Muncie City Council Public Hearing & Meeting | Monday, September 14, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

• Muncie City Council Public Hearing - 6:45p Monday, 09.14.26 • — (ORD 20-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE INDIANA TRANSIT SYSTEM BUDGET). . . — (ORD 21-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE SANITARY DISTRICT BUDGET). . . — (ORD 22-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE CIVIL BUDGET). . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Muncie City Council Meeting - 7p Monday, 09.14.26 • • THIS REGULAR MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! • • PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE • • INVOCATION • • CITIZEN RECOGNITION • • COUNCIL ROLL CALL: — Dale Basham (R - At-Large 1)... — Ro Selvey (R - At-Large 2)... — William McIntosh (D - At-Large 3)... — Jeff Green (R - District #1)... — Nora Powell (D - District #2)... — Brandon Garrett (R - District #3)... — Sara Gullion (D - District #4)... — Jerry Dishman (R - District #5)... — Harold Mason (D - District #6)... • APPROVAL OF MINUTES • • APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS & COMMISSIONS • • COMMITTEE REPORTS: — OFFICE OF COMMUNITY AND RURAL AFFAIRS. . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • ORDINANCES PREVIOUSLY INTRODUCED • ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • NEW ORDINANCES: — (ORD 16-26) BEING AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CITY OF MUNCIE'S COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE FROM THE SPLIT ZONING OF R-5 RESIDENCE ZONE AND BV VARIETY BUSINESS ZONE ON PREMISES LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF EAST RIGGIN ROAD AND NORTH OLD STATE ROAD 3, MUNCIE. . . — (ORD 17-26) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 104 OF TITLE IX WITH REGARD TO DESIGNATED OUTDOOR REFRESHMENT AREAS. . . — (ORD 18-26) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MUNCIE REQUIRING THE ADORNMENT OF CITY- OWNED POLICE AND FIRE VEHICLES WITH THE SLOGAN "IN GOD WE TRUST". . . — (ORD 19-26) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 16-25 FIXING THE MAXIMUM SALARIES OF EACH AND EVERY APPOINTED OFFICER, EMPLOYEE, DEPUTY, ASSISTANT. DEPARTMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL HEADS OF THE CITY OF MUNCIE INCLUDED HEREIN FOR THE YEAR 2026. . . — (ORD 20-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE INDIANA TRANSIT SYSTEM BUDGET). . . — (ORD 21-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE SANITARY DISTRICT BUDGET). . . — (ORD 22-26) AN ORDINANCE FOR APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX RATES (PROPOSED 2027 MUNCIE CIVIL BUDGET). . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • RESOLUTIONS: — (RES 13-26) A RESOLUTION DIRECTING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT AND SUBSEQUENT ADDENDA BETWEEN THE CITY OF MUNCIE AND GEORGE-JEFFREY HOWE, AND THE ADMINISTRATION'S COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE APPROVAL PROCESSES. . . — (RES 14-26) A MEMORIAL RESOLUTION IN HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE OF CRAIG WRIGHT, CITY CONTROLLER FOR THE CITY OF MUNCIE. . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • TABLED: — (RES 4-26) COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MUNCIE RESOLUTION APPROVING INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR THE HOUSING AND OPERATING OF A MUNICIPAL DRONE BASE (Tabled March 2026 – Expires September 2026). . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • OTHER BUSINESS • • CITIZENS' CONCERNS • • ADJOURNMENT • DON'T FORGET TO LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, & HIT THAT NOTIFICATION BELL! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. ET) YouTube:    / @thepoliticalspotlight   Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.firesid... & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Facebook 1:   / bilbrey318   Facebook 2:   / politicalspotlight318   TikTok:   / thepoliticalspotlight   Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd    / @thepoliticalspotlight   https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpot... https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.firesid...   / bilbrey318     / politicalspotlight318     / thepoliticalspotlight   https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio —