City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to welcome everybody to the June 5th work session. Madam Clerk, roll call vote, please. Roll call, please.

No votes. OK. Mr. Schmidt. Here. Mr. Morrow. Here. Ms. Creighton-Smith. Ms. Berry. Present. Mr. Salamanca. Here. Mr. Martin.

Present.

And Mr. Seidman. Here.

Mr. Mayor? Mr. Simon? I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda as proposed with the approval of the minutes from June 1st, 2026, work session as proposed. Second.

Got a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carried. First up, we have an update from Grove Cedar Valley. Please approach the podium and state your name and address, please.

Name is Katie sue song addresses 360 Westfield Avenue Hello council members and mayor. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this update today for those of you I think I know most of you, but my name is Katie sue song. I already said that sorry about that I am gonna provide a little bit of a high-level update on gross Cedar Valley I know we have a few council members who weren't here when we did our last update back in December and And so I just want to give you a little high level education on who we are as an organization. So Grow Cedar Valley is the regional economic development organization and chamber of commerce. So as the economic development organization, our primary role and responsibility is to recruit new business to the Cedar Valley and to support our existing businesses in a variety of different ways. Lisa is gonna spend a lot of time talking about our targeted economic development and what we do in terms of going out to recruit new businesses to the area. But that is a big part of the work that we do. Beyond that, like I said, we support our existing businesses as well. And Adrienne Miller is gonna cover that tonight, but she's gonna talk about the fact that we're regularly out meeting with our businesses to understand the challenges and obstacles that they're facing as they're trying to run their businesses here in this community. and helping connect them to resources, be at the local level or the state level. Sometimes that looks like us going with businesses to IEDA meetings to advocate for incentives, and sometimes it's just showing up at a meeting and advocating for projects. So we do that, like I said, in a variety of different ways. We also do advocacy. A second part of Adrian's role is making sure that we're advocating for the business needs and interests of the businesses that call this community home. So again, as we're having those conversations with our local businesses, we wanna understand if there are potentially some policy issues that are creating additional barriers for them. And so annually, we as Grow Cedar Valley, and in coordination with the Cedar Valley Coalition, put together legislative priorities and go and advocate on behalf of this community. Talent and workforce is a huge part of the work that we do at Grow Cedar Valley, and we've got Stephanie Detweiler and Kelsey Kunkel here to talk about that today. They're going to talk about some of the initiatives that we do to support talent attraction and retention here in the Cedar Valley, and it's become a very big part of our work. One thing you're going to hear over and over again today is the Count Me In study. Hopefully you have all heard of the Count Me In study at this point to some extent. Okay, you're gonna hear a lot about it today. But we'll share that that was a significant undertaking that we just publicly launched in January. And it was really to understand why our population is declining here in the Cedar Valley and what we can do meaningfully to address that as a region. So really exciting work, and it's gonna be what drives the work that we do at Grow Cedar Valley for the foreseeable future. We are, as I said, also the Chamber of Commerce. So we are a member services organization, which means that we have businesses that pay dues to belong to our organization. But I think because of that, we do a variety of programming that is for our investors. We do Good Morning Cedar Valley and Business After Hours, which are really opportunities to connect our businesses and really encourage local business support. But beyond that, all of this other work that I've mentioned, whether it is the targeted recruitment of outside businesses, if it's just general business support, making sure that we're helping our existing businesses here in the Cedar Valley with their talent, retention issues or talent attraction issues, that is not a part of our member services. That's something that we offer broadly to any business in the community that is in need of our assistance. So I'm excited for my team to come up and tell you a little bit about the work that we've done in the last six months and would also encourage if you have questions, we'll address those at the end just for efficiency's sake. But thank you again for your time.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council members. My name's Lisa Schubel. I'm Vice President of Economic Development for Grosse Cedar Valley and as Katie, 360 Westfield, Suite 300, by the way. And as Katie alluded to, recruiting new businesses is where I spend most of my time at, as well as support in other economic development initiatives we do internally and externally. Thank you for your continued partnership and the investment in economic development efforts that support business growth, job creation, and quality of life throughout Waterloo and the Cedar Valley. Economic development is often measured by projects that ultimately locate in a community, but much of that work occurs long before a company makes a decision. Much of our effort is focused on relationship building, business attraction, supporting existing employers and positioning Waterloo to compete for future investment opportunities. Over the past six months, Gross Cedar Valley has continued to do that aggressive business attraction. And the reason why I mention six months is you hear it from other staff members as they give their report. in the past council members have asked us to report on the activity we've done since we've last given an update usually it's about in six month increments so you'll hear that but since we're at the end of our fiscal year you'll also hear what that cumulative is at the end of the year as well So this spring, we launched a global lead generation initiative focusing on industries identified through the Count Me In population study, including advanced manufacturing, food processing, agri-biotech, software development, and emerging technologies. As part of that effort, more than 2,000 companies have been contacted and reached out directly through phone calls, emails, and other communications such as LinkedIn. With that said, we're able to generate seven virtual meetings with companies all across the world. And they're evaluating future expansion opportunities, and we're on the radar screen for that. While current economic conditions have caused some of these companies to proceed cautiously, we continue to see strong interest in manufacturing, food processing, agricultural technology, and international investment opportunities. Along the same line, we participate annually and quarterly in Site Selection Guild events. This past March we went to the annual Guild Conference to reconnect and connect with 50 leading site selection consultants who advise companies on locations globally. And I've worked with some of these consultants in the past and currently some of the projects we have in our pipeline are those that have come from the consultants from this Guild. In fact, Chris Lloyd from the Woods Consulting Firm is part of the Site Selection Guild membership and he worked on the international paper project a couple of years ago and also went to IEDA along with Growth Cedar Valley to support the state level incentives as well. The Guild Conference, the annual Guild Conference, and you hear a bit from Adria on the SelectUSA Summit this year, is important because they serve as a first step in attracting future projects and investment to our community. Today, Gross Cedar Valley is managing approximately 57 active projects, representing 3,400 potential jobs. during this current reporting period, 12 are new projects who entered in the pipeline since our last update. That alone represents of that 224 million in potential investment and 745 potential jobs. in december we had cell genus announce that they have located an agribase bio analysis facility here about 10 000 square feet currently operating uh this is their first location out of ireland they're from limerick and they see the prospects of the u.s market growing substantially and even much larger what they have in limerick and then we have another potential project that we've been working on with the city and we're hoping to be able to announce that soon and that also has an international footprint too. So when we go to make that announcement, you can easily say within the last 12 months and maybe even nine months that we have two, I'm hoping when we finish that project, we'll be able to say we have two international companies within a nine month period that located in Waterloo that was part of our lead generation and prospecting efforts. Well, not every project ultimately results in announcement and we continue to see encouraging momentum with our project pipeline during the current fiscal year. That's July through June. Same as yours. We hosted 6 prospects site visits from companies evaluating potential expansion opportunities. More important 2 of those projects have returned for additional visit and expanded their evaluation and include their C level executives and decision making team. Since the beginning of the calendar year alone, three prospect visits have occurred, and one of those companies currently planning a return visit, we're hoping next month, but definitely this summer. Repeat visits are often one of the strongest indicators that a company is continuing to move through It's site selection process and taking a serious look at the community beyond business attraction. We continue to support entrepreneurship and small business growth planning is underway for the 2nd, annual Cedar Valley business summit scheduled for November 12th. Interest has been strong by speakers. We had an evaluated more than 30 speaker proposals that individuals who wanted to share their expertise with small business and startup have shown interest in the show alone. And so we're expecting the show to be much bigger than it was last year. And ultimately our team goal is to see this as the premier small business and startup conference in Northeast Iowa and eventually the state of Iowa. Again, I'd like to thank you for your partnership over these years. Economic development is a team effort, and Waterloo's ability to compete for projects is directly tied to the collaborative approach that both the City of Waterloo and Grove Cedar Valley have. Having said that, I will turn it over to Adrienne Miller for her update. Thank you.

Lisa. Yes. First of all, I want to thank you for your commitment to Grove Cedar Valley. It's my understanding you're retiring at the end of this year. And I can't thank you enough for everything you've done for all the years. You will be missed.

Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. You know, after 35 years of economic development, most of it here, I can say Waterloo continues to be recognized as a community willing to compete, invest, and work together. The level of activity as we are seeing today gives me all confidence that Waterloo remains well positioned for future growth, whether I'm here or not.

Well, and you've helped that. Thank you very much.

thank you for all your hard work it's it takes a lot to represent take time out of your day to be an elected official so we all appreciate all of you thank you thank you

All right. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Adrienne Miller, and I'm Director of Business Services and Advocacy at Gross Cedar Valley. Before I dive into business services and advocacy, I'm going to back up a little bit. And Lisa mentioned that I attended the SelectUSA Investment Summit about a month and a half ago. So this is a summit that's put on by the US Department of Commerce. There's over 100 countries represented, primarily businesses that are looking to locate within the United States to grow their footprint FOR THE FIRST TIME OR EXPAND THEIR EXISTING FOOTPRINT IN THE UNITED STATES. I CAN TELL YOU THERE WAS OVER 5500 ATTENDEES TO THIS SUMMIT AS WELL. WE DID PARTNER WITH THE IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY THERE, TOO, SO WE HAD A SECTION UNDER THE IOWA BOOTH WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A LOT OF GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, INVESTORS, SITE SELECTORS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICIALS, NUMEROUS OFFICIALS FROM THAT DEPARTMENT, AND THEN Also, for the embassy representatives as well from many different countries. 1 thing is, we met with dozens of international companies. Like I mentioned, we had 8, pre scheduled meetings with companies interested in Northeast Iowa specifically. Iowa is a really good location for a lot of companies when they're looking for logistics, especially because we're just centrally located within the nation. So, Iowa and Northeast Iowa specifically. We are within, you know, driving range, half a day driving range within some big metro areas. So they really like to see that as well. 1 thing that we did here too is they've heard 1 company heard that Iowa has a great workforce, great workforce initiatives, great workforce in general. We like to work here. So that's 1 reason that they wanted to visit with us as well. Um, and another thing I wanted to say, too, is the summit is a great way to just really build relationships with different investors, different companies, different site selectors from across the world. Um, and 1 takeaway that we had from a site selector, uh, the week following it was he likes creating those relationships and those connections because if he has a project that pops up and I will say he works with some pretty major companies throughout the world. He said he likes to just have those contacts that he can pick up the phone and call them. He doesn't necessarily need to go through that formal RFP process through a ton of different officials. He likes to just have somebody he knows that he can call if he thinks that community might be good for the project. He'll just give them a call. So that's just one big thing that I really came out of that SelectUSA project. Attendance is the relationship building that came out of that as well. So, moving on to the business services and retention side of things. So, if you're not familiar with business services or business expansion, retention visits, this is what I might refer to it as basically I set up meetings, or they can come to us as well with businesses throughout the Cedar Valley. Just making sure they have all the resources they need, whether it's for workforce, whether it's for incentive programs, if they're looking to expand. Um, we did have 1 company that was closing so they wanted to know what the steps were for that process with workforce and whatnot to make sure their workforce was taken care of. Um, just really kind of problem solving for all the businesses throughout the community as well. So. Um, some metrics here for you. So, since November, we've completed 18 very visits in Waterloo, bringing the total for this fiscal year to 29 visits for Waterloo. And that represents over 4200 employees within Waterloo area as well. And then we're currently working with 6 Waterloo companies that are working on expansion projects, whether that's under construction currently, or they're looking into the future of the next year or 2 or 3. Um, to look to expand their business here too. So, um, some of the issues that we saw within these, um, terrorists continue to be a conversation. A lot of businesses said, you know. They're dealing with it. They, they've kind of learned how to roll with the punches of what's happening with tariffs, but everything just keeps changing. So so quickly that they're just kind of adapting to that. Um, they're really looking for a lot of exposure meeting. They want to get their name out there. They want to get their company out there, um, within the community and just kind of get known a little bit more as well. And then access to programs. That's really the bread and butter of why we're here, to make sure they have all the resources they need, whether it's for funding, whether it's for English learning classes for some of their employees as well. One interesting thing that I've noticed the last couple of months, too, is we have a lot of businesses that are expanding into the Cedar Valley from other communities within Iowa. So we've had a couple Um, or a handful that I've met with that they don't technically have a brick and mortar location here, but they have remote workers here. Um, but some of them are actually talking about opening a brick and mortar. So we've had been having some conversations on that too. Potentially what the future of them within the Cedar Valley looks like too. So that's exciting to hear that people are wanting to come or businesses are wanting to expand here. Moving on to government affairs and advocacy efforts. So every year we set legislative priorities. And those really align with economic growth, workforce development, and community development. And what you'll see this coming year is we will really tighten those up into tying them in with the population study. Again, we're going to bring that up continuously throughout the night. But we also, throughout the legislative session, really engage with state leaders on the property tax. initiatives that they were pushing through this session, and then also the economic development initiatives, TIF, and workforce training programs. There were some detrimental things that were proposed. Kind of went 1 way or another, depending on how you look at what they actually ended up with. So we definitely chatted with them when some of those proposals came out to say, hey, if you do this, this is what we could see happening within the Cedar Valley. So we were definitely voicing some concerns or some obviously support and some things that were happening as well within those proposals. We did mention, or we did participate in the Cedar Valley coalition of Washington, D. C. trip where we were able to meet with federal representatives staffers. And then also agencies, like the small business administration, too, with Mary, that was fun. And then Tom was there too. And then just to wrap things up to advocacy events, we've held 7 advocacy events this year, consisting of Friday forums and legislative receptions. We had a total attendance of 378 participants within those. And so I mentioned that because just to give you a little historical context Friday forums. A couple of years ago, if you would have went to one, we would have had 10 to 15 individuals attend those every Friday forum. And this year, we're consistently over 30 attendees with up to 65 attendees just for the Friday forums alone. And then the legislative receptions, we usually have a pre-legislative reception. And then this year, we also collaborated with Iowa City and Ames Chambers to have kind of a regent community legislative reception in Des Moines. And we had an excellent turnout from the Cedar Valley We were very impressed with everybody that came down for that. So, in ending with that, I just want to invite you to all of our legislative events. I know I've seen a few of you there, but we would definitely invite you guys to come out to those as well.

Thank you.

Hello. I'm Stephanie Detweiler, and I am the director of talent and workforce for Grocery Valley. I've been with the organization for about four years now. The talent and workforce team, what we do is we really work with businesses to attract and retain talent, and also work with the community to strengthen the pipeline of talent as well. So we have all kinds of connections with businesses, education, different community organizations, throughout the Cedar Valley. So I'm gonna take a few minutes to highlight some of that work and some of the initiatives that we have. And then Kelsey is gonna come up here in a minute too and talk about some additional things. So I'm gonna start with the population study. We've heard that mentioned several times tonight. So if you're familiar, we had our consultants, they finished their research in late last year and then in January we had our reveal event at the Gallagher Blue Dorn and that was when we revealed the plan and what they found to the community. We had over 500 people attend that event so that showed a ton of community engagement which was awesome. Since then, Katie and I have been doing presentations all throughout the community to organizations that are interested in hearing more about it. So we've done over 20 presentations about the population study and where we're at basically from that. With that study, it identified key strategies and more than 90 action items that have come from that plan. And basically at this point, I think Katie's gonna kind of talk more about it at the end, but we've identified the strategies where we feel like Grow Cedar Valley can take a lead. And we're incorporating those initiatives into our five-year strategic plan, but also figuring out how we can implement them into our fiscal year 27 plan as well. So we're in the process of that right now. The next initiative I wanna talk about is InternConnect. This will be our third annual Intern Connect. It's actually tomorrow and then another session in July. It's really meant to have young people want to stay in this community, so get more connected to the Cedar Valley. Last year, from our survey, we had 100 percent of the participants said that they felt more connected to the Cedar Valley, which was our goal, so that was awesome. The next one I wanted to just touch on quickly was Cedar Valley Leadership Institute, or CVLI. So we finished that in May. I think the program's gone on for about 40 years. And so we've continued to work to level it up. We had 91% satisfaction of our participants that went through CVLI. They were satisfied with the program. It's really meant to connect our community leaders to different organizations to figure out how they can find ways to engage and become community leaders essentially, get on boards, get into different organizations. And one thing we're doing this year, we're starting our first ever alumni social in July and we've gotten a really good response to that and keeping people engaged in the program after they're done with it. Something else that we've done this year is a welcome to the valley event. So that event is designed for newcomers to the community. So people that have moved here in the last 2 to 3 years, we had a really successful event in February. There was over 60 people that attended that were newcomers to the area. We had 10 organizations that supported that event as well. And then an overall 96% satisfaction rating of the event, so much that we decided to hold another event. We're doing a July, one at the Bucks, July 30th, so we'll do another one there. Okay, so another fun thing that we have done is our Cedar Valley podcast. I don't know if you've listened to it at all, but Jamie and Katie have done an awesome job with that. Jamie's our Director of Marketing. And we also have Live the Valley, which has just exploded, honestly. Our Live the Valley social, like our marketing platform. We have websites, social media, all kinds of things. So I'm just gonna kind of run through some of the different statistics that we've had. So with the podcast, we've produced 12 episodes. and are seeing really strong engagement with nearly 1,400 streams and almost 600 listeners just since March, so just since that time frame. We've also continued to expand Live the Valley, so our website traffic of livethevalley.com has grown to more than 12,000 views in the last 30 days alone, and that's a 3,000% increase since we relaunched the website. Our social media content has really grown too and that's partly due to the Day in the Life series. So we have either people that are local to the area, we have them doing Day in the Life to see, so people can see like all the things that they do in their day. That's reached over, like that's reached hundreds of thousands of people as well. So our newsletter now reaches more than 3,100 subscribers and then continues to grow and see really good engagement. Overall, Live the Valley marketing efforts have reached more than 230,000 people and generated over 47,000 website visits. So these are really great platforms to help us showcase the quality of life and how great it is to live here in the Cedar Valley. So it's been cool to see the engagement there. Lastly, from my standpoint before I turn it over to Kelsey, kind of along with Adrian, we also support businesses. I support them with workforce and talent visits. I tend to meet with HR professionals and I have done 14 of those in the last and seven of them have been Waterloo businesses. We also are great partners to IO Workforce Development and we meet quarterly, Kelsey and I meet quarterly with them and we also support them by being on their rapid response team and as needs arise where there's layoffs, we will support with career fairs or whatever they need from us too. So I'm gonna let Kelsey turn it over and she's gonna talk more about what we do in Talented Workforce.

And Kelsey, you have three minutes. Yeah, it ends at five.

All right, I'm Kelsey Kunkel. I am the Talent and Workforce Development Manager at Grocery Valley. I'll try and do this quickly here. I'm gonna speak on the associations that I help lead and support. Cedar Valley Young Professionals. It's an important talent retention initiative for the Cedar Valley. We create opportunities for emerging professionals to build meaningful connections and grow as leaders and deepen their sense of belonging in the community. Since relaunching a little over a year ago, we've had continued momentum with now 112 current members. Within the last 6 months, we've had about 210 participants in attendance across our monthly events and our monthly events have expanded to now include our professional development, which is our wake up YP event, our networking or socials. We've added a community impact event as well as a wellness hours. Uh, and then we're currently conducting a end of year survey and, um, of the members who have filled out that survey so far, 100% have said they have, um, feel more connected to the sea rally because of their involvement with. Um. We have, that group is led by an advisory council of nine members that kind of help guide the strategy, and they're all young professionals and leaders in the community, as well as a new programming and engagement committee that is also nine members, and that kind of supports the execution of the program. Another initiative that I help lead and support is Cedar Valley Manufacturers Association, or CVMA. It is a manufacturing sector board that brings industry leaders together to address shared challenges develop the future workforce, and advance the success of manufacturing across the Cedar Valley. We relaunched, we started the strategic planning of this relaunch back in the fall, and I included advisory council leaders from major regional manufacturers, including Power Engineering and Manufacturing, O'Neill Manufacturing, Advanced Heat Treat, Master Brand, Viking Pump, International Paper, and John Deere. The relaunch happened to the the public or the cvma at large for the members back in February, and there was 76 attendees that represented 16 companies from that meeting. There was 92% of the attendees reported that they were likely to participate in future cvma meetings and initiatives. We've expanded the focus areas of CBMA to beyond workforce development. And so now we also include strategic pillar areas of innovation and collaboration, advocacy, image of manufacturing. And through all of these, we are strengthening partnerships with UNI, Hawkeye, and Cirrus to support industry needs. Through this process, we've done a lot of branding and visibility. So a new logo, promotional video was launched We now also have a dedicated website or webpage on the Grove-Seer Valley website. And we've recently included a work-based learning submission form that we're able to connect our educational and workforce partners to the CVMA employers. And we've even had a couple few successful connections and placements through that work-based learning form. We just held last month, about one month ago, a innovation collaboration quarterly meeting that focused on AI in manufacturing and local collaboration success stories. We had 46 in attendance, and that was just from the manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain. And lastly, I'll speak to our talent and workforce ecosystem that I, a lot of workforce development is really, and you've heard it already, about relationship development. And so part of our work in talent and workforce efforts, particularly mine, focus on the strengthening, the connection between education and industry. And we do that and I do that by convening partners expanding work based learning opportunities and building or bringing clarity to pathways that help individuals explore careers develop skills and succeed in the cedar valley workforce. And so there's a lot of regional alignment that we've continued coordination between K-12, higher education, and employers. In the last six months, I've held 24 meetings or touch points with education partners across the Cedar Valley. And in the last year, it's been 54 of those meetings in addition, or in total, 54 meetings. Being an active partner as well to the Waterloo Career Center, I serve on the Waterloo Career Center Advisory Board. And then an example of how this program and partnership works in real time is a recent career-connected learning opportunity where I worked with Iowa Association of Business and Industry, so ABI. And they recently launched a Crystals of Innovation, which is a gamified manufacturing learning experience. And we went and did that with a group of about 50 middle schoolers at George Washington Carver Middle School just this past April. And that is it for me. So I'll head it back to Katie, if there's time allowed.

But thank you. We won't have time for questions. But if the council has any questions, they can reach out. So Kate, do you have just quick closing remarks, because we're running behind?

Just a quick closing. So we alluded to the fact that the Count Meehan study is going to drive our work. We are in the process of finalizing our work plan for the next fiscal year. And just want to highlight the fact that we're going to be talking a lot about those targeted industries and hope to engage all of you in a conversation around the types of businesses that we pursue moving forward, just to make sure that we have alignment. We're going after those projects, those businesses that really are going to bring higher wages, better jobs to the Cedar Valley. So just in closing, I would say, yes, if any of you have questions, I am happy to meet anytime, and I will reach out after this meeting and provide my contact information, but happy to meet anytime, and we certainly appreciate our partnership with Waterloo and look forward to continuing to serve you in the next fiscal year.

Thank you, and I highly recommend that you contact Katie and actually have a one-on-one.

Yeah.

Because then all your questions can get answered as opposed to doing an email thread back and forth. Really having that personal contact means a lot.

I'd welcome that. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you all.

And number two on our agenda is Chief Duncan. No, that was good.

That was a good one. I can expand upon that, but since this is a public forum, I'm going to hold off.

uh so kelly is making me do this work session because we've got one word change to the city ordinance for you guys to vote on here in the upcoming future i sent you guys all a correspondence about the change i don't have a fancy powerpoint with pictures but if you guys have any questions for me i'm here to answer them do you need to explain the change to the to the citizens that are Yes, we're adding the word. You want me to say it? Please. Defecate to the urine in public or urinating in public.

So we're going to ban defecation too. Yes, we are. Very good.

Apparently that's been done in quite a few cities across the state. And I really didn't want to get up here to do this, but it needed to be done, unfortunately.

That's a tough job. Council, any questions for the chief?

I have a question.

Ms. Berry.

Now, are you noticing this in a particular part of the city? Because nobody's been to my front yard to see all the dog crap that's there.

Yeah, I think the email I sent back was pretty specific on where we had it. Yeah, okay.

More downtown area, seriously speaking, yeah. Bike trails.

Bike trails, city parks, and it's definitely not dogs, so.

Next to city buildings.

That would be it too, yes.

I was hoping we could amend it to include dogs.

Well, I'm sure there's something out there, but I don't know what it is, so.

Okay, thank you, thank you.

Mr. Salamanca, I can see you're just. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Please.

So just to clarify, because I, again, I'm under the understanding that folks out in the public hear one thing and then it explodes and it's all wild. So just to be clear, this is so we're in alignment with other municipalities who are, who have already done this. So we're just catching up to speed.

Yeah, I think we're way behind the ball on it. So yes.

Appreciate it.

Thank you. Anyone else? And it's a one-word change.

That's it.

That's it. So I'm glad we're finally adding it, and it'll be on, what, the next council meeting? It'll be on the next council meeting for that change. Thank you, Chief, and thank you for all you and everything your department does each and every day.

You're welcome.

Mr. Mayor? Mr. Simon. I'd like to make a motion we adjourn.

Motion and second, all in favor?