The Elizabethtown City Council held a work session on February 9, 2026, opening with an invocation and pledge. The meeting featured recognition of city employees earning certifications, a detailed stormwater department update, and public comments regarding noise and odor complaints from a nearby industrial facility. No formal votes were taken, but next steps were outlined for addressing citizen concerns.
Good afternoon and welcome everyone to Elizabethtown City Council Work Session for February 9th, 2026, and I'd like to ask Councilmember Tony Bishop if he lead us in the invocation, please. Father, we thank you for another wonderful day. We thank you for the sunshine and and the and the warmth. We just thank you for watching over our community as a whole, and we especially want to thank you for our employees and the dedication that they they do each and every day. We ask that you be with us this day, watch over us, lead us, guide us, and direct us in the way that you would help us to go. In your son's name we pray. Amen. If you would please join us in the pledge. Yes, sir. Councilmember Bishop. Here, Folkerson. Here. Isaacs. Here. Jones. Here. Springsteen. Here. You have a quorum mayor. Thank you, ma'am. And at this time, we are going to do something that we have not done before that I am proud to say that we're going to start doing throughout the year and the many years that I've been here and the years that uh will follow. We have plenty of our teammates in multiple different departments that often during the year get certifications to improve their abilities to do their job. And so we're going to recognize some of those folks today. And uh I'm gonna ask uh Mrs. Graham, who is our city clerk and also our alcohol beverage control officer, or director or manager, or whatever title she likes the best, administrator, if she would explain a little bit about who we're gonna recognize today. Thank you, Mayor. And I'd like to thank you for these additional appointments to ABC. Um, this is really uh supplemental for our department, especially to our dedicated officer Jones back here, who does a phenomenal job with investigations and with um reporting um case reports. So really we wanted this to be um just supplemental and another tool in the toolbox is what I'd like to say for them. And we want to be good partners with our businesses and continue to keep our citizens safe, and we feel this is another way to do this. Very good. So do we want to go around front? Yes, yes. So we're in alphabetical order because there are several. If you'd please come up. Mrs. Graham's gonna give you your certificate, and if you would stay up here and line up because Mrs. Emman wants to take a picture. Lieutenant Pete Chitla. Major Matt Kugel. Sergeant Dietrich Cooper. Sergeant Andrew Eckert. Sergeant Andrea Hare. You did right, Andrew. Officer Jared Hatfield, Officer Cooper Jones, Officer Richard Jones, Lieutenant Madison Kaklinski, Sergeant Gary Mark, Sergeant Chase McCown, Sergeant Michael Mertz. Sergeant Gary Mark. Sergeant Chase McCown. Sergeant Michael Mertz. Detective Eric Ryman. Officer Steve Richards.