OurWeek Marion city council, in their own words in Grant County · Regular meeting · 2026-06-16 · full transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA3pj4R6U7o Exported Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:23:49 GMT These transcripts are YouTube's automatic captions. 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/marion-city-council-indexed 0:02 All right. 0:04 All right. We'll go ahead and call tonight's meeting to order. Um we're going to have uh Pastor Elden 0:12 Jackson. Uh he'll be leading us in prayer. He is from the House of Worship for All People. And then after that, uh 0:19 Councilman Mike Klein, if you would, you'll lead us in the uh pledge of allegiance. Go ahead, sir. 0:26 Let's pray. Father, we come before you today with grateful hearts. We thank you for this day, God. And we thank Lord before any decisions are already made, you already know what this city needs. 0:36 And so, Lord, we're asking you, God, just to be in this room, God, not just on the walls or in the name of the meeting, but actually present, God, 0:43 guiding the conversations and bringing clarity, Lord, where there's confusion. 0:48 God, we ask right now that you give these leaders the wisdom that goes beyond their own experience. Give them ears to hear the people that they serve, 0:56 the families that are trying to make it, the kids who need safe streets, the seniors who need to be seen, the businesses that are trying to hold on. 1:04 God, we ask that you let integrity lead inside of this place right here, right now, today. Let every decision be made not for personal gain Lord but for uh 1:13 not for politics either God but for the good of the people where there's disagreement God and there may be let them disagree without losing respect 1:22 because this city is bigger than any one opinion in this room and God we ask that you bless the city of Marian bless Grant County God because there's good here 1:30 there's potential here there's people in this city who love it and are fighting for it God and so we ask that you honor that fight and God we ask that you also 1:39 um that we pray for our state and our federal um officials as well, God, that you give them wisdom and guidance as they make decisions. And then lastly, 1:47 God, we ask that you guide every single word that's spoken in this room today. 1:51 Lord, guide every vote that may be taken. And when this meeting is over, let the outcome be something that we're all proud of. We thank you and we pray 2:00 this prayer in the mighty, mighty name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. 2:06 And now on this day after Flag Day, let's honor our flag and honor our country. 2:12 I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic 2:19 for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 2:32 Thank you, Pastor Jackson, for that prayer. I appreciate that. and Michael, thank you for the pledge. [sighs] Okay. Um, next we'll do a roll call. 2:43 Kain here. 2:44 Reyes here. 2:46 Ford here. 2:47 Brunner present. 2:48 Klene here. 2:50 Marshall here. Whitten. 2:52 Divine here. Calgill here. Okay. The next on the agenda is our uh recognition spotlight. And 3:01 tonight we're going to recognize uh now retired fire inspector Brandon Xin. 3:08 Brandon spent where's he at there? Oh 20 years 20 years on the fire department. So 3:17 Brandon, if you'd like to come on up at this time. And is the chief in here? Where's he at? 3:24 Oh, you guys are hiding behind everybody. Um and that Curtis, that ain't easy for you. But uh if you'd like to say a few words, Chief, come on up. 3:32 Brandon, come on up here beside me. But 3:43 well, if I have to say something, I guess I will. Um I don't particularly like Brandon too much. 3:50 Uh no, I thank you, President Cowgill, and uh members of the council. Thank you for allowing me to uh to speak on this uh life achievement in Brandon's life. 3:59 Um I've been on department long enough to know when Brandon started and just like any new guy who comes on, new 4:07 firefighter comes on, we often think, you know, what's that firefighter going to be? What's their, you know, are they going to make it? Are they going to be any good for us? What's going to happen? 4:15 So, um, luckily Brandon showed pretty early on that his passion for firefighting and his, uh, able to absorb the knowledge that we were giving him. 4:24 Um, he turned out to be a really good firefighter. Um, then he decided that, uh, investigation was his passion because we have a saying in the fire 4:32 department that, uh, find a role that fits you. Not every role is for everybody, but find something that fits you. When you find it, be proficient at it. Be indisput indispensable at it. 4:44 Brandon found that with investigations. 4:46 Um, even after his his accident, he came back stronger than ever in my opinion in a lot of ways. And he took 4:54 investigations to a new height when he became fire prevention chief. Um, he took our investigation division to um, unbelievable heights of where it is now. 5:05 Um, to where our investigation division is a very strong part of our department. 5:10 Um he's convicted more arsonists than not and that's very commendable of him and we can't thank him enough and 5:19 thankfully I've seen him grow into a man. I've seen him become a father. I've seen him become a husband and thankfully I get to call him my friend. So I 5:27 appreciate you Brandon. Thank you a lot and I wish you all the best in your next endeavor. And this department can't it'll function without you but it'll be 5:36 a little different. But we appreciate you. 5:41 [applause] 5:55 I too uh been was on long enough to remember when you first come on and and watch your whole career and uh the chief 6:02 alluded to his accident. Um you had one on very long, was it? Is it a year or two? 6:09 Uh, probably about a year, year and a half. 6:12 Yeah. He He was a fairly new firefighter. And on the ladder truck, the way the ladder works is there's the rungs. They're over it, but they as they 6:20 go up, you got to keep everything out from underneath. And he was going up the ladder and had got his foot entangled. 6:28 And so the ladder caught it. And was it your right foot or left foot? 6:31 Oh, and it was left foot. and it pretty much almost took the front part of his foot off. He um he had to have major surgery 6:41 and was out for quite a while. And what a lot of people don't know is if he took off his shoe, he's actually got a 6:48 flipper for a foot now. But uh no, he don't. But they was able to uh help him out and he was able to come back on. Um 6:56 and and I agree with the chief. just shows his determination and uh to want to be a firefighter and continue his 7:03 career. And uh we we normally give, you know, people that we spotlight certificates. Um, but with you with, you 7:11 know, as we do with all of our police and fire that put on 20 years, we fly a flag and we have it folded and we'd like to honor you and give you this and u 7:20 hopefully it'll mean a lot to you on behalf of the council and the city and the mayor and we very much appreciate your 20 years and you know I love you 7:29 buddy. I've known you for a long time and and you're going to be missed but you're going to do great things. You always do. Thank you. Appreciate it. 7:40 [applause] 7:43 Yeah, we're gonna make you say a few words. Go ahead. So, it was a phenomenal 20 year career. 7:50 Um, couldn't have done it without my my family beside me the entire time. U, mom, dad, my wife, my husband or uh 7:58 son, sorry, son. [laughter] Well, that's a slip you won't let down. No. 8:06 Um, but a lot of it also the guys that you see in the back that are in the blue shirts. 8:11 Oh, I know. I'm never going to live this one down. 8:15 Uh, but the guys in the blue um sitting behind you. Um, we have grown together. 8:23 We've watched each other's kids grow up um graduate high school, go on college. 8:28 Um, we've seen some that they're starting their own families now um together. Um, so it's been a phenomenal 8:36 um, 20 years. It's another family sitting back there. Can't thank you guys enough and I appreciate you. 8:44 That's all I got. 8:49 Here, we'll get a picture for you. You want to have your your family come up for that? 10:31 Thank you, Brandon, for coming in, bud. 10:32 Appreciate you. Um, okay. Next on the agenda is our consent agenda. 10:38 If there's no discussion, I'll entertain a motion. I'll move we pass the consent agenda. Second. 10:44 We have a motion by Councilman Klene, second by Councilman Kaine. Roll call. Kane. Hi. Reyes. 10:52 Hi. For ice. Hi. Brunner. I. Klene. Yes. Marshall. I. Divine. Yes. 11:00 Calgill. I. 11:02 Okay. Uh, next I'll take any committee reports. 11:12 Uh, the Mary and Utility Board met since our last council meeting. Um, and they gave an update on the projects they're 11:21 working on, the storm water, um, collections, uh, they said storm water collections in the area of Wesley and 11:28 Ivanho. Um, it's coming, they're having some flooding issues in the backyards along in that area. So, they're going to 11:35 do a project to try and help funnel that water where it's supposed to go. Um they said it wasn't budgeted, but that um 11:43 with the solid waste paying back to the storm water, they have enough money to be able to do that project. Um 11:51 the long-term control plan, uh the area that they were excavating to put the tank in um had higher levels of arsenic 11:59 in the soil than they anticipated. So they're having to ex having to do a couple different things depending on what comes back the most cost effective 12:08 whether they're going to excavate and remove more soil or alter the tank size kind of the dimensions of it so that they can fit it in an area where they 12:16 don't have as many issues for that. Um they said they'll have more details at the next meeting about what that's going 12:23 to do and what that added expense is going to be. 12:27 um the wastewater loan is going to be paid off. They did when they did the 12:36 financial reports um they talked about updated recommendations for minimum operating funds balances. Um they said 12:44 the water utility. It's recommended that they have 910,000 um in wastewater, 964,000, 12:52 268,000 in storm water, and 398,000 in the solid waste utility. Um that's making sure that they have their minimum 13:01 operating balance, which I think is three months on hand. Um so those are the balances that they're working towards. And if I my notes are correct, 13:11 and Gary, you can correct me if I'm wrong. I believe that they were close to all of those except in the water 13:17 utility. Was that correct? Okay. Um so they're hoping once this um rate increase comes through then they'll have 13:24 a better handle on what'll work. Um but that's all still in process. It's not moving very quickly, but it is moving at 13:32 least. Um so we should know something. I won't say soon. It'll be a while. Um, as 13:40 we know here at the city, the auditors have started the 2025 audit. Uh, so 13:46 they're working on that. Um, they went and did a wastewater treatment challenge. Um, and then they finished 13:55 the storage tank warranty work and the meter project. They're now working on a variety of different meter fixes. And then they had their first annual friends 14:04 and family day where they had family members and friends come out to the operating um plant and give tours and 14:12 kind of talked over the different things that they do within the plant and said that was a great a great day for them. 14:19 Um and then I think you guys should have gotten the financials emailed to you. If you didn't let me know and I can scan them and send them out. And then I did 14:28 not make the board of works meeting today uh this week. I did hear that they went through and had a new rating system that they put into place which they'd 14:37 been working on for the last six, eight months for um uh houses that they wanted to look at 14:44 for demolition. And so my understanding is is that um the building commissioner Justin came forward with that rating 14:52 scale and rated the houses that were kind of put on hold and re-reviewed. And from in talking to one of the board 14:59 members, they said it was a great process and it really helped quite a bit on determining which ones were going to be the priority to pull down first. Um, 15:08 so that as they had the money in the budget kind of go down, they knew which ones they wanted to target first off the list. So, 15:19 thank you, Erica. Mike, you have something? Go ahead. 15:24 Actually, thank you. I have two. The short one is that the compliance committee met before 15:32 this meeting, and we'll talk about that later this evening. Uh the board of aviation commissioners met June 4th. 15:41 Bids were open June 3rd for work on a partial parallel taxiway toward runway 33. The engineers estimate for the pro 15:50 project was $1,3,595 and there were three bids. The high bid 15:57 was $933,000 from 3D company. The low bid was from Brooks Construction for $668,471.70. 16:10 The board accepted the Brooks bid contingent on the construction grant approval from the FAA. the fuel farm 16:19 project, the Jed A fuel system and the 100 octane lowled system um had a 16:26 setback in miday. The company designing the fuel farm noticed that a critical valve was missing from the design for 16:35 the fuel tanks. So the and the system doesn't work without the valve. That delay in assembling the system set it 16:43 back a couple of weeks. The tanks arrived last Monday. Uh this is stuff that happened since the meeting. Just an 16:50 update on the fuel farm. Uh the tanks arrived last Monday with the valve installed and tested before shipment. 16:57 Plumbing's going to be completed today or tomorrow. And the tanks will then be pressure tested. And the fuel, if 17:05 everything goes well, fuel's going to be delivered tomorrow or Thursday. And once the fuel's delivered, they have to do 17:12 what's called a soak test, which requires the fuel to set in the tanks, to sit in the tanks for about two weeks. 17:20 And during that time, they will take tests of the fuel to make sure that in the construction, whatever coatings were 17:28 were put on and supposed to be taken off haven't contaminated the fuel. And uh so 17:36 if there's no contaminate contamination in the tanks, they're in business. 17:41 There were bids came in that were taken and came in for design and construction of the 4unit tea hanger expansion. The 17:50 engineers estimate was was for $440,776. 17:56 The one bid that did come in was from Shaune Construction and it was for $892,935. 18:06 Because there was only one bid and because it was more than twice as much as the engineers estimate, the board's going to rebid the project. Uh the R Air 18:15 Force ROC programs in operation now and they have 20 aviation cadetses 18:23 keeping there. Keep in mind a AF Air Force Rosi only has 90 cadets nationwide. 18:30 So I think that says something good about the Marian program and skyhigh scoops. The ice cream shop at the airport passed its health department inspection. 18:42 Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Any other councilman? 18:49 Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to unfinished business then. Um, we are ready for additional appropriation 10 20226. 19:00 Appropriation for park bond. Second reading public hearing. An additional appropriation appropriating $360,68781 19:12 for a park bond. Speaking city administration. 19:16 Good evening everybody on this stormy evening. Um so I'm coming before you for the second time for this appropriation. 19:24 It was already approved in December and so this will allow us to make the payment in July and then the next payment is due in January that we have to make in December for this park bond. 19:35 Any questions? 19:43 I don't see any questions. So, this is a second reading public hearing. So, I will open it up at this time to anybody in the public that would like to speak for or against this appropriation. 19:54 Uh, when you come up, state your name, your address, and you'll have three minutes. 20:03 Don't see people rushing up. Nope. Joe, sit down. So, [laughter] uh, all right. 20:08 I'll go ahead and close this uh public part of this then. And if I don't have any more discussion from any of the 20:15 council men or women, I will accept a motion. 20:20 Mr. President, I move that we suspend the rules on additional appropriation number 10, 2026. Second. 20:29 Have a motion by Councilman Kaine, second by Councilman Brunner. Roll call. Kane. I. Reyes. I. 20:37 For ice. Hi. Brunner. I. Klene. 20:40 Yes. Marshall I Divine Yes. Calgill I 20:48 thank you. Oh go now I will accept a motion to pass uh 10 2026. 20:54 Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation number 10 2026. Second. 21:03 All right. We have a a motion by Councilman Kaine and a second by Councilman Brunner. Again, roll call, please. 21:10 Kane. Hi Reyes. 21:12 Hi Ford. 21:14 Hi Brunner. 21:15 I Klene. 21:17 Yes Marshall. 21:18 I Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. Motion passes. 21:26 Okay. We will move on to new business. 21:29 And uh we next up we have a confirmatory resolution 9A2026 that we are not going to hear tonight. 21:39 Uh Joe Murphy is graciously here enough to explain the situation and why. 21:46 Good evening, council members. Yeah, thank you so much. Um I am requesting a continuence for confirmatory resolution 9A 2026 as well as the public hearing. 21:56 This is for the Prisbian tax baitment that we heard at our last meeting. Um nothing wrong with the project or the 22:03 company. They're uh very eager to make this investment. very excited about being and ringing investing in Marian. 22:10 However, we did receive some news late last week after the agenda was published from the DLGF, the Department of Local 22:17 Government Finance that they may be um changing their interpretation of an estate statute around the treatment of personal property inside of TIFF 22:25 districts um that will have a substantial impact on this project. So, before moving forward with this baitment, we have requested further 22:32 clarification from the DLGF. So, we are going to be meeting with them um as well as our financial adviser, Baker Tilly, next week to uh receive further 22:41 clarification on how this interpretation is going to impact this project. And um our expectation is we'll be back before you at the July meeting with either the 22:50 same form of resolution or a slightly amended form depending on the ruling from the DLGF on this issue. So, um this is something that's impacting projects 22:59 across the state. We just happen to get caught up in it and the the timing was poor. So, I would appreciate a continuence so that we can um regroup a 23:06 little bit and and come back to you guys in July with a uh recommendation to proceed on on this item. 23:14 Need a motion? Yes, please. 23:16 I'll move we continue this uh until the first meeting. 23:21 Yes, I believe until what? July 7th, I think. Till the July 7th meeting. Second. 23:28 Okay, we have a motion by Councilman Klene and a second by Councilman Kaine. Roll call. Kane. 23:34 Hi Reyes. 23:35 Hi Ford Eyes. Hi. Brunner. 23:38 I Klene. Yes. Marshall. 23:42 I Divine. Yes. Calgill. Hi. Thank you, Joe. Thank you. 23:50 Thanks, Joe. 23:53 Next up is additional appropriation 11 2026. 23:58 Appropriation for opioid settlement restricted first reading. An appropriation appropriating $130,000 24:07 for opio I can't talk opioid settlement restricted speaking Dr. Jada Montero. Welcome Jada. 24:16 Good evening. I'm back. 24:19 Um, so t today I'm going to be asking for an appropriation of $130,000 24:27 from the restricted opioid settlement fund um to fulfill a grant that I released earlier this year. It was 24:35 called the recovery um access grant is what we're shortening it to, but it was 24:42 to really empower um other organizations in the community to seek these funds to help them support their programming when 24:51 it comes to treating the opioid epidemic. Um there were 14 organizations in total that submitted applications to 24:59 receive funds. Um, nine of those organizations pre presented um a did a 25:07 formal presentation in front in front of myself and our advisory board members which consisted of 13 people um citizens 25:16 throughout the community that volunteered their times which was awesome. Um so we are asking the amounts are different so I'm just going to read 25:24 the organizations and their amounts so you guys are familiar. Um all of the expenses are um eligible under exhibit 25:32 E. Um they're mostly to cover program [snorts] supplies or like curriculum um purchases. Um we did as a committee 25:42 decide not to supplant any salaries. So there is no money going towards salaries of individuals in these um organizations 25:52 except for a pilot program I will tell you all about at the end. Um so the first organization is the Grant County 25:59 Family Recovery Court. Um the award amount of $15,000. 26:06 The second is the Grant County Rescue Mission with the award amount of $15,000. 26:14 The third is Big Jaws Youth for Christ with the award amount of $15,000. 26:22 The fourth is Bridges to Health with the award amount of $25,000. 26:32 There are two smaller um grant awards, one to Radiant Health for $5,000 26:39 and another to Lotus Recovery for $5,000. 26:43 And then the final is a $50,000 reward to the Grant County Jail. um they are 26:50 proposing to create a treatment coordinator position within the jail that would assist with getting inmates 26:58 um mental health treatment as well as addictions treatment. And we've not had this type of position before. So our 27:05 $50,000 will actually match $50,000 from the county government to pilot this position. 27:13 Um yeah, that is our ass up to 130,000. 27:18 So is is that so it'll be a $100,000 position 50 from us, 50 from them. Is that what you meant? 27:24 Yeah, I I don't think it's I don't think the salary is a h 100,000. I think it's the salary and then the fringe benefits adds up to 90 something to cover it in total. 27:35 And will you or your advisory committee have oversight of whatever program is going into the jail? 27:44 Yes. Okay. Or all these programs, I guess. Yes. 27:47 Yeah. There is um per our funding agreements um which I'll create um get approved by our city attorney and 27:55 executed um I will have oversight and also did already have some contact with the jail on planning for this position. 28:02 Um and then all of the other treatments there is a requirement for reporting for this these funds so we had to include it. 28:13 Hi Jada. How are you tonight? 28:15 Oh I'm doing great. Good. Um I was curious about the Grant County jail one on the 50,000 because um doesn't a a 28:22 county have their own opioid board and opioid money? Yes. 28:26 So is this going to the the opioid board and not to the sheriff? 28:31 No. The the application was for the sheriff and then the sheriff asked the county's opioid money to match it. 28:38 Yeah. 28:39 Okay. because I I know that they've got their own board for this and um I had spoke to them and um 28:47 because it was with the u the court system and then it went to the opioid board. 28:52 Yeah, they they took it from the recovery court and they took it upon the county took it to themselves, the counselor commissioners and they have their own 29:01 board now. So yeah, um I was just curious because all all the opioid money instead of going to the sheriff is supposed to go to the board. 29:09 Yeah. So, my understanding, my understanding, Yeah. And my understanding is that we are awarding the sheriff's department and then the sheriff's department went 29:17 to their opioid void and asked for them to one approve the position to create it and then also to fund the other $50,000. 29:26 Yeah. Because I heard he already had the staff hired or the consultant hired or and I was just curious how he did that if he hadn't didn't have the money yet. 29:37 We and are they are they a consultant or they are they doing a survey or are they just are they actually given therapy? 29:47 They are not going to give therapy. They are going to coordinate the treatment. 29:50 So they will be responsible for bringing in um providers to conduct the treatment identifying the inmates assessing the 29:58 inmates and placing them in their groups that they need to be in as well as tracking that data. 30:03 Yeah. So, this is a paid position for just somebody that's going to interview them and decide whether they need the treatment, what type of treatment. 30:13 Correct. 30:13 And yes, and manage the providers that come into the jail as well. Yeah. 30:19 I just I don't know on on that one if we're if we're paying a position on that. I with the as long as it goes to 30:27 the the county's opioid board instead of to the sheriff. 30:32 Okay. because the opioid board has to admin administer all the opioid money and that's why they took it from the 30:40 court system and put it before their board instead of just the sheriff because what what I I think what I'm trying to get at is if if 30:48 the sheriff's trying to do his and the council and the commissioners are trying to do theirs, it's it's just kind of conflicting there with that. 30:56 Yeah. because the sheriff's supposed to go to the commissioners of the council to get money for the opioid treatment. 31:02 Yeah. And my understanding is that's what he did. His he went to them and asked could if the city of Marian provides 50,000, will you provide 50,000 31:10 so we can fund this position in the jail? So that's my understanding. Um I don't know who pays like who cuts the 31:17 checks at the county, right? like where the where the money will go. But I do believe that this will be a sheriff's 31:24 department employee that is funded by the opioid settlement dollars 31:33 and what are their qualifications for the job description is to have a well the hope would be that you had a 31:40 licensed clinician um but I do believe they put that they could have a bachelor's degree um in social work criminal justice something around that 31:48 um like a case manager position would I don't I don't have a problem sharing and with especially with the opioid uh 31:57 problem that we have and getting the u help that they need. I'm just wondering that uh um did they did do you apply for the grant or 32:06 did did you apply for the $750,000 grant or did the county apply for the grant? I I applied for the $750,000 grant. Okay. Yeah. All right. 32:14 It's not for the jail though, so Okay. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. 32:22 Go ahead, Eric. 32:25 Just uh I'm curious. Um I'm supportive of the idea, but where will we be next year? So, this will be a one-year thing 32:32 and then you might come back again or Oh, no. My under u my in conversation with the sheriff's department is that their ask has been to include it in 32:40 their budget moving moving forward. Okay. Yes. 32:43 So, and we would have the funds you'll have the funds again to do to fund this again. So, you probably come to us next year and ask the same thing. 32:49 Um, no, that's not the plan. The plan is that they will include it in the county's budget to fund the position. Just a one time ask. This is a one time ask. 32:58 Yes. Thank you. Anybody else? 33:07 If not, I'll entertain a motion. 33:12 Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation number 11, 2026 to a second reading and public hearing. 33:21 Second. 33:22 Have a motion by Councilman Kaine and a second by Councilman Klene. Roll call, please. 33:27 Kane, I. 33:29 Reyes, I. 33:31 For ice, I. 33:32 Brunner, I. 33:34 Klein, yes. 33:35 Marshall, I Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. 33:41 And next up is additional appropriation 122026 appropriation for opioid settlement 33:50 restricted. First reading an appropriation appropriating $150,000 for opioid settlement restricted. 34:00 Speaking Dr. Jada Montero. Thank you. 34:03 Hello again. Um so um and you all may be aware are likely aware of this. Um House 34:10 Bill 1296 is scheduled to go into effect on July 1st of this year. Um and what 34:17 that law is in the state of Indiana is to provide regulation to all recovery residences. Um so it is a stipulation 34:26 that um to identify as a recovery resident you have to be in line with the National Alliance of Recovery Residency 34:34 rules. Um you also have to register um with FSSA um and they will manage um if 34:43 you're allowed to call yourself a recovery residence. Um so to be in align with those rules there are some things 34:50 that you have to do. Um, you have to get accredited. You have to go through certain trainings, whether they be trauma-informed, peer recovery. Um, and 34:59 then you also have to supply your home with um, certain things. So, it could be like individual refrigerators, mini 35:06 refrigerators, fire extinguishers, carbon monoxide supplies. Um, you have to get ready. Um, 35:15 recovery residences are something that's needed in the community. Um but one thing that we've talked about is standardizing the type of care um that 35:23 our citizens receive when they reside in those homes. Um so in preparation for 35:29 how the city can one help enforce um getting in compliance with HB1 1296 um 35:37 but also in support of our recovery residents. I'm asking for an appropriation of $150,000 35:44 from the restricted fund um to allow me to create a grant um process. So, it 35:51 would be an RFF um that I release to our current existing recovery homes for them to request funds to help them get in compliance with HB1296. 36:02 Um so, they could make a request to receive funds to help them pay for their accreditations, to pay for the training 36:09 fees, um to pay for small supplies, like I said, fire extinguishers, carbon 36:16 monoxide. We will not pay to one fund a new home or residence or purchase. We 36:22 will not make mortgage payments. Um we will also not pay for construction. Have not put the grant together yet. 36:30 Wanted to make sure that it was something that we would be interested in funding before I accept applications. 36:38 That's it. 36:42 When you say construction, what about bringing say a bathroom up to code. Does that count as construction? 36:49 That does not. Um I we we made a we had to add um for construction because in our first round You mean new construction? 36:57 New construction. Yeah. We people wanted to add on Yeah. bedrooms and Yeah. those kind of things. 37:05 And and I know it varies by instance. Do you have any kind of ballpark estimate 37:13 for one facility what it might cost? You know, what would they I know that's an impossible question to ask or answer, but I'm asking it. 37:23 Yeah, I I appreciate that. Thank you. Um yeah, so each home is in different conditions. Um and the setup is a little 37:32 bit different. It depends on where they're going to apply when it comes to the level of recovery residence. Um, so 37:40 depending on the levels go up to five, I think. Um, some require that you only have one person per bedroom, right? 37:47 Well, that's not the that's not the case for most of our recovery homes. They're sharing bedrooms and things like that. 37:54 Um, so I put a limit on we will award um up to six awards at no more than $25,000. 38:03 I was I was asking that to try and figure how much bang for these bucks. So, thank you. Yeah. 38:12 Out of curiosity, how many recovery homes do we have that are in the community? 38:19 currently seven I believe seven organizations um two of those organizations have multiple homes. 38:28 Okay. 38:30 So if thinking six awards that no more than 25 probably not all seven they may not organizations receive. 38:38 Well yeah not all seven organizations may receive and also they may not be interested in getting in compliance with that law. 38:47 Right. All it says is that you can't identify yourself as a recovery residence if you don't do those things. It doesn't mean that they have to. 38:56 And is the definition of recovery residence could vary from like I'm trying to think of the language I want 39:03 to use like halfway houses to, you know, working on self-sufficiency or these are homes that people are living in specifically and like long term. 39:13 Um, yeah. So recovery residents aren't meant to be long term. The average stay is supposed to be no more than a year. 39:21 Um but I do believe for the definition of recovery or sober living, it's supposed to be an active recovery of illicit substance. 39:35 So, what kind of um I guess qualifications or grading scale, whatever it is you want to use. Um you 39:44 said there's only there's seven recovery homes, but then I noticed in the previous one where a lot of that was awarded to like 39:52 the Grant County Jail or to this organization like so is it what is it that what is it that 39:59 all these homes aren't getting help I guess or is there Do you have a grading scale, I guess, is what I'm asking. 40:05 Yeah. So, our first grant we modeled after our um we modeled the grading scale after the grant that we received from the department of mental health and 40:14 addictions because why would we recreate the will. Um so, we utilized um that grading scale, that format for the 40:22 presentation. Um I will say in the ask that we received um from recovery residences in our last grants, it was 40:31 largely to cover salaries or to cover largecale construction um which we could not support. 40:41 So, if if this were to not go through, then this means that we're not in 40:48 compliance or these potential recovery homes will not be in compliance without their own dollars for HB1296. Is that what I'm hearing? 40:59 My I am meeting with all of the recovery residences this coming Monday to figure out could they make this happen without 41:06 these dollars. Um, I can tell you that currently only two organizations are um, DMHA certified as recovery residences. 41:16 So that's Lotus Recovery and Radiant House. 41:20 So, so of I'm guessing these seven organizations from the previous 41:28 appropriation are the seven homes that would also be receiving this money to get in compliance 41:36 like the jail, Bridges to Health, Big Jaws, all of that. Are those those who are the seven What are the seven recovery homes? 41:43 Oh, the organizations I mean that are recovery residences. Yeah, you have Lotus Recovery, Radiant House, Hope 41:51 House, which has two properties. Um, Jimmy's Recovery Residences, I think it's what it's called. He's It's newer. 41:59 He purchased two of Hopeouses. Okay. And he has two properties. You have From the Ashes Recovery, Gala House, Journey Square, and Agape Recovery. 42:13 And the two that are DMA DMHA qualified or certified right now are Radiant House and Lotus Recovery. 42:20 Okay. 42:24 So, they wouldn't need to apply for this if they're already qualified in correct. 42:28 They should be in compliance, but they're going to come to the meeting just to see if there's anything else that they might need. 42:36 And I guess I have one more question along those lines. Would some of this be a way to encourage additional 42:45 houses or additional organizations to come up to provide more space? 42:51 Recovery housing for recovery housing thing. 42:53 Um because I'm assuming the percentage that's there is very small and not not nearly what is needed for the community. Yeah, I think that we could 43:02 all um I don't know that we could benefit from No, I don't know that we we could always 43:09 use more is what I'm trying to say. Um but I really think that the purpose of these dollars, especially for the city of Marian right now, should be used to 43:17 getting all of the recovery residences on one page. um and everyone having a good understanding of what HB1296 means, 43:26 not just for the community, but how recovery residences are expected to be run. Um I I think that it would likely 43:34 be enticing, right, to see that the the city is um willing to offer money for um everyone to get in compliance. I don't 43:42 think that it would be a good investment um right off the bat to offer money for people to create their own recovery 43:50 residences because we want to make sure that these are programs that are going to sustain. Um and with the exception of Jimmy's all of those recovery residences have been around for at least a year. 44:04 How many how many people between these seven can we help at one time if fully at capacity? 44:14 Um so the capacity for each home varies um depending on if it's a single room or if they're sharing a room. Um but some 44:22 of the homes have up to 12 residents at a time. 44:27 So if we multiply eight even right by seven, we're talking about 50 people at a time. So 44:36 Jada, I'm I'm curious too because I just plain don't know. Um like you said, Jimmy's that opened two new ones. He's new. 44:44 Yeah. So, what what qualifications? What does it take to I understand with this new bill, everybody's going to be on the 44:51 same page, which I I think is fine, but like what does it take for somebody to say, "I'm going to open up a recovery house 44:59 without HB 1296?" Well, like right now, before that went into effect, was there any qualifications? No. 45:07 Wow. Okay. 45:10 So this um what this new law does is actually impose state level standards on a situation that was previously 45:18 unregulated across the board. And so there going to be a lot of challenges in in people having to comply with rules that that simply didn't exist before. 45:27 So, there going to be some uh since DMHA is involved, I expect them to have high standards for this and that's going to 45:36 uh create some compliance issues for people that are currently in business and they're going to have to invest and decide uh what they want to do. But it 45:45 I'm expecting I think we look up the regulations are due out sometime in August. The regulations are due out in August. 45:51 Yes. So, we don't even know what what those qualifications are going to be, but we just know they're going to be shaved after the National Alliance. Yes. 45:58 So, well, and it it's better than nothing. I mean, right now with not having any qualifications, that's to me that's kind of a dangerous situation. 46:15 Go ahead, Gary. So, um, Jada, are are you going to oversee the, uh, the purchasing of what it takes? Are they 46:24 going to supply you with a list from the state of what it's going to take for them to conform confirm to the state statute? 46:34 And then, and then you're going to regulate, well, okay, you can have this much money for fire extinguishers or, etc., etc., etc. 46:43 to be able to get them. So you're going to oversee each house of what they spend their money on. 46:49 Each awardee? Yes. They'll submit a line item budget. We will approve what is eligible within the line item budget and that's what we will award. They will then provide proof of purchase. 46:58 Excellent. Thank you very much. Yes. Anyone else? 47:09 If not, I will uh what's that called? 47:12 I'll take a motion. God, my mind went blank. 47:16 Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation number 12, 2026 to a public uh second reading and public hearing. 47:25 Second. Second. 47:27 Okay. I got a motion by Councilman Kaine. Uh second by Councilman Klene. Roll call. Kane. I. 47:35 Reyes. I. For ice. I. Brunner. 47:39 I Klene. Yes. Marshall. Hi. Divine. Yes. Calgill. 47:46 Hi. 47:49 Okay. Next on the agenda is CF1 forms annual review. Um and speaking Councilman Mike Klein. 48:00 Thank you. Uh the compliance committee along with most members of the council 48:07 met before this meeting and went with 48:14 Joe Murphy, St. Joe after the work is he and his staff have done. 48:22 Yeah, I got keep that in the act. Um anyway, seriously, but seriously, folks, uh we reviewed 48:31 11 uh compliance forms for tax abatements, both real and personal property, 48:40 and um made well and made re the committee made 48:48 recommendations on finding them in substantial compliance or Not. We made a 48:55 recommendation on each of them. And my question for our attorney is, can I 49:04 group the approvals in one motion just so we don't have to? Yes. Okay. 49:10 But first again, and I've said it and and this is honest. Thank you for all the work your office did. You and your 49:19 office did. It made it very much clearer and and much easier. So, I will move I have I have 10 to approve. 49:32 I'm going to lump those in one motion and then one to not approve and worry 49:40 about that one later. the one I I move that we that uh the city council 49:47 approves as in substantial compliance CF1 forms from Athena Agricore both real 49:55 and personal bar brothers General Motors Holstead Mason Village 50:04 Hospitality WY metal and Winterland planned. Second. 50:12 Okay, we got a motion by Councilman Klene and a second by Councilman Ford Ice to approve the ones that he just said on the CF1 forms. 50:26 Kane I Reyes I Fordise hi Brunner I 50:34 Klene yes Marshall hi Divine yes Calgill hi 50:43 and one other one is uh historic Gallatin apartments lot of discussion about that 50:51 it is in many ways in substantial compliance, but there are some glaring 50:59 and we thought serious questions that need to be answered and this is not a termination. 51:08 This is simply for this year um a no on substantial compliance and we 51:16 will talk with the folks involved with historic Gallatin at some point and maybe they you know to see what happens. 51:25 But right now uh I am moving that we do not approve the CF1 form for 51:35 historic Gallatin apartments. Second on that motion. 51:39 Okay, we got a motion by Councilman Klein, a second by Councilman Brunner for denial. Go ahead, Kain. 51:47 I Reyes, I Brunner, I Klene, yes. 51:54 Marshall, I Divine, yes. 51:58 Calgill, hi. 52:00 And one last thing from the I'm extending the committee report now, I guess. Um we discussed a procedure. It 52:09 won't be an ordinance. It will be a policy procedure for the committee to uh streamline the operation or the the 52:18 procedure and to deal with 52:24 repeat folks who are late in um turning in their compliance forms because there 52:31 were several this year that did not make the May 15 deadline. 52:37 Um, and we're going to address that by this time next year. Thank you. 52:44 Thank you, Mike. And yes, I I will echo Mike. Uh, Joe, thank you very much for helping the council out. You you've done 52:52 a tremendous amount of work on that. And Mr. Harker, same with you on your research and you're coming up and Mike, thank you for your job that you did as well. 53:01 Um the only announcement really that I have tonight is uh the you we have a utility board opening coming up and it's 53:08 the council's uh opening this on this one, not the mayor. So resumeumés and applications are due by 53:19 [snorts] 53:19 July. 53:20 July 15th. Thank you. What would I do without you, Aisha? At noon. 53:24 At noon. July the 15th by noon. That is the deadline. if Okay, excited about that. 53:32 Yeah, there you go. And if you don't turn it in by noon, that music will go off and that's the deadline. So, there 53:39 you go. Um, but u that's the only announcement that I have. Does anybody have any other announcements they need? 53:48 The applications are due then. When's when's the decision? 53:52 Uh, July 31st is when his the role is over of the gentleman in there now. All right. 54:01 Uh, it's a four-year term in Aisha. Yeah, it's four-year term. Yeah. 54:09 If nothing else, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. Mr. President, I move we adjourn. Second. 54:15 Motion by Councilman Kaine. A second by Councilman Klein to adjourn. Go ahead. Kane. I. Reyes. I. Florida. 54:23 Hi. Broner. I. Klein. Yes. 54:27 Marshall. I divine. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 54:34 Is earned. Drive safe. Yep.