Common Council - Regular Meeting

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N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Hello everyone. Welcome to the city council meeting. Will you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance of the United States of America and to the stands nation for all. Oh dear. I'm sorry. Did I What happened? No. Pastor Parnell, would you mind leading us in prayer? Shall we pray together? Heavenly Father, we thank you for this evening. We thank you again for that wonderful privilege we have to call you God and Father. We ask now for wisdom, Lord, as we take care of the city's business. Pray you'll give us insight. And we pray, Father, that you will be glorified. We pray for our city. We pray for our citizens. Lord, we pray for our administration, staff, and all of our uh residents of the city of Portage, our police officers, our firefighters, and their families as well. Bless them, protect them, watch over them. Again, Father, bless this meeting tonight. Give us guidance. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. Could we do the uh roll call? Absolutely.

Councilwoman Alvarez here. Councilwoman Weidenbach here. Councilwoman Hurst here. Council Counciloman Parnell here. Councilwoman Vasquez here. Councilwoman Amler here. Councilman Zilly here. And then did everyone have a chance to read the minutes? Are there any corrections or is there a motion? Make a motion to approve the minutes for May 6th and May 12th. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I I don't vote. So, I'm going to go pass my communications and correspondence. I'll save that for the end just as needed. We'll go ahead into our different swearing in um ceremonies. We have the fire department. We have three new hires being sworn in. We'll start with the fire department and then we are swearing in uh two police officers as well. But Chief Cray, if you don't mind coming up, just wanted to make sure my phone was on call. Uh sorry. Uh Justin, come on up.

when I say state your name and then swear or do this every time you don't have to state your namely swear wholely swears that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America. the laws of the United States of America, the Constitution, the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Indiana. and the laws of the state of Indiana. And that I will faithfully And I will faithfully and impartially and impartially execute the duties execute the duties of my office of my office as a member of the city of Portage Fire Department. as a member of the city of Portage Fire Department. To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability. And according to the law and according to the law. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. [Applause] [Applause]

Call up. Levi. I say that I support the constitution. United States of America state of Indiana law. So help me out. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations.

[Applause] Thank you so much. Once once or twice. Yes. Uh so now I'd like to call up Andrew. Uh like it to be known that Andrew is a fourth generation firefighter. Uh his dad is on the fire department on his way up. His grandpa's in the front row. uh that is he's been in the fire service for over 50 years. So this is a proud moment for the Heyman family for sure. I will support the support and the laws of the United States of America. United States of America and the laws of the state of Indiana and that I faithfully impartially execute the duties of my office as a member of the city fire department as a member of the city of fire department to the best of my ability to the best of my ability according to the law. So help me out. Congratulations There's no particular order.

[Applause] [Applause] Thank you so much. So, he's not being sworn in, but with with promotions, they mean a big deal. Uh, in the police and fire service, um, so we did recently have a retirement with Mark Lewis. Uh, with Mark Lewis's retirement, uh, Mike Eert was promoted

to the rank of engineer. His wife is going to uh pin his Oh, his son is going to pin his badge on him. Glad to hear this. I told him [Applause] We can come up another. All right.

Repeat afterly swearly that I support the Constitution support. the laws of the United States of America, the laws of the United States of America, the Constitution Conitution and the laws of the state of Indiana the laws of the state of Indiana and that I will faithfully and partially execute the duties of my office as a member of the city of Portage Police Department as a member of the city to the best of my ability according to the law. So help me guide [Applause] I didn't realize that so disappointed after Everybody else. Anybody else

wants Raise your hand. Repeat after me. I say your name. I doly swear or affirm doly swear that I will support the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America and the United States of America and the laws of the state of Indiana as a member of the city of police to the best of my abilities. So help me out. Congratulations. [Applause] Yes, you'll get That's true of everyone. You will get your own copy of yours and then there's one for the city. [Music] All right. Same thing.

Thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] While the mayor is grabbing his seat, I always tell uh the families of the officers, I'm sure it goes with the firefighters, too. Now is your chance to escape and go celebrate. If you don't want to listen to the uh very exciting information that's going to be shared at this council meeting tonight, you can catch it on uh YouTube or Facebook if you are afraid of missing something. Are you Are you offended that everybody's leaving? I'm sure they're going to watch it later. They're gonna watch it later. with everybody. who uh it looks like everybody who was

here for the just the swearing in has stepped out. What I would uh just uh say if anybody wants to sit a little closer uh now is your opportunity uh to come closer. If you're like me and you gravitate towards the back, that's okay as well, but just I know some people like a front row seat. Not seeing any further shuffle. Yeah, I forgot to mention that part. I'm really excited to see the reptile shirt here, too. We can move to the clerk treasures report. Okay, it's been a very very busy two weeks in my office. The state board of accounts have been in there and um I have to schedule a entrance conference with the mayor in Victoria. So, I need to know your availabil availability for next week. So, um I think I got Victoria's and Victoria said that she's available Wednesday or Thursday after three. That is correct. Uh Wednesday definitely I think works for me. So, I'll double check that, but I'll confirm after this meeting. I'll pull my schedule out. Thank you. I'm also wanted to um let everybody know that we myself and the mayor have been having department head meetings, financial department head meetings and they they have been going very well. I think all the departments are under a clear understanding of what their budgets are and their restraints for their budgets. Um mayor, if you want to chime in on the financial meetings we've been having. Austin, I think it's been great. Sorry, I was pulling the schedule up. You're talking about the uh financial meetings. Oh, it's been, I think, a positive step in the right direction for us. I think that there's been kind of a long history of, in my opinion, not enough communication

between our offices. I don't mean you and me, I mean our offices and figuring out how to be able to take the city's financial situation and check it week by week with the department heads so that everybody is seeing the big picture. You know, there's something to be said about the story of the uh children who can't see or maybe it's nighttime and they find an elephant and they all grab a piece of it, make an idea of what they think an elephant looks like. But it's when you turn the light on, you see the whole thing. And I think that that's what's happened in these meetings gradually. I kind of told the department heads, it's like uh when I was young, I once did five push-ups a day for a week just because I was nervous about starting at 10. I think we kind of went at that pace, I think. But it was the pace we needed, I think, to be able to really get some good communication going. So, thank you. Thank you, mayor. I think it's a very good step in a direction for the city for the financial end of it and we are having a lot of good dialogue in these meetings. The other thing I wanted to touch on was that we are currently, my staff is very busy also still updating ordinances and Scott Mccclure, our attorney, can attest to that. He has approved almost every ordinances that ordinance update that we have sent him with a few minor corrections and I appreciate you Scott for doing that. And I I think almost all of the uh ordinances that we've updated so far are on the agenda for tonight. So I'm going to keep it short and sweet since we have a lot on the agenda and I appreciate the ordinance committee for hearing the ordinances that were were presented to them. Thank you. Thank you. So, under unfinished business, that gets us to ordinance 2522. Um, Scott or the chief or chief, did you want to come up? I think I think Attorney Lwood and the chief are still working on this. I don't think they've gotten this anything to the point that it's ready for city

council consideration. And I know we were attempting to get this done before the 4th, but um it got sent back for reasons to get through. So my understanding is is that um Attorney Elwood and the chief still have some things to get through on it at this point. I'll make a motion to table uh 2522. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Chief, I imagine you were about to say similar things. Got it. Gets us to new business SP1, Lewis Drifus Company, personal property and real property. Um, resolution uh number one, I'm sorry, number 259, ERA tax abatement real property. Um, and then resolution 25-10, era tax abatement personal property. Um, Mr. McCclar, are these separate procedurally? I I just got these resolutions. Um they are two separate ones. I just That's what I was looking to make sure. Yeah, no problem. Thank you. So with resolution um 259 E um RA uh Councilman Zilly, would you mind reading that? Sure. Resolution number 25 2025-09 a resolution of the common council of the city of Portage Porter County Indiana approving an economic revitalization area assess valuation deduction tax abatement for qualified tangible real property improvements for Louis Drifus company Burns Harbor LLC pursuant to Indiana code 6-1.1-12.1. Let the record reflect this has been read in its

entirety. Motion to adopt. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. Wait, oh, I'm sorry. Discuss it first. Oh, we certainly can. Yeah, sorry. I can just assume discussion for each thing. I apologize. Discussion. I think I we want to hear from them. Come on up. Right. Absolutely. Uh so, thank you for considering uh the abatement here. Uh we're very excited with opportunity um at the at the Port of Burns Harbor, Ports of Indiana. Um we think there's a great opportunity here. The the elevator has sat idle for a couple years now. Uh so there is considerable risk in us restarting it. Um we have our our formal approval internally uh next week, next week to go forward with the lease. Um our plans are really to hire 13 people here. So, it's not a huge amount of uh new employment, although it is new to the to the area. Um, at competitive wages, skilled positions. Um, so so very very competitive there. Um, we're planning on putting we have $18 million into the facility um to restart it as well as improve what's already there. Um the big benefit to the area is going to be really around the local farming community, giving them another outlet, major buyer uh of of their their products that they grow, their crops. And uh I mean we we really hope the more the more that we can buy the better the elevator's doing. So so um we we think upwards of $70 million a year that we'll be purchasing in local farmers crops. Um Lou Drifus, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Louis Drifus company. We are a European uh uh company by our

founding but we have a large presence in US as well not far away in Clayool Indiana we have a a large soybean crush and biodeiesel facility that employs over 100 people there so we are a big employer in the state of Indiana this facility will also source soybeans for that uh plant is that's that is our our plan right now um but yeah I think I think The opportunity is is great, but there is is considerable risk in in the unknown and restarting a facility that's been idle for a couple years. So, happy to answer any other questions you guys might have. How many employees will you be having? So, on site, we're going to have around 13. Yep. Mix of skilled, you know, operational folks as well as people who will be on site to interact with farmers as they come in and and uh and purchase the grain directly face to face. I guess I would just add that operations in the port are extremely important for us as a port city. And I would just say that ultimately a successful port is a successful portage. Although the word portage and port are not exactly the same, we're very linked. It's called the port of Burns Harbor, but actually the town of Burns Harbor is named after the port in Portage. Just fun fact. And just for clarification, this first ordinance that we're the council is reviewing is just dealing with the real property uh tax abatement request. So I believe we already have a motion and a second. We're at discussion. Is it appropriate for me to call roll unless there's other discussion?

Right. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. And then any opposed? Hearing none. Congratulations. Thank you. That gets us to wishes. Resolution 2510, erra, tax abatement personal property. Councilman Alvarez, would you mind reading that one? Resolution 25-10, a resolution of the common council of the city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana, approving an economic revitalization air area assessed valuation deduction tax abatement for qualified tangible depreciable personal property for Louis Drifus Burns Harbor LLC pursuant to Indiana Code 6 point excuse me 6-1.1-12.1. Let the record show that the proposed resolution has been read in its entirety. Motion to adopt. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any uh discussion? And within the discussion, I I know you're just up here, but was there anything else you wanted to say? Uh no, I don't think there's any more. I think we're excited about the opportunity. Appreciate you guys working with us on this to help get Thank you very much. Are there any other uh comments or discussion? Not hearing. Um I will call um all in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Congratulations. That gets us to CF1 MSI Express. Uh Councilwoman uh Widenbach, would you be willing to read that one for us?

I'm sorry. Does that actually have to be read or is that more just a renewal? I apologize. So, what what we're looking at is the compliance with statement of benefits for personal property for MSI Express. This is them showing uh their estimated and then what the council had in front of it when they were estimating what uh they were going to be doing to get the tax abatement. and then the actual to make sure they're in compliance with what they said they were going to be able to complete. I gotcha. So, would it be suffice just for a council person to make a motion on it and then it would be I'll make a motion to accept uh the CF1 for MSI Express HPA1 LLC and uh 1546 uh 467th Street LLC. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? So I think just to clarify, they've already received this. This is the review that they're compliant. That's exactly whether it's jobs or investment or personal property investment. This is to make sure they followed up with their end of the bargain and this this is the reporting that gets done yearly to the council for your approval. Thank you. Unless there's any discussion, um I will call all in favor. Please signify by saying I. I. Thank you. gets us to another CF1 HP LLC. Oh, gotcha. I I don't know what happened today. I think it was swearing all the people in keeping up with the repeating it or it's the heat. Well, that gets us then to introduction of ordinances. We have ordinance 25-27, chapter 2, article 4, division one, entitled finance generally. Now, I'll call on Councilwoman Widenbach to read this for us. Ordinance number 25-27, an ordinance of the city of Portage, Indiana, amending chapter 2, article 4, division 1, entitled finance generally of the

municipal code, city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana. Let the record show it's been read in its entirety. Motion to suspend. Second. Second. We have a motion to uh suspend. I would say is there any discussion on that or Liz would you like to talk about what this is? So what this this one is is it's a ordinance to update our policies that we are currently adhering to in our office and for the city. We have a motion and a second. All in favor please signify by saying I I didn't hear any opposed. So the suspension passes. Now, do we have a motion on the ordinance? I actually have an motion to amend. Um, I think section C of the ordinance should be the city instead of shall collect a sum equal to the amount of the charge from the person, it should be the city may collect. The state law says that we may collect the fee. We don't have to. I think our ordinance should say may that the city should have the choice I would agree that in the future to not collect it if we choose to do so and the ordinance reading shall would lock us into have to doing it and would require a change in the future. I would agree not I would make a motion to amend subsection C to be the city may collect a sum equal to the amount of the charge from the person or entity that uses the financial instrument. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I I. Okay. And then that gets us to the ordinance as amended, unless there's other amendments or discussions. I'll make a motion to adopt. Second. Second. We have a motion and a

second. Speak now forever hold your peace. Any discussion? All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Thank you. gets us to 2528 um chapter 2 article 4 division 1.5 entitled finance credit cards for city purchases. I will now call on uh councilwoman uh Amler if you could read that for us. Believe you can read the title and then you can say let the record reflect. Ordinance 25-28 an ordinance of the city of Portage Indiana amending ordinance 15-23 An ordinance establishing procedures for the use of city credit cards, city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana. Uh, let the record reflect that it has been read in its entirety. Motion to suspend. Second. We have a motion uh to suspend and a second. Um, maybe if we could just get comment real quick on what this one is. What this is is we're just um we all the department heads receive a credit card and all we're doing is asking the department heads to be fiscally responsible with their credit card and if they loan it out to someone to make a log that it's been loaned out for that purchase. All right, we have a motion and a second to suspend. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Suspension passes. Motion to adopt. Second. We have a motion and a second. I'm not sure who called it the second though. Okay. Any discussion? Not hearing discussion. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? I think we're good. That gets us to um ordinance 2529 establishing a sanitary department donation fund. I will ask uh Councilwoman Vasquez if

you could read that for us. Absolutely. Ordinance 25-29, an ordinance of the city of Portage, Indiana, establishing a don donation fund for the Portage Sanitary Department, City of Portage, Porter County, Indiana. Let the record reflect the ordinance has been read in its entirety. Motion to suspend. Second. So, we have a motion to suspend and a second. I think this one is a little bit more explanatory, but Liz, do you want to just state? Okay. Currently, um, our training training for the sanitary department is basically out of town. So, I'm I I'll have Tracy come in and speak about this one. Thank you, Tracy. And thank you, Liz. Good evening. So, what this is is we're establishing a fund because we're doing quite a few um trainings and um conferences type things at our importage. We're putting it out for Alliance to have their trainings here for wastewater collection. We're doing a microscopy class with Tony Gwy uh in October that IA is doing. But we are taking sponsors and getting donations for the lunches and the breakfast that is contributing so we don't have to contribute taxpayers money to that. So we want a fund so that we can get the money out of the fund. It's a way to keep it track and we had to create a fund. The council has to approve the fund when we create it. So we have a motion and a second to suspend I believe. All in favor please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Believe that passed. That gets us to the ordinance itself. Motion to second.

Okay, hold everyone. Calm down. Let Let's try that one more time. Perfect. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? I think we're good. I know it's what we get for having this on a nice day. That was well said. All right, that gets us to ordinance 2530 establishing a park donation fund for funds received from the Portage Township Trustee. Um I could speak just a little on that. Just uh we've got Oh, I know. Oh, you're right. We should still read it first. All right. Um Councilman um Parnell, would you mind reading that one for us? Certainly. Ordinance number 25-30, an ordinance of the city of Portage, Indiana, establishing a donation fund for the city of Portage parks department, city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana. Let the record reflect that the ordinance has been read in its entirety. Motion to suspend. Second. Second. We have a motion to suspend in a second. I will just state, you'll remember this great donation that happened last time that we had a meeting. This is the mechanism to be able to accept that donation. All in favor, please. Oh, yes. My pleasure. So, now we have a motion to suspend in a confirmed second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? And the reason I'm asking is because it does require unanimous vote in order to suspend. So, I do need to check. All right. I would just like to thank once again thanking the uh township trustee for doing what they did. That's awesome. It's pretty awesome indeed. All right. So, do we have a any

discussion or a motion on the ordinance itself? Motion to adopt. Second. Second. So this is 50,000 for um improved facilities at the BMX facility at IM Imagination Glenn and Wolf Park. A picnic shelter at Wolf Park. Correct. Any other discussion questions? So the re I I'll explain it a little bit more. So, the reason why we had to create a fund for this was because we got a donation of $50,000 from the um Portage Township trustee and he wanted to be used for a specific purpose. So, that's why we had to create a special fund just for that. Shoot, now I've lost track. This has already been motioned and seconded. Okay, great. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? We're good. All right. This gets us to ordinance 3531 amending salary ordinance um 2435V17. Um I'm going to ask if uh councilwoman uh Gh could you uh read the the one for us? Yeah. You just want to read the beginning part then you can say I think let it reflect or let the record reflect. Oh, we don't. I know. I apologize. We'll pass it down to you because I'm determined to make this meeting last a little bit long. could have just had Colin read it, but it just wouldn't seem, you know, this is salary ordinance, budget year 2025, ordinance 2531. An ordinance establishing the

amount of salaries and compensation to be paid to all appointed employees and officers of the city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana for the year 2025. be it and hereby is ordained by the common council of the city of Portage, Indiana as follows. The salary schedule is presented um section one that from the first pay date of January 2025 through the last pay date in December 2025 effective date noted on attachment the pay schedule for the employees and officer of the city of Portage Border County Indiana as followed and it affects the code enforcer officer enforcement officer uh just let the record reflect what this has done. Let the record reflect that this has been read in its entirety. So, this is a first reading. Um, if you guys want to take some time on this, you certainly can. We've had I just explain what's going on and what's been going on. And I think Liz would agree on this if I explain it and feel free to correct if need be. the history of portage, the title or positions of code enforcement officer depending on kind of the year um not so much the budget but the year perceived needs of the city has moved around between different departments primarily between the building department and the police department. What's happened over time is we have within the city itself two code enforcement officers. one is considered or it would be previously if this has changed a it's based on the title of lead or like supervising code enforcement officer even though one does not supervise the other and they are in different departments with different defined responsibilities. Um I believe in the dropbox you guys were given a uh email that was sent or a copy of an email from Lynn Greyick as well as the job descriptions um involved. The goal here is, I believe, to define the job descriptions, match the pay equitably or at least correctly, you know, to what

the job descriptions are and those actual positions. Um, it's not a state, well, to put it really simply, it's something that I believe is necessary to do. It was a problem necessary to solve and this is our proposal, but I understand if you guys have questions or if you'd like some time to dig a little more. I'll make a motion to suspend. Second. Uh we have a motion to suspend and a second. Um all in favor, please uh signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. That gets us to the ordinance itself. I'll make a motion to adopt. Second. Uh we have a motion to adopt and a second. Um any discussion? Otherwise, uh all in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Thank you. That gets us to item F, ordinance 2532, amending schedule of fees established under chapter 14, buildings and building regulations. Let's see. Oh, we're back to um Colin, but I believe this is a first or second reading. This is the first. Okay, Ken, if you go ahead and read this. Uh, ordinance 25-32, an ordinance amending the schedule of fees established under chapter 14, Buildings and Building Regulations, section 14-84 for the city of Portage, Porter County, Indiana. Let the record reflect this has been read in its entirety. So, what you're seeing here are the proposed fees. Uh, Mr. Cherry, did you want to come up for this part? Just to explain. And as noted, we have been trying pretty diligently to catch the city up in terms of appropriate costs. In particular, making sure that quite frankly developments are paying for themselves. The city is getting compensated adequately. I know that Tom

spoke in the e the last meeting or the one before about the needs on the engineering side. Tracy's talked about the needs that we, you know, need for the sanitary that we council took action on. Um Tom's been working on that here. So, I worked with staff. We did a a study, a comparison study within Porter County and some Lake County municipalities and we also did a study of our cost within the department. So, we've uh uh changed the fee schedule uh increased the fees. They have not been increased in many years. So, um so this wasn't just an arbitrary fee. We actually studied um surrounding areas and we're up to par with everybody else. So, um, I would, uh, staff recommends adopting, but I would appreciate it. So, Tom, when was the last time we had increased any of these? Do you do you know? I knew you were Somebody was going to ask me this. I I thought it was 15. Does that sound right? I I think it was before my time. So, that was It was definitely before your time. It's been quite a while. 14 or 15. I mean, these should be looked at every very least every couple years. So if anything, we should probably keep an eye out if surrounding municipalities are going up. This is not the sort of thing where we necessarily benefit from being down. You know, this is something where when people are building subdivisions, building homes and things in the city, we want to make sure that our departments are able to properly handle that. I just have a question for clarification, Tom. Um the acronym ILP, what does that stand for? Uh that's an improvement um location permit. Thank you. Does this include things like, you know, you're putting in a pool or you're

putting up a deck, that kind of stuff for residents? It does. Yes. Some municipalities straight up like itemize those things. In Portage, they're all covered under a particular category. Oh, no problem. Yeah, it's a long list. We have not up, as noted, it's been certainly more than 10 years since the city has updated this. And the the residential um fees did not go up drastically. We're we're not looking to we're not a profit center. We're we're just trying to for our people. Yeah. It looks like the the highest fee is a new commercial permit basically. That is correct. At $800 and then 32 cents a square foot. Yes, sir. Well, I'll make a motion to suspend. Second. We have a motion to suspend and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Not hearing any. We uh point of order. Oh, no. Colin, I don't believe we can suspend because we're dealing with fees. Oh, shoot. Well, I like the spirit and the energy. I appreciate that, too. So, just the first reading then, but I think we got a good sense of it. And I apologize though because I also forgot that we could not suspend because I was, you know. Anyway, well, we'll be ready at the next meeting. All right. Are there any reports from the standing committees you in regards to the Porter County recycling waste reduction? Remind everybody that this Saturday is the

household hazardous waste and secure shredding. Um Saturday, June 7th from 9 to 2 at the Portage High School. Nothing from the ordinance committee. All right. With the city officials, I just wanted to see the chiefs. Uh oh, sorry. I heard a noise. I thought somebody was Sorry. That's okay. You guys all right? Or was there anything? Okay. Okay. Petitions or monstrouses and public input. If you'd like to come up and speak, you certainly can. I try to keep it within about two minutes. I'm not trying to be terribly timery. I like the sign. Thank you. Good evening, council. Mayor is coming. Um, my name is Brian Gully. I'm with the Portage Park and Recreation Foundation. Uh, first wanted to thank everybody for uh, our Brewfest fundraiser a few weeks ago. Um, was another success. I want to thank Councilman Alvarez for coming out and the mayor for coming out and Gina for volunteering every year to help us pour. Um it was a great success. Uh this summer we're doing a sign campaign uh for we love our parks and so we're hoping that residents will want to be park supporters and uh put these signs in their yard. Hoping to see them all over the city. You can get them at the parks department. You pay with cash or card there and then we're also going to be at uh market on the square a few dates selling signs. So if you guys want to help support uh the park department, that's what we do. We're a 5013C charity that everything we do is to help the park department. Um, we've donated, helped build Hannah's Hope. Um, we donated some signs to some of the parks. Um, the roll downs at Open Air Pavilion were us. Um, so, so we've done things around town for probably the last 30 plus years. So, if anybody wants a sign, um, I have a few here in my car. If anybody wants one tonight, otherwise you can pick them up at the park department or we'll see you at Market on the

Square. How much are the signs? Signs are $20. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Not hearing any um any other matters for the council and if not is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor please signify by saying I. I. Thank you everyone. [Applause] [Music]