- Recording in progress. Call to order the June 8th, 2026 meeting of the Eldsville Town Council.
- Thank you, sir. Prayer. Our heavenly father, just one more time, we come before you and we thank you
- so much for the blessing bestowed on us. We ask that you be with us, be with our town, be with
- our supervisor, be with our first responders. We ask that you keep them safe. We ask you to bless Nick
- tonight as he brings in the board. We ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
- Deputy. 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. I'm going to fall one
- night over this chair. I'm just going to tell you. Roll call when you're ready. Scott Oldham. Here.
- Dan Swalford. William Ellis. Here. Trevor Sanger. Here. Pamela Samples. Here.
- Approval of minutes for 5-26-2026. Second. Motion to second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
- Any abstaining? Axe pay accounts payable vouchers and payroll vouchers. Okay, I have a question. Sure.
- Okay, I don't have it in front of me, but on there, there was a lawyer for like $8,000. What is that
- for? It's for legal fees for the clerk.
- for anticipation for various items that are coming up. So we're not using our town lawyer? Not for that,
- no. Okay. I just wondered because we was user for everything. So I seen that and didn't know if it was
- for something else we were using for, for $8,000. Well, that's a high-priced lawyer, isn't it? It was
- for various things related to some items that had come up that I needed to seek legal counsel that was
- not through the town.
- Okay. Okay. I just wondering, I mean, are you gonna keep him all the time? No. Or him, whatever? No,
- absolutely not. Okay. Right, that's it, Scott. Okay. Is there a motion to pay accounts of payable vouchers?
- So moved. Second. Motion second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining?
- There are no resolutions, there are no ordinances on first reading, there are no ordinances on second
- reading. The only matter of old business before the council tonight is a hiring by Oldsville Police
- Department. Good evening.
- Tonight, I'd like to present to you a candidate for full-time employment for the Elstville Police Department.
- For the position of police officer, I'd like to introduce Nicholas Blackard. Nick, you want to come
- up? Nick is a 2019 graduate of Indiana Law Enforcement Academy's Tier 1 basic course.
- He has a full-time law enforcement experience at both Morgan County Sheriff's Office and the Greenwood
- Police Department. Nick is currently employed with Seals Ambulance Service. In addition to having his
- EMT certification, Nick also has his Firefighter 1 and 2 certifications, his HADMAPS operations certificates,
- and has completed the first portion of accident reconstruction certification. Nick was sworn in as part-time
- officer on
- for the department on May 20th. If hired full-time, Nick will begin the field training process and will
- be paired with senior officers for the department to gain knowledge and his needs to the solo patrol
- officer. Nick has already assisted in major investigation and excelled with work he performed. Nick
- has already shown initiative and a desire to learn. I believe he will make an excellent full-time police
- officer for the department. Mr. President.
- Questions from council? No. Motions from council? I make a motion to hire for the Elspeth Police Department,
- the new hire Nicholas Blackard. Second. Motion second, roll call please. Scott Oldham? Yes.
- William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sanger? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Motion passes. Congratulations. Congratulations.
- Right hand, please. Repeat after me. I, Nicholas T. Whacker, do solemnly swear that I will support the
- Constitution of the United States of America and the state of Indiana, and the town code of Ellisville,
- and that I will faithfully and partially and diligently discharge and perform my duties as Deputy Marshall
- This charter before my duties, Deputy Marshall. Of the Ellitsville Police Department of Ellitsville,
- Indiana. Of the Ellitsville Police Department of Ellitsville, Indiana. According to the law and to the
- best of my skill. According to the law and to the best of my skill. And ability so help me God. And
- ability so help me God. Congratulations, sir.
- Congratulations. Thank you. Running with a theme this evening, there is no new business.
- Now, privilege of the floor, anyone having business for the council that has not been part of our normal
- agenda. So it kind of leaves you wide open this evening. Seeing no one online, no one in chambers. We'll
- now move to supervisor comments with the town manager. Sure, I'd like to mention hats off to the laying
- of things, sectional champs. Another good year for Mick Hammond. They're always on top of things, and
- I think they were 27 and four.
- 27.5, something like that. So I thought I'd mention them. It's officially summer in Elixir again. The
- food stands up. So that's always my watermark for, yeah, it's summer, let's have some fun. I'd like
- to mention Wednesday night, we are having another realization meeting, and it's basically a hearing.
- And for the general public, this is their time to come out
- ask questions, be heard, state what they think is going on, ask where they can get more information,
- probably second to the formation of Ellitsville. In the beginning, this could be the most important
- time of our lives, and it has to do with the future of Ellitsville.
- I think everybody should come to that. Hopefully we'll have too many people here and I'll be arguing
- with the fire department about how many people we can get in this place. But if ever there was a time
- to come out and be part of something, this is it. Not a good time to get on Facebook and surmise what
- might be happening or complain about
- what is or isn't happening. The town currently is functioning and it's very healthy, and we've had several
- things we've had to do throughout the years to make our town better. This is change that was not of
- our own making, but we're gonna make a problem into an opportunity, and we think we have a really good
- idea, and there's a lot of good people in the community that's helped us figure this out.
- And so I just think you need to come out, and you can tell your friends to come out. This is time for
- action by the public. Ultimately, this is a process where we get us to a point where everybody gets
- to vote on it. And so in America, that's how we do things. So I think it's important for me. I have nothing.
- Council comments. I'll just chime in on the joint town council township board meeting. To make it clear
- to the public, this meeting is not approving reorganization. It's saying we want the public and the
- voters to be the decision makers. Too often government decides these plans like this large thing that
- we're talking about, we think the people up here can make those decisions.
- but I think the best decision makers are the ones that put us up here, the voters, and that's exactly
- what this does. So I hope we get the support to let the people decide what the forward direction of
- Ellitsville wants to be. Anyone else? Seeing none, seeing no further items? The time is 6.30. Wednesday.
- Wednesday. We done now? I think we're done.
- So you know further items we stand adjourned.