 I heard no records were beat with my time for Mr. Palin. We're going to buy for this in the two meetings to see if you can come close to the top and Jeff's record. He was he was crowing about it as well. I would say. We call him Rocket Jeff. I understand. I hope all of you would stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. Reverend Dowell buses with a prayer, Madam Clerk, if you'd call the roll. Thank you sir. I heard you whispering about me. It's okay. Reverend Dowell, would you? Yes. Let us pray for the beauty of this day, all of the graceful and hopeful possibilities you've allowed us to share in. You have brought us to this place to discuss in a very honest and sensitive way the issues of our city. We pray for every resident and yet we pray for those of us who might make decisions. Sensitize us to your will and to your way. Undergird us with power and with strength. We ask it. Amen. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Sure. Mr. Rickaman. Here. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Present. Mr. Bedora. Here. Mr. Vine. Here. Mr. Davis. Yes. Mayor Benjamin. Here. Thank you, Mayor Benjamin. At this time, we would ask Council to adopt the agenda as outlined. All right. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Discussion? Seeing none, I'll move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickaman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Bedora. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Asking for public input related to the agenda items at this time. Seeing none, we would ask Council to approve the January 8, 2019 City Council meeting minutes. There's a motion. There's a motion. Is there a second? Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickaman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Bedora. Aye. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Council is asked to approve the consent agenda items two through six. There's a motion. Move approval. Is there a second? Is there any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickaman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Bedora. Aye. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Aye. Thank you. Madam City Manager, thank you in staff for continuing to lay out the priorities of the Clean Water 2020 program and laying them out exactly how we're executing them with minority businesses and small businesses as well. Please, item seven. Yes, sir. Moving into a period of appointments, we had asked Ms. Jenkins to come forward to assist Council. You have one appointment of one individual to fill the attorney position to the DDRC and the appointment of one individual to the Columbia Housing Authority. I'll move the nomination of Ashley Johnson for the DDRC. Second. Any discussion? Move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickaman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Bedora. Aye. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. So for clarity's sake, we do have one more slot to be filled on the DDRC. Is that a planner maybe? It has to be a trained planner. Yes. It has to be a trained planner. I think someone that we tried to point before after we spoke with Chris at Meet the Publications. So we need to kind of step up our game. Any of our citizens in here, if you know some folks who are trained planners, we need a trained planner on the DDRC. I think geographically, it might fit perfectly, that trained planner came from District 4. I think Daniel, I think that's. It would. We might, it would help to have someone, so let's think together about that. As one of your constituents, I'll help think through it as well. So, what's that? An ask her. Barbara? Yeah, ask her. Yeah. So we need a planner from District 4. It would be perfect. The M.C. Manager. Item 8. I'd like to ask that we hold this till the February 5th meeting. Okay. Okay. Now the period of city council committee reports and referrals. Are there any reports or items to refer to committee? Seeing none. We now have some citizens who signed up to speak. And just for some of you who are not here regularly, this is not for the zoning public hearing yet. Some citizens who have decided to speak were still required under public notice requirements to not start the zoning public hearing until 7 p.m. So we'll have probably a little gap that we'll have to fill with friendly banter. Or maybe quick runs to the restroom or something. So we'll have a few minutes there. Dr. Jamal Miller. Ma'am. And if I start to cry, I'm so much appreciative of you, Mayor Benjamin and City Council and Mr. Davis. Officially I have started my clock for retirement. By June I will become a, I guess you could say, a complete civilian. And in front of you, you have an incredible pamphlet that was donated by the printing, was donated by DPK printing, which represents 18 years of my joyful service to the City of Columbia. And also on, God willing, on January 25th, I will receive the Golden Pioneer of the Year Award in Atlantic City. It was in your state newspaper. For 45 years of urban safety service. I want to thank the city manager. I want to thank Ms. Erica. Just everyone here. Because we, we rich program has done an awful lot. Yes, I am looking forward to retirement. I'm not going to lie. I'm 66 now. So, but I will still be available if, did you see some of that, sir? Yes, I see some of this. Yes, sir. Yes. The young people did help me put that together. So I'm not responsible for everything in there. Thank you very much. And I still, the clock is running. Yes, ma'am. But I still have a little bit of few weeks. Wish you the best when you're out. Thank you. No, we thank you so much. Thank you. You've been a real blessing to us. And a blessing to our young people. So many that society given up on. Thank you, sir. You've helped them find incredible value and power they have in themselves. And I love communicating with some of them on Twitter. Thank you. And other ways. And they're doing great things with their lives. So we appreciate you. Thank you very much. And I hope you enjoy the pamphlets. And if you have anything, just feel free. Let me know. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right. Audrey Adams. Is that you? Okay. Okay. All right. So I think Ms. Adams is here to speak for the zoning public hearing. We have no other citizens who sign up to speak. So we have a brief intermission. And I, those of you, I'm sorry, please. If Ms. Wilson could maybe just briefly for the citizens. To discuss our retreat for the next couple of days and exactly kind of what council will be doing. I think, you know, people don't really realize that we do a lot goes into our strategic planning so that we can be planning for the future. And I just would love for her to talk a little bit about it so that citizens know what we'll be doing over the next couple of days. Sure. Well, fortunately, you all are a very visionary council. Over two years ago, you embarked upon setting a vision for Columbia that takes us all the way to hopefully 2036 at a minimum. And that process involves bringing in a facilitator that the same facilitator we had back then, we will have with us. She's already in town and has been interviewing council members individually. Really getting their individual feedback so that she has some sense of where you all stand individually with your thoughts and dreams and aspirations for our city so that she can work with you collectively over the next two days to hopefully bring that collective, continue that collective vision that you said even two years ago. But also now taking another look at the priorities you set then and helping you work with the staff, with me and the staff to move the vision forward. So the whole Envision Columbia work product that was established over two years ago, we want to continue to brand that as it has been, but to grow it and to make sure that the priorities are still in place under the seven focus areas that you established over the last two years. And so that's what we'll be doing. We're doing it in town, making sure that we are taking advantage of the wonderful municipal facilities that we have, a very new state of the art facility at the Busbee Street complex, looking forward to fellowship. I know you all get to spend some quality time together just as a council in fellowship, but also a lot of hard work. And so as staff, that's much appreciated because I think our citizens would expect that the staff is held accountable and for me to be held accountable with the staff, I really do need to know and understand where you are. And if there are some changes we need to make, if there's a refocus on the goal setting, then we need to take this time to do that so that I can then help correct all of our management team and leadership team and all of the staff of the City of Columbia on where this mayor and council really see our city going and growing. And it's real work. It's not a touchy-feely, just team building kind of thing. It's really not. It is hard work, introspective time, but also collective consensus building with the council. I hope I captured everything correctly. And thank you all for doing it and taking the time. Mr. Rickman is teasing me. Yes, I may do a Facebook live from out there. We did one the last time for the municipal association building and we had lots of citizens who tuned in and said what they thought. So we may do that, Mr. Davis. Davis and I did that. We did a Facebook live from our last retreat. Yeah, we did. So we still have a few more minutes. Does anybody else have anything that they'd like to report out or ask the manager? I spoke to Patrick before the meeting and he thinks that we will be ready to discuss the draft at our February meeting. So if you could put us on the agenda for the afternoon to let the council look at the draft ordinance. We're smoking ordinance. Smoking. Yes, sir. Vaping. We're already taking care of the smoking. Yes, sir. We're updating. We'll do. Anybody else? Okay, so I think we have seven minutes. We're going to take a brief, brief break and come back at seven o'clock. Very good. You come back.