City Council - Regular Meeting

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to order at 6:33 p.m. Third, can you please call the role? Councilwoman Aaron here. Councilman Fleming here. Councelor Gerald here. Mayor Prom here here. Councelor Robach here. Councelor Wright here. Mayor Haynes here. The invocation and pledge of allegiance tonight will be led by Councilman Fleming. You

all stand. Those are all right. Creator of the universe, as we begin this session, we ask for the insight to solve the challenges before us. Inspire us to lead with integrity and to listen with open hearts to the voices of our citizens. May the policies we discuss today foster unity and create lasting progress for our city. We dedicate our efforts to the pursuit of peace, equity, and a brighter future for all. Amen. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, moving on the agenda. Are there any additions and or deletions to tonight's agenda? Your honor. Yes.

Um I move that we make an addition to the agenda. Um and I request the uh assistance of our city attorney to make uh wording of that. Honor the motion would be to add the litigation known as inray aquous film forming foams product liability litigation to the agenda for council's consideration. Okay. Is there a second? Yes.

Okay. So we will add this. It'll be added to the agenda as number nine under reports. Is there any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Next on to presentations. The first will be the director of public services regarding the 2025 Holiday Light Awards. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and members of council. On the evening of December 16th, the beautifification committee surveyed a total of 17 nominations and add-ons for the 2025 Holiday Light Awards. As in years prior, we traveled through the city of Madison Heights to witness firsthand all the brilliant decorations and score them on a variety of different categories. like to extend special thanks to John Lufkin with our active adult center for driving us all over the city on the bus, which was his last official duty of 2025 before he went off to Florida for this winter break. Uh without further ado, this year's first place winner is 813 East Kalama Avenue. And do we have someone from Colama here? Uh give me one second, please. So, as you'll see in our presentation, 813 Kama is a blast of color on a dark winter night. Um, they've got a countdown to Christmas, and everything is neatly bordered by the giant candies, the mix of figures, the lights, and the larger than-l life Santa, which is well balanced, busy, but not cluttered, organized, but fun. This house is ready to ring in the season of style and on behalf of the beautifification committee, these residents will be presented with a certificate of appreciation from city council as well as a gift certificate to Mia's bakery. Our second place winners are 27784 Townley Street, which is brought to us

by Jod and Jonah Riddle, who I believe are here. You step up, please. So, you're going to see this house. Lights abound in colors of red, green, and white, which is very tastefully done with joyous cheer. The mix of figures and borders provide a neat, organized, but whimsically festive presentation. You know it's going to be a good house when you're a block down the road and the bus starts looking say, "Ooh, I'll bet that's it. I'll bet that's it up there." [clears throat]

And everyone on the bus says that. I'm pleased to present on behalf of the beautifification committee and city council a certificate of appreciation as well as a gift certificate to Mia's bakery. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] Thank you. If you like to go to council students,

thank you very much. Congratulations. Thanks for doing it.

And we now like to run a brief presentation of the winners and nominees homes with new music this year. We'll see if it's going to work. I'm not going Hallelujah.

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So, you know, there's a lot of things I really enjoy about my job. Pretty much everything, in fact, but this is definitely one of my favorite things to do. Um, so I'd certainly like to thank our winners and all the nominees for making your homes look so festive this winter. Uh, so many of our residents really continue to outdo themselves year after year. Uh, as we noted in the slideshow, the beautifification committee will be accepting nominations in June for the 2026 summer beautifification awards. You can contact the Department of Public Services to nominate your own or your neighbor's home or business that you particularly like for the immaculate landscaping and gardening efforts. So, please keep an eye out for the on the website and other media outlets including our Madison Heights matters and our Madison nights happenings uh for information on when that comes out. And thank you, mayor and councel.

Thank you, Sean. Right. Next on the agenda is another presentation from the historical commission on the city of Madison's 70th anniversary proclamation which will be read by mayor promir. Thank you your honor. Uh last month I had the uh privilege and honor of uh accepting uh this proclamation on behalf behalf of the city and for mayor Haynes and uh his most importantly the historical commission uh from our commissioner an G. I'm going to skip some of it, but honoring the city of Madison Heights 70th anniversary. Whereas on December 6th, 1955, residents of what was then the east side of Royal Oak Township voted to approve a draft charter that ratified the incorporation of the city of Madison Heights, making it the 10th city government in South Oakland County. With just over seven square miles of area, it was the second largest city in this part of the county and the fifth largest in population. And whereas today, Madison Heights is home to a diverse population of nearly 30,000 people contributing to a dynamic and multiaceted faceted workforce that represents a range of skills and industries from manufacturing to services and technology. Residents enjoy a high quality of life with access to a variety of recreational and outdoor activities through the city's numerous parks, hiking trails, and community centers such as the Red Oaks Water Park and the Red Oaks Nature Center that offers programs and amenities for all ages. With its heart aligned with its history, Madison Heights will honor the life and memory of Gary McGelry with the McGelry play garden at Red Oaks County Park. formerly

Ambassador Park. Mr. McGilly devoted 15 years of service to Oakland County as a commissioner as and as the chair of the Oakland County Parks and Recreation Commission and over 24 years to Madison Heights as mayor and a city council person. And whereas a special debt of dat debt of gratitude is owed to such as to organizes organizations such as the Madison Heights Historical Commission for its role in cur curing cur curating collecting and preserving the city's history. Established in 1984, the commission and its members also maintain the Madison Heights Historical Museum. Located within the city hall, the museum's heritage rooms give visitors a glimpse into the past and the origins of what is now a modern, innovative, and resilient community. Whereas on this mont mont montisific occasion of its 70th anniversary, we join with the residents, business owners, and government leaders of Madison Heights to celebrate seven decades of growth, change, and prosperity. Further, we honor the enduring spirit of the city's founding peoples and those who served as stewards of the land before them. Now, therefore, David T. Woodward, chair of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners and Commissioner Anne Ericson Galt, and the entire Oakland County Board of Commissioners do hereby proclaim threshold condemnation to the city of Madison Heights. We recognize and commemor commemorate the contributions and civic engagement of Madison Heights residents to the greater Oakland County community. Thank you.

Thank you. [clears throat] [applause]

AND we will proudly display that uh down in those heritage rooms uh as soon as someone can help me hang it. Sounds good. All right, moving on. There's no public hearings this evening, so we'll move into meeting open to the public. Before I open the meeting to the public, I just want to remind everybody to direct your comments towards me, the chair. And uh the time li time time is limited to three minutes. So with that, open public comment. Martha Covert, Edward Avenue. Happy New Year. Um, I went to the was it the budget meeting before Christmas that Okay, Melissa, how do you keep everything in your head? How I was very impressed. You did a fabulous job. and to our supervisors. Okay, I was just a mess by the end of it because I couldn't keep up. There is so much money coming in and out of this city. I mean, I know we're not the richest city, but wow, you guys and council, you do a good job keeping things under control, but as a taxpayer, I sit and think, okay, now I'm going to complain about where my tax dollars are spent, but I'm not paying attention to what actually needs to be done to get what I want. So, if if we could take a step back before we go on Facebook and just blow up because I'm good at that. I'm going to admit I'm good at that. Think about what this one like when they want to reduce streets. I'm thinking 100,000 that should that doesn't even do my driveway. So, if we could be a little kinder to our council people, myself included, a little kinder to our council people that are trying to make the best and especially our city manager doing what's best for us, that would be great.

I'm going to try to be a little less harsh. Okay? It's hard for me and anybody that knows me knows that's hard for me, but I'm going to do it. One thing I think was overlooked at the Christmas tree lighting was that Luna Roarbach was there and no one gave her a title. I'm sorry. She was the prettiest puppy at the tree lighting. Okay, that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not that sure. Emily, I promised you. Is it on? Congratulations, Corey.

Thank you.

Your honorable Corey Haynes. Good man. Uh my uh thoughts on on this water bill that I just received. been in Madison Heights for 68 years on Spoon Street. uh in 2023, we got a card like this saying that we were going to go ahead and on July 1st of 2023, they were going to raise uh the uh sewer which was doubled and the water which was probably one quarter higher as far as the rates and nothing on the storm water per u. I got my water bill this month. It was $163, which left me $4.38 for groceries. You guys all know that the cost of everything has gone up. I'd like to have uh I'd like to let you know that, you know, please keep in mind that people like myself at 74, I'm on a fixed income. And stuff like this, if I get blindsided without being warned, hey, shut everything off, which I do. Same thing with electricity. Same thing with gas. I shut my stuff off at 3:00 cuz rates double as far as electricity and I don't turn it back on until like 10:00 at night and I keep my house at 58.

That's cold. That's cold. So, that's all I got to say. Congratulate you all uh for being here and and holding your positions on the city council. If there's any new members, congratulations. And that's you, Corey. You're a good man. Got a good heart. You got a good soul. That's why I voted for it. Thank you, sir.

Any card? Anybody else? All right, then I'll close public comment. Moving on to the consent agenda this evening. We have uh four items. One is the library advisory board adoption of updated library internet safety policy. um from the finance director at 2026 poverty exemption resolution and application. Uh city council regular meeting minutes of December 1st, 2025. And finally, the city council regular meeting minutes of December 8th, 2025. Can I get a motion to the consent agenda? Yes. Motion to uh accept the consent agenda as presented.

Okay. Is there a second, your honor? I second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Your honor. Y. Yes. Councilman Fleman. I do have one question about the um Hold on. Let me get to it here. It's about the library advisory board adoption of the updated library internet and safety policy. Was there uh that went to um it started at the library and then it went to the HC. Were there any changes done between the regular policy and the second the final? No, that's that's all I wanted. No, there weren't. Okay, very good. Your honor.

Yes. I just have one correction under the um agenda where it says who was present at the December 1st meeting. Yes. Can it please be changed from Councilman Toya Erin to Councilwoman? Oh, yes. Yes. Thank you. We'll fix that. All right. Any other discussion? All right, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Next up is reports. City manager of uh fiscal year 2026 to 2031 capital improvement plan.

So, the city's financial policies require that the city develop a multi-year plan for capital improvement purchases. That's anything that's $5,000 or more. That's like a fixed item, like a a truck or something like that. Um, we update this plan annually and we u make it available to the public. It's on the council agenda tonight to be received and filed and it will be the start to the line item budget. So council will have and the public will have an opportunity to talk about it as we go through the department budget process. Um, but for first glance about what we're planning in the capital improvements, um, it is available online. So, city council is just being asked to if they have any comments tonight and if not just receive and violate for 2026 to 2031. It gives the public a pretty good idea of some of the needs um that Martha was talking about because a lot of these things were discussed at our strategic planning and it really talks about what we need in the future and how we save for that instead of um taking off loans and that kind of thing.

Okay. Thank you, Melissa. Um, can I get a motion to receive and file, your honor? Yes. I'd like to make a motion to receive and file uh the capital improvement [snorts] plan for fiscal year 2026 through 2031. Thank you. Is there a second? Your honor? Yes. All right. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

Your honor, I think it wouldn't hurt to uh just do a quick highlight of um kind of the distribution of the capital improvement. I think the we don't ne we don't we do not nobody wants us to go line [laughter] by line because that's a lot but obviously it is public and everybody can take a look at it but I think that the the source of funds and the um distribution the use of funds those kind of distribution amounts would be helpful just to put onto the public uh radar about how we're planning to be using those funds when we're looking at the budget next year.

Sure. So over the next five years, we have a budget or a need of about $54 million worth of capital improvement plans. That includes everything from roads to water manes, new fire trucks, police cars, like I said, anything that's fixed that's around $5,000 or more. Um, next year in the budget, we have a need for $10.8 million worth of assets. That does not mean the budget will include that. So, how the process ends up working is the capital improvement plan as is presented tonight in the packet and online has everything that we need in it. Um, as we go through the budget process, we determine how much money we actually have. And so, quite a few of those things will either be deferred or they will be um removed. So, city the city also is very good about as soon as we come up with a capital improvement plan, it lays out a very good foundation for what we can go get grants for. So we start looking for grants so we can fund these any way we can other than using um tax dollars. So I can give you a quick little breakdown. One of the major things and you're going to be hearing about this more and more as we progress throughout the year is our largest expenditure is roads. Um neighborhood projects make up 33.3% and that's the road improvement millillage that you pay for. That's your actual neighborhood streets. That millillage is expiring um this upcoming year. So voters are going to be asked to consider a renewal. It's not an increase. It's a straight renewal this upcoming August. And there'll be more information which roads that's going to include and how that's going to work coming out over the next couple of months. Um another 16.3% of that goes to public safety. So that's the police cars, that's the fire engines, that's something as simple as fire hose. Um collection and distribution systems, that's water main and sewer replacements. So, anytime we do a road, we evaluate the water manes underneath it and if we can replace the water

manes, if they need to be replaced, we replace them at that time to help reduce the cost. And then we also do a couple standalone water manes every year. Um [clears throat] about 6.7% is spent on things like the library and parks and then just general government and economic development is about 4%. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. And um one more question or it's not really a question, it's the comment. Um one of the for the parks and library portion of it. Um I think this year is our uh McGelbury Park year as far as the parks improvements goes. I think on this on the um capital improvement plan right now um there's a lot of uh we're looking at potentially if it makes into the budget all of those caveats but that's the replacement of the this magic square that's the replacement of the um uh playscape and any kind of uh revamp in that park that we're looking at including the parking lot. Correct.

So that is correct. So this past year you saw a lot of improvements in Rosy's Park. There are also a lot of improvements of across all the parks like just last week they were fixing the um shelter building roofs. So there are some parks spread there are some projects spread across all but we really try to invest in each park and the McGillry park is um the major budgeted thing there's a a playscape replacement there's a magic square replacement there's a parking lot replacement just budgeted for or proposed in McGillfrey Park we are starting to work with Oakland County to get a park design professional to look at that park because it sits on top of a drain so that drastically affects what we can do there. So, we get a lot of requests to do things in that particular park, but there's just we're very limited as to what we can do. So, we hope to get a professional. So, these things might change like we might have budgeted a parking lot replacement and we might be spending that money on something different as we go into the budget process.

Thank you. Any other discussion?

Yes. Yeah, I want to also make note that, you know, we've had a lot of uh phone issues uh for our phone network and included in this budget are also the improvements uh to the phone network uh upgrading it. First of all, the regardless of rumors, our phone equipment is not outdated at all. It is uh it is at the uh you know the level of of what technology technology is right now. Um but we're you know we're we have a process that we're going through right now that's going to even make it more affordable uh for the future and um is going to be more reliable and uh just a way much better system I believe and uh so in in the coming year or so we're going to be uh making a lot of improvements not just in the phone system but uh many many um places uh that across the city. So that's what I'm saying. Okay. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I.

I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. All right. That uh brings us to the end of the agenda. So I will go through to get closing comments. Start with Oh, yes. Addition. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. We do have the addition number nine. We have the motion regarding the the um litigation.

Yes, your honor. If I might. Section 3.14F of the charter uh provides that upon recommendation of the city attorney, city council may retain special legal counsel to handle any matter that the city has an interest in. And I am recommending that the council consider hiring Mike Stag of the Stag Louisa law firm of New Orleans, Louisiana uh as general counsel and local counsel Gary Klene of Cummings McLarry Davis and Acho of Leavonia, Michigan to represent the city's interests uh in reference to the litigation mentioned which I which is in aquous film forming foams product liability litigation for the reasons we discussed in close session and authorize the city manager to execute the necessary documents to effectuate the same.

Okay. Do we have a motion? Your honor, now that you read it? Yes. So moved as stated by city attorney. Thank you. In a second, your honor. Support. All right. Motion in support. Is there any further discussion? Right. And hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed say no. Motion carries. Now we can move on to closing comments. We'll start with Councilwoman Erin.

Good evening. Thank you. First, I just want to say happy new year to everyone. You know, I cannot believe that we're already 12 days into the new year. It moves entirely too fast. Um, I'm wishing everybody, you know, great peace. I want you all to have good rest, good health, and to every person in our city, every family. And I also want to congratulate all the nominees, the and the winners for our holiday lights. And um this year, I've been thinking, you know, every time the new year come in, we always talk about New Year's resolutions. Well, at my church, we stopped doing New Year's resolutions probably about maybe five, six years ago. And we do what we call the one word. And this one word is a word where we focus on that just carries us through the year opposed to just trying to think of you know by the time because if I would have had a new year resolution admit it we all would have failed by Friday. It have been done and over with you know everybody goes to the gym. So I chose my one word this year and my one word is ready. And when I thought about that word I looked at it and I said well what does ready mean? And it means that I'm willing. I'm willing to listen. I'm willing to learn. I'm willing to show up when it matters. I'm ready to pause before reacting. I'm ready to ask questions and, you know, find out how you really doing. What can I really do for you? I'm ready to care about people and not just the problems. You know, it's easy to say, "Yeah, we're going to do this, but I'm actually ready." And part of my role with me working in mental health, I've learned that, you know, our mental health, it just doesn't touch our minds, but it's also everything we do. Mental health is in our side of our houses, it's at our workplaces, it's in our relationships, it's all about how we show up for one another. And when I took that to the library board of advisories, who I I love of all the boards I'm on, I love

that board the most. honestly. Um but but the library board, we looked and one of the ways that we're going to lean towards making certain that we incorporate our mind and our mental health this year is we're going to be hosting a few speaker series. And remember now I told you guys we're already in day 12. So y'all going to be like Toy. But one of the first things we're going to be doing is coming the month of March, we're going to be doing National Nutrition Month. Then in May, we're going to be doing Mental Health Awareness Month. And in July, we're going to be doing disability pride month. And what we're focusing and trying to hope for is that these conversations is going to give us a way where people utilize tools and resources and learning how to support one another through, you know, different accessibilities and and knowing how it feels to be a community and having someplace to reach out. So, I just want to say that just letting you know that in 2026, I'm just ready to lead with a heart. I'm ready to leave with grace. I'm ready to lead with common sense and just ready to grow and support and walk with us and not against us. So that's all I got to say. Again, thank you all and happy new year. Let's do this. [laughter]

Mayor Promir.

Thank you, your honor. Um, so as I mentioned about the proclamation, it was a privilege and honor to accept that. Uh and uh we had an open house at the uh heritage rooms that was fairly well attended. Um you know the holidays probably cut into that a little bit but uh we had some really good conversations with some folks that came and uh it wasn't uh there were several folks that came and had our conversation. and it wasn't a high. Uh they really were digging into the city of Madison Heights and some of the the history. Um the history committee is meeting on Wednesday to finalize our goals uh for this year. Um we're going to try and do more open houses. Um I think those are working out pretty well. We have a uh very active uh social media who uh I won't steal his numbers but uh uh that he'll be presenting on Wednesday but he's uh I don't even know what the quadruple hexadrupled uh the following on our historical site. So that's all good stuff. Um you know people are learning about the city and what goes on. We've had requests to go to a classroom uh and present some of the history. We've also invited that group to come here and have a class in our classroom that we have downstairs. Uh happy new year. Uh we're off and running as uh as Councilwoman Erin mentioned. Uh and I'm looking forward to this year. Um uh and thank you Martha Covert for your comments about uh how uh we may make this look easy up here, but it's not quite so easy. And uh we wish that we

could do everything that everybody would like to do, but there's only one pot to do that from. And the major thing we hear from people, we don't want to pay any more money. Um, some of those charges are kind of forced on us with the water from from our our water supplier. So, we need to get reimbured for some of those. Um, I wish we could fix every darn road. Uh, but we can't. and uh manager, city manager Marsh mentioned that we're going to need to to look to uh get another uh what's the word? Renewal.

Renewal. Renewal. Yes, we'll have to renewal our our water [cough] our roads uh millillage and uh that's not going to cover it. It's you know, we're not asking for an increase. we're just going to renew it the way it is and we are certainly uh not going to be able to cover the all the roads that need to be fixed. So, we prioritize them and we do the best we can on this and uh um that's it. I'll cut my time short [clears throat] because I think someone was digging me gonging me off [laughter] I think I got gonged off the microphone. So, uh wonderful to be back. Thank you.

Thank you, councelor. Wright. Thank you uh your honor. Um I'm g just keep it short today. I heard some words last night that really kind of resonated with me I wanted to just share as speaking of being ready and the theme for this new year. I just hope that uh as people watching people involved us up here we focus on ways in which we can laugh with each other instead of at each other. And uh I'm just going to say remember to be good.

Thank you. City Attorney Larry Sherman. Um, please excuse the gong. I think I was [laughter] I turned my computer off so I won't gong any other members of the council. I just want to wish all of our residents a happy new year. Wish you all the best in the coming year. Thank you. Thank you, honor. City Manager Marsh, I got nothing. Okay. Nothing tonight. [clears throat] Didn't [laughter] even get to say it. Councelor Robot.

Um, I just want to uh reiterate happy new year to everyone. Welcome back. I'm glad to be here for another year and um I did want to thank uh Dennis for coming tonight and uh talking to us. I would love it if you know Sean or Melissa, somebody from one of your offices can sit down and help him figure out what if there's some issue that's causing his water rate to jump up higher than expected because we knew they were going to go up, but they shouldn't, you know, maybe do quite as much or if there's, you know, potential leak or something happening. So, I just would love for um the experts in the field, which is not me, to uh to take a look and to see if there's anything we can do. Um and um just thank you everybody for coming out tonight. Have a good night.

Thank you, Councelor Gerald.

Um so, supporting Martha's earlier comment, I totally support it. Was a mind-blowing meeting how impressive it was. Um the amount of detail provided for the budget discussion is incredible. the detail they have as far as showing. They've got a map that is all colorcoded for every single street about which ones are in the most need of repair. And this is the kind of information that you can find if you look at the materials that are going to become available for review. And it there's a whole lot of charts you're not going to want to look at because holy, but there's some really great visuals. Um, and since you're here, I'd like to publicly thank you for your uh volunteer lunch for the pantry on Saturday. That was very thoughtful. Thank you for doing that. I went to my first environmental citizens committee meeting the other day. What an amazing group of passionate, knowledgeable people who really want to do great things for the city. That was exciting to me. And um, Toya, I chose, we didn't get to choose our own words for our star words at church. we had to pick them and then we have to go. We couldn't trade them in. So, I'm very curious to see where I'm going to go with my word of being open-minded. It was much easier the year my mom was not doing well and she I the word was healed. It was a lot easier to understand where that was going and hers was acceptance. She wasn't very excited about that, concerned about where it might end up, but um yeah, I'm curious to see where that goes.

All right, Councilman Fleming.

Yeah. So um pertaining to the to the water rates, I know that uh our city is uh in a consortium uh with other cities that has representation that actually uh goes ahead and fights these uh increases of uh water rates and uh DTE, you know, electricity rate increases. And we um you know our city manager and our staff are always uh calling DTE to find out you know why is it they're uh you know raising the rates [clears throat] and [cough] uh also with Glee to see what it is you know why the rates are going up and and you know I think that if you're like if you're part of our city also you can take part in writing them also you know uh the more people that write these organizations like DTE or uh Gleewa and send them emails telling them about these rates uh that they have uh and their dislike for it. I think that makes them understand that it isn't just coming from seven members here on on council that it's also coming from thousands of people that are out there and I know they have meetings open to the public also, but that's why letterw writing campaigns work really well so they understand that uh where you're coming from and that our rates are are too high for the cost of living. Um, also there's a uh I we had a meeting for the PL uh prior to our planning meeting that's coming up on the 20th uh of this month. And one of the things we were advised of is that the uh the planning uh the planning master plan survey that everybody seen and filled out that was there for a couple of months. Uh that actually had over 800 people that actually uh filled that out and that was uh really great. That's about the same amount of people that filled out the information for the uh the recreational plan, uh the master plan for the recreation. And I think it's really great to see that people are actually participating, taking the surveys,

taking the time, uh looking at um our ideas, but also giving us your input and participating in the survey. Also, in the future, we're going to be having these uh planning kind of like a town hall just like we did for the recreational plan so that you can be there in person and talk to our planner and the planning commission and really give us uh some other uh face-toface input so we can go back and um apply that to our uh planning master plan. So, that's it for tonight.

Okay. Thank you. Um, happy new year, happy new year everyone. For about the 20th time so far tonight, but we'll get it out there. Um, again, I want to give another shout out to uh Kevin Wright, um, who's on the historical commission. He's doing the social media. What an amazing job he is doing. I mean, every day I'm learning something new and it's it's kind of I don't know, it's kind of a strange feeling because I worked here for 32 years and I don't know, half of the stuff that he's put out there I did not know. So, it's been just simply fantastic and gaining a lot of traction with people and getting people more interested in the history of our great city. Um, I also want to uh give a big thank you to all of our department heads um for all the work that they do every day, especially uh the presentation that we had at the budget meeting. It was just phenomenal. Um, and I've worked on both sides of the budget, so I know what pain they go through to get that ready. I know it's a lot of work. Um, but again, they did a fantastic job. Um, and not to mention Melissa. You know, Melissa is absolutely fantastic and all of us up here, I think I speak for most of council. We would have a more much more difficult time doing our job if it wasn't for all the assistance that she gives us with her knowledge um, and with everything that she does to make sure that she paints the picture exactly how it is and we need and we know what we need to to make the decisions that we make on a on a daily and nightly basis. Um and Councilwoman Aaron, we are ready. Um we're ready to keep moving this city forward and to keep doing um the things that we do best and make sure that Madison Heights and our citizens are our top priority here. Um lastly, I want to uh thank you Dennis for your very kind words this evening and I will do my best um here in the position of mayor and as will all of our council members. Um so thank you again and with that we'll adjourn the meeting tonight at 7:15