I'm just glad now that the interest in how it really got started is coming about Barbara and Leslie and others going before the school district to get it as a school holiday.

And she asked me if I knew that they were taking Martin Luther King Holiday off the school calendar.

Oh yeah.

So there we go.

Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the city council meeting.

Today is September the tenth, twenty twenty-four.

Uh, I'm going to invite Pastor Kate McGee from the Westminster Presbyterian Church to pro please join us at the podium and lead us in an invitation.

Please rise.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Let us pray.

God of all life, you call us to live in community and teach us to care for one another after the pattern of Jesus Christ.

We pray tonight for our city council, whose position and authority affect the lives of others.

Where love of neighbor and concern for one another, drive out discontent and strife, anxiety and fear.

Help us to all work together with one heart and will, with sympathy and understanding, to serve the common good, to tend to people in trouble and despair, and to multiply true happiness among us, that this can be the American dream city for each and every person.

The City of Arlington fully embraces the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, where people of all identities and experiences are understood, appreciated, and fully included in the community, and where equitable treatment and outcomes prevail.

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All speakers shall address the city council and not the audience or city staff and shall not call out individually named members of city staff or the public.

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Um speakers will be given three minutes to speak.

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In consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell.

We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council.

Thank you, Miss Garcia.

Do we have any appointments to the boards or commissions?

Mayor, we have two appointments to boards and commissions to the uh 2025 Citizens Bond Committee.

We have for consideration termination of the appointment of current members, Brian Kelsey and Daniel Graw, and the appointments of Cheryl Knight and Gabriel Rivas.

Thank you.

Uh I have a motion from Councilmember Gonzalez and a second from Councilmember Pham.

Please cast your votes.

Mr.

Hogg.

Yes.

Thank you.

And the motion passes.

We're gonna move on down to our public hearing.

Uh 5.1, Ariel Briggs.

Good evening, Mayor and Council Ariel Briggs, Acting Director of Convention and Ment Services.

Um today I bring forward uh for your consideration a resolution amending the boundaries of the Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District to include resolutions Arlington.

Thank you, ma'am.

Miss Garcia, do we have any speakers on this item?

We do not have any speaker cards, Mayor, for this item.

Thank you.

I'm gonna close the public hearing.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxell, a second from Councilmember Galante, please cast your votes.

Mr.

Hogg.

Yes.

Thank you, sir.

And the motion passes.

Thank you, Miss Briggs.

Next one is 5.2.

Go ahead.

Um this one is an ordinance accepting and approving an updated service and assessment plan and accepting and adopting the fiscal year 2025 assessment rule for the Arlington Tourism Public Improvement District of the City of Arlington.

Thank you, ma'am.

Miss Garcia, any speakers on this item.

We have no speaker cards for this item, Mayor.