I call the order the April meeting of the Lafayette common council. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God in the goodful with liberty and justice for our all. Okay, will the clerk have a roll call vote? A roll call. Here. Smyder. President. President. President. Brown. Here. Always, my name is Senator Williamson. Here. Downing. President. Ngt. First, next on the agenda is approval of the minutes from last month. Mr. We accept the minutes as communicated. Second. Any comments or concerns about that? All in favour say aye. Aye. Any one opposed? Reports of the city offices on file in the city clerk. Late maintenance, monthly February. Renewed apartment monthly February. Why do works department monthly February? Presentation and disposal of claims. Air nine. Presentation of additions and communications. Air nine. OK. Ordnance for second reading. We have ordnance 2025-11. And a more ordinance, I'm in the Lafayette Downtown designated outdoor refreshment area. Mr. Relles. I moved to here and approve ordinance 2025-11. Second. All right. All right, very good. We are here for second reading on this ordinance, which will expand our designated outdoor refreshment area. As you remember last year, we piloted a test pilot. They went from 10 to 11 street on main for this designated outdoor refreshment area. We are now looking to expand that to go all up Main Street plus down a fifth and second a little bit to include some of our businesses there. So we are very excited about offering this new expanded door for this summer. Before we do vote on the ordinance though, there is one amendment that I am requesting. When we went and talked to downtown business owners, there was a business LaScala who had submitted their paper work back to us on time, but did not get put on as a designated permit for last month. So I am going to request an amendment to the ordinance to add La Scala as a designated permitee. And then. on time but did not get put on as a designated permit for last month so I am going to request an amendment to the ordinance to add La Scala as a designated permit T and then once that's been amended we can talk about the ordinance generally. Okay do we have a motion to amend? So moved. Second. Okay all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay now. Okay and now I'm happy to answer any questions that you have about the door program generally. Any questions from the council? Any questions from the public? Very none. We have somebody. Okay. I do have questions. Who's in Chapter 1001? Very. So does the people are allowed to then carry drinks along main street only or along these other streets? So, they can't come up and sit on my wall with their drink. They are supposed to do so. There are signs posted at every entrance and exit of the door that makes it clear you are leaving the door area and that drinks are not supposed to be taken outside of it. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none will the clerk conduct a roll call vote on ordinance 2025-11? As amended. As amended, right? Clinker? Aye. Snyder? Aye. Reynolds? Aye. Weas? Aye. Brown? Aye. Otismeyer? Aye. for. Brown. I'm Otis Meyer. Hi. Whimson. Hi. Downing. All right. Amended ordinance passes 8 to 0. Okay. Next ordinance for first reading. Ordnance 2025-12. And ordinance for an additional preparation in the park and recreation operating fund number 2040. Um. This is all. I can go forward. Okay. I'm going forward. President, I'm here in a pre-ordinance number. So I need to win the five-dash. Well, second. OK. I'm going to go forward. I'm going forward. President, I'm here in a pre-ordinance number. It's on each 25-12. Second. And Mr. Deal. Good evening, members of council. Jeremy Diel, city controller. This ordinance proposes authorization for the Lafayette Parks Department to spend an additional $82,000 from the Park Operating Fund this year. Additional appropriations requested solely for capital asset expenditure, and it's to enable the acquisition of two new pickup trucks. The Parks Department experienced some very abrupt deterioration of vehicles early this year, and after assessment by our fleet maintenance department. We determined that rather than invest more in maintenance to these problem vehicles, it would better serve the city to just acquire new units. At budget time, I forecast the park operating fund to have a 20, 25 year end cash balance of around $542,000. So resources are ample to support the request. However, we anticipate the park foundation is going to reimburse the city for one of these. So city park funds will only bear the cost of one truck. So I respectfully ask for your approval of the appropriation request. You said abrupt deterioration today. Well, maybe we just suddenly recognized it. We had transmission issues with one and there are a couple of them were pretty old. Yeah. So it's. Biking funeral. Okay, any other comments from Council? Questions from the public? Any comments or questions about this ordinance Okay, seeing none with a clerk conduct a roll call vote on ordinance 2025-12 blinker. Hi Snyder. Hi Reynolds. Hi, hi Brown. Oh, it's Meyer. Hi, Williamson. Hi, Downing. Hi, organized pass this eight to zero Okay, I think I'd like to add to that. By mine. I learned the votes already been concluded. But you can speak generally at the public comment at the end. Okay, you're welcome. Okay, we need to set a public hearing for this. Um, or May 5th, 2025, it's 601 here. So moved. Okay. All in favor say aye. Opposed? Next ordinance is ordinance 2025-13. And ordinance to amend ordinance 2024-47 and ordinance fixing the salaries of the appointed officers and employees of the city of Lafayette, Indiana for the year 2025. Excluding the sworn protective occupation and law enforcement members of the police and fire departments. Okay, Mr. Klinger. Move, we hear ordinance 2025-13 on first reading. Mr. Snyder? Second. Okay. Good evening, City Council. My name is Andy Milam, I'm the IT director. We've been anticipating the upcoming retirement of a civilian IT technician in the Lafayette police department. And this ordinance reflects a plan transition we've had in mind for some time. So we're requesting to move this position under the city information technology umbrella from the Lafayette Police umbrella. So it's important to note that this change involves no increase in salary or budget. So under the previous structure, this technician was not officially part of the city IT team, which sometimes led to disconnecting processes and standards. So by bringing this role into the IT department, we'll ensure everyone's working from the same playbook and using consistent tools and processes. So appreciate your support. Happy to answer any questions. Any questions from the council or concerned? Any questions or concerns from the public? Seeing none, will the clerk conduct the roll call vote for ordnance 2025-13? Lanker. Sniider. Rennels. Weas. Always Meyer. Winston. Downey. Ornith passes. ETA-0. Next is Ornith's 2025-14. Ornith's to men in the zoning ordinance in New County, Indiana. Mr. Reynolds. I move to here and approve. Ornith's 2025-14. All right. What you have in front of you is really what I would call kind of a technical amendment of our zoning ordinance. There is a procedure for terminating a special exception that had previously been granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals. The way the language is currently written any interested party staff member or the administrative officer can start that process. This amendment makes it clear that only the administrative officer can start that process. Just for context, the APC staff does report in their staff report. They're not actually aware of anyone trying to terminate a special exception, but this is language changes that were identified to just make the process a cleaner if it's ever needed to be used. Okay. Thank you. Question for Jackie. So this doesn't send it back to the previous zoning. It just proves the special stuff. No, this is just be it for whatever reason a special exception was required as part of that zoning process. And it wanted to be terminated that it only has to do with who can file that petition to terminate. Okay,. So before this, anybody could just walk in and say, what you need to do. Any interested person, which I think there is a definition of, which I don't know if the top of my head, but it wouldn't just say anybody off the street, but this is definitely narrowing it down. Yeah. I just want to make sure they couldn't then do, like, change the zoning to the more. This has to do solely with social exceptions. Okay. Any other questions or comments from the council? Questions or comments from the public? Seeing none, the clerk conduct a roll call vote on ordinance 2025-14. Baker. Hi. Snyder. Reynolds. Weas. Brown. Allersmire. Williamson. Downing. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.. Okay. All right. Here we have an ordinance that will amend provisions within our municipal code with regard to the farmers market. None of these changes are really substantive changes. They are more clean up items that need to be addressed. The first one it does expand the definition of farmers market to allow vendors to sell crafts and similar goods. If you've noticed that the market they've actually been selling those goods for a while, we are just cleaning up the ordinance to match that. The second change does determine that the footprint of the market will be as determined by the board of public works and safety. Just last week they did try and approve a slightly different footprint for the farmers market for this upcoming season so this brings the ordinance into compliance with that. And then And finally, at the request, the vehicles that are left there, they can be towed starting three hours before the market begins rather than two hours is just not enough time for everything that needs to be done to remove those vehicles that are parked and authorized. So three little technical changes and I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from the council? Any questions? Just for my own information is the footprint going north. Is that the... The footprint going north on? You said there are talking about expanding the footprint. Yeah we're they're moving the footprint Cindy do you know what? That's why I was asking for the footprint. It's going to be a fairly... Okay. and then down a little bit to the west. Pull in on ferry. Pull in on 5th Street from ferry. And work a little bit to take that parking lot out of play. It's a new process. A lot of down-to-dance festivals creating permanent footprint. So it's easy to provide security. I just thought I'd work my way. Where it's going. Thank you. Any comment on the public on this ordinance? Hearing none will look for conductor roll call vote on ordinance 2025-15. Lingerie Snyder. Hi. Reynolds. Weece. I Brown. Always Meyer. Williamson. Downey. All right. Ornus passes 8 to 0. Okay now we'll go to resolutions resolution 2025-06 I Resolution to transfer appropriations between the major budget budget classifications I know we hear in a group resolution 2025-06 Jeremy Ladies and gentlemen council good evening once again. Jeremy Diel City Controller. Resolution 2025, O6 proposes several final adjustments to the 2024 budget. The exhibit A to the resolution lists several transfers of appropriate amounts from one specific account to another. All requested amendments are within the same fund and department and these transfers result in no net change to the budget. The transfers are simply necessary to align the budget with our final posted expenses in aggregate per major budget category. I respectfully request that you approve this resolution. Thank you. Questions or concerns from the council on this resolution? Any questions or concerns from the council on this resolution? Any questions or concerns from the public on this resolution? Hello. My name is Tyler Reach, 625 North to the North Street, Lafayette, Indiana. We at once had a large amount of rapid rehousing phones and rad rehousing phones. I think believe them to be $2.3 million. I haven't heard them discuss stuff. Have they been traded off or is that within this transfer of funds to another fund? Those specific funds would be the rapid rehousing and rad rehousing federal grants that were granted to Lafayette, the city of Lafayette. Last I heard of in 2022. So I was wondering if those funds have been traded and transferred or if those funds are going to be accessed. None of the budget changes here are concerned those funds. I'm not precisely sure which what you're referring to. Those funds would go through the Lafayette housing authority. They don't go through this. Okay. CDBG and home funds. Well, they were the rapid re-housing funds brought to the attention of 2022. I know we had a vote but no public interest in those funds. So what we were going to do is go to the government and stuff. The Lafayette Housing Authority have been using those funds. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions and concerns about these ordinance? The none, will the clerk conduct a roll call vote on resolution 2025-06? Sniper. Sniper. Reynolds. Weas. Brown. Ours, Meyer. Williamson. Downey. Resolution passes, H-0. Okay. Any reports of standing committees? Reports of special committees. Reports by the mayor. Miss Alaneus, a new business. Reports of Councilman. I have one. I cannot let this meeting go by without saying a word about this guy. Who used to sit in here with us, he touched me in every one of our lives. Uh, in this job, you get to meet a lot of people, off a lot of people. And very few of them, well, are people that you are actually glad you got to meet. And I was so glad I got to meet Lon Heidi. He was a great God. He was a great God on every love. He was friendly. He was funny. He was wise. He had no problem sharing any of that with us. And I just want to let everybody know that the city noted he's missed. He is missed in here, and he'll be missed out there. Thank you. He was interested till the end. I talked to him a couple of weeks before he passed and he was still wondering how we're doing and missed us and wondered how things are going and said in this, asking if I was holding down the seat. Okay. I'm so, this is Lon Perry, for bringing that up. Yeah. Hey, yes. Madam President, I was approached by some residents in the city relative to an ordinance possibility. And I met with the residents. I have met with the city attorney, I met with the mayor, and we are going forward with this in an orderly manner, and we are going to have a public hearing, two public hearings actually, with the ordinance committee of the council, prior to any ordinances being filed. So the first meeting is April the 17th at noon here in the council chamber. And so if any of the public is interested, please come and voice your opinions pro or con. And we will have that discussion in a good manner, responsible manner, and talk about it, and then we will make the decision as to whether we will go forward to propose an ordinance on this. Thank you. Any other reports? Thomas from Council? Oh. Okay. Next on the agenda is public comment. Public comment is not an opportunity for you to personally attack other attendees, council members, or city officials. Again, all participants are required to maintain a high level of civility, respect, and courtesy for everyone present. Your comments will be limited three minutes. You state your name and address? Pearl Speckman, 923, soft 26th Street, Lafayette in there. I count before you people are night. I heard this complaint, driven complaints. Okay, I'm to tell you what, you're building a wall between citizens and everybody else. You have got a city police department. We supposed to have councilmen people checking over areas, which I've seen the last council people I've seen in my area, was when that man ran for office the first time. He all walked down the middle of the second street, every one of you. And these two appear, they've been counseling there, and they ate nothing done done done. Those two guys right there did take a little bit of answers this week. I had a two-arm meeting with the City Engineer. I found out what the problem is. In the Engineer, it's Mr. Mayor. And it's the variance committee that he appoints. Now, if you're going to start up here and make an ordinance and he goes out and gets some committee to say, oh well, you don't need 40% grass, you don't need five feet. They knew you guys couldn't put an ordinance. There's two houses in my area, it's got five feet by 50 feet and they got cement and buildings all there. On 23rd Street, the same thing. It's all black cement. It's all garage or house all the way back for C-400s of the block. Now, you people are causing trouble. That man right there has ran this country, this county and city. It's, you don't have no halls. It seems like we got dictator's center. I don't want to call him Putin, but he's getting the name closed. If you got a chance to do it. Please keep your comments. Complaint? Complaint? You're going to have to get these people to have vision, both sides. We had two ordinance violations. people come down there. They passed up six violations to get to my house. Is that targeting? Is that targeting? That is Lafayette. And I'm going to tell you, intimidation does not work, people that was in the service during the Vietnam War does not work intimidation does not work understand Any other public comments I've not done this before. Please state your name and address. Then you have three minutes to talk. Okay. My name is Erica Allen. I live at 60 C. R. Court Lafayette. Good evening, City Council members. My name is Erica and I'm a resident of this city. This past weekend I volunteered as a safety marshal during a peaceful protest. What happened that day was frightening, but what happened afterward was infuriating. A man opposing our protest arrived, got out of his truck and began aggressively confronting demonstrators. When a brief altercation occurred, he returned to his vehicle, retrieved an assault rifle, and walked into the crowd pointing it at one point directly at my husband. I was on the phone with 911 this entire time. I, along with his own wife, helped de-escalate the situation and got him back into his vehicle. When officers arrived, I did everything I could to provide accurate, urgent information. I told them there were multiple firearms that the man had pointed a gun at my husband. I told him I was the 911 caller and had been the primary person interacting with this individual. I offered to give a full statement three times with three different officers. I was told no, we don't need to speak with you. An officer finally approached me only after I insisted, but instead of listening, he cut me off and said, I have a hard time believing your story, the street cam says the opposite. He then told me what you're saying never happened and walked away. Let that sink in. A woman who helped de-escalate an armed man and was dismissed, disrespected, and directly called a liar. Not only did officers refuse to hear a firsthand witness, they publicly released a statement that was false. When I tried to correct it online, they deleted my comments. They then reposted a version that was still inaccurate. It wasn't until photos and videos of this incident spread internationally, all the way to Italy, that the department finally admitted investigation was ongoing. I'm here to ask you what message does this send to your constituents? That their safety doesn't matter, that eyewitnesses will be silenced if the narrative is inconvenient, that you can be threatened at gunpoint and the people sworn to protect you will call you a liar. I urge this council to look into this matter to ensure transparency, accountability, and meaningful change in how our police treat citizens, especially intense or politically charged situations. I am still willing to speak with investigators and provide a full statement, but this time I wanna be heard and treated with basic respect. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Thank you. We have other public comment. Good evening. My name is Stacy Bogin. My address is 116 Circle Lane Drive in West Lafayette. I was the primary point of contact for the event on Saturday. I was a volunteer through the 50-51 organization. Of course, I immediately contacted the team of experienced organizers who have run so many successful events in town, including the Thalin, and many others with whom you're no doubt familiar. And I'm only speaking right now because of the article in the journal and courier, which was posted about 22 minutes ago, which states falsehoods. It implies that we showed up with hundreds of people and gave the city no warning. That is false. I contacted the police first thing. I believe it was March 7th. As soon as I volunteered, I called the city of Lafayette Police Department and they said great. They said talk to the sheriff. They said the courthouse is the sheriff's purview. I said great. I called Sergeant Webb of the Sheriff's Department and had a lengthy conversation with him and he explains me the importance of getting a permit for such events. I said, wonderful. And he's directed me to the Commissioner's Office to get that permit, the Commissioner's Office emailed me the permit. I rented up the permit and it said right there, insurance required. So I did email my friends. I said, hey guys, we need insurance. My friends threw in some money. I called Julie Ish of the Ish agency and said, can you hook me up with some insurance? She said, I'll call you back in an hour. And hour later, she called me back and she said, no. She said, nobody will sell that insurance. I called another agency in town whose name I've forgotten. I'm sorry. They said, no. She just put me on hold for a minute and said, and she said, yeah, no. I called all state. My insurance carrier, they have an event department. The event department said, nope. I also went to www.Eventinsurance.com. There is nothing on their list for a political demonstration rally. It's for baby showers and bar mitzvahs. So I called Sergeant Webb the next day or two later, because this took a couple of days. Day two later, I said, sir, I cannot get insurance. And he said, well, then it's going to be on you. I said, whoa, I said, well, you know, people are going to show up because there's a public event. It's not on me. We have the right to have a civic civil event. So he put me in touch with Paula of the Commissioner's Office. She and I had a wonderful conversation. She was very helpful. She said, listen, and she believed me about the insurance. She said, yeah, ever since January 6th, hello. Nobody will sell insurance for a political event. Excuse me, but yes. So Miss Paula, however, was very helpful. And she recommended making use of the plaza area. And I said, great. I said, we always meet up front. Everyone knows that's where everybody rallies. We all know this. She said, also use that plaza area. I said, great. So we went about preparing our event. And as the numbers came in larger than we might have thought, because there's a lot of interest. I called the city, I know, not the city, I called Sergeant Webb specifically on Thursday of this week. And I said Sergeant Webb, we're looking at four to 600 people. He said, why didn't you just have it at our park? I said, because we want to have it at the courthouse. That is the center of town. So wrap up your comments. So they were called on two days before the event. I called Sergeant Webb. I called the commission. the courthouse, that is the center of talent. Wrap up your comments. So they were called on two days before the event, I called Sergeant Webb, I called the Commissioner's Office. I left a message with the mayor's office, and I had Randah Halzuma contact the Main Street Vendors Association, because I thought they'd appreciate a heads up. People were told. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. Other public comments. Hello. My name is Tyler Beach, 65 North-Towell Street, Lafayette Indiana. I have a couple projects that I wanted to work on with the city. These first project is a crosswalk at Fairington Court Apartments and it's senior citizens and living assistants home. The trail that they trek is a really long one around their building and around the parking lot and then finally to the store. There's a solution to this. There have been three senior citizens that have been hit this year alone. I'm told senior citizens living at that facility. We could put a crosswalk there just right across the street from Walmart from the Farrington to Walmart. I have talked to the city engineer and public works and safety. I just keep getting pushed around. Usually it's into the direction of another authority figure. The second is the bee boxes. I know that we have pollination with the 4-H co-exhibition with Purdue 4-H projects and the environmental projects. I noticed that we would usually put the bees pollination flowers somewhere in direct sunlight. So what's happening is these little guys are getting too exhausted and they're dying from the exhaustion trying to get their pollen, which we incorporate our ability to assist them with. I think it would be most appropriate to put the pollination flowers in a shaded area when we do plant them or give them some sort of curtain to shade them from the sun. It's going to make a big difference and it's practical. The biggest issue that I'm going to speak with you about is the mortgage fraud. I've go through Beacon, area planning website, and I read a lot of the information, and I've already affirmed with my current owner of the home. He said that there was $88,000 worth of restoration work that was not completed for aim work restructure and he said that what they did do was $12,000 worth of roofing. They didn't even do that up to code. This home does not pass inspection. It hasn't passed inspection since I've lived there and now that I've uncovered that they have this deficit of this difference of 88,000 from what they said it spent to 12,000 what was actually spent. And I've emailed the property courts, I've emailed Mr. Mayor about it, I've emailed the code engineers, the code enforcers and engineers, a Lafayette housing authority HUD, and it seems like something they could fix immediately in a mortgage adjustment, but they just don't do it. And then finally, breaches of peace in my district, Mr. Perry Brown, there's often breaches of peace, a lot of screaming at the night. It seems some sort of door or Torah law that's taking place in some, you know, sub-community that's within our public community, and they're doing it a lot. I mean, it's every night. Usually I hear some sort of pleas and screams for help or gunshots, which I haven't heard lately, but definitely screams and stuff and stuff like that. It's constant. I call them in. Are you recording these breaches of the police department? Yes, I have some things that are photographable. I would take pictures of and send them in, but the 911 operator does not receive pictures, which is something I still advocate for. I have called, I have maybe 60 something reports that I have made. None of them have come back with a report number. They're just called event numbers because there is no evidence. Well, evidently, they're being non-evidentual. It happens a lot. Part in nervousness. Thank you, Farah, for your comments. OK, thank you. Any other public comment? Hi, I've never done this before. Say your name and address. And then, you have three minutes to speak. I do live at 407 South Mill Street, Brooks in Indiana. I was at the protest on Saturday. When I went home, I saw the police report where the gentleman said he didn't point his gun. Well, I saw him point it. And I was pretty upset. So I went down to the police department. And there was another young lady with me. She was pretty upset because her young child was there. We went in and the police made his way. Three officers came out in the lobby. And the young lady was upset, which I understand. But through all the talking and everything, one police officer goes, you know, we can charge you with falsifying information. I think that's what it's called. And at that point, I said, what's the point? I mean, they were like, we got the traffic cameras. And I just told him, I know what I saw. And I'm still pretty shook up about it. So thank you for your time. Thank you for your comment. My name is Erin Moonwalker. I live at 1147 Hillcrest Road in West Lafayette. I attended the protest as well on Saturday. It's disturbing because in addition to peaceful protesters having to deliberate whether a person with a large gun was there to intimidate them or cause a mass casualty event. I also witnessed this is much more minor in comparison, but a truck pull up along the protest and quote unquote, roll coal or expel exhaust from the vehicle all along the protesters. And I turned around to see what the sheriff's deputies would do and they did nothing. They stepped out of the cloud themselves and just stepped back into position. So I thought maybe that wasn't some kind of violation. Until I heard. Well after the protest, another excuse me, I wasn't prepared to speak. A friend of mine who also attended reported that she was pulled over for honking excessively in a business district. People had been honking all throughout the protest to show support, and it was really surprising that that that was an offense but blowing noxious fumes to God that nothing like this ever happens again. We got to come together. I don't know who's telling that what side is right but all we got to do is just pray for each other and that something like this won't never happen again. This isn't the Lafayette I know. I came to Lafayette 30, we've 39 years tomorrow, and there's one of the best things that ever happened to me, but this isn't the Lafayette that I know. We, like I said, and I've said it again, we just all need to pray for the, for everyone that was involved on Saturday. Because I, I got all, all of this, so it's stuff like I say say but it's not the time. Keep it all you guys in my prayer and everyone else. Thank you for your time. Good evening. My name is Tanya Lake. I live from Delphi, Indiana. I was at the protest. We were my husband and I crossed the crosswalk with the, the young lady I believe was one in the bright best. We obeyed the signals, we went across, and we stopped just right after we got a pass. And we were pretty much front and center of where this individual pulled up, stopped, rolled their window down. I couldn't really hear, I was probably 10 foot from her. I could not really hear what she was saying. And I kind of disregarded it, but kind kept my eye on it. And then she brought her bowl horn out, and then I seen her husband exit. Of course, then my husband took off towards that direction. And so it escalated. There was the pushing shoving into the protesters. I was frightened. I was very frightened. When he went back and retrieved his rifle, he literally came right at me. He didn't, he stopped and retracted because of his wife's request. I seen the gun I could have reached out and touched it. I was frightened for my life. And then to see a police presence. There was no police presence at all when we got there, when we first started our march, nothing. I think if there would have been a police officer, not even out, but just a presence, a visual. This whole situation would have escalated. So I kind of blame Lafayette City Police Department. They didn't handle it well. And the report they give was BSouse involving the the end of the court house involving the brandishing of an assault weapon. and I attended Saturday's protests and I stand before you today deeply concerned. Regarding the incident at the courthouse involving the brandishing of an assault weapon during a peaceful demonstration, I attended with my children. I'm a public school teacher at Harris in high school. For 22 years, I've taught in the public schools and I expect better. Information gathering from local news sources, police reports, and here are the key points. This demonstration was organized by the 5051 movement. It took place near the courthouse, around the sidewalk, and on the downtown sidewalks. This altercation between a driver and protesters reportedly being with verbal dispute and escalating to a protestor allegedly headbutting the driver. And following this, that driver retrieved what's described as an assault weapon from his vehicle and the Lafayette Police Department's investigation indicates that while the firearm was not knowingly, quote unquote, intentionally pointed, quote unquote, at any individual in its presence, you've got significant people to dispute that claim. It's been reported that the driver was detained and then released. There are conflicting reports within the community regarding the exact nature of the driver's actions and the level of threat that was perceived, but the presence of an assault weapon in such a volatile situation poses a clear and present danger. Clear. To me. Therefore I urge the City Council to demand a thorough and transparent investigation into this incident and review and reinforce the existing ordinances regarding firearms and public places. Facilitate an open dialogue between law enforcement and community leaders, sorry, and concern citizens. Take into very serious consideration the fear that it has been instilled in this community to ensure that all citizens feel safe to exercise their first amendment rights. Without fear of armed intimidation, our community deserves to feel safe and protected, and we must take decisive action to prevent future incidents of this nature. Thank you for your attention in this matter. I will say something. My name is Jennifer Rob. I live at 3601 Greenvillebust Street. This was my first protest, my sorry, my second protest, my first political protest. And I did not see the action I only saw the video after. Basically, I want to be able to say that I have faith in my police department to protect me. I believe that they do most of the time. I think we all made poor choices. I think that we were all in a heightened state of anxiety. I hope we do better next time. And I think back to before I was born, when there were people were sprayed with hoses, people were hit with objects, rocks, everything, all of those things that happened way back in the day. People did that for me to be able to be here today. I'm going to do that for my children, my grandchildren. And the rolling whole thing is not acceptable, but if all you can do is blow smoke at me you can do that any time you like. Thank you. Hi. My name is Sarah Dober. I live at 100 Bridgewater Court in Lafayette, 09. I also was not planning on speaking. But I attended the protest on Saturday. I came late, so I was not present for these events. It concerns me and I want to echo some of the other things that have been said. It concerns me that this is why Lafayette is on a public stage right now. I received a text from my brother in Connecticut on Sunday saying, hey, were you at the protest? Did you see what happened? It concerns me that this is the name that we have for ourselves in this moment, that the way that our police department has been handling this is putting us on the map for a very unfortunate reason. There were millions of people around the country out on Saturday over 1,000 peaceful protests that went off without incident. It's unfortunate to me that this is the event that that was platformed. And I think that it could have been avoided. Had the Lafayette Police Department held off on issuing a statement until they had spoken to more than just the one person. They reviewed the streetcams they say, which gave them maybe one or two angles, nothing that was going to show them a close-up of what was happening on the ground. They would have known from the people who tried to speak to them at the protest that there was video footage. They could have assumed that there was video footage. It's 2025. There's video footage of everything. And instead of doing their due diligence before issuing a statement, they issued a statement only on the word of the man who was brandishing a rifle in a crowd of people. Only on the word of a man who was claiming that he was brandishing a rifle in self-defense, even though he had ample opportunity to return to his vehicle to get that rifle, he had ample opportunity to retreat from the situation and to remove himself from the situation. And instead, he returned with the rifle. And our police department still issued a statement that he retrieved it in self-defense. It is no longer self-defense when you can remove yourself from the situation, return to your vehicle, and drive away. It is also upsetting to me that we, and this is obviously a conversation for another way, but that there is no brandishing law, that people in other states and in other countries are looking at this video saying, how was it not illegal for him to walk into a crowd of people with a rifle like that? Whether it was pointed at anybody or not. And we have to say, well, there's no law against that here. That's a little bit embarrassing to me. These are just things that have been bothering me, and as I've been listening to other people come forward and speak, I just want to put those concerns before you as a resident. So thank you for your comment. Thank you. Applause. Are there any other public comment? My name is Leslie Glossick. I live at 814 North Chonsey Avenue in West Lafayette. I was also at the protest. I find it very interesting after I did not plan to speak. And I hear all these people talking. And I find it very interesting that only one person was charged with a crime when I saw another person commit several crimes that day. I saw that man point a gun at Nate Alt-Stumick right in front of me within four feet. My two-year-old daughter was in the crowd and I was terrified. He had every opportunity to get in his car and leave. He planned that ahead of time. We all know that. We've seen the evidence of that. He did not come there and stop because he was impeded by people walking across the street. He was immediately aggressive. He was aggressive with women. I don't understand how that is not intimidation with a deadly weapon. Everybody was intimidated. People are traumatized. One man was injured and he's the one that hurt everybody else. That's all I have today. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other public comment this evening? My name is Amanda McKinney. I live at 6102 Silver Creek in West Lafayette. I'm not going to reiterate what everybody else has said very clearly and succinctly. I was up on the hill by the building looking out at the person with the gun who put his gun back in his vehicle and then immediately walked back and assaulted another person, unprovoked. I have video of that on my phone that I have sent to Lafayette PD. Again, just to reiterate how pathetic it is that our police force isn't there to serve and protect the general populace. And instead, they served and protected one person who came out to specifically cause harm and cause a raucous for no reason other than getting wolves on the internet. It's just pathetic behavior from everyone involved except for the peaceful protesters. I have so much footage on my phone that shows nothing being done wrong in the actual crowd, but this man coming at people, butting them with his chest and his stomach, and just being a disgusting human being. And then the cops don't ask any of the protesters. Don't ask anybody who has video footage. Don't ask for any information from anybody and put out that statement. And I, like everybody else, have friends and family from all across the country and world who are sitting there telling me that I shouldn't be able to go out and practice my first amendment right to protest the government or anything else because they're worried for my safety, because I live in Indiana of all places. And I'm sad about that. Not sad that I live in Indiana. I mostly like it here, but I'm sad that my friends and family are embarrassed for me and worried about my safety because of the state that I'm in, and that our police officers are not protecting us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any other public comment? Susan Schecter, one zero zero one, very straight. I want to change the subject a little bit. I am on the board of the trustees office and the trustee distributes emergency aid to citizens. and in Fairfield Township, 22% of the children in Fairfield Township live below the poverty level. And the legislature is moving a bill through House Bill 1007 that would require that the parents of these, well, that all ratepayers for Duke would be on the hook to pay for Duke to build a small modular nuclear plant. And the typical New Penn County, I've heard, being I'd as a location for small modular nuclear. There has been none of these plants built in the US commercially. There was one that was being built in Utah. And after eight or nine years, they gave up because it was way over budget, like nine billion instead of two or three billion. So now we as ratepayers and ratepayers who can't afford to care properly for their children because they don't make enough money are being asked to pay for building designing licensing buildings more modularnically or. I went to the state house, I testified at the state house about this. It's being pushed through. Fortunately, it is going to the Ways and Meansers that finance committee. But I think it's going to happen. We've already had within the last five years a 38% increase in our electricity rates. And now we're going to pay for Duke to build a speculative type of structure. I think the city needs to, we need to do something to help escape from, we're just being, I don't know, thrown under the bus. And so I would hope that you'd speak with our senator all-ting to request that he not support this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment, evening? My name is Kelly Jones. I live in Brixton and I was at the protest this weekend and I feel like it is important to reiterate the fear that we all went through and had to endure that could have been probably deescalated by a better police presence. I think it is important to reiterate that one man was charged when another was allowed to blatantly walk around and terrorize hundreds, if not thousands of people. I think it is another important thing to reiterate that the police who did finally arrive on the scene thought it was more important to pull over people who were driving and honking their horn versus the people who were rolling coal or pulling out weapons. I honked my horn. And that was the reason. That was the infraction that was most important at the time. That's what was called attention to. And I do think it's an embarrassment for Lafayette. I think we're a community that is home to college students. And if I was a parent thinking about sending my student to Purdue University, I'd think twice. I don't think I would trust that my child would be watched out for and cared for the way I think that police departments are supposed to care and protect their communities. I wouldn't want to spend my tax dollars here. I wouldn't want to move here. I wouldn't want to... I wouldn't want to spend my tax dollars here. I wouldn't want to move here. I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to be here at all. In fact, I like the other woman said, I kind of like it here. I grew up here, but it is increasingly hard to be proud of where I'm from. My phone blew up all weekend with calls from friends and family who were concerned about us. And we were hurt. And maybe no one was shot, but we were seconds from a catastrophic event potentially happening, whether he drove his truck into traffic or he opened fire on the entire group of us. We were seconds from that happening. And I for one, wanna know, are we gonna be able to peacefully protest ever again without being terrified that we're not gonna be protected by the ones who are here to protect and serve. I find it uncomfortable that we don't get any type of response from you in this moment. I find it very uncomfortable that we put our hearts out here are concerns in front of you and get nothing back. Thank you for your comment. Any other public comment? You're only allowed one time, please. That correct? Thank you. We've already spoken once. I'm sorry. So my name is Nate Alt. I'm 60 Sarah Court. And I'll just say what she was going to say. We just recently, just a few minutes ago, saw that the police posted from Sergeant Verma. Sergeant Verma posted that if we at the protest had wanted protection, we should have asked for it, that they never received any request for protection from the police. So I just want to say that. I also want to kind of say it's not all police. I worked, I work in the addiction field, so it was my wife, I work with police officers and there are some absolutely fantastic police officers that show every day that they care very much for our people and it's really unfortunate that in this case it was the ones who don't seem to that we're highlighted and put in the spotlight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment this evening? Being none. Move for adjournment. Okay. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Moved for German. Okay. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Good to see you.