Meeting Transcript

All right, good evening, everyone. Um, just a note, too: if you're in the back and you're looking for a place to sit, you can come and sit up front of the reserve seats as well. So please don't let that deter you. So, once again, if you're in the back of the room and you're still looking for a seat, you're obviously welcome to stand. But if you are looking for a seat and can't find one back there, there are probably about two and a half, three rows right here in the front where you can actually take a seat. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Tempe City Council regular council meeting. Item number one is called order. Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable Channel Eleven and at Tempe.gov slash Tempe Eleven. Members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft Teams. If you have signed up to speak on items later on in the agenda, please know that as a presiding officer, I have the discretion to introduce items out of their regular order as listed on the agenda. I'd now like to invite everyone who's able and willing to stand and join me in a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The City of Tempe welcomes public comment at this time. Disruptive behavior will not be allowed. Continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers. We need to be able to hear everyone in the room. Behavior that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any city council meeting is not helpful and is not permitted. This includes behavior both inside and outside of the council chambers. Should individuals inside the council chambers become disruptive so that city business is not able to be conducted.