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[00:03] They'll call to order the regular meeting of the United States Council for March 7, 2022, but
[00:10] input or any unscheduled personal experiences, we have none.
[00:15] Three can sit and Jim the staff recommends we approve on this four and five.
[00:21] Make a motion to approve?
[00:23] Second.
[00:28] We say aye.
[00:29] Aye.
[00:30] Aye.
[00:33] Aye.
[00:38] Six.
[00:39] Resolution C.C. 22, that's year four.
[00:41] MSU-A, 2022, that's year one on the Joint Resolution Delagant Summit claims payment,
[00:46] so according to the City Manager and Trust Manager, it would be the same moment we both
[00:52] want to.
[00:53] And then it makes you ready.
[00:54] So I'll make a motion to approve?
[00:55] Aye.
[00:59] Aye.
[01:00] Aye.
[01:01] Please stand.
[01:02] Aye.
[01:04] Aye.
[01:05] Aye.
[01:06] Seven.
[01:07] Wendy Gillesmy from Pet Division Property LLC has presented a approved claim of $20
[01:12] record easement at the federal county clerk's office.
[01:15] Post your approved?
[01:17] Second.
[01:23] Please stand.
[01:24] Aye.
[01:26] Aye.
[01:28] Aye.
[01:32] abstain.
[01:33] Aye.
[01:34] Lettersupport for CTAs Grant for the MIMA Tribe.
[01:37] So you have a copy of the letter at your place.
[01:48] The MIMA Tribe is applying through federal program.
[01:54] It came up with some money for a detention facility.
[02:01] Other tribes are joining in.
[02:03] And the hope is that two or more of the tribes can get separate grants, and then as they did
[02:12] with the Health Center, out east of town, combined their money together, and make a better facility
[02:20] they want either one of them individually.
[02:24] And they are asking that we endorse this program through this letter, they are asking
[02:35] the same of the county, and they feel that their chances of getting the grants will be significantly
[02:42] approved.
[02:43] There is a demonstration that everybody will multiply just as well as the city and the county are
[02:51] all in support of this particular program.
[03:00] would they run it then?
[03:03] Well, that's yet to be determined.
[03:05] It's quite possible that it would be a trust
[03:10] that would be created.
[03:14] The almost impossible to do this,
[03:17] I believe, without the sheriff being involved.
[03:22] But exactly how we're going to proceed.
[03:25] That's yet to be determined.
[03:27] But the idea is to get this grant application in
[03:30] the nation, because the deadline is later this week.
[03:34] And so we need to now, if we were to support this,
[03:40] in a way that it counts as far as everybody is.
[03:48] Motion to approve.
[03:50] Second.
[03:55] Davis.
[03:56] Aye.
[03:57] We stand.
[03:58] Aye.
[03:59] Aye.
[04:00] Upspend.
[04:01] Aye.
[04:04] Any other new business that has risen?
[04:06] Supposing this agenda.
[04:07] Ten.
[04:12] Mayor.
[04:13] Council.
[04:14] Community announcements.
[04:19] Good.
[04:20] Yeah.
[04:21] I didn't know I'd get to go first.
[04:22] Just because I'm sitting on this side.
[04:23] Yeah.
[04:24] All right.
[04:26] So a couple of things.
[04:28] I've been about halfway through the departments meeting with
[04:32] the departments as part of my onboarding thing.
[04:35] And I got to tell you, it's been awesome.
[04:38] Just the level of input that I've gotten from everybody.
[04:42] The willingness to want to work with us and us work with them.
[04:46] It's just been refreshing that all these people and have such a passion for the city and have
[04:53] a desire to be better and want to do the right thing.
[04:58] I feel proud to be a representative of this community and the people that we have running our
[05:03] municipality, right?
[05:04] So I still have a few left to go, but I'm sure that it will be as equally as forthcoming with information
[05:11] and willingness to want to work together.
[05:14] So I just, I appreciate it.
[05:16] It's been great.
[05:17] It's been great.
[05:18] And Jill is scared of you.
[05:20] She was the first one I met with.
[05:22] She was dealing with Jill did a great job and just gave me more information than I needed,
[05:29] but there was information I wouldn't have known to ask for.
[05:32] So I appreciated that she was very all of them.
[05:34] I've been very thorough and just asked what I needed to know and what I, you know,
[05:39] it's been very good so far.
[05:41] I'm really glad that I've been able to do it and it's been a great bunch of people
[05:44] that I met with.
[05:45] I met with Travis and Chris today and community development.
[05:50] And they were talking about some of the positive things they have coming up in their group.
[05:54] And I mean that's a challenging department.
[05:56] I would not want my worst enemy to have to work.
[06:00] there, but you know, there's a no, that's a no-win situation in that case, you know, when
[06:06] we're talking about a statement, I think at some point we will get some consistency there with
[06:12] some of the things they're doing and I think that the city will start realizing that this is
[06:17] for the benefit of them rather than it's just coming and pestering people, you know, because I think
[06:24] that's, that's what it comes across through them now, like on the American, I can do what I want,
[06:29] you can't tell me what my yard should look like, but, you know, the day we're proud of where we live
[06:34] and we want it to look good, so other people would want to come and live here, right?
[06:38] So, I admire those guys because they, they have a thankless job and they do a good job at it and
[06:43] they've got some new things coming with employees that are starting up and being positive, so
[06:49] and then I had a good time with the capital, would you guys, for those of us that got to go?
[06:53] Yeah. I'm sure you guys will have some things to say, it was just refreshing to be down there
[07:02] and see the process that it takes to make a bill into a law, it's not as simple as the cartoon
[07:09] talking about, I'm just a bill, I mean, then you obviously lived it for a good portion of your life,
[07:14] but what the cartoon? So we all talk about how the political system is slow and it's tough to
[07:26] get anything done but once you sit on that floor and see the process, you have an understanding for it
[07:31] of what it's like and why it is like it is because you get so much input on the laws that are
[07:38] going to rule our land, right? And it should be, there should be a lot of people involved and there
[07:42] should be a lot of opinions and there should be a lot of thought behind them because, you know,
[07:47] if you just blow something through because, you know, you thought it was a good idea, it could have an effect on
[07:53] people that you don't think about it in your own mind and then see you get the other people's input and you
[07:58] do some debates and in the debates at the beginning, you know, you think well I'm totally this way and then you start
[08:04] debating and then you hear other perspectives and then you think maybe I'm not totally this way, so it was
[08:11] really cool, I enjoyed it, learned a lot and it was definitely valuable, so it's all the got.
[08:21] I just want to welcome Melinda the board, maybe we can keep him off Facebook.
[08:31] Right now.
[08:41] It was a nice trip, it was eye opening, the net working was really cool, I'm sure one of you are going to tackle the
[08:51] other item that was really fun to see and hard to believe that we haven't been.
[09:00] engaged in that venue before now, but we weren't, we're not fix that and move forward.
[09:05] So, we'll see.
[09:08] Yeah, it was a good trip.
[09:11] It was an eye opener for sure of how that process works.
[09:16] We got to meet with Steve Bayshore for about three hours.
[09:20] Just us in the room and got to pull it up, pull it in his ear,
[09:24] and voice our opinion done some stuff.
[09:26] And he told us what was coming.
[09:29] When we were on a floor, we debated four bills, five bills.
[09:33] Yeah.
[09:34] That day.
[09:35] It was four hours.
[09:36] It took us four hours to debate those five bills.
[09:39] And Steve told us that this week they were doing 50 bills a day.
[09:43] And I'm like, wow, I don't know how to heck you do that.
[09:46] Because it was really nice to meet people from other communities.
[09:51] Some bigger, some smaller.
[09:53] But we face a lot of the same issues, no matter what size you are.
[09:58] But it also gave us opportunities to meet people that we can contact with questions
[10:04] and help one another with different projects or how they get them done.
[10:09] They were surprised to see us when we walked in.
[10:13] Everybody got coming over on my hand.
[10:15] You got for my own.
[10:16] And again, we're not ready for my own four.
[10:19] So, I don't know if we've ever been there or not.
[10:21] But the act like we were from another world or something.
[10:25] But we got to pick up a bench from the city of Antarctica.
[10:30] Both probably going to talk about that a little bit.
[10:31] So that was a neat little deal.
[10:33] I'll let him.
[10:34] I'm sure he's probably going to be the more spectacular on that.
[10:36] And so I'll let him do that.
[10:38] The other thing I got is the middle school girls.
[10:44] And the high school girls.
[10:46] Both one powerlifting state championships today is a team.
[10:49] So three years in a row, I believe.
[10:52] So pretty big deal.
[10:55] And we had a couple of individual champions, which is another big deal.
[11:00] So Kudos to those girls and their efforts.
[11:03] They put in.
[11:05] It's got to be empowering for some of those girls.
[11:09] Because I know what's got, say, Kyways, 118 pounds.
[11:14] And she deadlift in 285.
[11:16] So pretty impressive.
[11:18] Personal record.
[11:19] Yeah, personal record for her.
[11:20] So it's cool.
[11:21] And she placed fifth overall.
[11:23] And so she was at a ballet competition last night.
[11:28] Yeah, she wanted ballet competition on Sunday in a part of the championship on.
[11:33] Or fifth place.
[11:34] So crazy.
[11:36] But.
[11:37] Order for you.
[11:40] That's all got.
[11:42] So we'll move to 11 man city managers, communications.
[11:45] So as the mayor had mentioned, it was really, really fantastic.
[11:50] And when we went down to Oklahoma City,
[11:52] the city of Anodarco presented the city of Miami with really, really nice metal.
[12:00] Park bench that was inscribed with our city motto and city of my am on it.
[12:07] It's sitting right in there by my office, but it was for our utility crew that went down
[12:14] last year, year four.
[12:17] And assistant city of Enadarco in a time of need.
[12:20] And I'll tell you that their city manager can, of course, could not have been more
[12:25] complimentary about our team and how hard they worked and how impressed they were with our
[12:31] folks going down there and helping them at the level that they did.
[12:36] And so this was just something that they wanted to do to show their thanks to the city
[12:39] of mine.
[12:40] It was really excited to work with the utility guys and see where we want to put this
[12:44] and go off their their awards.
[12:47] So anyway, that was really great and I made a great contact with the city of Enadarco out of
[12:53] it.
[12:54] Kenneth Corn, who was the previous Senator Corn, and sounds like he's going to be taken
[13:00] on the new role of the USDA very soon and excited to have him as a resource and someone who
[13:07] thinks very highly of mine, so great job to do utility guys and Tyler and all the hard work
[13:12] those guys do and show him what mine is all about, so congrats.
[13:18] The last thing I wanted to mention of course is Melinda Stotz.
[13:21] It's extremely excited to welcome Melinda to our city team as our new communications manager.
[13:28] We're thrilled to have her.
[13:30] It's been a long time from what I hear since my mother has had a communications manager, but
[13:35] she will be instrumental in helping us improve our transparency and develop a strong communication
[13:42] strategy because as you all know, I think we all appear believe.
[13:48] The key to a strong government is communication and transparency and so that's really going to
[13:54] be one of our initiatives going forward is making sure that we're putting out accurate information,
[14:00] consistent information, more information and really providing all the data and facts that everyone needs
[14:09] to know in what you all use to make decisions every day, what I use to make decisions every
[14:15] day, it's important that we share that information and you know always try to avoid doing
[14:20] anything in a vacuum because that's not good government.
[14:24] So I'm excited to have Melinda and her expertise who has had many years in media as a writer
[14:33] for newspapers, most recently worked with Kasa and her family have been the member of this community
[14:39] for many years so we're lucky to have her and I'm terribly excited for what I think she
[14:45] is going to do for us for us all in help, all the divisions of the city so.
[14:49] No pressure.
[14:50] No pressure.
[14:51] No pressure.
[14:52] That was then all I had.
[15:00] All right, I'm gonna raise this at 12 adjournment. So move. Second.