Town Council - Regular Meeting

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I am going to handle it. I may be having some issues with my microphone, so bear with me here. Yeah, I'm going to walk you guys all through this topic. I had kind of given you guys a heads up. This is kind of the start of the 2027 budget. I've already met with the department heads and we've started internal conversations. So this is kind of our first external conversation and conversation with the town council. So I'm going to inundate you with a lot of information. I don't expect you to get it all today. Just remember, this is kind of the start of the process. And so the first thing I'm gonna start with is you have a giant packet in front of you, which is this year's sustainability analysis. And so just as a reminder, this document is the driver for how we do our budget. And so we don't just look at what is, what we can afford this year, we're looking at it for the next three years in addition to this year. So that we're making sure that we're passing a budget that's not only within our revenue, but it's also sustainable for us into the future years. This is, I know, I don't expect you guys to look through it. Greg will be here to talk about it and go through some of the highlights with you at the August 13th meeting, which we'll talk about when we get to the budget calendar. But I want you guys to have a copy, because this gives you at least a month. Those of you who really want to dig in and see what the town's finances really look like, it's all in here. This shows all of our actual expenses, all of our future expenses. It has growth rates, everything you could probably ever want to know and more that you don't want to know is all in that document. So you guys are welcome to go through it. And if you have questions, let me know. But again, Greg will be here to speak about it as well. I did want to go through a couple of things you guys will notice on page four of the sustainability analysis. Greg and Financial Solutions Group gives kind of a list of recommendations and they also kind of give a list of important things. Certainly they talk about that the town budget is in really good health and our fund balances and our management of our financial situation is really good. I'll point out a couple quick things. Our cost of debt since 2012 was 4.34%. In 2025, we were 3.115%. They did recommend – I know we've been working to increase the rainy day fund. Our current balance is $1,539,888, and they recommended that we work towards a $2 million fund balance, and they recommended that we try to transfer $300,000 to the rainy day fund this year. which is a little bit more than what we've done in the past. But as we get into some of the 2026 stuff, I'll talk about that. And I think that's doable for us probably. Again, we'll kind of see how the year progresses. But again, I think that's probably something we can do. And then they also talked about that our assessed value has increased for 10 years in a row now. So as you guys know, assessed value is the driver of our budget and what we're going to get in revenue. And so even you remember from last year's budget process, there was a concern that our assessed value because of SEA 1 was actually going to go down and it still grew 5.7%. So again, we'll see, we're supposed to get assessed values around August 1st. So probably when Greg talks to you, we'll also know where we're at with assessed value. But again, in the general part, we're in pretty good health. The one other thing I'll point out, now we all, I'll say this in front of Greg, so I'm not gonna say anything that I don't say. Greg's pretty conservative in his approach to the budget, but he did make a comment to be, this is to you guys, so that's why I feel like I should share it with you. And as fiscal members, to have caution, on salary increases and new positions so i share that with you i think you guys all know that anyway you you've heard it from greg before you've heard it from me as well so um just wanted to share those few things with you and again you guys can look over that further That's all I've got on the sustainability analysis for now. The next thing I was gonna talk about is the CIP update and review. This kind of is also one of our drivers in when we actually go to do the budget. I know you guys have all participated in this. This is an updated version based on what we're doing. Again, I wanna walk through this document. I don't intend to spend the whole night going through this. More so we will use this as our guide as we start developing the budget. So the capital improvement things that are planned for 2027 is what we will attempt to put in the budget. And then normally we make a note and say, hey, if we're off base or you guys wanna spend money somewhere else, let us know. A quick just reminder of this, anything in blue is something that I changed, so I've tried to make it easy. Anything in green is something that you guys have already approved and it's already in motion. And so everything that you'll notice is green in the 2026 column, those are all things that are already in motion, projects we're already doing that we expect to complete in 2026. There are some others that we'll even talk about later tonight at this work session that we'd like to put in motion, but we want some guidance from the council on. And again, the priority was the average of your guys' guidance. So if you recall, you guys all rated these. I consolidated all your ratings and prioritized the projects. And so the green in the priority section is the top third of your guys' priorities. If it's just in white, that means it was in the middle third. And if it was in red, it was in the bottom third. And so you should notice that as you're looking at the spreadsheet, as you go down the lower priority, the projects are pushed out further, meaning, hey, if we have money in the future, yeah, we'd like to do those, but they may not be in motion right now. A couple things, we did add a few new things, so I maybe just wanted to point those out a little bit. We've had some conversations in the building and other. We had town hall renovation and repurpose. We will continue to have some discussion on that going forward here in the future. I think that's actually the only new one in the building and other, there were a couple of new things in park, additional parking, paved the parking lot, sidewalk connection to the township, which again, we'll talk about a little later on in the work session. We need to purchase new park land. And this is kind of just a reminder too that Our recreation impact fee, we have to keep adding park property. That's part of our collection of the RIF fees. We need to continue adding acreage. And so again, that's kind of a placeholder. There are a couple we'll talk about tonight as options that may or may not be good. And then Tiffany presented to you guys earlier this year on the park and trail safety plan. And so we did do the first phase of that, but we expect for there to be some phases of that to continue into the future. So we've added that. We didn't have a lot of new projects on the road projects one, but there were a couple. So I'll point them out. Thank you. There's a blank about halfway down, Ronald Reagan, right turn lane in Accel Decel at IU West. That's a project, Steve, it was actually on our capital improvement plan a few years ago. We slightly modified it. We also think we may want to revisit the County Road 100 North corridor. We had done a east-west corridor study actually probably almost 10 years ago. It didn't recommend widening. It recommended some pedestrian improvements and some other minor improvements. But being that it's been a good period of time, we think that we may be approaching that time as Dan Jones starts wrapping up that we look at 100 North again. So we have some corridor analysis and potentially some minor projects. The other one then that's new for you guys is the last one on the list there. I know it's under road projects, but it's a public works issue. You guys will recall last year the law changed on who's responsible for culverts, and they shifted the responsibility for all culverts under 20 feet to the town. And so anything bigger than that is considered a bridge and bridges are the responsibility of the County. So we've inherited like 90 culverts. And so we're gonna do an analysis on those culverts, but our expectation is just like everything else, we're gonna have some culverts that are bad that we need to start putting into the planning motion and to start doing some work and kind of creating our capital improvement plan within that culvert replacement process. So we think next year we may be able to pick off a few smaller ones and then maybe do some analysis and start developing a plan. But then going forward, we think every year we'll have to start planning for that. Now, that is something we can use our stormwater utility money for. So It doesn't necessarily mean we have to find a place or we have to reduce other road maintenance, but it's a conversation we need to start having and we need to start discussing with the Stormwater Board. And then the final part is just projects that we've completed. And so you'll see obviously we've completed quite a few projects. I try to keep these where it's just what we did in the last year and then I'm kind of dropping them off just so you can see what we're accomplishing as well. And we've talked about this before that we knew we had a couple of really big capital improvement years. We did some bonds for parks improvements. We did some bonds for road work. Obviously, we did the Civic Center bonds, and so we do expect ourselves to have a lull. So if you look at the very end, you'll notice that we were $19 million in 2026. We're somewhere in the $9 to $10 million range probably in 2027, and we're kind of in the $11 to $12 million range in 2028. You'll notice again, a lot is just pushed back. So there is $51 million looming in 2030. It doesn't mean that that'll stay there. It may continue to move out or some may pull up, but there's still plenty of future projects out there that need done. But again, we've expensed a lot on doing some bonds and things for other big projects. So we will probably be in that nine to $10 million range for the next couple of years. That was the summary. Do you guys have any particular questions? Again, you guys can look this over if you have questions or think they should be prioritized different. I didn't think, there wasn't enough of a change yet for us to reprioritize them. So I wasn't gonna ask you guys to reprioritize them unless you guys want to do that. But that is a process if we wanna go through it again, we could do that. I don't know if it would change much though. So I don't know if that's a good use of anyone's time.

On the culverts, are they, you know, how bridges are rated? Culverts, how many bad ones do we got of the 90? Any guess?

We don't know. So the county gave us what they had done, but their inspections, the last one they did was 2018. So that's what we don't have a lot of confidence in the county's rating, which that's why I think Steve and I discussed it and we thought we should re-rate them and make sure that we get a better understanding of what all of their condition is versus going off what the county gave us.

Sure. It's just a large number that all of a sudden for us to inherit that, that it's like, ooh.

And I don't know what the legislative thinking of it was on why they decided to shift that to locals. I don't know what the thought process was behind that. Is it 90? Was that the right number? Is it around 90 culverts? I was thinking it was around there somewhere. So yeah, that's something we need to wrap our arms around and get a better feel for, but that's certainly something we'll have to talk about going forward.

Thanks.

If there's nothing else on CIP, then I will move to the 2027 budget calendar. I kind of give this to you guys every year. Julie and I kind of sit down and go through this. We also share with Financial Solutions Group to make sure we're compliant and we're meeting everything for the DLGF. Again, I'm not going to go in great detail on these. A lot of these aren't that relevant to you. I'm just going to mention some of the ones that are important. Obviously, staff did start working on Form 1s around June 1st. We call it Budget Day here at the Town of Avon. It's a real happy day. On July 28th, Greg comes and spends the whole day with Julie and I, and the police department normally pops over as well, and we spend the whole day just working on budget. We're doing that on July 28th. then that's kind of when we develop our budget estimates. We share those then with the department heads to start doing that. Department heads have to have first drafts done by August 7th. We do have to do this temporary budget in the Gateway by August 10th. We are doing a meeting with our DLGF rep on August 10th as well. If any of you are interested, that's very riveting as well, right Julie? Then August 13th will be the next time. Greg will come on August 13th. He'll probably talk about the sustainability during the work session. And then normally he'll go over his recommendation for the budget estimates by fund and how he got to that on the August 13th meeting. Then on August 27th, we will present the general fund. So staff, department heads will present the general fund presentation. So basically then all of August and all of September is budget. We do non-general offend budget presentation on September 10th. We'd also do, we are expecting that we'll have a excess levy appeal for annexation. So we'll probably ask you guys to pass a resolution at that September 10th meeting to do that. That's one of the things Greg continues to recommend we do when we're doing annexations. Then on September 24th, we would do our public hearing and any additional town council discussion that you guys want. And then October 8th would be the council meeting where we would adopt the budget. Just as a reminder then, the ones that are in bold and underlined, those are the statutory deadlines. So we try to stay ahead of the statutory deadline. So you'll notice our entire budget process normally gets done even before the statutory deadlines. Julie insists on this, rightly so, to make sure we don't get ourselves in a situation where we can't get our budget adopted in a timely manner. It basically gives us one meeting. If everything slips back one meeting, then we're still fine, but we couldn't slip any further than that. And again, we'd prefer to do the budget adoption on October 8th. So I'm happy to answer any questions on that. Unless you guys have revisions, that's what I will disseminate to all my staff and what Julie and I will work on as we go forward.

Seeing no question. I just got, you know, this is my first time back on this, so I'm wondering, does the staff go through and review and really fine tune it and then they present it back to the council? That's how we're gonna be doing it? Yes.

Yeah, and really the last few years, if you guys want to meet individually with department heads or with me to go through stuff more in detail, we've actually gone a little bit higher level, 10,000 feet and just said, pretty much everything's the same, but here are the things that have changed. so that you guys can focus on things that are different versus things that we're already doing. Now, certainly if you guys have concerns about if we can be more efficient about something or if there's certain things, we can have those discussions as well, but we've tried to focus on that, the higher level. Here are changes. This is what's different from last year's budget. Okay.

And your spreadsheet shows the priorities, so that'll help me to at least understand that.

So thanks. Exactly. Nothing else on the calendar. I'll just keep moving. The 2026 LIT. I feel like this is important. I feel like sometimes we kind of forget to talk about this. But the last three years, we have gotten a special distribution of LIT. We have all three years, we've just added it to our fund balance. We've not spent it. And so... I just kind of wanted to remind you guys of that. So this year we got 517,000 as our special distribution of LIT in just the general fund. We got $35,000 in the public safety LIT and we got 167,000 in the edit. And so those are funds that are not anticipated. So remember the way the state does it, they collect all the lit and they hold it for like two years and then they do an analysis and they say, oh yeah, we owed you money. Now you're gonna get a special distribution. So we've gotten those and they've added up to at least a million and a half, maybe $2 million over the last three years. And so I share that because you guys will remember as we talk about the 2026 budget and even the 2027 budget, our fund balance keeps going up. Well, when we keep putting the special distribution in there and not spending it, that's also causing it to go up. So what I wanted to make you guys aware of it, but it also becomes relevant in our discussion about how our fund balance is growing and how that looks to the public as well. So. Sorry, I was like, I thought someone was going to say something.

I always look at the police when you say we've got to spend money.

I'm not saying we've got to spend money, but again, when we talk about why is our fund balance growing, some of these things are the reasons why. And again, we could choose to spend them, or you could decide there's a really good project you want to fund, and you could say we're going to use that money to support that project, however you guys want to do it. That's that's what that special distribution is for and it would be money that would go into the general fund in general But you know you guys can use the general fund for whatever you want to use it for Any questions on lit special distribution All right next one fun topic must meeting with the county I had shared this with you guys before the town managers worked together and drafted an email to the County Council and The must is a discussion about the lit that will come along, presumably in 2029. So we're starting to have discussions about something that could happen in 2029. I know Don and I have met with some legislators, and there is discussion that that may even get pushed out to 2030 or even further. So some of these discussions about... the LIT, and again, this is the LIT that the town would create. So remember, they said you can go to $2.80 and locally we can go to $1.20. And that analysis is in your comprehensive financial plan. For us to replace what we will lose, we would have to pass a $0.38 LIT of the $1.20. But the discussions can be different for different communities. Plainfield is going to advocate. Yeah, Plainfield and maybe even Danville and some other entities may advocate for opting into a county rate. So you'll notice the first two pages is the letter that the town manager sent. The next letter is a letter that Julie got back yesterday, right, Julie? July 6th. from the County, which is a little concerning in a couple of ways. One, they didn't, I know I talked to a couple of my other town managers and we were frustrated. They didn't even respond to our letter. They sent a letter to all the clerk treasurers. And so we were a little frustrated that they took that path. They didn't even respond to our letter, which is fine. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's a little strange. And then the piece I really want to point out to you is the next two pages after their letter, which they provided a list of 12 things that they wanted us to provide. Now they sent this letter on the 21st without asking anybody. And then they asked for this information five days before the meeting, which means by next Thursday, we'd have to compile all this information to provide to the County. Which again, I've discussed with some of my fellow town managers One, this seems a little premature. They're asking for all kinds of financial information from us, which I don't know is any of their business. I mean, some of it's on the gateway and they can go find. Like, I'm not sure why they're asking us to do some of this. But it's also under the assumption that we're going to ask for them to pass a rate, which from Avon's perspective, if we're not going to ask them to pass a rate for us and we're going to choose to pass our own rate, I don't feel obligated. That's a lot of effort for our financial advisors, Julie and I, to try to compile all this information to provide to them, especially for their first meeting. So I don't really know what's going on. Again, I'm a little disappointed the county didn't communicate to us differently about that, on how they're going to approach it. But I wanted to share with you guys, I know that the other towns are talking about sending a council member and their town managers. They don't necessarily want to inundate them, but technically the letter doesn't even invite anybody other than the clerk treasurers. And the clerk treasurers don't get to vote. No offense to Julie, but she doesn't get to vote whether there's a lit or not, so I don't know why they would invite the clerk treasurers to go to the meeting and decide, have a conversation about whether communities should have a lit or not, or how we are going to approach it from a county standpoint. It's not a Clerk-Treasurer issue. Again, I get that's what the legislation said, the people who are on the committee, but that's also, the legislation doesn't make sense. Why would you have the Clerk-Treasurer be on the committee who doesn't even get to make the decision about whether you're going to pass a lit or not? And I don't know if in Julie's circle, if the Clerk-Treasurers are talking about that or not, but if it was me, I probably would be having that discussion. But again, I can't speak for Julie.

Well, I mean, it is an open door.

It is. It's a meeting. So anybody can go who wants to go. But again, the thought was we didn't want to inundate people, which was... That's why our suggestion was you send a council person, you send your town manager, you send your clerk treasurer, and we have a discussion about where we're going to go. And the county already feels like they've already taken a path of a decision on how they're going to go and what we all need to do. And of course, you guys... you've met Plainfield before and Brownsburg, they don't like the county telling them what to do. So I don't think this was received very well from anybody. So I don't think that's a great start to the process either to have a conversation about how that all works.

So I have one more question. So is it all or nothing? So if the county does a countywide lit, are we required to be part of that or can we exempt ourselves and do our own?

Well, nobody really knows. I mean, that's the issue is there's been no clear guidance. The county can go to $1.20 and the town can go to $1.20. So it's not mutually exclusive. It's not all or nothing. It could be both. But the issue is the county is not going to pass a rate for all the towns and let the towns all do it too because then they're going to get blamed for a tax increase. So that was the purpose of the discussion was If the towns were communicating to the county what they were gonna do, the county could make a decision about what they were gonna do. And that's why they wanted to have the must meetings was to figure that out and have a conversation about what's in the best interest of everybody. And again, I don't think there's a scenario where it will be in the best interest of Avon to have the county pass a rate. Now I could be wrong because it may depend on what rate the county is willing to pass. But again, I haven't got a good sense that the county's gonna pass a $1.20 rate. The county's gonna pass something that they need, and they also have to pass the fire department one as well, which is up to 40 cents. So they have a little bit of a different pathway. That was supposed to be the point of the conversation, was everyone to kind of figure out what's in everybody's best interest.

So the clerk treasurers, the clerk treasurers met with AIM. We, all of the Hendricks County clerk treasurers, we met with AIM. And AIM gave us a scenario to where if the county passed the lit, pretty much any which way it benefited us. So, and I've given Ryan that spreadsheet.

So when you said So is it $1.20 for police and then a separate one for fire, or it includes both?

No, and so that's what, when I talk about it going away, so right now we get three distributions, which is the three I just shared. So we get a general fund lit, certified shares. We get the public safety lit, and we get edit. So those are the three we get now. Under the new legislation, those three go away, and there's just one.

Okay.

And so that's why when I say you guys have to pass something to replace it, we're getting $5 million a year and you need to pass a 38 cent lit to bring in $5 million a year, which is basically to make us whole. And Julie's right. Depending on what the county passes, it could generate more than $5 million for us. but we also don't know how that'll impact our taxpayers, which again is the point of the must meetings. What will be better for our residents? Because it is possible that if we pass our own rate, that Avon taxpayers will pay less than everybody else. If Plainfield has to pass $1.60 to make up for those three, which they can't do, That means they're charging $1.20 to their residents and we're charging 38 cents to ours. So what the wisdom of the legislature is, they are making it a benefit that if you do pass a lower rate, it's benefiting your residents. So our residents could be the lowest lit payers in the county if the county doesn't pass a lit rate for us. If they do, then our residents, they may end up still paying more, even though the rate is different. And so it becomes a mathematic equation at some point. And so that's what it really does become math. But in fairness to the county, you're asking the county to pass a tax on everybody. And that's going to be their pushback. And that's at least one county council member I talked to said, there's no way I'm passing a lit rate for towns. You guys go do it yourselves. You have the ability to raise your own rates and do it yourselves. I'm not doing it. Now, I don't know that that's the spirit of the whole county council, but if that is their position, then all the towns are going to be forced to do something. And again, I don't know that that's not to our benefit.

So I guess back to separating, since we are so unique in Washington Township that we have fire and then Township has fire, or we have police and then they have fire. If we were to pass for say a 38 someone, because the County chose not to pass any, then where does the fires come from? Does that come through another referendum?

No, the fire has their own rate, but they have to get it approved through the County. And that's what there's, they can go up to like 40 cents, but that's outside of the dollar 20. that the county can raise. So the county can actually go to $1.60, 40 cents for public safety, and then they'll distribute that to the townships. Public safety doesn't include police, that's just fire. That's why it falls on the towns to do the police. And so, for example, even if 38 cents gets us to hold you guys could say we want to hire five new police officers and so we're going to do a 60 cent lit which would raise more money to be able to do something like that and you could still be substantially under the dollar 20 and still be able to do something so i mean what they're doing does potentially give us some flexibility now the risk is once you get to a dollar 20 you're done you can't you can't go any higher So that's why the other towns don't necessarily wanna do it because they're gonna start out at the $1.20 and they're gonna have nowhere to go but down. So again, we are in a good position based on how this is, but again, we'll have to see how, like Julie said, if the county comes back and says we're gonna pass a dollar for the whole county, then we're gonna have to see what does a dollar, what do we think a dollar is gonna generate for us if we opt into the counties? And it could be more than $5 million. And so in that case, we may say, fine, we're not gonna pass a rate and we'll opt into the county's rate.

And the timing-wise, would they make that, would they have that vote before we have to make a vote?

Well, I don't know, because again, this is 2029, so in 2028, you guys are gonna have to vote on this. So, I mean, it's a ways away. So I'm not exactly sure the logistics of that on who will vote first or who will do what first, because we're still so far away from it. Clear as mud, right?

Typical.

So just keeping you guys in the loop on that. Okay, plan for 2026 budget. As you guys know, we had done a levy appeal for 2026. Yeah, sorry, you don't have anything in your packets for this. I'm just going to talk. As you recall, we had done a levy appeal and we didn't get it. And I had told you guys it was about a million dollars. And so certainly that was revenue we expected to get. So I had that conversation with Greg and his staff about what we should do here. And I had kind of told you guys, let's wait and let's see where our revenue's at and what our condition is and what actually happens. And the two main things that were in the levy appeal was one was the three police officers. The other was the operating costs for the civic center. And so the reality is we're not going to incur the costs, at least the majority of the costs. We have started some bills, gas bills and electric bills, some small stuff. We're starting to get some of those things that are starting to come in. But, you know, maintaining the property and the building maintenance, we're not going to incur those things. And so about $300,000, we're not going to spend on that. The other one is obviously that Chief Stoops held off on filling those three vacancies till we decided what to do. So I had that specific conversation with Financial Solutions about what they thought. Their recommendation is that we move forward and hire two of the officers this year if the police department has them on their list to be able to hire them. And then they suggested that we do one next year. So we basically still get the three police officers, but we hire two in the second half of this year. Obviously, even at this point, if we start to hire them, they're not really going to start towards the end of the year anyway. So the recommendation is just don't change the 2026 budget at all. Just leave it the way it is. what we will likely do is underspend it which actually works because now we talked earlier about uh being able to transfer some money to the rainy day fund so if we underspend the budget now we have money to be able to transfer to the rainy day fund i talked a little bit about the lit we also have the lit money we also have Our circuit breaker ended up coming in $100,000 less than we expected. And so we're actually gonna generate $100,000 more than we thought we would. So from a revenue standpoint, which is what our concern really should be, I know when we talk about budget, we tend to talk about the expense side, but the revenue side is really the important side, which is, are we gonna bring in enough money to support what the expense side is? And Financial Solutions Group said we are. And so they're comfortable with us not doing any cuts or doing any changes to the 2026 budget. And again, they were comfortable if we wanted to move forward with hiring two officers yet this year and one next year that they thought that was sustainable and that we could do it. So I'm happy to answer any questions on that. But I think unless you guys feel otherwise and you really want to AGAIN, CUTTING THE BUDGET IS NOT REALLY GOING TO HELP US BECAUSE WE'RE JUST GOING TO GROW OUR FUND BALANCE AGAIN. SO IT'S THE REVENUE SIDE OF THE EQUATION IS POSITIVE, SO WHY DO THE ACTUAL CUT? IS THE ISSUE.

2027.

Again, we're starting the process again, but I'm still a little confused, or Julie and I are confused too, because the state released and said that we're going to have a 6% MLGQ, which again, under the Senate Enrolled Act, they were supposed to get rid of the growth quotient. So I'm confused why they're giving us an MLGQ, but... Greg said the same thing when he talked to me. He said, well, yeah, they're gonna let you grow your budget by 6%. So again, that's really positive for us to be able to do that. That's great. We had our meeting with AIM this morning on our medical trust. And our placeholder for the medical trust is going to be nine percent, which is pretty high. But you guys also remember last year they told us to hold five percent and it ended up zero. So they say that's the highest maximum it could possibly be. So they want us to budget that. So we will you know, we're going to eat up some of our our growth with insurance. Also, you guys recall last year we had a pretty difficult year on our liability in workers comp. And so I kind of expect we're not going to have a great year in that as well. So we're going to have some insurance issues. On the compensation side, I presented to you guys a plan last year to adjust compensations and create more of a performance-based system. That seems to be working well. And I told you that was going to be a two-year plan. And so our plan is people aren't getting pay raises. We're going to grow the pay grades by 3%. So again, it's still performance-based. but the pay grade's growing by 3%. And that was the recommendation from Greg. He said he was comfortable with that. The 3% is reflected. If you guys go through this, 3% is reflected in the sustainability analysis already. And so that's what we're gonna do. That's what I'm gonna plan for compensation. Those are typically the biggest issues, that, and then hiring police officers. And we kind of talked about that already. So that's what I was going to share with you guys on the 27 budget. I also, this is, I know it's early, but if you guys have suggestions or things as staff starts developing form ones, if there's anything, any early guidance you guys want to have or visions of things you'd like to see in the 2027 budget. You guys will start thinking of that. And if you don't have it yet and you want to share it with me later, or if you have it tonight and you want to share thoughts of things you'd like to see in the 2027 budget, please shout them out and let me know.

I guess position-wise, I know you said don't add new positions, but I do think that we need to discuss an HR person because the town is growing significantly, and I know that it's a strain on Julie's department and on you personally trying to handle all of those things. So I do think that that's one position we need to look at. And if not hiring a person, then at least contracting.

I'll bring up, I kind of want to meet with you guys individually about my understanding on that youth assistance program. That was supposed to be a two-year program to be sustained by the county. And I'm hearing that they're having some difficult, well, it's just that they were looking to see if there's anything that we would participate in. And I haven't said anything because I don't know where we are. And I want to hear from some of the other groups about what's going on. I know Plainfield's planning on participating somewhat. I like the program from when we had the last work session and one lady that could articulate despite all those challenges. There's no doubt they're doing very, very good work and they're keeping our kids out of the detention centers and they're doing many more good things, not just that. but I'm going to be thinking on that. I'm going to try to see if there's anything that we might be able to or try to think through because I do believe it's a good thing. And I look at it as different from when I'm looking at our budget for the soccer fields and all that. This is not a youth sports thing. This is really kind of meeting the real dire needs of kids. So anyway, that's something I'm going to try to look into and try to give you some feedback as a council.

All right, move on to Civic Center, I guess.

All right, here we go. Is everybody excited? All right, I'm super excited. I'm excited, but I'm also going to be honest, I'm nervous. So I know that artwork is subjective and that everyone will have their own opinions about artwork. So we're going to start with the mural at the Civic Center. The Redevelopment Commission contracted with SignWorks to help us. There's two things we're gonna talk about. The mural, plus we're gonna talk about the sculpture as well, which is the Avon in the front entrance. I'm gonna start with the mural. They're two very different things. Again, I'm interested in getting your guys' feedback. If we want to make some revisions, we can do that. If we're completely on the wrong track, we can do that.

It just depends.

This is what we've got so far. The first one you have is this one, which is what we feel like tells a little bit of a story about Avon. What you'll notice is it's pulling from things in our old town logo. So for those of you who have the old logo design, you'll notice, and it's kind of, again, thoughtfully planned, that if you're visioning on the wall, the music is on the school side. And so then as you kind of flow through, it goes to the town side. So if you notice, if you're looking left, it has the musical instruments, the musical notes. Then you'll remember our Tree City USA. So we have trees. We also have our lake, which is our parks, and we've tied in our blue herons for our blue heron park. I know... A couple of things, you'll notice a line down the middle, a white line. It won't actually look like that. The wall is angled, so there's a point where they come together. That's just showing that point. And then the two pieces on the right-hand side that are white, one is our doorway and the other one is like HVAC or like on the ceiling. And so you actually won't see those. It won't look white like that. It's just gonna, you're gonna see the image Um, then it has bicycling. It pulls in some of our, obviously the haunted bridge, uh, with the trail or the road underneath our B city USA, which is the flowers. And so again, kind of tries to pull some components and kind of tell the story of Avon. And so, um, whether that does it well or not, I don't know. That's just kind of what, what, what has we've gotten to at this point. Um, The original concern that we had with this option was, again, there's lots of different ways that people are gonna experience this mural. Some people are gonna be standing in our lobby experiencing it. Some people are gonna be pulling in off of US 36 and they're gonna look down the Riverwalk District and they're gonna see it from a distance. And so our original concern about this was we thought, well, this will be kind of nice if you're standing in the lobby, but we were not sure how it would look if you were looking at it from far away. So we did ask them to then render it a little bit. This isn't, I know, all the way out at 36, but your second page then shows a rendering of what it would look like from further away. Again, I can email these to you guys, too. I know it's a little hard for you to see. on paper, but it does pop, the color pops. You also may ask yourself, why is there an image on the top and an image on the bottom? The top has the Avon sculpture in our Avon gold color. The bottom one is in like a blackish gray color, which kind of makes it disappear. So we were trying to decide, do we like it with the Avon popping or do we like it with the Avon disappearing? And so you will notice in the top one, The Avon with the gold does kind of catch the color of the flowers and does pop a little bit better. You'll notice on the bottom one, you can't really see the Avon. It kind of disappears, but then it also kind of darkens what's behind it. So that's option one. Option two then is... a little bit more of what was actually shown in the original renderings. It's a little bit of a different version. It's not quite as busy and it's some different colors, but it's still, help me with the terms. Abstract, thank you. It's more of an abstract that, again, it's not necessarily anything that's associated with Avon. And this one we thought we really liked when you were looking at it from a distance. So now if you look at the next page and you see the rendering, it's got a little more color pop. It's a little more interesting, but it doesn't tell a story. Again, same issue on the second page. The Avon in gold is the top one and the Avon in blackish gray is the lower one. So again, there you go. I'm interested in thoughts, feedback. I've shared this with our Republic team. I've shared it with a couple of staff people, but other than that, you guys are the first ones to see it and share some thoughts with me on opinions. And I expect all of you to have different opinions probably.

Who wants to start?

Anyone has never... That second one, I don't even know what's here. It feels that off to me. That first one, I do really like. I feel like I might like to see an evolution of that. I don't know if that's quite the design. There's not a second one in my opinion right now. That's my opinion.

At least it's relevant. I think that the abstract, to me, that could be on, that could be anywhere.

Tell us how you really think.

Now you've heard Jason's feelings. Jason should have spoke up first. No, I'm just kidding.

I don't love either one, really. I'm not opposed to doing something abstract, but I think there has to be some tie-in. I mean, if it was black, yellow, and white, and it was an abstract design, I would at least be a little bit more okay with it. But like they said, I mean, that could be downtown, going under a bridge, whatever, and it would look like it was in the right spot. The first one, I like that there's elements that tie back to the town of Avon, but it just seems like it was thrown together. It's a little busy for me.

And it doesn't have sports on it either.

It has simulated tubas.

Yes.

If you really look.

It looks like it was slapped together with AI. Not well. Sorry. Sorry, sign works.

It's okay. We can't make it good if you guys don't give us feedback. It's funny that you say that because we did a version on AI, too, and we kind of liked it better, too, but that's okay.

Our version of AI is way better. Our version of AI is way better. Thank you.

I mean, I know we're paying these people a lot of money, and to me, this is...

I don't know.

I mean, it's probably going to be hanging there for, what, 10 years?

Well, it depends. I mean, it depends what we want to do. Budget-wise. Budget-wise, sure. I mean, it could be there for 30 years if we want, or we could probably change it every five years if we want to, if we can afford to be changing it every five years. I mean... it would probably be $30,000 to change it. So it's not something that we're gonna change quarterly. It's not something we're gonna change every year, but maybe every five, 10 years, we could change it if we want to. But again, if we can come up with something that's timely and lasts a really long time and people love it and it becomes iconic, we could never change it. It just depends what we want it to be.

I don't even know that this is a five-year for me.

Okay. You know, I hear you.

Oh, sorry.

No, no, go ahead.

Can I jump ahead? Are our only options for this logo in the front the word Avon? It's not our only option, but that's what we were going to go for. I just feel like that could potentially change my opinion on what we put as the mural as well.

So, okay, that's fair. Let me talk through that. So on the building, there's no building signage. And so to go back to the whole purpose of the building, and Dr. Windham and I and the others talked about this early, there's nowhere that says Avon Community School Corporation. There's nowhere that says Town of Avon. There's nowhere that says Avon Chamber of Commerce. And the whole purpose of the building was going to be that this is Avon were together. So you'll remember there was an Avon sculpture in the beginning. Now it was stacked in the first version. There was a manufacturing issue on our ability to stack it. And it made the A and the V have to go together and it didn't not look good. So we moved away from the stacked version of Avon to a spread across, but that's why, It's meant to be the plazas, the community space, the place where the community can gather. And it's all of Avon, which is why we were going to use Avon. It doesn't have to say Avon. It could be something else. But that's why we were going to do Avon on the sculpture. And then we were going to do the Avon gold. Yeah, not Browns. We're not going to put Browns. You didn't want to say Browns?

What were you thinking it would say?

That can't be anything. I wasn't thinking that it was going to be text at all. I figured it was going to be a sculpture of some sort.

Oh, OK.

guess my concern if you want to i mean i don't have a problem with just saying avon but if you look at it from the street view you can't see it it's really tiny it just looks like i don't know kid blocks or something right and some of that scale i mean they're four foot tall and then they're also elevated in a bed so i mean they're going to be like eight foot tall i mean they're gonna be like eight foot high

But at the same time, we didn't want the Avon to block the view of the mural either. So it's... Sure.

Right.

Yeah. I don't know what's best. We could put it up higher, but...

Well, I guess that's what I'm kind of getting at, too. If these letters were larger or if it was laid out in a certain way, I mean, you can see through the O. You've got the gaps in the N and the V and the A that maybe that mural could play through the back of your letters.

So the mural goes all the way down to the doors, right?

Yeah, the mural goes to the floor.

What if that was just one solid color so that Avon stood out? and your goals would stand out, and it wouldn't be blocking the view of the mural, but it'd still be short enough that you could see the mural over it.

But then you lose your water and your drum and your... Yeah.

The water stops very abruptly at this red plant.

I'd say...

I mean, there's going to be lighting in things, too, to light up the Avon sculpture, I assume.

It's ground lighting. It's not internally illuminated. So it's like landscape lighting that will shine up on it. But also remember that all the lighting in the lobby lights up the light. So it's going to be like a beacon. So at night, you're going to see that whole sculpture. Or you're going to see the, not the sculpture, you're going to see the mural is going to be very visible at night. And so that's the other thing. You're looking at it during a daytime. Which I can have them render it at night, too, if that's what we want to see.

There's no reason for him to send us this in nighttime. Maybe the next one.

Okay. So I've got a couple real quick. First, I want to pile on. Oh, well, I do. I like this coming in last because I like listening to what you all say. And I think the thing I look at as this being dated, it can be what's the time frame of this? And if it's $30,000 to redo this, you know, that makes it kind of hard. I think of our branding, our logo, you know, how we have changed that. And I think that once we pick these designs, these icons, if you will, the tuba, the haunted bridge is kind of iconic. That will last. I think anything you work with that will stay. But I almost think I would love to see more on the The contrast for the Avon sign in the front have greenery in the background, low shrubs, just kind of heavy park influence on it. So use that, use natural backgrounds to bring out the Avon sign. I'm not real big on having these big murals that have such a strong statement. out there, just because I believe that they're dated. That's all there. I mean, we can go with it, but it's just, it's good for a set period of time is all I'm saying.

So let me ask you guys this. It sounds like of the two, the first one, the telling the story is of more interest. Telling the story. Did I say that?

I agree.

So to tell the story, talk me through what elements, did we get the right elements, and do we just want to tell the story a different way? Or is there things you think we should include that tell a different story about Avon? Or is it just don't make it so caricatury?

There's nothing that I don't think you can include. Let me say that. I don't think that you necessarily missed anything, I guess.

Other than sports, that's the only thing I can think of.

Yes, right, I did get sports.

It's creative. You know, I mean, I'm not a creative person. I see this as it is a creative effort, having the sunflowers on the right there, kind of the pop in the side there, and then the bees. You know, there's all kinds of things you can look at, and you've got to give it credit. It does tell the story.

You think they're putting too much emphasis on one thing and not another or vice versa?

I think that red tree has a pretty prominent place in this mural.

Yeah, we talked about the red tree with them. It's actually toned down from how it was in earlier versions. But yeah, I think they're doing that to try to take your eye away from the split. And so I think, again, they're doing it for good reason, but maybe we just don't like the way they're accomplishing it, which is fine. You know, that's the feedback I needed.

I think maybe that's where you add the sports. I don't know. Okay. But that tree, I mean...

Okay, so I think generally I'm gonna run with, not exactly the first option, but the option of trying to tell a story as the mural and we'll work on improving it or either coming up with some other options. Does that sound fair?

I do understand why you guys have brought in a lot of that blue since the accent walls in the offices, at least on the town side, are this kind of blue.

color so i mean is that part of the thought process too or is this just a lot of sky no and honestly the previous version so on one of the previous versions they it was very segmented there were like five segments and we didn't like that we wanted to flow more right and when they did that each of the different segments had different colors so it was a little more colorful But it looked very, here is a story in this little quadrant. And we didn't like that. And when they did that, then they went to the all blue sky to make it kind of tie together better. But like on one of them, it had like a sunset. So it had like a yellowish background. But again, so again, we can do whatever. And so if it's too much blue, that's fine. We can probably try to address that a different way.

I mean, I don't know, maybe the trees shouldn't be blue. If you're using the sky as blue, then maybe the trees should be blue. Contrast. Yeah. Yeah, it's just bizarre.

Still partial to black and gold.

Trying to hold on to that blue.

Okay.

Okay, so that's mural. I think I at least have general direction. We'll keep working on that. Any input on the sculpture? The sculpture, I need to make a decision more quickly because we're out building the plaza, so I need to go relatively quickly on that. So Jason, I know you kind of said, do you just dislike it or what would you want it to say other than Avon?

I just wanted to say Avon, that's fine, but I think you gotta scale it up.

Just make it bigger?

Yeah.

What's four foot? So if people want their picture with it, you don't want an eight foot. Because then people look smaller.

And again, depending on what the mural comes back, I mean, maybe it'll be visible from the street. But right now, I don't think you're going to see that at all.

Well, and our intention wasn't that people would see the Avon From like as you're pulling in 36, it would be if you're in the plaza, you're seeing that it's Avon. And so, again, there's a the stage is elevated and it's the Avon is in a landscaping bed behind it with benches around it. So it's not really being designed for I'm going to let people crawl up there and take photos with it.

I was going to say, is that part of, are we trying to get folks to take pictures with it?

No. I mean, if that's what we want to do, we could do that, but that's not necessarily, it's sitting elevated in a landscaping bed with bushes and stuff around it and then landscaping lighting. So it's more meant for people in the plaza, whereas the mural is for people driving in. That's why we had the discussion of do we want it to disappear or do we want it to be seen?

Can we see it in that setting? Could they add those elements when they're showing us the sculpture? They don't need to necessarily show us the... Well, you want to look at it from above? Well...

I mean, that's what... You can't really see it. I mean, they're showing that. If you see it, you can kind of see the stage and it's sitting up high. I mean, I can email it to you and you could zoom in on it. You could actually see it better, but...

Okay. Was your gateway signage at 36 that shows...

We're working on that, but it's in the in dot right away, so we're trying to figure that out. But there will be a sign that it was going to have Avon in our logo, and then it would be a sign center that would have all the businesses in there, but on the very top of the sign it would have Avon in our logo. Any other input on the bigger, smaller, like it? Just want to see it different, but... Don't mind? Any gold? It sounds like, Jason, you're leaning towards make the Avon sign pop more, not make it disappear. Oh, that's my opinion, yeah. OK.

But I don't know how we can decide until we see what the artwork is going to be behind it. And I know you're saying you need to have an answer for that pretty soon. But if they completely change the artwork, I don't know.

Is it better in black at that point?

Yeah, I'd rather do the sculpture and have the mural work around the sculpture. I agree with you, Robert. That's what I would rather do.

You could box or border the letters that might make it pop more. That's a possible, I don't know.

But then when you're in the actual lobby and the walkways, it's just... You can see out the mural, yes. The staff will be able to see out of the mural. People won't be able to see through the mural.

but there's only eight offices or something that can see out the mirror. And so they're all on the second floor.

Let's move on so we can get an update on our sewer problem.

Do you have anything to say, Ryan, to start?

No, you go ahead. Sanitary sewer update.

All right. So as you guys know, I reported last time we now have completed the Apex sanitary sewer. We paid tap fees of $5,348. And then we paid Daystar directional drilling $43,325. Foundation Park is much larger than that. And so our tap fees... Just the tap fees, 46,132. So when you see that on the next check register, that's what that is. Tiffany has kind of head up this project, so I'm gonna let her talk, if she wants to, in just a second, but we've basically been told by Daystar it's going to be a very expensive project.

Six figures.

Yeah.

to say anything that's that's not in writing yet so we haven't gotten any quotes returned from any of our contractors just yet so we're not 100 sure what it will be but we've been told it will be large so are we bidding it out not just daystar oh yes we got yeah quotes

Six-figure, low six-figure, mid six-figure, where are we at?

I would say from the way, from the facial expression from the guy that said this to me, low six-figure in the hundreds. Okay. If it makes it to the six-figure. Okay. It will. Any questions on that?

And where do we stand? on the timing as far as any penalties that might be assessed for not having it completed. Didn't they email and say?

Not until August 19th.

Which is coming quickly.

Right, and so you guys, Shelby and Tiffany, are working that you'll have the quotes on your second meeting in July. So that's our timeline is to have quotes, do you guys get it approved? And that gives us almost a month to get it done.

And if we were to use Daystar if they are the lowest bidder, what is their time to be able to get the job done? And if we don't choose Daystar, are we talking with the other people that we are asking to bid to see what their timeline is?

Yeah, the timeline, really the timeline is not that long for the actual work completion. It's less than a week. So it shouldn't be all that, because they're not trenching. It would have to be directional drilled underneath the fields, which is done faster than the trenching.

Okay, thank you.

Maybe the one thing I'll also share, because I think Shelby and Tiffany did a good job of this. One of the big issues that was going to be really expensive was there was concern that the tank is underneath the actual concrete slab of the building extension that was done. And there was concern that we were gonna have to rip that tank out and that it could cause structural issues to the building above. But Shelby and Tiffany were able to coordinate with the health department and the health department has given us a waiver to take it out, and they're going to allow us to fill it with global fill, which will be much less expensive and save us any risk of jeopardizing the second story of the building as well. So I think that's why Shelby and Tiffany are a little apprehensive because originally the number they gave us was closer to the 200 number. But now that we can do that, we think we'll hopefully, again, don't have quotes yet, but that we're closer to the 100 number versus the 200 number. So

that was some good work by shelby and tiffany to figure that out as well so that was tiffany no credit forgive my ignorance is this going to damage fields and we would need to then repay for repairs to the fields as well no um we've actually when daystar has come out and we've talked to them which i we have received we've asked for quotes but it is kind of a specialty thing you know, if a plumber comes in, they don't have the directional drilling. So I'm just throwing that out there. So if Daystar were to do it, they would say we could go in between fields one and two. And so they would be able to drill and snake it through that small little strip in between one and two. And it wouldn't go under anything, which George was really happy about. Yeah. Okay, Parkland. Parkland. We have been approached by, well, I'll let Ryan talk about the first one. I'll talk about the second one.

Yeah, so you have an exhibit. I think Shelby and I have given you guys a heads up on this. At the Easton Gray, we had a conversation with Republic about putting in some soccer fields and so they did do just like a rough design and the thought is that when they actually are moving dirt that they would actually build these for us Now it shows parking on there. We'd have to do the parking ourselves, but at least the grading for the soccer fields, they'd be able to do. That was kind of the first discussion. And as you know, I meet with them every month. And so the discussion actually eventually evolved and they threw out potentially, it was still going to be their property originally under the first scenario they've thrown out. actually selling the town. This whole piece that you're kind of seeing is a park and they've thrown out just selling that to us, which isn't really going to be selling it to us. It would be in lieu of park impact fees, which if you recall with our agreement with Republic anyway, was that they weren't really paying impact fees anyway. They were going to give us stuff in lieu of anyway. So the concept would be they'd give us, they think it's somewhere between 25 and 29 acres. It'd be the property that this soccer field would be on. It would also be some of the other property around it. Again, you can see on the next page, it kind of shows the area is bigger. And then just as a reminder, if you look just to the south of that piece, there's kind of a long skinny piece. And when we built the White Lake Creek Trail, we bought that whole piece on the other side. So there's a little building, which we call Little House on the Prairie, because there's that little self storage area there, or if you've seen any of our parks departments. It's a garage, sorry, like a garage and a storage area.

And the bee habitat.

Yeah, and so that's part of our Bee City USA. If you've seen some of our photos, we've now built a bee habitat there. And so Lorenzo is actually a certified beekeeper. So Lorenzo is, there's also grapes there. There's other things. which would add then again, this concept of this greenway along White Lake Creek, that we kind of have this greenway that's all parks. So we think it would actually work pretty well within our mission of what we're trying to accomplish there. So again, I don't need a decision or anything from you guys at this point. I just kind of wanted to, again, keep you in the loop and make you aware of it. It's kind of an ongoing conversation with the Republic. So as we progress it further, we'll come back and continue to have conversations with you guys about how that looks. And then I'll let Shelby talk to you about the Nehemiah property.

Well, Ryan refers to those as soccer fields, but they would be more multipurpose since we don't have a soccer program yet.

Yet.

I said yet.

I know. I was seconding you again.

Oh, okay. All right, the Nehemiah property, I'm not sure if everybody's familiar with the Nehemiah Ranch. It's highlighted on this page in black. We were kind of looped into this. A developer had sent them an offer letter to purchase this, and they don't want to sell it to a developer. So actually, Greg kind of made that introduction. And they approached us and asked if we had any interest in purchasing it, what that would look like. They do live there. Their house is that first parcel. Obviously, we would not get that. We would get everything behind that. And the issue with that is there's no access for it. So we'd have to figure out that somehow. But I guess what I'm asking from you is, are you interested in me continuing this conversation? Are you good with doing an appraisal? I did go out and walk the property. It is beautiful. We could easily have nature programs there. not really it'd have to be an easement it would have to be an easement um they do have a drive um to get back there they've kind of built in this drive um i don't think they want to part with that because it is a part of their parcel so it would be something we'd have to figure out well i would say that one a developer

wouldn't purchase it to develop if there's not an easement given on the parcel that's currently owned or that they're wanting to keep. Because if you can't access it, you can't build there. So if we were to negotiate something with them, probably our usage of whatever easement would be less traffic than obviously a subdivision. And I really don't know how many homes could be built on 30 acres by the time you get infrastructure in anyway. especially where it narrows right there.

Do we have any connections to the trail, or are there any trails nearby that we can connect to?

So that is the kind of future piece of this. Ryan has this White Lick Greenway kind of map. Eventually, once we go up north that way, this would, I mean, we could tie that trail into this property.

to the north. Yeah, Whitelick Trail stops just south of there. So we're at 100 north now. So would it continue north somewhere? We haven't really figured out where it's going to go. The other piece is it's relatively close to the Park Park, which is the township park. And it's close to the car park as well. So it is kind of at least general vicinity and some of those other park properties.

Close to, but not accessible from any of those.

It would potentially be accessible from POC, but if you guys have walked the POC property, it's got ravines and stuff around it. There's not an easy connection necessarily, maybe for pedestrians, but vehicles is the challenge. And we'd have to have, we've already told the property owners that, that no matter what, we have to have access. Legally, we can't, Dan will tell us, we can't buy property if it doesn't have access.

Sure, sure.

So we're going to have to find some way, it can't just be landlocked property that, and again, Shelby and I won't recommend buying it if it's not landlocked. So they're going to need to decide something about access.

Yeah, I would say, I mean, it's a nice piece of property, potentially. But I would say I would rather you guys not do an appraisal until you have something worked out with them on access. Because there's no reason to spend the money if they're not going to give us the easement. And it would need to be a recorded easement.

Absolutely. Yep. Well, in either north or south, the edge of the property that they're keeping would give you access out to 600. And it'd only be like 227 feet out north and 221 in the south. And they'd only lose it by maybe, what, Yeah, but yeah, and I agree. I mean, it'd be a nice maybe addition, but until we can work through the.

Access. Yeah.

And really that's, that was the intent of putting it on the agenda is, is it worthy of us continuing to talk to you? Should we just tell them, no, thank you. I mean, I think that's, again, we, it's not fully vetted at this point, but if it's something you guys aren't interested in or we should not waste their time or our time, that's really what.

I think access, if we can get that access worked out. And you see it for maybe nature presentations. I'm sure there's other things we can do in connection with trails. Land is so scarce. And when you have wooded land, it's a hot button for me. Let's go for it. You know, if we can, if we can get that access and get drivable, but I'm with you, Dawn, if you don't have that, then it's not worth pursuing.

Does this give us any continuity that we need for other?

Well, actually, Julie just asked that. If you know, the red boundary is actually our town boundary. And so the property is already all in Avon. So it doesn't give us any continuity that we don't already have.

Okay.

Just thought I'd ask that.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and we don't have a park in the northwest quadrant, which eventually we will want a park in the northwest quadrant somewhere. So whether that's a continuation of the White Lake Creek corridor up there and we want it to stay along the creek or if we want it to get off in some of the other areas, it may just depend. But it would be nice to eventually, again, buy land now when it's cheaper versus as it gets more expensive.

and we have 11 minutes before council meetings so all right last one's fast yep um also just looking on um direction from you guys on this um these trail projects have been on the cip for longer than i've been here um and every year we budget for them and every year they're the lowest priority so they kind of get you know not to the next year not to the next year um all three of these the 150 south that's the dan jones to the high school connection the white lake creek trail to the Murphy Aquatic Park right there at 625. That's the second piece. And then this could come later, a trail from 525 to connect the Riverwalk District to Washington Township Park. And we haven't fully decided on semantics of that or anything but we do already have engineer estimates for the first two projects so you guys can see those my question is due to having to spend money that was unbudgeted i do have a fund balance a decent fund balance if you guys would rather me push these projects this year get these projects done and checked off or push it back to next year and put it on our budget again

Really, we'd like to bid them. They're done, they're designed. The only one that's not done and designed is the one across from Easton Gray. The other two are done. And so we'd like to bid them. As you guys know, we've bid some projects this year and we've gotten really good pricing. We don't know that that'll last until next year. So the thought was, even if you guys were comfortable with us bidding them and seeing what it costs, and even if we set completion dates next year, or like Shelby said, if we can dig into or do an additional appropriation or something, Shelby's underspent her budget the last few years, so there's some money there in the food and beverage that we could use. There's actually probably some money in the RIF that we could use as well to be able to pay for those projects. So again, we didn't want to bid them when we knew we had spent some of the money on other stuff without having a conversation with you guys first.

I always like the one in front of the schools. Anytime we could do that with all the people going to the areas there. And then there's nothing along that area. So to me, that's a real hot button. That'd be great. And since you have the numbers already here, it sounds good.

And that's what really, if we could, we'd like to do the first two projects. Again, they're done. They're ready. They're also the two less expensive projects. and that maybe we try to do those, and if we can be creative with our bidding to say, maybe we bid the third one too, but say that construction doesn't happen until next year, and to see what cost it is, and then if it's not good, or if we decide we don't want to do it, we could reject, do it as like an alternate or something like that. I think we could be creative in the way we bid it to see what kind of a price we can get, but also delay the construction too.

I'm okay with moving forward, but at the risk of Steve beating me up after the meeting, I would prefer that we go for a white-licked Murphy.

Okay.

If we only can do one.

Yeah, I mean, I think we can do both. Again, I'm pretty comfortable. I think we can do the first two. I think the issue would be the other one is the biggest in that it'll be the most expensive. But also, the reality is we won't be hosting events until next year at the Civic Center anyway. So it would be reasonable for us to delay that one, build that next year, budget for it this year. But again, even if we bid it and we know what the number is, that makes it easier for us to budget for it as well. So that's the thought where it'd be nice if we know all three, we could bid all three, but say one's not going to be built until next year.

I say proceed.

So these two totals plus are... Foundation Park yet you feel you have That covered Julie.

What was my fund balance? I say my what's the food and beverage fund balance?

Sorry, she currently has a little over 3.3 in cash So her fund balance will be fine. It would just be in it. You'll we'll see it at the end of the years an additional appropriation She'll be fine

Okay.

If we bring the bids to you guys, you'll still have the opportunity to say yes or no to that. And if the numbers are high and we don't like them, we can reject all the bids and do something different with it.

Okay. Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, Julie, roll call, please.

Robert Pope. Present.

Steve Eisenbarth.

Present. Greg Zuzan. Don Loudon.

Present.

Jason Puckett. Present.

Thank you. Next on the agenda is a NOVA award recipient. Angel. All right.

Good evening, Town Council, Angel, Gina, Joe, Marcon, Manager. Thank you for being here today as we come together to recognize someone who has made a meaningful impact on our community. The NOVA Award is a special recognition presented by the Town of Avon to honor individuals who go above and beyond to make our community stronger through their leadership, service, and commitment to others. These are the people who quietly make a lasting impact and inspire those around them. Tonight, we are proud to celebrate one of those outstanding individuals. And at this time, I'd like to invite Gary Ackman to say a few words about tonight's NOVA Award honoree.

Thank you. Can I turn this around? Okay. Thanks a lot, Angel. I'd like to thank both you and Ryan for reviewing this, especially for carrying it across the finish line. I think it's very important and I'd like to thank Julie Locher for helping me to get it into the right hands. Julie had to explain to me that it was gonna be difficult for me to do this mission on a rotary dial phone. What do you want me to say? I think I'll start off with a question. Are you nervous? Don't you lie to me. Yeah? A little? See all these folks? They make up both elected and appointed officials. And they govern this entire town. And the reality is, they're the ones that should be nervous. Because in a blink of an eye, You may be drafting their performance reviews. My wife couldn't be with us tonight. She was a little under the weather. She had me read a book several years ago called A Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. And one of the takeaways from that book, Rick talked about our time being our most valuable asset. can always give money, can always give clothing, food, and we can recoup all those things. But once we give our time, it's gone forever. We never get it back. So it's crucial that we use it wisely. I've known a lot of folks that have made me take a step back. They've humbled me. A couple of them are in this room. 26 years ago, I was even able to marry one of them. But I promise you, that humbling feeling has never came at the hand of a 15-year-old kid until tonight. And you make me very proud. This young lady happens to be my neighbor. But the best news is, she's yours too. And her name's Maya Costin. And now I get to live a lifelong dream. Ever since I was a child, I always dreamed of doing this. I'm gonna summon the principal. Matt Shockley is the principal of Avon High School.

I'm gonna go this way if that's okay.

Hello, town council members, and just my honor to say just a few words about Maya. As we know, Avon High School, huge place, small town under one roof every single day. And I don't know Maya, but I've gotten to know Maya a little bit just over the last few days about the impressive young lady that she is and student that she is here at Avon High School. She is an honors student who, again, she's gonna be a sophomore this year. So what she has achieved and what she's being honored for is as a freshman in high school, okay? But an honors student took a number of honors classes in her core area classes. This next year, I was looking at what she's taking. She is taking practically all honors classes. Again, includes an advanced placement course and a college course this year. She has a 4.286 GPA after her freshman year. and she is well on her way. She talked to me about a career field in the medical field, maybe as a pediatric nurse, or maybe even as a pediatrician. I spoke to some of her teachers from this past school year, and this is the things that they said about her. Consistently engaged and participates actively in class discussions. Very inquisitive, regularly asking thoughtful questions and seeking deeper understanding. Demonstrates a really strong work ethic and takes initiative, especially if she's struggling to understand something. She shows real commitment to learning and academic growth. Also, just kind of describing her personality, upbeat, positive, polite in her interactions, builds strong relationships with both her teachers and her classmates, and she's really well respected by her classmates and her teachers. And because of that, she just creates a positive atmosphere in the classroom and really makes a positive impact on others as a result of that. She is not only busy in the community volunteering, but she's busy at Avon High School in the pre-med club. United in Medicine. I know she does softball with Avon Youth Sports outside of Avon. She's in Global Outreach Club, Rig Change to Mind, also part of Trader's Point Christian Church, just learned we both go there, and was at camp just recently. But probably her greatest involvement in how she is earning this award tonight is through Interact Club and her volunteering that's kind of related to that. Pam Lyons and Heather Meunier, who are two of our sponsors of that organization, are here tonight. So I appreciate you being here. But in talking to Mrs. Meunier, she said, Maya had perfect attendance. to all of the meetings this year. And Mrs. Meunier said, that's really unbelievable and maybe unheard of, especially for a freshman to receive that, to be able to do so. She had well over 40 hours of volunteer service, can be really counted on and has a real passion for serving others. She earned the top service hours award as a freshman from the Rotary Club. which sponsors, is kind of like a co-sponsor of the Interact Club. But she volunteers, and I'm sure I'm not going to encapsulate everything that she volunteers for, but she volunteers at senior living communities, playing bingo with residents, serving Thanksgiving dinner, creating placemats for holidays, cooking, baking with them, been involved in the Angel Food Drive prom dress sales through our Interact Club, volunteers at Crossroads, childcare, daycare, volunteers regularly at the Mary Lee Mayer Food Pantry. And because of all that she has done through Interact this year, next year she is getting kind of a next step in regards to responsibility. And she's been named one of the captains of our Interact Club this year. So there are directors that kind of are a greater leadership level. But for those underclassmen, this is like the next step that she can take. So obviously people are seeing some leadership ability in her and the passion and the love that she has for serving others and will hopefully lead some projects this year. But why does she serve? And this is what my question to her was. It was about getting to know others and thinking about what she was volunteering for, young children and older adults, learning from them and the joy it brings when she sees playing or reading with young children or spending time with those in the senior living communities who may not have regular visitors. So she just loves, she said, loves seeing the smiles on the children's faces as well as those adults' faces. So we have three values at Avon High School, being accountable, respectful, and engaged. She is a... prime role model and example for all of my students at Avon High School for really exemplifying those values. And I think those are good values for community members to have. So she's well on her way and I want to thank the town for giving her this honor. So congratulations, Maya.

Yes. For those online, we're going to go ahead and take a short recess and try and get some pictures with family and friends with Maya. So thank you. Next is our consent agenda.

Make a motion to approve the consent agenda, including the check register for July 9, the executive session memoranda for June 25, and the minutes for June 25 as presented. Does it also include the waiver of our conflict of interest? Oh, is that part of that as well? Let me add the waiver of conflict of interest also. I'll second.

Thank you. Julie, roll call, please. Okay.

Jason Puckett. For. Robert Pope. For. Steve Eisenbarth. For. And Don Laudan.

For. All right, next is public comment. The public may come forward and comment on items on the agenda that are not part of a public hearing for this evening or on a specific matter within the council's jurisdiction. If you wish to come forward, please make sure the green button is showing on the microphone. State your name, your address, and limit your comments to three minutes.

My name is Matt Rao, 8227 Carmelita Court, Avon. I'm also the government relations manager for Joint Fiber. I want to thank Julie for her hard work and dedication. We got off to a challenging start on getting some of these permits approved, but Honestly, I've seen a noticeable improvement in the timeliness and expediting the permits for us. So I do sincerely appreciate your effort, your hard work, your commitment, and I just wanted to thank you for doing all that for us. So thanks.

Did you see you have some ready for tomorrow?

Anyone else? All right, we'll move on to department updates. Who wants to start us off?

None of them were jumping up. Good evening, Council. L.B. Pride, Parks Recreation Director. On the maintenance front, we had another staff member pass their certified playground safety inspector certification. The first time he took it, he missed it by one point. This time he took it and passed with flying colors. So now we have two certified playground safety inspectors on staff. I want to thank the maintenance team for helping with night at the park this past Friday night. It was hot. They worked all day, and then they worked until midnight, and then they took some well-deserved time off. We were extremely proactive, in my opinion, for the heat. We had water stations, cooling stations. We had a giant fan out here with misters. It was awesome. We should buy one. Thanks. Just slid that right in there. Speaking of night at the park, I want to thank the events team as well. They did a wonderful job. Again, beat the heat. At least it didn't rain or storm on us. Most people held off until about 8, 30, 9 o'clock before they came out. And then this place looked like it does every July 3rd. So it was great. We talked earlier, but we have a honeybee habitat at our little house on the prairie, which is on the Whitelit Creek Trail. Um, we have two beehives and we've already expanded both of them because they're very busy bees. Um, Lorenzo is our, uh, maintenance manager and he is a certified, um, beekeeper. So we have the whole get up. We, we did the whole nine yards. Um, and he absolutely loves it. And I want to name the beehives and the queens. So hopefully we'll be able to announce those names soon, such as like Barbie. What was the one you came up with? I don't remember either.

Yeah, I don't remember.

For Tree City USA, I want to thank Duke Energy. They provided about 500 small little trees for us and our maintenance team had planted all 500 of those throughout the last two months in various places. So kudos to them for spending the time to do that and helping us once again get that Tree City USA certification. We have our new quarterly magazine on our website, avonindiana.gov slash parks, and then you can go to the newsletter there. Tiffany works really hard on this every quarter. We also have some new staff members, so you can meet the team that way. Our farmer's market is still on Tuesdays. Coming up July 14th, we have the Berry Festival. We have ordered a lot of berries of various varieties to give to our members who come. It is a way that we encourage people to use our vendors. So if you come and you purchase at one of the vendors at the farmer's market, you'll get a ticket. You can bring it up to our booth and we will give you a pint of berries. Same deal on August 25th, we are doing a corn roast. So same kind of thing. Last year we did the corn roast. We had all the corn donated. We have that again this year. So we'll be out there. Hope to see you guys there. We have a bounce bash coming up. We're going to fill the park with inflatables on August 29. And it's a brand new event, so we're not really sure what to expect. But we're just hoping for good weather. And then we have Dirt Works, which will be our fourth year doing on August 15. It will again be over here. the Furkins property, and we have All Terrain, Sheeds Excavating, and a company called Dig Dig that are going to bring some kids' toys out for us. Sports took some much-deserved time off after their spring season. They got one week before spring sports started. Most of them took time off, so I'm really proud of them for that. And summer sports have started, so I think baseball, softball tryouts were this last Tuesday. Yep. And then a construction update at the pickle patch. The utilities are done. And as of Monday, July 13th, we will be getting stabilizing the soil. Of course, we got in there and realized there's a little bit of issues, so it delayed us a little bit. But I also want to thank Steve. He's helped me out a lot on understanding these things and giving me a different process to go through, just some different insight to it. And then for Burnett, they will mobilize on July 13th as well. Any questions? Sorry, that was long.

Just glad to see some progress. Yes. Especially at Burnett too.

Yeah. Thank you.

Steve Moore, Public Works Director. I guess the first one we'll talk about is 100 North Raceway Roundabout. That's some good news today. These new sanitary sewer passed a vacuum test. They'll be tying it in. And then the storm sewer guys, RSS major structures are going to be able to zip on past them. And so that's all working out. They're going to have the milling done pretty soon. So things are moving forward and, uh, making some good progress out there. And Dan Jones widening phase three, utility relocation continues. You've probably seen the big transmission line poles. I think they have three or four more to set and they'll be done. So tomorrow they'll be done setting those. Then they have to run a bunch of wire and then you have to get all the people off the old red wooden poles and connect onto the new wood metal poles, but good progress there as well. On Dan Jones phase four, design is about 40% done. Geotech report should be received soon. Right-of-way engineering is ongoing. Appraising and buying will probably begin when that's complete. Land acquisition is anticipated to be complete by early next year. Dan Jones phase five, we'll get going as soon as we get a contract approved for that. CCMG, Howard Company, started on the concrete. They're on Autumn Faithway right now. getting all that concrete done, and then they'll move on to the next subdivision and the next one and the next one, and then they'll finally get over to 200 South. Asphalt's going to follow, and whenever they get ready to mobilize, they'll be able to go through wherever we already have the concrete. Reports, potholes, we just did 24 bags of cold patch. We were down quite a bit. So that's good from the previous month. MS4 inspections, we completed around 68 inspections, no fines. Betsy collected $20,597 in permit fees for just 10 permits. There were no accident reimbursement. Well, there was an accident reimbursement, but it was $16. So not a biggie. We conducted 13 right-of-way inspections and installed about 28 signs. Any questions?

Good evening.

Paul Lambie, Planning Department. At the June BZA, there was a request for a special exception and a variance to allow for a car wash on the south side of 36 between 7 Brew and Circle K. The BZA denied the special exception for that use. mainly because it was contrary to the recommendations of the newly adopted comprehensive plan, which identified the area around 36 Navon Avenue as the midtown district and recommends that redevelopment there be more pedestrian friendly and mixed use, which a car wash really doesn't fit into. So we're looking forward to the developer coming back with a proposal that will be more fitting and consistent with the comprehensive plan. Planning Commission heard two cases. There was a subdivision plat with a waiver to allow nine lots to be added at the north end of Fairwood. The Planning Commission approved that in large part because it will allow for dedication of right-of-way there to allow for the future extension of 200 South or Bradford Road. And then also some additional land there along the creek that they're going to transfer to the town, which will assist DBW with maintaining drainage there, as well as making sure they have enough space to build the bridge over the creek for the eventual road construction extension. And then the other case that the Planning Commission had was for the Nirvana Sports Project, which is on the vacant piece of land at Shiloh Crossing, west of the movie theater. They were requesting some waivers that staff and the commission expressed concern about relative to the building design architecture. So that was continued. It was also determined that the parking agreement that they thought was in place to allow them to use the movie theater parking space may not still be in effect. So they're taking additional time to try to work with the owner of the movie theater property to make sure they have a valid parking agreement in place since they have no space on their own parcel for parking. We had half dozen or so cases filed recently for the deadline for the August plan commission, a couple of development plan reviews, one for retail development at Satori Point on the vacant parcel along 36 west of the bank. And then one for Misty Eyes Animal Center to expand and pave their parking lot. A couple of final plats for, I believe for Fairwood and for Havens at Easton Gray, section five. and then a couple of minor plats as well. We're working, continuing to work with iWork to develop a online submission portal for all our applications to be submitted online. And we should have that hopefully up and running in the next couple months. And then we're trying to get back into comprehensively going through the Unified Development Ordinance so that we can bring forth some revisions to that in the next few months as well. And oh, and finally, on behalf of Mike Tully and the building department, I know he put out his monthly report, I believe maybe yesterday that might have been distributed to you guys or will be soon, so. Thank you. Any questions?

No, thank you, Paul.

Thank you.

Good evening. Dave Margeson, Deputy Chief of Enforcement Police Department. Officer Redman completed the entrance physical agility testing for the Law Enforcement Academy this morning. He's scheduled to begin August 31st there, which is much earlier than what we were originally told. We thought he was going to have to wait until likely the beginning of 27, so that's going to help us a great deal getting him through there and getting training continued on the road so he can operate solo. Officer Sajak is currently in the academy. He's scheduled to graduate on August the 21st. Enforcement officers have been very busy in the last couple weeks with some serious injury and fatal crash investigations. Night shift officer conducted a traffic stop this past weekend for a vehicle that was running a stoplight. He discovered marijuana packaged to sale in the vehicle. He made a great arrest on that stop and we're looking to work with the prosecutor's office to seize close to $1,300 that he had with him. It's not a great deal of money, but it helps with training and we provide some of that to the schools and it gets divvied up percentage-wise. Investigations have been very busy, working through background investigations for the hiring list. We currently have two candidates that are looking very promising and a few that will go in front of the merit board for removal due to background issues. Works continuing to progress on the new training facility. This week a lot of work has been being done on the new HVAC system. Several of our officers are continuing to attend specialized training and focused to become physical tactic instructors and field training officers to help with the new hires that we have so that the current instructors and field training officers don't get over tasked and burn out because they do a great job. But when we constantly having them do things and we sometimes lose them sooner than we wanted. So have more spread out the work more evenly. It helps with burnout. And we want to congratulate Officer Eric Cheek on being selected for an open position with the emergency response team that we have with the Brockburg Police Department. And I think that's all we have for updates. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

Thanks, Dave.

Julie?

We kind of touched on it during the work session. Right now we're currently starting our budget season. So Ryan and I are working with all the department heads on their form ones. I met with the police briefly this morning to kind of go over some of their stuff. I am in the midst of balancing our June 30 numbers, which are very important to actually be able to complete the Form 1s to get that good number for you guys to look over and for our department heads to kind of be able to project their next six months and what they're going to need for next year. That's about it right now.

Thank you. Ryan, nothing? No. Okay. Move on to council comment and liaison reports. Steve?

Well, since my two groups already met and I reported on them, I don't have any more to report. So I wish I could talk on and on, but I won't. Nothing for me.

Robert? The only thing that I'll bring up is that Talks Away Day is coming up July the 11th. It's from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. And this Saturday it will be held at our Hickory Elementary School. So if you have questions about what's accepted, what's not accepted, you can go on to recyclehendrickscounty.org and get a list of those items. So for me, we'll move on to new business, the Recreation Impact Fee Advisory Board.

Yeah, we talked about this previously. We are moving forward with our recreation impact fee update. One of the things we need to do is create an impact fee advisory board. As we discussed previously, there is a balance of the makeup between the development community and the non-development community. We did reach out to the, we need to have a multifamily housing representative, and you guys do have a letter in your package from the Indiana Apartment Association recommending Doug Elmore as the multifamily housing representative. You also got a letter from the Indiana Builders Association who recommended a single family builder representative, and that's John Lazaro. I have reached out to the realtor representative to the Indiana Realtors Association. I have not gotten a response back. So I did talk to Dan about how we should deal with that. And he said, if we don't get a response, that he would recommend just appointing someone. And so I had reached out to Ann Englehart to see if she would be willing to do it. She said if appointed, she'd be willing to fulfill that role as a realtor representative. And then we have some of our own Board and Commission members normally that we also have participate. We normally ask a member of the Planning Commission because if you guys recall, this recommendation actually goes to the Planning Commission and then the Planning Commission makes a recommendation to the Town Council. So I reached out to Dave Kaufman, who also used to kind of be on the, or was on the Parks Council to see if he'd be willing to serve. And so he was our recommendation as a Planning Commission member representative. Shelby talked to the Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Council, and Jonathan de Armand said he would like to participate from our Parks Council, and so we're recommending him. In the last time we did this, I represented the town as well as a resident and a staff member. You guys are welcome to appoint me again if you want. If you want to fill it with someone else, you're welcome to do that as well. And then the only person I didn't really talk to that's on this list is Dawn. And I don't know if she doesn't have to be the one to do it.

This is Dawn Lattin. She's

Don Loudon, yeah, the president of the town council. But in the past, we've used the liaison to the parks department, which is Don. So it doesn't have to be Don if someone else would like to do it. I think Robert actually did it last time. But if Don, certainly if you, these are all your appointments. So you guys get to decide who wants to do it. So if someone else is interested in seeing the process instead of Don, that's fine. But we just, we did what we had done in the past, which was the parks liaison. And so that's Don. But you guys are welcome to appoint someone else. So that's our recommendation. They are all fully your guys' appointments to make. So it's up to you if you want to make any changes.

When will this board meet?

It'll probably meet two to three times, 60 to 90 minutes each meeting. And it will probably be, one would probably be late July or early August. It's about once a month in July, August, and then maybe a September if necessary. It just depends. So it's a three to four hour commitment. And we'll be done before the end of the year, so. And then yeah, once every four years, if it stays the same. Again, we'll be back here if we, the next time.

Is there anyone that specifically wants to sit on it in place of me? If not, obviously I will serve.

Are you too busy or are you okay for three hours? Are you all right?

I think if it's once a month, I'm good.

All right.

Thanks, Ryan. It's not like I haven't talked to you all week.

My attorney just advised me I shouldn't do that to the town council president, but I don't always follow his advice.

Apologies. So do we need to take a vote for that?

Yes, please. If you can make a motion to approve the recommendation or whatever you guys want to do.

I can make a motion to, as Shelby has presented in the letter that Ryan went through there, that we accept all the people that have been suggested on the advisory committee as presented. Second.

Thank you. Julie, roll call, please.

Don Loudon.

Four.

Steve Eisenbarth. Four. Robert Pope. Four. Jason Buckett. Four.

Next is resolution 2026-19, the memorandum of agreement and transfer of County Road 525 East. I see Steve left, so.

Yeah, I'll handle it. And actually Anna drafted these. And so Steve and I worked with Anna on what to do with these. Again, we talked about these with you guys at the work session last month. These are two relinquishments. If you recall, we actually talked about three. When Anna looked at the one, she thinks all the steps were taken. And that the Avon Avenue relinquishment is actually already done. The county approved it and you guys approved it. So Anna thinks we don't need to go through that process with that. So that one is off the list. But this first memorandum is the transfer of County Road 525 East. If you guys recall, we're doing a road project in that area as part of our commitments to Easton Gray to improve that intersection. And so Steve had had a conversation with the county about relinquishing that piece of road since we're doing the improvements anyway. And so this is the memorandum of agreement with the county. The county will approve a reciprocal resolution. I've already shared it with the county engineer. I think he said they'd approve it, he thought, on the 23rd, I believe, of July, unless he has any issues with it. But that's what I think he told me. And so I'm happy to answer any questions. We do need this to be done by resolution in the memorandum of agreement, because then we do, the next step is we submitted to NDOT and then NDOT transfers the road responsibility and make sure that then we get the tax dollars or the gas tax dollars for maintaining that segment of road. So I'm happy to answer any questions.

No questions.

Make a motion that we approve Resolution 2026-19, the Memorandum of Agreement and Transfer of County Road 525 East as presented. I'll second.

Thank you. Julie, roll call, please.

Jason Puckett. Four. Don Loudon.

Four.

Robert Pope. Four. Steve Eisenbarth. Four.

Next is Resolution 2026-20, Accepting Relinquishment of a Portion of County Road 107.

And this one's a similar situation except for we actually previously had entered into an agreement with the County for the contribution. So this one's just the resolution for the relinquishment. Our agreement actually said we would do it. We just never followed through with this step. So this is the same thing. The town did the improvements on... 100 South from right in front of Sunchase to Ronald Reagan Parkway. That portion was actually in the county's jurisdiction. If you guys recall, the county did make a contribution to that. So this is just actually finalizing that last step in the process to make sure that the road is actually relinquished. So again, I'm happy to answer your questions.

If no discussion, we'll take a motion.

I'll make a motion that we approve resolution, and I'm trying to find here, 2026-20 as presented. I'll second.

Thank you, Julie.

Steve Eisenbarth. For. Robert Pope. For. Jason Puckett. For. Don Laudan.

For. Next is legal counsel report.

Nothing, thank you.

Next is another session of public comment. If anyone else would like to come forward. No one hopping up. Council comment. Council calendar.

Next meeting is July 23rd, 2026 at 7 p.m. Thank you, Dawn. If anybody missed it, I'm going to say it again. Talks Away on the 11th from 8 to 1 p.m. at Hickory Elementary. Please, if you have, I know the town does a heavy trash, but we are unable to take things that go to Talks Away Day. So if you have TVs, paint, those kind of things, fluorescent light bulbs, anything that you have to get rid of, please take them to Talks Away Day. It's a great opportunity and it's the only one that's local here in Avon. So this is your opportunity to get all your stuff there.

And we might say that normally our heavy trash is for Avon residents, and this is a county event.

Yeah, exactly. Great point, Dawn. That's all I've got. Thank you.

Thank you. Meeting adjourned.