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[0:00] All right, welcome to the May 11th, 2021 City Council meeting. Madam Clerk, will you please call roll.
[0:07] Member, parent?
[0:09] Here.
[0:09] Council member, Beaver.
[0:12] Vice Mayor, Sue.
[0:14] Mayor, abstinence.
[0:15] Here.
[0:18] Today, we are rotating into the interim rotation of vice mayor.
[0:23] Dr. Keel Weber was our serving vice mayor and now she's serving us at the state of California as our
[0:32] by a decree of our code is Council Member Shu and so he's going to serve from now until
[0:40] August and then his he'll start another term as Vice Mayor from August to the next August.
[0:46] So he'll I think we are long is serving Vice Mayor in the last 20-30 years. So congratulations
[0:52] Vice Mayor Shu.
[0:56] Tonight's invocation and Flax Loop
[1:02] the given by me have an echo going on.
[1:16] May 11th, 1934, in the middle of the depression.
[1:25] It's going to stop until it's echoed those away.
[1:30] Thank you.
[1:31] On May 11th, 1934, in the middle of the depression,
[1:36] a massive storm sends millions of tons of top-soil
[1:40] flying from across the perched great plains
[1:44] through the United States as far east
[1:48] as New York, Boston and Atlanta. This was caused by severe drought mixed with farmers over
[1:58] plowing their fields to grow more wheat during the first world war. This was the beginning
[2:05] of the dust bowl and many of the plain states, people in the plain states had to leave and abandon
[2:12] their farms and head west looking for work. Would you please stand for the pledge of
[2:19] allegiance?
[2:25] Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
[2:31] and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and
[2:38] justice for all.
[2:49] Next on the agenda, report from close session, city manager, city attorney,
[2:55] There is no reportable action. Thank you.