Common Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening and welcome to the Monday, April 13th, 2026 meeting of the Martinsville Common Council. At this time, I would like to ask Pastor Chris to come forward. Pastor Chris is with the Methodist Church here in town. So if you would please stand for tonight's invocation and remain standing for our pledge.

Let's pray. Holy and gracious God, we do indeed just give thanks and praise to you for your presence with us today. We thank you for our city and for the beauty of this place that we live in. We thank you for our neighbors. We pray that you would bless those who are making deliberations tonight, give them the wisdom that they need to make righteous and just decisions. Lord, we pray for those among us who are serving in emergency personnel, firemen, policemen, those who are serving overseas. Lord, we pray your protection upon them during this time. Lord, we pray that the decisions made tonight would honor you in every way. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

Thank you, Pastor Chris. Meeting is now called to order. Mr. Merriman, would you please call the roll?

John Badger. Present. Susie Lips.

Present.

Ben Mahan. Josh Farron. Present. Ann Miller. Present. Jonathan Collier. Present. Phil Deckard II.

Present. And I thought Councilman Mahan might make it. He just got off the spring break, so he may not have gotten back yet.

Okay, thank you. Prior to tonight's meeting, you received the minutes from the Monday, March 25th meeting. Are there any comments or corrections to the minutes as presented?

Jonathan Collier makes a motion to approve the consideration of the Monday, March 23rd minutes.

Ann Miller seconds.

Motion made and seconded to approve the minutes of Monday, March 25th as presented. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Abstain. We have one abstaining. I think she was gone playing. Also, prior to tonight's meeting, you were sent copies of the claims reviewed. Are there any comments?

I have just a couple of questions. On page 10, the electric bill, Duke Energy bill for the 309 East Morgan parking of $186.46. And on page 18, the Martinsville Entertainment, the deluxe business systems checks for 303.37. I'm sorry, isn't the redevelopment commission, aren't they in charge of paying for that?

No, the electric at the parking lot, since it's a city-owned lot, we'd be paying the electricity. And then the checks, since my office distributes the checks and writes those, we pay for all the checks out of that fund.

That's it.

Jonathan Collier makes a motion to approve the consideration of the claims.

Second.

And a motion made and seconded to approve the claims as presented. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. We have a couple of special ceremonies tonight. We have some distinguished guests in the audience that the chiefs will acknowledge here in a little bit. I believe Chief Manley.

If I could, before we start, Mayor, can I say something? Sure thing. Good evening. Mayor, members of the council, and guests, it's a privilege to stand here before you tonight and publicly recognize the promotion of a dedicated public servant. The path to the rank of sergeant is rigorous. It contains or consists of a written examination, oral interview, and a comprehensive review of evaluations. It is designed to find leaders ready for the weight of the badge, and Jared Pond has proven himself more than capable. Jared's journey began with the Martinsville Police Department in November of 18. Interestingly enough, I was with him on his first ride along. He wanted to be a reserve officer, and if my memory serves correct, by the end of that shift, he decided that he wanted to pursue a full-time career with the police department. He was hired full-time March 20th, 2020. Since then, Jared has become a cornerstone of our training. He's a member of the Morgan County SWAT team, a defensive tactics instructor, training officers across the county in specialist tactics. Council, you probably recognize him from his numerous lifesaving awards, or maybe his side modeling career for tactical magazines. We ask for autographs, but we try to keep you humble as well, so it's a task. Behind every great officer is a support system that sacrifices along with the officer. I'd like to extend a sincere thank you to Jared's family here tonight, his mom, his dad, and his wife I saw. We also want to share in your excitement as you prepare to welcome your new addition to your family very soon. Thank you for the support that you provide that allows him to serve our city.

And even though I think Jared's already wearing his stripes, we're going to have to start it in. that I will support the Constitution and the ordinances, policies, and resolutions of the city of Martinsville and that I will faithfully and impartially uphold and discharge my duties and responsibilities as a sergeant of the City of Martinsville Police Department to the best of my skill and ability according to law

I missed a few years.

Good evening, Council. Good evening, members of the audience. Tonight we have three distinguished guests with us and a fourth that's retiring from the fire service, and we want to recognize this particular individual tonight. But before I get started, State Fire Marshal Stephen Jones, State EMS Director Mr. Craig Kinney, and State Director of Fire Training Mr. John Schaefer. If you guys would like to come up here, we can have a great conversation. i need you up here can i talk loud enough doing this if i turn around would that be okay all right steve come on up here right up here so back when steve started his career in the fire service and joe come on up steve 1981 45 years later he told me he goes i have a chance to retire from my second love, which is the motorsports, basically the NHRA. So back when I first started in EMS, a long time ago, Steve was my first training officer, first person that taught me. And I will say back in 1981, I was in first grade, so it was a few years later, if that makes any sense. Steve has a very long distinguished resume. He has been multiple places in the state. He has led a lot of different people from chief physician to Various positions throughout from being a medic. One great story is Steve is one of the people that can withstand getting shot on a metal boat dock by an AED, and probably more than once. So that's really painful. There's so many stories. We could be up here for hours. And I didn't want to just try to prepare something, because at the end of the day, I knew that I probably wouldn't get through it if I tried to read something. But Steve did something that was wonderful for us, and that's why these three men are up here as well, because he has made a huge impact on the state of Indiana and for the city of Martinsville. For those who may not know, we have a training ground that started way back when. It's been several years ago. Charlie Freak was a part of it. And then when Aaron and I got on, we started building onto it, and then Steve was available to come up and do some training and be our training officer. And he was also our safety officer when we were on safety suit. Poor Steve kind of got bad rapidly. I needed him to do training, but I also pulled him really hard into the training section to get things built. And so we had taken a training center that was small and pretty decent to a nice, sizable training center that we're very proud of. And it couldn't have been done without you out there and your vision of what happened up there. And so... Throughout that whole process, it's been an honor to work with you. You're one of my great friends, dear friends, somebody that I get mad at, but he wouldn't believe it, didn't love him in the next second. So he's a dear friend to me. And the one thing I would say is, Brandon, thank you for letting us have him as many hours because he would be up on a Sunday doing something. I'm like, go home, go home. But if you haven't been out there counseled to the street department, I highly encourage you. It's a wonderful place, and now a District 5 training center as well. And so we're very proud of that, and we're exceptionally excited for your new endeavor that you're going to be at for a few more years until you're ready to completely hang it up. And now he has earmuffs on, and he has big drag shoes. drag cars and racing cars and all this stuff so that's right up his alley that's the two things that he has followed his whole life but i just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart thank you great friend i miss you in the office i don't have anybody to yell at right now and so that's really kind of takes but um things on his desk, and he's got lots of little trinkets and stuff, and he says, I thank God for you. You have a special place in my heart.

Thank you, buddy.

So I'm Greg Kinney. I'm the stadium's director. In the Indiana Department of security, we are parallel with the state fire marshal office. So it's a portion of speeds career, but we wanted to honor and on behalf of the commission and our division, we are acknowledging Steve with an emeritus paramedics. And what that means is it's the highest level below the line of duty. Yeah. And so it's. highest but it's the highest that we award it basically means you make such lasting contributions that you've impacted the area you are and really you have such a broad area you know from Hendricks County here in Morgan County across the area and that's what we want to acknowledge I did think that Chief Green kind of spilled a little bit as I was talking to and stuff, our operations person, where you're like, yeah, he is so dedicated. He was willing to be shot twice to keep up the practice of EMS. But Steve has been dedicated. He's a knowledgeable paramedic. He's known for training new people, comes in, and he imparts their wisdom. And that's why we wanted to acknowledge So, in recognition of being certified and actively working in EMS primarily as a paramedic for over 35 years, his storage service includes all central Indiana and many EMS providers as well as Lucas Oil Raceway, his safety director and safety crew. Steve is known for a sense of humor and venturing of new hires with the motto of the job of an old paramedic is to make old paramedics out of new paramedics. His service to EMS and public safety is noted and we are thankful for his

I'm almost, I mean, I have a lot of words, but Steve and I go way back. Our paths have crossed in many different positions. And just to say thank you is not enough. And I think the fire service, sometimes you don't know what you had until it's gone. There's many in the fire service that will feel bad. I represent all of Indiana, all the fire service. 800-some fire departments, 17,000 firefighters. This is John Schaefer with the Training Academy. And how many runs have you been on? Oh, man, I couldn't tell you. How many training hours have you put in?

You know, I'm going to ask God that.

How many times have you gone up and down the race track? How many race car drivers have you responded on? It's huge. He has touched so many lives. And it's the personal part of it that he's so big in what he has done He doesn't keep the power going. We don't even know. He's been around a long time and done a lot. And we all love it, on top of it, just like the chief says. There's a lot of people in Indiana that have been touched by that. The work that he's done in his life, 150 years from now, people will profit for the work that he's done in the fire service and in the racing industry. that's huge and i guess my my spiel would be be a steep harder song in the fire service take it seriously pass it on care about what you do so on behalf of the governor and the state of indiana i want to present you with a notorious service panel It says Stephen D. Hartsock, Deputy Chief of Safety and Training, Martinsville Fire Department, and I didn't have enough paper to list everything. It wouldn't have been as wonderful. But the State Park National Notorious Service Medal represents several years of dedication to the fire service, In honor of Stephen Hartsock for his 45 years of dedication and unselfish service to the Lawrenceville Fire Department, the citizens of Hendricks and Morgan Counties, and the great state of Indiana, thank you for your service. I just don't give this record of service medal to anybody in the state of Indiana. Not only do I thank him, but I thank his family that shared him with us. He couldn't be as successful as he's been, except his family's taught him along the way. So my gratitude towards your family. The victorious service medal is worn on a 30-inch neck ribbon the color of the neck ribbon is blue and gold, which depicts the Indiana State College. The two-inch circular medallion has several symbolic messages engraved on the three-tiered face. Engraved on the top outer ring are the words, State of Indiana, which signify that this award is presented by the State Fire Marshal's Office on behalf of the State of Indiana. Engraved on the bottom of the outer ring are the words, Meritorious Service. This indicates that the individual receiving this award has faithfully served the fire service for many years. The state seal is depicted on a medallion centered symbol of bravery and service. A mortal future week surrounds Decile. Above the Maltese cross are three stars that represent the dimensions of fire service. The volunteer fire service, which you've been a part of. The career fire service, which you've been a part of. And the wives and husbands of the firefighters who are asked to support the lifestyle considerations unique to the fire service. The two stars on both sides of the Yammer ring symbolizes the partnership between the State Farm Marshal's Office and the local fire service, working together to protect the communities in this great state of Indiana. I love you, friends.

One more.

You know, when you're the third one to come out of the mall with a bunch of firefighters that are always trying to half-talk the other, you don't have a whole lot of room to say too much, but truly, you're a color for the fire service. and we do thank you for the service you've given to Markinsville. Now this is something I would like to read, a certificate of appreciation. In recognition of your outstanding dedication and service to the city of Markinsville, we present this certificate to you, who from 1981 through to 2026 faithfully served as a firefighter, protecting lives and property with courage, integrity, and unwavering commitment. Additionally, from 1989 to 2024, you served the community as a paramedic providing skill and compassionate care in times of urgent need. It's not like you got shot a few times. The City of Arkansas extends its deepest gratitude for your 25 years of honorable service and your lasting impact on the safety and well-being of our community. Thank you for your integrity, devotion, and service to our city.

Thank you for being here. Thank you.

And these are things that make having our council meetings a lot of fun. I know some of you want to go ahead and take off before we get back in our business. Go ahead, make your way out, and then we'll give you just a few minutes to take off. Thank you for being here.

Thank you. Under committee reports, peddlers, solicitors, recent merchants.

We've had a lot of different thoughts on this and it's hard to do separated so I'd like to have an open meeting of the council and anyone who wants to attend and I'd like Dale to be there if he could for his wording of it and someone from the police department for their And I'd like us to put something together that's good for the city and its citizens because it's about their safety and it's not about any money whatsoever. It's about the safety of the people of Marksville so that they can have people come to their house or not come to their house if that's okay with everyone.

Any comments from the council? Do you want to throw a date out for a workshop?

John, what were you thinking would be a good date?

The sooner the better. It's been on the docket way too long, so.

Yeah.

Any day is fine with me. I can make a getaway. Other people have more strict schedules than I do. I know we're still in schools. The middle of the day is not going to work. Whatever works for you all, I'm good with. I will make it work.

Would the first week of June be good?

I hope to do it before then. I mean, we're in April, so I'd hate to wait a whole month to do that.

You could even have it like something out there to get the conversation going. I mean, you can do like 5 o'clock on the 27th if you wanted to. It's on the same night as the council meeting.

Yeah, that'd be good. So you're saying April 27th?

Yeah, I'm just throwing a date out.

Yeah, that sounds very good.

You want to do it the same night as the city council meeting? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we can do it at 5 o'clock.

I'm available. Josh, is that working for you? Yeah.

Yes.

John, did you call and fix that? That will be absent, but if it worked for everybody else, go for it. Okay. You even told me that.

So let's go ahead and Mr. Porter if you would help us advertise that we'll have a public workshop on Monday April 27th at five o'clock prior to the Board of Works here in the Council Chambers. Okay. Any other questions for Ann or John before we move on? We need to have two public hearings this evening. So without objection, the council will be in recess for the purpose of conducting the public hearings. The first public hearing is Ordinance 2026-1912, Amendment to Chapter 38, Fire Prevention. Mr. Coffin?

I'm going to ask Chief Green to introduce these online.

Good evening again. So we have, you have in front of you the ordinance 2026-1912. You already had this as an ordinance. We have cleaned it up a little bit and changed a few things in here as far as inspection fees or re-inspects or faulty false alarms. Very few things were changed except for if you turn to the fourth page You will see the charges for hazardous material emergency response. And in the past, what we have done, we have always sent out something. If we have a gas line that has been cut by a contractor, any time that we have to have a full response, we would charge folks a certain dollar amount. The state's come out now, and this is what we can charge per vehicle, per unit. replacement costs for expendable materials. And of course, all these fees would then have to go back into fire prevention according to the ordinance. So we can use it for hazardous material things or as we see fit with, there's certain parameters we have to follow with that. So we've already had this before, but we just want to get it in an ordinance so we had a little bit of bite with this and then we can make sure that things are getting invoiced out correctly.

anyone have any questions for chief green so if these are um these that are imposed on the um whoever like say a car accident something like that this is mainly for like um

Gas line cuts, anytime that we have a hazardous material situation, it could be at a gas station where you have fuel leaks, things like that, but it has to be something of size when we are dedicating a lot of apparatus. Because when we have a gas leak, sometimes we can be there one, two, three hours. And it's just vehicles sitting there running. It's manpower sitting there. So we charge them for those type of things, especially if they hit something that's marked. But, yeah, we charge for those things.

Okay.

If the council has no further questions for Chief Green, is there anyone in the public that would like to comment on this at this time? Okay, let's move to the second one. We'll declare the public hearing on ordinance 2026-1912 closed. The next one is ordinance 2026-1913, implementing fees for non-emergency responses.

So this is for lift assistance at residential care facilities. One of the things that we are finding out that we are spending a tremendous amount of time and resources going to residential care facilities that there is aides there, nurses there, things like that. We're taking our resources out, most likely, not to mention it's a 911 call, so we still have to go 911 across town. What we have done is we kind of watched throughout the state to see how this is going with other places. There's multiple fire departments out there that are doing this because you end up getting calls for non-emergency lift assist is what it is. Basically, I fell, I need help, and nobody at the facility will do it. And so they always claim that it could be a liability situation. We're done with it. We need to be done with it because it's one of those things that it's costing us a lot of money. And oftentimes when these things happen, for whatever reason, there ends up coming out another run and then we end up generating an overtime call. So it's costing the taxpayers a lot of money for services these folks are already paying for and should be provided. So if you notice on here, infraction one through three would be a $500 charge. This is standard across the board, across the state of Indiana. I gave Dale multiple examples of other departments that are doing the same thing. And after that, it becomes $1,000. But the most important thing you need to understand is that We do have some leeway in this. If we go and it truly is somebody that's injured, then fine. We're not charging that. But we also have to make sure that on our end that we are documenting that in our run reports because this is becoming something that Martinsville has faced a lot of this. Morrisville faces a lot of this. We spend a lot of resources, gas, and just resources in general running to pick someone up. Now, for the general public, that doesn't change. They don't have a nursing assistant sitting there. They don't have people that are able to do that. We're talking about residential care facilities. So we have three of them here in town that we deal with. So we are asking for you to approve this so we can get this ball rolling because it is costing us some good money.

Kevin, thank you. I want to make sure you made it clear to people they understand that it is for the facilities. Correct. Not residents. And also it's the facilities that gets charged and not the patient. That's correct. That's correct.

And knowing, I'm sure a lot of you know, but it's really expensive to have these people in there. They're getting these services through taxpayer money for free, and it's just not right. It needs to change. So I think if we go ahead and take care of this, it's implemented everywhere else, so we need to get on board with this.

Any other questions for the Chief?

Quick question to either Chief Green or Council. Is there a way that this could be written to where there's fact that the residential facility will be the one that is paying it? Kind of echoing what Councilman Decker was saying.

I will tell you that it is presented to the residential facility. What the residential facility does at that point, I can't answer that. I have no idea.

Council, is there any way we can create a safeguard for that so that doesn't get reflected upon?

Well, on page one there, the fifth paragraph says the city shall assess a fee upon residential care facilities. So we've made it clear in the ordinance we really can't dictate how they operate privately. We've done all we can do to say our fee is going to be assessed upon the residential facility.

And I will tell you that as time goes on, people will figure this out and then we'll start getting the calls like we used to which is I'm having a heart attack but they wanted their remote I'm shortness of breath because they needed you know mac and cheese from the other room these all things have happened in the past so when those times come we will have more conversation and we will take care of things we're not trying to get out of the service but we're trying to make it the emergency service is which we provide not your caregiver yeah

There is no other questions for Chief Green. Anyone from the public like to comment on this ordinance this evening? If not, then public hearing on coordinates 2026-1913 is closed. Common Council is back in session. First item on the agenda is the first reading of coordinates 2026-1912, the amendment to chapter 38 on fire prevention. Again, this is just the first reading. Unless you want to spin the rules, we can hold this off and pass it at the next meeting under second reading.

I recommend we suspend the rules, or I make a motion that we suspend the rules.

Well, I mean, I don't necessarily know.

I mean, it certainly talks about assessing fees for hazardous materials and emergency runs. So if the council would feel it's an emergency situation and do that so that we can get fees in place to be assessed, then certainly it could qualify.

Okay, Councilwoman Lipps. I amend the motion to recommend that we suspend the first reading, moving forward with another reading because of its emergency status.

Motion made to suspend the rules on this ordinance because of emergency status. Is there a second? Second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. The rules are suspended for this ordinance. I would entertain another motion.

I make a motion that Ordinance 2026, 1912, Amendment to Chapter 38, Fire Prevention, move forward.

second it's been a motion made and second to approve the ordinance all in favor say aye aye opposed no motion carries next item on the agenda is the first reading of ordinance 2026-1913 implementing fees for non-emergency responses Again, this is the first reading. No action is required unless you want to suspend the rules for this one also.

I make a motion that we suspend the rules and go ahead and approve ordinance number 2026-1913. Motion on the floor to amend the rules, ordinance 2026-1913.

Is there a second?

second motion made and seconded all in favor say aye aye opposed no motion carries then i would entertain another motion from this ordinance i make a motion that we approve ordinance 2026 1913 implementing fees for non-emergency purposes not emergency responses responses excuse me

Motion made to approve the ordinance. And there's a second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries. Thank you, council. Next item on the agenda tonight is the annual report of the redevelopment commission. Mr. Gant and Mr. Griswold are both here.

Good evening, members of the Council, Mr. Mayor, thank you for having us. I'm Joe Gaunt, attorney for the Redevelopment Commission, Richard Criswold, president. I believe you've all received the packet of the annual report. I'll just quickly turn to paragraph G, the summary, in that over last year, The redevelopment commission completed the MET, the entertainment theater, had a successful grand opening. Things are still going well. Hopefully you all had a chance to see the beautiful new building. Also were able to purchase some property and pay for it. to be paved so we have some new downtown parking to help supplement the downtown square. This lost some parking with the remodel. We've also assisted in getting close to the levee completion and we also assisted in many new sidewalks throughout the city. We also have been working with Mr. Porter and the city in trying to get the property and the potential new skate park coming as soon as we get all the approvals from FEMA and all those other folks. So it was a good year. We were able to pay off the theater in full, so there is no debt related to the theater, which is always a good thing. And we're looking forward to continuing to complete some projects that will help the city as a whole. Any questions, we're happy to answer. Otherwise, we would simply ask for approval of our annual report.

I just had a quick question. Looks like you're looking at this correctly. Your expenditures outweighed your revenues. How are you making up the difference?

Essentially the expenditures we had money in the bank that we were able to spend that so our cash reserves are pretty low at this point but we had very Frugal spending over the past couple of years and so that's how we were able to have larger expenditures the revenue I would move that we accept this report

I second.

A motion made and seconded to approve the report from the RDC. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. It's a pleasure. Mr. Mayor, the next one is a long list and if I remember right, we just, one person made a motion, some else sent and we went through fairly quick. Do you want to explain what we're doing now before I hit the cart before the horse?

Yes, so before you tonight is a requirement that we need to do annually as part of a couple of resolutions. One that was passed in 2018 and one that was passed in 2021. These are tax abatement approvals for the artesian group for back when they purchased property downtown and revitalized those buildings. Both resolutions are 10-year abatement programs and part of that is they do this annual report and submit it to the council. I can confirm that I have looked through these. They are in compliance with these reports. So they have, they continue to do all the requirements that we've put before them. So our recommendation would be that these would be approved tonight. And yes, I will take notes as quickly as I possibly can to keep up with you all. Before we start, does anyone have any questions for Ben?

We can't just recommend that A through R be approved?

If you need to do each individual one.

Okay, thank you.

I'll make the motion to approve consideration compliance statement of benefits for 38 through 40 North Main Street.

Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve benefits for 38-40 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries.

I make a motion to comply.

All in favor say aye.

Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion compliance with statements of benefits 88 through 90 North Main Street.

Second. In a motion Maine segment statement of benefits 88 to the 90 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion that we approve 128 to 142 North Main Street.

Second. Motion to approve benefits for 128 to 142 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion compliance with statements of benefits for 152 North Main Street.

Sit down. Motion made in segment for the statement of benefits for 152 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. The motion carries.

I make a motion that we approve compliance with statements of benefits on 154 North Main Street. Second.

A motion made and seconded to approve statement of benefits for 150 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries.

I make a motion that we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 171 North Main Street. Second.

And a motion made and seconded for the statement of benefits for 171 North Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 10 through 18 East Morgan Street. Second.

And a motion made and seconded to approve the statement of benefits for 10 to 18 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye. Aye.

Opposed, none. Motion carries. I make a motion that we approve benefits for 66 East Morgan Street.

Second. Motion made and seconded to approve the statement of benefits for 66 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye.

Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. I make a motion that we approve benefits for 72 East Morgan Street.

Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve the statement of benefits for 72 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries.

I make a motion that we approve benefits for 78 East Morgan Street. Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve the benefits for 78 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 88 East Morgan Street.

Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve benefits for 88 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 96 East Morgan Street.

Second. Motion made and seconded for the benefits of 96 East Morgan Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. No. Motion picked. Susie, you're on a roll. It passes.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits 23-2939 East Washington Street, 41-43 South Main Street. Second. Motion to approve benefits for 23-29.

and 39 East Washington Street and 41 to 43 South Main Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits 21 North Jefferson Street.

Second. Motion made. Second, approve the benefits of 21 North Jefferson Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, none. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 27 North Jefferson Street.

Second. Motion made and seconded to approve the benefits for 27 North Jefferson Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 210 North Jefferson Street. Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve the benefits of 210 North Jefferson Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries.

I make a motion we approve compliance with statements of benefits for 240 North Jefferson Street. Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve the benefits of 240 North Jefferson Street. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Now, Ben, I have a question. We've got three more years on these?

On the 2018 resolution, that's a 10 year. Both of them are 10 years. So one you have a few more years, and the other you have a handful of years left. OK.

Well, thank you, council. We got that taken care of. Any comments from the council this evening?

I'd like to thank, I've been out and about the last couple weeks in the mornings and seen the street department and they're hustling. I want to really thank the street department for all they do with getting that trash picked up and they're doing a great job. And I've also been to the park. The park looks amazing. It really does. I was out on the path and doing a little hiking on there in the park. We have a very beautiful park.

Don't let her kid that she was a mushroom hunting.

I'm sorry?

I said don't let your kid that you're a mushroom hunting.

True.

Do the south sides first.

I was. And let's pray for rain. For more mushrooms.

Any other comments? Mayor, when I opened up the water bill, I noticed on the nice flyer encouraging people to participate. They've got the wrong dates for your Board of Works and City Council meetings. We've got listed as the first and third Mondays, just to let you know.

What is that on?

It's on the insert that's on the water bill. The flyer is getting people to participate if they'd like to do public participation opportunities. And it has the meetings scheduled for the first and third Mondays.

Was that something that we sent out, or was it just something that came out of the water bill that says City of Martin?

Oh my God. I think it's something that Voice prepared. We'll need to get the information you have on this so you can get it to Voice. They're probably going to want to call them. Okay. Thanks, Bill.

You're welcome. Anything else? I was kind of excited, but I thought maybe there wasn't a meeting tonight. Nah.

Anything from the city? If not, then the next regular meeting of the Common Council will be on Monday, April 27, 2026, 7 o'clock. We are adjourned. Thank you.