# Transcript — Sugar Creek Township Board, 2026-08-25 Machine transcription of the recording of the Sugar Creek Township Board meeting on 2026-08-25, aligned to the video timeline. **This is not the official record** — the clerk's minutes are, and this is unreviewed automatic speech recognition that mis-hears names and numbers. Check anything that matters against the recording. Each line is stamped with its position in the recording, both as a clock time and as `[t=SECONDS]`. Those are the same seconds the archive's source links use: open [the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczxno0bYb8) and add `&t=` to jump to any line. Speakers were separated automatically and named from the meeting's speaker roster where the evidence supported it; an unnamed voice is shown as `Speaker `, which is a machine label and not a person's name. ## Transcript - **0:00:00** [t=0] **Speaker 0:** Mr. President, you ready? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. - **0:00:18** [t=18] **Speaker 4:** We do have a forum, Mr. Chairman. - **0:00:29** [t=29] **Speaker 6:** Should have the Mets from last meeting. Thanks for doing that Jack. - **0:00:41** [t=41] **Jack Kensell (chair):** I have no problem. - **0:00:43** [t=43] I can do it Jack. okay - **0:01:11** [t=71] **Speaker 14 (board member):** I'll make a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting of August 19th. - **0:01:32** [t=92] **Speaker 15 (board member):** Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. - **0:01:36** [t=96] **Speaker 21:** Additional appropriations are presented to you in the month of July. - **0:02:06** [t=126] **Speaker 29:** Thank you. - **0:02:36** [t=156] Thank you. All right. So, let's go. Okay. - **0:04:36** [t=276] **Speaker 34:** This is your written copy of the notice of public hearing for the official application. Okay. - **0:04:44** [t=284] **Speaker 38:** I make a motion to accept the monthly appropriation for the month of July. - **0:04:51** [t=291] **Speaker 14 (board member):** I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Mr. Chairman, we'll be hearing in front of you now with your budget. - **0:04:59** [t=299] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** Mr. Chairman, we'll be hearing in front of you now is your budget. Just in general, it looks like it's a 2.97% increase over last year. That's including the salaries that we've, so it's a 2.97%. So I think that's really good. And then township assistance went up 2.32. No change to rainy day or recreation budget. Okay. Okay. - **0:05:28** [t=328] **Speaker 21:** So you have a 2.32 increase in township assistance and a 2.97 in general. - **0:05:38** [t=338] **Speaker 4:** No big changes. - **0:05:39** [t=339] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** I think we cut travel, put more in professional services because of attorney, - **0:05:45** [t=345] **Speaker 15 (board member):** just to admit, because that seems like this year, and the last year we used more than that. Did you go by these numbers here on this? Is that how you set up the budget? from last year's budget yes from last year's budget we never did you change - **0:06:02** [t=362] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** any we did not decrease any funding for the people in fact we cut like travel that we haven't used but we took the money and travel instead of cutting it we moved it to professional services because we've used attorneys more than we probably have in the last couple years in the last 10 years so we moved money there no thing was cut for the public at all there was some money move around but it was moved around to budgets that we've used and budgets that we haven't used in two years we've moved some money into that so that's why yeah me and - **0:06:37** [t=397] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** Sarah sit down in the afternoon and went through the whole thing yeah again this is this the first - **0:06:46** [t=406] **Speaker 58:** meeting and then the adoption meeting would be September 8th as you this is a - **0:06:50** [t=410] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** public hearing if we had any questions of course no one I mean we don't have anyone for the public here. So the next adoption meeting would be September 8th at 10 a.m. We do have a special call meeting at 9 30 on the 8th to uh for the resolution of purchase again because we need to meet the 14 days. So 9 30 for the for the purchase and then the budget adoption would be at 10 a.m. Mr. Chairman. Okay. - **0:07:16** [t=436] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** You've got copies of the budget, so that way... - **0:07:18** [t=438] **Jack Kensell (chair):** That's the meeting for today, sir. All righty. I would make a motion then that we adjourn. - **0:07:31** [t=451] **Speaker 14 (board member):** Well, I make a motion to accept this budget. To go for adoption. - **0:07:36** [t=456] **Darrick Scott (trustee):** To go for adoption. Okay. If you don't have any questions or anything like that, then... No. Okay. - **0:07:42** [t=462] **Jack Kensell (chair):** Then I'll second that to approve this, yep, to be adopted at the next meeting. - **0:07:50** [t=470] **Speaker 68:** And then I'll make a motion to adjourn. - **0:07:53** [t=473] **Speaker 73:** I second it. - **0:07:54** [t=474] **Speaker 68:** All right, we will be adjourned at 10.07.