 I'm going to call the meeting to order and Mary Lynn can jump in if she gets here. We'll call. Born is here. Marcus of Iglio. Present. Roberta Paneski. Trey Mitchell. We have a quorum. For those in the, for those that city hall. If you want to stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Will do. I pledge allegiance. Todd, do you want to lead the pledge? Yes. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Yes. So, could you tell the rest of the committee who else is in the council chambers please? I'll have Scott send it here. We just started. Thanks. Jim. Yes. Mary Lynn just called me while we were pledging. She can't find the link, so I'll have Scott send the link to Mary Lynn. And then so, but I would just continue in the, in the meantime. All right. Tell us who's in the council chambers. Yes, I will. Tara Dewey, Vicki Schneider, myself, and Carrie, Erin, and Scott, of course. And it looks like we have quite a few guests tonight, so we'll introduce ourselves. I am Alderman Jim Borne of the 10th District, and I'm vice chairman of the Finance and Personnel Committee. I am Roberta Falecki-Paneski, Alderman in District 2. Hi, I'm Marcus Savalio, Alderman District, Alderperson District 5, excuse me. I'm sure I met you all there, Vice Chairman District 9. Thank you. Let's move on to item number 2.1 on the agenda, which is approval of the minutes from the December 28th, 2020 meeting. I'll entertain a motion. Move to approve. Second. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor. Aye. Vice Chair votes aye. I see that Mary Lynn has arrived. Mary Lynn, we're down to number 3.1, if you'd like to take over. I think it's been abducted by aliens, and I really apologize, so all right. So 3.1, who would like to take that? First speak to the first piece of it, which is just simply that when you make the motion, there will need to be an amendment, a motion to amend. So after, this really went to council probably too early. It went before it had been completely negotiated with the other parties involved. And so there is one change in here that was requested by Coler Credit Union that everybody's agreed to, and it has to do with the whole harmless indemnification clause. But once we get to that, I will provide you the language for the amendment before you make the final motion. All right, so we are looking for a motion to authorize the mayor and city clerk to exit the agreement between the city, Lakeland University and Coler Credit Union for the Memorial Day Parade. Do we have such a motion? So moved. And a second? Second, borne. All right, and then check what are you looking for in terms of an amendment? So the amendment would be to amend the agreement so as to replace section 4-H in the original agreement, the attached agreement to provide the whole harmless indemnification paragraph would read as follows. To the extent permitted by law, law shall hold harmless defend and or indemnify KCU and the city from any and all claims, actions, suits, charges, awards, fines, laborer's charges or costs of any kind or character, including attorney's fees and court costs that arise or may arise out of watches, performance or non-performance of any term, obligation, service or condition as set forth in this agreement. All right, Chuck, can we do this by an agreement by the maker of the motion to so amend the original motion or do you want a separate motion to amend? Probably cleaner to have that separate motion to amend, but since I read it, they can just say so moved. So do we have a motion to amend the agreement as read? I move to amend the agreement as read. Second, Lauren. All right, so we're gonna vote on the amendment. Are there any questions or concerns, Bert? I have a question. I'm a little bit confused because the language always states Lakeland University and there is a signatory that is seems to be affiliated with another entity in there and I don't have the document in front of me, I'm sorry, but is it really Lakeland or is it Kim Leibn and Kim Leibn's business? Actually, that was asked to be amended as well. When I sent that back to the mayor, this is a Lakeland University venture and launch is the student run business venture owned by Lakeland University. I work for Lakeland University and I mentor the businesses. So this is indeed a Lakeland University agreement. And the document, yeah, that's all been updated. That was all updated on before. But you may be confused by the fact that as you read the agreement, Lakeland University is referred to as launch. It's launch at Lakeland University is the party. All right, so by virtue of the motion to approve and then the motion to amend, Chuck, in your opinion, is that pretty crystal clear? Do we have any issues about who the parties are or what the responsibilities are? No issues with who the parties are and the responsibilities. The main change was just color credit union wanted some different language on the whole harmless at all. And the city's position is there's no change. It's just written differently. Okay, Burt, are you satisfied with the answer? Yes, I am. Thank you. Okay, so let us vote on the amendment to provide the indemnification agreement unless there are any other questions or concerns. I had a, this is Alderman Boren, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask Kim Leibam a couple of questions about her launch group. What's the amendment? Jim, let's vote on the amendment. All right. And then we can go to the body of the motion itself. All right, fine. So any other questions or concerns regarding the amendment? Hearing none, all in favor, state aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. The amendment passes and the agreement as amended is before us. Go ahead, Jim. Thank you, Madam Chair. Kim, I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about the launch group, how many students are involved in it? Is this going to be their first project in the community? What other projects are they, are you having thinking of having them be involved in? And also, is there any kind of a coordination with the Kohler Credit Union as far as past practices and running the parade? That would be helpful. Thank you. Good question. Thank you and I appreciate you asking them. Let me address the first question, which is launch and its infrastructure. Launch began on May 10th of 2020. So it's a relatively new endeavor. However, in the short months that we have been operational, we have eight student leaders who are operating five different businesses right now. We actually are profitable. So believe it or not, we were able to start some businesses that didn't have any startup costs or any expenses to them. So we started conservatively and that's paying dividends. As far as what we are doing within the community, we actually have just been approved to launch an independent campus shop, which we will be operating on campus from an event standpoint. We are contracted to run the Memorial Day Parade, which we're talking about here. We will be running the Gus Makers, the boys and the girls clubs is no longer engaging in that activity. So what's not going to be running that with the Gus Makers organization? We are running the Blasters Golf Tournament this summer and we are also running a concession stand at Road America. So that's the event side of the business that really took off kind of quickly. We also are managing a rental property that the university owns and we are fingers crossed, going to be closing on a business that we are actually purchasing on the 30th of January that we have been negotiating for several months. So we actually are looking to conclude our event side of the business with over $100,000 profit by the end of the summer. And I think anybody who knows anything about new businesses, I think that's a good feat for a year to actually end the year with the profit. From the other side of your question, asking it how we've been cooperating with Kola Credit Union, Kola Credit Union and Laura are very easy to work with. They have shared all of their documentation with us. We have everything that had been created both by Laura as well as the person who had run the Memorial Day Parade for years past. And we have reorganized that and assigned our timeline and work to it. And the woman who is going to be leading the parade, her name is Allie Wilson. She is an absolutely outstanding senior. She is studying organizational development and leadership. She's interested in pursuing a career in athletic management from an operational side of the house. So I have complete faith in her. Now the students do not operate by themselves. So I mentor or you might want to say, I control everything that they're doing but because they're students, they don't know how to run businesses and they need that partnership. And that's my responsibility. Thank you. Any other questions? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion please state aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. Well, just Laura and Kim and just thank you so much for all of your assistance with this really important parade and hopefully in May we'll all be able to stand, you know, close together on the sidewalks with our winter jackets on and enjoy the parade. So, but really thank you so much. And Kim, congratulations on your amazing program. That's really, that's really true. Thank you. Thanks for your support. We're really looking forward to making sure I can proud. Yeah, you will. Now, Mike, let me just look. Well, by Jinkies, that's the end of our meeting. We are next meeting on January 25th. Do we have any quorum issues for that? It's a great thing about nobody going anywhere. Very good. Can we have a motion to adjourn? I don't know. A motion to adjourn? Second. All right. We have a motion and second all in favor. Please signify by stating aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all so much. And again, my apologies.