PORTER COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSREGULAR MEETING
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002


The regular meeting of the Porter County Board of Commissioners convened at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 in the Commissioners' Chambers of the Administration Center.

Those present: Commissioners David Burrus and John Evans, and Attorney Gwenn Rinkenberger.

President David Burrus called the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance.


APPROVAL OF PAYROLL

Com. Evans moved to approve the payroll of November 18, 2002, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Com. Evans moved to approve the minutes of the Commissioners' regular meeting of November 6, 2002, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


OFFICE HOLDERS/DEPARTMENT HEADS

Tiburon disbursement
David Sheibels, E-911 director

Mr. Sheibels, "This is another routine disbursement from the Bank of America on our Tiburon lease purchase account to pay for Tiburon. Two milestones of the contracted items that they have accomplished for $152,098.00. This is a simple form from the Bank of America to allow them to pay Tiburon that dollar amount for those two milestones at this time."

Com. Burrus, "The mechanism for this I believe, is that you have a purchase agreement through the Bank of America and you are funding them?"

Mr. Sheibels, "Correct. We are paying them three single annual payments and they in turn, as Tiburon completes certain milestones of the project, I approve those milestones and then bring this agreement to you so that Bank of America can cut a check to Tiburon."

Com. Evans, "And where are we with this project? Is this the one where the water ruined the equipment and the software that went with it? Is everything up and running?"

Mr. Sheibels, "Yes. We are in good shape. The entire building is running on the Tiburon system with the exception of the police records and the police civil bureau at this time and we are bringing those systems up to speed as we go along further into the year. We are in good shape and the project is moving along nicely."

Com. Evans, "Are you also a part of the wireless thing going along here? Is that progressing all right?"

Mr. Sheibels, "Yes, the wireless WAN. We just put that in service yesterday and pulled the last few pieces of rotting equipment out of the old building so we are 100% out as of yesterday."

Com. Evans moved to approve the payment to Tiburon, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Mr. Sheibels, "I do have two minor transfers also for today. The first one is a routine transfer
we find ourselves approximately $6,000.00 short in our telephone line item due to some unexpected Verizon telephone service charge increase that got us the last part of the year. So we are requesting a transfer of $6,000.00 out of maintenance agreements to the telephone line item of the 911 surcharge budget."

Com. Burrus, "Is this related to the Verizon increase you referred to earlier?"

Mr. Sheibels, "Yes this is due to new tariff recalculation that came to Indiana earlier in the year and the tariff is getting re-filed November 25, or next week and will go up again next year. Things just keep going up and up."

Com. Evans moved to approve the transfer, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Mr. Sheibels, "The second transfer I have is simply an overtime transfer for Jon Miller for
$1,124.00 to pay Jon Miller for 65 hours of overtime incurred during the very hectic and many hours of overtime for the move to the new jail."

Com. Burrus, "Okay, we are familiar with that. This is to bring his overtime and his comp time back to zero."

Com. Evans moved to approve the transfer, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


UPDATE ON NORTH COUNTY COMPLEX AUDIT--SCHOOLEY MITCHELL
Joel Carney

Mr. Carney, "Basically, the audit we did at North County identified 77 lines existing at the county complex. There is one main number that is published and five other lines in a _________ group with the main number to handle incoming traffic to the switchboard. Some of the lines go through the telephone switch, and some of the lines go directly to the switchboard and get dispersed from there or they can call directly to the station if they know what that station number is. At the bottom of the page is the breakdown of each department at North County. It also indicates the number of fax lines in each department. In the case of the assessor's office and the prosecutor's office, they have hunt groups of their own where the call comes in and if that line is busy, it rolls down to the next line. We identified at least six lines that appear to be still in service but not used. Some of them didn't even have telephone instruments tied to the end of them. One of them being in the morgue area where the records are kept and one where the old treasurer's office used to be that are used intermittently when they are doing absentee voting registrations. There are some lines there that appear to be questionable. To sum everything up, as far as savings and the number of lines that are there, we could discontinue and save that monthly charge and tax and so on. There are five other lines that have some questionable use that we might have further discussion on before we up and discontinue them. The monthly savings on the low end would be $141.18 and the high end if we do away with all other lines is $258.83. That is the monthly savings. During this audit it would appear that, kind of having kind of a traffic cop to field calls, there are a lot of people that call who need does have its advantages. We feel that during our investigation we discovered that there are calls that come in that switchboard here that are actually for North County so they flash hook and transfer those calls. Our recommendation is to call forward the six in coming lines to the switchboard here and you still have the function of having someone act as a traffic cop and relieve frustration. It would eliminate the need to duplicate that function at the other location. Call forwarding for those six lines would come in at $21.00 a month. That is our recommendation in the interim."

Com. Burrus, "For anyone who may not be familiar with this topic, at our North County complex we have a situation where one of our full time switchboard operators has retired. The Commissioners looked at that as an opportunity to review the whole process; how we handle the switchboard up there and looking at the number of telephone lines and the entire situation. Joel has conducted an audit and has found out there are some lines not being used that we are paying for. Six of those and five others that are questionable, but more importantly, we are trying to address the question of do we replace the person on the switchboard, do we automate it and make it exclusively where you punch in the numbers to get the office you want or do we try to keep some human element involved. The recommendation is to eliminate the switchboard up there and have all calls come into this building who would then be able to answer it personally and forward the calls to Portage. If that is done, then we would have the opportunity to eliminate one full time position. We could absorb some of the part time people here through attrition. We think that would be the best overall approach on this topic."

Mr. Carney, "I want to mention too, that we looked at some other options. I was looking at various auto attendant and those alternatives ranged from $4,000.00 to $14,000.00 for additional hardware and additional maintenance and support. We felt because of the budgetary situations at present that this would be a good alternative. If things change down the road, we might re-address the situation. So at this time our recommendation is to go the most economical route."

Com. Evans, "I think that is the best solution. Actually, what we are doing is saying the technology we have is okay and this will cost us less."

Com. Evans moved to approve to forward the calls and transfer part time personnel to the Administration Building,

Com. Burrus, "Okay, but what is the procedure going to be to make that happen?"

Mr. Carney, "I will have to revisit those lines to see if they have call forwarding capability. If not, we will have to institute those and then it is just a matter of doing the call forwarding at the North County to this location."

Com. Burrus, "Will that require any additional instruction on the part of our people here?"

Mr. Carney, "I spoke with the switchboard here and they seemed very familiar with the procedure for transferring; they currently do it."

Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Com. Burrus, "One other thing, this audit you conducted at North County proved to be
successful. We are wondering if you could put together a proposal of similar nature and conduct the same type of audit at the court house? What we would like to do is to have you go through our buildings one at a time and see what kind of excesses we might have. If you could do that and report back when you have that done."


COLLEGE SAVINGS WITHHOLDING FUND PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEES--ALLIANCE MUTUAL FUNDS
Ed Russell

Mr. Russell, "I am going to highlight this and then you can ask me any questions you may have. Thank you for allowing me to present this opportunity for people to put away money through payroll deduction, have it be income tax free and pay for college tax free. On page 7, this explains section 529. Section 529 is a tax law that allows people to invest money, have that grow tax free, and when it comes time to use the money, they use it for college expenses, it is tax free when it comes out. In essence what it means to someone is they reduced the cost of college education by 20 to 40% because of the tax savings they are able to do by saving in this manner. On page 15, we are using the Alliance Mutual Fund plan primarily because we like some of the options they have to offer. They have an aggressive growth portfolio. It has lost 30% over the past year as had many of these. The growth portfolios, about 20% lost the balance per portfolio is zero. It doesn't sound like something you think you want to invest in, but in better times they do much better. It also has the tax and income portfolio that has been about 1% and a bond portfolio that has made about 5%. The portfolio from the service we like the best is called age phased and we think this is the way people should be investing for their college savings, essentially the money manager puts it in more aggressive funds when the child is younger and they make it more conservative the closer they get to college. On page 18, this is a fringe benefit that you offer to the employees and it has no cost to the county. There is no administrative fee to the county and it will help the employees to be able to provide for college for themselves, their children, their grandchildren or cousins if they like. The process is very easy and can be done online. On page 22, the way we implement this, and there are a lot of different ways it can be done. I can sit down with the treasurer and see how he would like to do it. Typically what we do is, put some payroll stuffers in with the checks letting them know it is available, offer an educational program they can attend if they wish, also provide individual consultation to the employees and provide that to any new employees that come on board. We do establish a website, and will say Porter County Government Employees College Savings Program. They can get on there and read about the program. They can print an enrollment form and sign it, send it in, and they are in the program then. Thereafter they can visit the website and take a look at their individual account and see how it is doing. Make changes if they want. Plus it also provides a lot of helpful information on how to evaluate how much you need to be saving for college. They can read about investment options, frequently asked questions, and check their portfolios. Page 35 is a picture of the enrollment form. Once they fill that enrollment form out and they send it in, Alliance sends the county notification this person wants this much money taken out of their check and the county takes care of that. Very little paperwork to the county, very little administration involved. It is a very valuable benefit to the employees. Any questions?"

Com. Evans, "Was this the only plan discussed or is there any other options available?"

Mr. Russell, "This is the only plan that is discussed on that particular website. It is strictly for Porter County employees."

Com. Evans, "And is it strictly for college?"

Mr. Russell, "Yes, strictly for college. And strictly for Alliance. The cost of the programs internal expenses on the funds range from .4% to .16%. If they decide they want to get out of this program before the four years are up, there is a penalty to get out. It starts at 4% and drops about a percent a year over that time period."

Com. Evans, "Who determines the percentages?"

Mr. Russell, "It is listed in the prospectus and it is up to that individual what fund they pick. If they pick a fund is very inexpensive to operate, it is going to cost the .4%. If they pick a fund that is more expensive to operate, it is going to be the 1.6% or anything in between depending on the fund they select."

Com. Evans, "Do they have the ability to change that and is there a maximum number of times of year they can change?"

Mr. Russell, "Not that I am aware of. There is a minimum they can invest and it is a $50.00 a month minimum for the investment. Normally, they charge with these kinds of programs some kind of administrative fee but that fee is waived when they have the payroll deduction program."

Atty. Rinkenberger, "You said there was an early withdrawal penalty. If I start the program now, in four years does all that money become mine or is it going with the deposit?

Mr. Russell, "I believe it goes with the deposit. So when you get ready to take the money out, you will be taking out the money you put in much earlier and probably as they go to college you won't be adding any more, by the time you get to the final one, it should come out even."

Atty. Rinkenberger, "Did you say that there was a bond fund?"

Mr. Russell, "Yes, I noticed they didn't mention it in there, but they do have a bond fund and it is the only one making money right now."

Com. Burrus, "Just as an observation, I think it is an outstanding program and this should be a benefit to the employees and a worthwhile option for our folks who have not had any raises."

Com. Evans, "It doesn't cost us anything and gives them the right to chose? I think it is a good idea, too."

Mr. Russell, "Yes. All that is necessary is that we sign up for the corporate plan so that they can establish this website and it is Porter County Government's website."

Com. Evans moved to approve,

Com. Burrus, "Okay, we can approve this and you can make contact with the Auditor for implementation."

Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS

David Schelling, Highway Engineer

Com. Burrus, "Dave is going to present to us an offer to purchase a piece of land in the town of Pines by INDOT that is adjacent to a state highway improvement project. We own the land and they are requesting to buy this frontage for additional right of way."

Mr. Schelling, "Yes. INDOT is planning a reconstruction project at the intersection of US 12 and State Road 520."

Com. Evans, "That is actually Highway 520; 520 is the shortest US highway in the country."

Mr. Schelling, "It is the connecting road between Highways 20 and 12. It turns out that the County owns a lot at the north side of that intersection. The state would like to buy the piece of property from the County that is about 70 foot long and 20 foot wide. It will give us an extra $2,100.00. I think it is a good idea. I knew they were going to be coming before us and in my mind, I was thinking we could use another $2,000.00 so I am happy about this."

Com. Burrus, "Okay, this is consistent with two other purchases they have made for purchases in the last year for right of way along Highway 6."

Com. Evans, "I thought maybe it would be an ideal spot if we could keep that and make that an entrance to the covered trail for the Calumet Trail."

Mr. Schelling, "I think that would be good except there was a South Shore railroad crossing that they just closed at that location."

Com. Evans moved to accept the state's offer to purchase the land at Highway 12 and 520 for $2,100.00, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.



USI CONSULTANTS INVOICE FOR BRIDGE INSPECTION

Mr. Schelling, "I just got the bill from USI Consultants for our bridge inspection and I would
like to get this claim form approved as rapidly as possible so we can get the $17,647.94, its reimbursing the County that amount for the bridge inspection. I just got it this morning and didn't want to sit on it."

Com. Burrus, "So this is a claim going to INDOT that will reimburse us?"

Mr. Schelling, "Yes."

Com. Evans moved to approve, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

North District: John Evans

1. INDOT purchase documents for part of frontage on lots 67 & 69, and all of frontage
on lot 68 of " The Pines Subdivision", this is located on the north side of US 12 at SR 520. The County owns this property and INDOT needs a portion for intersection improvements. Purchase price offer is $2,100.00. Recommend approval.

(Motioned for approval and seconded above)

2. LPA Claim Voucher #8 to INDOT for $1,531.55 for Reconstruction of Calumet Trail. Recommend approval.

Com. Evans moved to approve, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

3. INDOT form IC-639 for Calumet Trail formal acceptance recommendation.


Com. Evans moved to approve, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


Center/South District: Larry Sheets

1. LPA Claim Voucher to INDOT for a refund of $1,981.00. Norfolk Southern
constructed gates and flashers at Division Road and CR 400 East. They underran the project so we will receive a refund of a portion of our local share that was previously deposited.

Com. Evans moved to approve, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


South District: David Burrus

1. NIPSCO Pole permit for installation of 1 utility pole on CR 200 South approximately 75 feet south of the entrance to Countryside Estates subdivision.

Com. Burrus moved to approve, Com. Evans seconded, motion carried.

2. Road Agreement for Porter Minor Subdivision 648-A-2, located on the south side of CR 450 South between CR 500 West and CR 600 West. Offer to contribute $750.00/lot for a total of $750.00. Owners and subdividers are Richie Alan and Carletta Lynn Cheek.

Com. Burrus moved to approve, Com. Evans seconded, motion carried.


CORRESPONDENCE

Treasurer's monthly report for October 2002 is on file.
Court Security monthly report for October 2002 is on file.
Clerk's monthly reports for August and September 2002 is on file.
Veteran's Service Officer monthly report for October 2002 is on file.
Building Department's monthly report for October 2002 is on file.


Request for approval of bond for Westchester Twp. Assessor

Com. Evans moved to approve the bond for Candace Crone, Westchester Township Assessor in the amount of $8,500.00, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.



Appointment of Common Construction Wage Determination Committee

Com. Evans moved to appoint Dale Brewer to the committee for the renovation of Brummitt and Liberty Elementary Schools, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


Approve contract with Overhead Door Company

Com. Evans moved to approve Overhead Door Company to repair rolling door at the Juvenile Detention Center in the amount of $1,500.00, invoice to be paid by Juvenile Center, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


Request for transfer of funds-Highway Dept.

Fund 02$3,000.00from acct 2320garage & motor supplies
Into acct 2310tires, tubes & batteries

to cover insufficient funds in account 2310

Com. Evans moved to approve, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Request for transfer of funds-Commissioners

fund 01.30$1,000.00from acct 3320legal notices
$2,010.10from acct 3110legal
$ 70.00from acct 2410medical
$4,000.00from acct 3520water & sewage
$6,000.00from acct 2110office supplies
(Total of $13,080.00 into acct 3230)Postage
(Due to postage rate increase)

fund 01.30$10,000.00 from acct 3440unemployment
Into acct 3510Power
(For remainder of year)

fund 01.30$5,000.00from acct 1110salaries
Into acct 1120 hourly
(To cover part time due to hiring freeze)

fund 01.30$1,000.00from acct 3160vet services
$3,000.00from acct 2350building maintenance
$2,400.00from acct 3979veterans burial
$ 500.00from acct 2430law books
$1,800.00from acct 3320legal notices
(Transfer of $9,700.00 into acct 3964 for toxicology)

fund 01.30$ 50.00from acct 2110office supplies
Into acct 3410official bonds

fund 01.30 $ 16.00from acct 2110office supplies
Into acct 3973change of venue

fund 01.30$ 120.00from acct 2110office supplies
Into acct 3630equipment repair

Com. Evans moved to approve all transfers, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Com. Evans moved to recess the regular meeting, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

PLAN COMMISSION

Mr. Nigro, "Good morning. The petitioner in this case, Felix Duron, was requesting a rezone from C-4 and RMH to R-3, multi family. This is presented as Resolution No. 02-11 at the meeting on the 2nd of September. At that time Mr. Duron felt that he would rather preserve the zoning he had on this parcel of land and chose to proceed with a request for a use variance before the Board of Zoning Appeals. He was successful in that."

Com. Burrus, "So he is asking to remove his original request and revert back to the original zoning?"

Mr. Nigro, "Yes, he is."

Atty. Rinkenberger, "Is he withdrawing his request?"

Mr. Nigro, "Yes, it came before the Commissioners in September and at that time he felt he wanted to preserve the zoning so he decided to rescind."

Com. Evans, "But prior to that he filed a request to the BZA? And now he has changed his plan and wants to go back to his original zoning and has withdrawn his application from the BZA?"

Mr. Nigro, "Yes."

Com. Burrus, "But he didn't want to withdraw this one until the BZA approval was in hand."

Mr. Nigro, "And they approved it last month. He no longer needs the rezone."

Com. Evans moved to recommend approval of Resolution No. 02-11, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.


REDUCING DAYS FROM 60 TO 30 FOR POLITICAL SIGNS TO BE PUT UP PRIOR TO ELECTION

Com. Evans, "I think we want to send some directive back to the Plan Commission that we
talked about earlier and that is that we should revisit the idea of allowing political signs to be put up for thirty days instead of sixty days prior to the election. We would like you to explore that a little more. That is more in line with the cities. The people of the county won't have to look at them for sixty days."

Mr. Nigro, "Okay."

Atty. Rinkenberger, "We need to modify your previous motion. We don't want to approve the resolution, we want to approve the petition to withdraw."

Com. Evans moved to approve the withdrawal of the request for rezone of Felix Duron, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

Com. Burrus, "In addition to what John said about the duration of the signs, I don't know whose ordinance it is that addresses the location of them, but I would also like to emphasize the fact that they are not to placed in the public right of ways. There has been a number of those violations in the last several years and I think we need to be looking at that."

Com. Evans, "Yes, we will have the Highway Department pick them up because we have had people complain a lot about them."

Mr. Nigro, "Okay."

Com. Evans moved to recess, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

AFTERNOON SESSION-1:30 P.M.
RECEIVE HIGHWAY BIDS FOR SUPPLIES AND SERVICES FOR 2003
Jack Jarnecke, Highway Superintendent
Al Hoagland, Assistant Highway Superintendent

Com. Burrus, "The purpose of this meeting at 1:30 is to open bids for Highway supplies for the coming year of 2003. What we will do is open and read aloud the quotations of bid prices and at that point the Highway Department personnel will take them under review and they will come back with a recommendation to us and we will make awards at the December 17th meeting at 11:00 a.m."

The following bids were opened and read:

#73 LIMESTONE: delivered per ton:

1.Whitcomb Trucking, Inc.$8.60 to North District
$7.75 to Center District
$7.15 to South District

2.Ralston Trucking$8.30 to North
$7.50 to Center
$6.95 to South

3.Harry Brown Trucking$8.85 to North District
$7.40 to Center District
$6.90 to South District

4.Vulcan Materials$9.50 to North District
$8.00 to Center District
$7.50 to South District

SLAG:

1.Whitcomb Trucking$7.80 to North District
$8.15 to Center District
$8.85 to South District

2.Ralston Paving Corp.$7.75 to North District
$8.75 to Center District
$9.75 to South District

3.Beamster Boer Co.$8.95 to North District
$9.45 to Center District
$10.30 to South District

4.Levy Company$7.25 to North District
$7.50 to Center District
$8.40 to South District

BITUMINOUS PLANT MIX: per ton, loaded on county trucks

1.Boyd Asphalt Co.

A.Asphalt mix binder $27.50
B.Surface material$28.50
C.All weather patch mix$38.00
D.All weather patch mix $42.00 delivered to any point specified

2.Rieth Riley Co. (at vendor's plant)

A.Base and binder material$27.50
B.Surface material$29.50
C.Same material delivered in Porter Co.$no bid
D.Asphalt installed, base and binder$27.40
E.Surface material in place$30.10
F.Cold mix and patch material$71.00 per ton

3.Central Paving Inc.

A.Cold mix patch material$36.00 per ton
B.Cold mix patch material$45.00 delivered to our site

4. Walsh & Kelly

A.Cold mix patch material (picked up)$32.00 per ton
B. Hot mix (pick up at plant)$25.00
C.Cold mix (delivered)$37.00
D.Hot mix (delivered)$30.00
E.Base for binder material (picked up)$27.50
F.Surface material (picked up)$28.50
G.Base & binder (delivered and applied)$25.50
H.Surface material (delivered and applied)$29.85


ICE ABRASIVE MATERIAL:
#23 Sand

1.Whitcomb Trucking

A.#23 Sand:$6.95 per ton-North District
$6.80 per ton-Center District
$7.20 per ton-South District

B.Sand slag$8.20 per ton-North District
$8.55 per ton-Center District
$9.15 per ton-South District

C.Limestone ice sand$9.10 per ton-North District
$8.30 per ton-Center District
$7.70 per ton-South District


3.Ralston Paving

A.Limestone $8.50 per ton-North District
$7.60 per ton-North District
$7.10 per ton-South District

B.Slag sand$8.50 per ton-North District
$8.75 per ton-Center District
$9.90 per ton-South District

FILL SAND:

1.Whitcomb Trucking

A.$5.30 per yard delivered to any point in Porter Co. on a tri-axle $94.50 per load
Semi $106.00 per load

B.loaded on county trucks at their yard:$6.00 per yard

2.Ralston Paving

A.$5.20 per yard, delivered in Porter Co.

3.Vulcan Materials

A.$9.00 per ton delivered to any point in Porter Co.
B. $7.50 per ton loaded at yard

4.G.E. Marshall, Inc.

A.$5.75 per yard delivered to any point in Porter Co.
B.$3.00 per yard loaded at pit


PAVEMENT STRIPING AND MARKINGS

1.Air Marking Company

A.Yellow or white solid at $.046 dollars per foot
B.Thermo plastic, yellow or white skipped format: $.32 per lineal foot
C.Thermo plastic Railroad indicators on pavement: $250.00 each

RENTAL RATES FOR EQUIPMENT

1.Ralston Paving Corp.

A.$68.00 per hour for quad axle or dump units with drivers

2.G.E. Marshal Corp.

A.$74.00 per hour with operator
B.$69.00 per hour for tri-axle

3.Walsh & Kelley Inc.

A.$.90 per square yard for Pavement milling machine
B.$85.00 per hour for asphalt distributor with driver

4.Rieth Riley Construction

A.$39.40 per hour for 12-18 yard dump trucks
B.$46.45 per hour for asphalt distributor no driver

5.Klink Trucking, Inc.

A.$26.5 per square yard for a milling machine
B.$2,800. Per mile for manpower per hour

6.Mt. Carmel Sand and Gravel

A.$.20 per sq. yard for pulverizing machine

7.Bernie Johnson Trucking Co.

A.$.25 per sq. yard for milling machine

SIGNS AND SIGNPOSTS

1.Fisher & Associates

A.24" stop signs:$13.95 each engineer grade, quantity 1-50
B.30" stop signs:$19.50 each

2.Hall Signs


A.24" stop signs:$11.23 each, quantity 1-24
B.30" stop signs:$17.28 each


PAVEMENT MARKINGS

1.Indiana Traffic Safety

A.painted yellow lines--$.06 per foot


Com. Burrus, "We are finding quite a few envelopes that are not labeled so we will be saving those for the end."


CALCIUM CHLORIDE

1.Great Lakes Chloride

A.38% solution delivered @ $.39.9 per gallon
B.38% solution delivered and applied: $.43.4 per gallon
C.32% solution delivered @ $.38.2 per gallon

2.AJP Corp.

A.38% solution delivered:$.37.8 per gallon
B.38% solution applied:$.42.8 per gallon
C.32% solution delivered:$.37 per gallon


GASOLINE: 100,000 gallons 87 octane delivered to sheriff's garage

1.Triple J-Mar Petroleum

A.$1.0655 per gallon

2.Baird & Ryan

A.$1.033 per gallon


DIESEL FUEL: low sulfur, delivered to any point in Porter County

1.Triple J-Mar Petroleum

A.$.9535 per gallon
B.$.902 per gallon #2 diesel fuel
C.$1.0065 per gallon for #1 low sulfur

2.Baird & Ryan

A.$.967 per gallon #1 diesel
B.$.8845 per gallon #2 diesel
C.$.8945 per gallon #2 low sulfur premium


MOTOR OIL AND CHASSIS LUBRICANTS

1.Paulson Oil Company

A.15W40 motor oil $3.69 per gallon

2.A&M Farm Center

A.15W40 motor oil $19.70 per case


TIRES-service tire repair and changing:

1.Bridgestone-Firestone

A.$203.00 per tire radial

2.Moser Tire

A.10/20 radial:$160.00 per tire

3.A&M Tire

A.10/20 radial:$235.00 per tire

4.Brown Tire

A.10/20 radial:$182.08 per tire


TUBES 10/20 truck size

1.Bridgestone-Firestone:$12.00 each

2.A&M Farm Center$14.29 each

3.Brown Tire$19.77 each


GALVANIZED GUARD RAILS

1.James H. Drew Corp.

A.10 gauge: $6.35 per lineal foot
B.12 gauge:$5.35 per lineal foot

2.Metal Culverts Inc.

A.round culverts, 24", 12 gauge:$17.27 per foot

3.Debco Metal Culverts

A.all bids on file

4.St. Regis Co.

A.24" 12 gauge $13.70 per foot


PRECAST AND OR PRESTRESSED BRIDGE SLABS

1.American Timber Bridge

A.will accept bid but no comparison prices

2.Rinker Materials: 12" deep, length 16 to 30 feet, width 3 feet

A.$22.24 per square foot

3.Bridgetech

A.no comparison


READY MIX CONCRETE

1.Zimco Materials

A.5 bag mix;$68.00 per cubic yard
B.6 bag mix:$73.00
C.7 bag mix:$78.00
D.fill:$53.00

2.Ozinga Concrete

A.5 bag mix:$71.00 cubic yd.
B.6 bag mix:$76.00
C.7 bag mix:$81.00
D.fill:$54.00


GRADER BLADES

1.St. Regis Culvert Co. (numerous prices, will be available for review)

2.American Wire Rope and Sling (numerous prices, will be available for review)

3.Local Equipment Inc. (numerous prices, will be available for review)

4.Howell Tractor & Equipment (numerous prices, will be available for review)


DISPOSAL SERVICES-Solid waste

1.Waste Management20 yard boxes:$285.00 per box

2.Meyer Waste System(site specific)$200.00 per box for Chesterton
$230.00 per box for Valparaiso
$240.00 per box for Hebron

OFFICE CLEANING

1.RD Janitorial Service: Performing monthly janitorial services $380.00 per month


PARTS WASHER SERVICES AND USED FLUIDS PICK UP

1.Winkle Environmental Services: 30 gallon parts washer: $66.50 Valparaiso
16 gallon parts washer: $62.50 Chesterton
16 gallon parts washer: $62.50 Hebron

(No charge for used antifreeze or oil pick up)


AUTOMOTIVE AND EQUIPMENT BATTERIES

1.Knox Auto Supply (available for review)
2.Barenie Products (available for review)


HARDWARE AND TOOLS

1.Sanders Indiana Hardware:10% off standard shelf price
2.Barenie Products:available on file


TRUCK REPAIR PARTS

1.Knox Auto Supply$290.32 total price, (available for review)

2.Wiers:no specific bid, (available for review) quoted as national fleet price
3.Owens Burgess:major fleet prices
4.MTE Parts Inc.(IMI) national fleet rates less 10%


FAN BELTS

1. Knox Auto Supply(available for review)
2.Dewey Auto Supply(available for review)
3.MTE Parts Inc.(available for review)


FILTERS

1.Howell Tractor & Equip(available for review)
2.Knox Auto(available for review)
3.Dewey Auto Supply(available for review)


WIPER BLADES

1.Knox Auto(available for review)
2.Dewey Auto(available for review)


HYDRAULIC HOSES

1.Knox Auto Supply(available for review)
2.Barenie Products(available for review)


MOWER PARTS

1.Davis Equipment Co.(available for review)


ANTI-FREEZE

1.Paulson Oil Co.Shell multi purpose:$3.39 per gallon
Shell zone:$3.79 per gallon
Shell extended life:$12.63 per gallon

WELDING SUPPLIES

1.Praxair(available for review)
2.American Welding Supply(available for review)


RENTAL RATES FOR EQUIPMENT (opened earlier)

1.Advanced Municipal Equip.vacuum street sweeper:$400.00 per day

Com. Burrus, "That completes the entire bid opening. They will be reviewed by the County Highway Department between now and December 17. At that point we will make awards at 11:00 a.m. following our normal Commissioners' meeting. If you would like to see any of the bids that were extensive enough that we did not read in detail, you are welcome to look at them now and additionally, they will be available at the Highway Department on State Road 2. Thank you all for bidding."

Com. Evans moved to recess, Com. Burrus seconded, motion carried.

With no further business to discuss the meeting was recessed.

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA

David L. Burrus
Larry D. Sheets
John A. Evans

Attest: Sandra K. Vuko, Auditor