I'm gonna go ahead and uh call this regular session of the Bloomington Common Council to order here on December 17th, 2025.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Rev.

Rahlo.

Here.

Pete Mun Smith.

Here, Stasberg.

Here.

Daily?

Here.

Zulake?

Here.

Rosenbarger.

Here.

Sorry.

Here.

Thanks.

Great.

Thank you so much.

So I often start out a meeting with just kind of a note about something.

And so today this is our final meeting of the 2025 council session.

And I just want to take a minute and thank city staff this year for all of the work that they've done.

And I especially want to call out.

I want to call out a few folks.

And I realize that I could like literally call out every department because all of them at one time or another, like kind of like step up and do things, no matter which department that they're in.

But this tonight specifically, I want to call out our public works and our plow teams because we have it's December 17th.

We've had three snow events that have uh not one of them has happened between eight and five Monday through Friday.

So and somehow things still got plowed and we could still go.

So uh huge thank you to our plow teams, our snow removal crew.

And that also includes not just the folks that are out there actually plowing, but all of the dispatch related folks that are managing behind the scenes and mechanics managing behind the scenes and all of those sorts of things that make those things go.

Um, and I also want to shout out sanitation because they're still out there early in the morning picking up our cans and cold darkness, and I'm really happy that we, if you didn't know, delayed trash pickup by a day this week, so that Monday morning when it was really, really cold, our crews did not have to get out there.

So I appreciated that that um that the city did that.

And the last category that I want to call out are just administrative staff members.

Um, you know, those folks that organize the calendars, they answer the phones, they keep everything organized, they they make our appointments, they um have a lot of connection with uh residents who call in, and sometimes it's uh a little bit underappreciated.

And I want to give a special shout out to our own temporary uh legal researcher, Christine, whose last day is officially today in the position that she's been in.

Um she started this temporary position in May and has done a phenomenal job uh supporting council members and also council staff.

So a huge thank you to Christine.

And I would have gotten her flowers or something, but she's actually flying somewhere tomorrow, and I thought that it would only be a burden to give her something the day before she flies somewhere.

Um with that, uh I'll go ahead and uh summarize the agenda.

Uh we are gonna start out with four minutes for approval uh from our four budget hearings this year, August 18th, 20th, 25th, and 27th.

Then we'll have a report time.

We'll start with reports from council members, then we'll have a report from the uh planning and transportation department about unified development ordinance updates.

We've had a couple deliberation sessions about that kind of stuff this year, so and the planning department has done some um reaching out to the community about that, so we'll hear more about that.

We do have a short uh report from the uh committee on council processes for council committees, and then we'll have our first uh reports from the public.

So that's the first time for the public to comment on an item that is not on our agenda this evening.

So members of the public will have three minutes to comment on things not on the agenda.

Uh during legislation time, there will be time for people to comment on things that are on the agenda.

Um we will not have appointments to boards and commissions tonight because there are none.

We have no legislation for first readings because it's the last meeting of the year.

And uh that also though means that there are several things for uh second reading uh in one case actually third reading that we will cover tonight.

So our legislation for second readings and resolution starts with ordinance 2025-19, amending title 15 of the Bloomington Municipal Code uh regarding um removal and impound of vehicles.

Uh this is a third reading for that item, and uh two weeks ago at our last regular session, we did adopt amendment one to that.

Uh then we will go to ordinance 2025-20, which is amending uh chapter four of the Bloomington Municipal Code entitled non-consensual towing businesses and other updates.

Um we will have resolution 2025-21, acknowledging receipt of the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Bloomington and the American Federation of State, County, and municipal employees for years 2026, 27, and 28.

Uh, then we'll have ordinance 2025 40.

Oh, and just as a note, uh, yesterday in the packet addendum, there was an updated agenda put out, and that resolution was added in that packet addendum.

If anybody's going, wait a minute, that's not the agenda that I'm looking at.

Okay.

In the packet addendum released yesterday is this updated agenda with that resolution.

So our fourth thing on the agenda after the resolution is ordinance 2025 47, amending Title VIII of the Bloomington Municipal Code entitled Historic Preservation and Protection to Establish a Historic District around the Ivan Adams House.