The Carmel Common Council met on Monday, September 21, 2026, at 7:00 PM in City Hall. The meeting included a full agenda with public comments on micromobility and surveillance, a FEMA update on August flood recovery, committee reports on the micromobility ordinance and Hotel Carmichael expansion, and passage of several routine items.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Carmel City Hall, and welcome to our Monday, September 21st, meeting of the Common Council. The first item on the agenda is called order. We've done that. Agenda approval. Yes, sir. Um I would like to move to add an agenda item uh to discuss uh the final disposition of the Chris Cunhamarket investigative report. Do you have an area of spot you would like to insert that? Wherever you would like, President. Well, let's do it. It'd be under let's do it. Let's do it under 515 add-on if you'd I'd like to have to be there. Okay, we'll do it in section 15. That's been moved and seconded. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay. I would move. What? That was quite we're out of practice. Oh, Jessica, you weren't following us. Okay, I I am going to move that we reorder the agenda and move section 15 to right between item nine and 10. Second. All those in favor. I guess I should vote. Do we need to approve the agenda, or did we just do that? We move things around. Did we approve the agenda? I think now we need to move approve the amended agenda. Move to approve the amended agenda. Second. All those in favor. All right. Excellent. Pastor Joe Smith from Northview Church will be doing the invocation for this evening. Would you please uh buy your heads and pray with me? Dear God, as we come before you during this time, we just ask for your divine guidance, direction, and wisdom. Well, we all love and care for this wonderful city and the people of this community, but not as much as you do. So we just invite you to direct this meeting, the agenda, the words spoken, and the plans that are being made. We also just pray for protection over our families, this council, our city, leaders, our first responders, medical workers, and all who work so very diligently to make this community the best place it can possibly be. We love you, and we thank you for your goodness to us in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Um while we're in the invocation section, I do want to say that as our Jewish neighbors observe Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement. We are reminded of the importance of reflection, forgiveness and beginning again. May we have the humility to recognize where we have fallen short, the courage to make amends where we have caused harm, and the wisdom to lean and learn from our mistakes. May we be slow to anger, generous in forgiveness, and willing to listen to one another with patience understanding as we conduct the work of the council this evening. May we remember that the public service is a trust. May our words be thoughtful, our judgments fair, and our decisions guided not by the desire of pride or division, but by a sincere desire to serve our neighbors well.