INDIANAPOLIS – Governor Mike Braun today announced he has made selections to fill three judicial vacancies. Brent Ecenbarger, Christopher Jansen, and Elizabeth Grace Terrell have been appointed to fill the vacancies.

“We are fortunate enough to have such talented and dedicated individuals willing to serve on the bench,” said Gov. Braun. “Each of these appointees bring strong legal experience, sound judgement, and a commitment to uphold the law. I am confident they will serve their communities and our state well.”

Brent Ecenbarger has been appointed to the Allen Superior Court 7. Ecenbarger received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology with distinction in 2006 and received his Juris Doctor from Valparaiso University in 2010. He has served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in both Noble County and Allen County, and has most recently served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Allen County Circuit Court Magistrate. He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and the Allen County Bar Association. Ecenbarger and his wife Elizabeth reside in Fort Wayne with their three children.

Christopher Jansen has been appointed to the Noble Circuit Court. Jansen received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2010, graduating Cum Laude. Jansen has been a solo practitioner from the start of his career and has served on a part-time basis as a public defender. He is a member of the Noble County Bar Association, the president of the non-profit Kendallville Local Development Corporation, and a member of the Kendallville Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus. Jansen and his wife Angela reside in Noble County with their one child.

Elizabeth Grace Terrell has been appointed to the Martinsville City Court. Terrell received a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Anderson University in 2016 and a Juris Doctor from IUPUI Robert McKinney School of Law in 2018. Terrell has practiced law out of Martinsville from the start of her career and started a solo practice, Terrell Group LLC. Terrell and her husband Jordan reside in Martinsville with their three children.

DRAFT AGENDA

Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners

September 9, 2025 – 9:30 a.m.

Room 301, Civic Center Complex

1. Call to Order

2. Attendance

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Action Items

A. Engineer

1. 2. 3. 4. Award Bid: VC25-08-01 “Concrete Street Repairs” to River Town Construction,

LLC

Amendment #1 to Engineering Agreement for Radio Avenue Small Structure

Replacement

Amendment #2 to Engineering Agreement for Nisbet Road Small Structure

Replacement

Amendment #2 to Engineering Agreement for Woods Avenue, Elm Avenue, and

Franklin Street Drainage Improvements

B. Health Department

1. Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) Cooperative Data Agreement

C. Sheriff

1. 1. Request to Establish Cash Card Fund for Seized Funds

D. Superintendent of County Buildings

Old Courthouse Event Lease Agreement with Kraftwerks, Inc. for 2025 Craft

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2. Request for County-Issued Credit Card

E. First Amendment to Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement between Old Courthouse Foundation

and Veterans Coliseum Preservation Foundation

F. Interlocal Agreement with Pigeon Creek Watershed Development Commission for the

Provision of Administrative Support

G. Final Reading of Ordinance No. CO.08-25-017: An Ordinance Amending Chapter 8.16

(Nuisances) of County Code

5. Department Head Reports

6. New Business

7. Old Business

8. Consent Items

A. Approval of August 26, 2025, Board of Commissioners Meeting Minutes

B. Employment Changes

C. Auditor

1. Claims Voucher Reports

i. ii. August 25, 2025 – August 29, 2025

September 1, 2025 – September 5, 2025

D. Clerk

1. July 2025 Monthly Report

Drainage Board Immediately FollowingE. Commissioners

1. Travel Requests

i. Association of Indiana Counties Annual Conference

ii. Indiana County Commissioners Annual Conference

F. Engineer

1. Report and Claims

G. Voters Registration

1. Travel Request

i. Election Administrators Conference

H. Notice to Local Political Subdivisions: New National Opioids Secondary Manufacturers

Settlements

I. J. Quit Claim Deed for Transfer of County-Owned Properties to Evansville Land Bank Corp.

County-Owned Properties Sold at 2025 Commissioners’ Online Auction

K. Board Appointments

1. Board of HVAC, Steamfitters, and Refrigeration Installers

i. Matthew Pruiett

2. Alcoholic Beverage Board of Vanderburgh County

i. Bob Deig

9. Public Comment

10. Adjournment

12. Members of the Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners

i. Justin Elpers, President – District 2

a. Term: January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2026

ii. Amy Canterbury, Vice President – District 3

a. Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2028

iii. Mike Goebel, Member – District 1

a. Term: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2028

Drainage Board Immediately Following

Freedom, Indiana – Our nation’s founders warned us.  Eisenhower warned us.  Innumerable politicians, economists and even losers like me have warned through generations and decades, against central banks, empire-building, entangling-alliance meddling, nannying, and military/monetary bullying.  Our costs are rising, our standard of living is falling, and the recent meeting of international leaders, and expo of military might in Beijing, presaged that USA’s costly exertions of global domination will end, one way, or another.  As all proud empires fall, so shall ours. 

It’s not all Trump’s fault.  Our century-old fiat currency system and Federal Reserve Bank cabal doomed us to the twin perils of the Cantillon Effect, which made the rich, richer at the expense of the non-Investment Class; and, since the Breton Woods Agreement after WWII, the Triffin Paradox, which describes the inflation and inevitable collapse of the dollar’s dominance as the global Reserve Currency.

But Trump’s manic gyrations of military and monetary bullying, particularly with the seizing of Russian assets, piling on more international sanctions on everybody, and recently, the helter-skelter tariffs and regime change efforts, accelerated moves already begun by nations around the world, to end our empire’s destructive carrot-and-stick manipulation and subjugation of the planet.  Economic alliances like BRICS and ASEAN, and a new military axis of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, now comprise most of the world’s population, and economic production.  We’ve funded, armed and trained our enemies, and betrayed our friends.  We turned against what made this nation successful, and subjected ourselves to demagogues and plutocrats.  We have literally forced most of the world to turn against us.

But we can come out of this OK if we do a few things that should’ve been done long ago.

First, stand-down our Military-Industrial Monster, and focus on free trade.  Real free trade.  Now.  Today.  Globally.  We ought to publicly issue a very humble and honest mea culpa that we’re broke, and that we can no longer govern, aid, punish, defend or nanny any country but our own.  Sorry.

Second, End the Fed, and reestablish a sound, and BTW, constitutional, monetary system.  G. Edward Griffin wrote a workable, stepwise plan to do this in “The Creature from Jekyll Island.”  I’m not aware of a better plan.

Finally, and this is the hardest sell, but must happen if we’re to avoid casting our seniors into ditches.  We must phase-out and privatize both Social Security and Medicare.  I’m on SS and Medicare myself, and I’m certain this would be a massive improvement for all of us, not the catastrophe our rulers would have you believe.  This would stop our slide into destitution, and start us marching toward real prosperity. 

If we’d prefer to continue our acceleration toward the drainpipes of history, we can of course keep reelecting the corrupt millionaire politicians that are protecting the Epstein files and care more about Netanyahu, than you.  But if you give anything I’ve said above any credit at all, please start pressuring the politicians we’ve been reelecting, AND start looking now, today, for better replacements.  Encourage people that you know would be moral, responsible, constitutional public servants to run for office, and/or run yourself.

We can fix this, or at least clean up a big mess and avoid real catastrophe.  But the clock is ticking, and the USA now has real competition for King of this rock.  And that doesn’t have to be the end of the world.

Liberty or Bust!

The Affordable Housing Fund Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for September 9, 2025, at 3:00 PM in Room 301 of the Evansville Civic Center Complex is now rescheduled. The revised meeting date is Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 3:00 PM in Room 301 of the Evansville Civic Center Complex.

This meeting is open to the public.

In accordance with the “Americans with Disabilities Act”, persons with disabilities requiring assistance and/or accommodation related to the accessibility to documents and participation as well as Limited English proficiency (LEP) persons are encouraged to contact the Department of Metropolitan Development at (812) 436-7823 to request additional auxiliary aides, services, and language assistance. Requests are to be submitted not later than 10 days prior to the meeting, though we will make every effort to accommodate late requests.