City Council - Regular Meeting

It's now 06:00, and I'll call the meeting to order. Clerk, please take the roll call.

Mayor Frederick?

Here.

Deputy mayor Winkler?

Here.

Council member Elliott? Here. Council member Walton? Here. Council member Gassick? She'll she's gonna be a few minutes late. Council member Wargo? Council member Barrow? Here. And council member Thakor? Here. We have a quorum.

Thank you. Please stand for 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. Now is our time for public comments excluding new business and public hearings. And there is a three minute time limit. If anyone would like to speak, please come forward. State your name, name, and address.

Bridget King. 1473 Kitson Street, also, on the tree advisory commission. And my comments, are about Arbor Day, and, hopefully, gonna be seen by some asynchronous viewers later. I know people who get up on Sunday morning and watch the city council meeting. So tonight, we will read our Arbor Day proclamation, and I just wanna say a few words about the importance of our trees.

I moved here in the nineteen nineties along with a couple other people. And, there were a few model homes, and, we took the risk and moved into the plan yet to be built for the promise of a treed and walkable community. Mainly, I moved here because tree lined streets where it come from and what I envisioned would be pretty aesthetically pleasing. Now maybe you didn't move here for pretty trees treed streetscapes and access to the trails, and trees might even annoy you. Right?

And they have maintenance costs. But as I've gone along on this journey, our understanding today of our city trees, our urban forest, is vastly different these three decades on from the nineteen nineties. And bringing this nature into our cities keeps us healthier, inspires us to be more physically active, reduces stress and risks of chronic diseases, and even schools surrounded by trees see a more positive impact on performance. Trees also increase the amount of play outside for kids and our own likelihood of gathering and meeting in communal spaces outside, which strengthens our social ties, and that's that feeling of community that that our residents often cite about why they live here. Practically, trees boost the market value of your home, are associated with reduced crime, and help us manage storm water runoff.

And they'll keep us cool as the climate continues to warm. Haven't even gone into nature and the natural environment. That's just the practicals. So on behalf of your DuPont Tree Advisory Commission, I ask you to join us, especially if you're watching this on Sunday and you weren't here. But join us in valuing our trees and their quiet contribution to our daily lives that make our city exactly what we wanted it to be. Thank you.

Anyone else?

Carol, East Step 2470 Arnold Street. I'm here this evening to honor and recognize Sam Gillows, a World War two veteran and DuPont resident of twenty three years. US Navy seaman first class Samuel Jelos served on the USS Texas battleship as a gunner, scene duty at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, North Africa, Normandy, Cherbourg, and South France. Sam was the grand marshal of the DuPont fourth of July parade in 2022, and for years has been the greeter of the Fourth of July pancake breakfast. On Thursday, 04/23/2026, Sam will celebrate his one hundredth birthday with DuPont friends and neighbors at the Presbyterian Church, 502 Barksdale Avenue, in the basement meeting room between the hours of one and three.

We invite all of you to come wish him a happy hundredth birthday. Thank him for his service and for being a good citizen. If you can't make the party, please consider sending him a card at San Jelos 207 Barksdale Avenue, DuPont, Washington. Thank you.

Can you say that again?

Oh, okay. Let's try again. My name is Steve Kern. I live in 9645 Regency Loop down in Olympia and but I'm a small business owner here in DuPont. I'm here to express appreciation, but also a little bit of sadness because I understand that Barbara Kincaid is gonna be leaving the city very, very shortly.

And I can tell you that as a small business owner, I interacted with her right off the bat because she used to be kind of the planning director of the town before she became the public works director. And she has a can do attitude. She's been very helpful, pro business, not to the extent that she ignores the law, but she is very helpful. And and one of the most recent signs of her being helpful is that she ended up pushing forward a series of modifications to the city code to bring it more in line with an RCW that was passed back in 2009 at the Washington State Legislature, which involved kind of enhancing electrification so that EV vehicles would be able to access charging facilities here in this town. So she's there was there's one part of it that directly helps me because we have a an offer on the table for a high speed charging station to Gwyn up at Barksdale Station.

And they've done all the homework with Puget Sound Electricity and so forth, but there was one part of the old city code that didn't really line up with the intent of state law. And so she's made changes which bring that aspect of DuPont's code fully in line with state law. That's just one example of how she's been helpful for businesses. So apparently, Department of Commerce is gonna get a great new employee. I'm sorry to see that she's leaving. She's been a really breath of fresh air in that in that department since since the three or four years that she's been here. So that's all I have to say. Thank you.

Any

further comments? Okay. Thank you. We'll we'll move on. I'll entertain a motion for approval of the agenda. Council member Wargo. I move to approve the agenda for 04/14/2026. Council member Walton.

I second.

Any additional comments? Council member Thakur. Yeah. I would like to propose an amendment for the council meeting minutes from March 24 where I am not shown as a present in the roll call. However, I was here. So if we can make changes in the meeting minutes,

that will be great. Okay. Thank you. Carrie can handle that. Any further discussion? There's been a motion and a second. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed? The agenda is approved.

And we have a proclamation tonight, whereas in 1872, the Nebraska Board of Agriculture established a special day to be set aside for the planting of trees. And whereas this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world. And whereas trees can be a solution to combating climate change by reducing the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cutting heating and cooling costs, moderating the temperature, cleaning the air, producing life, giving oxygen, and providing habitat for wildlife. And whereas trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, and countless other wood products.

And whereas trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business areas, and beautify our community. And whereas trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal. Whereas the city of DuPont and the daughters of the American Revolution Chloe Clark chapter will be holding a liberty tree planting ceremony at 1PM on 04/19/2026 at Ross Plaza, 1500 Ross Plaza Loop in DuPont. Now therefore be it resolved that I, Ronald j Frederick, mayor of the city of DuPont, Washington, do hereby proclaim 04/24/2026 as Arbor Day in the city of DuPont and to urge all citizens to celebrate Arbor Day by supporting efforts to plant trees and protect our woodlands. Bridget Bridget, you can come on up for a photo op.

We'll get one with the counselor. There you go. Perfect. If we can come on down front.

Even my hair is lit crazy. Where did it go?

And at this time, I'll entertain a motion for approval of the consent agenda items.

Deputy mayor Winkler. Mister mayor, I move we approve the consent agenda with the one change requested by cons council member, Takor.

Okay. Council member Barrow.

I second that.

Very good. Do we have further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? K. The consent agenda items have been approved, and we'll move on to new business. There will also be public comment opportunity for each of these items. The first item, 8.1, is resolution number 26 dash zero one one, approving the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven council priorities. And these priorities, of course, have already been discussed by the council. Is there a entertainment okay. Council member Wargo? Mister mayor, I move to approve

resolution number 26 dash zero one one for the twenty twenty six twenty seven council priorities.

Do we have a second?

Deputy mayor Winkler. Mister mayor, I second that motion.

Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Oppose? Very good. That resolution is approved. Next, have item 8.2, resolution number 26 dash zero one two, awarding the streetlight improvements as part of the systemic pedestrians safety improvement project. And we have Gus Lim here tonight to bring that forward. Go ahead, Gus.

Alright. Thank you, mister mayor. Miss Meer, if you can bring up the the graphics, related to locations of these, street lights. So this is a third contract in in as a companion to the earlier contracts that are awarded at the last city council meeting. At our last city council meeting, it was awarded the construction contract and then the construction management and inspection contract.

This piece is two of the sites will have increased streetlights. And the reason why we're going with Puget Sound Energy is because citywide, Puget Sound Energy essentially operates and owns all the street lights. So it it it just made sense that we contract through them. The this graphic that you see here is probably a graphic that that that I've shown at the last location, the last city council meeting that shows the eight locations. The two locations where the streetlights will be is gonna be on Hoffman Hill near Packwood, and the other one is gonna be at Bob's Hollow Lane and Wren.

This is the two locations that have the rectangular rapid flashing beacons. You you what we have on that graphic is the red circles. If you can go to the next slide, please. The rectangular rapid flashing beacon looks like this. You've probably seen it in other locations.

Pedestrian touches the button, and it flashes and alerts motors that someone is in the crosswalk. Next slide, please. So this is the location of the Hoffman Hill Trail Crossing near Packwood. The what I what I show there is the red circle would be the new streetlight that'll be installed. The dashed red circle is we're relocating an existing streetlight to be closer to that crosswalk location.

Next slide, please. And then this location is Wren Road and Bob's Hollow Lane. This is near, or at the corner of Pioneer Middle School and Powder Works Park. The two red triangles are existing street lights that will remain the same there. Just wanna show it, there.

And then the new streetlights are more on the Powder Works Park side shown in the red circles from there. And and that's it for the presentations on this one, miss Muir. In this package that you have with you is essentially a proposal from Puget Sound Energy for the tune of 80,367 to install essentially three new streetlights and the relocation of one new streetlight as a partner or companion project for the systemic pedestrian safety improvement project. And that's all I have on on this topic subject to any questions that you have.

Do we have any motions on this resolution?

Is there Public comment or question?

Oh, we can have do we have public comments? No.

Unless someone from the audience wants to speak. There's no one online.

Oh, someone from the audience wants to speak on this? K. No? Okay. Do you have questions, deputy mayor? No. If there's no questions, we can take the next step here. Do we have motion for this resolution?

Deputy mayor? Mister mayor, I move we pass resolution number 26 dash zero one two, awarding the streetlight improvements as part of the systemic pedestrian safety improvement project.

Council member Walton?

I second.

Any further discussion on this resolution? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, aye. Aye. Oppose? That resolution is passed. The next one is item 8.3, a resolution number 26Dash013 awarding the construction contract for Center Drive overlay. This is Phase 4 A. Gus Lim, go ahead. It's your pay your floor again.

Okay. Thank you, mister Mayer. Miss Mayer, if you can show that one graphic of Center Drive 4 A 4 B form. So just to lay a little bit of a groundwork that that we have for you tonight. There are three different packages, but I essentially made them as if they're standalone. So you'll see repeating similar graphics that are within there. And I'll talk a little bit about the just a recap of the history. How did we get here? And then where are we now at this point? The the the the what you see up there is the same graphic will be in each of the packages.

This is just a recap if if or a memory jog just to explain which parts are four a and which parts are four b. Four a essentially is on Center Drive going from Powerline Road all the way to Palisade Boulevard, And then four b is going from Palisade starting off from Palisade Boulevard all the way to Kincaid Street. And the scope of this work is essentially a grind and overlay. We're gonna take off the top two inches of existing asphalt, put in new asphalt in its place where we have pedestrian ramps at each each of the intersections. We'll improve those ramps to meet ADA standards.

And then where we have the pedestrian push buttons, we will essentially relocate those push buttons so that it's closer to the point of departure and also replace those signal devices. So it's it's more of the modern LED top style. What will also happen in the scope is essentially besides the paving will be the striping and the redoing of the traffic control metal loops, that you see, in the ground there. We had gotten these funds, grant funds from the Transportation Improvement Board. We're very fortunate that came in, right around November 2025 time frame.

At that time, four a, we had received federal aid funds from Washington from Washington DOT for four a, so that design was done. But we also recognized once we got the funds for transportation improvement board, that provided design funds for four b and the construction for four b as well as the construction for four a. So in that process, the same team that designed four a, we took a we took it was it was the advantage for the city to essentially have the same design team do for b. There's a lot of duplicative type efforts in the plans and the and the project specs and then made that design effort that was in there. We had a bid opening, just at the March, and, we essentially had, for both of these projects, four four bidders.

We had four bidders for each of the projects. It's it's all the major paving companies that we expected. In your packet has the what we call the bid tabulation that shows the specific prices that each of these entities competed in. We're very fortunate. We do have the lowest responsive responsible bidder essentially win both four a and four b.

And why that's important is because then that company can essentially pursue the the work almost as a single as as a single project where it could be consistent between four a and four b. We have in there inside your packet of the the dollar value, which is also significant. It's it's actually less than the engineer's estimate. And that's always our our you know, last time I was here, the engineer's estimate was always like the low bid in this process. We're now at a very fortunate time frame where the engineer's estimate is like the high bid in there.

So doing a recap for all of them because they're all consistent in there. Miles Resources was the lowest responsive responsible bidder for 04/08. That amount was at $663 and 700,000. The intention is to my recommendation is to award in the city council meeting. And then once that is done, we can move forward with a preconstruction meeting and then, set up a schedule, for, the construction of this.

I don't know when the construction will happen, but we put in the contract specs to essentially do this during the summer months because my intention is we do this work as soon as Pioneer Middle School is out of class and but before the start of class. So we specifically had in there, no earlier than June 13 and no later than September 2 to to give us that window that's within there. So at this point, I'm recommending we award to Miles Resources for $663,707.707 dollars, and we'll be able to pursue t TIB reimbursement, transportation improvement board reimbursement on four a, four b, and also with the third package, which is the the construction inspection and management that we'll get to much later here. So for four a, I do recommend awarding to Miles Resources. Thank you.

Clerk, did anyone call or write in about this resolution? Anyone in the audience need to speak on this? Any questions from the council? Do we have a motion then to approve this? Okay. Council member Walton.

I move that we pass resolution number 26Dash013, awarding the construction contract for Center Drive Overlay Phase 4 A.

Council member Wargo?

I second.

Any further discussion? K. Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed? K. That resolution is approved. We'll move on to item 8.4. This is a resolution number 26Dash014, awarding the construction contract for Center Drive Overlay Phase 4 B. And, Lim, is there additional information on this or not?

Thank you, mister mayor. Basically, the same history. I'm not gonna recap it again other than the price is slightly different because the distance is different and the and the curb ramps are also different, but this will also go intended to award to lowest responsive responsible bidder of Miles Resources for 568,820 thousand dollars. Thank you.

Clerk, anyone call or write in on this? No. Any comments from the audience?

Council member Wargo? I move to approve resolution number 26014, awarding the construction contract for Center Drive overlay phase four b. Council member Walton?

Second that.

It's been moved and seconded. Do we have any further discussion? Councilmember Elliott.

Yep. Just briefly, while I'm very much in favor of these projects, I just want everybody to know that this is really drawing down our sources of funding for our streets and for transportation benefit district. I think we're we're gonna be really low in those accounts. And with our upcoming plan on improving all of our roads in the next ten years, I think this is something that we we need to keep our funding in consideration moving forward. So but I fully support these. Thank you.

Any other council comments? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed? That resolution has been approved. Moving on, item 8.5, rose resolution number 26Dash015, awarding an engineering services contract for construction for Center Drive Overlay Phase 4 A And 4 B. Mister Lim, any further comments on this?

Thank you, mister mayor. I think just as as part of the earlier recap, the first two were for the construction contract. This is a companion project for essentially construction management and inspection. So we had a a great opportunity where the same design team that designed both 4 A And 4 B are now gonna be the people that make sure it gets executed as planned as part of the construction management and inspection portion. That amount is for a $152,002.76, which is all refundable through transportation improvement board at the at the rate that we've established.

And I do recommend we award to David Evans and Associates for that amount for construction management and inspection. Thank you.

Clerk, anyone call or write in on this one? No. Anyone in the audience like to comment? Any questions from the council?

I'll entertain a motion for this one. Council member Wargo. Mister mayor, I move to approve resolution number twenty six zero one five, awarding an engineering services contract for construction for Center Drive Overlay, Phases 4 Alpha And 4 Bravo.

Council member Thiokor? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Do we have a further discussion?

I have. Deputy mayor Winkler. This comment applies to all three of the resolutions we're working on. I just want to say excellent work. You went out. You got a lot of grant money. You've kept us posted all along the way. I know that Barb's been part of that process too. Thanks. Thanks for making this happen. I do concur with council member Elliott in the back of our mind. We all need to be aware this is a cost share, and that means we're paying for 20% for both of these. But I agree with her that we need to move forward. I just wanna take a moment to say thanks for putting this together on behalf of our taxpayers.

Any additional comments from the council? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed? K. That resolution is approved, and we'll move on to unfinished business item 9.1. This is ordinance number 26 dash one one six eight regarding electric vehicles in the city of DuPont. This is a second reading, and director Kincaid will cover any information we have on this.

Thank you, mayor, council. So second reading, first reading on this ordinance was on March 24. And what this would do, if if approved, is amend various sections of the DuPont Municipal Code in title 25, specifically twenty five ten, the definitions. They need to be amended to bring them consistent with the state definitions for electric vehicle infrastructure. And 2525 is our commercial zone, our commercial district.

2527 community business district. The mixed use districts in twenty five thirty five and 2536. Those currently in our code allow electric vehicle infrastructure as an accessory use. However, this code amendment would change the the use to be a primary use for your fast charging, electric vehicle infrastructure in those zones. I think about it like, kind of our our our new age gasoline station where you wouldn't expect a fueling station to be an accessory use, today nor, does it make sense or fit the intent of the legislature for electric vehicle infrastructure on these rapid charging stations to be accessory to something else.

So that's where where you see those tweaks in, the DuPont Municipal Code in those sections. We had to go back with 2558, which is the old Fort Lake sub area, and change that table because when we did the old Fort Lake sub area, we hadn't quite gotten to this discovery of of how the electric vehicle infrastructure was just not quite consistent with the with the legislature's intent. And so we we changed it to make it consistent so that across these different types of land use designations, you would see the same provision, where it's allowed as primary use in certain areas and then not allowed in residential, for example, or conditional accessory uses. So we we changed that table in 2558 to make it consistent with the rest of the code sections. And then twenty five one twenty six is the actual chapter for electric vehicle infrastructure.

So there's some tweaks in that as well. And, it's all a whole package of looking at these different chapters in our DuPont Municipal Code and making sure that they all align and are consistent internally. With that, I'm happy to answer questions.

Any questions for director Kincaid? Well, as this is a, second reading, we'll entertain a motion at this time for this ordinance.

Deputy mayor Winkler. Mister mayor, I move we approve ordinance number 26 dash one one six eight regarding electric vehicles in the city of DuPont. Council member Elliott?

I'll second that.

K. It's been moved and seconded. Do we have further discussion? Deputy mayor Wigler.

Barb, on behalf of all of us, thanks for all of your work on the comp plan, which this is a part of. It's been a long number of years for you and we greatly appreciate it.

Appreciate that. Thank you. Okay.

Any further comments? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote on this ordinance. All those in favor, aye. Oppose? K. That ordinance has been passed. Now it's time for the mayor's comments. I have a few. This is Barb Kincaid's last council meeting. I know she's very sad about that. But I just wanted to express my deep appreciation for the work you've done on behalf of the city. You've done excellent work. You've put up a lot of stuff. It was a hard job, and I wish you all the best in your continuing endeavors. And thank you so much for all your efforts.

Thank you very much.

Any comments from the council? Councilmember Elliott.

Yeah. I too want to thank Barb. We've worked together since you first came, and we've not always agreed on everything, but you were always there to listen and to talk things through, for which I'm very grateful. And you've been very supportive of our of our community and businesses too, which is good. And just thank you for for always being there because I feel like you were here at 08:00 in the morning, and you didn't leave until 10:00 at night.

So you put in a lot of hard hours. Thank you. And I have one other thing I'd like to say is I wanna thank everybody who's been writing the council about parking, the storage of vehicles on our streets. And I want people to know that there's a draft ordinance that will be coming before the council on our April 28 meeting. And council member Winkler and I have been working with our city attorney, the police chief, and the mayor on this draft ordinance. So I hope people come and express their thoughts about that. And, anyway, just wanna give people a heads up on that. So thank you.

Councilmember Wargle?

Yeah. Just so so it's opening day in in DuPont for our youth baseball and softball programs on Saturday, the the eighteenth at 9AM. So we if anybody would like to come out, that'd be great. I think a lot of the council members are gonna come out there. And if if if nothing else, to at least see the mayor throughout the first pitch, see if can make

it over the plate. In the rain.

In the rain. And then also just to to third, I guess, so far on you, Barb. You've been a consummate professional, and, you know, we're sad to see you leave, but thank you for all you did for our our city.

Council member of the corps.

Barb, I just wanted to say thank you because we also worked in my previous volunteer work as a planning commission, and we worked four years together because two things were done during that time. It was the hardest time. We overworked, I guess, longer meetings, more than, two meetings sometimes in a month, and that was not easy on you also as well as us, but you did it. So thank you so much.

Councilmember Walton?

Well, Barb, you're still gonna be talked about. So here we go. Just trying to think there's a bunch of words I could use that would describe your leadership. To to start with, you're a really great leader. You are a quiet presence, but a very strong leader. I think of your integrity. I think of your patience, working with those of us that don't know your job but think we might. Right? And and most of all, I love that you're solution focused. You're not ever, no, we can't. You're always willing to pursue whatever avenue is best for the city, whatever works best for the totality of the group. And

that's that

means things are harder and that you're willing to go through roadblocks. And I just really admire and respect that about you. And lastly, yes, I'm excited that our citizens are really speaking out around the parking issue. Thank you for doing that, and I look forward to our next meeting to to discuss that ordinance. Barb, best wishes to you.

Thank you.

Deputy mayor Wickler.

Thank you, mister mayor. Again, Barb, thanks. Sincerely you you did a great job, and that was quite a project with so many rezonings and everything that went with it, but thanks. I also wanna congratulate the DuPont Historical Society for a very successful Cherry Blossenbloom, and thanks to everyone who made it happen. Two of them are here tonight, Carol, and our fellow council member, Robin. Thanks. Great job on that. I also want to acknowledge that council member of the court, and I attended the April 3 SHAPE meeting in person. That's the South Sound Housing Authority, and we toured an almost completed low income housing facility, which is a beautiful facility. And so thank you for representing us on that committee.

That's important work, and we appreciate it. For those who may have gotten or who do not know, we were successful with the help of our twenty eighth district representatives to get $103,000 included in the the budget the state budget. I know Gus was a big part of getting that paperwork in. Thanks, Gus, for that. And that's for the, seismic improvements of the Hoffman Hill Reservoir.

And that leads, us into already starting the planning process for next year. I just want the council members to know that representative Levitt has already reached out to the mayor and I to set up an initial planning for setting up possibly funding a lot of topics. But one of the topics we'll talk about is maybe requesting additional funding to clean up the city owned property in the Old Fort Lake area. And we're going to meet on April 30, and we will keep the council informed. And as always, that will come back to the council for council decision.

And in September time frame, we'll have another council ad hoc to work with the mayor and the staff to put together our legislative processes and priorities. That's already being started, and we look forward to working with the staff and the entire council. And that's it.

Councilmember Gazzic? Thank

you. I wanted to wish you good luck, Barb. You'll definitely be missed, and we do appreciate all the work that you've done for the city and the community as a whole. Secondly, I wanted to comment on the Patriots launch on Saturday. We started a community group called the Community Hive, the DuPont Community Hive. It's a as part of the women's generation of federated women's clubs. WGFC is the acronym. But, anyway, it's a newer club in DuPont. We've been meeting for about three or four months, and we have decided to to raise money and do fundraising. We are going to have concessions at the baseball games on Saturdays.

It'll just be for a few hours. It's all items. There's no, fresh food or anything like that involved, but it's it's to help us put money back into the community at some point because we are new, so we are using this as kind of our start up. But I would, definitely welcome people to come up and talk to us and learn what we're all about. We are looking to generate new members. There's only about six of us right now, but we're hoping to do really good things in the city.

Any additional council comments? Okay. Seeing none, we'll move on to the city administrator's report. Keith?

Thank you, mister mayor. I do have a few things I'm gonna echo, I think, some comments we've we've already had. Saturday, 9AM, first pitch. Recommend everyone go out. It's a great event, for Powder Works Park. To see all the kids in uniform, definitely a a wonderful thing. This was mentioned as well already, but I just wanna reemphasize April 19 at 1PM at Ross Plaza, 1500 Ross Loop. DuPont is the planting of Liberty Tree, so encourage everyone to come out with for that as well. I promised Barb I would keep this quick, But

You don't have. Yeah.

I'm gonna echo all the comments here. You know, on a personal note, I started my week every week at 9AM meeting with Barb, and, honestly, I always look forward to a Monday 9AM meeting. And we met on on as much as we were meeting because of all the major projects and things that she was working on. And getting to know her and work with her, all the comments you have said here, but I I appreciated her all of her hard work, all of her dedication, and and just all the time we got to spend on some pretty heavy lifting. And so I wish you nothing but success and happiness, and we will be missed. So with that, mister Amair, I will be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for Keith? Okay. Well, this will be a relatively short meeting tonight to make up for the one we're gonna have next time. So seeing seeing nothing nothing else, it's 06:43, and I will adjourn the meeting.