City Council - Regular Meeting

Good, thank you. How are you? I think the girl side is going to be the best. [laughter]

Sorry. [laughter] I mean, Matt's over here. Yeah.

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Okay, it is 7ish in Gardenner, Kansas. Call the meeting to order. Please rise and join me for the pledge of 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. All right. Good evening.

We have a very short agenda tonight. So, uh, no presentations, no public hearings. We'll move to public comments. Members of the public are welcome to use this time to make comments about city matters or items on the agenda that are not part of a public hearing. If you wish to come forward, please limit your comments to five minutes or less. Time five minute time clock on your left. That being said, come forward. State your name and address for the record. And the podium is now open. Seeing no one coming forward, um, Consent agenda. Is there an item on the consent agenda? Council would like to remove a motion to approve consent. So moved. Second.

Motion McNir. Second. Deon. We approve the consent agenda. All in favor? I. All opposed. Consent agenda passes. No planning and zoning consent. No committee recommendations. No old business. We will move to new [clears throat] business. New business item number one. Consider selecting a president and vice president of the council. Is there a nomination for president? Yes. Mark Baldwin. I'll second that. Motion McNeer. Second. Deed. We nominate Mark Baldwin as council president. All in favor? I. All opposed. Uh Mark Baldwin is president.

Yep. Motion for vice president. I nominate Casey Deon for vice president. Second. [cough] Excuse me. Motion Baldwin. Second Johnson. We nominate Casey Deon for vice president. All in favor? All opposed? Congratulations. Council vice president. Pardon me. Um so now we'll move to council updates. Um, we'll start with you. I don't have any. [clears throat] Nothing tonight. Okay. Nothing tonight. Finance Matt. Nothing tonight. Amy,

nothing. David, nothing. Nothing. Jason Bruce, here we go. [laughter] Real quick, we are in the process of putting all of the pieces in place to try to reschedule Christmas in the park hopefully next Monday. We're still waiting on a few of those things, but once we do [cough] officially have a day and time, we want to set out information to everyone. So, be Thank you for that, Dave. Community. Nothing for me tonight. Nothing tonight. Nothing. Goodness. We'll speak the last. Sounds good. Okay, Mr. McNair,

first off, I want to say thanks to Kellen and his staff for doing outstanding job getting the streets clear today. Compared to other cities within the county, you guys did a stellar job. Thank you once again. And also wanted to uh take this opportunity to welcome Kelly. You worked really hard for your uh campaign and it's paid off for you. So, welcome aboard. Thank you. Go ahead. Okay, council. Nothing for me tonight. Council Vice President,

gonna echo what council member said. Thank you, Kellen and your team for the great road work and welcome Kelly to the to the deis. And then I'd also like to just thank Steve Shu for his 12 years of service. Uh echo all of that. Um and also uh thank you to everyone for president again. You're welcome.

Thank you. Say thank you to everybody who's been out today. I've seen you guys working um moving snow, getting the roads as clear as they can be tonight. Thank you for that. It's been a a busy day for you guys and thank you for doing that and then for being here tonight. Thank you all for making me feel welcome. I'm looking forward to working with all of you. I will echo everything. So, lots of thank yous and we got a lot of work to do. This is short tonight, but we will have much more on the agenda coming up. Mr. Mayor, does that make this officially an echo chamber? [laughter] It may be tonight anyway. Okay. Uh, with that being I think that's it. So, a motion to adjurnn.

Second. Motion Deon, second McNair. We adjourn. All in favor? I. post. Stay