e uh call the order welcome to the February 18th 2025 city council meeting I hereby call the meeting to order members of the public May attend the city council meeting in person or may watch it remotely by viewing the meetings on Channel 8 WC CV and at the city's website at weta.org WCTV public comment during the public forum Andor public hearing portions of the meeting may be provided in person at the meeting in advance or by logging into the teams call and raising your hand during the public hearing when your name is called in the meeting you will be seen and heard in our council chambers and the cable channel and online you will be asked to unmute and then you may begin your comment all public comments must be uh include your full name and address second item on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance if I could ask you to stand if you're able and follow along 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 liberty and justice for all okay the next item on the agenda is roll call let the record reflect that all uh council members are present and I will note earlier this evening the council participated in a workshop and reviewed and discussed the following discussion of a draft of a neighborhood engagement initiative presentation uh by uh the leads of our boards and commissions annual reports and work plan inclusive of the energy and environment committee parks and trails Heritage preservation boards Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the Pana District committee and then the last item on our Workshop earlier tonight was discussion of the proposed local tax sales tax use an engagement plan uh with that uh we're going to approve the agenda so may I have a motion to approve the agenda as is or would anyone like to make changes I'll move to approve the agenda as is Mayor it's misbehaving anyone have have a second second that motion yeah any so we moved in second and do we have any further comments on on it okay all in favor say I I I okay the motion passes so the next item uh on our agenda is the approval of the consent agenda on the consent agenda tonight is approval of city council workshop and reg Mr Mayor yeah sorry I think public forums before oh did I miss one yeah thank you thanks for that correction uh the next item is the public Forum um do we have anybody online or cards for the public forum Mr Mayor we do not um other than the uh the special guests on the agenda okay so why don't we um do this just because of how this is going to go let's do consent agenda first and then we'll have our two presenters in the public forum and then we'll move on to our regular agenda so so well it does because we're going to do the consent agenda then we're going to have a public forum you're going to pull an item from the consent agenda and then we'll have it on new business so next item I'd like to take is approval the consent agenda on the consent agenda is appr…