City Council - Regular Meeting

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At this time, I call to order the regular meeting of the Teroot City Council on Thursday, April 9th, 2026. First item on the agenda is a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance to the flag. Tonight, the pledge will be led by Council Person Candace Hinton. 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.

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Thank you. Michelle, will you please call the role?

Council person Council person Azar here. Council person Boland here. Council person Taos present. Council person Dean here. Council person Dingle present. Council person Hinton present. Council person Loud Milk present. Council person Nation. Council person Thompson here.

Eight present. One is absent. Thank you. Council person Nation informed me that he was unable to make it to due to a personal emergency. At this time, we reserve up to 30 minutes of time for public comment on items not on the agenda. We have a signup sheet and we had nobody sign up, but if there's anybody in the public who wishes to comment on a non-aggenda item, please step forward and state your name. Please limit your comments to three minutes and address your comments towards the council. Hearing none, we'll close public comment. Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Douglas Hollingsworth. I live here in Terote, 255 South 11th and a half street. And I would like to talk about an ordinance. It's a no basketball in the street ordinance. And I don't want to be the basketball Nazi, but uh where I live, the other guys have a court set right up in the street. And it's one block away from where those children got hit by the car and ran over by that ambulance depot. And you know, I know it's an ordinance because I've looked it up and I had the numbers, but now when I look it up, it just states what it is. But the Teraho City Coast Code Enforcement, I think they're the ones that supposed to deal with it. They just haven't. And it's not just where I live. On the way here, I seen three basketball goals set up in the street and cars are doing 30 40 mph. And I was wondering if there's anything we can actually do to get code enforcement or the police, I don't know exactly who deals with that to get that enforced.

Thank you. Anyone else would like to make public comment on non-aggenda items? Okay. This time we'll have a presentation from the Teroot Wash Valley Alumni Chapter. Good evening. Good evening, President Dinkle and council members as well as members of of uh the Terraote City, you know, particularly my our friend Michelle Edwards. We all set? All right. bottom left.

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All right. Thank you and good evening. This is our My name is Mary Howard Hamilton. I'm president of the Terra Hope W Bash Valley Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Again, uh good evening, President Dinko, members of the city council, and also individuals in the gallery. Tonight, we have a joint presentation with our national co-partner, the League of Women Voters. Uh Miss Carly, Dr. Carly Schmidt is here also with me who will get uh be presenting just a few brief words about voting and a few other important items. Again, this is our second annual Delta Day at the city council. And what we're here today tonight is to talk a little bit share a little bit about some of the in issues concerning um me uh individuals in the terote community as well as also to say a few thank yous as well to you all. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded in 1913 and 113 years later uh we were founded of course by 22 women at Howard University. 113 years later, we have over 350,000 members and over 1,000 chapters. So, we're quite a an international worldwide organization. Tonight, we're focusing on issues related to political awareness and involvement. Last month, there were several key issues presented at our 37th annual Delta Days at the nation's capital, where we had several thousand Deltas in red and white and in red. uh descending upon our nation's capital to talk to our representatives about issues um in our in our state as well as issues in our community. First we again though we want to say before we get into that we want to say a thank you to the members of the city council.

Uh before that though let me just u pause real quickly. Delta Sigma Theta in our community in our community the terote Wbash Valley alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta is very actively engaged. We will be having our annual pancake breakfast. I'll say a little bit more about that in just a couple of minutes. You all uh the city council members have been gifted one ticket to attend the the breakfast. And if you cannot attend, we would really like for you to pass it on and um and to give it to someone else who would love to be there. uh with the the pancake breakfast, the money is used for our scholarships. And one of the other things that we've been engaged in in the community, we have our annual backpack giveaway. Uh we want we always thank uh uh Councilwoman Boland as well as Councilwoman Hinton who are both both actively engaged with that effort in August. Another thing we also had this year which was very very uh successful which was our clothing drive to the Lotus Center and also last but not least this annual event which is a Delta day at the city council. We had our 37th annual Delta Day at the nation's capital. We had several issues that were presented and one of the things that um we talked about this year had a lot to do with what's impacting our community in terote. Before we again get to those issues, we want to also say a thank you to you all. A thank you to the city council members. We want to say thank you to you all for listening to your to the committee members and to and to the individuals in Teroot. We've been concerned about a number of things in the Teroot community. You have listened to us. Our desire to uh have stronger infrastructure, sidewalks, se uh street reef pavement, snow removal. We've had your you've you've been very engaged

with the food pantries. We want to thank you for that. We also want to thank you for of course for the the the bundles of hope. We want to thank you for of course uh new houses being built in the community, warming centers and and overall you've been actively engaged with the community, you've been listening to us and we appreciate that immeasurably. We also want to make sure that as you're listening to the to the community, some of the challenges that we that we we have seen, you know, new buildings, of course, new companies moving into the community. We want to also make sure that that there is um an opportunity for us to talk and and be always aware of tax abatements that tax abatements are uh you know you know they're positive for the community in terms of bringing money in. However, we want to make sure that major companies um that they contribute more to the community by by offering us positions and jobs and that we and that when uh we have an opportunity to come and and speak with you about uh buildings uh neighborhood neighborhood uh neighborhoods that may change based upon their uh uh houses and apartments being built in in our in our neighborhoods. that you continue to listen. Thank you again for the new bus shelters, free bus rides, and we also want to also thank the human relations commission for their stellar work that they've been doing in this in the city. Thanks to at Ryan and and her appointment, we've noticed that there have been a lot of amazing diversity programs that have been added to our community. Your visibility also at ribbon cutings and other ceremonies and your respective dis districts. we've been noticing and we've we've seen you there. So, this leads us to some of the things that we

want you to continue to be supportive of. Um, our one of our primary concerns with everyone in our community has to be environmental justice. We've we've you've heard us talking about CO2, AI, unrinkable water, data centers. the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. They have contacted a number of us in the in the community and they're encouraging us to attend the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission listening se listen listening session that will be held here on April 26 22nd from 6 to 8:00 p.m. It's a listening session because we do know that when these data centers are are are constructed, it does impact also it impacts tremendously minoritized populations and those of low sociocon socioeconomic status. Utility bills in the state have risen about 17.5% in a sing in a single year already. I've seen it in my utility bill. And we always already know that we've got pollution in our community. We already have undrinkable water. But but there's also one other thing that's get gets added to these data centers and that is also noise pollution. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. We we really want to make sure that um we all listen carefully uh to the concerns that are going to be presented to the Indiana Utility uh regulatory commission and that you continue to talk to the folks, continue to do your homework on AI and the data centers and we know you will. We would like to be also be actively involved in the neighborhood investment grant program in any way that we can. If we can help you with uh reading grants or grant writing workshops, marketing the grants to underrepresented groups, we're here to be supportive. One other

thing that we'd like to talk about, and that has to do with the picture in the on the lower right hand side of the slide, economic justice. The power of the black dollar is approximately $2 million um in excuse me, $2 trillion in consumer buying power. During the bus boycott in Birmingham, riders placed uh 381 days of sustained economic pressure on bus companies. And you know, I I always like to say, you know, how they how we got through that. Uh neighborhood individuals came and picked up in picked up folks on the street, took them to work. And I always like to tell folks that we were the original Ubers to because we we did that in the 1960s. stopped, picked up our our people, and got them to work. Well, the reason why I'm saying this is because our economic impact is being felt also with companies such as American Airlines and Target because of their practices and policies that impact minoritized individuals in our communities. So, we encourage you to bring these businesses into our community. However, let's keep them accountable for fair hiring practices, equable equitable wages, and meaningful diversity practices. Don't forget the $2 trillion in consumer buying power, particularly by minoritized individuals. With this, I'm going to pass it on now to my colleague, Dr. Carly Schmidt, who will be representing the League of Women Voters.

Thank you. It's always hard to come after Mary. Uh the so um I'm Carly Schmidt, co-president of the League of Women Voters of Vego County. Um I've had the pleasure, I believe, in moderating your candidate forums, uh for which I believe you are all up for reelection next year, and we will welcome uh you all to our candidate forums um next spring. Um but I'm going to talk about uh the work of our league. Um, our league is a nonpartisan grassroots organization and we were really founded by the third wave of women who the third generation of women who fought for women to have access to the ballot and who eventually led to the passage of the 19th amendment. And so our real focus is grassroots um focusing on promoting um and protecting and expanding voting rights and access. And so we do that through we see ourselves as um empowering voters and defending democracy through um our advocacy, through education and through litigation. Here locally um we do a tremendous amount of work with our voter access. Um and so we have a we we have started really sort of tracking this. We have a great team of um voter services. Um and so in the past um just in this primary for example uh we visited high schools, community events, uh senior housing centers and had over 200 um folks who checked their voter registration, changed their registration or were new voter registration. A lot of high school students were very excited to be able to vote. Um and so we've been tracking this and we really have a large impact. Um you can see that in the past couple of years we have nearly 3,000 voter contacts and that's just simply um through basic um of our simple sort of tracking. Um we of course host a number of events with our um with our candidate forums. Um but we will be at tons and

tons of events um moving forward as we gear up for the general election. Um right now we're focused on vote411.org. um all of you as candidates had the opportunity to fill out uh when you were running for office. Um and we've provided that opportunity for all candidates right now. Um it's still open. So if there happen to be candidates in the room who want to continue to fill out that information, but to provide some information to voters to help them make better educ uh educated decisions on election day. Um we are working um with the alum local alumni chapter right now and thinking about perhaps having a community conversation on data centers. Um, we know that in Sullivan County, uh, a rather large, uh, project emerged, um, and the public didn't have the opportunity to, um, do anything other than to respond to the actions of their government. And so, we are con we would like to sort of be at the forefront, uh, in particular because it came up in the candidate forms that the commissioners do have a couple of places in in the in the county that they have identified as places that would be welcome for data centers. And so we we want to kind of get ahead of that and bring in various folks. Um so look for that. We're going to invite you all. Um and we will continue with our community voter registration and education. Uh Mayor Sackman has been very generous um and working with to partner with us. Um and then we will also have national voter registration day and we will back here we'll be back here uh with a resolution um celebrating that and encouraging our comm community to vote. And then coming up we will have our fall primary candidate forums. um our candidate forums for for because we had so many candidates running for office this year, we had over a hundred people attending our candidate forums um this this spring um and hundreds more uh streaming through YouTube. Um so we are delighted we've had wonderful partners um and we are delighted to continue our work in

engaging, educating, and activating our local community. So thank you um Mary. So, last but not least, just want to make sure that you all um are aware that you have a ticket to our pancake breakfast. Money goes towards the scholarships and we will be presenting our scholarship winners at the pancake breakfast. But to just go ahead and give you an advance um uh preview, uh we this year our winners are Brooklyn Williams. She is a junior at IND Indiana State University. She's a nursing major. And at West VGO High School, Eva Selenus, she won our scholarship this year. She plans to attend a 4-year university majoring in parallegal studies with a goal of becoming a law student and lawyer. So, we really do hope that you attend our breakfast, celebrate with us our scholarship recipients, and we thank you for listening to us this evening. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have a presentation by the redevelopment commission. Yeah, council person Hen

just wanted to add on behalf of Delta Sigma Theta that we uh recognize that the mayor uh most of the initiatives that uh Mary mentioned were also initiatives of the mayor. So mayor we thank you uh also on behalf of of Delta Sigma Theta. Hi, President Dingle and fellow members of the council. I'm Jordan Marvel. I'm the executive director of the uh Department of Redevelopment. Um I'm here tonight with Jason Simler uh to present the redevelopment commission's April 15th report.

Thank you, Jordan. As Jordan said, Jason Simler, Baker Tilly, uh serving as financial adviser for the redevelopment commission. And I believe in front of you, you have a PowerPoint presentation uh that we had prepared. Uh if you remember I was here about this time last year. Uh the red commission is required uh every year to submit information financial information uh about the redone commission and tiff areas on gateway very similar to what the council has to do for the city's finances like the annual financial report. Um they have to submit this information by April 15th and they've had to do that for a number of years now. Um, but the statute was changed last year that that information also needs to be presented to the council for April 15th. So, that's why I'm here tonight is to meet that statutory requirement. So, I put together kind of in a PowerPoint slide the information that we're filing on Gateway. I'll kind of go through the information and if you have any questions, I'd be happy to address those um at any time. Um but before we I went through the information just wanted to hit some highlights on uh tiff areas and I've been front of the council for many times uh talking about various projects that you guys have approved as far as either new tiff areas or financing. Um but page two just again wanted to highlight you know the very basics of tax increment financing. Um if you look at this uh chart here we I kind of call this my tip 101 chart. Um the the box below the gray area that is what we call the base area uh the base assessed value. So as you know you and we'll go through the tiff areas here in a a minute. When you create a tiff area you designate a certain parcels where you think there's going to be future development uh and you create a new allocation area or tiff area. All the assessed value that is currently there. All the taxes that are currently being generated those are not touched. Those are not captured by the city or the regional commission. those continue to

be flowed through to help fund the budget of the city uh and the school and overlapping taxing units. So, in many cases, we're not taking any revenue from any overlapping taxing units. And again, that's what we call the base. Uh the blue area, the turquoise area, that's the new development that we're anticipating that's going to occur. That is what is captured by the redevelopment commission. And the taxes generated from that new development is what's captured to either provide incentives or fund infrastructure uh like New Margaret Avenue, like improvements to the police station, uh like the multimmoal uh um station or provide incentives to dimming or icon. Um, so that's and what you the goal is is to capture that revenue, put it back in the area, let it grow, and then once the area ends, you have all this new assessed value that gets added to the tax base to helps reduce tax rates for this county uh for the city uh for the school and the library. So that's kind of the goal u of the redevelopment commission uh is to grow the tax base um both property taxes and income tax um so there's future growth uh for the city. Uh the next page just put a a couple of different purposes of tiff. Again, provide incentives or infrastructure u which you guys have done a very good job of um over the years. Encourage economic development growth. You know, State Road 46 is a prime example of using TIFF um out in that area. Help blighted areas. Um and again, just the key note down there. I always like to remind people, most people don't realize whether they're in a tiff fair or not, you're going to pay the same amount of taxes. It's just a matter of where the money goes. Uh so starting on page four, uh this is where the uh some of the information that is required to be reported. Again, what we're reporting is basically all

2025 information. So it's kind of looking at a historical uh look back. So page uh four is just the the members of of the Revant Commission uh from last year. Um you can see the names and the titles listed there. Uh the next page, uh we do list uh each tiff area. Um we list kind of the actual legal name, uh the TIFF code. That's really the code that's per the auditor's office, how the auditor's office identifies, uh the code, uh the TIFF areas, any nicknames or how we refer to them. Um but the important dates u for us and the red commission and yourselves is the established date and the expiration date. Um, so you can see when each area uh or expansion area was created and then also when they expire. So you can see uh you have a couple areas, the industrial park and JAD core uh expiring in 2033. So it seems like that's a far uh out there in the future, but that'll be here before you know it. So um it is true tfaries do expire and they do end. Um, so these will end here in a few years and then once they end, as I showed in that graph, all that assessed value will be added to the tax base to help reduce tax rates. Um, but we've list them all here. Uh, and you can see even the most recent one um that you just created last year or the two, the downtown area and the Terrapista are listed as well. Uh the next page um just reports the revenues that were received for each area and the expend expenditures. So those are just listed here. Mo majority of the revenues are the tax increment that's being collected. Uh the only two um is the downtown hotel and the new market there at the bottom. You can see those are some pretty large

numbers 5.8 million and 7.5. And that was because we did issue bonds. uh if you remember last year. So we included that in uh the revenues and the expenditures you can see on the right side. Uh and then both see below we've kind of broken out those expenditures. Um up top it's uh broken out for allocation area. Down below it's broken out for uh classification or category. And you can see most of the expenditures that you incurred in 2025 had to do with paying back principle and interest on the bonds that you have outstanding. The next page lists all the account balances uh that you have. As you can see, you have quite a few accounts related to the various tip areas. Um, but if you read through the fund names, uh, a lot of them are related to the bonds that you have outstanding. So again, just reporting what the ending balances were at the end of the year. And then the next page, we're also required to list the any bonds that you have outstanding. So you can see the list here. Um, we've listed the amount of principal and interest that's outstanding as of January 1. Uh we've also listed the principal and interest that was paid as of 2025 and then when the bonds are anticipated to mature. So you can see you know um most of the areas kind of list on the parentheses what the projects were for but the first one the 2011 series A that was for the Cherry Street multimodal facility. The 2015 that was a bond issue that we provided in an an incentive to the dimming project downtown. uh the 2015 series A uh that were that was for initial costs related towards the police station uh renovation

and then I think the rest of them have the kind of the names of the the bonds beside them. The only two that I would mention that uh I think are kind of unique. If you look at the footnote one and two uh you can see if you read the footnotes those were two again we provided incentives to the developers. The tax increment came in less than anticipated based upon the projections that we were giving. Um but in both of those we structured it. So if there the tiff did come in less than anticipated uh the developer would have to cover the shortfall. So just as you know we talk about bonds you know we do everything we can to protect the city uh that uh we either issue bonds where we have sufficient enough coverage that if something were to happen like legislation where we think that might decrease our taxes going forward we have enough cushion there to cover anything like that. So we're not going to be sure or we had the developer guarantee the bonds and that was the case for those two areas. again. Um, by doing this presentation, we can check that box off of one more thing we're required to do. Um, but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Council person Ber, I just have one question. Um, the on the members page it says redevelopment members. None no revel none were removed and it redevelopment has no employees. Mhm. And then on the expenditures it has an expenditure for employees. I just don't understand. I'm sure.

Yeah. The redevelopment commission itself doesn't have any employees. Um but uh Jordan's office has employees and we do use some tiff to uh help pay for some of the u kind of salaries for certain projects. We're able to use uh uh able to use TIFF for capital projects and if we can identify that some of the employees are specifically being used for those projects, we're able to allocate some of that to for those projects to help help the city. All right. Thank you. Good question. Thank you, Council President Hinton. Yeah, you have to talk to me like a 2-year-old here.

Oh, no. uh the since the CBD tiff have expenditures greater than the revenues and I I'm looking at the footnote at the bottom and but I'm I'm wondering if the debt service uh is also part of that it equation and that that's where the 46494 difference is. Yes. Okay.

Yeah. And that was intended um that was for the bond issue for the downtown hotel project. And uh we anticipated that uh large portion of the tiff from the downtown area would be used to pay off those bonds because um the hotel hasn't been built yet. Um we're waiting for that, you know, once that gets built, we'll start collecting revenue from that. Um but to try to make it as efficient as possible, we wanted to use some tiff in the downtown area. Um, as you can see on the next page, there's still a very healthy balance in that area even after the payment of those bonds. So, that's why it shows up that way. Thank you. It's really helpful.

Thank you, Jason. Thank you. Corrections to the journal of the proceeding meeting? There are none.

Communication from the mayor. Good evening, Council President Dingle and members of the Terote City Council. Uh, a couple of quick things. Our target goal for the restrooms at the parks is Friday. I know there's been some uh online chatter there. We had to do some renovations to a couple and we're adding four restrooms that used to not be open that will be open. So our our goals Friday for most of those and then I believe Sheridan Borhees and Herz rose the target date is uh midmay 2026 and then they'll be open through about October 15th. Kylie's going to put all this information together and put it on social media Friday uh on the parks page so everyone can see that. So I wanted to address that first. Um secondly uh at and I and Jesse we've all been at work with the county council next Tuesday. Uh I will actually not be there. I presented this week. Jesse will be there. We have the the firefighter award ceremony. Uh but we are going in for $15,01 uh for the warming center conversation and we look forward to that passing. We do see a potential avenue uh with some some state conversations of maybe uh looking at some alternative ways to address the homelessness problem. Uh so you'll see more information in the coming weeks about that homelessness task force, what that will evolve to. Big reason why I bring that up is, you know, Senator Good has been very helpful in voicing the concerns of Senate Enrolled Act 279, which criminalizes homelessness. Even though we got the amendments in to make it better, you know, our kind of focus right now is, well, maybe if you gave us the tools to address this, we actually wouldn't get to the the end solution, right? So, we're going to potentially use that argument next legislative session. So, the 2027 session, uh, because that's the budget session, right? That's the the big one that's always long, drawn out, and very frustrating. Second thing I

want to talk about, uh, House Enrolled Act, HA1017 was like the cleanup Senate Enrollment Act One bill. Uh, Cheryl, I know you and I have chatted at length or Councilwoman Louderderm, I know you and I have talked at length about this in this state bill. It allows us to create a must. Not like, oh man, you got a shower must like municipal unit service tax thing. I don't even know what the acronym stands for. Here's the bottom line. The must takes your townships, your county, your city, puts them in a room and says, "Okay, under the current income tax structure going up to 2.9 is your total cap, how would you guys play in the same sandbox and develop an income tax structure where the county would collect all of it and then disperse it out to each unit? Why would we like that?" Right? So, if that is an option, which is honestly pretty much what we are already doing, um that is more appealing because under the current language in Senate Enrollment Act One from now about two years ago in 2028, the city, the county would pass a income tax. The current income tax would go away and then the county would have the ability to add, you know, one for a fire territory, one for a library. But at the end of the day, much like our will tax circle discussion, our city residents would literally be double or triple taxed, right? So the must, which we owe the state a report by, I believe December 31st. Is Jason still here?

Oh no, he went on the road. It might be December of this year. If not, it's October. So I'll follow up with that. I just looked at it. Is it October? I think it's de December.

I think it's December 1st. that report that counties and cities and townships would submit is to drive legislation to address the double taxation problem uh this legislative session. Long story short, in these reports, it is non-binding. So, basically, a current city or county council can say, "We agree that the lit rate should be 2%." which is actually what it is today. And we believe that the city should get a PS lit portion, an edit portion, gadget, and the county should get their portions and imagine everything saying the same. But future county councils could amend that. So it's it's literally a non-binding report. But what it does do is it forces your units of government to say, "What if we approach this problem as a team overall and solve it locally so that way the state doesn't have to solve it for us?" Uh, I will be sending you an email probably early next week, an overview of the must, what the breakup of that committee or task force would be. And we'll be looking for two city council members uh to work with the full-time staff on that. Uh, county auditors also involved, county council members are involved, and then of course, you know, we call all the entities that are currently receiving some income tax dollars. I know income taxes are being talked about a lot online right now because this school conversation dominates everyone's social media feed. The the harsh reality is for as much as you know certain members like to make videos and do video updates, if if we don't understand the true impacts and changes to state legislation tied to income taxes and how they actually create an opportunity for the current Veto County resident to pay less or pay the same and not see additional taxes, then we can't even have that conversation, right? And and I stress this to our conversations

uh with our our friends at the county is if everything we do and talk about turns into some long- winded debate, then we're missing the point. The wheel tax has finally been addressed and we don't do double taxation anymore. That is our same goal with income tax. And like these are really really interesting problems because I know that I love tax policy, but this is like a true opportunity to avoid some of the tax rates that have crept up over the last decade across the state of Indiana because your tax caps have been in place. Um, long-winded way of saying I'm going to send this all in an email early next week. Uh, and we're going to get going on those conversations. Uh, lastly, make sure to check out fried chicken night at the Saratoga. I know that's always ahead. Councilman Azar, I see you there. I'll stand by for any questions and if not, we'll we'll carry on the agenda.

Council President Debon, is the fried chicken good at the Saratoga? Dumb question. I mean, you know, you're right. I withdraw that question. I need to get the votes tonight, so it's amazing. No, I'm kidding. All right. Thank you, guys. Thank you, mayor. It's not as good as it desserts. Reports from city officials, there are none. Reports from board of public works and safety, there are none. Reports from standing committees, there are none. Reports from non-standing committees, there are none. Items previously tabled, there are none. Tax abatements for confirmation, there are none. Items on second reading.

Special ordinance 3, 2026, reszoning of property located at 3317 North 12th Street. Area planning gave a fable with conditions recommendation. and it should be before you on your table. Petitioner.

Good evening, Mr. President, fellow fellow members of the council. My name is Richard Shaggley. I'm with the law firm of Right Shaggling Lowry. And tonight, it's my honor to be here on behalf of Rick Laser, who's the owner of the property at 1205 Fort Harrison Road as well as 3317 North 12 Street. Uh Mr. Laser, uh these properties are currently zoned R1. Uh Mr. Laser is asking them to be reszoned C2 um for business and professional offices. It's his intention to transfer the properties and the new owner would like to uh invest in a building that would allow for business offices. Um the area plan staff gave it a federal recommendation. Uh last night the area plan meeting uh it went through uh rather smoothly with no opposition. Uh no opposition at the meeting and no opposition had contacted uh my office or the area plan office. Um I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Is there anyone from the public who wish to comment on special ordinance 3 2026? He none. We'll close public comment. Council discussion. Council person Thompson,

Richard. Um, some of the photographs that we had last night at area planning, uh, gave a better aerial, I think, of showing the current makeup of that area. If you could just describe, um, what currently resides in the properties surrounding this.

Let me look at just because my I get my uh, directions kind of funky up there. Um the um you have a you have obviously for Harrison Road uh which is a heavy commercial area. Uh across the street on 13th you have um a health clinic. Uh there is a uh residential house behind this property, but these are two rather large lots. And with the C1, there will be some requirements uh of that site plan recommendation by the the area plan office. And the the potential owner of this property is well aware the requirements. And then to the um what is that? South uh you have a a a piece of property owned by the sanitary district. And then you have a ditch and then some more uh cemetery. So it's kind of an isolide there isolated area. Like I said, there is one residential property abudding it. Uh but as you are aware, there are several requirements uh when there is a C1 next to an R1 which the potential have to um comply with. I hope that answer your question.

It is. Thank you. Okay. I believe last night Amanda was against my presentation on the history of resonings in this area uh because it was a light agenda. I'd be happy to offer the same to you this evening. Um Mr. President, if there's no any further, I'd move that we approve special ordinance 3226. Thank you. So moved by council person, seconded by council person Don that special ordinance 3 20226 be approved. All those in favor say I. I post say nay. The motion passes. Special Ordinance 3, 2022 is adopted. Thank you very much. I just didn't want to hear your other presentations. I got to remember that. That's good.

Next item. Proparation 5, 2026, $1,000 from general fund 010100 0 to civic promotion 010100153439186. You must vote to take action.

Petitioner. Good evening, President Dinkle, members of the city council, at Ryan, director of the human relations commission. This request is to appropriate $1,000 from revenue into our civic promotions line. These are grant funds that we received from Duke Energy to support the MLK Day of Service we held this past January. Specifically, it was for event supplies. Um at this event we our volunteers assembled 250 backpacks for individuals experiencing homelessness and of course these funds helped support that. Um we applied for this grant back in January but funds weren't released until March 1 and then we had to submit the appropriation paperwork which is why it's in front of you in April. Um but I'm happy to answer any questions.

Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on appropriation 5 2026? Hearing none, we'll close public comment, open for council discussion.

Mr. President, Council Person Loudermilk. I'll make a motion that we take action on appropriation 5 2026. Second. It's been moved by Council Person Laddermilk, seconded by Council President Chaos, that we take action on appropriation 5 2026. All those in favor say I. Post say nay. Motion passes. We may now take action on appropriation 5 2026. Mr. President, Council Person Loudermilk. I'd like to make a motion that we approve appropriation 5, 2026. Second. It's been moved by Council Person Loudermilk, second by Council Person Chaos that appropriation 5 2026 be approved. All those in favor say I. Post say nay. The motion passes. Appropriation 52026 is adopted.

Thank you. Next item. Preparation 6, 2026, $2,500 from other governmental 0440096 to services contractual 044009603432010. You must vote to take action. Petitioner.

Good evening, President Dinkle, members of the city council. At Ryan, human relations commission director. Um, this request is to appropriate $2,500 to services contractual. This is also grant funding from Duke Energy, but in support of our warming center operations. And what would be a public meeting these days without at least three mentions of warming centers. So, we, as you know, had an extremely cold winter and the warming center was essential um providing respit for many of our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Um, I believe the mayor gave a little update, but I would love to just share a little bit more. Um, if you watched or attended the county council meeting on Tuesday, you saw that the mayor um returned to them with our request for now $15,1. Um, and I just wanted to share some quick figures so you all could see how this $2,500 that 15,000 and then um another uh chunk we've applied. So, we opened for a total of 37 days this year. Um, and for each day that the warming center was opened, the city has paid the operator, Mental Health America, um, at the Lotus Center, $1,200 for each day. So, we've spent $44,400 in total with a total budget including this $2500 we're asking to appropriate, the $15, and $1 from the county and 30,000 from the city adding up to 47,500. Um, we do have a little bit remaining. We don't think that we will see any more cold days this year. Um but we will put that aside for operations beginning um this fall when it will get cold again. So again, we applied for this grant in January, but funds weren't released until March 1, which is why I'm here um in April. So happy to answer any questions.

Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on appropriation 6, 2026? Hearing none, we'll close public comment. Open council discussion. Mr. President, Council President Hinton, I move to take action on appropriation 6, 2026. Second. Second. Moved by Council President Hinton, seconded by Council President Limo that we take action on appropriation 6, 2026. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos say nay. Okay. The motion passes. We may now take action on appropriation 6, 2026. Mr. President. Council President Hinton. I move that we adopt or pass and approve appropriation 6 2026. Second.

It's been moved by Council President Hinton. Seconded by Council President Boland. You got it. That appropriation 6 2026 be approved. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Motion passes. Appropriation 6 2026 is adopted. Thank you. And thank you to Duke Energy as well. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Next item, a resolution 8, 2026, transfer of $2,800 in the clerk's document perpetuation fund number 03260026. Are you the petitioner?

Unfortunately, um, just, you know, all of the projects we've been doing in my office, which my people are extremely excited about, and it seems like the invoices never end. So, I need to move a little bit of money to cover some um additional invoices that came in this year, but we're very grateful for everything that was able to be accomplished. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on resolution 8 2026? Hearing none, we will close public comment. Open council discussion. Mr. President, council person loud. I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 8, 2026.

Second. It's been moved by council person Loudermilk, seconded by council personal that resolution 8 2026 be approved. All those in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Motion passes. Resolution 8 2026 is adopted. Next item

resolution 9 2026 proclaiming the last Sunday in April as workers memorial day. Do we have petitioner for this? President Dinkl and members of the council, thank you very much to allow me to say a few words about workers Memorial Day. It was founded in 1990 at the AFL CIO to aware the increase the awareness of the unsafety of her per of her of the of the workplace. It also to commemorate those men who women who went to work and never came home. The fatalities are horrendous and they are not to be believed because there are always ways around that and we are not doing it. So every year on April 28th, which is the date that the OSHA was passed, we have a very solemn commemoration of the people who have died on the job. And we also make that a time to increase the awareness of of more that we need to do to have safe and and uh safety at the workplace. So, thank you very much for considering the resolution for that we have have put before you. Uh we like to have this event close to 8 April 28th, but we also like to do it on a Sunday when people

can come and and participate in this very solemn occasion. So we we have brought this twice in front of the council and you have been wonderfully supportive of it and we have asked something slightly different this time. Instead of our coming every year, we have asked that the the um proclamation would include that this uh this particular cedar have be be the last Sunday in April which will always be close to the 28th and I that's what we are putting forward. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on resolution 9 2026? Hearing none, we'll close public comment. Open council discussion. Council person Bolan.

Uh well, council person Nation typically like typically likes to read uh the resolution. So in his absence, uh I'll be honored to go ahead and read this resolution. Resolution 9, 2026 states, "Whereas we acknowledge that conditions of work sites have improved since the passing of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970 and in the Indiana State Occupational Safety and Health Administration shortly after that. And whereas we remain committed to the ongoing advocacy of labor activists in the city of Teroot to continue to improve the quality of workplace through regular inspection and high standards of health and safety measures. And whereas we are aware that injuries, illnesses, and fatalities are not accidents but are avoidable and preventable. And whereas we support the call for good jobs, safe jobs, and the protection of rights. And we pledge to seek ways to make these goals a reality. And whereas we honor the legacy of Eugene Victor Debs who was proud to call the city of Teroot his home and was ahead of his time in his vision of equality and justice. And whereas we work at the local level and we are conscious of the invisible most vulnerable workers in our midst who have left out of state and federal workplace protections. And whereas it is altogether right to remember those workers by name and deed who went to work for labor for the community and did not come home. Now therefore be it resolved we the Terote City Council join city and county governments and leaders all over the United States that are gathering as we are to proclaim the last Sunday of April to be workers memorial day in the city of Terode.

Thank you. And if there are no further questions, um my grandfather fell uh on a construction project in the early 1960s and he's one of these fatalities. So if there's no further questions, I would like to move that resolution 92026 be approved. Make a motion. It's been moved by council person Boland, seconded by council person Hinton, that resolution 92026 be adopted. All those in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Motion passes. Resolution 9, 2026 is adopted.

Move to adjourn. Second. It's been moved by council person Azar, seconded by council person Ladderville that we adjourn. All those in favor say I. I. Post say next. Terote city council stands adjourned. Thanks. Good job. Great job. I just