All right, good evening, everyone.

We're going to call the May 7th special meeting of the Davis City Council to order.

I will note that it is 5 33.

Uh and four of my colleagues are here.

I'll make note that Vice Mayor Vitla uh will be here around 6 30.

Uh but he is not here for uh the first hour of this meeting.

A few um housekeeping items.

If you're able to find a seat, that would be great if you can if you can grab a seat.

If not, if you can just kind of line the sidewalls here and keep the the doors uh in the back clear, uh we're definitely appreciate that.

Um other than that, um everything else is is good to go.

Um so with that, I am going to entertain uh a motion to approve our agenda.

Second.

All right, we have a motion by Councilmember Arnold, second by Councilman Partita.

Any further questions, comments?

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

All right, we have an agenda.

Um, that's gonna move us on to agenda item number one.

Just um to kind of lay out how we're gonna work here.

We do have our ceremonial presentations that we're gonna uh work through here this evening.

Uh we'll go through um each uh ceremonial item.

Uh once that's complete, we will um take a brief recess and we'll meet in front of the podium here in front of the dais and invite anyone who had received award, their families to come down, have a picture with the city council with your family, however you want to move that forward.

But we'll take some time to do some photos up here in front uh with our with our city council.

Um, and then we will readjourn the meeting and we will go to our our public comment for that is specific to the agenda item that's here today, which are the ceremonial presentations.

Uh we'll then wrap up the meeting at 6 15 and invite uh everyone who is here out into our lobby into the uh the council room here off to the right.

Uh there's some light refreshments and things of that nature to hang out and catch up uh and talk with some of the folks who won awards here this evening.

Um we will then come back and start our regular meeting, city council meeting uh at 6 30.

Uh and that that will uh run the way our council meetings always run.

Um so with that, we are going to move into agenda item number one.

Um it is recognition for the Golden Hearts Award, the Tonghai Win Award, and environmental recognition awards.

So thank you here uh for joining us here this evening as we celebrate the recipients of the Golden Heart Award, the Tonghai Win Award, and the environmental recognition awards for the City of Davis.

Uh each year we are honored to recognize so many deserving individuals and organizations in our community uh who continually give back and show uh the the qualities of the folks who these awards uh are meant for.

Uh this evening we will start with recognition of the golden heart and then move to the Tonghai Win Award, and we'll end the evening with the environmental recognition award.

We invite each recipient to come up to the stage as we read your name.

You're welcome to say a few words.

And as I said before, there'll be some photo opportunities uh after the presentations are complete.

Uh statements that are read this evening by our council members uh will each move down the line uh and read statements, and please know that the statements that we are reading are excerpts from uh the nominations that came forward to us and written by the folks who nominated the recipients that are here this evening.

Uh so with that, we're gonna move to our first award, which is the Golden Heart Award.

The first Golden Heart Award was first uh presented in 1994 in memory of Andrew Muckis, who was killed by his peers in 1992.

After many community forums hosted by the Recreation Parts Commission, it was decided to create the Golden Heart Award to recognize outstanding youth in the Davis community.

There are two different categories within the Golden Heart Award.

The first category is the community service award, and the second is the personal challenge award.

The service award recognizes individuals who have given significant service to the community, their peers, and to their school.

The personal challenge award recognizes individuals who have overcome a significant challenge in their life.

I'd like to take a moment to thank the selection committee for reviewing and making recipient recommendations.

Uh the four folks who are on that committee, uh Joan Saley, who is a former recreation and park commission and former school board member.

Rick LaFleur, who is a current recreation and park commissioner, Kate Snow, uh Davis Joint Unified School District Climate Coordinator, and Matt Kelly, uh he works for the City of Davis in our community service department.

The selection committee would also like to acknowledge and commend all the youth for doing their best to navigate through additional stressors over the past couple of years.

Uh with that, uh I'm gonna turn to my council colleague, Councilmember Will Arnold, and he is going to present the Golden Heart Awards.

Will thank you, Josh.

Uh, it is our pleasure to acknowledge uh these Golden Heart Award recipients.

First, we'll be uh acknowledging two recipients in the community service category.

So please come up uh when I read your name.

Uh our first recipient is Sienna Calciano.

Sienna is a ninth grader at Harper Junior High and is being recognized for excellence in academics, athletics, and volunteering.

Sienna's volunteered more than 300 hours in various activities, including assisting children at summer camps, planting trees at school, raising money for sports uniforms, and helping new students adjust to middle school.

She is also active in Girl Scouts, where she recently received a silver award for her project to increase monarch butterfly habitats in Davis.

Congratulations and welcome Sienna.

The C of Davis for camps and Doris for being my advisor for Girl Scouts and Mr.