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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Iris.

Okay. Okay. This is a special meeting designed to turn or present the tentative 2025 budget that we have all worked on, but we present it officially to the town board today. And at this time, I would ask Town Clerk Wooten to please pass out the budget to the board members. Yes, sir.

This is the first time, so the public knows, this is the first time the town board members will actually be seeing the town board budget, the tentative budget as a whole. But one thing we did this year that's never been done before is I had each town board member come in. They're a liaison to each of the departments that they work with, had them come in with each department. So they're aware of the budget process. They're aware of what. The cuts had to be made and what was given and what was taken away. And I think it really helped because in my eight years here of budgets, this is the first time I feel that the board has some idea of what this tentative budget is about already. And I think they always should have been involved in the process. And I think it worked out very well having them as their liaisons to each department. They have a really good idea of how this budget was formulated because I will say, that as a councilman, it was hard when you got presented this that somebody else did and you didn't have a say in. And now you have to go through it and decide is this a good budget or not. And you don't even know what the conversations were or where the cuts were made. And it's just part of, I don't want to say transparency, but it's part of good government to work together like that. So I'm very happy that the board members were involved in the participation of forming this budget. And. At this point in time, I would open up comments to the public. If anybody from the public would like to come up and talk. I know it's difficult. This will be actually posted online as we speak. So you'll get a good idea for it. And then after this town, special town board meeting, we're going to close it. And we're going to go into work session starting at 10 o'clock. And that's when the discussion will start on the budget with the board members. And the public can obviously. We're not weighing, but they can witness that, which again, really has never been done before. So that's where we're at. Having seen nobody from the public that wants to come up and comment. Nobody online. I would like to. Well, let's I guess. Do we make a resolution, Eric, to adopt it? I mean, to present it. Is there a resolution to have to do that? This is just a functionally. Functionally, all that needs to happen is that the town clerk needs to present it to the town board. At a town board meeting or a special town board meeting. That objective has been completed. So that that requirement is now satisfied. Okay. Very good. So at this point in time, I would ask for a motion to end the special town board meeting now that the budget has been tended. A budget has been handed out to all the board members. Motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. Okay. Special town board meeting is closed. And. We will be back live again at 10 o'clock this morning for our work session where we will have a discussion on the budget. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.

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