OurWeek Marion city council, in their own words in Grant County · Regular meeting · 2026-07-07 · full transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mDAVLVNYE Exported Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:23:13 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 Okay, we'll go ahead and get tonight's council meeting uh going here. We um tonight we're going to have the prayer. 0:10 Uh Councilman David Kaine will do our prayer tonight, the pledge of allegiance. Uh Councilman Andy Whitten and then we'll go from there. So, everybody, please rise. 0:22 Join with me in prayer tonight, please. 0:24 Our dear heavenly father, we come to you tonight. We invite you here. I know you're already here, but we want to invite you here into this meeting. Guide 0:33 us, direct us, open our hearts and our minds uh to do the right things for this city. I want to pray for uh specifically 0:41 to for the Evans family tonight. April was [snorts] uh to be here to pray over this council and this city tonight. She 0:49 suffered a a loss in her family along with the Cowgill family. And we want to pray and lift those two families up. uh 0:58 before the Lord tonight uh and keep them in your prayers. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. 1:06 Please join us for the allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it 1:16 stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 1:28 Okay, roll call, please. 1:30 Kain here. 1:31 Reyes here. 1:33 Ford here. 1:34 Brunner present. 1:36 Klene here. 1:37 Marshall here. 1:38 Whitten here. 1:39 Divine here. Calgill here. 1:44 Okay. Next on the agenda is our recognition, our spotlight. And tonight we are spotlighting Jeremiah's Horvath. 1:54 Is that how you say it? Yes, sir. 1:56 Okay. Come on up, Jeremiah. He is our parks maintenance supervisor. Come all the way up, Jeremiah. 2:03 [clears throat] 2:06 I'm good. 2:09 And uh I just want to say Jeremiah has been doing an outstanding job. when we had 2:16 all the storms, you know, a few months ago come through, we actually had to close the park at one time because there was so many tree limbs and debris and 2:25 everything. And um the the whole parks crew is phenomenal, but Jeremiah, he he 2:32 heads it up. He's the one steering the horses and he he's just done a phenomenal job this whole year. And then we just had our Fourth of July 2:41 celebration last week out at the park and that place was packed. I mean, especially um well, we had the car show and the motorcycle show and all that. 2:51 And there was a we had over 110 entries, I think, in cars and like what 30 motorcycles or something like that. It's full. 2:59 Yeah, it was full. And and then we come back that night and man, that night there wasn't a place to be had. It was 3:08 it was the most I've ever seen there for a fireworks display. And from you guys started that morning at like 6:00 in the morning or 3:16 it was a 17 and 1 half hour day for us that day. 3:18 Yeah. But that's what it takes to do all that. 3:21 It was 17 and a half hours and it wasn't hot at all that day. So yeah, I was 110 heat index and they worked 17 and a half 3:28 hours straight. So I I can't say enough about Jeremiah. I dude, I so appreciate 3:36 you and and what you're doing and the job that you have done and uh I I 3:44 phenomenal job, dude. I mean, you're you're locked in. You got to stay here for a while. We're not letting you go. 3:50 So, we're seven month old department. You know, we just started January 1st and uh here. Go ahead and say, you know, we just started seven January 3:58 1st. So, we're seven months and um I feel like we're really finding our stride right now. And I have a great team. I really do. It takes all of them, 4:06 you know, from Mike, the the groundskeeper to the garden ladies to all the volunteers that help and you 4:13 know, our mowing crews and it it's an awesome team. I agree. The the team is phenomenal. 4:22 Like I said, that that Fourth July celebration, the whole the gardens, the um the parks department, the fire 4:30 department, the police department, um I I cannot be more prouder in all honesty that of our city employees than I am. I 4:40 our team is a phenomenal team and pound-for-pound, I'd put this city and our workers up against anybody. I truly would. So, thank you. 4:47 Yes. Absolutely. So, we um we just wanted to kind of bring you up and tell you how much we appreciate you and u 4:56 what a great job you're doing and and man, just keep up the good work, Jeremiah. I appreciate you, buddy. 5:02 Thank you, pal. [applause] I I can't leave without thanking Rose 5:10 Rose Kadina, our our parks director. Um she she has gave me all the tools I need to um to get all this stuff done. And I 5:18 really thank her. She is locked into to making this a better deal. And Keenan Davis, also I'd like to thank both of them. 5:27 Thank you. 5:32 Yeah, I agree with Rose, too. She um that parks department is uh she works endless hours and it's her baby. So, 5:41 okay. Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda, it would be uh the uh consent agenda. 5:49 There's not any discussion. I would entertain a motion if we have discussion. 5:55 Mr. President, I'll move that we pass the consent and agenda. Second. 6:02 Okay. Have a motion by Councilman Kaine, a second by Councilman Klene. Roll call, please. 6:08 Kane, I. Reyes. I. For ice. I. Brunner. I. Klene. Yes. Marshall. 6:16 Hi. Whitten. Yeah. Divine. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 6:23 Uh, do we have any committee reports at this time? 6:34 Uh, let's see. The border works met yesterday um [clears throat] 6:42 looking to sell the properties at 714 and 1802 South Meridian. Um that uh the 6:51 owner was looking to build a building on it for a leadership training facility. 6:57 Um and so those were vacant properties that I believe have been owned by the city since 12 was it? 7:05 Yeah. So, quite a while. So, that'll be good to get those back on the tax rolls and have some building go up. Um there 7:13 was a bid opening for police SUVs. Um this was for using the um the dollars that were granted to buy the new 7:21 vehicles for the police department. Um the first one came from Mike Anderson Dodge. Uh and it was uh they were Dodge 7:31 Durango. This one had the Hemi engine and the price was $40,670. 7:37 And the second bid came from Wabash Valley Chrysler out of Wabash. Um, and it was for a six-cylinder Dodge Durango and it was 42120. 7:46 Um, so they were looking to get seven of the Dodge Durango. Um, and the bid was, I believe, was awarded to Mike Anderson, 7:54 um, being the lower price on that. And then they were going to do for the eighth vehicle, they were going to look at getting a slightly used truck to do 8:03 as an additional patrol unit because they do need some times to be able to have the open bed and to do a variety of different things um that having the 8:12 Durango doesn't quite work for. Um there was discussion regarding one of the 8:19 properties uh 3629 South Boots that uh has been multiply multiple times in 8:26 condemnation status. Uh the current owners have were granted a stay at the last meeting um to be able to do some 8:34 additional and show progress is being made. Um it was a neighbor that came and wanted to um to give some information 8:43 and how unhappy they are with the progress. Um but the board works decided to continue and allow him the current 8:51 owner the rest of the stay to show progress and they would review it again at the next meeting. And that was everything. 9:01 Thank you very much. Is there anybody else? 9:08 minute. Okay. All All right. We'll move on to unfinished business. 9:15 Um, additional appropriation 11 2026. 9:21 Appropriation for opioid settlement restricted. Second reading and public hearing. An appropriation appropriating 9:28 $130,000 for opioid settlement restricted. Speaking Dr. Jada Montero. 9:36 Hi, Jada. 9:38 Hello. Um, okay. So, um, this appropriation is a request from the restricted opioid 9:47 settlement fund for $130,000 in total um to give to five six 9:55 organizations. Um so two of which are um $5,000 awards um to Lotus Recovery and 10:04 Radiant Health. Um there is an award including a a pay for service contract 10:10 to Bridges to Health for 25,000. Um two $15,000 awards, one to Youth for Christ, um and 10:19 the other to the Grant County Rescue Mission. and then a $50,000 award to the Grant County Sheriff's Department um to 10:29 match a salary for their mental jail mental health treatment coordinator position they're planning to launch at 10:36 the beginning of the year. Um there was a strenuous process um that each organization went to went through to apply for these funds and to be awarded. 10:48 Um and we are just asking for the appropriation to fulfill. 10:57 Do you have any questions or any discussions on this on on I have one thing on the sheriff on the position for 11:06 that? Um, I had a had a rough week. I didn't get a chance to get back with you, but uh 11:14 there's there's are we did are we requiring any kind of a degree at all with that position now or no? 11:22 Yeah, there um there should be a minimum of a bachelor's degree um including mental health licensing with that degree um with that position as well. 11:32 Okay. A followup question about the licensing. 11:39 I remember the language said license preferred. Is it going to be required or still slide by with preferred was my 11:48 first question and second question is that this is a one-time deal. They're going to put that in the sheriff's budget. Correct. 11:55 In the future. Okay. But is it license preferred or license required? there unless there's been a change. The 12:04 position that I wrote was license required. Um a bio you can't complete a biocschosocial without having a license. 12:11 So uh real quick la I think we when we discussed this last time there were 12:19 seven potential people receiving funding from this. Is that has that dropped down to six or 12:26 we're still at? Radiant Lotus, Youth for Christ, Grant County Rescue Mission, Register Health, The Jail. 12:38 Yeah, Radiant. Yeah, I think I I named all of them in their amounts. 12:46 Yes. 12:52 Anything else, Jeff? 13:01 Okay. If uh is this second reading? Yep, it is. 13:07 Okay. This is second reading public hearing. So, uh at this time, I'll open this up for anybody that would like to 13:15 speak upon this. And you'll have three minutes. State your name, address, and speak on either for or against this appropriation. 13:25 I'm sorry, President Calgill, you are correct. Dr. Reyes, the seventh organization is the family recovery court at $15,000. 13:34 Yes, because that's what I had. I had that didn't total up. I had recovery court, Rescue Mission, uh, youth for Christ, Bridges to Health, 13:42 Radiant Health, Lotus, and Grant County Jail for a total of 130. 13:46 Yes. So yes, Family Recovery Court is is the last organization. 13:54 Okay. Okay. 13:59 [snorts] 14:00 Good evening. 14:02 253 South Valley. I'm not here to discuss whether or have some concerns 14:09 about the issue. I still don't hear anything about the people who are taking 14:16 the and who are out on the streets. How are we going to help them? And what 14:22 about their recovery? $50,000 to hire somebody. I served on several boards 14:30 that has received OPR money. None of them are dealing with the people who are on the streets who need the recovery and 14:39 so on. I have not attended Jada's meetings. I've only listened. 14:46 But unless we deal with the problem, we can hire all the people in the world. 14:51 They're not going to save the people who are dying and who have an issue with drugs. 14:59 When are we going to actually deal with the issue of housing and helping those 15:06 people get? We have seven organizations you want to give money to. They're fine organizations, 15:14 but are they helping the people who actually need it or are we giving jobs to people who need jobs and who have 15:23 degrees and so on? Because if we're not helping the people, we're wasting our time. And this money came about through 15:31 co and also settlements because I have another issue I want to talk about. The 15:37 opioid settlement came because of big and their use and the people who distributed drugs whether it was 15:46 prescription or illegal to our people yet we're not helping our people. That's my concern. 15:54 Where is the help for the people? We can hire 100 people [snorts] and we could have 200 there and they would have two 16:03 people to work with and that none of them could be safe or the percentage would be so low. It doesn't address the issue. 16:13 I see us hiring people. I don't see us actually dealing with the issue of the people who need help. 16:23 That's where my concern is because we can't continue to hire people and not help people. It would be fine. 16:32 But we have all these people and the people are still dying on the streets. So, how we help? 16:40 We haven't people who actually need people jobs. That's my concern. 16:48 Thank you. 17:05 It's called by the county. 17:18 I think it needs check out. 17:36 very 17:56 Thank you. 17:58 Can we restart the clock and do this with a microphone? I don't think your mic was on. No. 18:06 Oh, it's not. It wasn't. Did you hear me? 18:11 Well, I don't think Well, she she wasn't on the mic either. 18:21 But I'm just saying veterans treatment court and drug court are doing exactly what this is supposed to be doing. 18:29 We are producing good citizens through the drug court and veteran treatment court. All right. So I 18:38 think you need to reconsider back up and check with our judges and our our 18:46 people in the veterans treatment court and drug court. And if you'd ever attend one of our meetings, fact about Thursday 18:54 morning, we have a sit in judge and then we have two weeks the judge is going to be gone. So we but three weeks I would I 19:01 would recommend uh on Thursday morning 8:30 courthouse second floor. 19:08 It it would enlighten you and help you to understand what the problem is and how how much of a solution we are receiving. 19:21 Thank you, sir. Anybody? Go ahead. 19:29 Make sure that the mic is on. 19:30 Yes, sounds like it. Greg Maynard. Uh, I'm executive director of Bridges to Health. Um, thank you for considering our request through the through the 19:38 opioid committee. But, um, since numbers seem to be an issue tonight, just want to give you a little context on 19:45 Bridg's performance and our outcomes. It was in our proposal. Um, it's all public knowledge, but just to add to the 19:52 conversation tonight, we have two dually certified community health workers uh slash peer support specialist. Both 20:00 appears both of them have lived experience and are very active in recovery community. In 2025, bridges through the core program touched 600 people with those two staff. 20:12 um getting them into into treatment. We averaged four between four and five transports, two inpatient treatment 20:19 facilities a month. Um both both peers are heavily active in the recovery community working within several support 20:27 groups. Um Brianna's Hope, uh NAA, all those types of support groups. Um 20:35 Brian Blevens um is very active working on helping folks once they are are qualified for that to get their driver's 20:44 licenses and criminal histories expuned, get privileges restored and criminal histories expuned to help with employment. Um we don't actively do 20:53 employment ourselves. I have employment background. So Brian and I talk a lot on advising ways to go and get them tied to work one and vocab, those kinds of 21:02 things. But the money you are proposing that we are asking for bridges will go to and that's not a bad that's a normal 21:09 year for us. So we will touch 500 600 people with that money. It's a it's partial salaries obviously but that that's what that money will go to at 21:17 Bridges just to give you some context on numbers and uh people that are on the streets seeking help and keeping them sober uh once they get help. So thank you. 21:27 Thank you. 21:30 Anybody 21:34 [clears throat] 21:37 else? 21:42 I don't see anybody else coming up. So, I'll go ahead and close the public portion of this. And uh if there's any 21:49 discussion with any of the council men or council women, um we'll have that. If not, I'll entertain a motion. 22:03 Mr. President, I move that we suspend the rules on approve for appropriation 11 2026. 22:14 Second. 22:16 Okay, we have a motion to suspend the rules by Councilman King. And was it you, Eric? Okay. Okay. And uh we got a 22:25 second by Eric. I wasn't sure if it was you or Andy. Sorry. Uh, roll call. 22:30 Kane, I Reyes. Hi. Ford. Hi. Brunner. I. Klene. Yes. Marshall. 22:38 Hi. Whitten. Yes. Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. 22:44 Mr. President, I move that we passation 1126. Second. 22:51 Have a motion to pass by Councilman Kaine and a second by Councilman Klene. Roll call, please. 22:58 Kane, I Reyes. Hi. Ford Eyes. Hi. Brunner. I. Klene. Yes. Marshall. 23:06 Hi. Whitten. Yes. Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. 23:13 Okay. We'll move on to additional appropriation 1226, please. 23:18 Appropriation for opioid [snorts] settlement restricted. Second reading public hearing. An appropriation appropriating $150,000 for opioid settlement restricted. 23:30 Speaking Dr. Jada Montero. 23:34 Hello again. Um this request is from um the restricted opioid settlement fund 23:40 that will allow us to establish a grant program for our currently established 23:47 recovery residences to be in compliance with House Bill 1296 that came into 23:53 effect in July. Uh well, July 1. Today is the 7th. 23:59 [laughter] 24:00 Um we actually did receive the requirements from um FSSA um into what it's supposed to look like. Um so 24:09 there's going to be a registration fee um for each home. So not each provider, but each home that a provider has. Um 24:17 and then they're also going to have to be in compliance with one of the four levels um of the recovery residences um 24:26 by the National Alliance um which will require them to buy certain supplies like I talked about at our first 24:32 reading. So carbon monoxide things um beds, mattresses, refrigerators, um I 24:40 think Councilman Klein mentioned bringing a bathroom up to code. um those type of things. We're not going to purchase new homes. We're not going to 24:48 make mortgage purchases or do any type of major construction. The purpose is to support the recovery residences that we 24:57 have um to get in compliance with that law. 25:02 Is there any way, Jada, that you could uh forward the copy of the requirements to the council so we just so we have copies of it as well? 25:10 Yes. 25:12 [clears throat] 25:14 How many residents does this support? Oh, like people in the houses. 25:21 Okay. I'm not sure the capacity of every house because it's different. Um I was able to meet with a representative from 25:29 every recovery home except for Lotus Recovery two weeks ago. Um they came in 25:36 on a Monday. Um, there are only two organizations that have multiple houses. That's Hope House 25:44 and Jimmy's. Jimmy's is newer. He purchased homes from Hope House. Um, and 25:50 then Lotus has one home. Agape Recovery has one home. Um, From the Ashes has one 25:57 home. Journey Square has one home. Um, Gala House is one home. Radiant House is 26:04 one home. Um and I believe the occupancy varies um depending on the houses. 26:10 I think last time we talked about this of the seven organization with the recovery homes we we're looking at 26:17 roughly 12 a home 50 at a time roughly. Yeah. 26:25 Yeah. They are all different. Um once you give these houses these requirements 26:31 and they do that, is there any oversight after that to make sure they're staying in up to code and in compliance? 26:41 So, um DHA is actually going to be in charge of their compliance. Um so this initial fund that we give them gives 26:49 them it empowers them to get in compliance with the law and then DMHA is going to oversee it. um which could 26:57 include visits to the home. Um you actually can't call yourself a recovery residence in Indiana if you're not in compliance with this law. 27:07 So with that, these recovery homes partner with the organizations that we just talked about. So these seven 27:15 recovery home organizations partner with the seven organizations that we just mentioned previous in the in the previous reading 27:24 to help provide options for people who are on the streets and need a place to go and are trying to 27:32 get better outside of their environment. Correct. 27:36 Sober living environment. Now are are these say Jimmy's home are they specifically identified with okay 27:43 radiant health is going to send people here X is going to send it to Y so on so forth so we have a direct correlation or 27:51 you know how do we how do we make sure that these people you know the people that need help 27:58 continue to receive that help you know because just going there and getting stuff is step one of the actual whole process. 28:07 And and the reason I say that, just so the council knows, I've had family members that have been mathematics at 14. My brother was that way. So, I'm 28:15 very familiar with this process and how this works. 28:18 Uh, but what I what what I need to understand is how do we keep them from wanting to do that outside of their personal decision? 28:26 They have to make they have to make a choice to not want to do that. 28:30 But what other resources are these houses providing to make sure that that doesn't happen again? Yeah. So my understanding is that 28:38 at least one of well Radiant House obviously is connected to Radiant House so their services are readily available. 28:44 I do know Journey Square has clinical services that comes that comes into the house and meets with the residents 28:51 there. Um I believe that they all um work together not only for referrals the 28:58 court system. So, as the gentleman mentioned, like drug court, veterans court, family recovery court, they also refer to these homes. Um, so you have 29:07 when you think about it, the support of probation, the court system, the clinical services that are available within Marian and Grant County and then 29:16 they also all of them have a requirement for attending different devotionals. I think it's like three times a week. Um, 29:23 they have spiritual support that come into their houses. Um, I think Lotus has a more holistic approach where it's not 29:32 just the spiritual approach but they do like yoga and mindfulness and you more holistic right um and and what it looks 29:41 like for your treatment. So if someone chooses the lifestyle of recovery and decides to live in one of these 29:48 residences there are resources available for them to continue. So the I mean speaking of the numbers again so 50 at a 29:56 time roughly if we're we're talking about these organizations the gentleman in the back for br from bridges to health mentioned they're help they're 30:03 touching or communicating with 500 to 600 people a year and that's just one of the seven. 30:10 How do we combat that problem? Because 50 compared to one organization of 500 we're not close. Yeah. 30:17 And this money obviously can't be used for that. that's helping you get to code. But are are any of these processes going to help get more organizations 30:26 established to be able to work with those 5 to 600 per organization? 30:32 Yeah. That they're transporting to treatment out of our county and then they come home. Um yeah. Um so that was the purpose of our access grant, right? 30:43 Um any anyone could have applied for the access grant and said I want to establish this type of therapy service 30:49 here um to make it available. um our I I understand the concern with um paying 30:57 for salaries and that kind of thing but without the people to do the work the programs can't be available right so it 31:06 is also um we are also increasing our capacity by creating programs and creating positions such as the jail 31:14 treatment coordinator um if that position is not there those people which are about 80% of the inmates that enter 31:22 into our jail have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder are not getting treatment without that 31:28 position. Um so we're using the money to empower the organizations that are here to do more work um when they're likely 31:38 already at capacity. Um so that's an incentive and then also to create um and we're making sure we're being mindful of 31:46 our capacity and creating new programs as well. So thank you. That's all I have. No. 31:58 If nothing else, I'll entertain a motion, Mr. 32:03 Oh, that's right. Yep. Yep. Yep. That's what I meant. A motion to go to public hearing. Um gosh, it's been three weeks 32:10 since we met, hasn't it? Um yeah, I will open this up at this time for the public. This is a second reading public hearing. Um again, you'll have three 32:19 minutes. Come state your name, address, and you can start now. Anybody wants to come up? 32:33 I don't see anybody coming up. So, I will close uh the public portion of this. Um and I will now entertain a motion if anybody. 32:44 Mr. President, I move that we pass or suspend the rules on additional appropriation number 12, 2022. 32:52 Second. 32:53 Have a motion to suspend the rules by Councilman Kaine. Uh second by Councilman Brunner. Roll call. Kane. 33:01 I. Reyes. Iise. I. Brunner. I. Klene. Yes. Marshall. Hi. 33:09 Whitten. Yes. Divine. 33:11 Yes. Calgill. I, Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation number 12, 2026. 33:21 Second. 33:22 Have a a motion by Councilman Kaine to pass. Uh, second by Councilman Brunner. Roll call, please. 33:29 Kane, I. 33:31 Reyes, I. 33:32 For ice, I. 33:33 Brunner, I. 33:35 Klene, yes. 33:36 Marshall, I. Whitten. Yes. Divine. Yes. Calgill. Hi. 33:44 Thank you, Jada. 33:48 Okay, we're going to move on to new business. But on the first item on uh the confirmatory resolution 9A 2026, 33:58 we are going to need to move that to the July 21st meeting. Um Joe explained it 34:06 last time. time. You want to come on up Joe again and uh explain the the reasoning of of why we need to do that? 34:14 Happy to do it. Uh good evening council members. Uh Joe Murphy, economic development director for the city. Uh we were before you in June where we asked 34:23 for a continuation at that time uh based on a memo that was distributed to our staff uh relating to um handling of 34:32 personal property assessments inside of TIF districts that was going to substantially disrupt kind of the actual 34:39 intent of the abatement proposal that we brought before you earlier in the year for the Prismian project. That's a $28 million investment personal property at 34:48 that facility. also see uh 30 jobs added um at or 29 jobs added at a rate of over 34:55 $30 an hour. Um and the impact of that without getting too far into the details was going to be such that uh the original abatement that we proposed 10 35:04 years 75% was originally meant to provide roughly $1.13 million in abatement savings over the life of the 35:11 10 years to the company. Um, under the new interpretation that the DLGF would be taking for this personal property treatment, that number would have been reduced to $483,770. 35:22 So, a reduction of $649,000. 35:25 So, uh we felt it was appropriate at that time to uh pause the discussion and seek clarity from the DGF. Um, we then 35:33 after that meeting turned around and immediately noticed the public hearing to make sure we met the notice requirements and got it back on the agenda with the hopes that DGF would 35:41 provide us with that clarity. Uh, we had staff members meet with DGF, both with our financial adviser and our attorney working on this project. And um, 35:49 unfortunately, they just weren't in a position at this time to to give us full clarity on how they're going to treat this moving forward. So, um, at this 35:56 time we're we're asking for one further continuence to the July 21st meeting. I think we do have agreement with the company on a on a new kind of structure 36:04 that will in a lot of ways resemble the structure that we brought before this council in 2022 for the GM deal whereby 36:13 we're going to have to kind of look on this on an annual basis and um have the ability to be a little bit more flexible in in the actual percentage value of 36:20 abatement that we actually assign to the company on a year-by-year basis with the intent being that we achieve that ultimate savings goal, not necessarily 36:29 stick to a specific structure or um annual percentage. So, we're going to bring a fully revitalized economic 36:36 development agreement um as well as a reddrafted uh confirmatory resolution to this council on the 21st and we'll have 36:44 further explanation at that time, but we would ask for a continuence at this time on this item. I'd be happy to entertain any questions you guys have. 36:51 So, is this a back to square one kind of thing or an amendment kind of thing? 36:57 It'd be an amendment. Yeah. So we would be looking for we would reddraft the declaratory resolution and then an amended economic development agreement. 37:03 So in addition to on the 21st I would expect to see a confirmatory resolution 9A-2026 as well as a amendment to the economic 37:11 development agreement that was previously approved back in May. 37:19 Do we do we need to vote on that or can we Okay. 37:29 Do I have a second? Do you need a second? Gary. Yeah. 37:34 Okay. I have a motion by Councilman Ford eyes to continue it and a second by Councilman Kaine. 37:41 Roll call. Kane. I. 37:44 Reyes. I Brunner. 37:48 I Klein. 37:49 Yes, Marshall. 37:51 I Whitten. 37:52 Yes, Divine. 37:54 Yes, Calgill. I thank you, Joe, for explaining that. 37:58 Thank you. Okay, we'll go on to uh resolution 11 11 2026. 38:06 Resolution approving CF1 form CV East LLC. 38:12 A resolution of the common council of the city of Marian, Indiana, approving the 2025 compliance with statement of 38:19 benefits form CF1 of CV East LLC and confirming the continuation of certain 38:28 tax abatement benefits. Speaking Joe Murphy, economic development director. 38:34 Good evening again. Um, as you just heard, this is a resolution to approve the CF1 benefits form for U. CVE, that's 38:43 uh, Cafe Valley. Um, full transparency. This, uh, was should have been brought to you with the rest 38:50 of the CF1 documents, but there was an administrative oversight on my part in the document tracking process, and so this just did not reach us in time. I 38:58 can confirm that the company did submit their documents before the May 15th deadline. Um, and there was just a an 39:06 error on our part that allowed this to to come late. And so we've we've drafted a separate resolution to acknowledge 39:12 that and and approve this CF1 uh after your review. Um, I've already spoken with the county and the county assessor's office and they've confirmed 39:20 that there's no issue here as far as maintaining the abatement status of the company assuming this resolution is approved and then the document is sent 39:28 over in addition to the signed CF1 form um following this meeting. So, um, no major issue there. Just again, 39:36 administrative oversight. As far as the actual CF-1 document is pertaining or is is concerned, um, can review that real quick for you all if you haven't had a 39:44 chance to already. There's a uh, we approved um, this kind of straddle two years. We started this process in late 24, finished it in early 25, but it was 39:51 for a 12- year 100% abatement on the personal property installation at the facility um existing facility in Marian 40:00 to expand operations, add two new lines to support a new client of of Cafe Valleys. Um that was a competitive project. We were able to out uh 40:08 outperform their um headquarters in in Arizona and received that investment. Um the total investment committed at that 40:15 time was $20.3 million as well as the addition of a 100 new employees at an average wage of $19 per hour. So those 40:23 were the stated benefits on the or the stated commitments on the SP1 form. Um they had a deadline of December 31st of 40:31 2028 to complete that investment, add those jobs. So this is kind of we are in a couple of those years where um they'll be receiving the abatement on the 40:39 investment made to date. Um but we'll continue to track and make sure they're tracking towards full completion before that deadline. U but as it stands today 40:48 uh just over 12 months from when their abatement was approved they have completed 30 36% of their employment 40:55 goal. They are at 761 employees at that facility right now. Uh they were at 725 at the outset of the project. Uh and 41:02 their current average employee wage is $20.96 per hour. Um 41:10 And uh overall they again they were set to make a total investment of 20.3 million. They have made a total investment to date of 12 million 41:18 984,624,000 or $624 representative of 64% of the 41:25 total investment to date. So, um, with that, my professional recommendation would be 41:34 that, uh, we find Cafe Valley or CV East LLC to be substantially compliant based on the information provided in their 41:40 2025 CF1 filing and supplemental annual reporting documents. Um, and then we will obviously continue to track to make sure they stay on progress in future 41:48 years. So, happy to pertain or happy to entertain any questions you have on that um, at this time. 41:59 Not seeing any, I'll entertain a motion. 42:02 Mr. President, I move we pass resolution uh 11 2026. Second. 42:09 Have a motion to pass by Councilman Klene and a second by Councilman Kaine. Roll call. Kane. 42:17 I. Reyes. I. For ice. Hi. Brunner. Hi. Klene. Yes. 42:23 Marshall. I Whitten. Yes. Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. 42:29 Mr. President, if I may, while I have the floor here for a minute, um want to make one further comment. Uh this evening before this meeting, we did host 42:36 from 4 to 6:00 p.m. a uh downtown placemaking meeting in partnership with our um consultant locker group that's been working with the redevelopment commission for the past six months to 42:45 develop new concepts around wayfinding, signage, um lighting in the downtown area. Specifically, we had a series of a 42:52 dozen or so poster boards in here as well as consultants to um entertain questions and comments from the public and and ensure that those get 42:59 incorporated into the actual design, but then also into the record for our final document that's going to be produced as part of that project. Um well, we did 43:07 have some participation. We're definitely going to seek more. And so, just want to make you all aware and first off, I want to thank Councilman Fordise and Councilman Whitten for 43:15 attending that and offering their own input. But um want to make sure this council has opportunity forput as well as the rest of the public. So we're going to post those slides in digital 43:23 format on our city site as well as a Google forms doc so that uh folks over the next couple weeks can get on there 43:31 at their own leisure, scroll through those presentations and and offer additional comments. So just wanted to encourage everybody from the council to the public to to make sure their their 43:39 voices are heard on this one. So thank you. Thank you, Joe. 43:45 Okay. Thank you, Joe. Um, on the announcements, um, have one here for kind of for the, uh, 43:53 I'm sure this is probably on the city of Marian's website about the skate park. 43:58 Um, uh, the Marian skate park will provide a safe, positive, and worldclass recreational space for the youth, families, and community. To unlock a 44:07 $50,000 matching grant, we need to raise $50,000 through the community support by July the 31st of 2026. 44:16 Every donation, big or small, helps bring the vision one step closer to the reality. Please help spread the word. 44:23 Together, we can make this project a reality for Marian. 44:27 And um you can get on the city's website and to look it up or you can get on um Patreon. 44:36 city.commarians skatepark to donate if you would like to donate and help bring that uh to Marian 44:44 as well. And then we also have citywide cleanup July the 11th, 2026 for district 44:51 4 will be picked up. Anyone else can drop off the items at 520 East 6th Street. Um, those dropping off will be 45:00 able to drop off two loads between 9 to 2, 9:00 am to 2 pm. 45:07 And also, we have until July the 15th, I believe, is that our deadline for the utilities board? 45:15 Yes, July the 15th at noon is our deadline to submit your applications to be on the 45:23 Marian utility board. Um, that's creeping up quick here. We haven't had any applications so far. So, anybody 45:31 interested in that? We need to do that as well. Does any other council members have uh any announcements? 45:41 No. I'll take a motion to adjurnn. Mr. President, I move we adjourn. Second. 45:48 Have a motion by Councilman Kaine, a second by Councilman Klene. Roll call, please. Kane. I. Reyes. I. Bordey. 45:56 I. Brunner. 45:57 I Klene. Yes. Marshall. Hi. Whitten. Yes. Divine. Yes. Calgill. I. 46:04 Motion. 46:12 straight line, you