Vigo County commissioners approve minutes, payroll and claims; Clinkenbeard reports meetings with legislators on Union Hospital

Auditor Hutchings asked the Vigo County commissioners to approve routine items and the commissioners approved the minutes and two dockets by voice vote during a short meeting with light business.

Auditor Hutchings opened the consent items by asking the board to approve the minutes for Feb. 11, 2025. “I reviewed and taken over and written over. I'm good with them. I'll make a motion to approve,” a commissioner said; the motion was seconded and the board approved the minutes by voice vote.

The board then approved the payroll docket covering Jan. 31–Feb. 14, 2025, and a claim docket dated Feb. 6–14, 2025. The payroll amount was read aloud in the meeting as $1,380,506.62 and the claim docket was read as $904,692.17; each docket was approved after a motion, a second, and a voice vote. The motions and approvals were recorded as routine business and no roll‑call tallies were given in the transcript.

During commissioner comments, Commissioner Clinkenbeard said he and representatives from RJO Solutions and the Terrell Chamber of Commerce met legislators at the State House the previous day. He said the group discussed the Union Hospital project and “the economic impact it could have,” and he cautioned that if Union Hospital does not merge with Regional Hospital “they are at risk of losing their jobs,” a point he characterized as public information from those discussions.

No formal actions or directives about the hospital project were recorded in the meeting minutes excerpt; the remarks were given as an informational update during the commissioners’ comments section.