Common Council - Regular Meeting

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Now I'd like to call the Common Council meeting of the City of Dunkirk to order on this 21st day of July 2026 at 5.30 p.m. Clerk, please conduct the roll call.

Council Member Laskowiak. Here. Council Member Terrain.

Here.

Council Member Fredrickson.

Here.

Council Member Civiletto.

Thank you all for joining us tonight. Before we proceed with the business of tonight's meeting, I'd like to ask Tom Colasa from the Chautauqua County Fire Advisory Board to come forward, as well as Tony Muscarella from the Chautauqua County Fire Chiefs Association and Fire Chief Nick Porter for a brief presentation.

Good evening, everyone. I just wanted to introduce Tom Colasa and Tony Muscarella. They're going to be presenting an award tonight to two individuals that I think really earned it. I think they're humble and they don't want it, but I think they definitely deserve it. So I'm going to turn this over to you guys, and then I'll take it back over.

The awards are not here yet.

Sorry, guys.

Tony, come on up. And why don't we bring Chris up at the same time? You guys were assigned by each for this. I'm Tom Klaus. I'm representing the Firefighters Board. And it's Tony and I's honor and privilege to come talk to these guys in honor. And what am I gonna go for? Do we have it? Oh my gosh.

Okay, so we have a certificate of recognition presented to Fire Captain Anthony Anthony J. Thomas. I'm Steve Dunker, CEO of Dunker Fire Department.

that's customary, like that's our job is to protect life, save lives while we can. But it's a special circumstance when you're not expected to do that while you're off duty. And Tony and Chris did just that. So I just want to reward him by giving him this life saving medal that can be worn on his dressing uniform. That's not something that happens very often. So congratulations, Tony. And the gentleman, so on my left, your right, former police chief Chris Wachowski was also part of that life-saving rescue. Chris also is very involved in the law enforcement community and wellness for officers. And because he took part in that rescue, the County Fire Chiefs Association recognized him as the citizen of the Thank you, guys.

Thank you very much gentlemen and congratulations. Next we have the certification of prior meetings.

This is to certify that an official copy of the minutes of the regular common council meeting of Monday, July 6th, 2026 was presented to the mayor on Friday, July 17th, 2026. Pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Dunkirk City Charter, all items presented to the Mayor are now in full force and effect. In witness whereof, I appear to set my hand and seal of the City of Dunkirk, New York, this 21st day of July, 2026.

Is there a motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes and approve them as presented? Moved by Council Member Civilletto, seconded by Council Member Terrain. Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Laskowiak. Aye. Council Member Terrain.

Aye.

council member frederickson aye council member civiletto council member at large wiser aye the minister approved is presented we now move to privilege of the floor the privilege of the floor shall be extended to any person appearing for themselves in which case each individual appearing shall be limited to three minutes and to any person representing any group who shall be limited to a maximum time of five minutes The privilege of the floor is reserved for members of the public to speak on any subject pertinent to the affairs of city government. The city clerk shall have the duty of maintaining such time limits. The chair may determine in their discretion whether individuals are speaking for themselves or representing groups. The chair shall maintain good order and may require any speaker to cease speaking if remarks are made in bad taste or slanderous or not germane. The time limits specified shall be adhered to except that the chair may allow any person speaking to complete a statement or a thought started before such time expires. And a longer time may be allowed by the chair with the approval of the majority of the council.

Thank you. The privilege of the floor is now open. If there are any members of the public who wish to speak, please step forward, state your name and address, and address the council.

Good evening.

My name is Reva Bajzinski. I live at 616 Brigham Road, Dunkirk, New York. First of all, I want to wish Mrs. Smith-Dangler all the best on the Comptroller position. I know her to be an honest, hardworking civil servant. Why she would want to get involved in this hornet's nest at City Hall, I don't know, but I wish you all the best, Tracy. Second, I heard that our property taxes might be going up another 6%. That would total over 90% increase in two years. That was a rumor I heard that was another 6% floating around. I'm sorry. Yet I understand that there may be no brush pick up in the fall. The homeowners are bearing the brunt of these taxes. Many of us are senior citizens on fixed income. There's are so many houses are turning into churches which are exempt from such property taxes and their parking lots are fenced off as behind the graph building. The parking lot is fenced off and it is full of weeds. My final statement is about the takeover of National Grid. Right now, our governor is putting a hold on the data centers. We cannot let this property turn into a data center. They use more electric, contaminate the water, and the noise level in residential area. Right now, I have a battery storage unit going within a couple blocks of my home on Brigham Rhone. The power plant is maybe a half mile away. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Ms. Pozinski.

Nancy Nichols, 212 Lincoln Avenue, Dunkirk. First of all, I'd like to thank Randy and his crew for getting the post in for the tree for the program. Mary Louise couldn't make it here, so I'm speaking as well on her behalf. She thanks you. The signage is up for anyone that had bought a tree. The locators are on the back side of the signs at two at the point and one at Wright Park by the beach houses at Wright Park. Just to make note, the signage did not cost the city any money. The only time we used is putting three poles in for each location. Second of all, with the two apartment buildings being put up, the sale and purchase of NRG and whatever's happening on Brigham Road, what they're intending to build, I'm asking this council to seriously consider not granting any pilot programs for a tax reduction. Our city of Dunkirk residents are being punished for something of mismanagement in the past. We cannot afford to not have the going rate charge for the people that are going to be making money on all four of those locations. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Ms. Nichols.

My name is John DeTola. I live on the corner of Willowbrook and Central. Well, two Fridays ago, we developed a sinkhole on my corner. And thank goodness there was a city worker, a young lady in a white pickup truck that happened to sink into the hole initially. And this is at 1.30 in the afternoon. And so she was able to call the Department of Public Works And before I get into a further into the story, I just really want to thank the police Incredible job that they did for me in my home and the city workers that were called to the to the incident But anyway, it all happened on a Friday at 1 30 and of course There's no mandatory overtime hours. So for the rest of the weekend I had a police the area and the trucks coming down Willowbrook Avenue from the steel plant. I had went down to the steel plant three times on my own and alerted them that we had a sinkhole at the corner of Willowbrook and Central. And each time I went down there, they go, well, it's news to us. And I told the truck drivers each time they went by. So up until about 2 o'clock in the morning on both Friday, Saturday, and thankfully on Sunday, didn't have to do it as much, I was running out of my house because the trucks kept knocking down the barriers. Now, if it wasn't for the efforts of a phenomenal police officer who was on duty on that Saturday morning, who when I called to say, hey, look, I got to keep putting up these barriers. And a lot of these truckers are going, well, instead of just looking, you can help me put them up. And I go, yeah, that's my intention. Well, the officer said, you know, I can't believe you're going through this. Let me take care of it. Well, sure enough, whoever he called, a city worker came and put a bigger barrier around. and assured me that that night he would put the blinkers up on the barriers. Well, that helped a lot, but they were still being knocked over. So there's nothing that the city can tell me or this council can tell me that with a sinkhole on the corner of my street, especially with all those big trucks coming down, Why they couldn't have just handled it on that Friday regardless of the mandatory overtime Stipulation because it only took about four hours on Monday morning first thing Monday morning to fix the whole problem so You know that could alleviate a lot of the issue and my fear That one of these trucks was gonna you know topple over because the hole was six feet wide and eight feet deep That's what was told to me and that's the pictures that I took and And side note, a very nice police officer about 3 o'clock in the morning came over my house and helped me get rid of a bat at my house that got in the front door as I was running out to fix the trucks. The bat didn't have to be killed in my kitchen, but that's a whole other issue. But and also to Councilman Weisner, when you were running for election, you you were talking to my my partner, Dorian Horrigan, and you assured her that you would look into the trucks coming down Willowbrook Avenue. And you even stated to her, well, this looks like it's illegal for it to happen. That was your quote to her. And of course, we haven't heard anything back. And she contacted you a couple of times. I left a message for you a couple of times. The council member that was the young lady that was in charge of the second ward, I called her about five or six times during her tenure. Never got a call back. So, you know, I've been here all my life. I'm 65, just turned 65. I've been on that house for 63 years. I travel all over the country working different events. I work in network television. And there's nothing that any of you can tell me that that sinkhole should not have been repaired on that Friday night.

Thank you, Mr. DeTola. Thank you for your time. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak this evening? I believe you have still a bit of time.

With the viaduct and the trucks that go underneath there and get stuck and that whole top of this last semi that got the whole top ripped off. Every time they pave that street, I don't believe that. I think it should be remeasured because I don't think it's still 10 feet, eight inches. You know, you've got a new pavement on there and you know, that's going to raise it a couple of inches and it doesn't take much for a truck to, to hit that Viaduct. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Ms. Bosinski. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak this evening? Going once, twice privilege of the floor is now closed. Next. We moved to communications from the mayor, including disapproval messages, given that she's not here. We'll address communications from the public and petitions.

Request from the Chautauqua County Department of Hygiene requesting Dunkirk City Hall be illuminated in purple during Chautauqua County Overdose Awareness Week, August 25th through the 31st in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st, 2026.

Any discussion council? Hearing none, do I have a motion to refer to the appropriate departments as well as approve? Moved by Council Member Terrain, seconded by Council Member Fredrickson. Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Leskowiak. Aye. Council Member Terrain.

Aye.

Council Member Fredrickson.

Aye.

Council Member Civiletto.

Aye.

Council Member at-large Weiser.

Aye. Motion carried.

Prior written notice from Sarah DeRogey. of 445 Lord Street for an immediate removal of a large tree branch hanging over the sidewalk and also dead branches over the roadway on Lord Street.

Any discussion, Council? Okay, I need a motion to refer this to the Department of Public Works. Moved by Councilmember Laskowiak, seconded by Councilmember Fredrickson. Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Laskowiak. Aye. Councilmember Terrain.

Aye.

Councilmember Fredrickson.

Aye.

Councilmember Civiletto.

Aye. Councilmember at large Weiser I motion carry will now move to reports of standing committees boards and commissions councilmember Luskovia.

Yep, Randy I see that electric has been working on our streetlights throughout the city. Will this work include all that are out?

I know that Yes, of course we have about 1,300 Lights that were changed from high-pressure sodium to LED. We are saving energy but At least 10% of those have gone out We've hired back electric to fix those our two master electricians have examined the problem and feel that there were some incorrect installation that could be at the root of this and So the attorney for the city has met with the electricians and they may, you may, we may approach, uh, the installers and the contractor originally put them in to try to get some money back on that. But we're working very diligently. We realize it's a safety issue. Um, and we have a good plan to get them back. We're disappointed that they're, not lasting as long as we were promised, but we are fixing them as quickly as we can.

Thank you. I know we have had an issue beyond just changing bulbs and Beck Electric is catching up with that issue as well. This occurred because the initial installation of the LED lights was incorrect, which we found out afterwards. It's a great money-saving program. I'm glad our city had the foresight to implement it However, we've encountered issues with the new LED lights and our light fixtures Attorney Raimondo, are we proceeding with a lawsuit?

Hopefully we can rip we can come to some sort of settlement without having to do a lawsuit Alan I

Gustafson the administrator of the property and maintenance department your department also conducts Inspections of all new buildings and any additions to existing buildings such as wells Jennifer, etc, correct? Yes is um, I mean I I know that's Probably overwhelming along with everything else that you have to do like those don't sound like big projects and

It's been a busy summer. Obviously, the Wells project has been going on for several years now. The next phase will be starting here shortly. As Japan Bay drives by, you can see how vastly different it looks. Most of the old building has now been demolished. Probably two-thirds of the youth facility has been constructed, and then phase three will be starting here in a little bit. So that's a very good project at the city. Regan Development, it was mentioned earlier, could be building a department. complex on East 4th Street and Washington Avenue. As a matter of fact, this morning they poured concrete for the first set of footings for that building. So that project will keep us busy for several months in addition to the walls project. In addition, it's been a very busy summer. People getting permits for decks, sheds, swimming pools, additions, decks, garages. So it's very good. So people understand. for people's safety. A lot of what we do, people don't realize that if we're doing our job correctly, we're saving lives without anybody knowing it. So that's why it's very important. If you are doing a project, get a billing permit. proper inspections. There is a misconception out there that, well, it's already built. I don't need to worry about it. But no matter when a building was built, if it hasn't gone through the permanent process, it's still subject to the state uniform code requirements. So we can determine, ultimately, if it's safe to live in and occupy

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

It's always good to know. And you're also called whenever there's a raid or a fire as well?

Well, on occasion, you know, if there's a police department or a fire department, depending on the situation, if there's an incident where the police are called, if there's unsafe living conditions, we're brought in to deal with that. If there's a fire, structural issues, we'd be called in, sometimes two in the morning. It's an unsafe structure. That's one call we're required to make regarding the safety of that building. It all boils down to safety of the public.

Yeah, it sounds like it's more than anyone could imagine.

A lot of people don't understand what you do.

Thank you. Thank you very much. That's all from me.

Thank you. Council Member Terrain.

Thank you, Council Member Lars-Weiser. I have first of all we do have some new hires as far as personnel is concerned Jen like to speak on the hires in the city court clerk's office

I'm extremely excited for our third year that, as of the first week of August, we will be fully staffed in the third office. We have hired a few different counselors. One will be starting this coming Monday, the 27th. The next one will be starting the following Monday. And Randy can speak a little bit to the specifications, but we also hire in wastewater for a training to become an operator sooner than normal. Randy, am I correct?

Absolutely. Yes.

I'll let Randy speak to that one, but I am excited about the buyers that we have.

Wait, Randy. He stole an operator from Williamsville because he wants to move to Ducker because he loves it here. and it's a little quieter and he's got a nice lake to look at and he's already got two thirds of the license that he needs. We get him the other third, he's fully operational and it's going to help us a lot. We have the DC over our shoulder to make a report on this in August. Um, the mayor and I and Jen will be able to make that report with much more positivity than we anticipated when we first started having your personnel committee meetings. And you helped push this along, so we'd like to thank you and your committee for being right on board with us to make that happen.

Well, I appreciate your kind words, but this is you guys working hard to make that happen, so I appreciate the job that you guys are absolutely doing. And then I'd also like to say that not only in doing that, but why would he move to Dunkirk? Because Dunkirk is an absolutely great place to live. And I believe that. That's the reason why I do this. And that's the reason why you guys do this. So that being said, I want to address a couple other things. We do have a personnel committee meeting on the August 12th at 10 o'clock. I think that's the time I published. And if I didn't, I'm going to change that time to 10 o'clock from 11 to 10 so that you guys can get done what we got to do so we can get back to work doing what you do. The other thing is... I wanted to address, I think there's a lot more to pallets than just saying, you know, which a lot of times is not in our hands because that goes all the way up to the county. Am I right, Vince? Pallet agreements, that's part of the county. The county does that. So that's not just solely in the hands of the city of Dunkirk because it goes outside of the city of Dunkirk. I think if the council had their way, if we had our way, we wouldn't do a pilot, but we don't have our way when it comes to... Well, let me tell you something else, too.

If we don't get pilots, there's no projects. It's always a but-for. And anyone that believes that any type of big development is going to come in without a pilot is dreaming, quite frankly. If you'd rather have a vacant, lighted area that nothing will be developed, so be it. A pilot will... ensure that there will be an economic development project. And we do our best to make sure that the city gets its fair share of the pilot payments.

Okay. And I think, you know, based on what we've done in the past, I mean, it's just part of what we live with in New York State.

Not just New York State, the rest of the country.

Okay.

How do you think they attract development, economic development?

And it is competitive, very competitive. Very competitive. The other thing is, this is the first time I heard mention that no, I don't know where this information is coming from. Randy, aren't we still picking up brush in the fall?

We are not currently budgeted for the amount that it would take to do that. So it's going to take a council decision on whether you can move some money over to do that, whether you want to defer, you know, hold the brush until next year's budget, which means you're really tying yourself definitely into having to pay for it at some point. Um, but the brush is a very expensive proposition and when, you know, when the council decided what to pare down, um, that was, pardon the expression, pruned a little bit.

Okay. I just wanted to be clear on that. I mean, it's something we look at, but we also have to understand, too, where we are economically. So that's something we'll definitely look at. The last thing is I did not know that there was a six-foot sinkhole on Willowbrook. Oh, by the way, the man that stood up, I am your councilman. so so but I did not know that there was a and if you need my phone number you don't have to call the former councilman of second words you can call me anytime now I answer the phone but I didn't know there was one there and speaking of that do we have a better way to handle that when something like that happens let me address that I got points well taken we do have a moratorium on any

overtime, so it was decided to hit it with first. We didn't know how long it would take to fix. If we would have started it in the afternoon on Friday, we could have been working in the dark, which would have been very dangerous. So it was decided to go first flight on Monday morning on regular time. I stand by that decision by our supervisors, and they did a good job. I know it took a little extra to make it safe over the weekend. That's the intersection of two county roads there. Willowbrook is a county road. They've designated it a truck road. The county did. It's not us. And the county has taken that over. They pave it. They do a lot of maintenance on it. Same thing with Central Avenue. That area's had a lot of... Winter came early. We wanted to do a little bit of concrete work there. We didn't do that before storms came in. Other things happened. We've lost some big trees in that area. That corner is very tight. But in my opinion, the problem has been the way the intersection is taken by some of the big trucks from the industry right there. We don't want to hurt that industry, but we want to communicate with them maybe there's a better way to take that corner without causing a problem there so i think i'd like to meet with the residents with the resident there we get along well we've talked with them on many issues and i think if i go over there and kick the tires with them and be the facilitator between him and the county maybe there's some things we can do to make that intersection better but generally when we have an incident we don't have an obligation or I'm sorry to put it that way to tell everybody what we're doing, but we do barricade it. Um, if you see something, feel free to call me. You got my soul 24 seven. I'll let you know what's going on there. Um, but if, if, if, if you'd like to know about these things, two o'clock in the morning or whatever, when they happen, I'll be, what I'll do is I'll text you so it doesn't wake you up, but let you know what's going on in your word. I'll do that with everybody's word. Happy to do that. Point well taken.

Well, then it appears that since they're both county roads, the county does bear some responsibility on that. They should. And they should. They told me no. Well, that's something that we can discuss as we go forward. Well, okay. Then that's something that going forward we can take a look at. Okay. And... Also, I wanted to ask, I know we had discussed it before about fire extinguishers, as far as the inspection of fire extinguishers. One of the residents in my ward asked about, well, who does the inspections? And I said, I'm not sure because we're going between whether or not the fire department does it or whether or not zoning and housing does it. And so are we getting anything done in that area right now? Because I'm being asked a question, so I'm not sure. Our department does not inspect fire extinguishers.

They used to do that service and recharge them, but they no longer do that.

They haven't done it in many years. So when any time we get a request for that,

And the reason they were asking is because the insurance companies were asking them to get their fire extinguisher certified. And this is not personal for their own home. This is for church. And so they asked me the question because I'm right around the corner from them, and they know that I'm their councilman. So I couldn't provide an answer, but I can tell them that that's one option they have right now.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Anything further? That's all we got. Thank you, Council Member Fredrickson.

Thank you, Council Member Ledgeweiser. Just a couple things. Public Safety Committee meeting, August 3rd, 1 o'clock, Stearns Conference Room, the first floor. Everybody's welcome to show up and express whatever views you have. And the only other thing is, Alan, thank you for the conversation this morning. It was very informative. I took away a lot of information. So thank you for that. That's all I have.

Thank you. Council Member Civiletto.

I just wanted to announce I'll have an economic development meeting on the 26th of July at 4 PM in the Stearns Building. And just one question for Randy. Streets Department's been going through and doing a lot of paving. I see a lot of paving being done on potholes and different places. How far along are we with that?

We've covered the city at least once, but it's a never-ending battle. The highlight over the last couple weeks has been micropaving in the first ward. We used East Pine Street as a spine, and then we went with all the appendages off of that. It really comes out nice. It takes a lot of work to keep rolling that in, sweeping it up a little bit, but when the limestone sets into the polymer, it makes a really nice micropaving, get a lot more bang for the buck. and we'll be able to get that $100,000 back within 30 days after we make the application in August. So that's a big project there. We're going to mill and fill Washington 300 block, Swan Street around the intermediate school, a couple other places too, probably just get an overlay where the liquor paving won't work. After a while it just need to do something more substantial we have a lot of roads that don't have anything underneath so that's where we get the potholes it's the freezing and thawing and we really can't mill those because we just get down to mud and then we have nothing to pave on so a lot of the city roads take a little bit of thinking to do it right and then we have to do some more often than others but pothole we have a hot patch truck that can keep the hot mix hot all day long and even overnight we can plug it in so we can keep on working other municipalities put in the back of a of a dump truck and it gets cold by in a couple hours ours doesn't get cold at all so our hot fixes are definitely hot fixes all the way during the day thank you Randy um there's just

If we see anything since it's been done already, should we be texting you? I don't know if there's a couple of spots that I noticed that haven't been done.

The best thing to do is during business hours leave a voicemail message at 366-4411. That's the streets division that does that and then they will appreciate, you know, then it's not, you know, we really don't like messages at the DPW office. Our administrative assistant, really operations manager, does a fantastic job, but her phones are ringing all the time with all kinds of stuff, so. Great. I was talking about texting you. Yeah. Well, if you want to text me 24-7, you got my number. Okay. And then it'll be on, yeah, I won't call anybody that night, but I'll get them at 6.30 in the morning when I start work.

Is it Wilson Street that's right across the street from Big Dipper? That might be one of those streets that you're talking about that just has mud underneath. I don't know.

They're second and third, depending on what side of the street you're on.

Yeah, yeah. Has that, I just, I... I know a couple people on that street that just are really, they've been pretty upset about how bad that street is. Do you know anything about Wilson or?

Pennsylvania.

Oh, it's Pennsylvania?

Yeah.

Let me take a look at it.

I think that's one of those ones that doesn't have a milling underneath.

That's definitely over in the Second Ward, too.

Yeah, there's nothing under Pennsylvania there. Yeah, and it is like a war zone going down that road. All right, beyond that, thanks to the guys for doing it. That's a lot of work they're doing.

And that's all I have. Thank you. The Finance Committee is in ongoing discussions about updating the city's budget calendar and boardwalk lease agreements, as well as continuing conversations about eliminating the declining block rate for water and wastewater to generate additional revenue in each of those funds. If you'd like to be a part of those discussions, I encourage you to attend the next Finance Committee meeting, which will be held Monday, July 27th at 9 a.m. in the Stearns Building first floor conference room. Seeing no unfinished business, we will now proceed with the pre-filed resolutions. Clerk, please introduce the first pre-filed.

Resolution 61-2026. Resolution rescheduling the August 4, 2026 Common Council meeting and the public hearing of Local Law No. 5, 2026.

Is there any discussion, counsel? Okay, seeing none, clerk, please call the roll for the vote.

Aye. Council Member Terrain.

Aye.

Council Member Fredrickson. Aye. Council Member Civiletto. Aye. Council Member Lars-Weiser.

Aye. The resolution is hereby adopted.

Resolution 62-2026. Resolution approving the lowest responsible bid for CDBG 2025 sidewalk project year three for the city of Dunkirk's community development block grant program and DPW funds.

Any discussion council?

Yeah. Hey Vince. Um, this working, we're continuing to target hazardous sidewalks throughout the city and this year from third to seven. Um, once the hazardous sidewalks are completed throughout the eligible areas, what's next?

we keep moving on as long as we have funding available next year to a different set of sidewalks and I know that Nicole has been trying to you know fairly distributed around the city and all the wards and she's done a great job putting together this plan working with DPW so it's that's one of those type of projects that directly affects, um, and improves, uh, our neighborhoods, uh, right where people live and they always appreciate it.

Yes. Yes. I used to be chair of the economic development department, so I know we had, um, some great ideas after this one's this part is done, but thank you.

Any further discussion council? Okay, seeing none, clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Leskowiak. Aye. Council Member Turing.

Aye.

Council Member Fredrickson.

Aye.

Council Member Civilletto.

Aye.

Council Member Atlarge-Weiser.

Aye. The resolution is hereby adopted. Is there any new business to be discussed this evening, council? I understand there's a need for a brief executive session to discuss matters of litigation. Could I ask for a motion to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing matters of litigation? Moved by Councilmember Fredrickson, seconded by Councilmember Laskowiak. Before we vote on this, I'd like the public to know that we will not be taking any public action after we conclude the executive session, so there's no need to stay unless you'd like to. Thank you, Assessor Munson. Thank you. With that, clerk, please call the roll for the vote on the executive session.

Council Member Leskowiak. Aye. Council Member Terrain. Aye. Council Member Fredrickson. Aye. Council Member Civiletto.

Aye.

Council Member Atlarge-Weiser.

Aye. The motion carries. We will now enter into executive session. For the record, the time is 6.11 PM. Kindly ask the public and any non-essential staff to excuse themselves from the meeting. I'd ask that Attorney Raimondo, Chief