And then on schedule appearance, we have two citizens and a special third citizen.

Uh Councilman Walker is gonna have signed up.

Two minutes.

Should he get his full five minutes?

Two minutes.

I could change what I'm gonna say if it'd be hard to get me off.

The uh next two items are on consent.

Any objection to those two?

No objection.

Blanched Crestview Herbert Street.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, as of today, the applicant has submitted a new stipulation letter, and those have been passed out at each one of your seats.

Uh just to point out there are two changes resulting from that stipulation letter.

Um, one of which is that the applicant has agreed that the on street parallel parking uh would be located on private property and controlled by the HOA.

And then the other stipulation um was to add a variance to reduce the minimum center line radius of a hundred feet for a road.

That was identified by staff late last week as a part of the zoning code, and they have incorporated it uh into the stipulation letter as well.

You know this won't be part of the debate, but there was another sticking point about where the one of the roads came out, but is it right?

Is it Matthew Circle?

That uh Matthew Circle, but I think uh the um it's it's um uh think I've learned that uh learned from talking with staff that there's a stream there that's causing some causing some things, and there's uh some stuff.

And uh uh right now the the two options they theoretically have is either coming out across from Matthews or across from Goldie.

Because I'm not sure they can get over to Blanche right now without uh some kind of state variance right now.

Is that correct?

Because of the work because of the creek.

Uh that may be correct.

I can confirm that between now and the next meeting.

You have a comment, Kevin.

Uh what Mr.

Goldsham is referring to, if they move the entrance over, they will be encroaching, could be possibly encroaching into the state buffer on the creek.

Um you cannot have a road running parallel to the straight buffer.

Um state does not allow that.

Uh you can have a perpendicular crossing of the creek, which is fine with a proper permitting, but you cannot have a parallel um running of the road into the state buffer.

So there's no way with the current layout at least with them accomplishing that without doing some other work.

So that's what Mr.

Goldstein is referring to.

Yeah, the only the only two right-of-ways that it touches on that area would be Goldie and then somewhat across from Matthews, as of unless unless some other property is acquired or something like that.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

My understanding is consistent with Mr.

Rice's understanding questions.

And the uh was there any uh any other staff any other things that staff might have noticed from the review of the site plan?

The only other issue that we um I've identified with the current site plan that's been submitted there.

The um the alleyways access points are behind some of those units.

Um we are we will not be able to get our trash trucks through there, they're just not wide enough for us to be able to get through those roads.

So those units will have to bring their sanitation or roll carts out to the street, either at the end of the units or into the front of the units.

So just as a point of notice for all of you, so everyone understands that that's how we'll have to service those particular units for sanitation.

So um we we can it's just not safe for us to be running our big trucks up through there, so we'll have to get them out to the street.

I've talked to Mr.

Moore about that, and he's he's okay with that understanding.

Is that all four of the alleys or just yes, ma'am?

Oh, he's saying two.

Well, there are two the 16 footers is our primary concern.

So I think the 20 footers gives us enough 20 foot gives us enough room now with the uh additional length of driveways.

We can should be able to make that work, but the 16 footers there's just no way I can get a truck up through there safely.

Okay, thank you.

It's germane this, but then again, it's more general.

The you know the neighbor you're talking about still the noise from 75, and are we maxed out about the noise barriers that we have along in the mayor section?

Uh those particular nose noise barriers uh would be we'd have to get G DOT to install those since it's along the state route.

Um there is a process involved in obtaining that approval and getting that installation.

Um they would they it's a process or engineering study to meet certain noise qualification levels.

Uh I can't stand before you to say that it would meet that criteria at this point, but we'd have to go through GDOT uh to see if they would go through that process or not.

Mr.

Mr.

Mayor, based off regardless of what happens tonight on the zoning, not tonight or whatever with the zoning, this particular project.

It might be a good idea just to start taking a look at that for that area since we've we've heard about noise concerns on from the neighbors here, regardless of the project to start taking a look, see if that might meet.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

Actually made it clear what I was asking.

I mean that you know, as we do more fill in as we convert properties to residential, I mean we might have to look at it further down along, not just for this area, but you know, all the way up to Canton Road.

Well we'll be happy to start having that conversation with GDOT, knowing that they're not the fastest on moving.

Do they construct it and we pay for it or do they construct it and pay for it?

It could be either one.

It depends on which engineer at GDOP looks at it.

So it could be either one.

The the previous the ones we have currently, they actually did a survey as was being said, uh, and then they asked the property owners along that stretch uh if they wanted it or not.

Most said yes, and so then GDOT paid for it.

That's when they were doing the uh the new lanes that when they were putting those in.

Okay, Chief.

Uh Milligan, is fire okay on those streets?

Thank you.

Yeah, and just make sure it'd be ready for a question or two on the noise during the during the hearing on that.

Because I know that that was that was a major talking point from lat from the last hearing, so I just want to make sure we're that's been thought through as well since last month, too.

Okay.

You're gonna have a pretty big buffer there anyway.

What what is it?

20, 25, there's a creak there, I think that they have to.

The undisturbed buffer from 75 at its minimum is over a hundred feet, and at its maximum it gets to 350 feet.

Good gosh.

Along 75.

Yeah.

And for most of it, it's over 200 feet.

That's incredible.

And did you take a look at the information I asked about the billboards and ready for that question?

Ready for that for the answer that later?

Yes.

I can answer.

Yeah, I I have an answer for you.

Yes.

Thank you.

I'll ask that at the appropriate probably during the hearing.

All right, sir.

Anything else for this session session?

Thank you.

515 car parkway.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Uh, likewise, on this uh case, we have also received a letter of stipulation um from the representative, Mr.

Parks Huff.

Um, as you can see, if it's uh in front of you and hopefully that it is, uh it really seeks to describe what they are uh would be intending to do in the front to improve the front entranceway.

Um and so it says there there would be a fence that would be opaque instead of the existing chain link fence, and then it has some landscaping provisions as well.

Um but beyond that, that is the only change um since the last time you would have been able to review the packets.

Um do you need to hold off until the hearing?

Yeah, if it's general time, I mean just have we had any issues with any particular types of opaque fences or any type of landscaping that we need to be keeping our eye out for as part of this, or is that this pretty well covers what our normal concerns are?

Uh I think it pretty well covers what our normal concerns are.

Correct.

We show several options.

Just wanted to just wanted to make sure that we weren't having anything else.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you.

Hearing none that two items for denial claim are to leave those on consent.

No objection.

Please.

Page five.

The first four items are on consent.

Any objection to those first four?

No objection.

First three.

First three four.

First three.

It's okay.

Oh three, okay.

I'm with y'all.

Any comments on this one?

Yes, sir.

We do have a pretty significant change on this.

Um as you'll recall on Monday, the issue is that the sidewalk was not going to um really go across the entire roadway, but was going to stop in between.

They have since resubmitted a new final plat that shows sidewalk around the entirety of Arborcroft Court.

And um it's as you can see up on the screen now, so it has been revised to go back to the state that it was in initially.

And the mail kiosk goes back out of the right-of-way.

That's correct.

The mail kiosk is out of the right-of-way.

Thank you.

And then there was another change that we mentioned kind of vaguely about an easement.

That has also been resolved as well.

So in that case, may I ask one quick question then, Mr.

Mayor?

Yes, sir.

In that case, all issues that staff has had with this have been resolved, polls done, easements done, sidewalks done.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Thank you to everybody.

Yes.

That's a good way to handle it.

Yeah.

So no objection to consent.

Consent.

Any objection for consent?

Nope.

Nope.

No objection on me.

Is that writing in our package though?

Danny, what you show it is.

Do you have that record?

Do you have the new drawing in the package?

Yes, sir.

We were able to get it by the time the packet went out yesterday.

Okay, I missed it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

So it is on consent as with with the resubmitted.

Next item is a city council meeting dates.

We're listed burden by having council with with family, so April the 6th through the 8th is the conflict is not through out April the 2nd for the rejection.

I don't think the B.O.W.

needs to be changed.

I mean the one problem with April 2nd, though, is that the two Passover Saters is April 1st and April 2nd, and that hits both evenings for those two days.

Now they're going that whole week.

Oh, I mess sent it to everybody too, of course.

Um the ninth is the third.

Okay, is it during spring break?

Yeah.

Okay, it's a whole week.

But we have two meetings on now, right?

The eighth, the six, and the eighth.

And they're gonna be gone those.

Yeah.

Oh question.

Just no just notice something.

In April, the committee meeting is not 15 days before.

It's actually you'd actually have it out at 22 days before the council meeting.

Should the committee meeting in April be the 28 the uh 28th instead of the 21st?

And on top of that, wouldn't that allow for possibly a week later move on some of these?

So it gets us off that spring break week and still allows you the same amount of time for a department head meeting?

You yes, you could move it instead of the six and the eighth to the thirteenth and the fifteenth, and then we could move the committees to the twenty-eighth.

And the twenty-eighth is what the charter would normally call for, I think, since the kit the win the uh that's fifteen days before May 13th, right?

Yeah, it has to be at least 15 right before so yeah, but but that would work if you wanted to try that.

Basically, all the meetings in April.

Just shift it one week later.

Um the still keeps the committee meetings at least 15 days before the council meeting.

So we're still good on all of our buffers for the meetings.

And it allows the department to head meeting to still happen a week before the committee meeting.

We can have it all prepared.

That's not a problem from the staff side.

The 13th and the 15th.

Yes, sir.

Then sure when I maybe go down and live and say the BOW could meet on the 13th.

13th, that would be fine.

I'm sure our board would go along with us.

That sound good, Joshua?

Okay.

Would we want to put it on consent?

Consent.

What's the change?

Uh to everybody else.

I don't have any whatever y'all want to do.

In school.

April 15th to be two deadlines that day.

Yeah, taxes.

So that's on consent.

Yep.

The new counter.

The next three items are on.

Page six or own consent.

On page seven, the first two items, Washington Avenue and McDonald Street are on consent.

And then Mark, this is your that 2500.

Uh the Briar Pond way, Mr.

Mayor's public hearing, and we don't have any new information, so we'll be ready at 7 o'clock for the public hearing.

Next to your own consent.

I like to leave those two on consent.

Objection.

Yep.

First item will page eight is on consent.

How are you leaving on consent?

Yeah.

No objection.

Objection.

Next item is how do you address a disagreement on the bill?

I will say that I had a very good conversation with Mr.

Blackwell.

And we went through the numbers.

And we also looked at pre-22, their gallons per day has markedly decreased since then because of losing Paulding County.

Paul County is slowly coming off, so they have they have less gallons per day sold.

And the 5% after looking at the consumer index on maintenance and repair for water systems and sewers makes plenty of sense now.

It's 4.6 increase by the consumer index.

And their 5% does make sense.

We left no stone unturned in discussing how they got to that number.

So I feel, and I told him 5% is the number they came up with, and we don't get to change that.

But I want it to be capable of explaining that to anybody who said why did they have to go up 5%?

And I feel like that now I could do.

And he will be there, I think tomorrow at the legislative update.

Who were you speaking with?

Cole Blackwell.

Cole Blackwell.

And just absolutely, I mean, answer the phone.

Absolutely easy to talk to and didn't rush me off the phone, just any question I had, he answered.

Can I get his number from I can send that to you?

I want to get clarity on the uh pointless system.

On the irrigation, yeah.

So yeah.

Really easy to talk to, so definitely do that, and I'll send you his number right now.

I can do so.

No, that removes my issue, and I'm good with consent.

Oh good.

Five percent for water.

None for electricity and for sewer rights.

Yes.

Better than twelve percent than two or three years ago.

Yeah.

That's now consum.

We don't have a rainbow.

No, we do not.

Some of us do.

Um figure that one out yet, so go see for I make an announcement.

That's Mr.

Bruton.

Finish the time out.

You probably introduce Mr.

Britain.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I would like to introduce everyone to our 2025 Marietta Citizen of the Year City Manager Bill Bruton of the City of Marietta.

I can't believe we don't have like a banner that pops out.

Kelly, where are you?

Um we we need the next time we introduce, hit a button, have a banner pop out, a little confetti.

We can get that arranged.

You gave I'm glad my wife went there because you gave all your credit to your one, so I want to make sure she wanted to hear, so that definitely uh she deserves the credit both of our day too, so that's the dynamite puts excuses outstanding.

Dynamite family.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Well deserved.

Okay, uh, we do have some uh updates that we would like to give.

Uh wanna start off with our um videos that we have.

Uh if we have them up there, if we don't, I'll go to somebody else real quick.

You got it?

Okay.

Um we've got four that we wanted to go through.

Um I think the first one is that let's go through the um go for the light up the holidays.

Are you a clerk W Grismond?

Joy to the world.

Marietta's light up the holidays is an interactive story map application which enables citizens to submit their home or business life decorations to share with the rest of the Marietta community.

Don't be a grinch this holiday season.

Submit your light display to Marietta's light up the holidays and show the neighborhood that you're the best light display on the block.

Then we've got uh if you've seen our innovators uh that we've been doing every month, uh, and so this time we have the GIS fire collaboration.

So earlier in the year, a couple city councilmen approached us and asked what the certain density of calls or certain types of incidents was within areas of their wards, and there wasn't a good way for us to pull that information out quickly and show it to them in a way that really made sense and painted the picture the way we wanted.

So we approached GIS and we were able to take our incident data and overlay it with a map to paint a really clear picture.

Once Assistant Chief Garner came to me with the need to show fire response data visually.

I saw it as a great opportunity to be innovative with the power of our GIS technology.

We put our heads together to be creative and developing a custom dashboard to view the city in a dynamic and interactive format.

Now, using this dashboard, our fire department is able to sort things such as fire districts, call nature, and property or incident types in any combination and in any time frame.

We had the know-how and the applications already within the city to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish.

So it was just a matter of reaching out to our IT department and GIS to help us really craft this dashboard that's continuing to evolve to help us make strategic decisions down the road.

Recently, in a meeting with other organizations, we were comparing data.

They were impressed with the speed at which we could gather information in territories along interstates and call volume in certain areas.

Once we started breaking down how we received that data, we were explaining to them our GIS department developed a dashboard for us along with our live data.

The new dashboard is faster and more accurate than the data we were previously receiving.

Because of the data sharing, other organizations have reached out to our GIS to develop a similar dashboard to display their data more effectively.

Let's speak with our parks and recreation department to find out more details on what's happening and why it matters.

Behind me you can see the infrastructure going in.

All will be in this area over here where you see the uh multitude of stakes.

During the process of the initial clearing and uh and grading, well, we actually uh brought in some goats as well to clear some of our brush areas that were very difficult to get to.

We've used the goats before.

With these renovations, Larry Seminski Park is going to be even a better space for the community to enjoy.

Thank you.

Uh and yeah, that's a great one for us.

And uh let me see if we have any updates from that video.

Um, Mr.

Black, uh actually uh Eric is the acting parks rec and facilities director, and if you could give an update on uh where we actually are now uh since that video was filmed.

Well, good evening.

Uh so uh we've poured uh in the last week or so we've we've uh uh almost finished the loop trail around there, so the Congress board uh we've also started pouring the uh the base area for the for the restroom.

Um at this point the uh playground is scheduled to be to come in and start a slation on Monday.

So I haven't uh received an update on all whether that's changed or not, but that's we're moving right along with that.

Um so we the bathroom is still in process.

So it's uh some of the delays we had with with the uh Waddle Park bathroom were having those same delays.

So time will tell on that, but everything else is is on target at this point.

So any other updates you want to give about parks and rec.

Um I'm happy to be in the in the position, so I appreciate the the trust of Bill and all CU for um putting me allow me to uh to fill the position.

Um uh the uh Christmas tree lighting.

I think our staff did a really good job.

You see by the video.

Uh a lot of work went into that to make the the square in our city beautiful, and I think our staff have done a good job and they should be commended for that.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Um next, we'd like to have uh Ronnie Barrett come down and uh he wants to give an update.

As you said, there's that legislative meeting, which is going to take place on Thursday, and so he was gonna give us some updates on where we are with that and uh some of the items that others are uh bringing up in front of the legislative body.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Sorry.

This is the already happened.

Next one there.

Yeah, this is the county's one.

So good evening.

Um last week uh I presented the legislation that we know about that the legislature may or may not talk about.

Um the Cobb delegation has also gotten together and asked uh the cities to meet with them tomorrow, which is the list that I presented to you last week.

Um since that time, uh Cobb actually had their own Cobb County government had their own meeting on December third with the legislature.

And what I've handed out to you is the document from that meeting that they posted on their website.

Um so there are some things in I think their wish list that maybe conflict with um some of the things that you all are concerned about, specifically uh their view on how annexation and de-annexation works.

Um that is there on page two.

It's it's one of their top um concerns.

Um we just wanted you to know that they have um a viewpoint on annexation and they wanted to make sure that that was clear to um the cobb delegation.

Um they also are concerned about 911 fees, so it looks like they may ask to increase those fees um to the residents as they approach um moving into that next gen 911 model for how they communicate with the public when the public contacts them for any kind of emergency.

Well, on that particular one, I'll uh tell everybody also that we have had discussions with the county where they have brought up that they may, especially if they can't get the fees raised, um, they may have to start putting some of the general fund money into the communication system.

If they do that, it would trigger an item in our agreement with them that would mean that we would have to contribute also.

Um they also are asking uh the delegation to um consider allowing them to charge for franchise fees or do some partial charging um because of how that impacts um that the services they provide and and um the property that they have.

Um they also would like uh the cop delegation to consider um their place in the way the state looks at sovereign immunity.

Um so I think they are concerned that maybe that's gonna be taken away from them and they'll be to put in a position like the cities and the state.

Um they also um it which has been in the paper quite a bit.

Um and if you read the article, um you can see why maybe they should not approach this uh subject, but they have some questions about the way terms of commission commissioners are handled.

And they have, you know, I think the Cobb delegation told them that they need to think about what they request carefully because if they ask them to look at this particular issue with how somebody is handled if they are drawn out of a district during a term, um, that they could end up opening up elections in general, election law in general, which may have even worse ramifications than maybe what they think they're experiencing today.

So those were some of the things that they brought up in their meeting.

Um we just want to make sure that you got that you all knew and were aware before we went to the meeting for the cities tomorrow with the Cobb delegation.

For the annexation, de-annexation, generally not talking about the dispute resolution process, but we're generally okay with how the process currently works under normal annexation, normal de-annexation as it as current law states, right?

I would think so.

But how do you take out of that the um mediation or whatever that part?

I mean, that is a part of it, and I don't see how we would be happy with a process that forces us to make a decision regarding annexation before it even comes to us or a public hearing.

Right.

It's forcing us to say yes, we want that, or no, we don't, but we haven't had any kind of hearing that we hear from the citizens on whether they want an annexation, or we don't hear from council on a vote.

So I don't see how you separate out the two.

It is one process, and unfortunately, when there is an objection, it's actually a broken process.

Agreed that we've had a lot of problems with that and are currently having problems with it.

Now, a development that's happened since uh our last discussion uh is that the county did uh bring forward the fact that there is a way to stay the process and allow a city to have their hearings if you want to do that.

And so they have said they've communicated with us and with the attorney's office and the mayor's office that um they might be willing to do that in this particular one that we're dealing with now, if that was the desire of council to go forward with it.

You go what share was it?

Yeah, when when we had the informal meeting after the annexation meeting.

One commissioner brought up they they have a tiny home statute that they were talking about going to.

We don't even have it in our code.

No.

Yeah.

If they require us to do it, we we'd have to amend our code.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then being the sole arbiter on whether or not it could be stayed, it just literally ought to be stayed.

You shouldn't have to decide whether you want something before you've had a chance to fully vet it, to have it come at a public hearing, and then decide and then get to the point of discussion.

But to to put that the other way around, where you know, if they say, oh no, stay, we want you to decide today, we could be jumping in saying, yes, we want something and then bring it before council and bring it at a public hearing and have people say we don't want that.

Right.

It just appears to me that one, you can't separate those out, and two, the current process is backwards.

Question on the de-annexation.

It says that if property owners um are not satisfied with their services, they can request are there any limitations or stipulations?

I mean I could see that being a big problem.

Right, right.

Currently they can't do that.

Right.

And that would cause us massive problems.

I totally agree with you.

Right.

So the county is asking for what we think would cause issues.

It it's not that way right now, but that's what they're asking for.

And the second was somebody in a neighborhood was only house that did not go to a certain school.

Right.

And that money that's not a service.

Right.

Yeah.

And is there, and I've not taken enough time to delve into this, but is there a time frame that if you de-annex out that you can't turn around and annex back in?

Or once you buy that that horse, you ride it till it dies.

I mean, you might get to the grass and find out it's actually not greener.

That'll get to come back.

Yeah, I'm not aware of any restriction on that at this point.

No, there isn't.

But that wouldn't stop them from putting it in new legislation.

Yeah.

That'd be extremely hard to run the city if we uh had to worry about subdivisions de-annexing after we've got services allocated to all that.

What do you do?

Then you go in and you get rid of staff, you know, at that point because you're not covering the same area.

And then a year later they figure out that that's not really what we wanted.

This isn't better.

We want to come back.

So do you get to come back?

That was almost half the city, wasn't it?

When they tried to DNX part of by referendum, yes.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, for Eagles Landing, yeah.

Yeah, that was huge.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yep.

Got a few more minutes.

I wanted to give the uh fire department an opportunity.

Any updates, Chief?

No.

Okay, great.

Everything's going well.

Bless you.

Um and then uh want to hand over to Chief Beam.

Uh they had a great event last night.

So uh let him talk about that and other things.

Last night, pal had their winter wonderland, and I know that a couple couple people from council were there.

Um I had to leave a little bit early, but everything I saw was fantastic, and there was a great group of kids there having a lot of fun and putting on some great shows.

Um also want to announce that tomorrow morning at uh 9 a.m.

We're gathering down at the Walmart 41 near Terrell Mill where our shop with a cop event.

Uh we're gonna have two truckloads, two busloads, I should say, of students from the Mario School system that are gonna come down and we're gonna have officers, volunteers, etc.

shopping with those children starting at 9 30 and probably going until about 11 o'clock.

So if anybody wants to stop in and see the festivities, you're welcome to come by.

That's all I have.

Chief, what are the dates again?

Tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow, okay.

Tomorrow morning, yes, sir, at the uh Walmart called Parkway near Terromille.

Okay.

And the kids are supposed to start arriving at 9:30.

Okay, and then uh Ms.

Register, uh updates on HR.

Good evening.

Uh, the only update we really have is our service awards is on Friday, so that's where we recognize all of our employees for their service.

So we're excited about that.

Um please come dressed in your runway attire as we celebrate and the food is really good and we have a lot of fun.

What time is that?

It is uh we have a reception at 11.

Um just to mingle and eat, and then the actual ceremony starts at one o'clock.

That's here.

Yes, sir.

Okay, and Mark Rice, uh any other updates.

Just remind everyone of the um upcoming holiday schedule for sanitation.

Uh so your schedule will be changing, so make sure you check your trash talk out to know what days we'll be picking up during the week of Christmas and the week of New Year's.

Uh so those days may switch around for some of you.

Um, only other information, uh two more information.

Um mayor and council approved uh mid-block crossing on Cherry Street uh in front of the emergency room there for the hospital.

Um we finally got all the equipment in, and they have actually started working on that mid-block crossing this week.

Um we're hoping to have that completed in the next seven to ten days getting all the electrical work done and then getting everything done there.

So if you out that way, you may see some work being done on Cherry Street there as well.

So that one um last piece of information I've got.

Um also a few months ago, uh Mayor and Council approved us the uh MOU with G DOT for us taking over Whitlock Avenue that has all been signed um by GDOT and returned back to us, so now we are officially in control of Whitlock Avenue.

So I'd let Mayor and Council know that.

That's all I have.

Thank you all.

It goes from North Mary to Parkway to John Ward Road, yes, sir.

John Ward?

Yes, sir.

You're gonna get us a crossing.

I'm sorry, gonna get us a crossing up around.

We we can now we can take a serious look at that.

We're before we couldn't get any interaction, so it is on our list.

Thank you.

And those are all the updates that we have.

Uh, we will at some point uh tonight need an executive session to go over a litigation issue uh on that uh just whenever tonight y'all would like to do that.

Can I make a question?

Does anybody have any Tylenol?

I am sure there is somebody with Tylenol.

We we actually have some up in the office that we could get you before I die.

We're sleeping out going.

Yes, sir.

It's right before the um we have our last committee meeting uh of the year, uh, which will be next Thursday, and before that, uh from three to five, we'll have a reception uh for our outgoing council members, and uh that will be over at the fire museum.

Um we'll have refreshments for everyone over there.

Um so encourage everybody to tell their friends and and come over and uh mingle and and thank the members that we are gonna lose as of first of the year.

Can anyway keep Marsh's when you grandfather factory?

Grandfather have his helmet.

He still got a picture of him.

I hadn't taken it down yet.

Thank y'all for supporting something years of service.

Actually, my father was on city council too, so um, my family's had three people on the council and fire chief.

I think that's a record, although the ghostings had two for a longer period of time, but I've had three.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Anything else?

No, sir.

I'd like unless something comes up, I'd like just put us let's stay this meeting until 7 o'clock.

And then bring a jar at 7 and has a city council meeting.