e okay calling the meeting to order welcome it is the January 7th 2025 city council meeting I hereby call the meeting to order members of the public May attend this council meeting in person or may watch or listen remotely by viewing the meeting on Channel 8 WCTV and the city's website at www 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 zoom 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 on the cable channel you'll be asked to unmute and then you may begin your comment all public comments must include your full name and address this is our first meeting of 2025 where all the current council members are the same and the new guy is the mayor here my name is Andrew Mullen and I'm thrilled that you're here and uh here we go we are going to start with uh the pledge of allean so if you'd stand if you are able and we will pledge allegiance face the flag 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 thank you the next uh item on the agenda is roll call and uh let the record reflect that all are present I will also note that earlier this evening uh the entire Council participated in a workshop and reviewed the following the phase two of Municipal cannabis dispensary feasibility study by 7 group to determine if there's interest from the council at this time to continue exploring whether or not the city of wetta should be entering the Cannabis business we will review that again here in a minute and talk about the results of that meeting uh city manager do we have anybody on Zoom at this time okay so the next Mr Mayor we do not sorry it was okay that's fine uh so so uh the next item on the agenda is to approve the agenda do we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented or do we need any amendments move to approve the agenda as outlined Mr a second I'll second okay we have moved in second and all in those in favor say I I I uh the motion passes the next item is probably the reason some of you are here is the public forum um before we proceed to the public forum I just would like to start with a few very brief remarks I'd like to start by thanking uh publicly Joanna Mutan for her years of service to our community most recently as mayor uh later this evening we will affirm appointments to boards and commissions if approved we have over 50 citizens of our fellow citizens serving in this capacity if that moves forward and as part of that process we have three uh citizens stepping down this year um and including our chair of the Planning Commission um before the term was ended um we will have a recognition of those Folks at a near to city council meeting but I just wanted to acknowledge them and we will publicly…