Remarks by Steve Nelson
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Okay. Next item is our consent agenda. We'll entertain a motion there.
Amber's over there deleting the line. She's like, wait a minute, I already had that piece in the minute.
First item on the action agenda is to consider a resolution approving the budget amendments, 526-27.
We have a motion and a second. All in favor?
Thank you. Consider a resolution to adopt the Cedar City fund balance and reserve policy.
I have a motion and a second, starting with Councilman Cox.
Public comment. Is there anybody here that just came because they just weren't bored on a Wednesday night, but they had something they want to say to us? Now's your opportunity. You're welcome to come up. All right, Ann.
Okay. Anybody else? All right, seeing none, I will entertain a motion to close and move into closed session.
Yeah. I have it. I'm not very good at using it. Thank you for everybody being here tonight. We will start with a prayer from Councilman Cox, and then Amber Ray will lead us in the pledge. You're praying.
That's what I have on my paper, so if she didn't talk to you, then... Let us pray.
Thank you, Robert and Amber. Okay, are there any adjustments to the agenda?
I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, great. Nothing under the administrative side, so we'll just jump to our business agenda. So our first one is Karen Scherer is going to share with us our current service levels and mitigation funding status. So, James.
Well, I appreciate, because the conversation we had is similar. I think it's important for our community, for us to be transparent with, is we accepted this idea of us being the regional shelter city, right? That what are the benefits and potential challenges that that brings? And as a community, the community needs to understand what that is, and I think it's a very fair discussion that I agree that I'd love as much data as you can continue to figure out how to get on that to make sure that, because the reason I lean into that question is if there are people, if they're from here, to me if…
Okay, number two is to consider the appointments to our newly created Cedar City Cares Committee, so Pam Brannan, Tim Marriott, Craig Corey, and Cleve Weaver as the citizens' appointments, and then Councilman Schmidt, as we talked about last week, will serve as the.
Well, so the bylaws you passed have five, Now, there's a lot of people that will get engaged in this organization, subcommittees.
Oh, yeah. So city staff, we can talk about who to help support the organization from a staff standpoint.
Yeah, but that's just something we can talk through administratively.
No, I've talked to all of them. They've all accepted it. But each of them had commitments for a variety of things.
So Tim lives out in the Iron Springs area by the elementary school. He works for the school district. Okay.
So Pam's the only one that I don't know really well. She works at the university. I asked Mindy Benson, President Benson, to, okay, you probably know more about Pam than I do.
So in general, the way I approach this and these appointments was I tried to identify the three largest employers. So, the university, the school district, and IHC. And to get it started, I thought it would be good to have somebody from those organizations kind of represent, because they'll help the largest number of people have access to get them involved to kind of launch it. The bylaws, of course, didn't require any member from any organization, but I thought that would be a good way to approach it in the beginning. So that's where those three. So Craig Corey works at the hospital. He's…
I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great, thank you. I am super excited for that organization to kick off. I think it's gonna do good things. All right, Jeff.
I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great.
Next one is a public hearing to consider resolution approving budget amendments for 26-27.
Entertain a motion. Oh, sorry. We've got to have the public hearing first. Unless there's any questions from council. No. If not, I'll open the public hearing. Anybody that would like to speak to our budget adjustments, you're welcome to.