I'd like to call to all the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners.

Roll call, please.

Jabin Singh.

Here.

McGuire.

Here.

McMurtry.

Here.

Miller.

Here.

Zhong.

Here.

Commissioner Moran is joining us here.

Thank you, Commissioner Moran.

And Ortega.

Hi.

Could we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

One nation undervisible liberty and justice for all.

Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world who contributed their hopes, dreams, and energy to making the history that led to this moment.

Some were brought here against their will.

Truth and acknowledgement are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference.

You now have a proclamation for Brian Keene's retirement.

Commissioner Singh.

Come on, sir.

Gotta get him.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

Excellent.

Is anybody else joining him?

Yes.

Everybody feel free to come on and be part of us.

Look at them all.

Come on up.

I love how the helpers are shy.

They're like, no, no, no.

I love it.

All righty.

Well, what well while we are gathering, um, we are presenting this proclamation to honor Brian's 30 years of dedicated service to Ramsey County residents.

This reflects a career rooted in compassion, leadership, and public service.

Today we are recognizing his lasting impact across social services, including work in the mental health division and the children and family services division.

In his tenure, he not only expanded access to services but also improved care and advanced equity focused initiatives.

We present this proclamation to celebrate his legacy and express gratitude for the positive influence he had on residents, colleagues, and on the community while wishing him well in a well-earned retirement.

And I have to say the first time we really met was at uh an adoption event.

Um it was wonderful to see the families, um, specifically who um Brian had worked with and had impacted.

Um truly, your impact goes beyond anything we can describe today.

So I'll go ahead and read the proclamation.

Whereas Brian has provided dedicated service to Ramsey County residents for over 30 years in a variety of roles, ranging from frontline resident-facing work to leading larger initiatives, serving as interim program administrator, and offering extensive insight into county processes and systems to better support those in need, all while maintaining an uplifting spirit and bringing joy to his colleagues.

And whereas Brian answered the call to serve individuals experiencing mental health needs by providing outpatient therapy at the mental health center in St.

Paul and later transitioned to the assertive community treatment team, where he supported individuals requiring intensive, personalized community-based care to help them strive and achieve an advanced quality of life.

And whereas Brian stepped into a supervisory role at Ramsey County Adult Urgent Care to share his expertise in mental health care through a 24-hour crisis response model, building out both the services, um the services provide and the physical locations at the 402 University site, making services more accessible for clients, further showing how to meet residents where they are at in the community or on site.

And whereas Brian most recently served as the permanent support manager in children and family services, providing support to supervisors, staff, families, and providers across foster care, licensure adoption adoption and child care licensing processes, and leading with compassion, advocacy, and most importantly, heart.

And whereas Brian provided leadership in advancing key initiatives within Ramsey County social services, including human rights campaign certification, the quality parenting initiative, the development of the co-response crisis model, the establishment of employee resource groups and the social services race equity leadership group, and efforts to increase foster homes tailored to meet the needs of LGBTQ youth, safe places, and whereas Brian chooses to model the mission and values of Ramsey County each day, both professionally and in his personal life.

And whereas Brian will now find himself in the morning listening to the birds sing as he sips his coffee on the porch enjoying gardening in the afternoon and his evenings out with friends at his favorite local restaurant, Lynette.

And whereas Brian will spend time traveling with friends and family, both domestically to ride go-karts in Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Indiana, internationally in Paris to keep his French language skills up to date in Croatia to keep his legs young by bicycling bicycling up and down the Croatian coast.

Now there be it proclaimed the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners do hereby honor and celebrate the retirement of Brian Teen, expressing the sincerest gratitude for three decades of exceptional service supporting individual staff, providers, and families, and extend our best wishes for a joyful retirement filled with peace, happiness, and the flakiest French croissant.

Good morning.

Morning.

Chair, County Manager, um, Wendy Ross.

I had the pleasure of working with Brian for several years.

Brian taught me a whole lot of things that I know about leadership and just how to treat people.