appreciate that welcome to your first official meeting of twenty twenty one so this is a little bit unique in that we do have a study session at seven however we have this special meeting and i'm going to go right to where we're going which is item four i want to make sure since we did notice public comment i'll now open public comment and that i'll open that for public comment for this as well as the resolution so if you'd like to five repeat that webinar i d nine six four five four nine six six three zero five you'll press star nine to request to speak and once you're called on star six to  ok see none no no close public comment and again that was four items four and five somebody does tune to want to speak on item five i'll go back to that well now ask the court to read an item five please  this is resolution are two zero twenty one dash one approving a new in house city attorney position and appointing allison mckinney brown as city attorney for the city  hearing on a resolution twenty twenty one dash one and i would like to turn it over to the chairman of the city attorney  we crafted a job posting that posting went out into the world and the world then changed but the posting lived on and we did receive quite a few chosen out of that group and so we have now our new city attorney this is one of the primary reasons this came about was to change the process from a outside counsel relationship where you had a law firm contracting with the city and billing the city for its work on a monthly basis we now have a city attorney who is an employee of the city and she will alison mckinney brown will actually be the first in house city attorney employed at lakewood as ever had so when she joins us at whichever next meeting she comes to which i think her official start date with us is january eighteen then we can have a short welcome as she can introduce herself again to all of council and of course all lakewood everyone tuning in and we will get to know her more and g each of those qualifications that we came up with all the way through the final interview process and the selection and then tasking ms hodson and mister peterson with ar there any questions at this  i move for the adoption resolution are dash twenty twenty one dash one second it looks like we have a motion in a second any comments i would just say that  there's been an incredible process like to thank the mayor pro tem and the committee members for all your hard work in navigating us through this and would certainly like to extend a great welcome to miss mckinney brown we are excited to have her she brings a lot to the table and i think she'll do an incredible job for our city so seeing nothing else we have a motion a second please cast your vote eight so congratulations if you are watching hopefully maybe you're doing something fun or you might be at work elsewhere also so with that  will conclude our special meeting of the lakewood city council at five thirty seven p m and we will all be back for a study session at seven p m and i do just want to know too that this was posted on lakewood speaks there were no comments pertaining to this and there are a few comments on lakewood speaks for the seven o'clock so we'll see you all in about