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The Whitehall City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 7:00 PM. The agenda included a public hearing on a drive-through special permit, a highly contentious debate over several proposed changes to council rules governing decorum and speech on the dais, a strong financial report from the City Auditor, and the adoption of resolutions on grants and state legislative transparency.
last week too if I can't remember you're awful young to be losing that already oh well crack is you bring it okay just have a class good evening everyone welcome to White House City Council agenda meeting for Tuesday June 2nd 2026 as our usual custom we'll start with the moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance then have a roll call as you can see uh Mr. Brown's not with us but he did text me earlier and he will be here at 7 p.m for the meeting so he was just running a little late uh we then have the approval of the minutes which include May 12th 2026 committee meeting minutes may 19th agenda and regular meeting minutes as well as the May 26 2026 committee meeting minutes I will need somebody to introduce and somebody's second first dixon thank you Mr. Morrison uh Mr. President do you want do you want um folks for roll call in case it gets to that point and uh councillor Brown is not arrived yet uh we we could as a precautionary but he could still walk in but I may if he's not here I'll just do it live on the floor okay uh we then have our standing committee reports followed by our officials reports uh as far as council no official reports have been filed in the council office since our last regular meeting under communications petitions and claims we have got no communications petitions and claims that have been filed in the office since our last meeting we'll then go into our public hearing which is on orders 34 2026 allowing a special permit under 1125.04 to allow a drive through facilities on our property located at 46 out of East Broad Street personal number 090-008427-000 and 090-008249-000 property owned by Meyer Foods management company and declaring an emergency russell will you be presenting thank you uh we'll then have our uh first poll public and again poll public we invite everybody to come forward just need to state your name and city and you'll have up to three minutes for discussion uh as well as the sign in sheet um have verification on copies whether each member is given account copy of the item list on legislation prior to the meeting and any add on legislation then before getting to our legislation this evening there's gonna be several motions to add and change rules of council first is no one shall no one on Diaz shall call out anyone in the audience citizens or otherwise in general by name in a criticizing negative manner um some of you will need to on council to move on this first okay I'll make the motion and who would want to I'll second thank you we then have number two no campaigning election electioneering the dias this includes for or against campaign issues other elected officials andor candidates and or fawning praise for other elected officials I'll first then who wants to second I'll second Mr. Adkins thank you. We then have the third item in the absence of both the president of council and the present pro tem council may appoint from its members a temporary chair or president of council I'll make another motion on that thank you Mr. Morrison and then last signs that are eight and a half by eleven inches or smaller may be held by attendees while seated as long as they do not obstruct the view of others signs larger than eight and a half by eleven inches may be displayed only by individuals standing in the back of the room or seated in the back row so long as they do not obstruct access visibility or safety. President Potter I'll introduce that one councilor omel would you second for me thank you that will then bring us into yes I just want to make sure that uh since we're going over the council rules that the council regarding uh decorum was added to uh from the last time it was it was added I don't think we've added that in. I know we discussed it. I don't know that we added it to the council. If not, then I're not like to have that added. Yeah, I don't think we added that. I don't know which what it is just regarding the attire and um yeah, I think we talked about it but I don't think we ever added it okay so language for it. Okay. Yeah, we need to. But if we don't have that this evening, then we can certainly do that at our next meeting if you so we get that in front of council so we've got it on paper. It was already presented. But we I know, but we don't have any for today. Correct. Okay. So I would you know short of everybody having I would just ask that we get that and then we can vote on two weeks. Okay. Uh we'll then get into our legislation. We have third reading, allowing special, which is uh 34 2026, uh allowing a special permit under 1125.04 to allow drive-through facilities on property located at 4670's Broad Street, parcel number 090-008427-000, and 090-008-249-00, property owned by Meyer Foods Management Company and declaring an emergency.