[9:58] Mhm.

[10:32] » I'll call the our

[10:36] meeting to order. Um can I have the roll of the uh

[10:42] uh council? Ken Alexander. Present. Tim Griffin. Present.

[10:46] » Mark Hall. Present. Sue Mackey. Present. >> Amy Massillamany.

[10:49] » Present. Steve Nation. Present. Mr. Vice President, you have a quorum.

[10:53] And let the record show that um Mr. Beaver is sick and that's why he's not

[10:57] attending tonight. Uh next on our uh uh

[11:02] agenda is the invocation of pledge uh pledge Tim.

[11:06] If you could please rise.

[11:10] Heavenly Father, tonight we pause to remember those who serve and sacrifice

[11:14] for others. We lift up the family and friends and

[11:17] fellow officers of Beech Grove Officer Brian Elliott who gave his life in

[11:21] service to his community. Grant them comfort and strength and peace. We also

[11:26] pray for the members of our armed forces who have lost their lives in the

[11:29] conflict in Iran and for all those who continue to serve uh in our military and

[11:35] law enforcement. Protect them, guide them, and bring them home safely.

[11:39] And we as we gather here tonight, grant us the wisdom, humility, and clarity

[11:43] needed for the decisions we make. In your name we pray. Amen.

[11:50] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to

[11:55] the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

[12:00] liberty and justice for all.

[12:06] Uh the next on our agenda there is the approval of the minutes of the work

[12:10] session on February 4th. So moved. Second.

[12:13] Any discussion?

[12:17] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next is the minutes of

[12:23] the regular meeting of February 4th. Motion to approve. Second.

[12:28] Any discussion?

[12:31] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

[12:37] As to the next part, public comment. Um

[12:42] Ms. Morehouse, did we receive any to make public comment? We did not.

[12:49] Uh the next part of our agenda is the committee reports.

[12:53] Um I do not have anything and the Vice

[12:56] President does not have anything. Highway?

[12:59] Uh we met. There's items on the agenda. Uh finance?

[13:05] Did not meet. We have one coming up.

[13:09] Personnel? Uh we had a poll and there was discussion.

[13:14] Uh major projects? We did meet and that information was provided to council

[13:17] ahead of this meeting. Any miscellaneous?

[13:23] Okay. Um no unfinished business, no tabled

[13:27] business, new business. Can I have a motion concerning the

[13:31] approval of gender claims? >> So moved.

[13:32] » Second. Any discussion?

[13:36] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

[13:42] Uh for the next item it is the ordinance CC03-04-2026-A,

[13:51] an ordinance of Hamilton County Council establishing a processing charge for

[13:56] certain minimal property tax liabilities.

[14:00] Can I have a motion concerning this to suspend the rules to permit adoption on

[14:04] first reading? Motion to suspend the rules. Second.

[14:09] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[14:13] Any opposed? The rules are suspended.

[14:16] Motion to approve the ordinance. Second.

[14:21] Any discussion?

[14:24] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[14:29] Ordinance is hereby passed. Uh the next item is the interlocutory

[14:34] agreement uh between the city of Fishers, Indiana and Hamilton County,

[14:39] Indiana concerning the 131st Street and Brooks School Road

[14:45] intersection improvement projects.

[14:47] » So moved. Second. Any discussion? Do they have any planned

[14:53] eminent domain use?

[14:56] We're giving them our county eminent domain use. Yep.

[15:01] That's the plan.

[15:04] So just precautionary. Thank you.

[15:14] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[15:18] Uh the next item uh can I have a motion to withdraw this from the

[15:24] agenda tonight?

[15:27] Motion to approve uh withdraw the fairgrounds update,

[15:31] number D. So moved.

[15:36] All second. Yep, second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[15:40] Any opposed? Yeah. I will now open a public hearing

[15:45] concerning additional appropriations. And again, if any citizen wishes to go

[15:51] ahead and make comments concerning this, please come forward when those items are

[15:55] before the council. Uh the first there is the assessor's

[15:59] office requesting 144 minutes. Motion to approve.

[16:05] Second. Any discussion? Um this is one of

[16:09] several that says they want pace sort of retroactive to the

[16:14] beginning of the year.

[16:18] I'm not sure if that's appropriate, but I just like to understand how the

[16:22] council Yeah, 131. Should we table table it to Just in general.

[16:28] Here This is the certification pay. It was This one is for the certification.

[16:33] So Certification is that I can understand. That's what this assessor's

[16:36] If it's retroactive, it should just be to the retroactive to the date that it

[16:39] was that she became certified. Not to the

[16:42] first of the year. So this one's 131.

[16:45] » Which which is close to the first of the year and I think it happened just in

[16:48] Okay. I understand. It was on the 23rd of

[16:50] January. Yep. But for the record, I'm not related to Ann Hall.

[16:56] Thanks, Kevin.

[17:01] Can we then Yes. Yes. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye.

[17:06] Any opposed? So carried. Uh the auditor's office requesting 144

[17:11] minutes.

[17:14] So moved. Motion to approve for discussion.

[17:17] Do I have a second? Second. Uh any discussion?

[17:22] Here's the one we were requesting wondering about the effective date of

[17:27] the retroactives. Um

[17:29] If he's been communicated to all the parties and uh

[17:34] So these aren't retro. No, they're not

[17:36] retro. Oh, these ones aren't As soon as they are approved.

[17:38] » Nothing nothing on None of ours are retroactive.

[17:43] Has have have that the employees been There's only two retros. 144 is on on

[17:48] the agenda. Okay. Have have they have they been have they been communicated to

[17:51] about the changes that were coming? No. Not till they're approved. Not till

[17:56] they're approved. I understand that.

[18:02] This includes uh uh at least one that that's one one that's

[18:08] reduction. Correct.

[18:13] You're not You're not anticipating any issues with that?

[18:19] According to WIS. It dropped down. I'll take that as I'll

[18:23] take that as a no. Okay. Thanks.

[18:28] Any further discussion?

[18:32] I think going forward if I can just say one thing, um we we get a lot of 144s so

[18:37] when they audit here is that that's usually has to do with pay or job

[18:40] description. When we have these and we have changes,

[18:43] I'd love to I think it would be appropriate because of the budget books

[18:46] and budget hearings we we put org charts and things like that in place and if

[18:50] things are shuffled mid-year, having an update on that would be helpful.

[18:54] I don't know how you all feel. I think we big picture have talked about

[18:59] um

[19:01] where and it wasn't related specifically to these, but there have been others

[19:06] requests that have been made around um job descriptions that maybe are

[19:10] extremely outdated like tens of years and we need to come up with a process

[19:15] that ultimately allows people to uh

[19:19] accurately update at the right time and so I think as a council we're going to

[19:24] have to figure out how we move forward and I know that with 1,400 employees

[19:30] it's not an easy task to undertake and so

[19:33] around budget instructions that's not going to be doable. So we're going to

[19:37] have to come up with a longer term solution in order to evaluate.

[19:43] Is this is a a net chip increase in that line item, right?

[19:49] For this particular salary? Is it positive?

[19:52] It's a positive for our overall budget and a

[19:55] It is a net positive. Yeah, so that's an increase.

[20:01] Any further discussion?

[20:06] All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

[20:11] The next is the Commissioner's office. First item there is requesting reduction

[20:16] of $391,831.

[20:21] » So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So

[20:27] carried. The next item for the Commissioners is

[20:30] requesting additional appropriation of million.

[20:35] So moved. Second. Any discussion? This is just the cash to purchase the

[20:40] ground, correct? Yes. Any other discussion?

[20:45] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[20:50] As to community corrections, uh requesting additional appropriation

[20:54] of $980. So moved. Second.

[20:59] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So

[21:04] carried. Um the next with community corrections

[21:08] are requesting a 144 amendment. So moved.

[21:13] Second. Any discussion?

[21:18] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? [clears throat]

[21:22] So carried. Uh the next is building and grounds

[21:26] requesting additional appropriation. Um I need a motion to amend uh showing

[21:32] that the proper amount there is $107,641.75.

[21:39] Motion to approve the amended amount. Second.

[21:44] All in favor? Aye. Aye. Now, can we go for the uh motion to

[21:49] approve Second.

[21:52] Any discussion?

[21:55] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[22:00] Uh next is uh ISS and requesting additional appropriation of $304,530.45.

[22:09] So moved. >> Second.

[22:11] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[22:15] Any opposed? So carried. Requesting additional

[22:18] appropriation of $1,051.83.

[22:22] So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[22:27] Any opposed? So carried.

[22:30] Prosecutor's office requesting additional appropriation of $391,831.

[22:37] » So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[22:41] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[22:44] So carried. Probation Department requesting a 144

[22:48] amendment. So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[22:52] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[22:56] So carried. Uh Hamilton County Regional Utility

[23:00] District requesting additional appropriation

[23:03] of $1,106,370.

[23:07] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[23:12] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[23:16] So carried. The next is fund 112

[23:20] project income requesting additional appropriation of $250,980.

[23:27] For for discussion. Motion to approve the discussion.

[23:31] » Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Please. Um

[23:35] if you look at justification, it was not Department of Correction not fully

[23:39] funding our 2026 grant as it originally requested.

[23:43] What was the original grant? Why wasn't it funded?

[23:51] Good evening. Um the way that the DOC grant budget uh and

[23:56] that works versus the county budget being approved, there's a delay.

[24:01] So when the county uh with the We submitted our budget to the county last

[24:04] year with We were removing $250,000 from our project income line. We were going

[24:09] to have that paid for with DOC grant funds.

[24:11] » Yes. We had not received or we had not requested an additional uh any

[24:16] additional grant funding in over 10 years. So

[24:18] in talking with the Department of Correction, they encouraged us to

[24:21] increase our ask. We were initially we were hopeful that we would get that

[24:24] money. We were cut, but we did not get the full

[24:26] funding that we asked for. So essentially what the this request this

[24:29] is doing is it's moving that initial $250,000

[24:33] that was going to be in our project income fund

[24:36] and that we moved that into the grant. We're going to move that back to the

[24:39] project income at a later date to reimburse the grant that we did not

[24:43] receive the full amount for. So how much did we apply the grant for? For Sorry,

[24:48] how much for every grant did we apply for? How much did we actually receive?

[24:51] We received 2.54 million. And how much did we apply for? Uh

[24:56] $250,000 more than that. Okay. All right. So that was that This is the

[24:59] exact delta. Okay. All right. That's what I was trying to

[25:02] get at. And did they give you a reason why we didn't get the

[25:06] 2.89 >> They cut grant funding from uh numerous

[25:10] uh community corrections agencies across

[25:12] the state. And unfortunately, um we're staring down another um cut of

[25:18] about $250,000 if not more going into 2027. Did SEA 1 come up in the

[25:23] conversation? >> That's exactly what it is.

[25:25] Okay. Thank you very much, Kim. Thank you.

[25:28] Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[25:35] So carried. Uh the next is um requesting transfer of

[25:39] $4,000. So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[25:43] All in favor? Aye. Aye. Uh the next is fund 1138.0201

[25:54] Cap Development Bridge requesting additional appropriation of

[25:58] $2,200,013.31.

[26:03] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[26:08] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[26:12] So about

[26:15] Um the next item um I need a motion to withdraw that. This is the uh it was

[26:22] already encumbered and uh I just need a motion to withdraw. Motion to remove the

[26:28] Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[26:33] It's withdrawn. The next item is fund 11252

[26:40] uh local emergency planning committee uh requesting additional appropriation

[26:44] of $10,000. So moved.

[26:47] Second. Any discussion?

[26:52] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[26:57] The next is requesting transfer of $5,020.

[27:01] » So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[27:05] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[27:09] The next is fund 1159 Health Department requesting 144. So

[27:15] moved. Second. Any discussion? This is the other retro. This is the other

[27:19] retro, right? >> Yes.

[27:22] Was it for a certification? No.

[27:29] Do we Change of classification.

[27:38] Oh, I'm sorry. We had a question. What is

[27:40] What was that change here? That change was a promotion of a staff uh moving up

[27:45] from our staff nurse position to a to our vacated senior nurse staff position.

[27:49] So this is a existing The the Yeah, the the money was already in the budget

[27:54] because it was vacated out for our director replacement.

[27:57] » was doing the work as of the retro date. Yep.

[28:00] Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Perfect.

[28:03] Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[28:09] The next is fund 1161 Health First Indiana requesting

[28:14] additional appropriation. So moved. Second.

[28:19] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So

[28:24] carried. Next is fund

[28:28] uh 1186 Rainy Day uh fund requesting additional appropriation of million. So

[28:34] moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[28:41] So carried. Fund 1193 Sheriff's Pension requesting

[28:46] an additional 83,852.

[28:51] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[28:55] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[29:00] So carried. Uh the next is um

[29:04] fund 1219 and that May I have a motion to have

[29:09] that tabled to the next meeting? Motion to table.

[29:15] Do I have a second? We skipped J. No, we skipped J. No, we skipped J. Yeah. Yeah.

[29:19] Oh, I'm sorry. That's it. Sorry. Yes. So We'll come back to it. We'll We'll take

[29:24] out K and we'll go back to J. So So do we want to motion for J?

[29:30] Motion to approve fund 1213 Guardian ad litem

[29:34] for 191 5 Second. Sorry, for 65,200.

[29:41] Do I have a second? Yes, second. Yeah, but the only question I see is we got to

[29:45] have an updated form for the auditor's name.

[29:51] There [laughter] are a few departments like that that are still holding strong

[29:53] that she's coming back. Oh, that's what they're That's what they're hoping for.

[29:58] Good catch. Good catch. Any further discussion? No.

[30:02] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[30:07] Now we can go back to K fund 1219 parks. Can I have a motion to

[30:13] have that tabled? Motion to table. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? It's so

[30:19] tabled. Next item is fund 11 or 1222

[30:24] communications request in a 144 amendment.

[30:29] So moved. Second. Any discussion? This is another one

[30:32] that's retro.

[30:36] This is the third one, right? Yep. Well, second for I think what they're

[30:40] referring to. The other one was a certification, so I don't know if they

[30:42] did two or if they meant Correct. Should we Do we need discussion on that?

[30:55] No, I'm okay. Okay. Then all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any

[31:00] opposed? So carried.

[31:02] Fund 1224 reassessment requesting

[31:08] additional appropriation of 900,000. So moved. Second.

[31:15] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[31:18] Any opposed? So carried. Fund 1234

[31:23] prosecutor forfeiture requesting additional appropriation of 113,000.

[31:28] So moved. Second.

[31:31] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[31:37] So carried. Fund 1237

[31:41] opioid restricted requesting additional appropriation of 104,852

[31:48] and 22 cents. Motion to approve. Second.

[31:54] Any discussion?

[31:57] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[32:01] So carried. The next is requesting reduction of 5,600.

[32:06] So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye.

[32:11] Any opposed? So carried. The next is fund 4595

[32:18] Village Park TIF requesting additional appropriation of 906,412.

[32:25] So moved. Second.

[32:27] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So

[32:32] carried. Fund

[32:35] 4596 146th Street ramp west TIF requesting

[32:41] additional appropriation of 1,427,125.

[32:48] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[32:52] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? [clears throat]

[32:55] So so carried.

[32:57] Fund 4596

[33:02] dash point 4618

[33:06] HCRD TIF requesting additional appropriation of 26,388

[33:13] dollars and 83 cents. So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[33:20] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[33:24] Fund 4597 Thompson TIF

[33:29] requesting additional appropriation of 1,546,720.

[33:36] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[33:39] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[33:44] So carried. Fund 4598 96th Street

[33:50] US 421 TIF requesting additional appropriation of 4,000,000

[33:56] 335,412.

[33:59] So moved. Second. Any discussion?

[34:03] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

[34:06] So carried. Fund 4807

[34:11] non-reverting computer maintenance requesting additional appropriation of

[34:15] 304,530.

[34:19] 304,530 dollars and 45 cents. So moved. Second.

[34:25] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So

[34:30] carried. Fund

[34:32] 4918 youth assistance program requesting additional appropriation of 58,914

[34:41] dollars. So moved. >> Second. Any discussion?

[34:44] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[34:50] Can I have a motion >> remove fund 4924 convention visitor and

[34:54] tourism capital request. Can I have a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. That

[35:00] is hereby withdrawn. We're into grants and additional

[35:04] appropriation. >> Mr. Vice President, I make a motion to

[35:07] combine X1 through 6. Second.

[35:13] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.

[35:17] Any opposed? May I motion to approve items X1 through

[35:22] 6. Second.

[35:25] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So carried.

[35:30] I close the public hearing. Any announcements from the sheriff? No,

[35:35] sir. Any from council? No, sir.

[35:38] Any from the auditor? No, sir. That concludes our meeting.

[35:43] Thank you.

Hamilton County Council Regular Meeting March 4, 2026

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