Okay, well it's six o'clock.

I see that everyone has made it.

I'd like to call this meeting to order.

I am the facilitator for tonight's meeting until such time as we have a chairperson, which you will see on your agenda is located at the end of the meeting.

So I'd like to go over a few things, kind of go through how this is going to lay out tonight, a little bit of the um the way the equipment works, you know, the housekeeping things, et cetera, et cetera.

So if we can start, I'm Shirley Concolino, I'm the city clerk.

After I'm through with this introduction, we will go through and introduce staff and then I'll go around the dais and introduce each of ourselves so that we all know each other.

So thank you all for coming.

This is our first meeting, one out of ten, if I can count.

Um by the time this is over, we will all know each other quite well.

Right now I don't know that we all know each other, but by the time we're through with this, I think we will.

Um and because you have not yet been sworn in, I'm going to state for the record that we do have the full body of the appointed members as appointed by the city council.

And then going through the agenda, you um we will notice that we have the introduction of staff, we have the oath of office, then we're gonna go over the Brown Act, Parliamentary Procedures, the roles and responsibilities, the committee schedule, redistricting criteria, and then that one discussion item that we have was to select the chair and the vice chair.

And that was placed at the end with the thought that it might be good to have all of these process kinds of things out of the way, and then have the time, the opportunity for each of you to do your introduction so everyone kind of gets a sense of who each person is before we actually called for a vote for that item.

So it seemed to be a little bit of a better flow.

So if everyone is okay with this agenda, we will proceed.

Okay.

Um for housekeeping, the restrooms are located out this door and to the left where the guard station is and to the right of that.

So if anyone needs to use the restrooms during the meeting, whatever, feel free to get up and go and come and go.

These meetings are being video streamed, so we will have them for recorded purposes.

The way the equipment works, because we have more people than this dais has speakers or microphones.

Um it is your names are not programmed into the system, so that if you were to request a speak, which I'll go over in just a few moments, the speaker queue will not fill.

Your microphones operate, and I think our AV technician Kim Quarich got to some of you, but basically the button that's on your dais opens your mic.

When it is red, your mic is on.

When you're not speaking, please turn your mic off because if you have more than two or three mics open at a time, there's feedback that goes into the system and the recording is altered.

Not to mention that it's broadcast all over the building.

So you want to be careful of any private conversations that you think you might have because they're not so private.

Um we've learned that the hard way.

Um in addition to that, let's see what else I needed to go through.

Um I do know that the members that are listed, there are a couple changes that need be need to be made to your names, a couple of you, and I think Stephanie has that as does Scott.

So we will make those corrections.

If you take a look and you see that something is wrong on the cover page of the agenda, please let us know because we want to make that correct.

Now you did know notice that you got an email that stated that all materials were going to be delivered electronically and that all materials would be provided to you in that manner.

It was up to you whether they were to be printed or not.

We had um a little of this communication with staff uh tonight, and so you do have your first agenda and packet printed for you.

We will not be doing that in the future.

The council has agreed that we are going to operate in this manner, and most of our boards and commissions operate that way, planning commission, etc.

But this binder will serve a good purpose because if you do want to print out resource materials or other things, however you work best, this can be a binder then that is consistent for everybody and we can use it in in that way.

So feel free to take the binder.

That's yours.

Um I know that there were a couple of you that expressed interest in getting copies of the council rules of procedure as well as some other resource materials.

And um while the council rules of procedure do not apply in its entirety to this this body, it is a good document to reference.

There are things that are applicable, and um we will make sure that you get that.

So it isn't available right, I don't believe it's in the binder this evening, but we will get that to you.

Um as you know when you came in, everyone was seated first come, first serve wherever you wish to select.

After the chair has been selected, the seating order will be that the chair will be sitting here.

The vice chair will be sitting in that spot there.

I will sit here as the clerk because of the equipment here.

And then everyone else is first come first serve.

We will be changing these placards to have a little bit of a bigger font so that they're more easily read.

And I will be the first to admit I am horrible with names, numbers I can remember.

So probably by the time this is all done, I will be remembering names.

So I'm just happy that I'm not going to be the one sharing forever because I will not be able to figure this out.

For tonight's purposes, as we go into the agenda, if you wish to speak, we need to raise our hand this evening.

And once you're called upon in the order, hopefully that you've raised your hand, and then you'll be called upon, and then we can and go in that order.

And when you do, when you are chosen to speak, please state your name so that we have it for the record until we get familiar with each other's with you know names, and then we will just go from there.

We're gonna observe pretty much the Robert's rules of order, parliamentary procedures.

I think most of you are familiar with how that how that works.

You have a motion, you have a second, there's discussion, and then it's voted upon.

There can be amended motions, those kinds of things.