WEBVTT 00:00:01.666 --> 00:00:09.771 - We will call to order the Monday, October 12th, 2026 Meet the Allensville Town Council. Pray. Dear Heavenly 00:00:09.771 --> 00:00:17.350 - Father, please bless us with both wisdom and humility in the decisions we make for this town and for 00:00:17.350 --> 00:00:25.155 - our residents. And make sure that we put their needs, both all needs, except yours. In your name, amen. 00:00:25.155 --> 00:00:30.558 - Chief. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, 00:00:30.914 --> 00:00:40.663 - and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice 00:00:40.663 --> 00:00:50.701 - for all. Roll call whenever you're ready. Scott Oldham. Yes, here. Dennis Walford. William Ellis. Here. 00:00:50.701 --> 00:00:59.774 - Trevor Sager. Pamela Samples. Here. Minutes from the 928-2026 town council meeting. So moved. 00:01:02.210 --> 00:01:08.816 - Motion second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Action to pay accounts, 00:01:08.816 --> 00:01:15.422 - payable vouchers, and payroll vouchers. So moved. Second. Motion second, all those in favor say aye. 00:01:15.422 --> 00:01:22.224 - Aye. Anyone opposed? Any abstaining? There are two resolutions this evening, the first being resolution 00:01:22.224 --> 00:01:28.960 - 25-2026 authorizing the DLGF and Clerk Treasurer to make the necessary 2027 budget adjustments pending 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:31.838 - the outcome of the proposed reorganization. 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:42.323 - this resolution would allow your clerk treasurer to make, submit, or request such adjustments to the 00:01:42.323 --> 00:01:49.724 - town's 2027 budget forms as are necessary to implement the budget depending on whether or not 00:01:49.724 --> 00:01:57.755 - the reorganization referendum passes or not. So it offers alternatives to the clerk treasurer so that 00:01:57.755 --> 00:02:03.582 - you don't have to go back and re-advertise the budget, reopen the budget, 00:02:04.194 --> 00:02:10.704 - and your budget is due obviously before the results of the referendum will be known. So if the reorganization 00:02:10.704 --> 00:02:16.623 - referendum passes, then any reorganization related appropriations will remain as adopted by council 00:02:16.623 --> 00:02:22.660 - during the budget. The budget amounts for the Ellitsville Richland Township Fire Protection Territory 00:02:22.660 --> 00:02:28.637 - will be removed from the budget and the town will move forward under the newly reorganized structure 00:02:28.637 --> 00:02:32.958 - as outlined in the plan. If the reorganization referendum does not pass, 00:02:33.410 --> 00:02:39.617 - Then the Ellisville Richland Township Fire Protection Territory budget remains as adopted by council. 00:02:39.617 --> 00:02:45.702 - All town budgets, other than that for fire protection, will revert to 2026 maximum levy levels with 00:02:45.702 --> 00:02:52.274 - the 2027 maximum levy growth factor applied, thus allowing all proposed increases related to reorganization 00:02:52.274 --> 00:02:58.968 - to be removed from the budget. The town of Ellisville will continue to operate under its current governmental 00:02:58.968 --> 00:03:02.558 - structure as a town. And then the Ellisville Richland Fire 00:03:02.786 --> 00:03:10.891 - Ellitsville Richland Township Fire Protection Tory will move forward as approved by the Council and 00:03:10.891 --> 00:03:18.995 - the Township Board back in March of this year. That's the questions from Council. Anything from the 00:03:18.995 --> 00:03:26.046 - public? Seeing nothing online, back to Council. I move that we pass Resolution 25-2026 00:03:26.434 --> 00:03:34.044 - A resolution authorizing the Ellisville clerk treasurer to make necessary 2027 budget adjustments pending 00:03:34.044 --> 00:03:41.511 - the outcome of the proposed reorganization. Second. Motion to second. Roll call when you're ready. Yes. 00:03:41.511 --> 00:03:48.762 - Yes. Pamela Samples. Yes. Motion passes. Next is Resolution 26-2026, police additional appropriation 00:03:48.762 --> 00:03:50.270 - from the drug grant. 00:03:51.682 --> 00:03:59.858 - This was submitted by the police department for $21,500 for the Drug Education Equipment Grant. Also 00:03:59.858 --> 00:04:08.035 - in the packet is the grant that was submitted with the proposal for the additional appropriation. If 00:04:08.035 --> 00:04:15.806 - you noticed in the packet with the accounts payable, we already have two for drone accessories. 00:04:16.130 --> 00:04:26.589 - for $13,792.09 and $2,699.10. I did want to note to the council that for transparency purposes, we created 00:04:26.589 --> 00:04:36.560 - the 2404-4374 radar arms and equipment in that equipment drug grant fund that had previously not been 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:44.478 - there to receipt the funds in and also expense them out. Questions from council? 00:04:46.722 --> 00:04:54.269 - So is the money already in there now or how? Correct. So we have to appropriate. Any direct questions 00:04:54.269 --> 00:05:01.964 - about the grant would be directed at the police department, though. I just know about the expenditures. 00:05:01.964 --> 00:05:09.510 - What are we doing? So we were able to get the grant for two additional drones. They came in literally 00:05:09.510 --> 00:05:11.582 - two days before the parade. 00:05:11.682 --> 00:05:18.949 - were able to get them up and running and use them at the parade and it was a major asset to be able 00:05:18.949 --> 00:05:26.653 - to get it up and we could see the entire parade route from our command center. So it'll be a great asset, 00:05:26.653 --> 00:05:33.557 - not only for our department, but for any other departments in the county that might need help. 00:05:33.557 --> 00:05:41.406 - Thank you. Okay, any other questions? Anything from the public? And back to council. You wanna do this one? 00:05:42.818 --> 00:05:51.789 - to approve resolution 26-2026, police additional appropriation for the drug rent fund. I'll second. 00:05:51.789 --> 00:06:01.388 - I'm sorry. Motion and second. Whenever you're ready. I drank at the wrong time. Scott Oldham? Yes. William 00:06:01.388 --> 00:06:05.694 - Ellis? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Motion passes. 00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:13.420 - There are two ordinances on first reading this evening. The first ordinance is Ordinance 2026-16 to 00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:20.938 - establish a moratorium on the reclassification of residential property from Rural Service District to 00:06:20.938 --> 00:06:28.529 - Town District after reorganization. So I was asked to put together an ordinance that would essentially 00:06:28.529 --> 00:06:35.678 - establish a moratorium on shifting certain residential properties from the Rural Taxing District 00:06:35.938 --> 00:06:43.618 - to the urban taxing district for some period of time after reorganization if it passes in order to give 00:06:43.618 --> 00:06:51.003 - a couple of election cycles to run through so that, how do I say this? Before any property is moved 00:06:51.003 --> 00:06:58.388 - from rural to urban, you'll have a full town council with the two new members that has gone through 00:06:58.388 --> 00:07:01.342 - a full election cycle. So in any event, 00:07:01.570 --> 00:07:08.376 - What this particular ordinance states is that as of January 1st, 2027, a moratorium on reclassification 00:07:08.376 --> 00:07:14.920 - shall be in effect and no property that is zoned residential R1, R2, or R3 and located in the rural 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:21.529 - district shall be reclassified to the town district unless the owner of the property has submitted a 00:07:21.529 --> 00:07:27.550 - written petition. The moratorium will not apply to property zoned commercial or industrial, 00:07:27.682 --> 00:07:34.096 - or property that is subdivided, platted, or developed at the owner's request consistent with the unified 00:07:34.096 --> 00:07:40.633 - development ordinance or other town ordinances. And what I envision happening is that if there's a request 00:07:40.633 --> 00:07:47.230 - to transfer property from rural to urban, the request will first go to the plan commission and the planning 00:07:47.230 --> 00:07:53.767 - department for its thoughts on whether or not it's appropriate, given the services that are being provided 00:07:53.767 --> 00:07:56.638 - before that request comes before town council. 00:07:56.802 --> 00:08:03.599 - for consideration. Furthermore, the ordinance states that the ordinance may be amended or repealed only 00:08:03.599 --> 00:08:10.134 - upon the affirmative vote of the two at-large council members who will be the former township board 00:08:10.134 --> 00:08:16.670 - members in addition to an affirmative vote of at least three of the remaining town council members. 00:08:17.282 --> 00:08:27.473 - It terminates automatically if the reorganization does not pass, and it expires of its own accord as 00:08:27.473 --> 00:08:37.867 - of January 1st, 2031, if the reorganization referendum passes. Okay. Questions, comments? Any comments 00:08:37.867 --> 00:08:39.582 - from the public? 00:08:55.746 --> 00:09:02.849 - I'm Andrew Henry. I strongly support this ordinance. I'm actually really grateful for how quickly the 00:09:02.849 --> 00:09:10.023 - town council was able to move on this. This has been a fairly recent point of some concern, especially 00:09:10.023 --> 00:09:17.265 - from township residents that I've talked to about whether or not there is a window of opportunity after 00:09:17.265 --> 00:09:24.926 - reorganization passes for an unbalanced council to unilaterally force properties into the urban service area. 00:09:25.410 --> 00:09:31.722 - Ordinances are not the Indiana State Constitution. They are revocable. They can be modified and they 00:09:31.722 --> 00:09:38.158 - can be removed with a proper majority. But I'm very grateful that we are putting this in place because 00:09:38.158 --> 00:09:44.720 - while I believe in trust, I'm also very glad to have rules. And confidence in the reorganization process 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:51.094 - depends partly on very clear guidelines. And this was an area where the plan, while not attempting to 00:09:51.094 --> 00:09:54.718 - spell out every detail, did leave a fairly large question 00:09:54.978 --> 00:10:10.047 - of how that would work after your organization passes, and so I'm very glad to see this resolved and 00:10:10.047 --> 00:10:22.878 - I support it. Thanks. Anyone else? No, do you need a chair? No, I'll be fine, thanks. 00:10:25.442 --> 00:10:37.736 - Don Dornal, current Township Trustee Board Member. I agree with everything that Mr. Henry said. I think 00:10:37.736 --> 00:10:50.622 - that some of the Township residences were concerned about that, about the issue of us not having a majority. 00:10:51.394 --> 00:10:59.067 - and that things could be pushed through concerning their property that they were not willing to have. 00:10:59.067 --> 00:11:06.815 - So I do think this is a very good ordinance to have in place. So thank you. Thanks. Okay. Anyone else? 00:11:06.815 --> 00:11:14.337 - Back to Council. All right. I am normally for the public that we know, normally ordinances on first 00:11:14.337 --> 00:11:21.182 - reading, we got to go to second reading, but there is a procedure in Indiana law so we can 00:11:21.890 --> 00:11:29.919 - move and pass it. One of the reasons this ordinance came together so quick is because some of the chatter 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:37.494 - about us doing things against the will of the township residents that's never even on our radar, so 00:11:37.494 --> 00:11:45.069 - it never came up. So what this does, first of all, let me outline the concern. The concern was that 00:11:45.069 --> 00:11:50.750 - if you live in a single family home or an apartment complex, that day one, 00:11:51.330 --> 00:11:59.754 - we were going to make a move to put you into the higher taxed urban district. That's never been on anybody's 00:11:59.754 --> 00:12:06.788 - agenda. We've pretty much said new construction or by petition, and that would not qualify 00:12:06.788 --> 00:12:14.826 - as new construction. The second thing is that this, the concern was that any votes like that, the whole 00:12:14.826 --> 00:12:21.086 - township should be able to vote on the reps before decisions like that are made. 00:12:21.506 --> 00:12:27.396 - for existing residents. And I think the whole council agrees. And I know I've had no resistance from 00:12:27.396 --> 00:12:33.286 - people I've reached out to on the reorganization committee. And I think this just clarifies what our 00:12:33.286 --> 00:12:39.176 - original intent was. And a lot of things have happened. I always make a joke that a meteor could hit 00:12:39.176 --> 00:12:45.300 - tomorrow. We can't plan for that. It just happens. And this was not something that was brought up during 00:12:45.300 --> 00:12:49.790 - the reorganization process. And I think that if you talk to anyone involved, 00:12:50.402 --> 00:13:00.296 - you'll not find anyone say that was our intention to do what the fear-mongering has said we would do. 00:13:00.296 --> 00:13:10.093 - So with that, I move that Ordinance Number 2026-16 be submitted for first reading. Second. Motion to 00:13:10.093 --> 00:13:17.950 - second. Scott Holden. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Emma Sienkos. Yes. Motion passes. 00:13:19.554 --> 00:13:28.671 - I move that ordinance number 2026-16 be adopted on the same day in which it is introduced. Second. Motion 00:13:28.671 --> 00:13:38.047 - and second. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Pamela Samples. Yes. Motion passes. I move that ordinance 00:13:38.047 --> 00:13:46.992 - number 2026-16 be adopted. Second. Motion and second. Will you ready? Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. 00:13:46.992 --> 00:13:48.798 - Yes. Pamela Samples. 00:13:49.122 --> 00:13:57.356 - Motion passes. Move on now to Ordinance 2026-17 to establish salaries for the 2027 budget. Yes, sir. 00:13:57.356 --> 00:14:05.589 - This is the 2027 budget year salary ordinance. I did want to say for public awareness and to clarify 00:14:05.589 --> 00:14:13.823 - that the biweekly amounts listed in the salary ordinance represent base pay. It's not necessarily an 00:14:13.823 --> 00:14:16.350 - employee's total compensation. 00:14:16.450 --> 00:14:23.188 - Additional compensation such as longevity, certification pay, overtime, and other applicable pay is 00:14:23.188 --> 00:14:30.061 - not reflected in those biweekly figures. So if somebody is looking on the 100R report on the gateway, 00:14:30.061 --> 00:14:37.001 - that's where you're gonna see the total compensation per employee. And in the packets for the council, 00:14:37.001 --> 00:14:44.277 - I do have listed individuals, so you can see, but again, that doesn't include the longevity or any overtime 00:14:44.277 --> 00:14:45.086 - or anything 00:14:45.186 --> 00:14:59.500 - certification wise. Back to council. 2026 dash 17 to establish salaries for the 2027 budget. A second 00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:13.534 - motion second. Quick question. This is on the first reading. Are we wanting to do the same process? 00:15:13.666 --> 00:15:20.899 - We got off track, that's on me. It's okay. So this is just first reading, it will come back at the next 00:15:20.899 --> 00:15:28.132 - reading. Awesome. There are no ordinances, I'm sorry, we had double typo here. There were no ordinances 00:15:28.132 --> 00:15:35.365 - on second reading, there was no old business. Under new business, we have the MCI interlocal agreement. 00:15:35.365 --> 00:15:43.294 - As you're aware, the town has a interlocal agreement with the county to operate a major crash investigation team. 00:15:43.586 --> 00:15:51.452 - The team consists of four officers from the county, two officers from the town. The major crash investigation 00:15:51.452 --> 00:15:58.746 - team can be activated by the sheriff's department upon notification of a major crash. The funding for 00:15:58.746 --> 00:16:06.111 - this crash investigation team comes through the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, and this agreement 00:16:06.111 --> 00:16:09.758 - and the grant allows the town to submit claims for 00:16:09.922 --> 00:16:17.123 - training costs, travel time, and also to reimburse the officers when they've worked overtime to respond 00:16:17.123 --> 00:16:24.324 - to a major crash. And you've seen this agreement before. This is a renewal of the agreement. There were 00:16:24.324 --> 00:16:31.317 - some minor changes that the county attorney's office suggested, and those are highlighted in yellow. 00:16:31.317 --> 00:16:36.926 - But that's the nutshell version of the major crash investigation team agreement. 00:16:39.778 --> 00:16:48.625 - Deputy Chief, do you have anything to say? I just want to add that for the year, the team has responded 00:16:48.625 --> 00:16:57.388 - to 12 crashes, seven of which were involving fatalities. And they spent $18,000 of their $20,000 grant 00:16:57.388 --> 00:17:05.214 - money for the year. Questions from counsel? Anything from the public? Sir, step up, please. 00:17:32.674 --> 00:17:42.735 - My name is Jim Perry. I'm from Ellisville, Abigail Lane. I hate acronyms. MCI stands for what? It ought 00:17:42.735 --> 00:17:52.990 - to be spelled out in the agenda for the meeting so that we know what we're talking about. MCI stands for? 00:17:54.914 --> 00:18:09.383 - Okay, that would it would be better for citizens to be able to read major crass Investigation team there 00:18:09.383 --> 00:18:24.542 - would be MCI which we don't have a clue what it means Thank you Okay seeing none back counsel Yeah, I believe 00:18:25.666 --> 00:18:35.133 - All right. I'll move to approve the Monroe County Crash Investigative Unit Interlocal Agreement. I'll 00:18:35.133 --> 00:18:44.970 - second it. Scott Goldham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Kamala Samples? Yes. Motion passes. Next is the Monroe 00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:49.054 - County Animal Control Interlocal Agreement. 00:18:54.370 --> 00:19:03.699 - County has had with the county for many years now. It is renewed annually and the the way that the costs 00:19:03.699 --> 00:19:13.471 - are determined is the county makes an effort to determine how many animals have been picked up or surrendered 00:19:13.471 --> 00:19:23.422 - and of those how many come from the town of Ellisville. And so then the costs that are assigned to the town are 00:19:23.586 --> 00:19:32.931 - assigned based on a percentage basis of how many animals are surrendered. So this year, the 2027 interlocal 00:19:32.931 --> 00:19:41.671 - cost calculations for the town are $43,053. I budgeted at exact amount because I received it in May. 00:19:41.671 --> 00:19:50.497 - I did want to note for the council that we've seen a substantial increase on this as far as the price 00:19:50.497 --> 00:19:52.574 - per animal. In 2025, we 00:19:53.026 --> 00:20:02.208 - The agreement amount was $23,158.30. For 2026, if you remember, I had to bring an additional appropriation 00:20:02.208 --> 00:20:11.561 - back before you because we didn't receive the agreement last year until after the budget had been presented, 00:20:11.561 --> 00:20:20.314 - and that was for $37,492.00. And I should correct myself. It's the city's shelter, but the county and 00:20:20.314 --> 00:20:22.974 - the town assist in funding it. 00:20:23.618 --> 00:20:32.057 - through this agreement. Correct. We're actually paying the county, correct? Yes. So again, this is $43,000, 00:20:32.057 --> 00:20:40.104 - correct? Correct. So we're paying almost $400 per animal, whether we called animal control to come get 00:20:40.104 --> 00:20:48.230 - them or whether they were surrendered. I'm not sure how they make the difference between animal control 00:20:48.230 --> 00:20:52.606 - pickup, surrender, and stray. Who brought in the stray? 00:20:52.930 --> 00:20:59.893 - Is it a surrender? Is it an animal control? I mean, how are we getting, I have no issue with necessarily 00:20:59.893 --> 00:21:06.856 - paying for this. It's a question of the equitability. And so just to give everybody a picture, Eltsville 00:21:06.856 --> 00:21:13.620 - had 10 that animal control came and picked up. They had 34 that were surrenders where it's the owners 00:21:13.620 --> 00:21:20.318 - taking it to the shelter and surrendering it. It's 69 strays for 113. So of that, we're going to pay 00:21:20.318 --> 00:21:21.246 - $43,000 plus. 00:21:21.954 --> 00:21:28.597 - where it lists counties other than Monroe, clearly Animal Control didn't go pick them up, but 00:21:28.597 --> 00:21:35.947 - 362 surrendered, 241 strays, for a total of 603, yet those counties are not assessed any dollar figure, 00:21:35.947 --> 00:21:43.155 - and they are almost six times, five plus times greater than what the town of Ellsville is. I spoke to 00:21:43.155 --> 00:21:49.374 - Mr. Cockrell about the, I don't know if it was last year or the year before, the reason 00:21:50.370 --> 00:21:57.853 - and I hope I'm not misquoting him or giving you bad information, but the reason that the county still 00:21:57.853 --> 00:22:05.483 - accepts the animals, even if they're coming from other counties like Lawrence or Brown, is because they 00:22:05.483 --> 00:22:13.187 - just, number one, they don't want the strays out, running the streets, bothering people, and they figure 00:22:13.187 --> 00:22:17.662 - that it's maybe kinder to bring the animals in as opposed to 00:22:19.394 --> 00:22:25.819 - I'm just telling you what Mr. Cockrell told me, that's where that's coming from. And I don't necessarily, 00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:31.941 - and without straying into territory I don't want to go to, I don't begrudge that. We should be doing 00:22:31.941 --> 00:22:38.063 - the right thing for the animals. I don't mind helping to pay for that. It's just that when our total 00:22:38.063 --> 00:22:44.366 - is some five times less, and yet we're paying $43,000, but yet there are other areas in the county that 00:22:44.366 --> 00:22:48.670 - are incorporated that are not paying anything according to this sheet. 00:22:48.962 --> 00:22:56.005 - to me is some equitability problems, but then again, that's an issue between those people and the county 00:22:56.005 --> 00:23:02.981 - as a whole, not us. So. One thing, since I'm on the Animal Control Board with the Council's permission, 00:23:02.981 --> 00:23:10.292 - I would like to get some information on whether we're soliciting the surrender and strays to other counties, 00:23:10.292 --> 00:23:15.390 - because this number seems extremely high just for random people walking in. 00:23:16.066 --> 00:23:21.017 - But when you think about it, I don't believe Owen County has a county run animal shelter that have a 00:23:21.017 --> 00:23:26.115 - humane society. I don't know what Lawrence County has, whether it's animal control or I don't know what 00:23:26.115 --> 00:23:31.066 - Green County has. So again, I think being humane that the people who get these things, you know, get 00:23:31.066 --> 00:23:36.115 - these animals in a situation where they can't care for them, where they found them, you know, they get 00:23:36.115 --> 00:23:41.066 - them in that situation where they have to have something to do with them. And I do get that. I don't 00:23:41.066 --> 00:23:42.782 - want to not help. I'm just, again, 00:23:44.610 --> 00:23:52.385 - questioning the cost breakdown and how it spread out amongst everyone. And a couple years ago I did 00:23:52.385 --> 00:24:00.316 - bring this up and what they had told me is that since they factor in the out-of-county stuff with the 00:24:00.316 --> 00:24:08.170 - total, it lowers our average per animal, plus they also only factor in 70% of the budget, which kind 00:24:08.170 --> 00:24:12.446 - of is like they're estimating 30% from other counties. 00:24:12.738 --> 00:24:19.358 - of the budget, so they try to take care of it that way. I guess my concern is, do we, are we, and this 00:24:19.358 --> 00:24:25.914 - I didn't ask, and I'm going to the next animal control meeting, I get that people other counties need 00:24:25.914 --> 00:24:32.406 - an option, but are we advertising out there in those places saying, hey, come to Bloomington to drop 00:24:32.406 --> 00:24:39.090 - them off? I don't necessarily think that's appropriate. Well, again, not to, you know, take a different 00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:41.854 - tactic, I would almost rather do that than 00:24:41.986 --> 00:24:47.743 - Yeah, I do agree. I just I'm just questioning the I Guess the dollar figure as it works because it seems 00:24:47.743 --> 00:24:53.281 - like we're always we always have this question I mean if we had a huge amount of animal control runs 00:24:53.281 --> 00:24:58.929 - Absolutely, because we're paying for that person's time their gas to whatever right but 10 is not even 00:24:58.929 --> 00:25:04.467 - one per month You know the surrenders I get the strays again. Where do we come across those? Is that 00:25:04.467 --> 00:25:09.950 - animal control run? Is that somebody taking them? I don't know what we're doing that breakdown line 00:25:11.138 --> 00:25:16.239 - And again, this question's come up before. Just because you have an Ellsville address doesn't necessarily 00:25:16.239 --> 00:25:21.485 - mean you're in the town of Ellsville currently. Hopefully, at the first of the year, that will be different. 00:25:21.485 --> 00:25:26.586 - But just like the Ellsville Fire Department actually has a Bloomington address. So when they say, where'd 00:25:26.586 --> 00:25:31.687 - you surrender this from? Well, I'm from whatever the address is for the Fire Department. Oh, Bloomington, 00:25:31.687 --> 00:25:36.933 - check. No, it's an Ellsville facility. So do we have some of that going on where there's people at Ellsville 00:25:36.933 --> 00:25:40.446 - address that don't live in the town that work? I can find that out, too. 00:25:40.802 --> 00:25:52.808 - It would just be interesting to know. But with that said, any further questions from Council? Anything 00:25:52.808 --> 00:26:02.366 - from the public? Back to Council for action. I did not see that. Step up, please. 00:26:15.618 --> 00:26:24.356 - This is an issue in which I would like to see us have further conversations, and certainly William has 00:26:24.356 --> 00:26:33.010 - done some, you're on the animal control board, is it? And that's a county-wide, yeah. But clearly, it 00:26:33.010 --> 00:26:42.088 - would be useful, I think, to have the person that's asking for the money from the animal control services, 00:26:42.088 --> 00:26:45.566 - or animal services, whatever we call it, 00:26:45.666 --> 00:26:52.970 - present at one of these meetings so we can have this back and forth in this conversation. And that would, 00:26:52.970 --> 00:27:00.273 - I think, inform not only the council, which I think needs further information about this, as the decision 00:27:00.273 --> 00:27:06.957 - maker about budget authority, but also citizens who would like to know what's happening. I mean, 00:27:06.957 --> 00:27:14.398 - one of the, you know, I watch a lot of Judge Judy and I see these $5,000 cases with animal bites and other. 00:27:15.138 --> 00:27:24.542 - and other things. So 400 is small potatoes compared to what the cost could be, not only to the animals, 00:27:24.542 --> 00:27:33.585 - and we want to protect the animals, but also the citizens who might be jeopardized by... We need to 00:27:33.585 --> 00:27:42.628 - work on this microphone. It's annoying. We need a microphone where when someone speaks normally, it 00:27:42.628 --> 00:27:44.798 - responds appropriately. 00:27:47.682 --> 00:27:56.424 - Mike. But I will ask Virgil Saunders, who runs the shelter, if he's not the one that can answer these 00:27:56.424 --> 00:28:04.994 - questions, get me the person that can. Next year, I think, would be a good time for them to come in 00:28:04.994 --> 00:28:14.078 - here and explain. This is on the agenda tonight. It's not a first or second reading. It's a new business. 00:28:14.306 --> 00:28:24.715 - As an interlocal agreement, but this is something that would have been worthwhile to have talked about 00:28:24.715 --> 00:28:35.326 - Months ago before in this very body in this very bill a room. So Thank you No one online back to counsel 00:28:35.326 --> 00:28:43.006 - Okay, I move to approve Monroe County animal control interlocal agreement I 00:28:43.554 --> 00:28:50.879 - Motion is second. Whenever you're ready, please. Scott Holdham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Pamela Samples? 00:28:50.879 --> 00:28:58.135 - Yes. Motion passes. If, however, you could get some of those answers to better inform us for next year, 00:28:58.135 --> 00:29:05.251 - that would be great. Absolutely. Next is Fire Department vacancy positions. Fire Department currently 00:29:05.251 --> 00:29:12.158 - has one full-time position that is open. And on the 23rd of October, we'll have a second one open. 00:29:12.450 --> 00:29:20.947 - So what I would like to do, we just went through a hiring process and did all the testing and so forth 00:29:20.947 --> 00:29:29.526 - and we've got some good candidate that's still on the list. So I would like permission to take the next 00:29:29.526 --> 00:29:38.270 - two and offer them a contingent offer of employment based on successful completion of their per physical. 00:29:43.330 --> 00:29:51.009 - Questions? I do have names if you want those. The first one is Coleman Chastain, and the second one 00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:58.688 - is Corbin Tai. And this is being offered contingent upon successful completing all processes of the 00:29:58.688 --> 00:30:06.981 - application process up to and including the PERF physical and mental exams. That is correct. So background, 00:30:06.981 --> 00:30:12.894 - the whole nine yards, they have to pass all of that before? That is correct. 00:30:13.314 --> 00:30:21.453 - Okay. All right. Motions for council. I will let the public know we're laughing because we got the names 00:30:21.453 --> 00:30:29.747 - mixed up. We both thought we heard something different, but so I will move to just approve both department 00:30:29.747 --> 00:30:37.963 - vacant positions as stated for the record from Chief Pat. Coleman, Chastain and Corbin tie. Okay. Second. 00:30:37.963 --> 00:30:39.358 - Motion is second. 00:30:43.458 --> 00:30:50.774 - Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Pamela Samples. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Next is privilege of Florida. 00:30:50.774 --> 00:30:57.946 - Anyone have a business of the council not part of the normal agenda this evening? No one online, no 00:30:57.946 --> 00:31:05.333 - one in chambers. We'll now move to supervisory comments. I'd just like to say I appreciate the board's 00:31:05.333 --> 00:31:12.577 - quick movement on the establishment of a moratorium on the reclassification. Thanks to Darla for the 00:31:12.577 --> 00:31:13.438 - quick work. 00:31:13.730 --> 00:31:21.287 - I really appreciate you guys taking care of that so quickly. Thank you. Chief. Just real quick, we do 00:31:21.287 --> 00:31:28.991 - have another grant to Smithville to try to attain funds for two speed signs that we could put up around 00:31:28.991 --> 00:31:36.622 - town to let people know just how fast they're going or if they are following the speed limit. Awesome. 00:31:36.622 --> 00:31:40.030 - Thank you. Chief, nothing for you. Thank you. 00:31:42.210 --> 00:31:50.364 - chime in with Shannon. I'm still working on, it's been kind of hard to do whenever he's trying to compare 00:31:50.364 --> 00:31:58.364 - apples to apples with a radar type, not two type traffic counter. And the one that I'm wanting, they're 00:31:58.364 --> 00:32:06.211 - a sole providing company. There's no one other one out there like this, the one I'm wanting to try to 00:32:06.211 --> 00:32:11.134 - get. But it not only reads traffic counts, but it also does the 00:32:11.778 --> 00:32:18.146 - speed as well. So I can track speed and traffic count as well. So I do have money budgeted earmarked 00:32:18.146 --> 00:32:24.704 - for that to try to do before the end of the year. And the only difference between that and his is yours 00:32:24.704 --> 00:32:31.009 - is not visible to the public. Yeah, mine will not be visible. It will not show them a speed of what 00:32:31.009 --> 00:32:37.566 - they're driving down the road. It'll just be a box that's probably about that big that I can mount on a 00:32:37.890 --> 00:32:45.687 - signpost or a utility pole anywhere as long as I got a 45 degree angle to the road to be able to track 00:32:45.687 --> 00:32:53.332 - the vehicle. Awesome. I just wanted to remind the public that our budget adoption meeting is Monday, 00:32:53.332 --> 00:33:01.053 - October the 19th at 6.30 PM, which will be next Monday. It's outside of our regular meeting schedule. 00:33:01.053 --> 00:33:06.654 - So I just wanted to remind the public again about that. Anything further? 00:33:07.970 --> 00:33:14.612 - Okay. Council comments. Just that I hope the public knows that we adopt a budget. We also are going 00:33:14.612 --> 00:33:21.254 - to feed it and take care of it and give it a home. So it's a proper adoption. Wow. Okay. They don't 00:33:21.254 --> 00:33:27.166 - bump dad jokes for the win. Seeing no further business for the council, we're adjourned.