Is excused, but plans to join us. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum.
Thank you. The next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. A motion is in order. Move approval. Mr. Chair, support. Okay, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed. This item stands approved. Next item on the agenda is approval of the meeting minutes of from September 4, 2024 a motion is in order approval. Mr. Chair, support all those in favor signify by saying, aye. Aye. Those opposed. This item stands approved. Next item on the agenda is public participation, and at this time, I would like to ask who will be reading the instructions.
Mr. Chair. That will be myself. Brian Peckinpah, Public Affairs Director for Detroit water and sewage department. I will read the instructions to make a comment. Please raise your hand by using the raise hand icon on your desktop or mobile device. If you are calling into the meeting by phone, press star nine to raise your hand after your name is called, it will give you permission to unmute. In order to begin speaking, you will have to unmute yourself to do so, press the unmute button, which is the microphone icon if you're online, or star six. If you are calling in as a reminder, you will have to limit your time to three minutes to make your public comment. There will be a timer indicating your remaining time if you're online to make a comment, we kindly request you fill out the comment card link that's located in the chat. By filling out the card, we will have your contact information to follow up appropriately. If you are unable to click the link, please let us know, and the phone number will be provided for you to call to provide the needed information, you will only be called upon once. Once. The chair closes public comment for this committee. There will be no other comments from the public, and all attendees will remain muted for the duration of the meeting.
Thank you for your attention. And Mr. Chair, we're just looking at the attendees now, and at this time we have no hands raised. Mr.
Chair, no hands raised. Okay. Ken, so at this time, public comment is closed. Next item on the agenda, next item on the next item on the agenda is recipient, a receipt of correspondence. The motion is in order.
Sorry, Move approval, Mr. Chair, support.
Okay, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed. That item stands approved. Next item on the agenda is received of correspondence as relates to the litigation report. A motion is in order to receive and file the litigation report, Mr.
Chair, I would move that we receive and file the litigation report
support all those in favor, signify by saying aye, aye. Those opposed. This item stands approved. Next item on the agenda is unfinished business. There is none new business. There is none. And our planning calendar we still are, is nothing that's attached at this time. And so the next meeting of the Yes, before
you conclude, I wanted to defer to Director Brown for an announcement. Okay, certainly.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good afternoon. I just wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you to our new general counsel, Scott McGriff. I know that he's on the line, and maybe I'd ask him to turn his camera on and just briefly introduce himself. We're certainly lucky that he was available and willing to take this position, and I think you're going to find out very quickly, as I did, that he's more than qualified. So Scott, have you got a moment just to talk a little bit about yourself?
I'm happy to do that. I've turned on my camera. However I see that I'm not on so since this is only the camera first day and a half that I have received, my have my computer will work on that, and I I promise for the next session, we'll have all the bugs worked out. But Mr. Chairman, board members, I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be part of the team. We have a great, great group of attorneys here. We have a great group of professionals. I'm excited to lead that team and to be part of this conversation. I'll give you a two minute background or two minute speech on my background as by way of introduction, I came over most recently from the city's law department. I was in charge of the ARPA contracting and compliance work there. And as you know, the city received close to a billion dollars that the entire city ARPA team has worked very hard to spend on on behalf of the citizens, according to the mayor's priorities in the city council priorities as well. So I'm spent just spent the last couple of years there. Prior to that, I was at a law firm, Dickinson Wright, and prior to that, I was with the United States Department of Justice. While I was at the Department of Justice, I did two things. I was an attorney that tried government contract cases and prosecuted the fraud attached to those government contract cases. And additionally, I was the I spent three years in Afghanistan working for the Deputy Attorney General as the Justice attache for the United States to Afghanistan. So excited to excited to be in this position, excited to work with all of you. And I look forward to a to a great relationship, and again, I promise that we'll have the bugs work out of my camera the next time that we jump on the phone. So I apologize for that.
No, no problem, no problem at all. Trust me, I understand, and I'm welcome on board, and I'm looking forward, as I'm sure all the other Commissioners are, to working with you. Oh, there you go. Solution
and they parachuted in and fixed the issue.
Okay, okay, I join you in welcoming our new attorney. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay, if you would, can we go back to the agenda? And so we did do planning calendar we were at the next meeting will be November, November the sixth, 2024, and we will now go to the next item on the agenda, which is adjournment. A motion is in order to adjourn. Move adjournment. Mr. Chair, support. That it's been moved and supported to adjourn. All those in favor signify by saying aye, aye. The meeting stands adjourned. Thank you.
Okay, our next meeting starts at 130 you
Marion, have you identified who you wanted to preside over the next meeting?
Well, they have to decide who they want to do. Either would you like to take the spot?
