and myself, it's a meeting to discuss Councilman Foyland's priorities and it's eighth of eight years, he's turned out and he's been a fantastic leader on council and had an immeasurable, wonderful impact on our city and countywide, but on his community in Mandarin. You've been a great rock on council and a steady influence. So really appreciate that and you do have one year left. If I have any way that I can help get advanced in the last year, I'd love to be able to do it. So with that, the only thing on the agenda to Mr. Nune's point is let's talk about your priorities. Well, thank you for the opportunity. It's refreshing to have these kinds of conversations early on in the process. I know you've got a challenging year ahead of you, bridging. Bridging is a common word I think you're gonna hear or frequent probably have already. And I'm very much wanna be in a position to support you in that context. Well, obviously like any council member, I have active interest in serving on the committees you think where I can be most impactful. I won't hold you to any of that. Neighborhoods continues to be one of my favorites, only from the vantage point is that's kind of where we plow the field, as you well know. Yep. I've worked on it for a number of years, chaired it one year, and I think it really does set the table for the balance of the committee. So, but other than that, wherever you wanna put me. Ironically, there are two focus as it relates to my district specifically. And I know you've seen a couple of emails from my folks with a particular person and concerned with the Mandarin sidewalks. Yep. To make it clear for the record, obviously that's a JTA project, not a city project. And it's based upon sound work that was done 10 years ago requiring, calling for the extension of the sidewalks in Mandarin. So, we're moving forward with that project. The other that I am working on, and it's kind of below the radar too, as you probably call the strategic funding a couple of years ago was able to secure $156,000 for the hiring of a consultant to see if it's possible for us to stand up what I'm now calling the Mandarin Area Map, Mandarin Area Preservation Project. Yep. And the idea to see, can we create a free, a self-sustaining, freestanding entity that facilitates and coalesces the voices of the community on a variety of issues from preservation and beautification and so forth. Very similar to Springfield, RIALP, and San Marco Preservation Society. Quite honestly and quite ironically to some extent, I think the whole issue and the concern by a relatively small segment of our community, but very vocal regarding the extension of the sidewalks, had a resource like that been in place for me to take the idea to them before actively championing them for it, would have been very helpful to me then. But be that as it may. We're not seeing a lot of development in Mandarin these days. Very little infill, so you don't see us showing up in the LEZ very much. So I don't know that I have a great responsibility there to be focused on that. I did want to take a minute to talk a little bit about Bill 137, and that was the attendance bill. And there's a couple of things that are curveballs to that. Number one, with respect, I'm hopeful that you will task your committee chairs to take to heart what that ordinance now calls for. Yep. In terms of raising the bar in terms of accountability and responsibility of our colleagues. Yep. As you say, as being the, you used to call me the rock or whatever I was, that's really important to me that we kind of raise the standard and expectations of the council members. Interesting enough, in this very room, as a matter of fact, when we had this confirmation, there was a lot of talking about people who walk on votes. Yeah. There is already in the council rules, and I will warn you about this, that state very specifically, no member present at any meeting of the council shall absent himself or herself in the meeting without permission from the chair for prior notice given. And I think I would respectfully suggest that you task your chairs to make that very clear to their membership. Otherwise, if we don't, I'm working with Michelle on introducing a bill that speaks to the definition of present. And right now, in the conversation we had on this, and I know this is a little far afoot, but, well, present meetings within arm reach of the voting machine. No, in my mind, presence is you're in the room. You walked out to go to the green room to duck a vote, quite honestly, or duck a public comment. Not that they wouldn't want to hear from Mr. Nooney, but that certainly would be the case. So if we, as part of your instructions, as we traditionally do at the beginning of the year as to how, you know, you want your committee chairs to conduct themselves and yourself to hold them accountable to make sure that they hold their committee members accountable in terms of reporting, requesting, you know, absences, et cetera, based upon the parameters that we agreed upon in the council rule at 137. And that really was what I wanted to kind of focus on a little bit. I look at my seven years on the council's legacy. I would see that as a legacy that I've helped try to bring a little bit more, a little more professionalism to the board, to the council. Thank you for that. And, you know, you bring up a really good point because to some degree it's disrespectful to your colleagues when you walk because your colleagues are thinking about how they want to vote on something. And they might be trying to count votes or listen to what people say, and then suddenly if the votes disappear and it's 50 percent or two-thirds, it could change everything. It could dramatically change the outcome of a specific bill, which is, I think, why it exists. Not the least. They're also their constituents as well. Exactly. They're not living up to their responsibility. You get elected. You put yourself in a position to be elected and make those difficult decisions, rightly or wrongly. And the consequences being personal or professional, however, you still need to make them. Exactly. And accountability, I think, is something I'd like to see us continue to improve upon. Yep. Noted. Fantastic input. I appreciate it. And no one else brought those issues to light yet. And those are important ones for you. They have been particularly in the last year. Sure, sure. And, you know, as the year progresses, I think I've been able to demonstrate that I can be effective as a special committee chair if you have something comes along. A model that I've created both with the working groups for the JSO Primary Facility, CQLI, I think is a model we should continue to use. And it allows us to involve more council members in that process. And I would encourage you, as no doubt you will do, is as much diversity as possible in terms of opinion. Yep. Not necessarily left or right, R or D, white or black, just diversity of opinion on your committees. And I think that's going to be something all of us are going to be looking at to see how that goes. And I think it advanced your credibility as the council president. That's just my two cents. Noted. Thank you very much. Well, I appreciate it. And thanks for your support. Thanks for saying you're looking to support me because it is going to be a tough year. I think all 19 of us are going to feel it this year, given the referendum and the uncertainty to what might happen to residential tax collections. I do appreciate, and I've had a conversation with Philip Peterson about this early on as we talked about his appointment. Maybe it's because I'm rolling off this next year or after this next year. I don't want to – I hate to think of it – we can't hoard enough money to make the difference in this coming year. And I suspect, as I shared with my quotarians this morning, we are going to see a ton of things go below the line until November. So we're going to take a look at the budget, figure out – I expect, obviously, a flat budget or level budget from the mayor's office, and then for us to make the difficult decisions of what goes below the line until we know what November brings. Absolutely. You anticipated what I was going to say because we've already – I've already had this discussion with the mayor's office, with Mr. Weinstein and the mayor herself. And one thing that the uncertainty from November has done is kind of unified the sense of purpose and mission for the administration and the council. And that is we know that we have to be – the only way to be responsible in budgeting is to take a fine-tooth comb to that budget and take things that are non-core that are kind of a wish list and put those below the line anticipating ahead of a decision in the November referendum. And using the model that Philip came up with, when you take the $140 million that's in the nonprofit side, you can't call that – I get that it's not core business per se, but at the same time taking a look at some of that and saying, well, if we don't do that, we better put more over there in public safety because we're going to have to make up the difference somehow because it's going to create a void. So we need to be sensitive as to how – unfortunately, if the state legislature decided to use a hatchet, we need to use a scalpel in the process of what we do. And, of course, in the next – in this upcoming budget year, October 1-26 to September 27, we won't feel the effect of that yet. According to the auditors, we're going to feel it in October 1-27. But it would be irresponsible of us to not do anything and leave the next council with a $200 million hit that they've got to do in the first year because that's apparently the number, right? And we can't let – I mean, I wouldn't do that as a president, and there's no way you would do that as a responsible council member, even though you won't be on council next year. I'll have to live with it if I'm reelected, but you won't because you're termed out. Absolutely. And I appreciate that and thankful in some respects. Yes. That's going to be a difficult place to be. We've been very blessed during my time on the council that we've not had – I mean, COVID, in many respects, was a – financially, was a godsend. It poured hundreds and thousands of millions of federal dollars into our community that we had to – even that we had to wean ourselves from. And breaking that habit, this is going to take us to the next level. I think we need to be open to the fact that there may need to be some competition, whether that's an increase in millage or other fees. I told folks this morning, I don't think the solid waste – that's a non-starter. We just did a big number on that. We can't afford to do that one again. But at some point in time, we need to be realistic to say, you know, how much do we want to compromise the services? And the other thing I just want to add, if I can, as we talk about this, since we're in this conversation, I am very concerned about those non-home ownership. I mean, that number is 50 – 42, 43 percent, and we're one of the highest in the state in terms of having a non-ownership, home ownership. And they're going to be paying the brunt of some of this as a result. So we need to be sensitive to that as well. Very much so. All right. I'm done. Good. Me too. Then I think we're near the end. Before we conclude, we will do three minutes. We're the only one who's put in a request. I don't know if you filled in a comment card, but you don't have to, Mr. Nooney. You got three minutes. I'll time you right here. I hope you're going to do nothing but praise Councilman Boylan and his seven years on council. Even though I didn't support you. You did. You did. All right. Well, my name is John Nooney, 8356 Baskin Road, Jacksonville, Florida, 32216. And, you know, thank you for allowing public comment, you know, with this noticed meeting. And, you know, the more open meetings, the better. And what I want to share with all of you, and, you know, when you talk about home ownership, this is the true commission. This was June 4th, you know, just five days ago. But right here, all surplus city property be contributed to private developers. All. The true commission encourages the Jacksonville City Council to enact legislation to implement this goal. And that's massive. And I was at a CPAC meeting last night. But anyway, what I want to do, and Councilman Boylan, I hope you'll get on board with a pardon. You know, I still need that, you know, from JU. It's real. But, Council President-elect Howell, you, I can't emphasize enough what you're going to do and what you've done, you know, with JAA and, you know, bringing jobs and aviation. It is, without a doubt, it's going to just open up the entire state of Florida. And what I want to share with you, and, you know, this is St. Johns County, the Board of County Commissioners. I was just at their meeting. Here's the Northeast Florida Regional Council, seven counties. I was just at their meeting. And when it comes to looking and generating revenue, just remember this, the three properties that are on the potential fine land acquisition list will be a revenue generator. And I, hopefully, it'll be for Duval County. But if not, it will be for St. Johns, Clay, Nassau, the adjoining counties. One minute left. I've only got one minute left. But I'm just, nothing is going to pain me more is when I go to St. Johns County and the legislation 2025-0522, that's the electric vehicle charging stations. That is Ford. There's over 104 dealerships. You're looking at, and tonight, you know, you're going to, I'll be talking about it. You know, you've created three trust funds, one for parks, one for veterans. The next one's going to be for filmmakers. We're making a movie. It's, if you have a shirt, you're in the movie. There's going to be a special consideration for the gavel, the travel gavel. And, of course, we've got our hats. You know, it's a spinoff, you know, with Ken Amaro, FWC. You know, the fish, okay, 10 seconds. Listen, all the best. Because Duval County, and I am just pumped with the leadership that's coming on board. Thank you for listening. Perfect. Thank you, sir. All right. And with that, unless you have any further comments. All right. Thank you, sir, for joining me for this meeting, and we're adjourned.