Common Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. The time is now 5.32 PM. I will call the May 20, 2026 meeting of the Common Council of the City of Lawrence Committee of the Whole to order. Please rise and stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I 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.

Thank you. Let the record reflect that we have one, two, three, four, five, six counselors present. And we do have a quorum. This meeting has been properly noticed in accordance with Indiana's open door law. Copies of the agenda are located at the back of the room. The next agenda item is unfinished business proposal number 1, 2026. Madam Clerk, could you please read the title of that ordinance into the record?

Proposal number 1, 2026, an ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Lawrence, Indiana, amending Title 1, Article 1, Chapter 2, Section 12 of the Municipal Code regarding Common Council approval on expenditures of professional service contracts.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you. So as was discussed in our previous meeting, we are planning to update our ethics ordinance. And I would entertain a motion to table this conversation and incorporate this into our ethics ordinance. So moved. Do we have a second? Councilor Crone? Oh, okay. Freeman? All right. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, signify by saying nay.

I don't know what you're voting on, so I guess that was the thing.

Yeah, no worries. All right, let the record.

And I think I'm giving you guys the authority or the ability. To vote on it? Yeah.

Gotcha.

Oh, all right. Okay. Oh. Counselor Robinson. Oh, not so.

All right, let the record reflect that we have seven yeas and one abstain. We will table this conversation until we have gotten our ethics ordinance brought up. The next agenda item is new business, for which there is none. Would anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about while we have a committee of the whole meeting? All right, meeting adjourned.