 Call the order the 26th regular meeting and the last meeting of the 2008-2009 Common Council. As is tradition I will have the city clerk Sue Richards read the quote of the evening. Thank you. Cherish your yesterday's dream your tomorrow's but live your today's. Tomorrow belongs to those who fully use today. Roll call. Boren. Here. Balk. Excuse. Decker. Here. Gisha. Here. Hanna. Here. Heidemann. Here. Kittleson. Here. Clayunas. Here. Mayer. Excuse. Montemayor. Here. Rinflaich. Here. Ryan. Here. Surrick. Here. Vanderweal. Here. Verhasselt. Here. And Wongamon. Here. Go ahead. I've got 13 present. Thank you. I'd ask that Alderperson Clayunas lead us in the pledge. 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. I would entertain a motion for the approval of the minutes. Alderman Boren. Thank you Mr. President. I move to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Public forum. Resignations. Oh I'm sorry. Resignations. Apologize. Attorney McLean. Thank you. I've got letters from three different members of the Mayor's International Committee. Jose Starnella advising that he decided not to renew his commitment for the next council year so his resignation be effective April 30, 2009. I need a motion to accept and file. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Dieter Helm's resignation effective Wednesday April 15th. I need a motion to accept and file. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. And Val Brisa also resigning from the International Committee. I'll need a motion to accept and file. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. First on our list this evening is Jeff Schucho. If you could come up to the mic please. And Jeff can I have your home address. Okay and you will have five minutes sir. Thank you. I just wanted to come today and I know in the news lately there's been an awful lot of down things about our economy. This council, the city, the state, federal government were all up against a lot of big struggles but I thought it'd be interesting to share some positive news and little things that a lot of people may not notice going on in our area. I run a very small business that I'm starting out and working to establish right here in Sheboygan and I engaged a couple of years ago in a abatement program for an area community along the Lakeshore that being the city of Kiwani. The city in implementing this program found out that while they started saving a lot of money with their department of public works but what I didn't anticipate was what we've experienced this spring. A news story was run last fall which I believe was on Channel 5 and one or two other stations which I have a copy of and this news story was promoting the success of their tourism development and what was being done to clean up their riverfront and their lakefront areas. And what I've been amazed to see this year and I just wanted to let the city of Sheboygan and other communities know too that this is this could be possible in many areas where there are problems is that for the last three to four weeks already their boat ramps are crammed. There's people trailering boats there and fishing streams of boats going out on the lake and coming back in. It's really an impressive sight for a lakeside community like that and I know this city is working towards those sorts of goals and I think what the resources that you have here in this community in the people that if you set your sights on on some of these things like development of the Aerospace Museum possibly getting the Edson here boy be wonderful to really jump start our tourism and really move things forward here. I'd love to see that take place here as much as I am in other communities that I'm getting engaged with now and I just wanted to share a little bit of good news on that in that regard that there are good things happening here and with a lot of the job losses we really need to I'm afraid steer our governor and some others representing us in the right direction which they haven't been of late. Thank you very much. Thank you. And last this evening is Tom Bowers. Tom if you could come up to the mic please. Address? Yes I do need your address. 2120 North 36th Street. And you will have five minutes sir. Thank you. Well it's always good to hear good news. Mr. Sukho we can certainly use it. Tonight I would like to speak to you on some projects Sheboygan, Wisconsin I found on the internet. This were shovel ready projects which were submitted to the mayor's conference 2008 which year marks for Sheboygan 40,624,000 dollars. Here are a list of the projects. I imagine that this came from the mayor and maybe the council. Number one construction of a pedestrian bridge over the Sheboygan River costs seven million dollars. People voted on this. 81% voted no. Number two performed sanitary sewer linings of various segments of the city sanitary system. A $300,000 project. 87% people voted yes. Development of a high end technology park within the city limits. Costs 15 million dollars. 74% voted no. Purchase additional land to expand Sheboygan business center. 70 million dollars. Costs 70% voted no. Eisner Avenue reconstruction including bicycle lanes. Roadway improvement. Costs 7 million dollars. I'm sorry 3,838,000 dollars. 61% voted yes. 10th street in Florida Avenue flood mitigation including storm sewer curbing and road improvements. 2,160,000 dollars. 71% of the people voted no. Central business district district street and flood mitigation improvements. 2 million dollars. 53% of the population voted no. Indiana Avenue street reconstruction including reconstruction of storm sewers. Costs 675,000 dollars which seems very low but anyway 76% of the people voted yes. Now I don't know if this is the project that was voted on last week or not but anyway 76% of the people voted for it. Replace old windows city hall. Costs 300,051% of the people voted no. Additional police officers on the street to deal with street crime. 750,000 dollars. 58% of people voting voted yes. Eliminate or reduce bus fares for one year to increase ridership. 500,000 dollar cost. 88% of the people voted no. Purchase new energy efficient transit buses to replace age buses. 500,000 dollar cost. 68% of the people voted no. Add additional bus routes to metropolitan areas to allow persons to get jobs outside the city limits. 350,000 dollar cost. 69% voted no. Provide feeder service, bus routes to central business district. 250,000 dollar cost. 58% people voted no. Now this is only a outline and I would imagine that this is set in stone because this is probably the earmark that has been allocated for Sheboygan and I don't know if this is the total amount or not. One thing that I know that I would like to see created in Sheboygan for the not only for the roadways but for sewers is maybe create a tiff district. This way with the tiff tiff district it would eliminate some of the blight maybe on Indiana Avenue and would help these people pay for some of these very expensive sewer repairs and road repairs. We were going to be faced in the next year, two years, three years a very serious shortage of money. So if any of this money can be allocated towards us I'm hoping that these projects are not set in stone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Tom. That's it this evening. Thank you so. We have the consent agenda and I'll Vice President Boren. Thank you Mr. President. I move to accept and file all our O's and accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Thank you. That's 26-1 and through 26-30 and we'll need a roll call on that. Discussion? Dan. Thank you. Thank you. I just had a question on document 26-29. If I recall correctly from reading the document at the last meeting this is a there's no current bid on these two trucks that we're looking to purchase. It's a single axle dump truck and a single axle truck chassis. This is working off of an old bid from 2008. Is that correct? I think you're correct. All the person clueless. Thank you. Yes it is but I understand that the bid has not changed. The price has not changed. It's the same price as it was last year. They were giving us the same deal. Have we rebidded I guess to the entire group? I mean I understand that's probably the case with this provider but if we were to offer it out to three or four worthy providers would they be more competitive? I mean being in the I guess in private industry since last year sometime many whether you're in the soup business or the nuts business people have gotten a lot more competitive with the economy that we're currently in. So I'm just curious if we offered it all out. What the result might be? Do we have an answer for that or do we know? All the person kiddles. Thank you Mr. President. I was going to ask if we could have a director Bill Absolutely. You just want to see if I can work this board. I know what you're up to. Last year the city did five traditional or major snowplow trucks. There's some differences but they're pretty much the same unit. Because of that large number we felt the prices were very competitive. We now have the opportunity as you indicated because of the economics we have there's several vendors involved in packaging a truck that comes through our door ready to use and all vendors involved were willing to hold last year's prices at the group bid. It's our judgment if we bid out one truck we will probably not get prices of this nature. That's a judgment thing the only way to prove is to bid one out and if they're higher they're higher and if they're lower they're lower but our judgment is that because of the group and the large purchase which is five of these trucks we have the best bid is what we got last year. Questions for Bill? Thank you Bill. Any further discussion? Any discussion on any other items? Roll call. Vander wheel for Hasselt and Wongamon. 13 ayes. Thank you. Communications and petitions to be to be referred 2631 to public protection and safety of the new council. Report of officers 2. I need a motion to accept and file 2632 by the city clerk submitting a communication from the march of dimes requesting permission to hold their Sheboygan march for babies a three mile or six mile route on Saturday April 25th. Vice president Boren. Thank you. Motion to accept and file. Discussion? Attorney McLean. President Hannah I believe want to approve this tonight. I guess my suggestion would be to accept and adopt rather than file I think it's a little ambiguous accepting and filing as to whether you're approving it or not. Vice president Boren would you in your second. Thank you. Attorney McLean. Any other discussion? Hearing none all in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. 2633 by the city clerk granting various license applications. I'll need a motion to accept and file. All in Boren. Thank you, Your Honor. Do we need a motion to that's a report of officer to move to that the report of officer be accepted and placed on file? Is that the correct motion? Okay so moved then. Second. Thank you all the person. Discussion? We'll need a roll call. Sure. Decker. Gisha. Heidemann. Kittleson. Cleonis. Montemayor. Rinfleshe. Ryan. Zurich. Vanderweal. Verhaselt. Wongamon. And Boren. 13 ayes. Thank you. To be referred this would be 2634 through 2643 except we are pulling 2643 and the companion referral of 2650. We have additional okay I'm sorry resolution two I'm sorry resolutions introduced three. I'll need for 2644 all the person Kittleson. Thank you Mr. President. I would move that the resolution be put upon its passage. The second. Thank you. Discussion? Under discussion I think this is just a resolution authorizing our Director of Public Works to solicit bids for the Western Inceptor. Thank you. Just a general resolution. Any further discussion? We'll need a roll call. Yes that's fine. Gisha. Heidemann. Kittleson. Cleonis. Montemayor. Rinfleshe. Ryan. Zurich. Vanderweal. Verhaselt. Wongamon. Boren. And Decker. 13 ayes. Resolution passes. Resolution 2645 by all the persons Ryan and Bauk. All the person Ryan. Thank you Mr. President. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Resolution passes. We'll need a suspension on the next one. Resolution 2646 by all the person Gisha, Cleonis, Montemayor, Boren, Bauk authorizing an amendment to the General Engineering Services Contract with ACOM dated July 11th 2008. All the person Gisha. Thank you Mr. President. I ask for suspension of the rules with an explanation. The reason for the need of suspension is this is some additional work being done on the project. It's a time sensitive project you can see by the dating on the document and the this would release funds that are already set aside for this project. Do we have any objection to the suspension of rules? Can we just move on to the resolution? Thank you. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Second. All the person Verhas. Thank you Mr. Chair. I was just curious if there could be just a short and sweet explanation as to exactly what this is, the ACOM. All the person Cleonis. Yes. This is a company that gives us general engineering services because we don't have a city engineer and we just need to extend the services for the section. Is that satisfactory? Thank you. All the person Cleonis. Roll call. Any other discussion? Roll call please. Heidemann? Aye. Kittleson? Aye. Cleonis? Aye. Montemayor? Aye. Rinflesch? Aye. Ryan? Aye. Zurich? Aye. Fanderwheel? Aye. Verhaselt? Aye. Wongerman? Aye. Boren? Aye. Decker? Aye. And Gisha? Aye. Thirteen Ayes. Resolution passes. Resolution 2647 by Alderman Gisha. Authorizing an amendment to the flood control project engineering service contract with ACOM dated August 13th 2008. I think you'll need to suspend this one also. All the person Gisha. Thank you Mr. President. I ask for suspension of the rules. Second. Any discussion? Any objection to the suspension? Hearing none. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Any further discussion? We'll need a roll call. Kittleson? Aye. Cleonis? Aye. Montemayor? Aye. Rinflesch? Aye. Ryan? Aye. Zurich? Aye. Fanderwheel? Aye. Verhaselt? Aye. Wongerman? Aye. Boren? Aye. Decker? Aye. Gisha? Aye. And Heidemann? Aye. Thirteen Ayes. Resolution passes. Resolution 2649 by Alderman Gisha that the city undertake certain actions to reduce the number of preventable drownings and near drownings in the city. Alderman Gisha. Thank you Mr. President. Once again and there will be a following document I ask for suspension of the rules. I'm sorry. Second. Any objection? Please proceed. You're doing quite well Alderman Gisha. Just so everyone understands the suspension of the rules who happens to be listening tonight or in attendance. This is to move $70,000 from the general contingency fund into the parts improvement fund so that we can have certain water safety measures that the committee took up and requested adopting for in time for our summer tourism and beach season. So this is this is in response to the committee the committee report on water safety. Alderperson Ryan. Thank you Mr. President. I think it should also be noted that the $70,000 that's being allocated for this hopefully we will not incur that entire cost. One part of this that is going to be incorporated into it is a five five minute water safety video that we hope to show on the screens at the Marcus Theater all summer long and also the brochures that will go out etc all of the the literature regarding this program we will be looking for a sponsor for. Now we're hoping that this video has a 10-year shelf life so to get a sponsorship on every movie screen all summer long for 10 years probably is worth a buck or two so hopefully we can knock this $70,000 down significantly. Thank you Alderperson Ryan. Alderperson Claylons. Thank you Mr. President. Can I ask how much is left in the contingency fund that would be for this year? I think we'll be very short answer but I think Terry would be best answer. Terry? After this there'll be about 80,000 I believe left in the contingency. Any questions for Terry? That's after this dispersion. Thank you. Any further discussion? Call for a roll. Clioness. Hi. Montemay Orr. Hi. Rindflige. Ryan. Hi. Surik. Hi. Vanderweal. Hi. Verhassell. Hi. Longamon. Hi. Bourne. Hi. Decker. Hi. Gisha. Hi. Heidemann. Hi. Ann Kittleson. Hi. Thirteen Eyes. Motion passes. Resolution 2648 again by Alderperson Gisha. Authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the 2009 establishing a temporary appropriation for water safety task force and recommended improvements. This resolution will require a two-thirds vote. Alderperson Gisha. Thank you Mr. President. I ask for suspension of the rules. Second. Any discussion on the suspension of the rules? Hearing none please proceed. Thank you. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Any discussion? Alderperson Clioness. Thank you Mr. President. I want to say thank you to the committee for doing this work. It's very thorough and I think you know it's a needed thing and the timing is important at this time because hopefully summer will come. In due time. Any further discussion? Hearing none I call for roll call. Montemayor. Hi. Rinfleisch. Hi. Ryan. Hi. Zurich. Hi. Van Der Wiel. Hi. Verhasselt. Hi. Wongaman. Hi. Bourne. Hi. Decker. Hi. Gisha. Hi. Heidemann. Hi. Kittleson. Hi. Ann Clioness. Hi. Thirteen Eyes. Motion passes. To be referred 2650 which of course I'm having pulled through 2652. Reports of committee 6. 2653 by law and licensing. Recommend the denial of the Taxicab Driver License Application 8187. Vice President Bourne. Thank you Mr. President. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. Any discussion? Under discussion Mr. President is Jose Mozo here tonight. He's not here your honor. Mr. President. Mr. Mozo had an opportunity to appear before our committee. He declined. In fact he called me and made an oral withdrawal of his Taxicab Driver's License Application. So for that reason we voted just to make things clean that we denied the application. Thank you Vice President Bourne. Any further discussion? Hearing none a roll call please. Rinfleisch. Hi. Ryan. Hi. Zurich. Hi. Van Der Wiel. Hi. Verhasselt. Hi. Wongaman. Hi. Bourne. Hi. Decker. Hi. Gisha. Hi. Heidemann. Hi. Kittleson. Hi. Clayunas. Hi. And Montemayor. Hi. 13 ayes. Report of committee passes. To be referred 2654 through 2655. Report of committees 7. 2652 by public protection and safety making a favorable recommendation regarding the water safety task force report that the city of Sheborgen undertakes certain actions to reduce the number of preventable drownings. It's 2656. 2656. Near the city. I need a motion to accept and adopt. Discussion. Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Report of committee passes. Report of committee 2657 by finance making a favorable recommendation regarding the water safety task force report in the city of Sheborgen undertakes certain actions to reduce the number of preventable drownings and near drownings in the city. I'll need a motion to accept and adopt. A second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. RC passes. RC 2658 by law and licensing recommending the denying of taxicab driver's license application 8175 based upon the applicant's record of convictions and substantially related to the licensed activity. Vice President Boren. Thank you Mr. President. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. Second. Discussion. Under discussion. First of all some housekeeping thing. This is actually Madame City Clerk. This is actually a beverage operator's license not a taxicab. We did catch that at the L&L meeting. Okay. Thank you. And then the gentleman has an interesting name. His first name is Mr. So I have to say is Mr. Mr. Harshman here tonight. He's not here your honor. Mr. Harshman also had an invitation to appear before our committee. He declined to go through the process and called me and I believe also the city attorney's office to withdraw his license application for the beverage operators. So again just to make it clean we voted unanimously to deny the license application. Thank you Vice President Boren. Any discussion? Requires a roll call. Please. Ryan. Aye. Zurich. Aye. Vanderwheel. For Hasselt. Aye. Wongamon. Aye. Boren. Aye. Dekker. Aye. Giesha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. And Rindfleisch. Aye. Thirteen Ayes. Great. Report of committee accepted. To be referred 2659 through 2660 those will be referred to the new council. Report of committees eight. Resolution sorry report 2661 by finance recommending the authorization venturing to a contract for the 2009 concrete sidewalk program and passing the substitute resolution. All the person Giesha. Thank you Mr. President. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted and the substitute resolution be put upon its passage. Thank you. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Zurich. Aye. Vanderwheel. Aye. For Hasselt. Aye. Wongamon. Aye. Boren. Aye. Dekker. Aye. Giesha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Rindfleisch. Aye. And Ryan. Aye. Twelve Ayes one extension. Thank you. Report of committee accepted. To be referred 2662 matters laid over 11 RO number I'm sorry 2564 RO number 4670809 by the city clerk submitting a communication from the government accountability board awarding the municipal clerk $2,500 to be used for elections. I need a motion to accept and file. Vice president Boren. Thank you Mr. President. Motion to accept and file. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? RO accepted. Resolution I'm sorry 2541 resolution number 2450809 by Alderperson Meyer extending the listing on the Little Red School House at 1116 Huron Avenue from April 2009 through December 2009. I'll need a motion to put the resolution upon its passage. Vice president Boren. So moved Mr. President. Second. Discussion. Alderperson Kittleson. None. I'm okay with it. Thank you. Any other discussion? Alderperson Cleonis. Thank you Mr. President. Just out of interest has anyone expressed an interest in this property? Little Red School. Please come forward. Thank you Paulette. Thank you Mr. President and Council. We have had interest in the property. Very low interest but when we have received offers offers have been so low that they haven't been accepted so we continue to market it. Any discussion any questions for Paulette? Thank you Paulette. Thank you. Any further discussion? Hearing none roll call please. Vanderweal. Aye. Verhassell. Aye. Wongerman. Aye. Boren. Aye. Decker. Aye. Gisha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Cleonis. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Rindfleisch. Aye. Ryan. Aye. Nsirk. Aye. Thirteen Ayes. Resolution passes. Thank you. 2565 resolution number 2460809 by Alderperson Meyer authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an agreement for the shared town of Wilson city of Sheboygan dog park. I'll need a resolution to put upon passage. Alderperson Rindfleisch. Thank you. I'll make that motion to put the resolution upon its passage. And I have a second. Alderperson Montemayor. Thank you Mr. President. Well the dog park is almost here. One last step that we need to take and I'm so glad it's almost here. Yes it is. Thank you. Any further discussion? Roll call please. Verhassell. Aye. Wongerman. Aye. Boren. Aye. Decker. Aye. Giesha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Rindfleisch. Aye. Ryan. Aye. Sirk. Aye. And Vanderweal. Aye. Thirteen Ayes. Resolution passes. 2553 general ordinance 850809 by Alderperson Hannah Heidemann, Kittleson, Rindfleisch and Ryan. Alderperson Rindfleisch. Thank you. I move that the general on this be put upon its passage. Discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Wongerman. Boren. Aye. Decker. Aye. Giesha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Rindfleisch. Aye. Ryan. Aye. Sirk. Aye. Vanderweal. Aye. And Verhassell. Aye. Thirteen Ayes. General ordinance passes. Thank you. 2555 general ordinance 860809 by Alderperson Giesha, Clayunas, Montemayor, Boren, and Bowell, creating section 2-874 of the municipal code entitled Special Assessment Payments in Installment. I need a motion to pass the ordinance. Alderperson Giesha. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that the ordinance be put upon its passage. Discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Boren. Aye. Decker. Aye. Giesha. Aye. Heidemann. Aye. Kittleson. Aye. Clayunas. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Rindfleisch. Aye. Ryan. Aye. Sirk. Aye. Vanderweal. Aye. Verhassell. Aye. And Wongerman. Aye. Thirteen Ayes. General ordinance passes. We move now to other matters authorized by law Attorney McClain. Alderperson. Before we do so I know we have pulled items 2643 and 2650 but as they are on the agenda do we need to act on that? They weren't pulled before their agenda was made. Not sure what the President's intention was to pull those. It was told to me that the purchasing agent was given wrong information for both of those documents so he wanted them pulled to redo them to get the right information so we're just pulling them. Okay I just noticed because it was on the agenda. They need to be corrected. Right it was just notified to us. So do we need to refer it back or just let it be pulled? We're just going to it'll be recorded in our records that it was pulled and new ones will come forward. Very good thank you. Thank you Alderman. Attorney McClain. 2663 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from Denise Jones owner of Tray Shit boutique stating her upset over the city charging her for parking spaces on the riverfront asking to have four spaces marked in front of her business specifically for her business use. That's referred to transit. 2664's communication from Paul and Barbara Gruber regarding the plan resurfacing project on Geely Avenue from 3rd street to 6th street and stating that most of the residents are opposed to this. This gets referred to the public works of the new council. 2665 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30 2009 and June 30 2010. That gets referred to law license of the new council. 2666 is a resolution amending the composition of the information services excuse me information systems steering committee so as to add the city assessor ex officio as a non-voting member. Referred to the new common council. 2667 is an RC by the special committee on risk management recommending that various documents be referred to the new common council. That is referred to the new common council. 2668 is an RC by the special committee on risk management recommending that the documents referred to the special that the enclosed documents be referred also to the special committee on risk management of the new council. That is referred to the risk management committee of the new council. 2668 is an RC by the special committee on risk management, recommending that the reporter committee be referred to the new common council. That is referred to the new common council. Before we adjourn, Vice President Boyle. Thank you, Mr. President. If I could just have a moment. I want to thank my friend Dan Verhassel, three years of service on the council. Dan and I toured southwestern and southeastern Wisconsin back before the new police station was built. So we had a chance for some mail bonding on those on those trips, which also included, in fact, I think it was two trips that James will Dan, wasn't it? One was to look at their police department, which was also a Sabanash project, and then also a chance to look at their dispatch center. So we put on a lot of miles that summer. I also want to thank you, Dan, for reviving earlier this year the possibility of doing joint dispatch. I was happy to join you in that effort. And it may take three to five years to come to fruition, but I think we're on the right track with that. And it's also been a great pleasure tipping a couple of guinnesses with you after the meetings. So thank you very much, Dan, for your service. I'm going to take the floor for a minute. First off, I would like to really express, I'm sure, the gratitude of the entire common council and the citizens of Sheboygan for Mayor Perez's efforts over the last four years. He did a remarkable job in keeping the city budget in balance, keeping taxes reasonable and declining. We finally have a police station. We almost have a dog park. Mayor Perez was tireless in his efforts. He worked very hard. He had the best interest of Sheboygan in his heart, and we wish him all the best going forward. All the person, Ryan, thank you, Mr. President. I concur with your with your kind words about Mayor Perez, whether you agreed or disagreed with Mayor Perez, he put everything he had into the last four years of running this city. You know, he told me when I was running for office after the primary, he said, you know, if you win, it's very lonely when you get there. He said, it's a very lonely job. He said, there's people coming after you all the time. And, you know, I think it would be nice if, you know, the people, the supporters of Mayor Perez and the people who did not support him, lend a kind word to them, maybe send them a card, give them a phone call, and tell them that we appreciate all the efforts that he has made for the city over the last four years, because he did put everything that he possibly could into doing the best job as being, best job at being mayor that he possibly could. So I thank him for that. Thank you. Thank you. All the person. Motion to adjourn signed. I have one more comment. Very close. But I would be remiss if I didn't express the optimism that so many council people have come up to me, and we're looking so forward to your leadership, Mayor Alec Ryan. There's a good feeling in the city. There's a positive feeling. We can already tell since the election, how are you going to go about doing business? And we are, we are very excited to work with you. So congratulations, Bob. All the person in flesh. I believe it is tradition as well. For the county council, the outgoing members to be allowed to have say a few words. So we do have one today. All the person for hassle. Thank you, fellow Alderman, Mr. Ryan Flesch and President Hannah. Yes, I would like to take a few minutes here and just thank the community and thank this body for the last three years. It's truly been an honor and a pleasure working with this group. Boy, it's come a long ways in the last four and five years when I consider the time that I first got on the council or at least was thinking about getting on the council, just the quality of the depth of this council. Really appreciate that. You know, a lot of people asked me over the last three months, am I looking forward to leaving having all this extra free time and that sort of thing? And you know, and honestly, I can say I have mixed feelings about it because there's a lot of good things that have happened here, but a lot of inviting challenges in the year ahead that I would love to be a part of. But on the flip side, I've got a beautiful wife and two very, very energetic little boys. They're looking forward to a little more time at home. So I honestly look forward to that. It's been fun and rewarding. And we've had some very good debates here over the last three years. And that too, I think, I hope everybody found those rewarding and useful as well to just increase the quality of our decision making at the end of the day. And I hope I served that purpose to some degree that was able to bring more information out onto the floor. I've always tried to keep our constituents, number one, when thinking about different resolutions that are on the council floor here, try to vote to benefit the citizens. But at the same time, you know, I've obviously been challenged by the focus occasionally of trying to grow our government. You know, it's a concern of mine that I think we need to try to manage the growth and focus on issues that actually help benefit the citizenry much more than it helped benefit ourselves. I too would like to thank Mayor Perez for the work he's done the last four years. Again, like more love him, I challenge anyone to look at his predecessors for a better record of fiscal restraint. And I send a friendly challenge to Mayor-elect Bob Brian in the same way. It'll be a challenging four years from a fiscal standpoint. So I'd like to thank Mayor Perez for his work. I wish my successor, Julie Kauff, all the best. I think she's still here. There she is over the next two years. And I have a vested interest in that. Obviously she will be my alderman starting tomorrow. So again, I'm very interested in seeing her succeed. Again, I'd like to wish Mayor-elect Brian all the success here in the next four years. And with that, I'll say thanks and good night. I would also like to thank Alderperson Meyer for her years of service to the city. She again was a hard worker dedicated to the city and will miss her energy. We certainly look forward to Tom Bowers joining us in the next two years with that. All the person among them. That's a hard act to follow. I also would like to wish Alderman Ryan the best of luck. Or Mayor-elect Brian, bigger pardon. With that, I make a motion to adjourn signed die. Do I have a second? All in favor say aye. Opposed? Thank you very much.