City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the January 26th, 2026 meeting of the Shauny City Council. I'm Mayor Mickey Sander and I will be chairing this meeting. I'll do a roll call at this time. Council member Reynolds present. Council member Whitted present. Council member Pearson, present. Council member Murphy, present. Council member Nap Nappen is absent. Council member Rainey present. Council member Birfield present. Council member Aldridge present.

Thank you. And I'd like I'd like to invite Hawker Jag K students to join me up front to lead us in the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. Come on up, please. I pledge algiance 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 and thank you guys for coming up. Next, I'd like to explain our procedures for public input. In an effort to enhance residents ability to present information to the governing body, anyone interested in addressing the governing body is strongly encouraged to sign up to speak by noon on the day of the meeting, but it is not required. Information has been posted online about how to sign up. By policy, comments are limited to five minutes, and no person may speak more than once to any one agenda item. Only comments related to city business is permitted. Disruptive acts are not permitted as per policy number seven and will not be tolerated. Additionally, comments can be submitted to the entire governing body at via email at governing

body at the city of shauny.org. Next on the agenda is the consent agenda. I think we have one item to come off. Paul. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have a small administrative change to the minutes. Um, we had an error and attribution of a council member question. So, we would ask that you go ahead and approve the minutes tonight. We will fix that attribution of that question and then confirm um with the council member that it had been correct. Again, just one question asked and some of the cross back and forth that was attributed to a incorrect council member. So, we'll get that cleaned up. Okay. So I'd ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda. Genie

move to approve the consent agenda with changes as just noted. Okay. [clears throat] Have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda is business from the floor. If anyone is here to speak about a specific item on the agenda, please wait until that item is discussed. If you are here to speak on an item that is not on tonight's agenda, now is the time to speak. Did anyone sign up for this? Yes, Mayor. We had one pre-register, Georgia Dooming. Okay.

Soon as she's done.

Good evening. My name is Georgia Deming. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized. That is the fourth amendment. Recently, DHS issued a memo which eliminates most of the Fourth Amendment protections. No judicial warrant is necessary to use a battering ram to enter somebody's home. No warrant is necessary to drag an elderly man out into the freezing weather without clothes or a US citizen from their job at Target or a 5-year-old from their driveway. No judicial warrant is necessary to pull a vehicle over or stop a teenager walking home and demand proof of citizenship. A judicial warrant is signed by a judge after evidence for probable cause of an alleged crime. It must have the address of the property to be searched and the name of the person spelled correctly for any searches and seizures. Most people don't know the difference between an administrative memo and a judicial warrant. Most people see armed uniformed men with a piece of paper and believe their actions to be valid. My father came to the United States from Greece in 1954. He was not yet 20 years old. He became a citizen on this day, January 26, 1961. I was born in Nebraska and have lived in the Kansas City area since 1988. I've lived in Shaunie since 2015. My husband grew up in Shaunie. He served in the Navy as a submariner. I have a BA from the University of Nebraska, a masters of library sciences from Emporia State, a Tissel certification from Seattle Pacific University, and was awarded the Kansas Master Adult Educator

of the Year in 2020. I retired in August of 2024 from Johnson County Community College after 22 years of service. I worked as an instructor and program manager for Johnson County Adult Education, where adults could earn their GED, high school equivalency degree, and immigrants could learn English. I've taught English language and US civics to thousands of people of every age, ethnicity, religious background, nationality, and not once did I feel unsafe. Many were terrified of authority in the police. I always assured them that in the US, the law was here to protect them. They could not be detained without cause. No one was going to pull them over in a van and take them off the street. I told them that we're here. We had due process and if they were ever arrested, they would be treated fairly. They had nothing to fear from local police. The police were here to serve and protect them and they shouldn't hesitate to call them in case of an emergency. I now regret those words and wonder how many of the lives I ruined with those words. And by the way, I guarantee you those students knew more about American civics than most American-born Americans. and I'm including our government in that statement. Given the citizenship test, many of them would fail. My father received his high school diploma in the US. He worked for Burlington Northern Railroad into retirement. Once I asked him if he was more comfortable in English or Greek, he said English. He never lost his Greek accent. Most immigrants, no matter their English proficiency, don't lose their accent if you learn it after a certain age. He loved this country. He read the Lincoln newspaper every day, watched the evening news, voted in every election. I was raised to respect the law, and police officers were here to protect me. ICE is not local law enforcement. They're armed thugs with little training and no knowledge of the law. Legitimate law enforcement officers have a hard

job, and what DHS and ICE are doing is making their job harder. It pains me to think that if my father was still alive, he could be one of those people detained because of his accent and his looks. Citizenship or decency doesn't matter to ICE. He died in 2013, and though I miss him every day, I am relieved that he is not here to witness what is occurring. He lived through World War II and a civil war in Greece. His village suffered under Nazis and fascist occupations. This is why he came. No one carries citizenship papers or should have to. Me, my family, my neighbors, my friends are very afraid right now for everything that's going on. I want to know that if armed mass men beat down my door, stop me while I'm walking my dogs or driving my car that I can call the local authorities to protect me. I always believe that this was true before. I'm not sure now and I want assurances the local police will help me if I need it. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else sign up? No, mayor. That's all we had pre-registered.

Anyone in the audience like to speak from business from from the floor? Hearing? None. I'd like to recognize that council member Nappen has arrived. Next on the agenda is mayor's items. I want to take a moment to thank everyone in the in Shaune for their donations to the mayor's Christmas tree fund in 2025. Last year, I decided to focus the efforts of the Christmas me Christmas tree fund on one organization in Shaune, one that's been active for decades, helping people in the community and our neighbors with food, utility bills, and clothing assistance. Johnny Community Services is representative of representative of the best of our city. ready to lead assistance to those most need whenever they need it. It is now my pleasure to announce at the 2025 mayor's Christmas Tree Fund donation donations received from the city's recycling event wandering vines dine at the vine and other activities raised $20,45029 to the to benefit the Shauny Community Services. I'd like to invite Sylvia and Marissa from Shauny Community Services to join me up in the front of the DAS for the presentation of the donation.

Next item on the agenda are staff items. Item number one is to consider approving the first amendment to to Westbrook North second amendment and restated redevelopment agreement. Paul,

thank you, Mr. Mayor. In just a minute, I'm going to invite up Paul Guestello from Westbrook Partners LLC, but I'm going to do a little intro on this item. In July of 2024, the city council uh entered into agreements with Westbrook Partners LLC to help save the commercial corner at 75th in Quiver. Um originally this corner was supposed to be part of a larger cohesive development with both multifamily and commercial. Uh that's not what happened. The residential went forward and the commercial languished for years. And so at that point we began dealing with different developers, somebody who could come in and bring uh grocery store and much needed redevelopment to that area. That led to our agreement in July 2024. That agreement had uh an important milestone of January 31st um of 2026 to have a grocery store operational and other phase 2 developments. What we're here tonight to do is to request from the governing body a six-month extension. We don't come to the governing body lightly to ask for extensions on development agreements. Development agreements are contracts between the city and a developer to deliver what we agree upon mutually. However, from time to time there are conditions in the market with um different factors, construction factors, weather factors that come into play and if we believe that a good faith effort has been made and we've seen a lot of progress, we bring that extension to you. That is the case with this development from community development to our building inspectors to my office to finance our financial um reviewer uh Jeff White. Um we can say that this progress uh the progress has been great um out there. It started off a little slow and has re really picked up over the last 12 months. So, I'm going to invite Paul Guestello from Westbrook Partners LLC to come up and show some pictures, talk about next steps, um when we could see the first tenants open, um and then stand for any questions you

have of staff or Mr. Guestello. So, I'm going to ask him to come on up.

Thank you. I'm Paul Gastello with Westbrook Partners. I just wanted to give you a little bit of an outline of of what's going on with the project. Um the progress we've made, um some of the milestones uh that will will come quickly with with the uh with the opening of the grocery store and some some new tenants as well. Uh I only have five minutes, so I'm going to roll through it pretty quickly, but then we'll be able to go back and ask some questions so I could clarify anything that maybe got skipped over that didn't communicate clearly. So, just really quickly, um the project's located on 70 75th of Cavira. Some of the council members were here when we put the original amendment uh together and some are not. Uh so, I'm going to just go ahead and start quickly so we can get through it. Um we're going to go with the timeline kind of what happened, which uh Paul went through. We'll go through some u some photos of what we've done. We'll talk about the grocery store, which is the biggest component, some of the progress in future construction there, and then some of the impacts that will have by some of the tenants that we've had, um, social impacts and economic impacts, uh, once this thing gets up and going here, middle of the year. So, uh, January 2024, uh, the property was introduced to me, something that that needed a redevelopment. I was working with Mission Peak Capital. Um we brought that quickly to the city. Um in July we were able to get it approved. Um we started we closed immediately. We started working on architectural and civil and on March 20th of of 2025 we were able to get a permit uh to move forward with the with the project. And as Paul had stated, it's kind of been full on from there. Uh some of the improvements you'll see if you go by, we've completely redone the parking lot um of the main center. All new curbs, new islands, everything's new asphalt. I got everything flowing correctly so that the water will drain properly from the parking lot into the

detention pond that we've done some work on as well. Um, you'll see uh the detention pond has a a fountain that we brought back to life. We put a brand new uh limestone wall kind of to prevent erosion and make it look prettier. Um, all the storefronts have gotten rid of the old wooden windows that were there with the exception of me Pledo who's still occupying the space. Um, we put aluminum windows in, brand new storefronts. Um, we've done work to this the masonry and the signage. Uh, we put on new awnings. They had vinyl awnings that were all torn. Um, and we put on brand new awnings with cedar and a metal metal roof. Um, so take you through the pictures quickly. Um, this is the fountain kind of where it was located before. There wasn't really much there. It was falling apart. Um, this is, you know, what it looks like now if you drive by. Um it's not active right now just because it's so cold, but uh it's really pretty and I would encourage to drive by here when it starts to get a little bit warmer. You could see uh right in front of the uh south building. This was kind of what they had to hold up the uh the dirt from the erosion uh falling down into that detention pond. And we replaced that um with this brand new limestone wall. Um you'll see it's two-tiered. Um the bottom is just to hold the the water and then the top will be a patio for whatever restaurant tenant we're able to find. So they'll have about 3500 square feet of outdoor space. Um it's set up with footing. So if they choose to enclose that um somehow or put a roof on it, we'll be able to do that for them quickly. Um just kind of take you through the store itself. This is kind of what it looked like before. Um and this was the north entrance to the grocery store which is closest to the apartments. Um and then kind of this is the changes that we're making which will be which will these changes look all the way kind of throughout the whole center. So you'll see the same uh green awning. Um

the only thing that'll change is the pillars will be brick um when we're finished. Right now they just have the steel the steel beams. Um another look at kind of just what what the storefronts look like on the small shop side. So, so the grocery store is is the biggest component to this and it was the thing that kind of drove this whole redevelopment. Uh, where we're at with that is we've got all the plumbing done. The concrete on the inside is all reoured. All the electrical HVAC interior surfaces are ready. Um, so we're we're full steam now. We're putting the floors in right now as we speak. On the way over here, I went by there just to check on progress. Um, we'll have the floors done by the middle of February. Uh, painting done shortly after that, and then the equipment shows up the first of the well, the the freezers and cooler structures show up first, then the compressors show up first week of April. Should take about six weeks to get those installed. We'll be doing that in conjunction with getting the shelving up. And we're planning on applying having an occupancy permit June 1st. Here's some of what you'll see if you went into the grocery store. And I'd encourage anyone to give me a call if they wanted to meet me up there and kind of walk it. Um, the floors are being sanded um so that we can put an epoxy flooring down uh flake flake flooring. Um, you probably see that maybe some warehouses or garages. um instead of just polishing the concrete, there were so many cuts um because we had to do so much work to the plumbing that we just decided to uh just put a whole new layer of epoxy down um to make it look brand new. And it's not going to look like a store that we kind of retrofitted. We we have completely taken every wall out of that place. It was just a box. So everything that you see is brand new construction. So it will be a brand new store when when when the patrons come to

visit. Uh some of the other some of the other things that we've done to the center outside of the grocery stores, all of this the storefronts are demoed uh inside and out. We have um full assuilts uh drawings so that our brokers can can rightsize the space for any tenant that decides to come in. Um we do have um a a list of people that are interested. We have the grocery store. We have a Mexican restaurant. of local barber shop, local nail salon, a national pizza franchise, uh that is different from it's not Domino's, it's not Pizza Hut, so it'll be a new franchise to the Kansas City market, Kansas City Metro Market. Um and they plan on opening up 20 stores. So that's something that's kind of neat. Shnie will have the first store um within 500 miles, the closest franchisee. Uh the liquor store wants to come back Q Liquor, which they always did, well, they're planning on bringing them back. Um, and then we're working with the doughnut and coffee shop, the West building directly across from the uh from the grocery store. Um, we do have a Chinese restaurant that's interested in the entire space. Uh, so we're waiting to get civil drawings back so we can see exactly what that's going to look like so that we can [clears throat] make the parking lot accommodate with wherever they want the doors um for that space. Uh, I want to talk a little bit about the social and economic impact um that this is going to have. Um it's it's an it's an inclusive development. So we say that it it sets up for all demographics around the center. Um we have a diverse tenant mix. So we have the daily needs with the grocery store. Plus we'll have some luxury needs with like the nail salon and such. Um there's essential services as we said with the fresh groceries. Um walkable location for a lot of residents. There's a lot of multif family around that. So, you know, producing uh product that could be

walked to and it services the area was very important. Um, we even have a lot of pedestrian traffic that we've set up with sidewalks so it's more inviting and easy to get to safely um for those around. Um, and then just taking that old lighted building and kind of bringing it back to life, not just from an economic standpoint, but from a visual standpoint where people could who live in the area are proud to live around it versus it being an eyesore. Um some of the economic drivers we are expecting 40 million in annual sales um out of out of that uh development. So there'll be significant tax dollars you know from from the start all the way you know throughout uh taking something that was a zero you know probably zero or very minimal with Nepalto and being able to put $40 million worth of retail sales there is something that's going to be important for us as a developer and for the city. um job creation, which is which is always important. Again, people could walk there and be employed if they don't have, you know, transportation to get to to another job. And then the anchor stability with the grocery store. We know we have, you know, we have a a 15-year lease with the grocery store with uh two 10-year options. Um that gets us, you know, hey, we're going to have something there that that everyone could kind of build on. There'll be a lot of foot traffic at the grocery store. will help all the other tenants uh succeed as well. Um just voting yes tonight uh helps me uh from a lot of ways. It resolves my banking requirements. Uh so it allows us to kind of move forward quickly without having to go through any other approvals. Um it it the project momentum is there. So you know I'm hoping that you guys understand. I'm not asking for any more money. Um the money was already approved. I'm just asking for a little bit more time uh to drive this thing home. So, [snorts] you know, I hope that, you know, everyone sees that and would vote yes tonight uh to extend that.

I know I ran through it fast, but I know there's a lot of things on the agenda. So, I was just trying to uh to make sure I rolled through it quickly so I could get all the points across. Anybody have any questions for council or Jie? Well, I live in the neighborhood and I got to see the fountain actually running. So, all right. Um it's it's a great thing to see. Um very excited to have a neighborhood grocery store again. Um one question is is this going to be a Shauny Fresh or is this going to be their Mexican counterpart?

So I know that there was an article in the business journal this morning that said that El Marcado Fresca is coming to that space. Um that is incorrect. It's it's going to be fresh market. Okay. Um, we through marketing studies, we we believe we want to add Shaunie to to to the the title of the store somehow like Shaunie Fresh Market or Shaunie Farm fresh market. Um, but Elmer Fresco will not be the um the t the heading of the store. There'll be a section in there with Hispanic with that Hispanic market as well as as some other some other um particular uh food services uh that through the cultural uh food services, but it's not going to be El Marcado Fresca as it was stated um in the business journal today.

Thank you. I appreciate that because I'm getting a lot of questions about that. Okay. Yeah. and I spoke to them and even explained to them uh what we were planning and there must have just been a a miscommunication with uh with with her. Laura,

thank you, mayor. And thank you, Paul. I have a couple questions, but mostly I just wanted to say thank you. I know that a project of this size after so many years of delay and sitting idle, I imagine there were a lot of surprises when you got in there and started doing some work. Uh, so I really appreciate uh the updates you've been giving to the city and the way that you've partnered with our city staff to make sure things are moving smoothly and that they're getting the information that they can then relay to us about the progress you've made. So, thank you for that. Um, given what you've shared with us tonight, do you have any concerns about this extension not giving you enough time to do what you need to do?

I don't think it's June 1st is the date. This extends it to July 31st. It's only a five month window. There's prior there was a whole lot of moving parts that get us, you know, we didn't get a permit until the end of March. Um, we don't have to worry about anything like that. So, even if we fail, you know, it would the failure of 20% would be 30 days, which would be a massive, you know, kind of a massive setback. Um, short of a fire or something completely out of our control. Um, we're we're, you know, our plan is to try to actually be open. I was talking with the mayor right before the World Cup, which should be great because we, you know, we have a bunch of people coming to the city. All the hotels are booked. So, I'm sure the grocery store will be something that uh people are using frequently uh during that area during that time, which maybe be like a pre-Thanksgiving or something that we normally wouldn't get. So, it'll help.

Oh, definitely. Mayor, may I ask another question? Yeah, sure.

Okay. [laughter] Um I Yes, that timing would be wonderful. Um, I also want to thank you for kind of the emphasis you've put on the walkability of the area and the multif family units that are surrounding it. Um, and especially the efforts that were made to make sure Mubitos could stay in that space knowing that they have such a base of support and customers who are able to walk to that space. Um, so first, thank you for both of those, the walkability concerns and trying to work with um the existing tenants. Uh, you mentioned a Mexican restaurant operated by the folks who had me pubos. Is that in addition to the counter or is that still kind of speculation?

Meto is is is vacating from a grocery store standpoint. Um, they did not uh renew their their uh they had a renewal and they did they did not renew. Um, and we were working um with them to put a I say work because it's past tense. Um, I had sent Paul an email about 20 minutes after [clears throat] I I I sent him the proposal. I got an email from them that said they are not going to proceed. Um I had put some pressure on them because we had another Mexican restaurant that was very interested. So we were working with them and I just said, "Hey, I need to know if you're interested. If not, I want to go a different direction." And they are going to pull out of the space. So we do have a Mexican restaurant tenant, but it will not be them. Okay. Thank you for clarifying that and still thank you for the efforts that were made. Yes.

Um and I would love to take you up on your offer to to view the the grocery store. Yes, that'd be great. Let's uh the floors will be in the second week of February. So, I'd love for you let's set something up and have everyone over in the morning or whenever whenever it works. Everyone's welcome. So, thank you. Love you for you see it. Thank you. I know it's important to you because where it's uh what's located in the city. So, [laughter] thanks. I appreciate it your support for sure. Thank you, Steve.

Thank you, mayor, and thank you, Paul. Uh I'm excited to see this project completed as well. I think it'll be great for that area. Um, I had more of a kind of a technical question for our city manager. Um, is awarding the occup occupancy permit for the grocery store, does that count as satisfying the requirements or do they have to have a tenant moved in? I just want to make sure the timing there is aligned and that the you're the grocery store has to have a certificate of occupancy. Okay, that's the standard. Okay. I just want to make sure that there wasn't an extra step after that June 1st. Yeah, there's a there's a couple other things in the phase two, but we're almost complete with everything else in phase two. Okay. Y great. Thank you. Anyone else? Anyone sign up for this? No. Mayor,

anyone in the audience like to speak on this issue? Hearing none, I'll accept a motion. Okay. [clears throat] Second. Have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Item number two is to consider approving the contract Superior Bowen Asphalt LLC to proceed with the Midland Drive improvement project from Johnny Mission Parkway to I435. And I believe we're going to table that.

And Mr. Mayor, I would request a motion to table the item while staff continues to work through the bid process. Does anybody on the council have any questions about this? Anyone sign up for this? None that pre-registered. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this issue? Hearing none, I'll accept a motion. Any move to table? Second. Have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I.

Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Item number three is to consider approving an agreement between Johnson County for cars funding related to the Midland Drive improvement project from Shauny Mission Parkway 435. Paul, thank you, [snorts] Mr. Mayor. I'm going to turn this over in a second to Kevin Manning, but just as a point of clarification, the acceptance of these cars funds for Midland has nothing to do with the acceptance of the bid or the award for the bid construction for the project. This is just us accepting the funds and then the bid process can can uh continue. So there there is no crossover between the two items. Kevin,

yes. As the city manager just said, this is for county funding um towards this project in the amount of 1.811 million and is basically a 50-50 cost share between the city and county for this project. Anybody have any questions? Anyone sign up for this? No, mayor. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this? Seeing none, I'll accept a motion. I have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I.

Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Item number four is to consider approving an agreement with Kat for federal HSIP funding related to Johnson Drive and Barker Road intersection improvement project. Paul, once again, Kevin Manning on this item.

Yeah. So, just a clarification. the the picture on your screen is incorrect. Um Johnson and Barker is an intersection just west of the Mid America Sports Complex. So there's a significant curve through there that the city applied for Kansas safety funding. And so that's what um this agreement is before you tonight. So it basically allows for the reimbursement of up to 80% of construction costs up to 700,000. So we will be receiving up to that amount from the state with the approval of this agreement. Anyone have any questions? Anyone sign up for this one? None. That pre-registered mayor. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this hearing? None. Accept a motion. Any

gladly move to approve to take state money. Thank you. Steel. I have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Item number five. Five is to consider approving the design build contract with the Rye IV company for the public public facility construction project at Shauny Community Services in the amount of not to exceed $26,116. Oh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm going to turn this item over to Sophia Young, our grants coordinator.

Hi. Hey, my name is Sophia [clears throat] Young. I'm the grant administrator for the city of Shaunie. And I just wanted to give you a little background and update on this project. So, we were awarded funding in COVID COVID funding and we still had funds remaining. So a year ago, I kind of reached out to the community and talked to some people and ended up inviting Shaunie Community Services to apply for our COVID funding that we had to have spend by this September. They submitted an application and then we had brought that to you guys in the October 13th council meeting for a project for them to put a shelter over the back of their building for donations. And so this COVID funding is pass through. It's nothing we really have on hand. So if we don't use it in the community, we lose it. And then Shaunie Community Service is also matching on the project. $7,500. So I have picture of I should have shown you my bullet points there. I have a picture of the uh site drawings from Reese Ivy. And as you can see from that aerial image there too that there's a lot of stuff that's just kind of out in the elements that we're wanting to help store for them. And so with the COVID funding, it is supposed to be used for prevent and prepare and respond to the Corona virus. And there still is a need there for them to be doing that kind of stuff. They can't take in more donations. They can't really social distance very well. So, this shelter is going to help create more space and clear things up so that they can prevent and prevail for all the um viruses that are still going around.

Is there any questions? Anyone have any questions? Anyone in the audience? Oh, go ahead. I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for taking the time to find this opportunity and put this together. Just happy to see it. Anyone else? Anyone sign up for this? No one pre-registered. Thank you. Anyone in the audience like to speak on this issue? Hearing none, I'll accept a motion. Aaron, uh, move to approve. I've got, uh, Laura. Second. I've got a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I.

I. Oppos? Nay. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda is miscellaneous items. Item number one is to ratify the semionthly claims for January 26, 2026 in the amount of 6,81,52364. Any Anybody have any questions? Anyone sign up for this? Anyone in the audience in the audience like to speak on this hearing? None. I'll accept a motion. Steel. I have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I.

Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Item number two, miscellaneous council items. Paul, do you have anything? Nothing tonight. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone on the council have any items, Erin?

Um, yeah. I have a couple topics. Uh first, I just want to thank public works department for doing a f fantastic job on the roads this weekend. Um I know those temperatures were brutal and the hours were long. I did have several residents reach out to share their appreciation. So, just wanted to pass that along. Uh secondly, I want to speak plainly tonight. The national pattern of aggressive federal immigration enforcement and the deadly outcomes we've seen across the country are deeply disturbing. Regardless of where each of us fall on immigration policy, when government power results in people being hurt or killed, when constitutional rights are violated, and when fear of our government becomes a daily reality that deserves clear condemnation and not silence. Even though immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, the impact lands right here in our communities. People are afraid, parents are anxious, and kids are absorbing that fear. And that should concern all of us. I believe our moral obligation as a community is to protect every member of society while maintaining public safety. Safety isn't a zero- sum choice between enforcement and dignity. It comes from a system that honors both the well-being of the public and the humanity of the people within it. Law enforcement in all parts of our justice system exists to uphold the law. No one should face punishment, let alone death, without due process. Accountability should apply to every agency at every level. And when the government gets it wrong, leaders at every level have a responsibility to say so. So I want our residents, especially those who feel vulnerable right now, to know. You have the right to be safe in your home. You have the right to speak freely when you disagree with your government. You have constitutional protections and the right to due process. And you have the right to live without fear.

Thanks. Anyone else? And yes, the city did very good job of clearing snow. I definitely want to give kudos to that. Thank you guys. You did great. And if there's no other items, I will accept a motion to adjurnn. Jamie, I move to adjourn. Have a motion and a second on this item. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Nay. We are adjourned.