Good evening.

I will now call to order the city county council meeting for Monday, November 2nd.

We'll begin our meeting with a prayer and pledge of allegiance led by Assistant Leader Nilsson.

Thank you, President Lewis, colleagues, and the public.

I have the pleasure of introducing a true community leader, public servant, someone who Irvington couldn't do without the pastor for Irvington Presbyterian Church, John Reinick.

Let us pray.

Holy one in whom we live and move and have our being.

We are grateful for this day.

We're grateful for the city for this country and for this opportunity.

An opportunity to serve our neighbors and beyond in the varied roles that you have for

us.

For the leadership and for uh for the volunteers, for all who serve the staff here as well.

We pray that you would lift us up, that you would give us wisdom and guidance to know what to say and when to say

it.

May you grant us the energy, intelligence, imagination, and love to fulfill our roles as we are called, leading with peace, guided by hope for all, for the sake of anyone, with whom we converse tonight, and who might be impacted by our decisions.

Be with us in this place, we pray.

Amen.

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

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank

you, Leader Nielsen.

We'll now counselors collect the green button to indicate their attendance.

There are 24 members present.

We do want to take a second to thank Councilor Wells for her seven years of services, seven years of service, and uh we wish her the very best in what comes next.

The next item on our agenda is introduction of guests and visitors.

Vice President Barth.

I'm

sorry, no.

Introduction of guests and visitors.

Thank you, Madam President.

I did want to acknowledge um Jacqueline Fraze, who is a candidate for City County Council.

She's here in the front

row.

Additional introductions.

We'll proceed to official communications.

Madam Clerk.

Thank you, Madam President.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are hereby notified the 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, November 2nd, 2026 at 7 o'clock p.m.

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

Sincerely, Maggie A.

Lewis, President, City County Council.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have approved with my signature and delivered this day to the clerk of the City County Council, Yolanda Ray, the following ordinances fiscal ordinance number 20, 2026, special police special service district fiscal ordinance number one, 2026, fire special service district fiscal ordinance number one, 2026, Solid Waste Collection Special Service District Fiscal Ordinance Number 1, 2026, Special Ordinance Number 33, 2026, and General Resolution No.

19, 2026.

Joseph H.

Hawksett Mayor.

Madam President, this concludes the official communications.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

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

Do I have consent?

The next item on our agenda is the approval of the journals for October 19th, 2026.

Do I have consent?

We'll now proceed to presentations at Petitions, memorial, special Resolutions, and council Resolutions.

Proposal number 372, introduced by Vice President Barth, Councillor Delaney, and Chairman Boots.

So

this res the special resolution is very meaningful, and it's something we wanted to do to acknowledge the incredible community spirit, hard work, and leadership that came from the floods that we experienced this past August.

When the floods uh came, and uh so many communities were affected, especially uh Ravenswood, Broad Ripple, and Rocky Ripple.

Uh, the three of us who primarily represent those areas, uh, Councilor Delaney, Councillor Boots and myself wanted to acknowledge and celebrate that out of that incredibly difficult situation, we had uh these communities really come together.

And from that, you see behind me so many um leaders who just emerged and uh started leading the way when they didn't know what to do, they just picked up a shovel and made something happen.

When they didn't know what to do, uh, they um made sure that everyone came together and took the actions that were needed to recover, and in Rocky Ripple's uh case, really protect the town.

Um, and uh I have the honor of representing Rocky Ripple, and and two things I'll just mention before I start reading this is the first is um as the night wore on and the days were on, and it became clear there wasn't enough sand to um bag and to fight the flood, the town dug into its uh town volleyball court and uh uh used that to build flood protection.