 I will call the first ever meeting for the City of Essex Junction City Council to order for Wednesday, July 6th, 2022. Thank you all for being here. Thank you city residents, city councilors. Nice to see you all and I'm not gonna get used to this. So that's why I'm going to intentionally say city a few more times. So I can hopefully stop saying village. Do we have any agenda additions or changes for tonight? I'm from staff Andrew. Council members? No, just curious whether it's to Brad Lux. How he gets things done. He splits himself. Right, right. All right, so with no agenda additions or changes we can move off of that. Nothing to approve and go into public to be heard. So this is a portion of tonight's meeting where if there are members of the public who wish to bring something to the city council's attention, now is the time to do so. For those of you using Zoom. Zoom, go ahead, raise your hand and I will give you the chance to speak to the city council. Anybody here in the room? Okay. So nobody here in the room. Back to Zoom land. I see no hands up. Oh, go ahead, Annie. Thanks, sorry, Raj. I just wanted to briefly say that I would be excited when y'all felt ready to start the economic development committee or commission where the city I'd be really enthusiastic to be on that and apply to be on it and be involved in it. Thank you very much. Thank you, Annie. All right, no other hands up. So then we will move off from public to be heard and we'll jump into business item 5A being the discussion of the city manager's applicants. This is going to be a conversation. We're going to have an executive session. So for those of you who are either in the room or on Zoom land this may feel a little weird because typically we do executive sessions at the end of our meetings but this is something that we are going to do first. And so as such, in a few moments I'm going to make a motion to put us into executive session and then you won't see us again until we come back from that. And then we will carry on with the meeting. So for those of you who are not members of the board this will be a bit of a pause in the meeting for you all. So with that I would move that the city council go into executive session to discuss personnel documents related to the hiring of individuals that are exempt from the public records laws under the provisions of title one, section 313A6 of the Vermont statutes and include the interim co-managers. Second. Thank you, Dan. Any further discussion? Seeing and hearing none. All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Oh, aye. So pass unanimously. So we will go ahead and enter into executive session. For those of you again in the public we'll be back in a little while. Go ahead and call the city of Essex Junction city council Wednesday July 6th meeting back to order. Now transition into business item 5B to consider the city manager hiring process. In the packet we have the memo. There's nothing really, Brad, if this is wrong, please chime in. But I don't believe there was anything in the memo that hasn't already been discussed. Just pointing out that we have, we talked about this on May 11th. We didn't vote on it. If there are desire changes we can but how we got to the point that we are currently at is within the memo, basically with the hiring committee that we had appointed back in February they created a process that we discussed on May 11th. The general consensus from that conversation was to follow the process. Took us about an hour to get there but was to follow that process with the exception of doing what we just did which is having an opportunity to talk about the applicants and to hear how we got to the current slate of candidates that we arrived at. It's all good. Any better now? Maybe that's it. That's me. That was my bad, sorry. So it's how we got to where we were at. So are there any questions or Brad, did I leave anything out? Sorry, I just barely heard the last couple of words that you said. Which was, did I leave anything out? I don't know if others heard anything before that. You didn't either Amber? All right, so I'll go back to that again. Well, I called the meeting back to order and then after that we got into the next business item and then I just did a brief recap of the memo basically saying that in February we had appointed a hiring committee or the hiring planning committee which designed a process had input from the trustees, from residents, from staff about the way the process should look and type of people were looking for. We discussed that briefly on May 11th. So for about an hour or so and the big takeaway from me on that one is that we would follow the process that the committee had outlined with the only difference being that we would add an executive section to talk about the applicants and how we got to the final slate or the slate of candidates that we just spoke about. But other than that, we had largely agreed with the process, we just didn't vote on it at that meeting. So unless I missed anything, Brad, does that align with what you had in the memo? Yes, thank you. Yeah, well, we didn't hear any of that. So thanks for recapping. Yep, that aligns exactly. All right, city council, any questions? There are no questions. Then since we've talked about this already if somebody wanted to make the motion possibly the first motion. All right, I move that the city council, let's see here, is it up on the big screen? I think so. Yes. I'm with the city council discuss the process that has previously been laid out and decide if they would like to amend or accept it. A little bit further down. So the recommended motion. The amended, yeah. Okay. So should the city council decide to move forward the following are the recommended options and I would move that we accept the city manager hiring process that had been identified in this memo. Second. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Raj. Any further discussion? Hearing none, a listen in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. Great. So we have the process and now we go into the consent agenda. I move we accept the consent agenda. Second. Thank you. Thank you, Raj. Thank you, Dan. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. Great. So it also passed unanimously. We've already done the executive session and so I would entertain a motion to adjourn. I move we adjourn. I move. Second. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Raj. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. All right. Thank you all. Have a good night.