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Six o'clock, I'll go ahead and call them, meet and order. Seeing that everybody's here, we do have a quorum, which takes us out of B. Mr.

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Hamilton, would you help us on the invocation?

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All right. I don't see the pledges. If y'all are joining me now.

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All right, thank you.

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It takes us to item two on the agenda, the consent agenda, which consists of meeting

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minutes of the August 18th, the regular City Council meeting, the regular City Council

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some meat in August 18th.

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Tell them why that's on their twice. And the end of

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month financial report for August 2026. And if there's no objections and I'll

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move to approve the consent agenda.

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No objections? No questions. All right.

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Item

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3. Public comment. Any?

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No, public comment.

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Item 4, Council, Council, New Business. Consider a mutual aid agreement

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with the Dallas County Sheriff's Office for a complex emergency response and investigation

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planning and Jeff Erin's going to talk on this.

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Mr. Mayor, Mr. County Council members, this is basically a mutual aid agreement with the

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Dallas County Sheriff's Office is set up due to the recent Evolved and Strong Act that was passed and this basically sets out parameters for the

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local agencies and the Sheriff's Department, Dallas County, to all work together have tabletop exercises

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Different trainings throughout the year as required by the new state rules and laws just to make sure that everyone works together and can respond to the difference

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Minus qualities and the school districts as needed for any type of incident that may take place

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do we have other agreements with other agencies like the school the Ellis County

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Sheriff's we do have we have an older agreement with the ISD police department

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here in Ferris and we are looking to update that one as well well we have now

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does meet the requirements but we're gonna add some stuff to it so we have a new

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one in place actually spells out the training where that's required now we do

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have an e-duct agreement that Ellis County is technically a part of but it

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It doesn't have any actual spelling out any of the news kind of stuff with the Abolgy Strong Act puts forward.

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Do you know the ISD and or do you know if anybody else is joining with Dallas County in this immediate area?

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Last I heard that they had sent it out to pretty much all the agencies in Dallas County just to make certain that they had met the requirements as far as I know.

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So I don't know if any other agencies that have officially joined it.

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I just know it was sent out to all the agencies in the Delves County.

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Yeah, I jumped ahead of myself.

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Anyway, go ahead.

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Mr. Mayor, is always getting on the meet, jumping ahead of you. I think a motion approved mutual aid agreement with DS, with Dallas County Sheriff's Office and authorized the Director of Public Safety to execute the same.

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Now you can ask questions.

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Yes.

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Anymore.

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More.

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Okay.

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So we've got a motion in a second.

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Are we electronically up?

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It hasn't come up.

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Oh.

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No.

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There it goes.

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Oh.

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Look, I get to do it.

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All right.

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So we have a motion that carries five to zero.

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It takes us two out of B.

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We consider approval of a vehicle leasing agreement with DNM commercial leasing for the

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fairest department of public safety and authorize a city manager or his destiny to execute

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all necessary documents related there too.

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So this agreement is we started looking at different ways to maximize the amount of money

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we have to purchase new vehicles or in this case now lease vehicles for the amount of money

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that we currently have approved in our 2627 budget,

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we could lease vehicles that are already going to come,

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completely outfitted with emergency lights,

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the sirens, cages, everything of that nature.

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We would just have to do the graphics and the camera system

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and radio for the most part to get them up and ready.

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So this DNM leasing will have those vehicles available to us

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and use the same upfitter that we have been using previously,

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at a much lower cost.

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Now it does turn out that we will not own the vehicle

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that in the day, we'll have to turn it back in, but it will create a cycle that we can

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continuously move older vehicles out and new vehicles in without having to spend the

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entire amount of money in purchasing and outfitting a new vehicle at one time.

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So we have a rotation plan that we're working on coming out to basically be two vehicles

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every year, two would come in, two would go out, and that way we can keep the rotation moving

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so there is no vehicles that are going to have over 100,000 miles or five, six years old,

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They would rotate at least every four years. We would be those ones that had came in would be totally gone at that point

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So Dean in leasing has just asked that we have approval from the council just to move forward with it and also have a

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Desney that would be able to sign all the leasing papers

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So

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what's the what's the savings on doing?

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We've got to get a motion in a second

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You're going to, then you've got, you know, I'm sitting here holding this in, man.

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I'm looking at it.

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Of course, indeed.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You don't want to use that.

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I can't have no questions.

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Yeah.

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After the second.

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And then we can change it if I don't like it.

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Yeah.

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Well, you ain't voted yet.

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Okay.

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I'm going in.

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All right.

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I'll make a motion to approve of the vehicle leasing the agreement with DNM, the Mirko

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leasing, and authorize the city manager, or it is that we need to execute all necessary

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documents related to their treatment.

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I'll second.

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No.

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You got a question?

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Yeah, I do have a question.

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I'll just ask if you do it.

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Is it going to be cost effective for us to do that?

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So right now if we purchase a vehicle outright,

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it's going to be roughly about $48,000 to $50,000

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for just a vehicle by itself.

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You're updating it going to be anywhere between 18 and 20,000.

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So really when you look at everything,

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you're spending probably $70,000, $71,000, $73,000

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just depending on add-ons.

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just to buy an outright, outfit the new police vehicle.

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The plan that we're currently working on to release these two vehicles,

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it would basically be, I think we're looking at, was it $28,000 or $38,000 a year for just those two vehicles.

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And they do to help keep on with some having to, and you just get another one.

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We have to do the basic upkicks, all changes, tires, and things along those lines.

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but the warranties and all the other maintenance and everything will still be covered.

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We carry the insurance.

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We would.

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We would start to carry.

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So we had a transmission problem.

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We had to fix that.

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That would still be covered under warranties.

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Oh, that's under the warranties.

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Unless it was, I assume unless it was something that was done intentionally, but you know, most

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stuff should be covered by the warranties.

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No, no, no, I'm just asking for it.

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What I'm just saying, you'll be able to see the numbers, I'm about saving money, so you

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know.

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Yeah.

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Well, that's what this is about.

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There you go.

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Well, is this a common practice?

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Yeah, most of the agencies in the area,

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we actually spoke with Ells County and Midlothian

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and all of them are using leasing

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and they have the same type of rotations

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where they're keeping them for three or four years

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and either sending them back.

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Or you can outright buy the vehicle

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if you want to from the leasing company at a price.

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And what Ells County did when I spoke with them

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is they were keeping them usually for three years.

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and the ones that were still in very good shape,

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they would then turn those into CID,

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they would buy them outright

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and turn them into the CID guards for the detectives.

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So it allows us to get vehicles quicker

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and at a better cost than just purchasing one outright

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and then in three or four years it's worn out.

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And now we don't get any return on it

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at the end of the day.

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Because a good idea, I think it's a good plan.

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There's been a couple of years since I've been out of it.

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What are these police package?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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I

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got a question there and it might not even.

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What do we do with the ones we have now?

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So I'm up there every day, you know what?

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I see a little man, how's that like that?

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So we have previously put those out for auction

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is what we've done with the years past.

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We just sold the escape that was owned by the city.

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Before that, we have that Tahoe that's actually

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parked at the DPS office now.

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So that Tahoe is completely, it does not work at all.

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The engine is shot, the transmission is shot.

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By the stuff inside of the vehicle is probably the only thing of any money worth any,

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so we kept that because we're going to use it for some training, but normally we would

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auction them off, and I think most times we're only getting a $1,500 or something that was

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like the cost that we were getting back so on the city website and there's a dead

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line that people have to come so does it any more questions okay we got a

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motion in a second well

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that passed pretty quick five oh thank you it was a

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great idea you

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know a second all

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right out of C was we not good on that or we're

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good to go or

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okay so

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we're going to cut out of the seat, out of five executive

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session I don't believe we have any and look at this out of six is closing but no

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objections I'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting at what time 614