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The Whitehall City Council convened on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Councilmember Devin Brown was excused. The meeting featured the adoption of several legislative items, but the evening was largely dominated by reports on major infrastructure and youth grants, and extensive public testimony regarding the upcoming June 23rd special recall election targeting Mayor Michael T. Bivens, Councilmember Lori Elmore, and Councilmember Amy Harcar. During closing comments, Councilmember Elmore highlighted her legislative record, including a police meet-up spot program, source of income protection legislation to combat housing discrimination, and a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis.
Both public comment periods were overwhelmingly used by residents and community leaders speaking in support of the current administration and opposing the recall effort. No speakers came forward in support of the recall.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the White Hall City Council agenda meeting for Tuesday, June 16th, 2026. We will start with movement of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. We'll then go into our roll call. Councilman Brown will not be here this evening, so I'll need somebody to make a motion to excuse Miss Elmore. Thank you. I'll second. Thank you, Ms. Harfire. We then have got the approval of the minutes, which include the June 2nd, 2026 agenda and regular meeting minutes, as well as the June 9th, 2026 committee meeting minutes. I'll make a motion. Mr. Dixon. Okay. Ms. Morrison. Then we'll move into our standing committee reports as well as our officials' reports. And for the record, there have been no official reports filed in the council office since our last meeting. We then have a communications, petitions, and claims. No commutations, petitions, and claims to be filed in the council office since our last meeting. We'll then have our first poll public, and since the audience is starting to come in, and I will say this again at this time during the meeting. We start at 7 o'clock. Will you come forward to the DS? Couple things. Be free to sign in and then state the microphone, state your name and your city where you live. And that will be enforced, and I will let you know in that three minutes is up. So please be mindful of that. The other thing I'd like to mention to the audience is since we have quite a few people here this evening. And so if it does get out of hand, I'm certainly going to say something. But if you would just give the courtesy to everyone else so they can hear because the acoustics are not great in this uh this chamber. We'll then have our verification of copies. Under third reading, we have got resolution 19, 2026, authorizing approving a plan of industrial, commercial, and distribution and research development in one or more agency agreements with the Whitehall Community Improvement Corporation and declaring an emergency. This will be introduced by Mr. Dixon and seconded by Mr. Morrison. Under second reading, we have ordinance 49, 2026, which will be read by title only, and orders to amend 505.23 of the White Hall Codified Ordinance to prohibit the feeding of deer. Under the next item, we have ordinance 50, 2026, which will be read by title only, and it's being referred to the planning commission for their July 2nd, 2026 meeting with a public hearing on July 7th. And this is amending section 1111.10 of the planning and zoning code to promote the safety of drive-through facilities by requesting a bypass lanes and emergency vehicle egress in the city of Whitehall and declaring an emergency. Under first reading, we have ordinance 51, 2026, authorizing approving assumption appropriation in the amount of 27,750 and 37 cents from unappropriate monies and the bulletproof vest 252 to the bulletproof vests expense account 252.000.50,000. I will need somebody to uh well, Miss Elmore is going to introduce, and Mr. Morrison will second. That brings us to ordinance 52 2026, authorizing and approving a supplemental appropriation and the amount of 45,000 from unappropriate monies and the Wimpenny fund 279, the TIFF expense account 279.000.59,600. This will be introduced by Miss Elmore, second by Mr. McCann.