Uh if you bow your hands, I'll leave lead us in invitation.

Dear heavenly most gracious and glorious father, we thank you for this opportunity to come together to make our community a better place.

We ask for a hedge of uh blessing and protection over our first responders.

I uh protect them as they're out there doing their duties.

Uh and Lord, me personally, I want to be say thank you to for the employees that we have in the city of St.

Albans.

They do a fantastic job.

All right, and I ask this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

All right, uh, Terry, lead us in the pledge, please.

Let's do the way of the United States of America.

And to the republic for which it stands.

Liberty and justice are all.

I will call this meeting the order.

Uh praise and recognition.

Um I've got to admit that when I booked my carbagast here, uh I had forgotten that Monday was a holiday and he couldn't make it tonight.

He's coming at a later date in March.

Um, but I want to start off again with the employees of the city of St.

Albans.

I don't want to leave anybody out, but specifically uh the uh street crews and MUC guys that were uh fixing leaks when it windshield was below zero.

Uh they don't complain, they don't gripe.

I they just go out and they do their job and they did a fantastic job.

So that's I wanted to recognize him and praise them for that.

Other crates of recognition.

Yes, sir.

I'm gonna read a message that we have a uh it might be a little choppy because I gotta leave stuff out.

Uh but we uh were contacted by uh paramedic with Canal County and there was uh we had a single vehicle crash near Hudson and McCorporal Avenue.

That was a female that was unresponsive.

Uh they said all other agencies had cleared except two of our officers.

Um the patient woke up compete uh confused and somewhat combative.

Both officers jumped in without hesitation to ask what we needed.

Both uh let's see, one of them uh stayed in the back and then one of them drove the ambulance to General.

The patient ended up having a stroke, and uh because our officer helped and got and uh drove the ambulance, they said that the lady should have a full recovery, but she wanted to let us know how instrumental they were in the patient's care and outcome, and it's a lot of times we never know the outcomes, and I thought they might need a positive outcome for the day.

Very good, excellent.

Well, and the bus they made on Hansford Street was fantastic.

Those guys will be in jail for a period of time.

I hope.

Do we have the names of those officers?

Uh Beckner and Sanders.

Sanders is actually on FTO right now, so good start to a career.

Yeah, very good start.

Uh I I just keep wondering how do they end up in St.

Albans, West Virginia, like those guys on Hansford Street.

I'm like, how do you why do you end up in St.

Albans?

Yeah, well, that uh there's a lot more free food up in Charleston there is here.

And I want to say our guys I got on a pretty quick, they've only been here about a week.

Yeah.

Or less than good, good, excellent.

Any other praise and recognition?

All right, uh approval minutes from City Council, February 2nd, 2026.

So moved.

Questions, discussion of changes.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, nay.

Motion carries.

I apologize.

My voice is starting to get a little gruff.

So uh no old business, new business resolution regarding rates, fees, and charges for parks and recreation facilities, rental of former McKinley Middle School property.