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Votes at a glance: Whitestown council approves rezoning, contracts, proclamations and ordinances (April 9, 2025)
Summary
The Whitestown Town Council approved a series of ordinances, contracts, proclamations and change orders at its April 9 meeting; the roll-call votes recorded four aye votes and no recorded no votes for the listed items.
The Town of Whitestown Town Council approved a slate of ordinances, resolutions, contracts and proclamations at its April 9, 2025 meeting. Below are the items, motions and outcomes recorded on the public transcript.
Votes and key details
- Consent agenda (minutes of March 3 and March 12, March claims and revenues): Motion to approve passed 4–0 (Hancock, Thomas, Patterson, Smock voted aye). No abstentions recorded.
- Ordinance 2025-05 — Cardinal Estates zoning map change (agricultural to R3 medium-density single-family): Motion to approve passed 4–0. Mover: Councilman Patterson; second: Councilman Smock.
- Proclamation — April designated Child Abuse Prevention Month: Motion to approve passed 4–0.
- Proclamation — April designated Autism Awareness Month: Motion to approve passed 4–0.
- Resolution 2025-10 — change name for a portion of Center Drive to extend the Perryworth name: Motion to approve passed 4–0.
- Out-of-state travel — GIS staff to attend ESRI User Conference (San Diego): Motion to approve passed 4–0.
- Change order No. 3 — Subsurface of Indiana Inc. (A.S. White parallel water main and CR 200 S sanitary sewer extension): Approve expenditure exceeding the original contract price of $973,641.60 by $97,768.60 (change order amount). Motion passed 4–0.
- Contract — Butler, Fairman & Seifert, Inc.: Approve professional services agreement not to exceed $527,995.96 to design and handle land‑acquisition tasks for Main Street trail; motion passed 4–0.
- Contract — HWC Engineering, Inc.: Approve professional services not to exceed $60,000 for design and Community Crossings application support; motion passed 4–0.
- Sanitary sewer and water service agreement — Lennar Homes for Peabody West: Motion to adopt service agreement passed 4–0.
- Development agreement — Lennar Homes for County Road 575 improvements: Motion to adopt development agreement (Lennar contribution $577,439 toward full-depth reclamation rather than resurfacing) passed 4–0.
- Two‑year service agreement — Hendricks Regional Health for annual wellness and fit-for-duty evaluations: Motion to adopt passed 4–0 (favorable recommendation from fire board noted).
- Ordinance 2025-06 — amendment to employee manual on issuance/valuation of town-owned take-home vehicles: Council waived second reading and approved the ordinance 4–0.
- Ordinance 2025-07 — 2025 salary ordinance update (town to pick up commute fee from first payroll period in January through the payroll period ending April 20; policy implemented April 21): Council suspended rules to allow second read and approved the ordinance 4–0. Staff estimated the one-time town cost to be roughly $3,000 across all employees for that period.
How the council voted
Most motions passed unanimously by recorded voice roll call with four votes in favor and one member absent from the roll call votes. The transcript records the four voting members as Councilwoman Hancock (aye), Councilman Thomas (aye), Councilman Patterson (aye) and Councilman Smock (aye). Councilman Nichols was noted as joining remotely later in the meeting and is not recorded as voting on the listed 4–0 items.
Notes and follow-ups
- Several items included budgetary or procurement follow-ups (design/permitting and land-acquisition tasks for the Main Street trail; construction sequencing for roadway projects; and final accounting for the Lennar capacity/upsizing reimbursement). Staff indicated additional exhibits or corrected estimates during discussion and will continue to provide council updates.
- Where the transcript contained incomplete invoice exhibits or attachments, staff clarified the correct figures during the meeting (for example, the Butler, Fairman & Seifert estimate attachment was corrected). Council accepted those clarifications before voting.
This roundup records formal actions captured in the public meeting transcript. For a full record, see the meeting minutes and official ordinances/resolutions filed with the Town of Whitestown.
