 there's Dan Henderson. Yeah, that's why I was waiting. There's Shabra. Okay, we're starting to get people. Kingston, can you bring Julian from the attendees group? Oh, they're starting. Okay, we're starting again. We almost have a quorum. Mm-hmm. We have a quorum. One, two, three, four, five. And Kingston, Director Koenig is also in that group. I think I count six, so I think you have a quorum. But there's two more coming, apparently, from the other. There's Manna. Good morning. Good morning. Anyone else in the other group that we need to bring over? I'm not seeing anyone else. Okay. Can the people from the other group hear us? No, yeah. Yes, I was in the other group and I could hear you. Okay, good. Okay, well then let's go ahead and call the meeting, special meeting of the Metropolitan Metro to order, special board of directors, special meeting on December 10th. And ask for a roll call. And Director Dutra, Director Conantary-Johnson. Present. Director Koenig. Here. Director Lind. Here. Director McPherson is out. Director Myers. Present. Director Northcutt. Director Pegler. Here. Director Peterson. Kristen, I can see you, but I can't hear you. Present. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Yes. Thank you. And Director Rockin. Here. All right. And we have quorum and I don't think we've, anybody else has joined the, oh, I'm sorry. And then we have Exofficio Henderson. Right here. Okay. So we do have quorum. All right. Thank you Donna. Today's meeting has been broadcast by Community Television Santa Cruz County and to ask if there are any board of directors comments. See none. Earl and Ritten reports to the board of directors. We have any oral reports. Okay. There are none. Good. And Labor Organization Communication. And I'm sure you have James Sandoval. Yeah. He's trying to switch to C. All right. Then James, my board is not changing. James, here we go. James Sandoval here, a union representative for the fixed route operators and paratransit operators at Metro. I sent you all an email. It's a questionnaire, our union and SEIU came up with on a subject matter that are important to us to know about the applicants for the CEO general manager position, and we hope you consider them in the application process. And another thing we were thinking about is a advisory committee that we could hopefully create with a few union representatives and a few representatives. Or from our union and a few representatives from each department at Metro. So that way we could collaborate on the person that we're hoping that we could bring into Metro. And another thing too is we hope that this recruitment firm is also they support the ideals in Sandoval County as being pro labor. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, James. Do we have anyone else from no other hands? Okay. Then Mack, do we have anyone from Mack? No. Okay, any additional documentation? There is none. Okay. So we will move to a motion on the consent agenda. Moving the minutes and Make that motion. I'll second that. I'll second that motion. Motion is second. That's for roll call. Okay, and that was Larry that made the turn. Yes, Mike Rodkin the second. Okay, thank you. Director public comments, please. Sorry about that. Sorry. Thank you, Julie. Do we have any public comment? I see no hands. No. All right. Thank you, Julie. Now roll call. And director Dutra. Yes. Oh, you're present there. All right. Thank you. And director commentary Johnson. Yes. And director Coney. Yes. Director Lynn. Aye. Director Myers. Aye. Director Northcott. Aye. Director Pagler. Aye. Director Peterson. Aye. Director Rock and. Aye. Okay. And the motion passes. Okay. Now we go to regular agenda. Public employee appointments government code section. And that will be in closed session. So we will be moving to closed session for public employee appointments government code section 54957 CEO slash GM position and interim CEO GM position. And we will report back after our closed session. You should ask if people have any comments on the closed session item. And I do see Edward Montecino. The hand up. Eduardo, go ahead. Eduardo, sorry. We're not hearing you. Okay. Eduardo, we can't hear you. Now you're muted. It shows you're muted. Still don't hear you though. Eduardo, you are unmuted on our end and available to speak. And it looks like you're unmuted on your end. So feel free. Looks like a technical difficulty of some kind. Let's see if there, I thought I saw another hand. If there is, we'll go to the next and then come back to Eduardo. Is there someone else that wanted to comment on our closed session? Eduardo's hand is down now. So I'm not sure if he wants to speak or not. Maybe he can email a comment. That Eduardo, if you did have a comment and having technical difficulties, please feel free to email us or me and we will, any of us, and we'll forward it to the board. Thank you. If there's no one else, then we will go ahead and move into closed session. And I think. Eduardo, you can also call me on my cell phone if nothing else works. This is Mike Rockin. It looks like he is left. Okay. Okay. We will move to closed session and return with the report after first closed session. Okay. And everyone got their link okay this morning? Oh, let me check. Let me check the head. Hold on. Please let me go. It came from Ian Berry this morning. Okay. I got that one. I see it. Thank you. All right. See everybody in a moment. We have to go out of this one, right, Mike? Yeah. Okay. All right. So I think we have everyone here. You know, I could let Julien and returning and calling the meeting back to order from closed session and just reporting out that we had a discussion on the recruitment process. And one of the key things that we want to share again is that we will be including and encouraging public input from employees, from the unions, from stakeholders. The recruiter will have an understanding that we want this process to be very inclusive. And any of anyone from employees, from staff, from unions is encouraged to continue providing information on what their desires for the new candidate or the new CEO position should include. And it will be a confidential process. We want to that everyone that is interested in the position feel comfortable applying and that this their application will be confidential so it doesn't interfere with their current employment. But we will continue to be very inclusive and will make repeated notices that you are encouraged to participate and provide information in the process. So we also discussed the interim position, but we have not made a selection at this point. We'll be following up on a separate meeting. Is there anything from the public, anyone from the public that wants to comment on this action on my report? Julie, is there anything further that I should announce? You can announce the next meeting if you'd like. Yeah, let me just refresh. The next board of directors meeting will be Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 9 a.m. via teleconference and we will be looking at a special meeting in the next week and that will be announced to finalize the interim position. Is that correct? Okay, unless there's any other comments from either the board or the public, then we will adjourn this meeting to make sure. Thanks everyone. Don't see any hands. Thank you all. Happy holidays and stay safe. You as well. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.