All right, so we'll call uh committee of the whole to order.

Um, all right, so committee of the whole, we'll call committee of the whole to order.

Um, the only we have two items on the agenda.

The first is the approval of the minutes of the December fifth committee of the whole meeting.

I'll move to approve those without the necessity of a reading.

Motion's been made and seconded.

Any discussion?

Hearing none, all those in favor?

Aye, and that motion passes.

Okay, the other thing we have is a resolution uh to take effect immediately.

This is to appoint a member of the community to the ward for seat for the remainder of the four-year term ending December thirty first, twenty twenty-seven.

Uh, this is our council colleague Cindy Marks uh resigned effective at the end of twenty twenty-five, so the person appointed to this ward four seat would fill the rest of that four-year term.

Um we do have we received, we put out a call for applicants to the public.

So before we proceed, any comments on that process.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Um, so I will move to enter executive session for that purpose.

Second.

Motion's been made and seconded.

And I do need a roll call.

Thank you.

Everyone remembers but me.

Okay.

Um, so I'll go ahead and do that.

Evans?

Yes.

Baker.

Yes.

Woollock.

Yes.

Streebig.

Yes.

Hamilton Steiner.

Yes.

All right.

We'll head to the conference room and I will include Dr.

Vargo and Council staff in that motion.

I know.

So we've exited executive session.

And um so with that, I will um move to ask the clerks to schedule let's still go ahead and say thirty minute interviews with the following candidates Jason Frederick, Matt Vixenstein, AJ Pixie Mallow, and Sidney Lighter Canada.

Okay.

Okay.

So and I'll just say in terms of discussion on that, um, we really appreciate everyone who took the time to put their name forward and submit materials.

Uh, we are very fortunate in Lakewood to have uh a number of a lot of engaged folks who are willing to serve the community.

So we thank everyone who took time to do that.

Any further discussion on the motion?

Hearing none, all those in favor?

Aye.

And that motion passes.

Um okay, we do have a few minutes left.

Um that objection, I thought we could take a little bit of time to discuss our um upcoming uh schedule for the city hall space considerations.

Uh so on the docket tonight, um, and we have in committee of the whole, we have some things referred up that has been going on with this the city hall space considerations.

Um on the docket tonight, there's communications for both me and Mayor George with the updated schedule.

In that original communication, I encourage council members to be thinking about questions that you would need the administration to answer in order to make an informed decision.

So I thought if we we have a few minutes left tonight, this might be a good opportunity for us to kind of discuss that um a little more as a group of if folks have those in mind of some things that and I realize I'm throwing this at you without this being um, but I thought since we have that time, we could maybe talk about that a little bit.

So with that, um is anyone have anything top of mind in terms of so just clarification if you haven't seen that communication, we did change things around a little bit so that because the bond council was not available the date we originally had them scheduled, so they are scheduled for um the same night that the the administration is scheduled to present their um argument for using the Warren Road building as the solution, and then also have the bonds council to talk to us about uh debt load capacity and and the proposed bonds legislation.

And then we have would have two additional weeks uh to continue those discussions and deliberations.

So with that, um does anyone have top of mind things that you want to make sure are covered in that administration uh presentation?

Councilman Bolt.