This transcript appears to be from a transitional meeting (December 20th) where outgoing officials are finishing their terms and incoming officials (listed in your context) are present or participating as citizens before being sworn in. Based on the context provided and the dialogue: * **Bill Duncan** is the Acting Mayor/Presiding Officer (as Mayor Althoff is absent and he is a senior retiring member). * **Sara Peer** is the City Clerk (conducting the roll call and vote). * **Matt Montgomery**, **Laura Kronenberger**, and **Steve Gaskme** are present for roll call. * **Diane Johnson** (incoming Council Member) is providing public input. *** [1:43] **Bill Duncan (Acting Mayor):** Welcome to the December 20th city council meeting and I have roll call please. [**Steve Gaskme:** Here. **Laura Kronenberger:** Here. **Council Member Lundell:** Here. **Matt Montgomery:** Here.] Althoff is absent so and uh John [Radermacher] is still under the weather so I'll be presiding over the meeting tonight so uh we all stand for pledge of allegiance. [2:47] **Bill Duncan (Acting Mayor):** Can I get approval of the agenda? [2:48] **Council Member:** So moved. [2:49] **Council Member:** Second. [2:50] **Bill Duncan (Acting Mayor):** Motioned by Duncan, second by Lundell to approve the agenda. Is there any further discussion? All in favor with a roll call please. [3:00] **Sara Peer (City Clerk):** Duncan? [**Duncan:** Aye.] Gaskme? [**Gaskme:** Aye.] Kronenberger? [**Kronenberger:** Aye.] Lundell? [**Lundell:** Aye.] Montgomery? [**Montgomery:** Aye.] [3:15] **Bill Duncan (Acting Mayor):** Althoff is absent. Public input—public input is intended to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns to the city council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length and each [3:33] speaker will have no more than three minutes to speak. Despite speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city, speakers must sign up in advance and must provide their name, address and topic they intend to address. Comments must be on topic, respectful, pertinent to City business and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down and if the speaker refuses to comply they may be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing; all such comments shall be made at the public hearing. The city council [will] not generally act on [4:19] issues raised by the public input but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda. Diane? [4:25] **Diane Johnson:** I just tripped myself standing up. [4:27] **Bill Duncan (Acting Mayor):** Well, you are a Johnson. [4:30] **Diane Johnson:** Not enough! Diane Johnson. Two things: first is a thank you to our retiring mayor and council members—Mayor Althoff, Bill Duncan, Steve Gaskme, and of course Mary Joel is not with us anymore—but thank you for your service and your dedication to our community. And the second thing is, it's probably... I should have looked over all the budget [5:04] long time ago, but of course you know it's a lot of budget reading in there. I don't understand a lot of it and I will say that I'm so excited to learn more. Though, then the only question that I had just kind of with my initial reading is I noticed, you know, all of the utility bills are broken down by like department or you know, everybody seems to have utility bills in their little budget items. And I was wondering why it is that the library is the only one that had a fifteen thousand dollar building rent figure when none of the rest of them did? And there might be some very logical explanation but I don't know, so I just thought I would ask. Number 14, 2020.