Transcript — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-09-08

Machine transcription of the recording of the Vigo County Commissioners meeting on 2026-09-08, 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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0:00:00 [t=0] Thank you.
0:00:30 [t=30] Speaker 0: Thank you.
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0:10:00 [t=600] Speaker 3: I thought I was, but that's what, yeah.
0:10:08 [t=608] Tammy. I'm pro-tam.
0:10:13 [t=613] Speaker 9: I guess so. She said that. Okay.
0:10:19 [t=619] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): Good morning, everyone. Could we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you.
0:10:22 [t=622] 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.
0:10:43 [t=643] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): Good morning. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Commissioner Morris is not with us today, so it's just me and Chris. So we'll get started with, entertain a motion for approval of minutes from last week.
0:10:59 [t=659] Speaker 17: Motion to approve.
0:11:00 [t=660] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Auditor Hutchings, or claims, please.
0:11:08 [t=668] Larry Hutchings (auditor): Yes, sir. Claim docket dated August 28th to 26th through September 3rd, 26th in the amount of $902,530.88. sense as for the commissioners to approve that please motion to approve
0:11:24 [t=684] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): second all in favor aye all right next up is Shrine Farms acceptance mr. Barber
0:11:39 [t=699] Speaker 26: okay I'm back again with this one I'm here representing Troy Stanton from
0:11:44 [t=704] Barber (resident): bricks and gables they got all of their read receipts from their certified mailings back this time and I left you a map there in blue of all the roads that are being accepted from subdivision and in the ordinance it states that they're all 40 foot right away and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have
0:12:09 [t=729] Speaker 24: could you just explain for everyone real quick what it means when the county
0:12:13 [t=733] Barber (resident): accepts the roads basically when account with the county accepts a road then they would be in charge of all the maintenance to the road and the drainage the right-of-way on each side plow and snow resurface pothole maintenance anything like that but that it also means that they're up to our standards oh yes the the roads these roads have already been approved by the county engineer to meet the standards for the county specs okay mr. Switzer anything
0:12:48 [t=768] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): second on favor aye thank you thank you next up Commissioner Switzer with
0:12:57 [t=777] Speaker 33: presentation to Susie's place yeah first oh sure let's skip it
0:13:08 [t=788] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): alrighty we can wait on that real quick I noticed councilwoman wager and councilwoman also per here and I believe it's Nancy's birthday today is that correct? Happy birthday. While we're waiting, I did want to, this Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of September 11th and starting at 830 at the Terre Haute Casino Resort, the Terre Haute Fire Department will do their climb 110 for 343. Commissioner Schweitzer and I are planning to be there and it's a you know 25 years it's it's big I think we all remember where we were at if you're old enough to remember that but
0:14:04 [t=844] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): I would encourage anyone that's interested you're out that way to come out to the casino Friday at 830. And if you want, I think it's too late to sign up to climb, but I think Chris has already signed up. So we're good.
0:14:20 [t=860] Speaker 39: No, he's not. All right. Yes. Oh, yes.
0:14:26 [t=866] Speaker 40: Stretchings.
0:14:28 [t=868] Larry Hutchings (auditor): So we did do digital claims, and that's off and going. I think it's doing pretty well. So this Thursday morning at 10 a.m., we're going to have a teams meeting with all the department heads for digital payroll to give instruction for that and get that started. So we will have that at 10 a.m. and I believe that Scott Swan sent everybody an invite. If you did not get an invite, please just let me know and we'll get that invite to you. That's all I have.
0:14:58 [t=898] Speaker 36: Okay, thank you.
0:15:01 [t=901] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): While we're waiting, we can go ahead and do public comment. Anyone have anything they would like to say this morning, comment?
0:15:09 [t=909] Speaker 36: Okay. Do we know how long?
0:15:20 [t=920] Speaker 47: Okay.
0:15:26 [t=926] Chris Switzer (commissioner): We can go ahead and adjourn the meeting and then just wait when he gets here, or not adjourn, recess, and just do a check presentation afterwards.
0:15:37 [t=937] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): Okay. We will stand and recess for a few minutes until Mike Lada gets here.
0:16:07 [t=967] Thank you. Thank you.
0:17:07 [t=1027] Mark Clinkenbeard (chair): Okay, welcome back. Commissioner Schweitzer, would you like to take over?
0:17:29 [t=1049] Chris Switzer (commissioner): Yeah, sure. Obviously, we know how great Susie's Place is in the community and how they advocate for children and the things they do for all local law enforcement agencies and protect our kids. It's up for that like that so we're very appreciative of Nancy and Vicki and the rest of the council for providing a check for $15,000 to Suzie's Place that we like to present to them today so you guys would come up we'll grab a quick picture Nancy and Vicki
0:18:05 [t=1085] Speaker 65: I was leaving that to you but then you were gone.
0:18:19 [t=1099] Speaker 68: You can make sure you want to be in the picture with us.
0:18:35 [t=1115] would anyone
0:18:51 [t=1131] Speaker 74: people are absolute saints thank you
0:18:57 [t=1137] Speaker 79: i'm glad it is it is fabulous
0:19:05 [t=1145] Speaker 82 (Susie's Place representative): just we're so appreciative of the support from the from the county to know that the community is important to do and believe in the partnership that we have with our prosecutors and the law enforcement thank you so much um to be standing here it's just a privilege um thank you so much opportunity to continue to do these services.
0:19:54 [t=1194] Speaker 60: Okay, last call for public comment.
0:19:59 [t=1199] Speaker 86 (resident): I will say, Mark, I can't say enough about Susie's place and their dealings with the prosecutor's office and, you know, whenever we have a case involving a child, I mean, they do an amazing job. I mean, I don't know what we would do without them as far as interviews of children and all they do to help our children in this community, and I just want to say thank you.
0:20:22 [t=1222] Speaker 90: Okay.