Town Council - Regular Meeting

7 o'clock. So, let's get started with the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. 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. Thank you. We start with roll call. Ethan here. Billy M here. Chad Melinda here. Ryan Hardley here.

Terry Reed here. All right, moving straight into our claims. 2.1, approval of APVS 28719 through 28762. I'll make a motion that we approve APVS number 28719 through 28762 as provided in our backup materials. I'll second that motion. Motion made by Eden, seconded by Bill. Any conversations or questions? All in favor say I. I.

I. opposed. And that passes. All right. Moving on to the adoption of minutes. Three t one. Adoption of town council minutes from January 26, 2026. Do I hear a motion? I'll make a motion we adopt the town council minutes from January 21st, 2026. I have a second. Motion made by Ryan, seconded by Terry. Do I have any um additions or subtractions? corrections outstanding. All in favor say I. I. Those opposed.

We're moving right along. All right. We um have a spot on our agenda for public comments. And this is for anything that is on the agenda only. So, this agenda is in the back. If you've got something you would like to talk about, please uh come up to the podium, tell us your name and where you are located, where you live. our side.

Okay. All right. All right. Nobody. All right. We'll move into uh old business and uh we'll start with 5.1, the bid opening for Community Crossings Project 2026. Steve, you want to take over? Yeah. Tonight is exactly what you stated, the bid opening for the uh community project for 2026. U we got a total of four bids in Zach has them. So be patient with them because they like to wrap them up pretty good. Got a knife this year. I see that Steve's looking out for me. Typically those aren't welcome, right? They don't. Well, I think Chief said,

isn't there like a sign on the door or something? Yeah, Chief said it's okay. Okay, I think. All right. This is uh Grady Brothers. Okay. Grady Brothers Incorporated and it paper I said on your desk. BP27. That's what you're looking for. I'm sorry. The paper I said on your desk. That's That's kind of what you're looking for. BP27. BP27. Yeah. Okay. It's not immediately available on the very first page.

Steve, do you want to look at this and make sure they put a lot in their package? Oh, did they put that on the front? That's on the top. Yeah. We just looking at that uh final number there. Yes, you would give me. Yeah, that the total. You got it. Okay. Yeah. All right. Again, this is uh Grady Brothers Incorporated. The uh total project cost um $196,657.95.

And this is for what type of work for committee process? asphalt the milling and paving of certain roads and a lot of crack ceiling the bridgewood crack ceiling and mill project on the on the east side just clarifying the work

this is Robertson paving incorporated Okay.

That's right. Um the total project cost $128,718.50. Let's keep going.

This is from Bombgartner and company Asphalt Services. Give me 70,000 miles. Next one. They're paying us.

An envelope within an envelope here. Damn. We missed an opportunity. Can I have the envelope, please? The award. I don't just put it up against your head.

I'll have to look at that. This one is looks like it's not Somebody wants to throw me a curveball. Yeah, let me see. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That can't be it either. Let's see.

I don't know if I'd say that was fine. I don't know why they want to do them on the pages other than what I provide them with. Okay, here we um I think this is probably Yeah, here's that right. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Again, this is Bombgartner and Company Asphalt Services. Total project cost in the amount of 113,834 and no cents. I'm sorry. Could you say 11313,000 834. No sense.

Steve, can you remind us what the uh what the amount we were awarded was while he's opening that full

uh close to 414. It's a Jed $150,000 total project was Okay. All right. This is Dave Omera Contractor Incorporated. guessing it's this little

27. Yep. Um total project cost $112,31625 $112,31625. Yeah. 111231625. I'm not going down. Well, Zach, since they keep going down, could you open two more? There's no more anymore. Is there no one else?

Thank you, Zach. So, yeah, we'll take uh uh and I'll take a couple days and uh go over all the bid tabs, make sure the numbers are in order, and we'll we'll uh award this pretty quick and get a contract sign out all their all their stuff in by the first March. So, do we need to make a motion to approve one of these pending your um validation that it's complete? Uh, I don't think we ever have.

I I would recommend um giving Steve the authority to uh examine for um responsible and responsive biders and then bring a recommendation back to the council. I is it possible to make a motion? I mean, it seems like um the last three that you opened are within the the budgeted line item. So, is it fair to make a motion that gives Steve the authority to move forward so we can get the stuff? Sure. I I I think I just recommend that he reviews and make sure they're all response and responsible and then but but can we make a motion so he doesn't have to come back is what I'm asking. Yep, that's fine.

Okay. Yeah. So, I would like to make a motion that um we give Steve Pool the authority to um make a decision based on the Robinson Bumgardner or Dave Ara um bids and trust that he will review and make the best decision for the town. I'll second that. All right. Motion made by Ethan, second by Ryan. Any further discussion on that? All in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. All right, Steve. Let us know. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for those who are here bidden. Appreciate that. Yeah. And moving on to ordinance staggering. Um this is our continued um conversation that we've been having around staggering our election cycle. Um everybody up here was elected at the same time. So, we're hoping to get into an election cycle that breaks that up so there's a chance to change if there's going to be change. Um, and we don't end up with uh four newbies um like we did last time or five newbies. Yeah. So, um the one question that we did have was around you count too limits

and I think we had conversations. So, do we just need to table this till we get that? you you're well gonna pass on first reading and then bring it back next time. Um I I know um Ethan asked me about the possibility of making the three um or the I'm sorry. So the statute requires that no more than 50% um can be that uh longer term um or no fewer

no fewer. Thank you. I got it backwards. So, no fewer can be that that longer four-year term. So, um it also requires that the remaining members um will be elected to terms of three years. That's a requirement stat. It's in statute. Yes. Looking at it right now. 3 10 6 2 and a half. Um which So, how do we get back on ak cycle? Well, you those those others would be during the general election. They wouldn't be during the municipal election. So you'd have um and then from there on you'd have four-year terms. Did you re reach out to the election office to

I I did not hear back from them. The if if the statute really is like a three and four that would require us to have backtoback, you know, from there forward backtoback elections. And I I'm I'm not sure like we could still end up with five new people with only one one year of overlap and I'm not sure that's going to that's worth the cost of going into a whole another election and the confusion. Yeah, we have to pay for that election term and especially if it's just for us, it's probably going to be more expensive.

I would recommend we wait until from the election office. Like I said, there's the election office has all the information. I know there's statutes out there. I know there's information out there about this now, but I would implore the council to wait till we talk to the election office on this matter to get more information, get more guidance on this before we act on. Yeah. Is that a motion to table? I will motion make a motion to table this until we hear further information from the election office on how to proceed. I will second that motion because it's the second time this evening you have implored us and and that that deserves a second. Okay.

Well, Brian uh made a motion to table and Bill was implored to second. Is there any further discussion on that? How can you discuss imploring? No, I can't. All in favor say I. I. I. All right, that's everybody. Okay. So, I think maybe one of us could reach out. I might just make a call down there and see if we can get to the bottom of it or hopefully get them to respond. I'll try again. Yeah. Awesome. I appreciate it. All right. Moving on to new business. Do I hear a motion to receive the conflict of interest filing that we received um as of last week?

I make a motion to receive the conflict of interest. I'll second. Terry second. Bill made a motion. Terry seconded. Those in favor say I. I. I. I.

We are going to um table the town center project LOI and ratio contract as they are not prepared at this time. So please table those for the next uh meeting. And that brings us into continued council conversations. And the one that we have to talk about is employee evaluation. So I sent a form um tried to keep it pretty simple and easy to do, but also provide bandwidth for conversation, direction, things of that nature. I don't know if anybody had a chance to look over it, provide any feedback. Love it, hate it, change it.

I thought it was good. I I think I think the starting someplace and seeing how we can or need if need be to build off there makes a lot of sense. Have out of curiosity, have you shared it with our directors at all? I sent it to all of them. Yes. So, are there any thoughts on y'all's?

I'm open. Right. And I think what Ethan's talking about is a a thought that I always like to approach with these kind of things, right? It's a new process. I think it would make sense to set ground rules and and thoughts of what we want to do and then continue to have a conversation. Hey, this didn't work. We want to add this. Hey, twice a year. We kind of want to go to three times a year or four times a year. We want to do it once a year. Whatever that is. I mean, it could be an informal midyear and then a formal end of year. Um, I've seen that it it's kind of up to what we want to do, but the key here is to provide structure so that we can provide feedback, constructive criticism, um, things of that nature and and help people understand, set goals and and work on making sure that we're all doing the right things. Yeah, I think if we we look at like the first and third quarter, it it gives us one and then another one before budgets are approved, right?

We do because somebody may start off like fire and if you wait till the end of the year, something could change. So, we try to do it twice a year to set those goals. Here's what we need to do. a great job. So, we we've done this for quite a while. Yours is fine. We've kind of had our set for a long time. So, I'd be happy to change, stay the same, whatever you guys like to do, but we do meet up with our guys. Actually, probably every meeting we usually have kind of a talk around, but then we also have where they have a sit down every or twice a year and do a kind of evaluation where they need to improve or where they've done such a great job. So, we're open to whatever you guys want forward. I'd recommend at least a twice a year.

Yeah, I like the twice a year. I think it a midyear check-in and usually those are not as formal. Um, hey, these are kind of the things that if I was going to end your grading today, this is how I would grade it. These are things that I would say, you know, I would like you to work on. Here's a goal I have for you. Um, go from there. And then the second one's just a followup from that. Hey, since our last conversation, things got better. Hey, I'm concerned about this. um vice versa. That's how I would propose it to it. Um but again, I I don't think I think what we're trying to do is provide framework that makes it easier for everybody. And again, that should be part of the conversation when we go into in merit increases. They should be based on merit, not hey, everybody's getting us a blanket statement, right? And I think that drives um kind of like yeah it's an accountability and also people want to get paid for their performance, right? I know one of the things that is was not my favorite thing about the military is the guy that was in just as long as I am. Doesn't matter how hard he works, he's getting paid the same, right? So, um, I think this is a tool not only to to help with those conversations, but to also, you know, focus on what you guys want as your employees to drive towards. So, we can talk about it again the next session if you guys want to stew on it a little bit and think about

I haven't had enough time to really look at that. We've I mean, we've had beautiful weather. I don't know why. Short Well, yeah, Jenny on vacation. There's a lot of stuff that's happened in the last two weeks with us being shut down for a couple days and then, you know, the excitement of, you know, flipping switches and breakers. So, just think through it. Um, I'll put together kind of my initial thoughts, bounce it off this group and say like, hey, what if we did it at the end of the first quarter or beginning of second and then, you know, before we go into budget time and then that way you guys are armed with that information to go in there and say, hey, this is what working through it. I think somebody just said that once you work through it, then you might see flaws or something that needs to be added, you know?

Yeah. We don't have to adopt this and and rubber stamp it and everybody, you know what I mean? It can have changes and also like there's going to be different department. So, if there's a piece in there where you need department specific like it's I put it into an Excel file so that we can change it, we can adopt it, we can do things with it. Did you save it? I did save it on on Ryan's typewriter. So, if you guys want, I'll have him bring it a lot of these things. talk about with the employees on a daily basis almost, you know, it's like, hey, how do you think we should attack the next few months or what are we working on? What's new? What's stressful? What's not?

Yeah. I would say the last thing that I'll say on the topic is I think having the the our team members or employees be part of it too helps them track their performance. What I always liked is when people fill this out and almost turn it into you as like, hey, here's what I've accomplished during this time frame, right? Because you're starting to get a little bit of like what they're proud of, what what they've worked towards, and then you can provide feedback from that. And it gives an employee a chance to voice something that you were like, it has to be a conversation back and forth 100%. because you know I think they should evaluate me as much as I evaluate them.

We're continuing to grow too. We're taking like sergeants over the different ships. We're going to have those guys do their reviews on their people and then I will do the sergeants. That way they feel involved. They have responsibility as well. So it's been helping us to move forward. So I really like guys they're ready for it. Yeah. And I think it it prepares them to step into new roles and to be prepared to do that. So cool. Awesome. So we'll just have another conversation around that. I'll put together some framework on what I think and then send it out to the group again and then you guys can say yes. Put it on the next agenda. What it is? Yeah. So we'll keep it on the agenda.

Is there anything else that we need to talk about as a council? I received a email from a um citizen who was talking about the road outside just south of the intermediate school on 200. That is not a new Palestine road, but what they talked about was that during school pickup times, there's a lot of traffic that's moving really fast in front of there. Um they talked about how they had talked to um the school board and um somebody from the town or from the county and they said they couldn't do anything because the traffic doesn't they don't there's not enough traffic there. So what I asked them to do was to get me the names of the people they talked to so we can have a conversation. Again it's not inside of our town.

What road is it though? It's right it's on 200 south of the intermediate school. Basically the entrance to the intermediate school. Okay. But it it goes along to the conversation that we've had before around that that intersection of 200 and 500. And I think depending on when you would do a traffic study there would probably drive much different um uh what am I trying to say? Data. Data. But how much it's being used. Yeah. So like if you July would be different than

correct. if you picked like the season where you've got softball, baseball, football, cheerleading, and tennis going on, I guarantee you're going to see more than if you were checking it right now, right? So, um I just think it's something that we can, again, I don't think it's on the town to try to solve, but I think it's something that we can help with. So, I'm sure I've got somebody who knows somebody who could probably help us out with that. So, as far as the traffic counts and speed on that road, the uh the traffic counts uh are increased enough to where we have striping on that road now.

Uh we haven't had striping on the past that road strip. As far as the speed goes, the speed's based on the 85th percentile. So, uh you know, the county could do a speed study on there, but if you if that speed study comes back and the 85 percentile hits on 50 mph, then 50 mph speed. Um, what about school zone? Like all like the school zone, right? The school zone. School zone. Yeah. And that that would be up to the engineer. I So I think that the email states that when it comes down to the school zones, that's that's going to that's going to fall on the engineers um study. There is a school zone, right? Already established.

No, there is no school zone on 200 South in front of that school. Why not? It's it's not listed as a school zone. 600, but there's not one on two. And and how that's established indicated that traffic volume was insufficient for a school speed limit sign is what the email says. Well, yeah, it didn't come through me. Okay. But if that went to the engine was based on a school and I don't I don't know the answer to that. Okay.

I I do I do volume counts and speed studies. I don't determine where and when school zones are applied and where they're not applied. So, I don't know who they talked to from the county, but they did. I asked and I haven't got anything back, but what I'll do is I'll proactively send it to the council to be able to see it. And then, chief, I also said that I would have a conversation with you at this meeting to see if maybe there is a a presence here and there that we could do. I know it's outside, but we do help out here and there or maybe we can talk to county to see if they can help. That' be a county on your blessing. I'd be happy to help any way I can, but Okay. Well, at your discretion,

you know what I mean? And again, I'm not dictating it. I just think that Well, the good thing about those traffic studies is they identify uh you can go hour by hour increments and you can identify when the speedings, you know, the worst. U so you can narrow down when those officer need to sit there and enforce that speed. The only issue I tell you is we have an up speed problem with our school zones. Yeah. That throwing me up north is going to take us away from our home. Agreed. And you'll see my email I comment about the fact that we're looking to hire another officer and we're stretched a little thin, but it's something that we can talk about. Again, not something that we need to solve now, but just something that we think about. Is there a school speed zone for Brandy Wine?

Yes. Really? Yes. Brandy Wine has one, but the intermediate school doesn't. Yeah, I will. Someone screwed up. I will. Uh, luckily, we're bringing this to the attention of some people who know some people. I will ask about it. Fix this. I will ask about it. I I don't, like I said, I don't know uh when and where and why school zones are posted. I don't know that. I've never had that question asked. I'd be in favor of a petition to designate the school a school zone. Awesome. Okay, that's all I had. Has anybody else got any continued council comments? Oh my gosh. We will implore that. We will implore somebody. We will implore. Okay.

Not not continued, but I will add that I will be I passed out some material earlier to you guys going over the employee benefits section. Uh, I'd like I' like like you guys to take some time to review that information. I threw it together just some thoughts on my end. I'd like to have individual conversations with each one of you and share my thoughts on why I did this and what changes could be made, could not be made, why I did it. Um, and uh some feedback I've got. So, uh, we'll add this to the agenda to talk about at the next council session, the next council meeting. We'll put it on the agenda to discuss, but in between then, I'd like to have conversation.

May I have a copy of that as well? No. He's got to type it back again. I know. How hard he works for the town. Six. Any legal updates? No legal updates. All right, moving straight to Jim. Kyle put together.

I love it. Thank you. I'll be waiting for my clean. So, I think it's actually above and beyond. Thank you. I was I was more most concerned when I and I appreciate how quickly you were able to make that happen. uh because I mostly was concerned that the snow was so deep the access to the crosswalk

signal wasn't accessible. So um that was taken care of that same day. So thank you very much for taking care of that. Appreciate it. And then I had a great conversation today with G4 architects Florida department to permit sometime just kind of going through some talk about what they call amenities. They got a wellness space, a wine bar, a lockers, tasting room, golf simulator, a media room, dry cleaning room, podcast room. So, it's going to be a lot.

Can you buy Can you buy a subscription without paying for an apartment? We'll host one of our meetings there once a year. Now it's a golf simulator. It seems only reasonable. Awesome. If they need anything to speed that up, we're uh we're ready to help. Awesome, Steve. Awesome. I appreciate all the work that you and and your team did. I saw you guys out there quite a bit, you know, during the snow cop the snow blitz of

2026. I was going to say apocalypse, but yeah, snow apocalypse. Anyway, um really appreciate that. I had a lot of people that commented. Um I think my brother even tried to flag somebody down, see if they needed any water, and they were like, "Nope, we're good." They kept going. So, appreciate all the work on coffee. Yeah, that's what I told him. I said, "If Energy drinks, they may have stopped." uh chief.

So we've moved forward with the hiring process and we've actually made an offer additional offer to a gentleman who uh is a 10ear veteran. So nice thing is we are getting somebody who's trained. He's 5 years in Orlando, Florida, five years Greenwood PD. He currently lives in our community area school system. So he is heavily invested in our community. Awesome. Nice guy. Nice young man. He served in the military as well. Um, so we're looking at a start date for him on the 9th of February. More paperwork than anything and then hopefully we can contact the last officer quickly get out. No academy for him, just our program here with house.

Perfect. Awesome. Ivonne, I want to say I think Friday um we're going to authorize a little bit of overtime for some officers um the school children the high school students possibly doing a peaceful protest. Um so we're going to have officers available just to protect have safety out there. Anything was to get said done, we're just going to be there for them um community. So you may see a few more officers out. appreciate the proactive approach, Ivonne.

Um, not a whole lot other than um finished out the year, got all the information closed out in the accounting program and I am almost done. Well, the end is in sight and all the uploads to the state. So, we're doing uh we're doing quite well according to Jared. were probably one of the first in his group of customers to have it completed. So, um, moving right along. That's really all I have.

Great work by you and your team. Thank you. Now, we will, um, move to the agenda topic for public comments. So, this is five minutes on any topic. If you would like to speak, please come up to the podium, tell us your name and where you live, and we'd love to hear from you. The microphone's there for a recording. It will not amplify anything you say, but it's recording us so that anybody that wants to watch from home can watch. Guess I'm just coming tonight because I want to reach out and find out where I can get help figuring out my situation. I live on Mil Street. Can you can you tell us your name and

Sorry, it's Kelly Lucas and I live at 22 East Mill and I have a new neighbor. We've had some issues with the parking. Um, there's an alley that goes between our house. I think I was talking to Ryan about that. Um, is it vacated? I guess that kind of changes things. The alley? Yeah. So, I did some research on this and the alley was vacated. So, with it being vacated, that means it's split down the middle.

Zach, can you answer that question? When an alley's vacated, do you know there on GIS? It shows a legal boundary here and it shows a legal boundary here. when the alley is vacated. Um, can you tell me if that is split down the middle and half of it goes to one property and half up goes to the other? Do you know? I cannot tell you off the top of my head um with a definitive answer, but that sounds like the logical. It's safe to say that it sounds logical, but my problem is if you split it down the middle, it's not a car with wides. I can't access my car.

Your situation the way because I know that you want that wall. It's not that I just want it moved. It's it's sustaining damage. Yes. Well, it's on his property. So, the issue is you don't want to put that you don't want to put his barrier right down. You guys forced to figure out how to park. So, he's moving I think a foot over that way he's not looking at that alley so you're going to get probably full access to the drive so I probably leave well enough alone at this point because he's put through there so

I'm okay with that the damage to my vehicle I mean you know I don't have as much money There was a gas tank put in I think it was going to ask my next question.

Okay. I also have a question about his security camera. It's not do that. That's a question. Whoever's call Okay. I guess I was just reaching out for help because it's been so frustrating since I mean I came in and kind of went back for thought that it would be great for the area and great for our town and it's just been I'm kicking myself now. It's very difficult.

My my question Jim is uh when when are the blocks going? I told him at 30 days I did the final probably week and a half ago and prior to that final at that time should have had the tank fil but you can't

no I I have no problem not that was never the issue on my end I didn't think but his concern to me was he didn't want us to damage There's been gravel the whole 15 years I've lived there.

Yeah. So I I guess that's my only thing is, you know, if if we we never gave him permission to put those up. He did that on his own. So if if she drives in there and slides into those, it's already happened. It's already happened. So would would that be on his insurance or

Yeah, it's just uh it's it's unfortunate. I know we're we're trying to to mitigate between the you know, I understand he's doing a trying to uh make the property better and nicer and there's things that he has his hands tied on. You know, he can't asphalt the parking lot, he can't do the landscaping right now. Those are things that are going to have to come later. But the fact he does have to remove the concrete blocks. Um, and then um I guess you guys, you know, if you wanted to I'm just looking at GIS pictures here. If you guys wanted to widen your driveway to the east a little bit, we planned on maybe cutting into our yard just so that we can get two cars

because I have grown children who they like me. They like to come to my house and visit me. And that's been kind of, you know, they can't get into our driveway all at the same time now. And if somebody has to leave, we have to pull all the cars out of the driveway and then pull them in. I have an enclosed trailer that I cannot get out of my driveway with those concrete walls there. I can't make the turn. Well, I I guess my next question is if they if they needed to cut into their because of the development of this property and because of of everything going on here, if they needed to cut in east, Yeah. going to the east of their drive to widen their drive because of these new circumstances. Would it be something that maybe we could wave the permit fee for them to do that? So maybe we wave the permit fee for you guys to be able to widen your drive to the east a little bit. It's an unusual circumstance, right?

Yeah. I mean, the house has been there 130, right? Right. and and uh you know obviously you guys got the benefit from the property being you know the way it was for many years and then change comes along it's difficult for everybody but it's it's not aesthetically pleasing to have the blocks there for for anybody in the neighborhood. I know that's true.

Um and things will get better. So when it when it comes to planning commission and and he he has to put up the landscaping mounds and we talk about what needs to be a barrier in between your house and and the property, you know, we can make some suggestions to him and and hopefully remedy this situation in the future. I know it's frustrating now, but uh we'll work through this. Planning Commission council will work through trying to help both parties get through this. Well, I'd like to consider, can we shorten the 30 days? The fact that the pub asked to install similar, we said no. They didn't ask or receive any kind of permit or approval. And I know that under normal circumstances to fix something, 30 days is reasonable, but here we've got a condition that number one isn't approved and number two is causing actual damage. I'd like us to consider shortening the 30 days and get them moved sooner rather than later.

How far are you into your 30 days? Even if he could just move the one that's at the very end close to the street. It comes out so far that it makes it difficult. My brother-in-law has a 3/4 and his daughter's disabled and he can't make that turn without recorrecting and you know wall right there or something. Either way you turn into our drive.

And if you just move that one, if you widen it a little bit so that came by yesterday and when she pulled to the driveway, she swung wide. So she avoided the concrete wall that you put up, but as a result got her stuck in the driveway at the very beginning. It's just it's become So what about if we shorten the time period, the response period, and maybe lessen the problem? I get what he's trying to do. I just

Yeah. And they've been there a substantial amount of time that is that the case even if it's the only access? Yes.

No, but I mean if it's if it's vacated, I just I only have half of

Can you just reach out to him to see if he can do it as soon as possible? I mean, kind of money, but he doesn't have a parking problem there. He's trying to avoid a problem that doesn't exist.

All right. Thank you for coming in. We're sorry about the frustration. Yeah, we'll try to damage if we can help expedite that. All right. Anybody else? All right. Council comments. Bill, you are starting us out.

Well, you stole a little bit of my thunder early because the first thing I have is that I wanted to thank um everybody that was involved with cleaning the streets, um sidewalks, you know, above and beyond and fantastic. Great job cleaning the snow when we got such a a large amount in such a short time period. So, thank you for everything that was done there. Also want to thank the town employees for working in polaroid conditions. And finally, I want to congratulate I don't know when this has ever happened, but recently all 14 members of the high school wrestling team advanced from the sectionals to the regionals. We've had many teams where the majority have advanced, but every single wrestler, all 14 classes moved on. So, I want to say congratulations because that that's a neat accomplishment. That's all I have.

Terry, ditto. And um that's all. Great job, Ryan. I'll echo Bill and Terry sentiments. Great job, Ethan.

Um I will echo with comments only that in watching um our team clear the streets, number one, excellent job. But I I saw them stop and help people. And I love the fact that we live in a town when in the midst of being busy in the midst of trying to do all of the things on coffee and energy drinks and little to no sleep, our town employees care enough to stop and help. And um I just I it warmed my heart to see in the midst of pushing snow when they saw town members having a difficult time, they were willing to stop what they're doing to help. Um and so I appreciate that. Um the only other thing I'll I'll offer is Friday is a council chat. Terry and I will be I assume you still good. I think they have heat there. Um Terry and I will be will be at Tia's at 8 a.m. Friday for this month's council chat.

Outstanding. Um, I saw I was last, so that's why I kind of sprinkled in my thanks to the White House because I knew I wasn't. You are the president. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, I'll echo um, what everybody else said. Really appreciate all the work. I know it's been a interesting two weeks with snow event, our current situation with the temperature of this building, but appreciate everything that everybody's done to make that happen. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Ryan made the motion and Ethan seconded. All in favor say I. I. And we are