Commissioners 04-21-2026 [0:00-5:01]

I move to approve. Second. All right, I have a motion. All in favor, say aye. Aye, aye. All right. Next step, we're on appointments. It's Mr. Jones and Bonnie Able, whichever ever you're speaking. Greg Jones, Southern Indiana Development Commission. I always like to report back into the commissioners on how SIDC is doing as an organization that works for your county. And so I had, before you had an effectiveness report. And with it, we always start with where regional planning commission we cover five county, area Lawrence County, being one of those areas. We do planning. And so we do a comprehensive economic development strategy where we look at all of the different communities in our area, as well as the county's needs. And then try and work on those projects. That's our marching orders for the year. From those planning, you'll kind of see on that effectiveness report. If you look on the left hand side, you'll see the different projects that we've worked on. And then on the right hand side, you'll see the dollar. Those are grant dollars that we've received in on the projects. So on infrastructure planning, you know, we have different communities that we've gotten infrastructure planning for for water, wastewater master utilities. For infrastructure, we've been working in projects on wastewater projects, water projects. We have five different communities that receive funding there. One of the more notable ones is for Green County. That is to do a water system for the Westgate to create a technology park, which is there's a lot of development that's happening in the Westgate technology park, probably 400 to 500 million in investment that's happening there. They don't have the infrastructure needed to grow. So we're helping on those projects. For public facilities, we've been senior centers pre-K. We've helped with a bus route, and then libraries and park pavilions, as well as with the housing development in Legoti, therefore, a ready project. We've been really heavily on the defense industry lately. The base of crane is not able to ask for funds through grants, so they need a government to go and ask for those funds for them. So SIDC steps in because we are considered a government. And we go ask for those different funds. We've done legislative recommendations. We've done a military compatibility handbook. We've done a study on the town of Crane. There are wastewater collection systems because it actually inhibits the base of Crane's growth because they're on their system. So we're trying to get them separated out. We've done a housing resiliency plan for the military there. And if anyone's with the media here, I'll give you this list so that you can have that. And then military installation resiliency review. So really looking at, that was a pretty cool project because we brought in all of the fire in EMS and all of those, the workers in the area to kind of coordinate a little bit on what is needed in the area and what should we do if we have like a major catastrophe that comes through the area. And how does it affect the base of Crane? How does it affect the communities? How does those two communicate together? That was a really cool project. And then we've just recently helped with congressional direct spending as, which, you know, I'm not big on asking for federal dollars that way, but that seems to be the way the world now, but we were able to help get 17 million to build a wastewater treatment plan in the Westgate of Crane and Technology Park. Housing, that's where we do a lot of work in Lawrence County. We've got projects in Mitchell and Lawrence County going on right now in Ginny. We'll talk to you guys a little bit more about that, but those are going along well and Ginny does a great job of making sure all the residents get their homes fixed up, brought up to code and they can stay living in those homes. In our past time frame, we've done other oner-occupied rehabilitation projects. As you can see there, on EPA, we've done a lot with Brownfield Revelement and we've got a couple that are hitting that are very exciting right now. One in Washington, it's the Tocon property where it's been a 10 acre piece of property that's been severely contaminated. We've gotten it to the point where it's almost cleaned up and then we've got a housing developer that's interested in it. So it's going to be a $38 million investment in housing in the city of Washington because of efforts on Brownfield Revelement. Of course, here in Lawrence County, we did a lot of mollus gas stations, got a lot of those cleaned up for you. So that's been a benefit to the community. We still do a lot of blight clearance projects. So if there's any of those that you know about, come to us for those historic preservation