Common Council - Regular Meeting

Take this volcano too. We can go a mud bath. Oh yeah. Good evening. The time is 6:34 and I will call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Moment of silence. Thank you. We have six counselors present. We have a quorum. This meeting has been noted. Sorry guys. And you can get a copy of the agenda in the back. If anyone who wish to speak for three minutes, any citizen later on on the agenda, please sign it in the back. Next, we will have the election of the 2026 council president. Uh at this time I would like to open the floor to the council for nominations for 2026 council president.

Madam yes councelor like to nominate Zack Kramer. Kramer for president.

Thank you counselor. Any other nominations? Okay, we will have a take a vote at this time. Any further discussions before we go there? Thank you. Will you please vote? Thank you, counselors. Pass. Congratulations, Zach Kramer. We shall exchange seats. Welcome back, baby. [laughter]

All right.

Oh, [clears throat] question. How do we do this switch? They're going to have to That's something that communications going to have to do. Okay. So, if we vote, I can vote for you. Oh, okay. Thank you. Okay. So, yeah, that's a good that's a good motion. All righty. First, I want to thank Councelor Betty Robinson for filling in as president uh for the last couple months. Very much appreciate your service. Um the next item on the agenda will be the election of the 2026 council vice president. Um, I will open up the floor to nominations for vice president.

I nominate councelor Tyrell Giles. Second. Thank you, Councelor Robinson. And thank you, Councelor Jennings. Do I have We have the second. All right. We will now proceed with a vote. Do I have any other nominees? No. We will proceed with the vote for the election of councelor Giles to the seat of vice president of the council. I'm going vote for you. I'll be I say yes, please. Okay.

All righty. Let the record reflect that we have unanimous decision to elect Counselor Giles to the seat of vice president. Thank you. [applause]

Thank you. The next agenda item is comments of com of council members and special recognitions or resolutions. Do we have any comments this evening? I would like to make a recognition. I I know you guys did this at the meeting that I was absent for, but I would also like to recognize councelor [clears throat] Chavis and her 10 years of service that she gave to this uh city. We were very lucky to have her. Um, and I personally learned a lot from her guidance and so I really appreciate her time. Any other comments? Okay. The next agenda item will be the approval of minutes of the regular meeting of December 17th, 2025. Are there any questions or corrections to the minutes? I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of December 17th, 2025.

So move. Thank you. Uh, looks like we have a Tyrell Giles motion and a second from Christy Cone. So, I will remember to look at the board. I All right. Is there any further discussion? We will now proceed with the vote. All those uh in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed signify by saying nay. I'm sorry. Should I be using the board there too? I will use this. We paid for this. Are we voting on this? Yeah, we'll vote on the board. Well, a couple I can vote for you. Yes, please. I think I think she already did. There you go. There we go.

All right. Let the record reflect that we have unanimous decision to pass the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of December 17th, 2025. Sorry. All righty. Um, the next agenda item is the approval of minutes of the special meeting of December 29th, 2025. Do we have any questions or corrections to the minutes? Looks like we have a motion to approve from Councelor Freeman and a second from Carlos Jennings. Is there any further discussion? We will now proceed with the vote. Rick,

let the record reflect that we having unanimous decision to approve the minutes of the special meeting of December 29th, 2025. The next item on our agenda this evening is the reports of committees. Do we have any reports from committees this evening? All right, we will move right along uh to unfinished business. Uh proposal number three, 2025. Madame Clerk, could you please read the title of that ordinance into the record? Proposal number 3, 2025, an ordinance of the common council of the city of Lawrence, Indiana, amending title one, article 2, chapter 5 of the code of ordinances of the city of Lawrence, Indiana.

Thank you, madam clerk. This proposal remains before the committee of the whole for consideration and recommendation to this council. We will proceed uh to the next agenda item which is unfinished business proposal number 7 2025. Madame clerk could you please read the title of that ordinance into the record. Proposal number 7 2025 an ordinance of the common council of the city of Lawrence Indiana adopting a code of ethics.

Thank you madam clerk. This proposal was also referred to our committee of the whole for consideration and recommendation. The committee has approved the following amendments to proposal uh 7205. Um and can we provide the description of the changes please? Um okay. Which one? It says here the whole house has oh has it not been? Yes. Okay. So this is has not been discussed in committee and needs to be discussed. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. I apologize reading my notes here incorrectly. So um

and it's resolution. Okay. So no not voting on that tonight. No. Yeah. We're not voting. Okay. The next agenda item on under unfinished business is resolution number 10, 2025. Madame clerk, could you please read the title of that into resolution into the record? Resolution number 10, 2025, a resolution of the common council of the city of Lawrence, Indiana, amending the common council rules and procedures.

Thank you, madam clerk. The committee of the whole has tabled um this discussion um for the common council. So we will meet to discuss that at a different time. The next item is new business for which there is none. So we will uh proceed with comments from the administration.

Good evening. Greg, good night. Chief of staff. Just uh uh happy new year to all of you and congratulations uh on your election, President Kramer and Vice President Giles and Council former former Council President Robinson. Congratulations on your tenure. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, Jamie. Did you have any events coming up that you wanted to discuss? Thank you. We will now proceed with citizens comments. Um, please be advised that citizens comments shall be limited to three minutes. All right. Would anyone like to speak? If not, meeting is adjourned.