Okay, we're gonna kick off uh this special meeting and uh open the meeting and first ask um our clerk for a roll call, please.

Uh here present.

Uh here uh Ms.

Moda.

President uh Mr.

President, everyone is here.

Okay, great, thank you.

So uh regarding the purpose of this meeting, uh tonight we're here to act on the appointment of Frank Kane as the city's managing director.

Uh Mayor Turk, uh, you have the floor.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Um Torah Clark, can you read the resolution, please?

Okay, resolution is R48, R48 is the appointment of Frank Kane as managing director.

That's it.

Very simple resolution.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council President Napoli.

Thank you, uh, members of council.

Um I'm gonna be brief because I want to let Frank do the bulk of the talking.

But I really want to say two things.

One, uh, why Frank.

Um I've been mayor now for just over four years, and uh we've spent most of those four years without anybody in the managing director role, um, without anybody filling that particular position.

And over the course of the past four years, I've spoken with each of you, many of you, about what we need in a position like a managing director.

And I've gotten lots of different opinions, and I've had lots of different ideas myself.

I've considered lots of different candidates, and every time that I had a discussion when I was engaged in that discussion, the person, the model that I was thinking about, what I wanted a person to do, I was thinking about Frank Cain.

Um, I'm gonna let Frank introduce himself, but I can tell you why I chose him in brief, and that's because this is somebody who fundamentally understands what it means to serve in local government.

Um his time at the county, as time at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has given him a pretty amazing education in how to uh do public service, and I'm really excited that uh events contrived to bring him here to us now.

Um there's been lots, as I said, there's been lots of conversations about what what we need in a role and somebody who would fill this role over the years, but the time just hadn't been right to pick somebody.

Uh again, a lot of good people who work in the city of Allentown who work around uh the Lehigh Valley, but uh nobody who quite brought everything that Frank is gonna bring.

And that you know, to speak a little bit about the role, um Frank's primary responsibility, and he'll go into it in greater detail and give you his flavor of it.

But his primary responsibility is going to be to help a phenomenal group of people.

And that is the 900 people, the 900 or so people who work for the city of Allentown, who are public servants, but specifically uh the members of the cabinet, the people who direct our departments.

So Frank will be working right alongside the people who are here today, uh Vicky Kessler and CED and Mark Schott in Public Works and Freddie Augusto and Fire, and folks like Chief Charles Roca and Mandy Tolino, who can't be with here with us, as well as all of our admin folks, Bina and Jerry and Marty.

Um Frank's number one job is gonna be to help.

Uh they're a phenomenal group of people.

They do amazing work.

They're each uniquely qualified to deliver on the positions that they fill that they hold.

Um, but they like all of us can use that little boost.

They can use that thing that connects them.

And that's one of the things that Frank is gonna do.

But there's another group of people that Frank is gonna be able to help out significantly with.

Uh, and it's not the people in the mayor's office, he's gonna be helping us out a lot too, but it's you.

Um Frank, I think if you've been paying attention to local government over the past 15 years, you probably haven't heard much out of the Lehigh County commissioners.

Um, in part because of the job that I think Frank has done to engage and and work and develop a relationship between commissioners and the administration at Lehigh County.

And I think that's one of the things that he's going to bring to this role is making sure that there's a strong connection between the administration of the city of Allentown and the City Council of the City of Allentown.

Uh his primary job is gonna be to help us all, and that includes all of you.

So uh I I really like Frank.

I think he's the model for what we need in a position, and I think that his work is going to help us get to the next level at the city of Allentown.

But I don't want to say any more.

I want to uh let him say it himself.

So without further ado, my candidate for managing director, Frank Kane.

That's a high bar.

Is this my well?

Good evening, members of City Council, Allentown residents, and uh department heads that I appreciate coming out to support my nomination.

I'd like to thank Mayor Turk for nominating me.

And I'd like to thank all of you for considering my nomination.

I'll start by saying that I've been surprised and I've been humbled by how warmly I feel like I've been received by all of the people who make up Allentown city government, by the various department heads, by our employees that I've met along the way, uh, and by many all of you really, as we've either met in person or spoken on the phone.

This is the fourth government that I have uh that I that I hope to become a part of.

And I look forward with your approval to joining this team of dedicated public servants.

We have a city council and a mayor who put the city's interests ahead of their own at every decision.

That's not always the case in local governments, and it's it's refreshing to see, and it's something I'm happy to be a part of.

And we have a capable and talented management team who execute well in their mission.

And before we really get started, I should apologize for sending all of you a three-page resume.

It's kind of presumptuous.

The last time I did a resume was on a typewriter, and I was trying to justify how a bartender ought to have a state job.

I was fortunate, I got the job, and here I am.

But uh I've tried I had to pack a lot of things into a few years.

So I my hope is that that document is something you can all look through, you can see the things I've done.

You can maybe it jogs something in your mind and and and it creates uh an opportunity to talk about what you hope that we'll do here.

You know, I hope that my presence here will create a level of focus of transparency and of accountability that that appears to have not been the norm in recent years.

I'm hopeful that if you vote to confirm me, I can serve as a conduit for information uh and the way it flows between city council, between the mayor's office, and between the department heads.

As we set out to govern responsibly over the next four years and into the future, each of you has a vision for what Allentown can be.

You all sacrificed your time and your lives.

You've been to a million barbecues and cookouts and and had to do all the things that people do to run for office, so that you can have the chance to bring your vision for Allentown to life.

I hope that I'll be able to integrate the mayor's vision and yours, and we'll be able to put together policies and and procedures that that everyone can be on board with as we move forward in one cohesive plan.

Um, in one of my first meetings, I asked one of the department heads, are there any weak links on our management team?

And she said, Well, we don't have weak links, we have weak connections, and I think that's a wise observation.

You can have the best people in the world, but if the processes aren't there and if the systems aren't there for them to succeed, you won't succeed.

You can have the best screwdriver money can buy, but if you're trying to hammer nails with it, we're all out of luck.

So, you know, I think that I think that that's what's missing.

And if you agree that these ideas are worth exploring, if you confirm me tonight, I plan to quickly undertake a process assessment of what's going on in the city, what's working, what isn't, where are the roadblocks, where are their processes and procedures that don't have clear deliverables that we can improve.

Um and I hope to quickly identify some low-hanging fruit that maybe we can we can we can we can improve.

You know, our director of community economic development, Vicky, plays a personal development game with people when they come into meetings.

She says, Tell me three things about you that you wouldn't know by looking at your resume.

And so I'll end with my three.

The first is that my philosophy of management is one of service.

I think you manage people by considering their thoughts, by taking good recommendations, and by getting their buy-in.

If you think you're just gonna tell people what to do, and they're gonna just do it, you're barking up the wrong tree, and you won't be successful.

Uh number two is I care deeply about people.

Uh you wouldn't know that from someone's resume, but I hope that even on my worst days that I first consider people's basic dignity and their humanity as we make decisions that affect all of the residents here, our employees and and residents.

And third, I plan to work very hard to keep Allentown in the newspaper for good things.

Thank you.

I'll happy to take your questions.

Can I just offer a closing comment?

Um I mean, you can see that and I'm hopeful that your questions will dig in a little more into to Frank's character and the quality of the work that he's done.

But I think that that that closing piece I think says a lot.

Um that for somebody who spent this as this will be the fourth local government.

There's you can't find people out there who are like, man, that guy, he did me dirty, right?

Frank is a Frank's somebody who can help us.

He is a master at relationships, but you also find that he's he he stays positive in those relationships.

And for a group of people who are largely on the same page and have suffered most from a lack of communication, I think Frank's gonna help put us over the edge and really kick us into the next the next development phase for the city of Allentown.

So I'm hopeful that uh after your questions, you'll hear everything you need to hear, and that you'll cast a positive vote for confirmation of Frank Kane as our managing director.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um thank you, uh, Mayor Kerrick and Frank Kane.

Uh I'll open up questions or comments from the dais regarding confirmation.

I don't have any questions.

Okay.

Because I I met with him a long, long lunch.

And uh he answered all my questions.

We had like uh we had a very nice conversation.

And um resumes are one thing, but meeting people personally and in a relaxed atmosphere.

Um I immediately liked him.

Like what he had to say.

I like how warm I felt with him.

And I I believe this is going to be just another step to make our council even better than it is right now.

I'm very happy with our council, and I think that there's many times we'll have questions, and I won't have to call Vicky call the mayor or whatever, uh, or Mark.

Uh I can go to you and uh and I hope we have a good rapport.

And if we can all have a good report, just I think it's gonna things are gonna look good in the city, and I I welcome you.

Thanks.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Hoffa.

Any other questions or comments?

Um Councilperson Bender going.

Thank you.

Um, so first off, I just um wanted to say I'm I'm grateful that this position's is being filled um over the past couple years before running and also in doing the whole campaigning process.

The recurring theme that came up oftentimes was a lack of that role with respect to the mayor and whoever's in that role.

Um, we're a growing city.

It's impossible to scale at this point where we are right now.

Um to be able to be having someone looking at seeking uh you know funding from the federal government, from the state government, to working to create jobs and look at local businesses to uh supporting community things, all those things that function that that a mayor does, in addition to managing so many employees and and putting together, but like it's it's impossible to scale.

No one, no one person could do it.

So I disagreed with the council years ago when they moved this down to a dollar.

I don't know what the reason and rationale was for that um at the time, but um I'm excited to see us get to that point where we have um that that ability to scale.

Um I think you're using the word accountability is is crucial.

Um I think oftentimes in this area, accountability is a dirty word, and um it should be viewed as something that we're all held to.

Um, and I think that it helps shape us, it helps uh helps us all grow in our roles, and I'm looking forward to seeing that um in in this position uh in both directions, because I think working um from the directors down as well as as to to mayor's roles up, um, accountability works to help shape um help refine and help us uh all grow as a city and as individuals.

So um just wanted to make those quick comments out of that.

Um I did have a couple questions.

So um with the um this is gonna be the standard like interview question you get everywhere else, but given your extensive experience in local government, um you've had some limited exposure to the city of Allentown and what's happened here, but you've working you've been working and functioning in an adjacent uh government for some time now.

If you were to if you were to put something down here in 2020 uh six, almost gave us the wrong year, um, it would be like a goal or the thing you really want to hit in the in this year.

What would be like something that you could you could you could say like this is what I'm really trying to target right now?

Well, I mean, you know, you had a great uh you and uh council person Pungo had a great uh meeting just in just an hour ago about the budget process.

You know, I feel like I feel like our budget process in Lehigh County is better.

Um we start a lot earlier.

That's one thing that I I didn't hear you all uh discuss, but I'll tell you that we are submitting as a department head, I'm submitting my budget final requests in the beginning of July.

And we I have been operating we all operate under the under the belief that uh October 31st is our deadline to have a budget passed because many years ago we had a large tax increase after uh after the election, and so we backed everything up prior to that, and that's one thing that uh I feel like we've you don't hear about Lehigh County in the news having budget problems.

The other thing that we do is we reach out to the to our commissioners early, and they're involved in our budget processes.

We work with them to to to see what we agree on and what we can all work together on.

And if you can have a cohesive comfortable budget process that serves the residents well, I think that's a big win.

Another thing is I wonder why your bond rating is an A2.

When I look at the balance the two carry and I look at the the actual general fund revenues that come in, you exceed GOFA standards.

So I think I'm I haven't talked to Bino or the mayor about this either.

Uh I probably should have got clear, I probably should have gotten clearance.

But if you reach out to your bond raters, they often take that as a good sign.

If you put if you approach them with a good with a good message, I mean, you exceed the GOF GOFA standards.

I feel like if especially if you want to go out for debt in the future, you get a better rate.

So those are like those are two.

There are lots, but those are two.

Okay.

Um specifically, I alluded to the funding side of things before, and I guess I just I know tonight's the tonight's resolution is really for um the position being filled.

But I guess my question, and I don't know if anyone can touch on this, but obviously there's it's it unless you're working for a dollar, which is the currently funded one.

Um, great benefits.

Yeah, um I guess what I'm asking is what is the structural change that we're gonna be looking at as a as a council because there's gonna need to be some way of of funding that like that's kind of like I was under the impression that you were gonna pass that funding ordinance prior to this meeting, and the uh I was surprised that it wasn't on the agenda.

I don't work here yet.

I don't I'm not you know the there is a save so currently there is a uh savings vacancy savings in the mayor's budget that that would fund and in the future date, uh depending on there might be some uh reorganization we are looking at in various departments, and if that goes through, there's already savings that would be in the existing budget, and we would like to avoid uh touching the um um cash reserves as as Frank just said.

Uh we are doing financially great, and we want to keep uh showing that we are doing great um and increase our credit rating.

Um so that's why we are just realigning our budget to fund the position.

So you just so I'm understanding it, um, so is the is the plan then for for the 2026 year you're just tapping into what is the the surplus in that in that account, and then for the budgeted amount for 2027, that position would be adjusted out.

Is that what your your planning is?

Exactly.

That's what I'm saying.

So we realign the current budget, which is 2026 and use some of the vacancies because there are vacancies in various departments, and that would help us fund the uh that decision.

So are there any positions that are being with the vacancies limited it is as this process?

So that's a restructuring we'll visit um in the in the next few months, and we'll learn more about that.

So when a departments are uh department heads are already working on that.

And um uh with the help of HR director, we are reviewing the job prescriptions and uh what could be revised and what needs to be either um uh upgraded or uh you know the job scope has changed and maybe we need to revise and bring that grade down.

That's what's the process we are going through.

Sorry.

Go ahead.

So the surplus is kind of like a stopgap until we get to that point where we're gonna evaluate what's happening um in some of these positions.

Given that we just passed a budget a couple months ago, we're holding on to any reorganizations until more like June.

Uh to so that we can we don't want to re-org everything every couple months.

So we're gonna hold that, hold on to that, and that'll give us a better sense of what the budget picture looks like for the remainder of 2026.

Okay, and will be as we're preparing our 2027 budget as well.

But you can count on seeing some existing positions eliminated as we reorganize to accommodate for their increase in the managing director budget.

Okay, thank you.

Could I add real quickly with regard to your your expectation?

You know, Frank has his expectations for the things that he wants to accomplish, and I as mayor have expectations as well.

I have a stack of plans that our incredibly capable directors have been given to execute on, and what I want to see is a little more significant progress on those plans.

I I think one thing that is defined the past four years has been a flurry of energy and activity and handing off to the directors and giving them sometimes more than they could reasonably be expected to handle.

And when we have a managing director in the city administration, that person will help the city data, the citywide data strategy, the safe streets plan, our housing plan, our violence prevention plan, which we'll see soon, help make all of those things become a reality quicker.

Our team does a phenomenal job.

Frank is gonna help sew it all together, accelerate the progress and make sure there's coordination between departments on the execution of those plans.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um any other questions or comments from the dais.

I don't I don't go ahead, Ms.

Moda.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I don't have a question.

I have um a statement.

Um I had the opportunity of meeting um Frank Kane, and um he has uh an amazing resume, and um he's also a people person and a great communicator.

So I think that we will not have a problem.

I think that that will be um uh a great thing to have, you know, to have him in in the city.

Um I'm I'm glad and exciting that that finally we're getting a managing director, you know, to support the mayor.

Um when it comes to overseeing both, you know, his office and oh the city.

This is it's very encouraging and and also exciting to finally have someone like Frank Kane, you know, with the with his experience uh you know needed for this role.

So I'm looking forward to working with with Mr.

Kane.

Thank you.

And by the way, congratulations uh Frank and and the mayor for doing this.

It was it was um it was time.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um go ahead.

Um I was just gonna say you you didn't approve me yet.

Congratulations are a little put the card before the horse, but thank you.

Um sounds good.

Any um Ms.

Gurlock.

Uh just a quick question, uh, not so much on the uh appointment of Mr.

Kane, but this paper that we received, is this final or is this just like projected or what's going on with this?

That's the final organization chart.

Okay.

Who do we have an executive assistant?

That's uh yes, it's the positions filled.

Okay, all right.

So that person that's my miss what's her bauer Boyer Boyer, Michaela.

Okay.

One other um sorry.

Yeah, no, I'm good.

Okay, I wasn't sure.

Yeah, good.

Oh, go ahead, Mr.

Bennett.

Okay.

One of the uh, and this is more, I guess, just understanding the charter, so I apologize for my ignorance on this one, but when uh the mayor is out of town, if um you're doing something, do is the manager director then the de facto designee?

I so the if I remember the wording of the charter specifically, it doesn't it doesn't specifically state out of town, it says absent.

Okay, absence would was a different story in 1997 than it is now.

Um I'm via cell phone and various other technologies available pretty much 24-7.

Uh, I do appoint a deputy mayor for during my absence.

So if I I believe if I'm either incapacitated or absent from office, which hopefully none of those things ever happen, uh I the deputy mayor assumes the role or assumes the responsibilities of the mayor at this point.

The standing deputy mayor appointment is Chief Roka.

When Frank uh comes on board, I'll appoint Frank as the deputy mayor.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

Yeah.

Any other questions related to the charter?

I'm happy to recite them chapter and verse.

Thank you.

Um any other questions or comments?

Sorry, Ms.

Gurlock.

Just in terms of communication from council to department heads.

I know in the past we, you know, there's been communication about not communicating all the time with department heads.

Um if we have a question, do we if you're appointed, would we direct it to you and then you would direct it to the department heads?

Or do we communicate directly?

So the charter is in c is very clear on your ability as counsel to communicate with directors of departments, and that you can ask them information.

You can ask them informational questions.

Any anything you want to ask them, you're free to ask department heads.

My request of city council has always been that city council members not direct or try to provide direction to department heads.

So it's one thing to ask a department head or the managing director for information about if a street has been plowed, let's say it is an entirely different thing for a city council member to request that there's the street in question be plowed.

That would be providing direction, and that would be completely out of bounds.

Um, as far as the flow of information, though, I think it's up to the preference.

My preference would be that you all work directly through Frank.

Um when if he's appointed.

Uh my experience working in the city has been that the questions that are provided to various different department heads can be very distracting from the work that each department head might be doing in any given day.

And if they uh have to feel the question and dig in and do a lot of research, it can get them off of what their day-to-day looks like.

Getting those questions to Frank will allow him to triage and sometimes get the answer without having to go directly to the department head, but get you the best answer.

My goal in this administration is always to provide the the best possible answer to a city council person so they can act accordingly.

And I think that upon Frank's uh confirmation, Frank would be the best person or the best equipped to provide you with a good answer.

Okay, that makes sense.

I'll I will add if I can that you know I don't have any, you can call me nights, weekends, you know, any time.

Or text or email.

Okay.

Um Ms.

Alpha, go ahead.

Uh so in a situation where there's a constituent that's annoyed and goes on.

I've never heard of an annoyed constituent we have them here and there.

Uh we'll we'll call counsel and we will try to help them.

Uh hypothetical situation, uh, there's a garbage problem and so on and so forth.

So um and and they're calling and nothing's happening, blah, blah, blah.

So of course you reach out to us.

At this point, it would without the managing director, I might go to the sweep department or Mark Shotto or or Vicky Kissler or somewhere.

At this point now, we go to Frank.

That'd be my preference.

And I think Frank Frank is the person who given that role as managing director.

And if you follow the org chart that uh that was provided to all of you, Frank would be the person who'd be best equipped to find out how to get the work accomplished.

Because sometimes that work doesn't have to involve the department head themselves.

Yeah, so there's a difference between us needing to ask a question directly to say Vicky.

Correct.

Yeah.

There's information versus direction.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

And go ahead, Mr.

Pungo.

All right.

No, I just out of you know, the interest of the public, I think it's always great.

I appreciate all the the questions and the kind words.

So I just feel like I'm just curious, you know, what strengths you felt from the county and what you felt were things that were going pretty well, and what strengths you bring here.

Well, you know, I I'll tell you that I I started at the county.

I was I was pretty young, and even more than the county, I started at the state that was pretty young, and I was around really accomplished people.

And when you're a young person around really accomplished people, the only thing you can really do is not talk and watch what they do.

And I feel like I learned a lot, and I learned how to bring people along.

Because when you're I was the chief of staff for the county for many years before I was human services director and later uh director of community economic development.

So you know, the only way you can really bring people along is by providing value to them.

You know, when you're a when you're a kid that a couple years ago you were a bartender and now you're you know, now you're the chief of staff to the county, and and and there were very accomplished directors.

The only thing you can do is how can I help?

What can I do?

What can I learn from these people?

I was fortunate to learn from some great people along the way, and I think that now, you know, I I I learned I have a friend who's gonna sound where I have a friend, he calls it the Qualude theory of management.

He uh he was he was uh he was the buildings and grounds uh he was the director of general services, but then he was a chief operating officer for the Philadelphia School District, and it's a really intense job, and everybody's intense and everybody's excited, people get very upset.

And he always felt that his job was to was to lower the atmosphere was to lower the the temperature.

Um so I think I bring that.

I mean, I feel like I'm I feel like that's most uh most of what what I provide is just a common sense, level-headed approach that respects people.

I mean, it's important that employees and the public feel respected.

One of the one of my favorite things about the city is is that I for for the past couple weeks, I guess it's ending now, but I got to stand in the hall and watch how people get treated at counters and watch what happens when some of the people come in that you know, maybe they're maybe it may look like they're having some problems and they walk in in the way they get treated.

I think our front desk staff, I think especially Ode Marismage is wonderful with those people when they come in.

That's great to see.

I hope that that continues throughout the organization.

I'll know more as I see more, I suppose, but you know, those things are important, I think.

No, I appreciate that, and I just to echo that.

And I and I think you know, it it's very welcome to have uh someone finally taking this position to help kind of align the interests, and I think I'd love to see you know the strong seats continue and and you know the areas for improvement uh kind of develop as they go, but I appreciate that.

Thanks.

Can I say just a couple things relative to that question?

Um first, I think one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that Frank is a fluent Spanish speaker, and in a city like Allentown, I think about you being at the front desk, and one of the things that makes her tomorrow so valuable is her ability to communicate clearly in Spanish and English, and Frank all also has that ability, which will serve him well in the mayor's office.

The other thing, and I just want to say a word of uh thanks, I suppose, to county executive Josh Siegel, who uh I approached, he was the first person that called when I learned that Frank might be some might be somebody that I could bring on here at the City of Allentown.

I wanted to make sure that uh the county executive understood where I was coming from.

Um respectfully, I think that it is not the loss of Lehigh County for Frank to come over here.

Uh I think that with uh county executive siegels, and you all saw it here when we had the the joint meeting with the commissioners.

Um county executive Siegel has laid out a bold uh plan for county government serving the county residents, and I think that Frank being here the city of Allentown and being a continuing to serve in a partnership role to the county is gonna be good for everybody here in the city of Allentown, but also at the county of Lehigh.

Um this is a another case of uh addition, I guess addition by addition.

It's similar to I think when when we lost Genesis to city council from the mayor's office, we saw that as a loss in some respect for the mayor's office, but kind of a gain for the whole city because she would be able to foster the continued relationship between the mayor's office and add something special for city council.

I see the same thing here with Frank and the ongoing relationship with the county.

Uh I think we're gonna be able to do some special things together.

Okay.

Well, you stole my thunder, because I was gonna I was gonna bring up the workshop and um and the fact that Frank probably has everyone's extension memorized at the county, and uh that could be a good thing for us, you know, as we try and get work done and collaborate with the county.

So that's that's the plus for sure.

Um I'll just quickly add, you know, the best hires are the ones that you're interviewing without knowing you're interviewing them, or they don't realize they're being interviewed.

We've gotten to know Frank over the years, we know what he brings, and uh when this opportunity came along, you know, he had already been interviewed because we've gotten to know him and what he's accomplished, and uh I think those are the best hires, it's worked for me, and um I I'm excited for the opportunity and uh to vote on this confirmation and um anxious to see um you know what the future holds and what we can um continue to improve here in the city of Allentown and City Hall.

So um thankful and um if there are nothing else, no no other questions or comments.

Okay, that's one.

Um sure, go ahead.

So, real quick, and this is another another charter question.

Um I know that I I thought that there was a residency requirement on this one, but I I'm I wasn't 100% clear if that was a terror boundary or if there was uh within miles.

So the managing director is not a uh it's not in the charter.

It's a matter of uh of the ordinance, and there's a requirement that the managing director locate to the city of Allentown within one year of appointment.

That's something that we'll be asking the city council to amend at some point or move the residency requirement for the managing director.

Okay.

I think it's relevant if I can also add that I meet the department head criteria, which is one to five miles.

I live 4.2 miles from the Allentown border.

Well, I mean so any uh any questions or comments from the public.

Okay, um, seeing none, um, Mr.

Hanlin, can you call the vote, please?

Okay, over on the appointment of Mr.

Kane.

Ms.

App.

Yes.

Mr.

Vender?

Yes, Mr.

Yes.

Ms.

Moda.

Yes, Mr.

Pongo?

Yes.

Ms.

Santos?

Yes.

And Mr.

Napler.

Yes.

Thanks.

Okay.

Um welcome aboard, Mr.

Mr.

Kane.

And uh your first order of business will be.

Um, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

And uh appreciate um all the work you put into this.

Thanks very nice.

Welcome aboard.

Thanks, thanks.

So I'm um this will um adjourn this meeting.

Thank you, everyone.