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All right, please.

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I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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» Council President
>> here.

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» Council Vice President Michael
>> here.

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» Council member Joerger
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» Council member Ed
>> here.

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» Council member Andy here.
>> Okay. Next up on the agenda is the uh

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consent agenda.
register

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sanuss

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» no we um we do the payroll in house now
which you're not

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those because those are all usually
processed through paycheck

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but we've taken that um inhouse with the
so we made those payments ourselves

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» yes it is the that is the
security

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» okay anybody else have any questions on
the

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So
second I have a motion and second

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additional discussion. All those in
favor signify by saying I

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otherwise have citizen comments

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staff reports. Captain sir good shiny.
Thank you very much for you.

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» Thank you. Uh we had some recent staff
changes which opened a super supervisory

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position for night shift. After a small
in-house

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application process, we have appointed
John Hartley as a sergeant for B nights,

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not to be confused with Landon Harley,
who is already a sergeant on Bdays. So,

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we're excited for him and he's getting
started with some of that supervisory

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training. Now,
some of our officers participated in the

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street racers detail with IP and state
police back on August 21st.

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Uh that's through grant money through
the state. Those kind of spinners, those

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vehicles that take over the
intersections. During that, our one of

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our officers spotted a reckless vehicle,
stopped him. We were able to get a

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serious violent felon in possession of a
firearm off the street as well as a

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driving arrest that was actually very
close to town.

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We've had a couple of recent breakins
and thefts around Arthur overton that

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area. We have a couple leads that we're
following up on trying to see if we can

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gather out of that. We did have a
firearm that stolen out of that. So,

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obviously that's kind of important for
us to try to get back. We picked up our

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Polaris Ranger today. Um it was outside
if anybody wants to do that. We have to

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get decals down still and then we're
going to incorporate that into our

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driving training that will be coming up.
Speaking of that, we have driving

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training later this month at the Marian
County Fairgrounds. We've started a

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partnership with them and using some of
their grounds they have when it's

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nobody's there. So that's very helpful
that it's a nice large space. There's

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several different structures that we can
use kind of elevate our training a

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little bit. We did stops which is
traffic stops training there a couple

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weeks ago. Um got a lot of positive
feedback from that. use our simulation

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firearms and Sergeant Landon Hartley
conducted that training for us and again

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we got a lot of good feedback from our
officers saying they liked it. So

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trailer retreat coming up on October
17th 3 to 5

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and chief wanted to mention that we are
coming up on the 25th anniversary of the

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terrorist attacks on September 11.
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appreciate.

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We uh been digging into insurance both
on the benefits and liability side quite

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a quite a bit. Um we get benefits
meeting earlier with a somewhat quite

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trivial things. We're
have a little bit of a tough year but we

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have some ideas on changes that will
help that out for next year. On the

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liability side since we changed
brokerage we've probably been meeting

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with Epic
talking or meeting about times a week.

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We found a lot there to make changes on
pretty significant got feedback. Not the

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worst I've seen. So that's that's a good
good bar. But we are going to try to

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rewrite go to 111 with our liability
insurance the same way we do with our

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health insurance on the same term. So
everything was up beginning of the year.

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Um separately uh from that uh the
Indiana School Management Association

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uh is awarding the town an award at the
leadership lunchon they have for

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professional management leadership
community partner award. I am the

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president of that board. I want to be on
record that I did not nominate

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that
look questionable and the president

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boards getting award.
So they they select Cumberland for

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promoting professional management of
government in the state of Indiana.

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Then also December chamber chooses four
communities from the nine county region

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to highlight and spotlight every year.
So beginning of December, they are going

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to do spotlight on County Cumberland for
their fourth quarter event here at town

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hall, but it's a ticketed event that the
chamber puts on. So they're going to

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probably bring in some extra chairs and
things for that. We are allowed to

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reserve x amount of tickets for those
that want to attend from our

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organization.
That will be right before as well as

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couple days before that.

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pretty pretty excited about that. We're
getting somewhat of a regional

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recognition on the current initiatives
right now. Then Christine and her staff

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been working with the businesses. They
had the sunflower festival over the

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weekend. We got really good feedback on
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All the residents that attended all

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Thank you, sir.
Public hearing additional

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appropriations. Is that correct?

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Open the public hearing.

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Close the public hearing on
appropriations.

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Okay. Old business consideration
ordinance 20269.

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Sir, you're ahead of you right now.
You're fine.

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» Good afternoon. Um, this is ordinance
126-9. Um, it was introduced at the last

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council meeting. So, I'll be brief. Uh,
this ordinance is up for vote today. It

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is an ordinance appropriating additional
funds to the budget of the county

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with a grand total to7,000.

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I will be happy to answer any questions.

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Motion that we approve
amendment 2026.

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» Have a motion second. Additional
discussion. All those in favor signify

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by saying I. I. I.
Thank you so much. Thank you.

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Okay, we have a public hearing for NX
5821 and 5823 West US40. I'll open the

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public hearing for that.

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See [snorts] comments I'll close the
public hearing

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business in the ordinance 2026-10
properties. Miss

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» Thank you. Um this is the ordinance uh
introduction for the annexation of the

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property that we just told you about
hearing on. This is just for

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introduction this evening. Just to
refresh your memory, this property is

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where
houses and the industrial

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just buying it. So one of the lots is
already in town while the area next in

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town and so two lots

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of impact essentially
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All right. Any questions, comments? This
only for only this evening.

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All right. Number two, consideration
resolution 2026-09.

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» Yes. Um, so this is the resolution that
adopts the fiscal plan for the laws that

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we just discussed. These are existing
buildings. There's no proposed

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improvements on it. Um, so it's very
minimal. [snorts]

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Any questions? All

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right. Any questions? This is an actual
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Resolution
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I have a motion and second. Any
additional discussion?

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All those in favor signify by saying I.
I. Oppos. Otherwise have

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this open. You're on a run tonight.
House Bill 101, the housing audit

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presentation.
>> Yes. Um so I'll be brief.

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Um you have a copy of report as well as
the presentation that was provided to

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commission in the council chair. I also
added a copy of the draft minutes from

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commission the other night. No one
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watched since then.
I'm just going to highlight a couple of

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things that are in the in the
PowerPoint. Um so one is the findings.

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There are five kind of key findings that
staff found as we analyzed um the

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ordinances as it relates to the house
101 those nine factors they have asked

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us to look at. So over the last five
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that does tend to indicate to us that
our ordinances are likely updated for

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what is being constructed.
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um none of the projects that were
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actually get permitted in our R1 or R4
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districts.
They some of the standards would fit in

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our R5 or R six, but those are multif
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allowed. So, we do have some
inconsistencies there. Um we do not

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permit residential in any of our
commercial districts. So when you're

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talking about mixed use and some of
those things, we are starting to see

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more communities include residential in
some of their lower impact districts,

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but we do not allow that. Our middle
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most flexibility right now. Um, and
lastly, the the typologies we have our

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comprehensive plan don't line up with
our zoning district. So again just

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another inconsistency indicating that
it's time for school amendments which as

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you'll recall we have contracted with
HWC to do an update to our unified

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development ordinances
control ordinance that's something that

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has started and will be completed by the
end of next year. So a lot of the nine

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uh the items in that n those nine
categories that we've been asked to look

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at will really get analyzed deeper as
part of that process and looked at. But

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there are some recommendations that I
just want to highlight that we'll be

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looking at this year and then some of
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So one is some process changes. Um the
plane commission um would like to look

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at establishing a plaque committee. This
is a smaller board. It takes the

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subdivision plat out of the plan
commission to the smaller committee. Um

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it allows us to be a little bit more
efficient, put some timing off on there

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and it does require us to have a minimum
of one commission member there and the

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plan commission makes the appointment to
that committee. Um it does require

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amendments to the ordinance. So we're in
the process of drafting those. Those

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would be to go to P commission and then
they would make recommendation to

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council ultimately council will make a
determination of whether or not that is

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something um that you guys want to do.
We're also recommending some things to

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expedite your development plan process.
Um right now we require public hearing

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for that. However, under state code,
we're not required to do that. So one

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that
requirement we think needs to be

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modified. And then also um under Indiana
code, the legislative body can designate

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that to the commission staff. A hearing
be committee or commission. So we're

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recommending that that be a staff
approval and that in fact we use our T

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committee which is our technical
advisory committee with our engineers

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and department heads on it to um review
those development plans. So those two

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changes will allow us um to save um a
couple of on each of those processes. So

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ultimately we could be saving developers
potentially a month if they're required

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of those.
Um for the zoning recommendations, one

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of the things that we'll be recommending
this year as part of our transition um

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we'll be bringing development changes so
that we have zoning districts for our

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Marian County properties um that we
don't a lot of legal non-conforming

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uses. And what we found is instead of a
bunch of new districts. We believe we

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can make some modifications to our R5
and R six zoning districts that will

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solve a lot of those issues. Um that
also lines up with some of those

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inconsistencies I identified in our
findings. So we'll be looking at

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allowing single family in our five and
our six and then also um modifying some

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of the speakers in there. That's
something that will be coming back to PL

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council um late fall and that this year
for consideration and that will put us

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in a good position um as we become an
excluded town January one to be able to

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administer those comprehensive
control ordinances um consistently on

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both sides post on the entire town
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and then um There's many items that we
are asked to look at. Architectural

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standards, parking, um a lot of our
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um allowing different residential
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Those items really deserve adequate
study with our comprehensive plan

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nearing completion. It's going to go
through the approvals process this fall.

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We're preparing for this Uno transition.
We have HWC under contract to update our

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unified development ordinances. We think
if we would be if we asked you to make

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changes now, we would be reacting um to
kind of a suggestion versus doing a

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really good study to make sure we're
being consistent with what our community

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is asking us to look at and give
thoughtful study of these of what the

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standards should be in these districts.
So, we're recommending that the

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remaining items be analyzed and
considered as part of our uh update to

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the development board.
That is a quick version of highlights of

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what is in um our audit on housing. Um
ultimately, I think we have some good

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things in there with our housing, but we
also do have some things that we know we

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need to address and there are some
opportunities for efficiency. So, um,

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you're required under this new act to
hold a public hearing on this, which we

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did at commission reporting back to the
council and then we'll report to the

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state that we have this hearing and our
findings.

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» I have a couple questions.
When I reviewed the PowerPoint, I did

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have some concerns. very first one was
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lot sizes lot sizes
that causes me concern

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and I know it was also house bill
that was addressed as to what type of

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house it will bring the second concern
was it is odd it looks like now from R1

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to R4 now they're back to pushing double
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that they were so against that.
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» the market is the market is cyclical.
So, if you do this long enough, as many

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as of us have watched the housing
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» you see what is old is new again.
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» And so I I agree. When I first started
out, you know, 25 years ago, R1 was

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single family, R2 was single family,
delex, R3 was single family, delex,

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triplex, R4, and it went on. We got to a
point where it was like all single

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family, everything else is mult.

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The other thing I thought was
interesting was on R5, R six

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» because now they're looking at rather
than having industrial zone area. Now

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we're shifting to able to put
residential in there and doing almost a

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fixed use.
I found that very interest.

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» Yeah.
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brought up is one of the reasons why a
lot of those development standards we're

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recommending we take under consideration
as part of our new process that to come

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in and make a quick decision. Now, I
don't feel like we're doing the

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community justice. Um, we also haven't
adopted the comprehensive plan yet and

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we want to make sure whatever we adopt
with our standards aligns with that

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comprehensive plan. And so while these
are things that we're being asked to

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analyze, I think that's exactly what we
need to do is analyze them and then

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determine based on our community's
guidance what's appropriate for us

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» and then ultimately
if this, you know, we're going to do

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whatever the state requires of us,
>> we'll probably have a new law by next

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July anyways.
>> I know that's I guess that's where I was

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heading.
>> Yeah.

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I sit on the House Rep's summer housing
committee that is carrying this

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legislation now. It's not the same
legislator as last year. The House

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leadership, the governor's
administration moved it to the House

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And we were having really good
conversations, but then it moved back to

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the national agenda after
they their summer national conferences.

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So it's like they get in the chamber. So
I came back in really good collaborative

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space and then after they went to their
summer conferences they came back to

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basically 101
items.

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We're trying to work more into talking
about incentives and less about regular

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[clears throat]

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» I do think it's good to take it under
adisement and evaluating

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other things come spring.

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And when it comes to like a lot size
concern, there's lot size, there's

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density, there's also form based code
which gets away from those things, but

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it has other standards in place to get
to what you want design. So it's

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important that we look at this
comprehensively from all those different

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angles to figure out what's best for our
community instead of just automatically

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like
check something like let's do. So I'm

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not These things are necessary things we
should do. These are things that

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» Thank you so much,

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» Mr.
Consideration of 2026

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radio and ramp ADA analysis.

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That's okay.

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[clears throat]

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Analysis.

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[clears throat]
The agreement is for 21,000

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exceed 21,000 [clears throat]
walk down rail sidewalks on a five scale

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similar to scale

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also
analysis as well.

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happy answer any questions you have on
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a lot more subjective than what it was
they have some decent standard on how

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they scale correct
>> yes

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what the characteristics of each
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» there's a national engineering standard
for the sidewalk analysis similar to

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phaser
A lot of people

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think it's a little bit more subjective.
I forced these two to do a class

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recently. So really on how
those things actually are

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» contract
Do I have any questions?

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» 21,000 is not to exceed.

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» I was just going to say it sounds
expensive to me when it's done as to

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what what they find. It's been about 15
years since we've done a complete town

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to we've been working that entire time
year about 60,000 or so you guys budget

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sidewalks but it's really time for an
update so we can refocus

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those projects

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contract.

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Will they break
will they break down just general

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repairs versus ADA
um deficiency [clears throat] or

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deficiencies in the ADA

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reports?
>> Well, it's all going to be rated within

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our GIS system the same way we do. that
five analysis will be on there, but

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those numbers like on ADA will trip
specific stuff like will be a priority

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one to do. Um, but you you have your
condition deterioration and things in

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that because that all turns into ADA is
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a tripping hazard
cracking those type of things. So, it's

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all through the lens of ADA and then
severity.

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like a general repair

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because that will become at some point
probably a trip or hazard

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» bottom line
we're completed the audit now the audit

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audit
>> yeah we're completing it right now as

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long as we have an annual plan
we're making progress towards ABA that

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we

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But how long will this take?
>> I don't know when it'll probably

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four weeks and then we'll probably
administration.

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This is an action.

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We approve the

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contract

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$21,000 about 15 $21,000
and the timing

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and sign

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motion is second compensation. All those
in favor signify by saying I I

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» no eyes out.
Thank you,

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» Mr. Lips. Looks like the rest of the
evening is yours.

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[clears throat]

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» First before you use ordinance 2026-11.
This would add several definitions to

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your code as well as some fines and a
lot of roadway and trail regulations.

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driver for this has been a lot of calls
and complaints about post calls, kids on

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scooters, emotives, things like that,
trails, neighborhoods, post calls on

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trails, post calls in the neighborhood.
Kind of defines that. It's not uh

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procluding like your typical ebikes,
things like that. It's more focused on

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some of the emotives and making sure
people that are driving on our roadways,

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that are experienced drivers train to
drive

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A lot of it doesn't repeal a whole lot
of code other than some of the parks

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code would change a little bit through
this, but there's a fine section.

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Otherwise, if we move forward with this,
we'll add new trail signage and rule

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signage entrances throughout the trail
is kind of on our radar to do anyways.

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Um we want to put these new regulations
very clearly have entrances to

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our trails.
It does regulate roadways as well

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enough to operate on the roadway and
follow all safety regulations. See more

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and more kids and I said scooters
particularly ebikes just blowing

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intersections and I get hit by cars.
So scary stuff like that.

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particularly wide spots of the trail

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of that nature
introduction tonight only.

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» You might have questions over 2026-1
did you

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read a lot of other neighborhoods?
>> I always research what's being done in

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the area. It's pretty hot issues. So
pretty much all Indiana

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recently

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recently
look at those based on complaint where

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those

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is just defining
some regulations not really procluding

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things entirely except for greens trails
sidewalks

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in those fines get some revenue back
towards

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[snorts]
>> I have a couple questions. Um, what's

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the difference between multi-use trails
and our greenway trails?

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» Multi-use trail would be like your
perimeter trails and things like that

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like you know branch corner has a trail
around the outside of it that be a

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multi-use trail whereas the greenways
are

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Py trail things are listed in there.
>> Okay.

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Just really don't know how somebody
would be able to tell the difference

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like
>> but like these scooters

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are allowed on sidewalks. They can go 15
or 20 miles hour.

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» Yeah.
>> And then I guess they're allowed on the

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multiuse trails.
Am I correct?

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» You are correct. And some of that is to
keep them out of the roadways.

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So there's certain areas where you don't
want them in the roadways.

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Transit is a thought. So that's why most
communities have gone in that direction.

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I just don't know how anybody reading it
could tell the difference like oh well

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you know multi-use trail that's they're
thinking they can get on the trail

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» but and then on the sidewalks
>> it it does break out um

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in
definitions at the top

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» the greenway specifically being trail by
trail

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» yeah I saw
>> multiuse

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» I didn't know what the multi We use
blocks.

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» Yeah. It's those groups of 8 ft or wider
that are not the designated water

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greenway trails because typically your
greenway trails are more of your large

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most interconnected network whereas a
lot of times your multi-use path is your

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off-road pedestrian cyclist safe transit
to keep people out of the roadway.

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» Okay.
>> Kind of like

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700 or something.
>> That's right.

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» Okay.
>> That's not your major recreational

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trail. It's more of your pedestrian
cyclist. Don't be in the road here

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preferably for
>> So we put signs up or we are regular

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trails and we put you know it will list
like no.

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» Yep. We didn't break it completely out.
>> Exactly. Put everything there. We put it

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at every entrance was one of the things
I was talking with the PD about because

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they already have some confusion. So
whether you're looking at stuff already

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because a lot of our neighborhood
connectors don't have trailer rules

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coming in. So there's some people who
may never go to a trail head but use our

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trips all the time. So they're not
actually seeing those rules.

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» Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

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» Anybody else?
>> Okay. Introduction ordinance 2026-12

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policy.
>> Our briement policy we've operated under

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for years doesn't have a lot of clear
definitions and it's been not uniformly

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applied in different situations. It's an
area where there's been times complaints

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from supervisors and staff. So the aim
of this ordinance is to clean up those

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definitions and be very clear as to um
what can happen where so there's not

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debate. It also kind of tries to pull
the supervisors out of it HR. So there's

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less of that um just inter department
struggle and face within that looked at

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surrounding communities kind of what
their policies are a lotments and basic

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reason I like it very close rel

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I did like that change the policy I
thought that was more than fair

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about how many comments policy.

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Okay. Final ordinance 2026-13
adopting employee ethics policy.

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» Yes. This would kind of take some state
policies and put it into employee ethics

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policy. Further define that, expand upon
that. Um it's also part of transparency

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initiative on different processes and
takes in account historic HR complaints

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other issues as we kind of gone through
and finally HR a little bit more but the

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goal is really just transparent
government and making sure we're

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practicing things ethically up and down
clearly defining that to staff conflict

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of interest
other areas for

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you did nice job on the 16 pages.
I know the first four or five are on the

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origins itself. I mean always
to make relevant. I thought you did a

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nice job trying to break it down
different areas, different people,

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different sections, different
responsibilities

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that

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» council comments.

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Um,
I was an update on the church. Um,

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specifically
the way it looks like I've had people

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call me and are just appalled.
>> Yeah, we've been having some

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conversations about that as well.
Captain about it yesterday. He's getting

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some action with the health department
going. We start communicating with the

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chief over there that's in charge of
working with the health department.

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the sheriff's office.
>> So,

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» are making strides on that since the
fire has gotten a lot worse because

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there was a fire on the western most
building. It's really put a lot on the

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eastern most building. We know there's
some outstanding violations on current

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owner and some other factors with
current owner that be happy to talk with

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you guys about meeting oneonone basis.

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Appreciate reaching out kind of getting
that ball rolling because we were

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getting a lot of calls. I know councelor
is getting a lot of calls and I talked

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about it seeing if they could bring
resources or he could lean on the health

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department as well some of those items.
>> Can the health department the one that

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burned declar

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» they did an order today on an inspection
on the other one.

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They have a judge's signature for that
one and I think seven or eight day

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evacuation of everybody should be done
by a certain date and if it's not then

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we can go.
>> Both of them are just

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» both. Yes.
>> Yeah. The the one that had the fire is

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supposed to be empty as of now. The
other one they have several days to get

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out and then we can kind of enforce that
with the judges signature.

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» Okay.

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» Hopefully we can get them at least
there. Last time I was grass to be cut

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really bad.
>> I highly doubt [clears throat]

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» that is something that we need to get on
to Mar County about

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» we have leans and the city has leans and
it's headed towards

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» it like Indianapolis needs to cut it you
know somebody needs to cut it clean up

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trash
>> I think the tax bills

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I don't think
she's trying aggressively to sell right

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now.

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She's trying to sell

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in order to sell it.

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» So when
27 something like that. We can deal with

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that.

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» Yeah.
We can give them a certain amount of

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time. They don't get it done. We can cut
it and put on it.

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» Yeah.

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That's a good thing.

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» Just finished building cracks yesterday.
>> Excellent.

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Okay. So then the paint later

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color something else.
>> We got blue. It's not perfect match for

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the majority of the
go and paint white stripes back over

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the blue.
>> Uh then

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I talked to The most common thing I
probably wasn't about criminal justice

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stuff was about trash. We got that
worked out January 1. Everybody's

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garbage sitting in their driveway. We
have Marian County worked out with the

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city. They're still under contract for
additional two years. We have the

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documents out

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back with them. If not, my
recommendation was going

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at the end of that contract term
both sides.

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» That's not unless we do a separate

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expand.

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might

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» um I don't think we'll know something
like that until November.

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So it's it's difficult with
administration changes and a lot of

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department has also turned over the past
six months not just the mayor's office.

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a lot of people working

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office pretty much every single
department.

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» Do you think anybody else?

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» All right.
>> You're going to have Everything that was

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introduced tonight by budget
introduction

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public hearing the second

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sustainability

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We have lots of spreadsheets that

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do

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You know,
>> keep Julia