Reports · Grant County, IN

The Grant County Record

Every meeting we have indexed across Grant County's public bodies, in one place, narrowed by who was sitting and by what they were discussing. Each entry opens the recording at the second it happened. Timestamps were located in automatic captions, which garble names and numbers badly, so the recording is the record and this page is a way in.

Updated September 2, 2026

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Meeting

Aug 5, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 8

1:22:08Aug 5, 2026“We have a great resource in this region, which is our underground water”Bud Shelton describes clean underground water as the asset here, and weighs it against an operation that runs on three or four jobs.

Jul 29, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 7

Jul 22, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 6

Jun 10, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 4

May 27, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 3

26:05May 27, 2026Closed-loop cooling becomes the only option allowedKeyAir-cooled and evaporative systems are struck from the draft, leaving closed loop as the sole permitted method — the provision meant to protect the water table.

May 18, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 2

Mar 11, 2026 · Data Center Subcommittee · Meeting 1 · organizing

1:18:32Mar 11, 2026A feasibility study for exit 255 — and an Italian developerKeyChris Parker says he attended the exit 255 listening sessions, that the study described a million gallons of water a day — roughly what Upland, Gas City, and Fairmount use combined — and that the developer would not be Amazon but an Italian company.

Full transcripts

The complete automatic captions for each meeting, as plain text. They garble names — check the recording before quoting.

What this is, and what it is not

Ten governing bodies meet in public in and around Grant County and post the recordings; their own archives are searchable only by scrolling. This page puts 2,621 indexed moments across 189 recordings in one place, alongside 99 records from the county's September 2 release on the internal investigation of Commissioner Chuck Poling. Pick a body, pick a subject, and the two compose.

It is not the whole record. It holds what has been indexed so far, and the depth is uneven by design. A body with few entries here has not been examined less carefully — it has been examined less.

Nothing found is not the same as nothing said. Browsing the index and searching what was said are different questions, and the second reaches less far: full transcripts are loaded for 100 of the 189 recordings and 86 of the 99 investigation records, and of the 89 without one, 79 are Drainage Board. Where no transcript is loaded the moments are still indexed and the recording still plays; it is the word search that is blind.

Captions garble names and numbers badly. Timestamps came from automatic captions. Watch the clip before repeating a name, a figure or a quotation. The recording is the record; this is a way in.

Drainage Board entries were located by a script, not chosen by a person — it found where the agenda turns. The labels are dull for that reason, and no mechanical entry characterizes, summarizes or names anyone.

The investigation records are the county's own release, linked from Quick Links at the foot of the county's site. Most of the paper was scanned and machine-read, so the linked original governs. One file is indexed in part: a set of news clippings that carries dozens of unrelated people's court filings on the same pages, where only the lines naming Poling are indexed.

Print this report, or save it as a PDF — the documents open out on the page, and each recording carries a code that opens the video at the moment quoted.

Sources and methods

Built from the moments already indexed in our subject reports rather than re-derived, so anything here has been through the same checking. Subjects were normalized to mean the same thing in every body.

ChannelGrant County Government — archived meeting recordings · retrieved Aug 10, 2026One channel carrying the commissioners, county council, BZA, Area Plan Commission, the data center subcommittee and the drainage board. 489 videos enumerated; 385 transcripts captured.
ChannelMarion Common Council — archived meeting recordings · retrieved Aug 10, 2026Only Common Council appears in this feed.
ChannelTown of Fairmount — archived public-meeting streams · retrieved Aug 10, 202632 archived streams, 30 with usable transcripts. Two carry no transcript for accounted-for reasons — one is 8 seconds with no dialogue, one had its audio muted at source.

Updates to this report

Aug 12, 2026Loaded transcripts for four more meetings: the commissioners on October 20 and June 1, and the drainage board on July 14 and July 28. Every meeting in the index with a transcript available is now searchable.
Aug 11, 2026Added two August meetings: the data center subcommittee on August 5 and the drainage board on August 11 — 62 new moments and both transcripts.