WEBVTT 00:00:01.282 --> 00:00:07.738 - We're meeting Monday, February 23rd, 2026 at the Eltsville Town Council. Chief, do you want to leave 00:00:07.738 --> 00:00:14.194 - the prayer? I have you, Father, again. We come before you and just thank you so much for this little 00:00:14.194 --> 00:00:20.714 - town. We ask that you be with our fallen comrade, Jim Davis. We miss him so much already. We ask that 00:00:20.714 --> 00:00:27.234 - you lead us and guide us tonight in a way that would please thee, be with us, and always take care of 00:00:27.234 --> 00:00:30.366 - our families as we sing Jesus' name, amen. Amen. 00:00:32.482 --> 00:00:43.095 - pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, 00:00:43.095 --> 00:00:53.605 - one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Scott Oldham? Here. Dan Swafford? 00:00:53.605 --> 00:00:59.422 - William Ellis? Here. Trevor Sager? Here. Pamela Samples? 00:01:01.954 --> 00:01:10.224 - Approval of the minutes for the meetings on 2-2-26 and 2-9-2026. So moved. Second. Motion second. All 00:01:10.224 --> 00:01:18.414 - those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Acts to pay accounts, payable vouchers and 00:01:18.414 --> 00:01:26.846 - payroll. So moved. Second. Motion second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? 00:01:27.714 --> 00:01:34.525 - Very quickly, before we move into everything else this evening, we do want to pass our condolences to 00:01:34.525 --> 00:01:41.402 - Jim Davis's family. For those who are not aware, Jim passed away late last night. For those of you who 00:01:41.402 --> 00:01:48.280 - may not know, Jim was the firefighter and fire chief in this town for decades and set the standard for 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:55.358 - everyone else to follow. He was the first of our town managers. This building is in fact named after him. 00:01:55.842 --> 00:02:03.422 - And just the legacy that he created and lived cannot go unnoticed. So Jim, thank you for everything. 00:02:03.422 --> 00:02:11.227 - And to the family, our deepest consultances. We'll move now to resolutions, which there are none. There 00:02:11.227 --> 00:02:19.107 - are no no ordinances on first reading. And in ordinance on second reading, there are three. Well, sorry, 00:02:19.107 --> 00:02:20.158 - there is one. 00:02:20.866 --> 00:02:30.552 - Ordinance 2026-3 authorizing a pilot agreement between Richland Senior Assistance Housing, Incorporated. 00:02:30.552 --> 00:02:39.869 - This is our second reading and as was discussed in the last meeting, meeting Richland Senior Housing 00:02:39.869 --> 00:02:49.186 - intends to build housing for low-income seniors at 5965 North Matthews Drive and 6155 Matthews Drive 00:02:49.186 --> 00:02:50.846 - and the ordinance 00:02:50.978 --> 00:03:05.385 - simply states that the town council is approving the pilot agreement for that housing. Questions, comments 00:03:05.385 --> 00:03:20.062 - from council? Any questions or comments from the public? Representatives from Richland want to say anything? 00:03:20.162 --> 00:03:27.296 - Thanks for the opportunity to be here. And I happen to think the greatest small town in America to have 00:03:27.296 --> 00:03:34.361 - been born and raised in. And the town board has many opportunities during the year to really influence 00:03:34.361 --> 00:03:41.358 - and affect people's lives. And I think the job you guys do is second to none. But in this case, it is 00:03:41.358 --> 00:03:47.806 - 100% that this project could not go forward without this resolution being passed by the town. 00:03:48.034 --> 00:03:55.348 - So when you think of the things during your service that you've been able to do, you are 100% partners 00:03:55.348 --> 00:04:02.804 - and responsible if you see fit to pass this in providing housing for those that are 62 and older because 00:04:02.804 --> 00:04:10.189 - it flat out could not happen without the leadership of the town of Elksville doing this. And we're just 00:04:10.189 --> 00:04:15.870 - so proud that we can continue a tradition that's been going on since mid 1960s. 00:04:16.034 --> 00:04:22.758 - And as I said in the last meeting, we continue to just build waiting lists and people that are wanting 00:04:22.758 --> 00:04:29.351 - to move to Ellensville in their senior years. And I just think that's a great thing for the town and 00:04:29.351 --> 00:04:36.075 - it's certainly a great thing for the people. So thank you for your support in the past and what I hope 00:04:36.075 --> 00:04:41.950 - is your continued support in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Returning back to council. 00:04:44.098 --> 00:04:50.880 - I move to approve ordinance 2026-3 authorizing a pilot agreement between Richard's Senior Housing 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:57.455 - Incorporated. Second. Motion second. Roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. 00:04:57.455 --> 00:05:04.791 - Trevor Sager. Yes. Motion passes. Under old business, we have selection of individuals to serve on Monroe 00:05:04.791 --> 00:05:12.542 - County Solid Waste Management District and MPO. I don't know that we got anywhere with this. With regard to the 00:05:12.802 --> 00:05:22.788 - Monroe County Solid Waste Management District, as I read the statute for the board of directors, the 00:05:22.788 --> 00:05:33.071 - town council must appoint a member of the town council to serve on that board. Do we have no one that's 00:05:33.071 --> 00:05:40.190 - willing or able to serve? The statute does not say that you may appoint 00:05:40.770 --> 00:05:49.803 - somebody in that person's place. I'll go ahead and do it. You sure? Yeah. Okay. Thanks, William. 00:05:49.803 --> 00:05:59.302 - Thank you. Does this require a council vote? Yes, please. Okay. So, William has made a motion that he 00:05:59.302 --> 00:06:08.894 - will serve and second it. Motion and a second. Morocco, please. Scott Oldham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. 00:06:09.410 --> 00:06:17.290 - Trevor Sager, motion passes. With regard to the MPO policy committee, according to their guidelines 00:06:17.290 --> 00:06:25.643 - or their bylaws, it states that the town council president is to serve, but if the town council president 00:06:25.643 --> 00:06:33.601 - cannot serve, alternate representation may be appointed by the same board, commission, institutional 00:06:33.601 --> 00:06:38.014 - organization to serve the term of the regular designee. 00:06:38.562 --> 00:06:47.028 - In that case, it does not say that that doesn't mean it has to be another council member. I can't find 00:06:47.028 --> 00:06:55.493 - anything else in the bylaws that says it has to be a town council member if the town council president 00:06:55.493 --> 00:07:03.877 - cannot serve. That is not something I can do. So does anybody want to do that? Well, since Mr. Farmer 00:07:03.877 --> 00:07:06.014 - is not here this evening, 00:07:06.498 --> 00:07:13.847 - We are gonna delegate that to him until he finds a replacement. Mike, I know you're watching 00:07:13.847 --> 00:07:21.749 - and congratulations, you've been appointed. And Jeff, I will say, if there are minutes or proposals 00:07:21.749 --> 00:07:29.730 - from the Solid Waste Management District, since I really know nothing on that, I'll reach out to you 00:07:29.730 --> 00:07:35.262 - to say, what is this translated in English though? I appreciate that. 00:07:36.226 --> 00:07:44.650 - Does Mr. Farmer's assignment to the MPO require a council vote? Or is that just a... I would because 00:07:44.650 --> 00:07:53.658 - the bylaws state that it's a designee chosen by the board. So be it. So I move that Mr. Farmer's assignment 00:07:53.658 --> 00:08:01.998 - to the MPO until we can find a replacement. Let's be sure and put his first name on that. I'm gonna 00:08:01.998 --> 00:08:05.918 - leave that as an either or. Is there a second? 00:08:07.234 --> 00:08:15.855 - Call please. Yes. Yes. Trevor Sager. Yes. Motion passes. We'll hear about that. Yes. Under new business 00:08:15.855 --> 00:08:24.643 - approval. Oh, I apologize. I apologize because I told Noel to say it was a citizen member to be appointed 00:08:24.643 --> 00:08:33.015 - by the council. It's a citizen member to be appointed by the president. Do we have a citizen member? 00:08:33.015 --> 00:08:36.414 - Do we have anyone volunteering to do it? 00:08:36.674 --> 00:08:45.535 - not that I know of yet. Anybody want to do that? I'm not asking. I'm sorry. The redevelopment commission. 00:08:45.535 --> 00:08:54.396 - What? The redevelopment commission. It's the board that is going to be guiding you with the TIF districts 00:08:54.396 --> 00:09:02.923 - that's been established. And just got to be careful because Mike wasn't here and we assigned him. So, 00:09:02.923 --> 00:09:05.598 - you know, we'll assign someone. 00:09:08.066 --> 00:09:14.437 - I'll continue to look around. We'll let this set moot for now. Now we'll move to new business. Approval 00:09:14.437 --> 00:09:20.809 - of signatories to sign community crossing matching grant. That's me. So as you may or may not be aware, 00:09:20.809 --> 00:09:26.997 - the town of Ellsville was awarded a community crossing matching grant from the Indiana Department of 00:09:26.997 --> 00:09:33.429 - Transportation. NDOT has requested the designation of a signatory for any time we're awarded a community 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:37.534 - crossings matching grant and that it be documented in the minutes. 00:09:38.306 --> 00:09:46.145 - Therefore, we are requesting permission for the town council president to sign the grant award agreement 00:09:46.145 --> 00:09:53.611 - anytime we are awarded a community crossings matching grant. Okay, questions from council? Is there 00:09:53.611 --> 00:10:01.300 - actions from council? I'll make a motion to approve the signatory to sign community crossings matching 00:10:01.300 --> 00:10:07.870 - grant agreements. Can you include the town council president in your motion? As stated. 00:10:09.218 --> 00:10:17.803 - Second motion second roll call please. Yes. Yes. Yes. The next item is phlebotomy between BPD limited 00:10:17.803 --> 00:10:26.388 - police department elsewhere police department. I will have to abstain from that agreement and as such 00:10:26.388 --> 00:10:35.393 - we do not have a sufficient quorum to pass it. So we're going to have to let that one go for this evening. 00:10:35.393 --> 00:10:37.918 - Next is adopt a road program. 00:10:41.634 --> 00:10:49.967 - Marybeth King with the Monroe County Solid Waste District contacted me about a week ago and she had 00:10:49.967 --> 00:10:58.300 - an organization from the Old Soul area that wanted to adopt a road and it ended up being within the 00:10:58.300 --> 00:11:07.966 - town limits of the town. So she reached out to me to see whether if the town would be okay. The organization is the 00:11:08.290 --> 00:11:16.278 - the Edgewood High School chapter of the FFA and they wanted to adopt Sycamore Drive and the solid waste 00:11:16.278 --> 00:11:24.189 - district takes care of all of the sign-in sheets, the waivers, the whole nine yards. They even provide 00:11:24.189 --> 00:11:32.254 - the signage that you probably see on some county roads that says this road's been adopted by so-and-so's 00:11:32.254 --> 00:11:35.710 - family or organization and the district will 00:11:36.354 --> 00:11:42.141 - provide them signs. I don't know if they'll put them up or they'll send them to me to be put up. But 00:11:42.141 --> 00:11:48.044 - she was just requesting to see if it would be okay with, if it was fine with Eltsville. So I forwarded 00:11:48.044 --> 00:11:53.888 - the email to Darla so she could look over to the documents and let you guys go from here with us. I'm 00:11:53.888 --> 00:12:00.020 - well for it. I don't know about you guys. Does the FFA know the obligation they're taking? I mean, they're 00:12:00.020 --> 00:12:05.406 - going to adopt the road and that road eventually is going to need school. It's going to need, 00:12:05.538 --> 00:12:12.928 - You can't just ignore it. You have to be able to see it through its problems, the teenage years. As 00:12:12.928 --> 00:12:20.688 - long as they're aware. I think they've reached that there. Okay, so this is more like an adult adoption. 00:12:20.688 --> 00:12:27.488 - Yeah. Okay. All right. I have no problem with it. Do you need a formal motion for that one? 00:12:27.488 --> 00:12:31.774 - It would not hurt. Thank you. Okay. I'll make a motion to 00:12:32.290 --> 00:12:39.355 - Let is the Monroe Solid Waste District, Monroe Solid Waste District, administer and adopt the road program 00:12:39.355 --> 00:12:45.959 - for town of Ellisville. Second. Motion second. Roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. 00:12:45.959 --> 00:12:52.628 - Yes. Trevor Sager. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Moved out of privilege of the floor. Anyone having 00:12:52.628 --> 00:12:57.118 - business for the council that's not been part of our normal agenda? 00:12:59.714 --> 00:13:05.727 - No one online. Now we'll move to supervisor comments, beginning with the police chief. Just want to 00:13:05.727 --> 00:13:11.740 - take the minute to recognize Jim Davis and his contribution to the town of Ellisville. I mean, it's 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:17.873 - been immense what he's done and just want to remember him. He's got three of his classmates are here. 00:13:17.873 --> 00:13:23.886 - Jerry Cravens, Dan Rary and myself. It's been a long, tough road for Jim the last six months or so, 00:13:23.886 --> 00:13:27.614 - so I think he's at peace now. And also you mentioned that the 00:13:27.810 --> 00:13:32.242 - This building or this room was dedicated to Jim? The building, actually the building is named after 00:13:32.242 --> 00:13:36.674 - him and this room was named after former council member Bastin. All right. By motion of the council 00:13:36.674 --> 00:13:41.239 - several years ago. Do we have any signage that indicates that? It's on the plaque. It is on the plaque 00:13:41.239 --> 00:13:45.671 - apparently. Oh, it is a plaque. Right when you walk in the lobby. Oh, I'm sorry, I don't go in that 00:13:45.671 --> 00:13:50.281 - way. All right, I was gonna volunteer. I don't believe we have anything in this room for council member 00:13:50.281 --> 00:13:54.846 - Bastin, however, so. No, I can get that. Can we correct that, please? All right, that's it, thank you. 00:13:57.730 --> 00:14:06.119 - Mr. Farmer, the non-appointed Mr. Farmer, you have nothing? He's afraid he'll get appointed if he has 00:14:06.119 --> 00:14:14.426 - to. Yeah. Chief, just to let everyone know, the services for Chief Davis will be 1 o'clock Monday at 00:14:14.426 --> 00:14:23.144 - Chandler Funeral Home. And then visitation will be on Sunday from 12 to 6, also at Chandler's. I'm sorry, 00:14:23.144 --> 00:14:25.694 - can you have visitation again? 00:14:26.114 --> 00:14:36.000 - is on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. And there will be a procession afterwards? Yes, the details are still 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:45.791 - coming in and we'll get those posted on our Facebook page and it'll be shared and I'm sure we can get 00:14:45.791 --> 00:14:50.782 - it on the town's web page as well. Okay, thank you. 00:14:55.234 --> 00:15:01.564 - State Board of Account audit will be wrapping up tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest and several of 00:15:01.564 --> 00:15:07.894 - you have, excuse me, several of you have received the risk assessments. If we could get those in, I 00:15:07.894 --> 00:15:14.288 - know several employees have received those though. It was actually a lot less painful than I thought 00:15:14.288 --> 00:15:20.618 - it would be for my first audit, but that's a really big credit to Sandy and Amber and the staff and 00:15:20.618 --> 00:15:24.606 - putting everything where it belongs. So it's been really good. 00:15:26.434 --> 00:15:32.862 - Council. Ms. Brown. Seeing no further business, we're adjourned.