Common Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, we'll go ahead and get tonight's council meeting going here. Tonight we're going to have the prayer. Councilman David Cain will do our prayer tonight, the Pledge of Allegiance, Councilman Andy Whitten, and then we'll go from there. So everybody please rise.

Join with me in prayer tonight, please. Our dear heavenly father, we come to you tonight. We invite you here. I know you're already here, but we want to invite you here into this meeting. Guide us, direct us, open our hearts and our minds to do the right things for the city. I want to pray for, specifically for the Evans family tonight. April was to be here to pray over this council and this city tonight. She suffered a loss in her family, along with a Calgill family, and we want to pray and lift those two families up before the Lord tonight. Keep them in your prayers. In your name we pray. Amen.

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.

Okay, roll call, please.

Cain.

Here.

Reyes.

Here.

Fordyce.

Here.

Brunner.

Present.

Klein.

Here.

Marshall.

Here.

Witten.

Here.

Devine? Here. Calgill?

Here. Okay, next on the agenda is our recognition, our spotlight. And tonight we are spotlighting Jeremiah Horvath. Is that how you say it? Yes, sir. Okay. Come on up, Jeremiah. He is our parks maintenance supervisor. Come all the way up, Jeremiah. Okay. And I just want to say Jeremiah has been doing an outstanding job. When we had all the storms a few months ago come through, we actually had to close the park at one time because there were so many tree limbs and debris and everything. The whole parks crew is phenomenal, but Jeremiah, he heads it up. He's the one steering the horses, and he's just done a phenomenal job this whole year. And then we just had our 4th of July celebration last week out at the park, and that place was packed. I mean, especially, well, we had the car show and the motorcycle show and all that, and we had over 110 entries, I think, in cars and, like, what 30 motorcycles or something like that it's full yeah it was full and and then we come back that night and man that night there wasn't a place to be had it was it was the most i've ever seen there for a fireworks display and from you guys started that morning at like six in the morning or it was a 17 and a half hour day for us that day yeah that's what it takes to do all It was 17 and a half hours, and it wasn't hot at all that day. So, yeah, that was 110 heat index, and they worked 17 and a half hours straight. So I can't say enough about Jeremiah. Dude, I so appreciate you and what you're doing and the job that you have done. And I—

phenomenal job dude i mean you're you're locked in you got to stay here for a while we're not letting you go so we're a seven month old department yeah we just started january 1st and uh here go ahead you know we just started seven january 1st so we're seven months and um i feel like we're really finding our stride right now and i have a great team i really do it takes all of them you know from mike the the groundskeeper to the garden ladies to all the volunteers that help in, you know, our mowing crews and it's an awesome team.

The team is phenomenal. And like I said, that 4th of July celebration, the whole, the gardens, the parks department, the fire department, the police department. I cannot be more prouder, in all honesty, of our city employees than I am. Our team is a phenomenal team. And pound for pound, I'd put this city and our workers up against anybody. I truly would. Thank you. Yes, absolutely. So we just wanted to kind of bring you up and tell you how much we appreciate you and what a great job you're doing. And, man, just keep up the good work, Jeremiah. I appreciate you, buddy.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Pastor Paul.

I can't leave without thanking Rose, Rose Kadena, our parks director. She has gave me all the tools I need to get all this stuff done, and I really thank her. She is locked into making this a better deal, and Keenan Davis also. I'd like to thank both of them.

Yeah, I agree with Rose, too. That parks department, she works endless hours, and it's her baby. Okay, thank you. All right, next on the agenda would be the consent agenda. If there's not any discussion, I would entertain a motion. If we have discussion.

Mr. President, I'll move that we pass the consent agenda. Second.

Okay. I have a motion by Councilman Cain, a second by Councilman Klein. Roll call, please.

Cain?

Aye.

Reyes?

Aye.

Fordyce? Aye. Brunner? Aye. Klein?

Yes.

Marshall?

Aye.

Whitten?

Yeah.

Devine? Yes. Calgill?

Aye. Do we have any committee reports at this time?

Let's see. The Board of Works met yesterday looking to sell the properties at 714 and 1802 South Meridian that the owner was looking to build a building on it for a leadership training facility. And so those were vacant properties that I believe have been owned by the city since 12 was it or yeah. So quite a while. So that'll be good to get those back on the tax rolls and have some building go up. Um, there was a bid opening for police SUVs. Um, this was for using the, um, the dollars that were granted to buy the new vehicles for the police department. Um, the first one came from Mike Anderson Dodge, uh, and it was, uh, They were Dodge Durangos. This one had the Hemi engine, and the price was $40,670. And the second bid came from Wabash Valley Chrysler out of Wabash, and it was for a six-cylinder Dodge Durango, and it was $42,120. So they were looking to get seven of the Dodge Durangos, and the bid was, I believe, was awarded to Mike Anderson, being the lower price on that. and then they were going to do for the eighth vehicle, they were gonna look at getting a slightly used track to do as an additional patrol unit because they do need some times to be able to have the open bed and to do a variety of different things that having the Durango doesn't quite work for. There was discussion regarding one of the properties, 3629 South Boots, that has been, Multiple times in condemnation status, the current owners were granted a stay at the last meeting to be able to do some additional and show progress is being made. It was a neighbor that came and wanted to give some information and how unhappy they are with the progress. But the Board of Works decided to continue and allow the current owner the rest of the stay to show progress, and they would review it again at the next meeting. And that was everything.

Thank you very much. Is there anybody else? All right. We'll move on to unfinished business. Additional appropriation 11-2026.

Appropriation for opioid settlement restricted second reading and public hearing. And appropriation appropriating $130,000 for opioid settlement restricted. Speaking Dr. Jada Montero.

Hi, Jada.

Hello. Okay, so this appropriation is a request from the Restricted Opioid Settlement Fund for $130,000 in total to give to five, Six organizations. So two of which are $5,000 awards to Lotus Recovery and Radiant Health. There is an award including a pay for service contract to Bridges to Health for $25,000. Two $15,000 awards, one to Youth for Christ and the other to the Grant County Rescue Mission, and then a $50,000 award to the Grant County Sheriff's Department to match a salary for their mental, jail mental health treatment coordinator position they're planning to launch at the beginning of the year. There was a strenuous process that each organization went through to apply for these funds. and to be awarded, and we are just asking for the appropriation to fulfill.

Do you have any questions or any discussions on this? I have one thing. On the sheriff, on the position for that, I had a rough week. I didn't get a chance to get back with you. Are we requiring any kind of a degree at all with that position now or no?

Yeah, there should be a minimum of a bachelor's degree, including mental health licensing with that degree, with that position as well. Okay.

A follow-up question about the licensing. I remember the language said license... preferred is it going to be required or still Slide by with preferred was my first question and second question is that this is a one-time deal They're gonna put that in the sheriff's budget correct in the future. Okay, but is it license preferred or license required there?

Unless there's been a change the position that I wrote was license required a BIOS You can't complete a biopsychosocial without having a license so

Real quick, I think when we discussed this last time, there were seven potential people receiving funding from this. Has that dropped down to six? Or we're still at?

Radiant Lotus, Youth for Christ, Grant County Rescue Mission, Bridges to Health, The Jail. Wait it.

Yeah.

Radiant, yeah.

I think I named all of them in their amounts.

Anything else, Jeff? Nope. Okay. Is this second reading? Yep, it is. Okay, this is second reading public hearing. So at this time, I'll open this up for anybody that would like to speak upon this. And you'll have three minutes. State your name, address, and speak on either for or against this appropriation.

I'm sorry, President Calgill. You are correct. Dr. Reyes, the seventh organization is the Family Recovery Court at $15,000. Thank you. Yes.

Because that's what I had. That didn't total up. I had Recovery Court, Rescue Mission, Youth for Crush, Bridges to Health, Radiant Health, Lotus, and Grant County Jail for a total of 130.

Yes.

So.

Yes. Family Recovery Court is the last organization. Okay.

Okay.

Good evening.

Johnson Whitaker, 2503 South Valley. I'm not here to discuss whether or not I have some concerns about the issue.

I still don't hear anything about the people who are taking the drugs and who are out on the streets. How are we going to help them? And what about their recovery? $50,000 to hire somebody. I served on several boards that has received OPR money. None of them are dealing with the people who are on the streets, who need the recovery, and so on. I have not attended Jada's meetings.

I've only listened. But unless we deal with the problem, we can hire all the people in the world. They're not going to save the people who are dying and who have an issue with drugs.

When are we...

going to actually deal with the issue of housing and helping those people get. We have seven organizations you want to give money to.

They're fine organizations, but are they helping the people who actually need it?

Are we giving jobs to people who need jobs and who have degrees and so on? Because if we're not helping the people, we're wasting our time.

And this money came about through COVID and also settlements, because I have another issue I want to talk about.

The opioid settlement came because of Big Pharma and their abuse and the people who distributed drugs, whether it was prescription or illegal, to our people.

Yet we're not helping our people. That's my concern. Where is the help for the people? We can hire 100 people. And we could have 200 there. And they would have two people to work with.

And that none of them could be saved. Or the percentage would be so low, it doesn't address the issue. I see us hiring people. I don't see us actually dealing with the issue of the people who need help. That's where my concern is.

Because we can't continue to hire people and not help people. It would be fine. But we have all these people and the people are still dying on the streets.

So how have we helped? We haven't helped the people who actually need it. We've given people jobs.

That's my concern.

Thank you.

We already have a organization that is taking care of this problem.

Thank you. Can we restart the clock and do this with a microphone? I don't think your mic was on.

No.

Oh, it's not?

It wasn't. Did you hear me? Well, she wasn't on the mic either. But I'm just saying Veterans Treatment Court and Drug Court are doing exactly what this is supposed to be doing. We are producing good citizens through the Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court. All right? So I think you need to reconsider, back up, and check with our judges and our people in the Veterans Treatment Court and Drug Court. And if you'd ever... attend one of our meetings. In fact, well, Thursday morning we have a sit-in judge, and then we have two weeks the judge is going to be gone. But three weeks, I would recommend on Thursday morning, 8.30, courthouse, second floor. It would enlighten you and help you to understand what the problem is and how much of a solution we are receiving.

Thank you. Sir, anybody? Go ahead. Make sure the mic is on.

Yes, sounds like it. Greg Maynard, I'm Executive Director of Bridges to Health. Thank you for considering our request through the Opioid Committee. But since numbers seem to be an issue tonight, just want to give you a little context on Bridges performance and our outcomes, it was in our proposal. It's all public knowledge, but just to add to the conversation tonight, we have two dually certified community health workers slash peer support specialists. Both of them have lived experience and are very active in the recovery community. In 2025, Bridges through the core program touched 600 people with those two staff. Getting them into treatment, we averaged between four and five transports to inpatient treatment facilities a month. Both peers are heavily active in the recovery community, working within several support groups. Brianna's Hope, NA, AA, all those types of support groups. Brian Blevins is very active working on helping folks once they are qualified for that to get their driver's licenses and criminal histories expunged, get privileges restored and criminal histories expunged to help with employment. We don't actively do employment ourselves. I have employment background. So Brian and I talk a lot on advising ways to go and get them tied to work one and voc rehab, those kinds of things. But the money you are proposing that we are asking for bridges will go to, and that's not a bad, that's a normal year for us. So we will touch five, 600 people with that money. It's partial salaries, obviously, but that's what that money will go to at Bridges, just to give you some context on numbers and people that are on the streets seeking help and keeping them sober once they get help. So thank you.

Thank you. Anybody else? Don't see anybody else coming up, so I'll go ahead and close the public portion of this. And if there's any discussion with any of the councilmen or councilwomen, we'll have that. If not, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr. President, I move that we suspend the rules on appropriation 11-2026. Second.

Okay. We have a motion to suspend rules by Councilman Cain. And was it you, Eric? Okay. And we've got a second by Eric. I wasn't sure if it was you or Andy. Sorry. Roll call.

Cain.

Aye.

Reyes.

Aye.

Fordyce. Aye. Brunner.

Aye.

Klein.

Yes.

Marshall.

Aye.

Whitten.

Yes.

Devine. Yes. Calgill.

Aye.

Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation of 11-2026.

Second. I have a motion to pass by Councilman Cain and a second by Councilman Klein. Roll call, please.

Cain.

Aye.

Reyes.

Aye.

Fordyce. Aye. Brunner.

Aye.

Klein.

Yes.

Marshall.

Aye.

Whitten.

Yes.

Devine. Yes. Calgill.

Aye. Okay, we'll move on to additional appropriation 12-2026, please.

Appropriation for opioid settlement restricted second reading public hearing. An appropriation appropriating $150,000 for opioid settlement restricted. Speaking Dr. Jada Montero.

Hello again. This request is from the Restricted Opioid Settlement Fund that will allow us to establish a grant program for our currently established recovery residences to be in compliance with House Bill 1296 that came into effect in July. Well, July 1. Today is the 7th. We actually did receive the requirements from FSSA into what it's supposed to look like. So there's going to be a registration fee for each home. So not each provider, but each home that a provider has. And then they're also going to have to be in compliance with one of the four levels of the recovery residences by the National Alliance, which will require them to buy certain supplies, like I talked about at our first reading. So carbon monoxide things, beds, mattresses, refrigerators. I think Councilman Klein mentioned bringing a bathroom up to code. Those type of things. We're not going to purchase new homes. We're not going to make mortgage purchases or do any type of major construction. The purpose is to support the recovery residences that we have to get in compliance with that law.

Is there any way, Jada, that you could forward the copy of the requirements to the council so we just so we have copies of it as well?

Yes.

How many residents does this support?

Oh, like people in the houses? Okay. I'm not sure the capacity of every house because it's different. I was able to meet with a representative from every recovery home except for Lotus Recovery two weeks ago. They came in on a Monday. There are only two organizations that have multiple houses. That's Hope House and Jimmy's. Jimmy's is newer. He purchased homes from Hope House. And then Lotus has one home. Agape Recovery has one home. From the Ashes has one home. Journey Square has one home. Gala House is one home. Radiant House is one home. And I believe the occupancy varies depending on the houses. Yes.

I think last time we talked about this, of the seven organizations with the recovery homes, we're looking at roughly 12 a home, 50 at a time, roughly.

Yeah. Yeah, they are all different. Once you give these houses these requirements and they do that, is there any – oversight after that to make sure they're staying up to code and in compliance?

So DMHA is actually going to be in charge of their compliance. So this initial fund that we give them gives them, it empowers them to get in compliance with the law and then DMHA is going to oversee it, which could include visits to the home. You actually can't call yourself a recovery residence in Indiana if you're not in compliance with this law.

So with that, these recovery homes partner with the organizations that we just talked about. So these seven recovery home organizations partner with the seven organizations that we just mentioned in the previous reading to help provide options for people who are on the streets and need a place to go and are trying to get better outside of their environment, correct?

Sober living environment.

Now, are these, say, Jimmy's home, are they specifically identified with, okay, Radiant Health is going to send people here, X is going to send it to Y, so on and so forth, so we have a direct correlation, or, you know, how do we make sure that these people, you know, the people that need help continue to receive that help, you know, because just going there and getting stuff is step one of the actual whole process. And the reason I say that, just so the council knows, I've had family members that have been meth addicts at 14. My brother was that way. So I'm very familiar with this process and how this works. But what I... what I need to understand is how do we keep them from wanting to do that outside of their personal decision? They have to make, they have to make a choice to not want to do that. But what other resources are these houses providing to make sure that that doesn't happen again?

Yeah. So my understanding is that at least one of, well, radiant house obviously is connected to radiant house. So their services are readily available. I do know journey square has clinical services that comes, that comes into the house and meets with the residents there. I believe that they all work together, not only for referrals, the court system. So as the gentleman mentioned, like drug court, veterans court, family recovery court, they also refer to these homes. So you have, when you think about it, the support of probation, the court system, the clinical services that are available within Marion and Grant County, and then they also, all of them have a requirement for attending different devotionals. I think it's like three times a week. They have spiritual support that come into their houses. I think Lotus has a more holistic approach where it's not just the spiritual approach, but they do like yoga and mindfulness and more holistic, right? And what it looks like for your treatment. So if someone chooses the lifestyle of recovery and decides to live in one of these residences, there are resources available for them to continue.

So, I mean, speaking of the numbers again, so 50 at a time roughly if we're talking about these organizations, the gentleman in the back from Bridges to Health mentioned they're touching or communicating with 500 to 600 people a year, and that's just one of the seven. How do we combat that problem? Because 50 compared to one organization of 500, we're not close.

Yeah.

And this money obviously can't be used for that. It's helping you get to code. But are any of these processes going to help get more organizations established to be able to work with those 500 to 600 per organization?

Yeah, that they're transporting to treatment out of our county and then they come home. Yeah, so that was the purpose of our access grant, right? Anyone could have applied for the access grant and said, I want to establish this type of therapy service here to make it available. I understand the concern with paying for salaries and that kind of thing, but without the people to do the work, the programs can't be available, right? So it is also, we are also increasing our capacity by creating programs and creating positions such as the jail treatment coordinator. If that position is not there, those people, which are about 80% of the inmates that enter into our jail have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder, are not getting treatment without that position. So we're using the money to empower the organizations that are here to do more work when they're likely already at capacity. So that's an incentive. And then also to create. And we're being mindful of our capacity in creating new programs as well.

Thank you. That's all I have.

If nothing else, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr. Pratt. Yeah, that's right. Yep, yep, yep. That's what I meant, a motion to go to public hearing. Gosh, it's been three weeks since we met, hasn't it? Yeah, I will open this up at this time for the public. This is a second reading public hearing. Again, you'll have three minutes. Come state your name, address, and you can start now. Anybody wants to come up? I don't see anybody coming up, so I will close the public portion of this, and I will now entertain a motion, if anybody.

Mr. President, I move that we pass or suspend the rules on additional appropriation number 12-2026. Second.

I have a motion to suspend the rules by Councilman Kane, second by Councilman Brenner. Roll call.

Kaine. Aye. Reyes.

Aye.

Fordyce. Aye. Brunner. Aye. Klein.

Yes.

Marshall.

Aye.

Whitten.

Yes.

Devine. Yes. Calgill.

Aye.

Mr. President, I move that we pass additional appropriation number 12-2026.

Second. I have a motion by Councilman Kaine to pass. Second by Councilman Brunner. Roll call, please.

Kaine.

Aye.

Reyes?

Aye.

Fordyce? Aye. Brunner? Aye. Klein?

Yes.

Marshall?

Aye.

Whitten?

Yes.

Devine? Yes. Calgill?

Aye.

Thank you, Jada. Okay, we're going to move on to new business, but on the first item on the confirmatory resolution 9A-2026, we are going to need to move that to the July 21st meeting. Joe explained it last time. You want to come on up, Joe, again and explain the reasoning of why we need to do that.

Happy to do it. Good evening, council members. Joe Murphy, economic development director for the city. We were before you in June where we asked for a continuation at that time based on a memo that was distributed to our staff relating to handling of personal property assessments inside of TIF districts that was going to Substantially disrupts kind of the actual intent of the abatement proposal that we brought before you earlier in the year for the Prismian project. That's a $28 million investment in personal property at that facility. Also see 30 jobs added, or 29 jobs added at a rate of over $30 an hour. And the impact of that, without getting too far into the details, was going to be such that the original abatement that we proposed, 10 years, 75%, was originally meant to provide roughly $1.13 million in abatement savings over the life of the 10 years to the company. Under the new interpretation that the DLGF would be taking for this personal property treatment, that number would have been reduced to $483,770, so a reduction of $649,000. So We felt it was appropriate at that time to pause the discussion and seek clarity from the DLGF. We then, after that meeting, turned around and immediately noticed the public hearing to make sure we met the notice requirements and got it back on the agenda with the hopes that DLGF would provide us with that clarity. We had staff members meet with DLGF with our financial advisor and our attorney working on this project. And unfortunately, they just weren't. in a position at this time to give us full clarity on how they're going to treat this moving forward. So at this time we're asking for one further continuance to the July 21st meeting. I think we do have agreement with the company on a new kind of structure that will in a lot of ways resemble the structure that we brought before this council in 2022 for the GM deal whereby we're going to have to kind of look at this on an annual basis and have the ability to be a little bit more flexible in the actual percentage value of abatement that we actually assigned to the company on a year-by-year basis with the intent being that we achieve that ultimate savings goal not necessarily stick to a specific structure or Annual percentage, so we're gonna bring a fully revitalized economic development agreement as well as a redrafted Confirmatory resolution to this council on the 21st and we'll have further explanation at that time But we would ask for a continuance at this time on this item I'd be happy entertain any questions you guys have so is this

a back to square one kind of thing or an amendment kind of thing?

It'd be an amendment, yeah. So we would be looking for, we would redraft the declaratory resolution and then an amended economic development agreement. So in addition to on the 21st, I would expect to see a confirmatory resolution 9A-2026 as well as a amendment to the economic development agreement that was previously approved back in May.

Do we need to vote on that, or can we? Okay. Okay. Do I have a second? Do you need a second? Yeah. A second. Okay. I have a motion by Councilman Fordyce to continue it, and a second by Councilman Kane. Roll call.

Kane?

Aye.

Reyes?

Aye.

Fordyce?

Aye.

Brunner?

Aye.

Klein?

Yes.

Marshall?

Aye.

Whitten?

Yes.

Devine? Yes. Calgill?

Aye. Thank you, Joe, for explaining that. Thank you. Okay, we'll go on to Resolution 11-2026.

Resolution approving CF1 form CV East LLC. A resolution of the Common Council of the City of Marion, Indiana approving the 2025 Compliance with Statement of Benefits form CF1 of CV East LLC and confirming the continuation of certain tax abatement benefits. Speaking, Joe Murphy, Economic Development Director.

good evening again uh... As you just heard, this is a resolution to approve the CF1 benefits form for CVEs. That's Cafe Valley. Full transparency. This should have been brought to you with the rest of the CF1 documents, but there was an administrative oversight on my part in the document tracking process, and so this just did not reach us in time. I can confirm that the company did submit their documents before the May 15th deadline, and there was just an error on our part that allowed this to come late. And so we've drafted a separate resolution to acknowledge that and approve this CF1 up after your review. I've already spoken with the county and the county assessor's office, and they've confirmed that there's no issue here as far as maintaining the abatement status of the company, assuming this resolution is approved and then the document is sent over in addition to the signed CF1 form following this meeting. So no major issue there, just again, administrative oversight. As far as the actual CF1 document is pertain, or is concerned, can review that real quick for you all if you haven't had a chance to already. There's a, we approved This kind of straddled two years, so we started this process in late 24, finished it in early 25, but it was for a 12-year, 100% abatement on the personal property installation at the existing facility in Marion to expand operations, add two new lines to support a new client of Cafe Valley's. That was a competitive project. We were able to outperform their project. headquarters in Arizona and received that investment. The total investment committed at that time was $20.3 million, as well as the addition of 100 new employees at an average wage of $19 per hour. So those were the stated commitments on the SB1 form. They had a deadline of December 31st of 2028 to complete that investment and add those jobs. So this is kind of, we are in a couple of those years where They'll be receiving the abatement on the investment made to date But we'll continue to track and make sure they're tracking towards full completion before that deadline. But as it stands today, just over 12 months from when their abatement was approved, they have completed 36% of their employment goal. They are at 761 employees at that facility right now. They were at 725 at the outset of the project. And their current average employee wage is $20.96 per hour. And overall, again, they were set to make a total investment of $20.3 million. They have made a total investment to date of $12,984,624, representative of 64% of the total investment to date. So with that... My professional recommendation would be that we find Cafe Valley or CV East LLC to be substantially compliant based on the information provided in their 2025 CF1 filing and supplemental annual reporting documents. And then we will obviously continue to track to make sure they stay on progress in future years. So happy to entertain any questions you have on that at this time.

Not seeing any, I'll entertain a motion.

Ms. President, I move we pass resolution 11-2026. Second.

I have a motion to pass by Councilman Klein and a second by Councilman Cain. Roll call.

Cain.

Aye.

Reyes.

Aye.

Fordyce. Aye. Brunner. Aye. Klein.

Yes.

Marshall.

Aye.

Whitten.

Yes.

Devine. Yes. Calgill.

Aye. Mr. President, if I may, while I have the floor here for a minute, I want to make one further comment. This evening before this meeting, we did host from 4 to 6 p.m. a downtown placemaking meeting in partnership with our consultant Lockmuller Group that's been working with the Redevelopment Commission for the past six months. to develop new concepts around wayfinding signage lighting in the downtown area specifically. We had a series of a dozen or so poster boards in here as well as consultants to entertain questions and comments from the public and ensure that those get incorporated into the actual design, but then also into the record for our final document that's going to be produced as part of that project. While we did have some participation, we're definitely going to seek more. And so just want to make you all aware. And first of all, I want to thank Councilman Fordyce and Councilman Witten for attending that and offering their own input. Want to make sure this council has opportunity for put as well as the rest of the public so we're going to post those slides in digital format on our city website as well as a Google Forms doc so that folks over the next couple weeks can get on there at their own leisure Scroll through those presentations and offer additional comments So just want to encourage everybody from the council to the public to make sure their their voices are heard on this one So, thank you

Okay, thank you, Joe. On the announcements, I have one here for the, I'm sure this is probably on the City of Marion's website about the skate park. The Marion's Gate Park will provide a safe, positive, and world-class recreational space for the youth, families, and community. To unlock a $50,000 matching grant, we need to raise $50,000 through the community support by July the 31st of 2026. Every donation, big or small, helps bring the vision one step closer to the reality. Please help spread the word. Together, we can make this project a reality for Marion. And you can get on the city's website and to look it up, or you can get on Patreon, iCity.com backslash Marion Skate Park to donate if you would like to donate and help bring that to Marion as well. And then we also have citywide cleanup, July the 11th, 2026 for District 4 will be picked up. Anyone else can drop off items at 520 East 6th Street. Those dropping off will be able to drop off two loads between 9 to 2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. And also we have until July the 15th, I believe, is that our deadline for the Utilities Board? July the 15th at noon is our deadline to submit your applications to be on the Marion Utility Board. That's creeping up quick here. We haven't had any applications so far. So anybody interested in that, we need to do that as well. Does any other council members have any announcements?

No, I'll take a motion to adjourn. Mr. President, I move we adjourn. Second.

I have a motion by Councilman Cain and a second by Councilman Klein. Roll call, please.

Cain.

Aye.

Reyes.

Aye.

Fordyce.

Aye.

Brunner.

Aye.

Klein.

Yes.

Marshall.

Aye.

Whitten.

Yes.

Devine. Yes. Calgill.

Aye. Motion adjourned.