Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the special call meeting of Master City Council.

At this time, I would uh like to announce that we council has all signed a waiver for the special meeting, and we will give that to the city clerk's office uh for future reference.

And may I have the roll call, please.

Mayor Bartlett here.

Council President Robleski.

Here, Councilmember Beer.

Councilmember Goodson.

Councilmember McKay.

Here.

Councilmember Lessman.

Here.

Councilmember White.

Here.

Councilmember Jackson.

Here.

Very good.

We do have a quorum and we have one item on our agenda tonight.

And Ms.

Singerelli, you may sit if you prefer, or there you go.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

And uh you have a resolution for us to consider.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, I have one item for your consideration.

Can you hear me okay?

Yes.

It's resolution 2026 332 R.

This resolution authorizes the city to participate in the one-time lump sum payment for eligible retirees and beneficiaries pursuant to an act of the legislature that they passed this year.

And if you all approve this, the city will contribute 42,446 dollars via an increase to the contribution rate for the fiscal year after next of 0.16%.

And the retirees will receive a one-time lump sum payment this October for one dollar for each month of service that they had for the city.

Very good.

Thank you.

And I believe Mr.

Long is going to um walk us through how we've done this.

Am I he looks surprised?

Maybe he's not.

That um you were gonna share with us that we this is something we have done before in support of our uh greatest uh treasurer who are our employees and past employees.

Yes,

Ms.

President.

Uh my understanding from the records we've gathered is this is done by the city.

The most recent times is 2022, um, two thousand, I'm sorry, two thousand two, two thousand five, two thousand six, two thousand

uh

seven, two thousand eight, two thousand fifteen, two thousand seven, and two thousand twenty-two.

And from what we've gathered is that it's not eligible every year, and the city hasn't done it every year.

So it's done at years, I guess when it had availability or when this the um city employees got a COA.

Yes, sir, very good.

So um we'll begin first with a motion and a second, and then we'll go into discussion.

I

move that we authorize the participation in the one-time lump sum payment for eligible city retirees and beneficiaries of deceased retirees pursuant to act 2026-608.

Second, thank you.

I have a motion and a second, and now we'll have a discussion.

And and I just want to I'll just start by saying thank you to our legal and finance department um for giving us the opportunity to do this to uh help support our employees retired, uh still a valuable resource, and we appreciated their service, and we uh hope to continue to provide for them as best we can

um I have a few questions um and I'm not sure to whom to direct them.

Um the first is what's the benefit to the city currently or moving forward?

You know, I appreciate the retirees and their service to the city.

But

I'd like some clarification on

that a