The Venice City Council met on April 22, 2025, at 9:00 AM in Council Chambers. The meeting included recognitions, public comments, consent agenda approvals, public hearings on zoning and code changes, new business items, presentations, and council discussions. Key actions included approval of a budget amendment, adoption of a new Special Events Guide, and initiation of a process to fill a vacant council seat.
Test. All right, Roger. Can you hear me? And then if I could, Madam Clerk, let's do the roll call first, please. Mrs. Frank. Here. Mr. Howard. Here. Mr. Engelke is here. Mr. Smith. Here. Vice Mayor Bolt. Here. Mayor Pichetta. Here. All right. And then we will stand for the invocation, and today's pledge will be led by Captain White. We thank you too for the families, colleagues, and staff who support them in their important work. Amen. Liberty and justice for our all. Marty Dover, yes. Something about Marty, she's here all the time. I mean, like we actually send police over to her house if we can't find Marty, something's wrong. I'm kidding. So with that, we recently renovated chambers. It's beautiful. Um, a lot of tech issues that we had that are now improved. So with that, we saved a letter for Marty. So there you go. You don't have to say anything, but it's okay. You can try all you want, yeah. I promised I wouldn't make her say anything, so that way she can cry and just let it all out. Okay. Love when we start things off joyously. Let's bring down the clerk. And we will bring down firefighter paramedic Ronnie Hernandez. All right, go ahead. There's this. Chief and administration, if you guys want to come down. Come over this side. Do you have anything you want to say first, Chief? I do. Anything you want to say first? Okay. I'm gonna stand over here next to you, and I'm gonna hold this microphone. I got the mic, you just raise the hand.