Zionsville Town Council

Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 ZIONSVILLE TOWN COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022 AT 7:30 A.M. EST ONSITE MEETING 1100 West Oak Street This meeting was conducted onsite. All Councilors participated in person. Council Members Present: Jason Plunkett, President; Brad Burk, Vice-President; Alex Choi, Josh Garrett, Craig Melton, and Bryan Traylor Council Members Absent: Joe Culp Also Present: Heather Harris, Town Council Attorney; Amy Lacy, Municipal Relations Coordinator; and other Town Department Staff OPENING A. Call meeting to order B. Pledge of Allegiance Plunkett Good morning. I will now call to order the Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Town Council Meeting. If you would please, stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. All Pledge of Allegiance. TOWN COUNCIL UPDATE Plunkett Up first on the agenda would be Town Council Updates. Are there any updates from Councilors? (No response) Page 1 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 NEW BUSINESS Consideration of an Ordinance Establishing Council Districts Ordinance 2022-32 (Public Hearing) (First Reading) Plunkett Moving along to the first New Business item, item A Consideration of an Ordinance Establishing Council District. This is Ordinance 2022-32 and this is the first reading. This is a public hearing. I have proof of publication and at this point I will open the public hearing. Mr. Bosma. Bosma Thank you Councilor and members of the Zionsville Town Council. Good to be with you this morning. Brian Bosma with the law firm of Kroger Gardis & Regas, 111 Monument Circle in Indianapolis and I’m the Chair of the Municipal Practice Group. I’m joined by my colleague today, Doug Kowalski, who was involved in all of your, your map drawing and will be, if you, you meet again and don’t adopt this today, he’ll be at your next meeting and I won’t be because of a previously scheduled matter. So, first I want to say it’s been a pleasure to work with President Plunkett on this and he’s done a great job, I think, on it – very involved in the process and we’ll just walk down memory lane here for a moment for your record. So the Council adopted Resolution 2022-21 which adopted guidelines and established deadlines for both your own production of a proposed map and for the public production of any maps. Notice was published on November 22 in the Indiana Star, Indianapolis Star and the Lebanon Reporter. Public access packets have been available in your Municipal Relations Coordinator’s office since that date and that notice set deadlines both for any objection to the guidelines, the submittal of any plans including the plan to be submitted by the redistricting coordinator which was appointed in the resolution which was Councilor Plunkett. There were two plans submitted – we call them the Ober Plan and the Anderson Plan and we’ll come back to those in just a few minutes. So just to remind you of the criteria that we’re working with in, both in the statute and the guidelines, they’re really fairly limited in the statute. They just have to be composed of contiguous territory. That’s important for one of the plans that we discuss here in a minute except for territory that is not contiguous to any other part of the town. You have a very unique situation here because you have non-contiguous portions of the town. So that’s the first time in my 30 years of working with local municipalities to have to deal with that particular item but, but you did it well previously and I think we’ve done it well in the plan that’s before you. They need to be reasonably compact. They need to contain as nearly as is possible equal population and they do not cross precinct boundary lines except for two exceptions: One where Councilors live in the same precinct and the second, if you need to do so, to equalize population which the coordinator’s plan does that, just that. The guidelines set a goal of not more than 5% total deviation which is the highest deviation from the ideal and the lowest deviation from the ideal, adding those two percentages gets you to your total deviation. Page 2 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 I’m going to talk for a second about your original maps first. I gave you a, a black folder which had several items in it including your original maps. If you take a, previous map, if you take a quick look at that you had a total deviation of 35%. That was District 3 being 15% under populated and District 5 being 20% overpopulated which made it a bit of a challenge. Obviously, District 5 had to give up a lot and District 3 had to gain quite a little bit to, to try to equalize populations. There was a drafting challenge with three Councilors living one precinct apart and the coordinator’s goal of not drawing any Councilors together. That wasn’t a statutory requirement, it is an allowed consideration under the case law and what, what President Plunkett wanted to do. There, as I indicated, the non-contiguity of the town due to Whitestown is a little bit of a challenge. You have some very oddly-shaped precincts and there were some iterations which, which Councilor Plunkett looked at that just had juts because of, unwieldly juts, just because of the places that the precincts are, the way that the precincts are shaped and you have a couple of precincts that have 2,000 in population which limits keeping precincts together and moving big, proportionately big portions of population when the ideal district for you all is 6,120. So it was pretty clear some surgery was going to be required. The coordinator’s proposal I’ll mention first and then I’ll talk about the two publicly submitted plans. The coordinator’s proposal eliminated the original non- contiguous portion of District 3 by splitting Eagle 20. You really have to do that to make that precinct a separate district as in your prior maps and as in one of the publicly submitted maps violates the non-contiguity prohibition so you, you have to split that precinct and put it with district, the district that it’s attached to. We additionally split Union 2 to balance District 5 and Eagle 3 to equalize the population in 2 and 5 and there really wasn’t any way to do that without, without making those splits. The result has a total deviation of -2.6. That’s District 2 with a 1.59%- deviation and District 5 with a 1.05+ deviation and those Councilors intending to run again are each in their own districts, not coupled together. District 1 is open with Councilor Traylor’s indication that he is not seeking reelection. The two plans that were submitted were well thought out. We’ve looked at a lot of public plans and a lot of them have been, you know, just absolutely ridiculous. These were well thought out and well put together. We believe they’re not as good as the redistricting coordinator’s plan but each of them is a, a valid plan. So, we’ll talk about the Ober Proposal first. First of all, you have former Representative David Ober is the guy with the smile on his face right now, is here in the audience. We appreciated receiving that. I hadn’t had contact with David for a little while other than running into him on the Circle one day so it was good to, to re-engage with David. His submittal which I have in the righthand pocket, if you haven’t already pulled it out, there’s one that’s marked the Ober Plan and one marked the Anderson Plan. His proposal had an 8.67% total deviation with District 1 being +4.17, District 3 being -4.5. His plan did place Councilors Culp and Melton together in District 3, totally legal, totally allowable, kind of tough to pick up votes for those kind of things sometimes but, but certainly you’re allowed to do that but Councilor Plunkett determined he would not do that if possible. The Ober Plan has no splits and kept Eagle 20 together, the southern portion of two non-contiguous really is, is not valid under the non-contiguity prohibition. Very understandable that the challenge and, and Page 3 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 we are, and the guidelines say that, if possible, keep precincts together and that’s what was the case in both plans that were submitted. The second plan is also in your packet. It’s called the Anderson Proposal. It submitted right before the noon deadline on December 1. It has a 10.88% total deviation with District 3 being -3.67% and District 2 being +7.21%. This one places Councilors Plunkett and Melton in the same district with two open districts, 1 and 2. Again, the public plans were well thought out. They have a greater total deviation than the plan submitted by Councilor Plunkett and, because they did not split precincts, which Councilor Plunkett’s plan did. So, that’s really the explanation we have for the three plans. The word on the effective date. This has come up in a number of places that we’ve, we’ve worked with. So the effective date is immediately upon passage. The ordinance clearly says it’s effective for the 2023 election and you continue to represent the district you were elected in until the new Councilors are elected. This is not a challenge for you all. It is a challenge some places where a town has decided to have staggered elections, electing two one year, three the next or whatever their number is, then you literally have people who continue to represent their old district while new Councilors elected represent a new district and it causes confusion but that is not the case for you. You each will remain the representative of your current district and it will be those who are elected in the 2023 election that will be elected to the new districts. With that I’m happy to answer any questions on any of the plans or the process. Councilor Plunkett, can I add one more thing? Plunkett Sure. Bosma Normally when you split precincts you cannot adopt an ordinance in one night because you have to give 10-day notice to the County Clerk. We confirmed that that applies to cities only. It does not apply to towns. So if you desire to do so, you would be within your legal rights to adopt the resolution on final passage tonight. I’m not encouraging it, I’m just giving you your options as no notice is required under this plan. Melton So, were there two of these that did split precincts? Is that correct? Bosma No. The other plans did not, the Ober and Anderson Plans did not split precincts. The Plunkett Plan, redistricting coordinator’s plan – Melton That’s the one that did? Bosma Is the only one that split precincts and, honestly, we, we aren’t very comfortable if the total deviation is above 5. There’s some support that 10% is a rule and I thought, think we talked about this before. That’s really an evidentiary rule that says if it’s, if it’s just under 10% the burden of proof is on somebody else other than the drawers of the map that, that it is, there’s a possibility of having a more equal map but – Melton But that’s irrelevant because they’re all less than 6, right? Or – Page 4 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Bosma No. Melton Or 8, one’s 8 – Bosma Anderson was 10 point – Melton Oh, Anderson was 10? Okay. Bosma Yes, 10.88 – it was almost 11. The Ober Plan was 8.67 and your plan was 2 – Melton A little over 2.6. Bosma Point 6, yes 2.6. Which, which we’re really comfortable with that. We’re comfortable – Melton Great. Bosma If it’s below 5. Burk Brian, which precincts were the ones that were split 2, Union 2, did you say? Bosma Let’s see – it’s Eagle 20 and that’s the split between – Plunkett It’s right next to the soccer fields. Bosma Yes, District 2 – Burk But where’s, where’s the other part? Bosma Down here in 3, yes, Vanna, would you show this to – Kowalski Eagle 20 is right here. Bosma So that really required a split but to keep this portion, this whole blue line here is part of 20 – Burk Oh, I see. Bosma Oddly shaped. So and if you look at the Ober Plan, you’ll see where it was not split. You can see exactly where it was. Burk Yes, yes, yes. Plunkett And, and that was, and that was split, Brian, to maintain the continuity of the – Bosma Contiguity. Plunkett Contiguity. Bosma Yes, yes. Page 5 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Plunkett Of the district. Bosma You really, you really have to. I’d be uncomfortable not doing that. Burk Well, it’s almost split anyway just by the nature of Worth. Bosma That’s right. Burk Right? Plunkett Yes. Bosma That’s right and, again, you’ve got an – I don’t want to say odd – just a challenging situation here because your town is non-contiguous and, a significant portion of the town is non-contiguous. And then Union 2 was split up here and that was for, that picked up 300 people and it just was to balance the population. We were well above 5% without that change and then the final split was Eagle 3 right here with a portion being in 5 and a portion being in 2. And, again, because of the challenge was because of your original maps and the growth, the growth within the town and making 3 so underpopulated and 1, I’m sorry – 5 so overpopulated there just had to be a shift and there are only so many places you could go without drawing Councilors together. And, again, back to the odd shapes – if you, if you look at this, this shape right here is a little odd. That’s in District 4. That’s, that’s the precinct shape. The precinct shape has tines that go down and pick up neighborhoods and back up and it’s been our experience that if you split precincts like this for a municipality after the next municipal election – first of all, the electoral hassles are virtually eliminated by the vote centers. The County Clerk will still have to individually divide in a split precinct, assign people to a district. They just call it a project. I haven’t had any County Clerk throw a hissy as they did 10 years ago when we split precincts because that meant paper ballots at those precincts. That’s not the case now and it’s been my experience that if you split precincts your County Commissioners after the next municipal election will take a look and say okay, we gotta true this up and they’ll change some of the precinct boundaries to take care of that. Plunkett Any questions from Councilors? Melton Well I just want to point out on the Ober Plan, that I, again, I really appreciate your submission and, and I really like it. It’s, it’s more concise, it’s clean. I think the public can understand it. It doesn’t have the tines. You know, one big flaw I will say is that even though it follows precincts on, on District 2, it separates my neighborhood which is Royal Run inside and outside and I think that’s a big problem just from a standpoint of representation for a neighborhood, even though it's a large neighborhood, I think if there’s major changes in that, that area, I think it would be important to have the same representative so, but I really appreciate the submission. I really like it better than, than the Town Council map that’s being presented now but that’s really just a, a symmetry kind of thing and it just, for an understandability for residents but overall, I do like it. I wish it was a little closer on the delta of difference but thank you for submitting that and I just, I just wanted to call that out as a big thing that I am concerned about is splitting an Page 6 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 actual neighborhood that is, you know, it makes it non-contiguous too with District 2 there as well. It’s just not on the map here but thank you. Burk I liked it too. I think he was probably really trying not to split precincts and so he’s going to get a, a deviation that’s, that’s much higher than we would like to see. Bosma Yes, we might’ve had some cleaner lines in those same areas – Burk Right. Bosma With the Ober Plan if there was not a charge from the redistricting coordinator to maintain Councilors in a separate district. Burk Right. Exactly. Melton Gotcha. Plunkett Yes, you can see on both of them, I mean, everything kind of moves to the east which is what – Burk Yes. Plunkett You know, you had mentioned, in the last meeting that the only way to gain – Bosma Right. Plunkett Population is move everything over to the east and maybe a little bit north. I do think that to Councilor Melton’s point, I would agree with his comments on Mr. Ober’s plan and you can see on Mr. Anderson’s plan the same thing – kind of moving everything to, to the east there. I did have and, and I can tell you part of the, I had a lot of people in the last election cycle when we were campaigning, ask me how these districts came to be, right? I mean, specifically, in my district it would come down and, and pinch there at Eagle 1 and Eagle 9 and then we would pick up Eagle 1 and 15 and it was kind of a weird – Burk Yes. Plunkett A weird deal. Everybody had a lot of questions about it and while, while I’m certainly going to miss campaigning in those areas, I think the general feel is the most significant intent and reality of this map is to get that deviation as low as possible and give everybody the most accurate and appropriate representation so. Are there any other questions for Mr. Bosma? Bosma Thank you. Plunkett Thank you. As I said before, this is a public hearing. If there’s any member from the public who would like to come up and speak, we’re certainly open to do that. If you would just state your name and your address and you’ll be on the clock for 3 minutes. Page 7 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Pickell Three minutes at a public hearing? Andy Pickell, Zionville. There’s only 3 minutes in a public hearing? Plunkett Yes. Pickell Is that right? Plunkett Yes. Plunkett And Andy, what’s your address? Pickell 707 North Elm Lane. I’m just trying to figure out how we spent $60,000 on this? We put a map together for about $2,000 and I’m wondering how you guys spent $60,000 on this? Plunkett And that’s your only question? I’m sorry, is that your only question? Pickell Splitting precincts as well. I understand the deviation is important. You stayed under, you were at 8? Splitting the precincts, especially moving your precinct from the western edge of town all the way to downtown Zionsville – does that make geographic sense to you? Plunkett The districts are all contiguous and the intent was to get the – Pickell Sure. Plunkett Lowest deviation. And the reason we split – Pickell And not split the precincts. Plunkett And the reason we spent, and the reason we’re spending $60,000 on this map is because the Mayor recommended we use Mr. Bosma. Pickell So you didn’t research any of your own? Plunkett We didn’t. We used the Mayor’s recommendation. Pickell Okay. Plunkett Are there any other members from the public? Ulmer Candace Ulmer, 1880 South 950 East in Zionsville. I’m District 1, Union 2 and I was a former Union Township Trustee and then in 20 – 2008 when we did reorganization went on the Town Council. I like Mr. Ober’s maps because of key, the one thing that is really contiguous is the rural district all the way up here because the back side of Zionsville and over to Perry is pretty much the rural district and I thought bringing in Worth with Union was an excellent recommendation. I understand all the other issues but I just wanted to see, I thought possibly we had two rural districts actual rural representations. If we had District 1 and District 3 that’s wishful thinking I know that but I would just hope we can do anything to get good rural representation from the people, their Page 8 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 availability who lives in the rural area to represent their area. I commend Councilor Plunkett and the other two private citizens or John Q. Public, I came into the party late, went to that website and was totally lost on how to get things together so I commend you on what you did and my, I also want to really take this time to thank all of you that do represent the rural district. You have done well and have done well for them but I would really like to see them be able to have somebody who lives in their area represent them from their area and be a true rural district. Thank you very much. Plunkett Thank you. Lusk Good morning. I’m Heather Lusk, 285 West Hawthorne Street. I’m president of the VRA and the Village has been split well since, basically since David Brown was a, was a Town Council member and I’ll tell you with splitting the neighborhoods it’s and, and these subdivisions and different area groups of people, it does confuse folks, just FYI. As president, we, we’ve tried and we’ve worked really, really well this year for the first time with two Council representatives with both Joe and Josh. Josh has been a fabulous representative since he was elected. Joe, when he jumped in the seat we finally had a second representative helping us but it still is confusing for people moving into the neighborhood saying wait, where do you live? I can't remember – is it north of 5th or 6th or where is the dividing line? So just, for reference, it gets real confusing when, because of a lot of these, I’ve noticed a lot of subdivisions are split here too. FYI, for what’s it worth. Melton So I have a comment on that – Lusk Yes. Melton So, can I comment? Plunkett Yes. Melton Yes, so in, in my eyes if you have two representatives and you have two votes on the Council isn’t that a benefit to your, you know, to your argument? Lusk It goes both ways – it depends if, it depends on the representative. Melton Which side you’re on, I guess. Lusk We’ve had – well, we’ve had, we’ve had great representation with Joe. Prior to that we, since I lived here, I don’t know prior to 2010, but prior to that there was only one person who really actually met with Village residents and cared. I don’t know if that would be the case in other neighborhoods, but I could, you know – Melton So, so – Lusk I absolutely understand your point and I think that – Melton Yes, so, so when I ran, I ran against Tom, I ran because Tom Schuler, I felt wasn’t representing our rural area and though I live in Royal Run, yes it’s rural, Page 9 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 it’s, it’s a lot of homes in, in an area but it’s designated rural and the issue that we were having is we’re being provided services by the Boone County, not by the Town of Zionsville and that was different for him. So I guess what I’m, what I’m pointing out to you in your situation is when you have those two elected officials, I feel like you have a, a bigger axe than, for example, my district right now is, you know, if we go with this the plan here, it’s, I’ve got, I’ve got very rural all the way to my residential dense, densification Royal Run and, and all the way to Hunt Club Road which is high, high value, low impact properties of, you know, multi-million dollar estates. So, I guess my point is is, it’s not going to be easy no matter what we decide to do but to have two groups or two Councilors in, in the downtown Zionsville I think it’s really important and it’s a strong, it’s a strong thing but I also don’t live down there and, and I appreciate your comments and I just, I hope that you continue to get represented properly by whoever, whichever map we, we choose. Lusk Thanks and I definitely agree with that perspective if it works out that way. It’s an ideal situation. It doesn’t always happen. Thanks. Plunkett Thank you. I mean there are also, just to, just to, as you look at these, these precincts in the Village or that represents the Village area, there are one, two, three, four different precincts. I mean, that’s part of the difficulty associated with drawing the map is, is if you want to try where you can, when possible to not split up those districts or those precincts and so. Any other comments from the public? Any other questions or comments from Councilors? Traylor I do have a quick question and it may be for our counsel, Heather, or it may be better answered by Mr. Bosma but as far as, I see the objectives of, of keeping the populations of each district close and also keeping them contiguous. Is there a, I guess a ranking of what’s more important? Is it more important to have each district in parity or is it more important to keep it contiguous? Bosma So if I can address that Mr. President. I want to address one other thing too. The map, the map is only the end point of the project, right? There was a process put into place, that had to be put together, someone has to do it with the knowledge of the questions that you just asked because these are important answers to defend your map if it should ever be challenged in the future. The single most important factor is population equality. That is the first thing that case law around the country, including in Indiana, will address when it looks at the propriety of a map and then meeting the statutory – right, right behind that, maybe co-equal with that is meeting the other statutory criteria. Most of which is pretty easy. Non-contiguous, non-contiguity being one of those. But, undoubtedly, from the United States Supreme Court to our State Supreme Court, population equality is the most important factor. That’s why we set a reasonably low guideline of 5%. We’re comfortable under 5%. We get less comfortable above 5% and we’d be very uncomfortable with 10.88%. Traylor Thank you. Plunkett Any other questions from Councilors or from the public? At this point I’ll close the public hearing. I mean, at this point, I would make a motion to introduce Page 10 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Ordinance 2022-32. The question I would have, Brian, is do I, do I, would I then say which map that we feel like we want or? Bosma You have an ordinance before you that’s been drafted that presumes the adoption of your map. If you desire to adopt a different program, you would amend the resolution, I’m sorry, the ordinance to change the legal descriptions in there to one of the other plans. Plunkett Okay. Bosma So, so the ordinance should move forward regardless of which map you would – Plunkett Okay. Bosma Select, if that makes sense. Plunkett Okay. I mean, are there any comments or questions from Councilors about the, I mean, I guess we could have dialogue about the different maps now or – Garrett I mean, I guess, my only comment is, thinking of these three maps – I appreciate the two maps that were created. I don’t know the process behind the other two and I know the process – Harris Hey Council, can I just pause one second? Plunkett Yes. Garrett Yes. Harris So, before you give comment – I think Councilor Plunkett you moved a motion for introduction. Did you get a second? Plunkett No. Should I withdraw that? Harris No, I think you could probably just ask for a second and then ask for discussion. Plunkett Okay. Burk Second. Plunkett Okay, second by – Harris Thank you. Sorry. Plunkett Vice President Burk. Harris Sorry. Garrett So, I guess, I know the process behind what we’re calling the Plunkett map, right? My only fear with the other two maps is not knowing the process or the thoughts behind them it’s hard to sort of gauge like, all the details behind the Page 11 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 scenes, right? And so that’s why I’m, I, I mean I like the Ober Plan. The Anderson Plan is, it’s, the population is too wildly divergent and it’s 10% between two districts it seems like but I think the Plunkett Plan seems – I don’t have any concerns. I do appreciate Ms. Lusk’s comments on the splitting of the Village. I know that’s sort of been a, an unknown and I appreciate her comments on Councilor Culp and I but I do – if it works, I do tend to agree with what Councilor Melton was saying in terms of having four representatives for the Village which is so important to the town from aesthetics and kind of the hub. If you’ve got two engaged Councilors and you have two at-large Councilors that are engaged, you’ve got basically the majority of the Council and I know the VRA has done a good job of getting people to vote so as candidates are filing for these districts, hopefully it’s important to, to them to be engaged with that group too so. Melton Councilor Garrett or, or President Plunkett, we have, I think we have one of the presenters here or I’m sorry, one of the people that presented one of these. Can we ask, would you be willing to tell us about your process? Traylor I think he indicated he didn’t want to. Plunkett Yes, I mean, I think, I think the reason, to be clear, the reason we didn’t have, have them present was because the indication was that there was not a desire to present so. Plunkett I mean that’s. Melton It’s, it’s your show, if, if – Plunkett No, I have no problem with it. Melton I guess the question was about the process that Councilor Garrett kind of brought up. So I was just curious – we know, we know this process, we paid for this process. I sat in on a Mayor/Administration meeting where the Mayor made this recommendation for Mr. Bosma’s company so I was just curious. You submitted, you’re here, I don’t believe the other person is here. I like yours – what was the process? Can you tell me a little bit about the process since we don’t know that? Ober The resolution that you adopted setting out the guidelines for how maps are drawn was my starting point. I adhere pretty closely to the preference to not split precincts which is what Mr. Bosma pointed out in, in my draft was less desirable. A first couple of iterations of the plan that I put together actually did split precincts and grabbed census blocks that would balance population a bit more effectively like this map here. So I think that – I enjoy your conversation. If I were going to hire somebody to do a map having worked with Mr. Bosma, he’d be the person that I would hire. He’s been through a statewide process multiple times. I’ve been a bene, in the past a beneficiary of that through redistricting at the state level. This map doesn’t give me any pause whatsoever. I think that balancing the population as he had suggested is the right, the right way to do it but as far as process, it all started with the resolution that – Melton The resolution. Page 12 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Ober You adopted. I adhere pretty strictly to the rule about not splitting precincts which is why my map doesn’t look like this one. Melton Thank you for your comments. Choi Is the other author here? Plunkett No. Traylor No, you can’t. Plunkett Nope. He’s the one that submitted it. He’s the one that needs to speak about it. We got an email last night stating that he couldn’t make it. Any other questions or comments? I would make a motion to introduce Ordinance 2022-32 on first reading. Oh, I already did that – I’m sorry. I guess we need to take a vote. So a motion to introduce Ordinance 2022-32 on first reading with a second by Vice President Burk, all those in favor signify by saying aye. All Aye. Plunkett All those opposed same sign. [No response] Motion passes 6 in favor, 0 opposed. Garrett We are sort of running out of time. I would like to make a motion to suspend the rules so that we can get this done today, if possible. Plunkett I’ll second that. All those in favor of suspending the rules signify by saying aye. All Aye. Plunkett All those opposed same sign. [No response] Motion passes 6 in favor, 0 opposed. I’ll make a motion to introduce 2022-32 on final reading. Garrett Second. Plunkett Second by Councilor Garrett. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Choi Should there be a discussion? Plunkett Yes, sure. I’m certainly happy to do that. Any questions or discussion? Choi Just to follow procedure. Plunkett Yes. All right, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Page 13 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 All Aye. Plunkett All those opposed same sign. [No response] Motion passes 6 in favor, 0 opposed. OTHER MATTERS Plunkett Up next is Other Matters. Are there any other matters from Councilors? I would – no go ahead. Melton I just want to thank you for your work on this. I appreciate you putting so much time and effort into it and getting us through to the end, end, finish line here. Plunkett Sure. Melton Thank you. Traylor And my assumption – I want to be clear on the next step. So the next step is it goes to the Mayor’s desk. She has 10 days to either sign it, veto it or if she doesn’t sign it’s adopted, correct? Harris Correct, right. And that was one of the reasons I think that we felt like we were running out of time because we do need that 10-day window because we have to complete this process by the end of the year. Traylor Right. Harris So that would put her action from today, I think, would be December 18th which would allow one more meeting on your agenda, if necessary, on the 19th so that’s part of the process that we wanted to adhere to if we could. Traylor And, I’m not, I’m assuming there won’t be a veto or, or an objection just based on the fact that she didn’t lobby for any particular map nor speak against any, any map so I think we should be okay but I just wanted to make sure I understood the rest. Garrett Well I’d, I’d be surprised too because she spoke about doing this process twice when she was giving us updates here in these meetings – Plunkett Yes. Garrett And we used her recommended consultant for that and I think, I think they did a great job so. Traylor Yes, thank you to all involved. Garrett Yes. Page 14 of 15 Zionsville Town Council December 7, 2022 Plunkett Yes, also to the folks, as we mentioned before, the two folks that submitted the maps. That’s certainly a, a difficult process and we appreciate, appreciate those maps and there were certain – we had, we had two or three folks come pick up packets, a couple folks asked for some additional information so I appreciate the engagement from, from the town for sure. ADJOURN Plunkett I’ll make a motion to adjourn. Traylor Second. Plunkett Second by Councilor Traylor. All those in favor signify by saying aye. All Aye. Plunkett All those opposed same sign. [No response] Motion passes 6 in favor, 0 opposed. The next Regular Town Council meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 19, 2022 at 8 a.m. in the Zionsville Town Hall Council Chambers. Final notice will be posted in compliance with the Indiana Open Door Law. Thank you. Respectfully Submitted, Amelia Anne Lacy, Municipal Relations Coordinator Town of Zionsville Page 15 of 15