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The video is the record. ============================================================================== Indexed at https://ourweek.in/grant-county/reports/grant-county-record 0:28 e e 1:08 all right we're going to begin today's meeting the Maring common Council regular council meeting it is now 7:02 1:15 p.m it's January 21st 2025 in Maring City Hall council chambers and I'd like to call the 1:24 meeting to order and we'll begin with our prayer from Pastor Nate Wayman from Eastgate community church thank you Nate uh he did the prayer for us last year at 1:32 the meeting and he's more gracious to come back and and do it again so thank you so much Nate if you could just turn the mic 1:41 on let's pray Heavenly Father we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude for the privilege to serve 1:48 this community we acknowledge your Sovereign sovereignty and ask for your guidance As We Gather to discuss the 1:55 needs challenges and opportunities before us Lord we ask that you would Grant wisdom discernment and unity as 2:02 decisions are made that affect the lives of those represented help us to seek Justice love mercy and walk humbly with 2:10 you as we strive to promote peace and prosperity in our city may we listen with Open Hearts speak with kindness and 2:18 act with Integrity we ask that you would bless our city its leaders and its citizens and protect our community and 2:25 may we work together for the common good may all that we do bring honor to you as we serve you in this community and we 2:35 pray all of this in the name of Jesus Amen thank you Pastor Wayman and then Pledge of Allegiance is councilman 2:42 Bruner 3:01 thank you so much Pastor for coming you're welcome to stay um but you're free to leave as well all right okay and 3:10 moving into roll call Madam clerk Kane here Marshall here for I here Brunner 3:18 pres Klein here Divine here Whitten here cgill here McKinley 3:27 here okay we're going to move into tonight Community Spotlight give me a moment to transition my screens 3:36 for everybody at home and in the audience here tonight's Community Spotlight is going to be the Indiana 3:43 Wesley and women's volleyball team and I'm excited to have them here tonight um maybe the whole team I hope is here uh 3:52 we're just really excited to have you here um if you all want to just go ahead and come on up and I'm going to say a few things come up and just kind of 4:00 stand behind us here yep you got to you're on the stage so you got to come 4:07 all the way up everybody wants to see 4:21 you you can just squeeze in kind of like a choir maybe you're not going to have to sing though there we go look at that 4:30 that's perfect wow and you're all wearing matching hoodies so I'm going to sit down so everyone can see you so um if you weren't aware the women's 4:39 volleyball team at Indiana Wesleyan are now back-to-back national champions so they are the 20124 national 4:47 champions yeah the na IIA national champions uh for 2024 and 2023 as well so uh back to 4:57 back and we're just so proud of of them I mean Indiana Wesley is integrated into the fabric of our community and uh we 5:05 should recognize these major accomplishments for you know any of the uh the teams whether it's athletic or 5:13 academic um we should be recognizing and uh I just really appreciate you all coming tonight I did do some research 5:21 and um and tell me if I'm forgetting and because I was trying to give all the accolades and recognition as I could um 5:29 so you're also the crossroads league tournament champions as well right um the crossroads league coach of the year 5:38 right yes coach Candace Moes yeah and also the 5:47 avca hold on one second here let me see switch my screen here avca All-American 5:55 first team niia center of the Year Abigail Porter 6:02 yeah there's a lot of words in there uh also ABCA All-American first team Nia player of the year uh 6:11 [Music] 6:13 Eva oh it's spelled the Eva sorry that's Ava uh you're gonna have to tell me your last name too I couldn't figure that one 6:21 out Jers jersa oh that's easier than the first one okay yeah player of the year 6:28 so um and then ABCA All-American honorable mention Martina deari Demari 6:36 Demari got it all right yes the ABCA All-American honorable 6:43 mention Marissa Mullins not here okay that's okay I know it's all right and then the 6:52 ABCA assistant coach of the year Dan bergren is that correct all right not here it's okay 7:01 okay and then I found the CSC academic all district Ava Abigail and then Katie 7:12 nter and Martina Demari yeah did I miss 7:21 anything please tell me if I miss anything did I miss any of you I mean other than you're all fantastic obvious 7:29 obviously you all contributed to being a national champions but just want to don't want to miss any other kind of highlights got that all of social media 7:37 whoever's running social media is doing a fantastic job so again congratulations we're excited for you uh how many of you 7:45 are seniors this year oh just two of you okay all right 7:52 well I'm sure they going to be you're going to be sorely missed but the fact that the rest of you are coming back we can make it a three repeat right 8:00 okay sounds good yeah and you're going to stay it in in westle yeah yeah so I'm not here to jinx you but uh confidence 8:07 so anyways uh congratulations we're really proud of you and thank you for choosing in wesling and coming to Maran 8:15 and we're just so proud of you here at the city of Marion mayor uh would you want to say anything mayor I'll give the mayor a few words 8:23 too I think this is such a big deal as an Indiana Westland alone and now the mayor of Maran this is a big deal for us I'm super proud of each and every one of 8:31 you and I'm super excited to highlight you cuz you guys deserve this thank you all right thank you don't go anywhere yet all right so 8:40 we always get a picture so stay where you're at and then we're going to have the rest of the yes Nick also they all 8:47 get national champions Rings just like football that so forget I was assistant coach this year so leave up to councilman cowo I always 8:57 got the joke oh goodness all right so if we could just get a photo the best that we can maybe 9:07 the yeah well we can get a real we have to get a zoomed out photo but basically the council members on the edge if you just 9:14 want to kind of come in more yeah or maybe fill in the gaps with a chair I don't care 9:34 yeah that way they we want to see their faces in the photo we'll just they can stand some of us will 9:42 sit it's okay all right uh oh they're getting 9:51 there Eric's over there he's got to be fun and uh symmetrical I don't blame him 9:58 I'm the same way there we go okay and then you guys wanted Scot close yeah our 10:05 resident photographer there you go how does it look from your angle are you guys want to say the cheese for 10:19 us all right and then Dr Reyes you want to give us the three to it right two one 10:31 you know the cheese never fails us so thank you so much for coming tonight you're welcome to stick around 10:38 congratulation thank you appreciate you I'd shake all your hands but we' be here all night 10:51 so maybe it's your first council meeting as well and maybe not your last so um hopefully some of you stick around 10:58 marrying and then you know these we won't be here forever and you can be on the council as 11:05 well yeah or if you have a paper to do for government this would be a good one to come to or maybe not or not maybe 11:14 not touche okay um all right and moving in to our city employees 11:24 Spotlight let me for our folks at home I need to adjust their view as well okay um Sergeant 11:34 Bennett you in the audience back there there you are I was looking at the seated area um Sergeant Bennett if you 11:41 want to come all the way up here welcome appreciate you 11:53 coming I'm just going to sit back down and talk for a second so um Sergeant Bennett is has been with the Marian 12:00 police department and uh I did ask Chief Gilbert to kind of write something for me because obviously Chief Gilbert 12:08 probably knows you better than me and um can give us some insight into your career so I'm just going to read what uh Chief Gilbert gave me it says Dave 12:17 Bennett joined the Marian Police Department in 1995 which began a distinguished career serving people on the front lines many 12:25 of the years spent working the overnight shift protecting Marin at as most slept in addition Sergeant Bennett known 12:34 as DB served as a detective in the narcotics unit and was promoted to Sergeant as well during his career 12:41 Dave's always calm demeanor even in the face of Crisis disorder and danger was extraordinary and appreciated by his 12:49 Partners Sergeant Bennett treated citizens with respect regardless of their station and life criminals included Dave always kept a smoke and a 12:58 light ready even when he didn't smoke himself to offer intense situations to calm agitated people down and it worked 13:06 nearly every time just a few of the many examples of Stellar work include solved an armed robbery within 20 minutes of 13:13 the call being broadcast dealt with a man brandishing a large knife who demanded DB kill him DB 13:21 was able to convince the man to accept help without harm the man was a veteran saved the life of a man he observed through a window with a cord around his 13:29 neck who was trying to hang himself devie breached the door and was able to remove the cord from around his neck saving the man's life apprehended a 13:37 suspect who broke into a residence and attempted to sexually assault a juvenile Sergeant Bennett was the quiet understated voice of experience and 13:46 wisdom to every single rookie and Veteran who joined the MPD family since 1995 still despite his calm demeanor his 13:54 Partners always knew that Sergeant Bennett would have their back in a fight or any dangerous situation even at risk to himself congratulations DB you be 14:03 missed Chief Gilbert so I very well said Chief um so how many years did you have 14:10 on 29 and about three months 29 and about three months so that's a long career do you want to share what are you 14:18 doing next what's your next part of life appears I'll be babysitting Grand kid 13 grandkids and babysitting there you go 14:27 yeah for free right looks that that's very nice of you yeah yeah sounds danger Dangerous yeah well maybe some of these 14:35 trying situations over the last 20 29 and a half years will help you with that babysitting so uh with the patience so 14:42 we appreciate your service to the city very much um 29 and a half years is a long time to serve as a police officer 14:50 um the world's changed a lot in 29 and a half years I'm sure you have uh just the job has changed the world has changed 14:58 and we appreciate you your dedication to our department and our city and um there's just no words that can show the 15:06 true appreciation we all have so we did actually uh fly a flag over city hall yesterday on inauguration day and we'd 15:14 like to present you with that flag for your retirement so been hiding it up here underneath so just want to give you this flag and appreciation of your 15:22 service that was flown over City Hall on inauguration day and Martin Luther King Jr day and any 15:32 other day might appreciate you app anything You' like to share any words you want to share 15:40 uh it's been it actually has been quick it does not feel like it's been 29 years there 15:49 are days that just seems like it was yesterday I started you know I I've met most of our new recruits and I feel that 15:57 the city's going to be in good hands Chief gber does a good job in managing everybody we do our best to Train 16:05 everybody and I I think the city is going to be a good hands we appreciate it thank you so much and of course we 16:13 want to get a photo with you as well so this one's the standard everyone just come 16:19 around if you want to come out front 16:27 here yeah right here right in the 16:50 middle right thank you soate thank you 16:57 Appice thank you time enjoy your retirement and all the 17:09 babysitting that goes along with it so yes thank you so much for coming tonight appreciate 17:21 it okay always an honor to do those it never gets old so we're going to move 17:29 into the consent agenda for the approval of minutes consideration of pre-approved claims and consideration of claims I hope everyone had an 17:38 opportunity to review all of that you did get a fresh copy of the minutes there was just a tweak that was made 17:44 just on a spelling of a name so uh I would accept a motion unless there's questions or 17:53 discussion I just had one point that um in reviewing the CL claims I did notice that there 18:00 was uh payments in there to Regions Bank on the um Debt Service for the cafe 18:07 Valley Tiff bonds and so the information that I got back from the controller's 18:14 office said that they were several payments because of the A1 and the A2 bonds um but one of the questions I had was 18:22 regarding that's the just so that I understand that's the full payment that we owe um and that's being paid out of 18:30 the taxes collected for that Tiff area aside from the shortfall that we've been discussing the last couple 18:38 meetings as far as I mean that's coming out of the um Tiff District see Dana here um probably want to ask cor I don't 18:47 want to misstate well and that's where I was that's why I was kind of cautiously saying what I was looking at um I just 18:55 wanted to make sure since that was timely des and what we were talking about that we understood that what those 19:02 payments were for and um and how they were being funded yeah I did see those those are I mean they're part of that 19:09 whole thing um but you know that's coming out of the the Tiff District 19:17 should be yes other than the shortfall other than the amount that's not been recouped 19:24 yet because the shortfall would come out of General wouldn't it that no but I will defer that to the controller's 19:33 office to give a more precise answer I will do that I just didn't know if anybody else them or do the question have the answers we would have to appr I mean if it was going to come out of a 19:41 different fund we would have to appropriate for that anyways um but that's yeah we defer the I just don't want to 19:50 misstate the account numbers and all that I don't have it pulled up in front of me but uh I do know being on the Redevelopment commission that is part of 19:59 part of those bonds was the best I can give you right now any other 20:07 questions great I would accept the motion Mr President make a motion that 20:15 we accept the uh cons agenda for the 20:24 entirely second we got a motion by councilman calill a second second by councilman Bruner any either 20:31 discussion Madame clerk roll call Kane I Marshall I for I I Brunner I kleene yes 20:42 Divine yes Wht yes cgill I McKinley 20:50 yes and moving into committee reports do we have any committee reports councilman 20:57 calill we had a a uh committee uh with the traffic commission uh meeting today 21:04 and we met um there was a a lady that uh was wanting at 14th in Adams uh it's a 21:11 three-way stop there at the stop sign she said that there's been a number of accidents there and Captain tile from the uh Mari and police department pulled 21:20 up the records and we've had four accidents there in a little over two years which isn't considered a lot um if 21:27 you have five accidents one intersection a year that's considered so it's pretty well under that and um so we voted to 21:36 leave it the way it is because she wanted more signs up and sometimes when you do that and you put more up it's more congestion it's more people get you 21:46 know like you may get somebody coming the other way it's just it makes it more problems than what it's worth So based on the evidence that we had we just 21:55 voted to leave it the way that it is at this time thank you for that any other committee 22:03 reports councilwoman Divine um the Mary and the utility committee or um 22:12 Service Board met last week and they did their new year elections to elect the 22:20 chairman and vice chair which I believe they kept the same um they gave more updates on which were the same for the 22:28 srf projects which are being paused due to the to the weather they said except for the lead line Replacements they're still working on those um they talked 22:38 about the long-term control plan and the detention t u tank and the process being started with us about vacating Clark 22:46 Street which I know is on our agenda today um they gave an update on the next level Trails talking about moving fire 22:54 hydrants and um some service lines and they said they were working on doing that because they want to replace the 23:02 lines before we start new Asphalt in the in that area so I know they're working I assume with the city as well to keep 23:10 working on that um 23:20 see um doing some um Capital Improvements to some of their buildings as well 23:29 and um talking about cold weather reminders to make sure that um everybody's dripping their faucets if they're against outside walls or in 23:37 areas where they're not have as much heat as maybe expected to try and avoid those uh frozen water pipes 23:47 um and that was pretty much the basics of the meeting and the um border Works 23:53 did not meet this morning so all right thank you so much uh I will 24:01 add um since you brought it up I was going to talk about the end of meeting but with the freezing potential freezing 24:09 pipes uh with people dripping I know some people might be hesitant to drip their pipes because it's going to cost money um but if you're not aware I I 24:19 wasn't until recently but you can actually email or contact the utilities and they can give you an a drip 24:25 adjustment on your bill and the email email address is customerservice Maran utilities.com and 24:33 you can email them just give them your name address or account number and they can put a drip adjustment on the bill so if you're hesitant because you're afraid 24:41 your water bill is going to go up definitely reach out to utilities ASAP and request that um if you're not good with email um or have problems just give 24:50 them a call or stop in their office so just want to add that so thank you any other committee reports 25:00 vice president for I go ahead yeah the uh uh development committee uh met last 25:06 week on uh the tax 10year tax abatement for Cafe valet and uh all of the 25:13 representatives from uh Baker Tilly and barn thorberg and Cafe Valley and the economic development uh committee were 25:22 present and explain in entirety the uh 10year tax abatement on the equip 25:28 equipment and that uh that was received well we asked a lot of questions and um 25:36 they are retaining 700 jobs in Maran and adding a 100 new jobs with the new uh 25:43 equipment that they're going to install and uh the development committee gave them a favorable recommendation they'll bring it back to the full Council for 25:52 their vote thank you for that any other committee reports yes yeah go ahead 26:00 councilman Marsh I'd like to report as the school board Le on that I was able to attend a school board meeting last Tuesday um it was their first of the 26:08 year they installed uh their officers and a new uh board member Gabe dogado and uh so I got to sit through and 26:16 listen to what's happened in the school board uh sounds like things are going very well there they um talked about their financial footing and they seem to 26:25 be in very good shape so that was good to hear and so I've made my introduction to them and uh we've got the doors open so if they have some things that they 26:32 want to us to be aware of they're going to reach out to me and let me know so well I greatly appreciate that thank 26:41 you any other committee or leaon reports all right we'll move into 26:49 unfinished business beginning with General ordinance 1- 12025 petition to vacate a 26:57 public right of way in the 2,000 Block of South Clark Street second reading and public hearing an ordinance to vacate a portion 27:05 of the 200000 Block of South Clark Street from 2002 South Clark Street to 2009 South Clark Street and adjacent 27:14 alley to the east in the city of Maran Indiana the Maran M Municipal Utilities currently owns all the real estate 27:23 bordering on both the East and West sides of Clark Street on the east and west sides of the portion of Clark 27:31 Street to be vacated as well as the subject alley to be vacated the purpose of the proposed 27:38 vacation is to allow the installation of a combined sewer overflow storage tank as part of the utilities CSO long-term 27:47 control plan that was approved by IDM speaking attorney Mike Connor welcome 27:54 thank you Mike thank you you want to turn your microphone on for us sorry okay so uh this is the second 28:04 reading public hearing before we go to a public hearing do any council members have any more questions and Mike is there anything you 28:12 want to add just that uh you all must have a servant's heart to be out on a night like this so thank you again for 28:20 your service and hearing us out if there's any questions we can answer I have Robin Shader and Pat Pinkerton here 28:29 okay all right if no council members have questions we'll go ahead and turn it into the public hearing 28:36 portion so we'll go and start the public hearing if you'd like to speak on this please make your way to the microphone we'll give you a 28:47 moment I don't see anybody getting up or moving towards the microphone so with that we'll go ahead and close the public 28:56 hearing and do council members have any other questions if not I would entertain a 29:03 motion Mr President I'd like to uh suspend make motion we suspend the rules on General ordinance 29:12 2025 second motion to suspend the rules by councilman cill a second by councilman Broner any 29:21 discussion Madame clerk roll call Kane I Marshall I for I I Brer hi kleene yes 29:32 Devine yes Whitten yes calill I McKinley yes the rules have been 29:40 suspended I would entertain another motion Mr President I'd now like to make a motion that we pass General Ordinance one 2025 second motion to pass by 29:49 councilman calill a second by councilman Brunner any other discussion Adam clerk roll call Kane I 29:59 Marshall I fordi I Brunner I kleene yes 30:06 Divine yes Wht yes calill I McKinley yes General ordinance 30:14 1-22 has passed thank you for coming and appreciate all you do for the 30:21 city and moving into General ordinance 2-202 petition to vacate and public right of way second reading and public 30:30 hearing an ordinance to vacate a portion of First Street from Branson to Adams Street and the east west alley from 30:38 Branson to Adam Street and the north south alley from second to First Street the city of Maran is requesting 30:46 the vacation of First Street from Adams and Branson and the Alley's running East and West between Adams and Branson and 30:55 the North and South between second and First Street for the purpose of providing a location for the New River 31:03 Rock Project speaking mayor ronal Morell Jr and um city engineer 31:13 planner Etc Mike graft good evening welcome uh I'll be glad to uh answer any 31:20 questions that you might have I think that there was something that was brought up about an easement I believe that that's been we we kind of went 31:28 through that so I think we're okay on the easement yes thank you for all of that and all of the responses that we've 31:37 received um have all been I'll say in the positive there's been no issues from any of the neighbors or any of utilities 31:44 that have responded to this point so this is again for the public's information uh part of the River Rocks 31:51 project really it's the council's last um Loop to jump through for that River Rocks is to allow these streets to be 31:59 vacated and the project to really begin construction when the weather is right so if any council members have 32:08 questions go ahead um if not then we'll go to the public hearing anybody with 32:16 questions great thanks Mike appreciate it we'll go ahead and open up the public hearing for this if anyone would like to 32:23 speak on this please make their way to the microphone not seeing anyone move get up or come 32:32 towards the microphone so with that we will close the public 32:39 hearing all right and I would entertain a motion Mr President I'd like to make a 32:48 motion that we suspend the rules on General ordinance uh two 2025 second motion to suspend the rules 32:56 by councilman cill a second by councilman Kane any discussion Madame clerk roll call Kane I 33:06 Marshall I for I I Brunner I Klein yes 33:13 Divine yes Whitton yes cgill I mckenley yes rules have been suspended I would 33:22 entertain another motion Mr President I'd now like to make the motion that we pass General ordinance 22 25 second 33:30 motion to pass by councilman calill is second by councilman Kane any other 33:37 discussion Madame clerk rall Kane I Marshall I for I hi Bruner I Klein yes 33:48 Devine yes Whitten yes calill I McKinley 33:55 yes General ordinance 2- 2025 has passed and moving into new business 34:04 General ordinance 3-22 and ordinance amending General ordinance 25- 2024 first 34:13 reading an ordinance amending General ordinance 25 2024 salary ordinance for appointed 34:20 officers and employees of the city of Marin Indiana for the year 2025 by adding a culturist position in 34:29 the parks department the city of Maran Parks and Recreation feature 13 parks 34:35 with over 150 acres our goal is to enhance the quality of life and Community Pride in maintaining safe 34:43 accessible and affordable beautiful Parks the parks department is pleased to add a Horticulture 34:51 position this will contribute to the beautification of the city of Maran 34:58 speaking Randy Randy lions welcome Randy thank you 35:06 for coming again to this meeting any council members have questions for 35:14 Randy or Randy is there anything you'd like to add with with I'm excited about adding this because it'll bring our 35:22 Gardens back to the signature series um if you any of you guys are familiar with how used to be we were in magazines we were well known throughout 35:31 the United States we got away from that this position will help us bring that back and we can start 35:38 adding seasonal flowers different ideals to our outside Parts as well not just the gardens um it will allow us to bring 35:45 back programs for younger generations to learn how to garden what flowers are native to Indiana which ones are not plus older generations to uh get 35:54 together and garden out at the parks I do have a question um is this a type of position that requires a 36:02 degree in in my opinion yes because you might know flowers but this holder culturist would know how to maintain 36:11 those flowers throughout our environment plus which ones we can plant that will survive which ones won't I I'm not a 36:18 flower guy I just dig the holes but as working with this individual yeah I think it it would require that because 36:26 I'll just PL something yeah you know and then all of a sudden Indiana weather doesn't survive 36:33 it yeah councilman Clin thank you will the person beyond the degree will this person be certified as a Master Gardener 36:42 yes will be and what what basically is the job 36:53 description plant expert yeah yeah I will actually get that 37:00 description and send it to every one of you you're welcome I have a Randy with this um like where we like where somebody's coming into into the city 37:09 from like 37 18 9 15 like we have the signs welcome to May will we be able to like to me that's a 37:18 huge thing and that kind of goes right in line with the mayor's 2.0 type at the city that's your first impression coming in will they put flowers around that and 37:26 make that attractive looking as was that part of your plan or yes sir okay um like I those ones plus like I said our outside Park can start adding more 37:33 Beauty to those um we have a lot of space in our outside parks it's pardon the term it's dead space that we can start beautifying that too for those 37:42 neighborhoods for for years it's just been concentrated in the gardens but with with talking with the mayor and the chief of staff we want to add that to 37:50 our outside parks as well there's no reason for the inner city neighborhood parks to not have all that too 38:00 the other question last one what do they do in the winter that's when they actually plan the beds um they get the 38:06 flowers ordered um they don't really work out in that Garden per se but they redesign the beds every single season 38:14 what flowers can go where which ones go together that type of thing awesome thank you any other 38:24 questions now since I know this is a Sal since we're amending this we can pass this in one reading 38:32 correct well technically our rules say we can pass things in one reading but it requires unanimous but we we this would 38:40 go to a second reading Marty am I correct yeah even if we could I would 38:49 probably yeah still feel comfortable anyways yeah I do think this uh should go to a 38:57 public public hearing any other 39:10 questions all right thanks so much Randy appreciate it thank you uh I would entertain a 39:16 motion Mr chairman I move that we pass General ordinance number three 2025 to a 39:24 second reading and public hearing second uh motion by councilman Kane a second by 39:32 councilman kleene any discussion Madam clerk R call Kane I 39:42 Marshall I force I Brer I Klein yes 39:48 Divine yes Wht yes cgill I McKinley yes General ordinance 3- excuse 39:57 me 2025 we'll go to a second reading public hearing at the next council meeting that's it for new business uh there was 40:05 nothing listed on announcements but I do have a couple um just two of them real quick first of all um there is the we're 40:15 looking at a skate park in Maran but there is a survey that's going out um and so if you if you're watching 40:24 online and and you are a right a skateboard or BMX and want to provide input to the design of uh this potential 40:32 skate park it's not funded yet we're just trying to see what it's going to look like and what it's going to cost um there is a survey that hunger Parks has 40:40 put together for us that you can go online and complete and put your information in and just provide details of what you would like to see in a new 40:49 worldclass skate park um so just check social media uh I've posted it hopefully the mayor will share 40:58 that right because everybody follows the mayor already on Facebook so um just and if you're not sure where to find it just 41:06 reach out um to any of the council members and and we can get that to you um the last thing is it's not on the 41:14 announcements but um just wanted to say happy birthday to councilman Kane today is his birthday so not only 41:22 yeah not only did he come out in the cold for this but he came out on his birthday for this so uh we appreciate 41:28 that happy birthday um keep yeah to keep having them it's what 36 47 47 I'm I 41:36 knew was off a little bit um so just want to say happy birthday to councilman Kane so okay any other council members with announcements yes councilman 41:44 Whitten um yeah I I would like to uh invite everybody in the Marian Public Library this Friday from 6: to 7 p.m. 41:52 the Indian Motorcycle preservation Society is doing a historical presentation there and uh it'll be like 41:59 a museum area um there's a lot of great history in Grant County and in Maran um dating back to the early 1900s um so 42:08 it's a great time to celebrate some motorcycle history get out of the cold and visit the library join us the library or the History 42:17 Center great question Mr just check Facebook there you go I I'll post a flyer on my uh Facebook 42:26 tomorrow and I forgot I did have for those that might be watching online or that are going to watch it online I did have the 42:35 image pre-loaded the website there's a QR code that's uh showing up on the YouTube page right now uh there's a link 42:42 you can the website URL is on there but also there's a QR code you can scan to give your skatepark design public input 42:51 so that's all I have any other council members with announcements Mr McKinley I would like to congratulate yourself Mr 43:01 Morts and uh Maran High School for the unbelievable uh night we had Saturday 43:07 night uh to bring back the entire uh starting lineup from The 1975 Maran 43:14 Giants 50 years ago so they're well into their 60s all those 43:21 basketball players um we had all five of the starters that's impossible to do uh when uh three of them don't even live 43:30 anywhere near here and they all came back and uh we're honored um I thought that was quite a uh special evening 43:38 especially considering that all those years from 1926 to 1975 Maran did not win a state championship and had about 43:47 five times that bill fer about had a heart attack after a loss and I started working with him in 72 it it was it was 43:55 just great to see all those guys back and probably won't see them back again because David K Scott and Doug Harris 44:02 both live in Carolina and so we had we had some people that came a long way for that event and I know you were there and it was very special evening so 44:10 congratulations to Maran high school for what they did for those youngsters well thank you for bringing that up yeah it was the 50y year anniversary um and then 44:19 we're also featuring the 1985 state championship team at the next Marian home game uh I think it's February 1st 44:28 that's very close yes whatever that sat we' got about 13 Road games in a row right now we're trying to get through 44:35 yes uh so we are featuring one more team at the high school the 1985 championship team so uh yeah people are welcome to 44:42 come to any of the games I'm just that obnoxious voice behind the microphone in the gym so I didn't shoot any Hoops I 44:49 didn't do anything for it so all right any other announcements that that event at the library Friday is at the History Center 44:58 thank you for that clarification okay all right if there's no other announcements I would take a motion to adjourn motion to 45:07 adjourn uh motion by councilman Kane second by councilman Klein any discussion Madam clerk roll call Kane I 45:16 Marshall I for I I Brunner I Klein yes 45:21 Devine yes Whitten yes cgill I mckenley 45:28 yes meeting is adjourned 45:55 7:46 46:25 e 46:55 e 47:25 e 47:55 e e