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Muncie Board approves permits, street closure and routine contracts; $739,602.30 in claims OK'd
Summary
The Muncie Board of Public Works and Safety on March 18 approved minutes and $739,602.30 in claims, granted noise exemptions for Ball State’s Equinox festival, a late-night carnival and a private fireworks event, approved an Ivy Tech street closure and extended a landlord-liaison contract.
The Muncie Board of Public Works and Safety approved routine meeting business March 18, including the March 11 minutes and payment of claims totaling $739,602.30, and granted several event permits and a contract amendment.
A city staff member, Craig, summarized the register of claims and noted routine items including annual email hosting, utility payments to Indiana Michigan Power and health-care claims. After a brief question about an $11,000 line listed as “low-cost spay and neuter” at the animal shelter—clarified as a variable, non-contract amount—the board approved the claims. The board also approved the March 11 minutes.
Ball State University representative Jacob Mensah requested a noise-exemption for an outdoor Equinox Music Festival at Botwin Hall on April 11, 2026, saying the university’s police department has approved the event and that the festival will feature six bands performing 30-minute sets. “The event is going to be on the 11th of April, 2026 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. We are expecting six bands,” Mensah said. The board granted the exemption.
The board also approved a longstanding late-night carnival’s noise-exemption for April 17, citing the event’s history and prior approvals, and granted a private-event exemption for Cobra Firing Systems and Illumination Fireworks (rebranded as Elevate). Danielle Struble, with Brook and Struble, said the event brings “over 500 people,” includes training sessions and demonstrations April 8–11 at the fairgrounds and that emergency services and the city had been notified.
Terry Sanders, representing Ivy Tech Community College’s Muncie campus, asked to close Franklin (Howard to Adams) and Charles (High to Franklin) for the college’s fall kickoff on Aug. 27; the board approved the street closure. Sanders described the closure as matching prior years and said the event will include a band and food trucks.
Nikita Adams of the Office of Community Development described a proposed amendment to extend the existing landlord-liaison contract with A Better Way to its full five-year term so annual renewals would no longer be required. “This is a standing contract that we’ve had with A Better Way… we just want to extend it to the end of that 5 years,” Adams said. The board approved the amendment.
Most of these items were handled by motion and recorded as carried without further debate. Documents for approved exemptions and closures were signed following the meeting.
The board adjourned after completing the agenda.
