White County commissioners approve several ordinances, authorize road study and water study; multiple items tabled

The White County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt several ordinances and authorize studies at its meeting, while tabling a handful of vendor agreements and a vehicle purchase.

The commissioners approved an ordinance amending the uniform fee schedule for the White County Drainage Board and the surveyor’s office, an ordinance authorizing collection of co-payments for jail inmate medical care, and an ordinance establishing election-district boundaries for White County. Commissioners also authorized the county to proceed with geotechnical borings and related work on County Road 300 East and approved a water-study engagement for Mac Park.

Why it matters: The adopted ordinances put administrative and revenue practices into formal county code (drainage/surveyor fees and inmate medical co-pay collections), and the engineering work and the water study are preparatory steps for future road reconstruction and industrial-park water-capacity work that the county and redevelopment commission are pursuing.

What the commission acted on - Ordinance amending uniform fee for the…