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Mount Carmel council approves routine funding, grants permission for First Baptist street outreach
Summary
Mount Carmel City council approved routine items including festival funding, authorized a First Baptist solicitation of flyers (no fundraising), and approved the consent agenda; several infrastructure updates were discussed and staff will return with formal resolutions.
Mount Carmel City council on an evening meeting approved routine funding requests and the consent agenda, heard updates on city services, and discussed upcoming capital work.
Visitor Mister Beckerman asked the council to "carry with identification" and requested the same funding as last year for the town festival; the council approved the request. The amount was discussed aloud during the meeting but not recorded unambiguously on the record; the council approved "the same funding as last year," with roll-call acknowledgments and Mister Meeks recorded as absent.
The council also heard a request from First Baptist Church to hand out flyers and small items at street corners and explicitly not solicit funds. Speaker 3 summarized the church’s plan to hand out "suckers and flyers," and the council raised no formal objection while asking staff to confirm details the following day.
On routine business, the council approved the minutes from the Feb. 2, 2026 meeting and adopted the consent agenda to pay all bills with proper signatures; roll calls were taken for both motions and affirmative responses were recorded. The meeting adjourned after the consent actions.
What’s next: staff said it will present a formal resolution on Motor Fuel Tax expenditures and other items at the next meeting; no new vote was required to move forward on the roof project because authorization was given at a prior meeting.
