I'd like to call to order the uh August 4th 2025 session of the City of Elgin Planning and Zoning Commission.

Look to staff to please call the roll.

Present.

Commissioner Jones.

Here.

Commissioner Valdez.

Present.

Commissioner Wildermouth?

Yeah.

And Chairman Cox.

Present.

We have core.

Excellent.

Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our July 7th session.

Is there any comments or corrections?

Hearing none, the chair will entertain a motion.

Move to approve.

Thank you.

I'll second it.

Staff please call the roll.

Commissioner Jones?

Yes.

Commissioner Valdez.

Yes.

Commissioner Abuali.

Yes.

Commissioner Wildermouth?

Yes.

And Chairman Cox.

Yes.

Minutes are approved, five to zero.

Great.

Well, thanks everyone for hanging with us as we do a little bit of housekeeping and get the meeting started off right and get things orderly.

Appreciate that patience there.

Now is the opportunity for me to welcome all of you here tonight.

So I appreciate that.

We are already to August.

I can't believe it.

We're we're you know over the hump for the year.

Um but it's good we still have uh business on the agenda.

We've got three that we're gonna hear about tonight.

Um but the biggest thing that I wanted to discuss since we do have so many new faces is just kind of uh an overview of the commission and and how we work.

We are a recommending body to city council.

So everything that we hear tonight, all the discussions we have, the questions we have all feed into that process.

Uh some of you, if you're the petitioner team, maybe already working with city staff.

You've kind of been briefed on a lot of this as you develop your packet.

For those of you here tonight to comment or ask questions on the petitions.

Um it's important to know that we open and close the public hearing portion of each of these petitions.

We've got questions or comments.

Got to come on up to the lectern and and um and weigh in.

That's uh important part of the process, and we as a commission very much take to heart what we hear as part of our decision making process.

Um with these petitions, um, which again we we start with uh city staff, they'll go through their staff report.

We have it um you know uh emailed to us and it's posted on the city website as well.

But staff will go through the highlight of their report.

Uh we as a commission will ask questions if we have any, then we uh bring the petitioner on up to the lectern.

And if you're here from that team, that's your time to shine.

Uh tell us your thoughts, uh, highlight anything that um you'd like to um bring up the city staff may or may not have, or you if there's additional information, we love to hear that.

If you're again on that petitioner team, that's the time that we as a commission will ask questions of you.

Uh once that's done, you can take your seat and we open the petition up to public comment.

So if you're if you're here again, that's your that's your time to come on up and and uh to tell us your thoughts.