Common Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. At 6:00, we'll call to meeting of the Auburn Common Council. We'll be begin with a moment of silent meditation or reflection followed by the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Move on. Roll call. Councilman Finchum

here. Councilman Brun here. Councilman Webb here. Councilwoman Dit here. Councilman Williams here. Councilman Bundy here. Councilwoman Proser here. Council in front of you, you have the February 17th regular meeting minutes. Move to approve as presented. Second. We have a motion to second to approve the minutes. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a question. All in favor signify by saying I.

I opposed. Motion carry. Recognition of visitors. Long list. Mike Little John. Jeff Jones. Welcome. Is there anyone in the public that would like to address the council? Anyone in the public that would like to address the council? Hearing none, we'll move on. Clerk treasure. Good evening. Of the current vouchers for 2,433,79248.

Move to approve. Second. We have a motion, a second to approve the vouchers. Any questions, discussion, comments? I'll abstain from 97960 and the amount of 1681 is my place of employment.

Any other discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a question. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. I also have January bank reconciliation is complete and out on the website for your review. Thank you. Ordinances and resolutions.

Resolution 2-2026, a resolution to the common council of the city of Auburn, Indiana, approving the purchase of the VR Holdings LLC property located on Van Bear Street in the city of Auburn, Indiana. Summary. The attached resolution calls for the common council of the city of Auburn to authorize the mayor of the city of Auburn to negotiate the and purchase on behalf of the city of Auburn certain real property known known as VR Holdings LLC property located at 200 South Van Beerren Street, Auburn, Indiana 46706 for $575,000. I move that we pass resolution 2-20 2026 on first and only reading.

Second. We have a motion, a second to pass ordinance number 02-2026. Any questions, discussion? Hearing none, I'll call for a question. All in favor signify by saying I. I

opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. Moving on to reports this week. Have nothing for under the mayor other than we had the state of the city last Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and it is available on our YouTube channel. Council president, no report. Plan commission. Um I think on the next agenda, it's not posted yet, but we have a couple reasonzoning things that will be coming up and that's about it. Yeah. Thank you. Uh committees, tax,

nothing for ordinance and resolution. Uh finance committee, we are working on springsummer schedule.

Thank you. Uh we are I'll elaborate on that a little bit. That's okay. uh working with department heads now uh on their CIPs uh so that we can hopefully get the preliminary drafts of those completed by end of March first part of April before the first finance committee meeting and then we'll work on the uh form ones uh upon conclusion of that first meeting in month and a half. Is there any other or any unfinished business come before the council any new business general good and welfare of the community?

I I have something. Um so I just want to make you aware uh I know you something was posted by the city of Auburn government today about high school students applying for a day with the mayor. I want to let you know that I forwarded that on to our social studies teachers at the high school. So, government and a push, they might be contacting people. So, hopefully I helped your reach with that for anybody that's not on Facebook. So, I think that's a great opportunity. And I just wanted to let you know I did pass that on. So, hopefully you get lots of applications.

Yeah, thank you. Uh last year we did the middle school and we had over 10 and we actually chose two. So if we get that same number, we will most likely choose two again. Um they prepare an essay and so forth and we go through a process. So yeah, I appreciate that. And uh we are bringing on three new members to the mayor's youth advisory council which is exciting. So that'll give us total of eight. Uh they will be sworn in at their next meeting which is in a couple weeks. So, next regular council meeting is Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 at 6:00 pm. And I will uh just a side note, the next board of works meeting is going to be Monday, March 16th at 9:00 a.m. uh due to a a scheduling conflict on Tuesday. So, but council will remain the same. I've spoke with council president and she'll run that meeting.

Move to adjourn. Second. We have a motion to second to adjurnn. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed.