The Bloomington City Council met in regular session, called to order at 6:30 p.m. with the clerk's roll call. The posted agenda included minutes for approval, council and city office reports, boards and commissions matters, and two ordinances on first reading. Two public comment periods were scheduled—one at the beginning and one at the end of the meeting—and each speaker was allowed to address the council at one of the two. Note: The meeting record metadata identifies the date as September 18, 2026 (16:07:57 UTC), while the raw transcript recites a Wednesday, September 16 call to order; this summary uses the metadata date as instructed. The transcript is fragmentary, and some roll-call results and outcomes were not fully captured.
It is now 6:30 on uh Wednesday, September 16th. So I will call this meeting to order. Congratulations. There's probably nowhere else you'd rather be on a Wednesday night. Um the clerk kindly call the role. Councilmember Flaherty. Here. Stasberg. Here. Pete Matt Smith. Here. Zulik. Asari. Here. Daily. Here. Rallo? Here. Ralph. Rosenberger. Here. Did anybody hear that? Um excellent. Um today the meeting agenda is posted on the walls. There are some printed out. Um over there. We have a handful of minutes for approval. Um we'll have reports from council members, um, a handful of offices in the city. Um there'll be two times of public comment. Um, one at the beginning of the meeting and one at the end. You're able to speak at one of these two. Um we then have some issues concerning boards and commissions. Um, and then we have two items for first reading, um, one of which the council sponsors have asked that we don't uh we don't discuss, but this is the depending on what the council wants to do, and then we have one, two, three, four, five things for second reading. So with that, um, I'll move to uh uh minutes of which I think we sent out some. Oh, then the clerk is gone. I think he sent out some um amendments that everybody get the amendments to the minutes. Okay, well, when the clerk returns, we can um continue on doing the thing we do at this time. All right. So um so with that, uh are there any motions? February 18th, March 4th, March 11th deliberations session, March 11th special session, March 25th, uh all 2026 be approved. There's a motion and a second. Any further comments or or edits needed to the minutes. Seeing none, um no one online, so all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed that carries. Thank you very much. We'll move on to um reports. Um, do any of my colleagues wish to give a report or um any comments? Start to my right with Councilmember Piedmont Smith. Yes, thank you.