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As I start my last council report, I want to thank the Mayor and Council and the Law Director
<br />and all the Administration for the recognition of a job well done as a public servant. I am
<br />humbled and grateful to have served my community for these last 28 years. I also remember
<br />fondly all the people that I have worked with throughout the years to get the job done, and I
<br />am very blessed for having known them and worked with them. I would be remiss if I didn't
<br />thank my family for all the support and parades that they've had to do, extra things throughout
<br />the years. Dan, my son, was five, and he's 34 now; and Amanda was three and is now 32. Sorry,
<br />I'm telling all your ages, and my son-in-law... I'll refrain from your age, dear. Sean and Gabriella.
<br />I've added a few people along the way to help. I just want to say thank you, and I will miss you
<br />all. But I have many things that I'm going to do, and I am looking forward to doing them in the
<br />new year. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, prosperous new year. And
<br />thank you very much.
<br />Council President Brossard:
<br />Thank you, Carrie. Before we move into Council Committee reports, I don't have a report, but
<br />I'm going to take a moment of personal privilege and just talk about Carrie's service to the City
<br />a little bit more. I've had the privilege, as the longest -serving member of Council, to spend the
<br />last 16 years of Tuesday evenings with Carrie, and she has been nothing but professional, witty
<br />along the way, and you've become a friend. Your daughter was work friends with my daughter
<br />at American Greetings, and there just aren't enough superlatives that I can say. I just want
<br />everybody in this room to know that we all owe a debt of gratitude to Carrie Copfer for her
<br />service to the City, and the City is better off with her having been the Finance Director for that
<br />period of time. And that's an astonishing period of time to me, because we're about the same
<br />age. So, you know, my kids were toddlers, and City Council wasn't even in any hemisphere of
<br />my brain at the time, and so for you to be able to hold such an important job in the City and do
<br />it so well, while raising remarkable kids is just a tribute to you. So, really, thank you so much
<br />from the bottom of my heart, I appreciate that. Then I'd also like to move on to Mary Ellen. And
<br />I'm sorry, Mary Ellen, that this kind of the pecking order, 28 years and 12 years, 12 years is an
<br />amazing amount of service as well; and I got to say, you are easily the most passionate Ward
<br />Council person that I have ever met in my entire life. We have butted heads sometimes, but our
<br />relationship is much better because of it. We got past it. We worked through it. We
<br />collaborated, and I'm just really, I just want to say if there's any Ward IV residents in the
<br />audience this evening, you also owe Mary Ellen Hemann a debt of gratitude as well because she
<br />did her job, she did it well, and she always had the best interest of her constituents in mind
<br />when she cast votes. So, thank you. And you have also become a friend, and I look forward to
<br />these two friendships continuing beyond today, and beyond December 315t, thank you.
<br />All right, moving into Council Committee reports, Councilman Limpert, Chairman of the
<br />Building, Zoning and Development Committee, do you have a report this evening?
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