. Thank you gentlemen I hope it's a great day for you and I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
0:18:54 [t=1134] Speaker 16 (chair): Thank you for your efforts on these many years of helping people around with
0:19:00 [t=1140] Speaker 23: some with this disability yeah appreciate your efforts
0:19:12 [t=1152] Speaker 62: what time what time was it event on Saturday night
0:19:17 [t=1157] Speaker 69 (resident): Six to eight. One of the things were given away, Mike, and I know you're going to be personalized.
0:19:26 [t=1166] We're going to get a sharing concert ticket.
0:19:29 [t=1169] Speaker 69 (resident): Okay.
0:19:30 [t=1170] Speaker 70: All right.
0:19:35 [t=1175] Speaker 73 (councillor): All right. So, A, thank you so much, Danny.
0:19:42 [t=1182] Speaker 75: He's holding out for Nelly in a couple weeks. Yeah.
0:19:44 [t=1184] Speaker 73 (councillor): So anything else?
0:19:51 [t=1191] Speaker 16 (chair): I think a big weekend last weekend. Everybody had a good time, it seemed like. A pretty spectacular show. Gosh, if I were having vision problems, what would have been come out on that? The noise and whatever? I mean, Danny, what would have been coming out on an air show for somebody with vision impaired? Anything or any improvements?
0:20:18 [t=1218] Speaker 68: A best friend.
0:20:19 [t=1219] Well, okay, yeah. I actually work with...
0:20:22 [t=1222] Speaker 79: Yeah, come on up.
0:20:30 [t=1230] Danny Wayne (resident): I think a few years ago, I did work. In fact, I worked for a couple of different air shows. one of the things that we did before and I just didn't have the time this time but okay let me say we had an accessible restroom at the left and picture all the tents that are there on the left end there was an accessible wheelchair portalette and then there was a tent right there that we had set aside for individuals who mobility issues and the restroom was right there close for them Yeah, is and there is narration going on during the each air show now the fireworks was a little more difficult
0:21:13 [t=1273] Danny Wayne (resident): Because you can hear it, but you could you know you some you couldn't see it so audio description for something like that, but When and I'm sure Dennis will Dennis will bring that show back I'm sure he was very and everybody was very pleased so next time. Let's see if we could make one at one of the ends a tent accessible for individuals with limited mobility and then make sure that there is and maybe there was and I just I had to DJ three events this past weekend I missed both days and it just couldn't stand it but anyway those were probably some things that I would I would say
0:21:49 [t=1309] Danny Wayne (resident): would be helpful to individuals but parking is always a challenge and my wife has limited mobility now and just can't walk as far so that's something and maybe some little golf carts bill back here said he would drive one of those golf carts if they had like to put a little train together he told me he would drive some people are you know up through there so thank you for your time I don't want to take any more of your day but guys thank you thank you I appreciate it because
0:22:17 [t=1337] Speaker 16 (chair): it's important and and if some of these things are pretty easy to accomplish if
0:22:22 [t=1342] Speaker 27 (councillor): you just think about them. Yeah. Well it was a great event and I just want to thank the committee out there, the airport board. There's very few things, I mean it was just an impressive event for Terre Haute and there's very few things that are done that get almost unanimous praise. I mean there was, there really wasn't much to complain about in that show. The traffic We got in and out. Everybody did really quick. It's just an excellent show. It was a great weekend to be a Hoshan.
0:22:58 [t=1378] Yeah.
0:23:01 [t=1381] Speaker 61 (councillor): Chris? Nothing. Nothing? Our attorney? Nothing?
0:23:07 [t=1387] Speaker 90: Good thing.
0:23:08 [t=1388] Speaker 16 (chair): All right. All right. Well, we shall, I don't think there's, yeah. Shides this weekend, guys. You can go smell the diesel smoke. I think it's going to be a great weekend, guys. I really do. I think they've learned their lesson, and I think it's going to be a great weekend for Terre Haute. Recess.