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good evening ladies and gentlemen i have 605 and i'm calling to order the august 17th 2026 city council meeting i note that we have one council member who's not present here but i believe she's online christine cleland mcgrath yes i am here thank you ah perfect okay would you all please join me in the pledge of allegiance 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. Okay, we've got some announcements and committee reports to kick off the meeting. Starting with our first one, if you're looking for project information, anacortesois.gov slash projects. And our featured project of the week is the 12th and Commercial Intersection. If you've been down there today, you've seen some of the highlights, which are the big drill rigs that are drilling the holes for the replacement light poles that we are all hoping will improve performance through the intersection. So notably though, the area that you see on the screen on the map, which is between 12th and 11th, will be closed Monday through Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. That's because the contractors will stop work and they need a place to put their equipment, and so they're going to be keeping it in the middle of the street. The northbound lane will be open, but the southbound lane will be closed, and the signals will be modified accordingly for that. So if you've got questions, though, go to that projects page, and hopefully any other information that you're looking for is there. If not, There's contact information for the person running the project. OK, we've got some scheduled maintenance of our fiber network. We will be doing this maintenance at 12 AM to avoid actual interruption to your service when most of you are using it. 12 AM to 4 AM is the total scheduled maintenance. There's a core networking hardware component that needs to be replaced. And it's the area shown in red on the map that will be affected. So not our entire network, but the area served by our first network closet. And so those customers won't have service during the maintenance window. And afterward, you may need to reboot your equipment. We'll also be communicating this out via email a couple of times this week. And there's information on the Fiber Status page. The library wants me to make sure that I highlight the fact that Elliot the Magician is coming Tuesday tomorrow, 6.30 p.m. He'll be there at Cosland Park. Elliot is a native of Anacortes and he's apparently quite magical. So come on out and see that again Tuesday tomorrow at 6.30 at Cosland. Open Streets is August 30th from 11 to 3. Let's meet on the streets. I think a lot of you are familiar with this event, but if not, You can come down to Downtown Commercial Avenue, bring your bike, bring your skateboard. This is the one time a year you can have your skateboard on the sidewalk now because we now have new e-bike regulations that cover e-bikes and other personal transportation devices. Let's go to the next slide for some of that. Oh, nope, got ahead of myself there. Residential cleanup day is also coming, but e-bikes and e-motorcycles, nope. E-bikes and e-motor, okay, we're going to sequence these a little better in the future, but e-bikes and e-motorcycles. Reminder, we passed this law last month. It is now in effect. Helmets are required for all bikes now. The speed limit for all bikes is 15 miles an hour. If you are riding a motorcycle, whether it is an e-motorcycle or a regular motorcycle, you are not allowed by law, by state law, to ride it if you're under age 16. If you are 16 or over, you must be licensed, the bike must be licensed, and you must have a motorcycle endorsement. The ticket for the first violation of any of these rules is $52, that's 25 bucks plus court fees. The police may impound e-bikes or other personal transportation devices in certain circumstances, and parents may be held responsible. And what's not on the slide here is that you can't ride your skateboard on sidewalks in downtown Commercial Avenue. Okay, now let's hit the residential cleanup day, Saturday, September 19th. So it's coming and we will have this slide in the next four weeks as well. But nine to noon, bring your residential garbage and yard waste to our operations facility at no charge, along with proof of residency. Okay, we have three committee reports tonight, economic development, finance, and then public works. So let's start with economic development. Council. Mayor Walters. Mr. Young.

The economic development committee met on August 11th. It was myself, Councilman Currier, and Councilwoman Cleland McGrath, as well as our director, John Coleman, Stephanie Snyder, And we had a presentation by Kristin Kelce, Skagit Tourism. And what she did was really kind of go over where we are, what we are doing, some of the fascinating things that's happening in Skagit. But also, she went over some of the data surrounding the letters, the FIFA letters that went into place. And so one of the things that I thought was quite interesting is that from the FIFA lettering, I think she said that there were about 400 web views, QR codes. went directly to chamber websites. There were about a thousand reactions. Anacortes Plaque had 68 scans since early June. We thought that that was a little low, even though we had, it was installed June 12th, but we far eclipsed any of the other cities at that point. Maybe there's some tweaking we need to do from the standpoint of people knowing and being encouraged to scan, post, and tell about what they're seeing. But it was a sprint to get it installed. So again, kudos to all of the partners, whether it was the arts, whether it was support, whether it was Jennifer Bowman, whether it was the chamber, and of course, the Economic Development Committee working to try to bring it all together and make it happen. Another thing that was happening is that Christian, which is Skagit Tourism, mentioned that there's a group of travel riders coming to our area. And that should be fascinating in the sense that these are travel riders. Of course, they'll get a chance to be here in Anacortes and probably do the other cities, but Anacortes is a prized location that we think is very attractive for a lot of reason. I'm not going to name drop, but I'm going to name drop. You know, there's a movie by Tyler Perry Studios that may be coming our way. And so it's fascinating. They're looking for different things at this point. So Skagit Tourism has been working with them and others. So it's a fascinating part about where we are. Arts Festival data they shared with us. It was another record year for sales with Booth artists. And that was 1.7 million. um million dollars over three days and approximately 76 000 people came and the one of the challenges was that the closest available hotel was in bellingham So we're selling out, and there's a lot of things happening. So it portends, I think, of an opportunity for us here in Skagit and Anacortes. We also discuss ideas, given that we have needing revenue and trying to increase those sales that are happening in our area where there's boating with some great ideas that um the council members brought forward about possibilities for things we should explore um you know of course there's boating transit folks into cap santa and i think one of the council members said that it was the highest second highest in Washington. So those are other opportunities that make our city an opportune place that if we could market to, could very well benefit all of us. Again, music destination and cultural events ideas. I think that it was also reported that the request for proposal for the hotel, that are due by August 27th and that they've already had a number of people that were interested. I won't say the number simply because I would let them sort of bring that out and about. And it was another idea to come forward that I didn't realize was that there was a conversation about an aquarium. I think years and years ago, someone said that there was a thought about bringing an aquarium here. And so another great idea, I believe, is that I don't know if you guys have seen the trolls that are around the world, but also into Vashon Island and other different parts. You know, the hope is to explore that idea. And given the parks that we have, the places that we have, and it's not really one place. uh in washington the way i understand it north of seattle and personally it's just ideas so we're brainstorming if you've got ideas don't be afraid to bring it to the economic development committee we are definitely pursuing them and we are definitely looking at ways not only can we enhance what we have but also keep the beauty of what makes an accord is special and so you know we're always cognizant of that anything luke that you want to add christine Okay, well, that's it. And the last thing is LTAC is open for applications till September 11th. So if you've got an idea for what can help bring tourism people here to Skagit County, it's up on the city's website and you can begin by making an application there until September 11th.

Thank you. All right, thank you. Let's go to the Finance Committee.

Mayor Walters?

Ms. Moulton.

I just have a quick question for Mr. Young. Did you say tribal riders are coming to Anacortes?

Yes. You know, Christian mentioned that she's been in contact with, it's a group of travel riders. I can't remember how many she said. Maybe it's a group, but they're- Riding motorcycles? Huh? What are they riding? Travel- writers travel magazine writers sorry i may not have enunciated it's i think that's on me my southern draw was kicking in but thank you i appreciate it okay now let's go to the finance committee mayor walters ms hunt ms clinton mcgrath did you want to report or shall i oh go ahead thank you

Okay, thanks. So council members Moulton and Cleland McGrath met in a hybrid meeting with finance director Steve Hoagland, assistant finance director Rhonda Peck, and Mayor Walters on August 13th. Sales and lodging tax revenues are not received from the state and posted until something like the 20th of the month at this point. So we were not able to review the July figures for those two revenue streams, much to our dismay. Mr Hoagland and Mayor Walters outlined some upcoming municipal code changes for things like donations and how we track and report on those, but the committee didn't look at any specific language and those will be coming to full Council over the next few months. We talked about the public safety funding options created by the legislature in 2025 via House Bill 2015. HB 2015 involves both grant funding for hiring and or training new police officers and a 0.1% councilmanic sales tax to fund ongoing public safety expenses. The program is very competitive and the application is quite involved. but the police department is pursuing that funding as one source of revenue that could kick in during 2027, though it would likely not be available during the budget season as we prepare the 2027 budget. There's a lot of moving parts on that one. Stay tuned. I'm sure we'll hear more from Mayor Walters and Chief Floyd and Mr. Hoagland in the weeks and months ahead. We also finally discussed a few other options for generating new ongoing revenue streams, but staff is still researching those mechanisms and how they have worked or not worked in other jurisdictions. So it would be premature to speculate too much there at this point. We're all looking forward to tackling the capital facilities plan next month and then rolling up our sleeves for budget season. That's all I have.

All right. Thank you. Public Works Committee.

Mayor Walters.

Mr. Fantini.

The Public Works Committee met just prior to this meeting. It was Councilmember McDougal, myself, Councilmember Cleland McGrath, and members of the Public Works Department, including Public Works Director Logan Lee. um we talked about the campbell lake roundabout project the 19-day delay due to single lane traffic that's going on and how exciting that that is um one thing i think worth mentioning um is that you know all that work that's happening right now uh 12th street actually almost didn't happen um because there was a little kerfuffle uh with washdot about can we be working on a project on Campbell Lake Road and a project at 12th and Commercial at the same time. Well, no, we can't because those are too close together. So luckily our public works director was able to get that worked out along with the mayor and made that go very smoothly. So we're continued as planned.

I take no credit.

No? Okay.

No, I heard about it after the fact. That's just Mr. Lee.

Very good. Then also, we talked about the Pass Lake waterline 10-inch main replacement. Because of that interesting kerfuffle that could have happened, obviously, can we do a Pass Lake waterline replacement project that big at the same time that they're doing the Campbell Lake roundabout? No. No. But fortunately, we're looking at October 2027 after the roundabout is completed to start that water line, Pass Lake water line replacement. So that's good. Also, as far as the 12th and commercial construction, this should be the last major construction in the area. Then we're just waiting to get everything connected and programmed. But I say last major construction because... We are still waiting on a necessary essential controller cabinet to come in that makes everything work. So it's the last major construction, but we just want that cabinet to show up here. We also talked about how hard the Public Works team has been working on transitioning to that new CFP software. And they said that's been going great and they're very excited kind of to share what's coming forward with that. We also talked about some potential new projects coming. Now, these would be when we say new projects. Obviously, we always think money, but these would be specifically aligned with utility funding. So none of this would be things that would dip into general revenue in any way. A couple of the things that are being discussed at this time is for a few years, we've suspended the inflow and infiltration reduction program. But there's interest in bringing that back. re-evaluating sort of the fee structure, tying that more to CPI, and then bringing that back as a program. There's also talk about, we couldn't quite remember the name, so I'm going to call it the Commercial Beautification Bench Tree on Street Program. which probably has an official name. But anyway, they're looking at bringing that back in 2027 and 2028. And focusing it more towards North Commercial to start to make our entire city look better. aligned right look correct i mean uh and plus those new benches that they are putting in look fantastic and they only cost fifteen hundred dollars in materials i believe so um so that's something that's being talked about also we're looking at decommissioning um an outfall at baltimore and oaks avenue but more to come on that uh we're also looking to develop an annual program for storm water fixes for problem areas throughout the city. So I know we all know there are certain areas in Old Town, certain areas up on those West Streets where we see reoccurring issues. And so this program would allow us to start to address that on an annual basis and start to kind of get ahead of the problem that has been building up on our stormwater for quite some time. And again, all of that is going to be funded, if possible, through the utility fund, but not jumping into the general fund at all. And I'm sure we'll get a lot more information about all of that before it comes into play through the budget process.

Thank you, Mr. Fantini. Council, do you have any other announcements or any other committee reports at this point? No? Okay. Then we'll move on to public comment. If anyone would like to offer public comment at this time, come to the podium or raise your hand. Okay. Hearing none. Nobody online? No. All right. We will proceed to our consent agenda. There are five items on the consent agenda. Council? Council?

Mayor Walters.

Mr. McDougall.

I move approval of consent agenda items as presented.

Second.

Motion and second to approve the consent agenda, including all five items. No discussion is allowed on the consent agenda, but if you would like to pull an item, you can do so now. Hearing none, the motion is to approve the consent agenda in its entirety. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed say no. The ayes have it, and the consent agenda is approved. Our next item is our first item of other business and is a presentation from the mayor's office intern, Kira Hines, on our Civic Academy program. Kira, take it away.

Good evening, Council, Mayor, members of the public. I'm Kira Hines, and I'm presenting an overview of the Civic Academy program. So what is the Civic Academy? It is a plan for an eight-week civic education course intended for members of the public who are interested in learning more about city government and how the city works. So why are we doing this? One of the most effective ways to increase public trust in local government is to actually increase the public's knowledge of how that government works. So the Civic Academy is being created to educate the public about the responsibilities of the city, its decision-making, its actions, the restrictions on its actions. And when I say educate the public, I don't just mean educate the cohort of people that is attending the course, but the hope is that those people will then go home to their friends and families and talk about what they've learned and spread the knowledge throughout the public. So the intention is that a course like this will help improve relations between the city and the public by increasing informed public engagement and generally improving the public's knowledge of how to engage with the city effectively. So regarding logistics, it is an eight-week course that will have two-hour lecture sessions that will meet once per week. Each of these lecture sessions will be focused on a different aspect of city government, such as the history of Anacortes, the budget and financial policies, the structure of city governments, and a lot more. And additionally, in addition to those lecture sessions, there will be field trip sessions for participants to tour city facilities. These field trip sessions will be held on a separate day than the lecture session. And unlike those lecture sessions, they will be optional to individual participants based on whether participants are interested and that day fits with their schedule. So regarding how it will be taught, there will be an organizer responsible for overseeing the entire course who will attend every meeting to introduce the speakers, transition between topics, and just generally ensure that the entire course runs smoothly. But to teach specific topics, different city officials will be brought in to teach on their area of expertise. Now, in order to ensure that the information is accurate and in-depth and that the speakers are able to answer detailed questions, most, if not all, weeks will have multiple presenters. So there will be some eligibility requirements for the Civic Academy, just to make sure that everything runs smoothly and is effective. There will be a maximum participation count for each offering of 20 participants. The minimum age requirement is 16, and participants must be a resident of Anacortes or of the rest of unincorporated Fidalgo. Eventually, people who are interested in attending this program will be able to apply on the city website, but that process is not yet underway because a lot of the finer details of the program are still being determined. So future steps, the first offering is intended to be held in the spring or summer of 2027. Oh, this is again, still a little bit fluid, but specifically details surrounding the days the course would be offered, where it would be held, the time it would be offered. Those are still being determined, but as it gets closer to the first offering of the course, those will obviously be hammered out and will be available on the city website. So if members of the public are interested in this, we do have an interest form on the city website at the link anacorteswa.gov slash ACA to gauge public interest. Now, just as a note, this is only an interest form. It is not an application. It will not constitute an application in the future. And that's all I have tonight. So thank you for your time. And I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

Thank you, Kira. Do you want to talk a little bit about the topics that will be covered?

Yes. So like I said, there's eight weeks. The first week will cover the history of Anacortes. The second week, the structure of city government. The third week will cover public works and public infrastructure that doesn't necessarily fall under public works. Week four will be land use planning. Week five is kind of a mishmash of topics, growth, development, and permitting. Week six will be public safety, including police and fire. Week seven will be finance and budget. And then week eight will be transparency and community and just a general wrap-up of the course and review. And regarding the field trip sessions, these are not entirely set on what week they will be in, but the ones planned right now are the museum, the municipal courts, the public works operations center, the wastewater treatment plants, the water treatment plants, fire station, and the library.

All right, thank you. Counsel, do you have any questions?

Mr. Walters?

Mr. Young.

Thank you. Excellent presentation, and just really wonderful. And it reminded me, I'm a Leadership Skagit alumni and went through that process. I find it a little similar, and I love how we're educating people on the processes that are necessary here, but also educating them on the government and also public in what makes Santa Cruz special in functions and work. Question I know that you're still work. The details are still being worked out. Is there a budgetary requirement for this? I understand that the benefit that we're getting out of this is 1 communication with the public transparency. I think that that's invaluable within itself because that's been a discussion. issue for quite some time and I know that the mayor as well as council and others have been working hard to try to address those concerns and those issues and you know with the website and so many other things but I'm looking forward to it but I was just wondering um about um you know their costs associated with it travel everything time and I was just curious if you could elaborate if not that will come later on I understand

Well, we haven't really analyzed the specifics of the budget requirements of that yet, so I'm not going to say that there will be no cost, but it will be minimal. I know that the Police Academy does something similar, the Citizens Police Academy, And they informed me that they hold theirs at no additional cost. I don't know that that would be exactly applicable to the city just because we are doing field trips. It might require overtime. I don't know. But it will be minimal.

I totally understand. And I was hesitant to ask the question, but I thought it would be important because again, there are those that we have so many wonderful people here in our area that are willing to donate to do whatever it takes in order to educate the public. So thank you very much. You've answered all of my questions.

Thank you.

Sounds like Mr. Young is offering to buy the snacks.

Mayor Walters.

Mr. Fantini.

Thank you so much for that presentation, Cara. That's awesome and excellent. And I think this is a really great thing for our city to be working on and doing. And even if there's some budget cost to it, I would be interested in hearing because I think there is huge value in being able to create that kind of link with the public. One question that I had is there are some cities that have had some great success with doing this. Have you reached out to any of them or have you looked at any? I'm just curious if you've, what you're, or did you?

So I have not actually reached out to contact any of the cities that have done it, but I will say that pretty much one of the first steps of creating this was to look at the different cities in the area that have done such a thing. And none of them had a published curriculum, but a lot of them had published schedules with this is what we cover, this is how it's organized, and a lot of what... the curriculum looks like now was based off of what a lot of those other cities were doing. Yeah.

So I don't know if you had a chance to look at the model from Kent, Washington, but they have a really great model that you might find interesting. And I know that their mayor and city manager would probably be very interested if you had questions for them, too.

That's good to know.

Thank you for doing this. This is a really great thing and a great thing to do for our city.

Mayor Walters.

Ms. Moulton.

Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Hines. I can see that your research has been very thorough, and I appreciate the breadth of the topics, and many of them are what I personally receive the most questions about and the most interest in from the public. I think this will be just great, and I love the idea of having the field trips as well to these different facilities. Again, they're ones that are the top, I feel like, of a lot of people's lists. And I am also wondering if city council members would be occasionally allowed to sit in on a session or a field trip, too, because I think there are things that I can still learn more about and that I would be happy to. And yeah.

So that's my question. I don't have an exact answer to that, but I'm sure there's nothing stopping anyone. And I don't know if you would just apply or yeah, that could definitely be worked out in the future.

Something less than a quorum of you.

Yes. Great. Well, thanks so much for putting so much into this. I think it will be extremely beneficial to the city and the public and for us to have even more fruitful conversations with residents moving forward. So thanks so much for doing this.

Any other questions?

Ms. Hunt? Thank you so much for pulling this all together, and I'm sure that you've had an opportunity to find out some more yourself as you've done this. I'm delighted to see that people 16 and over can apply, not just we pensioners, because I'd really hope that a program like this could inspire, ignite some interest in our future leaders. And it also occurs to me that it would be a wonderful opportunity for someone who is considering service on a public board or commission to understand really what they're getting into and how the parts fit together. So I like your inclusiveness on that. Thanks.

Thank you. Mayor Walters. Mr. McDougall.

Thank you, Ms. Hines, for the terrific presentation. And kind of building on Ms. Hunt's, I guess, question and comment, one of the things that's always fascinated me about working with the city, and basically we exist within an ecosystem of a whole bunch of other entities like the various boards, but also the Port of Anacortes, the county, and the legislature. So I was curious, it sounded like maybe episode two or the second session was Those kinds of things might be included in that session as well.

Yes. In week two, there is an entire unit talking about the different levels of government, how they overlap with Anacortes government, what the city can do, what the state can do, what the county can do, what districts do. So that's definitely an important part that we are focusing on.

Fantastic. Thank you.

All right, well, thank you, council. Thank you, Kira. Yes, we are trying to achieve this by spending basically no money and we'll have all salaried staff teaching it. So there shouldn't be any overtime.

Mayor Walters?

Oh, yes. Voice from the heavens. Thank you.

I've raised my hand a little while ago, but I just want to say that Council Member Hunt and Council Member McDougall highlighted the things that I wanted to say was. just to reinforce the fact that this is a really good opportunity for folks that are interested in getting further involved, either on a committee or commission or council. I would have loved to have had this opportunity to attend something such as this. And also, we've got a lot of programs with the county and the port, such as North Star, such as some of our how we all work together. And I just think that this is a really cool opportunity. So I want to say thank you for being our intern this summer. And I hope that you will consider moving back home and getting involved in local politics, but also that there's opportunities in the future for other high school or college aged or recently graduated folks to be able to get more involved with our local government. So well done. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Kalina McGrath. And yes, as soon as we have this scheduled and up and running, we'll start pushing people into it who are looking for service opportunities on boards and commissions. My sense is that ignorance breeds cynicism, and cynicism is a vice. Skepticism can be a virtue and healthy, but cynicism is not. you know, people say, well, why doesn't the city do this thing? Or why does the city do this thing this way? And well, there may be a reason. And so part of the objective here is to let people know what our constraints are and how things work and what other pieces of local government do some of the work that people might expect the city to do. Kira has been an intern this past summer, along with one other intern that we had in the city attorney's office. We were very pleased to have both of them. We did take them out to lunch to thank them. She only has a couple days left here now, though, so she probably won't see you at another city council meeting during her internship. Would you please give her a round of applause? Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mayor, Council.

All right. We'll proceed to our next item now, and that is a contract award for the Water Treatment Plant Maintenance Storage Building.

Uh-oh.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, and members of the public. Tonight, I bring before you a contract in the amount of $309,824 with HDR Engineering. And as the Mayor said, this is for the design of the water treatment plant maintenance facility. So, as a reminder, the water treatment plant is located in Mount Vernon on the Skagit River. This is a little site plan of the proposed area that the maintenance building will go in. It shows this is before the old water plant was fully demolished, but the plan was to once the old plant was demolished and out of the way, a new maintenance facility would go in its place to expand current operations. The two structures kind of in the middle of the screen and to the left there are remnants of the old treatment plant, and then the existing buildings to the south are still there. The new main building is needed to house inventory tools and equipment that are currently stored kind of all over the place. This would centralize a lot of the materials, equipment that the operators use on a day-to-day basis, making a more efficient operation. And the staff does also not have, they don't currently have a dedicated area to work on pumps and kind of their maintenance operations. They're just kind of doing it wherever there's space. Some good examples of that are some current shots just from around the plant. As you can see, things are stored in a variety of places. The water treatment plant facility is It's quite big, so they're having to run from site to site to collect various items or whatever they need to do. So this maintenance facility would put all that in one spot. Here's a diagram of the proposed layout for the new maintenance shed. As you see, it's where the existing sediment basins from the old plant used to be. And the new building will include bathrooms, some additional office space, the work area, and a wash pad for cleaning vehicles. I think that's all the slides I have. If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Council, any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Lee. On the prior slide, could you tell us what the acronym HSPS stands for?

That's the High Service Pump Station. So that's the building that houses our 5,000 horsepower pumps that push water from the Skagit River to Anacortes.

Cool. Thank you. Well, this will be a great tour for Civic Academy.

Yes. It's a very important building. And so as you can see, having a pressure washer and various generators and stuff packed in there is not ideal.

I toured the facility again in December. And especially in the HSBS building, it's clear that we need more space to store stuff that doesn't need to be sitting around the pumps.

I also appreciate the map and these photos because I think it really helps give context to the need. So thank you for that.

Mayor Walters.

Ms. Hunter.

So this design contract with HDR says goes through end of 27. Do you have an anticipated or hoped for actual construction date with a construction contract?

I believe it's a year, about a year design. So a year from now, we'd be hopefully breaking ground.

Thank you.

And this is all water utility, regional water utility funded. Any other questions? Any motions?

Mayor Walters.

Ms. Fantini.

Unless there's further discussion, the city council authorized the mayor to sign contract C2026-0228 with, that's a new contract number, with HDR Engineering Inc. in the amount of 309824 to perform the design of the WTP maintenance storage building project.

Second.

Motion and a second to approve the Water treatment plant maintenance storage building project with the improved contract number 2026-0228. Further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to the vote. All right, the vote is on the motion to approve the contract as presented. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed say no. The ayes have it and the contract is approved. Thank you, Mr. Lee. Thank you, Mr. Nemeth. That is all we have for you tonight. I will adjourn this meeting.