So we'll adjourn the special meeting and call to order the regular meeting for Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 with the clerk please call the roll.

Council members Rayfield.

Here.

Roarbaugh.

Here.

Koslawski.

Here.

Leary.

Here.

And Aquino.

Here.

And if you'd all please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, Mr. City Attorney, any agenda updates?

None to none, now the mayor.

Okay, thank you.

That takes us to Business from the Floor.

This is the public's opportunity to address the council on items that are not on the agenda.

So if you'd like to speak to Business from the Floor or on any agenda item, please fill out a blue speaker card at the back of the room.

Hand it to the city manager over here at the end of the dais and the clerk will call you up at the appropriate time.

We do give everybody three minutes.

So if you can keep your comments short and sweet, that is much appreciated.

Madam clerk, do we have anybody who wants to speak from Business from the Floor?

You have two requests to speak this evening under Business from the Floor.

Our first speaker will be Michael Harris.

Come on down, Michael.

Michael will be followed by Bonnie London.

Landon.

Good evening, y'all.

Mayor, council.

You know, it's a blessing always to be here.

And I come with the best thing a man can have is women that are good friends.

And I think it was a no, I know it was Alexander Dumas.

He said men's minds are raised to the level of the women they associate with.

So I got two good ones with me today.

So the idea is that

as some of us historians know, this is like

this crazy time to celebrate the Civil War, 160 years of the Civil War.

And if you ever get a chance, you should like spend a little time on just one of the battlefields,

not one of the gory ones, because that might be too much for you.

But that was the path to get to Juneteenth was a bloody Civil War.

And this year is the 25th anniversary of celebrating public Juneteenths here in Fosal.

And it's a blessing.

It's a curse.

But it's something that

well, my great grandfather was in the military, my grandfather was in the military,

my father was in the military.

And I got the long straw and my two brothers, they didn't have to go because I went in the army.

And so Juneteenth is near and dear to my heart.

My grandpa's from Texas.

And I still know how to cook, you know, two day brisket slow and easy.

And it's real good.

So I'm going to leave these and

I'm not going to talk about the monkey in my back right now is the ongoing challenge with

state parks about what we're going to finally do with the 1840 to 1854.

You know, they spent millions of dollars to kind of like rewrite history

or figure out how to weigh to tell it without telling it.

So I'm going to leave that alone.

Y'all want to say anything today?

Say what you want to say.