Like I said, we walk >> but anyway
» we all are. >> All right.
» Looks great. The council >> Good evening everybody.
» It is 7 o'clock. We will call this meeting of the Bristol Town Council to
order. Today is Thursday, August 20th, 2026 at 7 p.m. And we'll start off the
agenda with pledge of allegiance.
Sergeant Serge Sergeant, right? >> Yeah. Sergeant, are you this please?
» I am aliance 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. >> Yep.
Right. into roll call or my left Doug Smith
» here. >> Tony Davidson
» here. >> Kathy
» here. >> Greg Tolski
» here. >> Jeff Beach is here. Town manager Mike
Yoder >> here.
» Uh assistant claser, assistant town manager Joel Schwarz
» present. >> Legal council Alex Bowman
» here. Town Marshall Steve P >> here.
» And fire chief Nick H. >> Good evening everybody. Everybody had a
chance to review the agenda? >> Yes.
» Yes. >> Okay. Any additions, corrections, or
modifications needed? No. >> Okay. If not, the agenda will stand as
published. I'll mute my phone.
We will get into um at the invoices. Everybody had a chance to review the
bills? >> Yes.
» Yes. >> Okay. Any questions?
» I make a motion we approve the invoices. >> Okay. Motion by Kathy.
» I'll second. >> Second by Doug. Open for discussion. No
further discussion. We'll take a vote. Doug Smith.
» Yes. >> Tony Davidson. Yes.
» Kathy Burke. >> Yes.
» Greg Tolski. >> Yes.
» And Jeff Beach is yes. Motion carson. >> Next we have approval of the minutes.
Looks like we have a few of them here. Um regular council meeting on 7:16 and
8:26. Work session on 8:18
and executive sessions from 8:4 and 8:18. So I had a chance to
review those. >> Yes.
» Yes. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve?
» I'll approve. >> Okay. Motion by Tony. I'll second.
» Second by Greg. Open for discussion. >> No further discussion. We'll take a
vote. Doug Smith, >> yes.
» Tony Davidson, >> yes.
» Kathy Bird, >> yes.
» Greg Dolski, yes. And Jeff Beach is yes. Motion carries.
» Okay, we will jump right into recognition. So,
Steve, take it away. >> Uh, thank you. Um, I just wanted to
publicly recognize uh Kyle Hammude as our new sergeant for the Brisbane Police
Department. Um, we had testing. Uh, he was a successful candidate. A little
background, Kyle. He's been here for about 10 years as a full-time and was
here I'm not sure the time as a reserve prior to that. Uh, he I appreciate the
fact that he has picked up the slack. He's been our only patrol supervisor for
the last six, eight months and basically doing a couple different roles. And you
wouldn't think there would be that much to do department 11 officers, but you
know, he's checking all the boards, making sure the schedule's done. So,
he's he's done a lot of work, a little bit of sal. So, uh he's been in the role
for about a month. We were going to do it at the last council meeting, but
because of everything that was on agenda, we decided to wait. So, um so
he's our new target. Hopefully, near future, we'll be adding at least a
corporal, not two, spots for patrol supervisors. So hopefully soon we can
introduce a couple more officers for you.
» Thank you.
» Congratulations. Thank you. I appreciate and congratulations to Mrs. for putting
up with
council.
and Kyle, I want to thank you. Um, you've you've been a you've been a
cornerstone of this department for a lot of years. You've been through a lot of
ups and downs with us, and I just really appreciate everything you've done. Um,
there were some challenges that you could have easily walked away from, but
you didn't do that. um you've stood for Bristol for a lot of years and I
personally want to thank you and I appreciate I appreciate your patience
with us. Um took a little bit of time there for a few things but um I really
do appreciate sincerely um everything you do for us and everything you've
done. >> Thank you. I appreciate that.
» I appreciate your smile. >> Really, every time I see you, you've got
a smile on your face. [laughter]
» You're one of the lucky ones. Why, thank you. [laughter]
» Cuz I'm watching the boys. Are you looking mom by themselves?
» Well, they're both that bright. >> Okay. So, you don't want to leave that
one home by yourself. >> Yeah.
» All right. Well, again, congratulations. >> All right. Um, moving on. Mike, what do
you have for us tonight? Just a couple items. Uh, first is our SRF number 58.
is of the wastewater treatment plant which shapes do you approve that
payment? Okay,
there's a is there a motion for wastewater treatment plant SRF
dispersement number 58 in the amount of $158,63
to cross for construction with 8319 to retainage.
» I'll make that motion. >> Okay. Motion by Kathy.
» I'll second. >> Second by Doug. Open for discussion.
No further discussion. We'll take a vote. Doug Smith,
» yes. >> Tony Davidson,
» yes. >> Kathy Burke,
» yes. >> Greg Nolleski,
» yes. >> And Jeff Peach, yes. Motion carries.
» Okay. I have a few pictures from our projects. Um,
around town. This is our wastewater treatment plant. We are finally starting
to build the maintenance uh office and laboratory building after about a
fiveweek delay waiting on utilities to move a guy wire. Uh, so that is
underway. They're pouring. I think they poured the footer yesterday or today and
they hope to be pouring the floor uh next week.
Uh we had a a meeting today. They said we may have that done by December 27th
or something like that. We'll see. Yeah. Uh the next picture is from that's our
new street maintenance building that uh frames up the roofs material steel is
there. So, we're making good progress with that.
Next picture is a couple pictures from our downtown that I took today. You can
see we've made good progress on the sidewalk. Uh, if you go down one more
picture, that's in front of the tool shed. And actually, there's some
concrete poured after I took that picture.
I don't know about you, but if you go down to the next picture, this is what
this is what this corner looked like last summer. And I found myself I'm
already used to the way this the picture if you go down one more picture it's
what it looks like today from about the same perspective.
And uh we're we're becoming accustomed maybe it's because I'm out there every
day of what the new street looks like. I've already forgotten what it looked
like last March.
» It's quite a big difference there. that bump out. I think um
» I think we're all a little concerned about how far that comes out, but I
think that's going to be really nice. Adds some very clear parking
» areas and delineates the parking areas from
» what used to be a occasional travel lane.
» Yeah. >> And you said you saw a boat turn out of
there recently. >> I did. And um
and they did okay. They were they were over a little bit into the orange
barrels. Uh but I think it will be fine. >> Okay.
» If not, everybody can just turn left. >> Or we can Well, and we can talk to ind
about that, too, because this is their design.
» They they've already brought it north is about as far as they feel like they want
to. We want to protect the parking area. >> Okay.
» So, nice.
» Okay. Uh the black the top soil went in out here. I expect we may get saw should
be saw out here next week as well. >> Okay. Everything's looking good. That's
all I have unless you have questions. Okay.
» You did note that we as expected NIPCO will have the bridge closed seven days
longer than we promised. >> It'll be one week from today it'll be
open. >> Okay.
» It was supposed to be open Wednesday or Monday.
» Are we surprised? So it's not it's full seven days.
» No, it's not. >> It's like four days.
» Yeah, >> because it went from the 24th to the
27th. >> It just every day sounds like a week.
Seems like >> Yeah. Well, it does.
» Mhm. >> I'm sure Anthony feels that way, too.
You're going down 17. >> Yep. Every morning four o'clock.
» Yep. To go east. Yeah. >> Traffic is terrible going.
[clears throat] >> All right. Anybody have anything for
Mike? Nope.
» Okay. Not. Jill, what do you have for us tonight?
» Uh, first item I have is ordinance number 820 202619 is the additional
appropriation for the fire truck in the amount of 772,000.
So, we're going to open a public hearing for that.
» Okay. >> And then after the public hearing,
passing the ordinance. >> Okay. And is this just second reading
for this one? Okay. >> All right. Correct. So, at this time, we
will open up a public hearing to review ordinance 8-20-2026-9.
So, if anybody would like to make public comment, please step up your microphone,
state your name and address, and ask any questions or make any comments you would
like.
Okay, seeing no comments, we'll close the public hearing.
Next will be I'll call for a motion to approve ordinance
» I'll make that motion >> 8-20-26-9
» motion by Tony [clears throat] second
» second by Doug open for discussion >> yes
me I'm sorry >> um is this this is the final amount
correct >> correct
» okay y >> that's just what I wanted to make sure
» y >> okay any other discussion Nope.
» If not, we'll take a vote. Doug Smith, >> yes.
» Tony Davidson, >> yes.
» Kathy Burke, >> yes.
» Greg Golski, >> yes.
» And Jeff, she say yes. Motion carries.
» The second item I have for you tonight is an amendment to our salary ordinance.
So, if you guys recall, um we hired a couple students uh with Northridge High
School uh several months ago uh with their workbased learning program. So,
our uh street superintendent, John, thought this would be a great
opportunity as well um to hire a high school student. So, hopefully one that
maybe doesn't want to pursue college afterwards that would like to then maybe
roll uh roll into this role, especially since we have a few uh that might be
retiring in the next uh 5 years or so. So, on the second page, you'll see we
have uh a level one and a level two for a non-exempt part-time employee.
and that will be split between our MBH park and cemetery fund. Okay.
» So, what I'm asking for tonight is a motion to wave the second reading and
adopt on the first reading. >> Okay.
» And then if that's approved, then follow a motion to approve the amendment.
» Okay. >> Is there a motion to wave second reading
and adopt on first reading the salary ordinance amendment? I'll make
that a motion. Okay. Motion by Doug. I'll second that. It's a motion by Doug,
second by Jeff. Open for discussion. No further discussion. We'll take a
vote. Oh, >> I just wanted to know does that mean
that that's a minimum of 30 hours. >> This is your
» Oh, that's true. I'm sorry. I have another motion to wait for.
» Yes. >> Any further discussion? That will take a
vote. Doug Smith, >> yes.
» Tony Davidson, >> yes.
» Kathy Berg, >> yes. Greg Dolski. Yes.
» And Jeff Beach is yes. Motion carries. Is
» there a motion to adopt the salary ordinance which is
8-20-2026-20?
» I will make that motion. >> I'll second.
» Okay. Motion by Jeff, second by Doug. Open for discussion.
» Yes. >> Kathy, what do you have?
» I just wanted to make it's a minimum of of 30 hours that they'll be here. Do do
they have any hours set or anything? >> So this employee will be working between
15 to 20 a week. So we're about 40 hours per pay period.
» Okay. Just >> and that's probably on the high end.
» Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks.
» I'm done. >> Okay. Any further discussion?
» Okay. If not, we'll take a vote. Doug Smith, yes. Tony Davidson, yes.
» Kathy Burke, yes. Gregski, yes. And Jeff Beach is yes. Motion carries.
Uh the last item I have tonight is uh approval to publish a notice to
taxpayers of an additional appropriation. I can list them all. Does
or do you have it where we can post it? But it's a total of 558,400
and these are for projects, Mike?
» Yes. I think they're listed. >> Yep.
» We just have a long salary ordinance. Yeah. Yeah.
» So, it's a request out of our tiffs. >> These are the um the shortfalls we
talked about Tuesday night during the budget. These are filling the shortfalls
in the projects that freeze under.
» Oh, the whole thing froze up.
» Hope it doesn't just die on me. >> So, the tips we're pulling from several
tips. Um >> I can list more.
» Yeah, go ahead and read it. These are this is for the St. Joe water project
and the street building. >> So we're asking um three tiffs, the
south tiff 150,000, the east tiff 50,000
and our GGT tiff for 87,000. Those three are for the Elkart and St. Joe water
main project and street department. And then we have our Seahawk TIFF for
$50,000, Rail Park for $27,400.
And those two are for the street building and Hitch Holdings, the
rightway. And then the last is the Valmont TIFF for $14,000.
And that is closing cost on the Bristol molded foam property, rightway property.
So a total of $558,400.
No, you don't have the whole agenda packet. The other packet
switch again. >> No.
» Well, that's the only page I have. >> Okay, that's fine. That'll work.
» Maybe you share yours. >> Yeah, we could. Okay, there you go.
» Oh, yeah. There we go. >> Oh, it is.
» Okay. So, this is So, you're just looking for approval to
» to advertise to publish to the taxpayers.
» Okay.
Make a motion we give approval to advertise.
» Okay, >> I'll second that.
» Second by or motion by Kathy, second by Tony. Open for discussion.
» No further discussion. Take a vote. Dan Smith,
» yes. >> Tony Davidson,
» yes. >> Kathy Burke,
» yes. >> Greg Gowleski,
» yes. Yes. Motion carries >> and that will be read at the September
17th meeting. >> Okay. on second.
» Yes. Thank you.
» Okay.
[snorts]
» And the last thing I have
is tomorrow evening is our final hometown summer night event. um inviting
the public and council and whoever's listening to come to that event tomorrow
evening. The fund begins at 5:30 with the magic show and then um a live
performance in our Bristol Opera House at that will begin at 7 with Abby Thomas
» and it's free. >> So comes not Abby Thomas.
» Yeah. >> Okay. Great. Thank you Jill.
» Thank you guys. >> Anybody have any for Jill?
Okay, after that we will move on. Steve, what do you have for us tonight?
» I have the July activity report for the police department. Um said August on the
agenda, so we're not quite done with that yet.
Um uh July 2026, we have 520 calls for services that we responded to. Uh we did
11 in custody arrest, uh traffic enforcement. We wrote with 76 citations,
26 warnings. We took 63 case reports. We worked 18 accidents. Um we drove 12,710
miles and we had 88 and a half hours of overtime. The overtime was a little
skewed because of homecoming, a couple other things, but u we're looking really
good on our overtime budget. So, I'm relatively happy with that. Um, code
enforcement, uh, I won't read them all, but the
majority of his warnings that he had written were 60 for tall grass, 17 for
signs of devices, and 21 for illegal parking. A total of 105 complaints
initiated by our code enforcement officer, and two came in from citizen
complaints. Okay. Other than that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay.
» Any questions for Steve? Okay. If not, thank you Steve, Dustin,
and Kyle for all you do for us. Um, appreciate everything you do. And
thanks, Garrett. Sorry. Didn't see you back there. I did, but
thank you for all you guys do for us. Appreciate it. And we just pray that you
stay safe. And again, Kyle, congratulations.
» Welld deserved. >> Okay. Um, Nick, what do you have for us
tonight? >> Well, the same report as a good month
for the most part. Uh, 99 calls in July, 301 responses,
uh, list of types of calls we took on. I want to
make a note of our hazardous materials release that happened over the Fourth of
July weekend. We had Elair City Fire Department come in and help us with
that. uh along with some offduty personnel.
Ended up being not a major deal, but it just took a long time for them to for
everybody to clear out. And fortunately, the factory was closed, so we didn't
have to evacuate in a very big area. Couple structure fires, couple cardiac
arrests, and I won't read them all cuz that's a lot. So, uh total of 99. Like I
said, uh I just want to remind everybody of the public that we're school is back
in session. Even though we're unfortunately we don't have one in our
town, we still have kids that from this area that they're going to school. We
have Amish kids that are starting school and they'll be on bicycles and and uh
pony carts who just had a horrible accident down south of Mbury where three
Amish kids were hit by a car in a pony cart going to school. So, just want to
remind the public to watch out. It's really hard when you're driving east and
it's uh in the morning that sun's really bright and it's really take your time.
Slow down. Watch for kids on the roadways waiting for school buses. Those
happen to be uh coming a little bit earlier since they got to travel a
little bit further. So, just make give yourself extra time.
Uh August 14th, we uh participated in the United Way Carbo Race. If you don't
know, um it was our fourth in a row win for the first responder race and our
second overall championship uh in a row for it was 54 boats or something like
that. >> Where's your boat? Are you going to put
it on display? >> It is on It's at the front of the
station. It's inside. Yeah. Yeah. >> To see it.
» Yeah. Um, we want to extend our sincerest thank you uh to Alliance
Sheets and for their continued partnership providing the materials for
that boat and helping us with uh all the stuff that they do to help us uh get
that boat uh made. Um, thanks to Lieutenant AJ Robertson. He's the
mastermind behind the building of the boat.
» The man scientist. Yeah, he's does a really good job at that. Uh firefighter
Clayton Corbin and firefighter Gage Wilds, they uh they row the boat, steer
it, do all that fancy stuff. So, they did a great job for us. We do appreciate
it. Again, thank the town board and the citizens, the police department for all
their help uh last month and and every month. Uh appreciate everybody's help.
Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks, Chief.
» Anybody have questions for the guys? you know,
» you guys have been busy. >> Yeah. Well, we appreciate all you guys
do for us and uh thank you um for keeping us safe and we pray that you
guys stay safe as well.
» Parkboard, do we have a report tonight? >> I can give a quick recap. Linda's unable
to be here tonight. Um so the last meeting, um the first of this month, uh
Mike presented the 2027 budget. um to go over with the park board. They didn't
see any issues with that. They continue to work on their projects. Um they made
um some comments. If you've been to uh Condom Park or Hermanance, there's been
some I really nice improvements to the landscaping area. So, if you haven't
been down there, check it out. Uh a lot of that's been done by Kathy Antinelli
and a few other people. So, and she's donated her time to do that and a lot of
the plants. So, they're uh they approved a purchase of some park benches um in
Cumins Park. If you guys seen the basketball court has been redone. So,
with that, we added some uh benches to go around that. Um other than that, I
think that really recaps the report quickly for you guys unless
you have any questions. >> I don't think so. Anybody have
questions? >> No.
» Okay. >> Okay.
» Thank you, Jill. >> You're welcome.
[clears throat] >> Alex, what do you have for us tonight?
Thank you, council. Uh, this evening I have before you ordinance number 820
20226-22, which is an ordinance of the town
council declaring certain municipal funds dormant and authorizing to
transfer the balances of such funds to the town's ready day fund. Uh, this is
involved some uh discussion that we had um earlier this week with regards to uh
the the funds that were established to u support the river golf course. Uh
there's two funds uh that were uh that were opened. Um one has a an amount of
about $563,775.
The other about $72,228. Uh there's a a process that's provided
for under statute where when municipal funds are considered dormant, um
essentially the the fund that that uh was created uh no longer serves the
purpose for which it was created. um those funds can be rolled back into
either the general fund or the rainy day fund. Uh so the ordinance here takes
those um both of those funds eliminates them and rolls that money into rainy day
fund. Uh as a timing component um this would be effective upon the transfer of
the river golf course. Uh so council will recall that the operator is there.
Um there are some outstanding details of some of the economic development
questions. Uh so once that transfers those funds will be eliminated and the
clerk treasurer will be authorized pursuant to this ordinance to roll the
money in the rain day. Uh that's the ordinance in a nutshell.
Uh happy to answer any specific questions you may have. Okay.
» Um procedurally procedurally you can do this one of two ways. Uh there there is
no public uh hearing component to this ordinance. So, if you're so inclined, uh
you can wave uh second reading and adopt on first. Alternatively, if you prefer
to to hear it again, uh at your first meeting in September, you can do that as
well. >> Okay. Anybody opposed to just going
regular route doing two readings? Single readings.
» I don't know. Maybe have two readings. You have two
» and doesn't matter either way to me. And anybody opposed to It's not
required, but anybody opposed to opening a public hearing regarding this
ordinance? >> Not opposed to.
» No. Okay. Procedurally, do we have to do anything in the agenda or do we can just
open the public hearing? >> Well, I mean, as far as to hear it
tonight or to hear it um >> Well, tonight and maybe the next
meeting. >> Uh and at the evening at the uh meeting
this evening, if you wanted to invite public comment, uh you certainly could,
but >> Okay. Uh if you
the more effective means I would say would be if
you were to publish a notice to say that this would be considered at the next
meeting. Um that would provide a true public hearing component.
» Okay. >> Uh if you so desire
» or we could do one tonight and the next meeting.
» Absolutely. >> Okay.
» I'm confused why we're going to do that. >> So people can come in if they need to or
want to. Gives everybody the opportunity. Well, I Yes, but I mean
it's just moving funds, correct? >> Well, there's been some question about
it. >> Oh, there has? Yeah. Well, see, I
haven't heard anything about that. So, if there's been question about it, of
course, we need to answer those questions.
» Yeah, >> good idea.
» Okay. >> Well, before we do the ordinance, then
um I'm going to open up a public hearing with regard to the um dormant funds for
the Raper Health course. So, there's anybody in the room that would like to
make public comment this evening, please step up the microphone, state your name
and address and ask any questions or make any comments.
Okay, seeing none, we will close the public hearing and then we'll call for a
motion for ordinance 8-20-2026-2020-22.
And that motion will be to advance the second reading.
» Advance to second reading. Yes. Yeah. >> Would the council like to apologies for
interching with Would council like to notice public hearing for the September
3 meeting? >> Yes, please. Sure.
» Yeah. Okay. So, is there a motion to advance to
second reading for the ordinance? >> I'll make that motion.
» Second. >> Motion by Tony, second by Kathy. Vote
for discussion. No further discussion. We'll take a
vote. Doug Smith. >> Yes.
» Tony Davidson. >> Yes.
» Kathy Burke. >> Yes.
» Greg Dolski. >> Yes. and JPCs. Motion carries.
» Thank you, council. We will prepare a notice for publication. Okay.
» And we'll uh we'll have this ordinance before you again uh September 3rd.
» Okay. Otherwise, um nothing else for you this evening. Okay. Anybody have
anything Alex tonight? No. Okay. If not, we will move on to the next item on the
agenda, which is privilege of the floor. Is there anyone in the room that would
like to make public comment this evening? If so, please step up to the
microphone.
Okay, seeing no takers, we will close the public by the privilege of the
floor. Um, move on to town council discussion items.
Doug, anything tonight? >> No.
» Tony? >> No, sir.
» Kathy? >> Yes. Mike, have you had a chance to look
at that uh tree hanging over the road? >> Nope, but it's online schedule to look
at. I had a call on some other trees. So I
think tomorrow I'm touring >> tree.
Arbor Day. Yeah, >> day.
» Okay. >> Just one. Thank you.
» Anything else, Kenny? >> No.
» Okay. Greg, anything tonight? >> Nothing.
» Okay. And I have nothing. Uh, next meeting September 3rd at 6:30 p.m. we
have our RDC meeting. Um, Baker Tilly will talk about the
annual TIFF report. And following that, um, September 3rd
will be our regular council meeting. Is there a motion to adjurnn?
» I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Tony, second by Greg. For
discussion further discussion, take a vote. All in favor?
» I. >> I.
» Okay. Thank you everybody. Thank you everyone.