Zionsville Town Council

Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 ZIONSVILLE TOWN COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR JANUARY 6, 2025 AT 7:00 P.M. EST ONSITE MEETING 1100 West Oak Street This meeting was conducted virtually. All Councilors participated in via Zoom. Council Members Present Virtually: Jason Plunkett, President; Brad Burk, Vice-President; Tim McElderry, Craig Melton, Evan Norris, Sarah Esterline Sampson, and Joe Stein Staff Attending Virtually: Amy Lacy, Municipal Relations Coordinator; Heather Harris, Town Council Attorney; and Joe Rust, IT Director OPENING A. Call meeting to order B. Pledge of Allegiance C. Election of Officers for 2025 i. President ii. Vice-President Rust Okay, so for everybody playing at home, we are live on Facebook and on YouTube. We are recording and Jason, as soon as you are ready you can have at it. Plunkett All right, I think if everybody’s ready, we’ll go ahead and get started. All right, so I will now call to order the meeting of Monday, January 6, 2025, regularly scheduled Town Council meeting. If you would please, join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. All Pledge of Allegiance. Plunkett All right, thank you. I think before Amy does roll call I just certainly want to acknowledge everybody’s flexibility here and appreciate that. I know Lance and his team’s been working really, really hard for the town but just in the betterment of safety, we thought it was the right decision to, to move this to a virtual Page 1 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 meeting so I appreciate everybody’s flexibility. For those that haven’t been a part of a Zoom meeting before for the Town Council, Amy’s going to do a roll call here to make sure she’s got attendance and then every single vote that we have we will actually go through and do an individual roll call vote. So Amy, if you would please, go ahead and take attendance. Lacy Okay, sure. Councilor Plunkett? Plunkett Here. Lacy Councilor Burk? Burk Here. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Here. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Here. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Here. Lacy And Councilor Stein? Stein Here. Plunkett All right, thank you very much. Lacy Everyone in attendance. Plunkett Up first on the agenda is the election of officers for 2025. We have election of officers every year as you guys know and I will now open up a motion for President. Burk I would nominate Jason Plunkett for President. McElderry Second. Plunkett I’ve got a first by Vice President Burk. Was that Tim, was that you that seconded that? McElderry Yes. Page 2 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Plunkett Second by Councilor McElderry. Amy, if you would please, go ahead and take roll here. Lacy Sure. Councilor Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Councilor Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Plunkett All right, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I’ve enjoyed serving and appreciate the opportunity to continue that so. Up next is Vice President. Is there a motion for Vice President? Melton I’d like to make a motion to nominate Brad Burk as Vice President. Plunkett Okay, I’ve got a first from Councilor Melton. Stein/Norris Second. Plunkett Was that Councilor Stein? Stein Yes sir. Plunkett A second from Councilor Stein. Amy, if you would please, roll call that. Lacy President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Page 3 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Lacy Councilor Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Burk Ditto. Thank you all. Appreciate it. Plunkett Yeah, appreciate your guys’ faith and trust and look forward to serving in this capacity for the next year so thank you. APPROVAL OF THE MEMORANDUM OF THE DECEMBER 16, 2024 REGULAR MEETING Plunkett Up next on the agenda is the approval of the memoranda of the December 16, 2024 regular Town Council meeting. A copy has been posted. Are there questions from Councilors? Having none, I would make a motion to approve. Burk Second. Plunkett A second from Vice President Burk. Amy – Lacy President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? Page 4 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Lacy Thank you. Plunkett All right, motion passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. APPROVAL OF THE 2024 YEAR-END CLAIMS Plunkett Up next is the approval of the 2024 year-end claims. Are there questions from Councilors? If not, I would entertain a motion. Melton Motion to approve the year-end claims. Plunkett I’ll second that. I’ve got a first from Councilor Melton and a second from President Plunkett. Amy – Lacy President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Page 5 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Lacy Thank you. Plunkett All right, motion passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. APPROVAL OF THE DECEMBER 2024 PAYROLL CLAIMS Plunkett Up next on the agenda is the approval of the December 2024 payroll claims. Are there any questions from Councilors? If not, I would entertain a motion. Stein Move to approve. Plunkett I got a first from Councilor Stein. Norris Second. Plunkett Second from Councilor Norris. All those in favor, actually, Amy, sorry – go ahead if you would please. Lacy Okay, Vice or I’m sorry – President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yep, yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Page 6 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Lacy Thank you. Plunkett That motion passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. APPROVAL OF THE JANUARY 6, 2025 CLAIMS Plunkett Moving along – the next item is the approval of the January 6, 2025 claims. Are there any questions from Councilors? If there are none, I would entertain a motion. McElderry I would move to approve the January 6th claims. Plunkett I’ve got a first from Councilor McElderry. Sampson Second. Plunkett And a second from Councilor Sampson. All those in favor signify by saying or Amy, sorry – Lacy President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes, please. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Page 7 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Lacy Thank you. Plunkett All right, that motion also passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. OLD BUSINESS Consideration of an Ordinance to Vacate an Alley Ordinance 2024-49 (Final Reading) Plunkett Up next is the first item of Old Business which is a Consideration of an Ordinance to Vacate an Alley. This is Ordinance 2024-49. You’ll recall this is a final reading. I believe we do have Roger Kilmer here, Senior Planner, if needed. I would probably in an effort to keep Roger from having to jump on here just reiterate this is something that we’ve done in the past in the Village, especially where we have vacated those alleys so that those folks can have whether it’s additional lot capacity or just, just maintenance on, on behalf of the town. So, I’m sure Roger is here if there are questions. Again, we heard this last time so – are there any questions from Councilors? If there are none, I would make a motion to approve Ordinance 2024-49 on final reading. Sampson Second. Plunkett I have a second from Councilor Sampson. Amy, if you would please? Lacy Yes, President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Page 8 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 Stein Yes. Lacy Thank you. Plunkett All right, motion passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. NEW BUSINESS Plunkett I would point out Councilors, up next on the agenda would typically be a New Business item which is a Consideration of an Ordinance to Amend the Zoning Ordinance for Streetlights. After understanding that there was a resident who did want to speak on this and knowing that we did not have a public speaking option for this virtual meeting, we’ve elected to pull this from this agenda and put it on the February agenda so that that particular resident has the opportunity to come in and speak their mind on this particular matter. OTHER MATTERS Plunkett So, with that being said, we’ll move on to Other Matters. Are there any other matters from Councilors? All right, having none, I would again just reiterate I know every one of you guys just appreciates the work that all of our public safety personnel and Street Department, DPW and everyone, in fact, for the town that has to work through these environments and they’ve done a great job and you know appreciate all the work that they’ve put in and I just want to make sure that that doesn’t go unnoticed so. ADJOURN Plunkett If there is nothing else, I would actually make a motion to adjourn. Norris Second. Plunkett And a second from – was that Vice President Burk? Norris No, it was Norris. Plunkett Evan Norris, Councilor Norris. All right. Lacy Okay. Plunkett Second from Councilor Norris. Lacy President Plunkett? Plunkett Yes. Lacy Vice President Burk? Burk Yes. Lacy Councilor McElderry? Page 9 of 10 Zionsville Town Council January 6, 2025 McElderry Yes. Lacy Councilor Melton? Melton Yes. Lacy Councilor Norris? Norris Yes. Lacy Councilor Sampson? Sampson Yes. Lacy Councilor Stein? Stein Yes. Lacy Thank you. Plunkett All right, motion passes 7 in favor, 0 opposed. The next regular Town Council meeting is scheduled for Monday, February 3, 2025 at 7 p.m. in the Zionsville Town Hall Council Chambers. Public notice will be posted in compliance with the Indiana Open Door Law. Again, please note that we will not have a meeting, mid-January meeting due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday so at this point I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you all very much. Burk Thank you. Sampson Thank you. Lacy Thank you. Stein Thanks everyone. Respectfully Submitted, Amelia Anne Lacy, Municipal Relations Coordinator Town of Zionsville Page 10 of 10