The City of New Castle, Indiana

COMMON COUNCIL 

NOVEMBER 15, 2010    7:00 P.M.

 

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WAS GIVEN BY EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE.

PRAYER WAS GIVEN BY PASTOR PAUL DAVIS, OPEN ARMS CHURCH.

MAYOR SMALL OPENED THE MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.

 

ROLL CALL:

SANDY YORK                                  PRESENT                 

ANGIE GOODMAN                          ABSENT

JAMES KIDD                                     PRESENT

MARY MALONE                               PRESENT

MARK KOGER                                   PRESENT

VAUGHN REID                                  PRESENT

RICHARD HAHN                               PRESENT

 

MINUTES WERE APPROVED AS PRESENTED.

 

MAYOR SMALL INTRODUCED HENRY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, MARY WILLIS, WHO SPOKE ABOUT NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY.  SHE ACCEPTED A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY WHICH WAS READ BY MAYOR SMALL AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010 WAS PROCLAIMED AS NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY IN NEW CASTLE, HENRY COUNTY, INDIANA.

 

MAYOR SMALL INTRODUCED THE NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, MR. BOB GREWE, FROM JASPER, INDIANA.  MAYOR SMALL SAID WE WERE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE MR. GREWE ON BOARD WITH ALL HIS EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE.  MAYOR SMALL SAID THE CITY AND COUNTY WERE LOOKING FORWARD IN WORKING WITH MR. GREWE.

     MR. GREWE SAID HE WANTED TO INVITE EVERYONE TO STOP BY HIS OFFICE AT ANY TIME.  HE SAID HE WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE COMMUNITY, ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT HE HAS MET, THE STAFF AT EDC, AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.  HE THANKED EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUPPORT.

 

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE ON THIRD READING.    COUNCILMAN REID: SECOND

DISCUSSION:  THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM  2010 ELECTED SALARIES ORDINANCE.

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                      PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

    PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE ON THIRD READING.   COUNCILMAN HAHN: SECOND

DISCUSSION:  THERE OR NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010 FOR THE EMPLOYEES IN THE CLERK-TREASURER OFFICE/2011.

     MAYOR SMALL SAID THIS ORDINANCE WILL ALSO BE ON LINE AS WILL 2010.

ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                     PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE.   COUNCILADY GOODMAN: SECOND

DISCUSSION: THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010.

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                    PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE.    COUNCILADY MALONE: SECOND

DISCUSSION: THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010.

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                     PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

    PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE.    COUNCILMAN KOGER: SECOND

DISCUSSION: THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010.

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                     PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE.   COUNCILADY MALONE: SECOND

DISCUSSION: THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010.

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                        PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE.   COUNCILMAN KIDD: SECOND

DISCUSSION:  THERE ARE NO CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO THIS ORDINANCE FROM 2010.

     ROLL CALL VOTE:  SIX VOTES AYE.                                      PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

COUNCILMAN HAHN THANKED JUDGE WILLIS.  HE TOLD HOW CHILDREN AND FOSTER PARENTS WERE WORKED WITH IN KOKOMO WHERE HE WORKS.  HE SAID IT WAS A BLESSING TO HAVE SOMEONE LIKE JUDGE WILLIS WHO WILL STEP UP TO THE PLATE FOR THE 114,000 CHILDREN THAT NEED HOMES AND CARING. 

 

THE CITY COUNCIL RESCINDED A 2004 AMENDMENT REQUIRING COLLEGE ATTENDANCE WITHIN THE COUNTY.  A SCHOLARSHIP WINNER WILL BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND ANY ACCREDITED COLLEGE IN THE STATE OF INDIANA.

THE SCHOLARSHIP WAS CREATED IN 2002 AS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW CASTLE AND THE HENRY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

     PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO RETRACT ORDINANCE #3382, THE AMENDMENT TO THAT.  JUST THE AMENDMENT.

COUNCILMAN REID: SECOND

     ROLL CALL VOTE: SIX VOTES AYE.                        PASSED AND ORDERED.

 

DISCUSSION ON HOMES THAT NEED TO BE DEMOLISHED WAS NEXT ON THE AGENDA.  THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 40 HOMES THAT NEED TO COME DOWN AND COURT ACTIONS HAVE BEEN FILED ON THEM.   A LADY ASKED FOR SOMEONE TO BOARD UP 2 HOMES ON SPRING STREET AND 9^TH STREET.  SHE SAID THEY ARE A HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD.

     ATTORNEY COPENHAVER SAID THERE HAS TO BE COURT ACTION BEFORE DEMOLISHMENT, AND BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY, WE CAN BOARD THEM UP.

     COUNCILMAN KIDD TALKED ABOUT HOPE INITIATIVE AND ALL THE WORK THEY ARE DOING IN THE CITY.  HE SAID RANDY NEAL AND HIS CREW WENT IN AND TORE A HOUSE DOWN AND HAS HAD AN OFFER FROM KEITH PRITCHETT TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP ALSO.  HE SAID BETWEEN I C A P, THE CITY EMPLOYEES, HOPE INITIATIVE AND VOLUNTEERS, THINGS ARE GETTING DONE.

 

CINERGY METRO NET HAS A TEMPORARY HOME ON THE CORNER OF SOUTH 14^TH STREET AND RACE STREET.

 

JIM BENNETT, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIBERTY INSURANCE COMPANY, APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL REQUESTING THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO MEET WITH EMPLOYEES TO SHOW THEM A TERM LIFE POLICY, PAYROLL DEDUCTIBLE, UP TO THE AGE OF 100.

     MAYOR SMALL SAID MR. BENNETT WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK TO A BOARD OF WORKS MEETING FOR THAT APPROVAL.

 

PRESIDENT YORK MOVED TO ADJOURN.

COUNCILMAN REID: SECOND