- Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to call over to the second meeting of the Reorganization Committee of
- Ellitsville in the township of Richland. Yeah, let's do prayer and pledge. I'll say a prayer. Father,
- we thank you for this day. We thank you for the many ways that you bless us. Tons of folks don't have
- roofs over their heads.
- kind of clothes that we wear or the food that we eat or the clean water that we drink. We praise you
- for all of that. We thank you that we can meet like this in a country that we're free to do so. We thank
- you that we can do this justly and in order. And we ask that you lead, guide, and direct us. And it's
- in Jesus' name that we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. Andrew, if you want to do a roll call. Andrew, you want to do a roll call? Go ahead and do
- a roll call. I am present. Kevin is present. William? I'm present. Don? I'm all here, but I'm present.
- and Scott is absent. We are expecting Mike though, right? That as far as I know. Okay, and we've all
- gotten a copy of minutes from the last meeting, the first meeting. You want to do roll call? So that's
- a question. I was not sure what my responsibility was as secretary. Am I required to provide a hard
- copy for the entire committee to sign at a subsequent meeting? What's the process for approving and
- entering our minutes?
- Well typically I think that that would be appropriate if you wanted to send them out and I'm sorry I
- didn't discuss this with you at the last meeting. It would be appropriate before a meeting to go ahead
- and email copies of the minutes. Okay. I didn't have a hard copy that we would sign. For the next meeting
- why don't you bring a hard copy so that they can sign off. Thank you.
- or shall we wait till the next meeting to do that when we have the hard copy to sign? Okay. Item on
- the agenda would be to elect a seventh member. Does everybody concur? Concur. Okay, and do we have a
- nomination? I'll nominate Dr. Jerry Sanders from the Richland Bean Blossom School System Superintendent.
- Which is what we were hoping for,
- somebody from the education community. Got a nomination, do we have a second? I'll second. John seconds.
- On the roll, Andrew votes yes. Kevin? Yes. Yes, William? Yes. Yes, Don? Yes. Okay, I guess. I mean,
- Dr. Sanders can come up here now if he'd like. And then run the meeting, where is he?
- That's why we're plotting. And you're supposed to bring a gavel, but obviously you don't have a gavel,
- so. Noel's hiding it, the gavel. I'm gonna move over. Do you wanna run the meeting? We'd prefer it.
- Why don't you run it? Yeah. It's an hour committee's complete. What's that? It's an hour committee's complete.
- I would say to bring it up to speed would be formation of subcommittees and appointments to
- the subcommittees. I would say everybody that we've got on this side that has committed, why don't we
- go over them? I'm not objectionable to anybody. Is anybody objectionable to any of them? There's some
- discussion, maybe it's a couple, but I don't have objections to any of them.
- You want to do that? Subcommittee, a minimum of three. Thank you. Why don't we take them committee by
- committee? Sounds great. And just put these numbers so that way we don't have to discuss the names.
- We can just say number five, number four, have a discussion with that happen to. So the first one is
- planning and zoning. We have three.
- of people, citizens who volunteered. I know that I have spoken with number 16 and 17, and they both
- have some pretty extensive knowledge as at least as far as agriculture goes. 16 and 17 are
- in the undetermined category? Yes. Okay. No, wait a minute.
- 17 and eight, wait a minute. Yeah, 16 and 17 is right. I thought you were right. I definitely would
- move number 17 over planning and zoning, because I think that would be that person's expertise. Number 16 has,
- He has, that person is an associate professor, let's see here, holds a master's degree and a PhD from
- Parks and Rec Tourism, so maybe that would be a better one, but he also,
- has a farm in Richland Township that he currently has livestock on and runs a business through. He has
- background in academia centers on rural land rights and 10-year agriculture, dairying, and farming systems
- with particular attention how to policy and government decisions affect rural livelihoods and landscapes.
- So I guess there's really a few places he could go.
- I have no objection to planning and zoning. Why are they undetermined? Is it undetermined that they
- want to serve, but they're not sure where they want to serve? They want us to... Some of them said I'm
- interested in this or this or this, and I'm willing to serve wherever you guys need something. Some
- of these people applied before we had
- blasted out to the, since we're going by the Sheridan plan, we knew that plan, which was public, what
- the subcommittees were, but they hadn't, we hadn't jelled that yet. We hadn't put that out what committees
- we were looking for yet. So how do you wanna do this? You wanna do motion and second? Yeah, somebody
- would have to make a motion and second
- Do we want to do these separately? Can we combine them? Well, I would say make a motion for whoever
- you think ought to be on planning and zoning. Okay, so my understanding is they both want to be on planning
- and zoning? Plus the three that are already listed there. Well, I make a motion that... Do we need to
- make a motion to actually create the subcommittee as well? Is it already created? Does it exist yet?
- We have a list of proposed subcommittees, but we did not create them at the last meeting. I don't know.
- Do we need to put teeth to those? I would just for the record. OK. Thank you. So I'll make a motion
- to create the subcommittee for planning and zoning. I second it. And that's with these five individuals
- or just? Well, just right now for the subcommittee. Just forming some subcommittee, OK? All right.
- We had a motion to second, any discussion? I think just for the public to know that planning and zoning
- will be looking at the different, the township and the actual what they'd call urban. I know people,
- it's hard to believe Ellisville would be considered urban, but they have different needs, different
- wants, different desires, and we wanna reflect that in our planning to zoning, because it's not a one
- size fits all.
- I mean what works for in town may not work for somebody that owns 50, 60 acres and we want to reflect
- that. Most of our UDO currently does that but we don't know what we don't know and that's why
- the subcommittee is there. Anybody else want to add to that? Just a question for how we actually run
- this in the interest of saving my hand. Is it possible that we do a motion that creates all the listed
- subcommittees or do you want to do every single one of them individually?
- I agree. You want me to amend my motion? I'll amend my motion to create the subcommittees of planning
- and zoning, subcommittee of finance, subcommittee of governance, subcommittee of public safety, subcommittee
- of parks and rec, and subcommittee of roads and streets. And we're actually missing one on here. Water,
- sewer, and wastewater.
- water, sewer, wastewater. Somewhere I saw that parks and rec was also cemeteries. So do we want to discuss
- these and open it for public comment on these before we vote? See if there's
- I think that would be reasonable if anybody wants to give public comment on that list of subcommittees.
- I would be willing to hear public comment on it. Would anybody like to speak on the subcommittees that
- have been made motions on? That list was planning and zoning, finance, governance, public safety, parks
- and rec, roads and streets, and water, sewer, wastewater.
- We want to add cemeteries. Yes. I have a question. So what about Department of Aid that would cover
- what the trustee currently does? Would that fall under finance? If you guys say it will. What's the
- pleasure of that? I mean, that's a good question. I think it's going to be
- hard for us to find enough people that are knowledgeable enough in that area? I don't know. Sure,
- just so, I just wanted to mention it so somebody would not think we're leaving it out. Sure. I do have
- somebody that we could potentially put there. All right. What's the thoughts? I'm comfortable with being
- under finance. I am too. I am. So am I. But we did have a public open
- see any okay William moved Kevin seconded I vote yes Kevin yes yes Jerry yes William yes Don yes
- All right, and get Mike up to speed. We just created officially the subcommittees. Is there a copy of
- the list down there? I do not have another copy. Thank you. Mike, this is our scratch list of nominees
- for subcommittees, people who have volunteered to serve
- We did add a water sewer and wastewater subcommittee, which was not originally on this spreadsheet,
- and then added in line 28, parks and rec and cemeteries to that subcommittee. Water storm and wastewater.
- So amended.
- Water storm. Water storm sewer and wastewater. Okay. That sounds like an Avengers movie. Superhero infinity
- wastewater. All right. We have the subcommittees 91 appointed people. Yes. And I think if since
- With our discussion here, there were no objections. I think it'd be safe to read the names of those
- who were planning that were putting to the vote for planning and zoning. I guess I can. All right, planning
- and zoning, I'd like to nominate Diane Critchlow, Eric Spoonmore, Mike Richardson, James Farmer, and
- Marv Olmert.
- None. Do you want to have public comment on each of these before we vote or do it at the end? I'm not
- opposed to doing it one by one. I mean, I know, I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of...
- I'm not opposed to one by one either. If somebody really wants to say something, I think they should
- be able to. Yeah. Can I make a suggestion? Sure.
- It's lying beyond that committee, obviously, so. Okay. Could I talk about that, please? Sure. Well,
- I was going to recommend after you go through the different committees that I was going to recommend
- that we embed a department head that usually takes care of that for the town of Ellisville now, and
- whether they're committee members or they're there to
- help with any questions or to run through how we do our business. I was gonna recommend that each department
- had picked what they do now and you can utilize them for information and maybe some guidance. What if
- we just vote on the volunteers who are volunteering to serve on these committees and then the town can
- assign people to different
- people who work for the town to the different subcommittees. That's really good. That may solve the
- issue with yours too. Yes, yeah. So the information is there, but. We can just assign her to that. That
- would be awesome. So I think we probably should make a motion to that for clarity that we're
- powering the town or township because there's, I think one definitely they want to assign someone to.
- But if we want to, should we just get through the planning and zoning first? Exactly, right now the
- only motion is the planning and zoning. There was a sixth person that you mentioned to be added to the
- list. That was the town supervisor. Gotcha, okay. And so that discussion addressed that.
- Okay, our five volunteers are Dan Critchlow, Eric Spoonmore, Mike Richardson, James Farmer,
- and Marv Olmet. And we have a motion and a second. And did we call for public comment? Yes, but we didn't
- have any. Okay, all right. Any public comment on those five nominees for claims?
- Okay The motion to place
- On the planning and zoning subcommittee, Dan Critchlow, Eric Spoonmore, Mike Richardson, James Farmer,
- and Marv Olmet. Call on the roll. I vote yes. Kevin? Yes. Yes. Jerry? Yes. Yes. William? Yes. Don? Yes.
- Mike? Yes. All right. Motion passes. OK. Next is Finance Committee. Finance, did we have something to that?
- Yes, poor relief. Do we wanna call it poor relief? Is there an official? Well, the township calls it
- township assistance, and poor relief is somewhat of a derogatory. Yeah, exactly. So I feel a better
- way to put it would be public assistance. Okay, finance and public assistance.
- We have three individuals listed here. Do you want to add two more from the undetermined list? We have
- three people that specifically expressed interest in addition to the three that we had initially
- is from the township and she does not live in the township though, but she works at the township.
- So we can, the township office can be the ex officio. So she doesn't need to be included in that. Included
- in the list of the five. So we have two more, which would bring it to five. What's the two more?
- 4 and 11. So we'll have like 1 to 30 A and 1 to 30 B. Are we OK with adding those two?
- I have no objections. I spoke to number four and number 11. Both of them seemed motivated and enthusiastic.
- I'm excited to have them on. I had not had the opportunity to talk to the three who were over in the
- left-hand column yet. I've spoken to number 12 and number 13, and they're very enthusiastic about it.
- The team has a lot of experience. Absolutely. That will be beneficial. If there are no objections or
- other comments from the board, can we go ahead and read the names and then request public comment? Well,
- again, do we need to make a motion to move them from one column to the other? Can we just? I would just
- name them. Okay.
- I'll move that we appoint the following to the finance and public assistance committee Kenny Williams
- Jerry Cravens Sandy hash Elaine Thompson and Richard Matt Okay any discussion of
- here at the board? Just that we have a great list of candidates. It is. This is tapping into the talent
- pool. Yes. Yes. Okay. To place the following on the Finance Committee, Kenny Williams, Jerry Cravens,
- Sandy Hash, Lane Thompson and Richard Matt. I vote yes.
- Yes, Jerry? Yes. William? Yes. Yes. Don? Yes. Mike? Yes. Motion passes. Okay, next subcommittee
- is governance. We have two who have volunteered for this subcommittee. From the list of undecideds,
- for anybody that knows them, I don't know most of the undecideds.
- Is there a third person we can bring over to? And for the public, keep in mind, we can add to these
- committees later too. Or if there's anyone in the audience that would like to be on this, please raise
- up your hand and tell us a little bit about yourself.
- Governance will be the committee that will decide how the town council will be reorganized, how the
- wards are probably considered council districts at that time will be organized, whether they'll be in
- districts all at large, a combination of both, what precincts will go into what district and how to
- merge the township
- you know, trustee office and some of their duties in the actual, because I think there's a provision
- in the code where the township trustee can still be elected, but they just serve with the town. So those
- are all things that have to be, that they'll hash out on that. What about number five on the end-of-term
- list for governance? I don't know the person, but I have no objection.
- Is there anyone with familiarity with number, oh, five, I'm with the wrong person. I don't know if that's
- where he would want to be, because I do know with him. Based on your experience, you think another company
- might be a better fit for him?
- traditionally probably planning and zoning, but we're kind of full on that. But if we have a, that can
- be added later. If, let's see, I don't see him here. We can, he has some experience with this. He didn't
- specifically say any other subcommittees. No, he said he'd help where he could.
- I know my father, I think he would do a good job. I think he would too. And if he decides not to, then
- we will handle that. Line five to the governance committee.
- Any others you want to add to governance? We can always add people later, right? Right. Okay. All right.
- Are we ready to read the names? Yep. Do you want to make a motion? I'll make a motion.
- that we move number 19 over, and so we will have, under governance, we will have Noel Conyer, Tom Spencer,
- and Tice Carmichael. I'll second. Any comments from the public? Or any volunteers? Don't make us volunteer.
- Governance sounds like a hoot, guys. Get in on the fun.
- Any more discussion from the board? I'm good. Okay. All right, roll call to place on the Governance
- Committee, Noel Conyer, Tom Spencer, and Tice Carr-Michael. I vote yes. Kevin? Yes. Jerry? Yes. William?
- Yes. Don? Yes. And Mike? Yes. Motion passes. Okay, next one is public safety.
- Considered number 25 as a possible member on this subcommittee, I would actually, since we had several
- other people who expressed interest and had relevant experience in the undetermined, maybe even just
- in the interest of having that one person in line 25 who has a lot on his plate not be overloaded, I
- would rather place someone else in that position. We could also put him as an ex officio if need be.
- and things because we never voted on this person being. So are there two others you want to add? From
- the undetermined column, I spoke with Sherry Newcomer and she expressed a strong interest in the Public
- Safety Committee. Sorry. Line 14. I knew that was going to happen. I'm just glad it wasn't me. Does
- it matter at number 23?
- I wouldn't have an issue with it, but. I don't, but I don't know if anyone else does. I was not aware
- of the connection. You may be now. You are now. Okay. I think that would be a problem. We also had interest
- in the public safety committee from undetermined line, undetermined line 12.
- I have no objections. All right, do we have a motion? A motion that under the category of public safety
- that we nominate Zach Michaels, John Newcomer, Calvin Poole, Josh Conway, and Sherry Newcomer.
- I'll second any public from the comment from the public. All right. More discussion from the board.
- All right. So on the motion to place on the Public Safety Committee
- Zach Michaels, John Newcomer, Calvin Poole, Sherry Newcomer, and Josh Conway. I vote yes. Kevin? Yes.
- Jerry? Yes. William? Yes. Dawn? Yes. Mike? Yes. Motion carries. All right. Parks and Recreation and
- Cemetery is the next subcommittee. We have two individuals who've
- indicated they would like to serve on that subcommittee. Are there any others that the board would like
- to add? I didn't clarify number 29. I could not find a specific recommendation with the town of where
- that person wanted to serve, but I also believe they submitted to the township. Am I correct on that?
- Oh, they did not. Okay. Um, then it may just been orally telling us. So, um,
- and they can always say no. Is there anybody from the undecideds that you guys know that would be good
- for them? I think eight or nine. Eight or nine, both of them have opted out. They've opted out? Yeah.
- Okay. Is there anyone else? Why we're doing it is. Anybody else has opted out? Number two and number
- three. Have both opted out? Opted out.
- And also number six and number seven are question mark, unless anybody knows different. I do not. Then
- there's one person left. We've got three people. Three? Three. Okay. I was gonna say number 10.
- Add number 10. Any others? All right, I'll entertain a motion. I will move to nominate for Parks, Rec
- and Cemeteries, Jim Perry, Paula Anderson,
- and Michael Clemens. Any comments from the public? Any more comments from the board? All right, we'll
- take a vote. All right, to place on the Parks, Rec, and Cemeteries Committee, Jim Perry, Paula Anderson,
- and Michael Clemens, I vote yes. Kevin? Yes. Jerry? Yes. William? Yes.
- And Mike? Yes. Motion passes. I do want to, I could not get, could not find the contact information
- for Jim Perry. I don't know why, because he's emailed me numerous times, but it's not showing up in
- my email. So my attempt, I plan to reach out to him today to make sure that was okay. But if anyone
- has contact information, I would love it. I can reach out to him tomorrow to confirm this is okay with him.
- we are going to confirm with all these. Absolutely. All right, roads and streets. We have two individuals.
- Does the board wanna add any others? Are these the two we have left? Yeah.
- I would recommend doing maybe doing the two that have already said that they would like to serve on
- roads and streets and then for water storm sewer and waste
- table that one and then maybe go back and some of these undetermined people ask if they would want to
- serve on one or the other. Especially with roads and streets, water waste, water storm and wastewater
- and public safety, I would say they really require more of a specialization. So. I wouldn't be opposed
- to folks that work for the street department and water and sewer, you know, them being on it.
- Would you have any feel for it one way or the other? What is that? Well, yeah, I mean, we's going to
- embed somebody in the committee. If it's not inappropriate, I would recommend maybe number four would
- fit into that committee as well. I don't know if he'll be interested. Number five? Well, it's Tice.
- I was gonna ask, do we have any objection to having occasionally people be on two subcommittees,
- is that? I don't have an objection. But we can also, I mean some of these others are gonna take longer,
- planning and zoning, it's gonna take a while, finance, public safety. Yeah, governance, a lot of that
- luckily will be
- Yeah and more of a math problem how to draw the districts the state code guides that you know they have
- to be fairly equal big differences how we're going to do it at large or all districts. So on roads and
- streets water storm sewer and wastewater does everybody understand what I asked we need I would
- recommend having people from the departments that's already in place, since they're the experts, they
- know the ins and outs and all the pitfalls, everything conducive to those positions that. If there are
- employees that are willing to serve, I think that would be a good idea. Yeah, don't want it to look
- like a conflict of interest, but who's going to know those areas of expertise better than the folks
- that do it daily?
- Keep in mind there may be people that work for other municipalities in Richland Township that could
- serve on these committees, that they work for Bloomington streets or Bloomington, and they could put
- their two cents worth in. So we have two other water companies that'll be inside our town limits if
- this happens. So maybe I could reach out to Van Buren Water and Bean Blossom Patrickburg, and they could
- have someone that would represent
- not only their interests and knowledge, but they could lend it to what we're doing, and it would allow
- for coordination in the future. Pardon? A really good idea. Yeah, so probably somebody from that, and
- that would make up a really good, and the Eastern Richland Sear Corporation could probably serve up
- somebody that would be willing to
- help with this, that's a really good idea. I left them out for some reason. Would the board entertain
- a motion for me to table the appointment for water storm and wastewater to our next meeting so we can
- reach out to those folks? Yes. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, and if I could make one recommendation,
- he works as a consultant engineer for us now. Look at, see if Rick Coppock might want to. Absolutely.
- Be on that committee. There's nobody smarter than him when it comes to that.
- Isn't he MS4 or something like that? Yeah, he's an MS4 and he's a water sewer engineer and he's been
- consulting for the town for the last 30 some years so he knows land use and all the ordinances that
- pertain to about everything about a town or a city.
- I will move to table the appointments for water storm and wastewater We haven't done road and streets
- I'm under my third sheet of motion. Sorry We're not gonna put roads and streets under that Tonight yes
- Right now we've got a motion to table the water sewer and
- or whatever you want to call it waste. Well, you made that motion. Yep. OK. Did we have a second? Kevin
- seconded, didn't you, Kevin? Mm-hmm. Yes. Any public comment on that? Any comment from the board? OK.
- Okay, so calling the roll on the tape on the motion to table the water storm sewer and wastewater
- Appointments until next meeting. I vote. Yes, Kevin. Yes, Jerry. Yes, William. Yes, Don. Yes, Mike.
- Yes motion passes Like I said, there's two on here, I believe there are two on the undetermined Are
- there more To
- 13 today, but was not able to reach her. So I do not have a feel for what she had would have any preference
- for it all. Road and streets. That may be something we're just a general. I mean, we do need some expertise
- and the ones I nominated on here have that. But we might want members of the public to because there
- may be some needs that they want to address or
- concerns with the difference between the way they're being done now in the township and the way the
- town does it, just from a public point of view. And just for the public, if we move the other two people
- we're kinda talking about to this committee, everyone that applied will have gotten appointed. And I
- think they can always decline it. But I think it's good to have
- public bird's-eye view because sometimes when you're in the in it you're not maybe seeing some of the
- minor things I wouldn't say minor maybe major to them that we may be able to address 13 and 15 onto
- roads and streets yes
- Preference they've they've stated their preference, but as a backup roads and streets, and I know we've
- already Agreed to place them on public safety How's everybody feel about moving here or I guess they
- could do both Talk to that person say here's what we recommended what we put you on and
- and fill them out if they want to do the other one too. He said as a backup, if we can't find folks
- that are willing to serve from the, you know, from the streets and water and sewer in place now that
- they, you know, move them around and serve on both. I think that's very reasonable that when we notify
- them that we say,
- This is what you said was your primary interest. That's where we placed you. However, we are light on
- people in the thing you expressed your backup interest in. Do you wanna stick with it or do you want
- to move to the other subcommittee? I would agree. Okay. Okay, so are we ready for a motion on this one?
- So we moved 13 and 15. Potentially 12.
- our attorneys this, if any of these people say, you know, I've changed my mind or this isn't the committee
- I want, do we have to make those moves at another public meeting as in remove them? Or can we, I understand
- appointing someone new, we would probably need to have another public meeting. But if they say, look,
- I just don't want to do this, are we able to just remove them? Because if not, they just won't show up.
- I think if they just resign or send somebody a letter or an email saying, I don't want to serve, I think
- that's fine, and appoint their replacement at a subsequent meeting. I make a motion for the roads and
- streets to appoint Daniel Bittner, Roger Woods, Corina
- Cosentino and Melissa stone and possibly Josh Yes Any public comment on these names for the parks and
- I'm sorry roads and streets Roger woods Corina Cosentino and Melissa stone
- All right, on the motion to place on the roads and streets subcommittee, Daniel Bittner, Roger Woods,
- Corinna Cosentino, and Melissa Stone, I vote yes. Kevin? Yes. Jerry? Yes. William? Yes. Dawn? Yes.
- And Mike? Yes. Motion passes. Well, we got our first subcommittees now tomorrow. We probably should,
- can, are we able, we each need to reach out to these people, or I mean,
- So I think each of us, we could divide which subcommittee to, is that administrative that we can, do
- we have to decide that tonight at the public meeting or can we decide that amongst ourselves on contacting
- them saying you were appointed? I think that's one of those administrative things you can decide among
- yourselves. Okay. What are the general objectives for these committees?
- What are the general objectives of these committees? Objections, objectives. My understanding again
- based on the Sheridan plan and what I've looked at, they are to formulate a plan on a reorganization
- merger between both to see kind of the nuts and bolts of it. What it would take to cover, I'll just
- use roads and streets, what it would take financially manpower wise
- to cover that entire footprint. Same with public safety, finance, but the finances would look like merging
- the two because we'll have some savings because there's duplications of effort, but then there also
- may be more, there will be more expenses because we have the public assistance. So they'll have to figure
- out what extent
- I mean, they could say, look, I recommend we need a public assistance office as an example. Well, that's
- obviously gonna affect the final plan with the finances. So they've got to formulate a plan for their
- section. That's my understanding. What's the timeframe? We really need to have this done by March or
- April. I think we need to set a timeframe. I think we need to set a date. It said, get your stuff in
- to this organization. Get us to this,
- If you come up to the, and the reason I said March or April, again, this might be short, I bet there's
- no, so we can adjust anything. Sure. My name is Diane Critchlow.
- Well, who will determine the official objective of each of these subcommittees? Will the committee itself
- determine it? Will you as a panel give them? Because I feel it's important for each subcommittee to
- be effective and efficient in what is really a fairly short period of time before November. It will
- need to be very clear what they are to do. I totally agree. I was going to make a suggestion.
- There's a group going to Sheridan. Yes. Friday. Friday. I was going to suggest waiting till after that
- conversation is held. And then at our next meeting, I have ready a list of duties and responsibilities
- for each subcommittee that we would approve. You know what? Maybe this necessitates a meeting in between
- next week.
- because if we do it in two weeks from now, another meeting and we determine that, and then it's two
- weeks from then before they've got everything, they've lost a month. Yeah, yeah, so as quick as we can
- get over that, have another meeting next week to find everything. I'm for that, and I would also say
- that though,
- I would still think that tomorrow and Friday, as soon as we can, we contact these people so they can
- give them all the information, the other committee members, so they can form when they're gonna meet.
- They don't need to wait on the objectives to when they're gonna have their first meeting. Because we'll
- have the objectives to inform, yes. Well, I think the objectives will help you fill your holes in the
- subcommittees and the people that are there, if they know what they're signing up to do.
- and if it's their area of expertise or not their area. I mean, I knew what I wanted to do, but if you
- look for people with that skill set, it will make it easier and more effective too. They might wanna
- move around. Right, and there's very few subcommittees we have with holes on them, but the ones that
- do, all of them need a clear objective, because what we don't want is a, I mean,
- We kind of know what we want, but we need to all agree this is what we want and get them on the same
- page, because otherwise we're going to be spending six months going back and forth. And also the folks
- that are already in place with the township and with the town, my understanding is they'll be available
- to consult lead guide direct. They will, and I will. And I'd like to mention that this is not reinventing
- the wheel. We have a template on all these.
- where we're already actually going through the procedures and we have a plan and so it can be a template
- that you can improve on or change like you want, but it's not like we're gonna have to start from scratch.
- My opinion, it's more fact gathering. What's it gonna cost to buy this much salt for the roads for a
- township versus a town or a township and a town?
- I've been walking through with the department heads what we may or may not do for the committee. I said
- we need to plan on being available if they want a 101 on what we do and why it costs what it costs and
- maybe even a rundown of how many people there are and so I was going to offer at some point in this
- meeting to
- get a ride along or come in to get an overview of how it operates now. Maybe we even have a work session
- where we kind of go through all the departments and it doesn't have to be long.
- That's right, but I just we will be the town will be available for to answer the questions and the township
- on You know, I don't know a lot about what the township does but I know some what they do just because
- I interact with them so I think the information is already there the templates are in place and some
- of the You know objectives is especially in a new formed
- reorganized town, those things will be important, and that's where I think the subcommittees and the
- committee will hatch out the new reorganized town. And we'll learn a lot Friday. Folks that's already
- been through it, if you had it all over to do again, how would you do it different? How would you do
- it better? How would you do it whatever? Bring that to the table, too. So the department heads and the
- township officials do not report things to this board.
- The township officials, the town departments do not report anything to this board. They go through the
- subcommittees, correct? They could do both. I don't think so. I don't know what you mean by they don't
- report. Nobody should be reporting directly to us. They go through their subcommittees, and that subcommittee
- will then present things to this board. Oh, and that's, yes. In that sense, yes, yes. I want to make
- sure that's, all right, so. Yeah, we don't want it to be helter skelter. Yeah, we can't do that. OK.
- Bringing myself up to speed, someone mentioned March, we have a timeline? Yeah, that was just my thoughts.
- Mike and Darla and Eric probably have a better feel for that. And I'm giving some room for us to,
- I mean, no plan's usually perfect the first draft. And if I go by the experience for the UDO that we
- did, there was some back and forth and fine tuning that we need to do.
- if we get it March or early April, that gives us plenty of time to fine tune that before we submit it
- to the state. Yes, Baker Tilley's timeline assumes that the reorganization plan will be prepared and
- ready to be presented to the council and the township board by the end of May. So. That would be the
- final plan to vote on, correct? Yes. Okay. I'm just a little hesitant. Go ahead, Diane.
- Is will each subcommittee then have a chair and a spokesperson one would assume I? Mean I would think
- and that will be determined by the subcommittee itself, or will you appoint one? What happened up north
- yeah, okay? Yeah, that's it and we ask question. What do you want in the second little box on this piece
- of paper? I'm gonna ask a question You're good. Yeah, thanks make sure I want to make sure that
- I know we have timelines, but I also don't want to rush into anything. So I feel like we need to take
- our time making sure these subcommittees that were organized, that they know what their task is, that
- they get organized. I think it would be good to have a work session with each subcommittee before they
- get started so they can ask questions, we can provide answers.
- and I was kind of thinking it have all the subcommittees everybody that is on a subcommittee come and
- we can have a work session in other words not just us the work session planning not just a work session
- with finance but all of them is that kind of what you're thinking too that would probably yeah yeah
- and if they have after we give the guidelines you come after we draft you know from
- tomorrow's meeting, is it tomorrow? No, Friday's meeting in Sheridan. That way they have that to look
- at as a template, but there's probably still gonna be questions. And this way we can answer them and
- get those answers for them. But I do agree we need to also, and we can address this shortly, but we
- need to meet next week to follow up with what was found out at Sheridan and get the guidelines
- the board members that aren't able to go. Correct. And the woman I spoke with, former trustee at Sheridan
- said that if after the meeting on Friday, it is something that we want, we can have specific meetings
- with their street department, whatever, to get more specific details. And that might be something to
- be good for the subcommittees to do too.
- Switching lanes here. On the governance subcommittee, probably be a good idea to have representation
- from Baker-Tilley involved with that. Well, I was thinking either that or our lawyers. I'm not sure.
- I mean, what do you guys think? I thought because there'll be a lot of technicalities involved in that.
- Is that their area of expertise though?
- I don't think it is. Well, they seem to be well versed in most of it. They are. But again, I think it
- would be maybe, so we don't have to do it twice, maybe it would be helpful if we had some lead from,
- or had the ability to go to our lawyers and utilize them, especially in the government. We want to get
- that right.
- I guess that's something that you would work on. I would greatly prefer a lawyer and not necessarily
- representative from Baker Tilly because the lawyers are going to be able to look at state code for the
- governance. If it's not something that would be cumbersome for the lawyers, a recommendation for somebody
- that maybe would be able to keep us within the state guidelines so that
- it keeps it moving forward would be my recommendation as someone on the subcommittee that I would greatly
- appreciate. I know there's a balancing act with when you're drawing districts, if I'm not mistaken,
- I can't remember what it is, but you can't have 10,000 people in one and 200 in another. So we'd have
- to be cognizant of where the population centers are or where people are and draw those boundaries
- appropriate. And they also have to be by precinct lines.
- So there's a lot of other things that. Do we have those kind of. A lot of it started getting set in
- stone by state statute. And so some of the things you may decide, do you want a five member board? Do
- you want a seven member board? What do you want? So, but at the end of the day, I think the governance
- committee will be involved in setting up by statute, what we're gonna do, how many people we're gonna vote on.
- and get it all in a form where we can report back to the bigger, the larger committee. And so I think
- it's kind of pretty straight and narrow what we all have to do as far as governance, except for maybe
- things like how many board members you want. Does that sound right? If I may just add my perception
- of what the subcommittees are supposed to do, they report to you. They give you a report and then
- the board makes the ultimate decision. So we're just giving the recommendations of everything that we
- find. And so that's all I have to say about that, but. I think generally that's my impression. I mean,
- even down to when you have your meetings in the future and how often, I mean, all those things, I don't
- know that that statute, but those are the kind of things you might want to think about as well. I mean,
- what we do now seems
- pretty good, but maybe it's not. I mean, obviously Mr. Cook and I are happy to assist as requested,
- but if the Tom Spencer is who I think it is, he is an attorney. Okay, so. And he used to be a town attorney.
- He was, he was over in Owen County, and he's the former. Elitsville. Yeah, that's true, that was a long
- time ago. He didn't have an attorney on the board. Mm-hmm. Or on the committee. So. Yeah, that's true,
- yeah, Scott Ronald is an attorney too.
- Tom is very, very, he'll do due diligence. He'll do all the, one thing that I'd, where are we getting
- demographics from for the township? We pretty much know the town. Demographics for the township. Well,
- I think we can be helpful. I mean, one of the things that you're gonna have to have some people do some
- lifting for you and so I think
- because the town is already set up, we have a network, we have crews, we have people in departments.
- When you ask for something, if you'll, you can run them through me or go straight to the department
- head, but I think it'd be better if you run it through me, just so we have some. I think he's talking
- about the demographics on population. But we can find all that out. Yeah, I mean, it's. The demographics
- that. How many households, how many. Right, the county recorder. What kind?
- volunteered to help with that information with the GIS and overlays and anything else that we can. What
- specifically in demographic are you talking about, just general? Yeah, general demographics. Remember,
- everything that I do comes from a business standpoint. So I don't want to know how many households in
- a one, three, and five mile area. You don't want to know that either. The Kelley School of Business
- actually hosts the website for the Indiana version of the census, so it's easily obtainable.
- I was on the website today, so. They'll have the mix of what the ages are. Yes, they have that. Okay.
- We just need to be prepared to get the information. Household income, you know, all that kind of stuff.
- I don't know if this is where you need it or not, but earlier when you were looking at people to fill
- your subcommittees, someone made a comment about someone being on two subcommittees.
- I would like to think that you certainly have a larger pool of people. I know that there are names that
- you have not looked at that are on our pools. So I would strongly urge that you not put someone on two
- committees. Not for their workload, but for the fact that then you have a much broader outlook with
- this whole process. Valerie Dwar, sorry.
- We talked about meeting next week. We talked about a work session. What's your pleasure? I think it
- should be definitely a work session. Next week? Yeah, because I mean, our goal is to hash out the guidelines
- and stuff. What's the parameters for the work session for posting it? Do you got to post it? Yes. OK.
- I would suggest that you post it. It'll be 48 hours in advance. Yes. 48 hours, that's it.
- It should be for the establishment of the objectives of the designated committees. Let's hash out what
- we find out Friday. Well, the Friday thing will probably be a result of that. I may be getting confused
- with executive sessions and work sessions, but one of them has to be focused. We have to specify what
- we're, I know executive sessions you do, but work sessions the same way. I thought you kind of had to.
- I typically advise
- having an agenda and listing on your notice what you're going to talk about and I also suggest on the
- work sessions that you say on the notice that no votes will be taken, no final decisions will be made,
- that you're exchanging information or like when you heard your presentation from Baker Tilley back in
- November, that was a work session I think is the way it was advertised. Well then the question is do
- we want to make it just a general public meeting because we'll need to vote on this to get this to the
- subcommittees.
- The objectives? The objectives. Okay. Excuse me, William. I have a BCA meeting next Wednesday at six.
- I don't think we've even discussed time. Okay. I just wanted to let you know. I appreciate it. That
- was a question I was going to ask, so you read my mind. Unless you want to do it on Tuesday or Thursday
- next week. I can't. Unless you want to do it on Tuesday or Thursday next week.
- I'll be out of town until Wednesday. I cannot do Thursday, okay? Sorry. Who's going to, Sheridan? I
- know you are, Dawn. Who else? Kevin? And Mike. And Mike, okay. And Kip. Okay, so just three board members,
- just so we're clear. No, two. Two, okay, thank you. So one more board member could go and not constitute a quorum.
- Let's just keep our next regular meeting and at that meeting come to decision on the objectives. Well,
- we really have to get the objectives out because if we don't get the objectives out with the subcommittees,
- they're gonna have nothing to do. I just don't think we're ready for a work session with the subcommittees.
- No, not with them, but the objectives. We have to get the objectives to them first. Then that's when
- I say step one is the work session to determine the objectives. And then better. Right. And I want to
- make a recommendation that these are general in nature. Yes. I think these would be really, truly specific.
- There's something that one of these things we think we should, but I think we've got to let the committee
- develop their own inside to make it work for their committee.
- make it on Tuesday or one of the other days, can you zoom in? Okay, I don't think they'd like another
- screen. And we still need the two-day notice, so it definitely wouldn't be really, I'd say before Tuesday,
- Wednesday.
- Oh. Do we have the ROTC meeting? Yes. Okay, yeah, so we'll be booked up that day. Well, one other thing
- we can do is Friday morning. Next Friday morning? Yeah. Or one of the mornings. No, why can't we do
- Tuesday? Jerry won't be here. Dr. Sanders won't be here Tuesday. Okay. I am available Tuesday at the
- 13th and evening.
- We still, I would be available too. How do you feel about that Jerry? Just coming up with the objectives
- on Tuesday. When? Tuesday. Is that something that you want to be? No, that's fine. I could always look
- at them. Yeah, we'll send them out internally for feedback. I mean, we can do that. And do it Tuesday,
- sooner the better. Noel, did you want to say something?
- or something, I know that the fire department has an excellent space, the DPW has an excellent space,
- if we're just doing a work session, I just wanted to put that out to the board to remind them that there
- are various spaces in the town that we could utilize to make sure that we keep moving forward and we're
- not missing timelines due to overlap in meetings. You also have to consider, did those places, other
- places have the option for the video? Yes.
- I only recommend places that can be live streamed. Monday, I have both RDC and the council meetings,
- but I'm confident enough this board, we're still gonna come up with something if I'm not here. I think
- Tuesday, I think we had time, the people that went, we can bounce it back and forth, think about it
- over the weekend, touch base if we need to with each other on Monday,
- become armed on Tuesday? Mike, what do you think? Mr. Kornman, what do you think? How's Tuesday sound?
- Walk time on Tuesday. That's, yeah, what time? Well, what do you think? I have a township meeting, a
- seminar that I am attending from nine to four in Plainfield, so I will not be available until after.
- Six or so? Yeah. Well, that's, it's Tuesday, a possibility for you.
- Say yes or no. You should see my schedule. It doesn't really matter what day. Right. I'm giving you
- an outfit. I know you are, but my schedule's crazy. I want to say six. Six, I think I can do six. Tuesday.
- And if people can't make it, then we can always. So we'd have to post that. We'd have to post that tomorrow.
- Is Mike, is town hall open next Tuesday? I mean, do we have anything else booked? I don't think so,
- but we'll look. Noel and I will look, make sure that I'm pretty sure. Okay, because we need to get the
- notice out tomorrow. We're good? Okay. We need to get the notice out tomorrow. Take care of that. Now,
- with our attorneys, always the question of
- what do you call the open door law, are we able to circulate drafts of our comments on this back and
- forth or does the first time we see these things have to be at a public meeting because I guess I'm
- saying they come back and take some notes, send it to us and one of us says, hey, here's my thoughts,
- here's my ideas.
- and then we can amend or change that at the meeting. How does this function? Because this is one of
- the things we've been running into regularly. And complying with the open door law sounds easy, but
- when you're dealing with minutiae like this, it's not as easy as, because if everybody sees it the very
- first time, what they're gonna say is, well, I've had no time to look over this. I have no idea where
- we stand with this.
- So are we able to just not make any decisions on it? You know, not say this is, I'm voting this way.
- How, I need some guidance on that, please. Well, my suggestion would be that the board handle it the
- way probably the township board does it and the town council does it is you have a packet of materials
- that circulates and is posted for the,
- public if they wanna look at it and then you can discuss it among yourselves at the public meeting and
- I have no problem with having looked at some public access counselor opinions this week. I would have
- no problem with you exchanging some ideas one on one to add to that list or to add to the list of objectives
- or recommendations so long as no final decision is made in an email.
- I'm okay with somebody saying let's add this or let's add this for discussion as long as it does not
- appear in the emails that you have come to a consensus. Because there's an exception under the open
- door law for administrative tasks, day to day things, so I think that's fine. I just don't,
- I guess I'm very, I don't want to say nervous, but this is so big I don't want anybody to think we're trying to
- with the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it. But I don't think the public expects us every
- meeting to say, okay, let's start this from scratch. No, and I don't think the public access counselor
- would say that either. So I am happy to put together or start an outline of the objectives for the various
- committees and get that to you this weekend or Monday.
- That would be great. And just so you have something to look at and then we can incorporate at the meeting
- any anything you know are you going to I forgot are you going you're not going to Sheridan are you okay
- all right so we will be well represented and Dr. Sanders I know you just appointed tonight but Friday
- since we have a slot now open you're welcome to go to to pick their brain
- Two, actually, it's a two. They think we're coming up two. So you're gonna take care of the work session
- and advertisement? Just so we're clear, we're meeting next Tuesday at six here at the town hall, and
- the only thing on the agenda is to review the objectives for the subcommittees.
- extra meeting or is it just consensus for good I Think you're fine. I think the public notice will take
- care of that great All right, yes, ma'am I've lived here almost 40 years Where is your historical
- preservation and archival is that gonna be under parks and rec since you have your cemeteries there and
- That's a good question. I would say we'll take that under consideration. Right, okay. And kind of leave
- that up to the subcommittees. Okay, so you would have a scope within your subcommittees that says you
- shouldn't go any further than this, stay in this realm, or are you gonna open it for them to think about
- those things? How would you like to serve on that subcommittee? Which one, Parks and Rec?
- What is your concern budget to drill down so I can make sure that you're heard with historic preservation
- in the sense of like not just I'll just throw an example out here not just tearing down our downtown
- section or places in Richmond Township and building a shiny new thing is or what What's the when you
- say historic present historical preservation? Well, they're broken down in different areas. So you have
- your history, right?
- Then you have your preservation, which preserves that. And then you have your archival. And so it helps
- you to make your decisions. And because the minute you go to make a change to historical without the
- public knowing that you're going to have an outcry. So I worked at IU for 50 years. And that's one of
- the things that was huge, that we always preserved the history. And naming process.
- You know, your buildings were named based on certain things, and you had to have that information there
- before you announced it, because public always has a question, why are you choosing that person's name?
- So we all know that, but, okay. Yeah, but his question stands. Would you like to serve? Sure. All right.
- Sure, thank you. We need to do a motion or an amendment. So probably. So amending our motion
- place on the parks, rec and cemeteries committee. And we would be adding, is it Roslyn Grossman? Ros
- Grossman for the parks and rec? Okay. Oh, it's Gerstman. Gerstman. G-E-R-S-T. Thank you, ma'am. Make
- a motion that we amend the subcommittee
- parks, recreation, and cemeteries to add Rosgerst? Oh, is it Gerstmann? Gerstmann. I thought she just
- spelled it. Second. Second. All right. Luke? Yes. Kevin? Yes. Jerry? Yes. William? Yes. Don? Yes. Mike?
- Yes. I don't see an agenda, so are we finished?
- Two other things I think that need to bring up, and it should be actually one thing we actually have
- to decide on, but website update. Mike, I don't know if you saw the quote I sent to you. Okay. Do you
- have any issues? That's fine. We have a quote for somebody to do the website and kind of a portal of
- information, all-inclusive, and he'll manage it till November.
- Subcontract with the person that you recommended. Yep, so he said he could have the website up in a
- matter of days from the moment we signed the contract. And it comes in substantially cheaper than the
- other quote we had gotten. Substantially cheaper, so we appreciate that. Yes, let's go ahead and put
- that on the agenda for Tuesday. Okay, can someone forward me the contract?
- we're having a work session. Well, maybe I misunderstood, but I thought you were going to vote, in which
- case just make it a regular meeting. So we'll put that on there. He did not include a contract,
- did he? You know what I remember, I saw the price. He did, okay.
- Well, it was on the way here, so you probably haven't looked at it yet. And something else we may want
- to add. Currently, I have our PR people working on the card that we'll send out to the county. And I
- think content, we'll want to know what the committee wants for content and how the card looks and everything.
- So we want to send something out that they'll notice, use, and send back.
- website on that? Well, that's just it. Well, the website would be on the card. Well, that's just it,
- but if we don't have the website yet, we can't send the card yet. At least the domain. It won't be ready,
- but we ought to talk about it and what you want on the card. How soon will it be ready? I'll tell you
- tomorrow. Okay, because. We have to figure out what we want on it. Yeah. How soon do you want it? Yesterday.
- I always try to talk to you last week. I mean, realistically, to mail them out, because we're doing
- meeting every two weeks, if we don't mail out tomorrow, it's going to miss the next meeting again on
- that cutoff. Well, the only thing we wouldn't have is the website. But well, maybe they could go ahead
- and get the
- maybe we could go ahead and get the name or the site. We could claim the site and then we'd have that
- and we could add it on. Okay, well I'll work on it and then I'll have an answer tomorrow afternoon.
- But the language, let's decide what we want on there. Website for sure. You want that in a QR code or
- an actual URL?
- You can do a QR code, but you have to have a URL because there are people that don't know how to do
- that. So that, all of our meeting dates up until
- I would say April. Would you guys agree? All of our meeting dates until about April, or do you guys
- think we should have until May? I mean, because a lot of the work's gonna come back to us where we have
- to hash this out. I think May is good. Okay. And we can. Right. I think we talked to Sharon.
- What's that? I think we talked to Sharon. Up to May, not including May.
- Well, see, they, from what I understand, they did a postcard for every meeting two weeks in advance.
- And we're already well behind that. We can't afford that anyway. That's Hamilton County money. And that's
- work session week. Maybe it's time to start talking about some associated costs with all these activities.
- Well, we're having a meeting, so. Pardon? We'll be able to approve or not approve.
- Well, I mean, we can get general consensus so we can at least see a mock-up. I would say definitely
- all of our contact information. When you say all of our contact, are you talking about a board? Yes,
- a board. How big a card does this have to be? Are you talking about individual board members? I mean,
- RPR people put this up. That's up there tonight. I ask them to put something up and put it out.
- So I mean, you know,
- So how big a card do you want and how much information do you want on it? Well, we need to kind of have
- the mission statement for what we want to accomplish for the reorganization and add that to Tuesday
- too. And that's something we can work on before Tuesday and have kind of a. And I would point out that
- up till we started the committee and we got to this point,
- there's been some activity by the town and some by the township to get people interested in what we're
- doing. And we came out with a fact sheet and I think there was a couple other things we sent out that
- had why we're doing what we're doing. So that should be reviewed and then we need to back off what you
- really don't want to be part of that. But we have said things up till now about
- the 30,000 view of what a reorganization would be. I don't think you can get that on the card, but when
- you start talking about objectives, I think that we need to look at the, you know, we kept talking about
- the template that Sheridan and Adam had. All that can be on the website and on the card, just a sentence
- or two with the mission statement. Right.
- Usually when I talk to our people I say we kind of want this and then they come up with something I
- mean right I'm real clumsy sometimes with my words and then I tell them and then when they tell me what
- I just said I'm like well I'm pretty smart so they can come up with something that that maybe would
- you would pick or maybe we'll give you a couple three choices if you want
- Yeah. Diane Critchlow had a great idea, too. We need to utilize it. This needs to be into the newsletter
- for the chamber. And I can't remember. Diane, if you want to come up again, you suggested a couple of
- things that were brilliant you could share with the group. I remember that one.
- the chamber newsletter eric spoon moore's on the subcommittee so i think the bloomington chamber would
- be appropriate just with the criteria that has to be richland township or the town of ellisville uh...
- if you can give some ideas about what the expectation would be you don't have the objective but people
- with a background in x y z uh... those things public service announcements on the radio
- I told William today, people from Union Valley, Smith Pike, Curry Pike on, we don't come west all that
- often. We go east, so we don't see Kevin's sign very often. And I talked to several people today, I
- hate this microphone. Okay, thanks Mike. I talked to several people today that are in positions and
- very interested in this, that knew nothing about two weeks ago,
- or today, and would have applied to be on a subcommittee and knew nothing about it. So I think there's
- massive lack of knowledge, probably more in the township than the town. And because the people in the
- township don't pay that much attention to what happens at the town level, I think you've talked more
- about it at the town level than
- at the township level, so I would encourage any means. Social media, I look at Ellisville High Neighbor,
- usually at least once a day, and I only saw it once. Now I don't think it's because it wasn't posted
- more often, it's just guys, that scroll, I mean, you can post it 10 times a day and get different audiences
- on that, and all of the other little Ellisville Facebook groups, as much as we often don't like them,
- people do read them. Yeah, I was gonna say, you could probably,
- go to town employees and Noel could give you 10 different little groups that from people from the communities
- would look at. So because you do want to have massive, I am amazed there are not more people here tonight.
- Totally amazed that and I'm amazed that you didn't have more people apply for the subcommittees because
- this is huge.
- like to serve on the subcommittees. Well, I've been doing that. Even now. But I'm one person. And just
- one person. So just, you know, I don't think people have the understanding of what this encompasses.
- It's only been one other, done one other time in our state. So it's not just an ordinance. It's actually
- been done a few more times. Has it been done a few more times?
- It's been several years since it's been done. Recent history is just the one time, yes. Okay, the one
- and the recent, that people would have reference to, if nothing else, to go look at Sheridan, you know,
- what is that? People are like, what is that? They're doing a mass annexation, and you know, people do
- not understand what this is, but you do want massive input, and not just, you know, I think on those
- subcommittees, it's important that people have a background, especially in the special ones that require
- that, but have some general public
- input into those two, to where people don't feel alienated and come back and say, oh yeah, it was the
- same old, same old people. And I'm glad, I think Valerie said two people and one person on two different
- committees, I think you would try to avoid that. So we cannot be accused again of the same old, same
- old people doing the same old, same old things, if that makes sense. Okay, thanks.
- brings up one of the questions I was going to ask we had a prompt for asking for more members for the
- subcommittee that we could have sent out today and it was late today so I said I'd wait till the committee
- was together and ask if they want.
- want us to go ahead and send that out. And maybe we could, you know, the sub line could be, if you don't
- want to be on a subcommittee, then please consider attending the meetings and we could put the meetings
- on the prompt as well. And, you know, from here on out, we can do one or two a week and really step
- up promoting this. But up until now, I was kind of waiting until the committee was together.
- and i've tried not to get in front of the committee but we could do our PR can do do that and and and
- address what dianne just talked about use that's a yeah okay website is
- Do we envision that website being hosted on the town of Ellitsville page, or are we looking for a completely
- standalone, independent thing? Say that again. Is the website going to be a completely independent standalone
- page, not part of any existing Ellitsville government page or Richland Township? I think it should be.
- Standalone. Yes. With links. With links. Hyperlinks from the chamber, the town. Links to everything.
- Any question can be a hyperlink.
- What do you guys think about the website Alexville Richland info.org? It's not a dot-com site. It's
- a dot org I actually went ahead and already grabbed it a couple weeks ago just to have it in my back
- pocket So it's a transferable domain that we could use and we could have the site built on that The
- website potentially
- I'm asking how people feel about the idea of Ellitsville Richland info. All one word, no dashes,
- no dots, no punctuation. Ellitsvillerichlandinfo.org. I like it. It's simple. That's what it is. Yes.
- All right. We decided everything, William. It's all set. I'm good with that. I trust you guys.
- Do we need to put that to a vote? Yes. I make a motion. Yep. It would be to use. For our website.
- Ellitsvillerichlandinfo.org. I make a motion that we get registered as Ellitsvillerichlandinfo.org.
- I'll second. Okay. All right, we have a vote.
- Is there any other discussion that we want to have? William was out of the room. I'm up to speed. OK,
- cool. And now at least we can redirect that and put whatever else we need on that page at any point.
- But that at least gives us a stable, comprehensible URL that could go on the postcard. Any questions
- or comments from the public on that?
- Easy enough to understand and share and communicate Alexville richlandinfo.org. Okay, I'm gonna call
- the roll on the motion to use Alexville richlandinfo.org for the site. I vote. Yes. Kevin. Yes. Jerry.
- Yes. William. Yes. Don. Yes. Mike. Yes. Motion passes.
- Does that address everything, William? Well, I think so, other than, I would love for the cards to be
- mailed out tomorrow, but I'd rather us do it right than spend thousands of dollars and find out we've
- left something, yeah. And I just, my, my intensity, I just, I feel like we're, I,
- I'm impatient, I'll just put it that way. But we've got to do this right and I just, I want to make
- sure the subcommittees especially have the tools they need and every meeting we're gonna get
- more information, we're gonna get better at this and by the time it's done, it's gonna be a well-oiled
- machine. Okay, I want to thank the public for coming out tonight and we'll meet next Tuesday.
- Got a motion to adjourn.