Avon Town Council reorganizes leadership, names board appointees

The Avon Town Council assigned new leadership and made appointments to town boards and commissions at its Jan. 12 meeting.

On the council, Councilman Aaron Tevebaugh was elected president after a 4-1 vote. Councilman Greg Zusan cast the only vote against. Councilman Steve Eisenbarth was elected vice president with a 5-0 vote. Tevebaugh was vice president last year and will replace Councilman Marcus Turner as president. There were no other nominations for either office.

Eisenbarth resigned as council liaison to planning and building “to leave an opening for others” before board and committee assignments were made. Councilwoman Beverley Austin replaced him as liaison and took his position on the plan commission.

Several other council liaison changes were made.

Zusan moved to police department and merit board. He requested a position in the collaboration group, as well, but Avon Town Manager Tom Klein was unsure if both he and Tevebaugh could serve on it.

“It’s usually the chief elected officials,” Klein said. “We need to check to see if they’d allow two, but past protocol has been that it’s just been the council president. No offense to Greg, but I don’t want to go against what they’ve been doing in the past.”

Eisenbarth became public works, redevelopment commission and annexation committee liaison. Tevebaugh will serve as Avon Chamber of Commerce liaison and Turner will be liaison to the Economic Development Commission.

Avon Public Works Director Ryan Cannon recommended a five-member Recreation Impact Advisory Committee to the council.

“The group previously was 10 people, but being that this is just an update on how to do impact fees, we’re trying to keep the process smooth and quick,” Cannon said. “We tried to pull everybody we could who was involved in the original (committee).”

He recruited three from the original group – John Lozaro, Rebecca Harpe and himself – and recommended the addition of Pat Tutsie and Grant Niemeyer. The group was unanimously approved by the council.

Other board and commission appointments included:

• Avon Plan Commission – Beverley Austin, Bill Reed, Adam Coulter
• Avon Board of Zoning Appeals – Corey Herbert, Tara Shaver
• Avon Redevelopment Commission – Dave Misner, Matt Isbell, Vahn Williams, Bill Reed, Adam Coulter
• Avon Economic Development Commission – Geoff Bradley
• Avon Parks Advisory Council – Craig Emsweller, Jennifer Thompson, Pat Tutsie
• Avon Police Merit Board – Ryan Brubaker, Don Hornaday Jr.