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ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING January 7, 2019 Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to retain Attorney Bob Palmer as Council Attorney for 2019. Councilmember Oliver Davis seconded the motion which carried unanimously by a voice vote of nine(9) ayes. Council President Tim Scott became Chair of the meeting. Council President Tim Scott stated, First (1St) of all, I would like to say thank you to Kareemah and her staff, Bianca,Jen,Joe and Graham for all the hard work you've done. Thank you so much. And our interns, too, have done a great job. Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, Just a reminder, tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. noon, there is a suicide prevention workshop that Beacon Health is sponsoring. It is at the offices of Child Protective Services right on the corner of LaSalle and SR-933. If anybody needs additional information I would be happy to provide it. There has been information that has circulated through the Clerk's Office and our Health and Public Safety Committee. It is free and is two (2) hours in duration. It is being specifically hosted by Beacon Health to address the high suicide and near suicide rates that we experience in our community. It is appropriate for just about any and everyone and I think we've had pretty wide circulation on it but I just wanted to remind you of it. Councilmember Oliver Davis asked, Can we make sure we send flowers to the family on behalf of the Council and that we are all notified of the time of the funeral? Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, I would like to thank Councilmember Davis for his service as Vice President to the Council during my tenure. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I had also spoken about the Solid Waste Management District presentation, that is not going to happen. That would violate some of the public hearing rules regarding that. If any Council Members or members of the public would like more information about upcoming votes and things under consideration by the Solid Waste Management District, I would be happy to meet. Councilmember Jake Teshka stated, The TRANSO Board was notified that Lucky Reznik will be stepping down after our first(1St)meeting in January. Lucky has been there since before there were buses. I would like to do something to honor Lucky and we will have an appointment to make as well. Councilmember Oliver Davis stated, I would also like to thank Gavin Ferlic, at this time, for being Chairperson of Committee of the Whole. Council President Tim Scott stated, By Wednesday, I would like to know which Committee you would like to be on or if there are any changes. If you have not yet turned in your annual Committee Report, you need to do that. City Clerk Kareemah Fowler stated, All have been turned in and filed. Council President Tim Scott stated, I want to officially thank Oliver Davis for Vice-President and Gavin Ferlic for Committee of the Whole. I appreciate that. Councilmember Jo M. Broden asked, Relative to Committees, is it timely to actually look at our Committee structure and the specific charges and responsibilities related to each Committee?What is the interface between the Administration and peer to peer?Also, I think there are probably some legal questions related to that in terms of our statutes and local ordinances. I just think after my three (3) years here, we've had some discussions about that. I think we had a very productive recent conversation but maybe we should take a more formal look at that. Council President Tim Scott replied, I encourage you all to look at each one(1) of your individual committees. I know there are major issues under each one (1) of them. All nine (9) of us are Committee Chairs and we should push for those major issues to get those accomplished. It is up to that Committee Chair to move that ball forward but I understand what you're talking about. We might be able to make a sub-Committee on that to see what we can do but the responsibility is with the Committee Chairs. Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, I'm talking more about, organizationally, the numbers that we have,if there are ways to be more effective in terms of their compositions. Just a real top-down, 2