OurWeek The Grant County Record in Grant County · Regular meeting, May 8, 2024 · 2024-05-08 · full transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziepFFL32m0 Exported Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:38:01 GMT Source: Auto-generated captions, stored verbatim. Copied into the combined index from the marion-city-council-indexed report; same text, key prefixed by body. These transcripts are machine-generated. They garble proper nouns badly — company and personal names especially. Watch the recording before repeating any name, number, or quotation. The video is the record. ============================================================================== Indexed at https://ourweek.in/grant-county/reports/grant-county-record 0:07 thought 0:32 all right 0:49 go Erica Erica 0:57 Erica I try to give her a little minute so it's not C all right 1:10 gentlemen all right we're gonna we're going to call this meeting to order the Marian common Council regular meeting May 88 1:18 2024 at 7M and uh we'll go ahead and do the prayer led by councilman 1:28 K our de heavly father we thank you for being in the midst of us tonight we ask 1:35 you that you uh have your hand upon us tonight as we go through these agenda items continue blessing this city bless 1:43 this Administration bless each one here in this room tonight we ask these things in your name Jesus amen amen thank you 1:52 councilman Kane and Pledge of Allegiance by councilman pise United States of America 2:01 the stands na indivisible and justice for 2:12 all all right and we're going to move on to roll call Madam clerk roll call please Kane here Marshall for I here 2:22 Runner here Klein here Divine here wton here cill here McKinley 2:31 here okay we're going to move on to the neighborhood Spotlight and it is a pleasure today kind of mixing things up a little bit usually we do businesses 2:39 and such uh but today we're going to be spotlighting Lorenzo Travino and Isaiah Watkins if gentlemen you want to come up 2:47 you can bring your families all the way to the front and we're going to utilize this brand new TV behind 2:55 us throw some images up there come on up you guys all the way up here 3:02 all good actually uh can you guys go around the other way my screaming will lock up and I'll get 1500 messages about 3:11 come on yeah I don't want to make you guys mad either okay uh come on all the way up so 3:20 anyways I wanted to um recognize these two gentlemen um I had some notes but I 3:27 already memorize them come on up so both of these gentlemen are yeah it's your dad both these gentlemen are from Maring 3:35 Maring high school graduates even went to school with some of my kids and if you don't know who they are they're two of the baddest men in Marin 3:43 Indiana um Isaiah just recently uh won his first professional MMA fight up in 3:50 Fort Wayne at the Coliseum and at the same time Lorenzo fought in the same um on the same card as the co-main event 3:58 and one his second professional MMA fight both coming out of Marin Indiana so it's hard because 4:06 my my inner Stadium announcer wants to come out and like give him a formal introduction but I don't want to Blas this whole room but anyways uh these 4:15 gentlemen have done nothing but represent the city of maring very well uh anytime they do the introductions you know when you watch MMA fight out of 4:24 Maran Indiana I mean these guys are all over the place Lorenzo was on in Cancun I think March 23rd was it and he had his 4:33 first professional fight in Cancun Mexico I think it was last minute yeah kind of two noce two we notice I watched 4:41 it and uh he put a pound in and won his first fight um both of these guys uh on the 27th of April like I said won their 4:48 fights and they were both by referee stoppage due to strikes so it wasn't even a decision these guys single- handl 4:56 wasn't yours in like 40 seconds 41 seconds 41 seconds in the first round so um these guys and I'm not an MMA fighter 5:05 so I'm not going to claim to know anything about it but I do know that there's a lot of work involved a lot of training probably for little to no pay 5:14 sometimes it's really a passion so uh I just really appreciate these gentlemen for coming tonight I wanted to recognize them uh they've been definitely pillars 5:22 of the community representing us very very well so you guys want to say anything or uh no I mean I just want to appreciate every everybody for coming 5:30 out um we put our heart and soul into this we train every day uh we both drive an hour and a half well now he moved 5:38 down there but I still take that hour and a half drive just to get to practice um hour and a half there hour and a half 5:45 back um it's a lot of dedication a lot of lonely nights uh a lot of lonely times you know uh the 5:54 sport is definitely not for the week uh but we truly appreciate Maring uh coming 6:02 behind us and really acknowledging us because we put our heart and soul into this and without you guys uh there would 6:09 be no motivation to keep going but we appreciate each and every one of you guys and we plan on to go high as far as 6:18 we can make it and uh put on for Maran so also I wanted to add you've got a nickname this is the 6:26 Fresh Prince yeah so you can just call him the Fresh Prince Lorenzo I was trying to find do you have a nickname oh I got a nickname but you know can't say 6:34 it okay all right I was trying to find it like maybe he doesn't have one but anyway so yeah here's Lorenzo and that 6:42 was actually from the 27s getting ready so anyways I appreciate you guys so much for coming representing our city you don't mind we 6:50 got a get a picture we got a couple questions introduce guy in your Arms This is Lilo little Lorenzo Jr uh man all I know is 7:00 he he'll probably be up next yeah also I um I know right now like you said the little of no pay how 7:07 does somebody get a hold of you because I'm sure you guys love sponsorships yeah stuff like basically a lot of it goes through social media or just a lot of 7:16 personal stuff now we both he has a manager I have a manager that kind of takes care of that stuff my second question 7:24 yeah it uh social media type things like that just introduce yourself on numbers anything like that so yeah a rough way 7:33 to make a living boys oh yeah you it definitely starts out it's pretty much like you're just a a hobbyist pretty much it's like just 7:41 keep going in there until you start you know after the fight all my friends and family I'm outside and I'm like wait I get paid now so I'm going to the back my 7:50 wife didn't forget though my wife she remember she was back there hold my spot line like yeah we going like that check now so um it's definitely until you start you know until you go pro you're 7:59 definitely is a lot of sacrifice and still after you go pro it's even more sacrifice because now it's uh you're putting food on the table for your family and you know what I'm saying so 8:07 it's definitely just like he said earlier it's not for the week it's definitely a lot of sacrifice a lot of a lot of hard times a lot of lonely times a lot of sacrifice and everything that 8:14 goes into it so definitely we're going to make it worth it question Nick what sport did you guys play at Maran High 8:21 School uh I used to wrestle and uh I was uh four years LG the football and uh 8:29 thought I called your name a few times we both have a couple times conference wrestling regional champ SE champ semi 8:38 good job how about you Isaiah I Wrestled a little bit and I box for the boys and girls club here in Mar I was okay wrestler okay boxing then MMA happen and 8:45 I just started putting hands on boys so yeah I don't know what clicked well good luck to you guys thank you well and shout out to your wives and family and 8:55 that's they're probably sacrificing a little more they don't get a lot you know credit to 9:03 it takes uh definitely great well thank you guys we can grab a picture real 9:12 quick you guys want to get in front here just get in front okay you know we got to do like something 9:21 like yeah yeah you're awesome thank you 9:32 [Music] 9:34 guys you guys so much 9:45 app all right well that was a delight thank you gentlemen we're going to move on to the 9:53 approval of minutes from the regular meeting from April 16th 2024 I would entertain a motion so 10:01 Mo second motion on the floor by councilman Kane second by vice president cgill any 10:10 discussion all right no discussion roll call Kane I for I hi Runner I kleene yes 10:19 Divine yes Whitton yes cgill I mckenley yes okay the minutes have been approved 10:28 and moving on to to the consideration ratification of pre-approved claims I would entertain a motion so 10:35 Mo motion by councilman Kane second by councilman kleene any discussion no discussion roll call Kane 10:44 I for I hi Runner hi Klein yes Divine 10:50 yes Wht yes cgill I McKinley yes and consideration of claims 10:59 I also entertain a motion some move 11:06 second I have a motion by vice president kgill a second by councilman Kane any 11:14 discussion no discussion roll call Kane I for hi Runner I kleene yes Divine yes 11:24 wton yes cgill hi McKinley yes and moving on to committee reports 11:31 anyone have any committee reports councilman she beat me okay councilwoman Divine go ahead it's okay councilwoman 11:40 Divine go ahead okay so the Utility Board met last week um for their one of 11:48 their regular meetings and they discussed quite a few topics um one of which is the change in 11:57 the um Solid Waste charges that will be coming before us I believe at the next meeting um and they've had quite a bit 12:06 of conversation and the report you'll get will have all of the um the background for the last five years I 12:13 believe it is since the solid waste was taken left Republic and came back to the city through City Utilities um where the 12:23 money is not quite balanced where you can see that they've been operating in a deficit and having to have the other U facilities help cover to keep it in the 12:32 um in the black and so this rate increase will be for that purpose to help um balance that those um amounts 12:40 out and so I know they'll have a presentation and I'll let them do all that next meeting but just know that's coming up for 12:47 discussion um they also um gave just a little bit of an update 12:54 on some of the major projects the srf fund projects it's uh preconstruction meetings are underway so those should 13:01 tart here fairly quickly um the meter Pro U project is just beginning where they're replacing out all the meters to 13:10 the electronic ones um and 13:16 then uh let see what else I had going on they had a couple of minor um fundraising requests and things 13:25 like that that were going on um a couple of policy updates they're working working on um within their policy manual 13:32 um regarding paying for uh the reimbursement a training should someone get trained and then leave within a 13:41 specific amount of time they were working on policies to to help with that so that some of the more expensive trainings like a CDL training there's 13:49 three or4 thousand worth of time into that and then they get their CDL and then they leave you know and how to how to protect the city from that with 13:58 obviously the look towards trying to keep them once they're trained versus you know any type of penalty but to to make sure they're not coming just for 14:06 the training and then leaving um which is to me is fair so then the board of Works met this week 14:16 and um they looked at the transfer of five city-owned properties which are all 14:23 part of the riverfront downtown district area um to get those to the Redevelopment Commission so that they can start economic 14:31 development in those areas um they also had the police chief had um two of his 14:39 areas the Drone area and then they're looking at a law enforcement flomist um working on the Sops to put 14:46 into their policy book um around those to make sure that they have some best practices and safeguarding and all the 14:54 policies fit and how they do the trainings and who's able to participate in the those programs um and so those 15:01 were those all were met with very good questions from the board of works and I think they're well thought out policies and should commend the chief for those 15:09 and his his excellent officers who are working on all those those items to make the department better and that's what's 15:17 happened in those two areas great thank you councilwoman Divine councilman Klein yeah I don't 15:24 have any heads up about rate increases um Aviation board met May 2nd and it was a pretty routine meeting they included 15:33 updates on plans for new Precision approach lighting the stuff you see when there's a plane coming in guide them in 15:41 uh installation of fuel tanks and classroom constructions the new classes out there St in June and they have a a 15:49 full they have a full load for their classes they included some Grant proposals missa students got a tour of 15:56 the airport and some closeup close up up close and personal looks at airplanes and equipment and the ice cream shop out 16:05 there and thank you just for clarification that ice cream shop open to the public yep okay 16:13 so everyone knows there's an ice cream shop at the airport open to the public I think just regular day hours or something yeah it's open it's there it's 16:22 real great okay thank you any other committee reports okay no more committee reports uh we're 16:32 going to move on to unfinished business and preparation ordinance 16:38 92024 second reading and public hearing an ordinance of the city of Maran appropriating certain funds for 16:46 the city of Marin Indiana and providing thereof from arpa for Public Safety the 16:53 amount of 16:55 [Music] 16:57 1,769 speaking controller Dana 17:06 G welcome Dana I mean mayor yeah I say you 17:14 know um well good evening and I'm um very excited to be at another great council meeting with all of you um this is a 17:23 uh to not try not to go too far in the weed there is a um state law is going to be changed as of July 1st that uh you 17:30 only have to advertise online for these kind of things and last time we had a advertising error where you have to get it in two local uh newspapers um so this 17:39 is essentially a redo of the uh the public hearing for the um oper appropriation to the um for Public 17:46 Safety it's just due to a um posting error in advertisement for two newspapers and one of our local 17:52 newspapers only post uh once a uh once I think it's like once a month once a two weeks or something like that so um yes 18:02 so this is just this is just a redo what was um passed last time so I ask you um to please consider again passing um suspending the rules and passing the 18:10 funds to be able to go to our Public Safety for our fire truck and our um Police Department for to get the equipment that they 18:18 need thank you mayor appreciate that any questions right 18:26 now all right I would entertain em motion public hearing sir oh public hearing y soorry we did this one last time and we had the public hearing so um 18:35 we'll do it again so we're going to open up for public hearing again this is for the same public hearing we had last meeting for the fire department's fire 18:43 truck and all the other equipment and vehicles for the police department so more of a technicality that we have to do this again so Podium is open if 18:51 anyone would like to speak again okay I see no one going the podium 19:00 we'll close the public hearing now i' entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we uh 19:09 suspend the rules on appropriation ordinance number 9 19:16 2024 have a motion to suspend the rules by councilman Caine and a second by councilman Klein any 19:26 discussion no discussion roll call Kane I for I I Runner I kleene yes 19:35 Divine yes Whitten yes cgill I McKinley I rules have been suspended I entertain 19:43 another motion chairman I move that we pass appropriation ordinance number nine 19:51 2024 second motion to pass appropriation ordinance 92024 by by 20:00 councilman councilman Kane and a second by councilman Bruner any 20:10 discussion no discussion roll call okay I for I hi Runner hi Klein yes Divine 20:19 yes Whitten yes cgill hi McKinley yes okay appropriation ordinance 9 2024 has 20:28 passed again and moving on to appropriation ordinance 10224 second reading and public hearing 20:36 an ordinance of the city of Marian appropriating certain funds for the city of Maran Indiana and providing thereof 20:43 from the general fund the amount of 20:45 [Music] 20:47 8,946 39 for fire and safety updates to City Hall speaking mayor Ronald moral Jr 20:56 building and ground maintenance manager dve Slusher I'm gonna let Dave carry the load carry the load on this one but this 21:05 is essentially just updating our um our fire safety equipment in the in the building that is um has failed the inspection and it's time for us to get 21:12 it updated so if you have any any other questions Dave has more has more detailed answers for 21:24 it afternoon everybody any questions Dave word the what did the city fail what was the uh the issue uh the most 21:33 ones was see our little lights and our horns there the horns are working but the lights are not we had a lot of little smoke 21:41 detectors that are out um last time we had it we talked about the list everything that was on here that is what 21:49 they're doing for everything that's on here so it's a good good deal from lwood here to get this all done so 21:59 there was other things there was some wiring we've got the dated if you look at the old uh pole handles that are there 22:06 they're really out of date and those also are on the list to get all updated too so it's it's 22:20 1980s microphone that too what's the time frame for all this you may have told 22:27 this but just since we're all here again it'll take about a week 22:36 week once it's approved are you saying it'll take a week for them to start installing it or a week from start to finish when do we plan on getting it imp 22:45 a week to start for finish once I know that I have the money you know then they'll get things ordered a lot of it's already on hand that they have and then 22:54 it's just scheduling there'll probably be a couple days where they may have to 23:01 work after hours so we're not interrupting you know business with sounds and stuff like that but we're 23:10 looking at five working days business days great thank 23:17 you no other questions all right I would entertain a motion correction jeez I didn't have my 23:26 highlighter today you see a highlight it so I apologize uh we're going to move on to the public hearing and if you would like to come up 23:34 and speak make your way at this time okay I don't see anyone moving 23:44 towards the podium so we'll close the Public Public hearing now I entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we 23:53 suspend the rules on appropriation ordinance number 10 20 24:01 24 a second we have a motion to suspend the rules by councilman Kane and a second by 24:09 councilman Whitten any discussion no discussion roll call Kane 24:18 I for I I Brunner hi Klein yes Divine 24:24 yes Wht yes cgill hi McKinley yes rules have been suspended I would 24:32 also entertain another motion Mr chairman I move that we pass appropriation ordinance number 10 24:39 2024 second motion by councilman Kane second by councilman 24:48 Brunner any discussion no discussion roll call Kane 24:55 hi gise I Brunner hi kleene yes Divine yes wton yes cill hi 25:05 McKinley yes appropriation ordinance 10-20 24 has passed moving on to appropriation 25:13 ordinance 11- 2024 reading and public hearing an ordinance of the city of Maran appropriating certain funds for 25:22 the city of Marian Indiana and providing thereof from General from The General fund the amount of $ 25:30 28,869 for City Hall air conditioning speaking mayor Ronald Morell Jr and 25:37 building and ground maintenance manager David Slusher um as you can see it's not hot in here today so um we did actually go 25:46 ahead and get this fixed after our last council meeting when we had that discussion so um I'm hoping you guys don't change your mind on me and not not pass this 25:54 tonight but our employees we were working in a terrible situation people were going homick sweating it was really bad um and for us to go ahead and get 26:01 that fixed was absolute emergency for the operations of City Hall and um Mr sler can answer any more of the detailed 26:08 questions about what they actually did so they put a new coil in out here 26:19 um updated the freon was really low because obviously it was leaking so got all that done did some rewiring out 26:27 there just kind of updated a couple things out there then you know once they got that going we was able just to get 26:35 the building cool and you know things so so far doing 26:41 good I have a question what's the temperature set set in here right now because it's a little 26:48 hot I was questioning it was working yet 70 72 okay we have a probably just me a 26:56 lot of it kind of because we have this up for space here we need a little bit more 27:02 flow okay could be the stage lights too so yeah yeah any other 27:12 questions okay no other questions we're going to open it up to public hearing thank 27:21 you public hearing is open if you have anything you wouldd like to say make your way to the podium 27:30 I don't see anyone moving so we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing and I would entertain a 27:37 motion Mr President I uh like to uh suspend the rules on appropriation ordinance 11 27:45 2024 second motion to suspend the rules by vice president cgil second by councilman 27:51 Kane any discussion no discussion roll call okay 27:58 I bise I Runner I Klein yes Divine yes 28:04 Wht yes cgill hi mckenley yes rules have been 28:11 suspended n hand another motion pres like to uh uh that we pass appropriation ordinance number 11 28:20 2024 second motion to pass priation ordinance 11224 by vice president cill second by 28:29 councilman Kane any discussion no discussion roll call Kane 28:37 I fordi I Runner I Klein yes Divine yes 28:44 Whitten yes calill I M Kenley yes appropriation ordinance 11 2024 has 28:51 passed thank you moving on to General ordinance 8-20 24 second reading and public 28:59 hearing an ordinance amending original ordinance 191 1982 schedule for time limit parking 29:09 zones speaking head of engineering and planning Mike gra good evening so what you have before 29:17 you is uh some areas uh in the downtown area that uh have have some needed areas 29:25 where there was a request for two-hour parking and some 30 minute parking uh everything is in place pending 29:33 your uh satisfactory with uh this ordinance and um you have any questions 29:40 about where the areas are I tried to detail them as good as I could but if you do I'll be glad to help you and give you any reason why the requested 29:49 information or the the requested zones were asked for and if you get suspended rules 29:56 that'd be great Mr graph a question um do and I saw the 30:04 chief here earlier um do you know where we're at on enforcement parking enforcement do we have anybody 30:14 hired yes good evening everyone thank you 30:21 councilman that's a great question we are having that discussion and ongoing meetings about it um I hope to have some 30:28 information for you probably by your next one or two sessions with the mayor as well as the next council meeting but 30:36 we are having those active discussions now to do uh the citizens better in the enforcement of those 30:45 ordinances thank you you're welcome thank you so as a as a follow-up comment on that um parking 30:54 on Washington Street um in front of Ashley's Ice Cream in front of 31:01 Obie's um and then also across the street those signs I I notice are up now Mr graph so I appreciate that for those 31:10 clients and business owners that live in those areas um without I'm afraid though without 31:20 parking enforcement we're still going to have a problem there so I think uh having somebody to monitor 31:28 that parking those parking problems we we'll still con have issues with parking there uh because there's a lot of people 31:37 that seems to be thumbing their nose at those signs and not paying any attention um I was concerned 31:47 about the signs um they're not enforceable on Sundays and anybody can 31:54 park there for unlimited time on Sunday with which will then carry over into 32:00 Monday morning so that was concerning to me um but we'll just have to monitor 32:08 that so I think enforcement will help in that area 32:15 um but I want to leave it open that we may come back and and revisit this if we have ongoing problems sure so yeah 32:24 without the signage placed and you're you're passing the ordinance even if just the signs are there it's not 32:33 enforceable so you have to make an enforcable action before the police or um anybody that's that's working that 32:41 type of uh detail has the ability to uh give anyone a 32:48 ticket thank you Mr graph wel any other 32:55 questions clarification so we're looking at especially there in Washington and the areas around the square one side's 33:03 going to have 30 minute parking and the other side's going to have two hour essentially so there are two hour uh predominantly there's a 30 minute which 33:11 is to be used as a loading zone uh for Ashley's and then one at Century 21 and then one over by the CSA it's it's okay 33:20 for someone to be dropped off or deliveries to be made so the two hours are meant to try to move people in it in 33:27 a longer so you get a little bit longer time to do your business but then it turn 30 minutes down well that's what I wondered because I was a little 33:35 concerned about having a lot of 30 minutes around some of those businesses because people will want to obviously the restaurants and you know places they 33:43 want to hang out for a little bit any other questions 33:54 comments okay no other questions we're going to go and open it up for public hearing if you would like to speak on 34:03 this General ordinance make your way to the podium you can just say your name address and you have three minutes I'm 34:10 Karen cre and I live in on Drive I don't have a problem with the time thing I go a lot of places got time places around squares and stuff if we're going to put 34:17 in that riverfront development if you're going to keep the two hour Len and stuff and you really do develop the riverfront and put a lot of shops and stuff 34:25 underneath there like you talked about you're going to have to have some type of off street parking because you're not going to have a lot of people going to move their car every two hours if you 34:32 have a festival or something going on downtown I know most of that stuff goes around on the weekends but if you have shops open during the weekday businesses 34:40 can't rely on just traffic on during a festival so we go to Noblesville a lot and go to downtown area and they just 34:48 recently built a big parking garage and stuff and I know we don't have a lot of the great footage they have as far as land mask but you might want to think 34:55 about uh having that now but if you do grow the downtown area like you're proposing you're going to have to have some other kind of development for 35:03 parking because you won't get people return if they think they're going to get a parking ticket and if they get involved in something they're going to lose track of time so it's easy to do 35:11 especially if there's a lot of activity going on or a lot of specialty shops and if any of them are Shopper like me you spend a lot of time looking at 35:18 everything and going back so it just might want think about maybe either having something different on busier 35:26 times or perhaps developing a permanent parking area um nolesville put in a 35:32 thing where you can put a QR code and you can um scan it and then you get you 35:39 get a pass like you prepay for a pass and then you can go in the parking garage you don't have to pay every time you get a ticket you just scan that QR 35:47 code and so I mean there's a lot of things in the future you can do but you might want to think about that especially if you're really going to develop the riverfront that's just an 35:55 idea thank you so much for appreciate that welcome if you can say your name 36:03 and address de Kane 4622 South carry street but I'm also the center Township Trustee and my office is right there on 36:12 Washington Street I want to thank the city for considering the request to do this two-hour parking I'm affected 36:19 greatly specifically on Mondays because Obie's and Ashley's are closed and so 36:28 everyone in the apartment building just stay parked there and I have many many clients that come in that canot they 36:36 have breathing problems they're they're in a wheelchair they're in Walkers and they have to walk a long ways two three blocks sometimes in the 36:45 cold in the rain to be able to get into our building so I appreciate the consideration putting the signs up I 36:53 want to thank Mr grab for working on that for the mayor for considering that and um I hope that we can find a way to 37:02 re to enforce it now so that when we open the office we can have the traffic flow that we need thank 37:11 you thank you so much anybody else for the public hearing seeing nobody else we're going 37:20 to close the public hearing and I would entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we 37:27 suspend the rules on General ordinates number 8 37:34 2024 so motion to suspend the rules by councilman Kane a second by councilman 37:41 Whitten any discussion no discussion roll call Kane 37:48 I bise I Brer I kle yes Divine yes 37:54 Whitton yes cgill I yes rules are suspended I'll take 38:02 another motion Mr chairman I move that we pass General ordinance number 8 38:12 2024 second got a motion by councilman Kane a second by councilman Klein any 38:23 discussion all right no discussion roll call okay I for I I Brunner I Klein yes 38:33 Divine yes Whitten yes calil I mcken yes 38:40 General ordinance 8- 2024 has passed thank you thank you have a good evening moving on to new business 38:47 appropriation ordinance 12- 2024 first reading an ordinance of the city of Maran appropriating certain funds for 38:56 the city of Maran IND indana and providing thereof from general fund to miscellaneous contractual Services the 39:04 amount of 26,38498 39:14 [Music] 39:27 M good evening council president and the council I'm Dana G the city controller and um so I'm going to talk about this 39:37 appropriation on March 3rd 2011 the city of Marian signed a contract with Johnson Controls for 39:46 1,390 and 50 566 three1 39:53 m390 390 okay at an interest rate of 45% this loan is 40:01 held by Capital One and we have three payments remaining uh for March 2nd 40:07 2024 March 2nd 20 through 2025 and March 2nd 40:14 2026 we've already paid 2024 due to previous uh oversight um on the management agreement with Johnson 40:23 Controls um that has expired so we're still responsible to make these payments and so we're asking to make the 40:31 $126,000 payment for the Capital One lease thank you just some clarification 40:38 you said the 2024 PID you mean 2023 because you're I think you're asking for 2024 is this 40:47 2023 okay yes so 2023 was paid but because the 2024 amount was not added to 40:55 this year's budget that's why you're now coming great right just one clarification for yes the audience and yes 41:04 okay any questions council members councilman foris de I just have one small question this was due on the 2nd 41:12 of March correct yes are they going to charge us any interest for the 60 days that this pass 41:20 to no um let see I mean it's a credit card company sure 41:29 no um there no late fees or interest they're just giving us a grace period on that 41:38 yes well that's kind appreciate that thank you that's no for what I know there's no interest so from my records 41:47 thank you I have a question or an 41:55 addition so $26,389 42:03 if we were to pay it this year which should have already been budgeted we have two more years to pay on this correct 42:10 yes so I'm looking at the interest component here and so essentially this year's payment 42:19 $4,513 188 of that amount you're requesting is going towards interest can't get around that right but the next 42:27 two years it's just around4 to $15,000 in interest combined that we would 42:35 pay um if we were to go two more years just a question if we were just to 42:44 pay this off would we then avoid paying that extra $14,000 in interest over the next 42:52 two years uh yes so um what what I would like to do is I want us to obviously we have obligation to go ahead and make the 43:00 payment for this year 126,000 but I would like to come back at the next council meeting with the consideration to pay this debt off and save the city 43:10 uh that roughly about $115,000 that's that's my hopes to ask for but we have to move forward and pay 43:17 the payment forward this year all right thank you for that we'll address that next meeting any other 43:24 questions okay no other 43:32 questions I would entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we pass 43:40 appropriation ordinance number 12 2024 to Second reading in public 43:49 hearing have a motion by councilman Kane and a second by vice president calill any discussion 43:58 no discussion roll call pay I bise hi Brunner I Klein yes Divine yes won yes 44:08 cgill hi mckenley yes appropriation ordinance 12 2024 first reading has passed move to 44:16 Second reading public hearing thank you controller Dana appreciate it moving on to General ordinance 9- 44:24 2024 first reading and ordinance of the city of Maran fixing the maximum salary of 44:30 appointed officers and employees adding a civilian assistant to the criminal investigation division for Marian Police 44:39 Department speaking police chief David 44:48 Gilbert welcome Chief thank you thank you for having me members of the council Mr President uh 44:57 mayor appreciate it uh we're here to discuss I hope did uh did you receive the 45:05 packet um that we put okay so that's pretty self-explanatory I know it's warming here um I'll try to summarize uh 45:13 Matt Andre is a veteran officer he was the about the last officer I hired when I was Chief before in the interim he's 45:20 made me look really smart uh he's become a canine Officer SWAT operator 45:27 uh is well respected by uh veteran officers and the rookie officers who are coming on uh We've trained him very well 45:34 and he's returned uh given us a return on that investment uh Matt injured 45:41 himself oddly enough on a fire response uh trying to get into a house where he thought people might have been there uh 45:48 injured his wrist and we've gotten the bad news he's not going to be able to perform the functions of a police officer anymore so what we wanted to do 45:55 in summary is uh not let his skill sets get away um and we wanted to create a 46:03 position where he could serve so he's been on light duty necessarily since he in injured himself some time ago while we're navigating the process of can he 46:11 come back or can he not we've got the bad news that he can't but in the meantime what he's been doing is working in detectives doing everything but the 46:19 law enforcement function he's been handling case followups he's still helping with K9 training was doing that 46:26 last night proba probably even today um just doing everything that needs to be done that doesn't have to do with use of force and arresting people uh while we 46:34 navigate this process it's been very effective what he's allowed uh us to do uh is to everything that he's doing was 46:44 probably either not getting done because we're we're short-handed or it was being done by a 46:51 policeman at the expense of some other thing that might need to be done typically on the street so for example we have a a person who walks in at the 46:59 front desk and asks for a report to be filed about their garage window was broken they just need a report for insurance well we that's a service we 47:07 need to provide we'd have an all we have the district car drive in come into the station take that report and then go back out we don't have the luxury having a desk sergeant or anything like that if 47:15 you've seen that on TV what we've been able to do with Matt is to have him handle those things when he's working and that officer can stay out on the 47:23 road and handle what what a policeman's going to do out there so that's kind of the nuts and bolts of it it's a good investment for us it's uh more cost 47:32 effective than a police officer and it frees up uh officer man hours and we don't lose the extensive expertise uh that Matt brings to the 47:41 table I'm going to ask Matt if you don't mind to come forward and just put his two cents in hopefully tell you how he wants to serve and U and do this thing 47:50 so Matt if you want to come up welcome hello thank you Chief so I approach the chief about this position 47:58 because I've been work the Maran Police Department for almost nine years and it's something that I obviously really enjoy and I still want to be a part of 48:05 unfortunately I won't be able to be a part of it as a police officer but anyway I'm still able to help the Maran police department and the C citizens of 48:13 Marian I want to do that so I approached him with this along with Captain Ziggler and some of the other people at the Maran police department and I believe 48:21 that through talking with them and everything that I have been doing for the past several months um then I believe the chief agrees because we're 48:27 here now that it is a value um I've probably taken care of over 100 cases whether that's suspending cases because 48:35 they can't be followed up with the investigation whether it's sending into the prosecutor's office or further in the investigation by getting search warrants and things of that nature um 48:45 I've also helped out with uh the cases whether it's stuff that I can't do over the phone or anything like that I will 48:52 email the officer say hey this is what needs to be taken care of with these follow-ups so we can get assistens of Maran the support and the service that 48:59 they are needed uh I've also been helping with the can9 unit for five years now um I was supposed to 49:07 take over the unit as a trainer Lieutenant Ridgeway now uh is going to be retirement the next few years and that is the service of the 49:14 Maran Police Department when we get new canine handlers that saves the Marian Police Department the C is the Maran almost $110,000 per canine canine 49:22 Officer that is trained so I was going to take over that so that would be part of one of my duties as well we're doing that right now uh we're training one 49:30 officer from the Maran police department and one officer or Deputy from the sheriff's department right now and I've stepped away to come here um that's kind of a brief synopsis if you have any 49:39 questions i' be willing to answer them I I think this is brilliant um 49:47 commend both of you guys on this situation not to lose Like Chief Gilbert said all the thousands of dollars that that your knowledge and invested in you 49:56 I to given anything if the fire department when I was hurting the line of duty I could have done something like that so that's just I mean this to me is 50:03 a no-brainer I Matt's too humble to tell 50:13 you I'll end with this I'll be glad to answer your questions Matt Matt's a good man um his uh I worked with his brother 50:20 many years ago who's who's passed away and we worked on the gene together and he comes from a good good family he's a good man he's been a heck of a policeman 50:29 almost said a bad word there um he's a heck of a policeman and uh we just don't want to lose him we can't can't have him on the street anymore but we can make 50:37 use and he wants to do it um it serves a purpose it's a it's a win for us from the business perspective it's a win for 50:44 him because he still gets to contribute and it's a win for me as the chief to know we got some we can rely on handling things that need to be done quite honestly some of those things are being 50:53 are slipping through the cracks so it's a winwin win so I'd ask you to consider formalizing this basically what it 51:00 amounts to is um I I'll rely on Council to tell you what it's called or how to do it but we just need to uh the 51:08 position's been created by the board of works we went to the board of Works they created the position which is in their baileywick um so the position has been 51:16 created as the financial body we're just asking you to formalize spending the money on this position as opposed to 51:23 what it had been being spent on quite honestly uh we're we're short-handed in number of positions so there's a windfall there in 51:31 terms of the money spent on salary but even if we were fully stapped except for Matt just him not being a policeman anymore would 51:39 pay in effect for the position that that we're creating here at least through the end of the year with savings even then in other words we're going to pay him 51:46 less for this job than we would have as a police officer so there's no there's a cost to the city but it's not an excess or it's not we're not asking for more 51:55 money we're asking to use money it's already there to fund this valuable position so that's my best explanation I'll answer any questions you have has 52:03 he been okay through per for class one yet uh we're that's in process in the final stages in fact I just read an 52:11 email uh from Matt perf said they're going to they're perf is reviewing that that's the level of disability which is 52:17 a a full disability perf is reviewing the status of that and I suspect they're just they're going to approve it it's 52:24 the doctors very clear I think they're going to prove it pretty um I I don't think I don't think there'll be a debate about it but if 52:33 there is then we'll we'll do what they ask us to do but I think it's a matter of time so for the time being he's G he's being paid as a police officer now 52:41 when that comes to an end and I believe it will we'll just smoothly transition right into the new position 52:52 so any other questions Council for thanks Chief um the only questions that 52:59 I have is is so he's going to be fully retired on disability correct yes and assume this position dut as a civilian 53:09 yes so if we amend these the salary ordinance my only concern is that uh the 53:16 health benefits the perf will be included in the flex included in in your amendment that you have requested and if 53:25 he's going to be fully disabled as a police officer he won't need those benefits to serve in that 53:33 position is my only technicality that I had a question about on that and that he's going to he's going 53:42 to we're going to use the funds from him being a police officer to compensate for the civilian position 53:49 correct yeah the money's in a the pool that is general fund it how it's moved and used used but yeah that's I that's 53:58 the essence of it I my intention is that Matt not losing the deal because quite honestly we're I don't he's going to 54:07 receive benefits this is a duty related injury so he's going to receive full benefits that was my question yeah so it's it's actually a better better deal 54:15 for the city I hate to talk about a human being like this but it's it's better in a sense that he's he was injured on duty that's that sounds 54:23 horrible but in a financial way it's it's a goodal deal I guess that's what I'd say to you I hope you agree with that yeah I definitely 100% agree with 54:31 with the analogy on it and everything I was just considering on you know on on the ordinance of amending the salary 54:38 ordinance for him some stuff won't be included and I don't know if we have to do that interde departmental ways as far 54:45 as because you've got Flex in there I I'm going to leave that to the controller and Council I that might be a little bit that that was the only other 54:53 questions that I had if we can just have that out I'm sure we can work it out we can do it when he takes that position 55:01 and retires and then goes into that position yeah just some of the details I think those are things that can be worked out pretty easily sure I feel 55:09 confident we can do that just for just so just to ease uh any concern this model has been used before Mark Kilgore 55:16 although he wasn't injured on duty he retired conventionally and he's I in fact I call this uh in housee I call it the kill War model kill war is working 55:25 as their evidence Tech MH the only the real difference the two differences are he didn't retire on an injury he retired 55:32 conventionally and his job is very specific evidence-based things I I think I mentioned in the folder that Matt's goingon to be our utility player he's 55:41 going to handle a whole lot of things but really the the the structure of what we're trying to do here has already been done we didn't invent this uh but so 55:49 it's been working with Mark Hill War for about two years now and U that was a big part of my decision to go have we have we done this before and other any 55:56 problems laying in the weeds and I don't think sure yeah I just want to make sure because you're going to take him from a full Duty police officer yeah and fill 56:04 this position with a full Duty police officer correct and use that well we're not going to lose the position I don't I hope I don't hear you 56:12 saying that we're the position the full-time police position is going to stay in existence it's just not going to be 56:19 filled uh my intention though is before my my goal is by the I've said this before my goal by the end of the year is that we'll be f staffed M including 56:28 Matt's position so at some point we'll be spending more money to fund him if we're fully 56:36 staffed but that won't be realized until we are okay so I appreciate that thank 56:43 you yeah go ahead I think one of the things that when we look at these ordinances we're thinking specific 56:50 people but I think we need to take that out of the thought process because the ordinance itself is creating the 56:57 position as if it were an an unfilled position exactly and therefore all the language has to include all the benefits 57:04 and everything because for whatever reason if this did not come to to effect if we were going to bring somebody else into do this position they may need to 57:13 have all those benefits attached to the job and so in this instance because we're talking about a specific person 57:20 that doesn't necessarily need things it I think cloudy's the issue cloudy is not the I just think it makes a better deal 57:29 if we're talking finances and and and dollars and cents which is your responsibility having Matt do it is a better deal if we had a a conventional 57:36 civilian come in first of all they wouldn't be as capable and we might pay a little more but if if if Matt does what I know he's going to do it it will 57:46 prove itself as something worthy of the expense I have no doubt about right and I'm not trying to take away from that because that will then give you kudos 57:54 for saving money but procedurally it has to be done this way as if it wasn't a specific person in 58:03 mind because yeah we have to think future we have to think what's this going to be 10 years from now um and then that way that's creating that 58:11 position specifically for you for and that's how we attacked it with the board of works it's the position we just happen to have the person we want to 58:19 have there but you're exactly right it's the position that matters it'll it'll basically just be a lateral movement once you get the date from perf the only reason I'm saying it's because I 58:27 experienced it once you get the date from per he'll fall off the city's insurance so to speak and all the benefits with the city go into the class 58:36 one and then when you fill that position whoever that new police officer would be he'll just pick up from the date of hire 58:44 on so yeah I mean Dana is that not okay good conversation any other 58:54 questions okay no other questions thank you Chief 59:01 appreciate it thank you I would entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we pass 59:09 General ordinance number 9 2024 to Second reading in public 59:17 hearing we have a motion by councilman Kane a second by councilman Klein any discussion 59:26 no discussion roll call Kane I for I Brunner I Klein yes Divine yes Wht yes 59:36 calill ien yes General ordinance 9-20 24 is pass it'll move a second reading in public 59:44 hearing and last on the agenda resolution 5-22 a resolution of the common Council 59:52 of the city of maring Indiana approving the tax for suai Hospitality speaking council president 1:00:00 Nick McKinley thank you Madame clerk uh this is a resolution to approve the tax abatement for sui Hospitality for the 1:00:09 year of 2023 um so retroactively uh basically the 1:00:17 resolution uh council members didn't receive a copy of it but um basically states that sui Hospitality timely 1:00:24 submitted its annual cf1 form for the year 2023 um it was not approved last 1:00:31 year and we are looking to retroactively approve it for the year 2023 and sui hospitality is actually 1:00:40 doing business as um the Holiday Express uh in Maran and um yeah so I'd like to 1:00:48 go aad and welcome you I didn't know if you're going to make it or not but you're welcome to come up here uh whoever wants to speak and uh share 1:00:56 anything you'd like to share or we can just ask your questions okay we're here to answer questions so I'll give a little so I've 1:01:05 worked a lot on this um I was full transparency contacted by their accountant Pam she has been wonderful 1:01:12 Pam Morton and um contacted me probably three four weeks ago I believe and 1:01:20 stated that they just realized they weren't approved because the taxes were coming due and realized the uh form did not make it over to the 1:01:28 county auditor's office so she contacted me um trying to figure out what happened and so we did some research thanks to 1:01:37 councilman Kane and the clerk's office pulled a lot of data from last year U found it it wasn't approved and the 1:01:45 contact information on the form um councilman Kane had tried contacting via phone and email several times didn't 1:01:53 hear back um so when it was in committee last year it just didn't uh didn't get approved because we didn't they didn't 1:02:00 have questions answered couldn't get a hold of you I have since talked to their CPA Pam and clarified that she is allowed to put her contact information 1:02:09 on those forms moving forward um so if there are questions she is the one that will be able to answer that um I will 1:02:16 read an email real quick I asked her to kind of summarize her eyes conversation she said regarding the completion of form cf1 in the column for the as ES 1:02:25 made on sb1 we put was submitted on the original s sp1 filed then in the column for the actual we indicated the number 1:02:33 of current employees in salaries and the number of employees retained in salaries the same the number of additional 1:02:40 employees shown is the increase for the number on the original sp1 and total salaries the only number that could be 1:02:48 changed is the salaries for the number of additional employees meaning what she could have changed if you would only want the increased amount over the estimated 1:02:56 number on the sp1 if so the number of for the 2024 PID 2025 should be 1:03:03 27964 which that'll get address at their next request um so uh to boil it all down 1:03:11 essentially just some confusion that she admitted you know there's no training on how to fail these cf1 forms uh even I'm reading through it we met with I met 1:03:19 with our our attorney um Marty Harper discussed it and uh so there was just some 1:03:27 confusion so essentially what she is saying is and I think this was the question you guys might have had when we talked that why was there only an eight 1:03:35 in the additional employees category under the sb1 side well the intention was to show that there were eight 1:03:43 additional employees added on top of what they had already estimated when they originally filed for this tax abatement so this tax baitman I believe 1:03:52 is in year six I can't remember pop my head and so previous years we have approved it it is a pretty hefty tax abatement um because we appreciate your 1:04:01 investment in Marion and um so essentially speaking to the auditor's office they said that all they need is a 1:04:09 resolution from the city council to retroactively approve last year's tax abatement and then they can apply that before they have to pay those taxes this 1:04:18 year and then of course moving forward um you know they're going to submit the form and and try to submit differently 1:04:25 so so it's maybe what understood better so I try the best I can explain it does 1:04:31 anyone have any questions yes um was there a a commitment or a length of term for this tax 1:04:39 abatement yes it was a 10 years 10 years 10 years and I I apologize I have it in my email and it is detailed out in the 1:04:49 original ordinance uh or the original approval of that tax abatement so it's a 10 year I believe we on year he has a 1:04:58 copy yes I don't I just have it on my computer and um you would like to see but it is a 10e tax batement for the 1:05:06 holidan express up on Western Avenue have any other 1:05:17 questions okay no other questions I would entertain a motion Mr chairman I move that we pass 1:05:25 resolution number 5 2024 I have a uh motion to pass 1:05:34 resolution 5-22 24 by councilman Kane and a second by councilman kleene any 1:05:41 discussion no discussion roll call k i g 1:05:46 hi Runner hi K yes Divine yes Whitton yes cill I mckenley 1:05:56 yes uh resolution 52024 has passed we're going to go ahead and get all that sent over to the auditor's office as soon as 1:06:03 we can hopefully maybe tomorrow um we'll work with the clerk's office and get that retroact approved and again Pam did say she'll update the contact info that 1:06:12 way if we have any more future questions uh we'll be able to contact you a little easier so thank you guys so much honestly for your investment in Maran every time I drive by there it looks 1:06:20 beautiful you guys do a fantastic job maintaining that facility and we really do appreciate apprciate you coming and marrying it's choosing Maring thank you 1:06:28 for coming tonight too you yes okay uh there's nothing else on the agenda I just wanted to add a few more 1:06:35 things two things um just kind of announcement um utilizing this new beautiful TV here 98 inch TV uh graphic 1:06:44 custom design by Council President McKinley here um with a picture of matter park behind it that is actually our Park um but I'm going to utilize 1:06:53 this I went to I just wanted to make announcement at the uh I went to a ribbon tying which is the first ribbon 1:07:00 tying ceremony I've ever been to usually it's ribbon cutting but basically radiant health and Indiana Health Centers have mer or not merged they are 1:07:08 partnering together um so both of those ladies are from their respective entities so essentially radiant Health 1:07:17 um is now going to have some Primary Care access for some of their their clients partnering with the Indiana 1:07:24 Health Center so so uh it's the build I came remember the address like the 3,000 block South Washington somewhere in that area it used to be a grocery 1:07:33 store back in the day um but anyways that's where it's at I did a tour of it it's phenomenal so it's going to really 1:07:40 provide expanded services for the radiant Health clients by coupling those services with Indiana Health Center so it's just really exciting you know we 1:07:49 talk about mental health addiction and all that in Maring and this is an exciting partnership so I had Theon to to go there and do a ribbon tying 1:07:58 ceremony so that was interesting um other than that the last thing I wanted to give an update on for full public 1:08:04 transparency we are streaming still on the my iPad um but we have accepted a an 1:08:12 estimate for some professional equipment to be installed um by csb um and they are working on getting us on their 1:08:21 timeline it's already been appropriated the money's already been approved for it essentially it's just um them getting getting us on their calendar and what's 1:08:29 going to basically happen is there's going to be a camera in the back there's only already one there that used to be used for the streaming on cable TV 1:08:38 that's going to be replaced by an up-to-date high definition camera that will face the ca the council and then there'll be another camera above me 1:08:46 facing down towards the audience and the guest speaker so we'll have two um we'll call it solid state or static 1:08:53 cameras um and when people are streaming online they'll be able to see split screen they can see both at the same 1:08:59 time also if we choose to um which we will utilize one of those split screens could 1:09:06 be used for presenting so if we have photos or we have a PowerPoint or a video uh people online can not only 1:09:14 watch the council meeting but they can see exactly what we're talking about my hope is um to be able to also show the 1:09:21 agenda for people that are watching online so they can follow through follow along and just make that at home 1:09:28 experience um just almost as if you're sitting here if not better so um that is in the works we've been talking about it for a while but um I appreciate the 1:09:36 mayor's office has been working well with us in the IT department and we're hoping to to get that installed hopefully in the next month or two 1:09:45 depending on the contractor's calendar so I have nothing else any other council members have anything they want to 1:09:53 add okay all right well entertain a motion to adjourn so 1:10:00 move all right I have a a motion to adjourn by councilman Kane a second by vice president calill any 1:10:08 discussion no discussion roll call Kane hi bise hi Runner I Klein yes Divine yes 1:10:17 Whitten yes cgill hi K yes meeting is adjourned thank you for coming everybody 1:10:34 [Music] 1:10:44 so