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WE HAVE OUR REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING.AND UM, AGAIN, PLEASE TAKE THE ROLE.
COUNCIL MEMBER HARRIS, COUNCIL MEMBER LOPEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER ROW COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS HERE.
OR INDICATION TONIGHT WILL BE LED BY PASTOR KEITH SHEPHERD OF CHURCH OF CHRIST AND OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCIL MEMBER LOPEZ, PASTOR, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT, SIR.
HOLY GOD, WE THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE THE RULER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH THAT YOU ARE IN CHARGE THAT YOU HAVE PUT MEN IN POWER AT YOUR DISCRETION AT YOUR WISDOM.
WE THANK YOU FATHER FOR OUR NATION.
WE PRAY FOR OUR NATION TO CONFESS THAT WE'RE SINFUL PEOPLE, BUT YOU HAVE BEEN MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS KIND AND BLESSED US BEYOND ANY NATION.
BEFORE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE THAT'S GIVEN US PEACE AND PROSPERITY AND BLESSING.
WE PRAY FOR OUR NATION FOR OUR STATE AND OUR CITY BLESS THESE RULERS OF OUR CITY TO BE WISE, GIVE THEM HELP AND STRENGTH THAT THEY MAY LEAD.
AND MAY THEY LOOK TO YOU AS THE RULER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH FROM AN EXAMPLE, PLUS ALL THOSE WHO WORK FOR THE CITY.
WE PRAY, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR FIREFIGHTERS, FIRST RESPONDERS AND OUR POLICEMEN IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT AGE WE LIVE IN.
WE THANK YOU FATHER FOR LIFE ITSELF.
FOR THOSE WHO WORK HARD IN THE MEDICAL FIELD, WE PRAY FOR THEM AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME FOR YOUR GRACE.
WE LOOK TO YOU AND YOU HAVE GIVEN US EVERYTHING SINCE EVEN BEFORE WE WERE BORN.
WE THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE A FORGIVING GOD, BUT WE ARE SIMPLE PEOPLE.
WE THANK YOU THAT YOU LOVE THIS FIRST, BLESS THIS MEETING IN THIS CITY.
WE'RE SIGNING OUR 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.
[ Consent Agenda Items listed on the Consent Agenda may be enacted by one motion and one vote. If a discussion is required by members of the governing body, the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda for discussion and determination will be made if the item will be considered separately.]
COUNSEL.WE HAVE, UM, TWO ITEMS ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA FOR A REGULAR MEETING TONIGHT.
WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE? MARY CONCEPT? REMEMBER LOPEZ? YES.
I MOVE FOR APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING FOR NOVEMBER 1ST ITEMS ONE THROUGH TWO OR APPROVAL.
SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER RO UH, COUNCIL, ANY, UH, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS RELATING TO OUR AGENDA? LET ME JUST RESTATE AGAIN, MAYOR.
I'M SORRY IF I CAN HAVE A MOMENT.
UH, SO, AND WE, THIS IS OUR SECOND APPROVAL AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE FINAL ADOPTION FOR, UH, CREATING AN ESTABLISHING THE MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSION.
SO I SAID IN A PREVIOUS STUDY SESSION AND WHEN WE APPROVE THIS THE LAST TIME THAT I THINK THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, UH, FOR OUR VETERANS TO SHOW THEIR COMMITMENT AND CONTINUED COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR CITY.
SO I DO IMPLORE ANYONE OUT THERE, UH, VETERAN, UH, THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN THE COMMISSION TO PLEASE GO TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE OR THE WEBSITE AND SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATION THERE.
AND WE WILL BE REVIEWING THOSE AND HOPEFULLY ANNOUNCING THAT, UH, IN A FEW WEEKS ON WHO WILL BE ON THE COMMISSION.
I HOPE TO BRING THAT BEFORE COUNCIL AT OUR DECEMBER MEETING THAT WE'LL BE THEN VOTING ON, ON THE, UH, ON A LIST OF SLATE.
SO COUNCIL MEMBER HARRIS GOING BACK JUST AGAIN, I WANT TO JUST TO KINDA ECHO MY COLLEAGUE, UM, UH, COUNSELING, UH, RENEE, JUST, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS COMMISSION IS JUST A GREAT THING TO, UH, FOR VETERANS TO REALLY, SO WE CAN HAVE A CENTER OF FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND THAT VETERANS ARE NOT, UM, THAT THE VETERAN COMMUNITY IS REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CITY OF CHANDLER.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY THAT WE SHOW OUR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION, INCLUSIVE CITY THAT WE ARE.
SO AGAIN, UM, I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO ALL THE VETERANS APPLYING, UH, UH, TO BE A PART OF THIS, UH, GREAT COMMISSION.
LET ME JUST FOLLOW THAT WITH A COMMENT ALREADY.
WE HAVE MORE APPLICATIONS THAN OPEN SEATS, SO, UH, WHICH I'M EXCITED ABOUT.
UM, WHAT I HOPE TO SEE HAPPEN IS THAT ALL OF OUR VETERANS ARE NON VETERANS IS WE CAN ALSO TAKE SOME NON VETERANS AS PART OF THIS COMMISSION.
ACCORDING TO THE, WHAT IS WRITTEN IS THAT
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YOU BECOME PART OF OUR TEAM PART OF OUR WORKFORCE AND THAT BEYOND THE SEVEN THAT WILL SERVE ON THIS, ON THIS PARTICULAR COMMISSION, IS THAT YOU WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INITIATIVES AND OTHER THINGS SET FORTH BY THE COMMISSION.SO IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD JUST TO HEAD OUT THE GATE WITH A GROUP OF LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE, WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO REALLY FULFILL THE, THE ITEMS THAT THE COMMISSION WILL, UH, ESTABLISHING AND WORKING ON.
SO SEEING NO OTHER COUNCIL, PLEASE VOTE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
THANK YOU, COUNSEL, THAT I'D LIKE TO CONCLUDE OUR REGULAR MEETING.