001[Music] I've got 7:00. We'll call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and the invocation following. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Dear God, please bless our elected officials. Grant them the wisdom to know and the courage to do what is right for all citizens. Amen. Amen. Roll call, please. Allen here, Lefor here, Mr. Avich here, Ricks here, Schultz here, Warren here, Yelanich here. Good to see everybody here tonight. Approval of minutes for the meeting minutes of April 21st. Motion be in order. Motion support. It's been made and supported. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Being not. All in favor of the motion signify by
002saying I. I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We also have the minutes from the budget workshop of April 28th. I need a motion there also. Motion support. Motion be made and supported. Any discussion on those minutes? Being not. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Motion does pass. We move on to audience comments on any non-aggenda items. if we uh want to speak to something on the agenda. Once council uh speaks to it, I'll ask if anybody wants to come up. Um otherwise uh if there's anything that you want to speak to that's not on the agenda, we would ask that you would come up here at this time, state your name and address to the clerk for our record and remain under three minutes if at all possible. Does anybody
003want to address the council at this time? Okay, we will move on. Mr. Mayor. Yes. I guess it's me. I guess I'm not on the or it's not on the agenda. Um so, hi. Right here on the microphone. Please make it easier for you. Hi. Um I'm Kim McDow. I live at 35711 Woodside Drive in Richmond. Just down there. Um I was hoping that I'd be able to discuss possibly uh the sirens in this town. They go off like absolute crazy. I understand that we're on um a volunteer basis. However, Mcome, Chesterfield, Shelby Township, they all only sign their alarms once a month. I get that they're full staffed. However, considering the fact that our fire department, everybody has to be a certified fire department uh person depending on the level I called and asked
004today. I said, "If I wanted to volunteer, what would I have to do?" Um, I was hoping there would be a way because other townships and other cities have at their dispatch units just a way to be able to alert the actual um the people, the actual firefighters instead of alerting the entire town. Unfortunately, this is very much a boy that cried wolf sort of a thing. I don't know if you guys remember, maybe a month ago, we had that tornado warning. Every neighbor that I talked to completely ignored it until luckily I had my phone on me and it said 70 mph winds imminent. Hey, get somewhere. Take cover. Unfortunately, because the alarms go off so frequently, it I don't know whether to trust if it's an actual emergency or actually something that is
005nothing. There's no reason that it needs to alert the entire town when it just needs to alert these few people that are actually the volunteers. Not to mention the amount of energy that it takes to run the alarms, the maintenance to keep the alarms going. It probably costs the township. I I don't even know how much it would cost just in maintenance to keep that going instead of again, it doesn't have to. If you still want to sign the alarms once a day, totally fine, but it wouldn't even necessarily be necessary when we live in a time where technology allows us to really quickly send a text message, send an alert to the people that it matters to. And again, I know this didn't matter when it was first established when they did have to
006let the entire town know, but at this point it's antiquated. It costs money and it it really is I think there could possibly be cuz it kind of scared me a little bit. At one point I didn't know whether it was real or not. And every time I've called to say, "Okay, is there actually an emergency? Just ignore it. Just ignore it. Just ignore it. It's nothing." So, I'm just proposing any kind of like again Chesterfield, Mcome, Shelby Township, they all just have part of a dispatch. They hit a button and it just sends an alert to the actual guys instead of alerting the entire town. So, that's it. Thank you for your comments. Thanks. Anybody else like to address council at this time? This is a time I would clarify. This is time for
007comments. We'll consider your your words, no doubt about it. and and we have looked at this uh in depth uh recently again uh and I believe the fire department has taken another look at uh what is going on there also. But um if you like to have a conversation on that, I'd suggest call the city manager, be more than happy to tell you why this city council uh does what it does with the uh fire department and uh why we do it. And there's definitely a difference between when you need to be concerned with a weather, it's a long blast versus the up and down. The up and down is to alert people on Main Street and surrounding areas that are volunteers unlike the communities that you were stating. Those are all paid quite I
008believe all of those. Yes, my fire department's shaking their heads. They are all paid full-time firefighters there. Our We have no full-time firefighters. they have to respond from wherever they are. We run the siren so that other people in town know that they're going to be flying to the fire hall to get the trucks to get to that emergency. So, that's one of the reasons. And they all have pagers. We're all We have all the electronics and everything, but we got to alert the town that these guys are going to be flying from their homes or from their businesses to get there as soon as possible. That's one of the short answer to it. But if you really like to get in depth with the city manager, he that's what he's there for, to to
009tell you why it is that we do what we do. Anybody else like to address the council at this time? We'll move on. Adoption agenda. Mr. City Manager, any changes? No changes. City council, any changes? Motion to accept the agenda as presented would be in order. Make motion. Support. Motion been made and supported. Any discussion? Seeing not all in favor of the motion signify by saying I against motion does get approved. Is there a motion for the consent agenda? Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Support must have been made and supported. There's no discussion according to our rules. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I I against motion does pass. We move on to items for consideration. Consideration of special request chickens at 70237 Chaucer. Mr. Say major
010council is scheduled to consider a petition from Kyle Deeds to keep up to four egg laying chickens all hens at prop on property located at 70237 Chaucer Drive. Mr. De's is purchasing the home and would like to apply to keep chickens prior uh to the purchase. Um the properties to the north, south, east, and west are developed with single family residences. The subject property is approximately.22 acres in size. The property is rectangular in shape and has 76 feet of frontage on Chaucer and is 130 ft deep. Uh keeping in uh line with past practice, uh when we receive the request to have chickens, uh we do notify all of the residents through a letter uh of any properties that are contiguous with this property. Uh I believe we uh sent out seven uh letters to
011the surrounding properties. We did receive two letters back both uh against allowing chickens at this location. Uh but uh in your background brief uh the city planner has provided maps showing the distance uh from the request to all the neighboring um properties. Thank you, sir. Is the petitioner here? Would you like to speak to this? Uh, I guess I'm not sure. Kyle, would you your name and address, please? Uh, Kyle D's, um, 70237 Chowzer Drive. We are closing on the house this Friday, May 9th. Um, I'm not sure too much what to say here. I am a young man looking to purchase some chickens for eggs. Um, looking to start a family soon with my recent wife and just looking for a ability to generate food security for me and my future family. Thank you.
012Motion be in order by the council. Council's wishes. Does council council want to drop council's rules and have a discussion before a motion is made? Yeah, sure. Okay. and we have consensus. We'll drop the rules and have conversation before we'd like to start that off. All right, I will. Um, in the in the past when when we started doing this with the chickens, we also noted that if you had neighbors in close proximity and they were not for the chickens that we would not allow chickens like that. Um, and we have two letters from the next door neighbors stating that they do not wish to have chickens alongside of them. I have to tend to agree with them. Anybody else? Uh, yes, Mr. Mayor. Um, I'm not sure how much of the background information the
013uh the requesters receive, but we've had a number of these requests before and we've taken a lot of time to go through and see all the information that's provided to us. Look at the location of where of where the proposed chicken coupe's going to be and how it is going to impact the neighborhood. And one of the kind of the common theme that we've ones that we've approved has been in areas where either they had a large piece of property and the surrounding neighborhood neighbors also had large pieces of property so it wasn't right up in a confined area which is somewhat as we find in this subdivision. I I live in that subdivision and I know the sizes of the the backyards. Um, so we did have one, I think believe two meetings ago
014that we did approve on Ferguson where we did have a neighbor that was against it, but their house was 185 ft behind it um from the coupe, the proposed coupe. And then also that property that was going to have the coupe with now does have is has been approved to have the coupe had a privacy fence that uh would make it so that it was much more enclosed and not within the sighteline of those close neighbors. In fact, we did have one in Canterbury Drive um two years ago now on June 5th, 2023. very similar situation where it was in that case it was actually the coupe was proposed to be a little bit closer to the neighbors as well but they also had a privacy fence but following along with our past practices on
015this we just felt that it was too inclusive of the neighbors and the lot was too small this lot is a little bit bigger but not much than that so I think with the fact that it's going to be open um there was a chain link fence there but Um, it doesn't obviously hide the hide the coupe. So, looking at this and the ones we approve, we spend a lot of time on it and I just with the situation that's here and with the neighbors that are adjacent to it, not wanting it there because they're going to actually um see it and and we've had some comments that they really don't want that. So, in that case, I think it's hard, at least in my opinion, um I agree with uh councelor Schultz that uh
016probably should not be not be approved for that for those reasons just because it's it's too small, too small a lots and too uh obstructive of the neighbor the neighbors that are not interested in having this here. So, anybody else? Yeah, I just wanted to to say that uh I agree with Mike. Um I think um it's great that you're moving into the city and you're getting your new home. Um what I'd like to see is you get in there and get to know your neighbors. Um build up a relationship and then you know look at you know talk to them if you you know they would do it with a privacy fence or um you know go that way instead of starting out in a negative way you know. Um, so I think that
017would be more beneficial in the long run. So, okay. Anything else? Council, is council ready to make a motion? Pardon me? We don't have a motion. Anybody care to make a motion? I'll make a motion to deny the petition from Kyle these to keep up to six uh chickens, egg laying chickens on property located at 70237 Chaucer Drive. Support made and supported. Any further discussion at the council table? Is there any audience participation on this item? Please state your name and address for the clerk and keep it under three minutes, please. Uh Larry Morris, 70234 Canterbury directly behind um my new neighbors, which I haven't met yet, but um we did send a letter with numerous reasons why we aren't in favor of this, but I just want to highlight too, and you the council
018members have already brought it up, but the lots on Canterbury and on that end of the subdivision are considerably smaller than the ones on Chaucer. I think Chaucer is what 13,000 ft². Mine is about 7,600 ft². So the property line is 35 ft from my bedroom window and sitting on the patio. It's probably 30 ft. So that's one of the main reasons. And the other is, you know, we really don't know the effects on property values with um a neighbor with it with chickens and chicken coupe. Um, now that my wife and I are both retired, my daughter lives up north with our only grandkids and there may come a time when we decide to leave the city and sell and and move closer to family and uh concerned about what you know having that
019would do our property values. Those are the two main reasons, but there are also others that are outlined in the letter that we sent. But thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Hi, my name is Lisa Schirtz. I actually live across the street from Larry at 70235 Canterbury. Also I wanted to add in is about the property values. That's why even though I'm not on that street, what would concern me if that was allowed there then it could be allowed in other places. And I do know for a fact because I've talked to multiple realators that even though some people may not bind buying your house if it's next to that, a lot of them will not want that. And if anything, they'll ask for you to come down in price. So to me, that's the
020big reason why I'm against that. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Anybody else? Back to the council table. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Your petition has been denied for not. But welcome to Richmond. Wish you the best. Item number two is consideration of special event request Veterans of Smco Walk for Warriors. Mr. City Manager, council is scheduled to consider a special event request from the Veterans of Smco for a 30-mile walk-athon to raise funds for Operation Injured Soldiers uh mental health on Saturday, June 14th, 2025 from 6:00 a.m. to 6 pm in the trail head park in Mcome Orchard Trail. Uh Eric Barton uh is the applicant on behalf of Veterans of Smco uh who's with us tonight. Uh Veterans of Smco is
021a nonprofit organization raising uh money to help fund uh the Operation Injured Soldiers. Uh the uh request is to use the Trailhead Park Pavilion for their registration. Uh they have also contacted the schools about being able to park in the school parking lot that day. uh they intend to have a small table for registration and a table kind of uh with information on their organization. They'd also like to place uh flags uh representing the different branches of the service and and I think their organization uh there in the trail head park and will work with us on their placement. Um, we've approved uh previously uh runs and 5Ks uh most notably like the Romeo to Richmond half marathon. Uh this walk will be much less intensive than that. You know, I think the the footprint
022of the registration table and everything will be uh less intrusive. Obviously with the walk uh the participants will be you know kind of using the trail under the guidelines of the normal rules so there won't be the traffic concerns that you have with the race with people trying to maintain their speed crossing the intersection. So um with that I'll uh turn over to council and and Eric is here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Would you like to address this Good evening. My name is Eric Barton, 363 Burns Road, Kimble, Michigan. The event summary was right on. That's exactly what how it should play out. Um, unfortunately, I got a report on people signed up this morning and we only have 26 people, which I expect a lot more. Hopefully last minute
023they'll get on board. Um, I did bring some organized, you know, someformational brochures I can leave, uh, if you'd like to dig into it a little more, but like in the summary as well, most people aren't going to do 30 miles. They might go up to five maybe. Some will have their children and families, so they don't take it that intensely. And some of us will do all 30, which will take us till like 4 in the afternoon. We'll have a little um safety reminder at around 6:15 6:20 and then we have a chaplain lined up to just give us a little sendoff message and then by 6:30 we want to be walking go over to approximately between 30 and 31 mile road. That's a 15 mile mark. Um and then come back for the
02430 and there will be a sign every mile along the route so people know. We'll have about seven aid stations, which is just a table with, you know, a cooler and water and Gatorades and granola bars and whatnot. And the participants, most will have a t-shirt with logo and sponsors. They'll have a tag which has the phone number for a person at the pavilion. If they need a lift out or something, we can go get them. we'll know where they're at and they can, you know, some people after they walk 20 miles need a pickup and so that's what that's about. That person will be there until the race is over and then we'll pick up. I think we were wrapped up. We did this in Holland in September and I believe around 5:00 we
025had everything gathered up and we're rolling out of the park. So be happy to answer any other specifics you may have. Any questions council? Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the special event application from the Veterans of Sco operation injured soldier for a 30-mile walk-athon and allow organizers to utilize the trail head park and become Orchard Trail from 6:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 14th, 2025. Support motion's been made and supported. Any further discussion on this item? Any audience participation on this item? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We hope for great weather. Me too. I thank you very much. Can I leave these somewhere? Yeah. You want to just leave them there? We'll get them
026out to everyone. Thank you. You have a good evening. Thanks. You too. Take care. Item number three is consideration of special event request Richmond artisan and farmers market. Mr. City Manager, city council is scheduled to review a special event request from Melissa Matzac of Flores Trash to treasure to hold the artisan and farmers market every Thursday from June 5th through until October 2nd from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. each day with the market being open from 3 to 7. There will be no markets on July 3rd and September 4th. Uh this is uh essentially the same time frame that we've done uh last year as well. Uh same footprint. Um they are again requesting uh permission for special event requests for mobile food vendors uh to be on site on Thursdays uh for the farm
027market uh this year. Instead of food trucks, they're looking at more kind of mom and pop stands. uh you know uh I'm sure Melissa will kind of explain that a little bit more, but rather than the large food trucks um and I have talked to her about the parking lot project right now, knock on wood, we're progressing and and should be open, but we'll adjust that start date if we have to. But I think right now we are good. Okay, Melissa, hello everyone. Tell us what's new and happening. So things are things are thankfully running pretty smooth. Um, the biggest thing I think with the food vendors, John touched on that a little bit. The big trucks are a hard to get if they show up. You know, we've had that problem where, oh yeah,
028we'll be there, we'll be there, they don't come, which whatever. You know, we've found that we have much better luck with our kind of smaller vendors, the lemonade stands. Um, we have had one person approach us that has like the little bike cart with hot dogs. Um, but more things like that, just your typical grab and grow go than a actual food truck. Um, I think it's a better fit for our market. Um, along with there those kinds of people seem to be easier to get and a little bit more committed to a smaller venue, which we are. You know, even though our market's growing, we're still small. We don't draw thousands. So, they'll go where the money is, which I understand. Um, but I think that it's a better way to kind of grow
029and maybe help the culture of somebody that's starting out really small with just a lemonade stand or a snow cone stand grow into what they eventually might like to be. So, um, I think we'd have better luck with it and I just think it's a better fit. Um, we are still looking for vendors. We've had great response. We have several returning. We have a lot of people having babies this year, so they won't be back for a little while. Um, but, you know, so far so good. And it's, you know, hopefully we get good weather and Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully we have the parking lot done. It It's going to be beautiful. I've nosed around over there a little bit, so it's looking good. So, and if in fact it's not done, we have got contact
030information for everybody and we'll just push it as needed. I mean, I think that's a better idea than pushing the start of the market in case. Mhm. That we'll just push if that's what we need to do. Yeah. So, y um as long as we know probably a good, you know, week or so ahead of time, we our vendors won't have started baking yet or, you know, spending money to prepare for our market specifically. So, we should be okay with that. Good. Good. We have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the special event request from Flora's Trash to Treasure to hold a farmers market on Thursdays from June 5th until October 2nd, 2025 from 2 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the municipal parking lot. Support motion made and supported. Any discussion on this?
031It's our annual thing. Any audience participation on this item? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. A against. Motion does pass. We have a second motion for the mobile food vendors. I make a motion to approve the special event request for mobile food vendors from Melissa Mattress Act to have up to three small food vendors for the Richmond Farmers Market on Thursdays 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. June 5th through October 2nd. Support. What's been made and support? Any discussion on this? I agree. the smaller vendors in the like the lemonade stand enjoyed that and yeah she moved to Montana a little more personal you can talk to them we're looking for a new one too she that was good last year I agree and you know
032I appreciate it yeah I do too any audience participation on this item back to the table all in favor of the motion signify by saying I I against motion does fast. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you. Good luck. Thanks. Item number four is consideration of purchase of fitness equipment at the fire hall. Mr. City Manager council is scheduled to consider a request from the Rich and Volunteer Fire Department for the purchase of new workout equipment from TRX Performance. Uh the RFD has funds available in their training line item. The new equipment proposed is uniquely suited to the space available within the fireh hall. Uh this equipment is specifically designed to maximize the floor space by securely folding up against the wall when not in use. Uh important feature for the limited space that we have at
033the fire hall. Uh based on that, we are recommending to wave purchasing ordinance requirements based on the proposal uh received from them and them being the sole source for this particular uh equipment proposed. and uh the sergeant or lieutenant to uh Joel Babalier and our chief are here tonight to answer any questions. You guys want to add anything to that? Mayor Rick, esteemed members of council, thanks for having us tonight. Um we just want to apologize for putting this on there tonight. We um as we're digging in as we took over in March, we're digging into our budget and finishing up this fiscal year 2024 2025, we thought that was uh this part was accomplished. We found out it wasn't. Um thanks to assistant chief jellinich. He brought it to our attention. Uh we sent
034Joel, our lieutenant dire to work, who's our purchasing manager for the department, and he tried to come up with the best solution at the most cost-effective way to doing it as uh city manager said. And you all know we're pretty limited in our space there. We do have multiple piece of workout equipment that are in there that they move daily to for our membership to do their uh fitness training. We appreciate the use of the one here at city hall. Our guys like to use the ones at the fire hall because they utilize whether it's hoses, axes, stuff that's uh to the daily uh application to firefighting. Um so when Joel looked into it, he found this company. try to seek out more places. Um, this was the only one that was available to do
035it. So, like the city manager said, it's not only going to benefit our membership, but it's going to benefit the fire station because now we free up a lot of space cuz we can now get rid of the equipment that was in there that was already donated, that membership already owns, they brought in from their home, they can now take back to their home and use what's at the station. So, I appreciate you guys considering this tonight. into any of the technical questions. Um, Lieutenant Dav's here to answer those because then really not get on the technical stuff of it. So, I thought Joel was gonna bring a few pieces to demonstrate. You know, he he wanted to do a quick workout, but we figured we appreciate your guys' time, so we wouldn't do that
036to you tonight. We appreciate that. Uh, do we have a motion before discussion? I'll make a motion to wave purchasing ordinance requirements due to section 64-53D and to authorize the purchase of exercise equipment for the fireh hall from PRX performance in the amount of 6,184.14 with the expense charge to appropriate line item fire fund training and education support. Uh most been made and supported. We'll note that this is a roll call because you're waving purchasing. Correct. Yep. Sorry, I forgot to put it on the sheet. Yeah, call him there. No, that was be pro Tom. You know how I am with roll [Laughter] calls. Yeah. Uh okay. So, any uh council comments on this item right now? Yeah, I just I agree with the chief and the lieutenant uh that you know in the past
037we've gotten donated equipment from fitness centers and different things and they're bulky. They don't you know yeah they work but they just take up too much room with limited space and I think getting the proper equipment and to do the specific workouts that they want to do and not all the bells and whistles. I think this is a well worthwhile. So absolutely and I welcome any of city council if they ever want to come up and participate and use it. Doors open for you. I bet you do. Any audience participation on this item? You not back to the table. Oh, yeah. Roll call, please. Warren, yes. Lefor? Yes. Alanage? Yes. Allen? Yes. Schultz? Yes. Stravich? Yes. Ricks? Yes. Motion does pass. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item number five is consideration of Richmond master
038plan application and distribution and public comment. Mr. City Manager council is scheduled to give consideration on approving the distribution of the community master plan document for the purpose of collecting public comments. Uh this actually uh the document was disseminated to all the people on the list. The state law requires kind of who we send it to, which we followed the state law. Uh, part of the process is to have council approve that list, which we did miss. I think we did during one of the weekly updates inform council that it was going out and who was going to, but uh we don't have a motion in the minutes uh approving that list. So, we're kind of coming back to correct that oversight. Very good. Council, uh, I have a motion here, please. I'll make a
039motion to approve distribution of the master plan document for review and comment during the 63day review period. Support was been made and supported. Any discussion on this item? Any public comment on this? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Item number six is consideration of board appointment to the EDC. Mr. S manager council is scheduled to consider confirming the mayor's appointment to the economic development corporation. There are currently two vacancies on the board and Anthony Maniscalo has uh expressed his interest in serving on the board. Uh these are normally six-year terms. Uh there is one of the two terms that are available that has an expiration date of uh July 1st, 2027. That's what uh we're recommending uh which slot to appoint him
040to. Thank you. Um and I do ask uh council to approve my appointment to this. Um I talked to uh Tony a number of years ago about uh serving on the EDC. And at that time um his his job uh uh didn't allow him the freedom uh at nighttime. uh even uh he worked in a school setting and he could not uh do that. But he has recently retired from his uh school job and uh has taken on another job, but he certainly has a time now and I had the opportunity to run into him on another item. And I said, "Well, we we just had a a retirement from the uh board and I was wondering if maybe you'd like to take that." And he absolutely said, "Yes, sir. It is time." So, um
041I'm really happy to see him. I think he's going to bring a a lot to that board for us uh with his uh previous work is uh definitely going to help on the EDC. So, I ask that uh you uh confirm that with the motion. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to confirm the mayor's appointment of Anthony Mansiko sinko uh to the EDC with the expiration date of July 1st 2027 with fulfills the remaining term of the current vacancy support made and support any discussion on this any audience participation on this back to the table all in favor of the motion signify by saying I against Motion does pass. We thank Tony for for doing that. Also, uh we we uh did lose our chairman. Um he relocated uh up to the uh
042north end of uh the county. Uh actually out of county up towards uh Sinclair County up in the lake here on uh area and uh after many many years of being here and um we wish him luck up there. uh you did a great job uh as chair for many many years I believe of the EDC. So uh Dave Villamy, we we thank you and wish you uh good luck up there. And uh I'm sure I think he let us know that he'd be around to to uh make sure we were still clicking on uh all the gears there. So that's very good good of him. So is there uh any uh miscellaneous matters from the city manager this evening? Uh yeah, just uh the summer wreck guide for our recreation department is out. Uh
043we have copies here at the counter at city hall, I'm sure at the library and um community center as well as probably online on our website. Uh as council is aware, uh the new air conditioning unit for this building uh was uh put up on the rooftop and the old one was taken down last Friday. So, uh, this week Tony's is going through the building, uh, running new wire where they need to to make sure everything is communing correctly, communicating correctly, and they're working on the, uh, uh, kind of command portion of the of the project now. So, uh, looking forward to that getting done. Uh, as the mayor mentioned, I'd just like to thank Dave Villamy, uh, for his years of service on EDC. I know he was uh had if if not perfect
044attendance very close to it on all the ribbon cutings for new businesses. So he was always there. Very good. Council comments. Michael. Uh nothing today. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. I just wanted to to pass on that we lost a a close u family member uh Connie Yellenich u the community and uh her husband was Joe Ellenich the past council member and so uh she's going to be greatly missed agreed. Yes, Jim. Yeah. Um, I'd like to thank all the people that participated in the day of prayer on Thursday, last last Thursday. And a special thanks goes out to uh Richmond area good old days for supplying a lunchon afterwards. Weather wasn't real conducive, but it all worked out in here and wishing all the mothers a happy Mother's Day on Sunday. Emily, nothing tonight. Thank
045you, John. Nothing tonight. Awesome. Okay. And we have uh the calendar to go to this evening. We have a recreation board meeting tomorrow night at six o'clock right here at city I'm sorry at 7 o'clock right here at city hall. Planning commission will be meeting uh at 7:00 on the 8th right here at city hall. And as uh uh councelor Schultz mentioned, we have Mother's Day this Sunday, the 11th. And and happy Mother's Day to everybody. Library board will be meeting on Monday, a week from tonight, at 5:30 at the library for their regular monthly meeting. The cable commission will be meeting on the 13th at 6:30 right here at city hall. Um the the annual perennial exchange will be held on the 17th. that is going to be held over at BB Park as
046it always has been and it's going to be in the gazebo at 9:00 a.m. And if you want to get some good pickings, you want to be there at 9:00 a.m. sharp for those flowers. Uh two weeks from tonight will be our next regular council meeting at 7:00, but as tonight the council met at 5:30 to go through uh the budget for next year. We will be doing that again on the 19th at 5:30 right here at city hall. All open to the public. And that is uh all we have on the calendar for this evening. We move on to uh other business. Is there any other business of the city council this evening? If not, would be in order. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Support. Motion been made and supported. There is no
047discussion on the adjournment motion. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Motion does pass. Thanks for being with us. Heat. Heat. N. [Music]