Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order.

This is the Marion County Commissioners meeting.

We are in room 260 of the city county building.

It is May 19th, 2026, approximately 2 p.m.

My name is Joseph O'Connor.

I am the president of this commission.

And we will go ahead and start off with introductions to my right.

I am Barbara's Marion County Treasurer and a member of this fine body.

Thank you.

We are missing the county auditor, but we do have a quorum with the treasurer and I, so we will go ahead and continue with the business we have today.

It looks like the first thing will be to approve the meeting minutes from the March 17th, 2026 meeting.

Do we have any additions or corrections?

Mr.

President, hearing or saying no additions or modifications.

I move approval of the minutes.

Okay, I'll second that.

All in favor, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Pose, same sign.

Minutes are approved.

And it looks like we have an update of the Noble of Indiana Project project.

It's like we have Mr.

Wade Wingler here, the CEO.

Good afternoon.

And joined by Aaron Carmichael, our new advancement director.

Can you come up with me?

Oh sure.

Please.

And you're the only one on the agenda, so you have the floor.

Song and dance and little thing, right?

Well, commissioners, thank you so much for having us back for a little bit of an update.

I know we've got a slideshow here that we're going to walk through.

But I just wanted to let you know how things are going with this with the Tibbs location and what some things that are happening in Noble that I think are exciting.

We're on track and doing well in general.

So if you wouldn't mind going to the next slide here, when we were last meeting, we were talking about the facility that was our former shelter workshop on the Tibbs location.

And we talked about the people who were being served there.

There were about 40 folks with individual or individuals with disabilities who were spending their days in that warehouse.

In the last year, we have been able to relocate that group into a new location on 16th Street in Speedway that we affectionately call Noble Art.

And the reason we call it Noble Art is because it's part of who we are and what we do, but it has an art focus.

So there are folks there with disabilities.

We have a partnership with the University of Indianapolis.

They have an art therapy program and they send students out.

And we now have people who, frankly, for many generations had been doing subminimum wage work who now call themselves artists, and some of them are commissioned artists.

And I was real excited as we were moving through the budget process for Noble this year.

There's a very small line for art revenue that goes to the folks that create art out there and are now selling it and making a little bit of money in doing that.

So that was a big part of our strategy was to relocate folks in the community so that they can learn to make art, make friends.

We had uh a gentleman who in his very first week was super excited to go to lunch at Charlie Brown's Pancake House because he heard that Elvis had been there, and um so there's just a lot of heartwarming stuff that has happened as the people who are at the Tibbs location previously have been relocated into Speedway.

We have a waiting list for services there, and it's going really well.

They recently visited the track, it's within walking distance.

Um, and so one of their first outings when Greetwind practice started was to head down and sit and watch some of that.

So those are some photographs of the people that we serve who set down their paintbrushes for the day and went down to the track to enjoy that.

This um this is really good.

I asked our artists to come up with an art piece this year that represents their new experience at the 500.

And so this is a collaborative art piece where every individual, regardless of their ability, had some contribution.

Um we have some artists who are very talented and painted parts of the pagoda.

And if you will look above the top of the 500 um uh posts there, all the way to the left.

There's a little slip of white paper that has two thumb prints on it.

That shows you that that particular artist that was her contribution to the art piece.

She put two thumbs in ink or paint, put them on that, and now her part of the art, which blends in so beautifully, um, is her contribution.

And that's the way that piece works.