Malik's May please have roll call.

Councillor Thompson.

Here.

Counselor Maloneus.

Here.

Counselor Demas.

Here.

Counselor Hickerson.

Here.

Counselor Zadi.

Here.

Counselor Hanson.

Here.

Counselor Pedrie.

Counselor Bingham.

Here.

And Mayor Mickelson.

Here, which brings us to a commendation that we're doing this evening for Larry Macy.

And I would invite you all up to the podium.

I know you were like, I don't want to, but it is not a volunteer, it's a voluntary.

And we would certainly appreciate hearing from you.

I mean, you, your daughter, your friends and family.

You let us know whoever you'd like us to hear from.

Um, hi, my name's Darren.

Um, and I've been working with the mayor within the past couple weeks to get my dad recognized.

He was the first paramedic in Sweetwater County a long time ago, and he never got recognized.

So I wanted to work with the mayor to get him recognized today.

That's all.

Well, we certainly appreciate you reaching out to the city to do this.

You know, one of the best things about living here in Rock Springs, uh, despite the folks who find our climate to be agreeable, uh, is that we really have some absolutely remarkable people.

And as the city and county navigate emergency medical services, uh, I think it is a very opportune time to recognize our counties first.

And so thank you, sir, for your work and for being here, and thank you, Darren, for bringing this forward to us.

Uh, so with that, I would like to do a certificate of commendation to Larry Macy in recognition of his service as the first paramedic in the city of Rock Springs.

His dedication, professionalism, and commitment to providing life-saving emergency medical care helped establish a new standard of service for our community.

Through his pioneering efforts, he helped lay the foundation for the advanced emergency medical services that continue to serve the residents of Rock Springs today, although hopefully not me this evening.

Thank you, sir very much.

If you'd like to join us over here, we'd be happy to get a picture, and we have some photographs uh up on the screen for everyone to see.

And do you want to tell us about all the folks?

I mean, they may all be here for us, but I I doubt it.

I doubt it.

I did want to say that uh part of my journey um started with a gentleman that's on your guys' uh board right now.

So uh one of my very first classes classes was with Randy Hansen uh when I first took my very first first responder class.

I was gonna say if you didn't want to make any kind of speeches, I would start telling stories.

So I think during the patient assessment, uh I did find that uh some patients can be armed, is what I found with Randy.

So yeah.

Very good.

You guys can go back on the left.

Okay, guys.

One, two, three.

Yes.

I would like to say that that concludes our workshop for this evening.

Uh but uh regrettably or positively, depending on how you look at it, uh, we have a proposed e-bike safety ordinance that uh I chose to bring forward in a workshop before a finalized ordinance comes to us uh and the public for feedback over that six-week cycle.

Over the course of the summer, I think the city council and I fielded a huge number of calls from concerned citizens who expressed their worry that particularly a child would have a very negative impact from these e-bikes.

The uh state statutes have some interesting thoughts around them, as once again uh the speed of government has not kept up with the speed of innovation.

So we have these electronic bicycles that go at very high rates of speed, are incredibly silent, uh, and you've got you know, seven, eight, nine-year-old kids going 30 miles an hour.

Um we had a case uh in California where a woman was struck and killed by a child on an e-bike.

Uh, there was just that unfortunate death in Rollins of a young uh man who was not on an e-bike to my understanding, but the reality is that when cars and people collide, the cars always win.

And so we have had two separate attempts at a starting point for this ordinance.

Uh the one that we have currently brought forward um was developed in conjunction with our legal department and our police department as a good uh sort of middle path.

Uh Councilor Bingham has suggested some changes around the discussion, and the purpose of this evening is for the council to have a robust discussion and land on a direction for staff around whether or not they feel the current proposed ordinance is too restrictive, not restrictive enough or appropriately restrictive.