e e uh good evening welcome to the February 4th 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 and listen remotely by viewing the meeting on Channel 8 WCTV and at the city's website at www.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 team's online meeting 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 you'll be asked to unmute and then you begin your comments all public comments must include your full name and address uh next we will stand for the pledge allegiance if I could ask everyone to stand if you able and follow along IED Al 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 uh the next item on the agenda is our roll call and uh let the record note that all uh council members are present I will also note that earlier this evening the council participated in a workshop and reviewed and discussed the following discussion of Public Safety priorities for our downtown initiatives and Communications uh for those initiatives our second uh agenda item for uh this evening's Workshop was discussion of council priorities for 20125 and an update uh by staff on progress towards our city strategic plan the next item on uh our agenda is to approve the agenda may I have a motion to approve the agenda or does anyone want to make any changes so move Mr Mayor second okay moved in second and any further discussion all in favor say I I I motion passes next on the item is the public forum uh the public forum for a reminder is for those members of the public in attendance tonight are interested in speaking we ask when your name is called to please uh approach the podium state your name address and indicate if you're representing a group and limit your comments if you can to 3 minutes if the item you wish to speak about is on the agenda for those or in person please fill out a form um and offer it to staff and then for those who are watching on teams uh online please send a note via chat to staff and let them know that your agenda item you wish to speak about and then once you are called upon we uh require you to turn on your camera when you speak um so the we're going to do two items on the public forum and I think we have a couple of uh uh citizens that are uh wanting to speak so the first item on our public forum is the introduction of Tyler basil Public Works technician uh city manager thank you Mr Mayor I'm going to ask uh our Public Works director and city engineer Mike Kelly to go I don't know if you're plan on going up to the podium or not um but he's goingon to introduce uh Mr basil our newest employee uh down at Public Works he's been a grea…