Common Council - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

The Common Council conducted first readings for two ordinances: one concerning voluntary property annexation for the Eagle Landing Park complex, and another addressing commercial public record requests. Additionally, the Arts Commission provided details for the upcoming Baker Park Studio Art Tour.

About this meeting

Government Body
Common Council
Meeting Type
Common Council
Location
Columbia City, IN
Meeting Date
September 8, 2026

Transcript

1 sections

5:46 – 24:25Speaker 1

Okay, this is my piece. My piece is that the year is 2026, we'll call it. How many times do we need to go through it? I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, paragraph. It says, Mary, in your advice, that this was a one-and-only ordinance, but didn't make any sense. So, that's how it came out. So, it's that. Can you just, what I was asking the rest of us, I don't know. In the end, on the 30th, on the 30th, on the 30th, yeah, on the 30th, on the 30th, my pastor affirmed this, and it would change from this day. All those in favor, use the sign. It is news. Next up, our call is on. We now have a follow-up here, so we'll keep moving. Next, we're going to see that at 26-29. We'll have a motion to read by title. All those against? Opposed, present for a second by Ryan. Further discussion. I will finish with a legal sign. It is unanimous. Please read Ordinance 2026.29. 5-0-1. Ordinance 2026.29. In Ordinance of the City Council, City of Columbia, City of Indiana, herein I see in certain territory of the City of Columbia, City of Indiana, where a person descends within the corporate boundaries, there I will leave for the same, a part of the City of Columbia, City of Indiana. So this is the first reading of the amnesty ordinance. This is a 100% voluntary or supervoluntary, if you say, amnesty from one property owner to, I believe it's four parcels. And this is kind of part of what will hopefully become the Eagle Landing Subdivision, well, Eagle Landing Park complex, if you will. This is on the up north, east side of the city. And rehabilitation is working on the 10-day break portion. That will still come in front of you, but getting 100% supervoluntary education was a kind of good year overall for us. I said over in the northeast part of the country. Yes. We're on the 8th, I'm going to be on the 6th. Sorry, Bush. That's all right. That's all right. All right. Further discussion? All those in favor say aye. All those against say aye. The next meeting, we will have a public hearing and a second reading, and then if that takes three meetings, that's what we'll do. Next, as of Ordinance 2023-30, the motion is already by the title, so I'll note. So moved. Second. Let's take a second to present you by tab for discussion. All in favor say the usual sign, it is, you may miss. Please read Ordinance 2026-30 by the law. Ordinance 2026-30, the ordinance and prohibited activities of a reference from the electronic agency of the state. I love these letters. I understand. They were running us around on the list of just so you know how I sort of thought of this and it's about commercial groups trying to obtain public records, and so you may ask requests for them to be used for commercial purposes. And so for a statute, you are allowed to create an ordinance to address this. So this ordinance is based upon the statute addressing this. There'll be more of them. All right. Submitting public record requests at the time. Is that? For our purposes. For our purposes. I recognize that. Others just removed it from. And we do not have a public record, but that's on Facebook. This is awesome. Well, I'm sorry to hear what I didn't try to say. I don't think there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, And, uh, we carried it, you know, we're gonna do the tour, of course, and it was a, you know, it was a big little town, and it's gonna be able to find a little town on the main street, but we're gonna do the tour for, uh, the local drive-in site. So, we're gonna do the tour. Do you go out in the city to go outside and drive-in for them? I think the most important thing is that we're going to make sure that we're going So, motion by Ryan, second by Rachel, approved. We're going to do that on the 26th at 830 on the first reading and third discussion. I will say this to you so much, it is unanimous and we've got a second reading at the next meeting. Thank you. So, of course, there's a number of things. A lot of buyers have been in our place for a few years, and it's been a year and a half, so it's been almost two or three days since I've been seeing the property. And we've had a lot of nice little meetings with this little property. We've been using it a little bit on the radio. We've also been in the park a little bit since Christmas. We don't have schoolwork with school employers right now where we go far and we hope not to run it, because no matter where we head, we're going to run out of employees. So, how do you pull in somebody in the next five weeks to tell them, you know, there's a little bit behind you to prevent you from falling? The grant group we're doing is really looking at the risk part of those vendors from the city, And I'm going to talk personally about some of the problems we're dealing with here that we didn't know about. So, there's a facility that goes back on a lot of the fires that we were able to fire. So, I'm going to take a look at some of these lines and see if I can answer them as well. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm missing out on some of the data that I'm going to be able to use. Also, I'm going to get back to you and see if you have any suggestions or something. But, you know, I promise you that I'm a lot better. I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of your shows, and I don't know if you can see, I didn't do any of We did real life screens and everything, and it's only an ad cost, so we think we're bypassing that. But yeah, I love the tree scene, and it's great. We'll follow up, so that'll be great. That's where I was. There isn't even a lot of crazy and exciting things. They have incredible English. They wrote like everything's matched. I mean, they're easy for me, but they're not so perfect at it. I don't know about you. for a long time, so I'm very nervous about what we've got to do. So, being that you didn't assess what we could be doing, I didn't know a lot of some of these things. Yeah, a lot of stuff went wrong. Oh, wow. But you did. But, you know, is that the key to all of this? I'm not going to go on. I'm not going to try it. It's going to be a bigger apartment. I think we're going to be ready for a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. It's going to be a lot of apartments. 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Questions or carry? Do you have a question? So we're working on a slow delay on it both for people who are in the emergency drives. We're going to get us some of these long-staging city bills, and we have to listen to folks. Part of that process is a little longer, so we're waiting on that, and we're going to take care of it. We're going to take care of it next year, and we're going to see what happens. Thank you very much. Thank you. Gary. Yeah, we'll see if the field training is sweet. We opened up the application process, and we're seeing a ton of applications right now. The process will start September 18. First Friday in November, you can restore your mobile, slash login, you're not at home on your party. First Friday, press and hold until Saturday, and you're out and about. This will be great. The AT&T installed the equipment from the P1 line. They tested it. That's their site. That's the location. That's how we got the kind of information. Thank you, Jared. Thank you, too. Level 7 is back in service as of the second of this month. Got it tested before they brought it back this time. Just make sure you get no leaks and everything will be good as soon as they brought it in. Finishing and getting the rest of the ignorance mounted in the trucks with one side being gone. We've got four radios and two buttons. We need to change that up in a minute. So we've been working on getting that done. So we're going to be getting the government to put out a new fire engine. EPA still needs to be determined. We're hoping they're going to do some celebration for that. Scheduling field trips, seeing fire prevention for October. But it's going quickly. We'll see if our regulators need to do some new ones. Chairman, we've been working with the Council on Aging, or is going to be working with the Council on Aging for a call prevention program. We went to the conference and they had suggested this is, we're going to alleviate some mandated, regular calls for falls, medical side of things to help prevent some of that. And then lastly, there is our FEMA State Defense September 26th through the end of the 12th. The fire department will be out there doing several things, but also demonstrating regarding more education tools and live education that way. So, I'm much more excited. Thank you. Marsha, anything else you want to say? No, thank you. Thank you. Lots of things going on. It's very nice to be able to square time on Friday. Got to lower it, and then see what we can do. That's where we're supposed to be. But I'm curious. Yeah, I'm curious. You know, I think everyone when you go to a place, you're not looking at either of the parties that you put on that don't want to sell out. So I would appreciate that. But it'd be so good for us. And, you know, it's very warm. And Mary Pat Berwick is going to talk about the film. This is a video that we will put in the next session. We're going to work through that. Next meeting will be when the American Times are going to be here. We are getting close. We're getting close. What do you think? The community here has been really excited about this weekend and the past three. This would be our fourth year. So the previous three years, we did our studio art tour. It was traveling around the city. And then now we move to county to visit artists' studios and see their artwork and see their works. This year, in the sense of getting a few people, getting everybody together, in Baker Park from Baker Park Studio Art Tour this Saturday from 9 to 2 in Baker Park. The next most popular function is where they perform. And Baker Park is located right between Kids Greenland and American Legion photo 98. It's got to be like a roller park in the city. I'm pretty sure. It's very nice. Yes, it is. Anything important you can share? Yeah, right there. Yes. We will have as many as 15 local artists. Our artists have been mentioned in specific days of what we say. Either they have always been here, or they've gone through something bad, or it's some variety of circumstances. We do have some inquiries here from outside of what we do, because this is truly a local community, and we're here virtually every day. So how do they get there? Okay, you draw a line. There are multiple ways to get there, although it seems like it's been very sturdy. The easy drive goes across the back of that park, and if you run into a picture of one of those when you drive there, you'll get the third one, which is on the other side. And what we're doing now is we're going to move over to the other side. I didn't raise the clock, but it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Yes, 4 o'clock in the morning. We know you're a seller, but we're generally online for the weekend. Yeah. Yes, 4 o'clock in the morning. Yes, 4 o'clock in the evening. We are due to have to follow very local due process from the 1897 Martin Field. The Inversary of Caldron will be bringing assorted goodies and we're hiring our company. You can get coffee. Then there's a live music and global musicians, Sarah Marshall and Jackson Davidson, who've been very welcome. The Arts Commission has sponsored artist Michael Moody to do some very good work. So he's going to be around the whole time. You can get on there and get your favorite song. And there will be lots of parking. You can rent a bench and screen land. You can park at the pool field and walk around the pool. Artists parking will be in Baker Park and there will be a small amount of parking at the entrance. I would be nervous to not also thank the people who have helped tremendously getting this together. The first time we've ever been parked, it really hasn't been used as much. I think three years, maybe, I don't know. So being such a help, it's a very big help. I think it means a lot to you. It means a lot. I mean, it's been hard. I've met the Parks Department and many volunteers who are helping us to get ready. Parks Department has been galleying the park for many things and exciting things. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've seen this, and being able to actually really see if anything is down on the face, but we'll see what's going on. And we're trying, though. Great. Great. And it's here to talk to you about, in this space, what our restrictions are going to be, since we've been working with teachers on this probably part of the site, and we've been functioning around it, but I don't know if this is something that's going to take long time. So again, very nice. The other thing about this park is that in this park, at the very end of the walkway is a tree that was planted by two men who were in a period of only just 24 years old. I'll take a note of all the details. Thank you. All right. Our redevelopment, our rectory, In the 10 years I've been on the team, I was just first signed that the elemental part of the brain property has been cleared for a long time. Of course, we're not going to do anything with it because it's going to be connected to the SNF property, so we're going to wait for that. So it's a great sign that both of you are joining. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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