City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody. We are now live.

Welcome to the City Council regular meeting Tuesday, August 11th at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. The first thing we could do, if we could, so if anybody wants to provide comments on non-agenda items, please register with the City Clerk so that we can allow you to talk. And with that, we'll have a roll call.

Councilor Garcia?

Here.

Councilor Yazzie?

Here.

Councilor Piano? Here. Councilor Molina? Here. Mayor DePauley?

Here.

Oops.

Next is Pledge of Allegiance. Please join me. Thank you. Goodbye. Next will be the comments by the public on non-agenda items.

Mr. Mayor, we have one person who's registered. Her name is Janice Peterson, and she'd like to address the council on upcoming events.

OK. Janice?

Good evening, everyone, and community members out here today, this evening, on a nice, cool day. My concern with here in McKinley County and the city is I deal with a lot of communities' concern. I work with Club C, President and Director area, and I do work with land areas and homestead leases and right-of-ways. We work on those areas with my members and officials. I come up with people come up to me time to time asking, Why is the city not actually helping to have Native American vendors selling some of their works out in the street in certain areas? Because Santa Fe does that. Albuquerque does that. So why are we not entitled to do that? Because all the Native work comes from Native American people with different tribes. They make jewelry, sandpapers, pottery that's in your home, jewelry that we all wear, and rugs. You know, we wear rugs, and people are making that. So my concern is, is there any possibility that you as council can be able to help us at that point so maybe we can do it with no cost? Because all these vendors, these stores out here, businesses, they have Native American arts. If it wasn't for Native, I don't think those would have been out there. So we need to find another place for these vendors, Natives that come from different areas. And this weekend was a very busy weekend. The flea market is not as good as it used to be because the owner of that flea market guy is not that very friendly. He's very hostile with people that he don't like. So that's my concern is that he's kind of discriminating people. And then top of it, he has young people working for him. And I don't think that should be addressed to that way. They should have older people working in that area because some of the young people don't know what they're doing. They get in trouble. They don't know how to fix the problems. So that's my concern. If there's something we can work together with community members, because you all know Fort Corners, people come to shop to Walmart. This is their one place that they like to do shopping because everything is just right off the road. So that's my comment and my concern with the community. If there's something guidelines I can do, let me know. I'm willing to work with it and go from there. But thank you.

Thank you, Janice.

Mr. Mayor, we have one more sign in. Chris Meach would like to address the council regarding C&E concrete and projects. Okay.

Good evening counselors mayor appreciate the opportunity to get up here. It's almost been about a year since I was last up here addressing some of the concerns in regards to access to construction materials. About a year ago, I made a commitment that we would make a big capital investment into our facility. That commitment is working through the process. We've signed a agreement. The new silos for our asphalt plant are currently being built in Chattanooga. We hope to start scheduling the shipment of those come probably the beginning of December. We've got the geotesting in that area completed. We'll ultimately start breaking ground on the footers for those silos. The permitting conditions for the silos have all been ran through the Environment Department, so that's been cleared. The one thing that is currently under review and has been deemed administratively complete, is the ability for us to change our operating hours. I know that I had mentioned last time I was up here that one of the big things that prevents us from going after a lot of the NMDOT work is the uh the hours that we're constrained to to be able to supply material the nmdot has deemed it necessary that a lot of the interstate work be performed at night and i understand that i think we've all been trapped in um unfortunate events where they shut down the interstate because there's just so much traffic um and so The ability for us to make those modifications will ultimately allow us to participate in those projects. Outside of that, they ultimately would rely on individuals like Mountain States, FNF, Fisher to bring their own plants in, which they bring their own employees. All of the generated income then walks right out the city of Gallup the moment they pull that plant out as well. We've been here since 1981. We're committed to this community. We stay committed. This financial investment, I think, further shows that. One of the other things that I wanted to address is the potential construction that may happen out on the Gallup Land Partners Energy Park. I know projects like that um, require a lot of scaling. Um, I am committed to being able to make the proper investment, um, whether it be a brand new ready to mix concrete batch plant, that's a central mix plant. There's a variety of different types. A central mix plant allows us to produce mix almost instantaneously puts it in the back of a mixer or an end dump, and then brings it out on site. A lot of projects like that require, um, contractors to be able to come in. They set plants up on site. Again, they're usually out of state. I'm willing to commit any financial investment needed to try and keep as much of that here locally. The Um, yeah, I guess that's that's pretty much all I wanted to share and communicate to you guys. And I'm not sure if there are any questions.

Oh, thanks. Appreciate it.

Thank you. We can't ask questions at this point. Thank you though. Good information.

Next on next on the agenda is the. Consent agenda. These items are placed on the consent agenda. So city council can designate by unanimous consent. Those routine items they wish to be approved are acknowledged by one motion. If any one item does not meet the approval of all council members or if a citizen so requests, it will be heard as a separate item. How could you read the... Consent agenda items?

Yes. Consent agenda item number one, approval of minutes of the regular meeting of May 26, 2026 and the regular meeting of June 9, 2026.

Motion to approve approval of the minutes for those two dates.

Second.

Councilor Molina? Yes. Councilor Garcia? Yes. Councilor Piano? Yes. Councilor Yazzie? Yes. Mayor DePauley?

Yes. The next item is the discussion action topics. And the first one is the approval of a subgrant agreement for early access program. And our speaker will be Tammy Parker.

Good evening. This was actually the change of budget The budget change, it's called, was the April 28th. You all approved that. This is a grant that the COG has asked us to take on as fiduciary for the money. It was a state bill three, I believe. Should have said it there, yep. Money to, well, part of it went to the, it was a DUI program, is that right? Yeah, DWI. And 220,000 was given to youth services, YSFS, youth services and family shelters to assist in helping keep people in their housing and They were given less than they were asked for, so things changed a little bit, and it went from helping people get into housing to helping people stay into housing, which is, I think, an excellent use of this $220,000. And we're just going to take care of the money for them, pass it through.

Okay, thank you, Tammy. One question, and I don't know if you guys, if you can answer it, but do you know which senator sponsored this? If there was a senator sponsor, is Evan here? You know this, what senator? Hi, Evan.

Hey.

Hey, good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name for the record is Evan Williams. I'm the Director of the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments. Senate Bill 3 had a number of sponsors. One of the ones that you'll recognize is Senator George Munoz. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions from Council or Councilor?

Is anybody here from your Shelter and Family Services tonight?

Yes.

Yes.

Yvette.

Hello, my name is Yvette Martinez, and I'm the program director for the STAR program that we have here in Gallup, View Shelters and Family Services.

Hi, Yvette. I know there was a little bit of concern on using this early access funding within the allowed time limits. Do you all still feel like that might be a challenge for you?

No, we don't. So with this change, we changed it from what we practice in the STAR program right now is a 24-month program. We've adjusted that to eviction prevention. We're hoping with this, since the timeframe is shortened, that we use eviction prevention to start our foundation for later funding that we can transition into and mirror the program we do have now here in Gallup.

Okay, awesome. Thank you. You're welcome.

What is the time frame that you have to spend the money? Until next year, end of June. Oh, end of June. It looks like it's split. You guys can use $20,000 of it for... like your current rent, utilities, and then about 70,000 for a staff. I don't know if it's new staff or current staff. So that's pretty doable because you could spend that now, right? Yeah. I mean, that's good because usually they don't let you spend the money on operating. Those are operational. That's about 90,000 of operational. So that's awesome. As a fellow nonprofit director, I always love when I can spend money on operational. So yeah, that's great.

Counselor, did you have a question?

Mayor Mrakas, Council has more to do yeah one more so just so we can start like helping you get the word out and stuff i'm curious if there's any qualifications, is this applied to any rental housing, including mobile home parks.

So with this, the idea of this program is opening our age, right now, the star program our age is limited to 18 to 24. And we are wanting to partner up with Gallup Community Health to seek out referrals. The qualification would be at least one of the household members being within our age range, 18 to 24, and living within the area.

Oh, every question you have makes me follow up with a question. I'm so sorry. We've talked to this.

Council Piano.

So if we have someone that's aging 24, they could be referred, they could help get wrenched for a certain period of time. Or do they have to live with other family members? Like, if let's say they're trying to move out of their house and they're kind of on their own now and they're getting a job, could they be referred to you guys to get rental assistance? Does that seem right?

Yeah. So there's two programs right now. We're currently running a rapid rehousing 18 to 24 program. And they could refer to that program. This separate program would be eviction prevention. So it'd be assistance up to 3,500.

Oh, so if they're getting evicted, that's what this is for. Yeah. But your other programs would cover like if they need rental assistance.

Yeah.

For some people to use soon. So, okay. Sounds good. Thank you very much. Thank you.

We're going to have a motion to move forward.

Motion to approve. SUBGRANT AGREEMENT FOR EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM.

SECOND. COUNSELOR YAUZI. YES. COUNSELOR PIETTA. YES. COUNSELOR GARCIA. YES. COUNSELOR MOLINA. YES. MAYOR DEPAULI.

YES. OUR NEXT ITEM IS THE APPROVAL OF THE DONATION OF LAND TO THE CITY OF GALLUP FROM THE ROSE BOROUGH FAMILY. AND FRANK GIPETTI IS THE SPEAKER.

BUT YOU CAN COME UP, TOO.

BUT PLEASE COME ON UP, BOB AND BRENDA.

Yes. And I'm going to defer to Mr. Roseboro on, we had a few hiccups that he has legally gotten corrected. So I'm gonna let him explain it because it's above my head.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay. So we've gone back and forth on this, um, like trying to figure out what was wrong. Um, so the former assistant city attorney, I think. I'm Brenda Rose, sorry. The former city assistant city attorney brought to our attention a problem with the legal description. So I guess when the surveyors went up to do the survey, they realized that on the final decree on the quiet title action, which we had to do when we acquired the land, was not correct. So what they did was they omitted the first two lines of the legal description, which I don't know if you have the paper in front of you, but there's the legal description is It's easily, yes, it's easy to leave out those top two lines. So what they included was just the less than accept portion of the legal description in the final decree. So we had to go back and we had to do an amended final judgment and decree fighting the title so that it included those top two lines of the legal description. Before we could give it to you. So now it's all fixed. And so we have the amended final judgment and the decree quieting the title. That includes first two lines. Okay. I'm so sorry.

Such a hassle for you trying to donate land. I know. That's what we said. We just want to give it away.

I would like to share a little bit of history about the land and how we acquired it. It was gifted to us. by Gordon and Susan McGee. And Gordon is a good, very good close friend. And I wish he could have been here tonight. He's tied up and I'm gonna have lunch with him in a couple of days and let him know how things went. Gordon's family had owned, has historically owned the land. His grandfather, his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather. The land is on Gallup's north side, and it's a It's a place that has been neglected. But it is a wonderful place. It could be something really special. And that's why... we we have no reason to be you know owning that much land and uh and and particularly when it's not being put to use and um we ought we um i guess we i'm biased um you know we could have gone uh you know approach the county um or the city well you know what my bias is so uh um I think that's really it. I would be glad to stand for any questions.

One thing I will say is it's really important to me that I make this comment. I'm a real talker privately, but not really publicly. So this is a big thing for me.

You're a good speech therapist.

I do. I know. I know. So the main thing that I want to convey to you is that we feel like we were just the middlemen. We were the stewards of the land, taking care of it, paying the property taxes, all of that. But the McGeeheys are the ones that really deserve the recognition of the land and having the land. They passed it through us. Mr. Chepetti, I think, is on the other end of the recognition for that. I think we're just the like we're the middle of the of the people that need to be recognized for that. He came up with this idea. It was a great idea. We were both really on board. And so I think those two groups of people, I think, deserve the bulk of the recognition. We're just sort of passing it through to some where it can really be used for a good purpose. People can really enjoy that land. And it's not just sitting there. It's not just taking up space, literally and figuratively taking up space. It'll be really used for a good purpose. So we're really happy about that.

And I would just point out that it's, I think it's a real opportunity for the Northside. in terms of an area that is, well, I think the Northside could really benefit from this recreational area.

So it's all clean now and it's all yours.

And then Bob, thank you so much.

Councilor Molina? Just got a quick comment. I think McGeehe Park, McGeehe Field has a good ring to it, don't you think? Perfect.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I was just going to say, I think this is great. I'm super excited to have this project on this land. And that was really nice. I think Gordon was actually with you guys the first time you presented and he came up. And so, but I know, and this isn't not against the paper or anything, but I know the paper kind of indicated, did leave Gordon and his family out a little bit. So we just, I think it's nice to give credit to all parties and their shoes and lands. So if newspapers watching when you do another story make sure to include them absolutely absolutely yeah that's a really really important point and an important part to us yeah important to us this is exciting though i think any new opportunity and when people want land to be used for like a really great thing i'm excited i think we could have like maybe a city council field trip to go play some frisbee golf just like throwing it out there yeah yeah thank you that's all i was gonna say

I just want to say thank you to the Rose Burrows for going over and beyond because you do need credit for that because you didn't have to do that also. You could have done something else with it. So because of your character and I know who you are, thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart and to the McGeeheys and we will recognize the McGeeheys and you also for such a tremendous thing that you did for the Northside. It's quality of life for Northside and it's going to make a big difference, a big difference for Northside. So I really thank you for that. God bless you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay.

I just want to say a group that's looking to put the leadership McKinley group that is looking to put the Frisbee golf course up is doing a cleanup up there this Saturday if anybody wants to do it.

That's great. I did have one question. We still have to sign the donation agreement and the special warranty deed. I don't know how that is taken care of.

Soon as they have Okay, getting ahead of myself.

Okay, now to be prepared.

Yeah, well, you know, I want to make sure we do it right. Right. The nitpicker.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

I'd like to make a motion that we approve the donation of land of the city from the Roseboro family.

Second. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Mayor DeFole?

Yes.

Okay, thank you very much, Bob and Brenda. My next item is comments by the mayor and the city councilors. And with that, I'll let Linda go first.

You guys have a list. Not too much. I didn't do that mostly, but I just wanted to, I do want to mention a couple of things. And one of them is, you know, A national night out that the police department put out last week, it was it like I told you to be hit it on the ballpark I had all the. People that needed to be there and the organizations, but it was a meant to be you know they started in 1984. And our mayor back there may roseboro was really a strong opponent for getting this national night out that been well tonight used to do. Yeah, to start it up and for you to get that and take it back. And it was such a huge success with all the organizations. It started out as for Nightwatch, for neighborhood associations. And so seeing all the organizations out there, just going with the police department, the fire department, all the first responders to go firsthand with them to know that you are not, we are not the enemies. We are there for them at all times and It was just a great success and I'm really proud of what you did for the Gallup Police Department and all the other organizations that showed up. I really thank you for that. And of course, the ceremony that happened this past weekend was a great success. Again, they enjoyed it. There was a lot and a lot of tourists and people out there. Great success. And I also wanted to mention that the arts call was this past Saturday. We had it in conjunction with the ceremonial. And it was so patchy, you couldn't even walk. I mean, we estimate at least 2000 people. And I just want to say to the young lady that came tonight that being advocates for Native American, that's our priority for Native Americans to come out and sell their wares out there. So if anybody comes, there's no charge. We express to them that they come. and we'll set them up and they'll be vendors and to sell the wares, because that's your number one priority, along with other things that we have. But you are more than welcome on ArchCrow as Native Americans with what you have to sell, and we will support you 100%.

Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Ms. Pierre?

Well, first of all, I'd like to say that I think this is a record-breaking short meeting, And I was here. I was told that every time I wasn't here, it was short meetings. So I just, you know, we gotta have it on the record that I was here and we had a short meeting, so. I want to echo what Kessler Garcia said, but that was really fun. The National Night Out that PD put on, lots of really fun activities, lots of really cool kids stuff going on. So that was great. Unfortunately, I was out of town for the parades, but I did attend the exhibit opening and also the ceremonial luncheon. I got to sit by Chief and Sergeant Nicola and they were dressed to the nine, let me tell you. So they look beautiful and it was really nice. It was a fun Queens luncheon too. So that was really nice just to see city representation, um, out and about, and also, um, just a really nice, yeah, nice to see everyone. So, um, I thought it was some really good turnouts. I'm sad I missed the parades, but I heard they were, and I heard Arts Crawl was packed. So, yeah. And then I kind of just have a random question and maybe this is more of a conversational piece for the council. I've kind of been hearing, and maybe I'm just not aware, but just the people saying, you know, with all the water outages and things, are we going to limit the water usage that people can use because that's a concern. And so I don't know if that's, if that's can be addressed or if we're thinking about that, but I think that is something we want to consider that if we're having major water issues that maybe we consider limiting water, get water. Cause we talked about water conservation last time, but then we didn't really decide if we were actually gonna like put a notice out saying, Hey, cause I know there are some other cities that are now And like water emergencies and limiting water in their areas throughout New Mexico as well. Um, so there's just some similar issues. So I've just heard this a couple of times and, um, I don't know. I just thought I'd bring it up to the council as a potential that we might want to consider that. So, um, I don't have a lot of other, uh, things I will just do as shameless plug. Big brothers, big sisters is having a gigantic tournament golf tournament. be clear in two weeks, two weekends. And we have over 60 teams over two days. So super thankful for all the great teams that came out into the city, um, to Vincent is, is an Eric and his crew out there. They've been really good to work with. And we're really, we're grateful that we can have the tournament here in Gallup locally and support the course locally. So that's really exciting. So, uh, thankful for their, their support as well with just being organized for us. Um,

um i'm sure there's other things going on i just i'm totally out of the loop so that's it for me too i know it's crazy casual thank you mayor uh our neighborhoods meetings my neighborhood meeting started last night they had a very nice uh meeting and met more last night for the name met more neighbors uh at the last minute i invited uh harry from convolt to come over and uh address my neighbors and he was more than happy to come out. Had a very nice dialogue. Mark and I recused ourselves from the question and answer part so we wouldn't be affected by anything there. You may have read something on Facebook and I'm just going to tell you I'm not going to say too much about it but I think everybody knows what I feel about Facebook. I love putting positive things in there. But the negativity that was wrote about my meeting last night, my neighborhood meeting last night, was totally false. They got so many things wrong in what they put in there. That's all I'm going to say about that. But we do have another meeting tomorrow night at Stagecoach, my Stagecoach neighborhood. And then Wednesday, we'll have another one at Lincoln School for Chihuahua area. And anybody can attend. Any one of my constituents can attend any one of those meetings. But we got broken out to three different areas. And I'll tell you why. My first year, I had one meeting in Metmore. First meeting was in Metmore for the whole District 4. And the only people that showed up was Metmore. The second meeting I had was in stagecoach, and the only people that showed up was stagecoach people. And then I had the third one in Chihuahua, and sure enough, who showed up? Chihuahua people. So I decided to have a separate meeting at every place. And I had a good positive meeting last night. It was great. And anyway, that's all I've got. I've met a couple of employees today. I met a new employee yesterday and another employee today. And I'm going to tell you, they're always smiling. I see smiling faces and I encourage them, keep smiling. Don't stop smiling. Even when the boss gets mad at you, just keep smiling, right? And we do have a lot of good employees. And like I always say to all our employees, keep up the hard work. Thank you.

Thank you, Councilor Molina. Councillor Yazzie.

Thank you. Yeah, it has actually been a few years since I went to ceremonial. So it's, it was really inspiring to me to see so much beautiful artwork in one place and to walk through the exhibit hall. That is my favorite part of the week and see especially the youth show and what new things people are doing with their artwork and getting inspired. It's a little nostalgic for me as I told a few people I used to enter that show as a kid and my dad used to enter that show. So it's always fun. But good to go back and see the artists and all the beautiful creative output from our community. It's good to celebrate that. I do have a constituent meeting this Thursday night at 6 p.m., so we'll be having that at Indian Hills Elementary School. Everybody in District 2, that includes Hasler Valley Road, Williams Street, Patton Street residential areas, Red Hills, Indian Hills, and Rehoboth. So I'm looking forward for that. I just wanted to quickly acknowledge this week on the 14th is Navajo Code Talkers Day. And I haven't seen about many events. I haven't looked for many events yet. There might be things going on. But just want to acknowledge that and those important veterans in our community and their families. We, of course, always celebrate in the important role that they played in victory in World War II in the Pacific theater. But also, you know, I think sometimes the, We forget to talk about the greater strategy and triumph is those 25 years that they were bound to silence after the war ended. And to remember the hardship that that is, not just on themselves and their spirits, but on their families as well. And I always think about that and think about carrying that, you know, not being able to talk about, and everybody is celebrating the end of the war. Um, but that is the resilience of our Dine people and we're really proud of them. And then just, um, I guess I don't have a lot to say. I know there's a lot of conversation right now about convolt and I'm not going to go deeply into it, but I. I do in looking at their site plans that are now public and there is a public meeting tomorrow night here with the Planning and Zoning Commission. That is the place to come and voice concerns or support whatever you have for this plan. Personally, I was not quite aware of the expanse of what they're planning to do and seeing that You know this is going to affect Gallup for better or worse, whatever, however, we see it it's going to change things, and so I do encourage people who are interested in this conversation. To come tomorrow night to the planning and zoning Commission to the public hearing that's being held for their. reason request and their conditional use permit all of that information is now on the city website and the agenda Center if you want to look at what they have provided. to make a case for their plan. And I also think it's really important for us as a council just to continue respectfully engaging our residents because people are worried or people are excited or people are scared. We need to make sure that people have good information. And I also would just suggest that we are thinking about what demands we want to make to protect our local constituency. now is the time for us to be engaging in that way. And I, I respect Harry and Marty and everybody involved. I've enjoyed talking with them. And so I don't want this to become a divisive thing for our community. I want all of us to keep talking. And I want, I think it's important for us as a council, even though at this point in time, we don't have any, anything on our agenda in terms of what they're doing just to, you know, think about, what things we might like to see happen. That's all I'll say about it.

Thank you, Councillor Yawsey. Just one thing before I give it over to Frank. And this is to follow up with what Sarah said. You know, the City of Gallup, what happened with the city is we had to change, we had to switch water supplies from the Ate field to the Santa Fe field. When we did that, there was very few people. In fact, there were hardly anybody around knew how to do it. That was Merrick. So, Lance Allgood, it was about the last time we did that. Lance, we didn't, and I called another guy, Mike DeClercq. And what happened was the upper zones, unfortunately, fed, we didn't lose any water, it fed into the lower zones. And that was because the valves were left open. They were normally open, left open. They would normally stay open because we feed our normal system from high pressure to low pressure, but we had to switch from the low pressure and pump it up. And as soon as we pumped it up into the higher zones, it flowed right back into the lower zones. And that's where a lot of the water problems came from. And unfortunately, the main one was the Sacred Heart area where we have, that's the highest zone. And we have the hospital and the cancer center and the beehive and just about everything else up there. The hospital wasn't affected as much as they were. So those changes have been made and I have full confidence that Jacob Lucero and Brian Yaza, those guys, all they needed was a little bit of direction. They fixed the lines that were broken. That prevented us to get water in other areas. And they're running the system. I even left this weekend and came back yesterday and I didn't even get one phone call. So they're doing real good. As for water conservation, I do have to say the city has a complete water conservation chapter in our charter. There's about 18 different items that have to be looked at. But, you know, people, we expect everybody not to run their water down the street. You know, there's a lot of things. Don't wash your car in the front yard. You can't use, you know, we... air conditioners that don't have the recycle and they they waste the water a single flat pass air conditioner or air conditioner ec evaporative units so there are a lot of things we could be using we could be abiding or we are abiding by right now and we have to continue to abide by um because there is a problem if we do lose one well at this point because our supply is just meeting demand um then we will be forced into some kind of conservation or you know a type program Where we were some of the things they'll have to be won't be able to be we won't be able to be using them. But with that Vince has not really even water because of the rain hasn't even watered the any of the grasses yet since the rain since the rain. So we've been conserving water right then. Do you have a question?

I do. I have a question and another comment, something you said. So are we with that? How are we monitoring that? Like with the current things we have in the city that says, oh, you can't use this. You can't let your water. How is that?

So we've actually reinstated a, and Frank can talk about this, a water conservation officer. So we had an officer for years. That was one of the reasons why the city's water demand went down so much is because we had a water conservation officer that actually even wrote citations, promoted water conservation. And we're going to get that position back.

Okay.

And with that, Frank, I'll turn it over to you.

Well, since Sarah was talking about a record-breaking meeting, and she's actually here. Back in 1966. There we go. I have nothing.

St. Mary's Hospital.

Yeah, which is no longer here.

Okay, with that, if we could have a motion.

Oh, my gosh. Motion to adjourn. Yeah, second.

Council Yazi? Yes. Councilor Piano? Yes. Councilor Garcia? Yes. Councilor Molina? Yes. Mayor DePauley?

Yes. Oh, and I'm sorry. Walt, I just saw you there. County Commissioner Walt Hedges. I've got to wear my glasses from now on.

We have time.

Why don't you come up and say something, Walt?

There you do.