Meeting Transcript

All right, welcome everyone. The time is five oh one, and we will call this special session of the of the city council to order. Madam City Clerk, would you please call the roll? Councilmember MacDonald. Council Member Banuellos here. Councilmember Alvarez. Vice Mayor O'Krepke. We want to public comment. So my name is Dwayne DeWitt, I'm from Roseland. Whenever I see something that says there's a threat to public service or facilities, it makes me curious what type of threat we're dealing with. Is someone making threats against a public facility that the taxpaying to undermine us here locally. So please, let's get a little bit more information out there. Do you know that ten years ago, and maybe it's even more now, we actually had an open government task force, and we went out of our way for months, actually, I believe it was years, to delve deeply into making sure that we could give as much information as possible to the public as soon as possible, as early as possible on any matters that might affect the public taxpayers in that situation. It seems that people have stepped back from that, especially because of COVID. It started with that, and then it was like, Well, you know, we just have to wait and we'll do remote and we'll do different things. And now COVID's over, but we got other stuff going on. Please, if there is any way before the end of this three minute period, could you tell me what this closed session is actually about? Thank you, sir. Thank you, Duane. And with that, we will recess in the course session. All right, we'll reconvene an open session. Madam City Clerk, which we please call the role. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember McDonald's. Vice Mayor O'Krupki is absent. Sure. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Vice Mayor Krupki, Councilmember McDonald, and Councilmember Rogers.