 Welcome to tonight's meeting, the Common Council meeting. This is the second meeting of the Common Council. And it should be a relatively short meeting. All we have on the agenda today is confirmation of the appointments. Before we start the meeting, as we do always, we ask our city clerk to read the quote for the week. Thank you, Mayor. Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Thank you. Call the second regular meeting of the Common Council to order. Please call the roll. Boran. Here. Bulk. Here. Serda. Here. Gisha. Here. Hanna. Here. Heidemann. Here. Kittleson. Here. Clowness. Here. Manny. Excuse. Meyer. Here. Montemayor. Here. Renfleisch. Here. Ryan. Here. Vanderweal. Here. Verhasselt. Here. And Wangaman. Here. 15 present. Quorum is present. Alderman Boran, would you believe it is in the Pledge of Allegiance, sir? 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. Thank you, Alderman Boran. Next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. President Hanna. Mr. Mayor. I move that we approve the minutes of April 7th. Second. Motion in second to approve minutes. Any discussion? There being none, all in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Next item is confirmation of Mayor's appointments to standing committees. President Hanna. Mr. Mayor, I move to confirm the Mayor's appointments to the standing committees. Second. Motion in second. It's soon easy. You don't need to read it again, do you? Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Appointments are confirmed. Next item, President Hanna. Mr. Mayor. I move to confirm the Mayor's appointments to the special committees, boards and commissions. Second. Motion in second. Under discussion. Alderman Wagman. Thank you, Your Honor. I full well realize what a daunting task it is to gather all the names together for about sixty-some committees and to try and find the best people for the best spots. It's a job that I wouldn't want, but I'm a little bit disturbed at the some of the inequities that appear especially on the special committees. There are nine people on this council which is over half the council that have four committee appointments or less and that disturbs me. There are some twenty-four committee positions that are held by two people and that disturbs me. I would just like to think in the future that we could see a little bit more equitable spread amongst the members of the council. In the past, I think that did occur because I've been searching through some old records and looking at all committee appointments and it seemed that the committees in the past were a little bit more balanced. Now I don't want to suggest in any way that this was done with any bias or purpose. I think in the course of making so many decisions, the actual count per person can be lost and I do realize that there were some aldermen for personal reasons ask not to be assigned a lot of committees either for personal reasons or family reasons or perhaps business or whatever. But I just wanted to bring to the council's attention that fact and I wonder if our listeners on TV that watch these proceedings really realize how important committees are. Most of the work as we all know are done in committees and people ask they say why are documents always referred to the committee. They say well you just handle them in the council. I'm sure the city clerk knows the answers to that because there are sometimes sixty or seventy some documents. You can imagine if those all had to be handled in the council we'd come here three in the afternoon probably wouldn't get home till one in the morning. So the major part of the work has to be done in committees so committees are very very important. There are some committees of course are more important than others but it just was somewhat disturbing to me when I saw the makeup of these special committees. Thank you your honor. Thank you Alderman Wagerman. Just under discussion to continue I am glad Alderman Wagerman made it clear that he's not implying that there was any impropriety on my part and I would agree with you Alderman Wagerman. The appointments are extremely difficult to make because generally the only person that agrees with you is the one who was appointed. The other ones feel you made the wrong choice. I went through the same agony. I went through the same difficulty making decisions making it in the school board as so did President Hanna at the school board. I did the same last year. But just a brief explanation some of these Alderman asked not to be in certain committees some wanted to be in certain committees. More than two or three wanted to be in the same one. I had to make a choice. In some instances where there's Alderman that seem to be there a little bit more often there's two reasons for that. Some that were already serving in that position and some because there happened to be a member of a chair then automatically get paced on some committees. Last year we had one Alderman that said in eight committees. This year it's not that many. It's going to happen throughout the I had some Alderman say I wish I could have been in that committee but that's okay maybe next year I can get a shot. I would ask and I did that last year. Obviously you weren't here Alderman Wagerman because you just won the election. But I did ask last year and I'll ask you again if there's any concern if you have any desire any wish to be in a particular committee I would ask you to call me right after the election come into my office let's sit down and sort through everything and then maybe we can come to some amicable terms about where we can be where we can be. But again I appreciate that you made it clear that you made no implication of any propriety and I assure the common council that never has been and there never will be. Thank you. Any more discussion. There being none. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed. Motion carries one opposition. Is that one more. Turn please. Hereby submit the following appointments for your consideration Alderperson Marilyn Montemire to be considered for appointment to the library board to fill the unexpired term of Alderman Jean Davis whose term expires four thirty oh nine and Janet Carter to be considered for appointment to the commission on aging to fill the unexpired term of Destin Dustin Havens whose term expired four thirty two thousand ten signed by the mayor. That's for motion to confirm. Second second. Any discussion. Did you want to speak to President Hanna. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed. Motion carries. Appointments confirmed. Move to adjourn. Motion second to adjourn. Any discussion. All in favor say aye. We stand adjourned. Thank you.