That was bad. We will call to order the Monday, May 11th, 2026 meeting of the Elksville town council
chief the prayer. Thank you for the officials here tonight. We thank you for all the people that are
here. We ask these blessed this board as they make the decisions that work the town. We ask you saying
Jesus name. 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. When you're ready, roll call. Scott Oldham. Here. Dan Swafford. Here. William Ellis. Here.
Trevor Sager. Hand sample. Approval of the minutes for 427 and 2026. So moved. Second. Motion to second.
All those in favor say aye.
Any opposed any abstaining action to pay accounts payable vouchers and payroll Motion second all those
in favor say aye aye any opposed any abstaining The next thing is the opening of the Sealed
Street resurfacing quotes
So it is from Lent's Paving for all five streets. And the bid is, the total bid for South Deer Run,
East Benjamin Street, South Lantern Lane, East Appomattox Court and North Daisy Drive is $142,515.56.
142-519-56.
The next bid is from Milestone Contractors. Total bid for all five streets is $139,775.03. Final bid
is from E&B Paving, LLC.
Total bid for all five streets is $141,952.25. $141,952.25. To entertain a motion from counsel to table
this until such time as we are due diligence legal review of all the bids. So moved. Second. Roll call,
please. Scott Fulgham. Yes.
Yes. Yes. That motion is tape or that action is table and will come back to us after legal review. Next
on the agenda is one of two public hearings for this evening. The first public hearing is the purchase
of DPW equipment under Resolution 07-2026 and 08-2026. So you have, as you've noted, two resolutions
before you, and the first one is a resolution which essentially sets forth
that the town is purchasing the three pieces of equipment, that being a street sweeper, a single axle
dump truck, and the Ford F-550 cab from Sourcewell, which is, as you're aware, a governmental entity
up in Minnesota that engages in purchasing powers broadly, and so they can buy large quantities of equipment
and items.
resell them at a savings to municipalities in Indiana and other states. So the purpose of Resolution
07-2026 is simply to state that you're purchasing the equipment from Sourcewell because doing so offers
a substantial savings to the town instead of soliciting three quotes for each
particular piece of equipment. And then resolution 08, 2026 is a resolution to amend the master lease
agreement with the People's State Bank to approve the financing of the DPW equipment. So the town has
already entered into the master lease agreement with People's State Bank on at least a couple of occasions
for different equipment. This would simply be an amendment of the master lease agreement to purchase
the equipment and the global M4 street sweeper is $382,072.
The Kenworth single axle dump truck is $213,272, and the Ford F-550 cab and chassis is $87,480. So there's
one master lease agreement amendment to cover all three pieces of equipment. And you have in your packets
the amortization schedule for each piece of equipment. And just so we're clear for the public, this
is not an actual lease. These are loans, and we will wind up owning this equipment. Correct.
Master lease agreement is what it's called. Right. Right. Okay. Are there questions or actions on Resolution
07-2026 to approve the purchase of equipment for the Department of Public Works? Do we have to have
public comment for this? Well, we're going to do the resolution first and then we'll do the public comment.
Okay. Okay. So we are voting on this tonight? All right. I'll make a motion to
You want to do both resolutions or do them separately? Separately so we can entertain public comments
separately. To resolution 07-2026 to approve the purchase of equipment for Department of Public Works.
Is there any comment from council, from supervisors? I just want to add that this is not adding additional
to the fleet. This is to replace equipment that's becoming outdated.
Finally, is there comments or questions from the public? No one rising, no one signifying such online.
Back to council. We have a motion and a second. Whenever you're ready. Scott Willem. Yes. Dan Svalberg.
Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Motion passes. Now resolution 08, 2026 to amend the master lease agreement
with People's State Bank and approve financing for the Department of Public Works equipment as previously stated.
I move approval of resolution 08-2026 to amend the master lease agreement with People's State Bank and
the approved financing DPW equipment. I'll second. Further questions or comments from council? From
supervisors? I just want to add that the global sweeper will be purchased solely out of stormwater utility.
and then the two trucks will be within the DPW split up with the utilities as well. And the money is
in the budget lines. Okay. I would like to add, just for the public, one of the pieces of equipment
is 20 years old, the other is 18 years old, and the other one is over 15 years old, it looks like.
So hats off to the department for using it and make it work and take care of it to the point where we
could use it that long. So they get their money's worth out of equipment. Absolutely. Kip, will these
still stay in the fleet as backups or what's your plans? Maybe for a little bit, but my plans eventually
is to probably surplus them. And then so probably through govdeals.com. Eventually, maybe.
Any further questions or comments from supervisors? Now to the public, anyone? No one rises, no one
signifies such online. We have a motion and a second whenever you're ready, please. Scott Oldham? Yes.
Dan Swofford? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Motion passes. Second public hearing tonight is the loan agreement
to finance repair of the aerial ladder fire truck. This was also discussed at a previous town council meeting.
I think the fire chief pointed out that the ladder truck is 2005? 2007. And there are some issues with
the ladder truck and it's more economically feasible to go ahead and repair the ladder than to purchase
a new ladder truck. And so the resolution before you authorizes the town to enter into a loan agreement
with the People's State Bank to make those repairs
and the amount of the loan is not to exceed $300,000. We actually think it's going to come in a little
bit under that. I just put $300,000 in just to give you some wiggle room in case you need it. And that
is a loan through the People's State Bank. That is not an amendment to the Master Lease Agreement because
it's a repair. Okay. Is there questions, comments from Council on Resolution 09-2026? Just I want to
thank Kevin for being
kind of talking us through this process and going through, I mean, we need the equipment. I'm sure you'd
prefer to be working. How long is it gonna be out of service again? Six months, probably? Six to seven
months, so yes. But this is a relatively inexpensive repair to replace it, you're pushing three million
dollars. Right, yes. And the following truck is what, 18 months out still?
The pumper or the other area that you looked at? They're looking at 12, maybe 14 months. And the TIFF's
paying for that 100%. Is there action from council on this resolution? I'll make a motion to approve
resolution 09-2026 authorizing the town to enter into a loan agreement with People's State Bank for
repairs to the aerial ladder truck in the amount not to exceed $300,000. Second.
Second is the further comment from counsel? Further comment from supervisors comments for questions
from the public Seeing none we have a motion a second Scott. Yes, Dan Swafford. Yes, William Ellis.
Yes motion passes There are no ordinances on first reading this evening. There are no ordinances on
second reading There is no old business under new businesses Eltsville Police Department award for police
officer of the year
Thank you for allowing us to do this tonight. I'd like to have Richard Parsons and Paul and his wife
Tara to come forward if you would. This is a kind of special night for me because I watched this young
man grow up. His father and mother back there, Steve and Carol Hall, can you wave Steve? Steve was my
communications officer at the state police post when I worked out there. You okay? I am sir, I am.
It is a great pleasure for the 25 police officers here that I nominate Sergeant Richard R. Hall of the
Ellesville Police Department. He has all the qualities of a true public servant, as evident as his five
years of dedicated service to the town of Ellesville is outlined below. Sergeant Hall began his law
enforcement career with the Ellesville Police Department as Reserve Officer in 2011, volunteering his
time to fulfill his functions as a full-time police officer.
Sergeant Hall is a perfect example of the lead from the front supervisor. Since that time, he has excelled
in his aspects of his career. In 2025 alone, he responded to 267 calls for service, made 558 traffic
stops, and arrested 23 individuals for impaired driving. In addition to his duties as public police officer,
and Elstville Police Department Sergeant Hall is also a member of the Monroe County Major Crash Investigation
Team. He serves as one of three DREs on the team and responsible for evaluation of drivers involved
in vehicle collisions which result in fatality, gastrophobic injury. Your profession and enthusiasm
is second to none. So ordered this 11th day of May, 2026 by Elstville Town Council President Scott Holden,
Town Manager Michael Farmer, Chief of Police Jimmy Dirtle.
I really appreciate it. It's an honor to be able to work for those with police department. I really
enjoy going after impaired drivers. I really enjoy doing DRE evaluations on people as well. It's really
important to me. Mostly due to the fact that this is a simple thing of people I've known that's been
affected by impaired drivers. And so I just want to keep them at least off the streets in Ellisville
and at least also throughout Monroe County. Congratulations. Thank you, sir.
For those of you who have an agenda, you will note that there was supposed to be a hiring this evening
for Ellsville PDE. We're gonna have to delay that, pending some applicable paperwork from the state
coming through to make that possible. Seeing the end of new business, we'll move down to privilege of
the floor. Anyone having business for the council that's not part of our normal agenda? Step up, sir.
Just as a reminder, you have three minutes for comment.
aware that I have three minutes that's why I sent you my memo so you have it already in your inbox okay
and it's and what I'd like but I like the comment about is sort of the end of the memo where I sort
of I mean I have sort of acknowledged the that we've written a lot of tickets on State Road 46 but State
Road 46 is not the only traffic
the only Artery in Ellisville about which we need to be concerned. I think about speeds State Road 46
may be less safe partly because of the accidents, but I also suggest that we consider widely reported
and objective measures of performance and in looking at the
the uh... internet and what's written on the internet one of the issues and one of the issues raised
in one of the articles that i cited one of the public media was the frequency with which vehicles are
going ten miles or more over the speed limit uh... and i think there are some areas that are probably
worse than state road forty six that uh... that put the fear in this in the in the hearts of citizens
in aliceville the other
Point I made was reported a performance or reporting a performance for major arteries in Ellisville
and in that I would include McNeely Road sale Street Abigail Lane, I know for instance when I'm trying
to pull out of the Area 10 agency on aging which I go to every couple of months one of my concerns is
pulling out on the sale Street because the the speeds are
quite rapid there. And then the other point I raised was this radar control, radar speed monitors with
digital readouts, which we had two years ago, and I raised that in a meeting at least two years ago,
but I've not seen any of those systems or seen any discussion. I know we've talked about
vehicles here tonight and Fairly significant expenditures, but we have but the as my understanding is
the radar speed monitors are relatively modest and cost But we had one that I know we sent to Illinois.
I Don't know where it is now But somebody else can speak to that I can't and I did send the memo also
to Jimmy and to Mike so that they understood what I was the point I was raising
I'm done You have you have what I wanted to say though, and I hope there's some action on it. Okay.
Thank you, sir Is there anyone else? Seeing no one in chambers no one online when I move to supervisor
comments beginning with town manager Sure, I'll say something Amanda booth for reorganization to give
out information at the farmers market last weekend on Saturday and
And so I met some really nice people, a lot of people moving into town for a lot of different reasons.
And the two booths on each side of me, they'd never been to the farmer's market, so they were new to
the process as well. One family had been here for about 100 years, and the other people, they'd just
moved in. They were two years in to being here, and they started a business.
and they sold out with baked goods and stuff. So anyway, I just wanted to mention, I don't go to the
farmer's market a lot just because I can't get around that good, but it was really pleasant. The farmer's
market is worth going down to as produce becomes plentiful. It'll even be better. And there was a lot
of nice boosts there and it's just quite the,
Quite the thing, so I encourage everybody to go to the farmer's market. Quick question along that line.
Is food truck Wednesday coming back or no? No. Okay. Chief? No, thank you. Seeing nothing from around
there. Council comments? I just want to follow up with Mr. Perry's question. Where is that speed sign?
It's not okay. So we would have to purchase a new one. Okay. Maybe worthwhile. Yeah. You know, I've
bought several times to get the, the signs that have the electronic slow down that you see popping up
everywhere. I've been trying to get those in here for years and they're around 5,000. Um,
They're permanent, and I think that would be a great investment. Something we can look at during budget
time, which is coming up rapidly. Yes. I think that would be the use of funds to... Other council comments?
Seeing none, there's no further, for the council, we'll stand adjourned.