Hello everyone and welcome to City Hall. It's great to have everyone in here. It's good to see everyone. We had a recording in progress. We had a little extra time, uh, this, this, this week, uh, last week, so That was cool.
But at this time, I will pass it over to— I'm sorry, let us have a moment of silence, please. Thank you. I'll now pass it over to Council Member D. Joanna Freeman for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. It's our practice to stand to salute the flag and say the pledge together, if you'd like to join us.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Williams? I'm here.
Mayor Pro Tem Middleton? I'm here. Council Member Baker? Here. Council Member Caballero?
Here. Council Member Cook? Here. Council Member Freeman? Present.
Council Member Rist? Here. Thank you. Thank you. All right, give me one moment.
All right, thank you. We will, uh, now, um, we're going to be adjusting just a little bit because we have a A, uh, one of the, uh, celebratory items of a proclamation will be for, uh, someone who is en route. Uh, we were double celebrating him today, so they should be over shortly. But we will start out with the, um, National Poetry Month proclamation, and I'm going to ask, uh, um, Council Member Rist to read this. I'll come and stand over there as well.
This is one of those appointees that the mayor gets to choose, so I— but I want to celebrate with, but I'll pass the reading wealth over. I'll share the reading wealth.