Oh yeah.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate we're gonna commence our meeting here in a moment.

Thank you.

Scog present.

Tingula Bills here.

Reynolds Rodriguez.

Here.

Griffin.

Here.

All present.

Counselors.

Uh I've done just a slight uh summary that I wanted to walk us through for a few minutes and talk about uh kind of the process.

It seems that the feedback that uh has been given is uh gonna be a shorter process than what uh we were looking at uh last week, and uh we appreciate uh staff's work on uh putting together a timeline of review and a timeline of uh possible steps so that uh we would get uh done by June 15th.

Uh feedback individually from counselors to myself uh that I've uh asked for over the last uh two or three days in separate uh calls and discussion, not a serial meeting.

Want to make that clear, uh just simply seeking out uh some direction and input uh would lead us that uh I don't see uh some of those things that we were uh brainstorming about to come forward.

So quick discussion overview, mayor.

As we discuss and think about uh a person, uh I just put down that it's got to be a person of character, demonstrated ability to speak in public to an audience, experience at a ministering meetings, able to be prepared ahead of the meetings, and a time set aside to coordinate with council members just from uh straight operation and what we've experienced, all of us here at the DIES, what we experienced during the weeks uh of council meetings, and what we experience uh in between.

And so uh obviously what we're looking for initially there was uh discussion that uh if we wanted to take what I call full-on application SOT that we would invite any and all applicants for the position to be able to apply.

Staff set up the packet for being able to do that.

The feedback I have gotten from uh council members is to not uh take that route.

It looks laborious.

It looks also uh difficult to discern uh folks who haven't been involved to uh to now make an application.

Had one uh email this morning and uh saying uh when can we apply?

And the first so we responded uh with uh do you know for sure you live inside the city limits of the city of Napa?

And uh and so suggested that they look at that, came back and said, Well, I think we're in the area of impact.

Is that correct?

Yes, and so my wife Carrie, she did uh as if it was uh somebody doing went out, and actually the City of Nampus site allows people to look in your zone where you live, and it'll tell you right off the uh get-go whether you're in the city limits or not in the city limits, and so it's just a quick uh so that was uh a little bit of review this morning with uh person who was inquiring that served as a good test case for us and uh also knowledgeable.

The other aspect is so what I'd like to do is keep going and then come back and just confirm uh our direction.

Council member select individuals with known experience and skills for the position.

So a council member then would be able to uh put forth somebody uh with the person's permission.

Also, we'd have verification of city of NAMPA residency.

Finally, uh the other process that was batted around last week was to uh put together uh a large committee, uh choose one to three people out of each district and have that committee do uh the discussion and work and then come back to council.

And then of course there would be hybrid or other options.

So that was discussion uh coming off of last week's meeting and input that came via council.

Um late, it seems the uh need to hear from council far as uh whether what what I'm hearing is council is saying it's council's responsibility to appoint uh in that process, it's council's job to vet, and it's council's job to then put forth uh individual that they believe hits the character issue and the ability to administer the oath of office.

Like to get some feedback on our direction, and uh if I can, I'm gonna put uh councilwoman Scug on the on the spot and come down the down the dais.

Any any thoughts on these initial ideas or comments of where we've been the last uh seven days.

Well, I am so thankful for all of you here and all of you here too tonight that um uh because I can see that you're concerned about what's going on in our city and what our next step will be, and um I have been praying that we would make a good decision for everybody and um for our city and for our staff and for the council members.

Um I have uh I'm open to um reviewing applications if that's what the council uh wishes.

Um I do see that that could be laborist, although I don't know that we would have as many as we may think.

Um I too would like to um see who comes forward and possibly make a decision that way.

If there's somebody that comes forward that fits our bill that we feel like, yes, this is the right person for the job, then hopefully we can go ahead with that and skip all the in-between stuff.

So I don't like the idea of a community committee because I think that would be difficult to get through when you have so many options, so many opinions, it's so difficult to make a decision.

So I guess that's my input.

That's that's great.

That's what we're that's what we're needing to make sure that we have clarity.

Thank you, President.

I'm definitely not in favor of doing an application process.

I think that we as a council can collectively come to a decision.

I think that if we all bring forward names that we see to be fit and we do a same process, we give every applicant, if you will, in that sense, the same opportunity to share information.

They can come before us, we can ask them questions, and then that way, just like we do with any other council decision that we make, everyone on this dais has the exact same information, and we make an informed decision based on the information that's provided to all of us.

So I would prefer that method and go forward that way before we open it up to applications.

Okay, councilman Reynolds.

Thank you, Council President.

Um, I'm also not in favor of taking applications.

Uh it seems like uh we've come to a place where there's a lot of opportunities out there that uh would never run for an election and all of a sudden they want to be mayor, and I don't understand that.

Um running for election, running for office is hard.

And um for those of you that haven't done that, I encourage you to try that.