New Council Members Swearing In

Today, we counted the question and ask some key ballots in this case. And the formal meeting going next, the results of that in the packet. And what we will do then is ask for a motion to approve or accept the county of the question and ask some key ballots. And the motion to accept those results as you have listed on the handout for you. So, where is this going to make a motion to accept the results of the absentee ballot? Motion to accept the question and the absentee ballots. Any discussion on that at all? Is the roll call appropriate for this one? We have nine, nine.

And let's do our roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Let's the results are certified. I guess this required all of our signatures at some point. The second part of that agenda item will be the swearing in of the new council members. And before we do that, I would like to take this opportunity to personally and on behalf of the existing council and on behalf of the city, as a whole, thank you for retiring members from council for their services, their energy, their time, their input, their help through the last year, two years, the two years that they have been here. I think they deserve a round of applause. It was the only one present, thank you.

It's been interesting. Just one of these after we signed one. The new council members will come forward to me. Morning by the city clerk. We have a community, thank you, Donna. We have all four, we have the magic words here. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. If you would like a copy of this, I'd like to say welcome aboard to the four new members, glad to have you here,

and I'm ready to work. Let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the selection of the mayor. Before we open the floor to nominations, I'd like to make those everyone for this moment here, if they wouldn't say that being mayor is often kind of a no-in situation here in the hot seat, the council and the opportunity to create a blame for things that you don't have much control over. That's both good and bad, but it comes with a job. I would simply ask that all members of the council and the community gives a mayor the most in support, because it is a hard job. I am not a candidate for mayor this coming year. If someone else is turned to attempt to keep this wondering circus on an even keel and moving forward, I wish the mayor the best of luck will give my support and help in any way possible,

and with that, I'd like to open the floor for nominations for mayor. I'd like to nominate the mayor for mayor. Next second. There we have Diane Carpenter. Any other nominations for mayor? I'm over the nomination. I can motion and second to close the nominations. All in favor of the motion. Opposed? Is a vote even necessary. I think we should simply say, by affirmation, Diane Carpenter is in there. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I'd like to express my appreciation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think the main reason that I considered a candidate for mayor, when I was asked if I would be willing to do it was because I felt that maybe if we all worked together,

we could kind of help with them around and provide some leadership to kind of get the town moving. Maybe be a good model for other communities in the state. Because I think the council does provide a leadership in that atmosphere or something. And maybe if we work really hard at that, we can get the community on a positive track. I heard some comments during the mayor's conference from public officials from around the state that said that Bethel is looked at in many quarters as kind of a model for solving problems. But although we do have serious problems, we also have a kind of reputation for getting down and deal with it. And before we break tonight would be to give each of the new council members a chance to maybe to say a few words and perhaps say for the public, some of the areas that you're particularly interested in and it is anything that you'd like to

ask for the next meeting. Yeah, I was in the committee, I served as a council before one term and I had enjoyed working with the former council people that they worked with. And it's pretty hard, sometimes you're good to define the law and the problem and then you get caught in between and if you have something important come up and not. I'm glad to be back on the council again and I haven't officially met our city manager before you know.

We're going to be working together and you have to put up with me how I do my job plan on people and for that, for that. And so I have to learn to put up with me. I really want to appreciate the people that have a couple of reasons why I would like to answer one thing like I mentioned before. I'd like to give an example to the United States, especially to the United States population, not that I'm kind of used anyway, but I would like to encourage more young people to run for positions like this, I think it's really important. Maybe sometime later on I'm not going to encourage me to invite some more to high school students, or even from the TCC, I think it's a better would be a good experience for them.

And I'd like to also reiterate what Diane had covered said, I think we can work together, we can work together with the community and we can listen, I'm sure the past comes have done that, but we can. I get here in two years, you know, one he has to get one when he thinks, so I can't, I think I'm working hard for making a good job. I'd like to thank people for voting for me. I think I'm really comfortable with that, hearing all the problems that were going on, you know, seemed to me, seemed to mind a great portion of this was due to lack of communication, you know, like was mentioned, the words were getting out the way they were supposed to get word, word, it's the lower understanding that develop on the lower people, the wording.

And I just like to find out how the system is running, whether it's working together in the understanding of the operation of the city, where everyone have so many arguments here and there. Why was this time, all the city councilmen did it, why did they do it, you know, these sort of questions have been talked into my mind and do other people to me and I feel that if we all work together, you know, and defining these great big definitions and letting the people know in a more reasonable manner that for everybody could understand why we did this, whether we came about this operation, I think that we might know that this agreement problem and get on to a better life initiative. My name is Dave Trasley. I too like to thank the voters for their overwhelming mandate that I have been given.

If you look at the vote, Kelly, it kind of put me in shock for the first few days. I think a politician green is 51% of people at the vote, and if you do your mathematics, you'll find out so we'll hire them that. I've contacted in the last three weeks about 400 citizens at all. During my campaign, I said I would do this. I haven't reached my goal with talking to everybody, but I've talked to a good number of people. The people have suggested several things that we should take a look at. The most present thing is some people on the street that endanger themselves and the rest of the community. And as soon as possible, I hope we can put this on the agenda to take a good look at to see if there's some way,

because it's a clean in our resources, see if there's some way for a reimbursement schedule for services rendered. This is what I'm hearing from the community, and this is what I'm passing back to the council, and I hope we can all work together on this particular thing. I hope we can continue to work together and get as much input through the committee system as possible. I'd like to encourage all people, that's all, to join city committees and commissions. And see if we can reactivate it, get a little unity, go in, and at this time, I want to volunteer to the council representative for public works committee. I have a lot of other things, a lot of other things.

The people in the community will contact each one of us. Talk to us at this, when they see us in a post office, the store is the college. For myself, I now have office hours from 7 to 9 p.m. by days of week. And I would hope people could call me if it's convenience for them to call me at that time. My telephone number is 2772. It's a special telephone that I've set up so people can contact me. That doesn't mean I'm not available any time that people need contact me.

Again, I'd like to thank everybody from Bethel for their input and for their vote. And I'll try not to let you know. Thank you. I'm just going to say, we're very hard to try to get nominations for the committee for the committee. So that's possible. At this time, Ben, can I ask you a question? Would you be willing to share with my next committee? If anybody else has any other committee to their interest, do we want to share with my interest? And so if no one has any objections, we have those three pinned down. Well, Diane, if it's okay with anybody else, I'm going to be traveling right now.

I would like to find something with everybody else. So she was the council doesn't mean the council representative on the court commission, so you will need to appoint another council. I'm talking with you, the interim court commission. Thank you for your area.

I hope that would be clear on this. If there's no objection, Dave will share the coming works committee. I'm not chair, but be the council doesn't mean you'll work out your own chairs within the group.

Tom will be the council, be giving me a planning commission, and an interim report commission to clear up on the floor. And I would expect to be busy on the Mad Hop committee that I hope we can set up. Any other transfer items here there? I'm going to go ahead to I don't see. I don't see resolution follows seven C. Is there a copy available of the previous resolution? The resolution that sent from the state, and it's still in the fine state, and all we did was remove the parentheses and that from that form of the state sense. So the we're in.

Thank you. Thank you.