Town Council - Regular Meeting

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Thank you and welcome everyone. Mr. Morgan, you're walking up. I'm just waiting for to let you know that I'd like to pull item I which I believe is the contract with waste pen. Like pull that from our agenda, please. Thank you. First item on the agenda is approval of minute from the January 7 meeting. Any questions or comments? Motion to approve. So moved. Motion by Mr. Sec. Second. Mr. Chadam. All in favor? I motion carries 5. Thank you.

Any public comment, Mr. Morgan? I've had no request to speak tonight, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir.

Uh just first up is just an announcement that the uh Danville Community School Board has approved Tracy Schaefer. I'm Tracy Schaffer to the our appointment to the town redevelopment commission. Uh dash penning Mr. Hel Chief Hel. Good evening, Mr. President, mayor, board members or council members laughing. You're making me laugh. Uh tonight I bring forth uh Andy Pride. Officer Pride was with the department for 18 years. He's had several different positions. He's been an FTO, a full train officer. He's been a detective, a K9 handler. He's also worked on the warrant team and he's also helped some other positions with us. He's an instructor with us. So, as the 18 years went on, he's been a little bit of everything kind of full circle now. And the merit board last week has promoted him to a sergeant. So, tonight I'm going to introduce to you Andy Pride, if you'll come forward. U board met last week. We had an opening for a position as sergeant and he was next on the list. So they promoted him to sergeant. So tonight we're going to bring him and his wife up here. We're going to do badge tending and uh Shelby, if you'll come on up to well my Mr. Chad has a little thing to say to um I can say I guess officially now Sergeant Pride I want to congratulate you on your promotion sergeant. You serve the department and our community for 18 years of dedicated service. This service that you've given us and the achievements that you've had in our community reflects your leadership, professionalism, and your unwavering commitment to protect and serve citizens and community of Danville. This promotion is welld deserved. Show me also like to thank you your patience and understanding and learning certain pride to us missing birthday parties etc.

holidays. Um, we just want to let you know that we thank you for allowing that to happen. So, thank you, Sergeant Proud, and myself, my fellow council.

All right. I'm sorry. Congratulations, Sergeant Pride. with the council, please. All the officers, staff Come on.

Here we go. One more with my 2. Thank you. foot.

Thank you. We now have fire ad. Good evening, Mr. President, Councilman. Uh, bring before you our new director of EMS, Monica. Come on. Bring your family with you for the penning. She's going to be her badge is going to be pinned by her father and her Oakley will be pinned by her children, Commissioner Shel.

All right. Good evening everyone. Today marks a special day for our fire department and our community. Monica Smith, you have chosen a path of service, courage, and dedication. Your training has prepared you for the challenges ahead, but is your heart that will guide you through the toughest moments. As your badges pinned on you today, know that you're not just joining a department, becoming a part of a family. A family that will have your back in the face of danger, celebrate your triumphs, and support you through the tough times. Wear your badge with pride. serve with honor and always keep in mind why you chose this double profession. Congratulations

Gracious. ONE, TWO, THREE. YEAH, STEP.

SORRY. Here we go. One, two, three. Congratulations. Thank you. Next up is a proclamation for triappa week. Mr. Morgan.

So I bring before you tonight a proclamation declaring Tri Kappa recognition of the week containing the anniversary of their founding founding on February 22nd. Whereas Kappa Kappa Incorporated, commonly known as Triricappa, is a philanthropic sorority with nearly 8,000 members. And whereas Triricappa was founded in 1901 to promote charity, culture, and education within the state of Indiana, and whereas Triricappa membership is located solely in the state of Indiana. And whereas Triricappa members give over 300,000 hours annually to philanthropic endeavors. And whereas Triricappa chapters raise over $1.5 million annually given directly to charities, cultural establishments, and deserving college students in Indiana. And whereas Triricappa celebrates our membership and philanthropic activities in our Indiana communities the fourth week of February each year. And whereas TriRicappa membership celebrates the spirit of volunteerism and kindness throughout the state of Indiana. Now therefore, we the members of the Danville Town Council do hereby proclaim February 22nd to February 28th, 2026 as Triricappa week in the town of Danville and invite all citizens to duly note this occasion. In witness whereof we have here unto set hand and cause the seal of the town of the end of Indiana to be affixed this 21st day of it says February but it should be January and I'll change that. I apologize. The year 2026 this will require a vote question or comment. I will move to approve the triathl proclamation as amended. Motion by Mr. Irby second.

Second by Mr. Carol Mr. Do all in favor. All opposed. Motion carry 5. Would you all like to come up?

Thank you. Here we go. Thank you. Thank you for question.

Okay. Voices to be heard. Henry County Youth Assistant Program. Miss Hover.

Thank you so much for having me this evening. My name is Stacy Hover. This is Melissa Irby. I'm the director of the Hendris County Youth Assistance Program and Melissa um sits on the Henderson County Youth Assistance Board. So, when I looked at your um announcements this evening, I I did not um prepare to have have an ask. I really just wanted to inform you guys more about the Hendricks County Youth Assistance Program. If you like what you hear, I would love that and we can talk about it. Um, I did send you guys the slides. Um, I just want to go through these quickly because hopefully you've had a chance to look at them and I want to make sure there's ample time for questions. So, the Hendris County Youth Assistance Program um piloted out of Planefield. So, they started the Planefield youth assistance program and that started with um the school board coming to Judge Love at the time asking um if they could do something else for students besides suspensions, expulsions, or um probation. And when that came about, she went to Hamilton County. Um Hamilton County has a youth assistance program that's been around for, I don't know, 18 or 20 years, something like that. and she did some investigation and liked what she saw, liked the numbers, um liked the results that they had and so brought it back to the school and the town of Planefield and said, "Hey, I love this. We need to do this, but I need you guys to support to get it up and running." So, um the school is committed to five years of help and I'm proud to say that the town of Pinefield is still invest invested in the program. Um

Yeah. Yep. You can keep going. So, the mission is the voluntary, we are a voluntary early intervention prevention program. So, really the idea is to get the kids before they get in um into probation or into DCS. If they're already on that route, we cannot assist them. We can assist them as stepping down when they come out, but we can't assist them while they're in the program. Yeah.

Um the Planfield Youth Assistance Program took their first referral in 2021. We actually started in 2019, but as we all know, co so um we weren't able to get into the schools and actually take a student or a referral until 2021. I am proud as a program to say that we were able to um start in our second community in 2024. We started the Avon assistance program. So these are kind of the students that we um work with. I'm gonna have Melissa kind of share um more about some of the students and the types of students that um that she has dealt with as well.

Hello everyone. Um I don't think any of you except for of course Greg know uh what my day job is, but I'm an attorney and I work for the court system here in Hendrickers County as a child advocate. And so I've been doing that since I was licensed in 2011. So, I've seen a lot of kids come into contact with the court system, a lot of families. Um, and I can say a couple things. One, that I think there's clearly um a need for this. Um, it's obviously um been successful in other communities like ours. So, I think that's pretty good evidence that um it is something that's needed. And then the other thing is um working with families uh when they're already in the court system. So the way that a child might come into contact with the court would be either as a juvenile delinquent. So they've done something um that they're not supposed to do. Um so they have to go see Judge Valencia as a juvenile. Um and the other way they could come into contact with court would be if they become a child in need of services um a chance, which means that um there something has happened with their family. they're either um the victim of abuse or neglect. And so obviously the court system is there to help those children um process through these things that are happening with them in their lives. But um working in the court system, I've also seen the limitations of it. Um and it is what we have right now and it's the what we have to work within it. But the limitations are I would say what I've seen is um delay um in getting the services that um these family needs. The core system is um notoriously slow and retroactive. Um so that can be a problem just in getting the services for these families. Um and

then obviously there's the stress for the family and the child of being involved in the court system. Um having to go to court dates. um having to miss work for court dates, um having to do things, being ordered to do things um and then possibly getting in trouble for not doing them. Um and so if um if there were another resource like the youth assistance program that um you know, community members and leaders that work with these families um can provide another option short of having to end up in court. Um I just um I think that it would be greatly beneficial um to our families and to our children. And um the idea is that the families are receiving this service um free or at a reduced cost as well. And I think the um the access to those resources um is is just something that our community really needs and I just wanted to provide that perspective from somebody that um works with these types of families. So thank you for listening.

You're welcome. Um so how the program works um the students are referred generally by the school. It could be a counselor, a resource officer, um a teacher, anyone from the school that sees that initially what we would hope would be that first red flag. Um change in grades, change in behavior, change in attendance, whatever it may be, that's when we want to get involved. And so the referral comes in, there's a staff member that does an intake and assessment to determine are we the right program or should there be another route. Um, and then with that after the assessment, then they create an individualized action plan. It's my most favorite part about the the program, it truly is individualized. It is not a cut and paste program. We talk with the families. We meet with the families and try to figure out what the underlying issue is. Whether that's at that first meeting or that's three months down the road. It's really trying to figure out what the whole initial in issue is and so address that issue. Um, and then our staff do case management on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. And really that part is just building relationships with them. So they have that person that can walk through that season that they're in regardless of what that season looks like. um the three things that um the youth assistance program offers in Planefield and Avon. What I do want to make clear is what we have created in Avon and Planefield does not have to be duplicated in Danville. Really, we want to get with the towns and the schools and figure out what the gap is. If you guys already have an amazing tutoring program, there's no reason for us then to to step on toes. That's not the point of the program. We want to do what the gap is. So if you don't have a tutoring program, then we want to assist with that. If you have a mentoring program, great. We we can work with those people. If not, then let us come in and help create one. And then our full family program is really we're kids specific, but as we all know, uh when something

happens in a family, it can impact a student. And when that happens, we want to be there for the whole family. That could be as simple as Christmas. you know, they maybe they they can meet their daily um necessities and meet those needs, but then here comes Christmas and they can't afford gifts. So, it can be as simple as that. Um could be as drastic as somebody experiencing a house fire that devastates the whole family. We're going to come in and help the entire family, not just that student. Then the rest of the programming that we offer is really trying to get our kids and parents and families engaged. That's it. We want to get them in the community. We want to get them in the school. Um, we want to get them being productive citizens. That's on the next slide. Yeah. So, these are some of the community programming that we work with currently. And ideally, if we're in Danville, we want to work with what Danville offers. If Danville doesn't have that gap or that thing that we're looking for, then we're going to keep it within Hendricks County. That's the goal. The money that we use, we want to be used in our communities. So, um, we want to be feeding the programs, the businesses, the nonprofits, everybody that, um, is offering the program. We are not a one-stop shop. That is not the goal. The goal is that we get the student, we figure out what they need, we get them hooked up, we're a bridge to help from the school to after hours and in the community. Um, help those students and families get connected and then hopefully they have the resources that they need and we can close the door in about a year, year and a half, two years most. There are some students in playingfield that um have been with us from the beginning and that's because they're dealing with some significant medical issues and they don't have family support. So ethically we're not closing those cases. So next slide I think just some of our highlights. Um we do track grades. That's one thing that the families have to do in order to stay in the program. The parents have to give

their nineweek grades to us every nine weeks. Um, we're tracking that for data. So, if Johnny wants to play soccer, but Johnny's not passing classes, Johnny can't play soccer until we know that Johnny's going through the tutoring program, that he's trying what he can um to raise his grades. Um, and then we use that as an incentive. Okay, Johnny's grades are raising, so okay, let's let's try soccer and see if that's something he's interested. Once we find that area of interest, then we're going to help the parents prioritize that. Um so we do track that 78% of the students in Avon yeah were in good standings. Um one of our students in Avon uh yeah they showed a 12% growth once they were paired with a mentor. So once he had somebody working alongside of him and helping him this is a high school student um he showed a 12% gross growth. Um, we started working with project the 10 referrals at the end of last year. And since Planefield youth assistance program started, Judge Crane um um posted that there's been a 30% decrease with Planefield students being referred to probation. So, and that's what we want. That's exactly what we want. We want to make sure to keep these kids out of the system, keep the system, keep them out of having a statistic and helping reduce the numbers of juveniles in the system. So, that is our main goal. We haven't been in Avon long enough to track that yet, but we're getting there. So, not sure. Is that the last one? Uh oh, this was one of our highlights uh this last year and we were recognized as um county achievement award um from 2025. So, and that's just recognizing that all the entities, the county, the towns, the schools, we're all working together to make sure that we're serving these students in the best way possible. So, um,

questions. I'm not allowed to ask questions. I don't think comments. I will say that there um is a Hendrickers County Youth Assistance Board just like Melissa sits on. And then each um community, Avon and Planefield, they both have advisory boards. Those advisory boards job is to fund raise for each community. So the money that we raise in Avon is used on Avon students. Um and the money that's raised in that is used on students. So all the programming that we just went through like the tutoring, the mentoring or the mental health or the athletics, any type of programming is used from those advisory board funds, the fundraising that they do. So

question have there been communication with the Daniel school to identify what the population and what the need is there? Yes, there has been communication and actually uh we got some really good feedback from the school as far as what some of the target areas might be. Um so it definitely is going to need to be a collaboration involving the schools for sure. Um does that answer your question or did you know something more?

They were looking for more support also. Well, they had at one point asked for more support inside the classrooms, asking if we can actually go into schools and be inside the classroom. And we can again, we can. This the great thing about the youth assistance program is it can be developed according to each community. So, whatever that school and town is looking for, that's what we want to help build and and and duplicate. So, and the school has said that they would be interested in this program. curious. Uh before moving here, I was involved in a program in the St. Louis area that dealt with troubled kids

and uh one of the biggest problems we had there was the lack of parental support. Uh what uh what do you find in that realm to get you deal with?

Um if you go back to what the mission was, it's a voluntary early intervention program. So, we can't make anybody do anything and we're not going to. Um, but the people that do want to get involved, it does take parental involvement. Um, the one thing that staff or volunteers, we don't drive students and they can't go back and forth to homes. Everything's in public or everything's at the school. So, it takes the family wanting to change the trajectory. Um we have seen that when you put when there's an interest or they see that somebody's going to be there for them um to listen or financially assist them, there is some buy in. Um so but we've had students that have been referred multiple times um and the families don't get involved and we can't there's nothing we can do. Now, the in Planefield and Avon, the counselors work alongside um the staff members and sometimes we try to tag team it or we'll bring them in to try to see if we can sit down at the table and and and have a conversation with the parents just letting them know they're not in trouble if they join join us. Really, we're just somebody that wants to come alongside of them and assist them in in their season of need. So, um, but there's always going to be those people that don't don't want to take advantage of the services.

Mr. President, if I may pardon,

if I may speak. Sure. Thank you. As you know, I don't normally interject my personal feelings on a topic that comes before this board. However, um you know how competitive I am and to see us slide with Playingfield's logo, Advon's logo and not ours on there bothers me greatly. Uh, but the other thing, the biggest thing is the gentleman who is the uh, second from the right in the blue shirt is one of my best friends and I'd really like to have a picture showing the town of Danville so that I can make sure that he knows that we did something better than he did. He sits on the county council. Thank you. I I do have a couple more questions. I go through the the slides and it looked like in Avon and Planefield you serve substantially different population because Avon was all 16, 17, 18 year olds and and Planefield was K prek through 18.

Yes. So um just an expansion of the program. No, we can serve students 3 through 17. Um but when we went to Avon, their gap honestly um was when they opened the Avon Academy, they realized they could not support the services those students needed after hours. Their teachers and their counselors were spending so much time helping to find housing or jobs or child care um because they had a nursery in there that they weren't able to spend the time

in the classroom. And so that's really when he finally said, "Okay, we're ready. We found our we found our gap." And he said, "I I think our elementary students are covered. I think they're good. Let's start in the high school and the academy, and then if we need to go down to the middle school, we can do that." He said, "But I don't think we're going to need you in the elementary." Perfect. That's what their gap was. That's what they needed. So we serve high school age students in Avon and three through 17 in Planefield. and what Vanville schools have identified just preliminarily as some of their areas of need. I would say pretty much the range. The two that I remember Dr. Schaefer bringing up were one um kids in high school that were getting expelled. So, um I think just monitoring them more closely, maybe helping them with academics and then obviously if you're getting expelled, there might be something else going on with your mental health. Um and then the other one was um behaviors at North actually. So kind or preschool through second grade their behaviors in the classroom. Not a shock to those of us who are in those classrooms or have kids in those grades. Um but that is those are some examples of a couple of the areas that the school thought that areas of need that Danville had. question.

Thank you for coming. Appreciate. Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh, next up is resolution 42026, Miss Loftton. Yes. This is a resolution to transfer funds from the general fund to the fire territory with the creation of the fire territory. They were getting tax dollars in our general fund and so this will be a transfer to get the startup for them. Any questions or comments there? Motion. I'll make a motion to approve resolution 4 2026.

Motion by Mr. Gerald, second by Mr. Herby. All in favor? I vote. Motion carries 5 Z. Thank you. Conflict of interest forms. Miss Loftton. Yes. These are two conflict of interest forms for Brett Dow and Greg Herby. Um that would need to be voted on tonight. Any questions there? seems a little sketchy. I'll make a motion to approve the conflict conflict of interest form. Second, Mr. Cher. Second, Mr. Irby. All in favor?

I motion carries 40 uh small structure asset report. Sorry about that. I'll make a motion to approve the Herby conflict of interest.

Second motion by Mr. Cheryl second Mr. Chadam all in favor I carries 4 30 4 get it right now small structure as I report Mr. Good evening. I know back in June, I think this house bill was approved on June 30th. It became effective on June 30th. At the time on the council aware that we're going to be inheriting some structures that the county originally were maintaining. Um, so I asked Eegis group, which they are in group, Tyler and Lauren, uh, from Eegis Engineering, helped us out with a lot of data and you have most of the information here. I really want to just focus on a couple of things. Really, these are just numbers. There are six structures that are not in this because they're outside the 10-year outlook. I asked them to do a one-year, a fiveyear, and a 10-year outlook on these structures based on longevity, road classification, and road load calculations. Um, most of the data is here. There is some that's missing, and I'll bring that to you at the next meeting. Uh, but I wanted to point out one, which is the most extensive because we're all familiar with this area. It's by the pizza that is structure C022. I did not come up with these numbers. They were from the county. I just took them and used them. Um, but there's pictures in here that shows the location. Um, I was pretty specific with each on how we're going to repair these. Uh, a lot of the the cost that you see on these, and these are in thousands of dollars. So, I've kind of done some calculations to give you a total number of the ones that need to be done in year 1 through 10. Um, and that number is $1,741,000. And these are replacement and maintenance. So we we have a large cost here that we weren't expecting that we technically can't even afford to do

right now with our current revenue source from the new storm water utility. Um but we will come up with a plan and I'll present that to you how we can fund that and how we can get these done. The next step is getting low ratings because once this is identified we have to address it. That's the bad thing about identifying these and getting information on these roads is they got to be roadw worthy. Um, and if an accident occurs because of the failure of that, we are now on that hook. And I know our past legal counselor wouldn't like to hear the word liability, but he's not here. So, um, anyhow, um, the reality is is we've got a lot of cost here that we've got to take care of. Um, and these were classified in you you'll see on the first page is four, 10, and 5 years. These are total failure. They could happen a year, the next year. So, I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Um, and if you have any questions for Lauren and Tyler, they're they're here. They're willing to answer any questions of how they came up with this data. They worked through some cold months and, uh, I met them a couple times and the team was down in the creek in the water. Uh, they did a really good job with the data they provided. So, I want to thank them. Um, but this is just the tip of the iceberg when we talk about the town storm water system in general. Um, we will eat the elephant one bite at a time, but this here gave us a target. Um, and this is kind of a big deal. I'm going to go back to what I said. I gave them specific instructions on how we're going to repair these because a lot of these have very little cover on the road over the pipe. So, I instructed them to price these out using concrete box covers. They last forever if they're maintained and inspected. Uh, the other thing is is we did identify some areas that the future trail possibly could be. We will we will

stretch those out to cover that width just in case that happens. So, it will lower the cost somewhat of the trail if they ever go in. So, we will tase you when they go to design repairs on these. Really, that's all I have. Um, if you have any questions, really, I know this is a lot of data to take in. Um, they did a really good job and I'm happy that we had them help us out. Question.

Um, I spoke with Representative Thompson briefly about this and he's look supposed to be looking into it, but I wasn't very knowledgeable about the topic myself. Could someone maybe shoot me I don't know if it's you or Lauren or somebody shoot me an email what we need to ask Representative Knox? he agreed that if we just got stuck with this, there needs to be a revenue source that comes with it. So, I think my problem was just identifying what statute did they change and what are we asking them to change again. Something like that. I think it would be helpful to send back to them so we can keep working on it for us. Yeah, I I believe it's House Bill 1461, but I will verify that and shoot you an email if if Lauren and Tyler know that right now. You guys have any information on that?

I don't have the bill number. It was a It was a small piece of the road coming bill that passed through the last session. Okay. It's House Bill 1461, I believe, Mr. I'll verify that you know if it is not. Thank you.

Y question. You said uh roughly once we've identified these now we're looking at ratings on those roads. So we have a small window to figure out, hey, is that load rating right to go over that? Do you have a window after that that says, hey, we have to replace this and get this done. That will be determined once they do the load ratings, I will come back and say, hey, based on their expertise, this is what we're going to use them to rely on them for that liability, we need to to act on this because you said we're a little over a million dollars, all of them.

Yeah, that's 26 structures. is 1.7 to do all those structures and not all those are replacements. Some of those are repairs. Um we'll get dig a little more into the individual data. I just really want to bring you the overall view because that's mainly what we can look at. Right now we don't have a funding source. We'll be looking at that as we work through these repairs. Um, I have a couple ideas and like I said, I'll present them once I have all that data so I can give you guys good information so you can base your decisions on that. Just looking at that CEO 22 that you're talking about. Yeah, I know where that structure is. It's right outside my wife's window. Yeah.

And she has literally said when I started here 17 years ago, that thing was around. Well, and I bring that one up also because I know the contractor reached out to me and said, "Hey, this was scheduled to be repaired prior to the bill passing." They pulled the funding from that project. Knowing that the bill was had a chance of passing that that's really my biggest peak is I think it's really maybe more than just that. It's it's the reality that they had funding in place to do it. and they pulled it and they were going to do a repair. This is for replacement. I don't, you know, I don't repair pipes that are metal in town because you're going to repair them again. The bottom starts to rust and they deteriorate and you're just wasting your money. So, that's that's really why I gave them that directive. And these numbers you might find are a little bit higher than normal, but that's road replacement extending out where they need to be for a trail, possible trail, and using concrete pulps. So there's a little bit of difference.

Are are all of these ones that transferred to our financial statements as a result of the legislation last year? This is all 33 of them. Yes. Yeah. The ones you mentioned it total up to a million7. That's only six. So that's about $300,000 a piece. That leaves another 27 of them to go.

That's 26 structures. So the numbers that you see in here are for 26 structures. There's only seven that were outside of that 10-year outlook. So these were based on ratings of a one through 10. 10 being the highest, one being the lowest. We have seven structures that are at that four or three mark which need really immediate care. So that's going to be that one through five year output that they need replaced. If that makes sense. Hopefully that clears that up. when on the form it says estimated remaining light. Does that give an indication of when that replacement or work needs to be done?

Yes, that that is that is a window of basic and Tyler you might be able to explain this better than me. Basically that says that can fail at any time in that for that's complete failure at year four year five.

Yeah. Hi, Tyler with Eegis Group. Um, yes. So, we've sent out some uh inspectors, certified inspectors within that do inspections and those are estimates remained live. We've inspected thousands of structures. So, it is a it is an interpretation. There's no crystal ball that says exactly when this is, but that is our estimate. When that hits zero, that is when we think the road may get closed. It's not okay this hits zero and then it starts need to be planned to be replaced. So there is a variability as your inspected bridges that had four years remaining life for eight or nine years but they just aren't getting worse every time you use. So there is advantages to continuing to monitor these because if they're deteriorating slower than you think then you have more life. But we've also been to some or you know some that breaks through uh that wasn't seen and they go worse faster. Those are estimates but yes that ideally if that hits zero then that roadway would be enclosed. Thank you. Thank you. Any other question or comment?

Thank you. Thank you. Morgan request from legal counsel.

At the first of the year, I addressed with our former legal counsel three matters. Um, two of them I believe we received resolution. I think we're good. uh one of them uh in conversation uh with Juel and Attorney Young's uh we believe that the matter it's police matter uh that we should probably go ahead and retain Taft uh to finish up this matter. Uh I spoke again with uh our our legal counsel tonight. He agrees that it would probably be go no sense to reinvent the wheel essentially. So I'm looking for permission to go ahead and engage a letter of engagement for that to finish up this issue discussion. Motion

I'll make a motion that we requesting to retain taff law with the police matter. Motion Mr. Chadam second by Mr. D. All in favor I all motion carries 5. council comments. Mr. I'll just stay on up here then.

I just wanted to ask the council uh on the Hers County Youth Assistance Program that was presented. Uh would you like me to go back to uh the presenters and see if they have a specific dollar amount that they would like to make the request and bring up before the council uh at a future meeting or do you want some time to mull it over? Uh again, just because we bring a dollar amount doesn't mean you have to agree to that dollar amount. So, I'm kind of looking for some direction there because like I said, I I do think it's a worthy program. Uh, but I just want to see what your feel for it and your taste is for it.

I'm open to hearing. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Lacy, any comments?

Mr. Yes, sir. Mr. Gerald. Yes sir. Sorry miss you for the reason you guys know the done the usual app. Thank you. Just one quick thing I could chief. Do you have any update on our hiring process that's going on? kind of kind of direction where the department's head and what you guys are looking at because I know that's ongoing still.

Yes, that's ongoing. We're uh currently in the background phase. We just completed the CBSA's stress test kind of a lie detector. So, currently we have like 10 applicants left through the backgrounds. We're hoping to go to the merit board February the 20th, maybe the 23rd because of how many we have left to interview. We had three current open positions. We were trying to fill two additional that you guys approved last year. Then we had Sergeant Mita who left the department to be a stay home model. So we need to fill that position as well. So that's kind of where we're at. And have any questions about the process? How many we start with you?

Yeah. uh we had like 100 applications and then maybe half of that little little under half that showed up for the physical agility and the written test kind of weed them out as we went along. Thank you further comments docket. I will move to approve the claim docket amount of $618,26526 motion by Mr. Burby second. Second Mr. Gerald all in favor. All motion carries 5. Motion second. Second Mr. Chadam. All in favor. All post. Motion carries 5. Motion to adjourn.

Second by Mr. Gerald. Second by Mr. Chad. All in favor. All post. Motion carries 5. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. She warner with