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Good evening.

I can see it moving.

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We're we're fine.

Good evening.

And to all of the citizens and civic leaders that are here.

And so today I just ask that those that um are pleading their case and those that are making decisions today, or that the wisdom of the Lord would be with us, that we um that we would we would do what is right for human flourishing and for the growth of our community and the strength of our community, and uh Lord, I just asked that you would place a hand of protection around those that are leading the way here in Nampa, those that are protecting us through uh the first responders and those that are uh making decisions that impact all of our daily lives, that you'd protect them, that you'd guard their homes, that their homes would be uh just safe havens, uh a refuge, that they'd be places of peace, and that this city would continue to be just an absolutely wonderful place to live.

We love you, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.

Would you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all occasionally uh during the evening that you may experience a slight pause.

That's okay because I'm transitioning between trying to lead the meeting and also thinking about an agenda item.

And I realize, and I haven't said that too much in the past weeks, but uh occasionally uh uh it seems like uh I've gone off uh course or silent, and uh it's because of trying to dual dual function on occasionally and especially during the public hearing time.

So appreciate your patience there, and clerk will call the roll.

Scog here Jingula Bills here, Reynolds here Rodriguez, Griffin, for present, two absent.

Thank you, Shar.

Tonight we have two uh proclamations that uh going to read and uh going to uh present one to Lou Randolph, and so thank you for standing there.

So whereas the annual distribution of buddy poppies of by the fore by the veterans of foreign wars of the United States has been officially recognized and endorsed by governmental leaders since 1922, and VFW buddy poppies are assembled by disabled veterans and proceeds of this worthy fundraising campaign are used exclusively for the benefit of disabled and veterans in need and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans, and whereas the basic purpose of the annual distribution of buddy poppies by the veterans of foreign wars is eloquently reflected in the desire to honor the dead by helping the living.

And whereas I urge the citizens of this community to recognize the merits of this cause and support their efforts to recognize the sacrifices of our honored dead.

I also urge all patriotic citizens to wear a buddy poppy as mute evidence of our gratitude to the men and women of this country and who have risked their lives in defense of freedoms.

We continue to enjoy as American citizens.

Now, therefore, I David Bills, council president of the city of Nampa of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the days of May 21st, 22nd, and 23rd as 2026 as VFW Buddy Poppy Days.

I furthermore urge citizens to support the VFW and go visit them at Alberts at 12th and Greenhurst, DMB Supply 12th Avenue, May 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.

So welcome to say something and just talking the nation and I want to thank the city.

We've been doing the post in auxiliary has been existence since 1936, and I'm sure Nampa has supported the veterans ever since.

He's been handling the Betty Poppies because I hurt myself and I have been busy.

But we want to thank you for all you've done.

I don't have any poppies today to give out.

We usually do come by DMB and Albertson on 12th Avenue, and we'll be there from 9 o'clock to 4.

been doing the between him the last two years he's been handling the Betty Poppies because I hurt myself and I have been busy but we want to thank you for all you've done I don't have any poppies today to give out we usually do come by DMB and Albertson on 12th Avenue and we'll be there from nine o'clock to uh to four every day Thursday Friday Saturday excellent thank you Don you want to say something well I guess you could I'd like to welcome everybody here at Alverson Street here donations every bit of all the money that we take in anything no matter what they need if we want to very hard headed and I'm gonna make sure thanks that's it that's it that's it thank you very much we can't get by I'll come in and check on I learned accountability when I was a youngster and it still holds true today all right we have one more proclamation so this proclamation is uh national public works week and whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are vital importance in sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health high quality of life and well being of the people of the city of Nampa and whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public work professionals who are engineers managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector and whereas in public works professionals are responsible for rebuilding improving and protecting our nation's transportation water supply water treatment solid waste systems public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens and whereas it is in the public interest for civic leaders and citizens of all ages in the city of Napa to gain knowledge of and to maintain an interest in an understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in the respective communities and whereas the city of Nampa is the largest full service city in the state of Idaho and whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association and Canadian Public Works Association.

Now therefore I David Bill's council president of the city of Nampa do hereby proclaim may 17th through May 23rd 2026 as National Public Works Week and so I would urge you to uh continue to give thanks or if you see folks who are in the public works side of life to acknowledge uh their work and we're appreciative to that counsel are you in another uh crutch there with uh are you missing another crutch no I've not yet I don't haven't had to do that yet thank you for asking counselor I just want to say thank you for recognizing Public Works Week we always have a lot of fun here with doing some events for the school kids over at the uh streets yard all the public works gets involved in that it's a great thing for the community um I want to also just again thank counsel for all the support and it definitely takes an entire team to deliver what we do in public works and we're proud and happy to do it so thank you.

Excellent thanks Tom we can do a quick photo photograph everything triple this is important well at this time we're going to do one other uh event is the city of Napa under the leadership of Amy Bowman

Well, at this time we're going to do one other uh event is the city of Nampa under the leadership of Amy Bowman as uh handled and organized a uh Citizens Academy and Citizen Academy is allows for folks to sign up and to participate for several weeks learning about the intro to the uh details of the city of Nampa and uh operation of uh the city.

And so tonight we're gonna recognize those who have been involved and then uh and Amy's gonna help take the lead on that and I'm coming down so there'll be just a slightly and I'll I'll just say just oh a few words and then I don't know if any we have a few people who are in our video at the end, but if there's anybody else that really wanted to say a few words, you're welcome to.

So thank you.

This is our third year for the Citizens Academy.

Councilwoman Scog went through it last year before she was elected, so that was exciting.

She got to see um learned a lot through um all the different departments and so many of them participate and um this year we're excited we got to go to the water renewal facility.

Things I never thought I'd say before I worked in government, but there it is.

And um I I do want to recognize Vanessa Jimenez who did a whole bunch of work behind the scenes.

So I this will be one I will not soon forget because this was the the evening of our I can't remember this our circ second or third class when I was sharing here and then got the council um Mayor Hogeboum was in a critical incident.

So it was a very interesting year, um very very sad, but um anyway it was also very educational.

So does anybody want to share anything before we do the video?

And it's only three minutes, so okay.

So now hopefully it works.

I so enjoyed the Citizens Academy.

It was a wonderful experience, and even though I've been involved with the city for about attending city council meetings for five years, I learned so much through these classes, and I highly recommend that um if you have the opportunity to to um take the classes because you'll learn so much about the complexities of the the city and you'll get to meet the great people who serve us as employees.

And it it's just a fantastic opportunity.

So take advantage of it.

Well the citizens academy I thought was great as a city employee.

I mean, there's a lot of stuff you really don't know about the city, and if you live in Nampa, I think it's a perfect opportunity for you to learn a lot of what goes on and what each department does to keep the city running pretty pretty cool.

One thing as a citizen of Nampa for over 40 years.

Um it's just really nice to learn about the city you live in and especially when you have a lot of neighbors and community members that don't have the correct information when they want to have dialect with you know what goes on within a city.

It's just really nice to learn where your tax money dollars go and how the city operates as a whole.

So I am just so excited that I took this um Nampa Citizens Academy.

I think it was eight weeks long, so it wasn't a huge huge amount of time to commit to.

But I have lived in Nampa for over twenty years, and I've learned more about my city in eight weeks than I've known this whole twenty years.

So I strongly recommend this.

I've talked about it to everyone since I started it.