City Council - Regular Meeting

Hey, welcome everybody uh to this um common council meeting of uh Anderson this December 11th, 2025. We'll have the imocation by Councilman Graham and the pledge of allegiance by Councilman Freeman. So, if you could stand. Our heavenly father, we thank you for this day and the opportunity to serve our community and the ability to have citizens come whenever they wish. We are thankful for Anderson. We're thankful for this past Thanksgiving where so many organizations help people that were in need. We know that they will do it again for Christmas. We ask these things and thank you in Jesus name.

And amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madame clerk, roll call, please. Councelor Turner, present. Councelor Harless. Councelor Dixon, I'm here. Councelor Freeman, here. Councelor Cole, here. Councelor Landers, here. Council Graham here. Councelor Newman, President Stevenson, I am here. We continue on. Uh minutes to be approved. Uh Mr. President, I'd like to move to approve minutes for the regular meeting of November 13, 2025. Please

second. Councelor Turner, yes. Councelor Dixon, I might abstain. I wasn't here. Councelor Freeman, yes. Councelor Cole, yes. Councelor Landers, yes. Councelor Graham, yes. President Stevenson, yes. Minutes have been approved. Uh on to communications. Mr. Winkler, council, you have in front of you the uh updated activity report and the spreadsheet as far as investments and incentives. Do you have any questions? Questions from council? Excuse me. Questions from audience? Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh moving on under communications is um we need to find a replacement for myself at the uh for the economic development commission. This commission meets 4:30 uh the day of council meetings. 4:30 uh and economic development and really discussing all tax abatements before it comes to this council has to be approved in economic development before it comes here. So anyone wants to make a motion? I make one. I make a motion that we appoint Rachel Landers to that position. Second. Okay. Any other nominees?

Yeah. Um maybe I think John is going to get your job. Is it premature for me to nominate him? Yeah. Think so. Jeff Landers. Jeff. Rachel. No, I got too much. Okay. Any other nominees? Okay. Well, based on consent, um Rachel is now on the economic development commission. Congratulations. Good. Okay. Next, we have the appointments for the redevelopment commission. Right now, uh those are

Yeah, I saw Danny here. Uh Pete Petar and Danny McGee. I did not receive any email notification that anybody else wanted to be part of that redevelopment commission. So I make a nominee that we keep the same. I second that. Okay. So Danny McGee and Pete Betar. Yep. Okay. Danny, do you not say anything? You can if you want though. I take my vote back. too late.

Danny McGee, 1718 West 21st Street. I would like to thank the council uh again for appointing me uh for the job that we've been doing and been trying to do for the last couple of years uh trying to make improvements to the city. So, I'll still continue to move uh things forward uh sitting on the vice president currently. Uh hopefully our elections will be of course next month in January and we'll see how those things go. But um I'm I appreciate every one of you uh accepting the nomination and voting me. Thank you. Doing a great job. Thank you. We appreciate you greatly. Thank you. Uh last communications we have Miss Strickler if you want to come up.

I was trying to be formal. I didn't want to call you Angie. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Any comments? It's really also Miss Kelly. Kelly, sorry.

That's okay. So, Angie Strickler, 2232, Gregory Lane, 46012. So, thank you, President Stevenson's and members of the council for the opportunity to present to you tonight. And I also, oh, never mind. Kelly and I are members of a small grassroots organization called Community Lens of Anderson, where, simply put, we focus on civic engagement and education. Tonight, we would like to talk to you about what we've been seeing and experiencing at the ground level in regards to citizens stepping up, engaging, and desperately wanting to be to participate in a more meaningful way with our elected and appointed officials. Our goal is to impress upon you the importance of such engage engagement and then offer strategies to move forward toward a more a model of participatory governance. CLA has been around since 2021. Our first event was done as a collaboration with other local organizations. Uh we hosted a town hall in which citizens were able to express their concerns, their um needs about the upcoming expenditure of the city of Anderson's COVID relief funds. We had about 80 people attend our town hall and they spoke passionately passionately not only about the needs that they were having in their own family but what they were seeing in the community. We felt we led to host this town hall because of the absence of any other means for citizens to express themselves. Since that time, residents have shown up in many other city meetings, some more welcoming than others. Sometimes they show up to speak about very specific items that affect them directly, such as a alley being vacated or flooding in their neighborhood. Oftentimes, however, citizens are showing up to talk about issues bigger than themselves and that

affect their neighbors in the whole city of Anderson. And I just briefly wanted to go over some of the reasons why we've been showing up over the past five years. As I mentioned before, CO and ARPA funds were one of was the reason why we really started this journey. And I would like to actually give a shout out to President Stevenson and thank you for your um willingness a year ago to kind of open the door to and listening to citizens about where we would have like we'd like to see that remaining $1.2 million go. And because of that, nonprofits were able to receive some additional funds that they so desperately needed. So, thank you for listening. We also showed up to talk about the AU grant that was received from the Anderson Redevelopment Commission. People showed up because we were trying to revitalize an old outdated trash can ordinance. The resolution declaring racism a public health and safety threat. The homeless task force. The food uh desert grocery store. Bingham. We showed up over and over and over again to talk about Bingham. Complete streets, updated comp plan, and now athletic park. These are topics that brought people out of their homes and into public a public meeting to speak out many for the first times in their lives which was the case for me. We have witnessed a civic awakening and CLA is saying that this is just the beginning of what could be happening in Anderson. Thank you, Angie, for um inviting me and thank you council for allowing us this time on the agenda. Um I wanted to just briefly introduce a little bit of the backstory behind CLA. Um because there there is I think a misunderstanding of the purpose and intent for so many of us

in this room who continue to show up to meetings. I'm Kelly Kelly. I live at 46012. Um I'm the founder, but more importantly just a volunteer for uh this grassroots initiative. And I wanted to just tell you that this was really born out of the idea when many of us uh fortunately there were many of us or some of us in this room who were able to sit at home during COVID who hadn't maybe lost a loved one who was not struggling to find food. There were some of us who were able to be at home and kind of collect and reflect and um think about what it was going to be like for Anderson to recover once uh we were through the pandemic. And so during this time I was able to work from home, focus on a few things about how I wanted to contribute to the recovery of Anderson. I had worked at in public health for 25 years and it was natural for me to try to plug in where I could. But what I found was that during that time as a citizen, not as a public servant at that time, but as a citizen, there were very few avenues where questions and my voice could be included in that recovery. I began to think if I can't find avenues to engage my local government in a meaningful way, then it's likely many other Anderson residents couldn't either. So I begin to ask what our Anderson government was like on its best days not dealing with a pandemic and how I can learn about more about its process about how government works. And so I really committed myself and as I did that others came alongside me organically and there's many of those in the room tonight. I want to highlight a couple of our um key leadership. Uh Cherylyn Horning is here tonight. We have Annie Wood Bell in the room. We have Candy Short, uh myself and Angie included,

uh FA Dansby Barber, uh and if there's any other key folks I'm thinking about, please let me know.

Maria Alexander. Um in addition to that, we have a lot of individuals that come alongside us for different events and different engagements. Um but what I wanted to tell you lastly in in my segment here um at least in this portion is that um contrary to the folklore around Anderson citizens which we hear often in meetings that people don't show up because they don't care or maybe they're uninformed or they don't know how to participate with civility. Uh it couldn't be more opposite than that. Uh what we have learned in the last five years is that citizen participation in Anderson government is not the standard and has therefore been framed as intrusive, critical, and disruptive for decades. As a result, Anderson citizens have been lulled into the belief that they have no place in the local decision-making process. And this has led to confusion, frustration, and distrust. We hope that we are beginning to fill that void by modeling and promoting what it should look like. As a result, residents are attending commission meetings in greater numbers, taking notes, sharing summaries with others, hosting town halls, even debriefing the state of the city address. We're even sharing information online, trying to put uh documents together that make sense rather than how they're distributed in some meetings. and we're also coaching individuals on how to come to meetings like this. Um, all of this reflects a truth that Anderson citizens want to be heard and understood and be part of the decision-making process.

Oh, I guess I have more. Sorry about that. We took this very seriously and we we've spoken at a lot of meetings, but we wanted these words to be meaningful. So, we appreciate your patience with us. Um, so why this matters, uh, when we hear the word community engagement, it seems like a continued phrase that that loses meaning because it's said so often, but there's a lot of research that says good governance really includes community involvement. Um, a couple of things that it's rooted in and I'm hopeful that this council will adopt um, these core values. It includes its inclusion. People affected by a decision have the right to be involved in shaping it from the very beginning. Uh influence, we hope that you appreciate influence from the public because we genuinely want to inform you and have an impact on your final decision. Uh also involvement supports sustainability. So any decisions that you make are going to be stronger and more durable over time. Accessibility. We hope that you want to aspire to a government that should actively seek out and welcome everyone who shows up. We want to be involved in co-creation and tell you when we can show up, what times are good, and in what format, and have you listen and maybe adopt a couple of those options. Transparency and information. We want clear information in a timely manner and we're hopeful that when you have to make decisions about money that you get information from the other commissions in a timely manner. That's only good governance. And then finally the accountability piece. How do we know that we're doing well? Um what are the measurements and how can we see them?

Excuse me. Uh finally I just want to say that strong community engagement is the foundation of good governance. So CLA likes to ground its work in research and looking to other communities for best practices. And we also fully acknowledge that there's no one-sizefits-all that's going to work for every city. Our research has revealed a set of strategies which we are proposing being implemented to increase citizen participation with elected and appointed officials. So the first strategy would be lowering the barrier to participation. what efforts can be made to ensure that citizens who wish to be engaged can participate in the process. So this would look like having mobile meetings so that all meetings aren't here at city hall but perhaps maybe sometimes and I don't I'm not talking about formal city council meetings but just information or um question and answer sessions that are maybe in a local neighborhood or in your district. offering hybrid formats or weekend meetings and utilizing online portals and surveys. Of course, those also would have to ensure accessibility for all languages that we do have here um in our city. Using plain and transparent language, which means defining acronyms and staying away from jargon that nobody understands except for if if you work in that particular field. using lots of visuals, breaking down complicated presentations into digestible bits and pieces and offering education sessions to citizens so that they're not learning about what tiff is or what a bond is or what um an abatement is by coming to a meeting. They have that information ahead of time and giving lots of updates on projects. Some sort of dashboard, for example, would have been great to have on this

the grocery store project because it has taken such a long period of time. This would have gone a long way in decreasing the amount of negativity that's and comments from the from citizens who feel like this is just never going to be something that's moved forward. But if there were some sort of progress update and reasons for why we are seeing delays, that would that would go a long way to keeping the um the citizens informed and staying positive about the project. Creating a formal structure of participation. And what this would look like is creating community advisory boards, which of course would need to be diverse in res representing the diversity of Anderson, or having something called what we heard and what we did, which would be this the city, the administration responding to something that they some citizen gave some input and this is what we did about that and reporting out about that. Again, it's about building trust and relationships and then making participation welcoming. As I mentioned before, there are some meetings that are not very welcoming to citizens. You we could work on using language that encourages engagement. Work with trusted partners in the community to help facilitate public discussions that might be a little bit contentious on certain topics. Hearing all this laid out might sound overwhelming or like it's going to slow down progress on any of the projects that are taking place. However, the trust built with citizens is will actually lead to a smoother, smarter communitybacked progress. And without going into too much detail, I just want to give examples of what other communities in Indiana are doing. So just well I guess it'd be up the road at in Marian they are hosting open invitations or they are asking or there's an open

invitation to discuss certain city decisions. So I guess they're going to make a one-way street a two-way street or vice versa. And so there was a call out on Facebook. Hey let's sit down and talk about this. They also have traveling town halls allowing citizens to ask questions and do data drives in order to gather information from online surveys. Evansville post all upcoming sitting meetings every week on Facebook, which is really quite lowhanging fruit. That's a pretty simple way to just get it out there every week what what the citizens can expect um from their their government to be doing. They have a park chat where city council members or other elected officials meet with citizens in the park. They set, they chat, they walk, I don't know, maybe they swing, who knows? But it's a less formal and less intimidating environment um on a way to engage. Evansville also has traveling city halls and they make announcements on their Facebook page when there are board or commission vacancies encouraging a citizens to apply. And who knows that may have worked and getting more people interested in the redevelopment commission vacancies for tonight. I'm I'm not sure. Bloomington does weekly or more frequent video updates, traveling town halls, Cocoa cookies and conversations, which I would might almost drive down there for that. They also they do traveling office hours and I love this, the city council hosted a discussion on housing. So participatory governance is happening all around us. Cities that invest upfront in engagement see stronger outcomes and fewer conflicts. The city of Anderson, we are ready to be in such company as that.

As as we wrap up, I just want to share what we collectively thought would be a reasonable call to action for the council. Uh, as we close, we want to speak both to the council and citizens who are here tonight or who may be listening in an effort to really forge a true partnership. Um, to the council and all city commissions, we ask that you make public comments a standing agenda item. We ask to have you only vote on major city projects when all voting members have received adequate and timely information and you are aware that community input has been made available. We also ask that you consider piloting at least one of the new engagement ideas that Angie's brought forth this evening uh within the next 90 days. could be just trying a neighborhood listening session, going online for some input surveys, do the what we heard, what we did kind of summary. Um, and then to the residents who might be here or listening, keep showing up, keep learning, keep asking questions, keep participating in surveys and forums and any opportunity that's afforded you. Your voice is part of what makes this city really strong. Uh and finally to all of us, we want Anderson to thrive and we want progress that feels fair, transparent, and communitydriven. We believe public participation in government can provide a defining strength of our city and we stand ready to be alongside you in doing that. Thank you for your time this evening.

Thank you. Thank you ladies. And President Stevenson, thank you for your service over the years. Um good luck to you in the future. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. And before we go into introduction of ordinances, we're going to move uh resolution 1725 and 1825. We're going to read those first and then we'll circle back around to the um introduction of ordinances. So, Mr. Winkler, no, we need to introduce it. Right. Uh Mr. President, I move for the introduction of resolution 1725.

Second. Resolution 1725, a final confirmatory resolution designating an economic revitalization area for fit real notice was published in the Herald Bulletin under HB846 on November 29th, 2025. Okay, Mr. Winkler.

So, we're required to go ahead and open a public hearing in order to make it official. And just to give you a brief synopsis, uh FIT, which is uh located on Rabel Avenue in the former guide parking lot, uh has been in operation now for several months, had their grand opening a couple months ago, and they are in the process of getting ready to expand that facility. Uh they're going to be adding 80,000 square feet of warehousing space uh because the business is growing and they're estimating that that's going to be about 8.2 million in investment and uh approximately 31 jobs. Um the average hourly wage for those jobs is 2171 an hour. So that's a $45,000 a year job. And I have Alio here uh who's the plant manager to uh share information and and more importantly answer any questions that you have or any questions that the public have. So I'll ask Alio to go ahead and introduce himself and uh try to answer your questions.

Hello everybody. My name is Emilio Padwam. I am the vice president of operation of FIT US. Uh FIT US opened uh last year exactly in November of last year. Uh we start with uh few employee now we have more than 50 employee. We produce garden hoses for for who does not know what we do we produce garden hoses. We are uh the first supplier for the home depot. If you go to a home depot store you will find our hoses branded gorilla. Now we are present in menard stores with our own brand and in Walmart store and also in the online market. uh just because uh we have found here in Anderson a very strong educated and qualified workforce, we were able to push our production more than what we expected. The market receipt our our product in a very very good way and just because of this uh we we need more space uh for warehousing. You know our market is a seasonal market. We have good sales, huge sales between uh January and March and then we have refill during the spring season and so we have to be prepared for the market. Actually we have a warehouse in Chicago because when we open six years ago we open only a commercial office and we we set up an external warehouse in Chicago and now the idea is uh to move all internally here in Anderson. So from a point of uh of view we take some business from Illinois we bring here in Indiana and that is good and uh on the other side um we need this space for our growing uh

just yesterday we receive another uh huge increase order from so next next year we will deliver to port around 2 million pieces of garden hoses then We have also the other customers. Uh this is important because when you we got to these uh big stores, you will find made in US and you know that are made here in Anderson. And uh as as Greg said um this was not planned at the beginning because uh uh we we we expected to be self-sufficient with the first investment but we needed to grow and uh is totally inefficient for us to deliver product to Chicago to be delivered to other customers. This will be have an impact also on local transportation company because now we use Chicago based and we will use Indiana based and uh obviously also for the workforce because we are hiring people. Most of our people are coming from Anderson area. We have someone from Delaware County. Most are from the Anderson area. And as Greg said, the paid is a is a very good pay in term of um um amount, but also in term of benefit because we offer other benefit uh above the standards in the market.

Great. Great question. You guys have any questions?

Yeah, I do. I was out there for your grand opening and well I I lived in that district for best part of my life and um I hope I can see more diversity than what I saw out there. I seen approximately from the local community maybe a dozen people and there were only two black people African-Americans and I believe they was janers. Now uh uh these people I just spoke of they need jobs too. So are you going to improve on diversity as you was committed to I believe when the person spoke up

here previously. So those peoples out there need jobs too.

So uh let me answer that we are an international company. We have uh more than 1,000 employee worldwide. We are present in Italy in in Spain in Poland. We open here in the US. We are opening next year in China for the far east market. Uh if you go in the website of fit h you will see that fit is a bcertified corporation. FIT uh is a a company that um employ in all the world. So uh let me say that I will take care personally of this uh uh requirement with our HR department and uh don't worry that we will uh we will uh uh take care of it.

I hope so. I could care less about what go on in China or some other I'm concerned about the local people right here.

Yeah. Just about the local people here. Yes. 100% we will take care. Any other questions from council? Okay. Questions from the audience? Um, yes. Thank you for uh the presentation. I So, if I'm understanding tonight's resolution is to do what? Is this part of an expansion that's already on the document um that was submitted today or is this a commitment for additional incentives that are part of the 2026 spending plan?

No. So, this this is a request for an abatement, a six-year 70% abatement, and that abatement will be applied only to the new construction. So, only to the 80,000 foot warehouse. Uh, at this point, the county assessor has yet to assess the existing property. So, I can't tell you exactly what this abatement is going to do as far as savings for the company. It will save them some, but uh, this investment that they're making, the $8 million investment that they're making on top of the $22 million, $23 million investment that's already in the ground, will dilute the value of the abatement to some degree. So I I can't give you a specific number, but the abatement applies only to the new construction, only to the 80,000 square foot warehouse. It does not apply to the rest of the existing uh facility.

Agreed. Does that answer your question? Yeah. And then as I look at this, it says the total incentives that are going to be committed to fit is to be determined. Is that kind of what you're trying to explain?

Yeah. So, we don't have any way of calculating what the dollar value is going to be because the the existing property that this is being added to has yet to be assessed. Uh, so that's why it's to to be determined. And as you will recall, for the original project, uh, they received a a $2 million tax increment financing bond, which they have yet to receive because we're going through the final process of that. um that would apply to the building as it currently exists. So, what's there now is covered by that. This simply uh takes a little bit of the tax burden off of the expanded project, the 80,000 square feet that they'll be adding.

Yes. Did you say a six-year? Yes. And six year 70%. 70%. How does it descent in terms of it doesn't it's it's it's locked in at 70% for the six years. And the reason we do it that way is because this is an expansion. So in order to have any impact on on the additional property, we have to get above 60% for it to even register. Otherwise, it gets washed out because it's an expansion which dilutes the value of the abatement. So it's 70% all six years. All six years. Yes, Councilwoman. Yep.

Any other questions from audience before I close the public meeting? I just Mr. President. Yep. Um, I just want to say I was at your open house also saw Ollie and several folks and um, I worked a few years in the local Delorei plants back way back and I want to compliment you on the the cleanliness, the um, uh, the controlled lighting in energy savings and uh, it was really to me it gave me a good feeling uh, that you were you were coming and you're a modern company and I saw I saw your workforce and Ollie did Ollie makes some good points. They're young people.

Yeah. And that's the future of Anderson and I just think we all ought to be thrilled to death that you're here. Thank you. I'm going to close the public meeting now. So, if there's any other comments from council or the audience, speak now. Now, Greg, uh don't you put all and General Motors down. I was president of UAWW663 and Guide Lamp. I kept it clean. Okay. Single-handedly. Absolutely. Okay. Call for the question. Call for the question. Okay. Question's been called. Councelor Turner. Yes. Councelor Dixon, yes. Councelor Freeman, yes. Councelor Cole, yes.

Councelor Landers, yes. Councelor Graham, yes. President Stevenson, yes. Resolution 17-25 has passed. Thank you. Next, Mr. President, I'd like to bring before the council resolution 1825, please. Second. Resolution 1825, a final confirmatory resolution designating economic revitalization area for doublem Properties. Legal notice was published in the Herald bulletin under HB 847 November 29th 2020 five almost six close almost not there yet.

Okay. So we need to go ahead and open the the public hearing for this particular request. Doublem Properties is the unified group services. Uh Rich is here tonight to answer questions about this expansion. So, they have a facility, as as I'm sure most of you are aware, located on uh East 67th Street. Um, and as you'll recall, we had to go through an annexation process to pull in the expanded area uh that will become their parking lot because they're going to be building this particular expansion office space on what is now their parking lot. Uh, we went through that process uh several months ago. Um, so again, this is a 4 million estimated $4.1 million expansion. It is office space. Um, and it will enable them to hire an additional 115 people. Uh, their annual salary is $44,990 is is what these jobs are are valued at. So that'sund 130 or 115 of those jobs. And I'll let Rich come now and answer any questions you might have regarding this, the type of work they do, uh, the type of jobs they are and the payroll associated with it. Please

Rich Mushi, president Unified Group.

Yeah, as Greg said, uh, addition will ultimately allows 115 people. Uh, for the first time, we'll build two stories. Uh, and first story will be completed. the whole shell will be put in place, but we'll be finishing the secondh story as we hopefully continue to grow into it. So, it's a two-story uh operation and we added on during CO uh and uh have filled that up. So, this gets us in a position to continue to add jobs at the local level. Our business is obviously managing self-insured healthc care claims. Uh we've expanded into Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, and we're expanding our offering. But I can't emphasize it enough. A lot of our competitors are allowing people to work at home. Uh ours is done right there in our office space. And it's really helped us grow from a culture and a team perspective. So uh uh it's great working with the city to have this opportunity to continue to have jobs right right here in Anderson.

Thank you. What time jobs? Pardon? What type jobs? Mainly mainly office jobs processing claims. We have a considerable computer staff uh on site there uh all done there and then you got the support team uh uh in office uh type setting. How many people are you anticipating hiring? 115. This will allow us additional we're Yes, we're 190 now and you're going to hire 15 115 more. 30 years ago next month I will have been me and one lady and now we're 190. So you're looking in 300 people. Yeah. Be over 300 people right right there.

It will be diverse hiring as well. Oh, absolutely. We're looking for local talent. Uh whatever their the skills that have beat the job and uh have them come in on a diverse basis. Yes. I can come out and get a job and I won't have to be n Lance for a job. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. You process claims. You process claims. Yeah. You you fired Lance. Good. I'm fine with that. Any other questions from council? Any questions from the audience before I close the uh public hearing? Okay, public hearing is now closed. So, any other comment from council or the audience?

Call for questions. Okay, questions been called. Councelor Turner, yes. Councelor Dixon, yes. Councelor Freeman, yes. Councelor Cole, yes. Councelor Landers, yes. Councelor Graham, yes. President Steven, yes. Resolution 18-25 has passed. Thank you, council. Thank you. Now, back to the introduction. Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to introduce ordinance 23-25 for its third and final reading.

Second. Ordinance 23-25, an ordinance amending ordinance number 1141, Ordinance number 2439, and ordinance number 39-63 of the city of Anderson, Madison County, Indiana, with respect to a change in the zone map as to certain real estate within the city of Anderson as here in particularly described. Hey, Micah. Hey, how are you doing?

Good. So, um, this is a third reading on a zone map change in the 2400 block of Delaware Street. Two residences that were formerly 2444 and 2448. That's uh Mr. Alexander wanted to combine those, build a a new housing units there, but he needs to in order to put more than two units in it, it needs to be reszoned from R3 to R4. We did something very similar with the uh property right there. and uh he's developing that. So, this is just to change it from uh to allow him to put a more than two units in. So, Mr. Alexander's here if you have any questions for him. Other than that, I'll keep it short and sweet.

Yep. How many units did you put? Four at four units. Same as he put four single units and same as he put a corner from that council. Do you guys have any further questions for Mike or Mr. Alexander? Any questions from the audience? Call for the question. Question's been called. Councelor Turner, yes. Councelor Dixon, yes. Councelor Freeman, yes. Councelor Cole, yes. Councelor Landers, yes. Councelor Graham, yes. President Stevenson, yes. Ordinance 23-25 is passed as third and final reading. Awaits the signature of the mayor and the president.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Sir move for introduction of resolution 16-25. Second resolution 1625, a resolution authorizing the transfer of funds between certain accounts within the same appropriations in the appropriation zero for the general fund police. Mr.

Good evening, uh, council president Stevenson, council members, uh, members of the public. Yes, city controller Doug Whitam. This is um a transfer very similar to what we've done in the past. Um we have we're down close to the end of the year. We have some leftover money in the insurance budget uh for employees within the police department uh personal services area. We would like to move that to um light vehicles, a capital area uh so that the police department can upgrade their trucks that they use for animal control. Um so we request your approval of this transfer.

Council, do you have any questions for Mr. Whit? I'm Would you minding you don't mind? Oh, I'm sorry. $200,000. And you're you're talking about three vehicles. Is that Did I hear right or that may be I'm I'm not exactly sure the number the police intend uh to purchase. Okay. Any other questions from council? Any questions from the audience? Questions been called. Councelor Turner. Yes. Councelor Dixon. Yes. Councelor Freeman. Yes. Councelor Cole. Yes. Councelor Landers. Yes. Councelor Graham. Yes. President Stevenson. Yes. Resolution 16-25 is passed. Wait, I don't want to leave yet. Ollie, thank you. Thank you. We

got one more thing. And thank you very much. Be here. You'll be in tomorrow. Thank you. Yeah. Where? Right here. Right here. Right here. Right now. Um, as you guys know, today is Lance's last day as president, but also on the council. Um, I've been serving with him. We came on at the exact same time, and it has been an honor to serve with him. um Republican, Democrat, it didn't matter here. Um we worked together super well and I just have greatly appreciated sitting side by side uh being his vice president. I think this is the first time we had a Democrat and a Republican vice president and so um it has been an honor. We like communicated well. Um anyway,

they got him. You got you got two plaques. So you're very very very special. No, no, that's not why. Um, so you got this one for being president and then this is um this is heavy. Uh, for your dedicated me. Oh no, I thought Ollie might want to uh dedicated years of service to the Anderson City Council 2016 to 2025.

All I hear is that you're a quitter. So, yeah, for those who don't know, I'm I had a lot of life things happen um in the last couple years. My son's in Korea. I have a granddaughter that's two months old in Colorado. My oldest son just moved to Greenwood. So, we've got a lot of life stuff going on. So, we are selling our house. We're moving out of district. That's that's the law. I can't uh I can't serve up here and not be in District 5. So, that's really the main reason uh I'm going to miss it. It's been 10 crazy years, but um man, it's been fun. I mean, some of the

I go back to what Angie said, having a meeting at 6:00 on New Year's Eve and we should all be celebrating and this place was packed and every single council member was here. That was awesome. So, um thank you guys all. I wish you the best of luck. My phone, I won't change the number except for you. But which one were you looking at? I'm calling I'm I'm coming over to that rich place over there and I can see you. Okay.

But no, my phone. I will have the same email. I don't use the city email. I use Gmail. Feel free to contact me. I think I've always been transparent. I try to answer every email, every call, every text uh the best I can. Um you know, I work in Indie. My wife works in Noblesville. So, it's just time for us to, you know, make that change. So, but I appreciate all of you guys. So, thank you. All right. Make a motion to adjurnn. I make a motion that we adjourn. All right. Second. Second.