City Council - Regular Meeting

all right welcome everybody good to see a full house here again uh that's one of most mentioned right away uh chris and miss councilman council person roadie will not be with us this evening she's absent but we do have the other five here um to do business so and i'd also extend a big thank you to mr Davies for filling in for me on Monday.

For all 10 minutes.

I knew it was going to be a big one, but I knew you could handle it. But I appreciate it. So next thing is to entertain a motion to approve the agenda as posted and sent to this news media 24 hours prior to the meeting.

So moved.

I'll second.

Motion by Mr. Holmstrom, second by Ms. Fay. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thanks. We have the mayor's leadership statement. The city of Hampton endeavors at all times to promote and model the principles of professionalism, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. In conducting this evening's meetings, we expect that all participants will act in a respectful manner consistent with these principles. Thank you. Some feedback or something going on. Next item is the Council Workshop Report. It was, as Jim mentioned, it was really brief on Monday, but I won't read it to you. It is available online if anybody would like to review that. Also, we have a mayoral proclamation declaring June 2026 as Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. So whereas Alzheimer's is a progressive degenerative neurological disease affecting over 62,000 people in Iowa and more than 7 million nationwide, and that number is expected to double by 2050. And whereas 80,000 caregivers are finding 118 million hours of unpaid care to people with Alzheimer's and other dementias need our support and understanding. You think about that for just real quick, real quick. 80,000 caregivers providing 118 million hours of unpaid care for these people. It's a big problem. Whereas there are only 50 geriatric doctors in Iowa in 2021, and that number will need to increase 110th percents to meet the 2050 demand. And whereas Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death, and there is no treatment, prevention or cure, only medications that temporarily improve the quality of life. Whereas encouraging healthy habits can help to prevent other co-occurring conditions and possibly delay the onset of Alzheimer's. Providing support services, including respite and mental health services for caregivers is critical for them to continue to serve in their vital role. And early diagnosis and medical management for these experiencing memory issues is crucial. And whereas it is imperative that Alzheimer's and other dementia patients receive all early diagnosis, medical management, and quality, comfortable care, that Alzheimer's research continues to fight treatments and a cure for this debilitating disease. Therefore, I, Mary's Mayor, Steve Bertzall, do hereby proclaim 9 June 2026 to be Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and encouraging all Hampton residents to join in supporting families affected by Alzheimer's and other dementias. Thank you for being patient while I got through that. Stroke is not a form of Alzheimer's, but it does affect you in that way, and having had one a couple years ago, I can really relate to this, and I support that wholeheartedly. Moving on. Next we have public comment. Reminding that we would limit our public comments to three to five minutes. Is there anybody who has any public comment this evening? Hearing none, we will move on. There are no public hearings tonight. No old business, so we'll move on to our new business. First item on the new business is to consider awarding the June 2026 Image of Pride to Wally and Ruth Tapp. for property at 320 9th Place Northeast.

Mr. Davies. Thank you, Mayor Bertzel. I would like to nominate the property of Wally and Ruth Tapp located at 320 9th Place Northeast Hampton for the June 2026 Image of Pride Award. Their single story frame home built in 1952 has been owned by the Tapps since 2004. The property features a beautifully maintained lawn and attractive landscaping that reflect exceptional care and price and pride of ownership. Their recent addition of the deck further enhances the property and provides an impressive view for those traveling along Highway 65. And with that, I would like to nominate the TAPs for the Image of Pride Award for June 2026, and I would so make that motion.

All right. So we have a motion by Mr. Davies to award the June 2026 image of pride to Wally and Ruth Tapp for their property. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Ms. Fay. Any comments? Any further discussions?

I just want to mention that this is the one photo of their deck. You can just see how just beautiful it is. Very nice home.

All right, so we have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. And opposed? We will award the image of pride to Wally and Ruth. And they happen to be here tonight.

Would you like to come forward?

I'm going to come up here for the photo op.

You can come. Why don't you come? Smile for me. Feel free.

All right. Next item, Hampton Public Library Director, Susie Knipfel, presenting your quarterly update.

Okay, so there's not a lot really going on right now, but I do have to give my quarterly report, so here I am. The landscaping project is now complete. It was paid with a combination of memorials and donations, so it really looks nice. All American Landscaping did a really nice job and really looks sharp. We celebrated National Library Week and had a really good Holocaust program, and that was attended by about 80 people. We just completed our Friends of the Hampshire Public Library book sale. All proceeds raised are used for library-related activities. So we got over $1,000, so that will really come in handy for programs. Our summer reading program has started, so we are very loud and very busy with that. 142 kids have signed up. We've had five programs this week. The two big ones had about 140 kids there, so it's very well done. Yeah, very nice. We have received a bid from Darren Schrader to fix the wall in the children's department, about $2,800. The Carnegie Foundation monies we received, that $10,000 will, of course, more than cover that. So that's very good news. So they'll be starting that. I'm sure many of you are aware that the trustees voted last month to shorten our Saturday hours. And I did do a press release, and it was important to me that people understood that it was not local government. It was not this council with our levy reduction. It was not the supervisors. It was not you guys. It was legislation enacted at the state level. And I encouraged people to call me with any questions or concerns. We came to the Saturday closing, for about the last six months we did a foot traffic count. Every day, all day, even our Wednesday nights, every hour we were open. And Saturday from about noon to three was the drop off. So it was important that we have the least amount of disruption for our patrons and the least impact for service interruption. So that the hope is we will save about $4,000 a year, which will help offset the additional levy loss next year. I say 4,000, but it does affect part-time staff. All the part-time staff hours were reduced. I'm not saying down the road there might be retention issues with that. It's not the favorite thing to do is to say, hey, your hours are cut. But the part-time staff have been really, really good. And if I need them, I'm going to have to schedule them. So I say 4,000. you know it's going to be kind of a give or take with that so the last thing really is the foundation met last month and they voted to begin the process of replacing the windows the windows are 50 years old and we need the whole building tuck pointed and we would like to put electrical on the west side of the building for cameras So it'll be all three of them. The process has just started. I've already talked to Doug how to proceed, various things with that. We do have a bid for windows, but it's five years old. So you know that bid is not going to. At that time, it was $97,000. I did get a bid last summer for tuck pointing. That was $20,000. And the electrical and cameras are undone. I haven't begun the bid process for that. So that is basically all I have to say right now. If anybody, do you have any questions or concerns about any of this? Our hope is to, we're going to try and restore the windows to the original look, which was a French pane. I think there are 14 windows we have to replace. So there are restoration grants. It's a slow process, but it is our hope that maybe there's some money for that. but they like say they are 50 years old so we we knew it was coming you know but the foundation agreed to proceed with that so that's good news yeah so you know anybody have any other questions about you know the hour I should go back and say the hours will be reviewed annually So next May, we'll sit down and take a look, do some more foot traffic to see. But that really was the lowest percentage of people that came to the library. It just kind of fell off about noon. So we figured that would be the least disruptive time.

Any comments or discussion for Susie?

I just appreciate you took the heat off our back It was very important to me to have the public understand without sounding political you know we're not a political agency But I did receive a few phone calls, and it was just a matter of going to the source, going to me. I'm the best person to explain why we did what we did. It comes with the job.

I'm glad they called.

Yeah, I am too. And it wasn't necessarily they were angry, but sometimes people don't read all of the press release. They just pick out some of the words. and they understood I mean yeah they were upset too about the levy because obviously we voted on that as a community so they didn't understand why it all of a sudden stopped you know so yeah you know it's just you know getting yourself educated on what's going on so other than that's been we've only actually had one the first Saturday last Saturday would have been our first Saturday for reduced hours so And the new hours are On Saturdays, 9 to 12, 9.30 to 12. 9.30 to 12, OK. We are now open 43 hours a week. We are certified, I should say, accredited at a tier three, which is the highest tier level. That does mean we get the bigger percentage of the direct state aid, it's called. Now, it's not $10,000, $20,000. It's pretty minimal. but it's based on your tier level. So to be certified at tier three, we have to be open only 29 hours a week, so where you're far and above over what the requirement would be. And at this time, we're not gonna change any other hours, but you know. unfortunately it's always on the table the evenings were very important for us to remain open because people who work you know they gotta have a time to come here it's their tax dollar so we were not gonna do anything with the evening hours you know just because it's that's a good service we offer so

absolutely all right any other comments for Susie thank you for bringing your report and we look forward to this every quarter all right all right thank you very much thank you all right let's move on we need to reconsider a request for La Cosita to park and operate a food trailer at Progress Park for the hockey Rock Hound Rumble Tournament on June 21st. Is there anybody there? I thought there was supposed to be somebody here. Yeah, there was. Okay.

So they submitted a written request for permission to park and operate at Progress Park during Rockhounds Rumble Tournament, which is a youth baseball tournament, I understand. Respectfully requesting permission to park and operate our food trailer at Progress Park during the tournament on June 21 for the duration of the event. They currently hold a valid permit and are already approved to operate at Kruko Real Estate parking lot. They would be grateful for the opportunity to serve the tournament participants, families, and visitors attending the event. The menu includes tacos, burritos, nachos, and other Mexican-inspired foods. They believe their offerings would complement the existing concession stand by providing additional meal options and variety for attendees throughout the day. As a local business, we enjoy being part of the community events and appreciate opportunities to serve residents and visitors. They're committed to operating in a safe and clean, respectful manner and will comply with all city regulations and requirements. Thank you for your time and consideration of this request. That was from Nev Martinez, La Chocita.

And this is just a one-day event? Yes. June 21st. Which is a Sunday. Any questions, concerns? Having a food truck down at Progress Park.

Have they talked to the Baseball Association?

I think the Baseball Association got them, engaged them to do it.

where they can park down, I'm assuming, but fairly close to the field.

I would assume, yeah. It doesn't say it.

And they'll pick up and remove garbage, take care of their own garbage, which I think they usually do anyway.

Any other questions? discuss around that otherwise we would entertain a motion to approve or deny requests from La Cosita to park an operated food trailer at Progress Park during the Rockhounds Rumble tournament on June 21st I would move we approve A motion by Mr. Davies to approve Is there a second I'll second Second by Ms. Faye So all in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Can I ask a question? Yeah. Which I've asked earlier. Will they run on electricity or a generator?

I'm assuming a generator.

Probably, yeah. I think they usually use a generator when they're at Truco's. Yeah.

Although there was nothing mentioned in the letter, so I don't know for sure.

I just wonder if the surrounding neighbors across the street would be I thought about that too I don't think since it's probably conceivably would be down towards by the bald diamond the neighbors are pretty well dispersed there and I don't see that as being an issue all right so let's do the vote again all in favor aye opposed Motion carries. It will be approved to have the food truck. Next item, we have Hampton Tree Board presenting an update on activities and discussing IDNR tree grant opportunity.

Hello. Hey, Ned. I'm here for the Hampton Tree Board. Anyway, I wanted to give kind of an update on the planting progress for the previous grant, the current grant, if you will, that we received. And so far, we have planted 76 trees. These are all in the public right of way throughout town of 15 different species. So we're, again, adding that diversity so we have a more resilient tree canopy for disease and such. All these trees have been planted at the a willing landowner's homes. Randy Sanders and I think maybe you've reached out to some of them, but they all had requested them or were.

They signed a letter saying they would be responsible to take care of the water. It's quite well received.

Yeah, seems to be well received. And we have people asking for additional trees for the future.

And we've identified about another 75 spots potentially for this volume.

yes and so we've spent about nine thousand dollars on trees so far and this is a hundred percent reimbursement grant so there is no cost and volunteer labor by the tree board so we've got about twelve thousand dollars left on that grant and so we're here to just ask if there's interest in the council we have the opportunity to apply for the grant again and this would be for tree planting in 2027 into 2028 and And that grant application is due in a couple weeks. So we're just curious to see if there's something we should pursue in this grant application.

Do you have anything else? Nope.

That's all I have.

Any questions for Ned or Mr. Lichtenmeier?

I think we're always in favor of free money.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if everybody's ever turned it down. I would say that I've heard a lot of feedback on the grant you're working on now and the trees and the right-of-ways. And they're positive. I mean, the town is, they love it. I got a free truck. I just, free tree. I just got to water it. I said, knock yourself out.

I don't think there's been much of, in this context of this grant, if we experience deer population, deer damage in the fall, we have money provided by this grant to provide for each tree that needs it.

OK, that's good. I think it's a great thing. And I think we should just, if there's another grant available, we'll work with you and the Treat Board, and we'll Perfect.

Thank you. Our plan would be to apply for it through the friends group, and so that none of the money has to get funneled through the city. And so the friends group can pay for it directly out of their account and then get reimbursed directly by the state. So it doesn't affect the city's budget.

Perfect. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you for coming in. All right, next item, I'd entertain a motion to approve the claims as submitted by staff in the amount of $869,309.77. And I will just note that the increased claims amount is due to the June 1 debt payments for this month. So I'd entertain a motion to pay the claims.

So moved. I'll second.

A motion by Ms. Griefe, second by Ms. Fay. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Next we got consideration for the adoption of some resolutions. First one being resolution 2026-12. This is a resolution for approving construction contract and a bond for the selective demolition at the building locations located at 4th and 6th, 4th and 6th, 1st Avenue, Northwest in Hampton. I believe Caleb Hayes with... ISG, are you going to give us a little re-rundown?

Yep, I'll go through everything. Good evening, everyone. I did want to share right away that I did ask the contractor for their construction schedule, just to be able to share that with you. As I talked to the last board meeting, the original construction schedule had them starting in June and final completion being November 27th. So we stretched out the timeline pretty far because this is a pretty in-depth structural repair of the building. The contractor's given us their new construction schedule starting June 22nd upon approval, and then final completion being August 25th. So they're thinking that they're going to be able to cut down the timeline significantly after working with their subcontractors, which is really good news. They'll get out of there, get out of your guys' hair quickly, and then get the building back out to the public. As we talked at the last meeting, the both of the alternates were approved so we will be replacing the second story windows on the front of the building on both four and six just to help elevate those as well as some of those had to have the glass removed when the abatement work was done so that way we can have some glass in there as well and seal the building back up and They're going to start with the demolition on the backside of the buildings. They will be closing down a section of the alley for safety. And I had previously talked to Ron about that. And we'll just keep it as open as possible because there is deliveries and things that are happening in that alley. But they will have to close down a section because they'll have big equipment back there. And then there will be a pit. once they have those buildings removed, because the basement will need to be infilled after their wall is poured, which will require them to fence off and have the proper safety measures taken per OSHA requirements.

All right. Any questions for Caleb?

I don't have a question for Caleb, but my resolution on the computer says 2025.

Supposed to be 26.

26 here. We'll correct that.

And then also, there's a typo on the AIA document, the actual contract under City Hampton, the wrong address, which we'll correct on the original. And then First Avenue will be changed to First Street. Thanks, Jerry.

So the basement infield, is that just for the... Demolition project in the alley is it or where you'd be in filling that complete basement It'll just be for the portions that we're taking off.

So we're gonna do a new bearing wall a new foundation wall Any other discussion If not, I would entertain a motion to prove approve resolution 2026 that's 12

I'll make a motion to approve 2026-12. I'll second.

Motion by Mr. Lamos, second by Mr. Davies. This will be a roll call vote. Mr. Davies? Aye. Ms. Fay? Aye. Ms. Creepy?

Aye.

Mr. Holmstrom? Aye. Mr. Lamos? Aye. And we'll note that Ms. Rohde is absent. So resolution has been approved. Thank you. Next resolution is 2026-13. This is a resolution approving Franklin County Fire 28E and Mutual Aid Agreement. for fire protection in surrounding areas of Franklin County. Mr. Dunt.

Thank you, Mayor. Whereas the City of Hampton, Iowa will participate in a mutual aid agreement with the area of Franklin County Fire Departments and grant Lee as authorized by Section 28E.31 of Iowa Code, Now, therefore, be it resolved, the City Council of the City of Hampton, Iowa, Section 1, that the City Council of the City of Hampton, Iowa, does hereby approve the participation of the City of Hampton in the Franklin County Fire 28E and Mutual Aid Agreement for Fire Protection between the City of Hampton, City of Alexander, City of Coulter, City of Geneva, City of Hansel, Latimer, Sheffield, and Grant Lee Township Fire Departments, as authorized by Section 28E.31 of the Iowa Code. Section 2, that the mayor and city manager are hereby directed to execute mutual aid agreement between the city of Hampton and the other participating municipal fire departments in the agreement. Thank you.

All right. Any questions, discussion around that? I know we've touched on that on Monday. So if there are no further discussion, I would entertain a motion to approve Resolution 2026-13. So moved. Motion by Mr. Holmstrom. Second by Ms. Creepy. That's also a roll call vote. Mr. Davies? Aye. Mr. Lamos? Aye. Mr. Holmstrom? Aye. Ms. Fay? Aye. And Ms. Creepy?

Aye.

And again, Ms. Rohde is absent. So resolution is accepted. Thank you. Next we have resolution 2026-14. Resolution authorizing fund transfers for the fiscal year 2027. Mr. Dunt.

Thank you, Mayor. Whereas Iowa Administrative Code Sections 545-2.1 through 2.5 address city budget amendments and fund transfers. It requires that all transfers of money between funds in the city budget forms must be approved by a fund transfer resolution of the city council as defined in section 545-2.1 to allow for transfers between funds. Whereas the city clerk has presented the list of each transfer to be completed in fiscal year 2027 on exhibit A, which is attached. incorporated herein, which includes a clear statement of the reason, purpose for the transfer, the name of the fund from which the transfer is originated, the name of the fund in which the transfer is being received, and the dollar amount to be transferred. Transfers must be approved and completed in accordance with 545-2.5. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Hampton, Iowa, that the fund transfers listed and described in Exhibit A for Fiscal Year 27 are hereby approved, and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to complete the approved fund transfers. This document is what was assembled during the budget process, and it didn't change it for this resolution. So it's basically one more step from the budgeting process that's required by law.

All right. Any questions for Mr. Dunn regarding that? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve Resolution 2026-14. So moved. I got a motion by Ms. Fay. And who's the other one?

I'll second it.

Gary. Ms. Griefe, for a second. And also a roll call vote. Ms. Griefe?

Aye.

Ms. Bay?

Aye.

Mr. Lamos? Aye. Mr. Holmstrom? Aye. Mr. Davies? Aye. And again, Ms. Rohde is absent, so resolution is approved. Thank you. Next is our consent agenda. It's lengthy, so bear with me here. The consent agenda will include previous minutes as drafted from Thursday, May 28, 2026 regular session. Schedule the next regular session for Thursday, June 25th, 2026 at 6 p.m. at the Hampton City Council Chambers. Approve alcohol licensing for Pit Row LLC, 19 Federal Street North, Quickstar, Central Avenue West, and La Frontera Tienda at $250. 1st Street Northwest. Approve tobacco license for cases at 719 4th Street Northeast. Dollar General Store, 5100 Central Avenue West. Family Dollar, 411 17th Street and Central Avenue West. A fairway store, 309 Central Avenue West. Get and Go Conceived Convenience Store, 319 Central Avenue East. Hy-Vee Dollar Fresh Market at 808 4th Street Southeast and Quick Star 312 Central Avenue West. So I'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Move we approve.

Motion by Mr. Davies.

Second. I'll second it.

Second by Mr. Holmstrom. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Brings us to our staff reports. Chief Morrison.

Yeah, we continue to work on hiring. And we have two people testing tomorrow. So we hopefully can get somebody out of the testing tomorrow. We also are preparing for the fair and other events during the summer. And we had court three times on nuisance properties. Those were all resolved today. And Officer Dolan's training is going well. And we confirmed his spot in the academy in August. So that's what we've got going on this week. All right. Is there any questions?

Any questions for Chief Morrison? Hearing none, thank you, sir. Mr. Tarr.

Thank you, Mayor, Council. We had over 100 people utilize the hazardous waste collection this past Monday put on by the North Iowa Landfill and city staff. Heard a lot of great comments. I was out there helping a little bit. And yeah, it was very well received. Got a lot of use. They took a lot of waste, a lot of paint. So you could tell we've been having some projects going on in our county. We got a lot going on, so I think I'll just entertain any questions you may have about anything.

All right. Any questions for Mr. Tarr? Hearing none, thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Mr. Dunt. Thank you, Mayor.

I want to express my thanks to our city staff and volunteers. Your hard work of keeping our parks and cemetery beautiful makes our community shine. It creates a wonderful impression for visitors and makes our community a better place to live. And although parks and cemetery are very visible to the community, I also want to express my gratitude to all city employees for their dedicated behind the scene efforts from city hall staff to water department, sewer street and police departments. So much critical work happens in the background that no one sees and their work is essential and keeps our city running our community safe. And I'm grateful for everything that they do. And I want to bid farewell to Jennifer Burnham. and wish you the best in your future endeavors. And I'd answer any questions that the council might have.

Any questions for Mr. Dutt? Hearing none, thank you, sir. We'll go to council reports. We'll start with Mr. Lamos.

I'd like to thank Caleb for showing up and giving us the information on the contractors' starting dates. And get her done.

We're excited.

Also, I'd like to thank the tree board. They're a tremendous asset to the city. And I think every time you cut a tree down, you should plant one. And I want to thank them for their work.

Thank you. Mr. Davies.

I attended a tourism board meeting prior to this meeting today. I also attended the Preserve Iowa Summit on June 2nd and 3rd in Ankeny representing the Hampton Historic Preservation Commission, and I'll provide a report on that at a future meeting. And there's a bluegrass music festival going on now through June 13th at the fairgrounds. And this is the 11th year for the festival. And they're bringing not only besides the local people attending, they're bringing a lot of visitors to town too. That's all I have.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Holmstrom.

Well, I just kind of want to echo what Ron had said about appreciation for all of the work the city employees do. I just returned from northern Wisconsin on a vacation. And though it was so beautiful up there, it was always nice to come home. Hampton is a nice place to come home to. You can see all of the work, the little things that get done, the parks and the cemetery. And so I'm just appreciative for all they do.

So.

Thank you. Ms. Griefe.

Well, attended quarterly coffee and a chamber meeting and I know I talk a lot about the chamber but I am the city council representative on the chamber board so that's why I bring it to you and I just want to talk about the flower baskets for just a minute I swear and this will be the last time till the end of the season unless they start dying I just want to give everybody recognition that are helping make this project so positive thank you the city uh... for taking for the fire truck and then also making sure we have gas and water and ready to roll ruth and molly tap water every sunday uh... first bank hampton has picked up every monday their volunteers sue uh... follow well and charlie do it tuesdays Two gals from the Hampton-Dumont School District, Kelly and Jen, do Wednesdays. Thursday is Del Shermer and his daughter. She's working on her Silver Court Hours, and that inspired the McGuire family to pick up Fridays. They've got a couple of kids working on Silver Court Hours. And then we have Teresa and Glenn, and I didn't write down their last name, and I apologize. They do every Saturday. They're new in town. They wanted to get involved. He's the assistant pastor at the Baptist Church. And then we have a lot of people that said, just call me if you need help, you know, here or there. And we got Tabitha Brass, Tara Zakir, Jim Davies, Tammy Shermer is going to fill in when we need an extra person, as well as working with her dad. Mayor Birdsell, he's always stepping up. Terry Carr, Jeannie Fay. Christian Rhodey, Megan Mullenbeck, and Erin Miller at Franklin General Hospital. And then the Lions Club even stepped up this year. So it's been overwhelming. We've had so many volunteers, I can hardly believe it. I'm so excited about it. They're going to look great this year. I do want to thank the tree board as well. I called Sanders last week, and there was a tree planted by the end of the week at the end of our street. We took down an ash tree. So thank you so much. That was great. I want to thank Jim and Ron and Steve for their follow-up with the park situation, especially Progress Park. Thank you ever so much. You guys stepped right up to that. And then last but certainly not least, Jennifer's farewell reception is Wednesday, the 17th, 5 to 7, Peace Plaza. We have a food truck coming. So we just expect to be very festive that evening. I hope it's public. I hope everybody comes and tells Jennifer goodbye and sends her off with well wishes. And just on a sidebar, don't tell Jennifer. We are taking up a collection for her parting gift. And you can donate that to myself, Joslyn Stock, Center One. Thanks.

All right. Thank you.

Ms. Fay. I'm just going to slightly amend what Jerry said. It's Jennifer and Mason's party. Sorry, Mason.

I'm so sorry.

All right.

That's all I got. Thank you. All right. For the mayor's report, I'm going to go to the dark side here for just a minute. I want to bring up our chickens. Because it's been almost two months now since we voted down our ordinance after seven months of discussions. And everybody kind of agreed that we needed to keep that at the front, and let's get it done, and figure out what we want, and keep discussion. So it will be on the next workshop agenda so that we can get what do we want to do. We've got to talk about making room for improvements, whether it's to the ordinance, to another ordinance, what we need to do, we need ideas, what do you guys want to work, put on there, be prepared. Came up, I kind of went back and looked at our past meetings paper be prepared cake up coming up and knowing the three root three residents who were approved to have chickens that are coming up in October November and they're gonna have to either read reapply you know how do we want to handle that so I'm looking for some good ideas from you guys for that as well And I just want to remind everybody that sometimes we don't always come to a unanimous consensus on stuff. I mean, we don't have to convince everybody. you know that this is how we want to do it what we need to do is we the majority we need to we need to get to a point and then that's one that's why we vote you know either agree with it or you don't but once you know once it's enacted then we want to we want to give it our best and and move forward so That's my two cents worth on the chickens because I'm missing them. The other item is the litter in the parks. I mentioned that on the radio this week. I'm just trying to get out there and let everybody know, hey, let's everybody do our part. Randy Sanders said it best one time. He says about keeping your yard nice. He says if you do it a little bit at a time, it's not a big job. Same thing with the litter. If you just put it where it belongs, then nobody has to come behind it and clean it up. So hopefully we can keep our parks nice for the summer and everybody will enjoy them. Another thing is we have the There's a grand opening for the NIAC Learning Center coming up. So I invite everybody to come on out there. I think that's a big thing for the city of Hampton. So let's enjoy it and embrace it and move forward. All right. With that, I entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion by Ms. Griepe.

I'll second.

Second by Ms. Fay. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you.