So the January 2026 election board meeting is called to order. We'll start with an approval of the minutes and Skiddens wants to make a minor adjustment. On the last page, go ahead. Where it currently reads Ralph Shaw ask about the noise suppression for voting in the new location. I'm asking that it be amended to read Ralph Shaw ask about the noise suppression for voting in the new early voting location. Just to insert those two words. I don't have any issues, so insert those two words. In the official minutes. OK, then I will move that we adopt the adjusted minutes. Second. Those in favor aye. Opposed. All right, then the clerks update. Just a couple of quick updates first. We recently attended the Election Administration Conference in Indianapolis. That is always an incredible opportunity to not only network and connect with other election administrators throughout the state, but also just the incredible knowledge that you get from being at that. I thought it was an excellent conference. just want to give a shout out to the Indiana election division and all of the partners that they utilize to put on such a magnificent conference. They took incredible care of us and I think we all walked away knowing more than what we came with. The second thing in my capacity as chair of the legislative committee for both the clerks association and the association of Indiana counties. legislative we did kick off this week and I already have a bill list in terms of the bills that are going to be going before the legislators this session the most of the time there are bills that are brought every year they're not likely to get any traction but I do want to put on the radar two house bills to follow and I'll try to bring information as often as I can in terms of updates. House Bill 1096 was written by Representative Prescott and this one is where Representative Prescott wrote a bill that allows an individual to affiliate with a political party when registering to vote would require the text would you like to choose your political party if you wish to vote in a primary election you must first choose that political party affiliation and may only vote that party's ballot in the primary election it is also giving you you may vote at the primary election if you are affiliated with the political party not later than 119 days before the date of the primary election. It's on our radar in terms of what it will mean for the clerk's association and we are meeting as a legislative committee to look at just how that impacts the responsibilities of the clerk. And then just dropped last night. I just got the bill number prior to this meeting. House Bill 1359 authored by Chairman Tim Westco. Um, and that bill does contain the legislative ask of the entire clerks association. And so, um, I'll be keeping you updated as we go along, but I just wanted to let you know that legislation session is often running. Thank you. The first one was what they're calling the close primary bill, I assume, correct? Yes. And that it's a little controversial in that most people do not want you to know their political affiliation. They want to vote for who they want to vote for. And so it has not been the case that you've had to identify what political party you're affiliated with. We try to make it as discreet as possible, but you could be standing next to your neighbor who happens to know your political affiliation. And so if you chose the opposite, your neighbor might call you out or something like that. And so this would close that loophole. Wouldn't that cause a problem, though, too, since people can register to vote up till the day before early voting starts, and he's putting on a 119-day requirement? I do not know Representative Prescott. I am letting you know the bill as I understand it. As a legislative body, we have discussed it preliminarily. And I will provide updates as I have them. I heard somewhere, read this morning also, that there is a bill to do away with straight party voting. So every year there is a bill to do away with straight party voting. There is not a palette for that at least from my perspective, going up to the state house, a lot of our elderly want to have that straight party. It certainly makes it easier for them. It is kind of an issue in terms of the Clerks Association because we want to be able to have you vote so that there's no confusion when we meet as an election board body, so that there is no confusion as to who you voted for. we would like for you to vote for the candidate, not the party. However, from other organizations have other priorities. And so there's may not necessarily line up with how we view straight party voting. Does that make sense? Yeah, I just read it. I mean, on a personal standpoint, I don't ever vote straight. I read every one and say, have you earned my vote or not? So whatever, yeah. Optimally that would be the case. I remember a sweet little old man when I went around to every one of the assisted living or independent living or health care facilities for the elderly when I first became clerk and this sweet little man, this was about the primary and he couldn't vote straight ticket and so he said You're not giving me my wish. And I said, what is your wish, sir? I want to be able to vote, you know, straight. I said, well, I tried to explain, sweetheart. This is when you pick who will be on the ballot. And then you're able to vote. OK, but you're not giving me my wish. And so a sweet little man who just didn't understand, that bill that you mentioned is typically brought up every session. most of the time it is not given a hearing. The thing that I take took from our thing in Indianapolis was they've made election law in some cases I think more complicated than it needs to be. I won't disagree with you and part of that is when we have our clerk's legislative ask you know You want to make it easier for clerks to oversee elections, not harder. But you want to balance it out with election law and making sure that you're complying with statute. It's a very fine line. There was a lot of stuff there. There's a lot. It's not for the faint of heart. OK. Is there a public comment on the clerk's update? Sherrilyn? And so, concerning the whole thing about voting, straight ticket and all that, my two cents, I would rather invite an opportunity to have more informed voters that don't vote straight, that aren't just falling into cults of personality and then going straight ticket. So maybe that would, to actually be more informed before they vote and investigate. We're in the age of technology, instantaneous communication. We have all the information at our fingertips. Maybe being an informed voter is better, but that's just my two cents. Thank you. All right, election central update. Miss Kylie, I think this is on you. Yes. So I'm going to start off with the voterless maintenance update. We actually had a final delivery of voterless maintenance yesterday. So we now have all of them in our office. They are not all processed yet. We are still working through a very, very long process on that. We have processed a total of 7,592 cards so far. that is 6,438 have been made inactive, 949 have stayed active, and then we have an additional 207 that have been canceled. And then the current number of registered voters at this time is 89,214, with 74,828 of those being active voters and 14,386 being inactive. And then finally, I have a upcoming important dates list. So yesterday was the first day of candidate filing. We had a good turnout yesterday. And then we have a county council meeting coming up on January 27th. I will be going on next Tuesday to give them a little brief introduction of what we're coming and asking for appropriation-wise. And then We will be there on the 27th. I will send out a public notice for that. And then all of the information that I have that will be submitted as well will go out to the election board for that. And then annual CFA for reports are due on January 21st by noon in our office. If you have any questions on those or if you need a form, you can stop by our office as well. And then the last day to file for candidacy is going to be February 6 by noon. I just wanted to say this, Kylie, if I can dovetail just one thing that you said with respect to the inactive voters. I don't want anybody who is inactive to be concerned. All that you have to do to become active is vote. So if you haven't voted because you only like to vote in particular elections, all you have to do is show up this year and vote, and that will automatically take your status from inactive to active. Just wanted to say that for the viewing public. Of course. All right. New business then. V-Stop. I'm assuming, Kylie, are you doing that as well? Yes. So I took part of a program called Seats through V-Stop. I think it would be a great experience to do a post-election audit here in Monroe County after the general election of twenty twenty six- this will open up some transparency and to allow the- trust of the voters in Monroe County with what we do in our office and the. Accuracy of our voting machines and I just wanted to bring this up I know that two of our members got to talk with the stop well miss Brown has. been able to hear over the past couple of years about post-election audits and I think we're in a good spot to do one and just wanted to get the discussion rolling now and then get approval from you guys to invite VSTOP to do a presentation at the next meeting. VSTOP is an incredible supporter of elections in Indiana and the I feel that I have warmed up to V-Stop over the years. There was some friction, I think, when they first rolled out, but there's some incredible members of the VSTOP team that we get to speak with when we attend clerk conferences, election conferences. And so I am actually looking forward to the idea of them coming in, guiding us through an audit. And so with that, I would make a motion, Mr. Chair, to invite the VSTOP team to the February meeting of the Monroe County Election Board. A second. We have a motion and a second. Is there discussion of any type? I'd like to point out that VSTOP stands for voting system technical oversight program. That was going to be my next comment for those who don't know what it means to find that. So that's helpful. And I think when you took me over to chat with them, they said they would pick out three races. Is that correct? So it would be you, the election board, that will pick out three races that we specifically focus on. And then we would then do a It's a portion of the ballot, so they'll do a sampling of it to then get an accuracy. And they really strive to hit that 90%. And we'll just continue until we hit that. And then we'll have the results that we can send out. It'll also be a press release so that anybody of the public is allowed to be there to view this. We'll invite press out and just make sure that it's an event that anybody is able to come to and that they feel comfortable coming to to be able to view it. All right then. Those in favor of inviting them for February, aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We'll invite them. So Kylie, go ahead and work on inviting them to the February meeting. Let's see. I guess any comment on new business, and that's all we had currently. then let's move into old business. So Mr. Crider, you are up for election central project update. Good afternoon, board members. Richard Crider, Monroe County Building and Fleet Department, tech services. Would you mind to pull up the photographs, please? Oh, there they are right there. OK, I brought some photos I wanted to share of the progress of the construction over a showers building. and they've been busy away. All the demos finished basically except some old internet cable removal and that type of thing. They are now framing walls. You can walk in there and you can tell, you can basically tell what room is what now. This view right here is from the east side of the building looking west and this is basically early voting, this entire space. There's a lot of square footage there. Next photo, please. This one is... That's the early voting space. That's kind of, not early voting, I'm sorry, Election Central. If you walk through there, it's all laid out into the Election Central office spaces. Next photo. That's the ballot room. Next photo, please. server room. Is that all the photos? OK, that's the maintenance slash storage room. I believe that's the last photo. So anyway, I just kind of want to give you guys a visual of what it looks like over there. It's progressing well, and I don't anticipate any issues hitting that deadline date. I do want to update you on another matter, though. I believe I brought this up at the last meeting, but we had a water heater break in the Johnson building and it's created a lot of problems thrown some big curveballs. And basically what's happened is the space next to voters registration, which is occupied by probation juvenile division was ground zero for the flood and it's a mess. So basically they have five staff members, clients all day. It's in disarray down there. And I think what we want to do is we want to go ahead and move voters registration over to showers building earlier than what we planned on. We have a nice large suite that's located just above election central that'll accommodate the staff and their operations sufficiently. And what I wanna do is I wanna relocate them to showers and that will open up the current voters registration space for the probation juvenile staff to move over, set up operations in there because it's still in pretty good shape. And then we can go through, tear out all the, do all the demo, do all the things you have to do to rebuild that office, it'll be empty. These guys will be in 203 above election central. We were working on a calendar earlier in the week and we think that February 9th is the target date to do that, to make that move. I've been working with tech services, we're gonna be able to provide temporary technical support up there. Miss Kylie's kind of already been looking at the area, game planning on location of staff, that kind of thing. And I'll be working with her this month to make sure we're ready to make that move. Do you have any questions? That's the Monday after thing closes, correct? So that'll be the Monday after we sat down and looked at calendar wise to see where deadlines were. So that'll be that final deadline. And then we will do the transition of moving over to showers. Our staff is starting to look at materials and getting stuff boxed up, which with the flood, most of it was already boxed up. So we won't have too much to take care of packing wise. And I met with Criter this morning with Soft Touch moving and they're looking at potentially having that as the moving from the current space to the temporary space. Do we need a motion to do that? We don't then. No, for them to move on that date, which is a different date than we talked about. I mean, I'm fine with that. We originally were planning on June. I want to make sure we don't we don't do anything that somebody comes back says he didn't do it the right way. No, this is mainly just an update to get everybody caught up, but also for it to be public. So this is the first that public's going to be hearing that we're moving earlier. Plans are to work with. criteria on getting signage and stuff set up for the current space for to direct people to the new space but also my plan is next Tuesday when I go to County Council making a public statement there as a department update and then also going to a commissioner meeting to do a department update there as well just to make sure that as many people are notified as possible. I'm just going to take that as information we're going to move early that yep okay earlier than we planned yeah we're trying to make a little lemonade here where everybody sees it anyway so yeah all right thank you very much you're welcome thank you all right CFA for filings okay so in your guys's packet you'll find a list that list is the same list that I had presented to you guys at the last meeting the ones that are in red still have not filed with us one of Uh, one of those individuals did receive the certified letter. The other two have not received the certified letter. Um, I'm wanting to get clarification to, and approval to send out a second set of letters, or if you would like me to handle this in a different manner. You were to handle it in a different manner. What would that be? Thank you. And in the past, um, we have done phone calls and emails directly to them. in addition to the second letter, so that there is a formal letter saying this is what we need, but then also reaching out to them by phone call and email. I do want to comment that last year, I believe it was in February, I sent two certified letters with return receipt requested and I still have not gotten the return receipt after almost a year. Yeah. The other thing that I have no issue with in the past, I have offered if it wasn't able to be delivered. I have hand delivered so that they could have that information and I would be willing to do that again. I will say that one of these individuals on here who did receive the letter and that we got back the confirmation has came into our office but has not filed but they wouldn't have come into the office if they hadn't received the letter so they know they need to file. Correct. I move that Kylie do a second letter with follow-up emails and phone calls to these to the two individuals that we do not have a confirmation on. I would second that. Are we talking about a Another certified letter. Yes, so that there's proof of delivery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I just this just. Be funnels me as to why this stuff is such a problem for some people. I mean, yeah. So yes, so we have a motion in a second for a second letter. An email if you have an email address and a phone call, OK? And then you report back to us in February. How that went, OK? works for me. Which with the annual filing deadline coming up for this past year, it could potentially be that they have a second or third late filing as well if they do not file on January 21st by noon. All right. Those in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion carries for that. And now the polling location update. All right, so then you guys have a third piece of paper in there. That's going to be the largest one that has the polling locations on it. The ones that are highlighted in yellow have confirmed with us that they would like to be a polling location for 2026. The ones that are in white have not. I would like to know how you guys want me to move forward with these. Would you like me to start reaching out phone calls versus just the letters that were sent? Once we get this back after the county council meeting, I also will be expecting that we try to get these approved at the February meeting. I certainly think it would be helpful to follow up with the phone calls. And so if you need a motion, that would be my motion. I would think a phone call you would a letter gets delivered and it gets laid on someone's desk and nobody gets to it. And you need to be able to get this tightened down. So I have a motion and we have second. Second. Okay. So those in favor of Kylie doing a phone call to these to those in favor of a phone call from Kylie to these locations. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Motion carries. I have some questions about this. Sure. Spreadsheet. Sure, go ahead. I appreciate having this in advance and I really, really do. Would it be possible to get it for me to have a large map showing all the precincts so that I understand what precincts, I mean, it comes up really small on my computer, you know, to see where, you know, who you're sending where. So through TSD, could we ask them or somebody to pronounce it? one in your office yes I have some in my office I think I have an extra one in my office I'll have to look if I do you can I'll send you an email or a text message you can just stop by and pick it up if I don't I'll get a hold of GIS to have them print one through TSD okay also somebody called me and talked to me about this they said that for a Richland 9 precinct, which apparently is a very small, what, 10 registered voters or something like that? Yeah. Depending on whether it's just a city of Bloomington election or county-wide election, they get moved back and forth between two different polling places. Would it be possible just to always have them vote, the people from Richland 9, always have them vote at Highland Park that way? that's inside the city of Bloomington. And so they would always, they would always vote at the same location. So I will say that we, um, and my office have taken all of the polling locations and all of the precincts and have done a complete cleanup of these, um, by statue, all of the polling locations that go to the same precinct must touch each other. We, when doing some research back, there was a couple of polling locations that had a precinct that was not touching the other precincts, so we had cleaned that up. This is the new list. Richland 9, with that situation, I will have to look to see where we can do some switching because I will say these polling locations are going to have quite a few registered voters at every single one of them. Even with the 29 polling locations, we're still looking at some pretty large numbers at Highland Park and St. John's. Right. Right. And then also, you've got the cost listed here for what it would take to staff these things. Yeah. the training costs for these individuals and also the meal stipends. They're just, that's just election day and just their per diem for working at that polling location that day. I realized after I printed that I printed the ones that had the budget information on them as well. All right. Thank you. Anything else from any board member on any? I have several items, if I could. Sure, go ahead. So last month, Clerk Brown said she was going to connect with the folks at Heart InterCivic about what the timeline was for getting printers. Were you able to connect with them? I was able to connect with them. I shared that information with Kylie. There was a piece. When I told him what you said versus what Kylie said, there was a piece that you had left out of the conversation. So what he had told Kylie was the correct timeline. And they are in the process of getting the printers, the scanner certified with the state. And so Kylie's timeline was correct. Of one to two months? Yes. I took very copious notes, so I wonder what he thinks I left out. You know what? God bless you and him with that. I spoke to him. I know what he told me, and that's what we're sticking with, that the election supervisor was correct in what she advised in a previous election board meeting. Thank you. OK. I appreciate the follow-up. Since election operations or election central will now be where early voting is, for the primary, even, in addition to the general. I know in the past, past elections, when early voting occurred at election central, the staff staggered their start and stop times to make it easier to have the supervision. And I was under the impression, maybe I'm wrong, but then we didn't need quite as much in the way of election, some of the supervisory staff. So I was wondering if that would be able if we'd be able to do that now, especially given the concern that we have with the budgets. So the early voting space and the voter registration space will be in the same building. They will not be in the same space like they will be after the primary. So we will still be in two different areas. So voter registration will be upstairs where early voting will be downstairs. But in addition to that, even with us being in that new space, voter registration is very separate from early voting. But you're right on site as opposed to a separate location. Correct. There's only one person that goes to early voting from the voter registration staff. I was led to believe that in the past, there would be one staff member that would be there at the start, and another one would come in like two hours later. We do that. Yeah. We've always done that. We have one person that goes down during the day, and then another person that goes down in the afternoon. OK. Yep. Great. All right. Just again, looking to try to help save some money here, because that's important for all of us. I mean, we also have to remember that the voter registration staff only has five individuals, two part-time, two full-time, and myself. And that's already very short once we get into the election. So with us losing one individual to be at early voting, we're still I mean, we're there as long as we have to be there. And as soon as we can get out of there, we're out of there. The clerk alluded to the training that we all went to, which I learned a lot, really learned a lot at the Administrators Conference. One of the things we heard was about doing tabletop exercises to plan for disasters. Will Mr. Shields and I be allowed to or be invited to participate in those? So I know last year, the Secretary of State and Indiana Homeland Security actually hosted in 2026. I mean, 2024, they hosted some roundtable discussions and they invited the election board and clerk and voter registration staff to go to those. I don't know if they have any plans for any in 2026. I have not been made aware of tabletop exercises for 2026. It certainly would not surprise me that was a successful, excuse me, a successful event you and I attended as well as the emergency management director. And it turned out that one of those tabletop exercises really could have mirrored what happened with the cybersecurity breach and everything. So we got some really good, information for that. Information for that and guidance for that. So I would certainly bring back to the board's attention should I hear that the Secretary of State is hosting a tabletop exercise, but I am not aware of one at this time. Do we have our own within the county for things? Because another thing that I heard about that had an impact on me was that we have to do planning for disasters, whether it's human paused or environmental, and that we have to have a way to both ensure that staff is safe and can be evacuated, but also we have to plan for voters getting ballots to where they need to be and things like that. So, and it was my understanding that we would be involved in some of that, that we have to be ready for it. myself, Molly and Jamie last year put together an emergency plan. And that's what we use and distribute to the poll workers. It's a, I want to say it's a front and back piece of paper that is just like detailed information of in case of this type of an emergency, these are the procedures you need to take 2024, sorry, not 2025. No, I know. Yeah. Yeah. But, but still that, doesn't tell me how we accommodate voters to ensure that we get ballots to where moved, that people know where they can go vote if there's a polling place that's shut down. I think Molly's looking for it. But I would say probably it would be us giving that document that was created during 2024 to the election and then if there was anything that you guys wanted to discuss and look over, then I would say it'd probably be something we add to an agenda if there's any amendments that need to be made. Yeah, I'm with you on the emergency stuff that we talked about up there. So, but if you have something you've done in the past, I don't see any reason to reinvent that. If that was set up and that would take care of, as she said, getting ballast to people where they need to. Dig that one up and let us look at it. Yeah, because I remember in it we had created a plan if there was a natural disaster such as a tornado, where a backup location would be. We had talked about talking to the public libraries here in Monroe County and seeing if any of them would be OK with us using them as an emergency location, since most of those are pretty well-known locations. We also had talked about here at the courthouse, but I don't know how far that conversation went for turning this into a satellite location on election day in the case of an emergency. It did not go far. Perhaps they would be willing to revisit that. It did not go far at the time. In my mind, and I know that it's still a hot button issue here, but in planning for Disasters, I continue to believe that vote centers would help if there were any kind of disaster that had to be addressed because you don't have to move ballots. People can quickly find out where all the other vote centers in the county are to get to. And so you're not having to worry about whether people who attempted to vote actually got that right. And so to me, that's another argument for having vote centers. Here's the truth. We are facing elections where we will not have voting centers in 2026. If you want to talk about planning for emergencies and disasters, we need to plan for the locations that we have and the precincts that we have. We do not have vote centers. I realize that I'm saying that I believe that this is another argument for having vote centers in Monroe County because it would be a way to ensure or be more assured that voters who wish to vote had that chance to do it in the event of a disaster. I will say our plan is very thorough on that with creating a satellite location in the event of emergency. It's easily set up. Bob White and his team is excellent at taking care of situations in very time, small time crunches. And we're very lucky to have him and his team. They've done excellent work. with those satellite locations. We don't have to worry about transporting the ballots anywhere. We just set up like we are at election day. We just take the equipment to whatever the location is going to be. We get a hold of Jamie. She sends out a text message on the Monroe County text alerts. And then we would then contact TSD to have them post stuff on the website. And then if they're calling our offices, it's easy for us to say, OK, yes, this location is now being relocated to this location, and it will be a satellite location where they can easily get their ballot printed and casted there at that moment. One of the other things that happened at the administrators training was they give out awards. They give out an election board member of the year. which went to Yvette, I think it was Runkle from Huntington County. And what they flashed up on this screen is that this is given to the election board members whose service embodies bipartisan cooperation in the administration of the election process and whose achievement is to represent one political party while serving all county voters. And so again, for me, this would be another reason to work together on getting vote centers. Thank you. Thank you. General public comment. I just want to public comment about everything that you're talking about. I have one for the other thing, but again, Cheryl Langdon, I totally understand what you're saying about how vote centers would I get that. I totally get that. I worked with microwave systems, communication systems concerning the satellite and all of that. So I understand how all of that can work. But again, people are, it's hard to direct people. It's hard to, in an emergency situation, people are in panic. They're freaking out. So I get the boat centers being kind of a, a good solid foundation that prevents all the complicated things that can happen. Technology, how many times has it screwed up? So it can go both ways, paradoxically, I get it. So she's right and he's right and I get it. And everyone in this room is probably right in some way, shape or form in every scenario. So I agree, I mean, vote centers, might actually help in situations like that. But it's not perfect, so that was my little two cents. So was that for your general comment or was that? That was for the last thing, so general comment. Go ahead. I appreciate you letting me speak on that. Again, Cheryl Langdon. So every single month I show up to talk about the unmitigated corruption of the crime organization called the Democratic Party. The level of outrageous lies, hypocrisy, and open corruption by the private political organization is traitorous and unforgivable. Democrat states like Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, California, and so on have demonstrated that their elected Democrat leaders will turn a blind eye to their own corruption, while they push good citizens into states like Indiana as tax refugees seeking shelter from the Democratic Party's policies, as their corrupt leadership allowed their legal citizens to be robbed at knife point in public spaces by violent criminals, and while they sleep in their beds, as they are put under a microscope by the IRS concerning their own personal spending. Are you kidding me? A friend of mine in California who voted for Trump asked for other people's opinion about Trump's name on the Kennedy Center. I gave mine as a person who did not vote for Trump in 2024. I said a name on a building doesn't mean anything to me. It is temporary. It's as temporary as the next dark turd that sits in my colon. The Kennedy family turned on RFK jr. And the only people who give a crap about the timing of the name change on that building are people who are million stable and who have committed worst crimes against me and my nation They committed treason over and over and they won't stop until the United States is destroyed They can't judge Trump. They have no moral high ground I wouldn't care if he hired 100 bulldozers and piled down every single monument in D.C., knocked the Statue of Liberty into the Hudson, and dumped 10,000 tons of horse manure into the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Know why? Most Americans will never get the opportunity to ever visit those locations. Know why? because hardworking Americans are too busy being the slaves for entitled, rich, corrupt politicians and their immediate circle of friends who have benefited from the lives of those struggling, hardworking Americans. And that includes many in this very room and those listening to this meeting. So those things, none of them matter. They are as useless as the decaying ruins of the Roman Empire, all just tourist attractions for those who manage to crawl out of their small lives to reach beyond themselves despite the dirty rotten privilege elected dirtbags. There, my opinion. Screw every Democrat who believes their lives are any more important than any other, especially those of the MAGA Americans. It doesn't matter in the end. I say punch them all in the face, Mr. President. Traders deserve no quarter. Somalis stealing $9 billion. Crickets from the Democrats. But me getting a bank deposit of $600 or more under Biden's Democrat regime in 2021. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. I just got one sentence. Report it immediately or pay a penalty. That's what I heard. So drain the swamp. Thank you. Motion to adjourn. Seconded. Those in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. We will meet again on February 9th at 1.30. Thank you.