 Good afternoon. I'll call the meeting of the Board of Public Utilities for the City of Santa Rosa to order if we may have a roll call, please Board member right here board member Walsh here board member Bartholome Board member Badenfort Vice chair Anoni here and chair Galvin here let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of board members Bartholome and Badenfort Thank you item two on our agenda as statement of abstention by board members. Do we have any? Very good. I'll take care of that. We'll move to item number three We're happy to welcome back Chris Grable who's going to be sworn in as our newest member and Want to come forward, please? If I could have you please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I Chris Grable Do solemnly swear or affirm? Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California and the Constitution of the state of California Against all enemies foreign and domestic Against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter give you an opportunity if you'd like board member Grable to say a few words yeah I'll keep it short and keep it to gratitude I'm truly grateful to to be back and for the opportunity to serve with you all for for the betterment greater good of the community and to do good work with and with such an esteemed board with the expertise that is contained up on this dais it's a it's an honor and I'm really grateful to be back we're glad to have you back as well so welcome I hope any of the board members have anything they wanted to say yeah welcome back all right we'll open it up to public comment then item 3.1 if you wish to make a comment please move to the podium seeing nobody moving that'll take care of item 3 well now we have no study session item 5.1 is the approval of the minutes for November 2nd 2023 so I'll open it up for public comment on the minutes approval seeing none the minutes will be approved and entered we'll now move to we have no staff briefings no consent items no report items we'll move to item number nine which is public comments on non-agenda matters if you wish to make public comment please move to the diet to the podium seeing none we have no referrals no written communications any subcommittee reports no any board member reports or vice chair anoni I just wanted to comment on what a nice celebration it was of the 20 year anniversary of the geysers project and a lot of people convened up in Middletown and a lot of folks that were instrumental in getting the project completed and planned were there and it was just well put together by all the staff that worked on it and it was good to recognize such an important project so I would agree I thought the visitor center was quite impressive and to see some old faces from the old board and old council members it was it was a fun morning enjoyed it okay we'll take the public comments on board member reports if there is any see no one directors report chair galvin I have no report on behalf of the director just wishing you a happy Thanksgiving all right then I'll turn it over to our assistant city attorney to announce our closed session thank you so we will meet in closed session on two items 15.1 is conference with legal counsel existing litigation ATTF product liability litigation and the second is anticipated litigation under the same matter 15 points 15.2 all right we will adjourn then and we'll reconvene up in the mayor's conference room and then we'll be back afterwards to report out and adjourn the meeting chair galvin if we could please open it up for public comment before you recess to closed session thank you secretary Montoya I'll open it up for public comment on our closed session items 15.1 and 15.2 see no one rise there's no public comment we'll now adjourn to the mayor's conference room all right we will reconvene our board of public utilities meeting and ask our assistant city attorney to report out please on our closed session board met in closed session on items 15.1 and 15.2 and there's no reportable action very good that will take care of our agenda for today so we will be adjourned I wish you all of I'm sorry if we could do the announcement of the roll call for after closed session okay board member right here board member Walsh here board member Grable here board member Barthelot board member Badenfort vice chair Anoni here and chair Galvin here all right and let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of board members bad Badenfort and Barthelot great now that concludes our agenda I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and we'll see you in a couple weeks