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The Clarksville Town Council convened for a work session and regular meeting on October 20, 2026. The work session covered meeting streaming technology, animal control staff classification, and a proposed property tax abatement. The regular session included police awards, a chipper purchase, a CDL driver wage increase, and a vote on the tax abatement resolution. The next meeting was rescheduled to November 2, 2026 due to Election Day.
The council approved the consent agenda (items 5.1, 5.2, 5.3), which included minutes from previous meetings, claims, payroll, grants, and acceptance of minutes, by a vote of 6-0.
No members of the public signed up to speak during the regular meeting.
Just leave it. Put you in the pledge till we can't do it. Good evening. Welcome. I welcome you to our Clarksville Town Council work session for October 20th, uh, 2026. This evening we have three items that we'll go over. Hopefully, it won't take us too long to get into those. So, first item this evening, we're gonna talk about our meeting streaming options. And I will kick that over. Uh Kendall, are you on it? Thank you. The town currently uses Granicus to live stream public meetings under a five-year agreement signed in June 2023 and ending in June 2028. Staff has experienced recurring live stream failures, including black screens, audio dropouts, and encoder issues. Agenda and packet preparation remains manual, and the current system locks closed captioning needed to meet upcoming ADA Title II accessibility requirements. Staff with infinite solutions evaluated three options. The first option is to remain with Granicus, upgrading to obtain a new encoder and closed captioning, which would be included in that new encoder. This would replace the existing agreement and extend the town's commitment through approximately June 2031. The second option is to move to in-house streaming, and we worked with Haas Design Company to look at everything that we have, and he estimated that it would cost around 10,975 in the first year, including equipment and installation, and then it would be 7,335 in annual services, including 3,300 for stream processing and $750 for remote support. That only includes up to 10 instances a year that he would support us on, and that would only be remotely. Captioning is billed as used. So basically, if we go over the 150 hours of closed captioning, we have to pay 20 per additional hours. If you have any questions for them, it's only a it's a two-year, two-month agreement. Correct. What is how how long is the agreement for with Haas Design Company? One year. E scribe is in 12 month increments. So after the first 26 months and 12 months every after that, it'll be a five percent increase. It it just would not exceed a five percent increase, up to a five percent increase. Yes. Yeah. Kendall, can you hear me okay? Can the Raymond hear me? Yes, I'm gonna turn you up a little bit. Yeah, no problem. Yeah. Yeah, hello everyone. Um, I'm Bob Brayman. I'm E Scrub's account executive for the state. Um just a point of mention, I'm a lifelong hoosier. I grew up uh just north of you in Lawrence County and uh resided up in Johnson County the past 20 plus years. But yeah, I wanted to clarify. So typically eScribes uh standard terms or 36 month agreements, but we're so excited about this opportunity um to serve the town that we were able to get um an approval that your renewals could be reconsidered on a 12 month basis versus our standard 36 months, and as Kendall mentioned, uh we'll guarantee that um your first year renewal would not increase um over five percent.