City Council - Regular Meeting

It being 7:30, I will call the Monday, August 4th, 2025 meeting to order. First order of business to call the order. Mind calling me, please respond. Present. Councelor Brooks, present. Councelor Craig Rome, present. Councilor Dowitz, present. Council Harder, present. Council Heath present. Council Hegland present. Council Kazinskus present. Council Mack present. Council Tiso. Council Tibbo Mios present.

And President Tyrros have nine councils present. In the absence of council president Tyrros the order of business the election of council president prom for this evening August 4th. At this time, the nomination now in order for the office of council president. I now open open the floor for nominations. Council M. I nominate councelor Alexander don't allow us to be president prom this evening. Second. Are there any other further nominations for president prom?

Are there any other nominations? There being none, I entertain a motion to start. Council Mac nominates council dur seconded by council he and I. Now is there a motion to close? Move to close nominations. Motion made by councel Cormier. Second. Seconded by councel Kazinskus. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed say nay. Motion carried. Nominations are now closed. I will call the role of members. Please state the name of the council of your choice for the roll call. Councel Brooks. Councelor Alex Dur allowance. Council Craig Cormier. Councelor D allowance.

Councelor Dowitz. Council Dawitz. Council Hardurn. Councelor Dalowitz. Council Heath. Councelor Dalowitz. Council Hegel. Councelor Dalowitz. Council Kazinskus. Councelor Alexander H. D allowitz council math councelor Alex don't allow council tibo councel durowitz

okay you have nine counselors who voted for council dowitz council is elected president for this evening August 4th 2025 Please stand for the opening prayer.

Almighty God, we thank you for bringing us together this evening. Inspire us to deeds and sound decisions and direct us toward the attainment of good city government. We pray thee to bless and protect all the people of our city and to so guide and inspire us that we may liberate in unity and harmony. Amen. I aliance 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.

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move to wave the reading of the minutes and accept them as printed. Second. Motion made by councelor Cormier. Seconded by councelor Mack to wave the reading of the minutes and accept them as presented. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Those opposed.

Motion carries. Uh we have no public hearings. Um there are no communications from the mayor and there are no petitions, applications and communications, etc. Um next item we are going to take out of order under the uh appointments committee. Uh item 11487, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Steven Hirens to the position of sealer of Weights and Measures for a term expiring January 16th, 2028. Uh report from the appointments committee. Council Heath.

Thank you. Uh Mr. President, um I'd like to go ahead and um move this appointment to be certified. Motion made by councelor Heath, seconded by councelor Heglin to certify the appointment of uh Steven Hirens. Is there any further discussion? Council Heath.

Thank you uh Mr. President. Um the appointment committee met with uh the appointee recently. Um it was on his birthday. Um happy 59th birthday for the third year in a row. Um the appointment of Mr. is a reappoint as he has been with the city well he's been doing the service for a whopping 36 years. He explained his duties which include testing scales, gas pumps and other measuring services uh uh devices annually. Um the appointments committee voted to move the appointment to the full city council to be reertified. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I.

I. All those opposed. Motion carries. We'll have a brief recess while we confirm the appointment. Thank you. I have you raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I speak your name. I speak the parents. Do you solemnly swear? You slemly swear that faithfully and impartially I will faithfully and partially

perform the duties of seals and ways and measures to perform the duties of the sealer of weights and measures according to the law and the best of my abilities.

according to the laws and the best of my abilities. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Call the meeting back to order. Back to the reports of standing committees public safety committee. Item 11618, an application by GameStop, Inc. for a license to deal in secondhand articles at 376 Tony Boulevard. Report from the public safety committee. Council Cormier.

Uh thank you, Mr. President. Prom. Uh the safety committee met on this item. This is a long-standing business in Gardner. They are in good standing with the city. Uh and the uh committee was unanimously in favor and I move to approve the application. Second. Motion made by councelor Cormier, seconded by councelor Hardurn to approve the application. Is there further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Item. Item 11619, an application by EcoATM LLC for a license deal and secondhand articles at 677 Tiffany Boulevard. Council Cormier.

Uh thank you, Mr. President. Prom. Uh again, this uh is the uh cell phone uh vending machine where you can uh resell your phones inside of Walmart. This device has been here for a long time. We've never had any problems with this company. Uh they are in good standing with the city and the committee was unanimously in favor and I move to approve the application. Second. Motion made by councelor Cormier, second by councelor Hardurn to approve the application. Is there further discussion? None. All those in favor say I.

I. All those opposed. Motion carries. on to welfare committee item 11591 an ordin ordinance to amend the gardener zoning map by changing the zoning district designation for the following existing parcel lying on the eastly side of MA 101 in eastern gardener from the commercial two zoning district to the industrial one zoning district with summer o solar overlay report from the welfare committee councelor mech

uh thank you councelor journalowitz um at a joint public um hearing which was held on July 7th with the planning board. There were no objections to amending the ordinance. In a letter from Jason Steven, the director of community development and planning dated on July 9th, the planning board voted to recommend the order for adoption. The public welfare committee also met on this um item and unanimous unanimously recommended the adoption of the um amendment to the ordinance. I make a motion to send this to ordinance to first printing. Second

motion made by councelor Mack, seconded by councelor Tibo Munes to send the ordinance to um second sorry what to first printing. Send the ordinance to first printing. Um is there further discussion? This will be a roll call vote. It does require eight votes to pass. The clerk will call the role. Council Brooks, yes. Councelor Pormier, yes. Council Hardurn, yes. Council Heath, yes. Council Hegel, yes. Yes. Council Kazinskus. Yes. Council M. Yes. Council Tomeios. Yes. And President Daw. Yes.

The uh ordinance the first the first printing passes 9 to zero. Um, next on the agenda is the finance committee item 11577, a measure creating a revolving account for lifeline services activities under the provisions of chapter 44 section 53E1 and a half of the general laws of the Commonwealth to be managed and overseen by the Gardener Senior Center for which the balance shall not exceed $20,000. Councelor Eglund. Thank you, Mr. President. I move to adopt the measure. Second. Motion made by councel Hegman, second by councelor Mack to adopt the measure. Is there further discussion?

Council Kazinskus.

Thank you. Uh Mr. President, I want to start by acknowledging why I've asked so many questions and why I'm insisting that we get so many details on this item. When we create a revolving fund, which is somewhat rare, we are giving up much of our oversight with those funds in that program. That's because once we authorize this fund, money will go into it and out of it without council approval. So, we have to make sure we're satisfied at the beginning of the process that things are well examined and looked over. When it comes to the revolving fund for this program, I think we're right to be cautious. As I've said at the previous meeting, this is a good program. I've known people who have used it or other programs like it and it literally can be lifesaving. It's a good thing that this program exists. I'm just not sure it's something that the city should be running. I realize that decision has already been made which is which the city council was not a part of that decision and is not something that the council determines. But I do think that we need to do some extra analysis when it comes to this account. the pieces of this that make me concerned. So, the city is sending volunteers, not regular employees, into private homes on behalf of a massive international for-profit company. I've asked how much territory the city will cover and how far we could potentially be sending people. And I was told that it presumably covers all of Haywood's service area, but that isn't really defined other than their website says north c serving north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. As councelor Mack has also talked about before, we should be careful about the liability here. Because of that liability, what legal review has this gone through? I have asked additional questions about the cost structure operations and since this is seeking our authorization to pay

salaries out of this, who might receive money as a result of this and how much? I'm still waiting for answers to those and some additional questions. I think the council has spent enough time on this and I'm not sure what another delay will accomplish at this point. However, because of the concerns that I have and the questions I still have, I want to propose we amend the limit amount to $10,000 because we're not making a decision on the program. This will at least make sure that finances can be taken care of by reducing the amount and because we haven't been shown where the $20,000 figure came from. This will allow us to proceed with caution. If that amount turns out to not be enough, the mayor and director Ellis can come back to the council to increase the limit and ask for that. And so with that, I would like to amend the item to a measure creating a revolving account for lifeline services activities under the provisions of chapter 44, section 53E and a half of the general laws of the Commonwealth to be managed and overseen by the Gardener Senior Center for which the balance shall not exceed $10,000.

There's a motion on the floor. Second. Second by councelor Mack. Motion to amend the existing amount from 20,000 to $10,000. Motion made by councelor Kazinsus. Second by councelor Mack. Is there discussion on the amendment? Councelor Brooks.

Yes. Uh thank you, Mr. President. My understanding of what we're voting on when we're setting a limit. The the original mo uh motion was for 20,000. It's being suggested 10. is we we are authorizing that amount to be spent in the fiscal year. It's not what the balance is in the account. It's what can be spent. It's written a little differently in different places, but but the statute says what can be spent. In the information we got from Mr. Ellis, he said that uh we were collecting monthly fees of about $2,800. The cost for subscriptions was about $1,500 a month. $1,500 a month for 12 months is $18,000. I don't have a problem with going to 10. I actually felt that at 20,000 we would be close to uh we would be too close to the 18,000 because that doesn't include another approximately 15,000 additional revenue that would be coming in that they were going to use to pay possibly pay uh a city employee to do some of this work. So, I think the 10,000 I'm okay with with the amendment because I think it brings it back to us, but I think we've got to figure out just how much money is actually going to be spent because what we're authorizing is what can be expended in the year.

Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Brooks. Further discussion, councelor.

Thank you, Mr. President. Um, you hearing my fellow counselors, I I think, you know, where we have so many concerns. Um, and and I intended to support this either way tonight, I think I could be comfortable with the 10,000 as well. Um, I think it's, you know, maybe will hopefully based on that math give us 6 months of information. Um, this was signed back in February. I don't know how much data there might be already to date other than what we had um from an email. So, I I think I do like that idea. Maybe a happy medium to bridge our concerns, but making sure that this account, which I do feel needs to be set up um for the senior center to properly run this um that this will give us a way to sort of do that, make sure information comes back to us, maybe we get some data, some reports, see some invoices and things to determine um as my my colleague here to my right said, and really see what the costs and and spending needs for this program will be. Um, and I and I think on the matter of even revolving accounts, you know, we know in the letter that it it says hopefully used for equipment and salaries. And I was doing some research leading up to this. And I I think I'm going to talk to our city otter about this. You know, DLS, the Department of Local Services, has some really good templates for what revolving funds should look like, and they should spell out start dates and end dates and exactly what they're going to be used for. And we've never done that practice in Gardener. We don't have to. It's a recommendation, but I think that might also going forward help alleviate some of the concerns we have when that information is right here because currently as this is worded, there's really nothing to limit that spending. Um, and I think that's something we want to look forward to maybe reviewing when this comes back to us, if it comes back to us. And I'd certainly urge that if there's a need to that, you know, the mayor and the director not wait. Um, if they see that that limit's getting close, don't bring it to us before we hit that limit. get it to us plenty time for us to review it and consider it. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Hegel. Further discussion? Seeing none, will the vote here is on the amendment, not the um original um original measure. U the clerk will please call the role. This excuse me, this is to amend. This is a motion to amend. A mo a yes vote would be to amend it to $10,000. Um and a no vote would be to um to not amend them. End it. Councelor Brooks, yes. Councelor Craig Cormier, yes. Council Hardurn, yes. Council Heath, yes. Council Heglund, yes. Council Kazinskus, yes. Council Matt, yes. Council T Munoz, yes. And President D.

Yes. Nine. The motion to amend carries. Um back to the original U motion. Is there any further discussion on the voting on the amended motion? Council Heath.

Uh, thank you, Mr. President. I didn't really have a necessarily question about the amendment. I just had an issue with like I wasn't here for the meeting. Um, our last city council meeting. This item and the next item were part of the finance meeting. I can't find it on YouTube because it's wrongly dated. So, if whoever does the YouTube, it can change it from June 2nd to July 2nd because I was trying to go ahead and look up to see what happened during the finance meeting and I couldn't find it. It was just wrong date. That's all. I just want that noted. Thank you. Thank you, Council Heat. Any further discussion? Council Council M.

Um, thank you. I just I just want to I I am going to support this, but um I just want to echo for the final time that um you know we my concerns with how this program came about to the city of Gardner um you know are still very valid. I don't you know as councelor Kazinska said I don't believe gardener should be you know this is for forprofit agency. I still have questions on liability. I um appreciate director Ellis's response to the questions that councelor Kazinskus and I put forward and I hope other counselors got to see those responses. Um but I just have to state I just don't like how this all came about and how um you know we're left now voting for a revolving account. There should have been a lot more discussion before the city got into an agreement uh with the lifeline program. As I've said before and I'll say again, it is a very valuable program. I've had firsthand experience with it, but I just don't think this is a business the city should be in. And um and I think I hope that it's it's evaluated, reviewed um and this is something that doesn't it doesn't happen like this this way in the future. Thank you.

Thank you, Council M. Further discussion. Council Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. Just one thing I forgot to add. If we are paying employees through the re uh revolving fund, their benefits also have to be paid through the revolving fund. That would if it's a part-time that would include Medicare tax, unemployment tax, um um other other things related to to their being here. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brooks. Any further discussion? Hearing none, uh the clerk will please call the role. Council Brooks, yes. Council Craig Cormier, yes. Council Harder, yes. Council Heath, yes. Council Heglin, yes. Council Kazinskus,

yes. Council Math, yes. Council Tunes, yes. President Dawitz, yes. Uh, nine. Motion carries. On to item 11611. An ordinance to amend the code of the city of gardener chapter 8 there of entitled personnel to amend the attachment e thereof entitled non-union compensation schedule to add the position of youth center director. Councelor Heglin. Thank you, Mr. President. Move to send the ordinance to second printing. Second. Motion made by councelor uh Hegeland, second by councelor Mack to send the ordinance to uh second and final printing. Is there further discussion? Hearing none, the clerk will please call the role. Council Brooks. Yes.

Councelor Craig Cormier. Yes. Councilor Harder. Yes. Council Heath. Yes. Council Heglin. Yes. Council Kazinsquecus. Yes. Council Matt. Yes. Council Tillos. Yes. And council president general. Yes. Nay. The motion carries. Item 11622. an order authorizing the mayor to enter into a renewed intermunicipal agreement with the town of Ashby for veteran services expiring on June 30th, 2028. Council Mack.

Uh, thank you, Council General. This is to extend the inter municipal agreement for the veteran services with the town of Ashby. The one-year agreement expired on June 30th, 2025. However, services were not affected uh due to the expiration at the end of June. This renewed agreement is for three years. Both the finance and the public welfare committees met on this item with director Hasselman. There were no concerns expressed and both committees voted in favor to recommend passage to the council to renew the agreement. So I make a motion to authorize the order.

Second motion made by councelor Mac, seconded by councelor Heglin to authorize the order. Is there further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Item 11623, an order transferring $10,000 from building department salary and wages account to operating expense account professional services. Councelor Heglin. Thank you, Mr. President. I move to adopt the order. Second. Motion made to adopt the order by councelor Hegund, seconded by councelor Mack. Is there further discussion? Councelor Heglin.

Thank you again. Uh we the finance committee met on this item last week. We were unanimously in favor of this. Essentially, right now we have where we do not have a building uh department commissioner or head. Jeff Cook is serving as our interim. Uh he's doing about two days a week, eight or so hours. Uh generally Mondays and Thursdays. This money will cover not only the work he has done so far in that role, but will hopefully if needed extend them through September. Uh he is capp at the amount of time and money he can make here with the city of Gardner. However, it's our understanding that applicants are finally starting to come in for this position. So hopefully we will have someone soon to fill this full-time. Uh he is also only doing the work that is truly required by a building commissioner that local inspectors cannot do themselves. Um and so with that again we are in favor of this item. Thank you.

Thank you. Further discussion hearing none. All those need a roll call vote on this one. The clerk will please call the role. Councelor Brooks. Yes. Councelor Craig Comier. Yes. Councelor Harder. Yes. Councelor Heath. Yes. Council Heg, yes. Council Kazinskus, yes. Council Math, yes. Council Tibbo, yes. President Dawitz, yes. N is the motion carries. Item 11487 we took up earlier this evening. We'll move on to item 11620, a measure to elect a city treasurer and city collector of taxes effective August 4th, 2025. Report from the appointments committee. Councilor Egle.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh we met on this item last week as well as an appointments committee. This is again to elect our city treasurer and city collector of taxes. Um this is one of the few appointees that we as a city council have control over. Um currently that's s filled by Jennifer Dimmick who we met with again last week. She gave a very detailed report of all that she and her department does and she is interested in serving in this role once again. Um, so with that knowing we have to elect this, I would move to open nominations for this process. That being said, nominations are now open for the position of the office of city treasurer and city collector of taxes. Councilor Eglund,

I'd like to nominate Jennifer Demick. Are there any further nominations? Are there any further nominations? Hearing uh there no further nominations, I will entertain a motion to close nominations. So second motion made by councelor Brooks, seconded by councelor Cormier to close the nominations. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. The motion passes and nominations are now closed. When the clerk calls the role, please state the name of the nominee of your choice. Councelor Brooks Jennifer Demick. Councelor Craig Cormier. Jennifer Demick. Councelor Harter. Jennifer Demick. Council Heath,

Jennifer Demick, Council Hegel, Jennifer Demick, Council Kazinskus, Jennifer Demick, Council Matt, Jennifer Demick, Council Sonos, Jennifer Demick, President Delaw, Jennifer Demick, nine for Jennifer. There are nine votes for Jennifer Demick, zero votes for other nominees. Jennifer Demick has been elected as city treasurer and city collector of taxes for a term expiring three years from August 4th, 2025. Next item on the agenda is 11624 July economic and community development update. Councelor Kazinskus.

Thank you, President General. the economic and community development committee uh was un unable to meet um just for scheduling purposes uh at the end of July. So uh I had requested from director Stevens to send a uh written update which he did to President Tyros and it is included in our packet for the public watching. It is on page 118 of our packet. It's very detailed and director Stevens I had asked if he wanted to wait till the end of August and we do a summer update but there's so much that's happened that it would be outdated by the end of August and it would be quite a long meeting. So uh he had um prepared his remarks and sent them along. So they are in our packet in detail and I'm going to give a summary of that as the July update. Uh the rear main street project has continued on schedule as of Wednesday, July 30th. There's a lot of details within his explanation of um the different types of things that are going on with that project, but it has remained on schedule and they are moving forward. The nature trail, the north central pathway connector has been completed as of June 30th. The portion of the pathway was paved. Um there was native plantings added, safety railings placed, and the length of Crystal Lake Road has been paved to connect the pathway with the existing walking/bikeke path that runs along Crystal Lake. The master plan that the department is working on um has continued on schedule. There's been monthly meetings. I am the council's leazison on to the master plan steering committee and um you know we've made much progress and continuing to work uh with the group that is um overseeing that whole process. And I can't reiterate enough if anyone from the city is interested please head to the city's website and look at the master plan website. um they asked for feedback and surveys and all kinds of things there and it's going to be super helpful and it's really exciting that

we're doing that here in gardener. The hazard mitigation plan has continued on schedule as well. There are monthly meetings on that with um with the group Weston and Samson that the city is working with. Um the draft of the first two chapters of the plan have been discussed and um again it's it this is another thing that is um it's necessary and really exciting for us as we saw with like the floods and that affected Lemus so so terribly last summer as one just one example um it's great that we're getting behind that and developing that as well. uh Mackie Park. Per our last meeting um that we had met with the economic development committee um the funding for the additional ramp was relying on a contract um with one of the contractors uh to be completed and there was a set of basically wires that Comcast was um it was responsible for and that was from actually the Park Street Park project and that money was going to be going over to the other project Um and basically they've been in contact with them and um I had requested from the director that we get moving along with that project. It's we're basically out of the season to use Mackie Park. We're getting really close to the end here and it's unfortunate it wasn't able to be used for this summer and um I had also requested that the city put some signage out there to just acknowledge that we know it is not accessible and that we're working on it to make it accessible because that is what has been going into it. Um and so they are they have made contact with um the appropriate people and it looks like we're going to be able to use the funding that we had originally intended to use. Um and I can't thank Director Stevens enough for staying on on top of that. Um and so hopefully we will see that completed sooner than later, but that has been a continued concern of the committee and also the department and I

can say that they're continuing to work on it. Uh and also the administration in the department, an assistant director has been hired. So there is another member of the department. So they're up to four staff members and the fifth staff member for the new position that the city council had um had voted on just a few meetings ago um will also begin in August. And so we will um get an introduction there after um you know they've been hired and worked a few weeks. But it's going very well so far. Um her name is Amy. She has um she's he said she's been wonderful to work with and she has a ton of experience and he's really looking forward to seeing everything come together as she remains in the department. Um so both of those positions have been filled the assistant director and the economic development and finance manager positions and um that's really exciting for director Stevens. And then there are multiple CDBG project updates the from year 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Um he gave updates 2025 being the most recent there um were no updates just because it's been submitted and they are waiting to hear back in that process. But um from 2024 and from the 2022 2023, a bunch of those have been closed out. And a lot of that was actually on our new assistant director who worked really hard since she's been here a few weeks and already got them closed out. And I know that was that was a big piece um for director Stevens. So that is definitely, believe it or not, the short of the update. Um but there's still continues to be a lot of progress in that department and they will be fully staffed as of the end of August, which is another um exciting thing. I think even from our own city clerk's office, it's nice to be fully staffed and have everybody um moving along what they need to be doing. So, that is the July update and we will be meeting at the end of August and get an August update. So, that's it. And um

with that, I'm going to make a motion to place it on file. Motion made by councelor Kazinsquez, seconded by councelor Hegland to place the update on file. Is there further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say. I I all those opposed. Motion carries.

There is no unfinished business and matters for reconsideration. There is no new business. Councelor comments and remarks. Councelor Brooks. Uh thank thank you, Mr. President. I was stunned to hear of attorney John Flick's passing. I first met John when Mayor Hawk appointed him city solicitor. At the time, I had been city auditor for about eight years. So, John would come to me on occasion to better understand how city finances worked. Needless to say, I went to him with legal questions and always came away with clear and wellthoughtout responses. The city was fortunate to have attorney Flick overseeing its legal work for the past 17 years. To his credit, he covered both civic issues and employment issues and always put the city in a favorable position. His passing is a great loss for the city, both in terms of the institutional knowledge he possessed and in the steady way he conducted his business. He will be greatly missed. I guess at this time I would move that the city council send a letter of condolence to the family of former city solicitor uh attorney John Flick.

Second. Motion made by councelor Brooks, seconded by councelor Kazinscus to send a letter of condolences to the family of John Flick. Is there further discussion? Councelor Kazinskus.

Um I just wanted to um just add some remarks about attorney Flick. Uh when I was acting mayor for the city, I talked to him pretty much every single day and that was during COVID and it was at the very beginning and nobody knew anything. But I can say that that was um definitely a situation where I was either going to, you know, I I had to get advice every single day basically on things. So I talked to John pretty much on multiple times a day and uh without his guidance and working together with other department heads in the city, it it just would not have gone as smoothly as it did and things would not have um been explained or done in the way that they were. We moved very as quickly as we could through funding sources and getting making sure things were all together for the city. And I have to say um I always felt better after I got off the phone with John. And that was my first memory of really working with John. Um and I you know he was a true public servant. He took great pride in this city. Um he definitely was someone that um was proud to be connected with the city and all of the engagement that he had with it. and I just appreciate all that he did in his position there and for the city and it is a it's a true tragedy um to for the city to have such a loss. Um but you know I certainly I certainly support sending the letter of condolence but I just you know wanted to add that piece of it um because I really learned a lot just from those days um working with John specifically related to this role working with the city. Thank you.

Thank you councelor Kazescus. Further discussion seeing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. There further counselor comments or remarks. Council Hegeland.

Thank you, Mr. President. Um and thanks to my colleagues for those kind words um about the late attorney Flick. I do want to take a moment to also thank and recognize director Josh Cormier for the work he's done bringing film industry to gardener. I know we've had a few other projects done here. Castle Rock, Dexter, some other things. Um, and most recently, uh, Bolio, the movie that they've been filming. I think a lot of us have seen the action in town. I think it's a really good boost to morale. I had a chance to go downtown when we had the little festival downtown, and it was really exciting to watch that, to see actors I recognize from other films. Um, but not only does his initiative in bringing this to the city of Gardener do that, but it does provide a nice static boost even if it's quick for a short period of time to our local economy, whether it's rooms at the Colonial or eating at the El House or Parker House of Pizza. Um, I know people visited Priscillaas from the the staff and they're here for months throughout the whole process. So, it is a nice thing for our city. I think it's something unique that we have and I just wanted to take a moment to thank him for all his hard work behind the scenes in doing that. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Egglund. Further comments or remarks? Hearing none, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn after the closing prayer. So move second. Motion made by councelor Heap, seconded by councelor Cormier to journ after the closing prayer. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Father who cease over all as we adjourn we thank for the opportunity of joint deliberation and action witnessed during the course of this meeting. Bless the Lord all that we gathered here and the people represented we are and do thou attend to our common welfare until our next meeting. Amen. Amen. J