[0:00] to work.
>> So go you can go ahead
[0:11] to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
[0:17] stands. One nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.
[0:27] [laughter]
[0:32] I'd like to welcome Steve to the
council.
[0:36] » Thank you.
>> Happy to be here.
[0:40] » This way.
>> Just wait.
[0:44] » Yeah, it won't take long.
>> Approve the minutes from August 4th,
[0:47] 2026 council meeting and for July 29th,
2026
[0:53] meeting. Do I have a motion?
>> I'll make a motion. Do I have a second?
[0:58] » I'll second the motion.
>> All in favor?
[1:01] » I
>> opposed.
[1:07] Did you have anything from Jerry?
>> No, I do not. Okay.
[1:14] Can um
Smithfield is not here. AB,
[1:20] is that all you have?
Um yes.
[1:26] I need
>> I didn't get a chance to ask her via
[1:31] email. I saw um
the
[1:39] they got some more parts and stuff.
Maybe one of the water trucks, one of
[1:41] the town trucks, but it was So, did they
divide that? Cuz there was like $586.
[1:48] Is that divided?
>> Did you see it on there twice? It's
[1:51] divide. It was divided between water. So
it's so it's over $1,000. Is that the
[1:57] way I read that? Or
[2:03] » was it far?
>> Yeah.
[2:10] » Just a minute.
She has a copy of it. Steve's looking at
[2:15] it. I have
>> I just couldn't remember if they were
[2:18] divided equally or if that was
>> it. Yeah, I think pretty sure that one's
[2:23] divided equally.
>> $8838. $838.
[2:28] So, is it $1,600 was the bill?
>> Is that almost
[2:35] » 26581
is the
[3:01] Yeah, there's two parties and they're
divided equally. 83853
[3:08] invoice.
[3:18] Oh, I don't have them attached in here.
I can grab it from my office if you
[3:21] want.
>> I just couldn't remember if
[3:24] that was 858 divided equally or if it's
double. So, it sounds like it's double.
[3:30] » That one. Yeah, that one was It's the
83853*
[3:35] 2.
>> Okay.
[3:40] » Thank you guys.
And you probably can't see everything on
[3:44] that because it only gives you like this
much space, but all the full description
[3:49] is typed out in here. That's where like
if you I could have sent it to you ahead
[3:54] of time and then you could see what's on
there
[3:57] » because it will only let you see that
little description.
[4:02] Um,
>> will it come through the the ones we
[4:06] signed tonight or is that next meeting?
It'll be on the next one because it's
[4:10] not been printed yet. It's not been
approved. So,
[4:14] » can you email me that please?
>> Yeah. Yep.
[4:16] » Thank you.
[4:21] » So, do I have a motion then to approve
the APV register August 18, 2026?
[4:30] » I'll make the motion.
>> Do I have a second?
[4:33] » I'll second.
>> All in favor?
[4:37] Opposed?
[4:41] Um, only other thing I had was on
budget.
[4:46] Um, me and Tr have everything pretty
much pinned down on the budget. If you
[4:51] guys want a meeting to go over it with
us, then we can do that. If not, we can
[4:56] just present it to you.
>> I would like to have a meeting. So, she
[5:01] was wondering if you guys
>> if you guys could do
[5:11] She said she could be here. The first
meeting in September is the first.
[5:16] She could be here to do it before our
meeting at 5. Does that work for
[5:21] everybody or
work schedules that might not
[5:30] » be our next board meeting?
[5:36] » And then we have
[5:39] Well, you know,
[5:43] » okay.
>> Okay.
[5:52] » That's all I have.
[5:57] Okay. The warning siren.
It is. We need to
[6:05] do an ordinance for it. It's ordinance
20268
[6:12] 18. Establish the emergency warning
siren donation fund.
[6:19] And this is just so that I have a fund
where those donations are specifically
[6:23] going into and they're being held there
for only that purpose. So, we just have
[6:29] to have that say I'm allowed to
establish that fun.
[6:32] » It says here be it ordinance by the town
of Wulit Town Council Wit, Indiana that
[6:40] a need now exists for the establishment
of an emergency warning siren donation
[6:46] fund for the following purpose. to
accept and spend funds to be used for
[6:52] the purchase of a new emergency warning
duly adopted by the following votes of
[6:59] the members of said count town wit town
council the 18th day of August 2026.
[7:06] Do I have a motion to accept the
ordinance?
[7:10] Do I have a second?
>> All in favor? I oppose.
[7:24] The library board reappoint.
[7:31] Um, the Wula Community Public Library
would request that you reappoint Morgan
[7:38] Grant Board to the library board. This
is her fourth term to serve. for the
[7:43] term is to be from September 21st, 2026
to September 21st of 3, 2030.
[7:53] Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion.
>> Do I have a second?
[7:59] » All in favor?
>> I opposed.
[8:23] Well, I see what you [laughter]
didn't
[8:28] do.
[8:31] » I got a heart attack
[8:36] and $397.
Okay. I had got some
[8:44] where my garden used to be and I watered
that for several weeks. Uhhuh.
[8:50] There's no way that I use that much
water.
[8:54] Okay. Well, I think it should be
some of it should be off.
[9:01] The water we cannot adjust.
We can adjust the sewer.
[9:06] » Okay. Well, I didn't use the sewer. just
went down
[9:09] » right
Bri. What was the difference between her
[9:13] oats
with the ser?
[9:16] » I forgot to do
this, but
[9:26] » you got to go.
[9:44] wastewater was 124
22.
[9:51] I'll let Carrie read this. She better
than I do.
[10:00] » Sewer.
>> The sewer. I need to know. We needed an
[10:04] amount. charge for this bill was 12422.
Okay.
[10:10] She's looking real quick at her account
right now
[10:14] » to see what the adjustment would be if a
couple of minutes.
[10:24] » Yeah, her water charge was 15673
which we can't adjust any of that.
[10:32] is
[10:37] what's
[10:46] » the same.
[10:50] » Your last payment was $953.
[11:32] So the adjustment that should be able to
do is 8624.
[11:38] based off how we normally address
[11:50] 80 $8623
is what we can take off your sewage.
[11:57] Like I said, the water we cannot adjust.
That's not us. That's
[12:05] » state requirements.
>> So, um,
[12:11] do I have a motion to adjust for water
bill for 8624?
[12:17] » Do I have a second?
>> I'll second.
[12:21] » All in favor?
>> I
[12:24] » oppose.
[12:31] on that on that topic. This is the
second feeding in a row we've dealt with
[12:35] this.
>> Yes.
[12:36] » Is there I know you have to get people
to pay attention, but if they're going
[12:41] to be doing major watering, they need to
can they let us know so we can How does
[12:47] that is there? Is there a way to
mitigate the
[12:52] problems that come up?
[12:57] » Like, hey, I'm going to be watering my
grass for the next month. Um, you're
[13:00] allowed a sewage adjustment for a water
leak or a pool adjustment once a year.
[13:05] That's it.
>> Um, but they don't allow it. We don't
[13:08] allow it for like watered grass and
stuff like that, flower charging, all
[13:12] that. Um, so then if somebody wants a
sewage adjustment, they come to the
[13:16] council for that to get permission to
grant me permission to do that.
[13:22] » Okay. So, this this is how it's supposed
to happen. Thank you. That's what I
[13:25] mean. Um I think that we we really need
to think about this um because you know
[13:32] we've loast
water because they were so um
[13:38] financially distracted. So I think that
we need to be as good stewards as the
[13:42] community look at making adjustments in
the future
[13:47] » so that
>> not
[13:51] tell
[13:58] » I think that we really need to seriously
consider
[14:02] we're going to do in the future with
this and I think that didn't you say
[14:06] there was an ordinance
There's there's got to be Steve, were
[14:11] you here when
>> I was here, too? I don't remember.
[14:15] » Yes.
>> Um, it used to be where you could water
[14:20] your grass and stuff like that. You can
get a well, but back in 2017
[14:25] that was taken away. But I don't I guess
I don't know.
[14:30] » Or
forgive me. I don't I'm not pointing at
[14:34] you when I say this. This is the second
adjustment we've had for watering. It's
[14:38] either we state it townwide, let
everybody know, if you're watering your
[14:43] grass, you're not going to get a sewage
adjustment or we it's it's one way or
[14:48] the other,
>> right?
[14:49] » Say if you need to water your grass,
that's fine. But
[14:52] » I think that's something that we will
need to wait and discuss and figure out
[14:56] at the first year since kind of started
this year. Again, I guess I'm just
[15:02] thinking ahead that if it's if it's not
in the town and
[15:05] » I Michael Michael just informed me that
I didn't I was aware that that's how the
[15:11] wastewater and all that works. So, but
we started precedence or precedent that
[15:20] » that way if everybody knows, hey, I've
got a water facade,
[15:24] » be ready for it because you're
>> right.
[15:26] » So, I believe what the issue was back
then was people would come in with a
[15:31] high water bill and say, "Well, I
water."
[15:33] » Yeah. Yeah.
>> So, that's why that was done away with
[15:37] and then they would
say, "I'm going to fill up a pool."
[15:42] » And then let
Yeah.
[15:46] Yes. They had a pool and they could say,
"Hey,
[15:49] » and now I have a formula that I use that
Linda got from somewhere." So, and I can
[15:56] because I'll get people that are like,
"Oh, cool." And they think I certain
[15:59] dollar amount. But if there's no if I
get the difference between your average
[16:04] and what they actually used, and if
there's nothing there, then I can't do
[16:07] anything for them. The student
adjustments don't really
[16:12] depending like if somebody has a really
big pool, it does, but
[16:24] » anything else?
>> Two things. Now that Kenny showed up,
[16:31] what's the um story on the firewood?
Have we
[16:35] in the alley?
>> Fireworks?
[16:38] » No, the firewood
>> lineus.
[16:42] » Is that technically a fire hazard or is
that
[16:46] » I don't think that constitutes what the
statue says. The town dumped that wood
[16:52] there from a tree that was cut down over
a people's mill. Okay.
[17:00] Name the street according to
[17:08] » truck. No. Well, uh
the street superintendent
[17:15] hauled it over there with Bobcat. Dumped
it there in the alley that way. If you
[17:20] look at it, it's not stacked. It's not
even against the building. It just
[17:24] dumped.
>> Yeah.
[17:25] » Softly like way to split it. Some of
that's going to take a hell of a lot of
[17:30] work to even split, right? So, uh
[17:37] Jared talked to Memphis about it and he
told me that
[17:43] the town called over there for him, I
guess, to get it cleaned up. Jared told
[17:50] him
that if he wanted to, the would haul it
[17:56] down to the the water plant is and it
there and he could come and get it when
[18:02] he wanted to or they do something with
it.
[18:07] » Okay.
>> And I don't know how that that was the
[18:09] last on the subject. Okay. That was
fully declared that somebody
[18:13] » So, a it's not a fire hazard according
to what you see and b it's it's being
[18:19] coordinated to get moved.
>> There's two or three pieces in there
[18:22] that I think is rotten. Yeah. if you
wanted to push the issue, but um my
[18:28] understanding was that u
he was going to Jared was going to have
[18:34] him
[18:37] » haul it down to the water.
>> Okay. If he wanted to go get him and not
[18:44] I guess town would dispose it.
>> Okay.
[18:47] » But
>> so it sounds like something's in the
[18:49] works.
>> Yeah. Jared left it with that's way told
[18:53] me there
>> okay
[18:56] » after he had talked with so
the the problem and and this is wood you
[19:03] know I made a comment that a lot of us
in violation that it's wood against
[19:07] building
other things like common sense things
[19:12] like fuel tanks and things aren't under
that same statute but wood cannot be
[19:17] stacked against the building supposed to
be up off the ground maybe six or eight
[19:22] inches
and not touching the building because
[19:26] obviously
if it get caught on fire it would set
[19:30] building right but
that doesn't constitute anything but
[19:35] mess
I drove by it three times and I have
[19:40] snow plow on the truck I put down a snow
plow pl in the ditch but
[19:46] » please do not put it in the ditch
>> everything else is in there buddy
[19:54] Yes, that's
>> okay. That answers the question I have
[19:56] and thank you county.
>> We have been awarded $750,000
[20:04] to have our ditch done. Um, we I talked
to Brad Ward yesterday and he said
[20:12] within the next couple of weeks we would
be getting emails on the next step
[20:19] » because they're matching.
[20:24] » The 750 is the bring it and then the
county is paying the match portion.
[20:29] » Okay.
>> We do not have to. So the ditch will be
[20:35] » get to be worked off.
[20:44] So hopefully that's soon.
>> Okay, awesome.
[20:47] » At least get started on it.
And um recycling.
[20:54] I talked to Don yesterday
and there was to have more gravel
[21:00] brought in. The electric is there, but
the light is not hooked up yet.
[21:06] She was talking to uh Mike Smolic
because he is the one that is
[21:12] coordinating all this and she said that
it should be done within two weeks
[21:19] and uh containers will be moved down
there.
[21:22] » Looks really good. I was down there not
too long ago.
[21:24] » So hopefully it stops the mess in the
ditch.
[21:28] » Yeah, just in my yard.
>> Sorry about that.
[21:33] Um, I don't know if it has to be brought
up, but
[21:38] I was asked there's maybe going to be a
blocking in the alley at the end of the
[21:41] month between Burke or between Anderson
and Scott Street.
[21:47] They're going to bring that moving
trailer in.
[21:50] » Okay,
>> there they said it could be three days.
[21:53] So, the alleys may be blocked or there
may be a moving trailer on this road.
[21:59] They just wanted to let the town know
that there could be a blockage in the
[22:02] alley for three days.
[22:08] » That may cause a problem with Sutton's
garage.
[22:13] » They've that's all been discussed with
neighbors.
[22:17] » Okay. So,
>> um, is there because I know like with
[22:21] the library we talked about closing the
alley for 4 day or four hours for that
[22:26] party, but I don't think we need to
close it,
[22:28] » right?
>> But just she wanted to let everybody
[22:30] know that
[22:35] » I'm assuming a 53 foot moving trailer.
>> The only thing that could cause trouble
[22:39] is if there would be a fire down the
alley.
[22:41] » Yeah, but I'm assuming it wouldn't be
there overnight. It would be it
[22:45] » during the day.
>> Yeah, they orordinated with the church.
[22:48] They coordinate it, but they won't know
where it gets parked until the moving
[22:51] people show up with the trailer.
>> Okay.
[22:53] » Moving people get they'll pretty much
say, "Hey, we're going to park the
[22:56] trailer."
>> So, is that on the 27th?
[22:58] » 25th, 26th, 27th,
[23:07] » yes, but they want to let the town know
that they'll be
[23:11] » Well, I guess there's the two gentlemen
you need to talk to because one's fire
[23:14] and one's hand.
>> Yeah. So,
[23:17] But that coordinated with the neighbors,
all neighbors that know. So
[23:23] this is a semi trailer and they said a
moving trailer.
[23:28] » Oh, moving trailer.
>> They're having a company come in and
[23:31] move things.
>> Yeah.
[23:33] » So,
but it's she said 25, 25th, 26th, 27th,
[23:38] and it could be any portion of those
three days. Could be half days,
[23:44] » but we'll work around it. So,
>> is there anything else?
[23:49] » That's all I have.
>> Steve, you got anything?
[23:52] Damn it.
>> No,
[23:58] » then.
[clears throat]
[24:05] Oh. That's