Perry County agenda hub posts June commissioners executive sessions

Perry County’s online agenda hub has become the clearest window into what county leaders are lining up both in public and behind closed doors. The page posted a Commissioners Council Joint Executive Session for June 16 and another Joint Executive Session for June 24, while also keeping residents one click away from minutes, department pages, employment listings, community links and a live-stream option.

The county’s main website says Perry County was organized in 1814 and named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a reminder that the government now using the hub has a long institutional history in southern Indiana. The June 16 commissioners agenda was posted June 12 and set the meeting for 6:00 p.m. at 2219 Payne Street in Tell City. Before the executive-session notice, it listed May 29 minutes, a Highway Department item involving Superintendent Steve Howell and an application to cross Spring Road with an aerial line, and a stack of finance items prepared by Auditor Kristinia L. Hammack.

Those finance entries put real dollars on the table. The agenda listed payroll of $181,092.41, workers’ compensation of $38,008.15, health insurance claims of $13,203.29, a solid waste claim docket of $12,983.39 and an AP claim docket of $77,008.79. The same agenda said the next regular commissioners meeting would be Monday, July 6, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., giving residents a clear next checkpoint for county business that affects roads, payrolls and routine service costs.

The June 24 joint executive-session notice, also posted June 12, set a 11:00 a.m. meeting at the Perry County Courthouse Administrative Office, 2219 Payne Street, Tell City. Its stated purpose was permitted under Indiana Code § 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(2)(B), which allows discussion of strategy for litigation that is pending or has been threatened in writing. The notice said it was posted at the courthouse and on the county website, and it repeated the county’s ADA accommodation language.

The county’s records portal shows the same pattern of active governance in the background, with 330 total minutes entries and a joint meeting dated April 24, 2026. At its January 4 reorganization meeting, the Perry County Council elected Kelly Harding president and David vice president and approved the 2026 meeting calendar. Put together, the June postings show a county government that is not only meeting, but leaving a paper trail that residents can follow as decisions move from agenda to action.