OurWeek The Grant County Record in Grant County · Regular meeting · 2025-10-21 · full transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL7SdFRBUro Exported Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:54:06 GMT Source: YouTube automatic captions. The recording begins after the meeting was already underway. Copied into the combined index from the marion-city-council-indexed report; same text, key prefixed by body. NAME KEY (added 2026-09-16; the captured lines are unchanged). The auto-captions misspell every member of the common council but two, and the spellings vary inside a single meeting. Settled against the Grant County clerk's roster of elected officials: "Kain"/"Kane" is David CAIN; "Ford"/"Ford ice"/"Forice"/"Fordise"/"Four dice"/"for I" is Gary T. FORDYCE, Sr.; "Klein"/"Klene"/"Kline" is Mike CLINE; "Runner"/"rner" is Jim BRUNNER; "Whitten"/"weton" is Andy WHITTON; "Divine" is Erika DEVINE; "Calgill"/"calill"/"cgill"/"Cal"/"Calg" is Brian COWGILL; "Ray" is Jeffrey REYES; "mckenley" is Nick McKINLEY; "Mororrow"/"Morell"/"Morurell"/"Ronald Re" is Mayor Ronald MORRELL, Jr. Marshall and Reyes are usually rendered correctly; every other name is not. MEMBERSHIP CHANGED MID-CORPUS — read every roll call against the meeting's own date: Nick McKinley holds an at-large seat from January 2024 and answers his last roll call on February 3, 2026; Jeffrey Reyes answers in his place from March 3, 2026, the meeting at which McKinley appears at the podium as county Republican chairman instead. Captions from 2024 are markedly worse than later ones — several surnames survive only as a single syllable. 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 0:00 uh ongoing long-term control plan projects as have been mandated to us by IDM and um this is the third such I 0:10 believe bonded project like this of the larger broad projects uh there should be one more after this um and the amount is 0:19 not to exceed 12.2 million and this is the the project that'll be out there at Clark Street Home Avenue. 0:29 Okay. Thank you, Robin. I appreciate that very much. Um, general ordinance 27-2025 is a second reading and public hearing. 0:38 So, if you would like to uh speak for or against this, please come up to the microphone, announce your name and your address, and you'll have three minutes. 0:52 Seeing none, I would open it up for a motion on general ordinance 27-2025. 1:00 Mr. President, may I ask one question of the director? Sure. 1:04 What happen you I didn't realize you were just getting comfortable. What happens if we don't pass this? 1:12 That's a good question. Um, we'd have to take that back to IDM and have a discussion with them, I suppose. But 1:19 with this being one of those mandates that that got passed a long time ago, this is this is kind of a business as usual type scenario. 1:30 I apologize. Anybody else from the council? 1:35 No other questions? And this is a a mandate for the water department to have to do this separating uh storm water and 1:43 sewage. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Um, no other questions or comments from the audience. I would entertain a motion on general ordinance 27-2025. 1:55 Mr. President, like to make a motion that we suspend the rules on general ordinance 27 2025. Second. 2:04 I have a motion by Councilman Calgill, a second by Jim Briner to suspend the rules for general ordinance 27-2025. 2:14 Madame Deputy Clerk, could I have roll call, please? 2:18 Marshall, I. 2:19 Forice, I. Brunner. Hi. 2:21 Klein, yes. Whitten. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 2:26 We pass the suspension of the rules for general ordinance 27-2025 for the bonds of Marian Utilities. At 2:34 this time, I would entertain a motion to pass general ordinance 272025. 2:39 Excuse me. I'm sorry. Um, I'd like to make a motion that we pass general ordinance 27205. Second. 2:48 I have a motion by Councilman Calgill to pass general ordinance 27 2025. A second 2:55 by Councilman Klene. Madame Deputy Clerk, could I have roll call, please? Marshall. I. Forice. 3:03 I. Runner. I. Klein. Yes. Whitten. Yes. Calgill. I. 3:09 General Ordinance 27-2025 passes. Thank you, Robin, very much. I appreciate your service and your work to the community. 3:24 Okay. New business. Additional appropriation 15-2025. 3:29 Madame Deputy Clerk, an additional appropriation for the city of Marian Transportation Department. We need to address an issue with the transportation budget for account 2418. 3:40 The 2022 audit report required that the transportation have its own dedicated fund. However, by late 2023, the 2024 budget had already been completed and 3:49 submitted to the council. As a result, no city funds were appropriated for the matching portion in either 23 2023 or 3:56 2024. To rectify this oversight, we're requesting an additional appropriation to correct these past years. The total city portion was $638,658. 4:06 Speaking the controllers's office. Hi Dana. Good evening everybody. 4:12 Go ahead and give us the explanation for this. I'm very familiar with it since I sat in on the state board of accounts on 4:19 this, but you can go ahead and explain it to the rest of the council. 4:23 Yeah. And so that's why I put a lot in the summary so that you guys can kind of look at it beforehand. But essentially we're like um the summary says we're 4:31 addressing this issue now. We uh it hadn't been covered in 2023 2024. 25 and 4:38 26 is in the budget. So from this point on we're going to be okay but we have to back up and um do our portion of 638,658. 4:50 And Dana, this is uh to match the the grant that we got for the transportation department. Correct. That's correct. 4:57 And the state board of accounts requires us to specifically line item our match on that. Yes. 5:03 And that's what that's what we corrected. Yes. Thank you very much. Yes. 5:08 At this time, I'd open it up for any questions for any of the council people if you don't understand anything on this. Councilman, real quickly, real quickly, if I may, 5:16 did we already did we already pay the match in this for 2025 and 2020? For 2025, but we have not. We're This is for 2023 and 2024. 5:26 We're asking for any other council people have a question on this? So, this is basically back filling. 5:35 Yes. Okay. 5:39 Any other council people understand this or have a question on it? 5:45 If not, I would entertain a motion. 5:51 I'd like to make a motion that we pass um additional appropriation 15 2022. 6:01 Second. 6:02 I have a motion by Councilman Calgill and a second by Councilman Whitten to pass additional appropriation 15-2025. 6:13 Madame Deputy Clerk, could I have a roll call, please? Marshall. Hi. Forice. 6:19 I Brunner. 6:20 I Klein. Yes. Whitten. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 6:25 Thank you. Additional appropriation 15-2025 passes. This second reading public hearing. 6:34 Madame Deputy Clerk, could I have additional appropriation 16-2025, please? 6:41 Additional appropriation for parks and recreation. an additional appropriation for salaries for the park security office officers. This request is for an 6:49 additional appropriation in the amount of $27,972 to fund three security positions for our city parks. The goal is to enhance the 6:58 safety and security of both the parks and their visitors. These security staff members will provide coverage for our parks at least 42 hours a week, seven 7:06 days a week. The salary ordinance for these position has already been approved. Speaking the controllers's office. Good evening again. So, yeah, 7:14 the the salary ordinance has already been approved and that came before you a couple of meetings ago. So, this 27,972 7:22 will pay them for the rest of the year, the three security positions that have already started. 7:28 Thanks, Dana. And we've already funded that for the 2026 budget, correct? Yes, sir. This is for the remainder of 2025. 7:36 Yes, sir. 7:36 Because they've already been hired and started. Yes, that's correct. 7:40 Thank you. Is there any other council people councilman that have any other questions on this additional appropriation for the park security? 7:48 Mr. Bronner Rose, I know we had had some problems at the park. Has it has it kind of simmered 7:56 down now with us adding some uh additional officers out there? 8:01 I do not know. I'm Dana and Rose is not here this evening, but I can have her uh contact you to give you some updates on security. 8:09 That would be fine. Sure. 8:11 Are there any questions? Any other questions or comments from city council? 8:19 If not, I would entertain a motion. 8:22 Mr. President, move we uh pass additional appropriation 16 2025 second reading public hearing. 8:30 Second. I have a motion by Councilman Klene to pass additional appropriation 16-2025 to second reading public public hearing. 8:41 I have a second from Andy. 8:45 Madam Madame Deputy Clerk Marshall I 8:53 Fordice I runner I Klein yes Whitten yes. 8:58 Hi Additional appropriation 16-2025 passes second reading public hearing. 9:07 Thank you very much. If there's uh uh anything else that anybody from the council has that they would like to speak about? 9:16 No. 9:17 The announcements that I have for uh the end of this meeting is that uh trickor treat in Marian is October 31st from 5 to 9. 9:29 And with that being said, I'd take a motion to adjurnn. 9:35 I have a motion to adjurnn from Councilman Calgill. A second from Councilman Klene. 9:41 Madame Deputy Clerk, could I have roll call, please? 9:44 Marshall, I. 9:46 Forice, I. 9:47 Brunner, I. 9:48 Klein, yes. Whitten. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 9:52 Meeting adjourned. Thank you everybody for being