All right, good evening.

I would like to call this city council special meeting to order for Wednesday, October 7th, 2026.

We'll have a moment of silence.

All right, thank you.

Please rise as Alder Woman Brookholder will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

So the Republic for which it stands one nation under God.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

All

right, thank you.

Brian, can you call the roll, please?

Burke Holder.

Job Jen?

Here.

Blank.

Here.

Newton.

Here.

Grip.

Here.

Lean in.

Present.

Followway.

Present.

Vasquez.

Here.

And Rdun.

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done.

Okay.

Present, Your Honor.

All right.

Thank you.

We have one item on the agenda this evening.

It's a uh resolution approving the appointment to fill the vacancy in the second ward city council seat.

Uh

well, alder person move this resolution.

All

right, motion and a second.

Uh and before I open it up to discussion from council members, I wanted to lead off with my comments.

Um first, I just want to say I was extremely excited with the quality and also the quantity of candidates we got.

We got six folks that uh threw their their name into the ring.

Um all very impressive.

Um I could see myself working with any of them.

I don't want to speak for council, but I I know that that several of them feel pretty good about the candidate pool as

well.

Um I think specifically what we're looking for in the second ward, uh, in my opinion, and council can weigh in as well on this, is someone with the ability to hit the ground running as quickly as possible to provide representation to the second ward, and someone who can immediately step in and provide that representation to the second ward.

Um, and and another way to say that is um one of the things I wanted to identify as the person uh that had the least steep learning curve from my perspective, just based on their experience, who could um start to very quickly navigate the workings of city government, um understanding how to um kind of receive um concerns or complaints from citizens, get them to the right place to the right staff people to handle and get responses back.

Um, and I believe to me that candidate uh or applicant I should say that submitted their information is Bob Ingram, um, 30 plus years on P and Z, five years as the chair, in addition to his very strong just overall resume in terms of his um professional experience.

I think, in my opinion, Bob provides uh the um immediate or almost near immediate ability to hit the ground running and provide quick representation to the second ward residents who have been without representation now for a couple of weeks.

So those are my comments.

I'm uh certainly willing to entertain other thoughts from council members.

And I see Alderman Blunk.

Um, you have your mic on.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

I was just wanting to say too, thank you for uh those in attendance tonight.

Everyone for uh seeking this seat, your willingness to serve our community.

I will say too uh your resumes, uh amazing, uh certainly a lot more impressive than mine.

And um I've spoken with all of you on the phone the last couple of days, and I was uh really impressed by your pride of the second war that you have, how much you enjoy your neighborhoods and your desire to serve uh to make to desire to move the city forward, and I could hear it in your voices when I talk to you, and I really appreciated that.

And regardless of whatever happens this evening, uh hopefully you certainly stay involved with perhaps you know, seeking a position on our council on our council, certainly, but on uh city commission or on our committee that we have.

And again, I want to thank