all right looks like the chamber has gotten quiet even before three o'clock so welcome everyone this today we have a little bit of a special arrangement in our meeting in our meeting schedule we will first have a special meeting of the Council for the purpose for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the budget and the protocol for that is that we will first have a roll call by our clerk and then we will conduct the public meeting and anyone here who wishes to speak to the budget will be asked to speak okay madam clerk will you please call the roll mr farmer yes ma'am mr ford here miss gorton here miss henson here mr k here mr lane here miss lawless here mr martin here mr mccord here mr Myers here mr. stennett mr. beard president mr. blues miss Crosby yes ma'am and mr. Ellinger here thank you thank you madam clerk all right now in in compliance with the urban county government charter we are providing an opportunity for residents to make comments about the budget for the upcoming fiscal year a summary of the mayor's proposed budget is on the table at the back of the the room. So I will now call the public hearing into session. Are there any comments from the public? All right, Mr. Mundy is saying that we have no one signed on for public comment. So then according to our protocol, I will now then declare that the public hearing is closed. And we can now then proceed with the meeting of the Council for its work session. Mayor, if you would give us about five minutes for transition or three minutes for transition of this software, please. Thank you. There's been a question about this. I need Ms. Hillary here. The other can you come here just a minute please. Thank you. All right. We do have three more public hearings that we'll need to do, but we will not need to call the roll again. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So before we adjourn, I will now call a public hearing regarding the Municipal Aid Program. Is there anyone here from the public who wishes to speak regarding the Municipal Aid Program? All right. Then hearing none, then I will declare that the public hearing for municipal aid is closed. The next public hearing that we need to engage is a public hearing for the coal severance tax. Is there anyone here, is there any resident here, a citizen, wishing to speak on the coal severance tax? Mr. Mundy, has anyone signed up? All right. We have no one wishing to speak on the coal severance tax, so I will declare that hearing closed. And finally, a public hearing related to the mineral severance tax. Is there anyone here wishing to speak to the mineral severance tax? Mr. Mundy says no, so I'm able then to declare that the public hearing regarding the mineral severance tax is closed. There's a motion to adjourn by Council Member Ellinger. seconded by Councilmember Myers. Is there any discussion on the motion to adjourn? Hearing none, we can take a vote. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, no. The motion carries. The meeting of the council is adjourned. Now we can proceed to