GIS Interns Available

Carey Stranahan, Kokomo

A Ball State GIS professor has offered to post internships and openings in the lab if members have any. His name is Dr. Kevin Turcotte. From what I gather, GIS students are required to do 150 hours of internships. This is a great opportunity to get some fine talent in the office to help on some of the more, "strategic" projects, as well as test out potential future "team members".

IACT Legislative Committee Results

Carey Stranahan, Kokomo

The IACT Legislative Committee met last week to prioritize its legislative initiatives. Of the 23 initiatives discussed, below is the top 8 from highest to lowest:

1. Timely revenue distributions from counties.
2. Local responsibility for funds management.
3. Protect against the erosion of TIF revenues and local authority over TIF. (Place TIF replacement mechanisms outside of the circuit breaker caps and outside maximum levy.)
4. Prohibiting municipal employees from serving on the council for which they work.
5. Remove the state police and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles from the gas tax and MVH/LRS revenue stream.
6. Municipal adoption of LOITs. (including commuter taxation option)
7. LOIT for circuit breaker losses.
8. Permit statewide local adoption of food/beverage taxes and innkeeper's taxes.

If you are interested in learning more about any of these initiatives, contact Megan Miller at IACT.

8th Annual Transpotation Expo

Richard Domonkos, LTAP Training Specialist

The 8th annual Transportation Expo and Snow Plow Roadeo is just around the corner, (Sep 10th & 11th). Indiana LTAP has worked very hard to put together an exciting training agenda for all local agencies.

September 10th
Route 1 Road Scholar Core Course #4 Public Purchasing
8:45 a.m. – Noon Charlie Pride Indiana State Board of Accounts. (Purchasing 101)
Matt Brase, Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. (Reverse Auctions)
Wayne Scheumann Street Manager City of Nappanee. (Emergency Purchasing)

1:45p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Dale Keep. (How to Develop a Liquid De-icing Program)

Route 2 Driver Training and Demo Stations
8:45 a.m. – Noon Gary Vandegriff, Supervisor, Johnson County Highway (Preparing for Winter Operations)
Denny McIntyre, W.A. Jones. (Developments in Snow and Ice Equipment)
Tom Konieczny, INDOT LaPorte District. (Salt Brine, How it’s used and how it can help)
Brian Oberg, Swenson Spreader Co. (Equipment Function and Spreader Calibration)

1:45p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Demo Stations

September 11th
8:30 a.m. Drivers Meeting
9:00 a.m. Roadeo Begins

LTAP will be offering a Road Scholar Core Course # 4 “Public Purchasing” on the morning of day 1. One of the speakers for the course is from the Indiana State board of Accounts and will discuss various topics that relate to purchasing regulations for local agencies in Indiana.
If anyone has any questions that they would like to have specifically addressed during or after the session please email or fax to LTAP on or before September 5th and we will forward the questions only to the speaker so they may be included as part of the presentation.
See you at the EXPO