"[Music] good evening and welcome to the January 2nd uh 2024 city council meeting if you join me for a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance the United States of America all right M rovski roll call please Michelle Luke kellier here John burmel Dan Walter here Joshua Lee here very good moving on to item number three this is opportunity for Citizens comments up to three minutes if there's an item that's not on the agenda that you'd like to share with the council you can step forward share your name and address that would be most helpful uh good evening good evening my name is uh John Ness and I live at 19201 jeel path in Lakeville and thanks for letting me uh once again speak to you about the proposed development at the 14 acre parcel at Kenwood Trails uh middle school as you all aware I believe I sent a letter to Bill Burgess the president of Minnesota Division of lenar on December 20th and and this was on behalf of 14 community members and for the benefit of those here tonight and those perhaps listening uh from home I'll take a few minutes to summarize the main points of that letter the letter spelled out that spelled out how ISD 194 failed to engage the community and key stakeholders before proceeding with the purchase agreement so it was unaware of the current land use by the middle schools the cross country Runners the Nordic skiers and the community the community is now engaged and is voicing its overwhelming opposition to this development to City staff and to to all of you um the letter went on to say that District's failur to engage with the stakeholders placed has placed lenar in a very difficult position no doubt and we all know that lenar is a well respected developer and partner to the city and it's my belief that they would have not entered into this agreement had they understood fully the impact uh and importance of this parcel to the community and the amount of opposition to the development the letter closes by encouraging lenar to abandon the development as allowed under the purchase agreement and by so doing lenar would demonstrate leadership and concerned for the community's interest it would be the right thing to do for lenar for ISD 194 for the city of Lakeville and for the community all of you have received copies of the letter uh several contributors to the letter are here uh this evening have joined me and so we're here if you have any questions about the letter uh we can take a few moments okay seeing done um so in the remaining few minutes until Luke kicks me off um I'm pleased to report the community is engaged uh and the opposition to this development continues to grow our Facebook group is now at 762 members a petition from Lakeville uh student athlete asking for the school board to reverse the sale and protected land s has now received 389 signatures a second petition by a lake full resent asking authorities uh Define Loosely to protect the trails Wetland and wildlife habitat has received 515 signatures we plan to continue to meet and we have uh we're going to be setting up an Instagram account in the coming weeks so thank you for your time thanks Sean any other citizen comments okay uh moving on to item number four additional agenda information Mr Miller nothing tonight mayor okay moving on to presentations introductions and I'll turn over to our fire chief um Mike Meyer for fire department retiree recognition give me just one second okay [Music] good evening mayor council thank you for letting us uh present shadow boxes to two of our retirees this evening if I can ask uh Taber Aken and Steve ginsky to join me up here both Taber and Steve joined the Department together in 2002 where they served 21 plus years on the department uh tabber and Steve both started at Station 2 and then uh kind of went their separate Rays if you will where Steve moved to station 4 when that opened in 2003 and uh tab finished his career at station three uh both of them held kind of followed the same paths as they came in together but firefighter they hold the positions of firefighter engineer Lieutenant captain and finished I will say finished as District Chiefs but at the end of their terms they step back down and serve the remaining uh time as firefighters mentoring those above them and around them as far as Leaders uh some of the things that they did during their tenure on the department uh their leadership helped improve the Department's operations by uh helping develop our duty crew program our drone team uh station Staffing coverage during covid uh and then they were the first to go through instant command certification that we uh went through as a department or as Chief officers and I'm not going to say much more I'll let them kind of convey their story but I want to thank Tab and Steve for their leadership years of service at the department their friendship and uh mentorship to me as a chief and most importantly I want to thank their families for all the support that they gave Taber and Steve to be part of our community as as firefighters and serving our community one of you want to go first I'm going first I retired I he has the lower badge number so I let him decide and I retired first um by about a month so um couple of notes here so I um so thank you council members mayor uh City administrator uh for letting us uh speak here tonight and for this recognition and for our shadow boxes we really appreciate them first of all I'd like to thank my parents who should be hopefully watching from their home in Florida online um Jo and arll glinsky for showing me the meaning of hard work they taught me how things work how to build things and how to fix things and most importantly taught me the value of every human life which I think is very important uh in our society and very important in in this career as a firefighter um I joined the fire department for two reasons one we were new to the community I had no family here and I wanted a way to be involved and I think the the only way you get things from your community is to give things to your community so this was an opportunity for me to uh be part of a team and really become a part of a very big family um so I'd like i' like to thank my family at station 4 a lot of those guys and gals are behind us right now and here tonight um but as District Chief I also got to expand that family to all the stations which really meant a lot to me to be able to meet with with all of them uh Chief Paulson I got to work with and all of his uh men and women of the police department as a district Chief we get to spend a lot more time with our police officers and we have a fabulous department so thank you Chief Paulson and your staff um there's two families really went uh kind of Above and Beyond in in my career and it's because my family and their family kind of got to be friends are my wife and my kids their kids um so uh Steve Meyer station for firefighter and his wife Carmen um were uh very helpful and supportive to me as a firefighter as a chief um and just we vacation together our kids grew up in the high school together and I appreciate um them and all they did for them um during rookie class um we were looking for a new house in Lakeville we lived on the North side we needed to move so the kids could be in Lakeville schools my wife told me about some houses went to training and one of the other firefighters said yeah I think that house is in my backyard and of course it had to be in the 2 mile radius so of of station 4 cuz I didn't want to change stations um so turned out to be uh a family John Muma a retired firefighter and his wife tovy um we raised our families together and it would if it wasn't for the fire department I would not have my my brother from another mother Mr Muma so thank you John trying to make it brief four firefighters that greatly impacted my career retired firefighter Greg stas who's here tonight he was my first captain at station 4 um he served he taught me to be calm I'm not a calm person everybody will find that but Greg was always calm and he he was that was the biggest influence on me and really helped me settle down and and get into this career um uh former lfd firefighter current St Paul firefighter and paramedic Chris horniak um was my ambassador of firefighter knowledge the guy is a machine he he loves this craft and it taught me so much from the first call we had was a garbage truck fire and I was so impressed with him and learned so much from him best paramedic I've ever met in my life and thanks to him for all he did Fire Marshall Brian Carson who's here as well tonight he was my district Chief when I came on and um scared the Jesus out of me CU he is so calm as well and it's but I've learned so much from him and as a district chief he always took time to as as I went up the ranks was always there for me to ask questions to give advice in a very calm mellow away and then as we um as District Chief I learned so much about fire Behavior fire investigation he always was there and willing to spend extra time to teach so thank you Brian um one more person is this guy behind me um retired firefighter uh and District Chief tabber Aken as you go up in the ranks your peer group gets smaller and I would not have made it as a district Chief without him his partnership his friendship um it was just a great great team effort and I don't know is this does this thing work MH don't know if we can we put that up there by any chance all right one other group to thank and introduced so this picture was taken pretty much right after badging ceremony here I think we went across the street latter 4 is not here anymore that's been replaced my hair is not here anymore but luckily all the other people in this in the family are here so my son you could please stand I said Connor who's a lot taller than he was there and he's joined um by his girlfriend Lauren um my daughter Mariah and her Jack are with me tonight and of course my wife Claudia who um I can't so I save this to the end cuz I knew I might get a bit emotional but um she's been my rock she's allowed me to do this for 21 years um and it wasn't easy on her and um I appreciate her letting me do this so thank you very much I have a choice anymore right of you know that I have the opportunity to serve as an elementary school principal in Lakeville and I had the mistaken idea that I might get a minute or two today to put some notes together for tonight so at around 5:00 or so when the end the day has closing out and uh pulled the notepad out and and put some things down and uh as Steve and I were sitting there chatting with each other before the presentation and the meeting we had said I don't really have anything put together well I'm going to Define not having anything put together because a terrible example of that as he's up here with his typewritten notes and I have a bunch of chickens Gratch on here so I uh like him want to give a shout out because I know I've got some family watching virtually and of course my wife Beth is able to join me tonight uh to be here for this uh important event and uh exciting opportunity so uh for me uh first off I want to say thank you uh because I appreciate the opportunity to do this work um this is one of the reasons one of the primary reasons we live in Lakeville is because I wanted to be a volunteer firefighter and uh my wife was patient and kind enough with me as we said McAndrews is going to be kind of our South Boundary we're not going to go any further than that and we did and uh very thankful and then have had the opportunity to uh live and work in this community and I I love it I love Lakeville uh this is very much a home for me I grew up on the east coast and but drifted out here and this is home and it just feels very much like the right place to be so uh being a firefighter and getting to do that work was also very important um in fulfilling that place to to be home um I blame my dad U my father was a firefighter for 43 years uh and uh remember and I've written and talked about it had nauseum but I remember running down to the bottom of the driveway when he would leave on a call and then in hopes that the call would take him back past the driveway so that I could see the big red truck go by and and uh that was probably one of the other big motivators for Lakeville is that we have red fire trucks and so that was an important piece and an important thing to do so um as I I talked a little bit about her um but bath was sharing a memory the other day from Facebook and we brainstormed a little bit this morning or this afternoon and it was New Year's Day day and she had a posted on Facebook that she was a little frustrated because I'd been I'd left on a call then I came home from the call only to leave again for another call and then I I think it had ended up to be three three calls and uh and then finally came home and said start the grill and we're going to have some burgers and so finally got caught up and got that done but that's the you know the nature of the firefighter and the and the work is that you're responding uh to the community and supporting the community whatever those needs might be so I want to give a big uh shout out and a big thank you to Beth because um she's been with me this entire process uh she has been a supporter she's been a cheerleader we've got multiple pictures of Fire Department events with Tab and Beth and she's just been with me the entire piece she's been an amazing um support amazing voice so for example as simple as tonight she said you're probably going to need to button your jacket because you got something on your shirt so calls that were just very very difficult when I would come home and she'd say how was that and I'd say I need a hug and that's I don't want to talk about it but I need a hug it was hard and so and she was always there for me so Beth thank you very much for your partnership and your support in doing this I want to recognize a group that's very important and the group is abija on the backside and abija is currently a partner with uh the fire department and possibly the police department in providing uh therapy for uh firefighters First Responders and others I have had the fortune to Avail myself of their services they've been incredibly generous made it almost impossible to say no um I get to go back on the 15th I was there before break and it's just they're incredible and they're doing some amazing work I counted the other day when I was there because there's two uh therapists an equin specialist and a therapist there's a service dog that's there and then there's four horses so I was like I have about eight seven to eight beings taking care of me for an hour this is amazing and so I have to give a shout out to Sally and her crew because that very unique approach to hanging out with horses in a barn has made an incredible difference for me um and just been very therapeutic um I think that uh some of the people that I want to recognize uh Todd selner Todd is reportedly out doing rookie training but is he we sure he's not here uh and uh Todd was always a a step ahead of me in the the fire department Todd would tell you if you were here that he's still a step ahead of me uh but he uh was always a mentor for me a guide um and Todd was always there to give suggestions on how to do things and as the men and women can attest he's there to tell you not how to do or how not to do things as well so um uh as Steve uh identified we don't um we are you know a small peer group that we get to work with um but we also don't really have partners even though we don't do anything alone in the fire service we do almost everything we do together um and there was two opportunities when I got to have Partnerships and that was with Paul mkim when Paul was the lieutenant and I was the captain at Station 2 the titles didn't matter we were Partners in co-leading and and uh facilitating the work that came out of that station and then when I moved into the district Chief role uh getting to be a partner with Steve and I think that that one was uh just very memorable because you're the only only two people doing that work when you're a firefighter you're along other firefighters when you're a station officer there's other station officers in an our system when you're a district Chief there's one other District Chief so I would frequently refer to Steve as my partner and very much was that um situation where we were constantly in communication uh constantly using each other as sounding boards and then in both cases with Paul and Steve we were a good balance we I believe we were they might tell you that I was just writing their coattails but I believ that we uh offset each other with our skills in uh strengths and areas for growth so and then I want to conclude by uh celebrating Chief Meyer uh as Mike indicated in his piece um there are a number of uh assets number of facets to our relationship of course he was my my boss and he's the formal uh the leader the fire chief however he was also a friend um a supporter somebody that encouraged taking risks and trying something new uh and was frequent to offer opportunity to try things but also frequent to collect feedback and and work to grow right alongside us so and greatly appreciate his leadership and the opportunities that he facilitated and extended to me and with that I'm done thank [Applause] you [Applause] so you notice that they both have different styles to their shadow boxes mhm the one one piece that we used to kind of have a set this was a shadow box and then as we grow our system with the shadow boxes uh the question that I continually ask them is you know your shadow box represents your years of service but ultimately when you bring it home what's your significant other going to let you put on the wall so I usually connect them with a person on our department that makes them for them and then they develop the shadow box as far as what they want it to look like so why one's a different color than the other is that they work with uh like I said one of our fire Fighters that builds them and and that's how they come about uh if you want any questions about that so one of the unique things that Steve did with his is that uh both of them were part of our drone program but Steve uh put a little drone emblem in his uh so that's one unique thing but uh they all represent their badges or their service as far as from firefighter to them and all the way up to District Chief and back down to firefighter again so thank you for the time to uh allow them to have a little conversation with you about their career and letting us have time to to present that the shadow boxes to them thank you Chief Council comments yeah John yeah I just uh Steve and tab just want to say congratulations um I don't want it to be lost on anyone uh the length of your service 21 years in a profession that is physically mentally and emotionally grinding uh and uh that's a that's a huge commitment to our community so I'm uh I'm proud of you proud of our fire department um those shadow boxes are Nic as that just a really small token of the amount of gratitude this community has for your service I I just want to extend uh thanks on behalf of the community both of you retire is going to be a huge loss for our department and so we're just so thankful for your years of service and mentorship to the people coming behind you you both mentioned uh calm and partnership and I'll tell you I remember when we had a fire at our house when you were both there um seeing both those things work uh and so just personally just grateful for for that so again thank you so much for your service and we'll let you guys take a picture or stick around it's totally up to you thanks again thank you thank you away with the sty okay we'll move on to item 5B our Public Works courted report and turn over to our Public Works director Mr Omi right good evening mayor city council members uh this is a fourth quarter report for public works so I'd like to see just start out on some of the stre projects that uh we worked on last year um from our third quarter report after our third quarter report uh we did open up 185th Street a new section from DOD Boulevard to High View Avenue um early no November uh was a little bit later than anticipated just do some some weather un conditions but open it none nonetheless it's a great connection now to high and uh nice East West collector for the city uh there's still a little bit of restoration left uh to do in the spring but overall it's been a a very successful project looking forward uh to this summer we in the next project we're um planning on is do Boulevard to the Reconstruction from Cedar Avenue to Pilot Knob Road this again this is a County Road but eventually it be turned over to the city for future operations and maintenance schedule on this project we're anticipating opening and bids in end of January we'll have a tree removal contract um contract are ready to go in February and uh out to April sometime and then after road restrictions start the project right away and this will this project will take all summer to complete and and wh um this graph shows the miles the number of miles that the city has has um added to the system due to new developments over the years in 2020 uh this last year we added almost four miles which is down uh from the last couple years just due to the growth in the community um moving on to the street division uh we did have seven call outs this year um so far from October to end of end of uh 2023 uh same as 2022 but 2023 obviously we had a lot of less snow and ice but the call outs that we have to have have had are are more ice related so we have used a significant less salt than we did in 2022 um and our street street operations uh went well this fall we completed all our street uh sweeping a little bit ahead of schedule um patching went really well we were able to with the um warmer weather that we've had do some inspections on our CTS and plan for some future repairs and Replacements of some of those CTS and then uh we got a good start on some tree removals and tree trimming um that we were planning on for this winter as well moving on to the Ada transition plan just a little update here uh this is uh the council adopted the plan about three years ago and we're making some good um strides to replace all the significantly deteriorated or a compliant uh ramps those are the ramps that don't meet the uh federal or state guidelines right right now so we are down to about 66 um ramps that still have to be replaced uh we are anticipating about replacing about 40 of those ramps next summer with other projects that we have scheduled and we'll replace the rest of the ramps um by 2028 um we did inspect our street system again this fall um and or over our Haven conditions so that's that's been completed um and we are meeting our goals of having our overall condition of our street system in the 70s moving on to the utility department uh we did have a record uh water production year this year we did pump or produce over three um billion gallons of water this year that's about five a little over 5% more than we uh produced last year and that can be attributed to the warmer conditions that we had or the the hot dry summer that we had in the new developments that came into town um for sewer maintenance we did Jet 71 miles of of sewers this year um meeting our goal there uh we did line uh 13,700 ft of of clay pipe um when meetting our ini Andi um projections and our our goals there and then we did reh rehabilitate one lift station which was in our CIP uh lift station 16 moving on to the environmental resources division so I just wanted to highlight a few of the water quality improvement projects that we completed this year Orchard Lake a hydr dnamic separator this is a storm water Improvement system that removes a lot of the sediment and uh pollutants and floatable materials out of the water before it ends up in our lakes and the streams that was over on Orchard Lake Middle Creek stream restoration this was a section of of stream that was highly eroded deteriorated and um we we re real line that that uh that Creek a little bit and restored it um and U so it doesn't erode as much anymore this is the last phase of a three-year project and we've uh completed um this this is the last phase of that of that of that project so um we are done with two miles of stream restoration on the Middle Creek area uh Foxborough park storm water improvements uh that we uh constructed a pond there to treat some of the runoff u in that neighborhood but 220 Acres before it ends up in North Creek uh that was a nice project um it will help again water quality and then some helpfully help a little flood mitigation as well and then East Lake uh C barrier project this is uh to help prevent Carp from going up stream into East Lake which will help reduce the phosphorous loading in the lake as well in all all these projects um we um about $1.4 million worth of grand funds help pay for for for all these projects um water conservation uh we did receive a grant from Mech Council um we did have five HOA audits we helped the three HOAs um improve their uh irrigation system and then with that money we also had some money left over to improve some our our own irrigation system at the water treatment plan uh fire station for in City Hall as well and we're by some of the these uh improvements we're estimated that we save the community about 3.3 million gallons of water um management of natural vegetation uh this year we U environmental service staff uh did uh did some prescription Burns um some seeding some um Buckthorn removal and managed little over 117 Acres within the community um for ms4 permitting uh these are the numbers that we uh are going to be reporting to the state so we did meet our goal of inspections of pond and outfalls 389 that's about 20% of our our inventory and then um sump inspections as well and cleaning out about 128 sumps as well so a lot of work that was done there and this is kind of a group effort between streets utilities and some contract workers as well um was reduction and recycling uh we had a uh very successful recycling um program that took place this fall um pumpkin composting just want to highlight that 48,000 pounds of compost or of P pumpkins that were comp or recycled compet that don't go into the landfills so that is about double that we had in 2022 um a lot of shoe recycling took place too and the community really um threw away a lot of uh High um lights as well too so that was I think about 50% more than it was year before as well so lot of recycling uh and these have been really embraced by the community um a lot so moving on the forestry division uh we're still in the thick of it for uh Emerald ashor uh we did have about 73 trees um in the rways that are marked for removal by streets crws yet uh this year we got about 100 another 130 four trees for that are in parks and natural areas that have to be removed by our staff as well and contractors um and right now the forestry staff is um starting their survey for private property Ash um inspections as well too so getting those notices out to the property owners um we did have a a lot of Oak Wilt um in in the community this is going to be attributed to the drier Summit that we had as well so we had to remove a bunch of trees Oaks in our natural areas and Par works this year and we did have a bunch of a lot of property owners that were questioning their the health of their oak tree so we helped them inspect those trees and try to um address some of their concerns and questions and then our uh forestry Grant this is our last grant that we have with the DNR um uh we have a little bit money left for that for that from that Grant so we're still removing some ash trees um and replacing those trees in our natural areas and then also planting some trees um next summer with our in some of our parks and natural areas as well so and then additional uh information from the Forestry Department uh we did uh renew our application for Tree City USA in December and we have ordered our our trees now for our Arbor Day um tree sales that takes place in April um and um residents can start ordering those trees and shrubs um online in starting in February and with that that's my update for public works for fourth quarter of 2023 I stand if you have any questions okay very good any questions Council appreciate the update thank you thanks than you okay now with the same uh series of retirements turn it over to Mr Miller to recognize our planning director thank you mayor and city council tonight is a a Bittersweet night uh Daryl Mor our planning director this is his last council meeting and so I have some numbers here just to give you the scale of the impact that that Daryl has had on the city of Lakeville 35 years alone that's the number of years as he's worked here at the city of Lakeville that that is if I were to give you one number alone that is enough right but it gets better he's had six job titles with the city of Lakeville and Community Development director assistant community and economic development director city planner acting community and economic development director director of planning and planning director he's had PL t 10 planning staff including John hennon and he turned out okay he has worked with 27 Mayors and City Council Members um 53 planning Commissioners this next one I don't think is official it's just when I came up with I think he's gone through a hundred boxes of colored pencils um before we had fancy maps and everything he would always come up here with colored maps that um would show and um I'm sure he wore those down to the nub 641 Planning Commission meetings attended that's probably still on the light side because that does not include any open houses any joint meetings with City councils any neighborhood meetings anything like that 675 plats have been approved since sterl Mory has been in charge of the planning department so by my rough math that means you probably have better than two to one odds that if you live or work in Lakeville right now it happened due to a plat or due to development that came through while Daryl was here working for the city of Lakeville and that is also a population of about 23,800 people to our estimated 74,000 people now so that gives you a scale of the impact that Daryl m has had on the city of Lakeville um I'll just kind of wrap up with this when I was when I was researching the job to come here as City administrator I contacted Roger Canon Roger was our longtime City attorney who I knew there some other jobs and I just wanted to get his perspective on the job and the first and really only thing he said was that the city of Lakeville has the best planning department that he's ever worked with and specifically he called out darl M and that's coming a that's a lot coming from Roger who had been in a lot of cities he had seen a lot of development a lot of planning so um and I would totally agree after working here with darl and and his team so um Daryl on behalf of Four City administrators uh 27 Mayors and council members and 53 planning Commissioners thank you and congratulations thank you thank you I appreciate that uh I've told folks that I'm really uncomfortable talking about me uh I can stand up here and I have so many times before in front of you talk about specific development projects development in general in the city but talking about me that's something different former uh mayor Doug and Anderson told me a couple weeks ago you know write down some notes if you're going to do a speech I wrote down some notes and I'm going to deviate from them right off the bat because because I have an opportunity here I still have a few more days left I have an opportunity to to impart some history and uh today uh my first our first and my first city administrator stopped by Pat McGarvey Pat hired me uh back in 1988 and uh uh he stopped in to tell me unfortunately he wouldn't be able to make my retirement party next week but he did want to come in and say hi and chat with me for a little bit and I learned something new from Pat that I'd like to share with you and I apologize Chris I'm going to be talking longer than I than I told you I was going to talk but uh when I started we were downtown in what the coffee shop now and I was up on the second floor and they just kind of stuck me in the corner because they didn't know where else to put me and Downtown City Hall was busting at the seams but at the time plans were in place for building the city hall here on this property Pat McGarvey had bought the land for it uh he knew it was a bit of a risk because it was not considered downtown because it was on the other side of 50 from what was considered downtown but he took took that risk still close to downtown and he told me today and I did not know this when the original plans for City Hall that we're sitting in were prepared they did not have the council chambers located where they are now and Pat told me he said the council chambers are for the people this is where the citizens come to connect with the Planning Commission and the city council it should be prominent right at the front entry to the city and right at facing that intersection of Holy Oak and County Road 50 and so so he had the plans changed to pull basically pull These Wings out and put the council chambers right here up front that's that's something I learned new today and I thought that was something that was worth passing on and especially if you knew where the old council chambers were in Public Works building down in the industrial park were really tiny really small back when smoking was allowed indoors it was it was quite the treat and my wife Kelly was attended one of those meetings so she can verify what I say there so uh 35 years has gone by in the blank of an eye I mean super fast [Music] sorry Kelly and I moved to Lakeville 33 years ago uh started a family we got married started a family raised three kids here they all went to and graduated from Lakeville North High School so they've gone on and they got their own jobs they're living in in their own places and they're very successful we've really really [Music] enjoyed enjoyed our time here I really have the staff at City Hall are awesome I really really appreciate the support of the city council and the Planning Commission if I didn't have that support I would not have stayed here 35 years but you guys have been great your predecessors all those folks on the wall over there and over there of which I worked with most of those people have have been very supportive and really good to work with you've you've made it a lot easier but what I really want to do is I want to thank my staff the planning staff as and thanks to Justin for your your story we we do have a great planning staff and I really would like to especially call out my longtime associate planners Frank Dempsey and Chris Jensen Chris is here today because they are the backbone of this department and without them the department is not the same and then of course my wife Kelly for taking care of the household and the kids during all those night meetings and hours that I was at night meeting she had to take care of things so I really appreciate that so thank you very much thank you I've enjoyed my time here really appreciate [Applause] it for comments I'll just say darl um you know I have been able to work with you for the past seven years and you have taught me a lot I didn't know literally anything about planning before coming onto the council um and I'll just never forget I think it was my first or second year on the council and some teacher had asked us a geography to come over and you had no problem sitting with high school students for four hours with me and talking about planning I don't think they knew what we were talking about but it was a fun experience and actually I learned a lot in those four hours and I and I won't forget it so I just want to extend my gratitude to you for your many many years of service to our community and look forward to your party next week thanks um moving on to item six our consent agenda any items to highlight Mr Miller well there's no more retirements okay do have a couple though um item 6D is the designation of our legal newspaper for 20124 this is an annual item and we are once again designating the the sun this week as the paper for all of our public legal Publications then item 6K is a resolution accepting donations to the Parks and Recreation Department in third and fourth quarters and we appreciative of those donations very good thank you um Council any items that you needed wanted to discuss further not I'll take a motion uh I move to approve the consent agenda is there a second second any further discussion he all is in favor say I I I post consent agenda passes we'll move on to uh action items nothing unfinished business nothing new business appointment of acting mayor for 2024 and this is a person from on the council who would step in and run meetings in my absence or attend certain events and so we'll take a um nomination for acting mayor for 2024 um I would like to make a nomination and I'd like to nominate Joshua Lee for acting mayor for 2024 okay Joshua do you accept a nomination do any other nominations okay seeing none all is in favor of appointing second uh I guess yes is there a second I'll second that okay second the nomination thank you any other nominations all in favor appointing Joshua acting mayor for 2024 say I post okay congratulations thank you go um and with that that announcements next regular meeting is Tuesday January 16th here our next work session is Monday January 22nd at our water treatment which is on the corner of 185th in iava Avenue and with that I'll take a motion to adjourn so moved there second second all in favor say I I post we're adjourned indeed [Music] [Music] for"