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Council records vote on consent items including Main Street MOU renewal and Keep America Beautiful grant
Summary
The council heard presentations renewing an MOU with Main Street to maintain state economic-development eligibility and a Keep America Beautiful grant package; a motion was made and a roll-call vote was recorded on consent items, with several members recorded as voting "Yes."
Council heard two consent items in succession: a presenter asked the council to renew a memorandum of understanding with the local Main Street program to keep the city eligible for state economic-development programs, and a separate presenter described a Keep America Beautiful grant request and awarded amount.
The Main Street presentation said the partnership supports downtown economic development and recent activity including the Cabin Theater. The Keep America Beautiful presentation described proposed activities — youth litter cleanups, a community beautification project, river blitz advertising and outreach, membership dues, conferences and training travel — and listed project financials: a 25% match of $6,638.25 and a stated total project cost of $33,001.91; the presenter said the program was awarded $24,009.53.
After those presentations a motion was made and seconded (the transcript excerpt does not specify the exact motion language). The clerk called the roll and several members are recorded voting yes. The transcript records the motion as moved by Mister Rodriguez with a second by Miss Naya Flores; the roll call explicitly records 'Yes' votes for Miss Meyer, Mister Wackerscheid, Miss Naya Flores and Mister Chapman.
Because the provided excerpt does not attach the recorded motion text to a single agenda item in the snippet, the record in this excerpt shows a motion and roll-call vote taken on the consent items bundle that included the Main Street MOU renewal and the Keep America Beautiful grant request. The clerk’s roll call indicates the motion passed by recorded votes in this excerpt.
Next steps: The presenter requested authorization for the mayor to sign the resolution and agreement for the grant; the motion and recorded vote in the excerpt closed the item on the consent agenda as presented.
