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The surveyor reported the office is using an aging copier with no available servicing and requested a replacement in the office equipment line. The office also described ongoing work on section corners and explained the GDI fund's purpose: the county is required by state guideline to relocate or verify a percentage of section corners each year, and the surveyor asked to continue building the GDI allocation to maintain capacity for reconstruction projects.

Commissioners debated reducing the GDI allocation compared with past requests but ultimately left the allocation unchanged for the current budget cycle pending final numbers from staff.

GIS staff and county IT presented a proposal to move from per‑computer Esri licensing to an enterprise geodatabase and server setup. Staff provided a vendor quote for the enterprise license at $21,000 plus an installation/configuration quote from local firms in the range of $18,000 to $40,000 depending on scope; ongoing annual maintenance was estimated at about $8,000 per year. County IT staff said they prefer contractor assistance for the initial installation to avoid exposing county systems during the migration.

Recorder Lisa offered to donate a recently vacated server (identified in the meeting as approximately $25,000 in value) that the recorder's office no longer needs after moving to cloud services; county staff said that server would reduce the one‑time capital cost for GIS.

Commissioners and staff agreed the GIS upgrade would provide new capabilities for multiple departments and for public mapping tools, but there was no formal appropriation recorded at the session. Staff will return with final vendor quotes, installation scope and a funding proposal showing whether the cost can be absorbed within departmental budgets, the CCD fund or a one‑time appropriation from the general fund.

Next steps: the auditor and IT staff will prepare final estimates, confirm the donated server's specs and redundancy/backups, and present a funding path for commissioners to approve at a future meeting.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Henry County Council Budget Workshop AM- 7/30/25","oneSentenceSummary","The surveyor's office asked to replace an aging copier and discussed building the GDI fund for future reconstruction projects; county GIS staff presented a $21,000 Esri enterprise license quote and an approximately $18,000 installation quote and said Recorder Lisa is donating a server for the upgrade.","taxTitle","Henry County, Indiana","taxId",70528,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6150226,"Henry County agrees to move two health‑department positions into general fund, shift insurance funding",2065,5040000,7105000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5508876-149f27b33d7086e6e545c16111dcec46&start=5040&end=7105","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5508876-149f27b33d7086e6e545c16111dcec46/thumbnail_5040000.jpg","/articles/6150226/Henry-County/Indiana/Henry-County-agrees-to-move-two-healthdepartment-positions-into-general-fund-shift-insurance-funding","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6150226-02a163ff5089ae66dd4d2ddc9cc4c074/orig.mp4?Expires=1771160321&Signature=idSGv39k9RSRRJ4pwxuDAfiQE2MsNNNSbifV0Jrr2HXDJHRnnybpok--YO55NLXeBPbko4WPs8Tl1L43nHcyRCYDNSGDhzxF6yhJaxYCL0Z0Yd6F1neiMIRYPsjRkINj4-BKNm2GXjRiXbvdCvW0Jikk0W-vGSSrXDVNHZQzHbF6hd6g0zyJRsTWT6F8q3Q8rgKtLifNUlTZl9D2hAihYigDafg-Jp0fuG5xtd0RtjhxavKVb0gq~ENLdpHvRWZDPD~9m-Ba1vheKoiMmu5mpfx8Hp73pTrsipMGsZyfpuELP790CEDCZynnRo-c-GS1xedHyUsiHVqgjFHlxTKshA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Henry County commissioners and Health Department leadership reached a consensus during Tuesday's budget work session to include two positions in the county general fund budget for 2026 and to realign how the department's group insurance and liability costs are paid.

The changes discussed would add an existing public‑health nurse position and a director‑level health promotion position to the general fund payroll. Budget staff and the health director used the meeting to map the dollar impact: the public‑health nurse position presented for inclusion was $56,079 and the director position $61,536 (salary lines as discussed in the meeting). Commissioners also discussed removing the department's group insurance line from the Health First Indiana fund and instead funding insurance through the county's centralized health insurance line. During the session the group discussed zeroing out roughly $240,000 of group insurance budgeted in the HFI fund and moving smaller liability and workers' compensation amounts back to the commissioners' insurance budget.

The health director explained the department had restructured roles in response to recent funding changes and retirements; she also said she intends to retire at the end of the calendar year and would like overlap time to train a replacement. Commissioners said they were generally supportive of preserving the staffing needed to maintain services while reducing the practice of paying full‑time, recurring county positions out of perpetuation or special‑purpose funds when that creates uneven treatment across departments.

Budget staff cautioned that moving these lines between funds affects the department's November levy calculations and will change the slice of the county levy allocated to the health department; staff will produce technical adjustments showing the net levy effect. Commissioners asked the auditor and budget office to verify that the proposed fund shifts would be essentially net‑zero to the county wide resources (money moving between levy buckets rather than increasing total county tax draw), and to bring back finalized figures for approval.

Next steps include formalizing the two position lines in the general fund budget pages, zeroing the designated HFI insurance lines, and preparing the state technical forms and levy paperwork to reflect the transfers.","Commissioners and the health director agreed in principle to transfer two positions out of the Health First Indiana (HFI)/perpetuation funding structure into the county general fund and to realign group insurance funding; staff will confirm exact levy impacts and technical budget entries.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6150230,"Henry County commissioners agree to use Baker Tilly conservative forecast for 2026 budget",9875,115000,9990000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5508876-149f27b33d7086e6e545c16111dcec46&start=115&end=9990","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5508876-149f27b33d7086e6e545c16111dcec46/thumbnail_115000.jpg","/articles/6150230/Henry-County/Indiana/Henry-County-commissioners-agree-to-use-Baker-Tilly-conservative-forecast-for-2026-budget","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6150230-a45482179b527d9fc4c75a336e3f8058/orig.mp4?Expires=1771160321&Signature=a8qHAw6Kl0X8EtrsSZ03zCUISZessvUJ0rHr5RLMqJflIkwGeo6Elr-F~9h0Dis8AKvG4vP2lVTJFM5237H6e3gedoU4FhczNUiIoDrXrnXjKYYeVSzrwyVavpNG2YDK~pInDj2SJRdPedTv2JF1OLwczbP2m2ysblSOSR4f4Z2NNZL4Um34Es6WYWmNlJ1-4OhpVO1D1w9sCX74fo51Ie3K9rI6TwDIP1E2bUdSUQJMkdrKWQJs7IX1ljb-QU~u3U~UAmvgT-j6TnqIfK3ivBsRRwnoPPtaj~KAM12YHY-Kp02NH9QcU5pO3uIsqGy0lPAXaLd5KcuqT63sUZZQGg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Henry County commissioners and department heads on Tuesday agreed to use the conservative revenue forecast prepared by Baker Tilly as the baseline for the county's 2026 operating budget.

The decision came after extended discussion about how to estimate certified shares (local income-tax distributions), property-tax credits and state supplemental payments. Using Baker Tilly's numbers gives the county a wider cushion for contingencies and reduces the chance of overstating available dollars while the state's methods for distributing income-tax supplements remain uncertain.

County officials debated an alternate scenario that would assume a modest 2.7% growth in certified shares; proponents said that figure better reflects recent local collections. Others said the state's supplemental distributions and pending legislative changes make any above‑trend assumptions unreliable. Officials repeatedly noted that the supplemental share returned by the state has been inconsistent and that DLGF guidance has changed from year to year.

Budget staff provided commissioners with cost estimates for a potential across‑the‑board pay adjustment tied to the county's midpoint study. The raw salary cost to move all eligible positions to 95%, 97% and full midpoint would increase the general‑fund payroll by roughly $128,000, $255,000 and $450,000 respectively; when payroll taxes, retirement and workers' compensation are included, staff estimated the total county cost would be roughly 20% higher than those salary-only figures.

With Baker Tilly's forecast as the baseline, commissioners said they will direct the auditor and budget staff to recalculate department worksheets and return with updated totals and the technical budget pages the state requires. Any decision on fund transfers, one‑time capital proposals or a final step on raises will be taken after that follow-up analysis.

The group's working consensus to use the Baker Tilly forecast leaves the county with an estimated operating cushion under current assumptions; commissioners said they prefer a conservative baseline given the number of state‑level policy changes that will affect distributions in 2026 and beyond.","After several hours of line-by-line review, county leaders coalesced around Baker Tilly's conservative revenue forecast to frame the 2026 operating budget, leaving further choices about raises and one-time projects for later meetings.","actionData","errors"]

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