Finance Committee - Regular Meeting

Thank you all. Good evening. I'm Ben Wheeler. He, him pronouns, counselor at large and finance committee chair. It is 06:02PM, and I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, 04/07/2026 meeting of the finance committee of the Somerville City Council. Pursuant to chapter two of the acts of 2025, this meeting of a city council committee will be conducted via remote participation. We will post an audio recording, audio video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City Of Somerville website and local cable access government channels. We are joined by clerk Madeline Latellier. Clerk, could you please call the roll to establish quorum?

This is roll call. Councilor Link? Here. Councilor Stradeau?

Opposed.

Councilor Hart?

Here.

Councilor Scott?

Present.

And councilor Wheeler?

Present. And if you would give me just one moment. Hi, councilor Strauss.

Sure. And with four councilors present, we have corn.

Alright. Well, you know what? While counselor Wheeler is doing this, we can just go ahead and read in, the first item, which is the, minutes from the meeting 03/24/2026. Is there any comment on those minutes? Alright. Then seeing none, I'll lay those items on the table for approval at the end of the meeting in a roll call vote. All yours, mister chair.

Thank you so much, vice chair. Councilor Estrasso is in the meeting. It's that annoying thing where sometimes, and this might be based on which email address it's the account's connected to, councilor Estrasso is in the attendees. Clerk, is it possible to promote her to a panelist?

Yes.

Thank you so much.

Now, mister chair, I know there's some members of the public here tonight. If there are any items we don't anticipate discussing tonight, it might be a kindness to let them know in in advance.

Thank you so much, vice chair. That is very, very true. It might be helpful for people to know that it is my understanding that the final item listed in the agenda of, body worn cameras, we are not planning to discuss this evening. And, any staff here, please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that administration and some of our police department staff are currently assembling more documentation around that item, and we'll be prepared to speak on it at the next meeting on Tuesday, April 21.

Not sure if there's anyone, with any comment on that, and I see a hand from, IGA liaison Radasi. Liaison Radasi.

Thank you, mister chair. For the record, Yasmin Radasi, legislative liaison with IGA. Yes. At this time, given collective bargaining negotiations, we're not yet ready to take up this item. There is an executive session on the agenda for this week's council meeting that we're hoping to use to give some updates to the council. We also have received some questions from several of the members of this committee regarding this grant. So we're working on getting some responses so that we're fully prepared with answers when this item is ready for discussion. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate everybody being here, and thanks again, vice chair, for that reminder. That's was, very timely. Okay. So moving on from item one, I would like to take item four out of order for staff convenience. That is the Eversource grant for street resurfacing. Does that sound good to the committee? Okay. Moving forward with that.

Okay. Item 4, ID26Dash0372, requesting approval to accept and expand a $103,514 grant with no new match required from Eversource Energy to the engineering division for permanent resurfacing and restoration of various streets. And we have engineering director Brian Postelwaite here to speak on this.

Good evening, chair and council members, and thank you for allowing this to go out of order. I usually don't like to make that request, but my son is in all city concert this evening for orchestra. So I'd like to miss as little as possible.

Happy to help.

So this item before you this evening is regarding a program that the city has been this is the second year that we've done cooperated with Eversource Gas on this program. The program is generally is thus. The when Eversource Gas is conducting a a gas line repair and reconstruction work that involves a permanent trench restoration the following year, and that street also is on the five year street repaving plan. We coordinate with Eversource Gas so that they do not execute the trench repair, but rather grant those same funds to the city so that we can go back and bring that project into the next year's contract so that we can execute a in the case of Holyoke, a full street paving, and in the case of West Broadway, a complete street paving. It allows us to it allows actually both entities to use our money most wisely so that we're not repaving the other's good work.

And we've made a a really good track record in relationship with Eversource Gas where we trust their work, they trust our work, and so we end up paving the street for them, but they effectively pay us in lieu. So the specific item before you is one grant for West Broadway because they completed or are in the process of completing their gas work out there at at at the moment. And then on Holyoke, off of Elm Street near Cedar, they just completed last year their gas line reconstruction there. And instead of having them pave just 12 feet of it, we'll be able to supplement a larger budget to pave the full street from curb to curb. So this year, those are the two items that we're requesting because they coordinate with our plan.

We are hoping to continue this program with them in future years as our work coordinates.

Thank you, director. Any questions or comments from the committee? And I see councilor Hart.

Thank you, chair Wheeler, and thank through you. Thank you, director Pustawait. This makes sense to me. I just wanted to clarify to be sure that, I understand correctly. Trench restoration is just another word for paving when the utility company does it. Is there's nothing else involved?

Through the chair. Trench restoration is really just paving. The key difference, if there is any difference, is that it is just a 12 foot paving, linear pave 12 foot wide length of pavement that is centered on top of the gas line. So it doesn't even meet our criteria for partial paving. So this allows us to supplement the funds that we already have, and it allows both of our works, both Eversource and the city's paving work to stretch that much further.

Thank you.

Anyone else have any other comments or thoughts on this? Thank you, director Postalit. I just wanted to mention you mentioned the paving plan. I thought it could be helpful for anybody interested in seeing which streets are marked to be repaved in the next five years, which are currently under contract, which were paved a while ago. If you Google paving map Summerville, you'll find the city's paving map, which has tons of detail. Thank you very much. Seeing no more discussion, this item is laid on the table to recommend approval at the end of the meeting. Thank you, and enjoy this concert.

Thank you, and, thank you for the plug. That's a fantastic map we have. So, have a great evening.

Thank you, director Postelweig. Okay. Returning to the order of items. Item two, ID26Dash0388, requesting approval to amend the Community Preservation Act fund fiscal year twenty twenty five grant of $365,000 to the Somerville Community Land Trust to change the grant conditions. And I wanna just make a quick comment about this, before turning to staff.

For full disclosure, I've been a volunteer member of the Somerville Community Land Trust for about a year and a half. I do not and have never received any money from the SCLT. I've been advised that I do not have to recuse myself for matters affecting the SCLT, but I wanna make sure everyone's aware of that relationship. And I'll pause here in case any other members of the committee wanna comment. Councilor Link.

Thank you, chair. I I guess ditto for me. I'm also a volunteer for the Summerlin Community Land Trust, have been for a while, and, yeah, I have no financial stake, so I do not need to reduce myself.

Thank you, counselor. Okay. Thank you. With that pause out of the way, I believe we have, Alan Anacio, director of finance administration for OSPCD. And sometimes on these items, we also have, reverted camera, but we do not today. Director Inasio, could you please tell us about this request?

Thank you to the chair for the record. As you mentioned, Alan Inasio, director of finance and community development, OSPCD. The CPC has been reviewing its, policies and, and procedures for, awarding its funds under the historic category of of CPA. As such, one of the first, items we're reviewing is the need for preservation restrictions on all all historic projects. With that being said, the SCLT approached us, on their Pleasant Ave CPA award.

Because this is a heavily financed, project with multiple, lenders and funding sources, a preservation restriction interferes and impedes, their ability to finance and refinance. So this is a a good, model where we could go back and test out the new policy, which is a clawback and expiring restriction. And so the the proposal is before you. There's a link to the to the recommendation and the full details of the recommendation, and this will hopefully allow us to test out this new policy, which will remove access barriers to future CPA awards, and also, help help out the SCLT, with some flexibility on the project and the property.

Thank you, director. Any questions or comments from the committee? Director Anasio, am I right in understanding sort of in summary, this change removes the requirement for a permanent preservation restriction and instead uses, this these updated CPA historic preservation guidelines?

Correct. We haven't rolled it out on all projects yet, but, this is a good model to test it out on. So previously, a a preservation restriction was required on historic CPA projects. Those restrictions are, for the most part, in perpetuity. Banks and other lenders don't necessarily like deed restrictions and whatnot in perpetuity that interfere with their, rights on the property. So this was kind of an easy, win where we could give you SCLT some flexibility and also test out, this this policy, which is burdensome for more than just the s SCLT, but a lot of our historic applicants.

And, also, just in terms of, you know, demolishing historically significant buildings, am I correct that there is a demolition review ordinance on the books that Absolute. This property would be well within that range? So if someday in the future someone did want to demolish it, there'd be a a process of reviewing its historical significance and working with the owner on that?

Through the chair. Absolutely. There's a very thorough demo review that is done on any historically significant property.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments from the committee? Okay. Seeing none, this item is laid on the table to recommend approval at the end of the meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item 3, ID 26Dash0385. Requesting approval to accept a gift with approximate value of $15,000 from the town of Medway, Massachusetts to the fire department for use by by the auxiliary fire department as a lighting and pump support unit. And we have James Muchi, director of finance and administration from the fire department. Director Muchi, could you please tell us about this gift?

Yeah. Through the chair. Basically, the town of Medway has acquired a a new vehicle and had made this one available. And they also are aware that we are in dire need of another vehicle. We work closely with them over the years so they know what we have for equipment.

And we run two vehicles to provide lighting and pumping services throughout the city for different crime scenes, fire scenes, city events. And also when there's been flooding, they do assist residents with pumping out their basements. So we just lost one of the vehicles. So this is very timely for this to become available to us, and and we could really use the the vehicle.

Thank you, director. Any questions or comments from the committee? See councilor Scott.

Thank you, mister chair. No questions. You know, I've been around long enough to see the the great work that the fire auxiliary does with this, and, just wanted to give a shout out that the fire and fire auxiliary was extremely helpful down in some of the lab during, one of the big winter freezes. And, on on the eve of a giant snowstorm, a huge water break that that flooded out a building full of residents, and, you know, it's it's perfect example of being able to help out our neighbors even when it's, maybe outside of the scope, but I really appreciate it. And so I'm glad we're gonna have the

Thank you, councilor Scott. Councilor Link?

Thank you, chair. Through you, I'm just curious. I I think I read that it was being kind of delivered as is, which is, of course, makes total sense. But I'm just curious, is there a sense of, you know, what condition this is in? Like, is it gonna

Yeah. I'm

assuming it's not a jalopy.

Yeah. No. Basically, our our mechanic went out and checked it out, put it through its paces, and he agrees that it's it's well worth, bringing it on. So

Fantastic. Thank you.

Thank you, director Mooch. I was sort of wondering the same thing. Just I I was sure that staff had taken a look at it and judged it as a a net positive. But, as the former owner of a 1976 Chevy Nova, that was, definitely worth less than $0, when I bought it. I know, sometimes vehicles can sink money into them infinitely.

Not really a question. Just a comment. Thank you, director Mucci. Any other questions or comments from the staff or from the counselors? Seeing none, this item is laid on the table to recommend approval at the end of the meeting.

Thank you. Okay.

Item 5ID26Dash0382. Requesting approval to accept and expend a $100,000 grant with no new match required from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue to the communications and community engagement department for phase one of a website redesign. We have Denise Taylor, director of communications. And do we also have Marjorie Rizzo here? No. Okay. Wonderful. Director Taylor, could you please tell us about this grant?

Sure. The item before you is a grant that we were pleased to have one from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue for a $100,000 to support the first phase of an overhaul of the city's website, somervillema.gov, which was last redesigned and updated between ten and eleven years ago. We have been doing, you know, regular work on it each year to keep it up to date and make sure that it remains user friendly and accessible. But we we are getting to the point where we need to do a more involved overhaul, and this will help offset the cost.

Thank you, director. Members of the committee, any comments or questions? I had a small one. I know whenever bringing in external, consultants, there's always a bit of a trade off between getting something specific done quickly that we might not have the in house expertise for, versus building up that expertise internally. And I'm just curious kind of where we are with this category of of expertise.

That's a great question. So the, web team is a three and a half person team, and we are absolutely, building up and have been building up expertise within that team so that we can do ongoing upgrades and maintenance and introduce new tools and innovation into the site. For the website overhaul, it's kind of like a construction project. It's such a large project. This is a 90,000 plus page website with multiple service tools integrated into it and more than 200,000 pages if you count documents.

And so it's like when you build a building, you bring in your designers and your architects and your construction team for that one big push, and then they're gone. And then you revert back to the staff that maintain it and keep it going. And so it's the same concept for the website. For the overhaul, we do need to bring in a full team of web development staff with a range of different skills and abilities to help us move this forward within the time frame that we need to, but we are absolutely building, staff, capacity as well. So it's it's a yes yes situation. We need both.

Thank you very much, director. Councilor Scott.

Yeah. Thank you, mister chair. Just two quick questions. First of which, I know we lost our, long standing webmaster, not too long ago. Has that, position been filled internally or externally at this point?

It just, posted on Monday, and we are doing a full search. Internal candidates are encouraged and always welcome to apply, and we will also be accepting external candidates. This is a really critical role, and, we wanna make sure that we have someone with the full set of updated skills to navigate the current web environment. Things are changing rapidly.

Sure. And I, you know, I know there's been something of an eternal Drupal upgrade, dripping along for years. But, I guess, one question that comes up from time to time is, you know, we got the main city website, but then some of the different departments seem to have, very different and more up to date websites like the, well, just in terms of, more of the, I guess, the Summer Voice website seems to be its own creature, separate thing. Is that is that maintained by the same team? Is that the or is that, is that on the same platform, or is that a a separate contracted thing?

So Summer Voice is actually an engagement tool that is an out of the box independent product that was purchased by the planning department. And I'll tell you, this is what happens when you can't update the website in a regular manner. So Summer Voice was able to provide both interactive components and a more updated design look that worked better for updating on big projects happening in the various o s, you know, OSPCD divisions. So it made sense to to bring that tool on. We have a number of microsites.

And in some cases, you know, because our design is not as up to date as it should be, It's tough for, like, someone like the arts council. You know? They want something that is really visual and feels like their own site, and our site can't handle that. The long term goal here is that we have such a quality site that we can fold some of these sites back in that would reduce cost as well as improve user friendliness. If when you have separate microsites, if you go from one to the other, there isn't always a path back.

You can send somebody off, but then there isn't a home tab to get back from the other site. There's there's a lot of reasons why microsites can be something people desire, but it has a user cost when you're a city with multiple sites like that. So we abs you know, Summer Summer Voice is a great tool and does have those interactive features. So that might meet not be one of the ones that we would ultimately want to migrate, but we do have some other sites that are good candidates for that. And as we've done the ADA upgrade, I will tell you, if we had only one site, it would have been a lot more affordable.

Yeah. I believe that. There's cost savings as well as user benefits.

Well, you know, I love cost savings, director. I guess that so so that some voice, that's kind of a the the Wix or WordPress for planning departments. Departments. Is that is now I've gotta

go You

could put it that way.

Yeah. Gotta go dig into the, budget a little bit to find out if that was a a onetime purchase or an ongoing, contract for the service, unless you know it off the top of your head.

It's an annual fee. It's an annual software as subscription product. You know, the

other one that comes up a lot is the police department has their own website. And I I do they is that coming out of their own comms budget, or is that or is that because it does seem to be very different from the city's website. Is that another one of those microsites?

This the the city police site is a legacy independent site that was self built from scratch. We have actually been working with them recently to do their ADA upgrade to go through and do some cleanup of content and user pathways, and that is absolutely a good candidate for a site where it would be great if we could have it feel independent but be integrated into the main site once we get there.

Well, it sounds like the good news is, though, that's not costing a subscription, for us annually, at least at this point.

No. That's not a subscription. That site is built and paid for just like the city site.

Alright. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah. Sounds good.

Thank you, councilor Scott. Any other comments or thoughts from the committee? Okay. Thank you, director. If there's no more discussion, this item's laid on the table to recommend approval at the end of the meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you. That brings us to item six, ID 26Dash0301, requesting approval to accept and expend a $47,580 grant with no new match required from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health to the police department for overtime and backfill for crisis intervention training, certification, and recertification. We have Emily Wisdom, director of finance and administration for the police department. Director of wisdom, could you please tell us about this grant?

Good evening, chair. Thank you so much. So this request, for training is this request is for training and backfill reimbursement. This request actually has been historically embedded in our broader funding, application that we usually receive from the crisis intervention, team training center grant that we received from the DMH as well. So this year, the state has changed their process, and they've asked that we, apply for this funding, separate due due to the change in their process.

So with these funds, typically, this is something that we do year over year, when we we keep people on a rotating basis to get their, recertification updated and to get new employees certified in crisis intervention. So the goal of this this funding that we applied for is to get, seven of our new, officers through that, forty hour crisis intervention training course as well as to get 25, officers or superiors whose certification is or has expired, renewed so that we can keep, as many, members of our department certified in this, training as possible.

Thank you, director Wisdom. Are there comments or questions from the committee? Director Wisdom, I just wanted to ask, you know, what does this training generally consist of? I you know, I I've read different bits and pieces, but, you know, I'm sort of curious overall, what are the different areas of focus?

So the, crisis intervention training give me just a second. Let me pull this up because I do have a list.

Please take your time.

Okay. So the, so for the the the new officers who are getting, certified for the first time, it's a forty hour course that, covers five topics, which is understanding behavioral health, effective communication engagement, verbal and tactical deescalation skills, navigating community resources, and also how to use risk assessment tools when in the field. So those are are the kind of the themes of the trainings that they are provided. So they are typically, designed for, real life use when patrol officers have interactions with community members who are currently experiencing a crisis. So that's how that's the top the forty hour week that they do the, the training.

And so then when they do the recertification, it is in those same skills to keep them up to date to see if, any of, you know, maybe tactics have changed and, you know, maybe the mental health build it or the DMH is proposing, you know, to handle a crisis in a different way, update the training, just things like that, that helps people keep fresh because we know, you know, as lifelong learner, I know, I guess, and I'm sure many other people know, that, you know, one and done is not usually effective. We wanna keep people up to date on what what is current and what is usable in in the field.

Thank you, director. Councilor Scott.

Thank you, mister chair. You know, I've gotten a few questions, on this item, so I I just wanted to kinda go through maybe some of my understanding of it, and direct wisdom can, tell me if I'm wrong. But, you know, page seven of the application, which is the, second, item attached to, this particular item sec second attachment to this item called the Summerville training backfill reimbursement application

Mhmm.

Kinda spells out the the costs per hour and the what this money ends up getting directly used for, and and who's getting it. So just in the big picture, this is money to obviously, when our officers go to trainings, they're still getting paid because they're still on job. And this money is, functionally for, overtime pay to have other officers, so that the duty roster for the day isn't shrunk because you've got folks out attending a one day refresher training or a week or one training?

So, through the chair, it actually can go both ways. It depends on when the the training is being held. If the training is being held on days when the officer is assigned to shifts, then, yes, that we would have them go to the training, and someone else would be called in to make sure that we have our minimum staffing. That's that happens as well. There are times where the training occurs, say, Monday through Friday, and maybe that that individual is off on Monday and Tuesday of that week, and it but it's a Monday through Friday training.

So, yes, we would pay the OT to ask them to come in and do training on their day off. I know that there are some other things that that they do. They bring in, superior officers who have already completed this training and stay up to date on their training, and they, they try to do, live action role play to really, to really, you know, instill I guess, a feel for what, what it would be like interacting with a person in crisis. Of course, you know, until we're in this situation, it it it can't always be understood. But they do try to give them, some real life interactions so that they can practice the skills they're taught.

And so that, that funding will also cover some of those coordinators or trainers that are on-site, if they were scheduled on a day off or if it if, it's pretty unusual for them to be backfilled for the, to be a backfilled as a trainer because it typically happens, on a day that they're off, that they volunteer to come in and and and do that do that work, for the shift. So, it can go either way.

Yeah. Thanks for jumping ahead with, Amir. Sorry? With three. No. No. No. That's alright. But just talking about the, officers who are attending these trainings or recertifications, when it comes to the, the coordinators, the SRT, special, special response team officer and training lieutenant, there's also dollars set in there for them. And and as director Bisman just said, that's usually on overtime because they can schedule on that.

This is something that, you know, we Somerville's had a role in assisting with delivering this training. It's something that the homeless coalition, I believe, usually writes a letter of recommendation for, hopefully, to improve, interactions with folks in our community who are in crisis. And so I I think that's a good summary of this. This is something that we do get regularly. I think there probably is a larger conversation to be had about the resources and staffing levels, in the city.

But right now, given that the city, the administration is unwilling to revisit the staffing levels based on the staffing studies we've had done in the last twenty years. This is money that helps, keep those staffing levels exactly where they're at, while this, training happens. So until we're ready to have a larger conversation about the police department staffing budget, As much as, you know, I always like talking about, the overall police budget, I think this is a grant that's really of no harm to anybody and it's something that, I don't have a problem, seeing approved tonight, mister chair. But, I just did want to lay it out for folks who might be curious as to, what kind of overtime this is going for. This is separate.

This is different than, say, one of the traffic Sorry.

I'm experiencing an Internet hiccup here. It might just be on my end. Apologies. Sure.

It's it's me too.

I had it too. So, you know what? I'll probably hear me talk enough. If there's anything you want me to recap, I can get to it.

Thank you, vice chair Scott. Much appreciate it. Any other comments or, or questions? I have a a small one, director Wisdom. I did notice there is a requirement as part of this grant to enter data into a state jail and diversion program database.

I gather this is very different from entering it into something at the insistence, say, of the Department of Homeland Security. I just wanted to ask about this jail and diversion program database. You know, is there anything you could tell the committee about what that is, about what that data sharing consists of? Oh, sorry. I am still experiencing a bit of a hiccup on my end. Director Wisdom, are you there? Can other people

frozen on my end too.

Okay. There's always a little bit of detective work to figure out where is the Internet hiccup. We might pause for a few moments in the hopes that director Wisdom is able to resolve the connection issue.

I see two director Wisdom's.

Oh, hi, director Wisdom. How's the connection? Oh, I am not hearing you. Director Wisdom, you able to get the audio working? Seems like it may be frozen again. Okay. I'm seeing movement. I'm seeing movement. We're we're gonna solve this technology barrier together. I however, I cannot hear you.

I'm still not hearing audio.

How about now?

Yes. Yes. Okay.

So sorry. I've been kicked out on my laptop. So, I was still there, but it was frozen. So, I hopped onto my phone. I apologize.

No problem. I'm proud of all of us figuring this out.

Could you please repeat your question? I heard a little

bit of it, but caught it cut off.

Absolutely. Happy to. So I noticed there's a requirement in this grant to enter data into a state jail and diversion program, JDP database. And I just wondered if you could speak about what that is, what that information is that would be shared.

So I know what I what I do know about this is that, yes, as part of the jail diversion program, that we we already have, the jail diversion program and the, the crisis intervention, training team center, Both of those grants as well as this one do have that requirement that there is reporting required. So I would have to check-in with the core team a little bit because they do, the reporting that they take data from the calls and things that they attend, and they do report it to the state. For further than that, I would have to get a, a memo or have further questions for them regarding, regarding exactly what this data is. I'm not sure if it's a website or if it's just a portal where, like, you do a programmatic report, for the grant funding to kind of show its efficacy. So I would have to get a little bit more detail about whether portal versus just reporting information on efficacy.

But I am happy to do so if you if you guys would like.

Thanks. I would be curious even just to know sort of in in very brief what's the nature of this sharing

Sure.

Give it given the current environment, I think it's

Of course.

Always good for us to to make sure we understand the the different data sharing we're doing.

Of course.

I will say that just in terms of this particular piece of the grant, we are already doing that because we've already accepted the other two pieces of the grant. So this is kind of a third a third piece to the grant. So, we're happy to to to report on on the grant, but the the rest of the grant that does the majority of the reporting, was already accepted earlier in the year.

Thanks. I appreciate that clarity. Are there any other questions or comments from the committee? Okay. Seeing no more discussion, this item is laid on the table to recommend approval at the end of the meeting.

Thank you

so much, sir.

Thank you. And that does bring us to this item that is on the agenda, item seven, ID twenty six dash zero three seven eight, requesting approval to accept and extend a two hundred thirty one thousand six hundred thirty five dollar grant with no new match required from the Mass Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to the police department for a body worn camera program. And as we discussed earlier, this is something where police department and city administration staff, as I understand it, are currently still assembling more documentation. So I move to postpone this item and keep it in committee. Clerk, do we need a separate roll call vote on that, or can that motion be okay.

That can't just be on the table with the rest of the things because those are for approval. Is that right?

No need to take a roll call vote on captain committee. That can just be the final disposition disposition for right now, not the final disposition. Excuse me.

Thank you so much. I appreciate the continuing education. Okay. That brings us to the end of tonight's agenda. Do I hear a motion to recommend approval of the items on the table and then to adjourn?

So move, sir.

Councilor Scott moves to recommend approval of the items and then to adjourn. Could the clerk please read the agenda item numbers of the items up for recommendation to approve and then call the roll on recommending approval of those items and adjournment?

Absolutely. So on approval of agenda items one, two, three, four, five, six, and on adjournment. Councilor Link?

Yes.

Councilor Strazo? Yes. Councilor Hart? Yes. Councilor Scott?

Yes, please.

Councilor Wheeler?

Yes. Thanks. Oh, and sorry. Also, clerk, just as a note, realizing that that we're about to be adjourned, I just wanted to double check. Since councilor Strazo was in this meeting from the beginning, is it possible for the record to to indicate that?

She will not be on the roll call, but I will make a note that she joined at 06:04.

Thank you. Take

I appreciate it. Sorry. Clerk, I interrupted you.

Nope. With that, those items are approved, and we are adjourned. Thank you.

Thanks. Have a good night all.

Bye, everyone.