I call the 2045th meeting of the Milwaukee City Council to order.

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With that, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Liberty and Justice for all the City of Milwaukee respectfully acknowledges that our community is located on the ancestral homeland of the Clackamas people.

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.

And with that, I will move on to announcements.

Tomorrow's concert features the Portland School of Rock house band.

Each concert includes food for purchase from Hearth and Soul Pizza.

And I will note that it shows it on the slide that they actually have added a concert in on September 2nd for one that was canceled earlier this month due to smoke.

So they are actually still have three concerts to go in the ball in the Louelling neighborhood.

Join the Ardenwall Johnson Creek Neighborhood District Association at their annual concert in the park series each Thursday in August, beginning at 6 30 p.m.

in Ardenwald Park.

This Thursday's concert features the bottle blonde quartet of seven who play an electic eclectic mix of Latin.

I think something's probably missing there.

I think it's more than just Latin, but uh an eclectic mix of music.

Uh each concert also includes food for sale from Milwaukee Pizza Company, Freehand Bakery, and Luna's ice cream.

Kids of all ages are invited to attend an outdoor comedy magic and juggling show this Thursday, August 20th at the Scott Park Amphitheater next to Letting Library, featuring Angel Ocasio.

The show begins at 1030 a.m.

Also on Thursday, joined the North Clackamas Watersheds Council for a walking tour of the Kellogg Creek Restoration Project from 5 45 to 6 45 p.m.

Attendees will learn about the project's benefits for the community and urban wildlife along with the project's timeline.

If you are interested in attending, a link to register is available on the city's event calendar at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov.

Everyone is invited to attend a one-day car show at the Milwaukee Community Center and North Clackamas Park this Saturday, August 22nd from 8 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

with all proceeds going to the Meals on Wheels program.

The event is family friendly with live music at the Sarah High Rose Garden and concessions for purchase.

This new event will feature free books, crafts, games, library card signups, and more.

A new engagement opportunity has been added to the city's online platform, Engage Milwaukee, to help build a more prepared community.

Through a survey and mapping exercise, the city seeks to better understand the places, people, and relationships that you rely on for support in both everyday life and in times of crisis.

Please stop by Engage Milwaukee.

It's engagemilwaukee.com, I believe, to tell your story and help the city become more resilient.

For more information about each of these events, please visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov or call 503 786 7555.

I have a couple other announcements too that are things I wanted to share before we move to the haiku.

So I did just talk about this event.

Um, this car Meals on Wheels or Wheels for Meals car show.

I just wanted to give it a uh an extra boost because I think uh it's a first-time event uh to support the uh Meals on Wheels program as um folks who have been following the parks district know uh the programming for older adults at Milwaukee Community Center has been cut and has is facing more cuts.

Um the Milwaukee Community Center Foundation has become a real mainstay of that programming.

They they donated 180,000 last year to NCPRD, and they have pledged 300,000 dollars this year.

So this event, this car show this weekend is is a is a new way.

They're um trying to raise money.

They also do bingo and other things through the year, special dinners and things through the year.

Um but I didn't feel like this event has had a lot of uh promotion, so I just wanted to give it a little bit of extra uh promotion.

Um because I think they've been working hard on it and it should be a fun event.

Uh and then um I have this big uh plaque, which I will not read to you, but um last week I was at the or we yeah, a week ago, I was at the Oregon Mayor's Association conference, and um Milwaukee is a member of what's called the League of Oregon Cities, and it's probably not something the average person out there knows or cares that much about, but the League of Oregon Cities is the way is the organization that represents all uh cities in the state in terms of uh, you know, they provide training opportunities, they do lobbying in Salem, they keep us informed of what's going on in Salem.

Uh they do a lot of, they do comparative uh documents that are really useful for us, like comparing uh you know, sewer rates or comparing, you know, compensation or just all kinds of different reports and things.

So they are an important uh association for cities around the state.

Last year they turned 100 years old.

They had their 100th anniversary, uh, their 100th year uh conference in downtown Portland last October.