So the um I'm Dan Castegrandi, I'm the corporation council.

This is my partner Joseph Morlini.

We're going to be counsel uh to the commission.

Before we start the meeting, I think the first order of business is to swear the members in.

So if all of you could stand and raise your right hand, and I'm gonna make this a one-step um oath.

Um Isabel Almeida, Glenda Armstrong, Joseph Britton, Wilson Hernandez, Daniel Jowdy, Deborah McCarey, Joseph Putnam, Gary Jean Ribero, and Michael Sefranek being hereby appointed as members of the Charter Revision Commission of the City to Danbury.

Do you solemnly swear that you officially discharge the duties of your office?

So I help you God.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Councilor.

Okay.

Um my name is Michael Sefranic, and I'd like to call this uh meeting to order.

Uh let's do a roll call first.

If you'd be so kind.

Uh Isabel, if I pronounce your name wrong, please correct me.

I do apologize.

Uh Isabella Almeida.

It's pronounced D.

Um Glenda Armstrong.

Thank you.

Joseph Britton.

Present.

Uh Wilson Hernandez.

Daniel Jowdy.

Here.

Uh Deborah McCarry.

Here.

Joseph Putnam.

Here.

Mary Jean Riberio.

Here.

And Michael Sefranic is here.

Okay.

Roll call is done.

Next on the order of agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance.

I will ask us all to stand.

And to the mayor graciously will donate his flag for this.

Here we go.

There we go.

That's a handy one.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God.

Indivisible.

With liberty and justice.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Okay.

Item number four.

I am going to ask for counsel.

Is this a permanent chair or is this a temporary chair we're electing?

I mean, I'm we're gonna do so.

Just point of clear point of clarification for everybody on the commission.

We're gonna appoint an interim chair, just parliamentary, so they can preside over the election of the permanent chair.

So the for purposes of the interim chair, I would like to nominate Commissioner Michael Sefranick to be interim chair to preside over the election of permanent chair.

We need a second.

Um other nominations, any other nominations, any other nominations?

Seeing no nominations, I am here by closing nominations.

Now back to the main motion, electing Michael Safranic as the interim chair of this commission.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Seeing none, I'll uh make the accept the um the motion as the interim chair.

Next order of business is the election of interim vice chair.

I'd like to entertain a motion to uh secretary.

Okay, permanent permanent chair.

Okay, so now let's move on to making the uh next for the permanent chair.

I'd like to entertain a motion to make Joseph Britton the permanent chair moving forward of this commission.

I'll make that motion.

There's a motion made and a second.

Any other uh oh notion was made, the second um any other nominations, any other nominations, any other nominations?

Seeing none, I'm automatically closing nominations back to the main motion of making Joseph Britton the chair of this commission.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Seeing none.

Joseph Britton is now the permanent chair by unanimous decree.

And I turn the meeting over to you, sir.

Commissioner, thank you everybody for that.

Uh, we're just gonna continue.

I do have some remarks, but I'm gonna reserve them for the end so we can get right to business, um, which is going to be the MO for this commission uh while we're all together.

So um next, we're gonna move on to number five, which is the election of permanent vice chairman.

Are there any nominations for vice chairman?

Commissioner Handis.

I would like to nominate Michael the Vice Chair Commission.

There's a motion on the floor.

Is there a second?

Sir motion.

Motion is seconded.

Are there any other nominations?

Any mention of any other nominations?

Seeing no other nominations, nominations are now closed.

All those in favor of Michael Sefranik as vice chairman, signify by saying aye.

Aye, aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Motion carries.

Congratulations, Vice Chairman Safranic.

Sure.

We will move on to number six, election of a permanent commission secretary.

Mr.

Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to have Isabella Mita be the secretary of the permanent commission.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Sorry.

Is there a second?

Second.

Motion's been made and seconded.

Are there any other nominations?

Any other nominations?

Any other nominations?

Seeing none, I will now close nominations.

All those in favor of Commissioner Isabel Almeida as permanent secretary signified by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Motion carries.

Congratulations, Madam Secretary.

Okay.

So moving on.

Just before we get going, I want to just one point of clarification for everybody.

So the meeting we're having tonight, um, just per state statute is our organizational meeting.

So we can't do anything of substance as far as chartered discussions as to actual like the meat of the document itself until we have a public hearing.

So I want to just kind of put that at the onset as to why we're everything is structured the way it is.

That being said, uh we do have a presentation from council, so I'm going to pass it on to Attorney Cassagrandi to give us a nice presentation informational for the folks that may not be too too familiar with the Treaty Revision process and what to expect for the next uh several months.

So, attorney Cassandra.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Good evening, everybody.

Um what we did is uh I believe I handed out to everybody two uh documents that our office has prepared.

The first is what is called the basic steps for revising or developing a municipal charter.

The second is a proposed timetable for um uh setting uh meeting dates and at least the first public hearing.

Uh I'm not gonna regurgitate everything uh by uh reciting what's here, but just I want to give you just a broad overview of the uh charter revision process.

As you know, the council on April 7th uh uh uh create uh created the commission uh and um created the members uh of the commission and directed that it hold uh this organizational meeting and lastly uh directed that the uh final report of the commission uh as per state statute be uh submitted to the council, which is what the statute calls the appointing authority uh within 16 months of the of the um of the creation of the of the commission.

Um so that that basically covers uh step two uh and you are a commission of uh nine members.

You can have up to 15, but the council elected to proceed with nine uh members, no more than a third of whom may hold another public office in the city, and with no more than a bare majority from the same political party.

We have achieved that.

Um and the commission shall proceed forthwith to draft a charter or amendment in our case to the existing charter.

Um and that is the purpose of going forward.

Um the um, as you'll see in the timetable, uh we are proposing uh because of the of the expedited nature uh of the mayor's directive, we're proposing uh to um have several meetings.

Uh Elisa is recommended that you uh at least schedule at least seven.

You don't have to hold seven.

Uh but the next the next uh step uh in conjunction with holding uh the meetings is the public hearing requirement.

The commission, you have to hold at least two public hearings.

The first be uh before beginning the substantive work, otherwise, before you start your your meetings and your sessions, and then the last one is after the commission has completed a draft report.

Uh but before submitting it to the council is the appointing uh authority.

And as I said, the commission may hold other meetings that it deems necessary.

That's within your discretion as a commission.

Um as I said, the council has um uh has prescribed that you get back to them no later than 16 months.

Uh and uh uh the timetable that you'll see uh is intended to uh have the final report submitted in time uh to get it ready for the uh November election of this year.

And then uh the uh after the um uh the the final public hearing um uh shall shall uh uh hold I should say the the commission shall hold its last public hearing within no, I'm sorry, the council shall hold a public hearing within 45 days of submission of the commission's final uh draft report.

The uh after the um uh the the final public hearing um uh uh shall shall uh uh hold I should say the the commission shall hold its last public hearing within no I'm sorry the council shall hold a public hearing within 45 days of submission of the commission's final uh draft report so what what happens to that is um with it once you submit your draft report to the council as the appointing authority the council within 15 days of that last hearing uh may uh look at your report may recommend some changes if it disagrees with some of the changes you're proposing or would like to see other changes um and if there are recommended changes the commission is required to confer with the council you'll have a joint meeting uh concerning the recommendations and you this as the commission after hearing from the council uh may amend its report or you can reject the council's recommendations in either case the count the commission has to make its final report within 30 days after receiving the recommendations from the council and if there are no recommended changes the commission's report becomes final and the appointing authority shall act on it to steps seven uh through um uh ten are basically steps that the council after receiving the final report has to take in order to hold its own public hearing and get it ready for submission uh to the voters the the timetable that we we put together with uh lease's uh assistance um it's basically a template um today's the first meeting uh of the commission april 15th um uh you uh you've already elected the chair the vice chair and the secretary uh you should approve a timeline uh which is outlined in in the report uh which which by then I mean create a schedule of meetings establish the date of the first public hearing uh and and the first order would be to establish the first public hearing which would be part of what you're gonna be doing uh tonight uh and at that first public hearing the mayor has the opportunity to present his uh recommendations and his areas for review uh to the commission uh and the public um uh and that can be done in there can appear orderly or he could submit a written report uh and then the commission we we're the way we've set this up is um we're we have scheduled we would want you to schedule weekly meetings from uh may 4th uh through June 18th uh with a total of up to seven meetings of as there's as I said you do not have to have seven meetings but the idea is to at least slot them in so if you need them uh you you can have that uh by June 19th uh the commission would submit its final recommendations with a redlined draft report in other words the commission working through corporation council we would submit the red line revisions that you've all uh talked about after the hearing and after the meetings uh the commission then meets our proposal is June 29th or 30th uh to approve the the draft report and then it holds its second public hearing which we have uh uh proposed for uh for July 1 that all has to be noticed in accordance with the charter um and at the the at that second public hearing that's the time when the uh commission will hear the comments and recommendations from the public as to what they think uh are necessary changes or unnecessary changes um uh so you notice the public hearing the public hearing would be held on uh july 9th according to this timetable uh the draft report would then be submitted of the commission's draft report to the town clerk the town clerk would provide the draft report to the legislative assistant for putting on the agenda of the council uh we have proposed the July 15th date for a special meeting of the city council and at that city council meeting as I said in the in the overview the council looks at the draft report decides whether it agrees with it uh or disagrees with it or has some changes changes uh or recommendations um and uh after that meeting if there are no changes uh the the council public hearing then gets noticed uh and that public that council public hearing has to be uh no later than 45 days from the date of submission um or by august 28th uh there has to be at least one uh joint meeting of the council uh and the and um um uh of the commission uh we're proposing that for july 30th and then the council members meet with the commission to review the recommendations we're proposing that would be um by august twelfth and uh between july 30th and august 6th the commission would meet to review the public and council's recommendations and approve the final report to the council and we're proposing the submission of the final report to the council uh by uh august 10th the council would then notice a special meeting uh for very shortly thereafter on august uh 11th uh and at that meeting the council will uh accept the final report uh set a ref resolution for a referendum date uh and questions

And uh between July 30th and August 6th, the commission would meet to review the public and council's recommendations and approve the final report to the council.

And we're proposing the submission of the final report to the council uh by uh August 10th.

The council would then notice a special meeting uh for very shortly thereafter on August uh 11th.

Uh and at that meeting, the council will uh accept the final report, uh set a ref resolution for referendum date uh and questions to be placed on on the agenda for the referendum.

Uh and then uh the rest of this timeline is basically what the what the council's charges to do after you've you've submitted your work.

So I don't think we need to get into that level of detail at this meeting.

That's generally the timeline that we are proposing uh to the commission in order to adhere to the admittedly expedited nature of the process.

Thank you.

Thank you, counselor.

Uh so that was a lot of information, extremely well done.

I appreciate all the work that went into this behind the scenes and putting us in the position to succeed and get this in front of as many voters as possible.

So I do appreciate that.

Now, team, that was a lot of information.

And I understand if there's questions, now's the time to ask them.

That's the point of this um meeting.

It's organizational, it's informational for us to get our bearings as to what to expect for the next few meetings.

So anybody have any questions on the schedule, what to expect?

Yeah, um, when the report is presented to the council, are they allowed to edit it or do they take it up or down?

Yes or no?

We're allowed to edit it.

They can be able to do that.

They can make suggestions for recomm or recommendations um points with which they disagree.

And they ordered that document.

Or or amended on points that perhaps the commission has not itself addressed, but the council wishes addressed.

That then goes back to the commission, you you look at that, and then you take those recommendations into account in preparing your final report to the council.

And then those recommendations voted on as a simple majority.

Majority of those present a quorum having been established.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Any other questions for corporation council.

All right, so I guess my clarifying question.

Um these dates that are on here, these are all just suggestions, right?

So nobody don't go plugging these into your phones as of yet, but just keep this in the binder.

Um that Elisa very kindly prepared for us um for tonight, just have them as ballpark times, um, because like I said earlier, the goal is to get this in front of as many um voters as possible, which would be the upcoming election.

So we have a lot of work to do, and um I believe it can be done.

So um I'm gonna give another opportunity for questions for council.

They're gonna be here for the rest of the meeting, so if we have to come back to it, I'm okay with going back if questions pop up in a little bit.

So we okay for now.

Okay.

So we're gonna move on to item number eight, which is the adoption of the commission meeting schedule.

So um, as attorney Cassigrandy mentioned in his presentation, um, May and June are going to be our two pretty heavy work months.

So those are gonna be the months that we do the substantive dive into the actual document when we start redlining, um, discussing changes, no changes, whatever we decide to do.

So I thought it would be best for us to establish a regular meeting schedule.

And if for whatever reason one meeting we don't have to meet, say, for example, we we meet weekly, which is gonna be my recommendation to you all.

We say we don't have to have one of the meetings because we're still waiting on a red line um and we need some time.

Um we can always just uh cancel that meeting and not meet.

Um so I just think it's best to be over prepared.

So I talked to Elisa about the calendar and what it is the best date for the commission to meet weekly for the months of May and June would be Wednesdays at 6 30.

So I'm gonna present that to all of us to um pencil in.

Um planning um to have them in person, um, but I think depending on what we have going on, what we have to discuss or availability for folks, um, we might have an opportunity for hybrid or virtual meetings as well.

So I just want to um keep that on the table as well.

So for now it's looking for the month of May and June will be Wednesdays at 6 30 at City Hall, unless we um are gonna go virtual for that meeting or a hybrid situation.

Um any questions on schedule while we're there?

6 30.

6 yeah 6 30.

So that'll give us time if we have a big agenda, so we're not running super late.

And um those that work might should be.

6 30 is usually the sweet spot when it comes to these commission meetings.

So are we okay with 6 30 on Wednesdays for the time being?

If we have to come back and there, if there's a conflict, when do we let you know?

I would uh so it's like I know I definitely can't make May 6th, so yeah, sure.

So just two, I mean two days would be nice if you know it's uh but if emergencies happen, I get it, but yeah.

Um okay, so I'm going to just because I want to um do everything um by the book here.

So is um I'll entertain I will entertain a motion that the Charter Revision Commission adopt a regular meeting schedule for the months of May and June 2026 to be held on Wednesdays at 6 30 p.m.

in compliance with all applicable laws.

Any meetings thereafter shall be scheduled and called by the chair.

So moved.

Motion has been made by Commissioner Sefranic.

Is there a second on the motion?

Second.

Motion's been made and seconded.

Is there any discussion on our meeting schedule?

Regular meeting schedule.

Okay, seeing none, I will try your minds.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Motion carries.

So for the month of May, we'll have our regular meetings on Wednesdays at 6 30.

Um, either in person, virtual or a hybrid.

Figure that out as they come.

Um plan for them being in person.

Okay.

Um second component I wanted to do.

Um I apologize, I didn't put them in your binders um before I got here.

Um, but we're gonna do um because we are a new um commission.

Um it's always good to have uh rules of procedure.

Um these aren't substantive, these are our own sort of um rules for the commission.

So just um for example, I'll just move one for you.

I think I made nine copies, so you you have one?

Okay, so I'll take one and we'll just keep sending them that way.

So what these are in their draft, and we don't have to do this.

I just thought it would be good to have them.

Um they're very elementary.

Uh there's only nine of them.

Basically, they just say that we have to elect a vice chair, chair, and a secretary, which we did.

It establishes some roles and responsibilities for the chair, vice chair, secretary.

Um, procedure for calling meetings, prepping agendas, motions, voting, minutes.

It's all stuff that we would have to do anyway, but I felt it is good to have it memorialized in a document for us as a commission because it's always good to have something to go back to and to look at as we work.

It's an important commission, and I wanted to do it on and do it right.

So anybody have any thoughts on this while we're on it?

Give us a minute if we want to go through it a little bit.

And again, we don't have to do this.

I just thought it was a good idea.

So, like we have majority of members creates a quorum, Roberts rules, it's really um procedural stuff.

So any questions from my fellow commissioners?

So I will entertain a motion that the Charter Revision Commission adopt the rules of procedure as presented.

Motion has been made.

Is there a second?

Second.

Motion's made and seconded.

And is there any discussion on the motion seeing none?

I will now try your minds.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Motion carries.

All right, we've got a little rule book.

All right, thank you, everybody.

Moving right along.

Um the big our biggest um piece tonight, uh public hearing number one.

So as attorney Casa Grandi had mentioned, um, we need to have a public hearing before we can even start um discussing the actual document.

So I think it'd be advantageous to the commission and the city to have that public hearing um as reasonably uh fast as possible.

Um I am proposing I talked to Elisa just to square away um the city's availability logistically.

So we have two dates available that I will open up to everybody's calendars because I think it is imperative that um the commissioners are present to hear from the public for the first public hearing.

So we have the 28th of April.

We can do that one at 7:30.

Which day's the 28th April.

April 28th.

Yep, that's a Tuesday.

Tuesday, April 28th at 7:30, or we have Thursday, April 30th at 7 p.m.

And Tuesday.

Is that an R or an A?

It's an OR.

So those are those are our two options that are that work with the schedule.

Because it's budget season too, so there's a lot of meetings going on in city hall.

So those are the two.

So I am not available on the 28th.

28th.

And 28th, I mean, per I'm I mean, my opinion, um, as a commissioner, the 7:30 is pretty late too, but that would be the earliest we could have it on that day.

So I would prefer the 30th.

I think that gives about two weeks to get the word out and get it in front of a lot of people so they know that.

One o'clock.

Seven o'clock on the 30th.

Are we chairman like to make a motion to have the first public hearing be uh on April 30th at 7 o'clock in this building and subsequently uh published as necessary by law.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner, a motion has been made.

Is there a second?

Second.

Motion's been made and seconded.

Is there any discussion on the motion for the first public hearing?

Okay, seeing none, I will try your minds.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Uh motion carries.

We have a date.

So the first public hearing will be Thursday, April 30th at 7 o'clock p.m.

in council chambers.

And um I'll work with Elisa uh to get that noticed um ASAP.

So okay, so we are almost done.

So uh for item number 10.

Um I kind of wanted to just reserve my uh my remarks um after the chair election.

Uh just because I had a few points um and you know statements that I wanted to make to you all.

First of all, it's an honor um number one to be a member of this commission.

Um it's an honor to have been um elected by all of you to be chairman of this commission.

I do appreciate the uh vote of confidence and faith in me doing that.

I'm extremely looking forward to working with each and every one of you.

Um I know you all have very specific areas of expertise that were very purposely crafted um when you were picked um by the mayor.

Um so I want everybody to understand that that this team was brought together for a reason, and I'm very much looking forward to working with you all.

Um so it's no secret that we have a lot of work to do in a very short amount of time, but I think we can do it, and I know we're gonna do it right.

Um so, like I said, Elisa brought these uh binders for all of you.

Um these are gonna be your uh babies for the next three months.

So study it, read it, understand it, because it's very important to um know the document that you're gonna be working with.

Um so you know, put it on your counter over the weekend, read a few sections as you can, familiarize yourself with it because we're gonna be going to it a lot because it's a very important job that we're doing.

Um, just me personally as chairman, um, I just want us to focus on three three values for this um camp uh for this uh commission.

So um when we come to every meeting every week, I just want everybody to keep in the back of your minds be present.

Um I want everybody to assume positive intent with comments that are made by commissioners when we hear from the public.

I want to just assume positive intent because this is a very important commission and it doesn't happen often for a reason.

And I want everybody to keep in your mind that our job is to leave Danbury better than we found it.

That is the job of this commission.

That's the job of of what we're here to do.

Um my expectations as chair for everybody on the commission with me.

Um I want us to deliver a draft.

These are like these are the goals.

Deliver a draft to the city council, finalize the language, um, and just get it done in front of as many voters as possible.

So that's why the November goal um is important.

Um I kind of alluded to this earlier, just some housekeeping things um for attendance and communication.

Um if you cannot make a meeting, I totally understand it.

I just ask that you please communicate with me as soon as you know you're not gonna be here.

Two days would be great.

Umergencies happen, shoot me a tax or give me a call saying, hey, I can't make it just um because obviously if we don't have a quorum, it's gonna you know not be fair to everybody that comes down here if we can't have the meeting.

So um you all should have my phone number.

If you don't have it, um I'll give it to you at the end of the meeting.

Um, but please call me if you can't make it and also if you can call Elisa too to let her know, um, just because she very generously has um agreed to help us out with the administrative side of running um this commission, which a lot of work goes in behind the scenes um in a charter revision that we don't see.

So um when you see Elisa, give her give her a thank you, and of course, to our council because they're gonna be doing a lot of work behind the scenes um as well.

Um email communications.

Um if you are emailing, um, just be mindful of what you're emailing about.

Um we don't want to create a meeting um uh usually um FOIA, those not particular with the Freedom of Information Act.

Um if you are sending emails in an email chain to a majority of members and you're discussing business of that commission that could constitute a meeting that wasn't properly noticed, and you could get jammed up and uh we don't want that to happen.

So just be mindful with your email.

It's there for a reason.

I want people to communicate, but just be mindful.

Yes, Commissioner.

Speaking of email, Mr.

Chairman, are we gonna get city email uh for this particular commission?

That yeah, I'll get back to you on that.

I I don't have the answer to the other.

That way we separate so forth.

That's a very um good question, actually.

And so the chair, it's all it's important that you not use your personality.

That's why emails we don't have our own email setup for.

We'll we'll get that taken care of.

Well, I think we'll I think we can confidently get um.

And also remember that anything that you put in an email, you must assume may be disclosable under FOI.

So you need to be you're a legislative body.

You're not like a zoning commission where there's an absolute prohibition against ex-party communications between members.

So you have certain discretion, but we would just caution you that you know that an old law school professor of mine used to say don't put anything in an email that you don't want to see on page six of the New York Post the next day.

Very, very good points.

Uh those are well taken, counselor.

Um, and thank you, Commissioner, for bringing that up.

I think that's important, and I will see that that gets done.

So just keep an eye out um from contact from Alisa um either on the phone or to your personal email about getting that um set up, or might be somebody from City IT, so just keep an eye out for um the emails.

Um another thing um I just want to talk about um we do have charter council, so we have our corporation council is gonna work with us here um for legal questions.

Just I I want to just create a good chain of command for and flow of communication for um questions to charter council.

So as we get going, I'm gonna ask that questions you might have for legal counsel that happen outside of um so like when you're doing your homework on the charter, or you might be doing ideas when we get to the idea section of the project.

Um you might have legal questions.

I'm gonna ask that for the at least for the beginning part, you go through me to get them to attorney Casa Grandi.

Um, just because I don't want him to get bogged down from a million questions from a million different emails.

Um, it's just easier to have one point of contact to get questions through the chairman.

Um, and we also don't want seven commissioners asking the same question when it could we can compartmentalize and just do it in one way.

So um, I just think that's just an efficiency for an or the organization itself.

Um just you know, our operating standard as as we get going.

I kind of also alluded to this in the beginning.

Uh we're gonna move very quickly, but we're not gonna move cares carelessly.

Um, every recommendation that comes from this commission, um, we're gonna do it with competence.

Um, we're gonna do our due diligence.

Um, we're gonna have thoughtful debate.

I know we're not gonna agree on everything because we're gonna have a bunch of different ideas.

That's why again, we were all selected for this task was because of our diversity of thought.

Um, so uh I think it's um important that we just know that although we are gonna move quickly, this timeline is fast, we are not gonna be moving carelessly.

Um kind of last few points um just the charter itself, um attorney Casagrandy alluded to this.

Um I just can't stress how important the document is.

Um this is how our city governs, this is how the power is structured for the city, and it's how the accountability is um pretty much is how the accountability for our government is um instituted is through this document as well.

And um, it's not our generation, you know, or the generation that's here present that's gonna have to you know kind of see the effects of these revisions.

It's the generation after this one and the one after that that's gonna see because this document really is supposed to get touched once every decade.

Um so just know the seriousness of our task, um, and uh I think we're gonna be in really really good shape.

Um that I uh don't have any other comments, but I do want us to get to know each other a little bit because we're gonna be spending a lot of time together.

So I want us to the commissioners to go around the table and kind of introduce yourself, maybe give us a little bit about your background uh because we're gonna be best friends for the next uh four or five months.

So we'll go this way.

Thank you so much.

Uh Wilson Hernandez.

I leave at 71 Davis Street in Denver.

I have been in the city for the last 26 years.

I have been the president, the vice president, the treasurer of the Ecuadorian Civic Center.

I own Anismoro Pizza Man Street.

Thank you so much.

Good evening, everyone.

Isabel Almeida.

I am um a lifelong Danbury uh resident.

Um I've born and raised here uh in Danbury, currently live on Maplewood Drive on the West Side.

Um I am the president and CEO of United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut, where I've been for the last 15 years.

I'm dedicated to this community and really honored to have this opportunity to work with all of you and to do this important job.

My name is Michael Safranik.

I work for the city.

Great.

Hi, Joe Putnam.

Very honored to be here, taking that very serious and a great responsibility for common good of Danbury and fourth generation in the city.

Thank you.

And Jerry.

I'm on up on you.

We're the sixth generation in Danbury, lifelong resident of Danbury, the president, the treasurer of the city of Danbury, and uh owner and operator of two rooms.

I'm Glenda Armstrong.

I'm a teacher in Danbury.

I teach science.

Um I'm also the president of the local chapter at NAACP, and I've been there for several years.

And um and I live at 224 Fortnite Street extended.

I'm Mary Jean Ribero.

I've lived in Danbury all my life.

Many of you know my family, my mid and name is Rizzo, so very involved in real estate in this area.

Um my company, the Nikon Corp, is well known in the area.

It was a women's own business.

Now my brother Ross is one of my partners, and um we do a lot of traffic work in the state of Connecticut, and um I don't commit to something unless I can make a difference.

So uh I um I decided to be a part of this one asked.

Uh hopefully I can make the commitment.

Uh the meetings and knowing them in advance is very important to me because, like all of you, I have a busy calendar as well.

And um and I do remember you as a science teacher from Rogers Park.

So I was going to ask at the end of the meeting.

So uh but anyway, uh not even my sister.

So okay, then it was your sister, but uh anyway.

So I um uh we'll see where this goes.

So interesting to see what direction it goes.

Hi, I'm Debbie McCary.

I've lived in Danbury since the 70s.

I spent most of my career in child welfare in New York City.

The last couple of years I've been uh working at uh volunteering at the nonprofit families network of Western Connecticut.

I'm the board chair there now, and I'm really honored to be a part of the committee.

Um I guess I will outhlas.

I'm Joe Brandon.

Um I am a lifelong Danbarian.

Um those in the room that remember Angelo's Pete's on South Street, that was my grandparents' pizza restaurant for many years.

Um very honored to be on this committee.

Um career-wise, I'm an attorney uh for the city of Waterbury, uh, specifically in their corporation council's office doing their board of education work.

Um so I have gotten to see how charters are revised in very recent memory and how they've been done on very short timetables.

So I'm excited to kind of uh apply that and uh in practice um in my hometown.

So I'm very very much looking forward to working with each and every one of you.

That's great.

All right.

Oh, yeah, and I'm Manual.

Geez, I and I'm in the army, I'm a Jag too, so because it's uh brand new, but you know, I have charter revision on the brain because I am doing this.

So uh yeah.

And that was the best pizza restaurant that Danbury ever had.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Missing every day missing every day.

But um okay.

I remember it.

It's good.

Remember, I remember it was one of I think it was underneath Nijing Pool.

Yeah, yeah.

That was the original look.

I remember that.

And then maybe across the street.

Yep.

Anything else for the good of the order from my fellow commissioners?

Uh I will now entertain a motion to adjourn.

So move.

Is there a second?

Okay, motion that may second it.

Any discussion on motion to adjourn?

None.

I will now uh try your minds and all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

And motion passes.

We are adjourned.

Thank you all very much.

See you on the