Common Council - Regular Meeting

meeting. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, roll call, please. Carol Steve Beardsley, present. Isaac Chavez, Taylor Krenshaw, present. John Large present. Robert Stevens present. Clarence Warren present. Eric Woods present. Okay. Next we have the minutes from the March 9th 2026 meeting and the April 8th 2026. And those may have to be passed separately because I don't think everyone was here for the special meeting.

That's correct. I move approval of March 9th 26th regular meeting. Second. Roll call, please. Steve Beardsley. Hi. Isaac Chavez. Hi. Taylor Krenshaw. Hi. John Large. Hi, Robert Stevens. Hi, Clarence Woren. Hi, Eric Woods. Hi. Okay, those minutes are passed.

The next set of minutes from April 8th, um there are a couple of corrections that need to be made um towards the B under ordinance number 2609. Every paragraph that references how many eyes were recorded should say six instead of seven. I believe there are three places. So with with that ch I would like that change mentioned actually in resolution 2606 there's also one. So there's there are three locations for that. With that change I would I would like that to be added to the motion when it's made.

I move approval of April 8th special meeting as amended. Roll call, please. Steve Beardsley. Hi. Isaac Chavez. Hi. Taylor Krenshaw. Hi. John Large. Hi. Robert Stevens. Hi. Clarence Woren. Abstain. Eric Woods. Hi.

Okay, those me meeting minutes passed as well. Uh, public comments. Did we have anything? Okay. Thank you. At this time, I'm going to recess the council meeting at 7:03 and open a public hearing on ordinance number 26-06. Thank you. And this is the ordinance amending ordinance establishing procedures and fees for trash collection and disposal of garbage and waste.

Yeah, we'll have second reading. Well, yeah, right now this is just the public hearing for that. Does anybody have any comments, concerns? I'm going to say the the only concern I have is uh how we're going to convey the differences in the recycle procedures and uh whether there's going to be a little bit of a a grace period while people are learning the differences. Brian, would you like to say anything to that? Can you explain what you mean? Okay. It's it's my understanding that that there are changes to to the recycle. There's no changes to recycle.

Well, we're making them put it in bags or containers. The only thing we have we have we have pickup houses now where people just bring their cans, bottles, everything out, just throw on the ground. And and a lot of people are used to doing that. How are we going to let them know that there's a change? And and is there going to be kind of a grace period in in enforcing? It can be a grace period. I mean, yeah, we've spoken to a lot of the residents already and let them know what's happening. Okay. Well, again, in in the old days, you'd put in the paper because everybody got the paper. Now, nobody does. How do you How do you tell people something like this? Facebook. I think we could put it on social media. I've taken pictures. I've got pictures of what's acceptable and not acceptable. Okay. So,

maybe even have um Clinton County Daily News put something out. Yep. can go. Nobody ever Nobody looks at him. May maybe have maybe have a standard thing printed up so if you come to a house where they haven't done it, leave it on their door kind of thing. Okay. Yeah, I like that. I I just want to make sure the people that didn't know about it have have a chance to learn about it. Okay. Thank you, Brian. Okay. Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing then at 7:05 and reopen the council meeting for ordinance number 26-06. I'd like to make a motion to pass ordinance number 2606 on second reading.

Second. Roll call, please. Steve Beardsley, I. Isaac Chavez, I. Taylor Crrenshaw. Hi. John Large. Hi. Robert Stevens. Hi. Clarence Warren. Hi. Eric Woods. Okay. Ordinance number 26-06 passes on second reading. Next we have ordinance number 26-08. And mayor, do you want me to speak to that? Yes.

Okay. So, this is uh an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance. Um and this will change the zoning for um the property that was recently annexed into the city of Frankfurt for Tad Rentals. um when we do an annexation, if they want to do a permitting process or anything like that, they have to have it reszoned into our district um our zoning as opposed to the county zoning. So, that's what this does. We actually cannot take action on this at this point. Um but it has to be presented after the city plan commission uh approves it. So, the city plan commission has approved it and given it a favorable recommendation. It comes before the council. We have to wait until the annexation is complete, which is 90 days after the date of publication. So that ordinance has been published. We're just waiting out the 90 days and then the council can take action on it after that time. So that's for your information only and then once we get to June um we will be able to take action on that and the council can either approve it and make it uh reszoned. They can uh deny it or they can take no action and if you take no action for 90 days then it automatically um becomes uh passed. So that's what that is.

Okay. So then in June this will just come back up on the agenda. Yes. Yes. So after the 90 days has passed from data publication then we'll have to um have that on the agenda um so that that can be uh adopted if that's what the council chooses. Okay. And that can go on the actual meeting date of June. I will have to double check the date that it was published because I think it will actually have to be a special meeting. Okay. I will I'll send you an email on that. Yeah. because I think the date of publication was maybe March 18th, which means 90 days would be approximately June 18th, which would be after our council meeting. Okay.

Okay. Unfinished business. Did you bring the things down that I from Okay. I wondered. I think they're on your desk. I think I Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay, we'll move on to new business and the North Central Indiana Regional Planning Council. We have Steven Ray with us this evening.

Called me up early. I caught me by surprise. I apologize. We're We're moving through.

Thanks, Mayor. I'm I'm Steven Ray. I'm the executive director of the North Central Indiana Regional Planning Council. Um just here to give you a quick update, an annual update on where we're at with the RPC. Um passing around a dashboard. You got a full house, so you may have to share at some point. Um top left hand corner shows you that over the past 11 years we've secured uh $26 million for our communities in the region and I call that our normal operations. We do that um that's our day-to-day operations and does not include the ready dollars. Um top right hand corner breaks it out by county. You can see that uh Clinton County I think is a little over $7 million of that 26. Uh then you get down into the bottom leftand corner. Last year we worked on uh three projects in Clinton County um under that $26 million normal operation. Um couple of projects in KFax and um I believe Michigan Town and then we do traffic counts for the county as well. Uh the bottom right hand corner talks about uh 159 projects in 11 years. And um our return on investment for every dollar that we receive, we've returned um a little almost $14. And then the return per capita, that's um 7. We receive 77 cents per capita. That return on on uh per capita is almost $12. Um, so now I'm going to jump back into that lefthand column there and bottom

left corner and talk a little bit about um, ready uh, ready one. We're wrapping up that was a $30 million um, program that the region secured. Uh, we're wrapping up three projects here in Clinton County. One's the Melebrook uh, development, housing development. uh the uh iron block engagement center, that project's completed. And then the roundhouse cleanup, that project's uh due to be completed uh just later this summer/fall. So those three projects are uh either completed or on scheduled to be completed. We have to have all of ready one dollars expended by the end of the year. It's the ARPA money. So you guys are familiar with that, I'm sure. uh ready to we have one project um in the pipeline and that is uh the Wildcat Career Center project. Um we're working on putting pulling together that application and getting that submitted to the state. Um just one real comment on that is all of our readyto projects have to be approved by the state by the end of June and then the uh first draw by the end of September. So uh we're pushing our projects as quickly as possible to move forward. Big picture, that's really all I have. I've got a a service contract that needs to be updated. We signed it two years ago.

Okay. I'll present that via email to you guys and you can take it up at your next meeting and then an invoice as well. Okay. So, thank you. Any questions or comments or anybody have anything? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Did we have the um um we didn't did you want that tonight? I didn't I didn't know if you wanted to do that tonight. That's okay. We don't have to pack it to you for Okay. What then? What about we talk about the station? Yeah, that we can talk about in my section if you want.

Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure. Okay. Tonight I had Shan Sheridan come and talk to us a little bit and if you have questions feel free to ask them about the career tech center and exactly what's going on with that. It kind of goes along with the ready grant as well. So if you can give us some ideas on how we're wanting to move forward.

Thank you mayor. Appreciate it. Thank you council for the opportunity to be here tonight. Uh Stephen I will that I think it is apppropo that we're piggybacking off of Stephen. the ready dollars are what is so crucial and vital uh for this project. I think it's kind of this is going to be like a triad because between the mayor uh uh Stan, myself, Steve actually it's a quartet uh because we've all living this right now uh the mayor uh working with in within the PIP group uh with the county and the city and the ready our re our regional uh North Central Regional Partnership and the Clinton County Economic Advancement Foundation uh have been discussing this as opportunity of of what we need to do with the um the IvyTech building as most of you know it's costing and I think Andrea was sharing some numbers with me and it was pretty

pretty significant

pretty significant how much money is being spent from the city and the county on the building and it's kind of nickel and dimming everyone. So the the plan is so the schools came back. They have all agreed the superintendents have all agreed that this is the place that they would like to have the career center and feel free to correct me on anything mayor and Stan as well as we discuss this but um with that which is a great thing because not always been able to get them on the same page but everyone is tracking on the same page that this is a great place. Uh there's about 69 uh students enrolled right now. They're looking at probably close to 100 uh 125 to 150 in the fall. Uh Georgia and Josie have just doing a great job of uh marketing that and getting more kids involved. The uh the challenge has been uh you know the ongoing uh repair and cost that the city and county continues to incur. So, um, we decided that, um, can they just give this give the property to the schools, but the schools didn't want to incur that cost either. So, uh, at the end of the day, we needed some dollars. So, the money that was left from the Banderas point, uh, we basically asked our regional, uh, group if we could re reallocate those dollars into this project for the career center. Um and the regional group has been very kind to work with and have said uh yes and can continue to give us the check. We still have some check boxes to go through. Uh some including this presentation um a you know basically uh the affirmation from the council uh the mayor also uh from the county and from the school boards and the superintendent are all working on that and creating a a memorandum of understanding. uh

interlocal agreement is being worked on with the city and the county. And so um we all were at that point and we're ready to do it and the schools come back and said we don't think that we can take that responsibility for probably another four or five years. Then entered SE. So we went back to Clinton County Economic Advancement Foundation and asked if this group could be kind of the parking place or the parking garage for the project. In other words, could the county and the city donate the property to SE hold the property until such time that the schools would be willing to uh take that property over? So, um right now we're looking at somewhere in a like a five-year range. Uh but unfortunately, the ready dollars are not going to wait that long. So, we have to we had to move fairly quickly. This does two things. Um, it not only gets us to move and get the career center, uh, or keep the the the career center intact and sustainable, uh, but it also checks the bar the the the mark that we have to that's required by the ready grant for a public match. So the city and the county are meeting the public match by donating that property that's already been costing the city and county uh to SE and then SE can hold that and then part of a pri and and also part of the private match is that SE will be able to donate that uh to the schools at a such at at such given time. So that's pretty much that in a nutshell. I know it's a little convoluted and a little crazy, but sometimes you have to jump through some of the the hoops to get to make sure that we're getting the dollars that uh um that we need. This is a 1.234 uh million1,234,000 grant. Um that is basically going to take care of all of the issues with

HVAC. Uh there's there's there's several other pieces and then it allows us to start planning for the future and creating the welding labs and all of that that we would like to see happen there on that location. So um when IvyTech and believe me um uh as we found out this past week with Crawford'sville, IvyTech continues to um you know kind of just pick up and leave communities and it's leaving a vacuum. And so we believe that this is a great opportunity. Uh and other communities are doing the same thing. Uh to take this building, this property, and continue to make it a learning center. Uh we need that career center. And this is uh what I'm excited about. It's the opportunity uh that we have to um uh continue CTE training uh and do it with superintendent all on board and in agreement. and it's happening downtown Frankfurt which I think is an economic impact uh as kids will go in and out and they'll help help the local businesses as well. So, uh Stan, you want to add anything or mayor any any questions? I'll be glad to to answer them. Stan is the president of Clinton County Economic Advancement Foundation and um and I'm glad Stephen was here as well because he could answer any questions regarding the gr the grant itself. So,

I would just say that I would assure you that the foundation will be a good parking lot for your asset until it transfers to the schools of corporations and our our mission statement is economic development uh promoting uh other types of development and solving trying to solve blight and that sort of thing. And uh uh it was very uh enlightening because was it three years ago the superintendent were fragmented. Yeah. And now at this time all four of together the same direction.

Yeah. So I think it's a very positive Yeah. I think for this project totally agree and I think it's important that we keep that in our community. It's very important in our community and for our students and each one of the schools and I thank SE for taking on that responsibility. It should be noted that SE will not really benefit from taking on this project. We're not going to put any money in our pockers from it. We're just a middleman to move the transfer forward

and the and the hope is that the dollars will cover most of the issues that with the expenses that have been occurring from uh HVAC and and just the other things that those things will be taken care of and we can start phase two. It'll be the seed to go into phase two which would be welding labs and and other things that the the career center wants wants to be able to do. What's the timeline? Uh well, the timeline would be ASAP because as you heard Stephen say, the grant has to be we have to have decisions made by the end of June. Uh and that money is spent by the end of 28. 28.

Yeah. 28. So we we just have about 18 months to, you know, get that in. And uh we're working with Kelly Good uh as far as the architect uh is concerned. Matt Roa has taken the lead point from the schools and the superintendents. He is the president of the Wildcat Cooperative and the Wildcat Wildcat Cooperative is four is the four superintendent uh from the of the different schools districts. So, and they also have agreed to commit funds to help keep this going for the next four or five years. They're going to commit to the operational and the operational along with the other. Yeah.

My only question is what happens in four or five years the schools change their minds and they decide they don't want it then. So, we we've discussed that and so that there would be some type of clause a clawback uh in the uh contract that it would it would revert back to the city and the county. So, at that time the city and county would have that asset back. Um hopefully that will not be the case. So, at least all the repairs be done. We can also include language in the deed that says that if it's not used for a specific purpose um that it it would revert back to the city and to the county. Okay.

Yes. So a restrictive covenant that could be added. Um which municipal entity is going to facilitate the ready grant dollars? Is that going to be the schools? Um that's a good question. That's a question that I we've asked Matt. I we would and I believe that they are going to make that decision at their next board meeting. But if they say yes, we would much rather them and I think that was what we decided at the last se was it would be the schools

and they would be the applicant eventually. So we're kind of in the we're in the just in the middle right now. So from the city standpoint, the only requirement on our end would be agree to do an interlocal agreement to do a deed with a right of reverter and to have that be our inind matching dollars. Yes. Okay. Yes, that's correct. Okay.

And I just passed I just gave Eric he's passing out uh this is uh part of the regional this is the arts and cultural side of ready. This is the dollars that come from Lily and uh that this is a brochure that's really more focused on Clinton County and our assets when when we put this asset together a few well this has been about gosh a year ago probably over a year. So there's some things that are not they're no longer in our community like the core center, but uh when we put the assets together that Lily was asking for all of these assets and so as we were putting them together, some of those might not make sense, but I will tell you the Red Barn Theater is going after a significant uh grant. U you might have been asked to write a support letter. Um and so that's one of the uh uh the pieces of the arts and cultural part that we want to support uh here in our community. So, Stephen, did you have anything? You asked me to say something. I can't remember.

Yeah, that's fine. Um, the arts and culture, the Lily applications are due on Yeah. Wednesday, April 15th. Yeah.

Announcements will be July 1st. Um, and then the other thing associated with the strategic plan is we're putting together the regional planning county council is putting together a working group, an arts and culture working group and we're looking for uh participation representation from Frankfurt and Clinton County. So, um, we're working on setting that schedule as we speak. So, if you've got a name, if you've got a friend, a neighbor, if you're interested in wanting to be a part of that uh working group, uh my contact information is at the bottom of the dashboard. Give me a call, send me an email. Right now, I don't know that we have any representation from Clinton County. So, we love to have

Carol Price was initially I think so, but I'm not too sure. She's continuing on in that, but she was initially. So, okay. Does anybody have any questions or anything else? Thank you. Thank you. No problem. Thank you. I knew you could explain that much better than I could. A little complicated. It's a little like confusing. Oh my goodness. Okay. Next. Um, were we just going to talk about that appraisal? Did everybody get a copy of that? They did. Okay. They should have. Yes. Oh, is that what you want?

It's the um you tell me. I don't care. I don't care. We can do that with So, do you want to do this one then? No. No. I was talking about courts resolution about the police. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. You want Yes. Yeah, let's do that.

So, in your packets was an appraisal of the uh police station um on Washington. Um there has been a lot of discussion about what to do with the police station. Presently, it's just been sitting. Um I know Chief Shoemaker would love to have something happen with it so it can come out of uh his budget. Um but uh the board of works has been kind of evaluating what to do with it. Um, ultimately it's the council's decision, but the board of works because they've been an integral part of kind of looking at what different options are and things like that, they have done a resolution recommending to the council um to gift that to the redevelopment commission and allow them to um find a purpose for it. Uh the redevelopment commission has a little bit more authority um or flexibility with regard to um public buildings than the city has. the city has to, if we were to sell it, we would have to sell it for the um average of two appraised uh values. We couldn't sell it for less than that. We would also have to um we couldn't give it away unless it was to a nonprofit corporation. We couldn't, you know, work with the developer and negotiate or anything like that for it. Whereas the redevelopment commission has the ability to do those things. Um so the redevelopment commission is interested in the property. uh the board of works had an appraisal done so that we could kind of understand what the value of that property is. Um and so their recommendation would be to um to distribute that property to the redevelopment commission to allow them to try and find an economic development use for it. Um and so ultimately though, like I said, this is the council's decision. So you all can decide not to do that. You can decide to do something else with it. Um, but the board of works after some discussion and some evaluation thought that that might be an appropriate use for it at this point so that we can try and find something to go in there instead of it just sitting empty for um, you know, an indefinite

period of time. So, they did uh, there is a resolution. They did pass that tonight at the at their meeting. The resolution in your packets wasn't signed, but they did pass that tonight. So, um, if you're interested, no decision has to be made today. Um, but you're welcome to make one if you so choose. I think the RDC is a perfect idea. I think that's I think that's a great idea. So, I think we have to face facts. No one's going to pay $300,000 for this. So, we're going to have to use as an economic development tool through the RDC. Yeah, I agree. So, was he a motion on it or

um so if I have consensus that that's that that's the direction that we want to go, then I will prepare a resolution um so that we can get that over to the RDC. There has to be a resolution from you all. And then there has to be a resolution from the RDC that basically matches what you all say. And then I'd also need to prepare a deed um so that we could deed it. Well, I guess it I don't know that we need to prepare a deed, but we'd need to do some sort of transfer document so that it transfers over to to them and then um they would have to pass that at their meeting as well. So, I will work on um a resolution and then you all can approve that resolution and that would take care of it. So, we don't really need a motion tonight. Just consensus. We all favor. Are you okay with that?

Consensus. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Then next I have the SS4A. Um so the next resolution we have um is for the safe streets for all. Um there are two different versions of this resolution and the only thing that is different in it is that um we are supposed to in this resolution uh it's it's called a a version zero. Um and and what it is is it's trying to eliminate all um accidents and um safety hazards associated with our streets and we're doing that with the Mash Road project. Um and we have a grant to work on that that um so this uh resolution what it does is it basically says that you guys are committed to try to make the streets safer and that we're working toward that. Kimberly recommended um a percentage of um accident reduction by a certain year and that's in one of the versions of the resolution or you can come up with a different percentage for a different time frame if you wanted and that's why we have a second version that has blanks in it and it's ultimately up to you. This would need to be passed. It doesn't have to be passed tonight if you want to review it further. It does need to be passed in May though and it's a requirement for our grant process. What does the city receive from this grant?

Um, the city received a pretty large grant to redo the Mash Road. No, this is the Kimberly, do you want to speak about it? Yeah, I'm thinking of a different thing. I'm sorry. Those two are intertwined. Intertwined. Everything's intertwined.

Those two grants have intertwined because we're using the same engineering firm. Um this grant was already um approved and in our through the RDC um is paying for the action plan. So this is a part of the action plan that um we are taking steps to make our streets safer. Um, the reason I gave the percentage in the year, I kind of looked across um, what other communities are doing across Indiana, consulted with our engineering firm, um, to kind of give a timeline to put a little um, you know, whether it's through CCMG where we're now doing um, ADA on our sidewalks, um, adding sidewalks, um, different things to kind of put together towards this action plan. So, um, we don't have to go with my recommendation. And that's just what the research I've done and kind of um with Alicia's help and and Brian Kilman, the street superintendent, to put this all together. So, it's actually for SS4A, the action plan that we'll be able to use this plan um and move it forward, whether it's an implementation, which is a second part of the grant, or to be able to go after more federal highway safety grants or CCMG or any of those road projects that we want to move forward with.

I have a question. This helps us in the planning part of it. This helps us as far as what we can do to make our streets safer, whether it's walking, biking, all those type things. It's not just vehicular Yes. uh safety. Do we know what our fatal and serious crashes are right now? We're in the process of combining all of that. Um it's a long list of um because they go back 10 years. So to be able to look at the 10 years and be able to to see what that excuse me what that looks like. Okay. Because I I was just wondering how you're going to evaluate 50% if we don't know where to start.

Oh, we're going to be bringing you a whole plan of things for you to review. Don't you worry, Clarence. Don't you worry. Is there any reason I should drag our feet on this though? Do you do you want to go ahead and uh approve this tonight? Would you want to review it and do it at our next meeting? And then which resolution would you want to use? I just want to ask everybody, well, when are those numbers coming in that she's talking about? I mean, when are we going to know? Is that going to be by the numbers? May meeting. Yeah, we will know by the May meeting. Okay. got some numbers so we know

you want to put that on the agenda then for the May meeting. I'm not sure which which way would you prefer with the percent or the Well, I think the percentage definitely gives you a goal. Yeah. Without a percent, we don't have a goal. Well, I mean, you would have to pick a percentage. So, you can either use the percentage that Kimberly recommended or you can pick some other percentage by some other year. So, one way or the other, we have to have a percent of some type. Yeah, we can't just leave it blank. Sorry. We can find out what the numbers are next meeting. Then maybe we go from there. What percentage we want? We'll have that at the next meeting, man.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. And then the easement for um 853 South Jackson. Is that on your list? Okay. Or West Jackson. Or West Jackson.

So um Karen Butcher reached out to me. Um the gang wars are they own the building that's kind of on that little triangle that heads from Alhhamra and Jackson where they they kind of intersect and that very I guess northernmost tip of that part um there's a little triangle that the city actually owns right now and it has been as long as I've lived here that is parking for that building and they have a parking lot on it and people park on it. Um, we found out from Karen that the city actually owns that piece and they're trying to sell their building. Um, and they're having some difficulty because they don't have any sort of written agreement or anything about that parking. And so, it's difficult to sell a building if you don't have any parking spots. So, they had uh spoken with me about what could potentially happen um with that. Initially, they were talking about the city giving it to them um or selling it to them, but we have utilities underneath there. So, I didn't really love that idea. So, the compromise that we had come up with was um granting an easement so that they could have parking over that, which they've already kind of been doing for a number of years. Um and then because they'd have that written and recorded easement, that would help them sell the facility because then that would run with the land and and future owners could use that as parking. in that easement agreement that I prepared, um it does provide that we would have access to um you know, dig it all up if we needed to for the utilities. Um that they couldn't damage any of the utilities, that if we did dig it up that we're not paying for any of the replacement of the parking lot, that they couldn't put any structures on it. They can just put decorative landscaping and pavement over it, which presently there is pavement over it um as it stands. And so it wouldn't really change anything other than formalizing kind of what the status quo is.

Now, if our utilities goes in there and does any repairs, tears up the black top, do we have to repair? No. The easement agreement provides that if the utilities goes in there and tears up the black top that the um owner of the building would be required to replace that black top. Okay. So, it's basically maintenance zero for us.

Yeah. It it should I mean it clarifies some of the maintenance because right now um my position would be that the utilities would not pay to put the black top back because they don't really have any right to put it on there anyway legally speaking. Um but it clarifies it so that there's no question that we're not putting any improvements back on there and that the utilities has every right to dig it up whenever they feel uh it's appropriate. They can put any utility structures they want to in there. Um, so it shouldn't harm the utilities in any way. Um, it it just basically memorializes what's been already occurring. Okay. So, would we need a motion then to

Yes, we would need a motion to approve the easement and then also to authorize the mayor to sign the document as well. So, moved. Second. Roll call, please. I didn't hear who the second was. Isaac. Okay. Thank you, Steve Beardsley. Hi, Isaac Chavez. Hi, Taylor Krenshaw. Hi, John Large. Hi, Robert Stevens. Hi, Clarence Warren. Hi, Eric Woods. Hi. Okay, then will you get with the realtor and Yes. Once you've signed it, then I will um get it to Karen and then she can have the gangor sign. Okay. Thank you. Yep. What else did you have? I think that's it. That's it. I think so. Okay.

I'm pretty sure that's it. Okay. Next we have approval of the CF1s. And do you want to tell them who they are? Do you want me to? It's up to you. Doesn't matter to me. Can we approve them all at once? Yes. As long as the minutes specify which ones are in there. So we have uh Frankfurt Medical Office, TCG Property Group, Richian Sun, LOL LLC. There are three under that name. Goodwill, three under Donaldson, two for Zachary, and two for Fredo Lelay.

If there are no concerns, I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. Then I would make a motion we pass the CF1s on real and personal property for Frankfurt Medical Office, TCG Property Group, Richie and Sun, Inc. LOL, Goodwill, Donaldson, Zachary, and Freedom. Second. Okay, roll call. Steve Beardsley. Hi, Isaac Chavez. Hi, Taylor Krenshaw. Hi, John Large. Hi, Robert Stevens. Hi, Clarence Warren. Hi,

Eric Woods. Hi. Okay. All of those passed. Um, Chief Shoemaker, did you want to talk to us about you gave the presentation board of works? Do you want to do that for the council as well? I would like for you to I agree. Got work harder. Thank you. All right. The mayor I read a statement at the board of works meeting today. So, uh, if this will be the second time in a couple hours, and I kind of got a lot off my chest, so it may not be as, uh,

powerful, but, um, if you want to watch it, you can watch the border of works meeting. Um, I did want to update the board of public works today and the community on the investigation regarding our K9 officer and K9. The actions depicted in the video are being fully investigated. I cannot talk about the elements of that specific case as there are two active investigations. One are internal investigation and the criminal investigation being conducted by the Boone County Sheriff's Office. Indiana police officers are not at will at will employees. I have no authority to fire a police officer. The maximum discipline that I may impose is a 5-day uh unpaid suspension and even that can be appealed uh to the board. I must ensure that state law and department policy are followed, which includes the due process rights afforded to a police officer. One of the main points in these types of investigations is that the board of public works is the judge. I cannot talk to the mayor or any other member regarding this complaint. It is the board's job to review both sides of the complaint, excuse me, and render a decision. Until that hearing, nothing can be uh discussed. The mayor nor I can make public public statements that appear to absolve the officer or appear to find the officer guilty. That would be highly improper. I cannot decide on a case overnight. If one thinks a paid administrative leave is wrong, then try paying for an expensive lawsuit for violating the police officer's rights to a fair investigation. If 100% of the commenters on this case had my job, they would already cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal damages. I've been overseeing police discipline for nine years. Six of those as the chief of police, three as the deputy chief, and then even two years prior to that, I was a captain supervising the most active and youngest members of our department at that time. So 11 years of supervising police officers. I know what I am doing. I am not an expert in all

police functions. So once I learned of this case, I had to conduct a factf finding process. Uh prior to reacting, I had to confirm the authenticity of the video. I had to confirm that it in fact was my officer and K9 on that video. One saw a 13-second video. I must find out what happened before that video started and after it ended. Police canines are not pets but must be treated within the rules of training and correction techniques that we adhere to under the direction of the North American Police Work Dog Association. To conclude, our officer is on paid leave pending a criminal and internal investigation. The K-9 is safe and is doing well. People have accused me of a cover up. However, I have been was the one that contacted the Lebanon Police Department to ensure a proper investigation will be conducted. Once it was transferred to the Boone County Sheriff's Office, we have been completely open and responsive to their list of requests without delay. We have opened our files for them to review. This case is out of our hands. We have no control over what happens in that criminal case. This is not our proudest moment. This is not what we want to be known for. The amount of public outcry is completely understandable. The department is served by men and women who go out each and every day risking their lives to protect you. I ask that you please continue to have patience while this matter is resolved. I assure you that we are properly investigating this matter and will reveal the results of it when it is completed. Our internal investigation cannot be completed until the criminal investigation is completed. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. Well said. Well said. Okay. Can that be posted somewhere in our website? Yeah, we I talked to Kimberly about Okay, you got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, because I just think there's been a lot of misunderstanding. I I felt that we should, you know, well, the border works is aware of their position in this and also I wanted the council members to know where we are at this time. So, okay. Does anybody have anything else, old or new? Okay, I'll take the motion. Okay. Thank you. You got to shine your hair.