I know Kevin's not here but um does anybody have any questions on our resolution today you know I I sent everybody a thank you note but you guys again Jesse and Maggie did just an awesome job during this crazy election season it was long and uh took a lot of your time so thank you again and also to Kevin did a great job pass all the credit over to them seriously

I think we ended up having about an 88% turnout and um I believe almost probably a little less than half was early voting I was just going to ask that was my only question on this like am I understanding that right it's like it was almost 50% of people that voted were early mhmh

I want to say congratulations to Mound residents because we really had a high percentage of Voters when you look at the number of registered voters and who voted we were well over 80% % uh which was the state's percentage in the last election um and also the fact that people downvoted down voted down the ballot because you know with city council being at the end of the ballot sometimes you get to City Council and only half the people are voting but it looks like our folks voted all the way down which is really a good sign of citizenship and and taking their right to vote so I think congratulations

we had our fire department meeting upstairs over there council member Larson was there too um yeah I mean it's just proven to be a a task so we'll we'll see we don't really have a lot to report on per se but I think what we're going to try to do is do a workshop to bring it um to council to kind of see you know here's where we're at and then if you guys have any suggestions

it is interesting that this whole discussion that we're having locally is really it's it is a Statewide issue around fire departments have really changed and they're much more Emergency Services responders and when you think about that they end up responding with the police department so one of the things I've been thinking about is to ask our police officers if they could tell us how many times are they showing up with the fire department on calls so we can see because there's like a duplication

we're trying not to burn them out and that's the the problem too is cuz we run a you know a paid on call deal you know whereas like Bloomington you know they just hire them all right we can't afford to do that I mean we could I guess but we don't um but I mean we got we got a hell of a deal I mean when we do our salary budget line item it's insane I mean they basically working for free and it's it's killing the guys Cu they got to show up to a certain amount of percent