The Vandalia City Council held its regular meeting on Monday, February 5, 2024, at 7:00 PM. The meeting featured the introduction and oath of office for three new employees, approval of four resolutions related to water meters, a dump truck, and the Johnson Station Road Bridge, a variance for a monument sign, and recognition of staff achievements. All votes were unanimous (6-0). The agenda included an executive session regarding a Parks & Recreation personnel matter, but the meeting transcript concluded with adjournment without that session being held.
All right. The council meeting for Monday, February 5th, 2024 is called order starting with a moment of reflection, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Please stand for the pledge. 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 liberty and justice for all. Any comments or corrections to those minutes? All right. See none there stand approved. We have no communications petitions or awards. However, we do have a number of introductions and oath of office. Mr. Wendt. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. We have three new employees who we would like to introduce today, and one employee will give the ceremonial oath of office this evening. First, I would ask that Mr. Rich Moret stand up. He's our new community risk reduction coordinator. He has filled the role after Mr. Jacobs was promoted to the role of fire marshal. This is the only thing that you really need to know that came out of his uh that came out of uh his application packet. He wrote, I am a customer service-oriented individual with 27 years of fire experience. I've been part of program development presentations, lectures to the fire department staff and community members. I have 13 years of teaching experience, and I know that he can uh back that up as you look at his resume. Uh he's worked with Premier Health and Wilson Health. He's a paramedic. Um he's spent some to time on several departments. Uh most notably, I'll say Bethel Township in Miami County at the rank of lieutenant, and he's been adjunct faculty at both Clark State and Sinclair Community College. Uh Mr. Moret is a resident of Bethel Township in Miami County, and he's joined today by his wife Amber. And so we will uh go ahead and do the ceremonial swear-in in a moment, and I'll just take this opportunity to introduce our other two employees here. Uh next, I have uh Gordon Haas. This is Gordon Gordon is a public works technician. He actually started on December 6th, 2023, earlier than some of the other people who I introduced to you. Sorry about that, Gordon. Um, but since we're doing it today, one of the things that we're able to celebrate, Gordon just got his CDL today. Uh he passed his test. How's that feel? Pretty good. That's that's pretty darn good. You worked hard on that. Um, he's been an equipment operator at TC Holzen in New Carlisle. He's worked at Power Equipment Solutions, working in service and maintenance, spent some time at Bo Townsend, if my memory serves me correctly, um, and was a job site assistant at Swafford Construction. And so uh he's a typical new grad and lives in Tip City, still right. And we're very happy to have you on board, Gordon. Thank you, sir. Uh next we have Ty Doe. Ty has joined us as an information technology support specialist. He fills out our ranks in IT, uh being the mysterious fourth employee in the IT division. We are so thankful to City Council for you letting us fill those ranks out. Um, this is something that makes us go from beyond break fix to being proactive.