GOOD EVENING EVERYONE AND WELCOME. I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS MONDAY AUGUST 14TH, 2023 MEETING OF THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO IS WATCHING ONLINE. WE WILL START OUR MEETING AS WE ALWAYS DO IF YOU ARE ABLE PLEASE STAND AND JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. AND AS I SAID, THANKS FOR BEING HERE. WE'VE GOT A GOOD GROUP IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS THIS EVENING. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS WATCHING ONLINE AS WELL. WELCOME. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TONIGHT IS TO GET AN AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING. OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING INCLUDES SIX ITEMS UNDER OUR INTRODUCTORY ITEMS. THE FIRST IS A PROCLAMATION FOR OUR SISTER CITY 30TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION DAY WHICH I'M EXCITED ABOUT. SECOND IS OUR SISTER CITY DELEGATION WILL BE DOING A PRESENTATION THE STUDENT DELEGATION AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND OF 2.3 WILL BE INTRODUCING OUR NEW EMPLOYEES AS WE DO WE HAVE OUR FRIENDS HERE FROM THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES TO MAKE A PRESENTATION REGARDING OUR 2023 SUSTAINABLE CITY AWARD THAT THE CITY RECEIVED BACK IN JUNE. ITEM 2.5 WE WILL HAVE A PRESENTATION REGARDING THE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROJECT. AND THEN ON 2.6 WE'LL HAVE A MISSION MOMENT DISCUSSION ABOUT OUR EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP INTRODUCTIONS UNDER OUR CONSENT ITEMS. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER HAS A CONSENT BUSINESS TONIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO REMOVE ITEM 3.7 FROM OUR CONSENT BUSINESS. THAT IS THE ARCHITECT CONTRACT FOR THE BRYANT PARK BUILDING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION STAFF WOULD LIKE A BIT MORE TIME WITH THAT SO WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE ITEM 3.7 FROM OUR CONSENT BUSINESS UNDER ITEM FOUR ARE HEARINGS AND RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES WE HAVE BUT ONE PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING. ITEM 4.1 IS A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING A CHANGE OF CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. AND FINALLY UNDER OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS, SOME INTERESTING PRESENTATIONS. 5.1 IS A NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SCREENING SCENARIOS AND A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE POSSIBLE BUDGETS AND 5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING OUR MUNICIPAL SOLAR PROJECTS AND IN 5.3 AN UPDATE ON OUR OPIOID TASK FORCE WORKPLAN AND WE WILL FINISH OUR MEETING AS WE DO WITH ITEM 5.4 OUR CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATES. SO COUNCIL UNLESS THERE IS ANY CHANGES OR ADDITIONS SUBTRACTIONS I WOULD OFFER THE AGENDA AS STATED AND NOTING OF COURSE ITEM 3.7 ARE BEING PULLED OUT OF THE AGENDA. SECOND, WE'VE GOT A MOTION IN A SECOND TO ACCEPT TONIGHT'S AGENDA AS STATED. NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO AND WE HAVE AN AGENDA. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. OUR FIRST AGENDA ITEM TONIGHT IS A RESOLUTION A PROCLAMATION FOR OUR SISTER CITY 30TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION DAY. AND I'M GOING TO HEAD DOWN TO THE PODIUM IF YOU . SO THIS IS AN EXCITING WEEK HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. WE HAVE A DELEGATION HERE FROM IZUMI JAPAN WHICH IS BLOOMINGTON'S SISTER CITY AND WE ARE CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO GREAT COMMUNITIES. WE'VE HAD A GROUP HERE OF OFFICIALS FROM THE CITY. WE HAVE A STUDENT GROUP. I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY WENT THERE. THEY'RE OUT THERE. OKAY. NO, NO, WE'RE NOT IN WE'RE NOT READY FOR THEM YET. I JUST WANTED TO WE'RE NOT READY FOR THEM YET. WE'VE HAD A STUDENT GROUP WE HAVE BEEN DOING OUR SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION THAT HAS PLANNED THIS AND HAS BEEN THE CONDUIT FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT HAS GONE ON HAS BEEN HAVE BEEN GREAT HOSTS AND HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS FOR OUR GUESTS. AND IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO BE SURE TO DO TONIGHT WAS OFFICIALLY THROUGH PROCLAMATION WAS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO COMMUNITIES. SO I AM PROUD TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION. A SISTER CITY 30TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION DAY AUGUST 14TH 2023 WHEREAS 30 YEARS AGO THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA UNITES THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CITY OF IZUMI OSAKA PREFECTURE JAPAN EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO DEEPEN FRIENDSHIP AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES THROUGH EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES. AND. WHEREAS, ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 1993 IZUMI MAYOR TADAO OKADA AND BLOOMINGTON MAYOR NEIL PETERSON SIGNED A DECLARATION OF SISTER CITY AFFILIATION BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES. AND. WHEREAS THE CITIES OF IZUMI AND BLOOMINGTON PLEDGED TO STRENGTHEN THE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES THUS CONTRIBUTING TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN THE WORLD. AND. WHEREAS, THE TWO CITIES HAVE SPONSORED MANY MAYORAL AND STUDENT VISITS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BLOOMINGTON SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION AND IZUMI INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION. AND. WHEREAS, MAYOR HIROSHI HERE HERE IN MICHIE TWO AND I APOLOGIZE HIRO MIKI SUSHI HAS LED TO DELEGATIONS OF OFFICIALS AND STUDENTS FROM IZUMI TO VISIT BLOOMINGTON ON AUGUST 11TH THROUGH THE 15TH 2023 TO COMMEMORATE THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES HOSTED BY THE BLOOMINGTON SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION. NOW THEREFORE I TIM BUSSEY, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA DO HEREBY PROCLAIM MONDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 2023 AS SISTER CITY 30TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION DAY IN BLOOMINGTON AND I DIRECTED THAT THE FLAG OF JAPAN BE FLOWN AT BLOOMINGTON CIVIC PLAZA IN HONOR OF OUR SISTER CITY IZUMI OSAKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN DATED THE 14TH DAY OF AUGUST 2023 WITH MY SIGNATURE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED AS YOU DROVE IN BUT THE FLAG IS ALREADY FLYING WHICH WE'RE PROUD TO SEE. AND AS I SAID, WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. WE HAD AN EVENT THIS MORNING WHERE MAYOR PETERSON JOINED US AND MADE SOME REMARKS AND OFFERED A PERSPECTIVE FROM 30 YEARS AGO THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT ONLY BRINGING CITY OFFICIALS TO THE UNITED STATES TO BLOOMINGTON BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY BRINGING YOUNG PEOPLE TO BLOOMINGTON AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. BUT RIGHT NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE MAYOR FORWARD AND MAKE THE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION THE PROCLAMATION IF YOU WOULD COME FORWARD, MAYOR, WE COULD OFFICIALLY SHAKE YOUR HAND AND SAY CONGRATULATIONS AND MAKE THIS AN EVENT HERE SO THAT WE CAN GET THE PICTURES IN . VERY GOOD. AND MAYOR, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS WE WOULD SUPPORT VERY MUCH THAT IS TO KNOW THAT I WILL STEP ASIDE HERE. YOU CAN USE THE MICROPHONE TO GET US OUT OF HERE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. I AM Hiromichi Tsuji , the mayor of Izumi City. MUST THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT >> . THIS IS MY THIRD VISIT TO BLOOMINGTON EVER SINCE I'VE BEEN THE MAYOR OF IZUMI CITY EVER SINCE I COME TO EACH TIME I COME TO BLOOMINGTON I'M VERY SURPRISED THAT THE NATURE AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE IN BLOOMINGTON BUT THIS TIME WITH THE OUTSTANDING WARM HOSPITALITY, THE VISIT HAS BEEN VERY, VERY NICE TO US AND BUT AND THIS NOW THAT I AFTER ALL THESE THREE VISITS AND ESPECIALLY WITH THIS TIME I TAKE THE BLOOMINGTON AS MY SECOND HOMETOWN. THAT'S THREE MONTHS THIS THIS MAYOR'S NOT ONLY MAYOR BUSSE BUT THE MAYORS BEFORE AND THE BLOOMINGTON CITIZEN WHO HAVE BEEN SO COOPERATIVE AND SUPPORTED TO THIS PROGRAM. OKAY DID IT NOW WE ARE CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY I HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE THE 40TH AND 50TH AND MORE OVER I HOPE THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO REACH TO 100 CELEBRATION ANNIVERSARY AND WE ALSO WE WOULD LIKE TO EXCHANGE STUDENTS MORE OFTEN FREQUENTLY AND SO THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE A STRONGER BOND WOULD BRIDGING THE TWO TO KIND CITIES AND I HOPE THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO COOPERATE AS LONG AS WE CAN AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WISH FOR BLOOMINGTON FURTHER PROSPERITY AND STRONGER BONDS BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. . NOW YOU MAY THINK BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS IS ALL BEEN SO SEAMLESS AND IT'S BEEN SUCH A WONDERFUL WEEK THAT THIS KIND OF THING JUST HAPPENS BUT IT DOES NOT IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS LOCAL EFFORT TO MAKE THIS ALL HAPPEN AND WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE A SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON DEDICATED TO MAKING SURE THAT THIS RELATIONSHIP CONTINUES NOT ONLY TO SURVIVE BUT TO THRIVE. AND I WANT TO THANK THEM PERSONALLY FOR ALL OF BLOOMINGTON FOR THE WORK THAT WENT INTO THIS AND I WANT TO CALL UP KELLY LOWMAN RIGHT NOW PRESENTS YOU WITH A COPY OF THE PROCLAMATION THAT WE PRESENTED EARLIER TODAY AND TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE ON ALL OF THIS. WONDERFUL THANK YOU SO VERY DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING AS WELL JUST OKAY. PLEASE DO WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS THE CRIMES WITH THE COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU, MAYOR BUSSEY. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. SO I AM KELLY LOWMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE BLOOMINGTON SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION AND I'M SO HAPPY THAT WE CAN BE HERE TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY. WE CAN'T DO THIS ALONE. SO I REALLY WANT TO THANK THE BLOOMINGTON SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION BOARD AND THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON FOR EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE TO GET THIS GOING AND THAT SORRY LAST MINUTE VISITOR AND CONVENTION BUREAU AND THE MALL OF AMERICA FOR ALL THEIR HELP AND SUPPORT AS WE'VE BEEN PLANNING THIS DELEGATION, I WILL NOW INTRODUCE THE STUDENT DELEGATION TO COME UP AND BE ABLE TO PRESENT. THANK YOU, JOY. AS KELLY MENTIONED, WE HAVE A STUDENT GROUP IN IN THE CITY AS WELL AND THEY HAVE MADE THE TRIP AND THEY ARE THEY'RE PREPARED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO BOTH THE CITY COUNCIL AND TO THE CITY ABOUT THEIR THEIR EXPERIENCE AND THEIR STAY HERE. SO COME ON COME ON UP. DO YOU HAVE IS THIS WHERE I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU GUYS COME OVER HERE? LET'S DO IT THIS WAY I MAKE THE PRESENTATION TO THE COUNCIL SO IF YOU COULD COME OVER HERE. OKAY. PARDON ME. CAN I JUST THE PRESENTATION JUST LIKE THAT I WAS LOOKING THE WE HAVE SCREENS UP THERE SO WE'RE GOING TO NEED EVERYBODY TO TALKING TO THE MICROPHONE SO THE PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME CAN HEAR YOU AS WELL. OKAY. PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME. OH YES IT IS LIKE BE YOURSELF JUST RELAX. ENJOY. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. CAN I JUST START? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. HELLO THERE IS STUDENT DELEGATES FROM IZUMI. MY NAME'S RIHANNA. I'M KIND OF LIKE THE LEADER OF THIS GROUP. I DON'T DO MUCH THOUGH SO I'VE WE'VE PREPARED A PRESENTATION ABOUT OUR CITY AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS PRESENTATION. OKAY, BUT WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING? OH OOPS. OKAY. SO FIRST I'M GOING TO BE BEGINNING WITH THE HISTORY OF IZUMI. I'M JUST GOING TO BE EXPLAINING ABOUT IT. I'M NOT GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE LIKE PERIODS IN JAPANESE SORRY. I'M JUST GOING TO BE LIKE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANT PART SO I'LL BE SKIPPING AROUND THE PLACE. OKAY SO I'LL START AT THE VERY BEGINNING AT THE JOLAN PERIOD WHERE THIS IS LIKE WHEN PEOPLE START LIVING IN JAPAN. SO PEOPLE PASS PATTERNS AND THESE PATTERNS ARE CALLED JOMON AND THE PARTICLE JOHN PLOTS SO THIS IS WHY IT'S CALLED THE JOHN PERIOD. SO THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY FOUND THE FIRST PART IS AN AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST CALLED EDWARD SYLVESTER MORRIS. AND SO THIS HERE IS A CLAY MASK THAT WAS FOUND FROM A JUNE PERIOD VILLAGE RUIN AND IZUMI AND I'M NOT REALLY SURE IF THE PERSON MADE THIS TERRIBLE ART SKILLS OR LIKE I WAS APPRECIATE IT LIKE THIS A LONG TIME AGO. OKAY SO NEXT I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER PERIOD WHICH IS THIS COULD BE LIKE THE LONGEST PART IN THE PRESENTATION SO WHO IS BEAR WITH ME. OKAY THIS ONE. OKAY SO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT HAPPENED IN THIS PERIOD IS THE CULTIVATION OF RICE FEVER FROM CHINA CAME AND INTRODUCED RICE TO PEOPLE LIVING IN JAPAN AND WE THOUGHT IT TASTED GOOD. IT GREW WELL IN OUR CLIMATE WE'RE LIKE YEAH WE'RE KEEPING IT AND A VERY IMPORTANT SITE IN HISTORY IS CALLED THE ECONOMY SORT RUINS. THIS IS FROM THE EARLY PERIOD AND IT WAS ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE DIRT. NOW WE HAVE RESTORED BUILDINGS THERE SO YOU CAN JUST GO IN THERE AND SEE WHAT PEOPLE LIVED IN THERE AND THESE ARE SOME THINGS FOUND AND THE RUINS LIKE WE FOUND CLAY POTS THESE BEADS ARE FOR ACCESSORIES AND SORT TIPS AND SOME WAYS FOR HARVESTING RICE ANTS. OKAY SO I JUST EXPLAIN QUICKLY SO CITIES IN JAPAN MAKE THESE CHARACTERS THAT SYMBOLIZE AND LIKE MASCOTS THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE MASCOTS FOR A SPORTS SPORTS TEAM AND WE JUST HAVE THEM FOR CITIES AND THESE ARE THE ONES FOR IZUMI CITY AND THESE PEOPLE ARE BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE LOOK LIKE BACK IN THE YEAR PERIOD BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORICAL SITES FROM THIS PERIOD AND HAS REALLY HAS A LOT OF CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. OKAY. NEXT I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE NATURAL PERIOD. THIS IS JUST REALLY QUICK. NOTHING MUCH HAPPENED. THIS IS JUST ONE THE PLACE THAT IS NOW IZUMI CITY WAS CALLED LAND OF IZUMI. I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE PERIOD WHERE ARISTOCRATS LIVED A LARGE PART OF JAPANESE CULTURE LIKE THEY DID SOME POEMS WRITINGS AND THEY ALSO BUILT MANY TEMPLES AND SHRINES. I'M JUST GOING TO INTRODUCE ONE TEMPLE OR IT'S LIKE A CLUSTER OF TEMPLES ON A MOUNTAINSIDE. THEY'RE REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND THEY'RE INTERESTING BECAUSE SO THERE ARE 73 TEMPLES AND THEY WERE BUILT THERE'S ONLY FOUR NOW THIS IS BECAUSE OVER THE YEARS THEY WERE LIKE FIRES, BATTLES AND EARTHQUAKES AND NOW THEY'VE LIKE THEY'VE ALL DISAPPEARED AND IT'S ONLY FOR NOW. YEAH. OKAY SO NOW I'M JUST GOING TO EXPLAIN QUICKLY ABOUT THE KAMAKURA SENGOKU PERIOD. WELL SAMURAI APPEARED AND LIKE JAPAN WAS RULED BY SHOGUN AND NOT THE EMPEROR THIS TIME AND THERE ARE MANY WARS MEANWHILE COLUMBUS ARRIVED IN AMERICA AND SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT NOW MOVING ON TO THE EDO PERIOD THIS IS ONE OF THE POLITICAL CENTER WAS MOVED TO ETA WHICH IS NOW TOKYO. A LOT OF TRADITIONAL JAPANESE ARTS AND ACTIVITIES WERE CREATED LIKE JAPANESE TEA CEREMONIES, SWEETS AND ARTS. THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE ON THIS LATER SO YEAH AND THEN IN AMERICA THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED AND 100 YEARS LATER AFTER THIS MASSIVE RECOVERY PERIOD CAME TO JAPAN AND THIS IS A GUN CONVINCES THE GOVERNMENT TO OPEN UP ITS BORDERS SINCE IT WAS A NATIONAL ISOLATION. THIS IS KIND OF THE BEGINNING OF AMERICA AND JAPAN KIND OF LIKE GOING IN BETWEEN EACH OTHER AND TALKING AND STUFF. NOT SURE. OKAY. SO FOR THE TAISHO PERIOD THIS IS WHEN THERE WAS A LOT OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LIKE PEOPLE STARTED MAKING ARTIFICIAL PEARLS OUT OF GLASS AND ALSO GLASS DECORATIONS. IT'S ACTUALLY A BRAND NOW THERE ARE ALSO A LOT OF WINDMILLS BUILT FOR THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND IT'S CALLED IZUMI COTTAGE AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE A BRAND OF COTTON THAT'S REALLY NICE. YEAH, WE HAVE LIKE BAGS AND HANDKERCHIEFS MADE FOR IT AND DURING THE SHORT PERIOD THIS IS WHEN IZUMI CITY WAS CREATED. WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY BUT THEN THIS IS JUST WHEN IT BECAME A CITY AND THE HAZY PERIOD WHERE IT'S NOT MOVING WISELY, NOT WORKING. OH OKAY. THE AREA IS WHEN IZUMI CITY AND BLOOMINGTON BECAME SISTER CITIES. THAT WAS BACK IN 1983. YEAH, AND THAT'S ABOUT >> IT FOR THE HISTORY IZUMI THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING. YEAH, THAT'S IT FOR ME NEXT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT NATURE OF ISLAMICALLY. I WILL INTRODUCE IT IN THREE PARTS. FIRST IT'S ABOUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IS A MESS. IT GROWS A LOT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IS A MACHETE IS FAMOUS PO IS TANGERINES IT'S ONE OF THE TOP PRODUCERS IN OSAKA. IT COLLABORATED WITH COMPANIES TO PROMOTE THE TANGERINES. THERE IS ALSO A UNIQUE CHARACTER MEATY BUSINESS. IT IS ALSO FAMOUS IF YOU PUT THIS IN CAR YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING LIKE PICKLES. IT'S VERY DELICIOUS. WE ALSO GROW ONIONS, TOMATOES, STRAWBERRIES AND FARMERS CHICKEN. IT'S ABOUT ISMAILI CYCLE PARK. THIS PARK WAS USED TO A LANDFILL FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTE. AFTER BURNING WAS COMPLETED THE SITE WAS TURNED INTO A PARK AS A NATURAL RELAXING PLACE NEAR >> OUR FARM A PLAYGROUND, A HARBOR GARDEN, A JAPAN GARDEN AND SO MANY PARENTS CAN SEE IN ITS SEASON. FINALLY IT'S ABOUT OUR NATURE IS THE CITY HAS A LOT OF NATURE. FOR EXAMPLE THERE IS A BIG PARK NEAR MY HOUSE ALSO THERE IS A RIVER NEAR OUR SCHOOL AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN THE SPRING. THIS IS THE END OF MY PART. THANK YOU. NEXT ARE INTRODUCED ABOUT THE CORNMEAL POND CORNMEAL WAS NAMED AFTER EMPRESS CAMILLE DURING THE NARA ERA IT'S SAID THAT EMPRESS CAMILLE WAS BORN IN IZUMI CITY. WE NEEDED A LOT OF AGRICULTURE WATER IN SHOW ERA SO CORNMEAL POND OF US ARE TYPICALLY MADE. WE HAVE WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING THE GREAT WATER GREAT BEFORE FROM COLONIAL POND AND WE CAN SEE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY IN IZUMI CITY IF YOU COME TO JAPAN PLEASE COME VISIT IS MY CITY THANK YOU SO >> NOW WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE JAPANESE CARTOON >> FIRST I'LL INTRODUCE ABOUT ART IZUMI CITY. THERE IS THE CUBA'S ART MUSEUM A TOWN CALLED THE TOWN OF ART. THERE >> ARE MANY ARTWORKS NOT ONLY IN CUBA'S ART MUSEUM SO TO MAKE THE CLICKER WORK BEST IF YOU POINT THAT THAT DIRECTION I'M SORRY. OKAY. BUT ALSO LOTS OF OTHER PRESSES SUCH AS WALLS OF BUILDINGS SECOND ARE IN THIRD IS ABOUT THE SHOPPING MARK CALLED LA LA PORTE IZUMI AT LA PORTE IZUMI IS THE GREATEST SHOPPING MALL HERE IN OSAKA. THERE ARE A LOT OF POPULAR BRANDS OF HOME AND ABROAD MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND THE RESTAURANTS THAT'S OVER 200 STORES ARE FAMILY CAN ENJOY BECAUSE OF THEIR AMUSEMENT AND THE KIDS PARK >> THERE IS A COSTCO NEXT TO THAT I BOUGHT AND WE CAN GO THERE ON FOOT THANK YOU. NOW I'LL INTRODUCE BALLARD'S JAPANESE SUITE THIS TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CONFECTIONERY IS CHARACTERIZED BY ITS SOFT AND GENTLE SWEETNESS. IT IS ALSO CONSIDERED OUR $0.05 WORK OF ART TASTE, SMELL, HEARING SIDE AND TOUCH. IT IS ALSO DESIGNED >> TO REPRESENT THE SEASONS AND IS VERY TASTY. THAT'S ALL ABOUT ME. THANK YOU. NEXT HOUR ENTER THEIR THIRD DAY OF OUR SCHOOL DAY >> SCHOOL START AT 830 WE WEAR UNIFORMS AT SCHOOL AFTER WE SHOULD NOT WEAR EARRINGS IN JAPANESE SCHOOLS THIS IS A SCHOOL BUILDING AND AN AND MY CROSS ROOM THERE IS NO LOCKER AND WE HANG OUR BACKPACKS NEXT TO OUR DESKS. CLASSES START AT 850 NOW FOR 50 MINUTE CLASSES AND 310 MINUTES BREAKS AND LUNCHTIME IS FROM 1240 JAPANESE CURRENT HAS A DAIRY MENU AND NUTRITION BARS IS COZY THERE WE DECIDE THAT THIS WE DECIDE ON A LUNCH DUTY AND A WALK TOGETHER TO PARENTS AFTER AUNT IT'S LUNCH BREAK SOME STUDENTS WITH THE BALL OUTSIDE THEY ARE THEIR CROSSES FROM 135 AFTER THAT EVERYONE DOES SCHOOL STUDENTS GREET UP TO SCHOOL AFTER >> SCHOOL WE PEEP SOME PEOPLE DO CRAB ACTIVITIES AND STUDENT CALLS YOUR ACTIVITIES THIS IS OUR SCHOOL DAY THANK YOU. OKAY, SO THAT'S ALL FOR PRESENTATION. WE WERE LIKE REALLY NERVOUS. LIKE PERSONALLY I KIND OF LIKE MISPRONOUNCED A FEW WORDS. I WAS LIKE REALLY NERVOUS BUT THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. I THINK WE WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS AND I HOPE LIKE YOU IT IS A ME LIKE SUNDAY. IT'S A REALLY NICE PLACE. THANK YOU . WELL THANKS. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. AND YOU DID A FANTASTIC JOB. YOU DID A MISPRONOUNCING WORD. THAT'S NOT THAT. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. YOU DID A FANTASTIC JOB. I KNOW YOU WERE NERVOUS AND YOU ALL DID A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL JOB. THERE'S ONE LAST THING I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO DO FOR US SO IF YOU COULD ALL TAKE TURNS, INTRODUCE YOURSELF, TELL IT, TELL US YOUR NAME, HOW OLD YOU ARE AND WHAT YOUR FAVORITE PART OF BEING HERE IN BLOOMINGTON HAS BEEN SO FAR. ME FIRST RIGHT DOWN THE LINE. PERFECT. I DON'T KNOW WHY. ALL RIGHT. SO MY NAME'S RIHANNA MASAKI. I'M 13. A PART OF BEING HERE IS LIKE THE NATURE. WE HAVE A LOT OF TREES IN PARKS AND THERE ARE LIKE SQUIRRELS AND RABBITS AND I'M JUST AMAZED OF HOW MUCH WILDLIFE THERE IS. I REALLY LOVE ANIMALS. I'M JUST REALLY HAPPY TO BE HERE. THANK YOU. VERY GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. THANKS YOU. HI AND ECONOMY AND 15 YEARS OLD AND I LOVE HERE BLOOMINGTON BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY LAKES BEAUTIFUL LAKES I LOVE NATURE SO I'M VERY GLAD. THANK YOU. HI. I'M USING A MOTHER. I'M 15 YEARS OLD. I'M GLAD TO COME THROUGH HERE. THANK YOU. HELLO. MY NAME IS MR. GOFF. I'M 14 YEARS AND I'M GOOD AT BUT I'M I LIKE MORE OF AMERICA VERY MUCH SO AND I'M WE ARE GOING TO GO TO MORE OF AMERICA AND THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. SO I'M VERY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. THANK YOU. HI, I'M NINETTE TANAKA AND I'M 14 YEARS OLD AND I'M BLOOMINGTON IS A VERY >> GOOD PLACE TO LIVE AND ALSO TO LIKE TRAVEL AND MY MOST FAVORITE THING OF BLOOMINGTON IS COOKING WAS VERY DELICIOUS AND AND ALSO LIKE LAKES ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL AND I DID JET SKI AND IT WAS PRETTY FUN. YEAH. YEAH, THAT'S HOT. THANK HI I'M HANAKO AND I'M 50 YEARS OLD AND THIS TIME IS FIRST TRIP TO GO ABROAD AND I AM RETURN NERVOUS BUT I'M GLAD TO MEET YOU YEAH AND I LIKE TALKING WITH UH WITH PEOPLE SO UH PLEASE TALK WITH ME. >> THANK YOU. WELL, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO MEET ALL OF YOU AND GET TO KNOW YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE. AND I'M VERY GLAD YOU'VE HAD A FUN TIME HERE IN BLOOMINGTON AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A FUN TIME AT MALL OF AMERICA THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. YES, ABSOLUTELY. AND AGAIN TO THE OFFICIAL DELEGATION, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY AND CAN'T WAIT TO VISIT YOU VERY, VERY SOON. SO THANK YOU. NOW I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE A DINNER RESERVATION COMING UP SO WE WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE OFFENDED IN ANY WAY IF YOU TAKE YOUR LEAVE AND SAY GOODNIGHT TO US AND GO EAT DINNER, WE'LL LOVE TO HAVE YOU DO THAT. SO AMERICA, IF I COULD SAY ONE THING OH YES. HELLO AND THANK YOU. MAYOR WANTED TO JUST SAY I WON'T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO DINNER THIS EVENING BUT YOU WERE IN GOOD HANDS WITH MY WIFE. I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME. I KNOW THAT THERE IS A STORM THERE AND SO I HOPE THAT YOUR FAMILY IS SAFE. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WITH THE MAYOR. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. HE SAID THAT THEY DID. THEY DID SOMETHING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK THANK YOU VERY WHEN YOU GO HOME NOW. NEXT UP ON OUR NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA IS ITEM 2.3 THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW EMPLOYEES. KARL, I DON'T ENVY YOU HAVING TO FOLLOW THAT UP BUT I'M MARRIED. JUST DON'T ASK MY AGE . THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL WE HAVE FIVE NEW EMPLOYEES FROM PUBLIC WORKS. I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THIS EVENING AND THE FIRST TO OUR IN OUR ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AND JAMILA BOOTH LALLY IS THE FIRST JAMILA COME ON UP. YOU MAY RECOGNIZE JAMILA. SHE MADE A PRESENTATION TO YOU A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AS PART OF HER MASTER'S CAPSTONE PROJECT. SHE JUST RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE IN URBAN PLANNING WITH AN EMPHASIS ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. AND AGAIN HER CAPSTONE PROJECT LOOKED AT WORKED WITH OUR STAFF PRIMARILY IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HAVING TO DO WITH AN ANALYSIS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE COMMUNITY AND YOU SAW A PRESENTATION OF THAT. SHE IS WORKING WITH EMMA STRAUSS IN OUR SUSTAINABILITY GROUP AND SO SHE'S LEARNING ALL THINGS ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. WHEN SHE'S NOT HERE AT WORK SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING PARKS, TRAVELING AND TRYING NEW TYPES OF KEY. SO TO ME I HELLO IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU ALL AGAIN. IT'S BEEN A FEW MONTHS SO I'VE YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN LEARNING A LOT OVER THESE MONTHS AND I THINK KARL SUMMED UP A LOT OF THE THINGS I'M REALLY I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE AND TO BE LEARNING AND I THINK THIS JOB IS REALLY GOOD ROLE FOR ME AND I HAVE AN AWESOME TEAM AND I LOVE THAT I GET TO ALSO WORK THROUGHOUT THE CITY WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND ALSO TO GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY. SO AGAIN JUST EXCITED TO BE HERE AND HAPPY. YEAH >> WE'RE VERY GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD AND WELCOME JAMILAH THANK YOU. THANKS. AND ALSO IN OUR ADMINISTRATION GROUP IS >> CLAIRE SKI. CLAIRE IS A SOLID WASTE SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALIST. SHE IS JOINING US FROM GRADUATING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WITH A DEGREE TWO DEGREES IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SPANISH. HER PAST TWO YEARS WERE WITH THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS DOING SOLID WASTE WORK. CLAIRE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ISSUES AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND SHE'S EXCITED TO BE ENGAGING WITH OUR RESIDENTS AND WITH OUR STAFF AROUND SOLID WASTE ISSUES OUTSIDE OF WORK, CLAIRE ENJOYS TIMES OUTSIDE CLIMBING AND READING OR PLAYING BOARD GAMES. YEAH THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP. HI NICE TO MEET YOU COUNCIL. I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE AS WELL. IT'S BEEN A GOOD FIRST COUPLE OF MONTHS AND I'M SIMILAR TO JAMILA REALLY ENJOYING CONNECTING WITH A NEW COMMUNITY AND TALKING WITH FOLKS ABOUT THE GREAT PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE THAT THE CITY HAS TO OFFER. SO HAPPY TO BE HERE AND IT'S NICE TO MEET ALL OF YOU FACE >> TO FACE ONCE NICE TO MEET YOU AS WELL AND HOPE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGY AND SPANISH CONNECTED CONNECTION TO SUSTAINABILITY AT SOME POINT. AND SO YEAH, IT'S BEEN IT'S BEEN AN INTERESTING ROAD. I'M SURE IT'S FULL OF INDECISION. WELCOME ABOARD. THANK YOU. NOW WE'RE SWITCHING OVER TO OUR ENGINEERING DIVISION IN TO INTRODUCE DAVIS PETERSON. HE'S A NEW CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN WITH US. DAVIS GREW UP IN PRYOR LAKE WHICH I KNOW THE MAYOR AND MYSELF ARE KIND OF FOND OF. HE JUST GRADUATED FROM MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY IN MANKATO WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HE JUST PASSED HIS I.T. TEST, WHICH IS AN ENGINEERING TRAINING. IT'S A KIND OF A WICKED LONG, LONG KIND OF TECHNICAL TEST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU PAID ATTENTION DURING SCHOOL AND HE DID. HE PASSED THAT. SO HE'S WELL ON TO HIS WAY OF BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER IN HIS FREE TIME. HE LIKES TO PLAY BEACH VOLLEYBALL WITH HIS FRIENDS AND TO BE OUTDOORS. YEAH. AS CARL SAID, I PASSED BY IT SO I'M LOOKING TO KIND OF CONTINUE MY YEARS AND EXPERIENCE HERE AND THEN WITH THAT AS WELL LIKE I INTERNED HERE THIS LAST SUMMER AND I WAS JUST VERY IMPRESSED WITH LIKE OUR ENGINEERING DIVISION AND SO I KIND OF JUST I ENJOYED IT AND I AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY AND I GOT THE POSITION I'M HAPPY TO BE WORKING HERE RIGHT NOW. WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD. DAVIS AND I'M HAPPY TO HEAR AN INTERNSHIP LED TO A POSITION THAT'S I LOVE TO HEAR THAT AND I LOVE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN. SO WELCOME ABOARD. GLAD TO HAVE YOU. OUR LAST TWO EMPLOYEES, OUR NEW LAB ANALYSTS AT OUR WATER TREATMENT PLANT, THEY'RE BOTH NAMED ELIZABETH. BUT SO WE THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT OF A PROBLEM BUT I'M HAPPY TO SAY THEY BOTH DON'T GO BY ELIZABETH. SO FIRST IS LISA LISA GOODMAN, A LAB ANALYST SHE COMES TO US WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN AGRICULTURE AND CHEMISTRY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN RIVER FALLS. SHE HAS 14 YEARS OF LAB ANALYST EXPERIENCE AND SHE HAS WORKED AT THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS WITH TWIN CITIES WATER CLINIC. SO A VERY SIMILAR KIND OF WORK TO WHAT WE DO WITH OUR WATER PLANT, SHE IS A LONG TIME RESIDENT OF BLOOMINGTON AND IN HER FREE TIME SHE ENJOYS FLY FISHING, GARDENING AND CAMPING. OKAY, THANKS FOR HAVING ME. YEAH, AS HE SAID, I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF BLOOMINGTON I THINK 32 YEARS AND I'VE RAISED THREE DAUGHTERS. THEY'RE ALL IN THEIR TWENTIES NOW SO IT'S REALLY IT'S KIND OF FUN. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERING IN THE CITY AND I'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE SO IT'S VERY SATISFYING TO SERVE THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AS AN EMPLOYEE AND IT'S FUN TO WORK IN THE WATER LAB AND WHEN WE GET PUSH LAKE BEACH SAMPLES AND I REMEMBER SITTING THERE WITH MY KIDS FOR MANY HOURS AND I KNOW WHERE ALL THESE WATER SAMPLES ARE COMING FROM. SO THANKS FOR HAVING ME. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TONIGHT. LISA, THANKS FOR WELCOME ABOARD. THANK YOU. SO OUR FINAL EMPLOYEE FOR THIS EVENING IS LIBBY STAHL. LIBBY, AS I NOTED IS A LAB ANALYST. SHE COMES WITH US WITH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MICROBIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY AND AN DEGREE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY. SHE'S MORE HAS MORE THAN TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THIS FIELD INCLUDING WASTEWATER TREATMENT FOR THE CITY OF WHITEWATER IN WISCONSIN AND DOING MICROBIOLOGY BIOLOGY WORK FOR SUMMIT BREWING COMPANY IN SAINT PAUL. SO IN HER FREE TIME SHE ENJOYS TRAVELING AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES. LIBBY >> I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR THE WELCOME. IT'S NICE TO HERE. IT'S I THINK A NEAT WAY TO CONNECT TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND INTRODUCE EMPLOYEES. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. >> ABSOLUTELY. WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. AND I WILL POINT OUT THE BREWERY MENTIONED GOT THE BIGGEST REACTION FROM THE COUNCIL AT IT'S GOOD BEER. WELCOME ABOARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CARL. SO WELCOME ALL TO YOU TO ALL OF OUR NEW EMPLOYEES. WELCOME ABOARD. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AROUND CITY HALL AND OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. SO I'M VERY WELL VERY WELL DONE AND GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD. THANK YOU MUCH. NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA ITEM 2.4 AND THIS IS A PRESENTATION FROM OUR FRIENDS AT THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES. LUKE FISHER AND CRAIG JOHNSON. LUKE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. CRAIG IS ON THE ADR TEAM. GOOD FRIENDS OF BLOOMINGTON, GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE. ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE. YOU'LL NOTICE WE DID PUT ONE PRESENTATION BETWEEN YOU AND THE KIDS BECAUSE IT'S YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO SHARE THE STAGE WITH KIDS OR ANIMALS. RIGHT. AND SO YEAH NO WE APPRECIATE THAT. SO AS I WAS WAITING TO COME UP, MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, I WAS JUST HOPING TO HAVE THE BRAVERY OF THOSE STUDENTS TO COME AND GIVE A PRESENTATION IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE THAN IS HOME FOR YOU. THEY WERE AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP AND WHAT A NEAT PARTNERSHIP THAT YOU HAVE WITH BLOOMINGTON AND IZUMI. THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD BE REALLY PROUD OF AND PROBABLY MERITS OF AN AWARD AT SOME POINT IN TIME, RIGHT FOR THAT CONNECTION. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO TONIGHT. WE'RE HERE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME RECOGNITION THAT YOU EARNED FROM THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES AT OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE THIS YEAR. BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE RECOGNITION SPECIFICALLY THOUGH, I ALWAYS THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT HELPFUL TO REMIND YOU AND THE PUBLIC WHO WE ARE BECAUSE I THINK THAT CONTEXT MATTERS. I THINK THAT CONTEXT MATTERS A LOT BECAUSE WE'RE HERE TO RECOGNIZE YOU AS A LEADER AMONG YOUR PEER COMMUNITIES. SO AS AN ASSOCIATION THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES REPRESENTS 855 OR 838 OF THE STATE'S 855 CITIES. CAN YOU GUESS OUR LARGEST MEMBER? THIS IS THE INTERACTIVE PART. HERE WE GO. MINNEAPOLIS, THANK YOU FOR ORDERING 25,000 PEOPLE. OUR SMALLEST MEMBER IS THE CITY OF BARRIE. DOES ANYBODY WANT TO GUESS BARRY'S POPULATION EIGHT. OKAY WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE FLYING FAST LIKE THIS. THEY'VE GOT 19 PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN BARRIE AND AS AN ASSOCIATION WE'VE GOT TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO EVERYONE FROM MINNEAPOLIS TO BLOOMINGTON TO BARRIE AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN. AS AN ASSOCIATION WE GET TO HAVE A LOT OF INTERACTION WITH OUR MEMBERS. WE HAVE A RESEARCH HOTLINE IF PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO, IF WE'VE GOT PEOPLE LIKE CRAIG THAT ADVOCATE ON YOUR BEHALF AT THE CAPITOL. WE DO TRAINING AND CONFERENCES AND YOU ALL ARE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THAT YOU KNOW THAT WELL AND WE PROVIDE INSURANCE FOR OUR MEMBERS SO WE GET TO SEE THE BEST OF THE BEST ALL THE TIME. AND TODAY WE'RE HERE TO RECOGNIZE YOU AS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE BEST. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS ABOUT MY JOB IN THE WORK THAT I GET TO DO AT THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES IS PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING IT RIGHT. SO ON BEHALF OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ALL OF OUR MEMBERS, WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU FOR EARNING THIS RECOGNITION AND CRAIG IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU DID. YEAH. AND ARE WE WATCHING A VIDEO ON THIS TODAY TOO OR IF. WHY DON'T WE DO THAT BEFORE WE MENTION THE AWARD SO YOU CAN SEE THE PRESENTATION THAT ALL OF THE CITY MEMBERS AT THE LEAGUE'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE WERE ABLE TO WATCH WHEN THEY LOUDLY CHEERED FOR THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON FOR THE WORK YOU'VE BEEN DOING. SO AS SOON AS WE HAVE THAT READY TO GO. BLOOMINGTON IS THE FOURTH LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. WE'RE THE THIRD LARGEST CITY HERE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA. WE'RE ABOUT 90,000 PEOPLE AND OUR POPULATION HAS BEEN STEADY OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS OR SO. BUT IN THOSE YEARS WE'VE ALSO REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE AND THE NEED TO EXPAND OUR SUSTAINABILITY WORK THAT WE DO HERE IN THE CITY. A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WE'VE HAD A PROGRAM FOR A LONG TIME CALLED CURBSIDE PICKUP WHICH HAPPENED EVERY YEAR AND FOLKS COULD PUT THEIR BULKY ITEMS OUT ON THE CURB AND BE COLLECTED. WE REALIZED THAT IT WAS CREATING TOO MUCH WASTE THAT WAS JUST GOING DIRECTLY INTO THE LANDFILLS. THIS NEW PROGRAM PROVIDES SEVERAL DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS TO MANAGE BULKY ITEMS. WHAT THOSE ELEMENTS ENTAIL INCLUDE A MONTHLY PICKUP OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO HAVE CERTAIN REUSABLE AND RECYCLABLE BULKY ITEMS PICKED UP ONCE A MONTH. >> THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT PICKING UP LITTER AND RECYCLING MORE AND PUTTING THINGS IN THE RIGHT BIN. THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT ABOUT OUR PLANET AND WE'RE WORKING HARD ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT GOALS TO TRY TO ACHIEVE THINGS THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS THAT COME BEHIND US WILL HAVE A PLANET TO LIVE IN. ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES IS CLIMATE CHANGE AND SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE'RE APPROACHING THAT THROUGH TRANSPORTATION, THROUGH LOOKING AT HOUSING AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACROSS THE BOARD. BUT SOLID WASTE IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE EFFORT AS WELL BECAUSE WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS A VERY STRONG LINK BETWEEN OUR GARBAGE AND GREENHOUSE GASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE. THE >> CITY HAS A GOAL OF RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING UP TO 75% OF OUR WASTE BY 2030 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE OF MINNESOTA'S GOALS. WE KNOW THAT IN 2020 ALONE OUR PROGRAM GENERATED OVER 1500 TONS OF WASTE SENT TO THE LANDFILL DURING CURBSIDE CLEANUP. SO ONE OF OUR MAIN GOALS IN THIS PROGRAM IS TO REDUCE THAT NUMBER. WE HAD THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS OF BLOOMINGTON THAT TOOK PART IN ONLINE SURVEYS THAT TOOK PART IN ONLINE COMMENT PERIODS THAT ATTENDED PUBLIC EVENTS AND REALLY EXPRESSED THEIR OPINION. AND WE LISTENED. WE ACTUALLY MADE A NUMBER OF CHANGES OUR INITIAL PROPOSAL AS A RESULT OF THAT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND THAT'S WHAT CREATED THE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE TODAY. ONE OF THE TOOLS WE WERE ABLE TO UTILIZE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WAS CALLED LET'S TALK BLOOMINGTON AND THIS IS AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE THAT ALLOWS THE CITY TO NOT ONLY SHARE A LOT OF INFORMATION WITH RESIDENTS ABOUT UPCOMING PROJECTS BUT ALSO GET FEEDBACK IN A LOT OF CREATIVE WAYS. I THINK WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE POINT WHERE SUSTAINABILITY BECOMES A DIFFERENTI MATTER AND A DECIDING FACTOR FOR FOLKS WHEN THEY DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO MOVE INTO A COMMUNITY MUCH LIKE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, MUCH LIKE THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, THE NUMBER OF PARKS. I THINK THEY LOOK AT A CITY'S COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AND SUSTAINABILITY IN GENERAL. I THINK THAT REALLY PLAYS A PART AND REALLY PLAYS A ROLE IN THEIR FINAL DECISION. SO >> MR. MAYOR, >> MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WE ARE HERE TODAY TO CONGRATULATE THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ON EARNING THE SUSTAINABLE CITIES AWARD FOR 2023 FROM THE LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES ESPECIALLY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART AS THE PERSON WHO REPRESENTS CITIES ENERGY ENVIRONMENT AND LAND USE ISSUES. I GET TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH YOUR PUBLIC WORKS AND SOLID WASTE FOLKS AND IT'S A VERY DESERVING AWARD FOR YOUR BULK ITEMS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WHICH IS TAKING THE AMOUNT OF WASTE YOU HEARD IN THAT VIDEO AND REMOVING A LOT OF IT AND INSTEAD OF IT NOW GOING TO A LANDFILL THOSE LARGE BULK ITEMS ARE BEING BROUGHT TO A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN HAVE THEIR RECYCLABLE CONTENT REMOVED INSTEAD OF JUST THROWN INTO A LANDFILL. SO CONGRATULATIONS. THAT'S THE AWARD THAT YOU RECEIVED FROM THE LEAGUE AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. AND I NEED EXPLAIN ONE THING THAT AWARD IS TIED TO THE GREEN STEPS CITIES PROGRAM THAT YOU SAW REFERENCED SEVERAL TIMES IN THAT VIDEO. PRIOR TO THIS YEAR BLOOMINGTON HAD EARNED UP THROUGH STEP THREE AND THIS YEAR YOU WERE AWARDED BY THE GREEN STEPS CITIES PROGRAM WITH STEPS FOUR AND FIVE. AND SO LAURA, IF YOU COULD COME UP LAURA HORNER IS THE PERSON WE HAVE WORKED WITH ON THIS AND I GET THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH HER THROUGH A NUMBER OF TRADE ASSOCIATIONS ON SOLID WASTE POLICY. SO LAURA HERE I WILL HAND BACK TO YOU YOUR AWARD FOR STEPS FOUR AND FIVE AND YOUR BLOCKS THAT YOU CAN ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION OF WOOD ITEMS THAT REPRESENT GREEN STEP CITIES. THEY KEEP IT SIMPLE. IT'S WOOD. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CITY, TO THE LEADERS WHO HAVE MADE THAT POSSIBLE AND TO THE STAFF THAT DO THE WORK. LAURA, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? I THINK JUST ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE LEAGUE FOR THE RECOGNITION IT'S BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO KIND OF SHOWCASE SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING HERE. OUR CURBSIDE CLEAN UP, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, IS A VERY POPULAR PROGRAM HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. BUT WE KNOW ALSO THAT IT DID CREATE QUITE A LOT OF WASTE SO IT TOOK A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH RESIDENTS TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES. BUT WE'RE HAPPY WITH THE WAY THAT IT'S GONE SO FAR. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION >> AND THANK YOU LAUREN AND THANK YOU. THANKS TO TO MY THANKS TO YOUR GROWING SUSTAINABILITY TEAM FOR THE OUTSTANDING WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING AND ARE TAKING THIS ON ONE BIT TO THE TIME ONE STEP AT A TIME BECAUSE IT ALL DOES ADD UP. LITTLE BY LITTLE IT ADDS UP AND I THINK WE'RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. CRAIG AND LUKE, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE TRIP OUT HERE TO BLOOMINGTON AND SPENDING A BIT OF TIME WITH US. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME. ALWAYS WELCOME TO COME BACK AND SAY HELLO AND SAY HELLO TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AT THE LEGACY CITIES AS YOU GET BACK TO SAINT PAUL. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. THANK YOU. HAPPY TO DO. NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA IS ADAM 2.5 AND WOULD IT CONTINUE IN THIS LIST OF VERY INTERESTING THINGS THAT WE'VE GOT TO DISCUSS THIS EVENING? THIS IS A PROJECT DONE BY THE FOLKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DOING A STUDY OF THE RIPPLE EFFECT MAPPING OF THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM. AND I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO EMBARRASS MYSELF BUT I ALSO DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY ANY TEASERS HERE. BUT DIANE KIRBY IS GOING TO INTRODUCE THIS AND KICK THIS OFF AND I'M VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING THIS PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. EARLIER THIS SUMMER YOU HEARD FROM TWO OF THE THREE TEAMS WHO COMPLETED RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROJECTS FOR THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. THIS PROGRAM MATCHES FACULTY AND STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO WORK ON PROJECTS THAT ADVANCE COMMUNITY RESILIENCY, EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY. THE PROJECT YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT TONIGHT EVALUATED THE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IN ORDER TO MEASURE ITS EFFECTIVENESS AT STRENGTHENING CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND ACHIEVING THE MISSION AND OBJECTIVES OF THE BLOOMINGTON TOMORROW TOGETHER STRATEGIC PLAN. 90 RESIDENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2017, INCLUDING ONE OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS BY THE WAY APPLICATIONS AND I WANT TO PLUG THIS APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING SEPTEMBER ONE. FOR THE NEXT BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN FEBRUARY MARCH 2024. TONIGHT OUR STUDENT TEAM FROM THE HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS WILL PRESENT A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE FINAL REPORT ON THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM. PLEASE WELCOME TO THE PODIUM ANNIKA JOHNSON AND RACHEL BENSON AND ALSO TWO OTHER TEAM MEMBERS WERE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT JASON PASCAL, ANDREW DIBELLA. BOTH OF THEM COULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT AND I JUST WANT TO ADD THIS TEAM WAS OUTSTANDING TO WORK WITH AND I THINK YOU'LL BE IMPRESSED WITH THEIR REPORT. SO WELCOME. JONATHAN RACHEL GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TONIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. LET'S GET THIS. WE DO HAVE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THE THE COMPUTERS THAT DIRECTION. OKAY, SCREEN POINT THAT DIRECTION. OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. ALL RIGHT. SO THANK YOU, MAYOR BUSSEY AND COUNCIL FOR HAVING US TONIGHT. WE ARE PRESENTING FROM RIPPLES TO WAVES EXPLORING RIPPLE EFFECTS OF THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM. I'M RACHEL BENSON. THIS IS ANNIKA JOHNSON, THE TWO OF US AS WELL AS OUR TWO TEAM MEMBERS WORKED ON A CAPSTONE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'S HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS THIS PAST SPRING WE WORKED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROJECT AND THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. OUR TASK WAS TO EVALUATE THE CITY'S FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN CALLED BLOOMINGTON TOMORROW TOGETHER THE THREE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THE PLAN ARE TO CREATE A MORE WELCOMING COMMUNITY, A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY AND A MORE ECONOMICALLY EQUITABLE COMMUNITY. SO WE WANTED TO KNOW OUR CITY PROGRAMS MEETING THE GOALS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND FURTHERMORE WE WANTED TO FIND A ONE SIZE FITS ALL KIND OF METHOD TO EVALUATE THE IMPACTS OF CITY PROGRAMING IN GENERAL. SO TO DO THIS WE DECIDED TO NARROW OUR SCOPE EVEN FURTHER AND FOCUS ON THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AS A CASE STUDY THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AS DIANE EXPLAINED, IS A PARTICIPATORY BASED PROGRAM THAT MEETS ANNUALLY. THERE'S AN ANNUAL COHORT THAT BLOOMINGTON RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO AND THEY MEET FOR WEEKLY SESSIONS WHERE THEY ENGAGE IN LEADERSHIP BUILDING SKILLS, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SKILLS AND ULTIMATELY LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LOCAL FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT. SO WE HAD A PROGRAM TO EVALUATE AND NOW WE NEEDED TO FIND AN EVALUATION TOOL. THE TOOL THAT WE LANDED ON IS CALLED RIPPLE EFFECTS MAPPING ALSO KNOWN AS REM. IT'S A COLLABORATIVE QUALITATIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION >> METHOD THAT BRINGS TOGETHER PARTICIPANTS AND STAKEHOLDERS TO VISUALLY MAP ALL OF THE IMPACTS OF A PROGRAM INCLUDING INTENDED AND UNINTENDED IMPACTS OF THAT PROGRAM. SO THIS IS THE TOOL THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT. WE THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT TOOL TO EVALUATE CITY PROGRAMS IN GENERAL, ESPECIALLY PARTICIPATORY BASED PROGRAMS. AND THE BEAUTIFUL ABOUT THIS TOOL IS THAT YOU ONLY NEED ONE, 2 TO 2 AND A HALF HOUR LONG EVENT TO REALLY GET THIS EVALUATION. AND YOU ALSO NEED A MAXIMUM OF 15 PARTICIPANTS. ANY MORE THAN THAT AND THE DISCUSSION MIGHT NOT GET AS DEEP AS NECESSARY. SO WE HAD AN EVENT IN MID-MARCH FOR BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ALUMNI. THE EVENT STARTED WITH 1 TO 1 INTERVIEWS WHERE WE PUT PARTICIPANTS IN PAIRS SO THEY COULD INTERVIEW EACH OTHER ABOUT ANY HIGHLIGHTS THEY GOT FROM THE PROGRAM, ANY SUCCESSES THEY HAD, ANY NEW OR DEEPENED CONNECTIONS THAT THEY MADE DUE TO THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. AFTER THAT FIRST 15 MINUTES WE THEN WENT INTO GROUP SHARE OUT AN IMPACT MAPPING SO WE ALLOWED EVERYONE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DISCUSSED IN THEIR PEER INTERVIEWS AS WELL AS JUST COME UP WITH ANY SORT OF IMPACTS THEY MADE AS A RESULT OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. WE DOCUMENTED ALL THOSE IMPACTS IN REAL TIME USING SOMETHING CALLED X MAPPING AND SO THIS ACTIVITY IS CALLED MIND MAPPING. ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE EVENT WE THEN GAVE PARTICIPANTS A CHANCE TO HAVE A BREAK AND THE FOUR OF US AS FACILITATORS PUT ALL OF THOSE IMPACTS INTO DIFFERENT THEMES AND WE BROUGHT THOSE THEMES BACK TO THE GROUP FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE EVENT AND GOT FEEDBACK ON WHETHER THEY WANTED TO ADJUST THOSE THEMES OR IF THEY HAD ANY OTHER IMPACTS THEY WANTED TO BRING IN THAT WERE RELEVANT TO THOSE THEMES. WE ALSO HAD A GEOGRAPHIC IMPACT MAP ACTIVITY SO WE HAD A PHYSICAL MAP ON THE WALL WHERE PARTICIPANTS PLACED STICKERS TO SHOW WHERE ANY PHYSICAL IMPACTS THEY MIGHT HAVE MADE AS A RESULT OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. AND WE FOLLOWED UP WITH AN ALUMNI SURVEY AFTERWARDS IN CASE THEY THOUGHT OF SOMETHING THAT THEY DIDN'T BRING UP AT THE EVENT AFTER THAT AFTER THE EVENT WAS OVER, THE FOUR OF US GOT TOGETHER AND WE CODED ALL OF THIS QUALITATIVE DATA AGAINST TWO DIFFERENT FRAMEWORKS. ONE IS THE SEVEN COMMUNITY CAPITALS FRAMEWORK WHICH WE WILL NOT BE DISCUSSING TODAY BUT I WILL MAKE A NOTE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A ONE HOUR LONG PRESENTATION ON YOUR CITY'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL SO IF YOU ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN USING THIS TOOL IN THE FUTURE YOU CAN DEFINITELY FIND THAT. BUT ANOTHER FRAMEWORK WE USE IS THE BEAT HEAT STRATEGIC GOALS SO WE WERE ABLE TO CODE ALL OF THIS DATA AGAINST THOSE THREE GOALS IN THE BETA TO SEE HOW WELL THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS DOING IN MEETING THE PROGRESS OF THOSE GOALS. WE ALSO DID A SMALLER ANALYSIS USING THE MAPS AND ONTO OUR RESULTS. FIRST WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE MAP AND THEN I'LL HAND IT OVER TO MONACO, TALK ABOUT THE MIND MAPPING. SO WE HAD A LOT OF IMPACTS FROM THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AND SOME OF THOSE IMPACTS ARE NOT ACTUALLY PHYSICAL AND DON'T SHOW ON THIS MAP BUT OF THE PHYSICAL IMPACTS WE SAW A LOT OF THEM AT SCHOOLS, AT PARKS. ALL OF THOSE POINTS YOU SEE ON THE MAP ARE WHERE PARTICIPANTS PLACE A STICKER AND THEN I ALSO OVERLAID A HEAT MAP OVER THAT SO THAT WE COULD SEE HOTSPOTS WHERE A LOT OF IMPACTS WERE HAPPENING. SO OF COURSE THERE WAS A BIG HOTSPOT OVER CITY HALL AND THERE'S ALSO QUITE A LOT OF HOTSPOTS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE CITY AND WE WERE VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT BECAUSE WE HAD LOOKED AT QUALITY OF LIFE DATA AND NATIONAL COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA AND WE KNEW THAT WARD FOUR NEEDED THE MOST ATTENTION TO EQUITABLY MEET THE BEAT. AND SO WE WERE REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THAT ACTUALLY THE MOST IMPACTS HAPPENING BY THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WERE IN WARD FOUR. THANK YOU. SO LET'S GET INTO RESULTS. THIS IS THE EXCITING PART. WHEN WE CODED EVERYTHING, WE CODED THINGS INTO FOUR DIFFERENT THEMES. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE AS WELL AS PICTURES OF THE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS. THE FIRST ONE I'LL TALK ABOUT IS DEEPENING ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT. OKAY SO THIS IS IN POINT SIX FONT BECAUSE THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS HAD SO MANY IMPACTS. AND WHAT'S GREAT IS THAT ON THIS SLIDE IT'S NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM. SO FOR DEEPENING ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SOME OF THE STANDOUT PARTS WERE STARTING INVOLVEMENT IN CHARTER COMMISSIONS APPOINT INTER TO BLOOMINGTON'S SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONS AND APPOINTED TO A COUNCIL SEAT AS WE HAVE A MEMBER HERE. SO ON TO STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. SOME OF THE NOTABLE POINTS ARE DEEP IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH NEIGHBORS HOSTING A FORUM ON MISINFORMATION AND ABLE TO SPOT MISINFORMATION WITH A MORE INFORMED LENS. ENERGIZING NEW LEADERS. THERE WAS ONE PERSON ONE PARTICIPANT THAT TURNED A VOLUNTEER INITIATIVE INTO A NONPROFIT AND ANOTHER ONE THAT CO-FOUNDED A NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY GROUP. AND THEN ON TO GAINING KNOWLEDGE. MY FAVORITE HERE IS HAVING LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZE A RACIAL PROFILING AND IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING WHICH IS SUPER IMPORTANT GOING ON TO THE BEAT STRATEGIC GOALS. WE SAW THAT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ACTUALLY HIT THE MOST IN WELCOMING COMMUNITY. THIS IS EXPECTED FOR ONE OF THESE PARTICIPATORY PROGRAMS. TYPICALLY YOU DON'T SEE IMPACTS IN EVERY SINGLE STRATEGIC GOAL. WE DID SEE A LOT THOUGH. AND OF THE 143 REPORTED EFFECTS WE SAW 68% OF THOSE EFFECTS HIT THAT WELCOMING COMMUNITY GOAL. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS. WE WANT YOU TO UTILIZE FUTURE CAPSTONE GROUPS. THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE MASTER'S STUDENTS THAT ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE HUMPHREY THAT ARE EXCITED ABOUT ENGAGEMENT. AND THEN ALSO REALLY PUT IN BUDGET FOR FUTURE EVALUATION EFFORTS. THAT'S HOW PEOPLE YOUR CITIZENS KNOW THAT YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR CITY. OUR BLOOMINGTON PARTNERS ALSO SCOPED OUT SOME DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT THEY COULD USE REM. RIPPLE EFFECTS MAPPING IN ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. SO THE BLOOMINGTON POLICE, THE HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, THE FIRE STATION AT THE CITY AT WHOLE FOR ADVISORY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. PARKS AND AS WELL AS COMMUNITY OUTREACH. SO THE BIG THING THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE. THERE IS AN EFFECT CALLED THE SPIRALING UP EFFECT WHICH BASICALLY MEANS THAT ONCE YOU START ACCUMULATING IMPACTS IT STARTS GROWING MORE IMPACTS. SO THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS STARTING A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPACTS AND AS YOU CONTINUE TO RUN THIS PROGRAM, THAT BRANCH OF ALL OF THE DIFFERENT MAPPING IS ONLY GOING TO GET MORE DENSE AND BIGGER AND YOU'LL NEED A LOT SMALLER THAN SIX POINT FONT TO DO IT ON A PRESENTATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'RE SO EXCITED TO DO THIS PROJECT AND BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS REALLY IT'S REALLY AWESOME. WELL THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION AND THE PRESENTATION. I'M SURE THE COUNCIL HAS GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I GUESS I DO AND I'M REMEMBERING BACK TO THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS DID YOU COME FORWARD AND CHOOSE THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OR WAS IT A SIGN TO YOU? HOW DID YOU CONNECT DIRECTLY WITH BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM? ORIGINALLY >> WE WERE GOING TO WORK THE STRATEGIC GOALS AT LARGE. HOWEVER DIANE SUGGESTED THAT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT SMALLER PORTION OF THE STRATEGIC GOAL TO KIND OF FOCUS ON. WE KNEW THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF IMPACTS AND WE KNEW THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF RESULTS TO MAP WHICH IS A GREAT FIRST STEP FOR USING THIS METHOD AND EVEN YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF IN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE BEATY PROCESS ARE YOU BLOOMINGTON NATIVES OR HAD YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT IT OR RUBY? ONE OF OUR OTHER GROUP MEMBERS IS ACTUALLY A NATIVE OF BLOOMINGTON. HOWEVER I GREW UP IN SAINT LOUIS PARK IN MINNEAPOLIS SO I'M VERY I GREW UP IN EDEN PRAIRIE SO IT'S CLOSE. WE'RE FAMILIAR. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THIS, COUNCILOR. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. THANKS >> FOR THE PRESENTATION. APPRECIATE IT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN ANSWER THIS AND SO I APOLOGIZE IF THIS IS MORE OF A QUESTION FOR DIANE OR THE CITY MANAGER. BUT THE RIPPLE EFFECT PROCESS TENDS TO LOOK AT WHAT I WOULD DESCRIBE AS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MEANING IT NOT THAT THEY'RE BAD OR ANYTHING BUT THAT THEY WEREN'T NECESSARILY DEFINED AHEAD OF TIME AS THESE ARE THE OUTCOMES WE'RE LOOKING FOR. HOW DO THEY COMPARE TO THE OUTCOMES THAT YOU KNEW WE WERE LOOKING FOR IN THAT PROGRAM? DID YOU DO ANY COMPARISON THERE WERE THERE WERE THERE THINGS WE THOUGHT WERE GOING TO HAPPEN THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN VERSUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED THAT WE WERE LIKE AHA! NOW WE HAVE VALIDATION FROM THAT RIPPLE EFFECT STUDY THAT WE GOT WHAT WE WANTED OUT OF IT. CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT HOW THOSE THINGS WORK TOGETHER? SO WE ACTUALLY >> WENT IN WITH LITTLE INFORMATION WHICH I THINK IS KIND OF NICE ESPECIALLY AS PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM THE OUTSIDE. WE HAD NO INFORMATION OF WHAT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WAS ABOUT. WE CAME IN, WE WENT TO AN ALUMNI CELEBRATION AND IT WAS SUPER FUN BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PREVIOUS DATA TO KIND OF IMPACT HOW WE CODED THINGS. AND SO IT'S ALL FRESH. HOWEVER, AS FUTURE CAPSTONE GROUPS COME IN, I'M SURE THAT YOU COULD USE THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE IT'S I'M BIASED TO VALIDATE WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. WE WE ALSO DIDN'T HAVE A COMPARISON INTENDED IMPACTS AND UNINTENDED BUT I THINK WE STARTED TO NOTICE THAT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY LABEL WITH A DIFFERENT SORT OF EVALUATION METHOD. SO WE HEARD A LOT OF I RECONNECTED WITH NEIGHBORS OR I GOT THE CONFIDENCE TO TESTIFY IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL. SO SOME OF THOSE THINGS WEREN'T NECESSARILY SOMETHING YOU KNOW, THAT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM MIGHT SAY YOU WILL RECONNECT WITH OLD FRIENDS BUT THEY WERE STILL SOMETHING THAT DEEPLY IMPACTED PARTICIPANTS AND WE STILL DOCUMENTED ALL OF THAT BIG AND SMALL IMPACTS. COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN THANK YOU, MAYOR. I LOVE TO HEAR YOUR TITLE KIND OF THE RIPPLE LEADING INTO THE WAVE AND OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE A RIPPLE AND YOU ADD A LITTLE MORE ENERGY AND A LITTLE MORE ENERGY AND IT GROWS AND GROWS I GUESS. WHAT KIND OF FEEDBACK DID YOU GET FROM THE GROUP ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT IT HAD ALUMNI IN IT FOR ONGOING SUPPORT TO SAY THE ALUMNI GROUP? HOW MANY MORE TOUCHES DOES THAT TAKE AFTER SOMEBODY EXITS THE PROGRAM TO KEEP THAT MOMENTUM, THAT WAVE BUILDING AND BUILDING? DID DID WE GET ANY ANY KIND OF FEEDBACK ON THAT OR WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AFTER SOMEBODY IS OFFICIALLY OUT OF THE CORPS? SO THAT ISN'T REALLY OUR AREA. HOWEVER, WE DO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT. I KNOW THAT THEY'RE STARTING UP ALUMNI EVENTS NOW. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS REQUESTED BY A LOT OF PARTICIPANTS BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO RECONNECT WITH THE COHORT ESPECIALLY AS WE WENT THROUGH COVID AND THINGS WENT A LITTLE BIT MORE DIGITAL. PEOPLE WANTED MORE EVENTS AND THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING BECAUSE PEOPLE REQUESTED IT. COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN, THANK YOU. I'M JUST SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. I WAS ON THE COUNCIL WHEN WE GOT THIS THING STARTED AND I REMEMBER I WAS DOWN IN ROCHESTER AND I SAID HEY, THEY'RE DOING THIS SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND THEY LOVE TO SEE US DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TOO. IT'D BE GREAT, YOU KNOW? SO IT'S GREAT TO SEE THIS THING WELL. BUT REALLY WHAT MY QUESTION IS IS SINCE WE'VE GOT SOMEBODY ON COUNCIL I'M REALLY CURIOUS YOU KNOW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH IT MYSELF WHAT YOUR TAKE IS ON IT SINCE YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH IT YOU'VE SEEN THIS NOW IF YOU DON'T MIND I JUST WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. MEMBER MOON YOU'RE ON THE SPOT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN FOR THAT. I FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH AND THE REST OF YOUR GROUP FOR THIS WORK. I THINK IT REALLY VALIDATES WHAT THE ORIGINAL IDEA WAS IS TO CREATE A MORE CIVICALLY MINDED, MORE ENGAGED COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE WILL CARE FOR EACH OTHER, WANT TO DO THINGS THAT HELP SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE IT BETTER. AND THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT I GOT OUT OF IT. AND IT'S THE ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS TO CREATE CONNECTIONS THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE, TO LEARN ABOUT HOW YOUR CITY FUNCTIONS UNTIL YOU I TOOK THAT PROGRAM I HAD NO IDEA HOW MANY DEPARTMENTS THEY WERE HERE, HOW MANY PEOPLE WORKED HERE AND HOW DEDICATED OUR STAFF IS TO SERVING THE RESIDENTS OF BLOOMINGTON. AND SO THAT OPENED MY EYES TO EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN OUR CITY TO TRY TO KEEP IT FUNCTIONING SO THAT PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE IF THEY WORK HERE. WE HAVE JOBS FOR YOU HERE YOUR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HERE. THERE'S GOOD SCHOOLS, THERE'S GREAT PARKS. AND SO TO KEEP ALL THAT GOING REQUIRES A OF WORK, A LOT OF EFFORT AND IT REQUIRES PEOPLE TO STAY ENGAGED AND INVOLVED WITH OUR CITY. AND SO I THINK THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT I GOT OUT OF IT AND I SEE THE ALUMNI GROUP GETTING TOGETHER QUARTERLY RIGHT NOW TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER AND HELP INSPIRE EACH OTHER TO DO GREATER, BIGGER THINGS THAT MAKE BLOOMINGTON AN INCREDIBLE PLACE TO BE SO VERY HAPPY TO HAVE GONE TO THAT PROGRAM. INCREDIBLY PROUD OF WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT'S GOING TO COME WHEN THE FUTURE FROM THAT PROGRAM THANK YOU CAN'T REMEMBER. SO YOU MENTIONED HOUR LONG VIDEO ON OUR CITY'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND YES, TELL ME JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IF YOU COULD PLEASE SO WE CUT >> THIS PRESENTATION DOWN TO 10 MINUTES SO THERE IS AT LEAST I THINK IT'S LIKE 40 MINUTES TO AN HOUR. IT'S LIKE 55 MINUTES SO. ALL RIGHT. WELL, IT'S >> LONG SO THERE'S A LOT MORE IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ABOUT THE BACKGROUND KIND OF HOW IT ALL STARTED AS WELL AS A STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO KIND OF CONDUCT REM. WE ACTUALLY GOT THE CHANCE TO TALK TO SCOTT CHASTON WHO IS AN EXPERT IN RIPPLE EFFECTS MAPPING. WE HAVE STUFF ABOUT HIM IN THERE AND THERE'S JUST A WHOLE BUNCH OF DETAILS WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE IN CITY DEPARTMENTS WERE ABLE TO USE THIS ENGAGEMENT METHOD RIGHT OFF THE BAT JUST BY LOOKING AT MAYBE TWO OTHER GUIDES ON HOW TO DO IT. COOL COUNCIL ANYTHING ADDITIONAL. SO THIS CAPSTONE PROJECT SO YOU COMPLETED YOUR WORK AT THE THE HUMPHREY SCHOOL IS THAT CORRECT AND SO I HAVE GOOD SEMESTER BUT EVERYONE ELSE GRADUATE AND THE CAPSTONE THIS IS THIS TYPE OF MULTI MEDIUM MULTI-DISCIPLINARY KIND OF THING IT KIND OF REPLACES A PLAN B CORRECT. AM I CORRECT IN SAYING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO WRITE A PAPER, RIGHT? NO. WELL WE DID WRITE A PAPER THOUGH THE PAPER ABOUT THIS IT'S IT'S ABOUT A HUNDRED PAGES BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WRITE A THESIS. I FEEL VERY GOOD. WELL, GOOD FOR YOU. YES. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION AND THANKS FOR THE THE WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO IT AND YOUR INTEREST IN BLOOMINGTON AND THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDED. I THINK WE CAN FIND TO PUT THIS TO GOOD USE AND USE THIS TO TRACK THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AND USE IT AS A BENCHMARK SO YEARS FROM NOW WE CAN TAKE A LOOK BACK AND REEVALUATE ONE MORE TIME. SO APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. WELL DONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU, DIANE, FOR SHEPHERDING THEM THROUGH ALL OF THIS AND POINTING THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN THE MAKING IT CLOSER TO THE THE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AS OPPOSED TO THE BTD. WELL THEN ON THAT OUR FINAL ITEM UNDER OUR INTRODUCTORY ITEMS IS NUMBER 2.6 AND THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR EMPLOYEE RESEARCH RESOURCE GROUPS WHICH IS KIND OF A NEW THING HERE AT THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, THE EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS I SEE A NUMBER OF FOLKS COMING FORWARD AND RATHER THAN TRY AND INTRODUCE EVERYBODY AND LET YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELVES SO YOU CAN KICK IT OFF FOR US AND WE CAN GET THIS GOING. WELL, MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. I'M NANCY STEELE WITH HUMAN RESOURCES AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS BEFORE WE SHARE A COUPLE OF THEM THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO BLOOMINGTON IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS SO WITH THE ANALYST OF THE OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING THEY HAVE INTRODUCED EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS TO BLOOMINGTON WHICH IS A HUGE ASSET TO ANY ORGANIZATION THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME BUT WHAT THEY DO FOR AN ORGANIZATION IS CREATE YES I THINK THEY CREATE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORTED GROUP OF EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE SHARED COMMON CHARACTERISTICS. SO IT COULD BE A MILITARY GROUP, VETERANS GROUP, YOUNG PROFESSIONALS SEASONED PROFESSIONALS OR SPECIFIC TO GENDER, DISABILITY STATUS, RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION GENERATION. BUT THERE ARE OR ALLIES FOR THE GROUP SO IT'S NOT LIMITED TO NECESSARILY JUST IDENTIFYING WITH THAT GROUP BUT ALSO FOR ALLIES OF THAT GROUP BUT BLOOMINGTON HAS >> ADDED TO OUR ORGANIZATION AS A CHARTER TO CREATE MEMBERSHIPS FOR A SINGLE GROUP EACH A CHARTER COMES WITH AN EXECUTIVE SPONSOR AND THEN AT LEAST FOUR MEMBERS IN ORDER TO CREATE THE EMPLOYER RESOURCE GROUP THE GOALS AND ACTIVITIES MUST BE ALIGNED AROUND TALENT DEVELOPMENT. SO THAT INCLUDES RETENTION HIRING RECRUITMENT BUSINESS OPERATIONS WHICH INCLUDES THE PROCESSES, PRACTICES >> AND PROJECTS AND THEN ALSO ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WHICH COULD BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL COULD BE A CULTURAL EVENT OR ONGOING DEVELOPMENT. AND BLOOMINGTON HAS ADDED A FOUR EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS THUS FAR THE FIRST THREE JOINED IN FALL OF 2022 AND ONE HAS JOINED IN 2023. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MEMBERS FROM SOME OF THOSE EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS TODAY TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT THEY HAVE DONE. SO I WILL PASS THAT ON TO COLLEAGUES WITH THE WOMEN ENERGY OKAY. API YEAH I WILL PASS IT OVER TO API WHICH HAS JOINED US IN 2023. I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GO THERE AGAIN FOR OH THE OTHER ONE API IT'S COMING. OH YEAH HELLO I'M MARY LEE. I AM THE CHAIR OF THE ASIAN-AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP. SO WE SORRY ARE WE JUST THIS GROUP IS CREATED 2023 SO IN MAY WE GOT THE MAYOR PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING MAY AS THE AAPI HERITAGE MONTH AND THEN ALSO IN THAT SAME MONTH WE DID A TASTING EVENT WE BROUGHT IN TEAS FROM DIFFERENT ASIAN COUNTRIES AND WE ALSO BROUGHT IN TREATS JUST KIND OF SHARING WITH CITY STAFF THE DIFFERENT CULTURES IN ASIA. BUT I ALSO WANT TO SHARE OUR MISSION. THE MISSION IS TO PROMOTE AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL ASIAN IDENTIFY EMPLOYEES WHERE MEMBERS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHARE THEIR CULTURE HERITAGE, OFFER EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ADVOCATE FOR THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE. SO SO FAR THESE ARE THE TWO THAT EVENTS WE'VE HAD BUT COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER WE TALKING ABOUT HAVING A MOON FESTIVAL EVENT JUST KIND OF CELEBRATING THAT HOLIDAY AND THEN FORWARD I THINK WE HAVE SO MUCH LIKE EVENTS ARE LIKE IN OUR LIST BUT YOU KNOW THERE'S SO MUCH WE CAN ONLY DO BUT WE ARE PLANNING TO I KNOW AS I MENTIONED WE'LL HAVE AN ASIAN NIGHT MARKET BUT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ALSO HAVING LIKE REACHING OUT TO ASIAN YOUTH FOR A JOB FAIR AND JUST REACHING OUT TO DIFFERENT ASIAN OPERATIONS IN BLOOMINGTON AND KIND OF LEARNING THEIR HISTORY AND JUST RECOGNIZING THEM. SO THANK YOU AND THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING WORK OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER GROUP HAS PUT FORTH ALREADY AND THEY JUST STARTED THIS YEAR AND I ALSO THINK THEIR EXECUTIVE SPONSOR MIKE SABER FOR SUPPORTING THEM IN THEIR WORK AND I'LL PASS IT OVER TO WOMEN. GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MY NAME IS DENISE CHRISTIANSON AND I WORK IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THE WOMEN'S ERG KIND OF STARTED OUT OF JUST CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH A BUNCH OF OR A FEW COWORKERS NANCY STEELE, FAITH JACKSON AND I WERE JUST KIND OF CASUAL CASUALLY TALKING AFTER I CAME BACK FROM MATERNITY LEAVE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND JUST THE QUESTIONS OF LIKE WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN NICE OR WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON HAD WHICH KIND OF SPARKED MORE CONVERSATIONS WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE CREATION OF THE WOMEN'S ERG YOU WITH FOUNDERS MYSELF COLLEEN HERMAN FRANZEN, ELLEN BEALS, NANCY STEELE AND THEN OUR EXECUTIVE SPONSOR MELISSA MANDER RIGHT. AND WITH THE HELP OF FAITH JACKSON WE HAD THAT CREATED AND WE'VE BEEN ACTIVE SINCE OCTOBER 2022. THE PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE A SPACE FOR CONNECTION ADVOCACY AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY WOMEN ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M PARTICULARLY PROUD OF SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WOMEN'S IRG HAS BEEN THE CREATION OF THE PAID PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY WHICH COUNCIL ADOPTED EARLIER THIS YEAR. WE HAVE COMMITTED TO HOSTING SIX EVENTS A YEAR AND COLLEEN IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT WE'VE. THANKS, DENISE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS MY NAME IS COLLEEN HERMAN FRANZEN AND I'M A COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION AND I'M PROUD TO BE A CO-CHAIR WITH ALONG WITH NANCY OF THE WOMEN'S IRG I'M JUST GOING TO TOUCH ON A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PAST YEAR WE'VE BEEN PRETTY BUSY. WE WERE HERE IN MARCH FOR THE MAYORAL PROCLAMATION FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT BLOOMINGTON HAD DONE THAT. SO THAT WAS THAT WAS AWESOME TO START THAT TRADITION AND THEN IN MARCH WE HAD A CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND WE GOT THE INSPIRATION FOR THAT EVENT FROM THE BLOOMINGTON BLACK EMPLOYEE NETWORK, ANOTHER ERG. SO THAT'S JUST ONE WAY THAT THE ERGS ARE SUPPORTING EACH OTHER. WE HAD A GREAT EVENT. WE HAD ABOUT 70 EMPLOYEES AND YOU'LL SEE THE PICTURE UP TOP IS OF SOME OF THE ATTENDEES AT OUR SELFIE STATION WITH THEIR EQUITY STATEMENT CARDS. SO THAT WAS JUST AN AWESOME EVENT. AND THEN AT SAME EVENT EMPLOYEES WHO ATTENDED ALSO NOMINATED A FEMALE PROFESSIONALS FOR A PANEL EVENT AND IN JUNE WE HELD OUR FIRST WOMEN AND CAREERS PANEL RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM WE HAD 35 ATTENDEES AND WE RECORDED THE EVENT FOR STAFF WHO COULDN'T ATTEND SO THAT WAS JUST A WONDERFUL EVENT AND WENT SO WELL THAT WE'VE PLANNED A SECOND PANEL IN SEPTEMBER. SO YEAH I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING I'LL ADD IS I THINK THE CITY SHOULD BE REALLY PROUD OF THE ERG PROGRAM PERSONALLY IT'S BEEN A GREAT WAY TO CONNECT WITH EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE CITY ORGANIZATION AND AND IT'S JUST BEEN A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE SO I HOPE THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE SUPPORT. THANK YOU THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IN ADDITION WE HAVE TWO OTHER EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS ON THE BLOOMINGTON BLACK EMPLOYEE NETWORK OR BBEN THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO JOIN US TONIGHT. THEY WILL PRESENT LATER ON IN THE YEAR. BUT I WILL JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THEIR LEADERSHIP. THEIR EVENTS HAVE BEEN AMAZING AND CHIEF HODGES IS THEIR EXECUTIVE AND I WILL ALSO SAY THINGS TO BE EVENTS LEADERSHIP. THEY HAVE BROUGHT ALL OF THE ERGS TOGETHER IN PARTNERSHIP TO PUT ON EVENTS FOR EMPLOYEES AS WELL AND EDGE ETHNIC DIVERSE GROUP OF EMPLOYEES HAS PUT TOGETHER A HUGE EVENT WHERE THEY SUPPORTED VEAP AND BROUGHT TOGETHER OVER 631 PACKAGES HELPING 316 FAMILIES. THEY'RE ALSO KICKING OFF SOMETHING CALLED PASSPORTS TO THE WORLD WHERE THEY ARE PROVIDING A SPACE SO THAT EMPLOYEES CAN SHARE THEIR STORIES. THERE'S SO MUCH TO GAIN FROM STORYTELLING AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THOSE EVENTS COME DOWN AS WELL AND THE EXECUTIVE SPONSOR FOR EDGE IS DIANE KIRBY. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SPONSORSHIP AS WELL AND I EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS HAVE SUCH AN ASSET TO THE ORGANIZATION I THINK IT'S BEEN MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES BUT THE ABILITY FOR INCLUSION AND BELONGING AND REALLY A SENSE OF EXCITEMENT ARE BEING ABLE TO FIND PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN CONNECT WITH AND THAT YOU GREAT GAIN YOUR NETWORK. THERE'S MANY PEOPLE IN THE ORGANIZATION THAT WE MAY NOT OTHERWISE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH THAT REALLY ARE GIVEN THAT OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS. I AM BLESSED THAT THEY ARE PART OF BLOOMINGTON AND I APPRECIATE FAITH AND HER LEADERSHIP FOR BRINGING THEM TO BLOOMINGTON. ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS ? THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. FIRST OFF IT'S I CAN HONESTLY SAY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT A STRONG AND HEALTHY EMPLOYEE NETWORK WITHIN A LARGE ORGANIZATION LIKE THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IS THE FIRST THING THAT YOU THINK OF IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP THAT JUST DOESN'T POP INTO MIND IN MY MIND I THINK. BUT TO HEAR THE THE CONNECTIONS MADE, THE SUPPORT OFFERED AND NOT JUST THE INTERNAL BUT THE EXTERNAL ALSO TO TO DO PROJECT SAID TO TO TALK ABOUT CAREER POSSIBILITIES I THINK IS JUST A WONDERFUL WAY OF MAKING THOSE CONNECTIONS AS YOU SAID AND STRENGTHENING OUR EMPLOYEE BASE HERE. SO WELL DONE. I APPRECIATE THAT WE'VE GOT THIS HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IN AND THEY'RE VERY SUCCESSFUL AS WELL. COUNCILMEMBER LOGAN I DO HAVE THREE QUICK QUESTIONS. WE CALL THEM AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE. YOU'RE IN EMPLOYEE RESOURCE NETWORKS AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF A FEW OF THOSE THERE AND. AT FIRST I DIDN'T THINK I WANTED TO DO THAT AND I'M LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT? MAYBE I SHOULD DO THIS AND SO ONE QUESTION THAT I HAD OR I'VE GOT THREE REAL, REAL QUICK ONES. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE ADDITIONAL TRAININGS AND THEN THERE IS A SMALL BUDGET THAT EACH YEAR AND GETS TO UTILIZE AND THEN THERE ARE THERE'S A FOCUS AROUND A LOT OF COLLABORATION. I THOUGHT I SAW A LOT OF COLLABORATION THERE TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO GET ALL THE GROUPS TO KIND OF WORK TOGETHER. YEAH, THOSE THREE THINGS ARE ALL PART OF OUR ARE THE URGES. YES SO BUT PART OF OUR ERGS AS YOU NOTED ON THE BOARD THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARE REALLY THE OF THE CHARTER. SO THOSE ARE THE THREE MAIN PRIORITIES. THERE'S DEFINITELY BEEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION AMONG EACH OTHER AS WELL AS FOR OTHERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EOG EVENT REGARDING A BUDGET THERE HAS NOT BEEN A CLEARLY ESTABLISHED BUDGET JUST AS OF YET. WE WORKING ON IT AND >> I APOLOGIZE THAT I FEEL LIKE I HEAR IT ALL AS I TALKED ABOUT TRAINING A SMALL BUDGET AND AND ALSO COLLABORATION SO YOU KNOW THESE ARE EMPLOYEE LED GROUPS SO THEY DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM IN ORDER TO DETERMINE HOW THEY WANT TO PRIORITIZE THEIR TIME. I THINK MOSTLY WHAT WE'VE SEEN SO FAR IS THAT THERE'S SO MANY IDEAS AND SO MANY THINGS THEY LIKE TO SPEND THEIR TIME ON BUT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND CAPACITY A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME TO SPEND ON EACH. SO I THINK THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT'S DETERMINED AMONG EACH EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP IS KIND OF WHAT'S THEIR CAPACITY AND NOT OVERCOMPENSATE FOR THEIR CAPACITY AND WE DON'T WANT THEM TO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME. WE WANT THEM TO REAP THE BENEFITS NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO WORK EXTRA HARD TO MAKE HAPPEN. YEAH I GOT TAPPED AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO HELP WITH THE LEADERSHIP PIECE IT TO WRITE JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND THAT TYPE OF THING AND I DO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY YOU KNOW, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT SOME SMALL BUDGET PIECE THAT WOULD HELP MOVE THAT FORWARD, KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT TIMES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ALL THOSE RESOURCES COME THROUGH. SO I UNDERSTAND WHEN I SAY THAT THAT'S A VERY CHALLENGING RECOMMENDATION SO COUNSEL ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS. MR. RUBY THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I WANT TO THANK NANCY AND THE OTHERS WHO JOINED FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE BENEFIT OF THE ERGS TO OUR ORGANIZATION AND IT IS IT IS IMPORTANT THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AND THE AFFINITY THAT IT CREATES AMONG OUR EMPLOYEES ACROSS DEPARTMENTS. AND YOU KNOW, I THINK IT HELPS THE ORGANIZATION AND INDIVIDUALS UNDERSTAND THE THAT WE HAVE FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE ONE OF THE OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS IS YOU KNOW, WE EXIST IN A COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACE AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS OUR DESIRE TO BE AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE, OF AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE AND OUR MANY OF OUR EMPLOYEES HERE ARE NETWORKED PROFESSIONALLY. AND THE MORE THAT THE ERGS BECOME EMBEDDED IN OUR ORGANIZATION AND THE MORE THAT THEY INCREASE AFFINITY, THE MORE LIKELY THAT THAT WORD IS GOING TO GET OUT WHICH WILL MAKE THIS AN EVEN MORE DESIRABLE PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO SEEK. WHEN I WHEN WE WELCOME PEOPLE INTO THE ORGANIZATION, I OFTEN SAY TO THEM THIS IS A TWO WAY STREET THAT WE HAVE SELECTED THEM TO WORK HERE. THEY SELECTED US TO APPLY IN THE FIRST PLACE. RIGHT. AND SO WE WANT PEOPLE TO WANT TO BE IN BLOOMINGTON'S MATTER OF FACT I THINK THAT'S PART OF OUR MISSION STATEMENT. MR.. SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT THE ERGS ARE DOING TO DRIVE CHANGE WITHIN OUR ORGANIZATION AND ALSO THE PERCEPTION OF OUR ORGANIZATION OUTSIDE. THANK YOU, MR. RUGGIE WELL THANKS. THANKS FOR YOUR WORK ALL OF YOU AND THANKS FOR THE TIME AND EFFORT YOU'RE PUTTING INTO THIS AND THANKS TO THE EXECUTIVE SPONSORS AS WELL. I KNOW THAT'S NOT A SMALL TASK SO THANKS FOR YOUR WORK THERE AS WELL. THANK YOU. THAT WRAPS UP OUR INTRODUCTORY PARTS THE PART OF OUR MEETING AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE ON OUR AGENDA RIGHT NOW WHICH IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER HAS TONIGHT'S AGENDA CONSENT BUSINESS COUNCIL MEMBER CARTER THANK YOU MAYOR. SO I HAVE HOLDS ON 3.12 AND 3.14. DO I HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL HOLDS? AND SO THEN WITH 3.7 REMOVED I WOULD MOVE TO 3.1 THROUGH 3.63.8 THROUGH 3.11 AND THEN 3.13 MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESSANDRO TO ACCEPT TONIGHT'S CONSENT BUSINESS AS STATED NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO OKAY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN HAD 3.12 3.12 COUNCILMEMBER LOGAN MAYOR I WANTED TO HOLD 3.12 WHICH IS APPROVAL OF TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR ONE OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT CAME TO AND I WAS GOING TO WAIT TILL LATER ON BUT WE HAD AN EMAIL THAT THAT HAD COME IN FROM A RESIDENT AND I KNOW THAT I'VE HAD THIS QUESTION ASKED MANY A TIMES OF MYSELF WHEN COUNCIL MEMBERS TRAVEL AND GO OTHER PLACES AND THERE'S THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS END UP HAVING THAT THAT OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY REPRESENT THE CITY AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE KNOWLEDGE ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE AN EXPERT IN THEIR THEIR FIELD OF OF EXPERTIZE. AND THEN ALSO THERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY WHEN FOLKS GET A CHANCE TO TO GO TO ALSO BRING BUSINESS BACK AS WELL OR NEW CONCEPTS AND IDEAS. AND YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING TONIGHT WE GOT TO SEE THREE DIFFERENT EXAMPLES AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF HOW AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD A LONG COMMITMENT AND MAYOR, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HERE LONGER THAN I HAVE AROUND THIS IDEA OF OF OF INVESTING IN OUR OUR RESIDENTS. WE'VE GOT THE BLOOMINGTON LEADERSHIP PROGRAM. WE HAVE OUR SISTER CITY ORGANIZATION WHERE WE LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL PIECES AND WE JUST SAW THE URINE OR PARDON ME THE ERG GROUPS HERE SORRY THOSE ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF THAT. WE HAVE SOME VERY TALENTED PEOPLE ON THIS COUNCIL AND I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER CARTER IS PARTICULARLY TALENTED IN THE HEALTH PART AND I'LL JUST GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE. I KNOW THAT SHE WORKED WITH ME ON OUR A METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES AND WE WERE WORKING ON THAT. WE WITH STAFF HELPED TO IDENTIFY AND DETERMINE THERE WOULD BE A BETTER WAY TO TO BRING BACK ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND HELP MORE OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR CITY BY CHANGING OUR PROGRAM. UNFORTUNATELY THAT MEANT THAT THAT THAT ORGANIZATION THAT I USED TO BELONG TO THAT WE USED TO BELONG TO NO LONGER EXISTS. AND HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE HERE WITH 312 WHERE HER EXPERTIZE IS BEING CALLED FOR IN PUERTO RICO, PART OF THE UNITED STATES TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY I AM REALLY EXCITED THAT YOU HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND THIS IS JUST IN KEEPING WITH THE TRADITION OF BLOOMINGTON OF INVESTING AND BRINGING BACK THE BEST POLICIES THAT WE COULD HAVE IN THE CITY. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING MORE THAT YOU WANT TO SEE. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER I JUST WANT TO JUST FOR RESIDENTS I THINK IT'S A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK WHEN WHENEVER WE SPEND OUR RESOURCES IN THE CITY THAT WE ASK THOSE QUESTIONS. AND SO I'M GLAD THAT THAT THAT RESIDENT HAD ASKED THAT QUESTION. BUT I WANTED TO JUST GIVE YOU MY PERSPECTIVE I'M SURE IF YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT I APPRECIATE YOUR PERSPECTIVE. COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN I MR. FOR ROUTINELY TO WEIGH IN AS WELL THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN THE THE CONFERENCE SPECIFICALLY THAT COUNCILMEMBER CARTER IS ATTENDING IS ALSO BEING ATTENDED BY OUR CHIEF EQUITY AND INCLUSION OFFICER FAITH JACKSON OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR CARLA HENDERSON. THE THREE OF THEM WERE PRESENTERS AT THE GOVERNMENT AND RACE AND EQUITY LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND AND THAT PRESENTATION WAS SO WELL RECEIVED THAT OTHER AFFILIATED NETWORKS ASK THEM SPECIFICALLY TO GIVE THAT SAME PRESENTATION AT THIS CONFERENCE. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CONFERENCES THAT WE'RE ATTENDING WE DO HAVE A TRAVEL POLICY THAT YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTIVES HERE AT THE CITY AND HOW IT'S GOING TO BENEFIT THE CITY. IN THIS CASE, THE THE CONFERENCE ITSELF STATE OF BLACK HEALTH MAY NOT SEEM LIKE IT NECESSARILY CONNECTS HERE. THE PRESENTATION IS ABOUT IDENTIFYING INSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICES AND HOW THAT CONNECTS TO HEALTH OUTCOMES. SO WE HAVE BOTH A RACIAL EQUITY STRATEGIC PLAN AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR CITY'S STRATEGIC PLAN AND BOTH OF THOSE ON HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND OUTCOMES IMPROVED OUTCOMES IN HEALTH AND ESPECIALLY CONCENTRATE CONCENTRATION AND ON TRYING TO DRIVE BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH OUTCOMES IN BIPOC COMMUNITIES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. SO TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN SHARE OUR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS AND THEN HAVE OUR STAFF AND ELECTED OFFICIALS ALSO GETTING INFORMATION AROUND THE COUNTRY AND BEST PRACTICES THAT CERTAINLY DOES BENEFIT THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON COULDN'T BE MORE WELL SAID COUNCIL ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD ON THIS MAYOR WITH THAT BEING SAID I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION. COUNCILMEMBER LOGAN MAYOR I'D MOVE TO APPROVE THE OUT-OF-STATE TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR COUNCILMEMBER JANET CARTER TO TRAVEL TO SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO FOR THE STATE OF BLACK HEALTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO RECEIVE THE NINTH 2023 SECOND MOTION. MY COUNCILMEMBER ALONE AND SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER MOUA TO ACCEPT ITEM 3.12 ON OUR CONSENT BUSINESS TONIGHT NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO AND 3.14 THE BLOOMINGTON ICE CARD AND MODERNIZATION I BELIEVE THIS WAS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. YEAH THAT'S PREMIER NELSON. THANK YOU MAYOR. JUST QUICKLY ONE I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THIS ITEM. I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC KNEW WHAT IT WAS REGARDING IN TERMS OF PRE-DESIGNED FOR THIS PROJECT. OBVIOUSLY FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING ATTENTION THE ICE GARDEN IS ON THE BALLOT THIS FALL AND I KNOW FROM THIS SEAT WE CAN'T ADVOCATE FOR OR AGAINST THAT. SO I WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT. I JUST WANTED TO IF MAYBE THE CITY MANAGER OR SOMEONE CAN GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THIS IS DOING AND WHY WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING IT RIGHT NOW SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE ON THIS ISSUE HERE. MR. BURBERRY THANK MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON I'M GOING TO INVITE OUR DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION AND COUNTRY OR IS IT OUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS? CARL KYLE I THINK THIS MIGHT BE A JUMP BALL BECAUSE THEY'RE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY ON THIS ONE AND EVEN WITH THE BAD KNEE IT LOOKS LIKE CORALS GET THE AND WAS A PRETTY DARN GOOD BASKETBALL PLAYER IN HER TIME BUT MAYOR AND COUNCIL I THINK THIS ITEM THE PRINT IS THIS CONTRACT IS SPLIT INTO TWO PIECES ONE IS A PRE DESIGN WORK AND THE SECOND IS THE ACTUAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION WORK SHOULD A PROJECT YOU APPROVE A PROJECT TO PROCEED THE PRE DESIGN WORK IS TO SCOPE A NUMBER OF APPROACHES TO THIS PROJECT. ONE APPROACH WOULD BE WHAT WOULD A PROJECT LOOK LIKE IF IT WERE APPROVED VOTERS IN THE REFERENDUM THIS FALL? SO THAT WOULD GIVE US AN IDEA OF EXACTLY WHAT WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THAT PROJECT AS WE'VE TALKED TO YOU ON A NUMBER OF TIMES, THERE'S PARTS OF BIG THAT ARE GOING TO NEED SIGNIFICANT REPAIRS EVEN IF IT'S NOT APPROVED BY VOTERS THIS FALL. AND SO THE OTHER PART OF THAT SCOPING WOULD BE THAT SMALLER PROJECT TO DO THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME OF THIS THIS FALL'S ELECTION AND THAT PROJECT WOULD BE SCOPED AND WOULD GO THROUGH THE NORMAL PROCESS YOU WOULD APPROVE THAT TO PROCEED IF IF YOU FELT IT WAS WAS PROPER. SO THAT'S WHAT WHAT THIS CONTRACT IS FOR IF ONCE FINISH THAT PRE DESIGN WORK THE LARGER PORTION OF THIS CONTRACT WOULD BE MODIFIED DEPENDING ON WHAT THE APPROACH FINALLY IS CHOSEN WOULD IT BE THE SMALLER PROJECT OR A VOTER APPROVED PROJECT IN THE FALL? COUNCILMEMBER YEAH, THANK YOU MAYOR AND THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION. I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND THE SMALLER PART IS ALL THAT IS GOING TO MOVE FORWARD NOW AND WE'RE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE REFERENDUM TO DETERMINE THE FINAL ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SCOPE BASED ON FEEDBACK WE GET DIRECTLY FROM RESIDENTS, IT'S THEIR CHOICE. WELL, I WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT THAT THEY WEREN'T SEEING THIS AS SOMETHING WE WERE MOVING FORWARD WITH BEFORE THAT AND THANK YOU THANK THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION, CAROLYN AND THANK YOU NELSON. I THINK THAT'S A GOOD POINT AND I'M SURE FOLKS JUST KIND OF COMING ACROSS THIS ON THE AGENDA I WONDER EXACTLY THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP. SO THANKS FOR BRINGING FORWARD AND GETTING CLARIFIED. APPRECIATE IT. WITHOUT A DOUBT IF YOU'RE SATISFIED COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THEN LOOK FOR A MOTION SO MOVED AGAIN MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER NELSON SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO ACCEPT ITEM 3.14 ON TONIGHT'S CONSENT BUSINESS AS STATED NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO AND FOUR. ON OUR AGENDA ARE OUR HEARINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES. WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING. THIS IS REGARDING A CHANGE OF CONDITION OF APPROVAL AND WE HAVE FROM OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT LIVES ARE THEY COMING FORWARD TO LEAD US THROUGH THIS? GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. THANK YOU, MAYOR , CAN YOU WAIT UNTIL IT'S UP ON OTHER YOU GO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. ITEM 4.1 ON YOUR AGENDA THIS EVENING IS REGARDING A CHANGE OF CONDITION. NUMBER SEVEN IN A CASE FROM 1988 AND THE PROPERTY ADDRESS IS 1558 EAST 80TH STREET. A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE PROPERTY. A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT WAS APPROVED IN 1988 FOR A RESIDENTIAL BOARD AND LODGING FACILITY. IT WAS LIMITED TO 24 RESIDENTS AND NO PERSONAL VEHICLES WERE ALLOWED AT THAT TIME. CITY COUNCIL AT THAT TIME ADDED A CONDITION THAT THE USE BE OPERATED ONLY UNDER A SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY. A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN VACANT SINCE MAY OF 2023 AND SO THE OWNERS HAVE BEEN PROACTIVELY MARKETING THE PROPERTY AND THEY HAVE MULTIPLE BUYERS INTERESTED. HERE IS A THE LANGUAGE PROPOSED OOPS PROPOSED LANGUAGE CHANGE. AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE STRIKING SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY AND ADDING LICENSE REGISTRATION OR AGREEMENT FOR GROUP HOUSING OR CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITY WITH A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY AND THEN THE REST OF THAT CONDITION. REGARDING THE CHANGE IN USE WILL REMAIN THE SAME. ALL THE CONDITIONS WITH THAT CASE IN 1988 WILL BE STILL IN PLACE. THIS PROPOSED CHANGE OF CONDITION EXPANDS THE ABILITY FOR A BUYER TO WORK WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES SUCH AS THE STATE AND IT PROVIDES HIGHER LEVEL OF FLEXIBILITY TO MEET HOUSING NEEDS WITHIN THE MARKETPLACE AND IT ALSO RETAINS OVERSIGHT OF A GOVERNMENTAL LICENSE OR A REGISTRATION AND STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY CORRESPONDENCE RELATED TO THIS ITEM. PRETTY QUICK PRESENTATION FOR YOU THIS EVENING. WE ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL AND I BELIEVE THE OWNER REPRESENTATIVE IS IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. MISSOURI COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. THANK YOU, MAYOR. JUST TWO QUICK QUESTIONS. IS IT REQUIRED THAT THIS BE SOLD AS A GROUP OR CONGREGATE CARE BUILDING? MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBER NELSON I BELIEVE THAT THE APPLICANT HAS BUYERS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT USES THIS I THINK THEY'RE KIND OF WAITING TO SEE HOW THIS APPROVAL PANS OUT AND THAT MIGHT IMPACT POTENTIAL BUYERS. OKAY. I WOULD WONDER WHAT IS HERE WOULD OTHER USES FOR BE ALLOWED? SAY THAT QUESTION WOULD OTHER USERS OUTSIDE OF THAT BE ALLOWED UNDER WHAT WE'RE APPROVING OR IS IT STILL HAVE TO STAY WITH SOME SERVICE AGENCY OR IT'S LOCKED INTO THAT TYPE OF FACILITY? AND COUNCILMEMBER NELSON SO YEAH, IT'S IT'S A THIS IS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THAT WAS APPROVED BACK IN 1988. SO THEY STILL HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FROM THAT TIME WITH THE CONDITIONS IF THEY ARE CHANGING USE. THIS IS ON OUR FORUM BY THE WAY SO ALL THE PERMITTED USES RELATE TO MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING, CONGREGATE, LIVING THOSE WOULD BE PERMITTED. OKAY, SO WHAT I'M HEARING I THINK IS THAT IF THERE WAS A BUYER THAT WANTED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO COME BACK AND GET A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT LIKELY IT WAS PERMITTED USE FOR SOME REASON THAT'S ZONING. SO OKAY I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS FLEXIBILITY THERE. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER MOUA >> AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO OTHER TIES WITH HENDERSON COUNTY, THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER OBLIGATION OR THE THE SELLER HAS ANY OBLIGATION TO THE COUNTY AND THIS WOULD WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE FROM THAT FROM >> MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER KIND OF TIES HAPPEN. COUNTY I KNOW THAT AGREEMENT HAS CEASED WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY SO I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER KIND OF TIES TO THAT. COUNCIL ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS COMMENTS YOU SAID THE APPLICANT IS HERE. I BELIEVE SO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE THE APPLICANT IS HERE. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD? WOULD YOU LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? IF SO YOU'VE GOT TO COME FORWARD. IF THE ANSWER IS MORE THAN NO YOU HAVE TO COME FORWARD. OKAY. VERY GOOD. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. COUNCIL THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND I'M GOING TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING OUT NOW ON ITEM 4.1. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE CHANGE OF CONDITION OF APPROVAL. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ITEM 4.1 THIS EVENING? IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO IN 4.1 OR ON THE PHONE? MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS NO ONE ON THE LINE LAST CALL FOR ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. COUNCIL NO ONE ON THE PHONE. NO ONE COMING FORWARD TO SPEAK IN THE CHAMBERS I'D LOOK FIRST FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ITEM 4.1 SOME MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN IN 4.1 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. COUNCIL PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD AMENDMENT THIS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ON IT AT ALL? IF I WOULD LOOK FOR ACTION ON ITEM 4.1. COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN THANK YOU. I MOVE THAT WE ADOPT A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT CONDITION NUMBER SEVEN IN CASE 5140 488 TO REMOVE THE REFERENCE TO A SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH AN OPEN COUNTY AND ALLOW OPERATIONS BY A LICENSE REGISTRATION OR AGREEMENT FOR A GROUP HOUSING OR CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITY FROM A GOVERNMENT AGENCY. MOST OF MY COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN SECOND TO COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO TO APPROVE ITEM 4.1 AS STATED. NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU VERY. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. MOVING ON TO ITEM FIVE ON OUR AGENDA, THIS IS ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS AND ACTUALLY THE NEXT THREE ITEMS ARE STRICTLY INFORMATIONAL ITEMS. THERE IS NO ACTION REQUESTED ON ANY OF THESE ITEMS. THIS IS AS WE KIND OF HEAD INTO OUR STUDY SESSION ALMOST PORTION OF OUR COUNCIL MEETING THIS EVENING AND THE FIRST PART OF OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS ITEM 5.1 THIS IS A DISCUSSION REGARDING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SCREENING SCENARIOS AND THE POSSIBILITY REGARDING THE BUDGET AND I SEE MS. JULIE LINING UP FRONT OF US ALREADY READY TO GO. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. AS WE ARE CONCLUDING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM STUDY THAT WE'RE PLANNING ON BRINGING TO YOU PROBABLY IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER WE REALIZED WE HAD A FEW LOOSE ENDS WHERE WE WOULD LIKE SOME INPUT FROM YOU BEFORE WE OUR REPORT AND HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR. I WANT TO BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT OUR SCREENING CRITERIA SCENARIOS AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO WE BELIEVE WITH OUR NEW PROGRAM REMOVING THE PETITION AND THE APPLICATION FEE WE'RE GOING TO GET A LOT MORE INTEREST THAN WE HAVE IN IN THE PAST AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO PICK WHICH ONES TO GO FORWARD WITH? SO WE WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SCREENING CRITERIA AND THEN EVERYONE'S FAVORITE TOPIC BUDGETS. SO FIRST I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT THE PROJECT ELEMENTS COST AND THEN TALK ABOUT STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BUDGET AND YOU CAN SAY YAY OR NAY OR YOU SHOULD DO THIS OR THAT OR MIX IT UP SO. SO ON THE PROPOSED SCREENING CRITERIA FOR THE TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENT OF THE PROGRAM, WE WANT TO HAVE CRITERIA ARE MEASURABLE THAT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT STREETS AND THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE DATA FROM. WE ARE LOOKING AT FOUR DIFFERENT SCENARIOS FOR THE TRAFFIC PROGRAM AND WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE ON GETTING THOSE GUIDELINES FIGURED OUT. BUT WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON SCHOOL ZONE PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA. I WON'T HAVE A SLIDE FOR THAT BUT I'LL BRIEFLY TOUCH ON SOME OF THE POINTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT. SO FOR THE TRAFFIC CALMING COMPONENT OF IT, WE'RE LOOKING AT EVALUATING FIVE CRITERIA TRAFFIC CONDITIONS WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE USING FOR AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC. SO IF YOU'RE ON A ROAD THAT GETS OVER A THOUSAND VEHICLES PER DAY, YOU WOULD SCORE MORE POINTS WITH OUR CRITERIA THAN IF YOU LIVED ON A ROAD THAT HAD 200 VEHICLES PER DAY. WE WANT TO JUST HAVE POINTS FOR SAFETY AND EXPERIENCE SO BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS IN THE AREA ARE DO WE HAVE OFF ROAD FACILITIES FOR THEM TO USE WITH REGARDS TO EQUITY? WE'RE LOOKING AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS NOT ONLY THE NONWHITE POPULATION OF AN AREA BUT ALSO THE LOW INCOME AREA NUMBERS IN THE AREA, THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES WITH NO OR NUMBERS OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH NO VEHICLES AND ABOVE AND BACKWARDS AND ALSO LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY. SO WE'VE GOT POINTS FOR ALL OF THOSE. WE'RE TRYING TO COUNT THE NUMBER OF COMMUNITY DESTINATIONS IN AN AREA. SO IF YOU ARE CONNECTED WITHIN A QUARTER MILE TO SCHOOLS, PARKS YOU GET MORE POINTS THAN IF YOU'RE FURTHER AWAY AND THEN LAST ONE IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND DENSITIES AND AS YOU CAN SEE BY ONE OF THOSE BOLD CHARTS IN THE MIDDLE, YOU KNOW, ENGINEERS WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE DATA TO FILE A NICE BELL CHART DOESN'T QUITE WORK OUT BUT WE'RE GETTING CLOSE SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING AND WITH THAT SCENARIO WE'VE GIVEN IT TO OUR TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE TO REVIEW. NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TRAFFIC CALMING. HEY JULIE, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SPEED UP THERE. AREN'T WE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO GO SLOWER? ISN'T THE POINT? YOU'LL REMEMBER I TALKED ABOUT MEASURABLE AND AVAILABLE DATA WITH OUR PROGRAM AND OUR NEW SCHEDULE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WILL BE MAKING OUR DETERMINATION THE APPLICATION WILL BE PROGRAM WILL BE IN JANUARY WILL BE EVALUATING IN FEBRUARY ONE OF THE WAYS WE COUNT SPEED DATA IN MINNESOTA IS TO PUT TUBE COUNTERS DOWN TUBE COUNTERS IN FEBRUARY DO NOT AGREE WITH THE SNOWPLOWS SO WE MAY NOT HAVE DATA AVAILABLE. WE MIGHT HAVE DATA ON SOME OF THE STREETS WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY DATA ON THE STREETS. SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING WITH THE TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE IS SOMETHING WE'RE CALLING BONUS POINTS. SO IF WE HAVE SPEED DATA LET'S PRETEND WE GOT TEN APPLICATIONS AND WE HAVE SPEED DATA FOR ALL TEN OF THE LOCAL STREETS, THEN WE WOULD ASSIGN A POINT VALUE FOR SPEEDS AND INCLUDE THAT IN THE CRITERIA IF WE ONLY HAD SPEED DATA FOR SEVEN OF THE STREETS AND THREE OF THEM WE DIDN'T WE WOULDN'T USE THAT AT ALL BECAUSE IT'S NOT EQUITABLE MEASURE. SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE HEADED WITH THAT WITH OUR SCHOOL ZONES I MENTIONED WE DON'T HAVE A SLIDE BUT WE'RE LOOKING SIMILAR TO THE CRITERIA DEMOGRAPHICS OF BOTH THE SCHOOL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHERE IT RESIDES THE SIMILAR THE SAFETY EXPERIENCE, THE BIKE PED GAPS THAT WE MAY HAVE WE ALSO WANT TO INCLUDE LIKE THE NUMBER OF CROSSINGS FOR A PEDESTRIAN TO GET TO THE SCHOOL. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WALK DISTANCE VERSUS WALK ZONE FOR THE SCHOOL AND I WON'T GET INTO THE TECHNICAL DETAILS BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE HEADED AND AGAIN WE'RE GOING TO WANT A NICE BELL CURVE AND TO HELP FIGURE IT OUT. SO THOSE ARE THE CRITERIA WHERE WE'RE WHERE WE'RE HEADED. SO IF YOU SEE ANY FAULTS WE'D LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT THOSE OR WHAT ABOUT THIS CRITERIA AND YOU CAN SAY OH CRASHES JULIE WE REALLY SHOULD HAVE CRASHES. WELL I'M LOCAL STREETS CRASHES ARE USUALLY ONE THEY'RE NOT LIKE OUR ARTERIALS AND COLLECTORS WHERE WE HAVE A CRASH RATE PER THE INTERSECTION WE HAVE ONE RANDOM CRASH HERE IN TEN YEARS WE HAVE ONE RANDOM CRASH OVER THERE IT DOESN'T DO DIFFERENTIATOR TELL US THE DATA ON A LOCAL STREET LIKE IT DOES ON THE BUSIER STREETS SO NOW MOVING FROM SCENARIOS SELECTION TO BUDGET ITEMS WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENT COST ELEMENTS OF A COUPLE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF OUR PROPOSED PROGRAM. SO ONE OF THE PROPOSALS WILL BE MAKING AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL IS THAT WE WANT TO RECOMMEND LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT ON OUR LOCAL ROADS FROM 30 MILES AN HOUR TO 25 MILES AN HOUR AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. WE'RE GOING NEED SOME NEW SIGNS SO YOU'VE PROBABLY DRIVEN IN MINNEAPOLIS, EDINA SAINT LOUIS PARK AND AS YOU ENTER THEIR COMMUNITY THEY HAVE 25 MILE AN HOUR UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE SIGN AS YOU ENTER AND THEN PROBABLY 100 FEET AWAY THEY HAVE A 30 MILE 35 MILE AN HOUR BECAUSE YOU'RE ON A COLLECTOR AND ARTERIAL AND IT'S A CONFUSING MESSAGE BUT UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S THE BEST WE GOT AT THIS POINT IN TIME. SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR A BUDGET TO ADD THOSE SIGNS TO BLOOMINGTON. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ADDING NEW SPEED RADAR SIGNS. WE'D LIKE TO HAVE TEN OF THEM. WE ALREADY HAVE FOUR. WE'D LIKE TO ADD TEN MORE AND BE ABLE TO DEPLOY THOSE TO HELP EDUCATE PEOPLE AS SPEED LIMIT CHANGES SO THAT THEY RECOGNIZE WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DRIVING. UM, WE'VE ALSO TALKED ABOUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE WITH SPEED LIMITS IS WE DON'T HAVE CURRENTLY A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE SO WE WOULD LIKE TO IMPLEMENT THOSE WE'VE ESTIMATED 20 SCHOOLS WE MAY BE MISSING A CHARTER SCHOOL HERE OR THERE BUT ON AVERAGE AND TWO SIGNS PER SCHOOL AND THEN THEIR LAST COMPONENT ON THE SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION WOULD BE COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION STRATEGIES. SO WITH THAT WE WOULD BE BUYING SOME YARD SIGNS, SOME PAID SOCIAL MEDIA ADS, THAT SORT OF THING. BEFORE I GET TO THE NEXT BUDGET SLIDE I THOUGHT THIS WOULD HELPFUL INFORMATION TO KNOW THAT WITH OUR EXISTING TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM OUR TRAFFIC CALMING COORDINATOR IS A PART TIME POSITION AND WITH OUR EXISTING AND EQUIPMENT IT ALLOWS THREE TRIALS MAXIMUM PER SUMMER WHETHER INITIATED BY THE PUBLIC OR BY STAFF. SO THE CONSULTANT LOOKED AT THE PROGRAM AND SAID HEY YOU'RE THE FOURTH LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA AND WE THINK YOU SHOULD BE DOING EIGHT TEMPORARY TRIALS IN A SUMMER. WELL THAT'S GREAT BUT WE DON'T HAVE STAFF FOR THAT SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS PROPOSAL INCLUDES A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE THE ADDITIONAL TWO COUNTERS TO DO ALL THE COUNTS, THE TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES, THE TEMPORARY ONES THAT WE DEPLOY TO COLLECT OUR DATA AND A VEHICLE AND THEN THEY ALSO CAN TINUED WITH OF THOSE EIGHT WE THINK FIVE WILL PROBABLY MOVE FORWARD TO ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION SO YOU CAN SEE OVER ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND SIDE VARIOUS COSTS FOR THE DIFFERENT TREATMENTS. SO SPEED HUMPS TABLES THEY'RE ABOUT $10,000 APIECE. THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CIRCLE WHICH WE'VE INSTALLED PLENTY OF WE'VE SEEN THOSE ARE ALSO ABOUT $10,000 AND IT GETS MORE EXPENSIVE AS YOU GO DOWN THE LIST. THIS LAST ONE IS A LIGHTING PROGRAM. YOU'RE PROBABLY LIKE WHY IS THIS HERE? AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN WE DID OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC WE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SAID WE'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT STREETLIGHTS BECAUSE WE HAD THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM INCLUDED A LIVABILITY COMMUNITY COMPONENT TO THE PUBLIC AND SO A LOT OF THEM ARE LIKE WELL STREET LIGHTS IS PART OF THE LIVABILITY OF MY COMMUNITY. IT MAY NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SPEEDS BUT I'M INTERESTED IN THAT AND THEY SAID THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT IT WERE LIKE OH THE PROGRAM WORKS FINE. WE JUST CAN'T FIND IT TO BEGIN. SO AS YOU KNOW OF OUR GOALS IS THIS WITH THIS PROGRAM IS TO HAVE A ONE STOP SHOP SO IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE THE LIGHTING COST. XCEL TRADITIONALLY DOESN'T CHARGE US FOR THE POOR. THEY JUST CHARGE US FOR THE OPERATING COST OF THE POLE. IT'S ABOUT $23 A YEAR AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THE LIGHTING BUDGET SO AND THE DIFFERENT TRAFFIC CALMING OPTIONS WE YOU REMEMBER AN EARLIER PRESENTATION FROM KIMBERLY HORNE AND WE TALKED ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT TIERS IN OUR TOOLBOX THE TIER ONES I CALL OUR LESS INVASIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS FAR AS CONSTRUCTION GOES INSTALLING A SPEED HUMP, INSTALLING A TRAFFIC CIRCLE, THEY'RE WAY LESS INVASIVE THAN WHAT I CALL OUR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM STREETS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE INCLUDED IN TIER ONE. THE TIER TWO ONES ARE THE DIVERTER IS THE CHICANE IS THE CHOKERS. THEY INVOLVE A LOT MORE CURB WORK LIKELY, SOME UTILITY CATCH BASIN WORK SO WE WANT TO ONLY PROPOSE THOSE WHEN WE'RE ACTUALLY HAVE ANOTHER PROJECT JUST BECAUSE THE EXPENSE IS GOING TO BE TOO HIGH TO DO THEM INDEPENDENTLY IN OUR OPINION. SO I HAVE A COUPLE DIFFERENT OPTIONS REGARDING THE PERMANENT TREATMENTS ON THE TIER ONES WE COULD ADD THE $50,000 TO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET. WE COULD COME TO YOU AS THE COUNCIL AND SAY REQUEST SPECIAL MONEY FOR EACH ONE THAT MOVES FORWARD. WHEN WE WERE HERE EARLIER WE TALKED ABOUT ASSESSMENTS. THE CURRENT PROGRAM IS ASSESSING 100% OF THE COSTS. WE HEARD FEEDBACK FROM ONE COUNCIL MEMBER WHO SAID I'D BE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING 25% ASSESSMENT SO THAT'S UP THERE AS AN OPTION. AND THEN ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS A GRANT PROGRAM. SO IN KEEPING WITH THE EQUITY COMPONENT THAT IF WE HAVE A BLOCK GROUP THAT IS LESS THAN THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME IS 80,582 BASED ON THE TIME OF THE REPORT. SO THAT PROBABLY WILL CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR OR IF THERE IS A PERCENTAGE OF THE IN THAT CENSUS BLACK THAT'S BELOW POVERTY LEVEL OF GREATER THAN 8% THAT THE CITY WOULD PICK UP THOSE COSTS AND NOT DO THE ASSESSMENT. SIMILARLY ON TIER TWO THE FUNDING COULD COME EITHER FROM THE PMP RECONSTRUCTION OR PMP OVERLAY CIP FUNDS WHICH IS HOW WE THE STAFF GENERATED TRAFFIC CALMING ITEMS TODAY. SO I THINK WE COULD INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE PROGRAM OR WE COULD ALSO DO THE ASSESSMENT 100% AND 25% LIKE I DISCUSSED ABOVE. SO THAT'S ALL FINE AND DANDY. WHAT ARE WHAT MY ACTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU AS A COUNCIL MY RECOMMENDATIONS ON THESE ONE TIME COSTS WITH PLAN ADOPTION FOR BOTH THE SIGNS AND THAT COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION IS ABOUT $22,500 I'VE TALKED TO MY FRIENDS IN PUBLIC WORKS MAINTENANCE THEY HAVE BUDGET FOR SIGNS ALREADY THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE SPENDING SO WE COULD REALLOCATE THAT MONEY FOR THE ONE TIME COST AND DEPENDING ON MY ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO MARRY BOTH THE LOCAL SPEED LIMIT CHANGES AND THE COLLECTOR ARTERIALS ALL AT ONCE SO DON'T CONFUSE THE PUBLIC SO WE MAY HAVE TO DO A CARRY OVER THE CAR IS ASSURED ME THAT WILL NOT BE HARD TO DO. THIS NEXT SLIDE IS WHAT WOULD BE THE ANNUAL COSTS OF THE PROGRAM AS WE MOVE FORWARD. SO I HAVE PHASED THINGS IN BECAUSE I'M FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE COST WISE YOU MAY BE LIKE OH JULIE THAT'S A POOR PLAN. LET'S JUST BITE THE BULLET AND GET IT ALL DONE AT ONCE. OR YOU MIGHT BE LIKE OH MY GOSH, HAVE YOU SEEN OUR TAX LEVY? WE CAN'T GO THAT WAY. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PHASE IN OVER MORE TIME. SO THE SPEED RADAR SIGNS I'M PROPOSING THAT WE BUY TWO OF THOSE A YEAR FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THE SCHOOL FLASHER ASSEMBLIES WE'RE PROPOSING FOUR OF THE SIGNS SO IT WOULD BE HALF OF THAT WOULD BE THE NUMBER SCHOOLS WE WOULD IMPACT AND WE'RE PHASING THAT IN WITH EITHER ONE SCHOOL ON A COLLECTOR STREET OR TWO SCHOOLS ON RESIDENTIAL JUST BECAUSE BASED ON THE CURRENT STAFF WE HAVE WE CAN'T DO ALL 20 SCHOOLS AT ONCE. IF YOU WANT TO DO ALL 20 SCHOOLS AT ONCE THAT NUMBER WILL INCREASE AND WE'LL ALSO BE HIRING A CONSULTANT TO GET THAT WORK DONE. SO THIS IS HOW TO PHASE IN OVER TIME ANY TIME YOU PUT SOMETHING UP IN THE RIGHT AWAY SOMEONE HAS A CHANCE OF KNOCKING IT DOWN OR IT'S GOING TO FADE. SOME HAVE GOT SOME MAINTENANCE COSTS IN THERE. LET'S AND THEN THE PERMANENT TRAFFIC CALMING I ONLY INCLUDED THE TIER ONE COSTS IN THERE. I'M PROPOSING THAT WE CONTINUE USING THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO FUND THE TIER TWO ONES SO THIS WOULD BE FIVE ELEMENTS IN A CONSTRUCTION YEAR. SO THE TOTAL WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL $77,250 PER YEAR. YOU'LL NOTICE I DIDN'T MENTION ABOUT ADDING ANY STAFF COUNCIL. WE'VE HAD THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE APPLIED IN THE TIME THE PROGRAM'S BEEN EXISTING. I CAN'T IN GOOD FAITH COME UP HERE AND SAY WE NEED A NEW STAFF PERSON TO MANAGE THIS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. SO WHAT I'M PROPOSING IS THIS FIRST YEAR WE ADOPT THE PLAN WE TAKE APPLICATIONS IN FEBRUARY WE MIGHT GET TEN APPLICATIONS, WE MIGHT GET 50 WE'LL USE OUR SCREENING CRITERIA TO COME DOWN. WE'LL DO THE THREE ANALYSIS AND THEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR WE'LL SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL WITH US IN 2025 OF FEBRUARY AND THEN IF WE'RE CONTINUE TO SEE A LARGE GROUP I'LL BE LIKE COMING BACK FORWARD AND SAYING COUNCIL WE'RE NOT MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND WE SHOULD INCREASE THIS BUDGET AND I'D LIKE YOU TO CONSIDER IT AT THAT TIME BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE TO ASK FOR THAT AT THIS. SO NOW I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. WELL, THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. I THINK WE PROBABLY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS CERTAINLY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER WELL THANK YOU, JULIE. THIS IS AN EXCITING PRESENTATION AND I DO HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS BUT I'LL TRY TO BE CONCISE SO SOME IS SOME IS KIND OF REALLY MORE DETAILED. I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW YOU GOT TO 50 SIGNS BECAUSE THEY THINK ABOUT LIKE ALL THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND I THINK I MADE THE POINT IN OUR LAST CONVERSATION THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW THE SPEED LIMIT ON THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS IN BLOOMINGTON BECAUSE THERE REALLY AREN'T THAT MANY SIGNS. AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW YOU GET TO 50 AND THEN I'M ALSO CURIOUS BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIGNS THE BIGGEST COST IS THE POLE AND PROBABLY INSTALLATION OF THE POLE AND MAYBE THIS IS SILLY BUT YOU KNOW ARE WE ALLOWED TO PUT SPEED LIMIT SIGNS ON THE LIGHT POLES LIKE BECAUSE THOSE ARE ALL OVER IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND AND MAYBE I'LL JUST LET YOU TALK MORE ABOUT THE STRATEGY THERE. ALL RIGHT, MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, THE CONSULTANT CAME UP WITH 50 I THINK WHAT YOUR WHAT YOU'RE NOTICING AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING OUT LOUD IS THE REASON PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SPEED LIMIT IS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SPEED LIMIT SIGNS ON OUR LOCAL ROADS. SO THERE ISN'T A LOT OF EXPENSE TO REPLACE THOSE LIKE IF I TOLD YOU THERE ARE 350 MILES OF STREETS YOU'RE LIKE THAT'S A LOT OF STREETS. YOU'D THINK WE'D HAVE MORE SIGNS BUT WE ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE THAT MANY SIGNS. SO I THINK THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING THE LOWER COST AND AS FAR AS THE POLES WE CAN PARTNER THE SPEED LIMIT SIGNS WITH DIFFERENT SIGNS SO IF THERE'S ALREADY A SIGNPOST OUT THERE WE CAN BE MOUNTED ON THERE AND WE CAN ALSO STRAP THEM ONTO LIGHT POLES DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF LIGHT POLE IT IS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'VE GOT FLEXIBILITY. OKAY. THAT'S HELPFUL. SO YES TO SCHOOLS SPEED ZONES AND YES, REDUCING SPEEDS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO THE BUDGET. SO IN BOTH TIER AND ONE TO TIER ONE AND TIER TWO YOU RECOMMENDED A GRANT PROGRAM IF WE WENT WITH THE ASSESSMENT PORTION OF IT. SO IF YOU AS COUNCIL SAID NO WE JUST WANT TO PUT IT IN THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET THEN WE DON'T NEED A GRANT PROGRAM. BUT IF YOU SAID OH WE WANT THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE SOME SKIN IN THE GAME TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY REALLY WANT TO PARTICIPATE THIS AND WE WANT TO SET THE ASSESSMENT AT EITHER 100% OR AT 25% OF THE COST OF THE PROJECT. THEN WE'RE ASKING FOR A GRANT PROGRAM FOR STREETS THAT WOULD FALL IN THAT POVERTY RATE SO THAT THEY COULD STILL PARTICIPATE IN IT AND IT WOULDN'T CAUSE AN ADVERSE FINANCIAL BURDEN TO THEM BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM I HEAR A LOT OF HEARTBREAKING STORIES WITH THAT AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR LESS HEARTBREAKING STORIES. YEAH, TOTALLY AGREE. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THE COSTS THE BUDGET THAT YOU'RE THE THE PROPOSAL YOU'RE PUTTING FORWARD IS MORE AROUND OPERATIONALIZING THE PROGRAM BUT. THEN LATER ON THERE WILL BE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES AND HOW WE AND HOW WE PAY FOR THE PROJECTS WHICH MIGHT INCLUDE THE GRANT FUNDING. BUT I DO AGREE I THINK THAT'S A I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA SO I APPRECIATED YOU PUTTING IT IN THE PROPOSAL BUT WE'LL JUST WE'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THOSE I ASSUME AT A LATER DATE THEN I WHEN WE HAVE TO MAKE THOSE KINDS OF DECISIONS. YES. AND THEN LAST QUESTION. SO I DO LIKE YOUR PHASED APPROACH ESPECIALLY GIVEN WHERE WE'RE AT WITH OUR BUDGET AT LEAST PRELIMINARY TO WHAT I'M HEARING PRELIMINARILY. BUT I'M WONDERING IF THERE IS A CHANCE TO GET STATE FUNDING. SO I KNOW THAT THE STATE ALLOCATED A BUNCH OF MONEY THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND AND HAVE THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TO SAY FOR US THE SCHOOL AT THE STATE LEVEL AND SO WOULD THIS PROJECT BE ELIGIBLE FOR SOME OF THOSE FUNDS AND IF WE WERE ABLE TO GET THOSE COULD WE USE OUR FUNDS THEN TO MAYBE ACCELERATE SOME OF THE STRATEGIES, MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE LOOK AT MORE OF ROLLING OUT THEIR PROGRAMS, MORE DETAILS COME UP, BECOME AWARE OF THEM EVERY DAY. BUT AT THIS TIME THERE ISN'T A GRANT PROGRAM THAT WE COULD APPLY FOR FOR THESE SIGNS. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT TOMORROW WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET AN EMAIL THAT SAYS THIS WOULD BE PERFECT AND IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY ELIGIBLE. SO WE WILL TO WATCH FOR THAT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO APPLY BUT I CAN'T WHAT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THEM? OKAY. SO IF WE DID LIKE THE SCHOOL AND THEN WANTED TO BUY THE EQUIPMENT FOR THE SCHOOL AREAS THAT MAYBE WOULD BE LIKE WE COULD MAYBE APPLY FOR SAFE ROUTES FOR THAT POTENTIALLY. POTENTIALLY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I WILL STOP ASKING QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW UP ON THE WHOLE SCHOOL. I SEE THAT THE SCHOOL ON FLASHER ASSEMBLY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT OFFICIALLY INSTITUTING A SCHOOL SPEED ZONE PART OF OUR ORDINANCE TO INTENTIONALLY BRING THE LIMIT DOWN ESPECIALLY DURING THE SCHOOL DAY, YOU KNOW, SCHOOL HOURS AND SO ON ABOVE AND BEYOND 25 MILE PER HOUR REDUCTION CITYWIDE. CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT FOR ME? SURE. MR. MAYOR, WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS TO LOOK AT THEM ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS AND WE WOULD PROPOSE A SPEED LIMIT MORE LIKE 20 MILES AN HOUR. NOW THAT DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF ROAD THAT WE'RE DOING IT ON. IT REQUIRES THE DIFFERENT I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT. WELL, I'M GOING TO GO MAKE IT MAKE ANOTHER POINT YOU THE SPEED LIMIT ZONE SIGNS THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THE ONES THAT ARE IN OUR ESTIMATE ARE VERY SPECIFIC. YOU CAN SEE THAT I'VE PUT ALL THE LITTLE QUALIFIERS IT'S A SOLAR SIGN, IT IS A STATIC SIGN WITH NO FEEDBACK ON IT AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO THE AVERAGE PERSON WHO DOESN'T SPEAK ENGINEERING IS WE COULD EITHER HARDWIRE IT OR WE COULD USE A SOLAR PANEL. WE'VE HAD REALLY GOOD LUCK WITH OUR SOLAR PANELS ON OUR TRAFFIC SIGNS SO WE'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT USING THE SOLAR PANEL. IT GOES TO OUR SUSTAINABILITY. WE LOVE THAT WE SAID IT WAS A STATIC SIGN VERSUS AN LED ENHANCED SIGN. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN SOME SIGNS THAT HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL LED LIGHTS TO BRING ATTENTION TO IT. WE'RE NOT PROPOSING THAT AND THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGN IS A BIT LIKE THE RADAR SIGN SO IT WOULD FLASH AND TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE GOING 20 MILES AN HOUR OR YOU'RE GOING 27 MILES AN HOUR WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GOING 20. SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS THE SOLAR STATIC SIGN WITH NO FEEDBACK AS YOU CAN IMAGINE EVERY TIME YOU ADD A LITTLE ENHANCEMENT TO IT THAT SIGN GETS MORE EXPENSIVE. BUT WE DO THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE FLASHER COME WITH THAT BECAUSE WE FOUND IF IT'S A STATIC SIGN PEOPLE DRIVE BY IT. IT'S IN IT'S AUGUST DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE SCHOOL PROBABLY HASN'T I KNOW IT HASN'T STARTED FOR BLOOMINGTON BUT I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE GONE BACK TO SCHOOL BUT YOU DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T HAVE CHILDREN SO I DON'T KNOW WHEN SCHOOL STARTS. SO THIS WAY THE FLASHER ONLY GOES ON WHEN SCHOOL ACTUALLY IN SESSION TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THAT SIGN AS OPPOSED TO JUST FADING INTO THE BACKGROUND AND HERE COMES ROBERTS. MR. ROBERTS REALLY SAID SOMETHING, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS JUST TO ADD TO WHAT JULIE SAID ON THE SCHOOLS SO WE'VE COME OUT OF THE PANDEMIC WE'VE ALWAYS HAD A REALLY GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BLOOMINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT AND STAFF AND IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THE PANDEMIC A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE WAY THE SCHOOLS DO BUSINESS THEY'RE RECOVERING. THEY'RE GETTING TO NORMAL AND WHAT THAT NEW NORMAL IS WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE. AND SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS WORK WITH EACH SCHOOL ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO SEE WHAT DO THEY NEED TO MAKE THEIR TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS SUCCESSFUL. THAT TAKES TIME. THAT TAKES TIME ON THEIR BEHALF AND TIME ON THE CITY'S BEHALF. AND SO WE CAN'T DO THAT ALL AT ONCE. AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS PRIORITIZING AND THAT'S THE SCHEME THAT JULIA TALKED ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT HOW DO WE PRIORITIZE WHICH SCHOOLS WE ENGAGE FIRST AND THAT WILL GIVE US A CHANCE TO GO TO THEM AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT THEIR NEEDS ARE IT MIGHT BE THAT SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS WHEN THEY'RE THAT WE HAVE OR THEY'RE WONDERFUL THEY'RE TUCKED INTO SMALLER NEIGHBORHOODS, THEY REALLY DON'T NEED A 20 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT YET WE'VE GOT SOME SCHOOLS SUCH AS OAK GROVE WHERE THEY'RE ON ESSENTIALLY A COLLECTOR STREET 106TH STREET OR 102ND STREET FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THAT SCHOOL ZONE COULD BENEFIT THEM BUT IT WON'T BE THE ONLY THING THEY NEED. AND SO WHAT WE NEED IS TIME SIT DOWN WITH THOSE THE STAFF AT THOSE DISTRICTS AND THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE AND REALLY TALK THROUGH THAT ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND THEN SO THAT THE ALLOCATION HERE IS THAT AS WE DO THAT WE'LL HAVE MONEY TO GO AHEAD AND IMPLEMENT THOSE CHANGES, SET UP THOSE 20 MILE AN HOUR SCHOOL ZONES WHERE IT APPLIES. ALSO LOOK AT THEIR BIGGER TRANSPORTATION NEEDS AND SEE HOW WE CAN PARTNER WITH THEM. AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND I WOULD EXPECT NOTHING LESS. AND KIRK AND THE WORK THAT YOU DO THAT THE THOUGHTFUL THE APPROACH TO IT MAKE SURE YOU'RE DOING WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN AND DO IT RIGHT AND I APPRECIATE THAT. WHAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE IS THAT AS WE IF WE'RE DIGGING INTO THIS AND IF WE REALLY ARE GOING TO GET AFTER THIS THAT ESPECIALLY IN OUR SCHOOL ZONES, EVEN AROUND PARKS WE'VE TALKED AROUND PARKS OR THE CROSSINGS TO GET TO A PARK THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT NOT ONLY REDUCES SPEEDS OR INDICATES THINGS BUT OF THE EASE THAT I KEEP TALKING ABOUT. ONE OF THEM OF COURSE IS ALSO ENFORCEMENT AND I WOULD PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT WE HAVE IT WRITTEN SOMEWHERE THAT IN A SCHOOL ZONE IN FRONT OF A PARK I MEAN IF WE'VE GOT IT DOWN TO THE 20 MILES AN HOUR THAT THE ENFORCEMENT I DON'T KNOW AND I THINK YOU CAN UP FINES IN IN SCHOOL ZONES I DON'T KNOW THAT FOR BUT I THINK YOU CAN HAVE AN EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT FINE IN THE SCHOOLS ON OR IN A PARK ZONE OR BY A NURSING HOME, THAT TYPE OF THING. AND I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE EXAMINE OF THAT IN TERMS ESPECIALLY AROUND OUR SCHOOLS AND PARKS THAT WE EXAMINE EVERY POSSIBILITY USING ALL THE DIFFERENT ISSUES THE ENVIRONMENT, THE EDUCATION, THE ENGINEERING AND THE ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SEND THE MESSAGE THAT THAT'S JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE IN BLOOMINGTON. SO COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO AND COUNCILMEMBER LOGAN COUNCILMEMBER THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. GREAT PRESENTATION. I ACTUALLY GOT SOME FROM A RESIDENT EARLIER THIS EARLIER TODAY AND WAS ABLE TO SAY HEY TUNE IN BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT LIKE THE THING TODAY IT'S BEEN GREAT SO YOU FOR THAT I WANT TO JUST MAKE SURE WE RECAP VERY QUICKLY THE THE KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED PROGRAM JUST A CLARIFICATION SO. WE TALKED WE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT NOT NECESSARILY REQUIRING AN APPLICATION FEE OR ANYTHING. YOU'LL GO THROUGH THE PROCESS IN JANUARY. PEOPLE WILL BRING YOU IDEAS AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS THERE. THAT'S WHEN THAT'S WHEN THERE'S THIS OPEN QUESTION FOR YOU ALL ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD PLAN TO ACCEPT EIGHT WHATEVER IT IS RIGHT PROGRAM ADJUSTMENTS PER YEAR AND WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD JUST INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE BUDGET OR WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD CONSIDER ASSESSMENT TO THAT COMMUNITY. RIGHT. THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE OPEN QUESTIONS HERE. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I RECAP SO I, I THINK I THINK I AGREE IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE HAVE IN THE PAST ASKED FOR RESIDENT INITIATED CHANGES TO BE ASSESSED TO THE PROPERTIES IF ENOUGH OF THEM GET TOGETHER AND SAY THAT IT'S OKAY LOUISIANA AVENUE BEING THE MOST RECENT ONE RIGHT FOR EXAMPLE I THINK THAT THAT'S A GREAT IDEA BUT I REALLY DO APPRECIATE NUMBER ONE THAT WE COULD CONSIDER A 2575 PROPOSAL WHICH JUST MAKES IT MORE EQUITABLE IN GENERAL AND MORE LIKELY THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN BECAUSE PEOPLE WON'T BE AS UNWILLING TO GO THERE BECAUSE OF THE COST POTENTIALLY AND THEN ALSO IN ADDITION TO THAT THAT WE INCORPORATE THE THE GRANT PROGRAM. I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE ACROSS THE CITY REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY HAPPEN TO LIVE AND AND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO GET TO. SO FROM MY PERSPECTIVE I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE COMMENTS AS IF IF YOU'RE ASKING FOR FEEDBACK ON THAT I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT FOR US TO CONSIDER A 2575 I MEAN IF WE DON'T IF IT'S A $10,000 A PIECE OR WHATEVER MAYBE 7525 IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE IT COMES OUT TO LIKE $52 OVER TEN YEARS. I DON'T KNOW LIKE IT MAYBE THAT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE RIGHT. BUT IF IT IS A SIGNIFICANT ASSESSMENT, YOU KNOW IN THE THOUSANDS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE FOR US TO DO THAT PROGRAM IN WHICH CASE I WOULD BE VERY MUCH FOR THE GRANT PROGRAM AND I REALLY THANK YOU FOR BEING INNOVATIVE ABOUT BRINGING THAT TO THE TABLE. THANKS, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I AGREE WITH A LOT OF WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY THERE. SO I THINK WHAT I'LL DO IS I'M TO START I WAS GONNA START WITH THE CRITERIA BUT I JUST I KEEP THINKING ABOUT ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND EARLIER MAYOR YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SCHOOL FLASHER PIECE AND A FLASHLIGHT PIECE DIDN'T COME OUT THE RIGHT WAY. YEAH, WELL, SLIP OF THE TONGUE THERE. I'M A LITTLE TIRED I DID IT ALL NIGHTER LAST NIGHT SO WE'RE PROJECT DO SO I THINK ABOUT ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND REMEMBER THAT PAST COUNCIL AT ONE POINT HAD TAKEN SOME OF THE PARK EQUIPMENT AND PAID THAT OVER WE HAD BONDED FOR THAT PAID FOR ALL OF THAT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME AND WE DID IT KIND OF IN A SESSION. SO I'M WONDERING AS I LOOK AT THIS PROGRAM, IS THERE ANY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT ECONOMY OF SCALE? SO THAT'S ONE ON THE OTHER THOUGHT THAT I HAD WAS AROUND WE HAVE A HOME LOAN PROGRAM YOU KNOW ONE EITHER REDISTRIBUTING THOSE FUNDS I MEAN THIS IS A BUDGET THING AND REALLY NOT GERMANE TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. BUT I WONDER IF THERE'S CONCEPTS THAT COULD BE ADOPTED FROM THAT AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE BUT I WONDER IF THERE'S SOMETHING WE COULD PULL FROM THAT RATHER THAN THIS, YOU KNOW, 25, 75%. AND THE REASON WHY I THINK ABOUT YOU KNOW, I ASKED MYSELF THE QUESTION WHY ARE WE ATTEMPTING TO DO THIS AND WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS, WHERE YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THE GOALS IN ALL OF THE CONFERENCES WE'VE GONE TO IS THIS IDEA OF TRYING TO DRIVE DOWN ON OUR ROADS. AND SO REALLY IT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH KIND SITUATION THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO THERE. AND SO I ASK MYSELF THE QUESTION IF YOU KNOW, AS A POLICYMAKER OR IF WE WERE WILLING TO PAY OR TO BOND DOWN SOME OF THE PARKED THAT OUR KIDS PLAY ON WHY NOT THE ROUTES THAT ALLOW US AND THOSE KIDS TO SAFELY GET THERE AS WELL MAYBE SOME OF THESE OTHER ONES MIGHT MAKE SOME SENSE WITH WITH THAT THAT PIECE THERE SO THAT JUST SOMETHING AND I'M NOT SURE THERE'S REALLY A QUESTION THERE BUT JUST AMUSING OF A OF ME MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I WAS UP SUPER LATE THEN I'LL GO TO THE CRITERIA PIECE I, I LIKE THESE HERE BUT I'M JUST WONDERING ABOUT IN TERMS OF FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE I KNOW IT'S IT'S THERE BUT IS IT A SEPARATE CRITERIA AND THEN AS WE LOOK AT NOT JUST AFFORDABILITY BUT AS WE DO THESE THINGS OR INVEST IN THESE THINGS AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE WE TYPICALLY GET THE BEST THINGS AROUND THERE. I'M ALWAYS QUESTIONING MYSELF IN TERMS OF THE RESILIENCE OF THE OF THE PRODUCT THAT WE BUY THAT IT BECOMES AFFORDABLE OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THOSE FIT IN THE CRITERIA OR MAYBE THEY'RE COVERED SOMEWHERE ELSE BUT I WANTED TO AT LEAST ASK THOSE QUESTIONS AND I GUESS THAT ALSO WOULD APPLY ALSO TO HEALTH YOU KNOW THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF OF OF OUR OF OUR RESIDENTS AS WE LOOK AT THIS. SO MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN, WE DON'T HAVE A CRITERIA FOR ENVIRONMENT. SO IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC THAT COULD HELP US NARROW IT DOWN LIKE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING SPECIFIC THAT WOULD HELP US A LOT WITH OUR CRITERIA. I TELL YOU WHAT WE'LL TAKE IT OFFLINE. OKAY? YEAH. I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT TOO. I COULDN'T COME UP WITH A GREAT IDEA YET BUT MAYBE MY COLLEAGUE MIGHT HAVE SOME THOUGHTS IF I MAY MR. MAYOR? YEAH, JUST SOME IDEAS THERE, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY IF WE'RE USING RUBBER FOR, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THE BARRIERS AND SUCH THAT THEY'RE RECYCLED RUBBER YOU KNOW, SIGNAGE OFTENTIMES SIGNAGE CAN BE READ, YOU KNOW, REUSED. SO IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO. I ALSO LOVE THE IDEA OF INCORPORATING IF WE ARE GOING TO DO TRAFFIC CIRCLES OR OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE AUTOMATICALLY JUST ASSUME THAT WE'RE PLANTING NATIVE SPECIES INTO THE AREAS WHERE THEY'RE GROWING AND SO THERE'S JUST LOTS OF THINGS THAT WE CAN CONSIDER AS AS PART OF THAT TO JUST KIND OF KEEP THOSE SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS. BUT I THERE'S PERMEABLE AND SEMI PERMEABLE SURFACES OUT THERE THAT I THINK COULD WORK IN A LOT OF CASES THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY CONSIDERED AS WELL AND THAT JUST HELPS US WITH STORMWATER AND DRAINAGE AND THAT KIND OF THING TOO. SO WE GOT SOME IDEAS WE CAN THROW AT YOU. I'LL SEND YOU SOME LINKS I KNOW OF. YEAH. MR. MAYOR. COUNCILMEMBER I. I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE HEADED, BUT NOW I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BASED ON COUNCILMEMBER LERMAN'S QUESTION BECAUSE I THOUGHT HIS QUESTION WAS RELATED TO THE SELECTION OF THE PROJECT CRITERIA AND USING ENVIRONMENT AS PART OF THE SELECTION OF THE STREETS FOR TRAFFIC CALMING NOT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION. SO I UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO IMPLEMENTATION WITH MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRACTICES. WHAT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WAS THE SELECTION LIKE HOW DO I PICK STEPHENS AVENUE VERSUS 103RD AND HOW TO JUDGE THOSE FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT. SO THAT'S WHERE I GOT A LITTLE DIFFERENT QUESTION AND A LITTLE DIFFERENT POINT I THINK YOU AS YOU ANSWERED ONE A GOOD IMPLEMENTATION QUESTION BUT I THINK THE MEASUREMENT QUESTION AND YEAH SO LET LET ME GIVE A BELL AND IF YOU IF YOU COULD TAKE IT OFFLINE I WOULD THEN THAT WOULD BE BETTER. THANK I THINK FOR MY JUDGMENT SAID EARLIER. YEAH I APOLOGIZE I DID HAVE ONE OTHER QUICK THING THAT CAME TO MIND IS AS COUNCILMEMBER LEMON WAS TALKING WITH PROGRAM THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE FOR CUSTOMER FOR RESIDENT INITIATED THINGS INCLUDE LIKE SMALLER THINGS LIKE HEY I WOULD REALLY LIKE A STOP SIGN AT MY FOUR WAY INTERSECTION LIKE CAN THAT BE INCLUDED IN THERE TOO? ARE THOSE IDEAS TO BE CONSIDERED AS I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON HERE THAT DEFINES LIKE WHAT THE COST MIGHT BE FOR SOMEBODY IF THEY WANTED TO PUT IN FOUR WAY SIGNS OR SOMETHING. >> MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT ELEMENTS TO INCLUDE IN WHAT I'VE BEEN CALLING OUR ONE STOP SHOP FOR OUR TRAFFIC PROGRAM. HOWEVER THAT IS NOT REALLY A TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURE AND OFTEN WITH STOP SIGNS THERE ARE RULES YOU HAVE TO MEET AND CRITERIA AND WE DON'T JUST INSTALL THEM NILLY. WE HAD A RESIDENT REQUEST WE INSTALL FOUR YIELD SIGNS IN AN INTERSECTION. I'M LIKE THAT DOESN'T HELP ANYONE. NOBODY KNOWS WHO TO GO LIKE SO WE NEED TO PUT THE YIELD SIGNS ON THE MINOR STREETS AND LEAVE THE MAJOR STREETS AS THE THROUGH MOVEMENT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF MISCONCEPTION PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT THEY LEARNED IN DRIVER'S ED BECAUSE IT WAS SO MANY YEARS AGO SO THEY THINK STOP SIGNS ARE GOING TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS. STOP SIGNS OFTEN DON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM THEY'RE LOOKING TO SOLVE AND OFTEN CREATE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. BUT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IF THEY HAVE A STOP SIGN PROBLEM WHERE THEY THINK THAT THAT IS THE SOLUTION THEY SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT OUR TRAFFIC CALMING PROBLEM PROGRAM BECAUSE THERE IS PROBABLY AN ELEMENT OF WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SOLVE THERE. IT'S JUST THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT MEASURE TO SOLVE IT. RIGHT. UNDERSTOOD. SO SO THE THE THE CRITERIA THAT OR THE ASK IF YOU WILL, OF OF THE RESIDENT OR NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP ISN'T SO MUCH TO LIKE HEY, HERE'S THE SOLUTION I WANT YOU TO IMPLEMENT. IT'S MORE LIKE HEY WE KNOW WE HAVE A TRAFFIC CALMING NEED HERE. COME OUT AND ASSESS WITH US AND WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT TOGETHER KYRA. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. THANK YOU, MA'AM. SO JUST FOR CLARIFICATION FOR PEOPLE AND FOR ME THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM WOULD BE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATED. THAT'S NOT THE CITY GOING IN SAYING HE HAS MADE A ROUNDABOUT. IT'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD GOING HEY, WE HAVE AN ISSUE. WE HAVE A CONCERN CAN WE GET YOUR PROFESSIONALISM AND HELP US ADDRESS THIS? IS THAT ACCURATE? MR. MAYOR? NELSON YES, WE HAVE ALREADY AS STAFF AS PART OF OUR ANNUAL PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WE HAVE BOTH A WE HAVE A LOOK AHEAD MEETING AND WHERE WE TALK WITH THE STREETS OR TALK WITH TRAFFIC STAFF. THEN WE DO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT FOR THOSE STREETS THAT ARE COMING UP IN LIKE TWO YEARS TO SEE WHAT KIND OF TRAFFIC ISSUES THEY'RE HAVING. SO IF ALREADY OR IF WE'RE AWARE OF ONE, WE ALREADY HAVE A MECHANISM TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS. THESE ARE MORE THE LIVABILITY ONES OR ONES THAT WE'RE LIKE WELL YOU'RE NOT ON THE PUMP SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET TO YOU FOR LIKE ANOTHER 15 YEARS IF YOU HAVE SMALL CHILDREN LIKE IF YOU HAVE A TWO YEAR OLD YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO WAIT UNTIL. THEY'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE CITY TO COME AND SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM. >> SO AT THAT POINT THEY WILL BE THE PROBLEM. SO I'LL JUST SAY I LIVE BY HIGH SCHOOL IN TERMS OF CRITERIA YOU HAD MENTIONED EQUITY AND I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO INCLUDE TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU CAN GET THE DATA IF THERE'S PEOPLE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY IN THE AREA, SENIORS IN AN AREA THAT'S PREDOMINANTLY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, THE TYPES OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY LEAST ABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM TRAFFIC CONCERNS AND MAKE SURE WE'RE TAKING A LOOK IN THAT FROM EQUITY PERSPECTIVE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE SPEED DATA AND IF YOU HAD ALL TEN YOU'D USE SPEED DATA AS A BONUS FACTOR. BUT IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE ALL TEN YOU WOULDN'T. I GUESS THE QUESTION IN MY MIND IS WHY NOT IF YOU HAD SPEED DATA THAT SHOWED ONE STREET WAS JUST WAY OFF THE CHARTS THAT YOU PEOPLE WERE TRADITIONALLY JUST GOING EXCESSIVELY FAST ON THAT I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE I LIVE BY A HIGH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, AND HIGH SCHOOL DRIVERS TEND TO BE OVERLY OPTIMISTIC IN THEIR ABILITIES TO DRIVE. I ALSO SEE IT IN OTHER PLACES I DRIVE THROUGH COUNCILMEMBER LOEHMANN'S DISTRICT ON 106TH AND THIS YEAR ALONE I'VE BEEN PAST FOUR TIMES IN THE CENTER. MY DAUGHTER TELLS ME I DRIVE TO GRANDPA BUT SO BUT THERE ARE PLACES THAT PEOPLE ARE DRIVING EXCESSIVELY FAST THAT I, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULDN'T USE THAT DATA IF IF IT SHOWED SOMETHING EXCESSIVE. MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THAT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER IF YOU'RE OPEN TO US ONLY PICKING AND CHOOSING WHERE WE USE CERTAIN DATA WE COULD DO THAT. THE ONE CAVEAT I WOULD ALSO SHARE IS WE DO HAVE A PROGRAM IT'S CALLED STREET LIGHT WHERE WE CAN GENERATE TRAFFIC DATA FROM THERE AND IT INCLUDES SOME SPEED DATA BUT IF THE ROAD IS CLOSE TO A FREEWAY IT SOMETIMES GETS GIVES YOU REALLY WRONG ANSWERS. SO THE INSTANT AREA IS UP FOR THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN A COUPLE OF YEARS I MENTIONED WE HAD OUR LOOK AHEAD MEETING THE TRAFFIC STAFF SAYS OH WE DON'T GET ANY CALLS ABOUT SPEEDING ON THERE STREET LIGHT SAYS THAT THEY'VE GOT A HUGE SPEEDING PROBLEM IT'S 55 MILES AN HOUR ON THAT ROADWAY BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE 494 169 RAMP. SO THE THE DATA ISN'T THIS FINE POINT. SO SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO THROW OUT THE DATA BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT'S WRONG BUT IF YOU'RE OPEN TO USING PARTS OF THE DATA EVEN IF WE DON'T HAVE DATA FOR OTHER STREETS MY MY HANG UP IS IF I DON'T HAVE DATA FOR CLINTON BUT I HAVE DATA FOR CHICAGO AND I GIVE CLINTON THE POINTS AND I DON'T GIVE CHICAGO THE DATA I FEEL A LITTLE BAD ABOUT THAT. BUT IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH IT, IT'S GOING BE YOUR PROGRAM THAT YOU ADOPT. SO YEAH AND I CANDIDLY WOULD RELY YOUR PROFESSIONAL EXPERTIZE IF THE DATA DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S GOOD OR VALID. IT OBVIOUSLY I WOULD EXPECT YOU WOULDN'T USE IT AND I'M JUST SAYING IF THERE WAS A BIG OUTLIER I THINK THAT WOULD BE INFORMATION TO BRING FORWARD ESPECIALLY IF IT'S JUST BONUS POINTS IT'S NOT THE THE MAIN IT'S KIND OF A BONUS THING IT'D BE GOOD INFORMATION TO HAVE AS MAYBE A TIEBREAKER SCHOOL ZONES ONE I'D OBVIOUSLY THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS I GOT FROM PEOPLE AND MAKING SURE WE'RE SAFE AROUND SCHOOL SO THAT THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. THE QUESTION I HAVE IS IF WE'RE GOING TO PHASE THAT, HOW WOULD WE POSSIBLY PRIORITIZE? I MEAN I HEAR A LOT ABOUT 102ND WE TRAGICALLY HAD A FATAL ACCIDENT AT 102ND IN FRANCE. YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT YOU TALKED ABOUT OLSEN OFF OF 106 THERE. YOU KNOW, HAVE SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS THAT ARE ON LARGER SO I THINK THAT'S A BASIC RIGHT HERE BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL THAT ARE IN THAT SITUATION AND WASHBURN OF 84TH AND YOU KNOW HOW WOULD WE PRIORITIZE THOSE AND TO COUNCILMEMBER LOEHMANN'S POINT YOU KNOW COULD PUT THOSE INTO GROUPS AND DO MORE OF THEM AT ONCE BECAUSE THIS IS IN MY MIND ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS I HEAR ABOUT FROM PEOPLE THE POINT LET'S REMEMBER MORE OR YOU HAVE MORE? I ALWAYS HAVE MORE. YEAH I ACTUALLY DO. OKAY OKAY. I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF. I APOLOGIZE. OR DID YOU WANT TO CHIME IN ON THE SCHOOL ISSUE? CAN WE CAN WE DO THAT QUICKLY? COUNCIL MEMBERS SAID OKAY IF COUNCILMEMBER MOUA JUMPS IN ON THE SCHOOL ISSUE, PLEASE. THANK YOU. MAYOR. THANK YOU. COME TO REMEMBER ALISON, MY MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE SCHOOLS ISSUE AS WELL ESPECIALLY THE PHASING MY OLDEST IS FOUR AND IF WE WAIT 15 YEARS SHE'S GOING TO BE OUT OF THE HOUSE. RIGHT AND SO I PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT FASTER, WHETHER IT'S PARTNERING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR WHATEVER SOME OTHER WAY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WORK WITH THESE SCHOOLS TO UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS FOR IMPLEMENT FASTER BECAUSE I THINK 10 TO 15 YEARS IS TOO LONG. MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER MUIR COUNCILMEMBER NELSON, I HAVE AN OFF THE CUFF PROPOSAL. WE'LL SEE HOW IT FLIES. WHAT ON MOST EVERYTHING I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLAN IT'S THERE. IT'S ALL ON LOCAL STREETS. BUT ADMITTEDLY WE HAVE SCHOOLS THAT ARE NOT ON OUR LOCAL STREETS. THEY'RE ON OUR COLLECTORS AND ARTERIALS. WHAT IF WE BUNDLED ALL OF THOSE? YOU ARE NOT ON A LOCAL STREET. WE ACCELERATED THOSE AND COUNCIL WAS WILLING TO HIRE A CONSULTANT TO HELP US FUND THAT TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO GET THOSE DONE FASTER. AND THEN WE USE THE CRITERIA JUST FOR OUR LOCAL STREET SCHOOLS. >> I THINK THAT MAKES GOOD SENSE TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT SITUATIONS IN DIFFERENT WAYS. I THINK AS KIRK WAS MENTIONING EARLIER, YOU LOOK AT DIFFERENT SITUATIONS IN DIFFERENT I THINK THAT MAKES GOOD SENSE AND I'LL ALSO THROWN OFF THE CUFF IDEA AT THIS I THINK COUNCIL WE HAVE EVERY YEAR WE TALK ABOUT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND IF WE THINK THIS MIGHT BE A ONE OR TWO TIME STRATEGIC PRIORITY INVESTMENT THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE WOULD WANT TO CONSIDER INVESTING IN AND I'M THIS IS GOING TO BLOW THE TOP OFF OF SOME PEOPLE'S HEADS BUT I THINK IF WE IF WE WOULD UP ENFORCEMENT PERHAPS SOME OF THE EXTRA FINE REVENUE COULD ALSO GO TO THE PROGRAM TO HELP FUND IT IN A IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS. SO COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THANK YOU, MAYOR. TO YOUR POINT WITH REGARDS TO THE COLLECTOR AND ONTARIO'S STREETS, I KNOW WHEN WE ORIGINALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I HAD BROUGHT UP TO NOT JUST LIMIT THIS TO LOCAL STREETS BECAUSE. THE BIGGEST CONCERNS I HEAR ARE NOT NECESSARILY ON THE STREET I LIVE ON OR THE STREET THAT MANY OF US LIVE ON. BUT IT'S THE HIGH SPEED OF TRAFFIC ON OUR MAJOR ROADS AND SO IT WILL WE BE LOOKING AT THAT AND LOOKING AT IDEAS BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FLASHING SIGNS AND KNOW I SEE THOSE USED IN OTHER COMMUNITIES TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THEIR SPEED AND DOES IT HAVE AN IMPACT ON SLOWING PEOPLE DOWN WHEN THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT IT'S ON BIG SIGN FLASHING AT THEM. YOU KNOW WE'RE SAYING IT WORKS BY SCHOOLS. WOULD IT WORK OLD SHAKOPEE OR SOMETHING OR NORM AND DALE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT WILL BE PART OF IT. THE OTHER PART ALONG THOSE LINES WE USED TO HAVE SOME SIGNS AND I KNOW THERE ARE REASONS WE GOT RID OF THEM BUT IS IT WORTH CONSIDERATION OF YOU KNOW, LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY TYPE OF SIGNS I HAPPEN TO AND DISTRICT TO HAVE WAREHOUSES WHERE THERE'S LARGE VEHICLES THAT USE LOCAL STREETS AND SO WE'VE GOT SEMI TRUCKS DRIVING DOWN YOU FAIRLY LOCAL STREETS ARE PROBABLY COLLECTOR ARTERIAL OR YOU KNOW THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT LARGER BUT THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THOSE STREETS WOULD EXPECT TO BE DRIVING DOWN THEIR STREET ON A REGULAR BASIS. IS THERE A WAY TO SAY NO LARGE TRUCKS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT? AND THEN I THINK THE OTHER THING I HEAR ABOUT IS JUST PARKING AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND HOW FLEXIBLE THEY CAN BE. I KNOW NEAR JEFFERSON YOU THEY HAVE THEM SO THAT THEY'RE ONLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR AND SCHOOL HOURS THAT YEAR ACTUALLY PAUL DOES NOT JEFFERSON'S BY OLSON THAT THOSE SIGNS OUT SO YOU CAN'T PARK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THAT WHICH IS A LOCAL STREET SO YOU KNOW ARE WE GOING TO BROADEN THIS AT ALL AND TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE OTHER ISSUES THAT THAT I HEAR ABOUT IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC? MR. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON PROBABLY NOT AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF REASONS WHY THE STREETS YOU NAMED NORMAN DALE OLD SHAKOPEE THOSE ARE ALL COUNTY ROADS THE COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE AUTHORIZATION TO CHANGE THEIR SPEED LIMITS ON THOSE ROADS. UNLIKE CITIES THEY HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN THAT PERMISSION FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE SO THEY WILL NOT BE CHANGING THE SPEED LIMITS ON THOSE ROADWAYS. WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A BENEFIT TO THE DRIVING PUBLIC TO DRIVE ON THOSE COLLECTORS AND ARTERIALS INSTEAD OF CUTTING THROUGH THE ARTERIALS STREETS. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE AREN'T GOING TO BE PROPOSING TO DO SOME DIFFERENT SPEED LIMIT CHANGES AND WE MIGHT NEED ONE OF MY FAVORITE IS THE ENGINEERING. SO KIRK IS WORKING ON SPEED LIMITS FOR OUR COLLECTORS AND ARTERIALS THAT ARE NON COUNTY ROADWAYS SO HIGHWOOD IS A GOOD EXAMPLE HE WE HAVE DATA SHOWS PEOPLE SPEED ON HIGHWOOD AND I CAN GO CHANGE THAT SIGN TOMORROW IF YOU TELL ME THAT I CAN AND IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE UNTIL WE DO THE ENGINEERING AND WE BUILD SOME CHOKERS AND WE MAYBE PUT A CHICANE IN THERE OR DO SOMETHING THEN THAT'S JUST WISHFUL ENGINEERING AT THAT POINT AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT THAT. I WANT PEOPLE TO LOOK AT OUR SIGN AND IT SAYS 25 MILES OR 35 MILES AN HOUR AND KNOW THAT THAT IS THE SPEED THAT THEY SHOULD BE GOING. AND I WANT THE ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY'RE DRIVING THROUGH OR WALKING THROUGH TO ENFORCE THAT IDEA AS THEY'RE MOVING THROUGH THAT AREA. SO I THINK WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING FORWARD WITH KIRK IS GOING TO BE BRINGING THE COLLECTOR AND ARTERIALS SPEED LIMIT CHANGES TO YOU BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROPOSALS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE SPEEDS, SPEED OR RECOMMEND CHANGING SPEED LIMITS AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME STREETS THAT WE'RE GOING TO SAY UNTIL WE ACTUALLY SOMETHING DIFFERENT WE CAN PUT AS MANY SIGNS UP AS YOU WANT AND YOU CAN HAVE A FULL TIME POLICE OFFICER OUT THERE TO DO ENFORCEMENT AND IT WON'T AFFECT PERMANENT CHANGE BECAUSE AS SOON AS THAT OFFICER LEAVES PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO THEIR OLD HABITS BECAUSE. THAT'S WHAT THE DESIGN TELLS THEM TO DO. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON AND THANK YOU. SORRY, I'LL BE QUICK HERE. I JUST WANT TO STILL GET TWO MEDIA ITEMS THAT WE'VE GOT TO GET THROUGH AS WELL. I WAS NOT AT ALL SUGGESTING CHANGING THE SPEED LIMITS ON THOSE ROADS. I WAS SUGGESTING WAYS TO BETTER INFORM PEOPLE OF THE SPEED LIMITS ON THOSE ROADS AND ENCOURAGE THEM LIKE THE I GAVE WAS THE FLASHING SIGNS. CAN WE PUT THOSE TYPES OF THINGS UP SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW IF THEY WORK NEAR SCHOOL ZONES THAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION, SEE THAT THEY'RE SPEEDING AND THEY SLOW DOWN IN ONE AREA WHY WOULDN'T WORK IN ANOTHER AREA? I WAS NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE CHANGE SPEED LIMITS I KNOW BUT I WAS SUGGESTING MORE SIGNAGE ON SOME OF OUR ROADS THAT WE CAN TO DIVERT TRAFFIC OVER THERE. AND THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY IS I ACTUALLY AM NOT MUCH IN SUPPORT OF CHANGING THE LOCAL SPEED LIMIT OF 25 FOR THE POINT YOU JUST MADE I SEE WHAT CHANGE IT'S GOING TO MAKE AND AS YOU NOTED EARLIER, THERE'S AN ACCIDENT HERE. THERE'S AN ACCIDENT THERE IN MY MIND THAT THAT REALLY ISN'T THE PROBLEM. IT'S NOT ENFORCEABLE. YOU KNOW, BEFORE I MOVED ON ANYTHING LIKE THAT I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM THE POLICE BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE THEM PULLING PEOPLE FOR GOING 33 IN A YOU KNOW, LOCAL STREET. I DON'T THINK THEY'RE GOING TO PULL PEOPLE OVER FOR GOING 28 IN A LOCAL STREET. I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO REALLY MAKE ANY IMPACT UNLESS I SAW MORE DATA ON THAT. TO YOUR POINT, IT'S ABOUT THE DESIGN. IT'S ABOUT THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GIVING TO PEOPLE. AND SO THAT WAS MY SUGGESTION ON THOSE LARGER STREET IS TO GIVE MORE INFORMATION ON THOSE STREETS SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. SO THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER MOUA. AND THEN NELL MARTIN EXCUSE ME. COUNCILMEMBER ONE OH YOU HAD THE QUESTION ANSWERED COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN I THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JUST ONE QUICK THOUGHT AND A QUESTION I THAT YOU INCLUDED IN THE POTENTIAL BUDGET AMOUNTS HERE KIND OF DETERMINING DEPENDS ON WHAT WE DO WITH LANDSCAPING FOR THE CURB EXTENSIONS AND THE CIRCLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I GUESS I WOULD SUGGEST LEANING INTO LANDSCAPING HARD POTENTIALLY OVER BUDGETING FOR IT BECAUSE I THINK REALLY USING THESE NEW FEATURES NOT JUST AS A PUNITIVE NOW YOU GOT TO SLOW DOWN AND SWERVE AROUND THE CIRCLE LITTLE BIT BUT SAYING THIS IS GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IT'S GOING TO INCREASE GREENERY. I KNOW I THINK ABOUT WHEN THEY I THINK IT WAS ON PORTLAND IN RICHFIELD WHEN THEY ADDED ALL THOSE BUMP OUTS EVERYTHING AND REALLY LEANED INTO SAYING WE ARE GOING TO TO MAKE THIS SOMETHING AND WE CAN BRAG ABOUT IT LOOKED LIKE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD AND SO I THINK MOVING FORWARD USING IT AS A SPOTLIGHT OPPORTUNITY AND I ALSO APPRECIATE THAT THE AMOUNT OF MEASUREMENT AND SAYING IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO BE ABLE TO PUT OUT SAY THE TUBE TESTS AND REALLY SEE WHERE THE HOTSPOTS ARE WITH THE MASSIVE PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING NOW AND ARE GOING TO BE RAMPING UP ON FOR 94 POTENTIAL DIVERSION TRAFFIC OFF THE HIGHWAY AT THE TIME WE MAY BE DOING A LOT OF THESE TESTS. DO WE HAVE AN IDEA IF THAT'S GOING TO SCRAMBLE OUR DATA AT ALL OR IF NOT SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT, MR. MAYOR? COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN IT WOULD DEPEND ON WHAT THE LOCATION IS ON WHETHER WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET SKEWED DATA. THE MINDY PROJECT HAS A FAIRLY ROBUST TRAFFIC MODEL SO WE CAN PROBABLY LOOK TO SEE IF WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET SKEWED DATA BUT WE DON'T KNOW THAT AND THEN. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON I'M SORRY I MISUNDERSTOOD YOUR QUESTION. THANK YOU. AND JUST TO THAT POINT, I MIGHT ALSO AGAIN BRIEFLY APOLOGIZE JUST WE HAVE A LOT OF ROADS TO YOUR POINT THAT ARE SIMILARLY SITUATED TO SAY YOU CAN CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT. IT'S NOT GOING TO NECESSARILY DO ANYTHING. SO ON A ROAD LIKE THAT WHERE WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO NEED TO TAKE PHYSICAL CHANGES TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN, WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER ROADS VERY SIMILAR IN SIMILAR POSITIONING. TO YOUR POINT WE'RE GOING THROUGH OR DOING A POINT SYSTEM SO EVEN JUST SAYING DOWN THE LINE AS POLICY WE'VE SAID WE HAVE TOO MANY FOUR LANE ROADS WE'RE TRANSITIONING A LOT OF THOSE TO THREE JUST SAYING WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ROADS LIKE THESE THAT NEED CHANGES. LET'S JUST PLAN ON CHANGING AS OPPOSED TO WAITING UNTIL DATA COMES IN TO TELL US PROBABLY WHAT WE'RE ALREADY KNOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. AND I WANT TO STRESS AND WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ON HERE BUT I DO WANT TO STRESS WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF I MEAN I USE THE FIVE YEARS JUST BECAUSE IT'S IT'S IT'S CUTE BUT IT'S NOT IN SIMPLY ENFORCEMENT NOT SIMPLY LOWERING IT TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. IT'S NOT SIMPLY EDUCATION. IT'S NOT SIMPLY DOING BUMP OUTS AND ROUNDABOUTS. IT'S ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER. IT'S AND FIGURING OUT WHAT THE BEST OPTION WOULD BE TO MEET THE GOAL WHEN THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN ON OUR CITY STREETS AND WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE SAID IT, WE'VE ALL SAID IT. IT'S THE MOST COMMON THING WE HEAR FROM PEOPLE. AND SO WE NEED TO WE NEED ALL THOSE TOOLS IN OUR TOOL CHEST AND ISN'T SIMPLY PUTTING A 25 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SIGNS I AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S A MATTER OF DOING OTHER THINGS AS WELL TO MAKE THIS ALL WORK AND TO JUST SLOW PEOPLE DOWN ON OUR STREETS. SO VERY QUICKLY, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN, JUST MORE OF A PROCEDURAL THING. I SAW AN EMAIL COME ACROSS HERE AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE USED TO HAVE BEFORE IN THE PAST IS STUDY SESSIONS AND THIS IS MORE OF A STUDY SESSION PIECE AND I THINK SOMETIMES RESIDENTS WATCH THIS GOING ON HERE. THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE STUDYING THESE ISSUES AND WE HAVEN'T NECESSARILY TAKEN A POSITION. SO JUST FOR THIS ONE EMAIL OR THEY CALLED IN, PLEASE TAKE IT IN THAT VEIN. THAT'S HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS. WE'RE STUDYING IT LOOKING AT IT WHAT MAY BE OR MAY NOT BE. WE'RE IN THE SAUSAGE MAKING BUSINESS RIGHT NOW AND. THIS IS WHICH WE TYPICALLY DID FOR YEARS AND ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND ANOTHER CORNER OF THE BUILDING NOW WE'RE DOING IT OUT IN AN ON CAMERA IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN. SO SOME PEOPLE WATCH IT AND AREN'T QUITE EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. THIS IS HOW WE GET TO THE CONSENSUS. THIS IS HOW WE GET TO THE FINAL DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH AND STAFFING GREAT RECOMMENDATIONS COUNCIL TO IT GOING BACK AND FORTH AND IT'S IT'S HOW IT WORKS SO THAT'S A GOOD POINT. SO ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH TO WORK WITH THERE? DO YOU THINK SO? I THINK SO. OKAY, GOOD. PERFECT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ADAM 5.2 AND >> OUR AGENDA IS ANOTHER STUDY SESSION TYPE OF AGENDA ITEM. THIS IS OUR MUNICIPAL PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE HAVE EMMA STRAUSS OUR SUSTAINABILITY COORDINATOR AND STEPHANIE OR FORMER SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONER AND LOGAN OUR YOUTH MEMBER OF OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION. WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS, WE'RE HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT MUNICIPAL SOLAR. I'M STRESS AND THE CITY SUSTAINABILITY COORDINATOR AND AS THE MAYOR JUST MENTIONED I'M JOINED TONIGHT BY TWO OF OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSIONERS ONE I SHOULD SAY FORMER SHE ENDED HER SERVICE BUT STEPHANIE HELPED LEAD THE INITIATIVE THIS YEAR TO HAVE THE COMMISSION COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WILL BE SHARED TONIGHT AROUND THE CITY MOVING FORWARD WITH SOLAR WHICH WE WERE GREATLY IMPRESSED BY STEPHANIE'S EXPERTIZE GIVEN THAT SHE WORKS IN THE SOLAR INDUSTRY. SO THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT I'LL PROVIDE SOME QUICK BACKGROUND ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE AND THEN I'LL PASS IT OVER TO STEPHANIE TO WALK THROUGH THE SUSTAINABLE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION AND THEN SHE'LL PASS IT BACK TO ME TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPOSAL FOR SOLAR ON PUBLIC WORKS AND THEN WE'LL DISCUSS THE PROPOSED NEXT STEPS. SO THE BACKGROUND FOR THIS EARLIER THIS SUMMER I WAS GIVEN A FOLDER THAT HAD SUSTAINABILITY ON IT AND IT HAD A PRINTED OUT EMAIL FROM ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO THAT SAID SOLAR PUBLIC WORKS SHOULD WE LOOK INTO THIS SO THE HISTORY GOES WAY BACK BEYOND FIVE YEARS AGO WHICH IS ON THE SLIDE BUT IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSION BACK IN 2018 THE CITY ADOPTED THE BLOOMINGTON'S ENERGY ACTION PLAN WHICH SET GOALS AROUND ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AND REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN THAT SECTOR. IN 2019 THE CITY COMPLETED A STUDY USING APEX TO LOOK AT ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITY FACILITIES AND THEN ALSO SOLAR OPPORTUNITIES. THOSE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPPORTUNITIES COMPLETED BETWEEN 2020 AND 2021 LAST YEAR PUBLIC WORKS GOT A NEW ROOF AND IT WAS BUILT TO BE SOLAR READY AND THIS YEAR AND THE COUNCIL APPROVED WORKPLAN FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION WAS TO HAVE THE COMMISSION EVALUATE SOLAR OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITY FACILITIES. SO WITH THAT I WILL PASS IT OFF TO STEPHANIE TO WALK THROUGH THE RECOMMENDATION. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE EXCITED TO SHARE OUR RECOMMENDED AUDIENCE HERE. IT'S A HIGH LEVEL LIST SO IT WON'T BE TOO LENGTHY HERE. OUR FIRST RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE PROJECT DEMONSTRATES AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT TO THE CITY SO WE WANT TO SHOW THIS ISN'T JUST FOR SUSTAINABILITY ONLY IT ALSO HAS A FINANCIAL BENEFIT TO THE CITY AND THE UPFRONT INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY MAKES MUST LEAD TO LONG TERM SAVINGS. THIS IS ACHIEVABLE IN MANY DIFFERENT SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE IN OUR RECOMMENDATION THE COST SAVINGS SHOULD ALSO BE DEDICATED TO THE CITY'S CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION INVESTMENTS. WE PUT SOME EXAMPLES UP ON THE SCREEN THIS HASN'T BEEN DEFINED YET BUT IF WE COULD KEEP THOSE SAVINGS AND PUSH THEM TOWARDS SOME OF THE CITY'S GOALS CLIMATE GOALS THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT. OUR SECOND RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE RECS WHICH ARE RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES OWNED BY THE CITY SO THOSE WOULD CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE CITY'S RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY USE AND CARBON FOOTPRINT REDUCTION AND WOULD BE A POSITIVE STEP IN SHOWING THE CITY IS COMMITMENT TOWARDS REDUCING THEIR OWN FOOTPRINT. OUR THIRD RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE PROJECT BE LOCATED ON A FLAT ROOFED CITY FACILITY THAT IS SOLAR READY SO AM I ALREADY MENTIONED THE ROOFTOP ON THE PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING WAS REDONE LAST YEAR AND IS SOLAR READY? BUT WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT IT'S ABLE TO SUPPORT A SOLAR ARRAY WITHOUT NEEDING STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION SO WE WON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO THE BUILDING BEFORE PUTTING SOLAR ON TOP OF IT. IT ALSO SHOULD BE ON A BUILDING WHERE ROOF IS NOT ANTICIPATED TO NEED REPLACEMENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. YOU DON'T WANT TO SOLAR AND THEN NEED TO TAKE IT RIGHT OFF TO REPLACE THE ROOF UNDERNEATH IT. AND THEN THE THIRD ITEM IS THAT YOU WANT TO INSTALL IT ON A ROOF THAT HAS OPEN SPACE NOT OBSTRUCTED OR SHADED BY ANY TYPE OF MECHANICAL OR UNIT TREES, OTHER BUILDINGS YOU WANT YOUR SOLAR ENERGY TO PRODUCE ENERGY AND OUR FOURTH RECOMMENDATION IS IT IS ACCESSIBLE BY CITY FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE STAFF THAT WOULD SUPPORT EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND BASIC MAINTENANCE OF THE SOLAR ARRAY AND THERE WOULD ALSO BE ENERGY PRODUCTION MONITORING TO INFORM STAFF OF THE STATUS OF THE SOLAR ARRAY. SO IF THEY SAW ANY DIP IN PRODUCTION THEY WOULD HAVE EASY ACCESS TO GO UP THERE AND ASSESS IF THERE WAS JUST A BASIC MAINTENANCE ITEM THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED OUR LAST RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE PROJECT BE COMPLETED LATER THAN THE END OF 2024. A COUPLE ITEMS THAT WERE ADDED TO THE END OF THE RECOMMENDATION THESE ITEMS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE RECOMMENDATION PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE PROJECT IS EXCLUDED. SO ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED THAT THE PUBLIC READY ACCESS TO THE PROJECT FOR SAFETY REASONS EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION AND PROJECT UPDATES SHOULD BE SHARED AND THEN THE LAST EXCLUSION IS SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS LIKE A COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDEN THERE ARE ALREADY COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDEN OPTIONS IN THE AREA AND FOR THIS FIRST CITY PROJECT ADDING THAT COMPLEXITY TO THE PROJECT IS NOT RECOMMENDED. THANK YOU STEPHANIE. SO WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN IS THAT THERE ESSENTIALLY IS A CLEAR OPPORTUNITY ACROSS THE STREET FOR US TO HAVE A LOCATION THAT ALIGNS WITH MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THE COMMISSION HAS COME UP AND SO AT PUBLIC WORKS WE HAVE A RECENTLY REPLACED ROOF AT SOLAR READY IT'S FLAT YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ISN'T SHADE AND MAINTENANCE STAFF ARE HOUSED IN THAT BUILDING SO IT'S EASY FOR THEM TO BE TO GO AND CHECK ON IT ESPECIALLY AS A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY. STEPHANIE ALSO MENTIONED THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A FINANCIAL BENEFIT AND I THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD HELP DISPLAY THAT HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT PUBLIC WORKS DATA FROM THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND YOU CAN SEE THAT SINCE WE MADE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS ISN'T WHETHER NORMALIZED BUT YOU COULD SEE THE GENERAL TREND IS THAT WE'RE USING ENERGY. I'M GOING TO SWITCH NOW SO WE'RE LOOKING AT KILOWATT HOURS THIS NEXT ONE IF I CAN GET THE CLICKER TO WORK WE'RE LOOKING AT COST SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS PAST YEAR EVEN THOUGH WE'VE BEEN USING LESS ELECTRICITY AT PUBLIC WORKS, WE NOW ARE PAYING MORE AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A TREND THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SEEING ENERGY PRICES RISE AND THIS GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO LOCK IN AT A LOWER RATE TO POWER THAT BUILDING WITH ELECTRICITY FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES. THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO DO A PROJECT SO WE HAVE FORMULA FUNDING IN TERMS OF A VOUCHER THAT WE NEED TO APPLY BEFORE THE END OF JANUARY 2024. IT'S 150,000 THAT NEEDS TO GO TOWARDS EQUIPMENT THAT'S A PROJECT LIKE A SOLAR GARDEN SORRY SOLAR ARRAY WOULD FALL INTO THAT. ALSO STARTING THIS YEAR WE NOW HAVE A FEDERAL TAX CREDIT SO THE INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT NOW ALLOWS CITIES TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A DIRECT PAYMENT OPTION FROM THE IRS FOR SOLAR. SO IN THE PAST YOU MAY HAVE REALIZED THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT BUT NOW THERE'S A CLEAR OPPORTUNITY FOR US AS LONG AS WE MEET LABOR LAWS AND HAVE THE REQUIREMENT OF I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE 15% OF THE HOURS BE FOR CERTAIN WORKERS AND LEARNING IN THE FIELD BUT IF WE MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS WE CAN GET AT LEAST 30% OFF THE PROJECT AND THEN IF WE DECIDE TO GO FOR ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF STEEL BEING MADE AND U.S. AND OTHER U.S. MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS THAT GO INTO THEIR RACE, WE CAN GET AN ADDITIONAL 10%. SO IN SUMMARY, THERE'S NEW FOR US TO BE ABLE TO FINANCE THIS THAT WEREN'T HAPPENING A YEAR AGO. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE GRANTS COMING ONLINE LIKE THE EPA CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF FUNDING THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO APPLY TO STARTING IN Q1 OF NEXT YEAR THAT IS COMPETITIVE BUT IT'S ABOUT $4.6 BILLION THAT ONCE MET COUNCIL DOES THE REGIONAL CLIMATE PLANNING EFFORT FOR US WE'RE GOING TO BE TO GO AFTER THOSE FUNDS AND THAT WOULD BE COVERING A PROJECT LIKE THIS. THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEXT YEAR TO GO AFTER FINANCING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT PRICE DOWN. THE LAST TIME WE GOT A ROUGH BID FOR A PROJECT LIKE THIS WAS IN 2019. YOU'LL SEE THAT IT WAS 1.2 MILLION. THAT IS A VERY OUTDATED FIGURE BUT THAT'S THE MOST RECENT ONE THAT WE HAVE WHICH IS WHY STAFF ARE RECOMMENDING THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH AN RFP WHICH WOULD ALLOW US TO GET AN UPDATED BID AND SENSE OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO ON PUBLIC WORKS, HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST, WHAT THE PAYBACK WOULD BE AND THE SOLAR PRODUCTION ESTIMATE SO THAT WE COULD COME FORWARD TO COUNCIL WITH MORE CONCRETE NUMBERS TO MAKE A DECISION. NEXT STEPS ALSO DECIDING WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES. THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDED TO KEEP THEM THOSE ARE ESSENTIALLY THE WAY TO SAY I GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR THE CARBON REDUCTION THAT YOU HAVE. SO IF WE DIDN'T KEEP THOSE ESSENTIALLY WE WOULD HAVE SOLAR ON A ROOF BUT WE COULDN'T SAY THAT WE WERE A BUILDING WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY THAT WOULD GO TO SOMEONE ELSE WHICH WOULD HAVE A FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR BUT THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE THAT ALIGNED WITH CARBON REDUCTION. SO THAT IS A DECISION THAT ULTIMATELY COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO MAKE. OUR PROPOSAL THAT STAFF HAS IS TO IN THE RFP PUT IN OPTIONS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHAT PATH WOULD LOOK LIKE WHAT IN OF FINANCIAL COST AND THEN ALSO CARBON REDUCTION BENEFIT AND WITH THAT THANK YOU AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK. >> WELL THANK YOU AND THANKS FOR THE MY QUESTION WAS GOING TO BE WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS AND YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION I APPRECIATE THAT THAT CLARIFIED THINGS COUNCIL QUESTIONS HERE COMMENTS COUNCILMEMBER MOON AND COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO COUNCILMEMBER MORE FOR YOU HERE. THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS PRESENTATION. I THINK IT'S REALLY EXCITING. IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TIME TO DO IT SOUNDS LIKE AS FAR AS CAPTURING THE ENERGY IS THERE I GUESS WHAT'S THE USE GOING TO BE? ARE WE CAPTURING IT INTO A BATTERY OR WE'RE SELLING IT BACK TO EXCEL AND IS THAT HOW WE'RE CAPTURING THE THE THE MONEY BACK FROM THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT? SO MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER MUIR THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT ROUTE COUNCIL DECIDES TO TAKE BUT ESSENTIALLY THE PLAN WOULD BE TO USE THE ELECTRICITY IN THE PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING THAT'S PRODUCED ON THE ROOF. OKAY. AND THEN ADDITIONALLY THE DO WE LOOK AT PARKING LOTS AT ALL TO INCORPORATE THAT BECAUSE I LOOK AT THAT PRESENTATION THE PARKING LOT IS VERY OPEN AS WELL. SO JUST IDEAS ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HAVE FUNDING AND GRANT MONEY TYING A PARKING LOT STRUCTURE TO THE ROOF PROVIDES SHADES FOR VEHICLES I DON'T LIKE WHEN MY VEHICLE 200 DEGREES WHEN I STEP INTO IT BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS FOR ADDITIONAL ENERGY CAPTURE TO FURTHER RECOUP THE MONEY AND THEN WE INVEST INTO THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. MR. MAYOR MUA I SHOULD SAY DURING THE APEX STUDY A FEW WERE LOOKED AT BUT THE CITY HASN'T DONE A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF ALL THE SOLAR OPPORTUNITIES. THERE'S A LOT AND DEFINITELY IN CASUAL CONVERSATION LOOKING AT PARKING LOTS AND THOSE BENEFITS THAT YOU MENTIONED OF SHADE OR NOT HAVING CARS SNOWED ON ARE DEFINITELY SOMETHING TO LOOK INTO FOR THIS FIRST PROJECT SINCE WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY SOLAR PUBLIC WORKS LIKE A GOOD ONE TO LEARN FROM AND START TO BUILD OUR EXPERTIZE IN AND THEN THERE ARE DEFINITELY MANY MORE OPTIONS TO LOOK INTO IN THE FUTURE. COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THANKS MR. MAYOR AND I, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY THING TO ASK YOU OTHER THAN TO PRAISE YOU ALL FOR CONTINUING TO PUSH FORWARD ON OUR SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND I BELIEVE IN THE PACKET THERE WERE OTHER THERE WERE OTHER ROOFS THAT YOU THAT WE HAVE IN OUR BUILDING ARRAY THAT IN OUR BUILDING FLEET WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO ADDITIONAL PROJECTS ON TO GET TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF KILOWATT HOURS, MEGAWATT HOURS OR WHATEVER IT WAS. ARE ARE ARE YOU PLANNING TO BRING TO COUNCIL THOSE ADDITIONAL STUDY ITEMS ON THOSE OTHER PROJECTS IN THE FUTURE OR ARE YOU LIKE EARLY OR ARE YOU TO GET THIS ONE KIND OF OVER THE LINE IF YOU WILL IN PROGRESS BEFORE WE LOOK AT ANY OF THE OTHER CHOICES WE MIGHT HAVE. MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME PROJECTS FOR EXAMPLE, BIG IF THAT MOVES FORWARD THAT IS A VERY LARGE ROOF AND IN THE APEX THAT LOOKS LIKE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND IF CONSTRUCTION WORK IS HAPPENING I THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO LOOK INTO SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS AS OPPORTUNITIES ARISE. RIGHT NOW THE FOCUS I WOULD SAY IS REALLY LOOKING AT CAN WE THIS PROJECT NEXT YEAR AT PUBLIC WORKS BUT IF THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR A PROJECT SUCH AS BIG I THINK IT MAKES SENSE AS THERE'S DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THOSE FACILITIES TO BRING SOMETHING FORWARD BUT OKAY, NO CLEAR ACTION ON THAT NOW. RIGHT. OKAY. I APPRECIATE THE YEAH. SO THEN MY JUST MY COMMENT WOULD BE I IT WOULD BE VERY HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PARTICULAR COUNCIL WOULDN'T JUST AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDE THOSE THINGS GOING FORWARD. I MEAN WE KNOW IT THIS IS IMPORTANT. I HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON MY ROOF TODAY. I CAN TELL YOU THAT I HAVEN'T PAID A I HAVEN'T PAID AN ELECTRIC BILL IN A YEAR AND THEY SEND ME CHECKS SO LIKE I KNOW IT WORKS NOW THE SCALE FOR ME IN MY TOE SOLAR PANELS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE THE PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING BUT IT IS AN INVESTMENT WORTH MAKING. I'D ANYBODY TO DO IT AND I CERTAINLY THINK THAT WE AS THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ON OUR OWN BUILDING SHOULD BE JUST PLANNING TO DO THAT GOING FORWARD AND THAT WOULD BE MY IDEAL. SO THIS IS GREAT. I CAN'T WAIT TO BUILD ON IT. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THANK YOU, MAYOR. VERY QUICK QUESTIONS HERE. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS DONE SOME SOLAR PROJECTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. IS THERE A WAY THAT THEY CAN HELP US ACCELERATE OUR LEARNING CURVE OR HAVE YOU BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THEM ON WHAT THEY'VE DONE OR WHO THEY'VE WORKED WITH, HOW THEY FUNDED THAT SORT OF THING THE SENIOR COUNCILMEMBER NELSON WE HAVEN'T HAD TO ACCOUNT FOR STATIONS WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUT WE KNOW THAT THEY HAVE DONE WORK. SO I THINK THAT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND EMBARK ON THIS TO TALK TO OUR PEERS. WE HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS PEERS, CITIES THAT HAVE DONE PROJECTS FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS. SO I THINK THE SCHOOL IS A NATURAL NEXT CONVERSATION OH FANTASTIC. DO YOU HAVE ANY RECOLLECTION OF WHAT THE PAYBACK PERIOD IN THAT APEX STUDY WAS BECAUSE? I JUST DON'T RECALL IT. THAT WAS 13 YEARS FOR A BUNDLE OF PROJECTS AND WE DON'T HAVE THOSE PARCELED OUT. BUT AGAIN THAT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO. YEAH, FAIR ENOUGH. AND THEN TO COUNCILMEMBER MOORE'S POINT ABOUT THE PARKING LOTS THAT WAS ACTUALLY ON MY LIST. I KNOW MY DAUGHTER GOES TO WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY AND THEY JUST DID A PARKING LOT COVERED THERE. IT'S NICE IN THE WINTER. IT'S NICE IN THE SUMMER. IT'S NICE WHEN IT RAINS. SO THE QUESTION I HAD WAS WHICH WOULD BE THE SPRING AND FALL? SO THE OTHER SEASONS THE QUESTION I HAVE IS IS THERE ANY WAY TO INCLUDE THAT IN THE RFP TO GET SOME INFORMATION FOR THE COUNCIL THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION TO LOOK AT OR WOULD THAT CAUSE ADDITIONAL COMPLICATIONS THAT WOULD BE PROBLEMATIC THAT MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THAT WOULD BE OUT OF THE SCOPE OF JUST LOOKING AT PUBLIC WORKS AND TRYING TO GET THAT PROJECT DONE. BUT IF THERE'S INTEREST IN OPENING UP FOR A LARGER PROJECT, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO GO BACK AND DISCUSS. I GUESS MY THOUGHT PROCESS WAS PARKING AT PUBLIC WORKS. GOTCHA. KEEP IT AT THE SAME LOCATION BUT SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, SEE WHAT THE COSTS ARE. I ASSUME IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE TO, YOU KNOW, BUILD A STRUCTURE TO, PUT IT ON THAN TO PUT IT ON AN EXISTING STRUCTURE. BUT WHAT ARE THOSE COSTS? AND YOU KNOW, WOULD THERE BE ANY BENEFIT? YOU KNOW, I THINK IT MIGHT GIVE US SOME ADDITIONAL DATA POINTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO OTHER PROJECTS IF IT'S FEASIBLE TO GET INTO THAT RFP. IF COUNCIL'S INTERESTED IN THAT I THINK WE CAN WORK AND THAT IN THERE THEN ALSO JUST ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. VERY GOOD IF NOT I MEAN I AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. I THINK YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE SPOT ON AND I THINK THEY'RE PRACTICAL AND COMMONSENSE KIND OF THING. SO I APPRECIATE THOSE AND I SAY WE FULL STEAM AHEAD. LET'S LET'S GET STARTED ON THIS AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN. I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA SO IT SOUNDS GREAT. THANKS SO MUCH AND THANK YOU ADAM. 5.3 IS A REVIEW OR UPDATE ON OUR OPIOID TASK FORCE WORK PLAN AND WE'VE GOT DR. KELLY, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR HERE AND AND ERIN IBARAKI. NO, I MISSED THAT THE FIRST TIME I HAD THAT I HAD IT CORRECT WHEN I PRACTICED IT THIS EARLIER EARLIER TODAY. BOB GREEN IS THAT CORRECT? I'M MISSING THE CANE THERE, AREN'T THEY? I APOLOGIZE, MR. MAYOR. COUNCIL IRENE BARBER, CONNIE BABA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL OH, GLAD TO BE HERE TO TALK ABOUT OPIOIDS. I AS A CITY MANAGER KNOWS I THOUGHT WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS WORK PLAN A LITTLE FASTER REALITY WITH SOME STAFF TRANSITIONS AND MATERNITY LEAVES AND OTHER THINGS AND OUR PARTNERS ALSO REALLY BUSY. IT TOOK US A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO BE HERE BUT I'M GLAD WE'RE HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE TRANSFORMATIVE WORK THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE IN THE COMMUNITY OVER THE NEXT YEARS. WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT TOBACCO IN FRONT OF THIS COUNCIL AND A LOT OF THAT WORK WAS GENERATED BY SETTLEMENTS THAT WERE REALLY INITIATED HERE IN MINNESOTA TO CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT COMMERCIAL TOBACCO. THIS IS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE WITH OPIOIDS NOW. SO TO SET A LITTLE CONTEXT FOR THIS, THIS IS FROM THE HENNEPIN COUNTY DASHBOARD THAT JUST WENT LIVE ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO THAT HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS IN HENNEPIN COUNTY RECEIVED AN ER VISIT OR HOSPITALIZATIONS RELATED TO OPIOIDS AND SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S AROUND 10,000 OPIOIDS IS THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF HOSPITALIZATIONS E.R. VISITS, ALCOHOL IS JUST UNDER 33,000 VISITS AS OF LAST YEAR AND CANNABIS IS ABOUT 7200. AND SO JUST PUT THAT IN CONTEXT BUT IS VERY UNIQUE BECAUSE IT'S OFTEN A VERY ACUTE LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION AND SO IF SOMEBODY IS HAVING AN OVERDOSE THEY NEED IMMEDIATE AND BY MEDIA I MEAN WITHIN MINUTES OF AN INTERVENTION OFTEN WITH TO SURVIVE. THIS LOOKS AT THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY WE'VE SEEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH OPIOID RELATED DEATHS AND SO MINNESOTA IS SOMEWHERE IN THAT 928 TO 980 DEATHS STATISTICS ARE SOMETIMES MESSY TO CLEAN UP AND SO THEY CHANGE A LITTLE BIT IN THE LAST YEAR ON HENNEPIN COUNTY THE OUR COUNTY PARTNERS OF GEO ALL THE DATA IN HENNEPIN SO WE KNOW WE HAD 340 HENNEPIN RESIDENTS DIE IN 2021 AND THEN THIS IS LOOKING AT A LITTLE BIT MORE LOCAL DATA FROM OUR COLLEAGUES IN PD AND YOU CAN SEE BLOOMINGTON HAD A BIT OF A SPIKE IN OPIOID DEATHS IN 2022. WE'RE STILL WORKING TO TRY AND REALLY UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT YOU TO SEE OF THIS IS OUR OUR VOLUME. SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PROVIDING NARCAN AND THAT IS LARGELY THE INCREDIBLE WORK OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HERE AND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE NONFATAL THAT IS A TESTAMENT TO THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT OUR PD DOES TO TAKE CARE OF INDIVIDUALS AND RAPIDLY TO A NINE ON ONE CALL GOOD MAYOR AND COUNCIL TO BUILD ON THE DATA THAT NIC HAS SHARED I'LL SPEAK TO SOME OF THE SPECIFICS ABOUT THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTATION FOR BLOOMINGTON AND RICHFIELD. AS YOU ARE PROBABLY AWARE IN AUGUST 2021 THE OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL JOINED $26 BILLION MULTISTATE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT INVOLVING DISTRIBUTORS MCKESSON, CARDINAL HEALTH, AMERISOURCEBERGEN AND MANUFACTURER JOHNSON JOHNSON OF THIS SETTLEMENT, COUNTIES AND CITIES RECEIVED 75% OF THE FUNDING AND 25 IS ALLOCATED TO THE STATE TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL. THIS SETTLEMENT IS AN 18 YEAR PAYOUT. PAYMENTS FROM JOHNSON AND JOHNSON WILL RUN THROUGH 2031 AND THE SECOND WAVE OF PAYMENTS FROM THE REMAINING DISTRIBUTORS DISTRIBUTORS WILL RUN THROUGH 2038. THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE SETTLEMENT AMOUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO EACH OF THE THREE CITIES. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST HOWEVER THE TOTAL FOR BLOOMINGTON FOR BOTH WAVES OF FUNDING STANDS AT OVER $1.8 MILLION OVER THE EIGHT YEARS, AVERAGING OUT TO A PROPOSED EXPENDITURE $100,000 PER YEAR AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR THE THREE CITIES IS OVER 3.5 MILLION WHICH IS AN AVERAGE PROPOSED EXPENDITURE OF APPROXIMATELY $200,000 OVER THE EIGHT YEARS ACROSS THE THREE CITIES. SO LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BEEN CHARGED TO MAKE DECISIONS AND DETERMINE WHERE THE FUNDING WILL HAVE THE LARGEST IMPACT. MDH HAS RECOMMENDED THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRINCIPLES OF SPENDING AS A FRAMEWORK TO BE USED IN GUIDING OPIOID PROGRAM DESIGN. THIS FRAMEWORK THAT YOU SEE WAS CREATED WITH THE INTENTION THAT STATES, CITIES AND COUNTIES MAY WANT GUIDANCE ON HOW TO EFFECTIVELY ALLOCATE AND PRIORITIZE THEIR ALLOCATION OF THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDING. I WILL IN THE INTEREST OF TIME TRY TO GO THROUGH THESE FAIRLY QUICKLY THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES ARE FIRSTLY CRISIS RESPONSE IN OTHER WORDS SPENDING MONEY TO SAVE LIVES IN DISCUSSIONS THUS FAR THE NEEDS OF NEEDS FROM SCHOOLS AND HEALTH HAVE ALREADY BEEN EXPRESSED FOR EXAMPLE WITH THE ABILITY TO GET NARCAN OVER COUNTER AND THE SUPPLY OF NARCAN TO PREVENT OVERDOSES, OTHER SUPPORT TO EMPLOY IT IN A MORE ROBUST AND COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SAVE LIVES HAS BEEN TO SUPPORT THE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH HAS BEEN SUGGESTED ANOTHER PROGRAM SUGGESTION HAS BEEN TO IMPLEMENT ALSO A CRISIS HOTLINE THAT IS ABLE TO PROVIDE REAL TIME SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING IMMEDIATE NEED FOR HELP. JURISDICTIONS ARE RECOMMENDED TO USE THE FUNDS TO SUPPLEMENT RATHER THAN FILL FUNDING AND RESOURCE GAPS THAT MAY EXIST. THE SECOND PRINCIPLE IS A FOCUS ON DATA AND USING EVIDENCE GUIDE SPENDING THERE IS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO TAP INTO THE SUBSTANTIAL BODY OF EVIDENCE THAT EXISTS THAT SUPPORTS THE WORK THAT IS PROVEN TO YIELD SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES TO BUILD ON BEST PRACTICES THAT SUCH EVIDENCE SUPPORTS. THIS EXTENDS TO THE DECISIONS AROUND FUNDING AND THE THE DATA THAT SUPPORTS TO EFFECTIVELY ALLOCATE RESOURCES. THE THIRD IS A FOCUS ON YOUTH PREVENTION. THIS IS TO MAKE A LONG TERM INVESTMENT IN EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT YOUTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND SPECIFICALLY WORK WITH SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. THE FOURTH IS A FOCUS ON RACIAL EQUITY AS IN OTHER AREAS THAT WE SEE IN PUBLIC THERE IS A STARK NEED TO INCORPORATE RACIAL EQUITY IN ALL PROGRAM AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES. AS WE KNOW, VARIOUS COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCE DISPARITIES BECAUSE OF YEARS OF DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES WHICH HAVE NOW RESULTED IN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN OVERDOSES IN THOSE SAME COMMUNITIES. FOR THIS REASON, GUIDANCE IS TO DIRECT SIGNIFICANT FUNDING TO COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THESE DISPARITIES. AND FINALLY THE FIFTH PRINCIPLE IS REQUIRING TO DEVELOP A FAIR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS FOR DECIDING WHERE TO SPEND THE FUNDING. THIS PROCESS SHOULD BE GUIDED BY PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERS ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF PEOPLE AND FAMILIES WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE CLINICIANS AS WELL AS OTHER KEY GROUPS AND PARTNERS. FOR THE NEXT FEW SLIDES I'LL PROVIDE A BRIEF ON THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE THUS FAR. ONE DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN A RESOURCE WEB PAGE THAT HAS NOW BEEN MADE AVAILABLE ON THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON WEBSITE. HERE IS A LANDING PAGE WHERE VISITORS CAN ACCESS AN OVERVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT. READ ABOUT THE GENERAL ABOUT GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE OPIOID CRISIS AND KNOW THE CONTACTS AT PUBLIC HEALTH TO REACH FOR QUESTIONS. THE SECOND PERTINENT UPDATE FOR COUNCIL TODAY IS TO REPORT BACK FROM OUR OPIOID ACTION PLANNING WORKGROUP. THESE SESSIONS WERE HELD IN MAY AND TOOK PLACE OVER TWO EVENINGS WITH OPEN INVITATION TO THE COMMUNITY STAFF FROM ALL THREE CITIES COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND PUBLIC HEALTH STAFF. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE PARTNERS WHO ATTENDED REPRESENTED HERE AND TOOK PART IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE SESSIONS. NOT ALL PARTNERS ARE REPRESENTED HERE AND WE ANTICIPATE AND HOPE THAT OUR NETWORK OF PARTNERS WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AS WE MOVE FURTHER ALONG IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR STRATEGIES AS ILLUSTRATED IN THESE IMAGES THE SESSIONS WERE INTERACT LIVE AND ENTAILED A TRUE BRAINSTORMING AND LISTENING TO VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES AND NEEDS. AT EACH SESSION WE HAD A GROUP OF 10 TO 15 PARTICIPANTS WITH SUBSEQUENT OF INFORMATION WITH ALL PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND. WE ALSO HELD A VIRTUAL SESSION TO REVIEW THE OUTCOMES OF THE TWO SESSIONS AND ALLOW TIME FOR ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS. IN GENERAL THERE A GREAT DEAL OF ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM FOR WORK TO BEGIN AND FOR OF INTERVENTIONS THAT WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY SOON. FROM OUR DISCUSSIONS AND THE WORK GROUPS FIVE KEY AREAS EMERGED WHICH LINED UP WELL WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION PRINCIPLES THAT WERE DISCUSSED EARLIER. THESE WERE ADMINISTRATION DATA AND EVALUATION MARKETING AND EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS AND RAPID RESPONSE GIVEN THAT THE IS FOR 18 YEARS THERE IS A NEED FOR A MORE COMPREHENSIVE LONG TERM DISCUSSION BASED ON DATA THAT IS AVAILABLE. HOWEVER, THE FOCUS OF THE ACTION PLANNING WAS TO DISCUSS A WORK PLAN IN THE IMMEDIATE TERM. THE GROUP STATED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE NEXT 18 MONTHS WOULD BE TO REMEDIATE THE OPIOID CRISIS THROUGH ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY BASED PREVENTION STRATEGIES AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO SYSTEMS AND TO DO SO THROUGH THE FIVE STRATEGIES FORMALLY MENTIONED SPECIFICALLY IN THE NEXT 18 MONTHS THE FOCUS WOULD BE TO BUILD AN INFRASTRUCTURE THE OPIOID RESPONSE OF THE THREE CITIES TO FOCUS ON ACCESSIBLE AND COMMUNITY BASED PREVENTION AND ACCESS TO SYSTEMS WHICH INCLUDES MAPPING OF AND LINKAGE SERVICES THAT INDIVIDUALS COULD ACCESS FOR SUPPORT THAT THEY MAY NEED. SO IN THE INTEREST OF TIME I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH EACH THE OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES THAT THE WORK PLANNING GROUP CAME UP WITH. HOWEVER, I WILL HIGHLIGHT IN THE FOLLOWING TWO SLIDES THE EMPHASIS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH SCHOOLS TO IMPLEMENT AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION PLAN TO INCREASE PARTNERSHIPS TO BUILD A MORE COHESIVE AND COORDINATED RESPONSE AND TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH OUR FIRST RESPONDERS IN BLOOMINGTON TO MEET NEEDS IN THE COMMUNITY AS A SIMPLE OF FORESEEN ACTIVITIES. FROM THIS POINT WE ANTICIPATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR PLAN BEGINNING WITH HIRING OF STAFF TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM OF WORK GOING IN A FOCUSED. WE HOPE THIS WILL RESULT IN US DRAWING LESSONS FROM OUR ACTIVITIES AND THAT WE CAN REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL PERIODICALLY AND THAT CAN INFORM THE FUTURE OF OUR PROGRAMING. THE PIVOTS WE MAKE ACROSS THE 18 YEAR SPAN WILL BE IMPORTANT ASSESS THE IMPACT WE HAVE HAD IN ADDITION TO THE DATA WE COLLECT AS WE DO. SO WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR SUPPORT. ALL THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE PLANNING INCLUDING PARTNERS, THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF THE THREE CITIES AND THE CITIES OF BLOOMINGTON AND RICHFIELD IN GENERAL FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIP. WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING OUR SEEING OUR EFFORTS COME TO FRUITION AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES IN AN AREA OF SUCH GREAT NEED AND IMPORTANCE. AND WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. COUNCIL QUESTIONS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN AND COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN. JUST A REAL QUICK QUESTION. YOU KNOW HERE THE 18 YEARS AND ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES I DON'T KNOW HOW THE SETTLEMENT WORKS. I'M NOT I'M FAIRLY IGNORANT ABOUT IN TERMS OF HOW THAT WORKS BUT IS THERE ANY WAY IN WHICH THAT YOU KNOW BECAUSE I MEAN 18 YEARS CAN GO PRETTY QUICK AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW YOU'RE MUCH OLDER. IS THERE ANY WAY TO TO ENDOW SOME OF THIS MONEY OR TO TRY TO MAKE IT SO THAT WE CAN REALLY KIND OF MAKE SURE ON AN ONGOING BASIS FROM A LONG TERM KIND OF BASIS THAT WE HAVE SOME OF THESE DOLLARS. AS YOU KNOW, THE WAY I KIND OF LOOK AT IT AND YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT OUR OUR DATA BOOK THAT WE'VE HAD IS THAT OUR DEMOGRAPHICS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO CHANGE, ESPECIALLY FROM AN ECONOMIC STANDPOINT. I JUST WONDER IF WE COULD DO KIND OF LIKE WE DID WITH OUR ART CENTER, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS ENDOWED AT A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME. SO I JUST WONDER IF WE'RE THINKING CREATIVELY AND MAYBE WE ARE ALREADY ARE BUT I WANT TO JUST ASK THAT QUESTION. SO FROM A PROCESS STANDPOINT SORRY ERIC COUNCILMAN ROHMAN SO OUR INTENTION WITH THIS WORK IS TO REALLY FOCUS ON SOME POLICY AND SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT CHANGES SO THAT WE'RE CHANGING SOME OF THOSE STRUCTURES THAT ARE FACILITATING SOME OF THIS CHALLENGE TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF THE ATTORNEY WOULD HAVE INSIGHT ONTO THAT BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE THE ENDOWMENT IS IN THE SETTLEMENT FUND. IT MAY BE IT CAN'T EVEN BE DONE AND I KNOW IF YOU KNOW WE NEED TO ANSWER THAT HERE BUT I GUESS THEN MY CONCERN WOULD BE MY GREATEST FEAR IS WHEN WE START THIS PROGRAM NOT TO SAY WE SHOULDN'T KNOW IS HOW ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, TO SUSTAIN THIS THAT AT 18 YEARS WE DON'T JUST CUT IT OFF. IT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT THAT WHENEVER WE DO THESE THINGS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO KEEP IT GOING. SO THAT'S ALL I'LL SAY THANKS. COUNCILMEMBER BURTON THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND IT'S PROBABLY TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE AT THIS POINT BUT I KNOW WAY OUT THAT 24 SEVEN RESPONSE AND REFERRAL LINE DO WE HAVE AN IDEA WHERE EXISTS KIND OF IN THE LANDSCAPE OF WHAT MAY BE SIMILAR RESOURCES? I KNOW HENNEPIN COUNTY HAS ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES OBVIOUSLY 911 FOR IMMEDIATE IMMEDIATE NEED DO HAVE AN IDEA YET WHERE THIS FALLS OR I'M JUST WONDERING IS THERE A HIGHER LEVEL THAT COULD THAT SERVICE AS WELL THAT MAY HAVE MORE REACH AND MORE CONNECTION SO THAT THAT WAS AN IDEA THAT CAME OUT OF SOME OF THAT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WE'VE SINCE LOOKED AT THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENT SERVICES OUT THERE THAT CAN DO THAT IN KIND OF GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH OUR ADVISORY GROUP TO BASICALLY SAY OKAY THESE THINGS DO THAT ARE WE ACCOMPLISHING WHAT NEEDS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED THAT WAY CONTRA HARM IT LIKELY IT IS. OKAY THAT MAKES SENSE. I JUST NOTED ESPECIALLY IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IT'S GOOD TO INCREASE COLLABORATION AND BRINGING TOGETHER CLOSER BUT IF EVERYBODY'S REFERRING EVERYBODY TO EVERYWHERE IT GOES IN A CIRCLE FOR A LITTLE WHILE THAT'S ALL GOOD. YEAH. MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN, IF I MAY ADD, I THINK PART OF THE ACTIVITIES WILL ALSO INCLUDE A MAPPING NOT JUST THAT TYPE OF A SERVICE BUT SERVICES IN GENERAL BECAUSE THERE ARE GAPS THAT NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED AND ARE BEING IDENTIFIED THROUGH THESE WORK PLANNING GROUPS. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER THANK YOU MAYOR. SO JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE POINT THAT SEVERAL OF THE OBJECTIVES WILL BE AROUND CHANGES TO POLICIES AND SYSTEMS WHICH THEN IN AND OF ITSELF CHANGES MAKE THEM MORE SUSTAINABLE AND LONG LASTING. BUT TO THAT POINT I'M IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE ANSWERED NOW I'M WONDERING IF YOU DO HAVE MORE DETAILS ON SPECIFIC OUTCOMES THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO SEE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES AND MAYBE IT'S TOO EARLY FOR THAT OR MAYBE THERE'S STILL OF IN DEVELOPMENT LIKE JUST HEARING ABOUT I'M SO USED TO RANDOM STUFF LIKE THAT HAPPENING HAVING KIDS DIDN'T EVEN FAZE ME LIKE JUST LIKE OKAY I'LL JUST KEEP TALKING AND NO WORRIES. NO I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS SAYING BUT NO WORRIES. NO. YES. SO JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT. THANK YOU. SO MR. MAYOR. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER ULTIMATELY AH HIGHER LEVEL OBJECTIVE IS WE DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY FATAL CASES AND THEN WE ALSO DON'T WANT TO SEE REPEATED OVERDOSES AND WE WANT TO PREVENT THE INITIATION OF THAT THAT ADDICTION PATHWAY. AND SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE AT THE HIGH LEVEL. SO IN 18 YEARS WE CAN BE TALKING ABOUT THOSE SUCCESSES. IT'S GOING TO SOME OF THOSE THINGS EXPECT WILL HAPPEN QUICKER. THE PREVENTION OF THE INITIATION, THE REPEATED THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO REQUIRE SOME LARGER SYSTEM CHANGES. WHAT WE'RE OFTEN RUNNING INTO IS INDIVIDUALS THAT GET NARCAN SUCCESSFULLY COME OUT OF THAT OVERDOSE AND MAKE A CHOICE TO SAY I WANT TO GET HELP. THE SERVICES OUT THERE RIGHT NOW ARE TAXED AND IT'S OFTEN YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS OR MONTHS TO GET THAT HELP AND SOMETIMES SOMEBODY MAY OFTEN HAVE ANOTHER INTERACTION WITH OPIOIDS THAT REQUIRES NARCAN AGAIN. AND SO BREAKING THAT CYCLE IS GOING TO TAKE A BIT OF TIME. BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR GOAL IN COORDINATION WE'RE ALSO COORDINATING VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR PARTNERS IN HENNEPIN AND MINNEAPOLIS TO MAKE THAT WE'RE ALL MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION SO THAT WE CAN WORK TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS. IS THAT PARTLY THE REASON TO HAVE AH THE PILOT HAVING A LICENSED THERAPIST IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT? MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER CARTER THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT. OKAY. LOOKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT'S LEADERSHIP TO TRY AND COME UP WITH INNOVATIVE APPROACHES. OKAY SO WHAT'S LAID OUT HERE ISN'T NECESSARILY SET IN STONE. IT'S STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE. OKAY. AND THEN IS THE STATE FACILITY FACILITATING ANY KIND OF LIKE STATEWIDE LEARNING NETWORK FOR THOSE WHO ARE GETTING THE GRANTS SO THAT WE CAN BE SHARING ACROSS PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE WORKING OR NOT WORKING OR MAYBE WHERE WE CAN LEVERAGE RESOURCES AND NOT HAVE TO DUPLICATE EFFORTS. MR. MAYOR. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER. THE STATE IS WORKING TOWARDS THAT EFFORT IN THE INTERIM WHILE THE STATE WORKS ON HIRING SOME STAFF, THE LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE AN AMERICORPS PUBLIC HEALTH CORPS MEMBER AND THEY HAVE BECOME THE DE OPIOID EXPERT IN LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH ATTENDING MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE OF LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS AND UNDERSTANDING PROCESS AND THEY'VE JUST BEEN THEY'VE COME THIS FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE HELPING COORDINATE HOST MEETINGS ACROSS LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCIES IN MINNESOTA SO THAT THAT WORK IS HAPPENING ALREADY. OKAY THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. AGAIN, APOLOGIES, COUNCILMAN CARTER. I JUST I WAS TRYING TO LOOK UP A STATISTIC AND THAT IS NOT WHAT I FOUND. A VERY QUICK QUESTION. I ASSUME THAT OUR AND EMS ARE ALSO TRAINING NARCAN DELIVERY. IS THAT RIGHT? I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY'RE GREAT BUT DO WE HAVE AS OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE COMING IN NOW THAT WE'RE MOVING TO A FULL TIME, DO THEY ALSO GET THAT TRAINING? YEAH. MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO? YES. OUR FIRST RESPONDERS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT IF I FIRES THERE ALINA IS ALSO THERE. BUT ALL OF OUR PD AND FIRE ARE CAPABLE OF DOING THAT. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ENOUGH NARCAN GENERALLY SPEAKING OR IS A PORTION AND WHAT PORTION OF THE DOLLARS THAT WE'RE GETTING THROUGH THESE SETTLEMENTS DO THEY GO TO DIRECT SERVICE MEANING ARE WE BUYING NARCAN WITH IT? SO MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO ONE OF THE TASKS THAT WE TACKLED THIS PROCESS IS WE ARE NOT GOING TO PAY FOR THINGS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING OKAY SO ALL OF THIS FUNDING IS GOING TO NEW AND INNOVATIVE AND SYSTEM CHANGE. OKAY. SO IT IS NOT PAYING FOR FOR NARCAN BEING USED IN THE COMMUNITY. OKAY. SO BEFORE MY LAST QUESTION HERE, I IF IF ANYBODY HASN'T I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU READ THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL THAT CAME OUT FROM KINGSOLVER THIS YEAR CALLED DEMON COPPERHEAD. IT IS AN INCREDIBLE FICTIONAL TALE OF APPALACHIA AND HOW IT WAS DEVASTATED BY THE OPIOID CRISIS AS TOLD THROUGH THE LENS OF A OF A FOSTER CHILD. IT IT DESCRIBES IN INCREDIBLY RAW DETAIL HOW DEVASTATING THIS IS. AND AS WE KNOW, WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RECOVER THE MILLIONS OF LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN BY THE JUST ABJECT GREED ASSOCIATED WITH OUR THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THESE PEOPLE. I MEAN THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU READ AND YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT. SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT BOOK IF ANYBODY HASN'T READ IT. IT'S INCREDIBLE. ARE THERE PLANS AND MAYBE THIS IS THE SYSTEMATIC CHANGE THAT YOU AND COUNCILMAN YOU WERE REFERRING TO TO TRULY INVEST IN LIKE LONG TERM TREATMENT FACILITIES WITH SOME OF THESE DOLLARS. I SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU AS I RIDE ALONG WITH THE POLICE EVERY MONTH AS I'VE BEEN DOING SINCE I GOT ON COUNCIL, I, I KNOW THAT THE CONVERSATIONS I HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO DRUG OVERDOSES AND THE WORK THAT DO THE RECIDIVISM RATE ON THIS STUFF IS INCREDIBLE AND IT'S IT'S REALLY HARD THEY CAN TAKE SOMEBODY OFF THE STREET AND PUT THEM IN AN ALLINA YOU KNOW, AMBULANCE AND TAKE THEM TO A H H CMC WHATEVER AND YOU KNOW TWO DAYS LATER THEY'RE BACK OUT BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO PUT THESE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DESPERATELY NEED A LONG TERM. AND FRANKLY THEN WE KNOW THAT ENVIRONMENTALLY IF THEY GO BACK RIGHT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THEIR SUPPORT NETWORK AND THAT SUPPORT NETWORK IS DAMAGED IRREVOCABLY BY OPIOID ADDICTION THAT WE THAT THEY ARE IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT NOT TO USE AGAIN AND YOU KNOW IN AT THE END NOT TO SPOIL THE END OF THE BOOK BUT YOU KNOW, IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR ONE OF THE CHARACTERS TO JUST NOT BE WHERE HE WAS IN ORDER TO FINALLY BREAK THE HABIT. RIGHT. AND AND SO I JUST WONDER IF IF YOU KNOW OF ANYTHING SYSTEMATICALLY AT THE AT MINUTE LIKE WITH BETWEEN HEAVEN OR MINNESOTA TO FUND LIKE A LONG TERM TREATMENT FACILITY WHERE THESE FOLKS ARE AROUND AND IN AN ENVIRONMENT A PERIOD OF TIME THAT'S LONG ENOUGH TO GUARANTEE THAT THEY CAN BREAK THESE CYCLES. IS THAT IS THAT PART OF THE CONVERSATION IN IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S OKAY. I JUST I'M TRULY INTERESTED IN I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BE A SHORT TERM PROBLEM A SHORT TERM SOLUTION TO WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY A LONG TERM PROBLEM. MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO, THAT IS AN ASTUTE POINT THAT HAS COME UP IN CONVERSATIONS THE CONVERSATIONS THAT FIRST RESPONDER COLLEAGUES WE CAN DO AMAZING THINGS ON OUR END FIX OR IMPROVE PROCESSES. BUT IF IT INTERACTS WITH A SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T WORK ON THOSE ASPECTS IT IT ONLY GOES SO FAR. AND SO THOSE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT I KNOW ARE HAPPENING. THOSE CHALLENGES ARE SOMETHING WE FREQUENTLY BRING UP WHEN WE'RE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR PARTNERS IN MINNEAPOLIS AND HENNEPIN AND MDH HOW THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE. RIGHT NOW I THINK WE HAVE A CLEAR PATH FORWARD BUT EVERYBODY RECOGNIZES THOSE CHALLENGES AND THERE'S ONLY SO FAR THIS WORK WILL GO WITHOUT ADDRESSING SOME OF THOSE. COUNCILMEMBER MOUA, THANK MAYOR. I GUESS MY QUESTION IS ARE THE FUNDS TIED AND LIMITED TO OPIOID BY ITSELF? BECAUSE WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY SEVENTIES AND EASY AS CRACK COCAINE TO THOUSANDS TO 20 TENS IT'S OPIOIDS WHAT WHAT'S WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE IN 18 YEARS IF THERE'S A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT CAN WE SHIFT THOSE DOLLARS AND SUPPORT WHAT'S GOING ON IN ADDITION TO THE WORK WE'RE DOING TO PREVENT THE CURRENT SITUATION? ARE THEY TIED? DO WE HAVE TO USE THAT ON OPIOIDS ALONE OR IS THERE A POSSIBILITY TO SHIFT LATER ON? SO MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER MOUA, THE FUNDS ARE TIED TO OPIOIDS. THERE IS SOME FLEXIBILITY IN SOME OF THE THE ALLOWABLE DUTIES OF THE SETTLEMENT. SO FOR INSTANCE YOU CAN DO TRAINING ON AND DO SUPPORT FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL OR SUBSTANCE USE OR THAT HAVE CHALLENGING CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MENTAL HEALTH THAT PUT THEM AT RISK FOR A SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. SO THAT IN THAT IN SOME OF THAT LANGUAGE IS NOT SPECIFIC JUST TO OPIOIDS BUT IT'S SUBSTANCE USE AND IT'S ADDRESSING SOME OF THE ROOT CAUSES. SO THERE IS SOME FLEXIBILITY BUILT INTO THE SETTLEMENT FOR THAT. BUT IT IS IT IS FOCUSED ON OPIOIDS AND IF I MAY ADD, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBER MILLER WE HAVE HAD ALSO DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ALTHOUGH THE FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVE IS VERY SPECIFIC AND TIED TO OPIOIDS WE ALSO GET FUNDING OR ARE ANTICIPATED FUNDING FOR CANNABIS WORK AND TOBACCO WORK WHICH IS VERY MUCH IN A LANE BUT. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT INTERSECT CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND THINKING ABOUT HOW THAT COULD LOOK BECAUSE ANYTHING ELSE. SO I BELIEVE THIS WAS LABELED AS A I MEAN THIS WAS A PRESENTATION OF YOUR WORK PLAN. AT WHAT POINT DO WE ARE WE TO FORMALLY ADOPT THE WORK PLAN OR IS THERE A NEXT STEP FOR THE COUNCIL ON WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP WITHIN THE WORK PLAN? SO MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS THE WORK PLAN IS KIND OF SITTING THERE AS THE LOOKING FOR THAT FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION. IF YOU SAW SOMETHING THAT YOU WANTED US TO CHANGE WE DID NOT BRING IT FROM A FORMAL ADOPTION FOR TONIGHT BUT THE ADVISORY GROUP HAS THIS IS WHERE THEY WANT TO DRIVE AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS IN LINE WITH WHERE COUNCIL THINKS IT SHOULD BE GOING. VERY GOOD. MR. RUBY. THANK MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I THINK I MENTIONED EARLIER DR. KELLY AND TIM WILL BE MAKING PRESENTATIONS TO OUR PARTNERS IN A DINER IN RICHFIELD TOO. THEY HAVE REQUESTED SIMILAR INFORMATION SO I THINK WE HAVE TO WE HEAR FROM ALL THREE OF THE ELECTED BODIES HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOME CONSENSUS THAT THIS THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND WE CAN PROCEED AT THAT POINT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER CARTER. I'M SORRY. JUST A REALLY QUICK QUESTION AND ARE YOU PRESENTING TO THE ADVISORY BOARD OF HEALTH? I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS ON THEIR WORK PLAN BUT I CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER. MR. MAYOR. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, WE HAVE AN ADVISORY BOARD, A HEALTH MEMBER THAT SITS ON THE ADVISORY GROUP AND SO THERE ARE MONTHLY PROVIDED TO THE ADVISORY BOARD OF HEALTH ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN HOW THAT'S WORKING. IT'S AN ADVISORY BOARD A MEMBER THAT IS PROFESSIONALLY A PHARMACIST AND HAS AGREED OF EXPERIENCE IN THIS WORK. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC. APPRECIATE YOU COUNCIL AND AM 5.4 IS OUR LAST AGENDA ITEM OF THE EVENING. THIS IS OUR CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATE. WE WILL START THE I WILL KICK IT OFF AS AS I TYPICALLY DO OUR LISTENING SESSION TONIGHT INCLUDED A SINGLE PERSON TREY LOWE STOPPED BY AND WANTED TO TALK ABOUT OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. HE'S A BIKE RIDER AND HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS. HE WAS ALSO A BIT FRUSTRATED BECAUSE BY THE TIME HE BECAME AWARE OF THE LET'S BLOOMINGTON PORTION LET'S TALK BLOOMINGTON PAGE THAT WAS BEING TO GATHER INPUT REGARDING THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. BY THE TIME HE GOT THERE IT WAS CLOSED AND SO WE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT GIVE HIM SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO CONTINUE TO BRING COMMENTS FORWARD AND CONTINUE TO BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION ON THIS IMPORTANT PLAN AND ALSO JUST HAD A GOOD AND INTERESTING CONVERSATION WITH HIM. IT'S I THINK ANOTHER EXAMPLE OUR LISTENING SESSIONS ATTRACTING PEOPLE WHO TYPICALLY WOULDN'T NECESSARILY FORWARD HE ACTUALLY SAID HE WAS NOT WILD ABOUT COMING IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL IN THIS FORMAT BUT APPRECIATED THE RATHER INFORMAL SETTING THAT WE HAD AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A DISCUSSION SO. I THINK ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY OF OUR LISTENING SESSIONS WHERE WHERE PEOPLE WHO OTHERWISE WOULDN'T APPEAR IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL COME IN FOR A NICE CONVERSATION AND I THINK ALWAYS SATISFIED WITH THE THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD AND THE OUTCOMES OF OF WHAT THEY WERE BRINGING FORWARD. SO I THOUGHT IT WAS I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD CONVERSATION TODAY HE WAS OUR ONLY PERSON WHO CAME FORWARD. I WAS GLAD TO MEET TREY SO I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO ADD. MR. RUBY ANYTHING TO ADD FOR OUR UPDATE TONIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. MARY OF TWO ITEMS FIRST BLOOMINGTON PRIDE CELEBRATION IS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH AND WE HAVE A TABLE THAT IS RESERVED FOR THE CITY AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME IF YOU WISH TO HELP TABLE AT THE EVENT PLEASE CONTACT MR. BRILLIANT AND WILL MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOU ON THE LIST AND HELP US PREPARE FOR THAT EVENT. THE SECOND ITEM IS IT'S INTERNATIONAL WEEK HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. SO IN ADDITION TO THE WONDERFUL VISIT FROM THE MAYOR ALL DELEGATION AND THE STUDENT DELEGATION OF IZUMI CITY WE ANOTHER GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE COMING THROUGH LATER THIS WEEK THE ORGANIZATION GLOBAL SYNERGY GROUP IS HOSTING 30 UKRAINIAN YOUTH FOR FIVE WEEKS. THEY JUST ARRIVED LAST WEEK. THEIR FIRST WEEK FOCUSES ON GOVERNANCE AND. THEY WILL BE IN BLOOMINGTON ON THURSDAY FOR MOST OF THE DAY LISTENING TO EXPERIENCES FROM BLOOMINGTON IN COMMUNITY BUILDING AND BUILDING STRONG AND STAFF HAS PUT TOGETHER WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO BE A REALLY ENGAGING PRESENTATION FOR THEM IN THE MORNING AND THEN THEY'LL BE VISITING THE SOUTH LOOP AREA, THE REFUGE IN THE AFTERNOON AND OUR FRIENDS AT THE MALL OF AMERICA WILL BE HOSTING THEM LATER IN AFTERNOON AS WELL. SO THIS IS A WONDERFUL PROGRAM. THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR WE'VE HAD A BIG GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM UKRAINE COMING HERE AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE ISSUES THAT THEY HAVE BACK IN THEIR COUNTRY, IT'S A NICE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO GIVE THEM A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND HOPE THAT THEY CAN UTILIZE THAT IN THE FUTURE. SO THURSDAY MORNING IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AVAILABLE WE'D CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO STOP IN AND SAY HI. THE MAYOR WILL BE HOPEFULLY PROVIDING A GREETING TO THEM. WE HAVE TO GET YOU DETAILS ON THAT. I KNOW YOU WERE WAITING FOR THAT BUT IF OTHERS WOULD LIKE TO BE HERE WE CAN CERTAINLY INCORPORATE THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU MR. VERBRUGGE. DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT OTHERS CAN'T REMEMBER ALONE AND THEN OF COURSE REMEMBERED EL CENTRO COUNTRY FOR A MOMENT I'LL TRY TO BE QUICK HERE. I WANTED TO JUST MENTION THE PASSING OF KEHOE WAS IN THE START TRIBUNE AND WORK WITH HER WAS A MEMBER OF THE O LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AND I JUST WANTED TO MENTION HER COMMITMENT TO JUST THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR BLOOMINGTON ELECTIONS CLEAN AND TRANSPARENT AND THEN ALSO HER COMMITMENT TO MAKING SURE THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WERE ENGAGED IN BLOOMINGTON ALL ACROSS IT AND MANY OTHER THINGS TOO. BUT I WANT TO KEEP THE KEEP THE REMARKS SHORT HERE BUT I WAS REALLY SAD TO HEAR OF HER PASSING. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GOING TO THE CORNERSTONE CELEBRATION THIS THIS FALL SO HOPE THAT I'LL BE ABLE KEEP THAT LEGACY MOVING ON WITH THAT AND THEN I WANTED TO JUST ASK ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I'M NOT LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER TODAY BUT ANY OTHER UPDATES THE DMV AT ALL THE PRIVATE DMV I KNOW WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT AT ONE POINT IN TIME ANY ANY INKLINGS THAT MIGHT BE COMING? MR. MARIN COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY CONTACT FROM THE PRIVATE PARTY THAT WAS INTERESTED IN OPERATING THE DMV FOR QUITE SOME TIME. UH COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. YEAH. SO I HAD A QUICK QUESTION. I FIRST OFF I BELIEVE THAT OUR REVIEW OF RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE STAFF REGARDING UPDATES TO OUR CANNABIS LEGISLATION IS COMING IN ON THE 28TH. IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY. UH, IN THE MEANTIME IS SMOKING IN PARKS ALREADY PROHIBITED BY THE CURRENT LED TO THE CURRENT INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE? I FELT LIKE IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE CALLED OUT TO SAY LIKE IF YOU CAN'T SMOKE HERE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'RE SMOKING YOU CAN'T SMOKE IT. IS THAT TRUE MR. AND COUNCIL MEMBERS OUR ORDINANCE OR LOCAL ORDINANCE PROHIBITS THE USE TOBACCO IN PARKS AND SO I BELIEVE THIS I DON'T I'M NOT A LAWYER YOU KNOW THIS BUT SOMETIMES I PLAY ONE ON TV SO I'LL WAIT TO GET DAGGERS FROM NEXT TO ME. THE CANNABIS IS NOT NECESSARILY DEFINED AS A TOBACCO AND SO PART OF THE DISCUSSION WILL BE WHETHER WE WANT TO REVISE OUR ORDINANCE TO SPECIFY THAT OKAY OUR SIGNS DON'T EXPLICITLY SAY THAT YOU KNOW JUST AT LAKE WEST FOR EXAMPLE THIS WEEKEND AND IT JUST SAYS SMOKING IS PROHIBITED HERE. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED RECONCILIATION OF ALL OF THAT OR IF WE SHOULD GENERIS IS THE LANGUAGE THEN AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN IT COMES ON THE TABLE. OKAY THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION IS SOMETHING THAT MAKES ME VERY EXCITED AND I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS WITH FOLKS AROUND MY DISTRICT A LOT. I WAS SO THRILLED TO SEE THAT WE ARE HAVING GOATS HELP US OUT WITH OUR BUCKTHORN AND HARRISON PARK I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRAZY BUT IT IS A WONDERFULLY LIKE NATURAL AND VALUABLE SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. I BELIEVE PARK IS RIGHT UP HERE LIKE JUST SOUTH OF OR JUST NORTH OF MOY PARK HERE AND IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT? IS IT HAPPENING AT THIS MOMENT? ARE THEY THERE OVER THE NEXT OF WEEKS? I CAN'T IT DOESN'T SAY EXPLICITLY WHEN THEY'RE COMING. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I GET OUT THERE WITH MY CAMERA. BUT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW THAT HARRISON PARK IS GOING TO HAVE GOATS. I THINK IT'S REALLY VALUABLE AND KUDOS TO DAVE HANSEN FOR TAKING ALL THE TOOLS IN TOOLBOX AS WE TALK ABOUT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND ESPECIALLY OUR INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT AND PULLING THAT ONE OUT BECAUSE IT MAKES ME EXTRA HAPPY. THANKS MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER DALLESSANDRO SANDRA I APPRECIATE YOU POINTING THAT OUT. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE HAVE ENLISTED OUR GOAT FRIENDS IN HELPING US WITH INVASIVE SPECIES ERADICATION AND CONTROL BEFORE HARRISON I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE USED THEM IN THE AREA BELOW THE POND HOUSE THE GIDEON POND HOUSE AND I WANT TO SAY THAT TAR HEEL PARK WAS ONE OF THOSE PLACE IN IRWINDALE IN RIGHT BY THE JAPANESE GARDENS. RIGHT. SO GOATS IN ADDITION TO BEING WELL LIKED BY HUMANS FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY EFFECTIVE. SO IT'S A IT A RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT APPROACH. I'M NOT I'M NOT I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING HERE IS IF IF PART OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT OFFICE WE WANTED TO BUILD INTO OUR ONGOING BUDGET LIKE REGULAR USE OF THEM I THINK WE COULD I KNOW THAT I WOULD SUPPORT THAT. YES. BUT DID YOU THINK YEAH WELL THAT WAS OUR MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AT THE RISK OF CAUSING OUR STAFF TO HAVE A LITTLE FREAK OUT MOMENT HERE BECAUSE YOU KNOW ALL SORTS OF WEIRD THINGS HAPPENED AFTER 10:00. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A NURSERY FOR TREES SO YOU KNOW WHO'S TO SAY WE CAN'T HAVE A NURSERY FOR GOATS TOO? I THINK YOU SHOULD TALK TO JOHN OVER ANIMAL CONTROL FIRST. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNSEL ON ANYTHING ADDITIONAL IF NOT COUNCIL I HAD TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN TONIGHT SO MOVED THE SECOND MOTION IN A SECOND TO ADJOURN THIS EVENING NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I HOLD WE ARE ADJOURNED THANK YOU MUCH COUNCIL FOR YOUR WORK THIS EVENING THANK YOU TO THE STAFF GREAT PRESENTATIONS A LOT OF INFORMATION TONIGHT. THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO TUNED IN AND WHO JOINED THIS EVENING. HAVE A GREAT TUESDAY IN YOUR WEEK >>