Good evening, everyone.

Let us begin our meeting with a prayer and pledge of allegiance led by Councillor Allie Brown.

Before I call up Pastor Lindsay, I want to take a moment of personal privilege to talk to my colleagues and our neighbors.

October is breast cancer awareness month.

And this year it's deeply personal for me.

My mom, Joyce, was diagnosed with breast cancer over the summer.

She'll complete her radiation treatments this Friday.

Watching her walk this journey has been humbling and inspiring.

Because of her diagnosis, and because I turned 40 this year, I scheduled my first mammogram and my BRACA genetic test.

Early detection and prevention are the best tools we have.

When breast cancer is caught early, the five year survival rate is nearly 99%.

But if that if that if it is diagnosed late, that survival rate can fall to 30% or less.

The difference is why screening matters so much.

Here in Marion County, our breast cancer rate is higher than much of the state.

Yet too many women still put off mammograms, and too many families face this disease without enough support.

Today, more than four million people in the United States are breast cancer survivors.

Each one a reminder that early detection, strong treatment, and community care truly can save lives.

A mammogram can save a life.

A word of encouragement, a ride to treatment, or simply showing up for someone can remind them that they do not fight alone.

Survivorship is not just about getting through treatment, it's about rebuilding lives.

That requires us as a community to walk alongside our neighbors.

Long after that last radiation or chemotherapy session ends.

As a council and as a city, let us stand united against breast cancer with awareness, with action, and with compassion.

So now I would like to ask Pastor Lindsay to lead us in prayer tonight.

Thank you, President.

Heavenly Father, your word tells us that we're to give supplications and prayers, intercessions, and thanks for everyone, for rulers and for all that are in authority.

You tell us this is the path to a quiet and peaceable life.

So I pray for their work.

I pray for their staff, their families.

I pray for wisdom, for health and safety, for balance in their lives, for the courage and for strength.

Tonight is the culmination of many months of hard work.

I thank you, Lord, for each of the agencies, the departments.

They've strived their best to steward limited resources.

So I ask that you give them wisdom as they serve this great city.

For tonight, I pray for our counselors.

This essential task, I pray there'll be an example to our community.

Cooperation when possible, compromise when necessary, always done in civility and courtesy.

So thank you for grace and thank you for your abundant blessings.

In the name of Jesus, I pray.

Amen.

I would ask you to keep standing as we do the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Counselors, please select your green button to indicate your attendance.

There are 25 counselors present.

We have no guests this evening.

So proceed to the next item on our agenda, which is official communications.

Madam Clerk.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are hereby notified that regular meetings of the City County Council, police, fire, and solid waste collection special service district councils will be held in the City County Building in the public assembly room on Monday, October 6, 2025 at 7 o'clock PM.

The purposes of such meetings being to conduct any and all business that may come that may properly come before regular meetings of the council.

Sincerely, Bob Osely, President City County Council.

Ladies and gentlemen, pursuant to the laws of the state of Indiana, I call to be published in the Indianapolis Star on the home page of the council's website on Friday, September 26th, a copy of a notice of public hearing on proposal number 273, 2025, said hearing to be held on Monday, October 6, 2025, at 7 o'clock PM in the public assembly room of the City County Building.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have approved with my signature and delivered this day to the clerk of the City County Council, Yolanda Winfield, the following ordinances.

Special special ordinance numbers 12 and 13, 2025.

Joseph H.

Hawksett Mayor.

Mr.

President, this concludes the official communications.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The next item on our agenda is adoption of the agenda.

Do I have consent?

The next item on our agenda is approval of journals for September the 22nd, 2025.

Do I have consent?

We have no items of this evening under petitions, memorial special resolutions and council resolutions.

So proceed to the next item on our agenda, which is introduction of proposals.

Madam Clerk.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

The following proposals were referred to the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee.

Proposal number 309, 2025, introduced by Councilor Lewis, reappoints David Baker to the Indianapolis Store Preservation Commission.

Proposal number 310 through 2025, introduced by Councillor Lewis, reappoints Brian Barton to the Marion County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

Proposal number 311, 2025, introduced by Councillor Lewis, reappoints Kathy Gold to the Marion County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

Proposal number 312, 2025, introduced by Councillor Lewis, reappoints Brent Lyle to the Metropolitan Development Commission.

Proposal number 313 reappoints introduced by Councilor Lewis, reappoints Kate Wharpool to the Board of Business and Neighborhood Services.

Proposal number 314, introduced by Councillor Boots, reappoints Joseph Wins to the Board of Parks and Recreation.

The following proposals were referred to the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee.

Proposal number 316, 2025, introduced by Council Robinson, reappoints Emily Rubin to the Assessment Intervention Center Advisory Board.

Proposal number 317, 2025, reappoints Alexandra Hall to the domestic violence fatality review team.

Proposal number 318, introduced by Council Robinson reappoints Daniet Smith to the domestic violence fatality review team.

Proposal number 319, introduced by Council Robinson, reappoints Wendy Tucker to the Early Intervention Planning Council.

Proposal number 320, introduced by Councilor Robinson, amends chapter 283 of the revised code to modify the duties and responsibilities of the forensic service agency.

The following proposals were referred to the public works committee.

Proposal number 321, 2025, introduced by Councillor Jones, reappoints Leslie R.

Schultz to the Board of Public Works.

Proposal number 322, 2025, introduced by Councillor Jones, reappoints Saibeco Jawanza to the Board of Public Works.

Mr.

President, that concludes the introductions.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The next item on our agenda is special orders priority of business.

Proposal numbers 323 through 327, 2025.

Are all rezonings that were certified to the council for approval by the Metropolitan Development Commission?

No counselor wishes to call down any of these proposals for reconsideration.

They will pass into law.

Does anyone wish to call down any of the proposals for reconciliation?

All right, seeing none, proposal numbers 323 through 327, 2025 will now pass into law.

The next item on our agenda is special orders public hearing.

And before we open the floor to public comments, I'd like to call on General Council Pierce to review the ground rules for public testimony as adopted by this body.

Ms.

Pierce.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

As we move to the public comment portion for these proposals, we would like to remind council members and the public afford ground rules.

These ground rules will allow everyone to have a fair chance to speak and be heard, and it is important that we all observe them.

The ground rules are as follows.

Number one, each speaker will be limited to two minutes.

When the timer goes off, your time is up.

Number two, any public comments must reasonably relate to the subject matter of the agenda item under consideration.

Number three, speakers who stray from the subject matter of the item under consideration or become unduly repetitious, may be asked to move on to their next point or conclude their comments.

Finally, attendees who cause disruptions that prevent the council from proceeding through today's agenda in a reasonably efficient manner will be removed.

Please remember that some types of threatening speech or incitement to violence are not protected by the first amendment at all.

We will deal with those situations if they come up, but we we don't think that they will.

And now, Mr.

President, upon adoption of these rules by consent of the members, we can proceed to public comment.

All right, thank you, uh Councillors.

Let us move uh on to items under our special orders public hearing.

And this next item on agenda is proposal number two seventy-three, referred to administration and finance committee.

Chairman Muscarry.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, Mr.

President.

273 approves an additional appropriation of 20 million dollars in the budget in the 2025 budget of the Department of Metropolitan Development, Public Works, the Office of Public Health and Safety, Consolidated City General, Capital Asset Life Cycle and Development Funds.

The purpose of this funding is for homeless and initiatives and the design of the public infrastructure improvements.

It passes out to committee 90.

So move.

Second.

Motion is improperly moved and seconded.

Other comments from counselors.

Councilor Gibson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'm uh very uh proud to say that we support this particular uh proposal, primarily what it does for the homeless.

Uh it helps with the second initiative in regards to streets of homes and uh that uh portion of about 5.9 million will certainly uh be a good start in terms of the next second part of that initiative to make sure more uh folks who are homeless get permanent housing.

So I encourage uh adoption tonight.

Uh councillor Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Yes, I want to thank my fellow counselors for fighting for this fiscal ordinance.

Housing is a human right, and housing first policies like the Streets to Home Initiative are both the most economically efficient and the most moral ways of dealing with the problem of homelessness.

So without it's not lost to me that without this ordinance, the Hogslet administration would have created an unfunded program that would not show enough momentum to impress either our constituents or the State House that we have a viable path to solving the chronic homelessness in our city in the near future.

So this funding is going to be life saving for so many people.

I'm also grateful for at least a million dollars to be devoted to pedestrian safety.

This year has been the deadliest year in Indianapolis on record for cyclists, and yet our vision zero task force has failed to meet every deadline that's set for itself, and we've ended up in the full budget for 2026 with a vastly insufficient amount of money for keeping our constituents safe on our streets.

Twenty million dollars is a lot of money.

It will do amazing work.

I am sobered by the fact that this is an amendment to the 2025 budget coming in October, and in the meanwhile, we're poised to accept a 2026 budget with the same flaws in it we saw last year.

So I urge my fellow counselors to vote in favor of this resolution, but more importantly, to demand a better budget process next year that does not lead to the deaths of more people on our streets.

Thank you.

Very good.

Any additional comments?

Uh Chairman Barth.

I just want to thank Councilor Nielsen for his leadership on this.

Uh Councilor Nielsen has distinguished himself this term with um this this budget process with digging into the budget in a way that um provided a lot of leadership and guidance uh in particular.

Uh he and I and others uh prioritized uh ensuring that the dollars are there uh for these homeless initiatives that we're be voting on here here in a minute.

Um the uh work that's been done to get this these um dollars in the budget has been impressive and consistent and has been a partnership between the administration and the council.

In the time that I've been on the council, um we haven't had that kind of long-term sustained uh engagement between the council and the administration prior to budget entry and concurrent with um budget entry.

So these priorities that are being raised today are really a result of the council expressing its priorities, um, bringing them to the administration and getting the result we have with this this amendment today.

Thank you.

Very good.

Any additional comments from counselors none, is there anyone in the room uh with an interest in proposal two seventy-three?

Hello, my name is Monero Brantley.

I am 10 years old, and I am a fifth grader at the Oaks Academy.

A 2025 count showed that 1,815 people in Indianapolis are experiencing homelessness.

I support proposal 273 because every person deserves a safe place to stay.

Hello, I'm Harmony Street.

I am 15 years old, and I go to Decatur Central High School, and I am a participant of Girl Talk uh Girl Talk Inc.

on Power Her Academy.

Many of our neighbors are considered chronically homeless.

Chronic homelessness is defined by 12 months unhoused or four episodes of homelessness over three years.

Many of our chronic homeless also have a disability or vulnerability like mental health issues or substance abuse problems.

And of course, I as uh uh volunteer with the Indie Action Coalition, of course, who you um our support for the Streets of Home Initiative is well documented and well known.

Uh I also want to know that also want to note that yesterday afternoon I was at a actually at a community conversation at the church from within and uh fountain square, and an interesting um issue came up regarding uh chronically homeless youth, particularly 16 to 17 year olds, and usually those without uh parental guardianship.

Um, this may be a state level issue that we need to uh raise issue about, but it turns out these kid these 16 to 17-year-old kids that are homeless and don't have guardianship cannot enroll themselves in school, and they need parental parental authorization to enroll in school.

So that is a massive gap in Indiana's emancipation laws do not provide an adequate pathway for those homeless 16 to 17 year old youth without uh without parental um figures to be able to be educated.

So, as we of course support these proposals, we should also in the future think towards this massive oversight within both our city and state.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Dominique Carris.

I'm the founder of KBDB Inc.

I um run a re-entry sober living home, and today we just recently found out that one of the grants had run out of funding.

So I have about eight sex offenders that will possibly have to be released back to the street, which is scary for all of us.

Um I do support them with mental health, um budgeting, understanding how to thrive in society after returning home from prison, and it just scares me that if I'm losing funding for the eight that I have, I can only imagine the other re-entry houses that may be losing funding and where those individuals will go.

They would thrive alone along the rest of us, our children, our families, and things of that nature.

So I am with proposal two seventy-three.

I agree, and I hope everyone else does as well.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

I am uh Yvette Markey, founder of In Touch Outreach Resource Center here in Marion County.

We are a recovery community organization certified by DMHA and FSA to provide peer support services to individuals and families in our community who are challenged with mental health, substance use, housing instability, food insecurity, so on and so forth.

Um we work every day directly in the streets of Marion County, um, behind the Walmarts, behind the grocery stores in the alleys to serve our unsheltered um individuals and families.

Here are babies literally out here unsheltered.

So I am here in support of proposal 273 among some other things on the agenda tonight.

So I ask that you all consider this highly.

Thank you.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for our vote.

I will note that uh I will be abstaining from this uh from this vote.

My company, the company that I work for is performing a small portion of this.

Motion carries 24 yes, one abstention.

The next item on our agenda is proposal number two seventy-five, referred to administration and finance committee.

The next item on our agenda is proposal number two seventy-five, referred to administration and finance committee.

Chairman Mascari.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal 275 uh proposes an ordinance of Marion County local income tax.

Yeah, one to modify the local income tax, two to modify the allocation of the previous imposed expenditure rate, and three to cast a vote of the city-county council in such an ordinance pass out of committee nine zero.

ISO move.

Second.

Motion is in promptly moved and seconded.

Other comments from counselors.

Seeing none, uh let us find if there's anyone in the room with uh an interest in proposal two seven five.

Seeing none, there are no additional comments or any comments from counselors.

Let us proceed to the board for our vote.

Motion carries 22 to 3.

Councillor Hart.

Um call proposal number 306 2025 out for public hearing on September the 8th, 2025.

And the hearing was subsequently continued due to possible withdrawal of the petition.

Councilor Hart.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

On October 1st, 2025, at the Metropolitan Development Commission regularly scheduled meeting, the commission acknowledged the withdrawal of rezoning case 2025 CZN 814.

Because the case no longer exists, there is not a need for a public hearing.

If there are no questions or comments from my fellow counselors, I recommend that we by consent acknowledge the withdrawal of rezoning case 2025 CZN 814 proposal number 306 2025.

Do I have consent to acknowledge the withdrawal?

All right, very good.

Thank you.

There is no business under special orders, unfinished business.

So let us proceed now to special orders final adoption.

And this next item on our agenda is proposal number 239.

Refer to Metropolitan Economic Development Committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number 239 amends various sections of the revised code to reflect fee and penalty policy changes regarding enforcement and permitting within the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services.

The amendment passed and the proposal was sent to the full council to do pass recommendation.

Mr.

President, I still move.

Motion is properly moved and seconded.

Counselor Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh I appreciate the need to raise fees and penalties as part of keeping a balanced budget and ensuring the city government maintains its ability to provide services.

Obviously, nobody wants to see increased fees slow down, badly needed development, but I think that this resolution provides very fair increases that are reasonable and frankly necessary given the state of the budget.

And I'm particularly grateful for the ability for the directorate to waive fees for nonprofits that are creating affordable housing, which I think is the biggest need we have.

There are several fees that I do think need to be increased far more than this ordinance does.

For example, illegal dumping.

The early numbers that uh the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services shared showed that even with the increases to this fee, the city will barely cover its costs when pursuing those who illegally dump trash in the city.

District 13 has a huge problem with illegal dumping, and I think I speak for the vast majority of my constituents when I ask that we ensure that crime doesn't pay and that both enforcement and fees increase for this kind of blight creating behavior.

Just want to make that comment.

But that said, this ordinance does definitely move things in the right direction, and I'm happy to vote for it.

Thank you.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

Councilman Allen.

Um thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, uh, Councilor Brown for bringing up District 15 about the legally dumping, because I'm constantly in constant communication with those at DPW about sending someone out there in district 15 to clean up trash from 38th in post road to 42nd and post-road to midhoffer.

Um, and so I just want to make sure that I am advocating trying to make sure that we are or that I am trying to make sure that the area continues to stay clean.

But thank you again, um, Councillor Brown for bringing that uh bringing that up.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselor uh counselor Hart.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I just want to raise awareness to uh, you know, we were just got done talking about homelessness just a minute ago, and you know, one of the concerns that was brought to me by uh an organization and some of the builders around town is that um and even in the real estate crew if at the cost of rising of housing rises, so does the rate of of homelessness.

And it's something that we should be cognizant of when when passing uh fees and and fines and but not only penalties, but the permitting cost is the concern that I've heard a lot from the community as it pertains to this is that how will it raise the cost of housing?

And you know, it's something to be aware of uh when we do this.

Uh one thing that we should expect uh when raising these fees is a better service from the city, uh especially on the permitting side.

Uh so with that, I you know, as we move forward with this vote this evening, the thing that I would like to make sure we get out of the mayor's administration is a better level of services for the builders in Indianapolis to help keep our costs down.

All right, thank you.

Additional comments from counselors.

Right.

Seeing none, let's proceed to the board for our vote.

Motion carries 23 to 2.

The next item on the agenda is proposal number 259, which adopts the annual budget for the city of Indianapolis and Marion County for 2026.

We'll now receive reports from the various committees, beginning with Chairwoman Lewis with the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee report.

And following in the order listed under community uh committee actions on the agenda and ending with Chairman Boots's report from the parks and recreation committee.

Chairwoman Lewis regarding the report from the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number 259 adopts the annual budget of the city of Indianapolis and Marion County for the Department of Metropolitan Development for fiscal year 2026.

The proposal passed out of committee by a vote of nine to zero.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal 259 2025 adopts the annual budget.

Let's see if it in Office and Mary and County for 2026.

The committee heard from public safety and criminal justice agencies and departments over the last month and a half.

The public safety criminal justice portion passed out of the committee of the due pass recommendation, Mr.

President, of a vote of nine to three.

Very good.

Chairwoman Jones regarding the report from the public works committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number 259 2025 adopts the annual budget for the city of Indianapolis and Marion County for 2026 public works portion only.

The motion passed out of committee with the due pass recommendation by a vote of seven to four.

Very good.

Thank you, Chairwoman.

Uh Chairwoman Brown regarding the report from the community affairs committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

On September 29th, the community affairs committee met to hear proposal number 259, 2025 to listen to the or to vote on the Indianapolis Animal Care and Control Budget.

It passed through the committee with an 8 to 0 due pass recommendation.

Thank you.

Chairman Miscarry regarding the report from the administration and finance committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Admin and Finance met on uh September 30th.

Um for the budget of 2026, it passed out of committee and 81.

Thank you.

Chairman Boots regarding the report from the Parks and Recreation Committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number 259, 2025 adopts the annual budget for the city of Indianapolis and Marion County for 2026 parks and recreation portion only.

The parks and rec committee met on September 4th to hear the budget proposal and again on October 2nd for review and analysis at that October 2nd meeting.

The proposal passed out of committee 8 to 0.

And so I move for passage of the 2026 budget.

All right.

Councilor Hart, I believe you have a motion.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And I do I've got uh a motion to amend proposal 259.

Um specifically what this proposal aims to do is move two million dollars from the Office of Public Health and Safety to the Department of Public Works, uh, specifically for um a couple of reasons.

One is the preservation of of urban forests is the primary reason that I'm looking to do that.

Uh you know, what the money we're intending to spend on in OPHS is um really intended to do a handful of things.

Uh it's meant to, you know, uplift communities, um, support mental health, um, you know, reduce violence and and an increase community investment.

And what I know we can do with a two million dollar investment, at least in in a lot of these areas by procuring these forests, is provide just that a nature preserve in any one of our backyards is a phenomenal place uh that will provide community incentives to grow development opportunities that will attract developers that will provide opportunities for people to go to when they need want to you know walk through it uh and support their mental health.

Um and I know it's a tangible thing that we can invest in that will help these initiatives directly, and that I will never have to question it.

Um I also want to use this opportunity to show that you know, now that we have, and I want to give you know a lot of thanks to the uh CFO with her help on this, it was very supportive.

I know it was a lot of work she put into it, but we do have the opportunity to amend budgets.

Uh this is the first time in six years I've ever seen a budget amendment.

And if there's things, if there's priorities that we want to set it as a council, and maybe you guys set them out or you had the opportunity to set them out with the mayor's office.

We did not.

We were not at at your table having that conversation, and we were not um, you know, we expressed things to the the controller's office, but um not at the same level you guys had.

So we had to do it this way.

I had to do it this way.

And when I look at priorities, there are things that you know are sitting here in front of us.

There's things that uh came from concern from the police department and vehicles that I haven't seen in this budget.

And it's it was is easy.

I don't say that lightly, uh, because the the CFO did a great job, but we can do it.

We have the tools to do it.

We are in control of this.

We are the legislative body.

Uh but with that, Mr.

President, uh I I move on uh proposal two fifty-nine to move those dollars from uh the Office of Public Health and Safety over to the Department of Public Works.

The motion to amend is improperly moved and seconded other comments from counselors.

Counselor Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I want to say thank you to Councilor Hart for bringing this amendment.

I think we city counselors are the fiscal body of the city, and we need to start acting like it.

I don't think it serves our constituents well, no matter what side of the aisle we represent, if we're adopting the city budget unamended year after year.

Like counselor Hart, I was not consulted for negotiations as part of this budget, and so I do very much hear uh I think it's uh a point well taken.

It's not lost on me either that likely 80 percent of the public comments this body has received about the city budget for two straight years have urged us to find funding for urban forest preservation.

As such, I commend him for finding some way, anyway, to provide some funding for that incredibly important and noble cause.

However, I refuse to accept a framing of this issue that leads us to choose between the incredibly important and impactful elevation grants and urban forest preservation.

The budget that we are contemplating amending pays for 1,746 IMPD officers.

That's more than 300 more than we currently actually employ.

We all respect the hard work that our officers provide, but we could easily move two million dollars from this funding source to urban forest preservation, leaving tens of millions of dollars remaining to pay for overtime pay for the hardworking officers of IMPD and leaving them with their excellent rates of starting pay.

Unfortunately, I cannot in good conscience vote to further defund the elevation grants that are doing such good work in the city.

I agree, I agree that it's vital for us to find funding for urban forest acquisition and preservation.

And the fact that this budget contains no funding for that is one of the many reasons I will be voting no on the full budget.

But I must also vote no on this amendment.

Thank you.

Chairman Boots.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I just want to explain my position this evening.

I applaud Councillor Hart's efforts here.

Uh they're very laudable, but but I do think this is the wrong place and the wrong time for doing this.

Um we spent seven long months negotiating the spring fiscal and I felt proud to be able to secure one million dollars for forests in that effort.

We spent the last five months working hard on this budget.

Um this last minute disruption, we th uh I do not agree with it took a long time for us to build the trust that we developed with the administration.

Um, and we believe destroying that by disrupting the budget at this 11th hour will destroy that trust and be harmful for years to come.

Um, however, I am deeply committed to forests.

It's been one of my champion causes uh on my side uh since uh my initial election, and I propose a plan that I think we can get some buy-in on where we uh are looking at developing a non-reverting fund to house the money and that we'll commit to be doing that soon.

Um look at getting money in the year in fiscal, which would coincide with the timing now.

So even though it's not in the 26th budget, if it's in the year-in physical, the timing would be concurrent, um, and also look at um some type of structure, possibly reforming the Marion County Tree Board for purposes of monitoring that money, implementing that money, and selecting the land for acquisition purposes.

Uh, for those reasons, uh again, while and I've talked with counselor Hart on this, and I am with share his spirit in his heart, but I think this is the wrong time to do that, and I will oppose it and I encourage others to oppose it as well.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I I think this is important to uh talk about how effective the elevation grants are.

I mean, they think they're really making a difference in terms of reducing crime in our city.

Matter of fact, over the several years, they've impacted over 65,000 people trying to defer get them out of the life of crime.

And then the self-speace volumes, I don't know how we could compare forest versus human life.

I bet I'd be both of them are very important.

But the fact that matter we're talking about touching dollars that impact uh our our our public safety is a is a serious concern, and I would uh encourage my colleagues to vote against the amendment.

Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um it should go and be said as well that this is a process that we continue with this budget of picking and choosing winners.

It's not that uh elevation grants don't need to be supported or the Forest Alliance shouldn't be supported.

It is a product that has been exasperated this year, in part due to what happened on the other end of Market Street at the State Capitol.

No one talks about that, and I don't know why we're not talking about it.

This city lost millions upon millions of revenue dollars that touch everybody in this room.

The state was willing to cut our tax revenue so they could go around and say they cut taxes, but they didn't touch their own budget.

And this is going to be an exasperated situation of doing it.

And I what I want to say today to the Forest Alliance folks is that currently, still in this moment with this budget passing, there will be four million dollars.

One million in the 2025 stormwater fund for acquisition, one million in the 2026 stormwater acquisition, one million that this council passed as a part of the spring fiscal, and then one million out of uh one of our colleagues' one million dollars of selection.

So there's four million dollars available currently to be used.

And we're not done.

As Councilor Boots has already shared, we are focused on moving forward and adding additional funds this year.

We are 100% committed to creating a fund for the first time in this city that would begin to address this.

So I encourage my colleagues to vote no on Councilor Paul Hart's amendment.

Um Council Hart, just a question.

Um this money goes into stormwater fund, and there's money in there designated for this purpose now.

When you were preparing this, did you get confirmation from the Hogs administration they would use this money for this purpose or or as it stands in your amendment, they can use it for any purpose, correct?

Yeah, as it stands, they could use it for whatever purpose.

The intended purpose is to hold it there until we create the preservation fund.

And did you negotiate anything with them that that would be maintained for that purpose?

No.

So right now you're asking us to put money in that fund with a hope it will not be used for anything else.

Yeah, as a public commitment to the people watching, yeah, that that we would use it for that intended purpose.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

Uh Chairman Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh a few numbers, Mr.

President.

Uh, since 2022, we've invested about 40 million dollars into the uh elevation grants uh to address the root cause of crime and build a safer community.

Uh we've uh we've reached 194 community organizations.

Almost 200 organizations have benefited from these funds.

That's a lot of organizations, Mr.

President.

Almost 70,000 residents have benefited from these funds of the last few years.

Uh with that, we've seen a 50 percent decrease, a 50% decrease in criminal homicides compared to 2021, outpacing national trends.

So with these funds and the support of uh Chief Bailey and the men and women IMPD, uh, we have seen a greatly decreased criminal homicide efforts in our city.

I would ask our colleagues to please oppose this amendment and keep our streets safer in Marion County.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Yes, um Chairman Graves.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Mr.

President.

Uh Mr.

President, I want to ask my my uh colleagues on the council uh to join me in not supporting this amendment um not only because it's taking funds from the um Office of Public Health and Safety, uh, but this has the potential, Mr.

President, to hurt our uh our city, our efforts to keep our city safe.

Um over the last five years, uh, as been mentioned, uh Indianapolis has seen a significant reduction in violent and property crimes in other areas of uh that spectrum, and that's due in part to the important role that OPHS plays uh more specifically those grassroots organizations that are in the business to treating uh the root causes of crime.

So I'm asking my colleagues to uh not support this amendment tonight.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Counselor Bain.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Councilor Hart for bringing this amendment forward.

I do have to say I'm a little dizzy from the amount of spin going on in this room right now when it comes to what we're funding, what our priorities are.

The simple fact of the matter is, and we're all smart enough to see through this that if you want to support for us, if you want to support support the preservation of forests in Indianapolis, you vote for the amendment.

If it's not a priority of yours, which it's up to each council and their districts to decide what their priorities are.

If it's not a priority of yours, then I understand why you would vote no.

But if you support preserving urban forests, I'd urge you to vote yes.

Councilor Hart.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

President.

And I'll tell you one of the driving forces I have, you know, and I've been here coming for five years, telling that we need efficacy reports.

And we we receive a preliminary one the other day, and you know, we quote numbers on on homicides regularly, but the one thing that's continuously ignored by this council and also by the city administration is the number of aggravated assault trends in our city.

And I urge everybody to start looking into this.

And I've got it.

You can go to smartindi.org and go to the data tab and you can see how there's just been a complete up into the right growth.

Uh we are seeing over 7,000 aggravated assault uh incidences a year, with uh less than uh uh 50 percent of those even being cleared, meaning those incidences nothing's happening to those people.

Two and five victims see justice.

That's it.

And we claim that we're seeing all this efficacy when I can clearly look at the FBI statistics and see that aggravated assaults, a crime that is more indicative about the violence in our city compared to homicide, because homicide doesn't happen to everybody, but at least aggravated assaults are happening at the rate of 7,000 a year.

And that's what we're not talking about, but I'm here to tell you about it today.

So if we want to quote numbers, let's look at numbers that everybody is impacted by, and those aggravated assaults are a big number.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Additional comments from counselors, uh Chairman Lewis.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Permission to abstain as I serve as CEO of a local non-for-profit.

Thank you.

Additional comments from counselors, uh counselor Carlino.

On the amendment or the budget, Mr.

President.

On the amendment.

No comment on the amendment.

Thank you.

Very good.

All right.

If there are no additional comments uh on the amendment to uh proposal two fifty-nine, um let us proceed to the board for our vote.

Uh the motion fails.

17 nays, seven yes, and one abstention.

Vice President Brown, I believe you have a motion.

Well, Mr.

President, in order to permit some counselors with personal interests in portions of the proposal number two fifty-nine twenty twenty-five to abstain on those portions.

I move to divide the question on the adoption of that proposal as follows.

Question one, the appropriations for community development grants set forth in section four point zero one B.

And the appropriations for crime prevention grants set forth in section four oh one or four point zero one D of proposal number two fifty-nine twenty twenty-five.

Question two, the appropriations for public purpose grants set forth in section four point zero one C of proposal number 20 or 259 2025.

Question number three, the appropriations for the information services agency set forth in section 1.05D, character three at proposal number 259 2025.

Question number question four, the appropriations for the Office of the Controller Human Resources set forth in Section 1.01B 5.

Character 3 at proposal 20 259 2025.

Question 5, the appropriations for the Department of Metropolitan Metropolitan Development set forth in Section 1.01 C.

Character 3 of proposal 259 2025.

Question 6, the appropriations for the Department of Public Works set forth in Section 1.01D.

Character 3 of proposal number 259 2025.

Question 7, the appropriations for the Office of Public Health and Safety set forth in 1.01 F, character three of proposal number 259 2025.

Question 8, the appropriations for uh the Marion County Auditor set forth in Section 1.04B, character three.

The appropriations for the election board set forth in Section 1.05A, character three.

The appropriation for the Office of Marion County Public Defenders set forth in 1.06B, character three.

And the appropriations for the Office of Corporation Council set forth in section 1.01B 3, character 3 of proposal 20, or 259, 2025.

And then question nine is the balance of proposal number 259 2025 and ISO move.

All right, the motion is improperly moved and seconded.

All in favor, please signify by aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay.

That carries.

We now proceed to the board for a vote on each question.

Question one, the appropriations for community development grants set forth in section 4.01B, and the appropriations for crime prevention grant set forth in section 4.01D, proposal number 259.

Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Permission again to abstain from uh question one as I serve as CEO of a not-for-profit.

Thank you very much.

Chairman Robinson.

Mr.

President, uh a quick note.

Um our colleague said the uh ag assaults data.

Uh, we should take a look at that.

I did look at that, and we were down 23 percent uh since last year legged assaults.

So our chief, our men and women of IMP doing a great job.

So our our colleagues are saying these numbers are off, but our aggravated assaults from last year are down 23 percent.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Uh Counselor Brown.

Yes, Mr.

President.

Would this be an all right time to present comments on the budget as a whole?

I would like to reserve uh that uh until we are done with the questions and come back to you.

Okay, very good.

Uh councilman A.

I would just like to remind uh the distinguished chairman that uh correlation does not equal causation uh in the previous uh debate.

Very good.

Additional questions, all right.

Um let us then proceed to the board for our vote on question one.

Question one is adopted by a vote of uh 17 yes, seven nays, and one abstention.

Uh question two, the appropriations for public purpose grants uh set forth in section 4.01c of proposal number 259.

Are there comments from counselors?

Uh Chairwoman Lewis.

Thank you, Ms.

Pardon me.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Permission to abstain.

Yes.

Counselor Anne.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I wish you abstain from question two.

It's my employer of the Marin County Agricultural Affairs Association Association receives 150,000 public purpose grant from the city.

Councilor Dilk.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I also need to abstain.

I'm an unpaid board member of the Marion County Fair, which sees 150,000 public purpose grant.

Very good.

Thank you.

Uh are they any comments on question two?

All right, seeing none, um, let us proceed to the board for our vote on question two.

Motion carries 17 yes, five nays, and three abstentions.

Question three, the appropriations for the information services agency set forth in section one point zero five D.

Character three of proposal number two fifty-nine.

The comments from counselors.

Councilor Hart.

Yeah, Mr.

President, on question three.

I need to abstain.

Uh the city engages in a uh QPA that the state uh initiated with the employer that I work for, and the city has the ability to purchase off of that contract.

And I just want to abstain just to make sure there's no connection between me and the employer.

Very good.

Chairman Boots.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh serving as the chair of the IAI Artificial Intelligence Commission.

We work uh closely with ISA and hope to increase its funding in the years to come to support our movement into artificial intelligence.

Therefore, I feel that's a conflict of interest and ask IB recused from voting on question three.

Very good.

An additional comments from counselors on question three.

Seeing none, let us proceed uh to the board for our vote on question three.

Motion carries 17 yes, six nays, and two abstentions.

On question four, the appropriations for the office of the controller, uh, human resources set forth in section one point zero one B five, character three, and proposal number two fifty-nine.

Other comments from counselors.

Counselor Gibson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I uh request permission to abstain from question four.

I'm employed by Anthem Insurance Company, uh parents company is elements health, and as you know, our benefits are healthy benefits are administered by Anthem.

Thank you.

Very good.

Any additional comments from counselors on question four?

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for a vote on question four.

Motion carries 17 yes, seven nays, and one abstention.

And question five, the appropriations for the Department of Metropolitan Development set forth in section one point zero one C, character three of proposal number two fifty-nine.

Are there comments from counselors?

Council Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I will be abstaining from this vote due to a family member's employment.

Thank you.

Very good.

Chairman Hoots.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I too would like to recuse myself from question five.

Very good.

Any additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for our vote on question.

Um proceed to the board for our vote on question number five.

Motion carries 16 yes, seven nays, and two abstentions.

And question number six, the appropriations for department of public works set forth in section one point zero one D.

Character 03 of proposal number two fifty-nine.

Um I will be abstaining from this from voting on question number six.

Other comments from counselors.

Seeing none, let us proceed to the board for our vote on question number six.

Motion carries 16 yes, eight nays, and one abstention.

Question number seven.

Uh appropriations for the Office of Public Health and Safety set forth in section one point zero one F, character three of proposal number two fifty-nine.

And as I did at the very beginning, I will be abstaining from uh voting on question number seven.

Are there comments from counselors?

Councilor McCormick.

Chairwoman McCormick.

Hi, Mr.

President.

Um, I the sheet that I'm reading off of does not match yours, and so I'm wondering if we can get a clarification on the questions.

So my question and numbers have two different documents and they're not matching up.

Sorry.

Do we have a correction?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none.

Let us proceed to the board for our vote on question number seven.

Uh question seven is uh adopted seventeen yes, seven nays, and one abstention.

On question number eight.

The appropriate appropriations for the Marion County Auditor set forth in section one point zero four B, character three, the appropriations for the election board set forth in section one point zero five A.

Character three, the appropriations for the Office of Mayor of the Marion County Public Defender set forth in section one point zero six B, character three, and the appropriations for the Office of Corporation Council set forth in section one point zero one B three, character three, a proposal number two fifty-nine.

Are there any comments from counselors?

Councilor Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'll be abstaining due to family members' employment.

Very good.

There's uh no other comment um on question number eight.

Let us proceed to the board for a vote.

Question eight is adopted by a vote of 17 yes, seven nays, and one abstention.

Question nine and proposal number two fifty-nine, which is voting on the balance of uh proposal number two fifty-nine.

Uh Council Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

This budget totally fails to meet the political moment.

As our federal government is spiraling into fascism, as our state government is slashing funding to the bone.

My constituents have been crying out loudly and clearly that they want a bold vision of progress and forward momentum.

Instead, we are contemplating now voting on a budget that keeps funding the sheriff's office even while they continue working with ICE.

We're contemplating a budget that takes crayons away from children in our parks.

We're contemplating a budget where we are funding hundreds of police officers who do not even exist, rather than helping officers focus on what they do best and taking some of the burden from their shoulders.

We're contemplating a budget that will see housing prices go up, streets get more potholes compared to this year, and our constituents suffering get deeper and worse.

This city cannot continue coddling billionaire sports team owners while letting working people get more poor all the time.

I also briefly wanted to address my fellow counselor's comment earlier, which seemed to suggest that it would be a breach of trust with Joe Hogsett's administration if we were to do our jobs as the fiscal body of the city and move money where we think it should go.

I feel quite strongly that it is Mayor Hogsett who has breached the public trust, and my constituents continue asking me to push not to beg for scraps from Joe Hogsett's table, but to hold him accountable and push back.

I cannot in good conscience vote for the budget tonight.

Thank you.

Comes from counselors, uh counselor Hart.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And I'm not going to reiterate every point I made earlier about making the community investment in force, but I mean it stands true.

There are there are a handful of other things that I'm sure my you know fellow colleagues will pick up on.

Um but by and large, there's you know things that I hear from my community day in, day out.

Um and and I can tell you the east side and I'm sure the West and Northside offer the same way of uh just a level of neglect um from this city.

They don't see the the attention to their roads, they don't see the attention to uh their trails, uh and it's something that I'm constantly fighting for, and I don't think this budget is adequately providing the economic uh investments in the east side and district twenty specifically, uh, whether it's you know investing in community assets like forest or even maintaining the level of trails that we have.

Um again, the people of the east side feel neglected, and I don't think this budget uh is is doing it a due diligence of making them um prioritized, so with that I I cannot support this budget.

Counselor Carninous Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, in committee, there were several committees uh voted no to, and also several that I was very hesitant in in voting yes, and much of the comments made by counselors Brown and Hart, I I tend to agree with.

I think that while in name and in spirit, you know, unigov senses uh that we might unify our city and county.

Um, unfortunately, at the end of this budget process, I feel that our city and this enterprise under this administration is more siloed than ever in some ways.

Um, especially when it comes to working with our partners outside of the enterprise and even um working with our friends in the various municipal course corporations, health and hospital, the library, and even indigo.

Um, and it is with the lack of investment that we see in law enforcement infrastructure, begging for scraps is very apt.

Um we had to beg just to keep uh immigrant funding a hundred grand.

We had to beg for a hundred grand, and that that's not okay.

Um, so with that I won't be voting in support of the balance of the budget for 2026.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh Council Nielsen.

Uh thank uh thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I don't want to sound tone-deaf to the comments that have been made, but is your mic on?

This better, Mr.

President.

Yes.

Oh, okay.

Thank you.

Mike's not working.

Um I said I don't want to be, I want I don't want to be silent or tone deaf to the comments that are made, but I think what's important to remember in the public policy process is that we have to actually engage in it.

And so while I hear those comments and I agree, um I was looking at comments that I was planning to make last year on the budget, and I was gonna be pretty harsh.

Uh instead, we chose to engage on it.

Instead, we chose to be part of the solution and recognize that governing is very, very challenging and requires showing up in a lot of meetings, both public and the nitty-gritty of behind the scenes work.

And it's more than just showing up a few times and being disgruntled, even when that is fair.

So I'm really kind of disheartened by some of the pictures that are being painted when we have a number of very serious constraints.

But nonetheless, do appreciate the comments that some of my colleagues have made.

My deep gratitude for their hard work and focus throughout this budget calendar to my colleagues for those who decided to have a commitment to this process and elevating priorities even further.

And to the administration, including not just the mayor's office, OFM, and department heads, but also staff across the city county enterprise for your collaboration over the past year as we continue to build a better budget process.

This collaboration has been necessary as the 2026 budget has not been without its obstacles.

As Chairman Evans pointed out, SB1 presented several challenges, most notably significant cuts to property tax revenues and future growth without or instead of providing local government the ability to provide targeted tax relief to Hoosers who are experiencing the burden of property taxes.

SB1 will continue to require the city to rely more heavily on income tax revenues versus property tax revenues, supplanting a more stable and predictable source of revenue with a source more sensitive to economic conditions in the business cycle, presenting a potential credit risk as well.

It is my hope that our peers of the State House will see these very real challenges and take appropriate action to allow local government to meet its mandate.

I stand ready to help and discuss how we can work together with our peers to address these issues proactively.

And as I stated earlier this spring, we are in the first step in phasing in and building a new baseline post-SB1.

The next several years will present their own unique compounding fiscal and policy challenges, notably continuing to meet our contractual obligations, leveraging a generational investment in infrastructure, and reworking our income tax rate.

While SB1 and other state policy changes created some imperfect outcomes, this budget package and the related fiscal proposals, which we've started voting on, does a number of items that I am particularly proud of, and this council should be as well.

Investments in infrastructure and pedestrian safety, flexible funding for homelessness intervention, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing, to take the most compassionate and humane, effective and fiscally responsible approach to this issue, continued funding for tenant and immigrant legal defense, continued investment in support for forest acquisition through the stormwater fund, maintaining our commitment to support an improved snow fight plan, and finally, respecting the dignity of work by funding union contracts and providing a cost of living adjustment for other employees.

Again, I fully recognize that our constituents expect more, but I want to call out that this budget has a number of positives despite the constraints.

However, as we look to the future, we must have a robust discussion and debate on revenue and projected growth to follow through on our commitment to create and maintain a world-class city, and not just for those who come to visit, but more importantly for the roughly one million Hoosiers who call this city home.

But that is the work ahead, and I am as committed as ever to continue navigating these complexities with all of you and the administration over the next several years.

A robust public policy process, engagement is proof that government can work better for people.

With that, I ask my colleagues to continue supporting this budget package.

And again, thank all of you who have put so much work into this process.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Very good.

Thank you.

Council Gibson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And I uh want to say my hats off to you, Councillor Nielsen, for your leadership.

Your your expertise in financial matters showed up very well, and we relied on you and your expertise, and so thank you for that.

The overall 2026 budget is about 1.7 billion dollars.

Uh we were faced with deficits uh based on Senate Bill 1, about a million.

But it's still we still came up with our priorities and made a difference to make sure that we could try to meet the basic needs of our residents and even even enhance what we could.

Primarily uh I want to thank uh this mayor uh and his directors for working very hard to make sure that DPW uh was intact.

Uh I know we talk a lot about public safety, and public safety is great, and uh we could have done more there as well, but we at least uh uh stabilize public safety.

But uh Department of Public Works is essential to what we're our infrastructure in our streets and our sidewalks, and we God knows we need millions of dollars in that area, but at least we were able to hold that intact, and I commend them the mayor and DPW for doing that, as well as the additional funding that we're having to help fund homelessness and fight homelessness, I should say, keep people out, get people out the streets and put them in permanent housing.

Very proud of the work that um uh council leadership work with the administration on, get additional funding for streets to homes and making that phase two much more uh operational in terms of making it happen.

Finally, uh back on the infrastructure piece, uh, want to thank the administration for trying to get us ready for 2027.

2027 is what we get this additional hundred million dollars in fusion of cash to help with our streets and sidewalks, and the administration set uh that stage in terms of getting ready for that uh new money because that uh uh uh state law requires us to use new money to get up to that hundred million dollar match.

So uh happy about that.

I would encourage my college to vote for this 2026 budget.

Very good.

Uh yes, uh counselor Perkins.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I do want to say thank you to uh my freshman colleague, uh Council Nielsen for his leadership on this.

Uh you have proven to be um and to also to represent this freshman class is the best class ever.

I just want to say that.

Uh thank you for your leadership on this, uh, your tireless efforts and your hours that you put into uh to lead us over the last uh what feels like 12 months on this budget process.

I also want to highlight Mr.

President uh that it's easy to be um uh social media uh celebrity.

It's easy to make comments on social media about what's not happening uh in the governance of our city.

It's also easy to come into this chamber and while the cameras are on to get your five, ten seconds.

Uh, leadership takes courage, leadership takes engagement.

Um, and for us to lead effectively uh in this city and uh in Marin County, it requires us to engage.

This process has been a process that has allowed uh this council, those of us that chose to do so to engage in the budget process.

Uh, as a product of the organizing world, I understand that social change comes from both a push from the outside but also leadership from the inside.

Those of us that are elected to be on the inside are to lead from the inside, while those are advocating from the outside.

Uh, let me land by saying that uh while I will support this budget tonight, I do not support the decision of our sheriff.

We have continued to engage with our sheriff, and he has made a decision or decisions that does not take coverage but to support a system.

Uh this morning when I woke up and watched, uh, saw the news in CNN of what's happening in Chicago with ICE.

Uh, and to know that our own sheriff has made the decision to engage with ICE.

Um, and so while my decision tonight is to support this overall budget, uh, I do not support the decision of the Sheriff Department.

Thank you, sir.

Chairman Evans, I think you had your hand up.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I cannot speak as elegantly as Counselor Nielsen has done.

Um this is a complicated budget.

So much of what has been said by those who don't support it and support it are correct.

Two things can be true at the same time.

But the reality is we had to do the work, and I want to focus in on the word that Councillor Nielsen used, and that was constraint.

It has not been publicly stated enough about what we were under with this budget.

We knew that it was going to basically be garbage.

SB1 started it off.

Unfunded mandates from the state to us that we didn't have revenue for.

And prior to SB1, we had just done CBAs with our public safety officials, our police, our fire, our DPW.

That is thousands of employees that we said we need to give raises to and take care of.

They took and defunded health and hospital corporations, which cost this city five million dollars.

They've defunded schools and everything else that you could possibly think of that has to have tax revenue to serve the public.

It cannot be shouted enough.

And then to hear the hypocrisy that I have to listen to about one set talking about crime and everything, yet you don't want to support the initiatives that we have done.

And while crime is going down in this city, there's this fake narrative that wants to go across the country that somehow every Democrat led city is out of control.

And I can't help but think that this past weekend's incident was a part of that.

And boy, did the truth come out there.

Some people deleted some tweets.

This is not an easy budget.

I'm friends with several people that are down there with the Forest Alliance.

But we're talking about tens of millions of dollars.

Had the city of Indianapolis not been disrupted by the state of Indiana that we could have done more with to address the quality of life issues that face our city.

I'm sorry, I didn't know you were in those conversations.

You were working on behalf of our city with the enterprise trying to address 1.7 billion.

That would have looked a lot different had we not been a part of that conversation.

So I really, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

We've done the best with what we have been given.

We can do better.

We absolutely know we can.

And we're not done, as we've said about the Forest Alliance.

We're gonna keep pushing, but there's also some truth to be had about the revenue and the funding of city government and what the state has done us.

Oh, and let me not forget $50 million that we have to match in road funding when we know it's our money anyways.

If you live in this city, you're already paying for it.

And now we've got to take it out of the general fund, not dedicated road funding, the general fund that could be used for force, that could be used for homelessness, and a holistic uh group of other things to match our own dollars.

That is the craziness that is going on and that has put us in this position where nobody's happy, nobody's going to an after party when we vote yes or no on this.

It's tough work, but it's real.

I drive the same roads.

I'm sorry, I'm getting on a tire.

I apologize.

I'm done.

Chairman Barth.

Thank you.

Uh, just just inspired by Councilor Nielsen's comments about uh policy and process, um, which uh I know is not the most inspiring thing, but I do want to mention when I uh years ago I worked for the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, which is a policy organization at IU that works with people with disabilities uh to advocate policies that support them and living independent lives.

And uh one of the things I did was uh got a grant to prepare information to teach people with disabilities, self-advocates how to advocate within the budget process.

We already did training within the legislative process, and I learned we consulted with former uh Lieutenant Governor Kathy Davis, and she explained to us and laid out one of the most important things to do is to be involved in the budget process during the budget process, because that's where a lot of the decisions uh when the budget is actually submitted have already happened.

And so taking that inspiration by working on behalf and closely with people with disabilities and giving them the education training and information they needed to advocate for budgets, we did the same thing over this last year.

We didn't take no for an answer, we made sure we were at the table and thinking about the budget, and that's why the spring fiscal had money in it for forest preservation.

That's why the spring fiscal had money in it uh for vision zero.

That's why this budget has money in it for Vision Zero.

That's why this money has this budget has money in it for homelessness, because unless you engage, unless you roll up your sleeves, sharpen your pencil, and make sure you're at the table, you don't get results.

We got results this time, and uh I want to thank everyone for working hard to get there.

Some of our priorities really got a lot of attention, and we'll just make sure they get implemented in uh cascade out across our city.

Thanks.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors, counselor Allen.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, thank you, Councillor Nielsen and everyone else, uh, President Um Bob and the mayor's staff, the administration, and Madam Leader Lewis for all the hard work that you all put on this year.

Of course, last year I came on board and I was in the middle of got to prepare for um budget season.

I will say this year was slightly different for me, where last year it seemed like the administration and the council was back and forth, and it was like, okay, where do we land at?

But this year the transition was everybody seemed like they were on the same page for what was dealt to us because that SB1 held out, you know, with the funding being cut out and how the effect of SB1 played a big part into this.

Counselor Nissan, you did say that there was a lot of constraints uh for what we had, and it definitely was.

Counselor Hart, um you brung up the East Side as not getting any work.

I will commit I will say today that the East Side, considering everybody was trying to figure out what's considered the far east side and what's the east side.

But I will say that the east side is starting to get a look.

We're starting to get the quality of life plan, so we're not the forgotten child as we move forward.

We were just on a call last week, Councillor Grays was on that same call with me.

So we are moving forward with the quality of life plan as well out there on 42nd and Post Road, which the town in Terrace was a blight.

That last building came down last Thursday morning, which is a big deal for the Far East side.

We're also looking at John Marshall right there at 38th and po uh 38th and Met Hoffer.

Again, that's a big deal.

Um also you have the blue line.

I'm not sure who district that is in on Washington Street.

So again, I just wanted to point out some of the things that is moving, um, that's moving the far east side or the east side, whatever district you, you know, whatever district you lie at, like we talked about looking at Devont for uh Councilor Graves area.

So we are we're not forgotten, and as since I've been on the council, yes, you know, the roads, I've I've heard about the roads, I've heard I've been very big about the gun violence reduction strategy, and so I continue to advocate for that.

Um, but I will be voting for this budget tonight, but like Councilor Perkins, I am disgruntled by the sheriff's office.

Um, the way that he handled that committee meeting a few weeks ago or last month, because I because I come from an organizing world and every elected official is supposed to meet with every organization and every constituent, whether it's good, bad, indifferent or ugly.

But the simple fact that he said I chose not to meet with them because this was gonna be the same result.

Even if you felt like it was the same result, you still should have met with every constituent.

And then the simple fact in Chicago, they're right next door, three hours away from us, depending on where you may end up at.

What if that happened to us and that came here?

We have to be able to look at that to say, hey, you know, we got a partner.

That can come over here and happen to our our our constituents that live here.

So um, Sheriff, that's the only part that I had a problem with this budget for where we were at, and so I will be voting in support of the budget, but the sheriff's portion, I will hopefully that we can continue to have conversations um around what that will look like as we move forward.

Thank you.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

Councilman Day.

Thank you very much, Ms.

President.

I do want to acknowledge all those uh who participated in the budget process, staff from multiple agencies and departments, administration of the council office, et cetera.

Uh it is hard work.

There is no question about that, and I would not underscore uh the many long hours and days that they put in.

I would acknowledge also that there are provisions within the budget that are positive, like the collective collective bargaining agreements that have been mentioned, some infrastructure projects.

So I I I would be remiss not to acknowledge that there are pieces of the budget uh that uh that are good, that it doesn't have to be all good or all bad.

However, I do believe that the budget grossly underfunds core responsibilities like public safety and infrastructure while potholes plague or city streets, violent crime routinely makes national headlines, and uh I don't think we can sign off on a budget that continues to do that.

Nothing demonstrates this disconnect more than the refusal to fund one of one simple requests from the IMPD police chief on behalf of his officers, new police vehicles.

Instead, we chose to divert funds to broken, bloated programs that lack transparency and results while leaving our first responders and others without the tools that they need and deserve.

We will continue uh to work and try to bring solutions in a bipartisan way.

We do have a history of working across the aisle, and we continue and will continue to work to do that on behalf of the constituents that we serve, the residents uh that work and call Indianapolis home, but we can't and will not continue to be a rubber stamp of failure, which I believe this uh budget enshrines.

I'd also acknowledge that every issue that this city faces, every problem that exists within this city is not a result of what's happening across Market Street.

All of our issues are not because of the General Uh Assembly.

It is not because of the legislature.

And I think it's time that the city take some ownership and their responsibilities instead of punting those across Market Street.

I think a lot more would be accomplished if that were the case.

Thank you.

Counselor Bain.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um infrastructure is by far the number one issue for me and the number one issue I hear from constituents.

If you've been on this council longer than like one committee meeting uh that I sit on with you, then you you know that's the case.

It's probably 95% of all my constituent correspondents.

Every day, residents in my district and across Indianapolis are asking the same question.

When will our roads get better?

Unfortunately, this budget is yet another example that guarantees our roads will be worse next year than they are today.

I am hopeful going into the budget season next year, uh, after I worked with our state legislature this past session to secure the $50 million matching program for local roads.

We will hear those and this chamber talk about doing work.

Um, let's talk about the historic investment coming to Indianapolis Roads from the Republican supermajority in the General Assembly.

I went down there, met with them, and now look, an additional $50 million match that also mandates additional fundings from our own budget to roads.

That is something we should have done years ago.

Yes, we should use general fund dollars to fix roads in Indianapolis.

I 100% support that.

I look forward to seeing the $50 million match implemented come 2027.

But the reality is, right now, this council still hasn't met the moment.

This budget falls short.

This is also a critical opportunity for the council and this administration to address the revolving door of crime in our city.

Yet this budget continues to cart blanch fund a prosecutor's office that seems more interested in plea deals than justice and judges who send repeat offenders back out onto our streets instead of putting them where they belong behind bars.

Lastly, we talk about revenue issues.

Let's be let's be very clear.

Senni bill one and less property taxes means more money in the pockets of our constituents, which I support.

But if the supermajority on this council thinks we have revenue issues, then we can raise revenue.

I won't vote for it, but it's disingenuous to sit here and act like your hands are tied and blame others when you hold all the cards in your own hands.

You can raise revenue if you feel like you need to do so.

I don't know if it's lack of knowledge that you can do that, or if you want to look to the state to raise taxes for you to shield you from that vote, or you lack the courage or what.

But there are options out there for you.

Again, I wouldn't support it.

For these reasons and others that have been mentioned and might even still be mentioned tonight.

I'll be voting no on this budget.

Uh Council Cahill.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh, to echo uh some of what Councillor Nay said and build on Councillor Bain's comments.

Uh there are there are certainly positive things in this budget.

Uh in fact, if anything, I'm most critical, as I said in committee, that I think the public works budget should be even bigger than it is.

Uh I uh I appreciate the uh the work that's gone into this uh this process.

I would I do want to especially call out CFO Harris for uh the uh the extra work and analysis and data she's been able to pull uh sort of on the fly.

Uh we've gotten more uh transparency and more deep diving than uh in previous cycles.

But it causes me great concern.

I think tonight is is a prime example that we can have uh broad, I think even unanimous support on the uh the fall fiscal uh and to have uh dispute over the uh the budget itself.

And I think the the core of that is that there are things that we are uh operationalizing in the budget that probably should be wish list items, and then if I can coin a term, we're fiscalizing things that should be in the budget themselves.

To come back with a fall fiscal of fifteen million dollars for DPW with things that uh have broad bipartisan support, like the Vision Zero work, really should be in the operational budget in the first place, not being caught up with the fiscal later on.

And I think we should take things out of the budget, and then if things go well next year and we have a fiscal, then we buy those wish list items.

So for those reasons, I will not be supporting the budget tonight.

Thank you.

Uh Council Brad.

Thank you, Mr.

President, for the brief opportunity to respond.

I just wanted to call out some of the gaslighting that I've seen presented here this evening.

I heard multiple counselors say that you have to show up to the meetings to be taken seriously.

I work for my constituents and my constituents weren't invited to the meetings.

They're held behind closed doors to keep the public out.

And in fact, the people who made those comments were the ones who voted to kick two of us who made critical comments out of those meetings.

Democratic leadership continues to only allow me as a full-time counselor to sit on three committees while Democrats are choosing to give every single Republican on this council at least six seats.

That is a political choice, and it's a political choice to disenfranchise the constituents that I represent.

Multiple counselors also made comments that we would have seen no homelessness funding, no road funding, no vision zero funding without sustained engagement from this council.

What does that tell you?

Does that mean that the mayor is doing nothing at all?

He certainly is not in this room to advocate for his budget.

That's because he knows he would be hounded by the constituents we're here.

I trust that our concept that our constituents are smart enough to see through this commentary.

Very good.

So Mr.

President, we can allow uh the continued personal tax against the mayor from his counselor.

So he does it time after time, meeting after meeting.

We can't continue to let that happen.

It's inappropriate, it's unprofessional.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you very much.

Uh Counselor Gibson.

Call the question, Mr.

President.

Very good.

All those in favor.

Unfortunately, we called the question.

Any opposed?

No.

We'll put it on the board.

Agreeing to uh call the question.

Green to call the question.

I will.

There's no discussion, Mr.

President, on call the question.

There's no discussion unless we call a question.

I want to make sure that folks folks see what uh let's go.

All right, very good.

That motion carries.

Um we will go to a vote.

Um uh council name.

You had a comment though.

I'm hoping it's not related to where where we were.

Well, I think it's an important thing to discuss first.

Mr.

President, the question is called.

We have to move to the vote.

Unfortunately.

The 2026 budget, counselors that call Mr.

President.

Question is called Mr.

President.

You know better, counselor.

That's that's outrageous.

Uh thank you all.

All right, let's uh go to the board for our vote.

Question nine, proposal uh two fifty-nine, voting on the balance of proposal uh two fifty-nine.

Question nine is adopted.

Uh vote of seventeen yes and eight nays.

Uh the next item on our agenda is proposal number two eight two.

I refer to municipal corporations committee.

Uh Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

With consent, I'd like to take proposals two eighty-two, two eighty-three, two eighty-four, two eighty-five, and two eighty-six together.

Unfortunately, can we go ahead?

Yes, let's just do these one at a time.

Okay, yes.

All right.

So let's look at two eighty-two.

Proposal two eighty-two adopts the operating and maintenance budgets and tax levies of the Indianapolis Airport Authority and establishes said appropriations for the municipal corporation for 2026.

I still move Mr.

President.

Motion is improperly moved and seconded uh their comrades from counselors.

And I will say that I will have to recuse.

Um, I'm sorry, abstain from this vote.

Um counselors.

Chairman Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

We have to abstain as well.

Our company has a contract with the In and Episode Airport Authority.

Very good.

Thank you.

Uh Councilor Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I will be obscening as well due to your family members' employment.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

Counselor Bain.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh I do have to say as a counselor for the Southwest side of Indianapolis that the Indianapolis Airport Authority is a shining light of what's best about our city.

They're a great community partner to have.

I'm proud to have majority of the footprint of the airport uh in District 21.

Um other thing I uh I want to say, and I think it's unfortunate it has to be said underneath the airport discussion, but it seems this council has taken the approach that whether you're a sexual harassment survivor or just someone that wants to uh oppose what's going on in this city if you're a dissenter, you will be silenced and you will not have a voice at this council.

That's very unfortunate.

Additional comments from counselors.

Additional comments from counselors, all right.

Uh seeing none, let us proceed to the vote for our vote on proposal two A2.

Sorry, can you motion carries uh uh 22 yes uh and three abstentions?

Correct.

Thank you.

Proposal number two eighty-three, referred to municipal corporations committee.

Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal two eighty-three adopts the operating and maintenance budgets and tax levies of the Capital Improvement Board of Managers and establishes appropriations for the CIB for 2026.

This passed, but they do pass recommendation nine to zero.

I so move.

Second.

Second uh the motion is improperly moved and seconded.

I will be abstaining from this vote.

Are there comments from counselors?

Councilor Carlino.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I just want to thank the CIB for their continued support of the arts.

Thank you.

Uh uh Chairman Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

The company we work for has a subcontract with the company that works for the CIB.

Good.

Thank you.

Very good.

Uh Council Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I will be abstaining uh from this vote due to family member employment.

All right, uh an additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for our vote on proposal uh two eighty-three.

Motion carries uh 21 yas, one nay, and three abstentions.

The next item on agenda is proposal number two eight four, referred to municipal corporations committee.

Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal two proposal number two eighty-four adopts the operating and maintenance budget as well as the tax levies for health and hospital corporation and establishes appropriation for them.

The vote for 2026, the vote was 10 to 0 with a due pass recommendation.

I so move.

Second.

Motion is then properly moved and seconded or the comments from counselors.

Councilor Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'll be abstained from this as well due to family member employment.

Seeing none, let us proceed to the board for a vote on proposal two eighty-four.

Motion carries 23 yas, uh, one nay, one abstention.

The next item on our agenda is proposal number two eighty-five.

Uh refer to municipal corporations committee chairman Evans.

Um I will be abstaining from this vote.

Comments.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal two number two eighty-five adopts the operating and maintenance as well, budgets and tax levies for the Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation, better known as Indigo, and establishes appropriations for Indigo for 2026.

It passed with a due pass recommendation eight to two.

I so move.

Motion is improperly moved and seconded by the comments from counselors.

Councilor Delaney.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'll be abstaining from this vote due to family members' employment.

Chairman Grace.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh, permission to abstain, please.

Additional comments from counselors.

Uh counselor, um, Chairman Boots.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I too must abstain from a vote relative to Indigo.

Very good.

Additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for our vote on proposal two eight five.

Motion carries 16 yes, five nays, and four abstentions.

Next item on our agenda is proposal uh two eighty-six, referred to municipal corporations committee.

Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number two eighty-six adopts the operating and maintenance budgets and tax levies of the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library and establishes appropriations for the library for 2026.

It passed with a due pass recommendation 9 to 1.

I so move.

Second.

Motion has been properly moved and seconded.

Other comments from counselors.

Uh Councilor Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I want to say I'm a gigantic fan of the Indianapolis Public Library.

The buildings are pleasant to visit, the books are excellent to read, but it is obviously the people who work at the library who make the whole organization run.

For reasons that the library CFO could not clearly articulate at municipal corporations, the library is choosing to assign bonuses in a way that increased inequality among library staff, contrary to how they assigned bonuses last year.

Further, I would ask everyone in the audience to go back and watch the municipal municipal corporations committee meeting and review the budget presentation that the library's leadership gave this year.

We saw numbers that didn't add up, and it took substantial conversation to even get leadership to acknowledge that.

Unlike the CIB, the library's budget should not require massive shifts between what is budgeted and what is spent each year.

It's pretty predictable.

Everything I've seen suggests some troubling mismanagement of the budget and mismanagement of union negotiations.

So I'm reluctantly forced to vote no.

Thank you.

Additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for a vote on proposal 286.

Motion carries 23 yes and two nays.

Next item on our agenda is proposal number 287.

Refer to administration and finance committee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal 287 urges the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, DBA, AV AES Indiana, and the Indiana Reg you Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to protect the taxpayers or ratepayers by withdrawing any AES raises and pass out a committee 90.

So move.

Motion is impromptu moved and seconded other comments from counseling.

Council Hor.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'll be brief, but certainly share the similar sentiments that I shared with members in committee, and it's essentially that you know a lot of these conversations are derived during the data center discussions and um have just really been exemplified since then.

Um folks are really bringing it to my attention.

Uh there was you know multiple community conversations on this.

Um and we're in a position where we have to look at beyond Indianapolis with a lot of what we're seeing with investments from um in in the world of technology and data centers.

And you know, we mentioned Senate Bill 1.

I mentioned that a lot uh when I was having those conversations as well.

But even we mentioned the price of groceries, everything, gas, it's all it's all more expensive.

And so um in good conscience, I think you know, we as the largest representative body of people in the state of Indiana, well, outside of the at least in the municipality setting, um, you know, we represent about a million people or close to a million people.

And the objective of this proposal is to send a message both to AES but also to the IURC and the governor that uh the folks you represent can't take another increase in another facet of their life.

Uh and that with the passage of this, this will send um and urging the AES to withdraw their petition.

If they fail, it urges the IURC to vote no against their petition.

Um, and then in doing so, at the passing of this, a letter will go both to the IURC and the governor's office showing the position of the representative body of the people of Indianapolis.

So I asked for your support uh on this proposal for those reasons.

Additional comments from counselors, uh counselor Nay.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

I just wanted to thank uh counselors uh Hart and Bain and those who have uh co-sponsored this, heard this in committee for their support.

I think this is a great proposal that sends the right message to uh certainly my constituents, and I think the right message uh to those uh who will be uh significantly um making these decisions, and so with permission from the sponsors, I'd like to be added as a co-sponsor.

Very good.

Counselor Brown.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I would also love to be added as a co-sponsor of this resolution if that's acceptable, uh, both due to my role as a counselor and due to my role as secretary of the board of Citizens Action Coalition.

Uh, I've rallied my constituents and supporters to submit testimony in front of the utility regulatory commission, uh, specifically the Office of Consumer Counselor earlier this year.

Um, and as I testified there, AES has just badly failed in its duty to ratepayers.

Honestly, its rollout of a new billing system was the worst I've ever seen, even as a former technology consultant myself.

Earlier this year, AES reported that 49% of its customers had received disconnection notices.

And worse, the Financial Times is now reporting that AES is considering selling its company to BlackRock.

This resolution does not have the force of law behind it, but it importantly sends a message that the political leadership of Indianapolis stands opposed to out-of-state profiteers enriching themselves at the expense of our constituents.

I would further ask my colleagues to work with me in the future to explore the option of using revenue bonds to attempt to purchase AES Indiana and run it as a cooperative rather than allow it to be run by private equity.

There will be more conversations to come soon, either way for now.

Thank you.

Very good.

Additional comments.

Uh Chairman Boots and then Chairman.

And then Chairman Edson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I just want to throw my support behind this proposal.

I had signed on as a co-sponsor right out of the gate because I think this is not a political issue.

It's definitely a public humanity issue.

I find it quite outstanding that AES would think it's reasonable to go for a rate increase in the middle of having a rate increase, and then even supporting the Google data center when they did not even have the capacity to support the center, and we all know somehow they would pass their costs on to us.

So I am a wholeheartheartedly behind this.

Um it is something that uh in my opinion, utilities should never be for profit.

Education should never be for profit.

Uh those are basic human human needs that should be done through some cooperative uh program of some sort.

So I wholeheartedly agree and encourage the passage of this proposal.

Very good.

Chairman Chairman Evans.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I'd ask the I'd like to be added as a co-sponsor as well, and thank Councilor Hart, Councilor Bain, and Councillor Boots for the work on this.

I would also add um I totally agree with uh councillor Jesse Brown in his comment and what Councillor Boots just said.

I think the city should explore the opportunity to purchase that and prevent it from being sold to uh Blackstone.

For profit, when this is something that we absolutely have to have to function as a society, it's ridiculous.

And I think we need to move on that, and this is leadership that we need today.

Thank you.

Additional comments from counselors.

Yes, Chairman Chairwoman McCormick.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, if uh if I can, I would like to be added as a co-sponsor um not on the admin and finance committee, but um I did see this come up.

And although it doesn't have the weight um that we would like, I think that the the urgency and the uh I guess collaboration and message from the city needs to be that uh we cannot have additional funds.

I've had actually multiple emails from constituents about this specific situation.

I get a lot about roads.

Um, but this one actually, I was surprised how many emails I've had over the last few months about the rate hikes um and how this is going to negatively impact the uh folks on the west side and all of our city.

Um, and we need to make sure that we um are protecting our folks because if um if our power goes out, if we don't have our power, our housing condition isn't going to be good, and then that falls into disrepair.

And so it's just a snowball effect from there.

So please, if um if it's allowed, I would like to be a co-sponsor.

Thank you.

Very good, thank you very much.

Additional comments from counselors.

All right, seeing that let us proceed uh to the board for a vote on proposal two eighty-seven motion carries uh 25 to zero.

Now call to order the police special service district council to consider proposal number two fifty-six twenty twenty-five, approving the tax levy and rate for the police special service district for 2026.

Um Chairman Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal 256 2025 approves the tax levy and rate for the police special service district for 2026.

This proposal is administrative in nature and sets the tax and levy for the special service districts.

These rates are in levies or included in the full budget proposal.

Proposal passed out of committee, Mr.

President, with the due pass recommendation 12 to 0.

ISO move.

Motion is improperly moved and seconded other comments from counselors.

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for a vote.

Motion carries 25 to 0.

And I'll call to order the fire special service district council to consider proposal number 257, approving the tax levy and rate for the fire special service district for 2026.

Chairman Robinson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal 257, 2025, approves the tax levying rate for the fire special service district of 2026.

This is the same type of administrative proposal which applies to the fire district.

Proposal was passed out of committee with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 12 to 0.

ISO move.

Motion is improperly moved and seconded.

Are there comments for counselors?

All right, seeing none, let us proceed to the board for a vote.

Proposal 257.

Motion carries 25 to 0.

Now call to order the solid waste collection special service district council to consider proposal number 258, 2025, approving the tax levy and rate for the solid waste collection special service district for 2026.

Chairwoman Jones.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Proposal number 258 2025 approves the tax levy and rate for the solid waste collection special service district for 2026.

The proposal passed out of committee with the due pass recommendation with a vote of 11 to 0.

And Mr.

President, I so move.

The motion is properly moved and seconded.

Other comments from counselors.

Motion carries uh 25 0.

Just want to say uh thank you, counselors, committee chairs, council staff, department heads, and CFOs, and the Office of Finance and Management for all of your work during this uh budget process.

The City County Council is now reconvened.

Vice President Brown has a motion regarding tonight's um pass budget related ordinances.

Vice President Brown, Mr.

President, because of the complexity and interrelated calculations of the budget proposals and amendments just adopted.

I move that the general counsel, chief financial officer, and chief administration administrative officer are authorized with the concurrence of the Office of Financial Finance and Management to correct any technical or computational errors in the budget ordinances and resolutions as necessary to accurately reflect the actions of this council.

I so move.

Uh the motion is promptly moved and seconded.

Other comments from counselors.

Motion carries 25 to 0.

Uh there is no business under new business.

And the next item on our agenda is adjourned.

Is announcements and adjournment.

No, Mr.

President, I'd just like to can I address the no sir.

Um unfortunately no.

Unfortunately, no.

No, we need to finish off tonight.

Thank you.

All right.

Please hold the hearing next year when your minds aren't made up so that we don't waste our time coming in and trying to present our input since you're going to be able to do that.

Thank you, sir.

We need to be engaged in the case.

The documented agenda for this meeting of council having been completed.

The chair will now entertain motions for adjournment.

Mr.

President.

Chair recognizes Leader Maori.

Mr.

President, I've been asked offered the following motion for adjournment by Councillor Nielsen in memory of Sandy Games by Councillor Osley in memory of Florence K M.

Kane, Obi O'Keequi, BC Patel, and Ernest Embry by Councillor Bain in memory of Charles Charlie James Kirk by Councillor Lewis in memory of Peggy and Hetty X Penn.

Mr.

President, I would I would like to move the adjournment of the this meeting of the Indianapolis City County Council in recognition of and respect for the life and contributions of those persons I have here specifically named.

I respectfully ask the support of fellow counselors.

I further request that the motion be made part of the permanent records of this body and that a letter bearing the council seal and the signature of the president be sent to the family of each person advising of this action.

Thank you, Leader Mowery.

Hearing no objections, the motion is received.

The request is so ordered.

Hearing no further motions, we're adjourned.

Thank you.