Quincy Reporter

Adams County Board Executive Committee met Feb. 8.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

PRESENT: R. Kent Snider, Mark Peter, Dave Bellis, Bret Austin, Barbara Fletcher

ABSENT: N/A

OTHER: Todd Eyler, Gary Farha, David McCleery, Travis Cooley, Anthony Foster, David Hochgraber, Gorden Dobey

5:35 pm meeting was convened.

The committee reviewed the minutes from the previous meeting. Dave Bellis moved to approve them as written, seconded by Bret Austin. The minutes were approved.

Speaker –

a) Recovery Anonymous Gorden Dobey

a. Mr. Dobey presented the committee with a request to utilize some of the ARPA funds for the organization’s new idea of a Male Sober Living House on 1111 N. 8th here in Quincy. This new sober living house will have 24/7 Surveillance and attendees will be taken into serious consideration before becoming eligible to live there. They requested a total of $200,000.

Reports

N/A

Resolutions

N/A

New Business

A. Union Negotiations

a. FOP is currently awaiting signatures. PBPA waiting on the Union Rep to get back to us. Circuit Clerk had a question on the third-year salary.

B. ARPA Projects

a. Mill Creek Water – Line Replacement request

i. The committee already approved this. The number came down to $235,000ish.

b. Village of Camp Point – requested water systems upgrades for $150,000 total right along in line with Mill Creek. Essentially the same upgrades. Bret Austin makes a motion to not exceed $100,000 for the Village of Camp Point request. Mark Peter seconded the motion. Motion passed.

c. Non- Profits

i. United Way reached out to 8-9 organizations. Total requests of $2.1 million. $645,000 was approved by the United Way Committee. The County Board agreed to give 2% of the allocated funds to the United Way of Adams County for conducting the research and administrative portion of this process, roughly being $12,000.00.

Dave Bellis made a motion to approve the requests and United Way contribution. Mark Peter seconded the motion. Motion passed.

d. Recovery Anonymous

i. The committee decided to talk to Mayor Troup to see how much the City would contribute to their project in order to get the zoning correctly, then would vote on contributing to their organization.

e. In Car Computers – Sheriff

i. The total invoice for this amounted to be around $102,000. Mr. Austin asked the committee if they could take care of this in Finance and all agreed.

f. Adams County Parks and Facilities – Restroom renovation

i. Mr. McCleery presented the Committee with ideas to renovate the park restrooms out in the County such as Payson and Liberty and possibly Camp Point. The Committee asks Mr. McCleery to take his proposals back to the town meetings to confirm that they would allow this.

g. Village of Liberty – proposes a new water meter replacement totaling of $59,500.00. Bret makes a motion to approve in contingency that they are spending their ARPA funds as well. Dave Bellis seconds the motion. Motion passed.

h. Courthouse Digital Solutions – Mr. Hochgraber from the IT department explained the Digital Evidence Presentation that Scott Larson presented the Committee with. This consisted of TVs, projectors, additional electrical work needed and a cart with image magnification. This would all go through NOMAD technologies. An estimated ask of $184,000 and an additional $18,000 for the electrical work. These upgrades would mainly take place in 4 courtrooms. The executive committee asks Mr. Hochgraber to get back with Scott Larson to see on Finance Court options.

C. Adams County Health Department – HVAC

a. This process is just in the fine-tuning stage. Nothing new to report.

D. Appointment to the Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation

a. Chairman Snider appointed Board Member Dave Bellis and Duane Venvertloh to act on the Counties behalf for the Riverfront Development Corporation.

E. Executive Session

a. N/A

Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Bret Austin. Dave Bellis seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Meeting adjourned at 6:52PM.

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