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Home My WebLink AboutJune 1, 2026 Council Minutes COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA June 1, 2026 Regular Meeting Minutes The Common Council of the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana met for the Regular Meeting on June 1, 2026. Council President Reed along with City Clerk Lisa Gill called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.The meeting was open to the public in person as well as live streamed via the City Website using Zoom. INVOCATION: Council Vice President Burns led the Invocation. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: ROLL CALL: The roll call was conducted by City Clerk Lisa Gill and present in Council Chambers were Council Vice President Burns, Council President Reed, Councilperson Hawkins, Councilperson Snelling, and Councilperson Stoner.Councilperson White, Councilperson Semones, Councilperson Anderson, and Councilperson Webb were absent. Let the record reflect that 5 Council Members were present in Council Chambers and 4 absent. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Councilperson Snelling made a motion to approve the Minutes for Regular Proceedings on 5/18/2026, seconded by Council Vice President Burns; motion passed, 5-0. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Council Vice President Burns made a motion to approve the agenda, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion passed, 5-0. CLAIMS TO APPROVE: Civil City$$2,271,220.47 Council Vice President Burns made a motion to approve the Civil City Claims, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion passed, 5-0. Parks$$99,553.11 Council Vice President Burns made a motion to approve the Parks Claims, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion passed, 5-0. REPORT OF THE CLERK: City Clerk Lisa Gill introduced the new Chief Deputy Clerk, Kaci. She also gave the Council a brief update on the new Laserfiche upgrade. Since IT Director Matt Dyer had been on vacation the past week, it had been on hold but will resume once he returns back to the office. REPORT OF THE YOUTH ADVISOR: A new Youth Advisor has not yet been selected. Council President Reed reminded everyone that the Youth Advisor Applications are still open until June 20th. She encouraged anyone who knows an outstanding youth in our community to apply. She stated that the City Council loves having a youth voice on the Council and that they've done so much to push us forward as a City. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. Kristie Ashcraft/Samantha Chapman with Humane World 2026-OR-18 Ordinance Regulating Pet Shops Council President Reed stated that the Council needed some additional information and weren't comfortable moving forward without it. Council Vice President Burns made a motion to Table the Ordinance 2026-OR-18, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion tabled, 5-0. NEW BUSINESS: PUBLIC COMMENTS: Beverly Flick from 3209 Pebblebrook signed up to speak about the Noise Ordinance. Beverly-"Good Evening, I'm here again. I was here a month or two ago and asked you all to do a revision on the Noise Ordinance for July 4th, and I see that nothing has happened with that. And I was just wondering how to proceed to get you all to change that from Midnight to 11 PM?" Council President Reed addressed Ms. Flick and informed her that Councilperson Semones was the one who's been working on that and she was absent from tonight's meeting. She told her to please leave her information with the Clerk and she'll make sure Councilperson Semones gets it. She also apologized that Ms. Flick hadn't heard anything back yet. 1. Kim Calabro 2026-OR-19 Ordinance Amending 2026-OR-14& Fixing the Salaries of Appointed Officers& Employees of all Departments of the City Kim Calabro-"Good evening, I'm here on behalf of Len Ashack, Wastewater Director. They have a couple changes that they've requested that I make to the Salary Ordinance. I do have copies of the Meeting Minutes, and I do apologize for not getting those to the Clerk. I just got these from Mr.Ashack, I believe on Friday. So I do have those, I can give those to you. Basically documents substantiating that the Sewer Board did approve these changes. So if you see on page 5 of the current Salary Ordinance, what was considered the GIS Database Administrator, they are changing his title to Geospatial Program Manager or Manager of Geospatial Program. There's no salary change,just a title change to kind of keep current with trends.The other change that they're going to make is under the Wastewater Construction. They currently have four Construction Utility workers. They're going to take that down to three, and they're going to add a Heavy Equipment Operator, and that's primarily due to the amount of construction work that they're doing. So there's more of a need for Heavy Equipment Operators than there are for the Utility Workers." Council President Reed-"Well, I love to see Departments working within their budget and making smart decisions." Councilperson Stoner-"Do we currently have four that are actually in the position?The Construction Utility Worker?" Kim Calabro-"That's a good question. I think we only have three because we just lost, somebody just moved." Councilperson Stoner-"Ok, so it's not the same person that was a Construction Utility Worker going over and becoming Heavy Equipment Operator?" Kim Calabro-"Correct." Council Vice President Burns-"Is that a budget change?" Kim Calabro-"The Heavy Equipment Operator does make a little more money,yes. But as I mentioned earlier,the Sewer Board did approve that". (Councilperson Stoner asked that the Sewer Board Minutes be passed around for the Council Members to look at.) Council President Reed-"I'm assuming that extra salary change will be absorbed within their budget however?" Kim Calabro-"Yes". Councilperson Stoner-"Is that primarily due to demand around needing additional Heavy Equipment Operators?" Kim Calabro-"Yes, it's due to primarily the fact of all the construction projects that they have going on, and the Utility Worker typically doesn't have that same experience." Council President Reed-"I kind of love that because I know in our district we've seen so many projects that we've had to outsource to other companies. Which ends up costing us more than almost having someone on staff, and then people have to wait,and we have to wait if that contractor gets backlogged with other projects". Kim Calabro-"Exactly, and then trying to figure out ok,where are we going to put these folks? Ok,you can work on this project now, but I need you to stop here and go over here.Whereas they'll give them a little more flexibility and a little more fluidity to be able to have three on the ground, being able to manage projects. We also have a tendency to not keep our Utility Workers.There's a lot of turnover with Utility Workers." Council President Reed-"Is that because our salary is not as competitive?" Kim Calabro-"Our base pays are,yeah, remember we're still talking about 2022 Salaries, so yeah." Councilperson Stoner-"And then the Geospatial Program title,that's just a title change?" Kim Calabro-"Yeah that's just the title change". Council Vice President Burns-"Mrs. Gill, what's the Ordinance number?" Clerk Gill-"This will be 19". Council Vice President Burns made a motion to approve the Ordinance 2026-OR-19 on the 15t and 2nd Reading, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion passed, 5-0. 2. Marc Hildenbrand, Executive Director of River Ridge,Discussion in Conjunction with the River Ridge Financial Contribution to the City Explaining their Growth Plans and Current State(SEE ATTACHED) Marc Hildenbrand is the Executive Director of River Ridge. He's been with the company since 2009, and before he was named Executive Director, he was in charge of Capital Projects. He came before the council to inform and update them on the current happenings at River Ridge. He prepared a presentation and passed out packets to members of the Council. Included in the packet is the Economic Impact Analysis, which they've done every year since 2013 with Policy Analytics out of Indianapolis. Also included is the Annual Report,which gives the highlights of the numbers mentioned in the presentation. The river Ridge Development Authority first inherited the Army Ammunition Plant in the late 1900s. By 2016 they owned the entire 6,000 Acre property. Over the past twenty years they've had quite a bit of development on the Jeffersonville side of River Ridge. Marc stated that about $200 Million has been spent to install roads, water and sewer.They also maintain all the roads and the ownership of the roads within the Commerce Center.They do snow removal and spend somewhere between half a million and three quarters of a million dollars on pavement repairs to ensure the roads are safe and travelable within the Commerce Center. One of the big projects they've worked on was their Big Sewer Lift Station and Forcemain Project that was associated with the CS Powertech Project. Formerly known as Canadian Solar, they recently changed their name to CS Powertech. River Ridge funded about$8 million for that project and in the last month or so the Wastewater Department has taken over since the project was completed and put into service. Marc emphasized about the created traffic and added traffic on State Road 62.Just at the end of last year(2025)they completed a new access route through the middle of River Ridge. This allows someone that is working in Charlestown to drive all the way through the River Ridge Commerce Center to get out to the Interchange at International Drive and 265.So that they won't have to go on State Road 62 anymore. Another big project they started on at the beginning of this year is the Interchange at 265 and International Drive.They're estimating the cost to be around $15-$20 million with a complete revamp of that Interchange.When it was constructed with the East End Bridge project, it was looked at as a rural intersection or interchange, but the traffic has outgrown it by quite a bit.The new layout will be a diverging diamond. Basically it gets you to the left-hand side of the road, so left-hand turns aren't opposed, and you won't have to cross traffic.The hope is that it will free up some of the traffic congestion and is looking to be a three to five year project from start to completion. River Ridge is currently up to over 13,000 jobs, including construction jobs with the Meta project and the Canadian Solar(CS Powertech) project. It also supports another almost 8,000 regional jobs. CS Powertech is planning to hire up to 1,200 employees and the newly announced Charlestown location CTDI is expected to add another 400 or so jobs to their already existing 1,600 employees at River Ridge.They expect to add 3,000 jobs in the next five years or so. In 2025 The Annual Labor income hit just over a billion dollars, the Property Tax Revenues almost$158 million dollars, Capital Improvements at$31 million dollars,The Economic output reached almost$3.6 billion and local and state Tax Revenue were about$57.5 million. Marc concluded his presentation and stated he'd be happy to answer any questions from the Council. Council President Reed-"What is the average wage right now for people out in River Ridge working?" Marc Hildenbrand-"That's a great question. I don't have that right in front of me, and it's probably something I need to have. But obviously,for the first part of River Ridge, when we had to find revenues, we focused on speculative development, and typically, that led to warehouse distribution, which are a little lower paying jobs. But we do have some advanced manufacturing, some food and beverage that have a little bit more. So I would say if I'm taking an educated guess, it's probably in the low to mid-$20s an hour. But our Board put a moratorium in about four years ago, they put a moratorium in where not only do we have to know who the company is that's moving in, we have to know how much they're paying their employees.And we are requiring anyone to buy property at River Ridge to pay the County average wage, which for 2026 is$27.25." Council President Reed-"Perfect. And I saw something online that you're focusing more on high- tech industry jobs?" Marc Hildenbrand-"Yeah, so we had media come in last week.And I guess I'll mention that too. We're doing some bus tours. We have invited the public. It's just a sign-up, and I think we're completely full, I think we had six. So we've got about 70-75 people from the public that we're just going to show them around River Ridge on a bus. But yes, advanced manufacturing would be great. Food and beverage always pays higher.Tech, that's a big thing going now. Were searching out Department of Defense or Department of War projects.Anything related to national defense, that's a hot topic right now with a lot of money from the Federal Government available for those types of projects. So we're searching out good jobs, and we want to bring them to Jeffersonville and Charlestown for sure." Council President Reed-"Thank you. We really want people to be able to afford to work and live in Jeffersonville, and I think John Linus is in here, so he gets it. Does anybody else have any questions or follow-ups?" Councilperson Snelling-"Thank you Marc for your presentation." Councilperson Stoner-"I don't have any major questions, but just, I guess in our broader conversations right now around public services.Those critical public services, I just want to say thank you again for River Ridge's commitment. Yeah $3.5 million for this Year. I guess, could you speak to that a little bit?And then hoping that there's still opportunity for future conversations down the road of how we can continue to align." Marc Hildenbrand-"Yeah. So obviously we worked in the last year,well its been going on for quite a few years, and honestly,Meta coming into River Ridge has really put us in a spot financially where we can afford now to, I mentioned $130 million.We have the revenues from the property taxes coming in that we can pay off our debt where we are now.so that's helped us to get to this point. But we did a lot of calculations to try to figure out how to do this working within our budget.One of the things that we realized, the way that it happened this year,that we were a little late for budget time, right?You already had your budget.We made the contribution last year that you had in your budget for last year. But our goal this year is we're going to be getting you guy's information about the middle part of the year here in the next couple of months so that you can program it into your budget next year. And with the projections that we have right now, there should be no reason that we do anything less than what we did this past year.And we're going to continue to work toward that because we understand, with Fire and the Police and the Wastewater services that we receive from the City, that there is cost associated with it.And we're happy now that we can finally pay the City back for all the years that you all have been a partner with us." Councilperson Stoner-" Right and I can't speak for everyone else, but I know some of the conversations that I've had with other Council Members has been related around ensuring that those dollars are going directly into Critical Services from an Administration standpoint.so I know we're checking into that, ensuring there's accountability on that end as well. If you don't want to get into this right now, it's fine. I'm just curious, are there still opportunities for conversations around a building or a space for a Fire Station in the East End?" Marc Hildenbrand-"Sure, we have a site that-oh, I believe our board has passed a resolution. If I remember correctly, last year, that held five acres on River Ridge Parkway at Trade Street and- I thought I noticed the chief walked in, and we've had multiple conversations with Chief Grant about what that looks like, and I think we're very excited to continue to have those conversations with the City." Councilperson Stoner-"Have those been recent conversations?" Marc Hildenbrand-"Yes, Mm-hmm." Councilperson Stoner-"So they're ongoing right now?" Marc Hildenbrand-"Ongoing conversations,yes sir." Council President Reed-"Okay I believe Jacky and Steve have been talking about this." Councilperson Snelling-"Yeah, we've talked to the Chief. We met with him a couple of weeks ago." Councilperson Stoner-"Yeah, I'm looking forward to that because I know that we spoke about the need to continue those conversations after last year and so I'm just looking forward to continuing those." Marc Hildenbrand-"And I'm making a part of what I'm doing now as Executive Director to stay in contact as much as I can with people. Len Ashack, I talk with him pretty regularly with projects coming in.Chief McVoy, since he's been appointed Chief, I've had quite a few conversations with him, and then obviously Chief Grant as well." Councilperson Snelling-"As you know, the building parts not what we're worried about, it's hiring the Firefighters and the Police Officers." Marc Hildenbrand-"Yeah, so because we're using Property Tax Revenues, there are only certain things we can do with it. A service agreement is what we have to do, and that's what we worked with Mr. Merkley on and our general counsel.so obviously helping the budget, but it is related to those services.So I would say, once It gets into your all's hands, you all figure out how to budget what that money is used for. As long as we're getting the services in return,that's what we're looking for." Councilperson Stoner-"Well, I certainly appreciate the continued partnership because I think as all of these entities continue to implement Senate Enrolled Act 1,that'll be very important that we have those conversations openly and transparently." Marc Hildenbrand-"Definitely." Council President Reed-"What I'm hearing is$4.5 next year Marc." Marc Hildenbrand-"I'm not going to commit to that. I'll have to get with my financial consultant to do that. But it won't be less than $3.5, I think I can commit to that." Council Vice President Burns-"And we do appreciate the contributions that you have made, but at some point it would be nice to have long-term contribution so that we could use those dollars and know that they're coming in long-term for things. Rather than are we going to get it each year?And it's going to be dropped into our budget. So that would help if we had something more long-term that, hey, this is the minimum, but we might be able to give you more, but we don't know. We've got to see how the year goes." Marc Hildenbrand-"I appreciate that, and we've had those conversations as well, and I think we wanted to run it through.This year was the first year we've done this before so we wanted to make sure everything went smoothly.We wanted to get a couple of years under our belt,and I think we're more than happy to have those conversations." Council Vice President Burns-"I understand,thank you." Councilperson Hawkins-"Thank you Marc, and I have one question. Does River Ridge track where the people who work in River Ridge live?" Marc Hildenbrand-"We don't. We probably could get some help from our friends at One Southern Indiana to help with that a little bit. And Southern Indiana Works as well tracks that thing quite a bit. I know the big number that we all wait when we're talking to companies when they're coming to River Ridge, there's something like, and John will probably be mad at me because maybe I don't pay attention as well as I should when he's giving a presentation, but it's something like 38,000 people that cross the bridge from Southern Indiana and Louisville every day to go to work, and there's about 16,000 that come back. So what we're trying to do with the jobs that we're creating is capture that delta of the people that are crossing the river to work in Louisville and giving them a reason to stay in Southern Indiana to work. But we can definitely look at that and see if we can come up with some of those numbers." Councilperson Snelling-"Thank you." Council President Reed-"Okay, anything else? Well, thank you so much for coming here tonight and keeping us updated and for the continued partnership." Marc Hildenbrand-"You're welcome and thank you all again for having me." Councilperson Stoner-"Thanks Marc." 3. Les Merkley 2026-R-8 Resolution Amending 2024-R-10 Approving Statement of Benefits for Proposed Real & Personal Property Tax Abatement Les-"You have in front of you a Resolution which amends a Resolution that was adopted back in 2024, specifically 2024-R-10. We are just correcting an oversight. This was for an abatement for roll forming steel that the Council approved and granted both a Real and Personal Property Tax Abatements for the facility located at 1205 North Access Road. The attached CB1 that was part of the original Resolution in 2024 was correct. However, the Resolution did not have the correct numbers and we are just correcting those numbers. In fact, it's a larger number of an investment. As you can see its$58.1 million for Personal Property Investment and $19.8 million of Real Property Investment. That number was significantly lower on the original Resolution, but it was correct on the SB1. We are just cleaning this up to ensure that there's no problems with the County when it comes time for the assessment for the abatement. So we're just correcting that and would ask your approval of this Resolution. And they want our sides here as well, if you have any questions." Council President Reed-"So what I'm hearing is everything that we heard in that presentation and voted on was completely correct. It was just a typo in the form?" Les Merkley-"Correct. Yeah it was actually a mistake in my office. The numbers were not correctly transposed from the SB1 to the Resolution, we are correcting that." Council President Reed-"Okay, anybody have any questions or concerns? I know John is here also if we need any information on things." m the Council. There were no further questions or comments from Council Vice President Burns made a motion to approve the Resolution 2026-R-8, seconded by Councilperson Snelling; motion passed, 5-0. 4. Opioid Committee Update/Report Council President Reed informed the Council that the Chair of the Opioid Settlement Group had a medical emergency earlier that day and wasn't able to attend the meeting. But they did confirm that they'll be at the next meeting to give an update on their progress. COMMITTEE REPORTS/COMMENTS: None ATTORNEY COMMENTS: Larry Wilder- Les Merkley—No Comment. DEPARTMENT HEADS: None. COUNCIL COMMENTS: • Councilperson White— Absent. • Council Vice President Burns— No Comment. • Councilperson Semones—Absent. • Councilperson Anderson—Absent. • Council President Reed—"Wonderful, well I hope everybody is getting some relaxing time this summer. And I'm happy to see a room full tonight. And I know we have a University Of Cincinnati student here tonight doing a project, so make sure you say hello to her. She's learning about us tonight, and that's something we always love to see. Other than that, everybody have a wonderful night." • Councilperson Webb—Absent. • Councilperson Hawkins—No Comment. • Councilperson Snelling— No Comment. • Councilperson Stoner—"Yes, I would just like to wish everyone a Happy Pride Month. I'm very proud of the work that we did to make our community a more inclusive environment for everyone. We obviously know that communities thrive when they're welcoming and when they're open to all, and I just wish everyone to have a fun month in that. And other than that, no comment." ADJOURNMENT: Council President Reed made the motion to ADJOURN the meeting at 6:35 p.m. DISCLAIMER: These minutes are a summary of actions taken at the Jeffersonville City Council meetings. The full video archive of the meeting is available for viewing at www.cityofjeff.net for as long as this media is supported. APPROVED BY: Donna Reed, Council President ATTEST: isa Gill, Clerk d I 1 { .,t, Y t e r 1. „ 7' 1. tj9 4°1' \ ;14 , O \'‘W 1 j roliin) Z , : \ ,. 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