City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Would you please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance? 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. Right. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. Jody, could you call the role please? Dennis here. Harold here. Holland here.

Musgrave here. Odicio here. Fipps here. Robinette here. Okay. The uh minutes from our November 3rd meeting were distributed for review prior to this evening. Uh are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Okay. Jody, do we have any correspondence? We do not.

And that brings us to lobby visitations. Do we have any lobby visitations? We do. Jim Evans. Thank you,

Jim Evans, 203 Buttonwood Avenue. Good evening. I'd like to start by thanking city council for approving the climate action and resiliency improvement plan and for prioritizing addressing the vulnerability of Bowling Greens drinking water supply within the next year. Tonight, I'd like to update council about some recent developments with this issue. The Mommy River's response to the 2025 drought has been a textbook example of how a drought affects river systems and hence our water supply. Northwest Ohio has been in extreme drought conditions seven times since the year 2000. uh most recently in 2024 and this year in 2025, Ohio suffered extreme drought conditions in both 2024 and 2025 with some important differences. Overall, the drought of 2024 was more severe with a statewide average from June to September of a rainfall deficit of 10 in. However, the main impact of the 2024 drought was in southern Ohio. Northwestern Ohio had a 4 inch rainfall deficit, but the 2025 drought was directly centered on the Mammy River Valley. And I direct you to the first figure that I've produced for you, which is a map showing the state of Ohio and showing that the drought was bullseye centered directly over the Mommy River Valley. This summer, we had a 7in rainfall deficit in northwestern Ohio. The 2025 drought is called a flash drought because it came on suddenly. We had normal precipitation through early June was accompanied by higher temperatures, 3% stronger wind speeds, and more concentrated rainfall. This resulted in severe loss of soil moisture and a fall

in the groundwater table. The cause of these droughts has been linked to climate change. In northwest Ohio, mean annual temperatures have risen 2 1/2° Fahrenheit or 1.5° centigrade since 1950. The warmer air holds 10% more moisture, which is obtained by pulling water out of the soil. As the air mass travels across the region, ironically, at the same time, the warming atmosphere is pulling moisture out of the soils. The atmosphere is becoming super loaded with moisture, causing more intense rainstorms. And I've told you this before, but heavy rains in northwest Ohio are now 24% more frequent, and the largest storms deliver 42% more water in comparison to the pre-1980 average. However, these rainstorms do not restore recharge soil moisture or groundwater because most of the water is lost as runoff. Thus, the net effect of warmer and wetter air, ironically, is drought and groundwater table falling. The level of water in the Mammy River is determined by the groundwater table. When you look at a river or a lake, the level of the water in that river or lake is equivalent to the water table. It is true that after a heavy rainstorm, water levels will rise even to flood levels, but those only last for a few days. If you look at figures two and three, which are hydrographs of the Mami River at Waterville for the past four months, overall the water levels have declined over that interval of time with a few upward peaks that are the effects of one or more of the heavy rainstorms that occur, but those only have a temporary effect on the river itself. The runoff passes through the system quickly, so within days of the rainstorm, the river resumes its downward trend. The river channel was about 50% dry by the end of October. Other places it was

approximately 1 foot deep. Um on the bottom diagram on that page there's a solid red line that goes from right to left. That's about approximately 1 ft of water depth. And the reason that line is there is because below one ft the hydrograph station will no longer function. You can see that for much of the months of September and October, there were only a few inches of water above that one foot line. The triangles that are shown on figure two show the long-term average discharge over 91 years and demonstrate again the extent of the water deficit in the Mommy River channel. Today, as a professional hydraologist, I have an ethical responsibility to warn city council of the seriousness of the vulnerability of our water supply. And I will be obliged to continue to be annoying until something is done about it. Meaning, either the city develops access to a Lake Erie water supply source or it installs a municipal wellfield as a backup water source. It should be clear that the vulnerability of Bowling Green's water supply is serious and it is increasing each year. Delay in addressing this issue will have serious repercussions for this community. Finally, I'd like to comment on Bowling Green's recent water commitments to a data data center 1 million gallons per day and to the Abbott Labs of 600,000 gallons per day. I do understand the need for the city to pursue economic development projects, but I'd like to caution those that these kinds of commitments should come with restrictions attached. For example, data centers mostly need water for cooling purposes. There's no reason why these types of businesses could not be required to install heat exchangers to recool and then reuse that water. There is some loss of water dur in a heat exchanger, but 80 to 90% of that water

would be available to be recovered and reused, significantly reducing the water demand during an emergency. The city should also make it clear in all these contracts that public safety takes priority in any water distribution crisis. The goal here should not be to make water distribution commitments to the maximum extent of our ability to pump water from the Mami River during a good year because difficult years are sure to come. If you don't believe that, I'll end by saying that in this particular year, we have only good luck to thank for avoiding a water crisis. Thank you. Thank you,

Mary Hinkleman. Mary Henleman, executive director of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce and Visit BG Ohio. Um, good evening to council. Um before the meeting I did place um a document with each of you on the accomplishments of visit BG Ohio and I would really appreciate if you could look through it as you're looking at renewing this uh the ordinance um authorizing the municipal administrator to enter back into a contract with the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce to um direct our destination marketing organization PISPG G. Um, this is our 5year anniversary and I did have the uh meeting with Mayor Osper and um, Municipal Administrator Lorie Treader to go over some of the accomplishments and I hope they're as pleased as we have been. We just see lots of good things coming out of this relationship. So, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. I also wanted to mention this Saturday is a big day for us as a city. Um, we have our annual holiday parade stepping off at 9:50, should hit the downtown at 1000 a.m. and last for 2 hours. This is a 2-hour live broadcast with WTO. Um, we will be on Good Day tomorrow morning again um promoting Bowling Green as a great place to be. Um, I think Greg Robinette said it best once that it's one of the best promotional tools we have for this wonderful community. So, I hope you make it out. If anybody wants to volunteer, we can still fit you in at a bay. So, hope is always helpful. Um, I did leave each of you with a Giving

Tuesday document. It's got a QR code. I won't go through all of the the things that we're doing on Giving Tuesday to um give voice to the nonprofit organizations in our community and how people can help them with their missions. Um 13-hour day will be out at 6:00 in the morning and continuing until 7:00 at night all in the betterment of Bowling Green. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's everyone for this evening.

Okay, that brings us to the introduction of new legislation. Mr. President, Mr. Robinette, from the finance committee, I have two resolutions and three ordinances. First, a resolution authorizing the municipal administrator to enter into a renewal of the agreement with the Wood County Public Defender. A resolution establishing new funds. An ordinance providing supplemental and/or amending appropriations for the current expenses and other expenditures of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio during the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 2025 and ending December 31st, 2025. an ordinance authorizing the municipal administrator to enter into a contract with the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce for the promotion and publicizing of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio to bring the patronage and business of cultural, educational, religious, professional, and sports organizations into the city for the benefit of the citizens of the city and the business community and declaring an emergency. And finally, an ordinance authorizing the municipal administrator to trade in, sell outright, or otherwise dispose of equipment no longer needed for municipal purposes.

Thanks, Mr. President. Mr. Odoricio from the community improvement committee. We have a resolution authorizing the mayor of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio to file an annual application and execute a contract upon grant application approval under the community development block grant entitlement program as authorized by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 as amended. Okay, brings us to official reports. Mr. Mayor,

thank you, Mr. President. Good evening, council. I just want to first of all express my thanks to Mary and the chamber and your team over there for your hard work that will result in the show that will present it on Main Street Saturday morning. Um, I agree with uh, Councilman Robinette. That is one of the best tools that we have to highlight um, our community. And I'm really grateful for the work of all of those that help organize it and also for the work um, and the participation of so many groups uh, both from within this community and others that um, maybe center outside of this community. is a popular event and uh it will be well attended and I'm grateful to all of those who participate so willingly. Um also I should also mention Friday the evening before Friday evening um I want to say thank you to Wood County Library for um sponsoring the lighting of the community Christmas tree. We'll be out there along with uh members or other community groups. the Madricals I think are performing in the library um after the tree lighting and again a lot of work goes into that um and we're looking forward to kicking off the holiday season and here in Bowling Green and again a lot of people work really hard to make these events take place and we're thankful for all that they do. Finally, I did also want to express my very sincere gratitude to the voters in this community for passage of the u safety services levy that was on the ballot um on the first Tuesday in November. Um we are certainly um very thankful for the support. This is a significant development in the future of uh public safety here in the community and I know that you agree with me when I say that deliverance of public safety services to members of this community is among our highest priorities and passage

of this levy and corresponding ability to address the facilities that support those first responders as a significant development that will positively impact this community for decades to come. And so I want to again thank you for all of those who supported the levy and also provide assurances that we will be um good stewards of taxpayers money in effort to construct facilities that were representative of the values of this community um but will also serve the community's needs for many many years to come. That concludes my report. Subject to any questions that you may have. Does anyone have any questions for the mayor this evening? Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Municipal administrator, Miss Treader.

Good evening. Few notes for you before I invite some of my colleagues uh to give some updates. Uh as Mary had mentioned, we do have the legislation before you continuing the contract with the chamber. And as she noted, we recently met and reviewed that contract and the terms and are comfortable and actually excited to continue recommending that structure for supporting our visitors. We feel that it has served our community well. It's been a good use of that hotel motel tax moving forward and we appreciate your consideration of it. We also thank the chamber and particularly Mary for their great work in administering that over the last five years. As the mayor mentioned, we do have some upcoming community events. Uh the city will be supporting doing logistical support for both the tree lighting and the parade. There are numerous closures, particularly on Saturday morning with roadways and numerous parking restrictions. We won't spend our time uh going through all of that. Our communications folks do a great job of putting that information out, but just encouraging the community to be mindful of their travels that morning so we can all have a safe parade and appreciate our employees who who do a great job of helping that to run smoothly. am going to ask that council consider an executive session this evening at the conclude at the at the towards the end of your meeting. This would be to consider the compensation of public employees and we would not be recommending any action following that executive session and I have three different folks to provide updates. So, we will actually start with Martha who has updated information on the resolution uh about uh the the food distribution that was passed from council last time. Martha,

good evening. Um as you're aware, uh we advertised via a press release which um went to our media partners and they kindly shared it on social media and on their other locations. We also directly emailed to known food providers using the 211 United Way lists for Bowling Green uh both for food pantries and for meal providers. Um applications were due by midnight on Sunday se November the 16th and all applications were submitted online so that we could manage that timing. All submitted applications I'm pleased to tell you will be fully funded for their request amount. The applicants will receive a letter with details and the city's expectations, including reporting back to us in a document form that we'll provide to them. Um, and checks or AC payments will go out before Thanksgiving. Um, I would like to take credit for this, but I can't. Uh, I was on vacation last week and Matt Snow managed all of the internal um paperwork that came in um managing the all the documentation with it. So, if you see Matt, uh, please give him a shout out so everything was ready when I came to report to you tonight. If any of you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them.

Does anyone want to have any questions from Martha this evening? Okay. Thanks. All right. So, with us this evening, we have Keith Kirby, our IT director, and Katie Thompson, our economic de development director. So, we're going to have Keith go first and then we'll turn the microphone over to Katie for some updates.

Good evening, council members. I'm here to give you an update on our IT department and what we've done over this past year. Um, we've been focused on strengthening the city's ability to serve residents reliably, securely, and efficiently. We've reinforced systems that support our daily operations across all departments, making city services more dependable than ever. We've succeeded in transitioning the city to its official.gov domain, giving residents a trusted point of contact. We've met and exceeded the cyber security standards under House Bill 96, keeping the city ahead of statewide requirements. We have improved data protection, expanded safeguards, and enhanced readiness to maintain operations under any circumstances. We have implemented cost-saving measures from optimizing resources to improving vendor agreements. Our team continues to build our strengths and stay current with new tools, practices, and ensuring we're ready for whatever the city might need. Finally, I would like to thank city leaders and city council for their support and our awesome IT staff for their hard work and dedication throughout the year. And if that's all I got, unless you have any questions. Does anyone have any questions for Keith this evening? Okay. Thank you.

All right. Good evening, council. Um, a few updates for you tonight. I want to start by just giving kind of a general update of how economic development efforts have gone over this past year. And I would say that this has been one of our more challenging years for economic development. Um, any year with a political transition generally slows things down a bit. So it doesn't matter what the transition is uh that year typically slows down economic development initiatives and we have seen that. So although we have seen an uptick in the number of leads that are crossing my desk, we've seen a slowdown in the decision making. Um just as an example, I had a company that we were working with that came here for a site visit. We had several incredible follow-up conversations and then we got word from them, this was many months ago, that they were delaying their decision for a year. That's that's a long delay. So, we have several of those leads kind of hanging out there and um we look forward to maybe hopefully in the new year some of those decisions will start to um kind of move forward. So, we'll see. Um we've also had in terms of it being a tougher year just some unique project circumstances that um you know we don't just work on these large attraction and retention efforts. We also try to do a lot of I would call it more community development and redevelopment type of work. So just as an example um we've you know we've brought several developers to the mall owners and we've tried to work really hard to put some projects together there at the mall. We've also had some downtown redevelopment initiatives and um we have not been successful in those efforts and not through any fault of our team or through our city partners. It's just oftentimes these projects are very complicated. there's a lot of stakeholders and they all have competing interests. And so sometimes it just takes a lot of uh a lot of swings to get uh to get a win for one of those type of

projects. And so um although I'm sharing that it's kind of been difficult, we're not discouraged. Um we're going to keep on swinging. I mean, we're going to keep trying to put these projects together and we look forward to that day when um when one of them, you know, just moves forward. So, we will be very excited for that. Um, and so even though I just shared that it's been one of our tougher years, that doesn't mean we don't have some wins to share. Um, so I'm going to spend the rest of my time talking about those. And before I do, I want to remind everyone about our four core pillars of work because that kind of frames um the different wins that we talk about. And that's um that we will focus on sustained economic growth, infrastructure and site development, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. and those placemaking or quality of life type of initiatives. So, in terms of sustained economic growth, I kind of already touched on that, but I would say our big focus for the year, and I mentioned this when I reported to you more at the beginning of the year, is that we will be focusing heavily on retention. We've spent several years building. We've brought some new companies into this community and um we've also added to our economic development team and our our trustees that we have in the economic development nonprofit. And so we really wanted to regroup this year and go deeper in all of those relationships and make sure that we are um really on solid footing with all of the current businesses that we serve and our current partners. And so we looked carefully through the retention visits that we typically compete complete each year and we evaluated the needs of each company individually. So instead of just we go visit all of these companies every year in the same way, we looked at each company and our relationship with them and decided, you know, some of these companies need more than one touch point a year, some of them want less, some of them want a different type of meeting or a different type of interaction. And so um we basically created a three-year

retention plan for each company and programmed our interactions with each of them accordingly. So we've been working through that first year of implementing that and that seems to uh be working really well. Um and then we still did have some attraction efforts. So right now we are tracking seven new um industrial projects. We are tracking four potential expansion projects. Um one of those is already moving forward. We have a local company Rosenboom. They're looking to hire 80 people right now. So uh they're not expanding their building. They're expanding internally with uh new machinery and equipment and they're a fantastic company. So, we're we're thrilled that they're growing right here in our community. Um we've had a big increase in retail and restaurant inquiries. That's really great news for our community. And um so we'll continue to facilitate that as best as possible. You might have just seen that um SmartSolve would just announced their investment into a new research and development center and um Jobs Ohio, we worked with them closely to support this effort with a $1 million grant. It was a really incredible project and it's one of the only grants that we've seen in that R&D space in this region. So, we were really uh thrilled to see that and this investment will help move the needle in forming their sustainable packaging technology. If you're not familiar with that company, invite I invite you to check it out. Um it's pretty pretty incredible. I also wanted to provide an update on Abbott Labs. I know a few of you have asked for a status update on that project and so um they continue to work through their design and engineering. I know they've been doing that for quite a while, but they really have made tremendous progress. Um and we engage with them on utilities and infrastructure as it relates to their planning. Um, I just had a meeting with them earlier today at 1:00. I have a standing communication with them. They have communicated to me that their commitment to this project has not changed. It is simply that they

do not have an updated construction timeline. And so, um, they said as soon as they have that, they will let me know, but they do not have that yet. So, we look forward to when that will be announced, but, um, that's not something I'm able to provide tonight. So, um, let's see. Infrastructure and site development. Um we we continue to see a lot of interest in our sites that are east of I75 in that industrial area and we're working to um ready those sites for development from a planning perspective. And then just in terms of placemaking um Khubnian continues to see success with their housing development on Brim and Newton. So u it's been great to see that project take off and fill in some gaps in our housing stock. And then um special shout out to Jenny Bowers here with us tonight. She planned a phenomenal manufacturing day at the middle school. She's been doing this for several years now and um she would say that this was the best year yet and that's because she's kind of mastered the process and it's a really incredible event and exposes our middle school students to the world of uh manufacturing and the careers out there. So um we've been glad to do that every year in partnership with our local industries. So, that concludes my updates. Unless you have any questions for me.

Does anyone have any questions for Katie this evening? Okay. Do you have anything else, Lori? I do not. Unless you have questions for me. Any questions for Lori this evening? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. A one and all. That brings us to city attorney Mr. Brown.

Good evening. No report. Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Brown this evening? Okay. Public infrastructure director, Mr. Okonnell. Good evening. Um, just a brief update. Uh, so the Ohio EPA requires us to send uh notification letters out each year uh to customers that are served by a a lead or a galvanized uh water service line. Um, we have no lead lines, so there are no no lead letters that are going to customers. And we didn't didn't have those last year. This is the second year they required us to do this or water systems to send these letters. Um um but we do have galvanized uh service lines and we have about I think maybe 70 of those and uh um the water service line is really broken up into ownership of two two different owners. Um the city city's portion is within the public rightway more or less. Um and then the customer or the property owner has the ownership from that right ride rightaway line um into the property. And so there both uh sides of that line could be different materials. Ours could be say copper and the customers could be copper or galvanized or plastic. So we have to know what both sides of that line what the material is. Um we determined that u there are no uh galvanized or lead lines on the city side. So our our side is um is all either copper or plastic. Um but again there are about 70 homes where the customer's side is galvanized and um again we're required to update those um um customers that there they do have a galvanized line on their side. Um really there really is no water health crisis um or issue with with that service line. Um our water is treated to uh optimal corrosion control standards at the at the plant. Um we do the regular uh copper and lead testing required by the EPA to verify that the the water to customers is safe. Um but this is a

requirement that that EPA is doing across all the water systems in Ohio actually across all the states. Um again so so so about 70 homes have it. Um the letters are being sent to not just the tenants of the um you imagine some of those are rental rental properties and the tenants in the in the the properties are not always or is the owner and so the owners and the tenants are both getting letters. Um some cases it's the same um same customer that we have is also the same the owner of the property. But either way um um a tenant and an owner will get a copy of the letter if it's a rental property. And um those are those should be out before the end of the month. Um, again, pretty small number really overall, but uh, if you do get any questions from somebody about they got this letter, um, we try to explain to them what that letter means or what that means if they have have a galvanized service line. Again, there is no, um, there's no issue with the water. It's just a requirement by the EPA that we have to send these letters out to people. I think in 2027, they may require that we start to have a plan to uh, eliminate those service lines. So, we're in a much better position than a lot of other water water systems are that do have lead lines or do have, you know, several hundred or several thousand uh galvanized lines in their systems. Um, and thankfully, we were not in that situation. So, um, that's all I have for you unless you have questions.

Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Okonnell this evening? All right. Thank you very much. Thanks. That brings us to council committee reports. Are there any council committee reports, Mr. President? Mr. Robinette, uh, the finance committee will meet Wednesday, uh, November 19th at 5:00 p.m. for the purpose of conducting the budget hearing for 2026. Okay, Mr. President, Miss Fipps,

uh the committee of the whole will meet um Monday, December 15th at 6 p.m. before our regularly scheduled council meeting uh to receive the Main Street pedestrian and bicycle study.

Okay. Any other council committee reports? Then that brings us to the reading of legislation. Legislation for first reading. Resolution 3896, excuse me, for first reading. Resolution authorizing the municipal administrator to enter into a renewal of the agreement with the Wood County Public Defender. Resolution 3897 for first reading. Resolution establishing new funds. Resolution 3898 for first reading. Resolution authorizing the mayor of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio to file an application to file an annual application and execute a contract upon grant application approval under the community development block grant entitlement program as authorized by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 as amended. Ordinance 9325 for first reading. Ordinance authorite ordinance providing supplemental and/or amending appropriations for the current expenses and other expenditures of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio during the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2025.

Mr. President, Mr. Robinette, I move to suspend the rules and give ordinance 9325 its second and third readings. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Jody Harold, yes. Halen, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Robinette, yes. Dennis, yes. All right. The rules are suspended for ordinance 9325.

Ordinance 9325 for second and third reading readings. Ordinance providing supplemental and/or amending appropriations for the current expenses and other expenditures of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio during the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2025. Mr. President, Mr. Robinette, I move to adopt ordinance 9325. Second properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Jody Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Ravenet, yes. Dennis, yes. Harold,

yes. Ordinance 9325 is adopted.

Ordinance 9326 for first reading. Ordinance authorizing the municipal administrator to enter into a contract with the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce for the promotion and p publicizing of the city of Bowling Green, Ohio to bring the patronage and business of cultural, educational, religious, professional, and sports organizations into the city for the benefit of the citizens of the city and the business community and declaring an emergency. Ordinance 9327 for first reading. Ordinance authorizing the municipal administrator to trade in, sell outright, or otherwise dispose of equipment no longer needed for municipal purposes. There is no legislation for second reading. Legislation for third reading. Resolution 3895 for third reading. Resolution authorizing the city of Bowling Green to become a power a clean future Ohio community.

Mr. President, Mr. Odoricio, I move that we adopt resolution 3895. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody Musgrave? Yes. Odicio? Yes. Fipps? Yes. Robinette? Yes. Dennis? Yes. Harold? Yes. How? Yes. Resol resolution 3895 is adopted. Ordinance 9320 for third reading. Ordinance authorizing the municipal administrator to sell vehicles no longer needed for municipal purposes. Mr. President, Mr. Robinette,

I move to adopt ordinance 9320. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody, Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Robinette, yes. Dennis, yes. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. All right. Ordinance 9320 is adopted. Ordinance 9321 for third reading. Ordinance authorizing the utilities director to enter into contracts for lime sludge disposal services. I move to adopt ordinance 9321. Second.

Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody Fipps? Yes. Robinette? Yes. Dennis? Yes. Harold? Yes. Holland? Yes. Musgrave? Yes. Odicio? Yes. All right. Ordinance 9321 is adopted. Ordinance 9322 for third reading. Ordinance authorizing the utilities director to enter into contracts for the annual inventory requirements underground and overhead lines insurance and sale of scrap materials in 2026.

I move to adopt ordinance 9322. P. Uh, second properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody, Robinette, yes. Dennis, yes. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Okay. Ordinance 9322 is adopted.

Ordinance 9323 for third reading. Ordinance accepting utility easements from Northwestern Ohio Tractor Pullers Association Incorporated, Bowling Green Board of Education, Lock It Up LLC, and Board of Trustees of Middleton Township. I move to adopt ordinance 9323. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody, Dennis, yes. Harold, yes. Holla, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Robinette,

yes. All right. Ordinance 9323 is adopted. Ordinance 9288 comes off the table automatically. Mr. President, Mr. Robinette, um I move to adopt the emergency clause for ordinance 9288. It was already adopted. Yeah, I I believe we we adopted them for all three of these when we uh tabled them. That'll make things easier. Mr. President, I move to adopt ordinance 9288. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Jody. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Robinette, yes.

Dennis, yes. Okay. Ordinance 9288 is adopted. Ordinance 9289 comes off the table automatically. Mr. President, Mr. Robinette, I move to adopt ordinance 9289. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody. Holland. Yes. Musgrave. Yes. Odicio. Yes. Bipps? Yes. Robinette? Yes. Dennis? Yes. Harold? Yes. All right. Ordinance 9289 is adopted. Ordinance 9290 comes off the table automatically. Mr. President,

Mr. Robinette, I move to adopt ordinance 9290. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Jody Musgrave? Yes. Odicio? Yes. Fipps? Yes. Robinette? Yes, Dennis. Yes, Harold. Yes, Hollenba. Yes. Ordinance 9290 is adopted. Um, at this time, I would like to make a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of, let's call it, personnel matters. Second.

Properly moved and seconded. Uh, is this a voice vote or is this a No, you have to you have to call it. Yep. Okay. Odicio, yes. Fipps, yes. Robinette, yes. Dennis, yes. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Okay. Um, when we return from executive session, uh, we will simply adjourn the meeting. There will be no action taken as a result of this executive session. So you're welcome to hang out if you want to, but you'll see us come back and adjourn the meeting. So thank you very much.