Record here.

All

right.

Well, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the city of Biddeford's 153rd inauguration.

My

name is Truck Deaver.

I'm the Biddeford's city mayor.

Um I'm all over the place.

Sorry, let me do that again.

I'm truck dever.

I am Biddeford City Manager.

Um, unfortunately, due to inclement weather tonight, we weren't able to meet in person for this important event, but I'm pleased you were all able to join us virtually for the swearing-in ceremony.

So

I'd like to welcome our incoming city council members, our school committee, and our mayor elect Leam LaFountain, as well as all of our guests tonight.

So at this time, uh, we will ask Danica to pull up the American flag and please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

Ready?

Begin.

I pledge allegiance to the

flag of the United

States

of America to the room to the black

standard.

One nation under God is liberty for all

great.

And with that, I will turn it over to Biddeford City Clerk, Robin Patterson.

Well, good evening, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us.

The way I'm gonna do this is first I'm gonna ask everybody except for the school committee to just go off camera for a minute so that we can try to have the school committee images show

up,

and then for the school committee, I'm gonna first do a roll call and verify that everybody is here, and then I'm gonna read the oath to you one line and you'll repeat it, and then I'll do another line and you'll repeat it, and we'll go through like that.

So I'm gonna double check again, Megan Desjardin

here,

Karen Ruell, here Timothy Stebbins,

here

Michelle Landry here, Amy Clearwater here, Marie Potman, here Emily Henley here, okay.

So please raise your right hand.

I state your name.

I Emily

Bearwater solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Maine, and then the Constitution of the State of Maine.

As well as the charter,

as

well as the Charter area and ordinances of the City of Biddeford, the City of Bidford, and I will faithfully performed and I will the duties of the office of school committee,

the

duties of the office in and for the city of Biddeford, in and

for the city of

the

to the best of my ability to the best of my ability.

So help me God.

So help me God.

Congratulations to the school committee.

Look forward to a great two years with you.

Thank you.

And if I could now have you turn your mics off and go off camera, and I'll bring forward the school count the school, the um city council.

And

I'll give it a second, and then I'll do a roll call of city council by ward.

So ward one, Patricia Boston here.

Abigail Woods, Ward Two, Ward Three, Roger P.

Bopra.

Here

Ward Four, Dylan Dowdy.

Here