 Good morning. Today is May 4th 2023 and Santa Rosa City Council will be having a special meeting So I would like to call that meeting to order madam city clerk. Thank you mayor Councilmember staff here councilmember Rogers here councilmember O'Crepkey here councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez Vice mayor McDonald here mayor Rogers Present let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez Today we will have a closed session. We have items 2.1 conference with labor negotiators and item 2.2 public and employee Appointment madam city clerk may you please conduct public comment on those items? Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 2 if you are in the chamber And would like to make a comment, but I have not provided a speaker card or your name Please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom Please raise your hand or dial star 9. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period May I'm seeing no participants via zoom and no one in the chamber wishing to make public comment Thank you. We will now adjourn into closed session And may I test can you hear me? Yes, we can. Yes, great. Thank you We are ready All right, we will now reconvene our meeting seeing a quorum madam city clerk. May you please call the roll? Thank you mayor councilmember staff here councilmember Rogers councilmember O'Crepkey here Councilmember Fleming here councilmember Alvarez is absent vice mayor McDonald here and mayor Rogers President let the record show that all councilmembers are present with the exception of councilmember Alvarez Moving to item 3 report on closed session madam city attorney Good morning the council met in closed session this morning on items 2.1 and 2.2 No final action was taken and council gave direction to staff. Thank you very much Thank you and seeing no additional items on the agenda. We will now adjourn the meeting