Loc Loc All right, Mike, I went without even looking at you.

No signal.

Uh good morning and welcome to the June twenty third city of Bozeman city commission meeting.

Um, we're glad that you're here with us this evening.

Um, a few housekeeping items before we get started.

Um, provide public comment associated with every action item as well as uh non-agenda public comments as well as on our consent item.

Um, we'll make sure it's telegraphed well in advance so folks don't miss the opportunity.

Um we'll start with public comment in the room, then we'll do online public comment.

Um, for anyone following along at home, uh, and you're listening either from calling in or cable channel one ninety will not be able to provide public comment, so if you wish to do so, hop on over to our streaming page on the city's website.

Um, we did have a uh a debacle with our public comment repository service laser fees.

Uh but they were all the comments were still distributed to us today.

We were able to get it figured out and laser features back online.

Okay, moving on to changes to the agenda.

City manager, I believe we have a couple of changes.

Yes, we do, mayor.

Thank you.

We are going to remove consent item F3 from the agenda tonight.

And we are going to move F9 to the first action item.

Great.

So for just to reaffirm, F3 is no longer on this agenda.

There is no date certain for that item, and F9 will be our first action item directly after general public comment.

Okay.

Any FYI from the commission this evening?

Yep, Commissioner Sweeney.

Thank you, Mayor.

While I was not able to attend in person the historic preservation advisory board meeting last week, they did agree to form a subcommittee to work on draft um demolition code language and ideas.

And uh thank you for Commissioner Magic sitting in on that meeting for me.

Great.

Any further FYI?

Just um the city manager, you can do who 4th of July.

Like any sort of announcement.

Yes, when it's returned, good.

Okay.

Are you gonna do the 4th of July?

Are you gonna go?

Um any further FYI?

Um I have just uh one that I want to share about, relatively unprepared, but just wanting to acknowledge uh a tragedy last week, um, the loss of uh of a child um on our on our streets um and knowing that that tragedy reverberates much farther out than just that family, but I know um our hearts with with that family.

Um that the tragedy of losing um not only someone on roadways that is such an avoidable um tragedy, but also of a child, and an un an unimaginable pain that that family must be going through, and knowing that for many of us that reopens some of the scars, some of the wounds of Leslie Brown that was just earlier this year, and Kelly Fulton, of course, and others that um have that we've lost um in this community, and just wanting to bring bring that tragedy and bring that pain into this room.

Um that is any further FYI from the commission.

Okay.

From staff.

I do.

Uh, thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Commissioner Magic.

It is our 250th anniversary, in case you haven't heard, as a country.

Um, on 4th of July, we invite everybody to come celebrate with our annual fireworks show at the fairgrounds.

And this is an amazing collaboration between our fire department and several private businesses in town who fund this thing 100% with no taxpayer money.

And uh we are looking forward to at 10 p.m.

Uh our fireworks, we're gonna light up the sky, and uh those are the only fireworks allowed in Bozeman, and that is a really difficult thing to police and enforce.

Um, but it's been the law for a couple of years now, and we've been pretty lenient about it.

Uh, we just ask the public to please understand that fireworks are prohibited in the city of Bozeman for a lot of reasons.

Safety is the primary reason, but we know that won't not everybody will respect that.

So the fireworks show 10 p.m.

at the fairgrounds, come one come all.

The second thing is that we are going to be launching a social media uh video series very shortly.

It's called Bozeman at Work, and we want to highlight some of our amazing employees across the organization.

We don't talk enough about the great things that this city does all day, every day, and we want to highlight some of the folks that are doing that work and get that word out amongst our community.

So look for that coming, and that'll be on the social media channels within a week.

Thank you.

Thank you, City Manager.

This is the first time hearing that it's our 250th anniversary as a country.