Town Council - Regular Meeting

7:00 forum. Please stand for the flag. 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. Thank you everyone and welcome. First item on the agenda are minutes from the January 21, 2026 council meeting. Everyone had a chance to review those minutes. Any questions or comments? If not, motion. Move to approve.

Motion by Mr. Jobs. Second. Second by Mr. Chad. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries 5. Mr. Morgan, any public comments? I've had no requests to speak tonight. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. First item on the agenda is badge pinning. Chief Duncan, Mr. President, Councilman, once again, I'm up here to uh enjoy and take part of this quick little ceremony. And Mr. Perez, you come up, Commissioner. It's all

All right. Well, good evening. Today marks a special day for our fire department and our community. Alex Perez, you have chosen a path of service, courage, and dedication. Your training has prepared you for the challenges ahead, but it's your heart that will guide you through those toughest moments. As your badges pinned on you today, know that you're not just joining a department. You're becoming part of a family. 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 noble profession. Congratulations. Are you guys We are a small group.

Here we go. One, two, three. Awesome.

Thank you. on the agenda presentation.

Good evening, council members. Coming before you tonight seeking a consensus to move forward with the RFQ for a B. Um, as you know, we've had a lot of discussion about the wastewater plant. um certain additions to the storm water system that we were not prepared for and some water projects that need to go into, you know, getting installed. U so I'd like consensus to move forward with an RFQ. I do have some members from GM management. They are real professionals. They've been doing a long time. So if you had any questions you need to ask, they're here to provide those answers.

I already asked all my questions. Okay,

answer my question. Is there no presentation?

Well, my presentation is just complete. I really don't have anything to show you. Basically, I'm looking for consensus to move forward with the RFQ. Then we'll dig into more of the details of the BT and the projects that we want to include in these BGs. and and you know I continue to have reservations about that approach. Uh certainly I'm willing to say let's proceed with looking into it and maybe more discussion will come at a later time when we get into the details but I I still have reservations about how we are assured that we're getting the best value for our dollar uh by going up route but maybe we can deal with those issues when we get more details. And one thing to mention is that during this process when we go through an RFQ and the BT, you know, selecting provider, there's no upfront money cost to the town until we select that and then select BT provider and get some projects in house. Then that really starts the ball rolling with cost to town. So the first step is getting consensus from you to get the RFQ up. Um really didn't need to have that by our ordinance, but I wanted to seek that uh tonight. I'm sorry that the presentation hope there was no miscommunication there. I just wanted to get a consensus to move forward with that.

All agree with that. Y thank you very much. Uh next up wishes to be heard special events. Mr. Ford, you have a number of them coming up.

Yes, the floor is yours. Good evening. I have provided you guys with um signature pages for each of these events. All right. So, our first special event is the Patties on the Square 5K and Doug Crawl, sponsored by the Danville Parks and Downtown Danville Partnership. Uh the event date is March 17th. At 11:00 a.m., uh 12:00 p.m. there will be a fountain. Um 4 to 7 p.m. There is a road closure request for corner of North Wayne Street and Clinton Street. The run will be from 5:30 to 6:30. Okay, we'll go from Danville Athletic Club, Bland Woods, Ellis Park, downtown Danville Square.

Question. Mr. President, I do have a question. Did you say you provided signature sheets? Sheets? Yes, the signature pages for the events signed off from the staff. Thank you very much. Any questions, comments? I love this event. I've been really happy that we've been putting it on the last few years and I'm excited to see it continue to grow. So, no further. I just have one question and it's wearing the lawyer hat is the liability on the public. Um, does our insurance cover that? That's the partnership.

It's not it's not our insurance. We're not hosting it. We're they're just using our our facility, our street, our sidewalk. Uh, but at the end of the day, we are covered. U which I approach. I'm sorry. No, you're fine. We are covered. Uh but the fact of the matter is is the the insurance for the event itself is actually through the partnership. Okay. But we we we've had this conversation with our insurance agent on uh events that we don't host but are on our credits. when they sue everybody. Prohibit that sign waivers.

I just hoping that our insurance will get us out quickly. I'm good with it. I love the event as well. I I have the same question for all of us. I'll just ask them once. Uh I recognize when we have events of this nature people to the square and and our businesses and and vendors around the square do business and profit from from it. And I'm I appreciate it. I think they should. I'm open and all happy for that. On any of these, are there any is there any fundraising activity that the funds raised from the activity go to private ventures? I am not. I'm not aware of any, but just wanted to ask. Not for this event. I know that.

And not for the porch either. Yeah. Or plain air. I don't think so either. Most most of these events are are usually held by uh either not for profofit by the 1C3 whatever you want to call them. Um whenever there is a profit event u the application process is a little bit different. Um most of the time the fees are not waved. Um we make sure that you know our our street department uh and everybody's uh paid for what they're doing. But uh for the for the not forprofits, we usually are willing to wave those fees. And is that what we're doing for the for the 39?

Okay. And I had the same question for all of us. So I only ask it once. So any other question from a motion, please move to approve the special event request for Patties on the Square 5K. Motion by Mr. Do. Second by Mr. Gerald. All in favor? All opposed. Motion carries. 5-0. Next event forward.

Next event is the Hen County Author Showcase sponsored by the Downtown Danville Partnership and Authors Patch. Um the event date is May 9th. Setup is at 7:00 a.m. Event time at 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tear down at 400 p.m. The event location is South Washington Street between Broadway Street and Marian Street. And there's actually two events. One is on May 9th and one is on September 26th. Question for comment there. Hearing none. A motion move to approve the special event for the recipient 59 and motion to do that.

Second second by Mr. D. All in favor. All opposed. carry 5 and W Metro.

Okay, this last event is the summer porch fest plane air. This event is sponsored by Danville Rotary Club, Gallery on the Square, downtown Danville Partnership. This event is on August 8th. So, there's going to be a few street closings here, so I'm just going to start listing them out. Jefferson Street between Marian Street and West Main Street and Jefferson Street between West Clinton Street and West Columbia Street. Both those are from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. closures. Then on Columbia Street between Judge Street and Indiana Street, that is from noon to 700 p.m. And then on Adam Street to or on Adam Street between Judge Street and Washington Street, that one will be noon to 7:00 as well. And then on Washington Street between Clinton Street and North Jeff Street, it's noon to 7:00. And then on Washington Street between East Broadway and West Maine, there's going to be a concert until 7 pm. So the concert's from 7 pm to 10 p.m. So that closure will be from 12:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. You said Broadway to Maine or Broadway to Marian?

Broadway to Maine. And then another one is Clint Street to North Street. Any other questions? I don't know if anybody had a chance to attend this event last year, but it might be my new favorite event. It was absolutely spectacular. Had a blast. Highly support. And there's going to be volunteers at the barricade set up for golf cart access. That was last year, too. I will make a motion to approve the special event for the plane airfest. Motion by Mr. Herby.

Second. Second by Mr. Do. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Ordinance uh 1226 supervary annexation. Mr. Good evening. Uh yes, this is a request for super voluntary annexation on a property located on Main Street on the south side of Main Street and it is just west of uh the Big Ball store. And this is just for introduction. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer those. Is it vacant right now? It is vacant. What's the plan?

Uh that I don't know. I think the the lady that owns it is just looking to get rid of the property. But it will have a commercial zoning attached to it. Is it commercial now? Well, in the county, I think it's actually airport district. Airport something. Yeah, it's airport district. Yeah. But when we annex it, we're going to to GP, which is the general business. Seems appropriate. feel like I've had conversations um about this particular property. It some have alluded to like ingress egress issues. Is that

they have their own I mean they have frontage quite a bit of frontage and um they are limited if ideally if they can get access through the Curtis Motors that that would be the ideal situation because it's it's you know there's not a lot of frontage. Yeah. Um I think they have approached the owner of that property and they are not willing to do that. So yeah, there there's no site visibility issues there. It's it's pretty So they will be able to get they would they'll have to go through the town of course to get a driveway permit. I just want to make sure that that is a possibility. Yeah. Thank you. Um we'll be back in two weeks for the public hearing.

Any questions or comments? No action. So since you're up uh you're in planning reports from all our departments and you're up for discussion today. So please proceed.

Yeah. So in your packet um I've given you a summary um I've also done like a chart to just show how the activity has changed since I think 2020. Um we've had some ups and downs this year. We have had a significant increase in annexations. Uh we were down in other applications up a little bit on fees. Um but one of the key things that I think the planning department has done is we have uh initiated the thorough plan. We're working on that right now. Uh the addition of the planning uh assistant planner has been very helpful. She's she's very good and she's done a lot. She's helped me quite a bit. Uh then finally the um the zoning planning and zoning portal that we're adding to I work which will enable petitioners or applicants to apply online and um that will expedite the process as well and if you have any other questions I'd be more than happy to answer them.

Your your bar chart was interesting to look at. Okay. Oh, wait. After you got the right one, right? Any questions or comments there? Thank you very much. Thanks, Lisa. Next up is Fire Chief Duncan.

Thank you again. Uh, in the past, I've given you very thick uh reports with lots of data. So, at the request of a couple of individuals, it's short and sweet. Here we go. We did 2586 incidents last year. That's an increase of 582 from the year before. Of those incidents, 1,745 were EMS, 841 were fire. Our busiest day was April 4th where we had 23 incidents. Our daily average was 7.08 runs. We log 7,111 hours of training. And when you look at the mutual aid given and received, um, we we've given to outside agencies 13.92% and we've received 16.27%. Questions? Last one. as as far as I was anticipating. So,

and there's a caveat on it in my opinion that it should be higher on the given because so the Mary Town runs are included in our our runs not as a since we contract with them but at the request of uh territory board I believe we're going to part that out so it'll look different next year. on the mutual aid. Are the majority of those with Avon? A lot of them are because they come west more than we go east. Uh

so you guys have them on your phones. You see how many times we we go out two or three times uh within a short period of time. And uh with only having one medic truck, if they're out on a run, even though we can send another piece of fire, we only have that one medic truck, we've got to get from somewhere. And the closest is coming from Preswood. So, and it also depends on where we are, you know. So, some of it they consider when we go north and I get Pittsburgh that comes over, Bradford that comes over, want to go south if we get Planefield. But I would say the majority of it is is a Speak of Medic. I saw one setting by the street department building uh yesterday. What's the status of that? Uh they're waiting on a part to come in. So,

it's been there. Say again. It's just out of service for the moment. Yeah, we have two. Um but we only have the manpower to operate the one. Yeah. Of the uh 1700 EMS responses, how many of those does a does a a big fire apparatus go out on with those?

Anything that's an A or B code? It's a I can send you the data. I don't want to bore you with it. I I can't give you a number off the top of my head, but I can give you down in the weeds like we used to do and it'll tell you every single thing. Um we have a report that's due to state fire marshall's office. They counted different. If we send 10 pieces of equipment on one run, that's one run. The way the fire marshall's office tracks it, 10 pieces, that's 10 separate things, right? So this number, if we did it that way, this number probably might be closer to 10,000 for the total incidents, right? But it doesn't matter how many we send, it counts as one. But I don't have that number with you with me right now. I can give it to you. And just curious, so the decision that made at the dispatch center though, not

it's all it's all predetermined. Depends on what's going on. you got a heart attack, you're getting the closest fire piece, closest medic piece, and and they they just they have a whole algorithm. They ask questions. This question prompts this, this question prompts that, and it gets them to where they need to be. And probably less than 30 seconds that the dispatch center has a determination. And then when they type in the address, the computer already knows who is the closest. So that's why there are times where even though we're in service, you might see another fire department on our eastern end because they're closer. Because what we do in this county is you get the closest most appropriate piece of equipment for an emergency regardless of whose name is on the side of it. And that's the best way to do business. It doesn't matter that you know that you get an Avon piece of equipment in Danville and you know that I pay those taxes. Well, you know what? I I would rather not wait two minutes. You know, I'd rather get you something closer regardless of it. So that's how we operate. All right.

Thank you. Thank you. Have nothing else. Thank you. is chief police chief.

Good evening, Mr. President. Council members, you should have a copy of my year end report. I'd like to turn to something call your attention to just calls for service. As we can see, this year we were at 9,2 we were at 7,700. 23 we're at 7,900. 24 we're at 8,400. We're getting a gradual increase in calls for service. So, I just want to call that to your attention. Uh, pretty much everything else is staying pretty close to the same. DUI numbers are down a little bit this year. I'd like to think that that's the reputation of our enforcement efforts over the last few years. I think that we're known as somebody that take a lot of intoxicated drivers to jail. So, I'd like to think the numbers are down a little bit. Maybe we're actually enforcement efforts are working. People are getting Ubers and flying rides. So, but anything else in here that you'd like to talk about or have any questions for Chief?

Thank you, Council M. Thanks. Appreciate it. Community engagement, Miss Henderson.

Well, it's no fun following public safety. So, all right. All right, I'm just going to touch on a couple points and if you have any questions, let me know. So, um, our digital reach, we reached 3.3 million, uh, Facebook, we had 3.3 million Facebook views. Our YouTube channel grew by 58%. Um, our website had over 103,000 users. And one thing that is significant is all of our reach through social media is organic, which means we don't pay for any ads. So, it's just community members sharing the information. So that's it's a good place to be in. Um we I oversee eight different or help with eight different social media accounts and a YouTube channel. Uh we did we did start social media archiving this year. Uh and we did complete an ADA digital accessibility audit. Um, a couple things I'm really proud of is we coordinated 23 storm water initiatives and worked with 315 volunteers and we removed 186 bags of trash from our waterways. So, that's really exciting. But I think one of the big I mean all that is very important, but um we did complete the DORA or the social district and I'm going to talk about it tonight and I'll probably talk about it next year too. Um, so we are having the kickoff next week and it's just really excited that we kept going and we're starting it next week. Any questions?

You have a lot going on. I do have all the signs and information for the social districts if anyone wants to see those later. Anything else? You just scan it, you get all the information. Thank you. uh fire department.

Good evening, council. Uh you got my hearing report, so I thought I'd touch on some of the highlights of that report. Uh total overtime hours work was almost just under a,000 hours. No panic. We paid all those. Some employees took those was compactly early. Uh both the treatment plants uh the finished iron left the building with 003 or less part which is due to the new plant and having to be replaced with the old plant last spring. Total gallons treated was 476 million for 2025 294 new meters which generated over $700,000 in tap fees. Uh some of the projects we did the Carterburg road were able to install a bypass main in there. So if the main breaks is 18 ft deep won't put anybody anybody harm that just close the valves off and abandon them. Two of the wells are clean. Wells one and two were have been cleaned and we're back in service this spring. Like I said earlier both the uh filters at the 2004 point of entry one which is the old plant have been replaced. some of the highlights of some of the bigger things we did for 2025. Any questions?

The numbers look pretty good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Storm Water, Mr. Loftton.

Hello. Again, what you have in the past is a basic brief description of what we did accomplishments with bullet points and then I did a quick review. I think some of the biggest points here out of this are the the number of line locates that we do to protect our rideway and our public assets. Um they they continue to increase and we've got to continually manage those through building permits, rideway permits and we're spending a lot more time uh with the additional employees that we have. We're we're really focusing on protecting our assets. Um one of the other big things is that single family buildings were down last year by 20%. um which you know kind of lines up with with the number of developments that are going um but some of the other ones pick up so permits inspections and things like that changes from single family dwellings to fences and sheds with the growth. So been a really busy year really excited to start 2026 we've had accomplished a lot as a whole as a volume utilities um 2026 is even going to be bigger and better so I'm excited for it to start be glad to answer any questions.

Question, comments. Just keep doing what you're doing. We appreciate it. We keep moving forward with a little bit of push from council and town manager. We're going to get there. We're happy with where we're at, but we're not finished. So, I like your 26 goals. Thank you. I've got a couple for you. Uh in in your 26 goals uh the idea you have is uh water main extension is that they're line out to North Elementary is that what you're talking about by water main extension because otherwise you have down further down you have a begin easement and funding final design for that. So are those the same?

They are the same. I think there's an extension on that we looking at doing. We're getting a project list together that'll be completed on Friday. Um there's a couple of projects those may be due to it. So I apologize for that. There are several water extensions we want to do. The main one that I was talking about in here is the one that goes out to the north elementary. And the reason I brought that up in here is because the last time we did easements for the south or the north and south interceptor. The easements were the most they took the most time to get. This one will be two times that because of the location of one. It's going to be very difficult, time consuming, and cost money to get these easements. So, I put that in kind of prepare you. Why? Why is that?

Because they're going through people's backyards. They're going in places that we don't have public right away. They don't fit. The way the lines going to be designed is it's going to be a difficult task. Once it's in the ground, people forget about it. And as you can tell from when we did the south interceptor and the north interceptor, we go through it looks better than what we found it. Um, so that initial, you know, going through some of these yards very difficult, but at the end, I think we've done a really good job as utilities, whether it's water, wastewater, storm water, of leaving those places better than we found them. And most people are genuinely happy. You can ask a lot of people on 10th Street. We took a lot of care in making sure the citizens were treated with respect and that we made their property look better than we found it. If we continue to do that, we will not have problems getting used as far utilities. I think the biggest thing is is you know, we get the right people in place. That goes back to the BFT. Um, we have professionals and we have town employees, town manager all the way from the top down supporting us. It makes things go a lot easier and we pay people the fair property value that, you know, that their value is. So, that makes it a little bit easier.

When I look at this whole area, uh, frankly, it scares me. Not only the what we were just talking about with the with the extension out to North Elementary, but is isn't a new water tower on the drawing board for out there at some point in time?

Yes, it depends on Grove that could be there. There's a salary set to build one there or another one on T Street on be uh between 200 and 300. You know, when I when I start thinking about this whole umbrella of utilities of what we just talked about for water, what we talked about at the last meeting for the uh for the uh small culvert that we inherited from other entities due to legislation last year, wastewater expansion. Uh when are we going to start seeing some more refined data on when some of these things need to occur and how much they're going to cost so we can really start thinking about planning. But it it it it really concerns me of the burden we're maybe putting on our citizens because we're talking from my understanding some huge dollars and I it just worries me that we don't have a very good fix on it at this point.

Yeah. The first step is going to be getting that AR, you know, RFQ out, right? Then we go get real numbers. Um, in the meantime, I've been going through the utility billing, uh, what we've been using as far as capacity and really drilling down the numbers that each household and each commercial development uses so that we can really narrow in actually where we're at with capacity. We've kicked the can so many times with the wastewater plant that it's not a moment of, you know, we are not, it's not disastrous, but if we don't act now, we will have a problem in the future. it will inhibit the kind of growth that everybody in this room and everybody employees town manager council president when we're looking to do commercial right so if we tie the hands for the commercial developers um that really hurts us um back five years ago we were talking about the rooftops bring the commercial well we brought the rooftops now it's time for commercial we do have capacity don't want to talk too much but to answer your question I would say by March we will have real numbers I'm hopeful that on the 18th I could bring you numbers from 2025 of where each utility stands as far as revenue expenses operations. So you'll that's the first step to see where we're at. We're also talking amongst ourselves about tightening our belts, locking down hiring threes um specifically with the wastewater department because some of these numbers are scary. The preliminary numbers are $50 million by the time we do all these projects whether it's storm water, water and waste water and that definitely impacts the rate payers. So when we're looking at ways to manipulate I don't want to say massage rates so that they don't become so tough for commercial to develop. Uh but at the end of the day this is going to be a year process. And when I say that, I mean because we have to we have to find out what it cost. And that whole time we've

got to do that while working with the B provider because it could be as simple as we get to the end of that year and we say we can't afford to do it. The town has spent no money, but we know a heck of a lot more than what we started about what it's going to cost. Um I think we're going to be able to find a way to make it happen. We almost have to um because we're at that threshold of where the growth is going to turn in the direction that we all want. We want to be able to ser we do provide a service with water sooner and drainage. So the reality is is you'll have the numbers. I just can't give you a definite date because it's kind of a work in progress because our financial team has to figure it out. our BT provider has to figure it out and the contractors that work for that B provider B provider has to give them numbers and we got to tie all that together before we can look at rates um see how it affects rates we can use a A B and C process which is what we're doing well the rates that we have now a 5% increase a 10% increase and see where that brings us numbers those will be coming to you within the next couple of months it that that's probably the timeline it's going to be but I will have numbers to you hopefully by the 18th that says because how strong our utilities are with total operation cost, salary cost and that

thank you. I know we're working towards revisiting the master plans. I know the water department to see top off what we have developed in the last five six years and also revisit the cost. When we did that in 2020 there was a massive increase on ductal pipe and fitting. So those numbers were kind of bogus within six months of being. So we're going to be revisiting super growth pattern as I think a lot of that was like a 20 year kind of forecast. We've hit it within five, right? So it's I mean knock a lot of these these projects out. There's a couple big ones still lingering, but most of what we're anticipating over the course of 20 years is hit us in five. So

I think it'd be a great idea to visit every five years just to say see where we're at on some new numbers to basic.

Good evening. Uh tonight I just hit some highlights of the year 2025. We treated 560.8 million gallons of flow. Our average daily flow is 1.53 million. We used almost 13,000 gallons of hyper ion to treat the phosphorus removal down there. Uh plant capacity for 2025 is 77%. Uh BD removal is 98% 97% removal on the suspended solids 99% removal on the nitrogen ammonia 80% removal for phosphorus we took 1972 samples last year and with new vac truck starting about July we did just over 20,000 ft of sewer mainline cleaning so it's been a blessing to have that piece of equipment and know that when it goes out, it's actually going to stay together for us. I'll try to answer any questions you have.

I just at this point in time, you can use more acronyms to an understand. I'm trying to quit that. Is is it really feasible uh to expect county home upgraded this year? We we'll know better when Barry has his numbers. That's really it. I mean, County Home has got issues and it's had issues a long time. Got mandates on it down there. So it's it's going to see where these numbers come back and what we have to do. But it's probably number one top priority of the first project that needs to happen before the waste water with half the flow coming through there. Uh if you had to bypass pump, I mean it's

big dollars. It's big dollars. Uh huge expense and a huge headache if you had to start bypassing there. What's the smoke testing? Sounds like something

smoke testing we're going to do this year. Uh what we're trying to do is find ini. If you noticed how many gallons uh Matt sent out, how many we took in, we're taking INI, which is infiltration from uh you know, cracks in the lines, wherever uh downspouts. Once we start smoke testing, that smoke goes back through. It'll come through the ground, come through the gutters that are hooked in illegally, and we can start to finding those issues where they're at, getting them either fixed, getting the gutters off the lines. Uh it's just a process. Uh that's somewhat economical to find issues and try to get every system tightened up.

How many gall pardon me, how many gallons did you say you processed? 560.8 million gallons last year as compared to 445 million that the water department cranked out. So that tells you how much of the water actually goes through. He supplies water to some houses, but we don't supply sanitary too. a lot we don't supply. So there's a lot of coming. Yeah. So when he does the smoke testing, Greg, if the smoke comes up through there somehow in your basement, you're in trouble.

As we get into that, I think we'll do a better job. We in all we didn't do any of this during my time here prior to me coming along. I think they had started it roughly six months before I joined the department and we didn't do the best job notifying the homeowners. It was my understanding the fire department got so many phone calls they're like we're done. We're done. So just make sure we cross our tees and do our eyes there for sure. Thank you. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you.

Code enforcement. Mr. Ford again. Um to highlight a few things from my report, uh we have hung 26 banners, a 3x12 and the 3x6 banners. Um 74 permits have been issued for golf carts. 181 complaints have been closed or completed and only 18 are pending now. 18 registration for alarm systems and nine alarm system penalties and invoices questions.

How frequently you're supposed to register your alarms? Every two years. Every two I might be delinquent on that. Uh any questions? Mr. President, I did receive a letter from code enforcement once for a violation. He's he's good about sending those things. I don't get a letter. I'm in good shape. Anything else? Tell me. He saved the postage.

Actually, no. My house, but it wasn't this code enforcement. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Department. I kind of kind of in late so rely on error a lot. I appreciate it. Uh we paved eight roads with the help of community crossing or CCMG last 2025. I apply liquid road on two of our streets which was a nightmare. I'm not going to lie. uh use 100 tons of asphalt mix for potent plus cuts or block patch is what we call them sometimes. I put 10 yards of concrete by accident 110 yards of concrete easily. So collected 80 yards of leaves during leaf pickup. That was just this season. I didn't know how well we had last year coming into this, but that's what we picked up for our new system. So, that was good. Had two employees acquire their acquire their class BCDLs, which is good. That's our goal. So, they can drive their trucks. Uh we did a lot of work on the street part replace the street part building. So, it really looks really looks good now, better than it did. Uh we was able to finish rebranding the street department, changing everything DPW to street car on our decals, our street our sign to the building. That was one of those new sign. That's I mean that doesn't sound like a lot, but that's quite a bit. Um and personally, I just want to thank all the street department staff. You know, we don't have the numbers like the police and fire, but to show what we respond to and everything, but I mean, we're pretty much the maintenance of the city. however you want to look at it. If

there's something that can't be done, we do it. So, you know, the guys get up and they they can be eating like this the last storm let them plan. You know, they can be eating dinner with their family. We'll call them and they drop it and they come to, you know, plow roads to make them safe. So, you know, any kind of leaks, I know if the water department has a leak, our guys will jump in and help out if they need it. So, just want to make sure that the city knows how much they do sacrifice to be part of this community and and they kick butts. I'm glad to have them. That's all I got.

I've got one quick comment about the snow removal. Uh I travel around this entire state with my job and there are no towns in India that have this nice clean roads from the snowstorm.

That's good. Thanks. Yeah, they they work really hard on with you know Aaron's advice you know I came over where we always attacked it just one group and here they're able to get some help and we we split up so we was able to really stay on it. I think we worked 21 hours straight or something. Not each person. Well, it's probably more than that really, but we wor it's way more actually. We worked two shifts were 12 and then we had eight hour shifts. So, we went non-stop from Saturday or sun Sunday at 900 p.m. till Monday at 100 p.m. Yeah, we stopped. That's only the first time we stopped having a truck out. So, we appreciate it. Yeah. I can

he he didn't he wasn't prepared for this but um we had 21 hours of snowfall and he ended up having 14 drivers out uh for far more than 21 hours uh even though the snowball event was 21. Um they used 40 tons of salt uh for the event. Uh what was probably most intriguing other than the uh rates of pay for our our employees uh they used 208 gallons of gasoline and 400 gallons of diesel fuel to combat this event. So, um, and in addition to the street department being out doing the a great job they did, uh, I know the, uh, uh, storm water building utilities. Um, uh, they had crews out as well doing parking lots, uh, the alleyways, uh, they did this building. So, uh, quite the joint effort uh, for this snowstorm. uh they didn't get down to the point where I had to push it uh which I have done once or twice and I've been asked to never do again water department guys help us

and I was talking with him yesterday and I think you said only two mailboxes taken out this year not bad expect at least five or you're not doing and again this is why I'm not allowed to do the only two that we know Now that the season's over, how what's your overall assessment of how the leaf pickup went this year? I thought it went really good. We got a lot of people that called in the office and was loving it, you know, and you know, I tried to remind them because winter gets in a little early this year than it usually does. We did have we still probably have some piles up there to be honest, but I reminded them again that in the spring, you know, we will be back out for a week. So, clean up your yard.

You plow those out of the way. Yeah, they might be in the yard now, but you can always tell if you think you're in the yard all of a sudden because you see looks like dirt. Yeah. No, all the all the feedback I got, which are pretty minimal, but it was all positive. So, I think what you have planned for the spring will really add to that positive feedback. So, good job. Thank you.

Well, anything else? Yeah, I just want to say that again reiterate. I think that the leaf clean up this year process is night and day different raving reviews in fact. Uh and then just again appreciate all the effort for the snow and I personally want to thank you for the you know the shout out here to the employees um in the public meeting. I mean that again it just it goes a long way um with public recognition. So thank you. Thank you. Good staff here. Thank you. And last up, parks, Mr. Lacy. All right. I know I got eight pages there, but I'm going to keep it short. Okay. Uh, second page, our staff. Nothing's really changed there much. Uh, two new park board members for last year. Uh third page just kind of a basics of of who we are, what we are, what we do. And then uh Madison kind of already hit on the community engagement. I'm not going to really touch base on that, but here's kind of like the prettier version that she sent me. Um if you want to dive into that, you can. There's some really good stats down on the community impact. Um I think sometimes like we don't even understand as much stuff as she does for her department. I really appreciate everything she does because she helps us kind of take our government jargon, make it English out to the public. So, appreciate that a lot. Uh, next page, recreation. Kind of a cool one here. 72 programs. So, and this is pretty much generated just through Jimmy. So, that's a that's a lot there. So, he does a really good job. Also, something to note too is a summer park program. Uh, having 765 uh registrations, that's pretty good in a six week span. So, there's a lot of kids that, you know, use the summer park program and some free service to the

community. So, it's really impactful. Uh, next page, athletic club. Uh, some interesting facts here, too. So, pretty much we average about this past year, we average about 100 a day, uh, coming through the fitness center. That actually, Logan, so it's probably a little bit more than that. Um, but this is what we can account for through our check-in system. We also um gender- wise we had about 65% male uh 35% female and one of our goals of our park board is to try to enhance the facilities to attract more females to uh our facilities. And so we've been the restroom fix this past year was kind of because of that number. And so we've spent I don't know if you've checked out the locker rooms but they're night and day better. It makes us need to upgrade everything else because they're so nice. So uh that was a big ticket item that we did this past year. It took a long time, like eight months, and it was supposed to be like three, but we got through it. There's a lot of surprises when you're in this 100-y old building. You can ask Barry about that. Uh, it's a passion to uh take care of this facility and keep it in top-notch shape. Uh, poolwise, we had 923 members, which is up. So, that's really good. So, just putting up, you know, our staff puts a lot of effort into keeping the pool alive. Uh the lifespan of an aquatic center is 20 25 years. We're on year 21. So uh something to kind of think about in the future, but we're going to keep uh trying to do the best we can to keep it alive. Um next page, projects. Uh one of the biggest ones is kind of a a funny one and maybe not big to anybody else, but adding 50 parking spaces to Ellis Park last year, it it was a feat to get to that point. And uh it it's funny. You think um you think it's not that big of a deal and then you drive by it, no one's in the old parking spaces. They're on the new cuz they're more convenient and they're where they should have been

placed. Uh and then also parking stops. I don't know if you guys have seen that. Uh but it just makes it look so much nicer and it's so much more efficient. So that's uh just a long project to get there. A couple of years to get that project done. um facilities. Nate's been working really hard on this. Uh we actually set a record uh again in 2025. We had 92 rentals at the plant house, which is crazy. Um that's a lot of rentals. A lot of those being weddings on the weekends, too. So, we generated $101,000, which is really great. U most of that money just goes right back in the facility because it it's a house that no one lives in. And you know when you have that many rentals it gets beat up pretty bad. So we do little projects there every year try to enhance it and uh you know keep keep that pushing. So a lot of weddings over 25 years of existence. Next page financial uh the big things were the the DAC remodel was a really big one. Um and then also the trail planning. So we've been working on that trail hopefully fruition here soon full planning this year. But uh last year was a lot of planning to do action hopefully this year and then we had the bond come through. So this year we're hoping that there's a lot of action, not just planning, less meetings hopefully and more action. Um and then the final page u yeah just a summary of of our year end. Uh our staff works really hard to do all the things they can. We do a lot. We, you know, we're we're like Indie Parks, but we just have a lot less facilities, but we do all the same things they do, which we're really lucky to have this many amenities in Danville. Um, it really is a gem. So, and then 2026 goals. I know my goals are kind of lofty. Hopefully, we'll we'll knock out at least 50% of them, but we're always trying to shoot for the stars. Um, if we

can get 50% of them done, I feel like that's that's really big. and then just keep growing and and migrating and trying to take care of citiz citizens every day comment good report. Thank you sir.

Thank you that concludes the department head report. We are down to staff and council comments for Mr. Morgan. So tough act to follow. Uh but you all get to see what I get to work with every day. I'm very blessed with the staff that I have. Uh the department heads uh uh we meet weekly. They let me know what they've got going on. Um I put them up against anybody and and I say that without hesitation. And as you you both all know, I've worked a lot of careers. Uh some of the things that I can speak on intelligently, I hope, uh is that um bullets hurt just as bad in Danville, Indiana as they do in Indianapolis. But if you watch a news story in Indianapolis, you'll see 15 or 20 Indianapolis police cars at the scene of something. And we don't have that many, but our guys do a great job for the numbers they have. And again, it's no different. It's just frequency. But bullets still burn through flesh just as quickly. Fires are just as hot. Fires burn just as hot. We don't have the numbers that IFD has, but our crews go out there and they're putting those fires out on a daily basis and they're treating those injuries. Water goes through our pipes. It gets treated the same way. And again, the numbers that we have are much smaller than say Indianapolis, but we do a great job and we're making a great impact on our community. And I I really do believe it's because of those people sitting behind me right now. Um, you know, we u I know I'm going to miss people uh when I talk because I'm going to say about the planning department, our our storm waters departments, uh parks department. Um, as Will said, you know, we've got

facilities that people are envious of and we operate with a lot less people. And so, again, um, when we do these department head reports, it it kind of perks me up a little bit. Kind of I kind of peacock a little bit because quite honestly, uh, I'm proud to be associated with them and I don't consider myself their boss. I consider myself to be associated with them. So, I just want to say thank you to all of them. Appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to what they had to tell you tonight. If you have any questions for me, thank you. Good com, good good comments. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thanks, sir. Mr. Lacy, any further comments?

Um, I'm excited about the thorough player plan, kind of getting that going and kudos to Lisa for spearheading that. I really appreciate it. It's going to be exciting to kind of move forward in that area. Thank you, Jones, anything? Yes, sir.

I just want to say thank you to the council for allowing me since I've been here to change some of the software that we're using. Um, I know change is hard, but I feel like over the long term, it's going to benefit not just my office, but all the offices and the departments to run more efficient. And I feel for the most part that all the department heads have been supportive of making both the changes and are taking them with great strength. So thank you.

Yeah. Good. Thank you, Mr. Carol. Um, so everybody's going to say the same thing, but I'll be the first to say it. Reiterating what Mark said, none of this could h could ever happen without you. It's not just you. It's the people that work for you, with you around you every day. So, thank you very much. Ditto. I say it every every meeting, but generally appreciate what y'all do. I mean, it's not it's not insincere, you know, when I sit up here and say it every meeting. I mean, I recognize the time and effort and energy you guys put in on the on the back, you know, day in and day out on your own time, right? You know, again, homecoming parade is one example. You know, you guys made investments candy. I mean, it it it's never ending, right? And um we do have a great group and I'm excited for 26. I think we knocked a lot out in 25. Um I'm happy to see uh the progress that's been made in the last couple years since I've been on here and I'm looking forward to keeping that ball rolling. So again, none of it happens without you guys. So very much appreciate it.

Mr. Chad, um very much you know what everybody said about want to kind of go off Mark's comment. I've said it before. It's very heartfelt, very serious when I say it. We'll pit you guys against anybody, anybody from police department to street department to wastewater, utilities, planning, parks, doesn't matter. We'll put you guys against anybody. We'll come out on top. So, thank you for everything you do.

Thank you. And you know, at this point, all I can do is really what's already been said. I do want to make a special note though for given the two weeks we've just had with the weather. Uh special shout out to the street department and everybody else in the town that worked with the street department and getting the job done. So a job well done. Thank you very much. But really just echo all of Mark's comments. Uh that's all I have. So claim docket. I will move to approve the claim doc in the amount of $962,00028.71 28 start 9628.71 motion by Mr. Irby second

second by Mr. D. All in favor I all motion carries 5 roll docket to approve second by Mr. Irby second by Mr. Gerald. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carry 5-0. Motion to adjourn. Second. Second. Motion by Mr. Mr. Gerald. Second by Mr. Shadow. All in favor? I motion carry 5. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much everyone. Two doctors.