Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I'd like to welcome you to this evening's meeting of the uh Woodstock City Council.

It's a bit out of sorts for us because it's on a Wednesday, which is really weird.

Um but because of changes in state law, uh, we were required to not have the meeting on uh the day of uh an election or including primary uh election.

So here we are on Wednesday.

Uh a couple of brief announcements before we get started.

The agenda this evening and all materials will be shown on the uh on the screens in uh throughout the room.

Uh there are two opportunities for public comment this evening, the first being at the start of the meeting uh under floor discussion public comment.

Uh members of the public may come forward to the podium in the middle of the room if they're willing to do so, state their name and address for purpose of the record and feel free to make comments to the Woodstock City Council on any items not on this evening's agenda.

Second opportunity for public comment will be during um items for action.

We will offer the opportunity for uh public to make a comment as well.

City of uh Woodstock operates in what's c uh called a consent format.

Consent format means that all items for action this evening will be considered in a single motion or a single vote.

If a member of the public wishes to have an item removed for separate consideration and voting, they may make that request, and that item can be removed if agreed to by a member of council.

That item can be removed for separate consideration and voting.

And if a member of council wishes to remove an item as well, member of council may do that.

It will be removed and separately considered and voted upon.

Any questions on those brief announcements before we get started?

All right, hearing none, I'll go ahead and officially call to order this March 18th, 2026 meeting of the Woodstock City Council to order and ask Jane to please call the roll.

Councilman Flynn.

Here councilman Hansen.

Here.

Councilwoman McMahon.

Councilman Nearman.

Here.

Councilman Seegers.

Here.

Councilwoman Ziemba.

Here.

Mayor Turner.

Here.

The record reflect that six of the seven members of the Woodstock City Council are present for this evening's meeting.

Jane, I would ask you to please uh confirm that the agenda this evening is the same as the true and published agenda.

Yes, it is.

All right, thank you, Jane.

Ladies and gentlemen of the council, that being the case, the people's business is duly and appropriately before us.

Uh the first item on the agenda this evening is floor discussion.

And under floor discussion, uh we have a fantastic opportunity to uh do a swearing in of a blank brand new uh Woodstock police officer.

And we're joined this evening um by the chief and also Ron Giordano, the uh commission commissioner of our um uh Woodstock Police and uh police and fire commission.

So chief, uh with pleasure, I'll turn that over to you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um and along with Officer Landeros, we have his wife Karen who is also a police officer at a nearby agency to uh pin his badge on in just a moment.

You know, this is one of those exciting moments where um it's been almost a year uh since Officer Landeras joined Woodstock Police Department.

And uh in today's world, it just takes a ton of training to um select well it takes a lot of effort to select somebody and then hire them, put them through the training, and then once they go through the academy, they uh come back to us and go through a 90 working day field training process.

Uh Officer Landeros went through all of that uh with uh high honors and uh achieved solo patrol back in uh January.

Uh and so now we're finally getting to ready to do his uh ceremonial swearing in.

You know, it's one of those and when we do these, not only do we invite our Woodstock PD family, but we invite his uh blood family, again his his wife Karen and Serenity Serenity over there that's just hanging out.

Hi Serenity Um because when we do this to get through, as I've said before, um law enforcement career is not an easy one, and it takes both families, uh your Woodstock family and your family at home to get through this.

And I can't even imagine what it's like to have a double law enforcement uh house when it when it comes to the stresses of the job and uh uh raising children at the same time.

So kudos to both of you.

Um with that, I'd like to turn it over to Mr.

Giordano to issue the oath.

Okay.

Yes, sir.

I say your name.

Hi, Roberta Landeros.

I'll support the constitution of the United States.

I'll support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois and the Constitution of the State of Illinois.

And I will faithfully discharge the duties.

Congratulations, Officer.