The council took up a mayoral request to confirm Emily Arpke as director of financial services. The Clerk read the appointment request, and a motion to approve was made and seconded.

During the roll-call confirmation process, Councilor Dion registered an objection. Council member (Speaker 4) publicly stated concern that an important appointment such as the city's chief financial officer should not be decided without a full complement of councilors, saying, "I don't think a vote like this should be taken without a full compliment of councilors." The speaker yielded the floor after making the objection.

The transcript records the motion, a recorded objection during roll call, and subsequent procedural moves, but it does not include an explicit final confirmation vote on the record. The objection and the expressed procedural concern were the material actions documented in the meeting transcript.

Next steps: the transcript does not specify whether the mayor re-presented the appointment or whether the council later reconvened the confirmation; follow-up with city clerk records is needed to confirm the appointment's final status.