City Council - Regular Meeting

On air. You're fine. Thank you very much. I'd like to welcome everybody to the June 11th regular meeting of the Zena City Council. At this time, we are going to have an invocation led by Councilwoman Miscavige, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilwoman Rachel Huffman. If you could please rise.

Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you that we can gather here. I thank you that we can work for our city. We just ask that our laws be just, that we love mercy, and that we walk humbly with you, and that we listen to our constituents. In your name, amen.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right. Thank you, Consul Raskiewicz. Thank you, Councilman Huffman. At this time, we're gonna call our meeting to order and ask for a roll call, please.

Vice President Crawford. Councilwoman Cerise? Here. Councilman Miscavige?

Here.

Councilwoman Huffman? Here. Councilman Rubio?

Here.

Mayor Reynolds?

Here.

President Smith?

Here. Mr. President, I move to excuse Vice President James Crawford.

Thank you. I'll second. Thank you. We have a motion by the mayor, seconded by Councilwoman Cerise, to excuse Mr. Crawford on a business trip. If there's no other comments, we'll go ahead and get a roll call to excuse him.

Councilwoman Cerise? Yes. Councilman Miscavige.

Aye.

Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio. Aye. Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you. Next on the agenda is the approval of minutes. This is the minutes from our May 28th regular meeting. Minutes stand before us. I'll ask for a motion to accept the minutes. So moved. Moved by the mayor. Second. Seconded by Councilman Huffman. Is there any additions, corrections, or changes need made? All right. Seeing none, we'll go to roll call to accept the minutes.

Councilwoman Cerise. Abstain. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman.

Aye.

Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith.

Yes.

Motion carries.

All right. Moving on to special presentations. There are none tonight. Audience comments. You have three to five minutes if you would like to come to the podium and give your name and your address. Those are open now. All right, seeing none, we're moving on to old business. Ordinance 2026-19, a public hearing to determine, determining to proceed with the improvement of city streets and the publicways by lighting them. Therefore, for the year 2026 introduced by Councilman Huffman on 5-28-2026, Mr. Merriman.

Yeah, just a brief refresh. This is one of the several steps necessary for the street lighting assessment. This is to incorporate new rates based on our Miami Valley lighting contract, the new multi-year contract, and this would extend this arrangement for multi-years. So again, this is the, I think, what, second in the three-part process. Council's approved that initial step, and so we're recommending approval this evening of the ordinance.

Very good. Thank you, sir. Sorry, I had to step out for one second. All right. So at this time, we have a public hearing for Ordinance 202619. And at this time, I will open the floor and ask anyone if they would care to come forward and speak either in favor or against Ordinance 202619. All right, seeing no one come forward, we'll close the public hearing. This item was introduced at our last meeting by Councilman Huffman. Would you care to move for passage? So moved. Thank you. And I'll need a second. I'll second. Seconded by Councilman Rubio. If there's no further discussion, we'll get a roll call, please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you very much. Our next item is also a public hearing. This is for ordinance 2026-20 authorizing the annexation of 327.06 acres. owned by the state of Ohio to the city of Xenia to be made and directed by the city law director to prosecute and proceed with necessary the set effects for annexation. This time I will open the floor and ask anyone if they would care to come forward and speak in favor or against this item. I've seen no one come forward either for or against. Mr. Merriman or Madam Law Director, do you have anything else you would like to add tonight on this item?

We're just planning, if council accepts this tonight, of course, we do have the 30-day waiting period for the ordinance to become effective. So I would anticipate the petition being filed the week of July 13th.

Okay, very good. Any questions for the law director or city manager? All right. In lieu of the vice president being absent tonight, I'll move forward this item and move for passage. And I'll need a second, please. Second. Seconded by Councilwoman Huffman. No further discussion. We'll go ahead and get a roll call, please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Abstention due to my employment.

uh president smith hi motion carries thank you very much glad to see that it's been a long road long time coming on that one decades thank you all right so we're on the new business our first item tonight is an introduction for ordinance 2026-21 this is authorizing the sale of a portion of parnell park comprising of 0.02 acres, more or less about 10 feet, I think. We discussed that at our last meeting. To the owner of 488 Ackerman Place. At this time, I'll turn the floor over to Mr. Merriman.

Thank you, sir. Be reminded that your May 28th regular session council was presented with this matter and took an initial step of approving a resolution to find the subject parcel was not needed for municipal purpose. So we remind our viewing audience that the subject property is a 10-foot wide strip of city-owned land adjacent to Parnell Park. This is between 488 and 474 Ackerman Place. We think the strip of land was originally intended to be a secondary point of ingress-egress. that we have no record of anything actually being established in the way of a path or sidewalk or anything. So this evening we are presenting the ordinance to authorize the sale of this property. The property management committee at its April 16th meeting agreed that the strip was not needed and they endorsed the sale. So this evening, and I should also add, I think their recommendation was for a $500 price point. So we're asking for introduction of the ordinance this evening to proceed with that consideration.

All right, thank you very much for that report. Any questions for Mr. Merriman? All right, and this time, who would care to introduce that item? I'll introduce it. Introduced by Councilman Miscavige, thank you. Our next item is also an introduction tonight for ordinance 2026-22. This is instituting a six month moratorium on the establishment or commencement of data centers within the city of Xenia. So at this time, we'll turn the floor back over to Mr. Merriman.

Thank you, sir. Data centers, of course, are critical components required for networking capacity, digital connectivity, and artificial intelligence, and so on and so forth. With the enormous increases in demand for these services, data centers have proliferated at an extremely rapid rate across Ohio, probably due to lower construction costs, availability of water in our state for cooling, very business-friendly environment. But in the process of that proliferation, there are a lot of concerns that have been raised among citizens concerning some of the potential adverse implications. Certainly, electric rates for consumers are adversely impacted. and other concerns about just, you know, the types of environmental conditions associated with, uh, data centers. Um, uh, regardless of the debate on the impacts, um, data centers have not historically been considered within the particulars of our zoning code. Um, and, um, further, there are, um, um, active conversations at the state and federal level about how data centers should proceed in terms of development. Uh, but despite that, um, uh, based on some requests from council, We are presenting this evening legislation that would institute a moratorium on the advancement of any of these projects in our community that would give the staff time to evaluate zoning, potential conditions for zoning, allow some of these conversations at state and federal levels to mature, and then provide a better platform for council to make a decision as to how you would want to regulate these in this community. So again, we are recommending, uh, introduction of, of ordinance, uh, 2026 dash 22 as requested this evening, uh, for consideration of that moratorium.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Merriman questions for our city manager.

Mr. President, uh, not a question, but I would move, uh, to amend the moratorium from six months to one year as the legislature is still debating the process of this. Uh, and they haven't gotten anywhere. The governor just issued. know remove the tax credit temporarily so we won't know where we're going to be at until probably december sometime i think it'd just be better to extend it for one year to stop them from maybe potentially coming here so all right thank you madam law director is that yeah give me one second um typically we amend them after they've been introduced so that's kind of new um

So that would put us to June 12th of 2027.

Charter only addresses if it's amended after the public hearing. So I think if you're going to amend it at this point, you go ahead and have a vote on the amendment and then proceed to see if anyone wishes to introduce it.

So I think there's a motion. So you would need a second and then a vote if it's seconded for the amendment and then an introduction of the amended ordinance as presented.

All right. So it sounds like we already have a motion on the floor to amend the moratorium from six months to one year on the establishment of data centers. And, uh, well, we need a second second by councilwoman Cerise further discussion on that topic.

I just want to add, that when we think about data centers, there's like roughly two different scales. There's the smaller ones that are generally just, they're in a warehouse like building or slightly nicer that use electricity, manageable water, have very little negative externalities and are critical for small businesses and every one of us would like to have computing power. I think what we're most concerned about, and the year will give us the time to dial this down, is the ones that consume 20 megawatts of power, and that's like a really big number. So that's greater than 2x of what Xenia consumes in one building. And that's in addition to concerns about water consumption, noise to adjacent property owners, even heat coming from the building, because basically that's one big heating element that imputes animal behavior changes, those kind of things. So I think it's very wise of the mayor to introduce this. And I think the law director for writing this resolution. So thank you, sir.

Thank you for that. Anything else? Any other comments? All right. So we have a motion and a second. What we're voting on right now is just the amendment to these introduction. So we'll go ahead and get a roll call please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman.

Aye.

Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you. Mr. President, I move to introduce Ordinance 2026-22, instituting a one-year moratorium on the establishment or commencement of data centers within the city of Xenia.

Thank you very much. Introduced by the mayor. Just needed an introduction tonight. That's okay. We'll vote on that in our next meeting. And that is going to be on June 25th. And I believe that meeting is also our walking tour.

There's three short items on your agenda for the beginning of that meeting and then the walking tour.

Very good. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda tonight is resolution 2026-38. This is awarding the bid and authorizing the execution of a contract with Milcon Concrete Incorporated for North King Street water main replacement and storm sewer repair project. This time we'll turn the floor back over to our city manager.

Thank you, sir. As City Council has directed staff to begin the process of rehabilitating North King Street from West Church Street to West Ankeny Mill Road. And this is due to the obvious rapid deterioration of that particular roadway. In conjunction with the street rehabilitation, however, it is necessary first to address age condition of varied utility mains under the street, notably water and storm sewer mains. The design of this water main and storm sewer replacement repair project was completed earlier this year. um with the intent that the utilities project would be completed by the end of 2026 followed by roadway restoration as part of our 2027 street program the engineers project estimate for this particular scope of work was two million fifty six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars on tuesday may 19th the city received three bids from qualified contractors to complete the project all three bids came in higher than the engineer's estimate and uh The apparent low bidder based on what was submitted was Milcon Concrete Incorporated. As this firm has yet to complete any work for the city, we obviously need to take some time to evaluate them. The city engineer's office did do a reference check with Milcon and learned that they were successful. Let me see here. I guess it was Lebanon and Dayton were the two in particular that we checked with. They had completed successful projects in both of those jurisdictions. as well as Montgomery County Environmental Services and Warren County Water and Sewer. So there was abundant demonstration of their ability to do the work. As a result, public staff does believe that they can do the work as designed. However, note that the lowest and best bid with MilCon exceeds the engineer's estimate by $173,627. Under Ohio Revised Code Section 153.12 , This section authorizes the award of contracts that exceed an engineer's estimate up to a maximum of 20% so long as adequate funds have been appropriated for such a project. In this case, the overage is about 8.4%, so this statutory authority can be applied in this particular case. However, in order to award the contract to Milcon Concrete, it will be necessary to transfer at least $66,230.83 from another line item within our water fund. Consequently, our public service staff has elected to seek a transfer of $100,000 from the Fairground Road water main installation project, as we do not believe this project is within our scope to complete this year. We are electing to transfer $100,000 rather than just $66,000 plus that's needed, just so that we have a little bit of margin should we encounter any unforeseen circumstances. The finance director is able to complete that transfer by his charter authority, and we would do so in conjunction with this. So this evening we are requesting council authorization through the resolution of 2026-038 that would allow us to move forward with executing a contract with Milcon Concrete with the number as presented. And then that will allow us to get started on that project with all due speed.

Thank you.

That's it. That was a lot. Sorry.

All right. No, that's good. Any questions for Mr. Merriman? I have one. So Milcon is not the concrete company that did the work for Market Industry. Correct. Or they're not the same company under a different name.

Correct. OK, very good. Correct. We will not be looking to hire those for many times soon.

All right. Just had to throw that out there. Yeah, that's a lot of money. But I hope they can do it.

Yeah, and I think it's important to point out, The infrastructure under the roadway is in bad shape. We also have some lead infrastructure on the water lines, which by statute have to be removed. But I think it's important for the public to understand some of these older neighborhoods where we have utility systems that need to be replaced, the cost of the utility systems may be two, three, or four times the cost of the roadway resurfacing. In this case, it's about three times the cost because we estimate about a $700,000 cost to resurface King Street next year. So it may be well more costly underneath to repair a lot of these things than at the surface level.

I would also just add that the water portion of this project is going to need to be financed. That's how we have it structured in the five-year capital plan. That's how it's presented in the budget. Spending $1.4 million in cash would be detrimental to the water fund. So we will be bringing some financing options back to council later this year before we start to require, or we're required to start making payments to this contractor as the work's completed. So I don't know if that'll be a capital lease or some sort of revenue bond through the OWDA, but we will bring back a recommendation to council to finance a portion of this project.

All right, thanks, Mr. Duke. All right. Any questions for either our finance director or Mr. Merriman?

Yeah. Mr. Merriman, will this disrupt traffic on King Street and when can we expect that?

I hate to say it, but there will be a pretty substantial disruption to the flow of traffic. As part of the construction contract, they are obligated to provide a maintenance of traffic plan. an MOT as we call it. So there will be daily inconveniences because we quite literally have to open up the ground to install the new main. So localized traffic will still be able to get to and from driveways and so forth, but there will without question be some disruption. I call this the price of progress. There's a temporary inconvenience for a long-term gain. And I don't have a date specific. Once we have the award of bid and the contract executed, we'll have a pre-construction meeting with the contractor. We'll establish the specific schedule so I can offer council a little bit better timeline once they have that pre-construction meeting. But I think that we'll turn that around pretty quickly because we do want to get this project started pretty soon.

All right, thank you. Thank you, councilman. He answered my question. I think it's also important to make sure the residents know that this is part of getting their street paid because they've been rightfully so vocal about the condition of their streets.

Yeah, we'll do some outreach in that neighborhood. And typically projects of this scale, our public service staff will go door-to-door with leaflets or door hangers to provide information on what's forthcoming. Thank you, appreciate that.

Very good. Yeah, we've talked about King Street for many years. Didn't want to just lay over it and put lipstick on a pig because basically now we got to open the pig up. So very good. How's that analogy? That's great. I loved it. But we've got to bring home the bacon to pay for. Absolutely. Very good. All right. So at this time we have a bid and I'm asking for a motion to approve the bid. So moved. Thank you. Moved by councilman Huffman. And do we have a second? Seconded by councilwoman Cerise. All right. Then for the discussion, we'll get a roll call please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige.

Aye.

Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you very much. Next on our agenda is procedural motion. We have two appointments to civil service tonight. There are two existing vacancies. One term was vacated when a member resigned due to being selected to Xenia Community School Board. The other term was vacated when a member was appointed to the Xenia Charter Review Commission. One term expires on December 31st of 2028 and the other term expires on December 31st of 2029. Letters of interest and applications were received from Mr. David Jordan. He and, wait a minute. I'm sorry, our Civil Service Committee Chair, Mr. David Jordan contacted Mr. Kerry Shaw, who was the applicant, and Mr. Michael Echols to discuss their interest in serving. Mr. Jordan respectfully requests that Mr. Shaw and Mr. Echols be appointed to Civil Service Commission with Mr. Shaw's term expiring on December 31st, 2028, and Mr. Echols' term expiring on December 31st of 2029. I have not met Mr. Echol, but I have met Mr. Shaw. And he's a stand up citizen, lives in Summerbrook, actually works at let me see, Cedarville University, I believe, is a professor there. So glad to have him on board. At this time, I'll accept a motion to appoint, we're going to go ahead and do them both at the same time. If there's any issues with that, let me know. Okay. So at this time, I'll take a motion to appoint Mr. Kerry Shaw for an expiration date of December 31st, 2028. And at the same time, appointing Mr. Michael Eccles to civil service for the term expiring December 31st of 2029. Second. Would you like to make a motion? Oh, I'll make the motion. Okay. Moved by the mayor. I'm sorry. And who would like to make a second? A second. Seconded by Councilman Reese. I kind of stated I was doing that. Sorry. All right. For clarification, that was the mayor and Councilwoman Cerise. All right. Very good. Thank you. All right. We'll go ahead and get a roll call, please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige.

Aye.

Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio. Aye. Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith.

Aye.

Motion carries.

Very good. Thank you very much. All right. At this time, it's appointed officials reports. We'll start with Mr. Duke.

I have nothing for you this evening, but I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Oh, we have another item. I'm so sorry. It's not on my agenda, but I have it in front of me now. Okay, very good. I'm sorry. We're going to wait. Sorry. We are going to a new item that's come to my attention, agenda item for a procedural motion. accepting the City of Xenia Charter Review Commission report to Council by the recommended charter amendments for placement on the November 3rd ballot. And I do apologize for that. All right. So Ms. Fisher, can you enlighten us please?

Yes, thank you. In November, this Council appointed a Charter Review Commission as you are required to do under the City Charter every five years. That commission began meeting in January. It's met every two weeks since that time. It has completed its review of the charter. The commission has seven amendments that it is recommending for placement on the November 3rd ballot. When you pass the resolution in November appointing that committee, you also require them to have a report submitted to you on any suggested amendments before July 31st. So that's what you have before you this evening. It's the report from the Charter Review Commission. What this procedural motion does is you're not approving any of the amendments. You're just acknowledging and accepting that the commission has filed the report with you as they're required to do. We wanted to get this to you this evening as we discussed at the last council meeting. Charter review commission is going to come to your next meeting. There's going to be a special meeting scheduled at five. We wanted to get this to council so you have time to really read it, read the rationale, and then you can have a meaningful discussion with charter review at your meeting on the 25th. So this procedural motion is just to acknowledge that the commission has completed its report and accepting that it's being filed with council.

All right. Thank you very much. Questions for Ms. Fisher? All right. So all we're doing tonight is just accepting the report, but we can make changes. Is that correct?

Any of the amendments that council would decide it wants to present, if any, to the voters, that has to be done by ordinance. So accepting this doesn't place any of the amendments before the voters you can't amend any of the amendments that the charter commission has recommended but council has sole authority to decide which if any you want to present to the voters so that's the conversation charter review commission is hoping to have with you um at your next meeting all right very good i would like to just personally thank the charter

review commission. How many times did you guys meet for this?

We met every two weeks beginning in January.

Yeah, that's a lot of time, a lot of commitment. And for anybody watching this, basically our senior charter is basically like our city's constitution. We are ruled and governed by this. It does give us guidelines to follow. And I think, I'll tell you, I'm impressed that we followed this pretty much to the T on our council. So thank you for all the work that you did on that. If there's no other questions for the law director, we will need a motion to accept the commission's report. So moved. Thank you. We have a motion by Councilman Miscavige. And we'll need a second please. Second. Seconded by the mayor. And all we're doing right now is accepting this, and then we can decide which?

Yes. Yes. Under the state constitution, any amendments that you present has to be done by ordinance. So there's further legislative action council would have to take to get these to the budget.

OK. And we have to do it by when to get on there?

There is. It's on page three of the report. I did put in there a timeline outline for you. The action has to be taken between July 6th and September 4th. September 4th is our deadline.

Very good. Thank you very much. All right. We have a motion and a second. There's no other questions. We'll get a roll call, please.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you very much. All right. Sorry, I skipped that. All right. We are moving to appointed officials reports. Mr. Duke doesn't have anything unless there's a question for Mr. Duke. We'll move on to Ms. Fisher.

I have nothing further for you this evening. Thank you.

All right. Anything for our law director tonight? All right. Thank you very much. Mr. Merriman, what do you have for us?

I can't help myself. Just one item. Just a reminder for Council Logistic Planning. We do have our walking tour. I'm going to call it our annual field tour, just because we don't do a lot of walking when we do it. So we are scheduled for your next meeting. As Danette pointed out, the plan is to start an early session that evening so that the council can hear from the citizen members of the uh charter review commission kind of allow them to talk about justification and rationale as to why they're recommending the changes uh we are keeping the agenda very short i think we only have three items right now so we believe we can be in and out of the primary portion of the regular session pretty quickly We will have transportation provided for council. And I'll try to order some nice weather, low humidity, but I make no promises. We do have an itinerary in mind, and I'll get back to the council president and make sure that we're good with what that looks like. But we'll try to keep that tour to about an hour to an hour and a half so you're getting out about the normal time of a regular meeting.

And on the 25th, what time are we starting then? 5 p.m. 5 o'clock? Friday.

Oh, yes. Excellent. I should mention also next Friday city facilities will be closed in observance of Juneteenth. So that's June 19th. So we ask folks that have business with the city to plan accordingly for that change in our schedule. And that's all I have.

All right. Thank you. Any questions or comments for Mr. Merriman? All right. Just like to, on behalf of the mayor and myself, I'd like to thank you and city staff yesterday for the funeral. What's the name of that cemetery?

Goudy.

What is it? Goudy. Goudy. Okay. And I just call it the city's. cemetery now that we pretty much maintained.

It was a nice event.

I appreciate it. Basically, and thank you, Councilman Scribbins, you were there last night. We had probably about 20 people in attendance, which was quite a few people there, just in reference to those that have maybe deceased in the city with no family to claim their remains. So it's kind of sad that this happens, but we do have responsibility as a city to take care of those that are deceased and have no one to care for. And I believe we do average around seven to 10 residents every year that we pay to have them cremated at city's expense.

And we actually are not required to enter those remains. But years ago, council made that decision out of respect that there be a final resting place. So that's an extra step that we take that many communities do not.

Right. Yeah. So I'd like to thank former Mayor Urschel for preparing that and city staff that you guys were there. Thank you for attending that. So. All right. Very good. All right. So next is council comments and reports. We'll start with Councilman Miscavige. Nothing to report tonight. And Councilwoman Cerise, what do you have for us tonight?

All I just wanted to say is I've been attending those charter committee meetings and The folks that are serving are just doing a fabulous job, you know, just like all our committees that we have where citizens step up. They're willing to be involved. They care. They're concerned. And we couldn't run this city without these great people that step up and are willing to take these positions and help out. So thank you so much. I know we got a couple of folks in the audience who have served, and I really appreciate you because they really know What they're talking about, they take great time and to deliberate and find out and do some research and under the guidance of our law director. So I really appreciate everything our citizens do to help make the city run better. So thank you.

Very good. And I would agree. Do we, how many council members, we only have one, right? That chairs that or doesn't even chair. They just sit in on that. Is that correct?

Um, councilwoman is our sitting member. And then I think, um, Mr. Crawford as an alternate attended to.

Yeah. I just want citizens to understand that we're council's not writing the rules. This is citizens writing the rules. So, um, thank you for bringing that up and then maybe we can have some material available as early as, um, 4th of July weekend that we might have this. on the ballot.

Yeah. It'll depend on what council ultimately wants to push forward. Sure. Okay.

So if you're inclined to make a decision sooner rather than later, the commission, you know, of the seven amendments, um, four or five of them are amendments that weren't presented council chose not to present five years ago. when we did charter review um so the commission just makes the recommendations to you and then it's it's your decision as the council what you want to present to the voters and then that's completely within your purview all right thank you all right uh moving on uh councilman huffman do you have anything for us tonight i do not all right thank you councilman rubio

Nope, not tonight. Mayor Reynolds.

Just real fast, a few quick things here. One, I just don't know if everyone saw the Dayton Daily News ranking us as one of the fastest growing cities in Ohio. Air environment was announced for coming to Xenia with 58 jobs and $101,000 in tax revenue to the city. Juneteenth, the celebration is actually on the 20th at 5 p.m. at Lexington Park. I think Juneteenth's an opportunity for all of us, especially in our community, to reflect upon one of the greatest evils and darkest chapters in our country's history, but also to celebrate the triumph over oppression and for freedom and liberty. So I think it'd be great for all of us to attend if we can. And that is all I have.

Very good. Also coming up Sunday is at the Fairgrounds, I believe, is Friday with a ceremonial flag burning. That is something that former Sheriff Gene Fisher instituted and I know I'm sorry, our current Sure. Anger is still supporting that. So, um, and there's vendors set up at that. I believe that's a free event. Yes. Yes. Um, at the fairgrounds and the, where do you park for that?

It's kind of in the fairgrounds you park. Okay. So some will be lined up in the back and they, uh, it's also like part of the, uh, American two 50. Very good.

Yeah. Very good. So hopefully we'll see a lot of people there for that. Um, that's exciting event. All right. If there's nothing else tonight, there's no need for an executive session tonight. Is that correct? All right. And so just to note, our next meeting will be June 25th, starting at five o'clock. And at this time, we'll ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you. Moved by the mayor. Seconded by Councilwoman Huffman. And we'll get a roll call, please.

Councilwoman Cerise? Aye. Councilman Miscavige? Aye. Councilwoman Huffman? Aye. Councilman Rubio? Aye. Mayor Reynolds?

Aye.

President Smith? Aye. Motion carries. All right. Thank you. Thank you for everything.