Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this special city council meeting on Monday, December December second. Madam clerk, please call the roll.
Council president Miller? Present. Deputy majority Whip Anderbois? Present. Councilwoman Anthony?
Present. Majority leader Espinal?
Senior deputy majority leader Gonzales? Present. Councilwoman Graves? Present. Deputy majority leader Harris?
Present. Councilwoman Peterson is absent. Council president Pro Tempur Pichardo? Present. Councilor Royas is absent.
Councilwoman Ryan is absent. Majority Whip Sanchez. Present. Councilman Taylor is absent. Councilwoman Anna Vargas is absent.
Councilman Oscar Vargas. Present. You have 10 present and five absent. You have a quorum.
Madam president. Majority leader. Washing to waive the invocation and pledge of allegiance.
We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
Any abstentions? The motion passes. Item one.
Madam president. Majority leader. Motion to weigh the reader by item one and two.
Second, madam president. We have a motion and
a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
Any abstentions? The motion passes. Please note one and two as received, so noted. Item three.
Majority leader Espinosa.
To waive the reading of item three through five and pass for the first time on a roll call vote.
Second, madam president. We have
a motion and a second. Any discussion on items three through five? Chairwoman Anthony.
Thank you very much much, madam president. I stand in support of this, ordinance amendment. As you know, we've had, ARPA one, ARPA two, and also we've had the equities, the COVID nineteen equities, which was was also known as reparations. And so we have... What we have before us are the amendments to all those ordinances, and it is...
It equals... The amendment is up. It's $4,400,000, which we are reallocating to to our schools, basically. This is money that is going to be used to help us, the city, meet our obligation under the settlement with PPSD. And I know that all of us feel strongly about supporting our schools and also have talked a lot about underinvesting, and I think this is the right thing for us to do.
I will also say that we did pay particular attention to our... My committee of colleagues in making sure that the money that had been reallocated from the COVID nineteen equities funds, that those were... We did go over them. A lot of them were were... They tried very hard to spend them all in a timely manner, but some of them were not able to be spent.
And I think we were satisfied certainly that those funds could be reallocated. So with that, I'm gonna ask for your support. As you know, these funds have to be encumbered by the end of December this month, and then spent by December 26. So we need... We cannot hesitate, and we need to take the action.
So I would ask for your support.
Thank you, madam chair. Any other discussion on items three through five? Hearing none, madam clerk,
Council president Miller. Aye. Deputy majority Whip Vanderbois. Aye. Councilwoman Anthony.
Aye. Majority leader Espinal. Aye. Senior deputy majority leader Gonsalves. Aye.
Councilwoman Graves. Aye. Deputy majority leader Harris. Aye. Councilwoman Peterson is absent.
Council president Pro Tempur Pichardo.
Councilor Arroyas is absent. Councilwoman Ryan is absent. Majority Whip Sanchez. Aye. Councilman Taylor is absent.
Councilwoman Anna Vargas is absent. Councilman Oscar Vargas. Aye. You have 10 ayes, five absent. The motion carries.
The matters are approved for the first time on a roll call vote.
Thank you, madam clerk. Majority leader.
Motion to adjourn under the unanimous rights invoked.
Second, madam president. We have
a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
Any abstentions? The motion passes. We are adjourned. We will be convening with the, claim committee at 04:30. Thank you all.
