The Evansville Board of Public Safety met on August 12, 2026, at 1:01 PM to consider a range of items including an amendment to a charity event road closure, police and fire department requests, handicap parking installations, and numerous special event permits. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance.
We've got a pretty full agenda today for August 12th, 2026. If where we get started, if you'll all stand for the Pledge Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, uh as we get started here, we're going to start with uh business with a representative in something that's been under discussion a little bit uh in the past, and we'll try to see if we can get this figured out today. Uh Todd Early from Tiki on Maine, if you will step up and state your name and address for the record. Yes, Todd Early from Tiki on Main, 524 Main Street. Um this is to amend the uh already approved uh uh roadblock for September 26th uh for the Tailgate revival uh charity event and uh to uh extend that to uh sixth street to MLK on May. Uh now brought along uh lead singer of Tilgate, and he would like to address uh the committee as well. Okay. I'll make it quick. So I came down in 2006 to go to University of Southern Indiana, so I've been in Evansville now for 20 years, planning on coming here for four. My hometown was 1100 people, okay. Uh my band's actually started here in 2016. This is our 10-year anniversary party we're having. My band is now out of Nashville. Uh I'm the only local guy. I drive back and forth or get on a plane and go wherever we're going. So flew in from Minnesota last night, leaving for St. Pete, Florida tomorrow to go play shows. Um could do it anywhere in the country. Would love to do it here at Evansville. I just sent my my daughter to kindergarten here today in town. I got a second grader here in town, and I think it's community impact. Uh we've already raised before we sell one ticket, we should be at about $10,000 going to local charities. I have four Evansville Police Association, chemo buddies, uh, hoofbeat therapeutic horse riding, which supports our local veterans to go horse work in the stables, and then the uh local Evansville Animal Care Center. So we generated that money through myself, the band, and some local sponsors who I thought the corporate world may come out and help support this event. It hasn't been, it's been local plumbers, local electricians, everything, you know, garages, restaurants. So I felt like it was worth me coming in here and saying, hey, I know this is just uh hey, this is a concert going on on Main Street, but it's a little little bit more meat to it. The reason for being here is one, it's gonna drive commerce downtown. We have all the local stuff. Thank you for the variance you already gave us. What we didn't think through or I didn't think through was I have a big stage coming in. And that stage unfortunately is not gonna fit within those confines on 6th and 5th. Is that right? I think. So that intersection to keep this thing in Evansville. Um that's really the only thing, only option we have at this point is to have that intersection blocked off so that stage can work, fit there, and uh we have this event in a six weeks or so. So that's kind of the backstory of it, and thank you all for letting us come through and at least pitch it to you anyway. Thank you for telling us all that. Uh so we're we're just uh requesting the extension to go to MOK. And block the uh intersection of 5th and May. Or 6th in May. Well it's i it's I guess it's not as simple as that. Uh EPD has is not in favor of the setup. Right. So EPD would say for them to approve it to sign off on it, you'd have to actually block it off. Uh the street at locust and sycamore. Just basically one other block out. The reason being is if you have traffic coming down the street, they can your stage and they can't turn around.