Okay, good evening and welcome everyone.

I call the city council meeting for Wednesday, October 22nd to order.

A lot of things going on in the world, so we'll take a moment of silence for you to think about whatever it is you'd like to think about.

Thank you, everyone.

If you don't please stand and join Alderman Tim Dunn in uh leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

And to the Republic, for which it's a nation, under God, individual liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Mr.

Krupp, if you'd be kind enough to call the roll tonight.

Ardon?

Here.

Kelly.

Here.

McGinnis.

Here.

Brein Arts.

President.

Grip.

Here.

Newton.

Here.

Lynch.

Here.

T Dunn.

Here.

Job Jin.

Here.

And Burke Holder.

Here.

Ten present, Your Honor.

Thank you, sir.

So again, good evening and welcome everybody as we begin the meeting of the City Council.

I'd like to welcome everybody in attendance and anybody who's watching through any particular electronic device.

Respectfully welcome your comments and opinions.

But as you share your thoughts, you're sharing them with your fellow Davenporters and everybody throughout the region.

We're certainly happy you're participating in your city government, but as your participation, please reflect the common desire we all share to make Davenport a better place.

I know there's a lot of pictures and things coming up with cell phones, but if you might be kind enough to put it on silent, uh simply it doesn't get in the way of anybody talking.

If you want to address the council tonight, um there'll be a podium back.

Um but the microphones above you, uh love to know your name, order, address.

If you're not from here, we'd love to know where you're from.

Please address the council as a body and not to any one individual.

We'll be respectful of you.

Please be respectful of us.

Thank you.

Miss Um Order Person please move approval of the city council meeting minutes for October 8th, 2025.

So move.

Second.

Motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Very good.

Ms.

Gleason, acting city administrator, anything tonight.

Just quickly uh as a reminder, next week is a free week, so we will not be here on Wednesday.

Um the Halloween parade is this Saturday at two o'clock.

Oh, sorry, Sunday.

Thanks, Ryan, Sunday at two, and trick-or-treating will be on the 31st um from 5 30 to 7 30.

Thank you, ma'am.

Sunday.

Yep.

Will an alder person please move approval of the committee of the whole for October 15th, 2025?

So move.

Second.

Motion and a second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Very good.

So we have one uh really cool presentation tonight.

So I have the distinguished honor of um talking about it.

So we have the honor.

We uh the city council, the whole city of Davenport and surrounding areas, and I just happen to be the person that gets to talk about it, so I have the distinct privilege to uh talk about honoring a team of uh our community's true heroes.

Uh a recent incident, many members of the Davenport Fire Department acted with courage, skill, and selfishness to pull through selflessness.

Sorry, I owe you push-ups.

Okay, to pull three occupants from a structure fire because of their actions.

Someone's loved ones are alive today.

We are reminded why first responders are the backbone of our community's public safety.

On behalf of the city of Davenport, we extend our deepest gratitude for your bravery and dedication and service to Davenport and certainly the community.

I will be uh happy to meet Chief Carlson at the podium, and we'll recognize all these wonderful individuals.

If you would be kind enough to show hold your applause till the end, we'll get them all together and take a picture and then we'll have pictures and applause and gratitude moments uh because this is a big deal.

Um, as you probably heard many of us talk before, whether it's our police department or fire department, our EMS, any public safety entity.

There are a few people, military folks also, that raise their hand and say pick me.

And so when the 911 call comes in, um many times folks in uniform, such as who we're talking about tonight, go or someone asks for help.

Maybe or maybe not, they have an uh in-depth knowledge or not of where they're going and what they're gonna do.

But they go.

When we call for help, they're there, and these folks tonight not only went but saved lives.

So thank you very much, Chief.

Um, and uh Fire Marshal, happy to be there.

Mayor Matson and Davenport City Council, thank you for this opportunity to publicly recognize the members of the Davenport Fire Department.

Daily, the men and women of the Downport Fire Department make a difference in our community.

But in the early morning hours of September 11th, the crews of C Shift were presented with unique challenges at an incident, and because of their quick action and determination to operate under tough conditions, several lives were saved.

Early that morning, the occupants of the home in 2400 block of North Zenith awoke to the sound of breaking glass and smelling smoke.

Quickly, the occupants on the lower level of the split level home evacuated and found heavy fire conditions on the upper levels.

There were three additional occupants that were still trapped on the upper floor.

They were trapped due to fire and smoke conditions.

The family members who escaped from the lower level called 911 and attempted to rescue one of the trapped individuals from a window.

The Davenport Fire Department was dispatched at 4 26 in the morning on September 11th to a structure fire, and we were informed that there were three people still inside the home.

The first crews on scene reported heavy fire conditions on the upper floor of the house.

And upon arrival, engine six began an aggressive fire attack, and truck three began to work on the rescue of the trapped person in the window.

Engine six advanced a hose line into the house for the fire attack, and as the officer of engine six worked to extinguish the fire, the firefighter engine six began searching for victims.

One by one, the firefighters engine six located the persons trapped inside and assisted with carrying them outside for medical treatment.

As an additional DFD crews arrived on scene, they were able to assist with the rescue operations and support the fire efforts.

With the assistance of the Downport Fire Department, Medic EMS, and the Davenport Police Department, the rescue victims were given medical care needed and transported Genesis East and later to the University of Iowa for advanced medical care.

All the firefighters on this initial response worked flawlessly as a coordinated team to rescue the trapped victims and extinguish the fire.

Routinely, the members of the Davenport Fire Department trained for these type of events.

Fortunately, these coordinated efforts of searching for multiple victims while actively firefighting are rare.

The crews that responded to the Zenith, the Zenith Avenue Fire demonstrated the bravery, collaboration, and professionalism the community has come to expect from the DFD.

Each of them deserves to be recognized for their situational awareness, decision making skills, and commitment to operating in dangerous environments to rescue others.

Based on the actions of these firefighters, I believe they have earned and are worthy of receiving the awards for their efforts, September 11th, 2025.

Mayor Matson and Fire Marshal Morris, will you please join me as we present these honors?

As I call them up, for all these men and women have demonstrated the core values of our department and their dedication to our community.

I would like to call the instant commander for the Distinguished Service Award, District Chief Scott Farnsworth.

Thank you very much.

Congratulations.

That's fine.

The safety officer for a distinguished service award, District Chief James Woods.

The crew of Engine Five for a distinguished service award.

And as firefighter Kyle McAvoy.

For the crew of Engine Seven for Distinguished Service Award, Lieutenant Ryan Johnson.

Also from Engine Seven, Firefighter Ben Anderson for Distinguished Service Award.

Also from Engine Seven Firefighter Anthony Murr for a Distinguished Service Award.

The crew of Truck Two for Distinguished Service Award.

Captain Jeremy Shirk.

From Truck Two for Distinguished Service Award, Engineer Tara Jackson.

Also from Truck Two for Distinguished Service Award, Firefighter Jared Dejeter.

Engineer from Truck Three for Distinguished Service Award.

Engineer Mike Cress.

And Mike Cress is not with us tonight.

Firefighter Kayla Jones for Distinguished Service Award.

And for the crew of Engine Six for Distinguished Service Award, Captain Gabe Cousins.

And from Engine Six, a Distinguished Service Award, Engineer James Swanson.

James Swanson is not able to join us this evening.

According to reports, firefighter Dante Tremble located several of the victims during the initial firefighting operation and assisted with the removal from inmate danger.

His actions directly resulted in saving several lives during this incident and the contributions to the overall positive outcome of the situation.

Hence, firefighter Trimmo will be presented with a medal of honor.

Firefighter Dante Tremel for the Medal of Honor.

And all of our public safety agencies in Davenport.

Thank you for allowing me to share their story of publicly recognizing for their actions tonight.

Yep, squeak.

Maybe right here.

You guys face that way.

And you guys face this way.

All right, council maneuver yourself so you get seen.

And uh Gio, tell us what to do.

Whoever's taking pictures move yourself, or do you need to?

And Gio, you tell us when we're done.

Anybody need more time?

One more round of pause.

I'll pause a moment if uh all the firefighters, etc.

and family want to, you know, head out to celebrate.

Uh you're certainly welcome to stay, but we'll pause if you don't want to.

Thank you.

Hey, sir, and if I know the chief's probably busy out there, but if you could have tell him I'd like to have him back for a moment, and when you you know, not an emergency, but yeah, thank you.

Okay.

Um, next is petition communications.

I have a couple, but I'll that one I'll wait on if I need to.

I I want to recognize um, and we talked about it before, but um, in the in the theme of recognizing first responders, uh, we certainly had a a bunch of heroes on the fire department, but also, you know, we talked about uh before with the police department and the community effort with community members and and our um reduction in crime, especially gun violence.

So um you're probably familiar most people with the governor and had a dodge task force uh looking at government, but one success story that they specifically highlighted.

Um I'm certainly there's a lot of pages if you want to read particular things, and you can you know agree or disagree with particular points, but I don't think you can disagree with this one, so I'm gonna read it, so um, bear with me.

This is called, and this is from the governor, success story.

Davenport's David Data Driven Crime Strategy is a national model.

And I'll attest to that when I went to DC twice.

They use Davort as the example.

John Jay University in New York City uses Davenport as example.

Um, the professor, uh leading director, I think you've heard me say, uh, recognized it in the New York Times as Davenport as a model.

So um, this is from the governor's office.

The Denport Police Department found a new ally in the battle against crime, data analytics, and in the processes created a model uh for smart government and smart policing.

A crime wave in 2019 prompted city and police leaders to look beyond traditional police tasks tactics such as bolstering patrols in specific areas through community and law enforcement partnerships.

The police department launched a crime analysis unit and leveraged federal resources to fund it.

Police leaders received training to interpret data and identify trends, including key findings that 0.18% of Danport residents were responsible for more than half the city's gun crimes.

That insight provided focus for overwhelming, overwhelmed officers, reassurance to residents, and shifted the department's approach from reactive to proactive, leading to a series of strategic initiatives.

Data reports drive decisions on targeted interventions, directing resources and community outreach.

For example, officers can predict the individuals most likely to be involved in gun violence and can trace recovered firearms to other gun incidents across the region.

Police down work with community members and advocates uh to coordinate and direct social services, such as housing to residents at risk, shifting from a law enforcement led response to a community-driven prevention.

Police reported a 40% decline in gun violence within one year of their efforts and over a five-year period of 46% decrease in shots fired and 15% reduction in stolen vehicles.

Stamp success is earned national recognition and inspire inspired similar efforts in other cities throughout the nation.

So let's take a moment.

And Chief, thank you for your work and everything we're here.

Chief Carlson, yeah, Chief Carlson, if you come up.

So I just want to take a moment and uh this if I'm correct.

Um this is Chief Carlson's last meeting, last day.

Last council meeting.

Last council meeting.

Roger that.

Um you have dedicated your uh much of your life to the city of Davenport.

You've dedicated much of your life to the Dan Port Fire Department and helping, as we just saw, a great story, uh leading a department that's solely focused on helping and rescuing victims and and responding to uh calls for service or calls for help.

And uh you your dedication to this city, and I just want to take a moment uh and wish you the best, wish your family the best, and thank you for your service to Davenport.

So with that, uh thank you.

Anything if you want to say well, I I can tell you that I have had a very successful successful career here in Davenport.

Um, and that's not because of my own efforts.

There's been many, many people have helped me along the way.

Um, I like want to thank the city council, Mayor Matson.

Um, there's been many events I've been called to after hours, and a lot of the faces that we see on the dias here have been there to help support Davenport be in a better place.

Um, there's not a city department I haven't worked with in the city.

So the city department leaders and city staff have helped make the Davenport Fire Department a lot better, and the collaborative effort that Team Davenport has is what makes it successful.

And of course, it's the men and women of the department.

Um, their actions that they do every day make the department look great and allow us to continue for excellence.

So, with that, Mayor Matson of the City Council, I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Other members of council, Alderman Kelly.

Thank you.

So, Carlson, I don't want to blow up the spot, but I want to say thank you as well because of that day you saw me at ORA and I was about to fall and hit the ground and you came out of nowhere with that wheel tear.

Don't think that that went unnoted.

So I appreciate that.

Appreciate your service on and off the field as well.

And I just want to also say thank you to Director Mayor.

Thank you for all the stuff that you've done in the fifth ward, but today was pretty special to me that we kind of tag teamed and we were on the same side of trying to say no.

But it was something that had to be done.

So I really appreciate your efforts today.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Alder Woman Newton.

Thank you, Mayor.

So transparency and accountability are not just bud buzzwords that uh I throw around from here and there.

It's actually something that I've spent my entire term uh tying trying to promote.

Recently, I've had the occasion to knock many doors and speak to many constituents.

As many of those that run for office, they get to hear from constituents and they get asked a lot of questions.

Uh questions can vary from what's your stance on taxes, are you gonna raise my taxes?

Uh, what are you gonna do about our streets?

What do you think about public safety?

And I'll go on the record that I am a big proponent of public safety.

But one of the questions that has surfaced unfortunately more often than not is why did you approve the settlement between the city and the administrator, and why was it held to a certain date?

And it's a question that uh unfortunately, I think the public mistakes who was on council and who was not.

So I think it's important to highlight that five council members ran for office in 2023 that were new to council.

I was one of those.

So I can't answer the questions as to why, how, when, what, but what I can answer and make sure that it's crystal clear to the public what's already part of the public domain is the facts and circumstances that have come out of this uh matter.

One is that a demand letter was received sometime in September of 2023, received by our corporate council at the time.

Two, an executive session, otherwise uh called a closed session under open meetings law was held on October 4th of 2023.

On October 6th of 2023, an agreement was signed between the city and the departing administrator.

Also on October 6th of 2023, an email went out by the city attorney to council indicating the plane has landed.

The election was November 7th of 2023.

News to the public was made on November 22nd of 2023, the day before Thanksgiving, and obviously when you cycle is slow.

Then on December 13th of 2023, council had another exec session, at which after the exact or closed session, council came back and took a vote to ratify the agreement.

Well, I do not know what was discussed or what was ever said.

I do know that a judge reviewed it.

So the October 4th, 2023 closed session was reviewed by the honorable Judge Mark Cleve.

And the honorable Judge Mark Cleve issued an order on February 25th of 2025, indicating the following, and I quote from his order.

It is apparent from the audio recording that all the council members present assented to the proposed settlement.

The court further goes on to say the court finds that the council intended to ratify the settlement agreements.

I can also let the public know what's already publicly out there is who was present in the room on October 4th, 2023.

That would be the mayor, Condon, Ardun, Grip, Jobden, Kelly, McGuinness, Orties, and Lee.

Well, I can't answer any further questions because I don't have knowledge and I've not ever been privy to any of those sessions or anything else, and I didn't sit here.

I would encourage those to ask those that sat in the room or those that sat on council at that time and knew the same.

I understand that the council part of part of the issue is that the council requires the public to refer to us as a whole, not individually, which I completely agree with.

Obviously, for the rules of decorum, that makes perfect sense.

But I know that at times to the public that can be confusing because they say the council.

And I wanted to make it unequivocally clear that I was not part of the council in 2023 when this happened, and there was four other members that were also not part at that time.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Rick Dunn.

Thank you, Your Honor.

For the non-attorneys in the room, could you give us the legal definition of the phrase assented to are you are you asking for someone to do that?

Why don't you ask?

Sure.

Sure.

Assent is defined by the Oxford dictionary as the expression of approval or agreement.

Okay.

Are you good?

I'm good.

Okay.

Anyone else before I go to someone?

Okay.

All McKelly, one more time.

Thank you.

And for assent to define y'all know that I voted no to begin with in the middle of it and at the end of it.

And I did sit there and no was the word.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Okay, we'll move on.

We have nothing on discussion tonight.

So is there a motion for approval of all items on consent?

So moved.

Second.

Motion second for all.

Approval wide is Mr.

Crowe, please call the rule.

Lynge.

Yes.

Rdun.

Yes.

Burkholder?

Yes.

Rein Arts?

Yes.

T Dunn?

Yes.

McGuinness?

Yes.

Kelly?

Yes.

Grip?

Yes.

Newton.

Yes.

And Drip Drive.

Yes.

And yes, is your honor?

Thank you.

Consents approved.

The next series other ordinances resolutions motions.

There are none for tonight.

Is there any public business?

That's the next one.

So name order address stopper here.

Love to know where you're from.

You have five minutes, nothing that was on the agenda.

Thank you very much.

Cheryl Shaina, third board.

And I'm on the letter Q, so I'm going to talk about qualified immunity.

Qualified immunity, I believe, is really intended for civil servants and or public officials, and like the police department.

And the uh the legalities have been a little skewed uh in trying to get coverage for people who may not uh actually be covered by uh qualified immunity, which is why we've gone as far as the Supreme Court already.

So I want to find out if legal department ever talked to council about continuing past and going to the third level of the Supreme Court for the appeal because we are paying for that, us taxpayers are paying for that.

They are hiring outside camps council to do all of this legal work and it is costing us taxpayers money.

You all represent us.

I want to know if anyone came to you and asked you all if we could keep moving forward on these appeals.

Um, because again, I don't even think, and based on it being denied twice, I don't think I'm wrong that they don't qualify for qualified immunity.

And based on what you said, not knowing what you were going to say.

I also want to read uh a document I did not write.

This was written in December of 2023, posted in 2024.

It says, in many ways, this post started on September 23rd, 2023.

It was the day I took this photo.

And there's a photo of some pills.

At that time, I thought it was the low point, but sometimes life leads you into a false sense of security about where the bottom really is.

And only hindsight can resolve it.

The remainder of the year would continue to fling me around until it's a whirl at the county fair.

Earlier that month on Thursday, September 7th, I became the public victim of workplace harassment.

The story the story would receive significant media coverage locally and subsquentially ripple through my work, my professional network farm wide.

I was the only employee to testify as a victim and made the choice so that others who were impacted could remain anonymous.

Some of them would lose their anon.

You know the word, A N-O-N-M-I-T-Y, through this series of organizational failures, but we'll get to that at another time.

I would spend the following days outlining and drafting a six-page letter detailing some, but not far from all of the workplace employment infringements, infringements that I had experienced over the past five over the past eight years.

Fair to say, if you had an HR bingo card filled with HR violations, I'd have hit bingo more than once.

The letter was submitted on Friday, September 15th.

And while I thought the past several months, months had crushed me, my physical, mental, and emotional health, the coming months would prove to continue to test me in ways that I hope you never experience.

As noted earlier, the photo was taken Wednesday, September 23rd.

In my former capacity, Wednesdays were the absolute worst.

If you want to understand why, feel free to watch public with business section of any city council meeting at said community between June 2023 and now.

Over the course of the next week, preceding the photo, I had seen more than a handful of medical professionals who were attempting to keep my body functioning and keep me upright in general.

Things were bleak.

As an adult, I had never needed a prescription outside of the occasional ZPAC, which sat up, so these that sat on my kitchen counter testified me.

Things terrified me.

Things would become occurred to me incredibly volatile the first week of October.

But that would reach my desired conclusion by the pro-offered deadline, or so I thought.

I signed my separation agreement on Friday, October 6th, with a mutual understanding that the details would not be released until mid-November.

I was able to tell my team I was leaving on Monday, November 13th, with the announcement being made publicly on Thursday, November 16th.

My last day in the office was to be November Friday, November 17th, with my personal effects safely stored at home that afternoon.

Things were planned to gradually wind down between then and January 2nd, 2024, which is supposed to be my last day as a city employee, as I transitioned out.

So you notice there's a gap in there.

Intentional gap of the dates.

And several of you were aware of that.

So I talked about legal liability on the L's.

You guys got bad advice from legal previous corporate counsel who told you this was okay, and you know that to be true.

It is not okay.

It was in the agreement to keep it quiet until mid-November.

In the agreement you signed to keep it quiet until mid-November.

Thank you, ma'am.

Next, please.

Let's lace fifth warrant.

I would say that the same thing that happened in uh 2023 is happening again now, as we are supposed to have a follow-up meeting.

Uh, but it's not occurring until election day.

So again, waiting until after the election to resolve an issue that should have been resolved months ago.

But I digress.

We all know the role of local government, what the role of local government is supposed to be is to serve everyone, not just the insiders, not just the loudest voices in power, not just the people who play along.

Government is supposed to reflect the will and well-being of the entire community, not a certain few.

But what we're seeing here isn't leadership, it's gatekeeping, it's politics that looks less like public service and more like a private club protecting its own.

For years I've been subjected to a sustained pattern of conduct that I must now name for what it is: psychological warfare.

A deliberate campaign to isolate me, discredit me, undermine my leadership, remove me from the work that I was hired and have succeeded to do.

And let's be clear.

This campaign has not been rooted in any legitimate concern or public need.

It's been rooted in power and the protection of certain people's comfort over the well-being of the communities that we serve.

And a refusal to accept that black leadership can be principled, independent and unapologetically focused on equity.

As Dr.

Bobby E.

Wright taught us, we are not simply dealing with individuals making poor decisions.

We are confronting a system that uses men to side as a tool.

For those who don't know, menticide is a systemic systematic destruction of people's minds.

It gaslights, it isolates, and silences those who resist.

It is violence, not of the body, but of the spirit.

And it is harassment nonetheless.

And it's being carried out right here in these in the halls of our own government.

The council, both in practice and posture, seems to have created two sets of rules.

One for the well-connected and one for everyone else.

Or as some have put it more plainly, it's black laws and white laws.

Instead of treating community input as a resource, some members treat it as a threat.

Especially when it comes from those who are marginalized, outspoken, or unwilling to grovel.

And this is not my perception.

One of the council members directly told me that I need to humble myself.

Um and then I would get along better with uh the city administrator.

Now let me speak plainly about what many in this room are afraid to name.

This campaign of interference has disrupted the ability to serve the community.

While I spent hours defending the right to uh perform my duties in accordance with the ordinance and state law uh and addressing problems that I didn't create, the people who have complaints pending in our office are left without services.

A lot of these people have no safety net.

These are people who depend on these services and they're paying the price.

And seemingly the council doesn't care that this is happening.

The message that's being sent to every other employee and community member of color is chilling.

You better know your place or we'll take it from you.

Let me be clear.

I will not be broken, and I certainly won't be silent.

This harm does not stop with me.

When you target a department head who serves on the front lines, you target the entire community that they represent.

Budget items are getting delayed, programs are derailed, trust gets shattered, and then residents suffer while there's this internal power game that's being played.

Instead of leading, you're shielding each other.

Instead of engaging the message, you attack the messenger.

Instead of fixing the problem, you punish people for pointing out the problem.

That's not public service.

That's political theater with bad actors and a captive audience.

But I've learned something through this.

If I weren't effective, no one would work this hard to silence me.

If I weren't making an impact, there would be no need to discredit me.

This is not a reaction to failure, it's a reaction to success.

And let me be clear when government officials use their positions to monitor private speech, intimidate critics or retaliate against dissent, that's not just unethical.

That's a constitutional violation.

You're not a private employer.

It's not protecting decorum when you silence people.

It's not respecting the process when you weaponize it to dodge accountability.

You say you want public participation, but only if people smile, nod, and say what you want to hear.

That's not democracy.

That's tall policing, and it's used to invalidate legitimate anger and derail real issues.

Because here's the truth.

If you address the substance of concerns being raised, you wouldn't need to silence the messenger.

The problem would already be solved.

Time and again, this body has chosen protection over progress, image over honesty, and silencing over listening.

That, my friends, is white supremacy operationalized through policy.

And let's be honest, this is not just unethical, it's a misuse of public authority.

And it exposes the city to legal risks, reputational damage, and a deep erosion of public trust.

It serves no policy objectives.

It serves no public problem.

It's senseless, vindictive, and fundamentally opposed to the values that the city claims to uphold.

To those in power, the truth has found its way into the light.

What you do next will define you.

You can't break what was built on purpose.

You can't silence who was born to speak, and you can't ensure a servant with the people.

Thank you, ma'am.

Is there anybody else?

Please, next.

Next, please.

Hello again, Brandy of Fitz Ward.

I wanted to tell you the medal of honor.

I've written a grand total of three letters to the editors in my life.

All three of them concerned the Medal of Honor, and all three of them were published in various newspapers and magazines that I wrote to.

The Medal of Honor is for military members who perform valor, uh intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty.

Extremely rare, right?

Extremely there may be one or two people on active duty that ever has one out of the millions of people.

My concern that I wrote to the editors were uh medals of honor being awarded for things like, well, tonight would be a good example.

I think a better way to uh honor these people and honor the medal of honor recipients from military service during combat operations.

I think it would be better to change awards like this to medal of valor and then fire fighting, medal of valor, police work.

But it really doesn't dishonor true military medal of honor recipients.

But for someone to say, yeah, I have a medal of honor, uh, that really means something, especially in the military.

I wanted to say that you guys awarded one of those, and I counted a total of 17 awards to the firefighters tonight.

And I don't mean to denigrate any of their service, because yeah, I'm glad that they saved lives instead of people losing their loved ones.

But uh, six years on active duty in the nuclear navy.

I never knew anybody below the rank of O3 lieutenant that ever had so much as a Navy commendation medal.

Nobody, and I only knew one of them.

That's a dealing with several thousand guys on active duty.

So I don't know, and my medals that I received, I always got them in my mailbox.

They just put them in there in the packet, slid them in.

But anyway, just something to think about.

Medal of Valor is a lot better name for what these guys are doing.

Okay.

Uh I can't talk about anything on the agenda, so I can't talk about the hazmat one up to 1.8 million.

Okay, I'll do that at the next meeting.

But uh as I was here last week, I was talking about uh, I suppose it's the public works department.

Uh after I spoke with you guys last week, uh the inspector the day before that, uh, had the day after uh Columbus Day.

The inspector out there told me she was going to reinspect on Friday.

I went out to the public's work on Friday and asked if I could set up an appointment when she came by.

She said, I can call you.

I said, no good.

She said any time before noon, I said, no good.

She said 11 a.m.

I said, good.

We had an appointment set up.

At nine o'clock on Friday morning, two hours before she was to come, her supervisor called me and said, She's not coming there.

I don't see what any good that would do.

I didn't say, well, I just woken up, so I didn't say, well, you know, it's you have a uh concerned citizen here that you guys have a problem with, you know, it could maybe resolve the problem and maintain some sort of, I don't know, good human relations between adults.

She didn't think so.

But uh Monday morning, first thing when I was woke up by the guy who was doing not my yard, but the next door neighbors by accident, right?

Of course, uh uh I tried to talk with the guy who was doing the work and telling him he was doing the wrong address.

I said, Who are you?

I don't have to, I don't have to answer any of that.

I said, Is there any contact information?

He said, Out there on that truck.

I looked and I couldn't see anything.

I walked all the way out there and had a little contact information name like this big up by the front fender on the driver's side.

And uh when I walked over to take a look at it, what's the first thing that guy said?

Back away from the vehicle.

Back away from the vehicle.

He thought I was a terrorist or something, right?

But he called his supervisor who drove by our house.

And I he wouldn't who he or she, I don't know, the windows are tennis, you couldn't see who it was.

But I was there, I'm like, look, he's doing he's doing the wrong yard, right?

When I talked to the guy, he said, I've already got my money made.

I'm like, ugh.

But anyway, yeah, that was on Monday.

On Monday, two days ago, I I left a message for uh mayor, the city administrator, uh, let's see who else.

The supervisor, or actually the owner, Mr.

McKinney came by.

After he drove around four times, I finally got him to stop.

I talked with him for about 15 minutes.

He agreed that there was a lot of problems with the uh city's new sense of abatement and whatever.

So anyway, I'm just pointing it out.

Thank you, sir.

Anyone else?

Journey, council folks that like to last comment, all of them.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to take a moment to recognize that the city of Davenport is blessed to have the highest caliber of police and fire department.

I don't honestly don't think we do enough recognition for the people, uh, men and women of both of those departments and what they do for our city.

And in my humble opinion, I think there is a term for those that were stood before us today.

Those that save lives are heroes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Alderman.

Um Alderman Rick Dunn.

I agree.

Anyone else?

I'm sorry, are you done?

Yeah.

Anyone else?

I'll just say, sir, happy to talk to you, sit down with you.

If you left a message, I don't know what I didn't get it.

I get every message.

Um, but I was in the military over 20 years, and we presented medals to the junior enlisted all the time, and and happy to talk with you about that.

But um what they did and what those folks did, we recognize tonight was out was outstanding, and they deserve everything they get.

And I'd back it up any in in a second, uh, eighty eighty times after this.

Anyone else?

Okay.

Uh we're gonna go into executive session, but uh next and I'll ask in a second, an older person move to go in executive session to discuss strategy with council matters involving litigation pursuant to Iowa Code section 21.5 and to discuss a real estate transition precedent to Iowa Code section 21.5.

Um is there a motion?

Okay, motion and a second to go in executive session before I have Mr.

Culk call the roll.

We will adjourn the meeting at the after the executive session.

We will not return to council chambers.

Mr.

Krupp, please call the role to go into executive session.

Kelly, yes, McGuinness, yes, Reinhardt?

Yes, Newton, yes, R done, yes, Burkholder, yes, Grip, yes, T Dunn, yes, Lynch, yes, and jump jump, yes, and yes, is your honor?

Very good.

We'll go to the execution.

I'll ask council to make their way, obviously restroom or whatever, but uh quickly get up there and uh thank you, and we will adjourn from up there.