Town Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everybody and welcome to the March 9th, 2026 Portsouth Town Council meeting. In the event of emergency, if you would please uh rise from your seats, exit out either the door you came in, the one in the back leftand corner to you, back right hand corner to me, or behind Mr. Reese. Now that the snow is gone, we can use that door again. Um, and then we'll go across the street to the Portzouth School Building and wait for further instructions from our first responders. If you would now all please rise and join me in a pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence for our men and women in harm's way. 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 everyone. Madame Clerk, roll call, please. Mr. Gleason, here. Miss McDow, here. Miss Patton. Mr. Poe, here. Mr. Reese, here. Mr. Hamilton, I am here. Um, Miss Blank had a a prior engagement she could not get out of, so she won't be here this evening. Uh, I'd like to start off this evening with some great news from the Portsouth High School. Both our freshman boys basketball team and the varsity boys basketball team both won state championships this weekend. So, Friday night with the break game,

I attended Friday night. It was a very good defensive uh game plan by the coaches and the team and they really stifled Lel and the freshman boys beat up on uh uh Bishop Hendricken pretty good 62 to 48 or something like that. So, great job by all the kids and the coaches and congratulations to them all. Next up, we have our consent to Jenna. Do I have a motion to approve as presented? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes 7 to zero. We have our minute. Six to zero. Six to zero. Sorry. Thank you. We have our minutes of 22526. Any executive that followed?

Motion to approve uh the 22526 minutes and the exec. Second. Any corrections or comments? All those in favor? I oppose. Motion passes 620. Next up, town administrator report. Mr. Rener.

Good evening, Mr. President, town council. Ladies and gentlemen, uh with regard to our waste management programs, as of February 28th, we have uh 93 households on Prudence Island signed up for the Prudence Island transfer station, 2403 uh mainland households using a Headley Street transfer station, and 3,224 signed up for curbside. Uh we plan to present the proposed transfer station and curbside uh fiscical year 27 budgets and recommended pricing at the March 23rd council meeting. With regard to the uh fiscal year 27 budget, a second review of the town department budgets will wrap up this week. Uh the school committee was planning to conclude their review of the school department budget at their meeting tomorrow night. Unfortunately, we received the anticipated health and dental rates for fiscal years 27 today and they are significantly higher than the school and town plan for uh to the order of 16.47 increase for health and dental will be 9.14 or just over 11% uh pending a decision by the trust board. The school department will therefore just review uh these changes and what's needed to be done to balance their budget at the meeting tomorrow and we will rework the proposed budget incorporating the higher rates. The proposed fiscal year 27 town budget is still on track to be submitted to the council on March 27th. Uh last Friday we held a founders day ceremony and town hall to mark the 388th birthday or anniversary of the Portsmith compact and the founding of our community in 1638. Uh the event was well attended and we were honored to have Rhode Island Secretary of State Greg Moria speaker along with Steven Loose from the Portsouth Historical Society who shares some historical perspective on the compact and Portsouth's early days. The Newport Artillery Company also participated as the compact honor guard

and attendees had the opportunity to view a rare public display of the original Portsouth compact. I'd like to thank the Portsouth Historical Society, the Newport Artillery Company and town staff who made this event possible. Uh given the weather today, it's hard to believe that we are in the midst of a blizzard just two weeks ago tonight. Overall, our public works team did an outstanding job uh responding to what was a significant snow event. Crews began pre-treating roads and mobilizing early. And once the storm intensified, they worked continuously to keep the primary roads open and support access for emergency services. Given the amount of snow we received, the cleanup and road widening continued for several days afterwards. We also coordinated closely with the police and fire departments who handled storm related calls and helped monitor road conditions across town. Fortunately, we did not re experience any major emergencies during the storm. We did however experience a power outage affecting a portion of the town during the storm, but DPW worked to support Rhode Island Energy's response efforts and power was restored as fast as the weather conditions allowed. Overall, I want to thank our public works, police, fire, emergency management, administrative staff for their efforts during the storm. It was a strong uh team response and helped the town return to normal operations quickly. And then lastly, just uh another uh quick reminder that the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns annual convention is coming up on Thursday, March 19th, and registration for the event uh is still open and will continue through this Friday. If anybody needs any help, just let me know. That concludes my report, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. Rainer. Any questions for All right. Next up, we have our new business. First up, we have a request for approval of the historic register acknowledgement letter from the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission. Mr. Johnson, on behalf of the Friends of the Glenn Manor House and the Historical Society,

Steve Johnson, 44 Wing Road. Good evening. I would like to begin by saying that Steve, you just pull the microphone a little bit closer to you so you can talk right into it. You got to talk right to the front of it. Thank you, sir. Good evening. What I was thinking about was Jim Garin and how it's really unfortunate that he's not the one here at the podium because when the friends and we have several of the board members here, including our president, Brenda Doran, when we first began discussing it last year, I searched or sought Jim out uh on the historical society board and asked his advice and his guidance and he was instrumental in getting us started and I miss him as a friend. We miss him as the town historian ameritus. We just miss him and thank you for your kind words at the last council meeting, but we can't pause and and think too much about u missing him. In 1979, the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and History Commission, vice versa, um, commissioned a study to do a preliminary review of all of the historical sites in Rhode Island. They identified those that were already on the national register such as here in Portsouth. We have the Union Church which is the home of the historical society. Uh Glenn Oakland which is the Julia Ward House on Union Church on

Union Road, the Friends Meeting House, the Battle of Rhode Island District. They also identified other things that have received preliminary approval for listing on the National Register such as St. Mary's Church and the Glen Farm Historic District. St. Mary's Church applied in 1973, excuse me, in 2023 and was approved. And that is the kind of thing that the historical commission and heritage historical preservation and HPHC is looking to happen with all of those that are listed that are still available because the Sconet Railroad Bridge is no longer eligible. Um, what it needs is to have someone who's going to run with the ball and the friends of the Glenn Manor House, the Portsouth Historical Society are willing to run with the ball. We have identified funding to uh hire a consultant to do the writing of the grant, which is what Jim Garmin insisted we needed to do, and we are willing to follow that through. What do we need from the town? We do not need cash. We do not need any effort. We just need a signature on the final application once it is ready. What are the benefits to our community? What are the benefits to the town? Certainly listing on the national register gives us recognition of the historical importance that we appreciate, but others will now have a better ability to see that. We will have better ability to go for grant funding. We will have an ability to uh see in advance anything that the feds or the state want to do that might affect a listed property. And you may be asking,

well, what are the drawbacks? What are the considerations? And there is a two sides of the same coin. When we want to make a modification to a structure that is listed, we have access to the experts, the architects and so forth at the HPHC. And then having consulted them about the most economic and appropriate way to make any modification to historical structure, we submit our plans to them. They review them and they have a maximum a maximum of 30 days to get back to us. When we did the external lift to the uh ADA lift to the uh Union church, it was about a week and it went very very smoothly and simply. So those are the benefits. That's the consideration and it is simply to move forward and get on the state review board calendar. They need to have a formal acknowledgement from the town of Portsouth that you all are on port. Are there any questions? Uh yes, I have a couple of questions. Um is there a map or is it that shows which areas are going to be protected? Is it like the soccer in the ball fields, the Brownhouse, the facilities and whatnot?

That's a great great question. Um first it will not the actual boundaries for the district will not be finalized until the interaction between or excuse me among the HBHC the town the friends the H the historical preservation society having looked at the research that the consultant does to say here's what we recommend and then The state review board will take all of that and say here's what we think and it will be a a a consultive agreement. The general boundaries are from East Main Road down to the Sakconit from Sandy Point to Glenn and then a little bit north of Glenn is the general contours of the area, but it would not include everything that is there. It because much of that is of course within the last 50 years and would not be an historic structure. Thank you. Any other questions, Mr. Gle? Just a question of the staff. Is there any concerns of the staff um in moving forward with this?

Uh Steve and I have already talked about this. My obvious concern is will this in any way hinder the town's ability to do any uh construction uh improvements uh capital improvements or alterations that you may desire a council may desire in the future. So in other words, does uh an outside agency have veto authority over a decision that you may want to make here? Are you referring to the Glen Farm Barns? I think is the one that I think about the most. Is that I fair statement?

Glen Farm Barns and I'm also thinking about the Glenn Manor House. We do have a vendor that operates uh a wedding venue uh out of that house uh and we do capital improvements there every year. Will this add another layer of approval authority beyond the town council that will be required before we can say replace a door or an awning or a patio or a garden shingles so on and so forth. And what is the answer?

The answer is that the HPHC will review the plans. We would submit uh under a cover letter a drawing of what we want to do, a map of the area, photographs uh and anything that we uh propose to do to mitigate anything that would uh impact the historic character of what we plan on doing. And they would use their historic architects that they have on staff to provide commentary. And they would come back to us promptly with one of three responses. This looks great. Please proceed. This looks great. Please consider doing or we have some big objection. And those latter things don't tend to happen, especially because you coordinate, we would coordinate those kinds of things in advance. I used the examples of the Glen Matter House as well as a theoretical modification to a bard as I was coming up to speed myself, especially when we learned that none of none of the people at HPHC were able to make the council meeting this evening. But I asked them a series of questions over the weekend. They did their best to prepare me. Is that responsive? So, unless we come up and say we're going to put vinyl signing on the manor house, we're go we're okay. I think that's a fair comment. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the letter?

So moved. Second. All those in favor? I oppose. Motion passes six to zero. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, ladies. Next up, we have a request to advertise a public hearing for the community development block grants for uh two meetings from now on March 23rd. Motion to approve that.

I have a comment. Sure. Okay. Um this ad was in the Portsouth Times in the March 5th edition. The ad had to be submitted and it's to advertise for this. Uh, the ad had to be submitted by um the advertising deadline of 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 3rd. This is one week prior to the council's ability to vote on this. This is listed as new business, too. Mr. Rainey, can you explain how the process works and how the council is the head of the town government was left out of this decision? Uh, I'll defer to Miss Hitchin, a town planner.

Good evening everybody. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Ms. McDow reached out to me also this afternoon as to how this could happen and I tried to explain to her, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Gleason who are also on the email thread that technically the town council has never been asked to approve an advertisement for CDBG applications before. Um, I was trying not to replicate what has happened with CDBG applications in the past. Um, and I was trying to be transparent and provide the council with the courtesy of knowing that a CDBG application was was forthcoming. In hindsight, I probably should have just prepared a memo that this was coming. Instead, I put it on as this way. But um CDBG representatives usually put the um legal ad together themselves and do not ask you to request advertisement approval.

Okay. So we we can't really authorize a public hearing without fully knowing what the public hearing will entail or if a hearing is required. I I guess I guess I could request to withdraw this and it's still going on on March 23rd. And we'll be there to make judgment on this. And are we going to receive more backup for this? Of course you are. Ahead of the meeting. Of course you are. I gave you as much information as I could that I have at the moment. Okay. Because what we got was just basically a synopsis of what is it was the legal ad.

It's okay. This this is solely a request to advertise the public hearing, not to discuss the actual project or project. You don't have to do it. It's been done. That's what I'm saying. So, what are we what are we voting on? I think maybe she should withdraw that. It doesn't matter either way. Either way, on the 23rd, we're going to have a public hearing. Well, that was it's a Miss Patton, I have a question. So, was do you have the applications for these? I I don't have the applications yet. I will have a letter of intent for the March 23rd meeting, which will be in your backup for March 23rd. So, we'll get it the same night as the meeting.

You'll get it in preparation for the March 23rd meeting as the backup. It will be in your backup. I would like it before that is what I was asking. I'm just trying to find out because it's real hard to go through everything, you know, couple days. You will get it before the meeting like you do in all your packets. Okay, thanks. M question is it um because of the timeline that's these folks have to have it done by that we've come up with March 23.

Um it is according to um the office of housing there's about $1.2 2 million left over from um program fund 24. It's the same program program um fund that we got money for the Quaker Estates heating program. So we are I guess you can say that it's um of utmost concern that we move forward with this. um CDBG process has known to be quite slow. So I I wish I could give you a better answer.

What what I was trying to get a feel for is whether we will ever get additional time or is it just because they just make an announcement. Okay, we have money left over from 2024. You have to have it into us by April 5th or something. That's the scenario we're working with. Yes. Assume, right? And it still has to go to the planning board. Um, it will be on the planning board April agenda to make sure that the applications are consistent with the comprehensive community plan. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions?

Is there a motion to approve the advertisement or we're just going to have the meeting anyways on the 23rd? So, motion to approve as presented. Is there a second? hearing none. We'll see you all on the 23rd, even though it's already advertised. Okay. New business number three, approval of the auditors, Miss Marsen, for the next three years and potentially five.

Good evening, Mr. President and honorable town council. Tonight, I'm representing the recommendation for the award of the town's auditing services RFP. The town received three proposals in response to this RFP. Each sub each submission was reviewed carefully by management including myself, the school finance director and town administrator uh using the evaluation criteria outlined in the RFP as well as additional metrics recommended by the Rhode Island auditor's general office um for municipal audit. Wow, I'm having a day for a municipal audit procurements. While cost is one component of the evaluation, I want to emphasize that audit pricing for municipalities is not simply a lowest bid scenario. The auditor general provides guidance that includes a formula based pricing framework along with their with other qualitative factors such as experience with municipal audits, staffing plans, hours allocated to the engagement and understanding of the Rhode Island reporting requirements. After reviewing all proposals against this criteria, management is re recommending H sahadi and company for award. Um the recommendation before you tonight reflects a comprehensive evaluation um rather than cost alone based on the evaluation process. Um again we recommend awarding Hey, Sahad and Company.

Thank you. Thank you. Any questions for Miss Marzen? Is there a motion to approve Heg Shahad and O?

Go ahead Mr. Gleason. Yeah, I just had a question. Um, I know the uh we've had Sahad, I call him Hagen Sahadi, I'll be formal about that for nine years perhaps at this point. Yeah. Um, the last time around I I caught a human error. You know, it's supposedly fixed, but should you know, and we're down to you found three people to get bids from. It seems like the there's not a big field out there. Um, and I'm sure all all of them could do this. Um, I do want to support the count the the town's um choice on this. The only concern I have is and I believe it's part of the um the RFP that you formulate to get your contract. Is there any kind of type of opt out uh clause in there if we should find out a year down the road that we've decided we don't want them and they don't want to work for us question. Maybe Gio, do you know the answer to that?

Um I I don't think you're going to write a separate contract if we say yes. It's probably part of the RFP. Is it? Yeah. And I did confirm that that that's the process. So, there'd be a letter agreement that basically says, "We acknowledge the terms of the RFP and we're committing to to bind bind both parties to the RFP language." And that's important because the state um requires very specific components to be included in that RFP. They review it before we put it out. It's it's a a very tight process compared to most contracting. So, there's not a lot of flexibility in in how you contract.

Okay. Um, I think if we were going to put a a a an opt out sort of early termination provision in there, we'd probably need to run that up the flag pole to the state and and get their approval for that before we could sign that agreement. Okay. Um, but I I don't I can't say that it's impossible. Um, but I just don't know if it's uh common, but if there was a material defect in their audit, absolutely. That would be a breach of a contract or the RFP. Yes. Yeah. So outside of a typo. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You're good. I'm good. Go.

Yeah. I just when in looking at this I I just remember several years ago attending a a workshop with the MMA Massachusetts Municipal Association. And the person giving that uh workshop was not, you know, he wasn't working for a specific um auditing firm. He was just talking about best practice with auditing. And I remember him saying that um that municipalities should look to changing auditors, their auditing firm every five to six years. Um because of a fresh look, new people, etc. It made sense to me then. And um and when I was looking at this, I I I looked at the um reviewers and I know there's a a $5,900 um difference each year. Um but when I look at Mr. Rainer's um total score for these, I mean, it was right up there. And and is there any appetite for getting that fresh look? um as as I once heard is best practice. I'm just throwing it out there

with regard to my scoring. Uh all the bids were strong. Uh there were two areas that I had well the first one is Ka Kayla has mentioned that we really don't have any control over. It's formulaic uh with regard to the points awarded for price. Um but with regard to the overall score when you went into the bid packages uh they're also making those prices based on how many hours they anticipate to work on the town's audit. Uh Hag Sahadi was willing to uh put in it was it was over 600 hours per audit per year and then above and beyond that there's a price uh scale. Uh the two other biders uh bid uh very close in price but about a 100 hours less uh work or time to put into the audit than the other uh bidder he sahadi. So, let's say if this were a five-year contract at 3 years and two years, that's the option. That's 500 hours. Uh that's an entire year's audit for the two uh higher biders. So, I I had to uh score uh with that in mind. Uh but that's, you know, I'm not a uh I'm not a CPA. I'm not an accountant. So, uh, at that point then I defer to Chris Dro and Caleb Marson, our accountants. Um, with regard to the comment, you should get a fresh face. Uh, while HEG Sahadi is the firm, in the past nine years, I think we've had about I want to say three or four different teams uh that have been assigned to uh, Portsmith. So, it's not always the same team that comes in and

audits the town. Okay. Thank you. Mr. President, I would uh make a motion that we approve Hag Hogahi for the auditing uh work with the town. Second. Any further questions? All those in favor? I oppose. Motion passes six to zero. Next up, we have new business number four, which is request authorization with a townwideformational mailing to households who are not currently enrolled in either the curbside or the transfer station on either mainland or in um prudence.

Right. So, uh, throughout this fiscal year, as you know, we've been closely monitoring participation, uh, levels in both curbside, uh, and a transfer station programs as part of, uh, the enterprise fund model approved by the council. So, there are approximately 6,700 households eligible for uh, either program. As reported earlier, we have 3,224 households enrolled in the curbside program, 2403 households enrolled in the Headley Street uh program, and another 93 uh in the Prudence Island transfer station. So, that totals a little over 5,200 households participating in one of the two programs, which leaves roughly 1,200 households uh that are eligible, but not currently enrolled in either program. So, the curbside program was initially priced assuming 4,000 subscribers. We're currently about 776 subscribers below that part that projection. Because this is an enterprise fund, participation levels directly affect the sticker price required to support the program. So, at this time, we anticipate that the curbside subscription price for fiscal year 27 will need to increase by approximately $160, largely due to the participation gap and normal operating adjustments. So even with that adjustment, the program remains competitive. However, uh just prior to the implementation of curbside, uh the price for vendors was in the range of $900 annually, often with less frequent recycling and no yard waste pickup. So one of the steps we've discussed is a targeted outreach effort to households that are not currently enrolled in any programs. So the goal is not enforcement, but education. We want to make sure that residents understand the options available and encourage participation. So, I'm therefore requesting the council authorize us to send a letter to those households explaining the programs and encouraging them to participate. To avoid any concern about unapproved expenditures,

the mailing will be funded as a pre-expense to the fiscy year enterprise fund budgets. And again, this is simply just one step in what we are framing as a closing the gap strategy to improve participation and help stabilize the costs over time. Mr. Reefs. Yeah. Um, what kind of response do you expect from this? I mean, do you have a feeling for how many people you think you're going to pick up that don't know about this?

We will. It's hard to say how many people really don't know about these programs in Portsouth. I I I think I'd be hardressed to try to make that argument. What I think is it's going to highlight the letter is going to be written in a way that highlights what the cost is to not participating in the only two uh waste disposal options uh legal outside of con you know large condo associations and commercial uh that are legal in Portsouth. Uh so there is a real cost to not participating in the program. Uh and that cost this year is going to be $160. So you think that if somebody has some other method of disposing of their trash, you're saying that's not legal.

Now that's not true because Portsouth residents, unlike Prudence Island, have many legal ways to dispose of trash. Portsouth residents who are contractors with dumpsters or any resident who works in or out of a town for a contractor will not participate. Business owners and employers will seldom need to participate. Houses can be vacant for long periods of time for a variety of reasons. I have too. Once rented and furbished, tenants will join a service. Um, some residents own self occupied beach or additional rental houses and there's a lot of people that work off the island that that's part of their bennies. I know a lot of people that, you know, they don't disagree with any of that.

Well, it was the fact that you said legal. You use the word legal that those are the legal methods of waste. Those are legal. Now, it's more difficult on prudence to do that.

Let me put it to you this way. We're talking 1,200 households that are eligible. There may be 1,200 households who have alternative disposal methods. When we bid this out, we interviewed two companies. We didn't interview all of them. We brought in Waste Management. It it was finally deemed that they were not eligible to receive the contract. So, we went with uh Mega. When we discussed their numbers and how many bins they would have to pick up, Waste Management had over 3,000 customers, over 6,000 bins they had to pick up. Mega had over a thousand. So, at that time, we had over 2,000 signups at the Headley Street station. So those two vendors alone, and there were at least five operating in town, had over 4,000 households to pick up trash from. That's what we're basing this on. So while there are people that definitely take their trash to a dumpster at work or what have you, I just don't think it's credible to say that there's 1,200 households that are all doing that. said we need to capture as many of those households as we can,

okay, that are not using those types of of waste disposal methods so that we can stabilize the curbside program. That's all we're doing.

Well, I have one other question. Why when the contract is being written, and I've had some experience with this when I'm working for the Navy, usually you go in and you get three different levels. I would have picked 4,000 to get the lowest price obtainable, 3500 or 3,200 just so that you would have had a range to work from and you would have had you would have known then where you'd be if you were short on the people coming in and not joining the program because it seems we had an inaccurate initial estimate of users and now we're we got to correct it but it's I'm not sure how we're going to do it but if we're if this is what you want to try. It's just a part of the process of closing the gap.

Yep. But we're we're going to look at that, right, Mary? We're looking at it.

We're looking at it. We've made some No, we've made some big strides going like Mary and I went to Prudence Island. We spent hours over there. We went through everything. Had a good good meeting. Yeah, I think this um the letter is a a very good step as part of the process to again use it as an education uh use it uh to refresh people's minds on uh the process and and hopefully we'll get some more people to um to sign up and it'll ultimately affect the bottom line of what others will pay. So, I I think it's a great idea to uh send a letter out and and try to garner up more uh signups.

You want to make that a motion? What's that? Would you like to make that a motion so we can move this along? over. I'd like to make a motion that we um send out a letter um to the 1,200 residents who have are neither signed up for any of our trash um 1,200 households. 1,200 households, any of our tra either of our trash programs. Second, Mr. Gleason,

I I support this motion. Um, I I would rather be doing this now to see if we can pick up some more people. Um, and I I don't know whether this whether this accomplish that. I hope it does, but we're already, you know, it's March 23, we'll be talking about how we solve this problem. And we know of the I don't know if you've included the $150 increase with the um the CPI for trash. I think that was four and a half percent as well. that I believe that's like $21 as well. Yes, we do.

Yeah. So, that's incorporated as well. But, um it's just going to be a tough one to tell people that we're going to raise your rates because basically due to lack of participation. That's where we're standing on this thing. I have I do have a I have another I just finished. I'm sorry. I thought you would. No problem. So, um hopefully we'll see something come back. It's a process we should follow through on. And the money to spend for the mailing is it's already recycling related funds. So, we're not taking it out of the budget per se. A new batch of money, if you will. Thank you, Mr. Re.

All I had a question on was um do we have a number for what all the rest of the towns so that this is equal? I mean, if if they're going up because of the CPI, what are other towns going up? or other towns locally so that we can explain it to people more that it's not just some of some of it is, you know, the consumer price index and tipping fees and things like that. Sure. Well, we're lucky in the fact that the tipping free the tipping fee is going to remain $63 a ton next year at Ryre. All right.

Uh that's a good thing. Uh most of these contracts, I haven't looked at all the other towns in Rhode Island, but most of these contracts have an escalator in there which is based on the CPIU for uh waste removal. There's an actual line out of the hundreds. Uh and usually that is a figure that is calculated uh or that is factored into the pricing strategy at some point during the previous fiscal year. Ours is December 31st and at December 31st it closed at 4.7%. Do they have a a fuel search charge tax? Because that might be coming into play. I don't want to. You You'll be losing sleep. Yeah. Losing enough sleep over the health. I hope not.

Kathy, there was a hand up and it went away. Okay. Hopefully that question was answered. Right. We have a motion in a second to approve the letter going out to,200 households. Any other questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes six to zero. Next up, we have our correspondence. Bunch of letters. We have a few responses from our um resolution and a few other resolutions on here. Mr. President, uh make a motion to approve, but I would like to move number eight to the March 23rd meeting.

Second. Well, there's a motion to receive and place on file and moving number eight to uh old business on the 23rd. Yes. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes six to zero. Next up, we have future meetings. We have a meeting next Monday night at 7 p.m. That'll be our public hearing on a new siding ordinance. We have our regularly scheduled meeting on the 23rd of March and also on the April 13th, which would be our first meeting in April. Any other meetings or thoughts? A motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I oppose.