All right, and we will get right into it for committee of the whole.

And Mr.

Wagensinger is ready.

All yours.

All right.

So I have before you today a resolution requesting authorization for the mayor to enter into an electric supply agreement.

This is exactly what we brought forward last August, August 25th agenda.

This is for the 67 city electric accounts.

We work through part of the Omnia Partners Consortium.

We work with tradition energy, is uh you can think of as a like a broker.

Um they provide us updates on the market the um throughout the year as well.

Um but we engage them when it's time for our new rate uh to go out to the market for us for new rates.

Um so our agreements start uh our rates start changing around December 6th.

So what we want to do is make sure we get out in front of that.

So we are ready to let's just say over the next hundred days, if the market turns favorable, we are ready to get into a favorable, favorable rate.

Um so we I'm not anticipating much of a change over where we currently are.

Uh we're around just below 7.1 cents.

I would anticipate we're gonna be somewhere around there as well, and that is for 100% renewable, 4.2 million kilowatts.

Uh it'll probably go up a tick uh because of 825, but we're also lowering uh on a this inefficient building as well, uh, some of that usage.

So we are going to just like with the last year, we will go out and we will get 100% renewable, and we will get the brown energy or traditional energy rates to compare.

Um, as long as it is uh, you know, uh let's just say cost conceivable, uh we will continue to push for that 100% renewable.

Last year we projected about an 11,000 dollar variance, uh came in around about 9400.

So I would anticipate probably around that as well to continue to uh go with 100% renewable.

Um so once we get that locked in, the mayor will enter an agreement, just like last year.

We will then provide a copy of that agreement to council uh once it's finalized and gets through the legal review as well.

All right.

Any questions for you?

Any questions or discussion?

All right, are we all right with this one on consent agenda would be the eighth.

All right, thank you very much.

Up next, we have items from engineering and director Naragi.

Welcome.

Thank you so much.

So I want to take this opportunity to just give you guys a little background about myself.

I really appreciate that.

I want to share that uh about what actually has shaped my approach to the public service.

I used to be a research scientist at Iowa State University, and I was thinking that we can do better of uh approaching uh proactively to reduce crashes and severity of crashes rather than proactively.

So I was doing a lot of research, developing a lot of models, and was believing that I have the approach that can make changes and have some impacts.

So for that reason, when the opportunity came up that Iowa Department of Transportation, I just joined the just the DOT to the own my only purpose was going there to be able to apply what I have been working on.

When I went there, I was doing that, and then I realized that I am in the position that I can have some impact on people's lives.

I can make a difference.

So that was different.

I didn't have that intention going to the public service, but that happened to me.

I was really enjoying that.

I said I am in the position that can make people's lives better through data, through data-driven decisions.

So I realized that engineering is not just you know solving technical questions, developing some of the you know uh procedures and stuff, is mainly working with community and letting them know how we can impact their lives to have a safer and more uh kind of stronger communities.

So we with that introduction, I just wanted to say what brought me to the public service.

And I see that as a public servant, we are kind of privileged to be in this position that we are able to help public and changing their lives for better.

And what brought me to Gehana was probably something which I may not 100% know why I am here, but definitely the destiny brought me to Gehana, which follow what I had believed in that I can do for the community.

So with that, I have two items for tonight.

And the two items, both of them are kind of associated with the grant funding, two resolutions authorizing the mayor to prepare and submit a grant application.

Like for the first one, uh, which is associated with the urban repaving of Hamilton Road.

Early this year, uh City of Kehana applied for the Department of Transportation for the urban uh paving program, TR2602, to secure some funding for portion of the Hamilton Road.

Uh the city has been awarded that uh funding, uh partial funding to repay two sections of initially was one section uh up to the 270, and then uh with the additional granting uh going to uh uh Gramble and uh Haven's corners, so about 1.1 miles.

So with that, uh the administration is trying to submit additional funding because this what we got from DOT is partial uh kind of uh funding.

So we want to make sure we have additional funding for uh to cover for the city portion of that project.

So we are intending to go to the uh Ohio Public Works Commission and the capital and local transportation improvement programs.

This is part of the uh Morpsi kind of uh administrating this grant.

So with that, uh this requires the authorizing of the legislation passed by the governing body for applying the agency for approved the submission of the financial assistance for for the formality the administration is respectfully requesting a resolution to serve as the authorizing legislation to seek funding for the Hamilton Road Urban Paving Project TR26-2 to the OPWC state capital and local transportation improvement programs.

Thank you.