Terre Haute City Council meets for first in-person meeting since pandemic

The Terre Haute City Council met Tuesday night and passed some big things for the city.

Terre haute terre haute city council met in person today.

It's their first in person meeting since the start of the pandemic.

And it looked a lot different.

You're looking at video from the meeting tonight.

Masks were requred inside... council members were socially distanced... and members of the public had to watch the meeting from a monitor outside the courtroom.

Council president george azar says it's a lot to get used to... but he's glad to be back.

Meanhwile -- the council covered a few important topics tonight.

News 10's sarah lehman was at the meeting she's live in our newsroom.

New for you tonight on nightwatch... she has more on what you need to know.

Patrece..rondrell... it may have looked different at the city council meeting tonight... but -- they still moved forward with some important things for the city.

Tuesday night -- the city council had a couple of big ticket items on it's agenda.

One of those is the rezoning of property on north 25th street.

This comes from a recomendation from the terre haute department of redevelopment.

The plan is to make it into housing and help for the homeless population.

It would be about 50 units of multi family living... a day center... and help with mental health.

It's something the city has been working on doing.

City council president george azar says it's something that will improve the quality of life in terre haute.

"we need to do what we can and we have a lot of homeless in this area and we need to take care of them."

The next thing they approved involved three different tax increment financing districts.

They were presented with combinig tif districts from areas around state road 46... the downtown terre haute area... and the jadcore tif district city leaders say it should help with bonds and future projects.

"with this, the combination, we'll be able to use all those and we can benefit each district and if one distrcit doesn't need something but the other one does.

Itll benefit them."

This will also help when it comes to moving the terre haute police deparmtent.

And bonds for that.

The tif district approval now has to go back to the redevelpment commission for an affirmation vote... before it can be official.

News 10 will of course continue to of course news 10 will can be official.

Before it vote... an affirmation commission for redevelpment to the has to go back approval now district the tif for that.

And bonds for that.

The tif district approval now has to go back to the redevelpment commission for an affirmation vote... before it can be official.

News 10 will of course continue to follow this story.

Reporting live in the newsroom.

I'm sarah lehman news 10.

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