The meeting was called to order at approximately 22:55 (UTC) by the Mayor, followed by a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Alderman George Payne. The agenda included approval of minutes, swearing-in of the Mayor's Youth Council, insurance renewals, an interlocal agreement for a mental health crisis center, several routine resolutions, contract awards, a planning item, and a mayor's report. All votes were unanimous unless noted.
The following items were approved unanimously without substantive discussion:
Everyone and uh thank you for being here. Looks like we got a packed house, so uh more people than we normally have, so it's good to see everybody. Uh I'm gonna call this meeting to order now. Please stand with us. We'll be led in prayer. Baldwin Gallagher, please remain standing after that for the Pledge of Allegiance that will be led by Alderman at Lords, George Payne. Heavenly Father, thank you for your grace and endless mercy, Lord. Lord, we pray that you would be among us as we make decisions for our city, Lord. I also pray for the young students who are the future leaders, Lord, that you would uh just bless them as well in your name and pray. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republicans under high. Okay, first on the agenda this evening is the approval of minutes for two meetings. One was on September 1 of 26 and the other was on September 8th of 26, a special meeting. So we have motion Balderman Hoots, second Balderman Jenkins. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, roll call, please. Alterman Hain. Yes. Alderman Jenkins. Yes. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a special thing we do once a year. We're going to swear in the mayor's youth council. So what that means is schools back in session, right? All the summer's over. It's amazing to me when you get old like I am. Yeah, I remember when I was young in school, it seemed like summer lasted forever. Now I look up and the kids are going back to school. It just it just happened so quickly. But anyway, what a special time of your lives to be in high school. Uh what it just, you know, there's uh so many great chapters to a lifetime, but high school is one of the best ones. So you got everything ahead of you. Uh you got a a fresh white page out there for you. You can write it however you want to write it. So anyway, it's an exciting time for y'all. But I thank y'all for serving on the mayor's youth council. And I'm not gonna name everyone. We have a a lot of um students on here uh that are uh coming back for uh another year, but these are new members from each school, and we're gonna do a swearing in tonight. So if you will and I'll call your name, uh please come down to the front and then wait on your peers to join me. So from um let's start with uh North Point Christian School. We have Hadley Brown and we have Lee Catherine Mackintosh. And they're both seniors. Last time around. Sophomore, Annabeth Lawler. And then we have uh freshman Maddox Hatta Zara Patel.