On the agenda: Crown Point Board of Commissioners - Jul 17, 2024 — Flock Safety (Jun 6)

LAKE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AGENDA
COMMISSIONERS' COURTROOM
2293 N. MAIN ST.
CROWN POINT, IN 46307

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2024
WEBEX: Meeting ID: 26318421347
Password: commissioners
1.

OPENING OF MEETING
Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Moment of Silence

2.

ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, CORRECTIONS

3.

PUBLIC OPENING OF VENDOR RESPONSES TO REQUESTS FOR BIDS AND
QUOTES
3.1 Lake County Pocket Park Upgrades
3.2 Calumet Township STEP Construction Project No. 1 – Package C – Lift Station And Force
Main Lake County, Indiana

4.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PRIOR MEETINGS
4.1 Regular Meeting June 12, 2024

5.

APPROVE SPECIFICATIONS FOR BIDS
5.1 HIGHWAY Request Permission to Advertise for the Rehabilitation of Lake County Bridge
363. Bids to be Returned by Wednesday, August 21,2024 at 9:30 a.m. at the Lake County
Auditor's office.
5.2 FAIRGROUNDS: Approve specifications for a Gazebo to be advertised with a return date
of August 21, 2024 by 9:30 a.m. in the Lake County Auditor's Office.
5.3 HEALTH DEPT: Approve specifications for a 2025 Exam Room and Blood Draw Mobile
Clinic with a return date of August 21, 2024 to the Lake County Auditor's Office by 9:30a.m.

6.

MODIFICATION OF SPECIFICATIONS PRIOR TO PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS,
QUOTES, OR OTHER PROPOSALS
6.1 HIGHWAY: Adendum No. 2 for Calumet Twp. Septic Tank Elimination Project

Construction Project 1-Package C Lift Station
7.

PUBLIC SELECTION OF AT LEAST THREE VENDORS FROM WHOM TO SEEK
QUOTES: APPROVAL OF SPECIFICATION FOR SEEKING PROPOSALS, SELECT
THE VENDORS, AND SET THE RETURN DATE
7.1 COMMISSIONERS: Approve for the Purdue Extension Greenhouse Project with a return
date of August 21, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.

8.

ACTION TO FORM CONTRACTS
8.1 E-911: Purchase of 10 wireless handset and base kits through Bucher Tech in the amount of
$4,431.20. Two other quotes were received from CDW in the amount of $5,259.20 and
Proven IT in the amount of $4,809.00.
8.2 E-911: Frontline DOR Module for 2024-2025 in the amount of $2,798.
8.3 ASSESSOR: Contract with Hallercolvin P.C. for legal services in an amount not to exceed
200,000.00 from June 1, 2024 thru December 31, 2024.
8.4 FAIRGROUNDS: Award and Contract with Gatlin Plumbing & Heating, Inc., lowest bid,
for Emergency Plumbing Repairs in the amount of $450. (TLC Plumbing, Inc. $530.00)
8.5 HIGHWAY Request to Select a Consulting Engineer for Lake County Bridge 363
Construction Inspection
8.6 HIGHWAY Road Cut Permit Comcast Cable-American Cable and Telephone Company,
LLC Installation of 70 Ft of underground CATV by method of Directional Bore. Location
11796-11875 White Oak Avenue
8.7 HIGHWAY: Change Order # 1 Community Crossing Grant 2023-2. Additional work
Remove and Replace Aprons @ 18.80 a square foot.
8.8 HIGHWAY: Utility Permit Comcast Cable-American Cable and Telephone, LLC. Location
11796-11875 White Oak Avenue.
8.9 HIGHWAY Utility Agreement NIPSCO Various Locations along 191st Avenue and Grant
Street in Lowell. Replace and install several utility poles, including overhead equipment
8.10 HIGHWAY: Addendum NO. 1 Calumet Township Septic Tank Elimination Project
Construction Project 1-Package C Lift Station Force Main, to the plans and project manual
shall supplement, amend and become part of the plans and specifications for the above
mentioned project.

8.11 HIGHWAY Change Order No.2 Issued by DLZ and Milestone Contractors North Inc.

Change Order # 2 is for Van Buren Holiday Creek Improvement Project. Change Order No. 2
is in the amount not to exceed $5,860.00
8.12 HIGHWAY: Memorandum of Understanding between the Counties of Lake, Porter and
LaPorte, Indiana and the Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC).
8.13 HIGHWAY: Bridge Inclusion of Inventory of the Colorado Street Railroad overpass in
Hobart, IN of the CN Railroad.
8.14 HIGHWAY: Award and Contract with Gatlin Plumbing & Heating in the amount of
$4,375,000.00 for the Westlong Sanitary Sewer Collection System.
8.15 HIGHWAY: Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with Kankakee River Basin and Yellow
River Basin Development Commission for the Purchase of Construction Services and Other
Services, Supplies, and Equipment for Mutual Benefit for Removal, Storage and Match
Marking of Lake County Bridge #36.
8.16 HVAC: Service Provider Rates 2024-2025 for Arctic, Johnson Controls, Mechanical
Concepts, and Lincoln Mechanical.
8.17 COMMISSIONERS: Annual Service Provider Contracts for the period of August 1, 2024 to
July 31, 2025 with the following Companies: 1. Credent Quality Electric. 2. Gluth Brothers
Roofing Company, Inc. 3. Keough Mechanical Corp. 4. Mechanical Concepts, Inc
(Plumbing). 5. Midwestern Electric, Inc. 6. Sneed Construction dba P & S Construction. 7.
Sweney Electric Company, Inc. 8. TLC Plumbing, Inc. 9. Ziese & Sons Excavating, Inc. 10.
Gariup Construction. 11. Korellis Roofing. 12. M. J. Electric. 13. Preferred Window and
Door.
8.18 COMMISSIONERS: Contract with Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. (only bidder)
for the Paving Improvement at Westwind, Paramore and Animal Control in the amount of
$528,604.00.
8.19 COMMISSIONERS: Change Order #2 for an additional $255,159.37 to Reith-Riely for
Paving Project at Westwind and Parramore.
8.20 COMMISSIONERS: Contract with Korellis Roofing for the Reroofing of the Highway
Office Building in Crown Point in the amount of $65,034.00.
8.21 COMMISSIONERS: Joint Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with the Town of New
Chicago, Indiana for Equipment for the New Chicago Police Department in Hobart in the
amount of $120,000.00.
8.22 COMMISSIONERS: Joint Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with the Gary Community
School Corporation for Equipment and Improvements for West Side High School Athletics
in the amount of $146,854.00.

8.23 COMMISSIONERS: Joint Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with the City of Gary for
Equipment and Improvement for the Gary Police Department in the amount of $120,000.00.
8.24 JUVENILE COURT: Contract approval between Summit Food Service and Lake County
Juvenile Center for 2024-2025.
8.25 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with Endless Possibilities Youth Center Inc. to assist
Juvenile Probation Department in conducting community service work projects for Fifteen
sessions at $300 each, for a total of $4,500.00.
8.26 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with Great Lakes Music Company in the amount of $1,000
in the duration of one year to provide Music Therapy programming to youth.
8.27 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with the Love of the Arts, Inc. to facilitate weekly group
sessions at $260.00/month for a total of $3,120.00.
8.28 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with Torres Martial Arts Academy to provide professional
services for youth involving anti-bullying and empowerment training for Probation Youth in
the Community in the amount of $4,000.
8.29 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with Monika Evans - Restorative Services to provide
professional restorative practices training and services in the amount of $11,540.00 between
July 1st, 2024 and June 30th, 2025.
8.30 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with Northwest Psychological Services for therapy
programming in the amount of $9,000.00.
8.31 JUVENILE COURT: Contract with East Wind Development Institute INC. in the amount
of $3,200 to provide programming and coordination of the Project Outreach and Prevention
Program to the youth.
8.32 LAKE SUPERIOR COURT, COUNTY DIVISION ROOM ONE: Legal Services
contract with Scott Seville, for the year 2024, in the amount of $15,000.00.
8.33 SHERIFF: Request to Retain services from Keystone Architecture dba Cordogan Clark for
a feasibility study of the Lake County Sheriff's Departments Indoor Shooting Range to
generate an opinion of probable construction costs for HVAC upgrades, layout of range and
equipment
8.34 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Requesting that Christopher Burke Engineering, LLC,
be awarded the update to the Emergency Management EOP as the most responsible and
responsive bidder. The award should be for the base plan only. $45,638 (Other bids were
Americo Engineering, $48,750; Mier Consulting Group, $47,500; and Integrated Solutions
Consulting, $64,750

8.35 LAKE SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY DIVISION II: Consultant Contract Renewal with
Denise Bozich for Clinician/Grant from August 1, 2024 through September 30, 2024 in the
amount of $4,916.00.
9.

ACTION AND/OR REPORTS ON COUNTY OWNED PROPERTY
9.1

ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION - Property Disposal on an HP Printer Model
C7780C

9.2 DATA: Request for Property Disposal
10. ACTION ON COMMISSIONERS' ITEMS
10.1 CALUMET TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Poor Relief Appeal Decisions Held on June 13,
2024
10.2 ROSS TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Poor Relief Appeal Decision held on July 2, 2024.
11. COUNCIL ITEMS
11.1 Ordinance 1497A Creating The Lake County Juvenile Center’s Geminus Community
Partners Prevention Reimbursement Grant – Life Skills Grant Fund, A non-reverting fund.
11.2 Ordinance 1497B Creating The Lake County Juvenile Center’s Life Work Self-Discovery
Storytelling Program Advance Grant Fund, A non-reverting fund.
11.3 Ordinance 1459C-13 Amending Ordinance No. 1459C, The Ordinance declaring funds
dormant and repealing and rescinding the ordinance establishing the funds.
11.4 Ordinance 1459B-7 Amending Ordinance No. 1459B, The Ordinance declaring funds not
created by ordinance as dormant and inactive.
12. STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS ITEMS
12.1 AUDITOR: Accounts Payable Voucher Register for County Payroll - Pay Date 5-20-2024
12.2 AUDITOR: Accounts Payable Voucher Register for County Payroll - Pay Date 6-3-2024
12.3 AUDITOR: Accounts Payable Voucher Register for County Payroll - Pay Date 6-17-2024
12.4 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Accounts Payable Voucher Register.
12.5 AUDITOR: LC265 6/13/24 to 7/17/24 Hand Cuts 6/13/24 To 7/17/24 LC 130 7/17/24
13. ACTION ON BONDS/INSURANCE

13.1 2024 Board Member for LC Economic Development Bond:
Michael Repay
Daniel P. Spitale
Nicholas Triana
2024 Board Member of LC Redevelopment Commission:
Kyle Allen, Sr.
Richard H. Niemeyer
John Brezik
Christine Cid
13.2 PLAN COMMISSION: Performance Bond Release and Resolution for Windy Knoll
Estates
13.3 HIGHWAY Certificate of Insurance Up-Date
13.4 Certificate of Liability Insurance for Stan's Body Shop and Towing, Inc.
14. APPROVE RESPONSIBLE BIDDER APPLICATIONS
15. STAFF REPORTS
15.1 WEIGHTS & MEASURES: Monthly Report Period 5/16/2024-6/15/2024 ANNUAL
REPORT: Period 6/16/2023-6/15/2024

15.2 Treasurer's Monthly Report
16. OTHER/MATTERS OF PUBLIC RECORD
16.1 SHERIFF: Request to purchase and install ten (10) Flock Safety Falcon LPR Cameras to
integrate into the Lake County Sheriff Department Real Time Center to have ability to share
live feed from cameras with other law enforcement agency
17. COMMENTS
Members of the Public
Elected Officials
Commissioners
18. ADJOURNMENT
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Commissioners will be on Wednesday,
August 21, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. Deadline for placement on that agenda is Wednesday, August 7,
2024 at 2:00 p.m.