Town Council - Regular Meeting

To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Welcome everyone.

Mr. President, members of council, I'd like to request an amendment to tonight's agenda. I'd like to add uh item T, no H, I'm sorry. H uh a uh a proposal from the assistant town manager uh for consensus uh to retrieve funds. I believe you put the documentation on your uh benches and he will be presenting. Uh this is to meet the obligation of a commitment for a grant that he's been awarded for insurance. We need a voting.

I'll move to amend the agenda as requested. Motion by Mr. Second. Second by Mr. Gerald. All in favor? All opposed. Motion carries 5. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. I apologize for my inability to decipher today's. Quite welcome. Thank you. Uh, first item on the agenda is approval of the March 4 town council minutes. Read and review the minutes. Any question, questions or changes? Motion. Motion to approve 3426 town council minutes.

Motion by Mr. Chadam. Second. Second. Mr. Dunn. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries 5. Um, any comments from the public? Mr. Morgan, I've had no request to speak tonight. Thank you, sir. Thank you. First item, public meeting amendment salary ordinance. And Miss Loftton.

Yes. This is to correct the member of firefighters for the year three. I had eight. I had eight listed and it should be nine. And on firefighter EMT year two, I had three and it should be two. And on firefighter EMT probationary, I had six and it should be seven. And on the um part-time police officer, we had discussed during budget hearings that that position be paid at what the probation area officer is, which is 3347 an hour. and then the assistant superintendent for the storm water. I neglected to put that on there. So that is changing one of the titles and the original salary ordinance to be the assistant superintendent. And then I on the original salary ordinance I have the storm water administrator 90% coming from general and 10% coming from storm water and it should be 50% from each of those

question to move on this we need to suspend the rules required a motion and unanimous vote. So motion to suspend the rules second motion by Mr. Jones second by Mr. Irby. Roll call vote, please. Yeah, I'm going to change the order of roll call to alphabeticals going forward. So, it will be Michael Chadam. Hi, Brett Bell. Hi, Chris Gerald. Hi, Greg Herby. Hi. And Dave Potter,

I motion five. Thank you. Any further discussion? Just want to recclarify that what the budgets submitted and approved by the state. We're good. Yes. Motion to approve the motion to approve ordinance 3 2026. Motion by Mr. Gerald. Second, Mr. Chad. Call please. Michael Chad. Hi. Brett Dow. Hi. Chris Chris Gerald. Hi. Greg Derby. I David. Hi. Motion carries 5. Thank you. Next up, expired warrants. Moftlin.

Yes. This is a list that I have to give each year of the expired warrants. Um, and just notify you that I've done that. I've expired those and put those back into the appropriations. Were these these just checks that never got cashed? Any comment? Thank you. Next up by RFPQ, Mr.

Good evening. What you have in front of you is a request to publicize request for proposals and qualifications for VOT. I kind of put something together real quick. I try to keep it to a minimum. It's two pages long and a VOT in Indiana is a public private partnership procurement method authorized by IC5-23 which we've already done in the previous ordinance ordinance that allows government entities to partner with private developers design finance construct and manage public infrastructure. This offers faster guaranteed price alternative to traditional design bid built for projects like public safety buildings, parks, streets and utilities. Um there are several benefits. Um the OT model includes guaranteed pricing efficiency and serves as a turnkey solution that can speed up and project delivery for complex projects like municipal utilities and buildings. It also adds expertise allows small government units to leverage private sector expertise in construction. But um then we get a little bit of leverage on pricing. So this comes before you just request to put this out to publicize. There's no contract. There's no guarantee of any projects without any money. It's just to send this out.

I'll just confirm you spoke briefly before this area. This is to give proposals from a developer that could help with several projects. That is correct. But not the builders, right?

That's that's correct. There can be builders on what's called a bench using someone else's term, but they will submit to the town so that they can be on that bench bench for each project that we can pull from to build specifically to the project that we're we're needing. So as we go along, each project can come back to the council um for its own approval. Well, it will for each project, but that may not happen until a period of time that we've done through the scoping period, we get guaranteed cost and we have accepted a contract, then it would come back to you for approval. And is it my understanding that you did change the some of the dates on the draft schedule on the milestone?

Yes, I did. What you have on the on your bench is is an updated schedule. Um I believe it's 4-23 and 26. That did not change. That is basically the statute requirement. Once we get past that, that's an internal time clock for us to review and select and interview individual developers at our timeline. So, it doesn't affect the the RFPQ that you have before. I just wanted to update that so we have a little bit more time to get selections and be very thorough in what we are looking for.

Develop a list of kind of what we're looking for future wise.

Yeah. I mean what will happen is we'll go through the departments and and whoever's needing facilities each one will go through a scoping period. So that project will go through each scoping period for each department for their needs. So we'll have guaranteed pricing for each project uh because funds will be limited and most of this is geared towards utilities because of the cost that came back uh based on some estimated construction cost. Um there there's an opportunity here that that we can finance through the through the developer and put this down five years out to to be a true BT. We have done one in the past which was unique because we had ARPA money, we had rain ready grant money and we had cash on hand to do all three of those procurement payment methods. We had to do a BG. It's a little bit different than what I'm proposing here. This is an umbrella developer that's going to pull in all the projects, but then he will go out and pick individual contractors, builders, build that team for each scoping period. So kind of the project around in my head would be basically public safety building kind of combining fire into one building. So this could possibly fall under if that developer to kind of hear that out.

Absolutely. Any project that town that needs whether it's infrastructure, streets, buildings, fire stations, police stations, public safety buildings, this would be covered under that as a procurement method for the project. But just to be clear, there's no list of potential project that goes out with this RFQ.

There is not. Those will be done after we send out the RFQP and that'll be based on our master plans, our five-year project plans. These essentially, we're going to be able to go out and get pricing for all of our projects at no cost in a perfect world to the town. Then we can determine how we're going to fund those projects based on the actual numbers that we get from real builders through the developer. But for this there's no no binding commitment on the part of the town for any further questions. Entertain a motion.

I will make a motion to allow the RFPQ for

motion by Mr. Chad. Second second by Mr. Dod. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you. Next up is the 2025 fiscal report, utilities report. Mr. Hoffman, you should have a copy of the final breakdown of utilities for 2025 and then estimated 2026 budgetary line. The one that I want to point out, all three utilities, um, they don't show up on this. I don't have an updated sheet, but all three utilities were operating in the black in 2020. Make I check that 2025 water was upside down, but our forecast for 2026 is they will be in the black because they had several projects that came out of that year. on your paperwork, the pro for 2026, it shows the water department, I believe, being $417,000 in the negative. Um, through a little bit of investigation with myself and Rey and Carrie, um, we found a $629,000 payment to Bowen Engineering was a final payment for the water man on 10th Street that had been on previous years as payment, so it showed up as an operating cost. That was a one-time project. That 629 came off, which makes our 2026 forecast to be positive. That doesn't show up on your paperwork, but I will get you copies that show that. And these are estimates forecast for 2026. So, they could come in better. If we have surprise repairs, they could come in worse. But what this does is it sets our bonding capacity, and that's what we need to look at uh for the future. question.

I'll fire a couple. Uh just looking at this same question applied almost to all three of them, but just picking on the the waste water, the sewage work at the moment. Looking at the salary weighted line on the first page uh we have three columns that the year 2025 then adjustments and then forecasted and I assume that forecasted as a forecast for 2026. When I look at the salary wages line on on the sewage uh report uh the adjustment is 190,000. So what is that 190,000 difference from 2025 to the forecast 2026? That's a 29% increase on water. is a 20% increase. Uh waste water or you know uh storm water is not near that much but what is what is that big increase on the salary wage line?

I will divert that question to read financial year. Can you help me out here?

Hello I'm Caitlyn. It's nice to meet you guys. Um, so for that specific item on page three, because we're talking about sewer right now, we have exactly where that adjustment is coming from. The way that we looked at it is we broke down every salary that comes out of the utilities um, and what is by ordinance, salary ordinance supposed to go to town, sewer, water, storm. And that is what derived our adjustment in addition to what was approved for every single individual to receive for 2026 increases. So that's where that number comes from.

On which page? Um so for sewer specifically it would be page three and that's where it's laying out all of the salaries and wages. That's page that actually numbered page three. Yes, I am looking at that and I don't see $190,487 number on that page. So, it's totaling to the $851,000. Oh, okay. It's forcing the total 851. Okay. Correct. Correct.

So, those Why were those amounts not in the 2025 numbers? just because the way we did it then I would have to assume because I I I wasn't involved. All right. Fair enough. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Um we were just trying to cheer it up. Of course. uh on the uh still on the sewer when I when I look at the uh available debt capacity numbers first of all can you tell me in general terms how that's how that's calculated that capacity number

absolutely so basically it's taking the revenues available for debt service and dividing that by 1.25 because we have to have 1.25 25% coverage. Absolutely. Um and then it's subtracting out your current debt and then that's providing the annual amount.

So on still sticking with two or then wouldn't that be correct in thinking that that actually that million 295 that we subtract out there really could be almost cut in half because half that pays off this year. So when we're looking at future debt capacity, we'd really be uh another 600,000 or so on top of that because about half the debt pays off this year of one of your outstanding debts, but it's a wrapped debt. So the outstanding and the maximum amount that's paid every year is still going to be that 1.2 million.

Okay. Um move over to water. Okay. When I look at the water, and I know Barry gave us a correction there that I don't know what the impact of that would be, but when I look at the water and look at the future, uh, the coverage line, when I look at the coverage for 2026 through 2030, that's a bit disturbing because we're under 100% coverage there. So, how do we deal with that? Absolutely. And I do have updated copies if you would like me to disperse those to show what that 600 Does it get us above 100%? Absolutely. Yes. It gets you to 160. So you are healthy. Yeah. And and all we have to do is hit the 100% mark

125. So So we're still going to be short at the on the 125. Not for water. You you with that 600,000 deducted, you are 160%. And even in future years, we're up that high. Correct. Okay. Yes. because that 600 is taken out indefinitely.

Okay. All right. Um, yeah, I I don't think I have any further questions other than a general comment. When I when I look at the debt capacity numbers, our borrowing capacity numbers and think about the projects we have on the horizon, we're way short of of the money. So, that's an issue we're going to have to deal with. Absolutely. Creative minds. I have no further questions. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Any further comments, Mr. L? No, I I just to add we did she did change that tax rate that you're talking about. Okay.

Good.

Okay. Have nothing else. Anything else? All right. Thank you. All right. Next up is after service agreement. Mr. Loftton, you're still up. So this is just an agreement of Bing engineering at our request to use them as the town's engineer um for waste water, water and storm water. Um this means that when we have a task that we need done, we can request their services. anything's done a great job for us in the past. They're local to stick with agree

very responsive. There's not a time that we don't call them. They pick up they don't pick up the phone. Would I be correct in looking at it as in substance kind of thing? They're becoming our town engineer. That is exactly the point. Um, we have them sitting on our side of the table. Whether they're designing, engineering, they are on the town side looking out for the town because they are very invested on how the town operates and they're very familiar with all three utilities.

I I will agree with comments already made. I've had the opportunity to sit down on a couple meetings where banning has been there and their knowledge of our existing systems and the detail is beneficial. So, Okay, just require a vote. Entertain a motion move to approve the master service agreement with engineering. Motion by Mr. Dob second. Second, Mr. Derby. All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries 50. Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh amen resolution 6 2026 social district hours. Miss Henderson.

Hello. I'm here to uh talk about resolution 62026. Um this is just an amendment to establish established seasonal hours for the social district. Do you have any questions? Are there no hours currently? The hours currently are 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. And this is changing it. I like it. Yeah. So this would happen from May through September during for the events like the farmers market, the um fair in the square event as well or brought up.

Just wrap my head around like the like the Christmas on the square like the lighting. How would that all play out? If this is outside of that time frame, it would fall under the original agreement. additional is increasing for that. This is just for seasonal. Okay, gotcha. It's just starting at like 3 hours earlier in the morning. Okay, thank you.

I'll move to approve resolution 6 2026 second by Mr. Gerald. All in favor. All carries. Thank you. Uh, next up, uh, request for funds, Hendris County Youth, uh, program, Mr. Morgan.

So, uh, about a month or so ago, you had a presentation by the Hendricks County Youth Assistance Program. Um, and after speaking with them, I believe we've come up with a dollar amount that, um, would be a feasible request. I have several of them here tonight that great to answer any questions. Um but uh I think the program is an exceptional program. Uh I do believe that the host fund is a uh a proper place. Uh and speaking with court treasur uh it makes sense to take it out there because it is obviously for the good of our community and this is for the good of our community. Obviously I know there's some concerns or questions that like to raise. I think I think they're totally appropriate. question comment from anyone.

I got a couple questions. Um Mark, do we have documentation or anything that states how we got to 50,000? Is there a you know that's how how do we get there? Where did that come from? I guess it's to pay the salary for one employee. Okay. I mean just basically paying to pay a salary for one employ cost me 50,000. That includes the benefits, includes staying on this program.

No, you're good. There's a there's a range for the employees and I chose not to go all the way to the bottom of the range and I chose not to go all the way to the top of the range. So, um the bottom is 47. Um the top is where they what they're making now, which is about 54. So, I didn't I wanted to go in the middle and is that benefits and all that,000? Actually, it is um salary and then the county will take care of the benefits. It's the same as all the other.

So I mean when you say like do you mean like do you mean like the amount because I don't have a dollar amount but I know for the youth assistance program they cover the Would you give us your name and address please?

Uh Travis Crane. I'm the juveninal court judge here in Bruce County. So, um they cover the health benefits the and then whatever they have to pay the employee pays toward health benefits. That's normal. It's whatever any other Hendricks County employee gets with regard to benefits. I don't know the dollar amount of what that is, but it would cover that same if that employee under the assistance program as well. It covers all the other employees. Right now we have one in Avon and two in two in Avon and two in

um and am I besides the benefits am I understanding everything correctly that one the county well the county is getting benefits but outside of that the county and the school are not contributing anything at this time besides benefits for correct and that's how it is for the other two programs as well

um because my my understanding and feedback can correct me if I'm The school is not doing this because of SP1 unknown. I'm kind of the same thing we sit up here as a municipality wonder about too how it's going to affect us. Um so I kind of have a concern when you know we have the same concern of how is this going to affect us down the road also because my understanding this is continual like every year it's going to come back over. Um, so I mean that's just a a statement or concern that that do you mind if I address that a little bit? Um, so, uh, at the beginning of the school year, Stacy and I actually met with the school and laid out the program, laid out what we've seen both in Planefield and in Danville. And the school was actually the superintendent and the principal were both very interested in the program. And they said had it not been to SB1. They just they're looking at it from the financial aspect and just and saying we don't necessarily know what this bill is going to do for our funding for the school and we can't commit to something without knowing what that funding looks like. It I don't think that it was an aspect of them not being interested in the program or not wanting the program. It was just a financial correct which is the same. Sure. Um I've looked there. I think the programs are very Don't misunderstand me. I truly think it is. Um, and I talked to Judge Kramer a little bit beforehand. You have the same, not the same amount, J, but you have the same problems coming through your court as G Township or Washington Township, things like that. You see the same thing with that that this youth assistance program is helping with to get

Yeah, absolutely. I think that um so one of the the main benefits of the youth assistance program is the giving the kids before they get into the junior system. That's the whole purpose of the the program. And when Stacy and I talked and we came up with just needing one one person in Danville versus the two in Planefield, it's because Danville is a smaller school. Danville's a smaller community and so we would only need one person to do the same job that two people are doing in Planefield. I think there's one of the biggest things that we're working on right now is one of the biggest problems we're seeing is truency. We have a really bad problem with truency in Danville and playing field and Avon. And one of the things that Stacy and I have been doing is partnering with our um project to attend which Danville is a part of. So the school is a part of that and they actually pay money every year to have a project to 10 leazison between the prosecutor's office and the school. So, I hooked Stacy up with with uh Roger, that's the gentleman's name that runs the youth assistance, I mean the um project attend and we're able to address problems beforehand because some of the problems that we're seeing fighting at school, that's a huge one that that the assistance program deals with. We're able to get the family services. We're able to get the family the help that they need a lot of times and some of them want they just don't know where to look for it before they get into the juvenile system. and I make them do those things with their family. And what I've seen, and I I think you and I were speaking about this before, is so I left the prosecutor's office in at the very beginning of 2022. Well, the youth assistance program started in 2017, 2018, and I was involved in that because I was the juvenile prosecutor. But then I left, and the program really took off after I left because it didn't take off as much because of COVID. it everything fell off the edge of the earth during co and when I came back what I one of the

first things that I did after meeting with Stacy was I went through and I looked at how many referrals were we getting from playing field what was the number of kids and then from that number I wanted to narrow it down to the schools and I saw a 30% drop from 2022 to 2024 in the number of referrals coming from the school and so for me that's a huge success for a program when you're talking about things like vaping at school. One of the things that I really want to um give the youth assistance program something that we can focus on is technology. The number of kids that are that are texting, giving um approach and potentially traffic through things like roadblocks, through Snapchat, things like that. I want to build a program for the kids here at Danville, for the kids at Avon, for the kids at Planefield that teaches them the dangers of those things because they're not being taught those things at home. And these families need somewhere or something to be able to help their kids. And that's what this this youth assistance program does. And it stops them from coming into the juvenile system because not every kid that comes into the juvenile system needs to be there. And I know you look at it from a money perspective, but I can tell you in fact the amount of money that the county saves by having this program is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars because the the programs that we have to put in now have to go through the Department of Child Services. The county, the state, the town, we all have to put money toward those things. And this at least and I and I'm telling you and I've seen a drop in the number. You want to know how many referrals we This was the first full year that we had Avon. You want to know how many referrals we've got this year from Avon? Two. Two referrals for juvenile issues. And you know how many we got the year before? 16. And that kind of leads me basically to

kind of my last comment. Um I'm all right with the program funding the program. Um I would like to see us fund it for a year and then at the end of the year reevaluation of it. Um, but to do that, I would like before we actually say we're going to fund this, I would like to see the data that says, "Hey, we have we have this many needs. We have this many, you know, I know you don't have referrals yet because you're not established, but you would kind of know what's coming in." Kind of just a baseline so that in a year we can come back and say, "Hey, this yeah, keep going. do do what you do, you know, because at the end at the end of the day, that's kind of what it's about is improving that over time, you know, if we're just going and disrespect, if we're just going to give $50,000, but we don't know. Sure,

you can come back in a year and go, hey, we had a 40% drop, well, how do we know? You know, I'd like to know ahead of time where where we're sitting to know where we're going to go in the future. Just just to add on to that, um anybody that that partners with us, they get um quarterly reports on a regular basis. So, um you're never in the dark of what's happening. Um and then I always ask to come back at a year regardless if you've asked me to or not. I always request that just so you can see the impact that you're making with the financial support that you're giving us. Right. So, that's that's that's something that we do anyways. Right. So, I I just kind of would like to see where we're going to start and as those quarter weeks go along, it kind of gives us a better idea,

you know, hey, how are we doing or where are we going? Are we going in the right direction or do we need more? You know, because at some point, do you need another person? Because now all of a sudden your program is working is working correctly, but for some reason, we just keep getting more and more. So, um, what I what I can say with that too is I can share numbers and information with regard to what I'm seeing, what we're seeing coming in the court. I just can't give you specifics because the the way that the law is set up with

um and but I also think that even within our chains cases, this program is very helpful. Um, because again is where it is catching them before they end up in the system. And that's ultimately what we want. And the kids that um are getting the help from this and and I can just share kind of my own personal stuff. I grew up on the east side of India in a family filled with drugs, alcohol, abuse, only person in my family who graduated from high school ever. And it was because of a program like this and having adults speak into my life that brought me to the place that I am today. And so there is tremendous value to the people in this community, especially for those that there it's that gap, right? It's that gap with kids where the families are in need of something. We don't know what that thing is yet. But if we have a mechanism and a system in place that can point them in the right direction, pair them up with adults. I mean, we've seen tremendous success from this. And I wish that um yeah, I wish that she was here to share the stories of what what's going on specifically with these kids. So, I'm happy to answer any other questions for sure. And so is Stacy. So,

I mean, he he took most of the questions. I have I you know I mean I guess one question just for clarification on my end obviously the goal is to keep them out the system. Um if I remember during the presentation it sounded like one of the bigger needs for Danville was actually at like North Elementary. So it's not just focusing on you know high school age individuals. It this individual would maybe be housed say somewhere at the high school or wherever they're able to find office space. So you as the funding body get to decide where it's used. And what I mean by that, so in playing field, we're in all the school in the middle school and high school. We are ages three through 17.

And in Avon, we're only in the high school. And that's what that's what they said. That's where their need was. They said, "This is our big need. However, I want to get into that means it too." But you as the funding body can kind of divert this program to where you believe the need is most and you say we want it at all three schools. We will put it at all three schools and we will get referrals and we will help these kids and these families in whatever way we can no matter if they're three years old, zero years old or 19 years old. I just wanted to make sure we weren't kind of I guess in one one school or target audience so to speak. No, I think at the time they were they were just mentioning that that was where he saw the biggest need. Yeah. So,

I think it's a great program. I don't know how we could do

I'm all in favor of it. But I do have a couple of questions in in terms of uh it it bothers me a bit the maybe not total evidence but the lack of school participation or contribution to the monetary aspect of it. Uh the town is subject to the same legislative uncertainty that the school is. So you know we face the same question marks that they have. So for them to hide behind that I think is a maybe a bit of an excuse. Maybe some legitimacy to it but a bit of an excuse. So that bothers me a bit. Uh secondly when I look at it 100% of the uh population of students that are subject to assistance here are students in the school district. They're not all necessary citizens of the town of Danville. Sure. They're not all. So, so the town would be potentially contributing to assistance for students that aren't don't live in the much. Having said that though, I'm I'm still in favor of it. Uh, I would say though that I would like to look at it as, and I think you've already confirmed this, as a one-year commitment, and we reevaluate next year. Uh, I would like to also uh request that another presentation be made to the school and I would like to be present when that's made. I'd like to see the reaction of Dr. Schaefer and the board members when you when you present it. So, I would I would request that for for the next year when you come around to this point in time uh that uh an audience be uh requested before the school board and I'd like to be there to witness.

Well, and I think the nice thing about that is we'll actually have something to point to specifically with Danville. It's not we're not pointing to Avon. We're not pointing to playing field. We can point to Danville and say this is the difference that we're making. Okay. That's all I have. So, with that, I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the request for funds for the Index County Youth Assistance Program. Motion by Mr. Gerald. Second. Second by Mr. Chadam. Roll call. Michael Chadam. Hi. D. Hi. Chris Gerald. Hi. Greg Irby. Dave Potter. I. Motion carries 40. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

Congratulations. Uh, next and last last item on our agenda is Mazy.

All right. I was going to pull it up here, but uh it's not one to pull up. So, you have the papers in front of you. Um, so we applied for a ready grant and if with this commitment from you, we should receive the ready. So, um, so available funds on the left there, grant match in the red. I'm just asking for the red to be committed. And if, uh, we move forward, it'll be $900,000 towards our trail. And there's still funding sources in the works.

Yeah, there's still like five or six things that we're working on that look like possibilities. So, uh, this looks like a reality. with your help question. Tell me what the red numbers are again.

So the red numbers are just the funds that I would So the available on the left is what's in the account and then the funds on the right are what I would be taking from the account for matching dollars. So there would still be like 50% in it's actually more than that but that's the impact fee dollars. Um and then also both those funds will still be generating revenue every month from this what kind of what's the timeline where do we stand on progress on that project?

So we should be meeting next week and you'll be in that meeting as well. Uh and that's what we're trying to do. So, I had to secure some funds and have some meetings. I still got maybe like two or three other meetings to have. Uh, but the goal would be 2026 would be to uh finish the plans and then 2027 would be action. So, starting to see construction happening. Anything else? Do we need a vote on this or just Yes. And I think two separate accounts. So, would it have to be separate, right? Two votes. Two votes. Yeah. I'll move to approve the commitment request and beverage account and the amount requested.

Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries 5. I'll move to approve the commitment for the in the impact account request. Motion by Mr. Second. Second by Mr. D. All in favor? I motion all opposed. Motion carries 5. Thank you, sir. Get to work.

All right, I think we are down to staff and council comments. Mr. Marty,

just a couple of quick things. I want to thank everyone who came out yesterday for the dying of the fountain. I know it was bitter cold, but given the temperature, I thought it was very well attended. Um, I don't know exact numbers, but I'd say it's it was above 25. So, thought that was a real nice showing. Um, Will and I will be heading out to town tomorrow uh for lunch. Um, we're going to McCordsville uh to celebrate the um I guess retirement or moving on, I don't know what you want to call it, of uh one of the AI staff members who was the liaison for the Indiana Municipal Managers Association. Uh she's moving on and so they're having a lunch for her. She's done an exceptional job in dealing with town managers across the state of Indiana. And I'd like to congratulate Will for being elected the vice president of the Indiana Municipal Managers Association for this year.

Congratulations. Any comments for Mr. Lacy? Thank you to everybody who participated in St. Patty's Day success. Mr. Young. Yes, sir. M Mr. Carol, Mr. Herby. Um, great job on all St. Patty's Day stuff. I've heard nothing but good things. Nice work everybody. Reiterate that. Unfortunately did not make it out. Bedric Cole. So kudos to the real troopers that did show out to the the dying. Uh was happy to see on on social the turnout for the 5K still even in those conditions.

Uh it was really cool to see the town kind of rally and and still with that. Congrats will that's exciting stuff. Thank you represent us well. Um, I would like to uh just publicly say, you know, give condolences to to Donna Edwards and family for the loss of Gary, former police chief. Uh, both have been a staple of the community for many, many years. Both served Danville for many years. Um, so just sadness and condolences to them. So, uh, best wishes to officer Wilson and his recovery. Um, and then just want to appreciate the public safety and uh our water department specifically in navigating any extreme temperatures uh whether it's main breaks or fire responses as of late.

Um, I took a little bit of mind but just want to give our thoughts and prayers to Donna and the police department. John does a great job for us. Always has the care of being police chief. He's very well loved and very well liked in the community. Um I also wanted to thank uh the Hendricks County Fire 406. Um Mr. Potter and I participated in their fire 101. Um that's a very for for what little it is and Mark being an experiment for what little it is. That's a very intense program. Um, I'm sure Mark's been through a couple times, but if you've never been through one, I know those are elected officials, but if you've never been to one, they literally stick you in the middle of control of experiencing the real thing.

Yeah. You know, when you're you got the real thing going on, that's there's a completely different, you know, mindset. That's why I didn't go very well. But yeah, that was a great experience and I want to thank those guys for doing that for us. Thank everybody for what you do every day for us. Appreciate it. Once again, I have nothing to add. I've already been thank,88454. Second by Mr. Chadam. All in favor?

I opposed. Motion carries 5 payroll docking to approve payroll. Second by Mr. Gerald. All in favor Gerald second by Mr. Shadow. All in favor

Mr. Holly.