The Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 meeting of the Eden Prairie City Council is now called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Welcome to tonight's meeting. It's uh customary for me to read an open podium invitation. Open podium is an an opportunity for Eden Prairie residents to address the city council on issues related to Eden Prairie city government prior to each council meeting. And these council meetings typically occur the first and the third Tuesday of each month. Open podiums occur from 6:30 to 6:55 in the council chamber. If you wish to speak at open podium, please do contact the city manager's office at 952-9498412 by noon of the meeting date with your name, your phone number, and subject matter so we can be better prepared for you. Open podium is not recorded or televised. If you have questions about open podium, please do contact the city manager's office. Mr. GTO, should I go right into the proclamation or do you have something that you'd like to say first? Uh, mayor, no, you can uh move straight into that. >> All right. Uh, during this section of the meeting, we have proclamations or presentations, but of course with um MLK Junior Day, Martin Luther King, um it's very um typical normal annually that we have read this proclamation around the time of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. Proclamation City of Eden Prairie, Henipin County, Minnesota. Whereas the city of Eden Prairie City Council and Human Rights and Diversity Commission sponsors the Black History Month Words inaction contest and the Human Rights Award program recognizing those who work to create an inclusive community spirit through their actions, activities, and programs. And whereas the city of Enra recognizes that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream and dedicated his life to helping freedom exist for all people through his commitment to human rights and his nonviolent philosophy. And whereas the city of Eden Prairie reaffirms its commitment to fostering diversity in our community through the Eden Prairie Manifesto. Now therefore, be it resolved that the city of Eden Prairie hereby proclaims 2026 as a year to celebrate human rights and diversity and asks all residents to continue their commitment and concern for equal rights for all persons to dedicate themselves to helping those who do not yet share in that freedom and to join the city of Eden Prairie in recognizing and celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. Ronald A case mayor on behalf of city council members Kathy Nelson, Mark Fyberg, PG Orion, and Lisa Tumi. All right, we have um presentation this evening. Mr. Gro, I think I'll turn it over to you to get people um appropriately introduced. >> Thank you, uh mayor and council. Uh tonight, the the [clears throat] majority of our meeting is uh we have short one tonight. The majority of our meeting is to a presentation tonight. We're going to get an overview from Henipin County EMS. Um the services provided a big part of our public safety uh here in Eden Prairie. Um first we're going to get uh uh introduction from both of our chiefs. So here come our police chief and our fire chief to give us um introduction to Henipin County EMS. >> And by the way, the city loves our chiefs. I I mean that not only the council up here, but we get so much um so many positives on both of you and you lead amazing departments and we all know that culture is a result of good leadership. So, thank you to both of you, police department and fire department. I think they're the best in the state. Do you all agree with that? Okay. >> Thank you. council. >> Um, we have Chief Marty Shear here with us tonight from Henipin EMS to give a little overview and an update with Henipin EMS and their operations with within our city. Before we turn it over to Chief Shear, um, Chief Sack and I, I just want to give you a little update about how does EMS really work within the city of Eden Prairie. So, as you are aware, uh it is a team effort in the city of Eden Prairie and that team includes our dispatch center, our police officers, our firefighters, and our paramedics that respond as part of Henipin EMS. Within EMS delivery in the city, uh the dispatchers, our police officers, and our firefighters are all city resources. Henipin EMS is not a city resource. It's a resource that is a private entity that provides EMS coverage within our city. EMS service areas are are defined by primary service areas that are defined by law. Henipin EMS has been a provider in the city of Eden Prairie for decades and we are extremely fortunate that we have a great relationship with Henipin EMS to be able to provide that service in our community. Um in a medical emergency, how does it work? So when somebody calls 911 for a medical emergency, they they reach our dispatchers. Our dispatchers take that information. They're able to determine information about what may be happening in that call. They then start the appropriate resources, police, fire, and an ambulance. At the same time, then they transfer that call to Henipin EMS. Henipin MS has their own dispatch center and Chief Sher will talk a little bit more about that, but they provide our pre-arrival instruction which means that while responders are still responding to a home, police and fire and an ambulance that they've started some initial triage or care with what might be happening in a home and though that's provided by the Henipin dispatchers. they are able to give information, gather more medical information, and perhaps provide information about how to perform CPR while folks are still responding to the call. So, what about 2025? Just to give you a little bit of a data with what this looks like, in 2025, there's on average about 10 medical calls in our community each day. For the fire department, we responded to 2,781 EMS calls last year in the city of Ven Prairie. It's about 68% of our call volume. Now, the police department responded to 3,68 calls. So, you can see they did approximately 800 more calls um for medical related calls than the fire department did. We have great resources and try to provide great resources to the type of call. So, law enforcement goes on some of our lower acuity calls that we don't automatically start all of our resources together. Now, those numbers that I referenced are about medical related calls. They don't include calls like crashes on our roadways or other incidents that may happen where uh EMS services may be a part of our community. So, those those types of calls, I'm going to list for you types of calls in 2025 kind of by order with how many types of things we went to just so you have an idea of what's the most things we might go to within our city, both police and fire. So, um, a fall, difficulty breathing, a lift assist, which might mean that they're not hurt at all, but they need help getting back up. A cardiac event, one that's unresponsive, one that might have influenza type illness, a stroke, a seizure, a diabetic, allergic reaction, overdose, and severe bleeding. Those are the types of calls that we would auto start police, fire, and an ambulance to at the time of call. And those are the order in 2025 of the most frequent to the least frequent type of calls that we responded to. Now, police respond as I shared to other maybe more lower acuity calls by themselves. Things like a medical emergency that wouldn't be classified in one of those types of events. U perhaps they they've gone to a medical alarm or a person in crisis. Now, the great thing about our city is if our law enforcement staff are all tied up and cannot respond to those type of medical events, we then send the fire department. And by having our own dispatch center, we can have those types of interactions already built into our computer system so it knows to be able to do that. Um, again, as I talked about, it really is resource driven. So, we're making sure that police and fire um are being used as most effectively as they can. Lastly, before I turn it over to Chief Shear, I want to talk just a little bit about um EMS education because it is a big part of how we continue to maintain and deliver our service. Henipin EMS provides ongoing maintenance and ongoing skill development for both our police department and our fire department um on a regular basis annually. We often meet quarterly, it might be uh bianually in different some different cases so that we can stay up on our skills to deliver highquality care to those that may have needs in our community. So unless you have any specific questions for Chief Sacket or myself, I'm going to hand it over to Chief Shear and he can give a little update on Henip and EMS. >> I have a question. So from >> take it away. >> Thank you. Um around 3,000 plus medical calls, right? And and if I remember right, there is around 44,000 voters in Eden Prairie. So it's close to like 8 n% of people. Did I do that math right? >> Yeah. I certainly don't know the exact voter number. Um but >> I know that number right. 44,000. Yeah. Some of those can be repeat codes. >> No, no. What I was saying is adults, I'm just assuming we have around 65,000 total residents. Out of that, we have adults around 50,000 or 45,000 or so. And out of that, 3,000 plus people called in in a year. That's large percentage. No, >> as Chief Sacket said, council member Ryan, and I think could be >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> It's also important to remember that some of those calls may be coming from the same residents or the same people that we're going back there for. So, >> wouldn't just be that they maybe perhaps they called just once, but they could be repeat callers. >> Now, just the and I do a quick number in my head, it seems very large percentage, right, of that getting calls. I just make a statement. I I don't know that's true or not but definitely that's the impression I have. >> So my question >> why >> no I had a question prior to you. >> Okay. >> So my question was when the triaging begins to occur where it comes into our 911 we get our our um possible police officer first on the scene and then our fire and then in the meantime the call gets transferred over to Henipin EMS and they begin to really dig in and triage it. is that that information goes to their ambulance before it gets there, but does it go back to our people that are right on the scene because they might be there 10 or 12 minutes working with that person and did the information that got picked up medically get transferred back to them? >> Yeah, in in most cases it does get transferred back and a really important piece to this mayor and council is that um they don't wait till we get on scene to start that information. It's started at the same time that resources are started that that Henipin EMS dispatcher is gathering that information and sharing. So it comes back oftent times either via radio or to our dispatch center who then related to us. >> Great council. Anything else? >> Okay, >> Chief Shear. >> Welcome Chief Shear. Nice to see you again. [snorts] [clears throat] >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. Uh yes, Marty Shear, uh Henipin EMS. I've been in Hannipanas about six years now and prior to that I was um longtime Edina firefighter. I was a chief in Edina fire for about 15 years and I'll try to work Oh, there we are. Slides are up and can you see the slides on your screen? Yes, >> we can. Yeah, only the first one though. >> I can advance it for you if it's not. >> Doesn't seem to be advancing. There we go. Okay. Um, so Henipin EMS, as Chief Gber mentioned, we're a subset of Henipin County. Uh, we cover about 14 different cities. uh in our service area about a little over a million and a half residents and 266 square miles. There we go. Now it's working. Okay. Thank you. So u this is our leadership team. As I mentioned, I've been there about six years. Most of our leadership team has also been there less than six years. U fabulous team. Uh they really do a great job running the organization. And then we also have our medical direction team. Uh Dr. Simpson is our medical director. uh he's working tonight in the ED. All of our medical directors work in our emergency department at Henipin Healthcare and uh Dr. Jones is actually the medical director for the police and fire departments here in Eden Prairie. And then we also are pretty fortunate. We're one of the only EMS organizations around that have our own pharmacists and and Holly's our pharmacist. So all of our physicians are board certified in emergency medicine. Uh you don't see that everywhere. So we're really lucky. I always claim we have the best emergency doctors in the in the country. They're very progressive and they they like to try new things and pilot new programs and it's proved very successful for us. We also have two fellows that work with us uh residents. Um they train with us for about a year and they do a great job too. So they're out responding to calls as well as the medical directors and uh it's really a pleasure to have them out working with them. So, uh, Eden Prairie, um, as the chief mentioned, uh, we have a great working relationship with both the police and fire departments. We all co-respond. Um, we arrived on scene about 5,268 times last year in 2025. We had an average response time of 8.51 minutes. And then we have code two and code three calls. So, I you're probably familiar, but I'll just review it. Code three is lights and siren. It's an emergent call. And code two calls are non-emergent. And people say, "Well, give me an example of a a code two call." And I'll just list just a few of them. Um, bumps, boils, can't sleep, uh, constipation, uh, cut off ring, earachche, uh, gout, uh, hepatitis, hiccups, itching, nervous object stuck like in their ear or something. Um, just similar things like that. So, we we do get a lot of calls like that. A lot of people say, "I wouldn't call an ambulance for that." But, we get a number of calls. As you saw, 528 calls that were code two calls in our city. And so those we respond without lights and siren, just drive routinely. And so a normal response to that might be 15, 20 minutes sometimes, but they're they're non-emergent calls. >> What do you do in the case of hiccups? [laughter] >> Try to scare them. No, I'm just kidding. >> Seriously. >> Uh how about any questions? So response time, call volume, that's a big thing to most cities. Does anybody have any questions, concerns about that? As the the both chiefs mentioned, I've known both chiefs for a long time. You're right. They're fabulous chiefs. We have a fabulous working relationship. Um, for example, if we go on like a cardiac arrest, uh, we had a great save. We were here last last council meeting, you know, talking about the young man that was saved. And the firefighters will ride in the ambulance with us, work in the ambulance. We have a a simulation ambulance that we bring out for training as well. That's exactly the same as a working ambulance, and we train the firefighters and police officers to work in there. So everyone knows if I reach back here and grab a IV bag and and and all our ambulance are the same. And so we do a lot of training. We we do active shooter training with their police department every year and things. So we're really happy to work with Eden Prairie. They're fabulous group. Uh the chiefs are both great. Whenever there's an issue, they call me right up and and I hope you do too. You consider Henipin EMS like one of your departments like just like the police and fire department. Call me anytime. So, Chief, um I've been to meetings with you and um as as we all know, it it at the end of the day, it's about response times. Um and that it's not as easy if one had like you done or had our own uh ambulance service. You can't have 18 vehicles sitting there just waiting and then the response times from then you just send one off and it gets to the neighborhood in two minutes, right? You only have three, four, five ambulances floating around at any given time. Usually about 25. Yeah. Yeah. >> In the whole region though in our city. So if if there was a call um I mean there's a best case and a worst case. If the ambulance was happen to be a block away gosh we're in there one minute. But if it's if there is no ambulance at that that moment in Eden Prairie I mean worst case could be 15 16 17 minutes. So my question and we and we know that with fire police. I mean I don't I think people just need to understand that but what's the coverage then? Because I know we have again amazing police and fire that are able I guess I want to hear from you like what are they able to do during those in that worst case scenario 15 minutes that takes a while for your ambulance to get there. >> So what are the police and fire able to do? >> How do we how do we take care of that our residents? How do we take care of that patient? >> Yeah. So the your police and fire most of them are trained either EMRs which is medical emergency medical responder or EMT level. And so they can do the basic first aid and and and cardiac arrest. actually they they can do everything. They have AEDs and so they do quite a bit. Uh actually we we're in we're in discussions about how we can maybe even advance their training a little bit further. I'd like to see that in you know in a perfect world I'd like to see some paramedics on the fire department and and they could respond as well and we train the paramedics. We have that going on in St. Anthony and like for example Bloomington fire is doing that and so that's another solution but I think just adv advanced EMT is even better but they are very well trained right now but they could we could always advance that and we would help with that facilitate that if that's something that you're interested in doing. Well, I I I think we are. I mean, um and again, um >> response times can be chasing a a target that's really Yes. At the end of the day, there's always going to be that worst case. There just always is, right? And but if we can get that average to a reasonable point, I think eight minutes is reasonable because we can cover it with our police and fire. And again, that's an average. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, I think our response time actually for the city of Eden Prairie with the the road system it has and that is is quite good. Uh it's it's I'll put it this way. It's better than you die in a fire has a response time. I know that because I work there. So [laughter] >> we want to write that down. >> But uh yeah um you know there's uh and I will say uh response times are important but actually outcomes to me are more important. And I'll I'll show outcomes towards the end of my slide presentation. But outcomes are really really important as well. But response times are are are important to everybody too. >> But yeah other questions. >> I have a question. So this number is actually worse than what Scott's number 5,000 um out of 70 the number ratio wise. Uh but again looking at average I'm not a big fan of average. >> It's great you know if you are below average or at average something happened to you >> right? What happened in that bell curve the other side of the average? >> Sure. >> What's that? >> Right. >> You know look like uh you know I'm just that's also we need to look at I'm not asking you. >> No I have that actually. >> I not asking you hard questions but I'm just thinking. >> No. So we uh we send to the every quarter we send to the chief uh our numbers and we look at um here's what we look at. We look at uh for code three calls, the emergent calls, the percentage that we're under 10 minutes and 59 seconds. That's the kind of the our goal to be under that. And then we look at the under 12 minutes and under 15 minutes. So um our averages for under 10 minutes is 75.28%. >> Okay. >> Under 12 minutes is 87.88%. >> And under the 15 minute mark is 95.99%. So 96%. So the worst case kind of 15 minutes >> 15 minutes is pretty big. >> My hope is that our fire department hold off >> fire department or police department there. Yeah. Right. And then and then we also have mutual aid will call a dina fire or ridge view ambulance too sometimes to to help us out. Um the mayor and I were at a meeting last week I believe it was. We talked about uh the system that we just got developed where we can see all the different ambulances in the area and let's say um Rigidu has an ambulance that's returning from downtown driving right through your city and a call comes in, we can now notify them and see that and [clears throat] have them respond instead of us if they're if they're closer. So, we we're trying to improve that as well. And then uh the mayor earlier asked about um who sees the information from our dispatchers. We're working on a system that should also send that directly to the CAD in the vehicles. So we can all the responders can see that not just the dispatch center. >> Right now it doesn't go to the CAD with >> doesn't go well it goes to your dispatch and then your dispatch put in the >> but we could send it direct directly into the camp that way. >> Right. >> I just want to also say thank you for your service. Uh my wife had an is an an incident and you guys were there in minutes way better than the eight minutes I think if I remember. I almost passed out. >> Thank you. Yeah. So, we usually station a vehicle here and we also have one right by Glen Lake Golf Course is where our two bases are closest here. Yeah. >> Right. >> Thank you for all your service. Anything else? >> I just got a couple other quick slides. I'll go through if you're ready. Any other questions though on response time? >> Go ahead. No, you take your time. >> Um, sure. Uh, as you know, we do the emergency medical service. We also have community paramedics that work in your city as well. So, they they're kind of the ones that do house calls. They're uh generally visiting people that are unable to get to the clinics on their own. So we take care of them. As uh Chief Griber mentioned, we have our own dispatch. We also have a special operations team that a lot of that works with the police and fire departments. And then we do the training. As you know, I mentioned tiered response where we have police, fire, hospital. We all work together. That's how we had this great save just two weeks ago. We talked about two weeks ago, but yeah. Um we have some advanced paramedics. I'm going to go through this quickly. Uh here's our technical rescue medics that work with the fire departments. Uh here's us training at uh your active shooter training with your law enforcement team. We also have water rescue medics set out on Lake Minnetonka. Uh we have incident dispatchers we can bring out to larger events. Uh the community paramedics I mentioned. Um mental health is a big issue with first responders now. So we have a peer support team. We also have a couple different vendors and our hospital psychologists that work with our team. And uh it's um it's been pretty great. A lot of people said they didn't need this and we made everyone go visit the psychologist. We called it a checkup from the neckup and people didn't even want to go. But I made every single person go. I said, "Go talk about the weather. I don't care what you talk about." And about five or six people came back to me and said, "Thank you for sending me." Turns out I do have some problems and I'm going to go take care of them and this has been really good for me. And I didn't even know I had these problems. So, it's been really cool to see. >> Uh we also have a therapy dog. We just got the therapy dog this year. Risby's a huge fan. Uh he's more popular than any of us. Um, we have a really good patient survey. Here's kind of the results I want to talk about. So, our our we do surveys to all the patients and we have a 96.21% uh satisfaction survey which is really really good. It would be much better if the ride of our ambulance was better. That's our low score all the time. I don't know if it's the rough roads or the winter. And then also um the value for the money. I think a lot of people are used to paying 20 $30 for an Uber and then they get a bill from us and it's it's quite a bit more. of the the value that they they receive. But other than that, we get excellent scores. I'm most proud of the scores that we get for our paramedics. You know, that I I trust the paramedics. They took care of me. Those are some of the best in the country. So, out of these scores, we're I think number five in the country for scores. So, we're doing really well. And here's the other uh uh data I want to show you on outcomes. So this is a cardiac arrest uh study that most people in the country look at and a lot of EMS agencies use as a benchmark because it kind of compares everybody compares everyone equally and these are people that go into cardiac arrest and that walk out of the hospital with no deficit. For example, the young man that was here last last council meeting. So a 1% difference from the national average is a big deal. So on the um the upper numbers the Unstein survival that is without bystander CPR we're at 40% save uh rate there uh the US is at 33.4 and Minnesota's at 35% and then with bystander CPR AD it jumps up to 47% compared to the national average of 37%. Last year we're actually at 60% which is the highest in the country. So, these are really good numbers and the only um area really that well we can improve everywhere but the area we need to improve the most is bystander CPR. Minnesota has a very low rate of bystander CPR and everyone thinks we we do a great job and we'd be better but we have a very very low rate. It was really exciting actually to hear that you had a AED installed weeks before the gentleman had the cardiac arrest last week. >> So we have a lesser number of AEDs than Yes. the rest of the nation. >> Yes, which is strange. Ed could continue to lead the way in that >> and that's the lions and the lionesses. >> So that's an area of for improvement is the bystander CPR. >> Nice. Good to know. >> Yeah. And I think that kind of covers the rest. You you're aware. I don't want to take any more time, but we do a lot of other things. Our staffing is really good. We had 150 applicants for 10 positions last time. We do a lot of technology. Uh we're in your community a lot doing a lot of different things. uh we do a lot of uh speaking outside the community. We had a recent study that the mayor was at and we talked about that. Our biggest uh opportunity for improvement is our CAD toCAD integration which I mentioned earlier and um and um different ways of transport people and working with your fire departments synchronizer protocols. >> CAD is computer assisted data. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll answer any questions. Another thing we've done is um we've added a whole blood onto our ambulances. Now that's this year. So we're carrying whole blood and so that's been a a really huge improvement. I think we've done it like 27 times since October which is really >> quick question. You mentioned um the cost that people get shocked with sometimes when they I'm guessing a $2,000 bill or something, but what what percentage of what you bring in and need to survive? Yeah, I'm sure cities contribute obviously uh are user fees. >> So our fees are just from transports. So, we get paid from transports and actually we have such a we have a high >> high volume of transports. So, we're we're self-sufficient with our with our transport volumes. Most EMS agencies aren't that way, but we are >> 100% comes from >> 100% comes from our transport volume. Yeah. >> Got it. >> Yeah. >> Council, any anything else? >> Well, since you do serve our residents, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. Please them and partner closely with our police and fire. So, you really are like a kind of a third leg of the stool. Lisa, did you have a question? Oh, okay. >> Thank you for having me and I'd be glad to come back anytime you wish. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thanks for what you do. Communicate that to all your staff that we appreciate everyone. >> Thank you. >> All right, council. Um, moving down the agenda is the approval of the agenda. I just want to add one really brief mayor um report. But I just want to talk about um encouraging people to frequent our restaurants and Asia Mall was the reason that initially that I was going to bring that up among our other um amenities facilities out there. But anything else to add to the agenda? If not, is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> I'll move to approve the agenda with the addition of um the mayor's report. >> Great. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. I oppose. Um anybody have a question about any of the edits? anything about or add or want to edit or change anything within either of the minutes from the workshop or the meeting back on January 6th? If not, is there a motion to approve them? >> To approve the following city council minute, city council workshop held Tuesday, January 6th, 2026. City council meeting held Tuesday, January 6, 2026. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Anything else to discuss? If not, all those in favor say I. I I opposed. >> Okay. Uh consent calendar, one of the shorter ones we um have seen for a while. Uh any items A through F that you want to learn more about? Question, pull from the consent calendar, vote on separately. If not, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar A through F? >> Move to approve items A through F on the consent calendar. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. All right. Moving on to payment of claims, all the uh expenses that the city has incurred since our last meeting. Uh any items on the multiple pages and pages of our expenses that you wish to learn more about or question? If not, is there a motion to approve the payment of claims? >> Move to approve the payment of claim as submitted. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Council member Fryberg. >> I. Council member Nion. >> I. >> Council member Nelson. >> I. Council member Tumi. >> Hi. >> May your >> case I All right. I think it's just down to me briefly. U Lisa Tumi and I were invited along with um Congresswoman Kelly Morrison's staff. I thought she might be coming, but she did not. I think she was in Washington. But um to visit at the time a couple businesses in Eaten Prairie. That's what we thought it was going to be just to um learn more about possible ice impacts on those businesses. But we only got as far as Asia Mall. Um, and we met with the owner, the manager, one of the store restaurant people. There is nobody here, right? Because we had invited them to speak. Um, but I thought I would still just briefly um kind of communicate the message that their numbers uh are way way down. not only at their restaurants and they have had a loss of employees uh both because um ICE did uh come in uh or in their parking lot and they did apprehend several of their restaurant employees but um there's also and by the way it's not sometimes maybe based on the news you might be thinking it's Latino Somali but there are Asian um people that are being picked up as well um but I believe um Asian malls employees that were apprehended were mostly Latino. Um but um nonetheless, the bigger hit on Asia Mall was just people, just people shopping um and frequenting their restaurants. So I thought we I would carry on the message to Eden Prairie people. Um, if you are currently in a financial position that you continue to go out to eat, please frequent the restaurants in Eden Prairie that you think might be struggling or suffering because of the impact of loss of employees uh andor loss of people going to their restaurants. Um um I was in a restaurant that is one of the most common popular packed restaurants in Eden Prairie. I was just there last Thursday and talked to the manager and they have been hit really hard with a 20 to 30% loss in clientele and also lost their cook who was apprehended and um there's just um there's a real impact uh which is going to be a fairly major impact economically across the region uh but we also believe across the state. Nonetheless, my message to Eden Prairie residents, frequent our restaurants so that we can keep them in business uh [clears throat] because when we come out of this and and we will um whenever soon I hope um we want our restaurants to be here so that we can continue to enjoy them. So that's my only message. Council, um anything else you want to add about anything I just said or anything else? Mr. Gretcho, anything else to come before our council this evening? Mayor, just um related to council schedule, um talk about February a little bit. >> Sure. >> The um typical February schedule for the council would be the first and third meeting in February. It's a little different this year for city council. The first uh Tuesday in February is a caucus evening. So, if you are part of a a political party throughout the state of Minnesota, the applies state of Minnesota, that is a caucus night. >> February 3rd. Yeah. >> February 3rd. And so city uh councils throughout the state cannot meet that night. So the city uh council will not meet that night. This is this whole schedule we set first of the year. Um and in lie of that we decided then uh not to meet on February 17th and to meet on February 10th. So we are not meeting on February 3rd. We're not meeting on February 17th. We're meeting on February 10th. Also, um this we have a meeting another meeting in February, but it will not be in the council chambers. Your annual meeting where you interview board and commission members is on February 24th. That is a council meeting, but it's not a a televised business council meeting in the council chambers. >> It is open to the public. >> It is absolutely open to the public. gets noticed and um it's actually one of your longer council meetings because you spend the entire evening interviewing um applicants for all of our city commissions. So in summary, you are meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays in February, February 10th and February 24th. The February 10th meeting will be the business meeting in here and getting even to March and we'll talk about that later. Um, we have the the two meetings currently scheduled in March, but we'll talk later about possibly cancelling the second meeting in March because we may not have a quorum for the second meeting in March, but we'll talk about that at a later date. >> What time is our 24th meeting start? >> The 24th meeting actually I think it starts as early as 5:00 >> and the interviews typically begin somewhere around 5:30 I believe. Sarah's nodding. I think there's like sandwiches before, but the first interviews are usually around 5:30. >> Fine. >> Okay. >> I It's a minor. Yeah, there's a um LRT um Met Council mayor meeting, but 3:00. It's no problem. >> Should that be okay? >> Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't I would change that, not this. So, okay. Um because I think >> because it could be a little later if needed, but 5:30. Okay. That's it. Council, anything, Lisa? Oh, you keep tricking me. >> I'm turning on my >> Yeah, but it's like thinking that you want to speak. >> I'm good. >> All right. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting this evening? Then >> move to adjourn the city council meeting tonight. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I opposed. This meeting is adjourned.