All right.

I call the two thousand four hundred and thirty third meeting of the Milwaukee City Council to order.

This meeting is being held in person at City Hall and by video conference.

The public may participate in this meeting by coming to City Hall or joining the Zoom webinar.

The meeting is being broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel and Comcast Cable Channel 30 in City Limits.

There will be opportunities for the public to speak during this meeting.

If you would like to address council, you may come to City Hall or participate via Zoom.

If you are interested in speaking, please let staff know by filling out a yellow comment card for those at City Hall or emailing OCR at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov for those on Zoom.

When it is time to take public comments, staff will monitor the comment cards, email inbox, and Zoom participant list and chat.

We will take comments in the order they are received and seen.

Comments may be emailed to OCR at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov.

We ask that all Zoom participants who intend to speak label their Zoom username to show their first and last names for the record.

Spanish translation services are available upon request.

The public is asked to request translation and other meeting accessibility services at least 48 hours before the meeting.

For more information, contact the city recorder at 503 786 7502.

Servicios de Tradución en Español esta disponible cuando sea silicado.

Say Pide al Público que Selicite Servicios de Traducción y otros servicios de accesibilidad por lo menos 408 horas antes de la reunión.

Para obtener más información, llama a El Secretario de la Ciudad 53, 786, 75.

Translation services are also available in other languages.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, underground, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

In 1855, the surviving members of the Clackamas signed the Willamette Valley Treaty, also known as the Kalapuya, etc.

Treaty with the federal government in good faith.

We offer our respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this land.

And we will uh I will mention that um Councillor Stavan Jord is with us online.

She's not here in the room, but she is with us online, so we're all we're all five present today.

Um and here are announcements.

City staff are planning the return of the annual umbrella parade and tree lighting on December 6th and the winter solstice event on December 20th.

These well-loved traditions will be back in 2025, and we'd love your ideas to make them even better.

If you have ideas and would like to share them, please visit engage Milwaukee at Engage.

MilwaukeeOregon.gov and submit your ideas for one or both events.

Ideas will be collected until October 3rd.

And I uh I know there are about eight ideas on there already, and you can also go on and um vote.

You know, you can also express your support by a thumbs up if you want to support someone else's ideas for events.

In addition, anyone who would like to volunteer for the umbrella parade or the solstice event can now sign up to do so.

There are various opportunities for each event.

Just visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov to find a link to the volunteer application.

Applications are currently being accepted for the city's Climate Action Committee.

The Climate Action Committee will work to strengthen the city's capacity to meet its adopted climate goals.

Visit the city's homepage to find a link to the application.

Leah Sotille, author of Blazing Eyes All and host of the podcasts Hush Burn Wild, two minutes past nine, and Bundyville will be at the Letting Library on Wednesday, September 17th from 6 to 715 p.m.

This is part of the library's fall author series.

These events occur on the third Saturday of each month from uh March to June.

No, they occur on the third Saturday of each month from uh September through June.

Um, which is take a couple months off in the summer.

Volunteers meet at Southeast 19th Avenue and Southeast Sparrow Street.

The Letting Libraries Fall Author Series continues on Wednesday, September 24th from 6 to 7.15 p.m.

with Mike Richardson, the founder of Milwaukee's very own Dark Horse Comics.

Through Dark Horse Entertainment, Richardson has produced films such as The Mask and Time Cop, as well as more recent series such as uh The Umbrella Academy.

Um Richardson has also written numerous graphic novels and comics series, as well as comics between panels and blast off two critically acclaimed books about pop culture.

We'll also be having a reception in Mr.

Richardson's honor after his reading or after his talk that night at the library.

So come join us for a cool evening at the library.

Um for more information about these events and others, please visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov or call 503-786-7555.

Okay, and then I like to read a haiku each uh each week or each regular session.

Um we had some uh I'm always I'm usually like begging people to submit haikus, but Emma Fish from our public works department um submitted a few, so I and some lovely ones.

So I really liked this one.

She entitled it Late Summer Library Visits.

Rolling and Popping, Leaves Brushing Quiet Windows, Chestnuts Pelt the Roof.