The Lake County Drainage Board met on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point, Indiana. The Advisory Committee convened at 8:00 AM, followed by the Drainage Board at 9:00 AM. All three board members—Chairman Michael C. Repay, Jerry Tippy, and Kyle W. Allen Sr.—were present, along with Attorney Peter Katic and technical staff. The meeting covered current watershed projects, applications for drain work, MS4 water quality initiatives, bid openings, and financial approvals. The board acted on several recommendations from the Advisory Committee.
Emergency exit announcement in case of emergency exit the commissioner's courtroom and proceed to the stairs and go to the second floor and exit the building. Not enter an elevator in an emergency. If you require assistance, an employee will escort and or assist you. Please silence any cellular telephones during this meeting. If you receive a call or text during this meeting, please excuse yourself with as little disruption as possible. Thank you, Attorney Kate. Um let the record show that all three members are present and accounted for. We have additions lesions. No, no. Okay. Oh, yeah, there are proposals. Is there a motion to uh allow attorney case to open this? Move to move. Move to uh give attorney candidate permission to hold this. Second. Well the director show the motion carries 3-0 and uh attorney can open the food proposals. Yes, sir. Then I would move to approve the minutes for the January 21st meeting. Second. Thank you. Let the record show the motion carrier is 3-0. Uh item number five is reports in correspondence surveyor's office. Thank you. One little caddy river basin development commission's meeting this evening. Again, it's open to the public. I would also like to recognize and thank the Little Cal Commission. Uh they had a special meeting this past uh week for awarding project. We were one of the recipients of those. So we have additional funding now for the Dyer Ditch project. Uh they've also contributed for the schoon ditch project. Uh so uh thanks to the local commission for helping helping with uh some of these projects to make it go further. Um item 5b2, uh NERPSE press release. There are two of them regarding uh the uh transportation improvement program. Item 5B3, the Indian Association of Flood Plain and Stormwater Management's legislative reports for uh for January and February again, these deal with bills legislation uh with regard to drainage. Uh so in ask them keeps uh us as members uh aware of any items that uh are of interest to us and where they're headed, as well as the uh proposed uh elimination of elected uh county offices uh well just because a lot of surveyors are involved here that did not get out of committee. I'm not sure. I don't hear that from comments. So you can just talk with me for uh funny things funny things can happen during the end of the session. That's sure. What were they trying to get rid of? Uh county offices uh the surveyor wasn't one of them, was it? Were they surveying reporter everything but the prosecutor clerk and don't they do that every year? Yes, every year. Yeah. So all my lobbying paid off, I guess. Say that too loud. Item four, I'm uh N DOT's notice of project advancement. Uh NDOT and IDOT are cooperating on a project 89 uh 8094. Uh it's going to be uh a lot of construction in the next couple of years, uh a lot of improvements uh according to them. Uh cooperative project 29.