To the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which stands.

One nation, another goal with liberty and for all.

This is our first meeting of the month of April.

No fooling.

That's the last one, I promise.

We have a fairly brief but important agenda tonight.

We got uh uh recognition of a longtime employee uh uh moving on to retirement.

Uh so we'll uh recognize Angie Ellison and her years of service to the city of Egan.

Uh great to see you here tonight.

Uh and then we'll have a couple of uh variances and uh and then we'll get you back out into the really uh horrible weather.

So um if we can extend the meeting a little bit and keep you a little warmer, uh we might try, but I can't guarantee anything.

Uh with that, Ms.

Miller, are there any changes to the agenda?

No, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh council changes the agenda.

No, sir.

I'll take a motion.

Motion to adopt the agenda as presented.

Second.

That's moved and seconded.

Any further discussion on the agenda?

Seeing none.

Motion's made and seconded.

Alan Ferris is going to say I oppose nay.

That motion carries, and we have an agenda.

Uh we'll move right to the aforementioned recognition uh of uh the retirement of engineering technician and street uh in in streets, Angie Ellison.

Uh she has served the city of Egan for I want to get this right here, 26 years uh as um in our uh public works department.

Uh the Maven of the street measurements, uh I think is probably the book.

Well stated, sir.

Um but I will uh with that I'm gonna turn it over to Russ uh Mathis, our director of public works to uh further recognize Angie and her service to our community.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council and audience and special guests that are here tonight, uh most special guests, uh Angie Ellison herself.

So um thank you for uh the comments, and I'm gonna add a few more to that.

So you have to stand up here and bear them.

Um Jeff wrote most of them, I'll be honest with you.

I'll blame him.

But so tonight, on behalf of the entire public works department, we want our honored to recognize Angie for her extraordinary 26 years of service to the city of Egan as an engineering tech, most of that as an engineering tech for the city of Egan.

Um as Angie prepares to spend her final day working on May 1st, even though officially retiring on June 20th, uh, we want to reflect and recognize uh the significant impact that Angie has had on the Egan community on our infrastructure, and on the countless pavement cracks that she has counted throughout her career.

We estimate, so get this.

We didn't if they were countless, how is she counting?

Well we'll give you uh we'll give you a rough idea.

Um we're we're uh hard in the effort of creating the CIP, so staff was a little busy to get the crack number, but over 3,120 miles of streets.

Angie's walked and evaluated those streets over 26 years.

So she started with the city of Egan back in the last century, 1999 and January 4th.

Some of us all and she's not the only one up here uh that did that.

And she actually started as a clerical tech three at our central maintenance facility, and then uh the eve of Y2K on New Year's Eve, she actually chose to uh apply for an engineering tech position in our streets uh division, and she was selected gladly.

Uh we're gladly that she accepted that role.

Um so that was in early 2000.

So prior to her time with Egan, she actually worked for a couple departments for the state of Montana for the um uh revenue departments and transportation departments for a combined nine years.

And then while she was here at the city of Egan, she completed her coursework in 2010 to receive a bachelor's of university studies degree from Dickinson State University.

So she didn't stop, you know, when she when she got the jobs here at Egan, she just kept working on her education.

So throughout her career, Angie has been the backbone of Egan's very successful pavement management program, collecting and evaluating data that is critical to guiding our capital improvement plan process, her commitment to excellence, attention to detail, and dil diligent work ethic have maintained the high quality of streets that we all enjoy today.

Whether overseeing cracks, sealing, seal coding or pavement marking, uh rating and collecting the pavement data, uh, or troubleshooting street light issues as well.

Angie has been a cornerstone of our public works team.

In every single project, Angie has demonstrated a rare blend of technical expertise and problem solving while being the ultimate teammate.

She consistently went above and beyond to deliver results that not only met but exceeded expectations.

And while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and integrity throughout her efforts, regardless of the situation, Angie always had always provided a calmness and comforted others by the rest of us knowing that she had things totally under control.

So right?