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Hammond City Plan Commission elects 2025 officers, appoints representative to BZA
Summary
The Hammond City Plan Commission elected Dean Button president and William Hutton vice president for 2025, and appointed Hutton as the commission's representative to the Board of Zoning Appeals; multiple routine minutes were approved by unanimous roll call votes.
Dean Button was elected president of the Hammond City Plan Commission for 2025, and William Hutton was elected vice president and appointed as the Plan Commission’s representative to the City’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA). The commission also approved multiple sets of minutes by unanimous roll call.
The commission convened and completed its officer elections by roll call. Commissioner Dean Button won the presidency on a 9-0 vote. Commissioner William Hutton accepted nomination and was elected vice president; the roll call recorded unanimous support. The same Hutton was nominated and approved as the commission’s appointment to the BZA for 2025 by a 9-0 vote.
The panel also voted to approve minutes from previous meetings, including the Nov. 19, 2024 minutes and a subsequent set noted in the meeting packet; both motions passed on unanimous roll calls.
Those items were procedural and drew no extended public comment. The chair asked for and received the recorded roll calls for each motion; the official tally for the officer elections and the appointment was nine ayes, zero nays.
The commission then moved to substantive items on the evening’s agenda.
