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» Mhm.

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» I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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» Ryland, would you like to take roll
call, please?

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» Thank you. Heather Watland?
>> Here.

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» Rob Thayer?
>> Here.

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» Yvonne Gallardo Van Ornum?
>> Here.

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» Michelle Bleich?
>> Here.

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» Nathan Senn?
>> Here.

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» Tim Abrahamson?
>> Present.

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» And Alicia Novak?
>> Here.

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» Mayor Vani, I move for approval of the
agenda.

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» Question. All those in favor?
>> Aye.

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» Any opposed?
None heard. Motion carries.

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Okay, we'll
start out tonight with our public

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comment period for members of the public
who wish to speak to the council. Please

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limit your remarks to 3 minutes and step
up to the podium, state your name and

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address.
Looks like Jay Lindbergh.

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» [clears throat]
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» Jay Lindbergh. I'm kind of in a county
pocket, so anyway.

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Um
I've I'm

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I've done a lot of research. I'm an
author. Um

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a lot of I've been involved in a lot of
what I call strategic planning over the

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years.
And when I describe strategic planning,

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what we do is we basically look into
government institutions like the war on

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drugs, nuclear weapons development,
stuff like that. We

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figure out whether or not it's a good
investment. And we And if it's not, we

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figure out how to deal with it now to
sometimes shut it down.

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And um
I'm looking at this Well, one example of

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what I what I've been involved in was
about 30 years ago,

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I was involved in a project with Public
Citizen, and we were looking at

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how much water was being used in energy
production in this country.

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And the reason that's relevant today and
it the numbers were just way more than

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what we expected. The amount of water
and the best example of water usage in

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energy production is a dam. Dam, you've
got this huge lake right behind it. And

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you've got the evaporation coming up
up from it. And these big lakes, you

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know, burn up many acre-feet of water
every day just in the in evaporation.

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You know, there's other parts of the
process that use it. And the reason I'm

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bringing this up is because these data
centers, you know, they're talking about

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the energy that that the water it's
going to take to cool these data

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centers,
but the water that's going to be used to

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produce the energy
for these data centers

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is you know, they're talking about a 30%
increase in the amount of amount of

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of of
you know, power on the grid just to meet

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the needs of these data centers.
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you know, that like I said, that's part
of the process. Uh there's a there's an

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old quote that I like to use that a
government with money to burn is a fire

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waiting to happen.
And I bring that up because, you know,

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if we look at some of the things we've
done in the past like Nixon started a

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war on drugs with a couple hundred
million dollars and 50 years later, you

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know, he said, "It'll be taken care of
in five in five years." 50 years later,

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it cost him $10 trillion.
It was a bad investment. Those are

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you know, and I'm looking at at this
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these data centers
and I haven't been able to find a lot of

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research on the real long-term impacts
of these data centers. Like, how many

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jobs how many jobs are they going to
replace, you know, with like half of

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these people in here, you know, a really
good AI program can probably take your

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job. Who knows? Maybe everybody in here.
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» Time.
>> Look into it.

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» Thank you.
>> And figure it out before you spend your

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money on it. Thank you.
>> [snorts]

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» Mayor Vianney, motion for approval of
the consent agenda.

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» Second.
>> Question.

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» All those in favor?
>> Aye.

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» Any opposed?
Motion is approved.

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Okay, we'll move on to our first item of
new business tonight, the 2027 lodging

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tax distribution. Shelby.
>> Good evening, Mayor Vianney and council

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members.
Um so, I'm going to present to you

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tonight uh for your consideration the
lodging tax advisory committee's

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recommendation for for awards of the
2027 lodging tax grants.

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The city received 15 lodging tax grants
this year with total funding requests of

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approximately 221,000.
The available budget um for this 2027

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grant cycle is 185,000.
So, the committee um was required to

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develop a funding recommendation that
reduced the total request by 35,000

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uh while still supporting projects and
events that best align with the lodging

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tax objectives.
Um as has been in past years, the

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scoring matrix is included in the
application material so that the

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applicants understand what the criteria
criteria that they will be evaluated is

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based on.
And in addition to the scoring matrix,

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the committee considered the following
priorities: new funding requests, the

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timing of events including whether they
occur during the off-season,

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multi-day events that are likely to
generate overnight stays since the um

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overnight stays help replenish the
lodging tax revenues, and projects or

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events that are included um with other
funding sources such as admission fees,

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sponsorships, or grants. And so, with
all of that, the committee greatly

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considered um need as one of the major
criterias of the funding request, and

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then the anticipated impact on tourism
as the overarching values.

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um the committee grouped the

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applications into scoring brackets based
on each individual application and how

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they scored on that matrix. And this
year, the committee decided um that any

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applications with an average score of 80
or higher out of 100 um was reviewed um

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in a separate bracket, and that included
10 of the 15 applications. And then,

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they went to the next scoring bracket
between 70 and 80 on the scoring. And

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then, the lowest scoring applications
um and then we looked at all overall the

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differences in our scoring to see if
there was any anomalies, if there was um

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distinction between types of requests
like a one-time

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um purchase for a tangible project like
a sign versus an event. Um and then, you

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know, combined all of those scores and
those averages um and came up with the

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recommendation.
So, based on this review, I'm asking for

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council's approval of the lodging tax
advisory committee's recommendation for

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the 2027 lodging tax grant awards.
>> Thank you. Any questions?

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Heather?
>> Thank you, Mayor. Um I have a question.

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Um I
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this, but I did see a couple of the
applicants are

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um expecting to have a quite a large and
I guess in my opinion, cuz I'm not very

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sure, marketing
um cost. It Do you know what type of

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marketing some of these applicants are
looking for or um about what the average

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marketing cost would be?
I guess that's my question.

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» I don't have the answer to the average
marketing like what that would be, but

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in the application, they're um put a
detailed description of what marketing

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they're requesting from the funding if
they're requesting marketing. Um it is

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one of the major components of what is
eligible from the funds um since

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marketing, you know, promotes the
tourism and the whole thing, but there's

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a section in the application all based
on marketing and then from there how

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they think that those marketing outcomes
will correlate to

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um the impact on the number of, you
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what impact it will make on their event.
>> Okay. Um cuz cuz what I saw was that

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some of the marketing
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average of um a lot of the applicants
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they also were a lot larger than they
projected last year, so I wasn't sure if

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you had any extra information on that.
Thank you.

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» Yeah, it varies based on the different
applications. Some of them are

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um,
I don't know if good word is hiring or

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using some type of marketing firm to
promote their event. Others, you know,

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just um, having the capability to post
on social media, print materials. It

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varies. Um, we've had kind of a little
bit of everything over the years, but

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then also a little bit of everything in
these applications, too.

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I don't know if that answers your
question, but yeah.

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» Good. Okay. Any others?
Rob?

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» I feel obligated to ask why the downtown
sound system didn't get any funding.

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» Yeah, so the downtown system was um, a
big conversation as of all of them are,

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but definitely that one.
Um, so the hardest part with the funding

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is, especially with that one, it was a
request for multiple years of funding,

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and this was just the first phase um, to
get the electrical work done. And it's

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hard with this type of funding to think
about long-term and be able to fund

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something for many years because of the
sustainability of the funds, right? And

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so we're getting these funds every year,
and what if we don't get enough in

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future years, and would the project ever
be able to continue then if we only paid

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for the electrical and not ever got the
actual sound system and things like

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that. The other thing is that's really
um, in consideration is the correlation

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between that sound system and how is
that really how can we track that it's

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bringing in tourism? You know, are
people going to say, "Okay, now I'm

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going to come to Arlington because they
have this nice sound system." And maybe

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that is the case, but it's really hard
to put that down as a, you know, a

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metric or how to um,
uh, you know, justify that or report on

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that. Um, but also we're looking at
other sources of funding and um, Polly

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you step in if you want to, but
>> No, I just uh

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Shelby and I were talking about it after
we saw the scoring and stuff and I just

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think maybe this project isn't right for
the L tag. It's been on there a few

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times and hasn't scored very high. So,
um, we were just chatting about

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different um, funding sources coming up.
So, we're going to look at other grant

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opportunities to see if we can get this
project done in the in the near future

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by other means.
>> Thank you.

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» Michelle.
>> Um, so I thought it was really neat that

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we were able to fund everybody that
requested funding and but something that

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did stand out to me was the Summer Days
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that they were only given 10% of what
they requested when in prior years they

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were given like 20,000, 10,000, 18,000,
right? So, um

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is there a primary difference as to why
they're the only one on here that did

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not get
um, what they were asking and I know

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it's money, right? But it still could
have been worked out, but that's such a

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big difference to um,
it's like what is it? 15, 17,000 less

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than they were asking for when everybody
else got 100%.

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» Yeah, and so the committee went through
all of the applications and in the

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scoring they were unfortunately the
lowest scored of all of the event type

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expenditures or requests, I guess. Um,
and for one reason is it seems like the

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event is very um,
specific to the Glen Eagle neighborhood

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instead of a centralized area. And so we
looked a lot at like the definition of

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the funds and um, the recommendations
from the state and all of that and they

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had said that it's hard to fund these
um, fund an event where it's not in a

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centralized location. So, that was
something that we looked into, but then

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also the numbers that they're reporting
is that they're not attracting as many

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visitors as some of the other events.
And so those other events that are

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getting higher numbers, that was
considered also. Also, it didn't seem to

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have as many overnight stays. And so, um
and then they've been funded for um the

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last couple of years, and that was
definitely a consideration.

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Um to be honest with you, we also
checked they were the only um applicant

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that was not a um non-profit. And so we
checked to make sure that that was

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something that we could is still
eligible for funding. Um and it is, it's

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just um being a for-profit, they have a
ways of generating funds in different

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ways. Um and so we didn't know if, you
know, maybe they need to look at

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restructuring. Is there other ways to
come up with the funds? Um this year we

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asked for profit loss statements, and it
seemed that they had more funding than

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others. And so that was really
considered in the need um this year over

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other years as well.
I don't know if that completely answers,

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but
>> Yep.

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» Okay.
>> Thank you.

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» That's how I remember it, too.
>> Okay.

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» Any other questions?
Okay. None seen.

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Do we have a motion?
>> Yes.

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Um I move to approve the 2027 funding
distribution as recommended by the

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lodging tax advisory committee.
>> I second.

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» Question. All those in favor?
>> Aye.

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» Aye.
>> Any opposed?

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None heard. Motion passes. Thank you,
Shelby.

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» I'm sorry. Don, can I
>> Oh, sure.

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» wanted to say thank you. I'm sorry, I
meant to say that before and got caught

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up in the questions, but um thank you,
Shelby, for all your hard work on this.

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And then the committee, too. I know
there was it takes some hours to do all

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of this, and you kept us on track. So,
thank you so much for your time and

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effort on this.
>> Thank you very much. We'll let them

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know.
>> Thank you.

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» Okay, we'll move on to our next item,
the WSDOT agreement for water and sewer

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utility relocation costs for the SR 531
widening project. Jim Kelly.

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» Thank you very much, Mayor Vanni and
council members.

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Um
believe it or not, after all these

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years, the SR 531 widening, at least a
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» Getting closer.
>> It's it's a it's a tough uh boulder to

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push up a hill.
So, anyway, uh

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» What is that?
>> This agreement that is before you is uh

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is for WSDOT to make the necessary
adjustments to the city-owned utilities

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that are within the
WSDOT right-of-way that are going to be

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impacted by the widening project. There
are four gate valves and three sanitary

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sewer manholes that need to be adjusted.
The total cost for the water is $34,728.

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The cost for the sewer manhole
relocations is $21,345.

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This money will be included
[clears throat] in the 2027-2028

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budgeting process.
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Thank you. Any questions?
Tim?

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» Yeah, Tim, remind me again
what's the length that this is going to

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be done? Is this from 43rd to 59th or
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» Okay.
Thank you.

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» Okay.
Any other questions?

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Okay. None to see. Do I have a motion?
>> I move for council to authorize the

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mayor to sign the agreement with WSDOT
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with the SR-531 widening project.
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» Question. All those in favor?
>> Aye.

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» Aye.
>> Any opposed?

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Done and heard. We're one step closer.
>> Thank you very much.

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» Okay, at this time open it up for any
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members.

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Anyone?
>> Um I just want to say

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I just want to remind everybody about
tomorrow. I I'm not sure if you're going

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to talk about it. Sorry, but um National
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Um and was that your thing? Were you
talking about it? Okay. I just want to

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remind everybody about it. And then um
uh the

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Fiesta in the park in September just cuz
we don't have any

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Just reminding folks to uh September
12th Saturday September 12th or 13th.

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We're also don't forget come on out to
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live music loteria and and food trucks.
So I'm just really excited about that

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too.
>> Good. Cool. Thank you. Any other

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comments or
reports? Michelle?

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» Um, thank you Jim for a lovely 188
roundabout. That was a really nice

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ribbon cutting and it's beautiful if you
haven't been there.

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Um, and then I was wondering if I could
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okay from council if we move forward
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making sure they are in line with
Washington state cuz I think it's been

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15 years or something. So if we could
if just raise hands if we're okay to

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move on or just nod.
>> Yeah, if anybody on council

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has a reason why we shouldn't look at
that. We have not looked at our animal

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ordinance in in quite some time.
So it would be an opportunity to look at

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kind of whole the whole uh
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» It just
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» We're good.
>> Yeah. I just want to make sure that

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nobody says [clears throat] no head no
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» Rob.
>> Go away. [laughter]

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» Okay.
Everybody down here good?

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Okay.
>> And then I just have one more thing is

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that cool?
>> Um, so um

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Um, we acknowledge and recognize so many
people and so many groups like public

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works and
um, fire and police. We recognize just

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about everything everything and everyone
except we haven't really done a lot of

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recognition on Paul Ellis yet.
Paul's favorite night is going to be

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tonight cuz we're all going to tell you
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» [laughter]

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» Should I be worried about something?

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» I may have to do Rob's for him. He's not
totally prepared.

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» [laughter]

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» So, we'll just can we start down at your
end, Lisha? All right.

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» I I appreciate Paul. One of my things
that I love about you is that how

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transparent you are and that you
immediately get back to people and not

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alone just everybody that you have to
get back to you, but you also get back

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to us and you make it very important.
So, thank you very much for how much

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time and energy you put into that.
Appreciate it.

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» Oh, thank you.
>> Yeah, Paul, I just want to echo again

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being new to the council. It was great
to just be felt invited in, you know,

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and understanding that we can come to
you and make sure that we get our

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questions answered by the different
directors and and again, you were always

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very quick with getting those responses
back and letting us know that

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our citizens who have asking these
questions are getting those responses.

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So, and then appreciate you keeping us
all on that on that track so that we are

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speaking one voice as a city.
>> And I was just going to say I I've grown

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up seeing you in this community doing a
lot of work and there's a hard work to

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be done to
lift up our whole community in times of

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crisis and times of
good rapport, lots of events and fun

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things that happen, but I've
grown up here and I've didn't know that

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this job for you is is so complex, but
you do a wonderful job at everything

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that you do
through different mayors, through

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different times of need. There's always
you. You you give us the guidance, the

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steering. You help us with our
attorneys. You help us with how things

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work. Also, I'm new to city council. So,
if I have questions, you do get back to

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me in a wonderfully timed manner, and I
just appreciate that you

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do such a great job at such a hard job
at the same time. So, I thank you very

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much.

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» Um
>> [snorts]

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» sometimes I wonder if you really want to
pick up the phone when I call you

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because
>> [laughter]

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» You can say that, too.
Um because for 6 and 1/2 years now, um

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you've been the person that um I, and I
think everybody else, can trust.

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Um we go to you with so many different
issues and challenges and just sometimes

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to vent. Um
there's so much that you do that people

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don't even know about.
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every single email that comes in from
the community, you respond in such a

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professional manner, and I'm so glad you
do it and that we don't um because it's

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so much more professional, I'm sure,
when you do it. Um but, um I just want

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to tell you you're an amazing person, um
an individual, personally and

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professionally, and I appreciate you,
and um I would not have learned the

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things that I've learned without you
being there. So, thank you.

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» I echo everything everybody has said. Um
but, I just um I know

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I just think thank you. Uh you've always
made it so much easier to be able to

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come to you and ask you for help. Um and
when I do ask questions or am concerned

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about something, you never have made me
feel stupid or dumb or like, "How do you

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not know that?" Um and I really
appreciate that. There's so many

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different leaders out there, and the
kind that really stand out are the ones

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that really are not afraid to like, just
explain it to you and talk to you and

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respect you the same way you want to be
respected. And you are so good at that,

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and I just really appreciate all the
time and effort that you put into this

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community, and
it and it's true, you've been here for

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so many years that we've seen all the
ups and downs and you I don't know how

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you do it and you not to say you make it
look easy but you just do it really well

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and you manage it really well. So, thank
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» Thank you.
>> [clears throat]

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» Do I need to do it or are you going to?
>> [laughter]

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» For the record, she did not tell me that
we had to do this.

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Um so, I can only imagine how stressful
your job must be but one of the things I

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really appreciate appreciate about you
is how you're always cool, calm, and

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collected. So, I always feel like no
matter what's going on the city, I kind

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of feel like Paul's got it under control
which is, you know, huge for us as

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council. So, thank you for your demeanor
and I don't know what happens behind the

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scenes in your office but
>> Don't ask really.

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» [laughter]

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» At least in in public, you uh you have
everything under control and that means

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a lot to me personally. So, thank you.
>> Thanks.

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» Okay. I was supposed to go first.
So, I would just like to echo everything

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that everybody else said because again,
um I'm new on council but I will say the

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most um impressive thing for me has
definitely been that there have been

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times that I've called you and I said,
"This is an emergency." and you'll call

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me on a
Why why are you calling me? You should

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be enjoying some sort of time off. So, I
greatly appreciate it and you have

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a vast knowledge that blows my mind
because sometimes you just can answer

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the question so perfectly that I'm like,
"Do you just have a library in your

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head?" That's what it feels like. So, I
really appreciate that um as a new

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council member as well that I can just
come to you and know that you're going

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to be able to help me out. So, thank
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» Yeah, and I'd like to echo all of their
comments, Paul. I mean, you've been

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there from the day one I've taken this
office and supported me every day of it

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but I do appreciate I mean, there's
times you probably roll your eyes when

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I'm bouncing some of these ideas off
your head. So, when you're like, "Where

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did that come from?" But that's that's
just me. It's just out of out of the box

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off
thinking and talking out loud. And but

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that you've been there every day to help
me and support me. I appreciate it.

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» Well, thank you. You know, I appreciate
this. You You don't know how much it

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means to me to hear that. Um I consider
myself to be a extremely fortunate

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person because I love what I do and I
can't imagine doing anything else in

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life.
I have a great team behind me and that's

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the key to our success is
um the team here is amazing. Can't

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imagine working with other people other
than what we have. So.

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And thank you. It means a lot. We have a
great council, too.

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24-minute council meetings. Can't beat
that. [laughter]

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» Thank you.
>> Thank you, everyone. Paul, do you have

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anything to report out tonight or
anything?

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» Just to say that
after this meeting we're on break

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» until September.
>> And so, uh

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Shelby and I will be working on budget
between now and then and

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» Yeah, everybody get ready.
>> Friday in

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October. And uh our goal is to bring you
a balanced budget

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for discussion.
Based on our spring retreat, all the

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goals we set. So.
>> Great. Thank you.

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I've just got to report just I think
Yvonne brought it up earlier. Hopefully,

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we see a lot of the public tomorrow
night at the National Night Out. I know

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the the police department, Jonathan, and
the fire department, everybody there is

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excited for it. I'm excited for it. I
think the the community is is excited

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for it. We get a great turnout every
year. But no, I'm looking forward to

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that. And yeah, hopefully everybody
enjoys their time off for the break of

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August.
That's it.

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No executive session, so I think we're
ready for adjournment.

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» Motion to adjourn.
>> Second.

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» Question.
>> All those in favor?

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» Aye.
>> Any opposed?

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We are adjourned. Thank you.

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» [music]

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» Mhm.