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▶ 0:22 Mark Garipay: Um, councilor Williams. Councilor Hamilton. Councilor Romano Cremsky, council Fro Councilor Stewart, councilor Machete and President Elli. This serves as a notice of a quorum in accordance with the open meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast live on MMTV. Uh, I will motion by unanimous consent to open the floor with public comment. So no objections. The floor is now open for public comment. This is the portion of the meeting where anyone in the public may speak to any items on our agenda. Comments expressing any viewpoint on other matters are also welcome. If there's anyone in the gallery looking to speak, please come forward seeing no one in the gallery looking to speak. Is there anyone online? There is none. Okay. If there are no objections, I'll motion. Motion by unanimous consent to close the public comment portion of the meeting. Seeing no objections, public comment is now closed. All righty. Now we're moving on. Um, just a little update for everyone. We have a public hearing, joint public hearing with the planning board at eight o'clock. So we are gonna have to, if we do not finish the budget hearings, recess and then, and then come back, um, after the public hearing, hearing to the budget. Um, so with that being said, first up is Department nine 11 pension and retirement. And we have the chairman of the retirement board, um, Mike Lyle, and city CFO Ms. Golden Floor's.