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- All right, I'd like to call the Merit Commission regular meeting for September 23rd, 2025 to order.

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- Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from the June 24th, 2025 meeting, please? All right, I have

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- a motion. Is there any discussion about the minutes from June 24th? Hearing none, all in favor of those

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- minutes to be approved, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion is successful.

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- Next, can I get a motion to certify that the Fire Merit Commission held their executive session to receive

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- information about prospective employees per state code? Can I get a motion, please? I move we certify

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- the executive session. Second. I have a motion and a second. That does not include the list. Okay. Yeah.

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- Any discussion about the executive session that was held?

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- Hearing none, all in favor of certifying the executive session, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion

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- is successful. There is no old business that I'm aware of. New business. We're going to certify and

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- approve the hiring list for the Bloomington Fire Department that we were just presented. Can I get a

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- motion to adopt the hiring list as presented to the commission today? I move we approve the hiring list.

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- I'll second.

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- All right, I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion about the list? Hearing none, all in

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- favor of approving the list, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion is successful as well. Next would

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- be staff reports, if there were any. Got any staff reports? I can give an update on a couple of quick

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- things. Swearing in Friday, two o'clock, council chambers, and then we'll also be having a

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- ribbon-cutting open house ceremony on October the 6th, which I'll send out invites, but that's when

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- we give you heads up on October the 6th for station three, which is completed. So we'll be moving into

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- it. We'll be moving, we're gonna go ahead and move in, but we're gonna have an official opening ceremony

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- on the 6th at 3.30. Station three is University Street. University Station up on Woodlawn. On Woodlawn

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- Street. Yes. All right. Where is that one?

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- Woodlawn. North of 10th. Come out of the football stadium and go south on Woodlawn and you'll drive

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- right past it. Yes, yeah, north of 10th Street on Woodlawn. Next to the new informatics building. Yes.

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- Is that all for staff reports? That's all I have. Any petitions and communications? I don't see any

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- public present. There is no public present.

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- With that being said, can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? I move we adjourn. Meeting is adjourned.