We're indeed thankful for the austin city council. As they deliberate over important matters regarding the well-being of our great city, we pray that you would grant them wisdom, knowledge, creativity and courage. Grant them the capacity to steward resources with compassion and forward thinking, and grant them the capacity to consider the implications of their decisions upon all their constituents. Finally we pray your blessings upon all who enter these halls and who work to make today's meeting successful. A quorum is present so I'll call this meeting of austin city council to order, on thursday jat 105 a.m. We're meeting at 301 west 2nd street, city council chambers, austin rkz texas. To begin with the changes and corrections to today's agenda, the first item is 5 will be postponed until june 23rd, 2011. 16, add the sentence "recommended by the water and wastewater " 39, add mayor pro tem martinez as a co-sponsor. We have no morning briefings today, so our time-certain 00 noon citizens communications. So the consent agenda for 1 through 44, and item 38 will remain on the consent agenda, but I'm going to read it into the record at our boards and commission nominations and waivers. The first is to the austin music commission, brad spees, is mayor leffingwell's appointment to the nomination, and to the mb and wbe small adviser and procurement program, regina adams is riley's recommendation, and tony tipton is council member cole's nomination. There are no waivers requested for today. Items pulled off the consent 8 is pulled by council member morrison. A number of speakers signed up to speak on that item. 14 will also be pulled off for presentation by the law department.ฤก1 will be pulled off consent for a brief presentation by the law department. Items 12 and 13 are pulled by council member morrison to be discussed after discussing these items in executive session, and item 41 is pulled off the consent agenda by council member morrison. I would also add that item 9, at the request of council member cole, will be discussed in executive session after we hear from all of our speakers. We have no additional items pulled for speakers, but we do have several folks signed up, one speaker. Does not wish to speak but ready to answer questions.
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