City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, we will call the meeting to order. Ripen City Council, January 13, 2026. Uh Mr. Turpra, could you report on the close session we had? Absolutely, Mr. Mayor. Um the council did meet in close session starting at 5:30. All members of the council were present during the entirety of the close session. There was no reportable action out of that. Very good. Thank you. And uh let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. Remain standing for the invocation. Uh, Chief Sauer, could you lead us in the pledge tonight to the flag of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, [clears throat] with liberty and justice for all.

Good evening, Pastor Matt Riddle, First Presbyterian. Let me open in prayer. Our father, we thank you for our wonderful city of Ripen. Lord, we pray that you would bless her, protect her, provide for her. We're thankful for these servants of our city. We pray that you would um be honored uh in this meeting tonight. And God, that the the business attended to, discussions had would be for the good of of this people and community. And God, we just ask your blessing upon this gathering. and we pray that um that it would honor you. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you.

All right. Uh Lisa, we have a roll call. Council member Daniel Degraphth here. Leo Zuber here. Mayor [clears throat] present. Vice Mayor Dean Uker here. Mayor Gary Barton present. Uh at this time, if there is anyone who would like to discuss uh an issue or item that is not on the agenda, the floor is yours. Uh we'd ask you to keep your comments to uh three minutes. And I see our poet laurate is at the microphone.

Thank you very much. Happy New Year to all of you. Um my name is Emil Golermo first poet of Ripen. Today three short poems. The first is called report. As Ripen poet laurate I provide this report on the state of poetry in ripen like a state of the union address but with fewer in attendance. At the public library there were five. To them I say rhyme if necessary but free verse is still free. The important thing is to feel. And then I read a poem of grief. And then one woman said, "Me too." And another read her poem about her dead mother. And another said, "Me, too. We created community through poetry." The next week, I spoke to students at Ripen Christian. The urban person from elite school had something to say to these kids from the valley who pay for the privilege of a private education. I read them Casey at the bat and Robert Frost and little Miss Muffet. and Pablan Deruda's questions like what forced labor does Hitler do in hell and they read aloud their own poetry of going to Alaska poems of family food dogs and cats and we had more in common than we thought Tracy K Smith the 22nd poet laurate of the US said we are not in a world of division we have much to say to each other let us find it in poetry in rippen Poem number two, Robin, a ripping dog. She was black with white sock feet and some white rough down her chest that looked like a bikini top. Robin was 14 all of her years spent racing on the grassy fields of Mistlin or at the schools now locked. She chased in the shadow of our other dog, Ross the McNab. The red rubber frisbee in her mouth

looked like lips as she flew by. Now both dogs are gone. Robin was put down the Saturday Venezuela became our chore. Robin wasn't into geopolitical stuff, but she sure wishes Ripen had a dog park. Poe number three, city hall poem. I don't know his politics, just his actions. He stopped me once and thanked me for being poetic. He had an S on his shirt and it didn't stand for Salida. Gary Barton is the mayor of Ripin. At the last meeting he broke from tradition with all his family around. He spoke. He gave an inaugural address and he used metaphor Reagan's image of a shining city on a hill. It works. Even in Ripen, known for its flatness, where the hills are man-made, overpasses, and water towers, Ripen still aspires to be a shining city. Respectfully submitted, your poet laurate to Neil Germo. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Emil. I do. And when you come to the podium, could you state your name and address, please? Hi, I'm Jeff Hler. I'm with the RIP VFW Post 1051. First of all, the flag post downtown look great, but they're lacking one thing, the flag holders. My question is, [clears throat] when will they be put back up? I can I can answer that. We we could expect that here in the next week or two to be Oh, really? Yeah. You're talking about the decorative poles downtown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the flag holders would be up. Yeah.

ROTC kids are getting fat because they're not running up and down the street putting flags up. Yeah. Yeah. They removed everything when we went through the painting process working on getting the signs back up and then the flag holders as well. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Very good. Thank you. Would anyone else like to address the council on matters not on the agenda? Lisa, anyone online? Very good. Let's move to uh approval of the minutes. Uh two sets of minutes for our regular meeting last month as well as a special meeting on December 23rd. I'll move to approve both sets of minutes.

Second. I have a motion and a second.

Motion approved. Next, uh our [clears throat] consent calendar. Um I believe we have one item to be pulled. Is that correct, Mr. Mayor? Yeah, I would like to pull item 1.3A. Very good. Anyone else? Okay, we have a motion or a u one item pulled. Uh can we now have a motion to approve the agenda as amended? So moved. Thank you.

Motion second. Agenda amended agenda is agenda is approved. Uh and then we go to one. Now now we have to approve the consent calendar. That also passes. All right. Now we go back to the uh Mr. Turp, the item that you wanted to address.

Yeah. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Um just briefly, this is more of a cleanup item. Um the resolution that was included in the agenda packet is uh it needs to be updated just to reflect that um Calvary Reformed Church has not yet executed the grant deed and so we anticipate that to happen later this week. Um, so the resolution is uh I've put a redline version of that with the amendments and in short what we're doing here is delegating authority to the mayor to accept the deed once it is tendered to the city which again we expect to be done later this week. So um with that happy to take questions. Otherwise I would suggest a motion um to approve the resolution with the revisions from legal council incorporated to delegate this authority to accept the deed to the mayor um once it is tendered by Calvary Reform Church.

Very good. Any questions? If not, uh is there a motion to accept? I'll move to approve as amended. Second.

Thank you for getting this done, Kevin and Tom. Yep. Very good. Thank you, Tom. Uh revised resolution is approved. All right. Uh let's move forward with public hearing. Uh first item is on our uh Prop 218 water sewer garbage rates modifications for uh uh 2026. And uh Mr. Werner,

thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a process we go through every five years to ensure our three enterprise funds for water, sewer, and garbage um are um receiving sufficient revenue. uh uh to do everything we need to do within those funds. So, we did hire a consultant to prepare a report. That report um on the financials of each of those funds was presented at a workshop on October 30th. Um and the following that discussion, that report was updated and that was uh the rates that were sent out in the most recent um uh uh ballot, if you will, or notification to to the city customers. Um, on November 10th, 2025, the city council adopted a resolution in accordance with Proposition 218 to increase the water, sewer, and garbage rates as of February 1, 2026 uh, and over the next five years. So even with the rate increases approved as of for the for the 2026 year, our rates um in total are 11% lower than those other cities around us that that we surveyed. Um so with that resolution, um there was a couple things. It did set the public hearing for tonight. Um, so for tonight, um, anyone who has a a ballot that they would like to submit needs to be submitted prior to the the close of the hearing, um, and, uh, staff did send out notices to all the property owners by mail, um, that have an opportunity to send in a protest ballot. For a majority protest to exist, it requires 2,697

protest ballots to be uh submitted to to the city. So, with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Tonight is is just the public hearing. Um as long as a majority protest does not exist, these rates will go into effect over the next five years. Very good. Thank you, Kevin. Uh questions from council. I will report out after the close um after the public hearing.

Very good. Any other questions? If not, uh to repeat what Kevin said, if uh one would like to enter a protest of um these rate increases, uh we would need to do so at the end of the

prior to the end of the public hearing and we will open the public hearing now if anyone would like to speak to this matter. [snorts] Seeing none, Lisa, anyone online? We'll close the public hearing [clears throat] and uh bring this back to council. Um so is this the point, Lisa, where you report Yes. the number of protests?

Yes. So as Kevin said, at this time to oppose the rate change, there needs to be 2,697 protest ballots and I have received under 100. So therefore, a majority protest is not present. And because the majority protest is not palent present, the new rates for the 2026 to 2030 year will be implemented per resolution 25-36. No further action is needed by the council. Very good. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you, Kevin. [clears throat]

Okay. Uh let's see. We are on to our uh ordinance second reading. of ordinance 933. And thank you, Dean. Is council member Uker is excusing himself. So, we have a second reading adoption of this. Uh I believe we've already waved the reading. So is there any discussion on this at council? If not, this is a public hearing. Would anyone in the audience like to speak to this issue? Seeing none, close public hearing.

Not a public hearing. It's not a public hearing. No, we'll just But there is opportunity for public comment on any item, so we'll just call it that. All right. Uh but this does need uh council action to approve. Correct. All right. Make a motion to second reading and adopt the ordinance. That would be great. Otherwise, Lisa has to read the whole thing. That's my motion.

I'll second. Motion second. Ordinance passes. Mr. Uker can return to the room. Just

so now the ordinance takes effect in 30 days and that means that the reszone is effective in 30 days and we're done. Thank you. [clears throat and cough] All right, Dean, do you need to catch your breath or are you good? Okay. [laughter] All right. Uh, next item, uh, discussion item, uh, engineering traffic study. And Mr. Werner,

thank you. Um, I would like to just introduce Mitchell Olrich. Um, he has worked with the city of Ripen now for six months. Um he graduated Ripen High in 2018 and um has been doing a great job in the engineering department helping out with uh encroachment permits and different studies um that we've been working on. Um so with that I will turn this over uh to Mitchell who who did the work on this project.

Uh thank you Kevin. Uh yeah uh as you said I'm uh relatively new to the engineering department but one of the things that um I've been working on for the last 6 months is the 2025 engineering and traffic survey. Uh so I put together like a relatively brief presentation um hoping to give you guys a rundown of a few things. Um these three basics that I think I'd like to convey to you guys uh today and to the public today. Uh it is just why does the city conduct an engineering and traffic survey. Um the last one that we did was in 2015 uh and why we did another one in 2025. Uh another thing is I want you guys to learn the basic processes and what was done during this engineering and traffic survey. Uh and then I'd like to tell you what we found in the city of Ripen. Um so the first thing is the why. Uh the basic why of why we do these um is just to establish uh speeds in this excuse me speed limits in the city of Ripen. Um the California vehicle code says that the engineering and traffic surveys are designed to establish reasonable and safe operating speeds within a specific roadway uh in in a city. Um so 25 miles an hour is the legal default for speed limits within residential, business and school zones. So anywhere around Ripen um that is established as a residential, business or school zone is automatically 25 mph. Uh obviously as you can see not all of our speed limits in Ripen are 25 miles an hour. So in the past there was a change to these uh and that was when an engineering and traffic survey was done. Now, every five years after a speed limit has been changed through an engineering and traffic survey, the city is required to do another one to essentially justify that these speed

limits are still safe, still reasonable, and still efficient for the public to get around town. Now, these this 5-year mark can be extended based on a variety of circumstances. And in the case of Ripen, uh, our five years was extended to 10 years in 2015 and we're able to do it again in 2025 and we will look to do another extension or do it in 5 years in the future. Now, this is important because if we don't do this engineering and traffic survey, we essentially hamper the ability of the police department uh quite directly uh in enforcing the speed limits in town. uh if we do not do these engineering and traffic surveys, the these limits become uninforceable and the police department is not allowed to uh essentially use radar guns and do their job. Um and we create a speed trap which is illegal. So these are necessary to continue to do and to stay on top of and we can't miss out on these. So um that's essentially the why. uh the these are basically establish or these are done uh in three major elements. Uh the first element of an engineering and traffic survey which is by far the most important part of the survey is something called prevailing speeds. Prevailing speeds are a uh is essentially the 85th percentile of a 100 cars that are surveyed free flowing cars that are surveyed uh with a radar in an unmarked vehicle. So, what happens is the basic process is I sit out um with a radar gun in an unmarked vehicle. Uh and I wait for cars to pass me by. Uh and with my uh radar gun, I keep track of every car that passes and mark the speed. Um so, as you can imagine, this can take some time. Um but we're tracking the speeds and these are marked down. Uh after we've gotten a hundred of these speeds marked down, uh we find the

85th percentile. So we have 100 cars. Car number 85 is the is the key point. Uh and what we do with that is we track something um uh we we track that 85th percentile. I'll get a little into a little more about the process um briefly. But um the reason that we use this number the 85th percentile to try to guide where our speed limits are uh is based on uh studies that have been done in the past and this is the what the state has adopted as how they want to guide speed limits. Um they found that the safest speed uh within a a sub a subset of cars uh or or tracked vehicles is right around the 90th percentile. That's the that's the lowest on uh what we would call a crash index. Um and this the idea behind this is that people who know where know the areas that they're driving, they're comfortable in the areas. Uh they've seen these things before, they usually drive um around, you know, that that 85th percentile. So the idea is 85% of drivers are good. So we're going to try to to keep our speed limits at that point. Um, furthermore, uh, the next part of an engineering and traffic survey after we find that 85th percentile is collision history. So, we keep track of all of the cars and all of the accidents that have happened and using the information uh provided by the police department. We we collect that and and add it to the survey. Now, uh the third and final part is uh the roadside conditions. So, we keep track of anything that's around these neighborhoods or around these streets. So, if there, for example, if there's houses, that is something that's extremely notable, right? Where there's going to be driveways, children playing, these are all things that we need to note. Um, the state provides a list of things that we should all be looking out for. Um, these things can include

striping, uh, the amount of lanes, bike lanes, uh, anything that we might deem important for safety of drivers, safety of pedestrians, uh, cyclists, anything else. Um, so it's an exhaustive list, but these are some of the more important examples that I listed. So, local land uses, um, number of lanes, striping, uh, so on and so forth. Okay. Um, now a little bit more about the process. Uh so in Ripen here, we decided that we were going to look at 41 separate roadways. Um this isn't arbitrary. Uh these are roadways and sections of roadways that have had their speed limits raised in the past. So they used to be 25 and they were either raised to 30 uh 35 or 45 uh somewhere around town. So for example, like Jack, right? It's been raised to 45 in certain sections. So that is a roadway that we looked at along with the 40 other roadways. Um so we do this uh both directions, right? So if for Jack for example, uh that runs north and south. So we collect 50 cars north, 50 cars south, and that is collected onto a survey sheet that looks something like that, which is very fun. um can't really see much of it, but essentially it's just a collection of all the speed limits and all the cars that were that were marked on a specific roadway. Um now the data is collected just purely raw. Uh we compile that with that collision uh history like we talked about uh and uh any kind of notable street conditions that we may have found in the past. Um, with this information, uh, after it's all compiled, uh, there's a discussion, uh, and the CDC allows local jurisdictions to do, uh, a few things. One of them is set the speed limit right at that 85th percentile that we spoke about earlier uh which would be right we've collected 100 cars the 85th car if that shows 35 miles an hour and

we believe that that is a safe and and efficient uh place to set the speed limit then we will continue forth and set the speed limit there. So it's extremely data driven. We make sure that the data shows us that it is a safe speed limit uh and that's what we move forward. Another thing that we can do is we can raise it or lower it to the nearest 5 mph increment uh with no justification. So there's no need if we see something that says for example 39 m an hour uh that's our 85th percentile number, we can lower that five that those four miles an hour down to 35 with no justification um if we believe that's the safe u direction to go. Um, next we can further lower another 5 mph increment uh based on a set list of justifications that are provided to us by the state and this is a broad and exhaustive list as well. Um, these and can include collision histories, road geometrics, the safety of pedestrians uh or anything else that we might deem or or that the state might deem as a safety risk or as a reason that these should be lower lowered or raised. So these are other justifications to keep in mind. Um and they leave these very much so in the hands of the local jurisdiction um to to to figure out because we know our cities better than the state would. Um and finally uh something that the city also would like to note is that we factor in the continuity of speed limits very heavily uh in the way that we design our speed limits around town and the way that the data we want the data to reflect. Uh and uh so the continuity of speed limits would be we don't want a street to go from 45 to 25 to 35 back to 45 down to 25 again. Uh it feels arbitrary. It's not safe for drivers. It's not safe for pedestrians and it really makes it difficult to enforce for the police department. So trying to keep

continuity and and a set path forward uh is the way that the city uh is approaching this as well. Um finally uh now the moment of truth. the there we looked at five different sections uh in town that we would recommend uh raising the speed limits for uh and I've shown them on the map here. Uh I also have the data and it'll be available uh for for viewing. Um so if you guys can't see it or if it's a little bit tough, but the first one that we're looking at is Fourth Street. Uh and this is not all of Fourth Street, but rather the section that is east of Stockton Avenue, South Stockton Avenue. Uh it we viewed the data and we're looking to raise from 25 m an hour. We're recommending to raise from 25 m hour to 30 m hour. Now that starts at South South Stockton Avenue and ends at that dead end uh where the uh the storage facility is. Uh here's a little view of it. Um okay. Uh the second recommendation that we have is uh Garrison Way. Uh this is the street that runs parallel to Highway 99 uh where near the climbing gym and um Tractor Supply. Uh and it runs to Rip and Christian. So it's from Camp's Way to I believe it's Elm is where uh Ripen Christian is if I remember correctly. Uh excuse [clears throat] me. Um, so we are recommending that that is raised from 25 miles an hour to 30 miles an hour. And here's a view. This is right by I believe that's Boat Country and the the climbing gym. That is and looking uh southeast. Okay. Um the third recommendation that we have is raising Hoff Drive from 25 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour. Uh this is the section that is north of

Colony. Uh right at that stoplight where you enter from Highway 99 uh and go north. Uh there's the Taco Bell and the um truck repair shop over there. Uh and this is the view heading north. You raised to 35 miles an hour. Uh the fourth is Parallel Avenue. Uh this is the section from um the bike path down towards the river. Uh I think it's Veterans Park. Is that what it's called? I think it's Veterans Park. I don't I don't recall the name exactly, but the where the bike path heads down. Um yeah, and uh and that is to East Main Street. There's that slight curve in it that runs to East Main. Um but that section will be a 25 to a 30 mph raise. This is the view from um this is heading northwest um parallel to Highway 99 as well. Uh and then the final is Santos Avenue. Uh the rest of Santos Avenue, the part that is to the east, uh is already a 35 mph zone. Um but this section here is the one that would be perpendicular to to Hoff and also perpendicular to Jack. Uh and the recommendation is to raise it from 25 uh to 35 miles an hour. And that would be a consistent 35 in that entire business and trucking district over there. Um, and that is the final one. This is it viewing west uh out from right behind Flying J. Uh, and finally, this is these are the five zones just um summarized here. Uh so again, Santos Avenue from 25 to 35, Hoff Drive from 25 to 35, Garrison Way from 25 to 30, uh Parallel Avenue from 25 to 30, and Fourth Street from 25 to 30. Um and I just that's about it. Uh if

there's any questions or comments, this is a discussion. Um there's no Yeah, no action. All right. Any questions from councel for Mitchell? [clears throat] Sir, so um several questions. One, chief, did you look at this? You okay with all this? Yes, we had numerous conversations and meetings on it and I'm um in agreeance with everything. Well, it's good to see because I thought the speed limits were higher than that anyway. Um

Good to know. Yeah, exactly. Well, my wife doesn't, I'll tell you that. Secondly, um I second that. Not not that it matters. No action overall. But how many signs do we have to replace and what's the cost of those? I mean, I guess it's just the actual sign itself, right? Uh yeah. So, of those five zones, I believe uh I know for a fact Garrison already has a sign uh that says 25, so it would just be a replacement from 25 to 30. Um, yeah. I don't have an exact answer on cost. I know Hoff and Santos. Minimal cost. Minimal. Yeah. It won't be much. I like it.

Any other questions for Mitchell? Yeah. One observation. Um, boy, it'd be nice to have that bell curve. Uh, and if I ever get pulled over, I'm going to be able to show the officer. Hold it. Hold it. It's safer over here. Yeah, it it is a bit misleading. Uh I mean the average speed, right? So if it's a 35, right? I mean, and people the average speed's 33. You can I don't know. I mean, it's useful. It is useful. There you go. Yeah.

Uh I did have one question. I discussed this with Kevin. Um your proposed increase on Hoff between Santos and Colony from 25 to 35. Um, I thought [clears throat] 30 might be a better number there. And the reason uh I ask is because there's a Taco Bell there. There is occasional foot traffic on that road. It's a short stretch. So 30 m an hour, if you're going 30 miles an hour, it makes almost no difference uh from stop to the end of uh of hop.

Yeah, it's it's not a very long stretch. Yeah. Yeah. But it's [clears throat] safer to go 35, Jerry. [laughter] Uh anyway, I just uh that may be something to uh reconsider. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it's from the 1960s. That was a very safe time to drive, too. So, thank you for your work. Uh, no problem. By the way, the the kind of the deep dive on that was really interesting and all the the speeds on the various roads and Well, thank you. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. And if you ever want to talk about it more, we've got 160 pages I can show you. So, [laughter] are you available tomorrow?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You got nine hours. I have one comment. I was impressed with the fact that they studied all of those streets and five out of all of those had to be adjusted. The rest of them apparently everybody's observing what's supposed to be happening anyway, which was kind of interesting to me.

Yeah, it's a lot of what the I mean this curve, right? it it's a bit misleading because I think really what the state the way that they try to go about this and and is you can't slow people down by just putting a sign up right it's what they observe around them and 85% of drivers are safe drivers uh for the most part and if pedestrians are walking they'll slow down if they see houses they slow down if they see medians they slow down so it's designing ways that you can kind of keep people driving at a safe speed um so I think and that's for most of Ripon has been done it seems so him.

Very good. All right. Uh, appreciate that. Mitchell, um, department heads, uh, Chief Sour, anything to report, Mr. Mayor, I have nothing to report. All right. Thank you, Kai. Mr. Zidervart, um, just one item. We do not have a planning commission meeting this month, so don't rush down here Monday night for Valentine's Day. Yes, Mr. Peace.

Yes. Real quick, Mr. Mayor, honorable city council, I did want to just uh address the chromium 6 and our well 19 issue. Um, you know, as a municipal drinking water uh system that serves water to the public, we are um operating under federal and state uh requirements. we which are established in force by EPA and the state department uh of drinking water. Um the city is currently meeting and we remain uh committed to full uh regulatory compliance through our routine monitoring and sampling under that direction. Uh last week we issued a notice regarding um the detection of chromium 6 at will 19. This is something that we have um been been monitoring for um a little while. Um under these regulations, the the city is uh required to eliminate any of those exceedences by October of 2027. We fully anticipate being able to do so. Um we're working on a compliance plan that will be submitted to the state for approval. Um we've had several inquiries from the public, which I think has been great. um a a lot of good questions and comments that have come out of it. Um we've pointed them to our website which has some information. Um we've explained uh you know further on to that information that's provided. We're working on putting together another fact sheet that will kind of answer some of those common questions that we are getting from the public. Um and then just just moving forward, we are required to uh sample this well quarterly. Um we do anticipate those results to be very similar. Um this is an annual average that is ran. Um so every quarter if we are above that threshold um the for the annual average a a public notification will go out. So

any questions I'd be happy to answer. Very good. Thank you. Any questions from council for two? I got not related not related to that, but um [clears throat] the um brush pickup. Yes. Um I mean it's wonderful service. Appreciate that we do that. Um curious on your just your thoughts on how it goes and I've got a handful of people. I don't know if anybody else gets any questions about it, but myself included that if we could extend it one more week would be really great. But I don't you know not not this year but in in future years.

Sure. Um, it's always kind of like, you know, you're pruning some bushes and trees and things that it's just like if I had another week, it would be better time to do it. But I don't know what your thoughts are and how it goes or if that's possible. But yeah, I think that would be something that we we could definitely look at. Right now that date is set. It's it's through ordinance. Um, and that's kind of why why we're there. But, um, that's certainly something that we could look at and address. Yeah. I feel like sometimes kind of a mad rush to get it, which it's good to get it all done and not just have it linger. But I had several people ask me like, "Oh, can we have more time?" Like not this year, but maybe in the future. So, yeah. Yeah. I I will say this, we're still kind of finishing up our final sweep of the town.

Yeah. And I I see people keep leaving stuff out because they think it's still going on, too. So, is it the 15th? Uh, it ends on the 7th. January 7th is the last day to actually officially put something out. If we haven't made our final sweep yet through the town on that date or the next day after, we start at one end of town and work our way to the other. What's that? Um, well, the last day you could put it out is the seventh, but we're still going, you know, if everyone was to put it out on the 7th or, you know, around that time, it still takes us a little while to get through. Yeah. The whole town. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you, James. Uh, Mr. Mr. Turstra, anything to report? Very good, Mr. Warner. All right, Councilman Degraph, I've you got a while? Yes. Uh, let's settle in. No, I don't have much to report other than uh thank you to everyone who stayed and listened to us. Um, as per usual, I appreciate you being here. Um, yeah, that's it. Thank you. Very good, Mr. Zuber. Nothing to report. Mr. Restucha, happy new year everybody. Very good. Vice Mayor Uker. Nada.

Nada. Uh, and I would like to echo Dan's comment. Thank you for everyone in attendance. It's a new year. Um, we won't get another 2026 and so sees the day. Carpedium. Thank you. Our meeting is adjourned.