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Good evening.

Welcome to the City of Belmont City Council regular meeting.

It is August 26, 2025.

We are back from a summer recess.

We didn't have a council meetings last two.

Just for our summer recess, but we are back now, so hope everyone had a good summer.

Schools back in session, and our council has continued to work.

We just haven't had our usual um city council meetings.

So we are here in our council chambers, and there's a published agenda that can tell you how to make a public comment, which I will go over at seven o'clock right now.

Let's just go ahead and have call to order roll call, please.

Councilmember Jordan.

Councilmember McCune.

Vice Mayor Pengmans.

Present.

We have a closed session, public employee performance evaluation.

And let's ask for any public comment from our city clerk.

Do we have any written or uh public comments on Zoom or in the chambers regarding this item?

So at this time I have no slips nor raised hands.

Okay, great.

Then we will go ahead and uh recess until seven o'clock, and we'll be back with our regular agenda.

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We are back.

Uh this is the City of Belmont City Council regular meeting.

It's seven o'clock.

We've oh no, I'm sorry, it's seven o six.

We've just gotten back from our closed session.

Uh we've already done our roll call, and so uh let me just quickly let folks know how you can participate in the meeting.

Uh you can look at our published agenda, which is posted uh outside City Hall as well as um on our website.

You can watch this meeting on Comcast Cable Channel 27, stream it live via the city's website at www.bellmont.gov.

Uh there is a Zoom feature as well that you can join, and there are uh instructions for how to participate with public comment.

Um public comments are going to be three-minute time limit unless otherwise um decided.

And uh just a reminder to everyone to please uh look at the published agenda that has our protocols for public comment.

We'll start with continue with item three, Pledge of Allegiance.

Please stand if you're able.

Yeah, for some reason I'm not able to share it.

So, did you hear about the police officer who walks into a bagel shop?

I don't know that.

No, but I'm sure I will.

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Otherwise, it's not.

I will say it was a very well-attended event this year.

We had a lot of fun with it.

Let's see what's worse.

Well, let's just riff.

So you uh tell us a little bit about the history of a national night out.

Isn't it it wasn't originally so that folks could meet their neighbors and get to know their uh police and other leaders in a friendly manner.

Absolutely.

It started out as that and it continued to grow to where it became an overall civic event.

You know, maybe law enforcement public safety took kind of a uh a main role in it, but uh as you can see, you know, our whole city participates, whether it's the civic leaders or the neighborhood leaders, and it it continues to grow every year where where everyone's chipping in a little bit more and making it a little bit bigger of an event.

And this year I think we each year we also have fire.

They join and then they join.

Um yeah, it's fun going out there with those guys and and meeting everybody.

Um it's a chance for us to to do some outreach, be human with the folks in the community.