Good evening.

I call this work session of the Greenbelt City Council to order.

My name is Emmett Jordan.

I'm the mayor.

Kristen Weaver, Mayor Pro Temp.

Jenny Poppy, Council Member.

Frankie Santos for Frankie Santos Fritz, Council Member.

Daniel McKinney, Council

Member.

Amy Niesle, Councilmember.

It's the new city council.

So

before we get beginning are there any uh information items or discussion topics that we uh need to touch on uh for the end of the meeting?

I'll have two, Mr.

Mayor.

Okay.

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Uh work session, our first gathering since uh being sworn in just two days ago, and it seems like quite the whirlwind

uh

all the activities around Veterans Day yesterday.

So uh tonight it's an administrative meeting.

We've got a number of topics to uh consider.

Most of the topics listed on the agenda were submitted by uh City Manager Salmon.

uh work session or first gathering since uh being sworn in just two days ago and it seems like quite the whirlwind uh all the activities around veterans day yesterday so uh tonight it's an administrative meeting we've got a number of topics to uh consider uh most of the topics listed on the agenda were submitted by uh city manager salmon and uh yeah I think the uh the bulk of the uh session I think is actually going to focus on uh reviewing the uh council standing rules so that we can adopt them at a meeting in the near future perhaps even Monday uh we'll be talking a bit about uh the nature of these work sessions particularly the administrative work sessions and uh do some scheduling uh for the future but we need to talk about our legislative priorities and we also need to talk about the uh district 22 legislative uh priority and bond uh sharing meeting that's coming up uh soon so we'll also talk a bit about uh the council retreat coming up on uh it's scheduled for December the 6th we're going to have to shift that around because it's very important that we are are all there uh for that session so uh yeah we've got a lot on here so I I think those are the four areas that we will spend most of the time focusing on and depending on how things go we will either go into a closed session or maybe even just speak a little bit about uh this process with the uh city manager setting goals for the city manager uh briefly yeah Mr.

Salmarone

good

evening Mr.

Mayor good evening council uh good evening residents uh mr mayor you mentioned made a reference to the list this is the list of pending topics I had noted down that council had at one point uh said uh signal that wanted to discuss is not a comprehensive list there are other items that I have in a longer list that were not included on here but others were more administrative uh items and so I didn't want to overwhelm anyone by having a 20 point list

and with uh with a new member of council and with us all sort

of uh

thinking through some of the discussions that we had uh during uh our campaigning over the past few months I'm sure there's some other issues uh that we'll

uh

be able to uh deal with in the context of an administrative uh work session such as this so uh in the limited amount of time that we

have

uh let's go ahead and uh dive in and talk a bit about the uh standing rules yeah please mayor

I might make a suggestion that maybe we should talk about the the legislative priorities and the the bond bills and the things that are truly time sensitive because I think this is the only this is really the the best opportunity we have before we get to that legislative dinner on December 2nd so I would propose we start with that and then go to the standing rules because um I I'm not sure we're going to be ready to adopt the standing rules by Monday I think we maybe need to think about doing that after our retreat um because I think that'll give us some more opportunity to discuss things but we know that the the the the bond bills and the um the other things that we want to address at the district 22 dinner are fine sensitive

yeah that's true uh it's important that we do talk a bit about the uh standing rules as well uh given that we have well hold on hold on let me finish please let me finish so it is important that we uh spend some time talking about the rules just for orientation sake but uh yes and we really haven't gotten uh full presentation I know the city managers have actually been kind of working through what the agenda is going to be like December the second and given Thanksgiving

and

other time that we've uh blocked out

uh

for family time uh we as you said don't really have much time at

all

so