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Meet Kelly Braverman: Witham Health Services New President and CEO This month we are pleased to feature, on our last cover of 2021, Zionsville resident Kelly Braverman, who officially began her duties as Witham Health Services’ new president and CEO at the beginning of December.

Braverman succeeds the esteemed Dr. Raymond Ingham after 24 years at the helm. Witham’s Board of Trustees selected Braverman as Ingham’s successor based on her unique skills, knowledge and passion to lead Witham’s future success in the complex, ever-changing health care industry—especially amid a global pandemic.

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One can have an enjoyable experience at Eagle Creek without leaving town limits, and there are a myriad of potential educational opportunities collaborating with the local schools and youth—teaching about local ecosystems and river systems.

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Thanks to a donation by the Boone County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), who stepped in to save a local tradition in Zionsville that brings tourism to the county as well as supports a local business and ecosystem, folks can fly-fish all winter long for rainbow trout.

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FLY-FISHING PROMOTES TOURISM IN ZIONSVILLE

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he previous two Novembers, rainbow trout had been stocked because of former Zionsville mayor and resident Tim Haak’s initiative to obtain a stocking permit from Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and with the assistance of local enthusiasts who contributed to the budget. Haak—an avid angler—worked with Zionsville Parks

& Rec and with Indiana’s DNR to obtain a permit and stock the creek, which has created quite a buzz in the fly-fishing community here locally, throughout Central Indiana and even regionally.

Located in Zionsville, Moving Water Outfitters is Central Indiana’s premier fly-fishing and kayak outfitters. Mike Exl, the general manager and co-owner of Moving Water Outfitters, operates a guide service that takes people out to

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In just 35 years, the bald eagle went from extirpated in Indiana to a thriving population statewide. The Natural Resources Commission removed bald eagles from the special concern list in 2020, though eagles, nests and eggs are still protected by federal laws. Bald eagles eat mostly fish such as trout.

While stocking the creek with rainbow trout is not specifically aimed at providing a food source for the local bald eagles, it does contribute to the local ecosystem and to the continued recovery of the official national bird.

FLY-FISHING’S ECONOMIC IMPACT In addition to generating revenue for the local business Moving Water Outfitters, fly-fishing also has impact on tourism, bringing people into town who dine and do other things while visiting the local area.

According to Exl, the word is out, and people from all over the state drive in to fly-fish for rainbow trout right here in Zionsville.

“This is the whole reason why Tim [Haak] pursued this a couple of years ago,” Exl said. “The [trout] stocking creates a fishery for everyone to enjoy.

It’s been a tremendous success. The nice thing about how Zionsville parks are laid out is that dads and moms can fish for a little bit while the kids play on the playgrounds, and then they’ll go walk through Starkey Park.”

Exl continued, “Another thing we’ve noticed is a number of clients have come in that are new to our store, and when asked how they found out about us, they tell us that they saw a couple of guys wearing [our] fishing shirts in one

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of the [local] restaurants. It’s been really beneficial for all of Zionsville and not just for us as the fishing shop in town.

It’s also been really cool to see how it’s been working for everyone and drawing people to town—showing it off.”

GUIDE SERVICES THROUGH WINTER Moving Water Outfitters offers guide services even throughout the winter.

“What we offer is half-day lessons on the creek, introducing people to trout fishing and to using different tactics,” Exl shared. “We do these lessons out in the water, and we’ll be doing that through April [2022].”

Indiana DNR has a “catch-and-release” regulation until the last Saturday of April—which falls on April 30 in 2022—which it refers to as “opening day.” Then anglers can catch and keep their rainbow trout.

To sign up for trout-fishing lessons, Exl encouraged folks to contact him at the store in Zionsville.

“The best thing is to call the shop and speak with myself or Ben—who’s one of my guys here,” Exl stated. “We do the lessons, so the best thing is to call us or reach out via email at info@mwoutfitters.com.”

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Join us as we ring in the new year with the award-winning Melissa Manchester! Feinstein’s is pleased to host their New Year’s Eve Celebration with this legendary artist with a career that has spanned over three decades.

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anchester’s tremendously successful solo career brought her critical and commercial acclaim. The “Midnight Blue” singer received her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance in 1979 for the Peter Allen/Carole Bayer Sager-penned “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” winning the Grammy in that category four years later for “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” Manchester has also had her songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Dusty Springfield, Alison Krauss, Kenny Loggins and many others. Two songs she performed, “Through the Eyes of Love” and “The Promise,” were nominated for Oscars in the same year. She has written tunes for several other films, including “The Great Mouse Detective,” “Lady and the Tramp II,” “Dirty Girl” and “Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.”

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Janelle Morrison: You presented for Bette Midler at The Kennedy Center Honors recently. How amazing was that experience?

Melissa Manchester: It was the most stunning experience! It was true American splendor to be among so many spectacularly talented people and to be able to pay tribute to my friend of such a long time—Bette Midler—where the nation says, “Job well done” effectively. It was just incredibly moving. And to have everybody there in such grand spirits was just breathtaking, really.

JM: Since we last spoke, you preformed at The Center for the Performing Arts along with your dear friend Michael Feinstein. What an emotional night!

I cried so much that night, and I don’t cry in public. It was so moving and so magical.

Thank you for that wonderful night and an unforgettable return to live performances in the Palladium.

Manchester: Thank you so much!

I really appreciate that. It was the first time I had performed since the beginning of the pandemic. The audience was so deeply connected, and you could feel it on stage. It was really thrilling.

We are living in peculiar times, but we are alive and very productive—there is much to celebrate.

JM: You were officially inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame in November. What does that mean to you?

Manchester: Being inducted into the [Great American Songbook] Hall of Fame

as a songwriter is such a specific and grand honor to be in the company of the late, great Sammy Cahn and Billy Strayhorn. This is a rarified crowd and to be recognized and to be deserving of that was really amazing. To feel like what you’ve done for such a long time gets a pat on the back and a rousing chorus of “Job well done” is not lost on me. And I am deeply humbled and very appreciative.

JM: I’ve listened to the re-envisioned sixth single from your 24th album “RE:VIEW,” “Come in From the Rain”—a classic from your earlier repertoire. I’m having a tough time deciding which [version] is my favorite.

The song has touched me at different times in my life. It is a powerful song.

Manchester: The unexpected magic of this particular project—”RE:VIEW”— is that these songs were written and recorded such a long time ago and have grown into this moment. When I first decided to create “RE:VIEW,” I wanted to do so because of the pandemic and wanted to do it very slowly. Rolling out every single very slowly with an accompanying video so that when [the pandemic] is all over, we will see sort of a travel log of what it’s been like during these times.

“Come in From the Rain” was released at this time of year with the holidays and the new year, and at a point in my life that I am filled with a great sense of forgiveness for myself for the follies of youth and for other people who

I really dig Carmel!

It’s a beautiful and visionary city.”

Editor’s Note: This is our second interview with Melissa Manchester this year. We are honored to help welcome her back to Carmel, Indiana! Don’t miss this opportunity to ring in 2022 with this award-winning icon!

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also struggled with their follies. After what we have been through, there is a deep experience of welcoming people back into your life and being back in community with people for which we are so hardwired. This song is much more hopeful in this moment because I’ve lived so much longer and there’s so much more strength and backbone in the performance of the song and in this rendition.

There’s no guessing around anymore.

I know who I am, and the openheartedness of this song comes from deep and hard-won wisdom.

JM: Indeed, this has been a time of reflection and re-evaluation of what we stand for and who we are to other people. As we begin a new year, I hope that 2022 is prosperous and positive for our nation and for the world over.

Manchester: One of the things that I experienced during this slog through

2020, among other things, was this unexpected gift to not only look at our society but see it. And to see what is beautiful, what is broken and what’s never been finished—the parts of the promise of our democracy that need to have attention paid to them and no longer [are] kicked down the road. We’re in a deep moment of reckoning that is going to last for a long time. And there are folks who get really cranky at the thought of that, and then there are folks who are very still and say, “We’re ready, and we’re ready to have those hard discussions.” We’re ready to take these deep actions in terms of love being an action.

I hope that 2022 is powerful, prosperous and certainly healthier for all of us. I hope that people can continue to get back to being in community with each other.

JM: This time, we will be seeing you at Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael, right

next door to the Palladium. It’s a vastly different environment and is an intimate venue in which you can really connect with the energy generated by yourself and the audience. And you’re coming not just any day of the week, but you will be ringing in the new year with us. How lucky are we?

Manchester: I’m thrilled to be part of the new year celebration. First of all, the room is so gorgeous. We are doing two shows, and I’m really excited to get people primed for the countdown. I really dig Carmel! It’s a beautiful and visionary city. Your Mayor Brainard has done a remarkable rethinking of what a city can be, hasn’t he? I tell lots of people about Carmel. I’m thrilled to be coming back there, and I’m thrilled to be in Michael’s room—my dear Michael Feinstein.

I’m thrilled to help celebrate and raise high the rooftop for New Year’s Eve and to share all kinds of music and play all kinds of videos to sing along to. I’m really looking forward to it!

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A BORN SHOWMAN AND ACCOMPLISHED SLEIGHT-OF-HAND ARTIST, DAVID WILLIAMSON DAZZLES AUDIENCES WITH A BLEND OF HEART-STOPPING MAGIC AND SIDESPLITTING HILARITY.

He has been featured on ABC’s “Champions of Magic,” where he appeared with Princess Stephanie as he performed his miracles at various locations in and around Monaco. Williamson has also co-starred in several top-rated prime-time network specials, including CBS’ “Magicians’ Favorite Magicians,” NBC’s “Houdini: Unlocking His Mysteries” and NBC’s “World’s Greatest Magic III.” He was seen recently on The CW’s “Masters of Illusion” TV series as well as “America’s Got Talent.”

Williamson has developed TV shows for Walt Disney Productions and ABC, as well as consulting on TV specials for illusionists David Copperfield and David Blaine. His bestselling magic book, “Williamson’s Wonders,” has been translated into three languages.

Williamson is also featured as the Ringmaster in the exciting show “Circus 1903” currently touring the world and returning to the UK for a holiday tour. He is also a frequent favorite Guest Entertainer on Disney Cruise Lines.

Recently, Williamson was honored with the Performance Fellowship by the Academy of Magical Arts and Sciences at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. In 2017, Williamson was named The Magic Castle’s Magician of the Year. He was also recently awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership by the UK’s Magic Circle, the world’s premier magical society.

Janelle Morrison: I believe life is about experiences. I think it’s a great time to be reminded of the wonderment and laughter we enjoyed as children and experience those again as adults. That’s where live shows and entertainers like you come in.

David Williamson: That’s the message I’ve been giving interviews for the circus that we’re taking back to London [this holiday season] after a year off. The message is “cir-

cus” is community and “circus” is a celebration of life, so it’s a positive message.

JM: I’d like to take a stroll down memory lane and ask you to walk me through the early days of your magic career.

Williamson: As a kid, I was fascinated with magic, like most kids are. I got a magic set when I was 8 years old. When everybody else let go of the magic tricks and moved on

to football or other pursuits in life, I never let [magic] go.

We had a school magician, Walter Shepard, who was a wonderful magician in the Dayton area who performed for all the elementary schools and had a wonderful school show. It was fantastic. He played the part. He had a goatee and a painted van with doves and hats on it. He was a “professional” magician. My teacher let me go backstage with Shepard the Magician, and

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PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT I helped carry his props out to his painted van. I felt like I was in the “club,” and magic has been a lifelong passion ever since.

In fourth grade, we had a reader about Harry Houdini. I was fascinated with Houdini. He was a real-life superhero that captured the imagination of any kid. I learned a little sleight-of-hand trick, and I learned it pretty well. My teacher said, “David, you did that pretty well and maybe someday, you’ll be a magician,” and that pathway was burnt into my brain at that point.

JM: I read that another book, “The Amateur Magician’s Handbook,” also inspired you to become a magician. Do you still have a copy of that?

Williamson: I have several copies! I give them away to young [aspiring] magicians and kids that I give lessons to. I pick copies up whenever I can find a second-hand edition or paperback version.

It’s a fantastic book that gives you the basics of sleight-of-hand tricks. There are chapters on coin magic and sleight-of-hand with balls, rings and handkerchiefs.

JM: In addition to Houdini, who were some of your heroes in magic growing up?

Williamson: My heroes in magic weren’t the TV magicians necessarily. I appreciated them and always got excited when they were on TV. Mark Wilson had a show in the ’70s called the “Magic Circus,” and there were magicians like Harry Blackstone and David Copperfield, but my heroes are the blue-collar magicians who do it for a living and are grinding out shows at all kinds of venues.

These are the sleight-of-hand guys who are inventors and tinkerers, and on top of that, they are skilled with their hands and have that theatrical flair you have to have.

You have to be many things to be a good magician and not just have one skill. You have to be an inventor, tinkerer, a bit of a

scientist and artist and a lot of a showman.

You have to make the unreal real for the audiences, and a lot of magicians forget that in their careers—they just want to be a personality or want to be clever.

Ohio, and we have a nonprofit horse-riding school, The Riding Centre, where they do therapeutic riding. We do a lot of fundraisers, and I’m heavily involved. My wife is on the board, and my kids grew up helping out there.

JM: After you return to the U.S. and arrive in Carmel this January, what can we expect at your show at The Tarkington?

Williamson: My standard thing is to expect the unexpected. It’s not going to be your father’s magic show. We’re going to have fun, and it’s going to be a celebration. It’s pure fun and interaction, and it’s going to be buoyant!

I want to have a light, fun, magical, jaw-dropping, hilarious evening. I am going to use spectators from the audience. Everybody is going to participate from their seats on some of the things, but it’s going to be old-school magic and a lot of fun.

I’m building the show especially for this event. It’s the first theater show that I’ve done since the pandemic began so I’m starting from scratch and building a special performance, so this will be fun for me as well.

JM: Thank you for sharing. To learn more about the The Riding Centre and how to make donations, please visit theridingcentre.org. Now, last but not least, you can take my last question and answer it philosophically or simply— however you please.

JM: I like to ask my interviewees what organizations or nonprofits they support and would like to plug?

Williamson: At the local level, for many years, I’ve produced shows in Yellow Springs,

When I was a kid, I remember watching people like David Copperfield and thinking it was pure magic. As we get older, life teaches us to be cynical, and we begin to doubt what we can’t see or explain. As a journalist, I’m a fact finder, but I still find enjoyment in allowing my senses to be “challenged” by a talented magician. In that instance, I enjoy not knowing if it’s “real” or not. It’s not for me to say.

So, David, I’ll ask you—is magic real?

Williamson: Absolutely. There’s an old quote [by British novelist Roald Dahl], “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

It’s real for those who believe, and I definitely believe in magic.

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Kelly Braverman Zionsville Resident Named President/CEO Of Witham Health Services

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This month we are pleased to feature, on our last cover of 2021, Zionsville resident Kelly Braverman, who officially began her duties as Witham Health Services’ new president and CEO at the beginning of December.

Braverman succeeds the esteemed Dr. Raymond Ingham after 24 years at the helm.

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itham’s Board of Trustees selected Braverman as Ingham’s successor based on her unique skills, knowledge and passion to lead Witham’s future success in the complex, ever-changing health care industry—especially amid a global pandemic.

A BACKGROUND IN HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION Braverman graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science in recreational therapy and a Master of Health Administration. She also holds many other certificates in health administration and is board certified in health care management

as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

In 2003, Braverman became special assistant to the CEO of IU Health and worked on operational planning and management of IU Health system, later holding the position of vice president of operations for the general medical and surgical center at three academic hospitals. She was also the COO of University Hospital. Her 18 years in these positions at IU Health culminated in the most recent position of president of IU Health, Frankfort.

At the start of her career, Braverman found helping patients to be very satisfying.

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pretty satisfying,” Braverman shared.

“I liked the projects that ended up making things easier for the teammates that I had, and I started paying a different level of attention to the directors, managers and leaders that were around me. I realized that they all had different [leadership styles] and ways of communicating as well. I had the opportunity, at a young age, to be exposed to the importance of leadership and the impact that it can have on people around them.”

DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS After earning a Master of Health Administration, Braverman’s career began to focus more on that part of the health care industry.

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“Because of those early exposures I mentioned, I feel like I focused a lot on how to treat people, and by doing that well or trying to do that well, you have a great team as a result of that because they also care about how they treat people. There’s always hard conversations and hard choices. How you deliver that message and how you make someone feel when you deliver that message is really important.”

Braverman shared a particular special chapter in her professional story and the lessons she learned from one of her mentors. She has continued to implement those throughout her career.

“I had a job in grad school when I was going through a master’s program,” Braverman said. “My boss was Thomas DeCoster, PhD. I still remember our first meeting—I had a notebook and was taking notes. I had at least two pages’ worth of expectations that he had of me. I’m sure my eyes were big as I was thinking about how I was going to do all of this through grad school. As I stood up to leave and thanked him [DeCoster] he said, ‘Oh no, please sit down. I’m not done yet.’ And I thought, ‘Oh my, what have I done?’ I sat down, and he said, ‘Now, I need to tell you what you can expect of me.’”

Braverman continued, “He shared that we were a team and that he was going to work just as hard investing in me and my development. He was going to help make me successful. We sat there for an even longer amount of time, and I have never left a meeting feeling so invested in and so appreciated. So, I try really hard in my professional life to invest back into my teams, helping them develop and grow.”

BUILDING HER OWN LEGACY When asked if the culture of excellence and service that Witham is known for is one of the reasons why Braverman accepted her current position, she replied, “The [culture] was absolutely the driving factor in my accepting this position.

Without exception, every single person with whom I’ve spoken with or interviewed with during the [hiring] process

consistently and proactively discussed why they covet the culture.”

Braverman plans on building upon the foundation from which her predecessor, Dr. Raymond Ingham, built his legacy.

“Ray did a fantastic job and was so involved in the [Boone County] community,” Braverman expressed. “He was out there seeking input and guidance, and I think that’s part of the foundation of Witham’s success. The whole [Witham] team has been so successful under Ray’s leadership because they understand what the community needs, what’s going on, and that’s a really solid baseline that will be very important for me to continue to build from.”

THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A COUNTY HOSPITAL DURING COVID-19 County hospitals face any number of challenges when not navigating through a global pandemic. Braverman shared some of the specific and immediate challenges that Witham Health Services

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faces as a result of the ongoing pandemic—the greatest challenge being workforce shortages.

“Yes, the pandemic has changed a lot of things [in the health care industry], but what has not changed is Witham’s commitment to providing exceptional care,” Braverman emphasized. “That is at the forefront of all the decisions that have been made and we are making. We care about our patients and we want to continue that high level of care regardless of the pandemic.”

Braverman shared one aspect that has changed is the general public’s understanding of “diversion” and how that affects the hospitals and patients.

“It’s rather unfortunate, but [diversion] has become a more common reality within hospital emergency departments,” Braverman stated. “At the most basic level, diversion is initiated because a hospital can’t temporarily provide a certain type of care. Before the pandemic, diversion was often initiated

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because of something technical, like a broken CT scan, and typically the hospital would have it back up and running within a number of hours.”

Since the pandemic, and often because hospitals don’t have enough employees on a shift and don’t have enough inpatient beds, hospitals throughout Central Indiana have been on diversion for much longer time periods. Additionally, hospitals have been putting patients in beds in emergency department hallways after being admitted due to a lack of available inpatient beds—a practice that is known as “boarding.”

“I personally know that our nurses are spending hours cold-calling every hospital they can to see who is accepting patients who have been waiting for hours,” Braverman stated. “That persistence speaks to the dedication of our nurses that they have for our patients.

The pandemic has been hard because of COVID-19 itself, but it’s also been hard

because many in our coveted health care professions—especially those closest to retirement age—are saying they can’t do this anymore and are burned out. These are some of the things that the pandemic is doing [to the health care industry] right now, and if we could have fewer patients with COVID-19, we would have those opportunities to serve people that are presenting non-COVID-19 symptoms.”

A silver lining in all of this is the fact that Witham Health Services consistently receives stellar reviews from many of its patients—another testament to Witham’s impeccable reputation for excellent customer service.

“I’ve got to be honest. Witham has some of the highest patient satisfaction scores I have ever seen,” Braverman said with sincerity. “This is not conjecture— these are the numbers.”

Braverman explained that she will continue to work closely with the board of directors, administrators and staff as

she continues her acclimation into the new year. Braverman added, “In short, I will be working with them to gain an understanding of our strengths and how we’re able to leverage them better.”

THE WORK/LIFE BALANCE Braverman lives in Zionsville with her spouse, Michael, and two sons, Parker and Oliver. She is deeply involved in United Schools of Indianapolis, is an officer of the Indiana Healthcare Executive Network and serves as ACHE Regent for Indiana.

“I have the absolute pleasure of being mom to two amazing boys,” Braverman shared. “Both of them love playing sports, and so when my husband and I are not at work, we find ourselves dividing and conquering to and from practices, sitting on benches at games, cheering on our kids. Lives have chapters, and the chapter we’re in right now is busy and chaotic, but I absolutely love it.”

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Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted

On Oct. 28, 2021, the Boone County Commissioners Tom Santelli, Jeff Wolfe and Don Lawson held a town hall meeting in order to inform the community about the need to update Boone County’s criminal justice facilities. During the town hall, the commissioners explained in detail the county’s current conditions and its expected future needs that compelled them to decide a new justice center is in the best interests of the residents of Boone County.

WHY DOES BOONE COUNTY NEED AN EXPANDED JUSTICE CENTER?

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jail feasibility study recommended the county jail expand beds to accommodate the county’s exponential growth. Boone County is one of the fastest-growing counties in all the state’s 92 counties. Per Clutter, the feasibility study estimated that the county jail would need double the beds.

In addition to additional beds for inmates, or “clients” as Nielsen respectfully addresses them, the proposed project would also create additional and much-needed space for an infirmary, administrative offices for the sheriff’s department and the county’s dispatch center—all of which have outgrown their

spaces since the county jail was moved to its current location in 1992.

Simply put, the county government has outgrown its facilities as a direct result of the increase in population and increase of arrests that are positive results of the passing of the Public Safety Local Income Tax (PS-LIT) in 2016.

“We fought for the passing of the PSLIT that is dedicated specifically for law enforcement and public safety throughout the county,” Nielsen explained. “It brings in about $16 million a year but not just to us. It goes to the entire county— the state distributes that out to all the [county’s] municipalities. We get $5.9 million out of the [$16 million]. For instance, Zionsville, Whitestown and Lebanon focus specifically on law enforcement

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and fire services, but they don’t have any of the back-end services like the court services, prosecutors’ offices, community corrections or the jail.”

Commissioner Tom Santelli added, “We [county officials] would love to get some of those funds for operations because Lebanon, Whitestown and Zionsville bring those arrested here [Boone County Jail], and we [Boone County] incur all of the costs associated with those arrests.”

“When the PS-LIT was passed, it allowed each [Boone County] municipality to hire more officers and to put more vehicles on the street,” Wolfe said. “That means more people are heading the sheriff’s way, and in the last five years, the prosecutor’s caseload has increased a dramatic amount. The PS-LIT effectively has increased the ability of the local public safety departments to do more effective policing but does not provide sufficient funding to the county to increase prosecutors, community corrections or jail services.”

THERE’S SIMPLY NO MORE ROOM TO GROW With county officials and members of their staff literally working out of converted closets and makeshift workspaces, the need for the justice center expansion has reached critical status.

“We’re keeping in mind that public safety is the most important issue in terms of our county’s economic development and its residents,” Nielsen stated. “We’ve opened up a can of worms, and we’ve really got to look at how we expand this and how it’s not just a ‘jail’ expansion.

I have always focused on rehabilitation— not incarceration. That is so important for everyone to understand. We don’t want to add a jail that houses 500 beds. What we really want to do is focus on rehabilitation, and while we will add approximately 150 secured beds [in this expansion], we are making sure that 30 years down the road, the future sheriff and commissioners don’t have to worry about the need for an expansion.”

Additionally, Sheriff Nielsen shared that the county jail is and has been at capacity since before the COVID-19

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pandemic began, and the numbers of those brought in and housed at his facility are not projected to decrease in the near or distant future.

“Once we hit the 240 [detained] mark, we have to ship our clients [inmates] to other counties,” Nielsen stated. “As we are 100% responsible for the welfare and mental/physical care for our clients, once they are shipped out of our county, we can no longer provide them with our services and programs. We want to build a facility [on-site] where we could offer vocational services to our clients so that they could go out and be productive members of society. Our mission and our goals are to rehabilitate these inmates and not to build a bigger jail just to house more inmates.”

A tour of the current county jail facility verified the claims of personnel working out of converted closets, and the county’s 911 call center is working out of a metaphorical shoebox in the basement that desperately needs to be expanded.

In short, the county officials are working with facilities that were built or designated that reflected the county’s population in 1992, and they are seeking to expand these facilities for today and for the future.

TALKING POINTS FROM A LITIGATION AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY STANDPOINT The county commissioners, attorney and sheriff are also focusing on the crowding issues from a litigation stand-

point. Nielsen noted that the county Wolfe addressed, at the commissioners’ jail offers 24/7 medical care but is in dire town hall meeting, the proposed increase need of an expanded medical ward or of the LIT tax. “I think this is where the infirmary with current technologies to confusion has come from. The rate as it is better address the medical issues that put into the system is a .002 increase. arise in his facility.

I think there’s been some confusion on “Any county jail is the single biggest the zeros. The way that it would be figliability source,” Clutter stated. “We do ured on your tax bill is as a .002 increase what we can to try to mitigate that risk or a 1.7% total LIT tax.” as much as possible. This is extremely How Would the Proposed Justice Cenimportant because litigation is expensive ter Project Be Funded? and spends taxpayer dollars.”

“There’s been a lot of hard looks at In the spirit of being frugal stewards this project,” Santelli said. “We’re about of taxpayers’ dollars, the commissioners two years behind the curve. We have the have been working with the stakeholders perfect opportunity—if we act now—as and county council to explain not only we have low interest rates. We can do the pressing need for the justice center this project as a ‘Build-Operate-Transfer’ expansion but to also discuss why time [Indiana Code 5-23], which is the best way is truly of the essence with regard to to do any project of this scale because it passing a Jail LIT. The consequence of is a guaranteed cost. Projects that haven’t passing it later down the road will result been built with a BOT have resulted in in millions of more dollars being spent at millions of dollars of overruns. And for the expense of the taxpayers. every percent increase in the interest rate, Commissioner Jeff Wolfe emphasized we’re looking at nearly $6 million in addithat the county has taken great care in spending taxpayer dollars over the years and has every intention of continuing those best Assisted Living w Respite w Day Stay practices in this proposed expansion.

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tional costs over the life of the project. For every moment that we delay this project, we are increasing liability and not delivering services that we need to be delivering to the community.”

Clutter added, “Boone County has the lowest property tax rate in the state of Indiana. We have one of the lowest LIT tax rates in the state of Indiana, which is very eye-opening considering we’re one of the fastest-growing counties and one of the wealthiest per capita. We’ve exhaustively looked at all the different funding opportunities. Realistically, the only way to pay for this project is with a Jail LIT. Boone

County has a 1.5% income tax, and some of that comes to the county and the rest goes to the county’s other taxing entities.

The Jail LIT is to be used exclusively for correctional improvements—which is the sole responsibility of the county. This is why the state legislature enacted the Jail LIT five years ago.”

“I think there’s 35 jails in the 92 counties that have either recently been constructed or are in the process of being constructed,” Clutter shared. “Using the Jail LIT is the perfect funding source because it goes straight to the county and can only be used for correctional purposes. Interest

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rates are going up, and that’s the point of this discussion. We think the project is going to be about $40–45 million. We are currently in the scoping phase of the project [with the architect] and will have final construction costs in the next couple of months. For every 1% increase in interest rates, county taxpayers will have to pay an additional $5.7 million in interest costs.”

Nielsen added, “This expansion is not new. We have been working on this for the last six to seven years. When I became sheriff, I created a five-year strategic plan and mentioned in that plan that we needed to have a building fund and needed to put back $250,000 each year to be prepared for now. That was never funded and always got defunded at the council meetings. We’ve been kicking this down the road for a very long time, and it’s time now that we take action.”

Additional articles/information on the proposed justice center are available at livinginboonecounty.com or on Facebook at Living In Boone County.

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