WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:07.025 - September 14th, 2026, meeting of the Oldsville Town Council. Chief, the prayer. I have the father just 00:00:07.025 --> 00:00:13.471 - one more time to come before you and we thank you so much for the blessings. We ask you to be with this 00:00:13.471 --> 00:00:19.916 - country and this state and this county that was affected by the 9-11 attacks and we moralize that. Just 00:00:19.916 --> 00:00:26.361 - be with us tonight as we make those decisions that affect this group. We ask the same Jesus name, amen. 00:00:26.361 --> 00:00:29.150 - Amen. Chief. I pledge allegiance to the flag 00:00:29.410 --> 00:00:38.602 - of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, 00:00:38.602 --> 00:00:47.198 - with liberty and justice for all. Roll call whenever you're ready. Scott Woodham. Here. Dan Swaffer. 00:00:47.198 --> 00:00:55.794 - William Ellis. Here. Trevor Sager. Pamela Samples. Here. Now we need a motion to approve the minutes 00:00:55.794 --> 00:00:59.198 - for the 8-24-2026 town council meeting. 00:00:59.714 --> 00:01:06.966 - So moved. Second. Motion is second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Acts 00:01:06.966 --> 00:01:14.147 - to pay accounts, payable vouchers and payroll vouchers. So moved. Second. All those in favor say aye. 00:01:14.147 --> 00:01:21.399 - Aye. Opposed? Abstaining. There are several resolutions this evening. The first is resolution 21-2026, 00:01:21.399 --> 00:01:25.342 - clerk department legal fees, legal services, I'm sorry. 00:01:27.810 --> 00:01:38.118 - brought for an additional appropriation for the town legal services line for $36,000. The 2026 budget 00:01:38.118 --> 00:01:48.427 - was $37,500. We are currently negative $3,107.37 from invoices sent in from Darla Brown Law Services. 00:01:48.427 --> 00:01:57.118 - Questions from the council? Action from the council. This is a public hearing, Scott. 00:01:57.218 --> 00:02:08.049 - I apologize, anyone from the public? And back to Council. Motions? Can we do it? Sure. I move to approve 00:02:08.049 --> 00:02:18.776 - Resolution 21-2026, Clerk Department Legal Services. Second. Motion to second. Roll call, please. Scott 00:02:18.776 --> 00:02:25.790 - Oldham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Pamela Sampos? Yes. Motion passes. 00:02:26.530 --> 00:02:33.691 - resolution 22, 2026, the fire department equipment. We've had some unexpected repairs on three of our 00:02:33.691 --> 00:02:40.782 - large trucks this year and pretty much depleted the repair funds. So I'm looking to do an additional 00:02:40.782 --> 00:02:48.154 - appropriations out of our CB&E line, the cumulative building equipment, basically just to get us through 00:02:48.154 --> 00:02:55.806 - the end of the year. And then obviously with the bid in that fund, should it not be used, which is my hopes, 00:02:56.258 --> 00:03:04.034 - then it'll just stay in there for future use. Questions from council? No. From the public. And back 00:03:04.034 --> 00:03:11.655 - to the council fraction. I move to approve resolution 22-2026, fire department equipment. Second. 00:03:11.655 --> 00:03:18.965 - Roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Pamela Samples. Yes. Motion passes. 00:03:18.965 --> 00:03:25.886 - Thank you. Resolution 23-2026, police department arms, radar, and equipment maintenance. 00:03:28.194 --> 00:03:35.537 - moving funds around, correct? Yes. This was submitted by the police department for a reimbursement check 00:03:35.537 --> 00:03:42.810 - that they will get for equipment to come in, so we did not have it appropriated when we did the budget, 00:03:42.810 --> 00:03:50.083 - so they're asking for permission to spend the $4,600 that will come in. You lost me on reappropriation. 00:03:50.083 --> 00:03:57.566 - They have a check. They spent money out of their, let me slow down and rephrase this. They purchased funds 00:03:58.306 --> 00:04:07.115 - out of this GL and they're receiving reimbursement. I don't know exactly which. So we just need appropriate 00:04:07.115 --> 00:04:16.005 - more money until the funds are reimbursed. Yes sir. Okay. Sorry. I got confused. That's all right. Questions 00:04:16.005 --> 00:04:24.161 - from council. From the public and back to council. I move to approve resolution 23 dash 2026 police 00:04:24.161 --> 00:04:28.158 - department arms radar and equipment maintenance. 00:04:28.962 --> 00:04:36.743 - Second. Motion to second, roll call please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Kamala Samples. Yes. 00:04:36.743 --> 00:04:44.449 - Motion passes. Next is resolution 24, 2026, street department, capital outlays, building improvements. 00:04:44.449 --> 00:04:51.931 - Okay. Our salt and sand barn was probably built in the late 70s, early 80s, somewhere around there. 00:04:51.931 --> 00:04:58.814 - And we have already outgrown that building. And with the proposed reorganization coming up, 00:04:59.266 --> 00:05:07.485 - We are working at rebuilding a new salt sand barn behind the DPW building. So far we've been doing good 00:05:07.485 --> 00:05:15.941 - with appropriating funds within the budget to do a lot of the concrete work and I am needing an additional 00:05:15.941 --> 00:05:24.318 - roughly $40,000 to do the concrete walls in that new building behind the DPW building for salt sand barn. 00:05:27.618 --> 00:05:34.606 - I'm sorry, that will be coming from the CCD. Irrespective of whether the consolidation is approved or 00:05:34.606 --> 00:05:41.799 - not, we still need that. If you all remember back in January, we had that big snow and I almost depleted 00:05:41.799 --> 00:05:49.129 - our salt inventory in that one snow. So I'm having a hard time maintaining the salt amount in the building 00:05:49.129 --> 00:05:55.774 - for the snow. It would be ideal that if I could actually have what we need for the whole season, 00:05:56.194 --> 00:06:04.009 - and not worry about trying to get more salt. I actually had to try to get salt another route because 00:06:04.009 --> 00:06:12.289 - salt shortages that was going on in the state of Indiana. And there's also a possibility of salt shortages 00:06:12.289 --> 00:06:20.337 - again for this winter. So we need to be able to try to get more salt on storage on hand. Questions from 00:06:20.337 --> 00:06:24.670 - council? From the public? And back to council fraction. 00:06:25.218 --> 00:06:31.418 - I move to approve resolution 24-2026, street department capital outlays, building improvements. Second. 00:06:31.418 --> 00:06:37.082 - Motion second. When you're ready. Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Motion passes. 00:06:37.082 --> 00:06:43.222 - Thank you. There are no ordinances on first reading this evening. There are two on second reading, the 00:06:43.222 --> 00:06:49.243 - first of which is ordinance 2026-14, to prohibit use of public records for commercial purposes. This 00:06:49.243 --> 00:06:54.430 - is the second reading on this ordinance, and the purpose of this ordinance is to limit 00:06:54.626 --> 00:07:02.438 - the number of requests that the town gets for public records that appear to be earmarked toward getting 00:07:02.438 --> 00:07:10.025 - information that the requester can use for commercial purposes to sell things to town citizens or to 00:07:10.025 --> 00:07:17.987 - town employees. So under the Indiana code, the town has the right to pass an ordinance that would require 00:07:17.987 --> 00:07:24.222 - the requester to sign a document certifying that they will not use any information 00:07:24.802 --> 00:07:32.962 - solicited for commercial purposes. And if they refuse to certify that, we do not have to give them the 00:07:32.962 --> 00:07:41.201 - records. And what happens if they certify that and then turn around and do it? Well, we can refuse them 00:07:41.201 --> 00:07:49.281 - the second time if they ask again. Otherwise... Questions from Council? Discussion? Anything from the 00:07:49.281 --> 00:07:51.262 - public? Back to Council. 00:07:52.642 --> 00:07:59.541 - to approve ordinance 2026-14 to prohibit use of public records for commercial purposes. I'll second. 00:07:59.541 --> 00:08:06.030 - Motion to second roll call please. Scott Oldham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. 00:08:06.030 --> 00:08:13.270 - Motion passes. Next ordinance is ordinance 26-15 adding a new section of the Ellsville town code allowing 00:08:13.270 --> 00:08:19.486 - the use of utility task vehicles on roads located within the corporate limits of the town. 00:08:20.898 --> 00:08:29.671 - the Town Council asked me to put together an ordinance that would allow utility task vehicles on town 00:08:29.671 --> 00:08:38.529 - roads, and this is the second reading on this ordinance that would allow that. Individuals who violate 00:08:38.529 --> 00:08:47.646 - the ordinance can be fined, and this does not mean that ATVs and golf carts will be allowed on the roads. 00:08:47.646 --> 00:08:49.022 - It's just UTVs. 00:08:51.266 --> 00:09:05.916 - If somebody habitually violates this, can they have the UTV impounded based on this? Under the Indiana 00:09:05.916 --> 00:09:19.998 - Code, yes, they can. Any other questions or comments? Any from staff that want to talk about this? 00:09:23.874 --> 00:09:30.778 - Any from the public? Seeing none, we're back to the council for action. I'll move to approve Ordinance 00:09:30.778 --> 00:09:37.548 - 2026-15, adding a new section to the eligible town code allowing the use of utility task vehicles on 00:09:37.548 --> 00:09:43.984 - roads located within the corporate limits of the town. Second. Motion second, roll call please. 00:09:43.984 --> 00:09:50.754 - Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Pamela Siamples. Yes. Motion passes. There is no old business 00:09:50.754 --> 00:09:53.502 - this evening. New business, none listed, 00:09:53.602 --> 00:10:00.904 - but that doesn't keep it from happening. Do you have anything? I have no new business. Do you want to 00:10:00.904 --> 00:10:08.278 - go back to old business, revisit that? I have none. Okay. Now we'll move to privilege of the floor and 00:10:08.278 --> 00:10:16.798 - having business for the council not part of our normal agenda. Not seeing that, we'll now move to supervisor comments. 00:10:17.474 --> 00:10:27.734 - I'd just like to thank all the volunteers that helped put together the Fall Festival. It is a huge endeavor, 00:10:27.734 --> 00:10:37.524 - a lot of hours spent planning and then implementing. And so just a huge shout out to all the volunteers 00:10:37.524 --> 00:10:45.054 - because anything that actually helps with making our town feel like a community 00:10:45.218 --> 00:10:52.996 - that social interaction and the entertainment it brings to the kids and adults alike. It's a big deal. 00:10:52.996 --> 00:11:00.623 - And so the Fall Festivals ingrained in me, I can't remember when we didn't have one all the way back 00:11:00.623 --> 00:11:08.477 - into the 60s. And so it's a big shout out to everybody that has anything to do with it. I'd really like 00:11:08.477 --> 00:11:13.310 - to thank the police and the fire and the DPW and everybody that 00:11:13.538 --> 00:11:21.048 - actually had to work to help put it together. I don't think we could do it without the police firing 00:11:21.048 --> 00:11:28.557 - the DPW. So thanks to them, even though they had to do it, they always seem to do it with a smile on 00:11:28.557 --> 00:11:35.992 - their face. And then, of course, Shannon had mentioned it. I'd like to shout out to Jeff Farmer for 00:11:35.992 --> 00:11:39.710 - doing such a good job of driving the pylon truck. 00:11:43.458 --> 00:11:51.706 - So thank you everyone that made the Fall Festival great. Our grandkids have more candy than Halloween. 00:11:51.706 --> 00:11:59.714 - The Fall Festival's gonna put Halloween out of business, I'm pretty sure. Anything from you? Yes, I 00:11:59.714 --> 00:12:07.962 - have a couple things. I wanna notify you, first of all, we've had an SRO that has indicated he's going 00:12:07.962 --> 00:12:12.446 - to resign from the department in the middle of October. 00:12:12.546 --> 00:12:21.016 - And we'd like to have permission to open that spot up if we could. We'd like to do that tomorrow if 00:12:21.016 --> 00:12:29.571 - at all possible. We're okay with that? Do we need a formal vote Darla? I don't think so. Also I want 00:12:29.571 --> 00:12:38.041 - to bring to your attention the annual grant that the school receives for the SROs was short $12,000 00:12:38.041 --> 00:12:41.598 - this year. So I'd like to present that we 00:12:41.858 --> 00:12:47.664 - meet them halfway and do $6,000 Noel, and Baker Telly tells me that I have enough in the budget for 00:12:47.664 --> 00:12:53.528 - next year to do that. I wouldn't see that being a problem. I mean, I think it's in our best interest 00:12:53.528 --> 00:12:59.624 - to have those officers where they're at. Yeah, they, they pay for three quarters of the salaries anyway, 00:12:59.624 --> 00:13:05.430 - so. Even if they didn't, I still think it's in our best interest to have the officers there. Right, 00:13:05.430 --> 00:13:11.294 - we gotta have somebody there, yeah. That's probably gonna take a vote though, so does anybody wanna? 00:13:11.682 --> 00:13:17.905 - I just have a question first. Any idea why it was short? Is the grant funding shrunk or? They thought 00:13:17.905 --> 00:13:24.068 - the funding was going to go down after a few years. Oh, okay. So there's nothing we did wrong. Okay. 00:13:24.068 --> 00:13:30.352 - No. Darla, does that actually take a vote? I think it does, but if you want to, you can wait until the 00:13:30.352 --> 00:13:36.576 - next meeting and I'll have the SRO contracts up for renewal and we can talk about it then and just do 00:13:36.576 --> 00:13:37.918 - it in one fell swoop. 00:13:41.442 --> 00:13:48.547 - So yes to that, but we'll have to wait till next week. I'll talk to President Sanders about that Thursday. 00:13:48.547 --> 00:13:55.519 - And while we're giving gratitudes out for the Fall Festival, we have Acting, or I'm sorry, Acting Chief, 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:02.292 - Deputy Chief Shannon Bunger, Sam Miller, Lieutenant Michael, Zach put the whole shindig together down 00:14:02.292 --> 00:14:09.132 - there for us and it really worked out well. So we really appreciate that. Also have a recognition time 00:14:09.132 --> 00:14:10.526 - if we could, please. 00:14:24.578 --> 00:14:31.422 - I remember a lot of Wednesday the half ago, we had a bad storm went through town. It did do a lot of 00:14:31.422 --> 00:14:38.265 - damage, but where it did do damage, it really put people in jeopardy. Is Beth Staggs here by chance? 00:14:38.265 --> 00:14:45.177 - She couldn't make it, okay. This is from Beth Staggs. She said, I am writing to inform you of Officer 00:14:45.177 --> 00:14:50.462 - Sam Miller, who pretty much saved my life after the storm on Wednesday night. 00:14:51.010 --> 00:14:58.877 - I had a tree fall on my house and buried my car. He happened to drive by right after it happened and 00:14:58.877 --> 00:15:06.899 - stopped to see if everyone was okay. My dog and I were shaken, but fine. My neighbor had told him that 00:15:06.899 --> 00:15:14.844 - I had dialysis the next morning at 6 a.m. Officer Miller said he would come back after going on a few 00:15:14.844 --> 00:15:20.062 - calls and get my car out. And he did. It had to be chainsawed out. 00:15:20.482 --> 00:15:27.484 - It was buried. I cannot express my gratitude enough. What he did to me was rather matters, life or death. 00:15:27.484 --> 00:15:34.618 - Literally, I don't go to dialysis, I die. I am hoping that you can do some type of recognition for officers 00:15:34.618 --> 00:15:41.488 - for outstanding service. He definitely deserves it. The way I look at it, he saved my life. If you have 00:15:41.488 --> 00:15:48.094 - any questions of this time, anything to recognize Officer Miller for his outstanding service in the 00:15:48.094 --> 00:15:50.142 - community, please let me know. 00:15:50.562 --> 00:15:57.693 - I will forever be grateful. Thank you, Beth Staggs. I've asked Deputy Chief Bunger to read the recognition 00:15:57.693 --> 00:16:04.358 - letter. So I'm not going to read the whole thing and bore everybody with it, because what the chief 00:16:04.358 --> 00:16:11.357 - said is pretty much exactly what happened that night. Sam was out on his patrol with the other officers, 00:16:11.357 --> 00:16:16.222 - and anybody that was in town that night knew that it was straight chaos. 00:16:16.610 --> 00:16:21.943 - made sure she was okay, and then promised her that he would come back later with a chainsaw and help 00:16:21.943 --> 00:16:27.223 - get her out, which he did. So we're very, very grateful and thankful for that. On a side note, this 00:16:27.223 --> 00:16:32.555 - is our SRO that's resigning, so I don't know if he should really get this or not. I don't know if he 00:16:32.555 --> 00:16:37.993 - got to anyway, so. Sam's a great, when we asked him to step in and fill in the SRO spot when I vacated 00:16:37.993 --> 00:16:43.326 - it, he jumped on it. But he's got too good of an opportunity to pass up, so he is gonna stay on with 00:16:43.326 --> 00:16:45.438 - us part-time and help us with training. 00:16:45.922 --> 00:16:50.948 - the festival for the July stuff like that. So we appreciate you staying on and job well done. We're 00:16:50.948 --> 00:16:55.422 - in Michigan, but you've always got a home in your jail, so please department. Thank you. 00:17:15.906 --> 00:17:24.689 - Congratulations, Sam. Mr. Farmer, you're up. Even though Mike covered most of it, got to work the parade 00:17:24.689 --> 00:17:33.389 - with the DPW and the police. As always, it's a joy of mine on that Saturday morning. A lot of craziness 00:17:33.389 --> 00:17:41.754 - out there and they did a good job and I thought it went really well this year. I don't think we had 00:17:41.754 --> 00:17:43.678 - any accidents, did we? 00:17:44.482 --> 00:17:52.022 - My lands, watching all those kids pick up that candy is incredible, isn't it? That's something else. 00:17:52.022 --> 00:17:59.712 - But just wanted to shout out to all the guys that came in from the DPW. Chief? Tomorrow morning, we're 00:17:59.712 --> 00:18:07.551 - going to Appleton, Wisconsin to do the final inspection on our new fire engine. After that's done, it'll 00:18:07.551 --> 00:18:12.702 - go to Whitetown for a couple small installs of some loose equipment. 00:18:13.314 --> 00:18:21.491 - and we should have it the first October, should be in service, we're hoping by the middle of October. 00:18:21.491 --> 00:18:29.587 - It is fire truck blue. So we'll probably have it come up here during one of the council meetings now 00:18:29.587 --> 00:18:37.844 - where everybody can take a look at it and see what we have. Yes, well not in this building though, but 00:18:37.844 --> 00:18:42.814 - it will fit in the current fire station, so we're good there. 00:18:44.098 --> 00:18:52.224 - Okay, I got a couple things. To go along with what is talked about with the warning of Sam, that storm, 00:18:52.224 --> 00:19:00.350 - the DPOW has been kind of behind on trying to get some of the storm stuff picked up. So this week we'll 00:19:00.350 --> 00:19:08.164 - be picking up storm damage as well as our brush pickup as well. We've put it on social media and on 00:19:08.164 --> 00:19:10.430 - the town's website. So also, 00:19:10.594 --> 00:19:18.217 - I attended a meeting about a week and a half ago just to let you all know. NDOT is preliminary doing 00:19:18.217 --> 00:19:25.990 - a State Road 46 and Flatwoods Road intersection improvement. It's where they'll, where Flatwoods comes 00:19:25.990 --> 00:19:33.537 - in at an angle, they're gonna bring it over a little bit and bring it in at a right angle. So right 00:19:33.537 --> 00:19:40.254 - now they are in the planning process still. They plan to be letting bids August of 2028. 00:19:40.354 --> 00:19:48.398 - the utility locations will happen in the year of 28 and the proposed construction start would be the 00:19:48.398 --> 00:19:56.600 - spring of 2029. Just wanted to let you know, since that's a town street as well, just to let you know. 00:19:56.600 --> 00:20:04.724 - I can't say they didn't give us foreign evidence on that one. Yeah, exactly. Okay, now to the council 00:20:04.724 --> 00:20:09.502 - comments. Just had a great time at the Fall Festival and at 00:20:09.730 --> 00:20:16.407 - I think it just shows that with all the supervisors and everybody, the feedback we've gotten, that this 00:20:16.407 --> 00:20:22.891 - is one of the things that we need to be really proud of being here in our town. I think everybody is 00:20:22.891 --> 00:20:28.862 - a part of it. Absolutely. Seeing nothing further before this council, we'll stand adjourned.