GOOD EVENING EVERYONE AND WELCOME I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER TONIGHT IS MONDAY OCTOBER 30TH 2023 OUR LAST COUNCIL MEETING IN OCTOBER. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? WE WILL START OUR MEETING AS WE ALWAYS DO IF Y ARE ABLE PLEASE RISE AND JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ONCE AGAIN. GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO EVERYONE HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, EVERYBODY WATCHING ONLINE. THANKS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS THIS EVENING. THE PLEDGE OF COURSE IS THE APOVAL OF THEGENDA AND TONIGHT'S AGENDA INCLUDES TWO INTRODUCTORY ITEMS WE'VE GOT A PROCLAMATION FOR VETERANS DAY AND A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. OUR CONSENT BUSINESS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON HAS HER CONSENT AGENDA THIS EVENING IS TEN ITEMS LONG UNDER ITEM FOR OUR HEARINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES HAVE ONE PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING THIS IS REGARDING MEMBERSHIP IN OUR CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION UNDER ITEM FIVE OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS WE'VE GOT FIVE ITEMS 5.1 IS A 2024 BUDGET DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC WORKS. ITEM 5.2 WILL BE A DISCUSSION ON OUR PROPOSED TEN YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 5.3 A DISCUSSION OF THE PROPOSED SPENDING FROM STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND AND THE ONE TIME PUBLIC SAFETY STATE AID AND 5.4 WILL BE OUR LAST PUBLIC ITEM OF THE EVENING OUR CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATE AND THEN ITEM 5.5 THIS EVENING WE WILL GO TO A CLOSED MEETING AND I WILL TURN GAVEL OVER TO COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO AGAIN THIS EVENING AS THE TOPIC OF OUR CLOSED MEETING ALSO RELATES TO MY PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT SO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE FOR THE CLOSED MEETING AND I WILL NOT BE BACK COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO WILL CLOSE THE MEETING LIKE SHE DID LAST TIME. I WILL NOT BACK TO CLOSE THE MEETING FOR IT AND THEN WE WILL BE ADJOURNING COUNCIL ANYTHING TO ADD OR ANY CORRECTIONS TO TONIGHT'S AGENDA HEARING NONE. I WOULD MOVE APPROVAL OF TONIGHT'S AGENDA SECOND I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR TONIGHT'S AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO AND WE HAVE AN AGENDA FOR TONIGHT. FIRST AGENDA ITEM AS I SAID ARE TWO PROCLAMATIONS I'M GOING TO HEAD TO THE DAIS AND WE ARE GOING TO DO A COUPLE OF OUR FIRST PROCLAMATION THIS EVENING IS OUR PROCLAMATION FOR VETERANS DAY AND WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL GUEST HERE I LIKE TO CALL UP BLOOMINGTON RESIDENT DAVID SKINNER, UNITED STATES NAVY VETERAN FROM 1979 TO 2002. WELCOME ABOARD. GLAD YOU'RE HERE WITH US THIS EVENING AS I READ THE PROCLAMATION AND WILL PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION, MR. SKINNER HAS GOT A COUPLE OF THINGS HE WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO US AS WELL AND OF COURSE THE 11TH IN NOVEMBER IS VETERANS DAY AND EVERY YEAR IT'S CELEBRATED HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO HONOR THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY AND OUR ARMED FORCES BOTH LIVING AND DEAD PAST AND PRESENT. AND SO IT'S A AN ANNUAL EVENT, ONE THAT I KNOW A LOT OF FOLKS TAKE TO HEART IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS AND WE DO HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IN A LOT OF WAYS AS WELL. AND I'LL READ THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN WE'LL LET MR. SKINNER HAVE HISIME AT THE MICROPHONE AS WELL THIS IS A PROCLAMATION FOR VETERANS DAY NOVEMBER 11TH, 2023 WHEREAS THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED AND CONTINUE TO SERVE IN OUR ARMED FORCES HAVE DISPLAYED UNWAVERING DEDICATION AND SACRIFICE IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR NATION'S FREEDOM AND VALUES. AND. WHEREAS, THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES OF OUR VETERANS WHO HAVE ANSWERED CALL TO DUTY ARE IMMEASURABLE AND DESERVE OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND RESPECT . AND. WHEREAS, IT IS OUR DUTY AS A COMMUNITY TO HONOR AND SUPPORT OUR VETERANS NOT ONLY DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR BY RECOGNIZING THEIR SERVICE AND ENSURING THEY RECEIVE THE CARE AND THE ASSISTANCE DESERVE. AND. WHEREAS, OUR VETERANS HAVE DEMONSTRATED RESILIENCE, STRENGTH AND HEROISM IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY INSPIRING US ALL TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE NOW THEREFORE I MAY OR TIM BUSSEY DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 11TH, 2023 AS VETERANS DAY IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AND I ENCOURAGE BLOOMINGTON RESIDENTS TO TAKE TIME TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE TO VETERANS FOR THEIR SERVICE AND SACRIFICES ACKNOWLEDGING THE DEBT THAT WE OWE THEM. MOREOVER, I ENCOURAGE THE RESIDENTS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO REMEMB AND HONOR THEALLEN BY ATTENDING MEMORIAL EVENTS AND COMMEMORATIONS AND TO CELEBRATE THE DIVERSITY AND THE STRENGTH OF OUR VETERANS AND THEIR INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR NATION. DATED THIS 30TH DAY OF OCTOBER 2023 AND AS I SAID, THIS IS IS AN ANNUAL OBSERVANCE OBVIOUSLY HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ACROSS THE COUNTRY IT'S ONE THAT I ALWAYS TAKE TO HEART OBVIOUSLY IT WAS AT ONE TIME KNOWN AS ARMISTICE DAY. MY DAD WAS BORN DURING THE ARMISTICE DAY BLIZZARD SO THAT WAS ALWAYS A TOP OF THE CONVERSATION AROUND OUR HOUSE AND THEN AS IT BECAME VETERAN'S DAY I BECAME IT TOOK ON A GREATER MEANING ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND SO HAPPY TO HAVE WITH US ARE DAVID DAVID SKINNER, BLOOMINGTON RESIDENT. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING AND NAVY VETERAN 79 TO 22 AND YOU SERVED ON WHAT SERVED ON USS FLORIDA, THE ICONIC BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINE. VERY GOOD. VERY GOOD. WHAT WE'RE SO PLEASED THAT YOU'RE HERE WITH US THIS EVENING. WHY DON'T YOU COME AROUND THIS SIDE? THE MICROPHONE IS YOURS AND THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO EXPRESS MYRATITUDE FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING BLOOMINGTON'S VETERANS COMMUNITY ON THIS SIGNIFICANT OCCASION SECOND ONLY TO MEMORIAL DAY IN TO BOTH OUR COMMITY AND THE NATION. I MUST ADMIT THAT I'M NOT ACCUSTOMED TO SPEAKING IN PUBLIC. I MY LAST EXPERIENCE WAS AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL IN 2014 WHO MY FATHER WAS A PROUD MARINE VETERAN AND THE FACT THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY IS QUITE REMARKABLE. MARK SKINNER SERVED HIS COUNTRY A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS FROM 1947 TO 1967. HOWEVER, IT WAS A BRIEF PERIOD IN DECEMBER 1950 THAT PLAYED A PIVOTAL NOT ONLY IN HISTORY BUT ALSO IN HIS OWN LIFE. MY FATHER'S MARINE UNIT WAS STATIONED THE USS JUNEAU IN THE YELLOW SEA DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE KOREAN WAR SERVING THE GUARD FORCE FOR AN ADMIRAL'S FLAGSHIP WHEN THEY WERE DEPLOYED INTO KOREA AS REPLACEMENTS FOLLOWING THE INCHON LANDING, THE WAR SEEMED TO BE GOING WELL WITH MANY BELIEVING VICTORY WAS JUST AWAY THE UNIT WAS DISPERSED TO REINFORCE UNITS AND MY DAD SOON FOUND HIMSELFT CHOSUN RESERVOIR IN THE MILITARY WE OFTEN DESCRIBED LIFE AS CONSISTING OF LONG HOURS OF BOREDOM INTERRUPTED BY MOMENTS OF FEAR AND THE STORY I'M ABOUT TO TELL EXAMPLE LIES THIS TRUTH JUST AFTER A MONTH THE CHINESE ENTERED THE KOREAN WAR THEY INFILTRATED THE NORTH EAST PART OF NORTH KOREA ON NOVEMBER 27TH, 1950 THEY SURPRISED THE UNITED NATIONS MMAND FORCES IN THE CHOSEN RESERVOIR AREA WHICH CONSISTED AROUND 30,000 PERSONNEL INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 25,000 MARINES 5000 ARMY SOLDIERS ALONG WITH SUPPORTING REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND BRITISH FORCES. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS A GRUELING 17 DAY BATTLE IN FREEZING WEATHER. THE UN FORCES WHO LATER BECAME KNOWN AS THE CHOSEN FEWERE ENCIRCLE AND ATTACKED BY ROUGHLY 120,000 CHINESE TROOPS AFTER A FIERCE STRUGGLE, THE FORCE MANAGED TO BREAK OUT AND WITHDRAW. THE CASUALTIES WERE DEVASTATING, PARTICULARLY THE CHINESE SIDE AS BOTH BATTLE AND NON BATTLE CASUALTIES PILED UP DUE TO THE FRIGID WEATHER WHICH REACHED AS LOW AS -38 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, CHOSE A RESERVOIR, CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE FROZEN CHOSENHE U.N. FORCESEPORTED A TOTAL OF 10,400 BATTLE CASUALTIES COMPRISING 4400 U.S. MARINES 3200 ARMY PERSONNEL, 2900 SOUTH KOREANS AND EIGHT BRITISH ROYAL MARINES. ADDITIONALLY, THE FIRST MARINE DIVISION REPORTED 7400 NON BATTLE CASUALTIES CAUSED BY THE HARSH WEATHER RESULT RESULTING IN A TOTAL OF 17,900 CASUALTIES AS A RESULT OF THIS ACTION 17 MEDALS OF HONOR AND 78 SERVICE CROSSES WERE AWARDED THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER IN HISTORY ONLY SECOND TO THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE IN WORLD WAR TWO AND THIS IS WHERE MY FATHER'S REMARKABLE JOURNEY TRULY BEGAN. HE SURVIVED THE BATTLE WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INJURIES BUT HE DID SUFFER SEVERE FROSTBITE IN BOTH LEGS TO THE POINT WHERE AMPUTATION WAS CONSIDERED. FORTUNATELY HE WAS FLOWN TO TOKYO FOR FURTHER TREATMENT WHICH ULTIMATELY SAVED BOTH OF HIS LEGS EXCEPT FOR THE LOSS OF THE LITTLE TOE ON ONE FOOT AFTER REHABILITATION HE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO HIS DUTIES WITH THE MARINES IT WAS DURING HIS REHABILITATION AT HOME IN DENVER, COLORADO THAT HE CROSSED PATHS WITH AN AIR FORCE FLIGHT NURSE NAMED DARLENE OLSON WHO BECAME MY MOTHER. I'M PROUD TO HAVE FOLLOWED IN MY PARENTS FOOTSTEPS IN SERVING OUR COUNTRY FROM 79 TO 2002 IN THE NAVY, IN THE SUBMARINE SERVICE. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMEMBER MY FATHER . THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT VERY, VERY SIR THAT'S THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR IF YOUR PARENTS THANK YOU THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING WITH US AND FOR SHARING YOUR STORY WITH US TONIGHT. THANK YOU. A SECOND PROCLAMATION THIS EVENING IS THAT OF 2.2 AND IT'S A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH AND OBVIOUSLY BY THE NAME YOU CAN TELL A TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CELEBRATE THE HISTORY AND THE CULTURE AND THE TRADITIONS OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES NOT ONLY HERE IN BLOOMINGTON BUT ACROSS COUNTRY. WE HAVE WITH US TONIGHT MR. SID DIEM WHO IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF CLOUD MEN, THE LEADER OF THE VILLAGE THAT TO THIS AREA FROM THE DEMOCRATS AND THE FALL OF 1839. GOOD EVENING SIR. WELCOME IF YOU COULD I WILL READ THE THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN TURN THE MICROPHONE TO THE CHANCELLOR VERY GOOD THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. THANK YOU. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH NOVEMBER 2023 WHEREAS DURING NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH WE CELEBRATE THE RICH TESTRY OF INDIGENOUS PPLES AND HONOR THEIR VIBRANT AND DIVERSE CULTURES WHICH WE RECOGNIZE AS INEXTRICABLE WOVEN INTO THE HISTORY AND THE PRESENT TIMES OF THIS COUNTRY . AND. WHEREAS, THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IS BUILT ON LANDS ONCE KNOWN BY NATIVE AMERICANS WHERE THE WATER TOUCHES THE BLUFFS AND WHERE SACRED BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE ONES WHO CAME BEFORE US REMAIN AND. WHEREAS NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE A LONG AND RICH HISTORY AND PRESENCE BLOOMINGTON INCLUDING DAKOTA, OJIBWE AND IOWA INDIANS AND WE RECOGNIZE THE 11 TRIBAL NATIONS THAT CALL MINNESOTA HOME. AND. WHEREAS, THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES TO SUPPORT THEIR LEGACY AND PRESERVE THEIR SACRED HERITAGE FOR GENERATIONS TO AND WHERE AS THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL INCLUDES EQUITY AND AS ONE OF ITS STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND STRIVES TO MAKE CONTINUED AND MEANINGFUL PROGRESS TOWARD EQUITY AND INCLUSION FOR NATIVE AMERICANS. AND. WHEREAS, THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL RECOMMIT TO SUPPORTING NATIVE AMERICANS AND WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH THEIR LEADERS TO SECURE STRONGER AND SAFEROMMUNITIES. AND. WHEREAS, DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER WE COMMEMORATE THE RICH AND DIVERSE CULTURE OF NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND RECOGNIZE THEIR CONTINUED CONTRIBUTIONS AND STRENGTHENING DIVERSITY IN OUR SOCIETY. NOW THEREFORE I'M HERE TO BUSSEY DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER AS NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IN THE CITY BLOOMINGTON DATED THE 30TH DAY OF OCTOBER 2023. SO MR. BEAN, CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME. SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU. I'M GOING TO TURN THE MICROPHONE OVER TO THE TWO OF YOU. PLEASE COME AND TALK TO YOU HAPPY I'M DAKOTA AND THAT MEANS HELLO MY RELATIVES MY DAKOTA NAME IS SOLEIMANI WHICH MEANS I WAS TOLD MEANS WALK THROUGH THE STATION THE LITERAL MEANING IS WALKS RATTLING HE MAKES A LOT OF NOISE SO I'M HERE TO MAKE A LOT OF NOISE I GUESS RATHER THAN A NICE WAY ANYWAY, MY FAMILY COMES FROM THE VILLAGE. IS THAT CLOSEST TO BLOOMINGTON AND WITHIN NOW WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON WHICH IS A CHINESE VILLAGE WHICH WAS THE FIRST DAKOTA VILLAGE HERE CALLED THE OLD VILLAGE AND PETITION WAS ALSO FRENCH AND DAKOTA SO I'M ALSO FRENCH AND DAKOTA ALSO I'M A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF CLAUDE AND CLAUDE MANN CAME HERE FROM THE DOMINICAN AND THEN ON HERE FOR ACTUALLY A LONGER OF TIME THAT HE WAS THAT BECAME A KOSTKA AND OF COURSE YOU M FAMIL WAS ASKED BY THE CITY PARKS IN THE MAYOR AND THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE POLITICAL TO LEAD THE EFFORT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE LAKE SO WITH THE SUPPORT OF MY DAUGHTERS AND I HAVE FOUR OF THEM AND WAS A LAWYER WAS PH.D. WAS A BUSINESS WITH A SOCIAL WORKER SO WE'RE A FORMIDABLE FORCE AND ANYWAY SO WE WORK WITH CITIES AND I'M ALSO WORKING WITH BLOOMINGTON COLLEGE NORM DALE COLLEGE RIGHT NOW AS WELL ON BRINGING BACK THE HISTORY OF OUR PEOPLE AND AT WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO RECOGNIZE OUR ANCESTORS AND THOSE THAT CAME BEFORE US. SO I DESCEND FROM PLACE. I AM HAPPY TO BE BACK HERE AT THIS AND TO BE WORKING WITH ERIC WITH THE CITY, WITH JAY LUDWIG, WITH THE PARKS AND RECREATION WHERE I'VE KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS AND TO CONTINUE TO SPORT THE CITY IN ANY WAY THAT I MIGHT BE ABLE TO I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOUNGER WOMAN. I'M THE OLDEST IN MY FAMILY AND I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE AS A YOUNG WOMAN THAT'S WITH US ALSO OJIBWE BECAUSE THE TRIBES HERE IN MINNESOTA ARE DAKOTA ELIGIBLE AND SO WE REPRESENT GUESS THROUGH OUR ANCESTORS THOSE NATIONS WHO CONTINUES TO BE HERE. SO I ASKED MARISSA TO JOIN ME BECAUS SHE'S WITH THE INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAM HERE AND AS A FORMER HISTORY TEACHER AND POLITICAL PROFESSOR I ALSO BROUGHT ALONG WITH ME LIST OF BOOKS THAT I'M GOING TO PASS TO THE MAYOR AND ASK TO GIVE ONE TO EACH OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. I WOULD NOT BE BEING WHO I AM IF I WASN'T GIVING THEM AN ASSIGNMENT WHICH IS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE ARTICLES, TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE FILMS, TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE BOOKS BECAUSE I'VE BEEN INVOLVE ALL OF THEM AS A FILMMAKER I'M A WRITER. I'M ALSO INVOLVED IN PUBLISHING BOOKS SO AND WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MARISSA WITH BLOOMINGTON IN IN EDUCATION WHICH I'M A LITTLE SHORT SO FILL THAT TIME A LITTLE BIT PAJU AND THEN I LOVE A NEW DENNIS QUAID AND ISN'T IT COSMIC IS THE ENDODERM A COLOR AND WHEN JABBA MY NAME IS MARISSA JOHNSON I HAD JUST GIVEN A GREETING INNISHINAABE MORNING OR OJIBWE EAST ONE WOMAN IS MY ANISHINAABE NAME AND, MY CLAN IS EAGLE AND I COME FROM LE COUTEUR WHICH IS IN ACTUALLY WISCONSIN AND LIKE YOU WERE SAYING I AM WITH THE INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAM. I'M ONE OF THE PROGRAM SPECIALIST HERE IN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO OF INTRODUCE, YOU KNOW, WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO AND WHY THINK OUR PROGRAMING IS SO IMPORTANT AND SO SPECIAL. I ACTUALLY GREW U IN BLOOMINON. WENT TO BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC K THROUGH 12 AND I HAVE BEEN IN OUR PROGRAM K THROUGH 12 AS WELL AND THE WOMAN WHO I GET TO WORK WITH NOW HEIDI OUR DIRECTOR I'VE KNOWN SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL SO THAT IS VERY SPECIAL FOR ME IN PARTICULAR AND WITH THAT YOU KNOW GROWING UP IN THIS PROGRAM I'VE REALLY BEEN ABLE IT'S BEEN ABLE TO GIVE ME SUPPORT NOT ONLY ACADEMICALLY BUT SOCIALLY WELL AND A LOT OF THE CONNECTIONS THAT I'VE MADE WITHIN OUR AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAM ARE VERY LONG LASTING. I KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MANY OF MY PEERS AND PREVIOUS STAFF MEMBERS WHO HAVE SINCE MOVED ON FROM THEIR POSITION. BUT I BELIEVE THAT THIS PROGRAM IS TRULY SPECIAL INFORMING YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY AS WELL. AND THEN WITH THAT WE STRIVE FOR THE SUCCESS OF OUR NATIVE STUDENTS. WE DO THAT BY MEETING THE UNIQUE CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF OUR NATIVE STUDENTS AND WE DO THIS THROUGH DIRECT SERVICES WHICH CAN INCLUDE OUR ONE ON ONE CHECK CHECKING CONNECTS WITH STUDENTS INDIVIDUALLY OR WE DO GROUP CULRAL PROGRAMIN AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO DO THINGS WITH A DAKOTA EMPHASIS GIVEN THAT WE ARE ON DAKOTA LAND AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT THROUGH ATTENDING LANGUAGE CAMPS BRINGING IN GUEST LECTURES OR SPEAKERS TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS TEACHINGS IN THAT WAY. AND ADDITIONALLY WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE FAMILY PROGRAMING AND WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT COMMUNITY IS SUCH A BIG SO WE REALLY LIKE TO INVOLVE THE FAMILIES AS WELL AND WE ALSO WORK WITH OUR CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION TEAM BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE PROVIDIN AUTHENTIC THAT TEACHES ABOUT MINNESOTA TRIBAL COMMUNITIES. AND WITH THAT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO BE IN MY POSITION NOW AND BACK IN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WORKING WITH THE TEAM THAT I AM ABLE TO NOW AND BUILDING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AS WELL IN ORDER TO BEST SERVE OUR NATIVE STUDENTS AND ENSURE THAT THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL. ME WHICH THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH BOTH OF YOU FOR BEING WITH US THIS EVENING AND THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. I THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT WE OBVIOUSLY ARE ON SACRED LAND HERE AND ALWAYS ARE AND WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT AND REMEMBER THAT AND APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT PUT FORWARD WITHIN THE SCHOOLS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TO TRY TO MAKE THAT ALWAYS AT THE FRONT OF PEOPLE'S MINDS SO WE CAN'T FORGET THAT. SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. LET'S TAKE A PICTURE AND SMILE VERY NICELY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO VERY YEAH. THANK YOU MR. IF I CAN PLEASE MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALTON EXCUSE ME PLEASE. THANK YOU. I THINK IS A KIND OF AN INTERESTING OVERLAP TO TALK ABOUT BOTH VETERANS AND OUR HERITAGE CONSIDERING THAT NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN I THINK THE HIGHEST THE HIGHEST ENROLLMENT IN OUR MILITARY SERVICES ON A PER CAPITA BASIS FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. SO DESPITE THE FACT THAT MANY OF OUR COLONIAL ANCESTORS STOLE FROM THEM, THEY ARE DEFENDING THIS COUNTRY AT A HIGHER RATE THAN MOST OF THE TIME AND I THINK THAT'S WORTH MENTIONING. SO THANKS FOR THE PRIVILEGE. ABSOLUTELY. AND INTERSECTS IN A LOT OF WAYS I THINK THAT YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT AND I APPRECIATE THAT WE NOW HAVE READING MATERIAL COUNCIL. SO YOU'VE GOT READING MATERIAL AND I APPRECIATE STAFF FOR FOR BRINGING THESE TWO PROCLAMATIONS TOGETHER. WELL DONE. WHAT A VERY NICE WAY TO TO START A MEETING SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. WELL THEN THANKS . NEXT IN OUR AGENDA IS ITEM THREE OUR CONSENT BUSINESS COUNCIL MEMBER NELSON HAS OUR CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT COUNCILMEMBER. NELSON THANK YOU MAYOR. I DID NOT HEAR IN ADVANCE OF HOLDS DOES ANYBODY HAVE SOMETHING WE'RE GOING WELL HERE TO. ALL RIGHT SO FOR ONE I WILL MOVE ITEM THREE ONE THROUGH THREE, SIX AND THREE EIGHT THROUGH 310 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER NELSON CIRCLED BY COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO TO ACCEPT TONIGHT'S CONSENT. BUSINESS HAS STATED NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO AND I BELIEVE YOU HELD ITEM 3.7 IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT COUNCILMEMB AOMAN COUNCILMBER LOWMAN YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THE THE MANAGER THE OPPORTUNITY YOU KNOW, TO HIGHLIGHT SOMETHING THAT STAFF IS WORKING HARD TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE THE PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING IS WELL BEYOND YOU KNOW THE UNCONSCIOUS FOR SOMEBODY HAVE TO WORK THERE AND SO I KNOW THAT THE STAFF IS WORKING HARD TO TRY TO TO GET THAT RESOLVED AND I WANTED TO JUST GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO MENTION THE WORK YOU GUYS DO THERE. MR. RUBY THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN APPRECIATEHE OPPORTUNITY. BIG PICTURE COMMUNITY WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH THIS IF THEY'RE IF THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE BALLOT QUESTION REGARDING THE COMMUNITY AND WELLNESS CENTER ONE OF THE ISSUES IS THAT PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING IS IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT IT IS AN AGED AND FUNCTIONALLY OBSOLETE BUILDING THAT'S MORE THAN YEARS OLD AND IT CURRENTLY HOUSES AS MANY PEOPLE AS IT WAS ACTUALLY DESIGNED FOR. SO WE HAVE PEOPLE REALLY SHOEHORNED IN THERE WORKING IN LESS TN OPTIMAL CONDITIONS IN REALLY OLD FURNISHINGS FRANKLY AT THE END OF LAST YEAR WE CARRIED OVER SOME OF THE BUDGET EXCESS FROM THE DEPARTMENT TO LOOK AT VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH BACK THEN WERE THINKING THAT WE MIGHT UTILIZE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO LOOK FOR A DIFFERENT LOCATION IF THE IF THERE WASN'T A NEW BUILDING AS A POTENTIAL SO WE ARE UTILIZING SOME OF THOSE FUNDS TO PURCHASE NEW FURNISHINGS FOR THAT BUILDING IF THE BALLOT QUESTION IS APPROVED, THE LIKELIHOOD IS THAT PUBLIC HEALTH WILL MOVE INTO THE NEW COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER. BUT THAT'S STILL ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS OUT. BEST CASE. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDE GOOD FRANKLY A GOOD WORKING HYGIENE FOR THE BUILDING FOR OUR EMPLOYEES, MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE AN ATMOSPHERE THAT'S CONDUCIVE TO DOING GOOD WORK. WE ARE BEING MINDFUL THAT THE FURNISHINGS WILL BE PORTABLE SO THAT IN THE EVENT WE DO HAVE A FACILITY WITHIN THE NEXT 3 TO 4 YEARS ALL OF THE FIXTURES AND THE FURNITURE THAT WE'RE BUYING WE CAN MOVE INTO THAT FACILITY. SO IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE BUYING IT JUST FOR A VERY SHORT TERM AND IT ALSO GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE OF AN EFFICIENT USE OF THE SO THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GAIN SOME WORKSTATIONS AND IMPROVE THE WORKING CONDITIONS OVER THERE. SO THANK YOU. LOWMAN IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I CAN PROVIDE, PLEASE FEEL FREE DESK. NO THANKOU MAYOR. AND MANAGER. YOU KNOW IT'S A TOUGH PLACE TO WORK IN IF YOU'VE BEEN OVER THERE AND I THINK WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP KEEP THE MORALE UP IN THAT PLACE IS A GOOD GOOD THING YOU'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THE FIGURE AND WHAT'S THAT BE HAPPY TO MAKE THAT MOTION TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF THE OFFICE FURNITURE FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING UTILIZING HAND CPC AND TAKE ON CPE C COOPERATIVE CONTRACT FROM INNOVATION SOLUTIONS FOR A TOTAL COST OF $245,453 PROMOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN SECD BY COUNCILMEER CAER ACCEPT IT 3.7 AND TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA FOR THE COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I LIKE PROPOSED MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER NELSON BE ON ITEM FOR HONOR AGENDA TONIGHT'S HEARINGS RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES AS I MENTIONED EARLIER WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING AND ITEM 4.1 IS A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP AND I HAD ON MY LIST ALEJANDRO PALANCA THERE SHE IS. I COULDN'T I DIDN'T SEE YOU HERE SO I WAS WHERE YOU WERE. THERE YOU ARE ENCINO. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US THIS EVENING. WELCOME GOOD EVENING. HELLO. GOOD EVENI. COUNCIL COUNCILMEMBER MAYOR NICE TO BE HERE. YOU CAN GO AHEAD. YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION WANTED TO GO AHEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU SO WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDRESSING MEMBERSHIP FOR THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION PREVIOUSLY PER CITY CODE THAT ARTISTS TRADE BOARD COULD APPOINT THREE OF THE NINE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSIONERS THE COMMISSION, THE GO TO ARTIST RESOURCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL THE CITY N LONGER HAS A FORMAL CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM FOR CREATIVE PLACEMAKING EFFORTS OR PROJECTS AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE AREN'T IN REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH THEM AND HOPE TO CONTINUE A PARTNERSHIP IN THE FUTURE WHEN ABLE AND HAVE CAPACITY. BUT FOR NOW WE FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR CITY COUNCIL TO APPOINT ALL NINE OF THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSIONERS AND I DID WANT TO JUST THAT THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION TO THE HISTORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND JUST THE ARTISTRY STAFF CURRENT AND PRESENT AND PAST FOR ALL OF THEIR SUPPORT ESPECIALLY WITH GETTING CREATIVE PLACEMAKING EFFORTS, GOING THEIR INVOLVEMENT, SECURING FUNDING FOR THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING DISTRICT PLAN IN THE PAST WEEK THEIR PARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN VITAL BUT SINCE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGE RIGHT NOW WE JUST WANT TO RESPECT THAT BUT ALSO HAVE AN APPROPRIATE PROCESS TO APPOINT COMMISSIONERS. SO WE WANT TO THANK THEM AND WE WANT TO ALSO HOPE TO CONTINUE O RELATIONSP AND OUR PARTNERSHIP IN THE FUTURE AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM TO HOPEFULLY GET TO THAT POINT AGAIN SOMEDAY IN THE FUTURE. SO WITH THAT WE HAVE PRESENTED THE ORDINANCE TO CHANGE TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO OF THE CITY CODE RELATING TO THE COMMISSION. THANK YOU MISS PELINKA MR. RUI SOMETHING TO ADD HERE. THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS REITERATE EVERYTHING THAT ALEJANDRO HAD TO SAY AND ALSO WANT TO REITERATE THAT AGAIN THIS IS NOT REFLECTION ON OUR HISTORY. THIS IS AN OUTGROWTH OF SOME OF THE RESTRUCTURING THEY'VE DONE TALKED TO STAFF THERE TODAY AND ASSURED THEM I WOULD THAT POINT AGAIN IN CASE IT IS UNCLEAR BUT ALSO I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ARTISTRY IT'S NOT NECESSARILY SPECIFIC TO THIS ORDINANCE BUT JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION THEY WILL BE IN THE SECOND MEETING IN DECEMBER TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE THEY ARE AT AS AN ANNUAL TO THE COUNCIL. SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM THEM BECAUSE. THEY ARE DOING GOOD WORK AS THEY REBUILD OUT OF THE RESTRUCTURG. THANK YOU, MR. VERHEUGEN. COUNSEL ANY QUESTIONS FOR EITHER MR. BRUYERE MR. PELINKA COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER LOMAN. DALLESSANDRO THANKS MR. MAYOR. GOOD EVENING. I HAD A KNOW THAT WHEN WE TALKED I THINK IT BACK WHEN WE MADE APPOINTMENTS A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I HAD AN QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED TO CONSIDER EXPANDING THE SIZE OF THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION TO INDICATE IT'S NOW ITS SCOPE BEING CITYWIDE OPPOSED TO JUST THE SOUTH LOOP WHICH IS WHAT IT WAS BEFORE BUT KNOW THAT THIS ORDINANCE DOESN'T CHANGE THE NUMBER OF APPOINTEES TO THE COMMISSION SO I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THAT DISCUSSION HAPPENED AND AND IF YOU COULD HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE REASON YOU CHOSE NOT TO DO THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ALESSANDRA. WE DID SPEAK THAT IN THE COMMISSION. WE ALSO JUST SPOKE IN GENERAL THE MAKEUP OF OUR COMMISSION AND WE SAID WE WANTED TO HAVE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS ONE CHANGING THE NUMBER BUT ALSO IF WE WANTED TO ALLOW FOR PERHAPS A YOUTH COMMISSIONER POSITION AND ALSO WE WANTED TO DISCUSS IF MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT HAVING A CERTAIN NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF THE MAKEUP OF THE COMMISSION INVOLVED EITHER ARTIST OR AN ARTS ORGANIZATION IN THE FUTURE SO THAT WE'RE STILL HEARING TO ARTISTRY THE VALUES OF WHEN THEY WHEN THEY HAD APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS IN THE PAST TYPICALLY THEY WERE ARTISTS OR ARTS ADVOCATES IN OTHER WAYS SO WE JUST WANTED TO CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THAT CONVERSATION TO JUSTO EXPRE ALL OF THOSE POSSIBILITIES AND THEN COME BACK WITH UPDATED BYLAWS ONCE WE HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. WE JUST DIDN'T WANT TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING WITHIN THAT DECISION. VERY GOOD YOU. THANK YOU. MUST BE COUNCILMEMBER. YEAH I JUST CURIOUS AND WAS ARTISTRY NOTIFIED OF THIS CHANGE AND THEN WHEN WHEN NOTIFIED OF THE CHANGE YEAH. SO WE ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LAST YEAR FOR FATHER PORTER SORRY LAST YEARHEN WE CANCELED THE OR WHEN WE SUSPENDED THE CONTRACT THE FORMAL CONTRACT WITH WE OUTLINED KIND OF HOW OUR RELATIONSHIP CHANGE AS A RESULT OF THE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAD IN PLACE WITH ARTISTRY BEING TERMINATED. SO THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE DISCUSSED CHANGING THE BYLAWS AND I'M SORRY CHANGING THE CODE AND THEN JUST LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THAT WOULD BE HAPPENING THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF CHANGING THAT PROCESS AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW THAT WE AGAIN JUST REITERATING THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE O RELATIONSHIP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM WHEN THEY WERE READY AND ABLE THAT WE WOULD CONTUE THAT CONVERSATION. SO THEN NOTHING RECENTLY BECAUSE WHEN I TALKED WITH HER EARLIER TODAY SHE HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF THIS HAPPENING AT ALL. YEAH I COULD SPEAK HER TODAY AND SHE DID THEY DID MENTION THAT SHE REMEMBERED OUR PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS BEING PART OF THE PROCESS SO. I WASN'T AWARE THAT THEY HAD EXPRESSED THAT. YES, IF YOU AFTER I'M THEN SO VERY GOOD JUST BUILDING ON COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO QUESTION REGARDING NOT ONLY THE SIZE BUT THE MAKEUP AND YOU KIND OF MENTIONED THAT AS WELL I KNOW THAT CURRENTLY THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION LIMITED TO SIMPLY RESIDENTS OF BLOOMINGTON I THINK MAYBE STRETCHED IT AS FAR AS WE COULD INTO THE TWIN CITIES ARTS COMMUNITY ASSUMING THAT'S GOING TO BE CONTINUE TO BE THE CASE AS WE AS THE COUNCIL HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPOINT ALL OF THE THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION THANK YOU MARY. YES. I MEAN I THINK THAT WOULD BE PART OF OUR CONVERSATION OF THE OF THE COMMISSION ORIGINALLY IT WAS THAT AT LEAST FIVE OF THE NINE MEMBERS HAD TO RESE IN BLOOMITON AND THAT WAS INTENTIONALLY DONE SO THAT IF WE HAD PLACEMAKING OUR PUBLIC ART OR ARTISTS THAT WANTED TO PARTICIPATE OUTSIDE OF BUILDING TEN BUT THE PORCELAIN EVOLVED OR STAKEHOLDERS IN SOME WAY IN THE WORK THAT WE DOING HERE THAT THEY'D HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STILL JOIN I. IMAGINE THAT THE COMMISSION STILL WANTS TO CONTINUE THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE PEOPLE PART OF OUR COMMISSION THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BLOOMINGTON RESIDENTS BUT HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESSES OR IN OTHER WAYS STAKEHOLDERS OF THE WORK THAT WE DO HERE AND THEY REALLY APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT SO . I DO IMAGINE THAT THAT WOULD CONTINUE IN THE FUTURE. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU COUNSEL. ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS IF NOT OUR COUNSEL THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING RIGHT NOW AND I AM 4.1 A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF OUR CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ITEM 4.1 THIS EVENING? MR. SABLE IS THERE ANYONE ON THE PHONE WISHING TO SPEAK 10 A.M. 4.0 MR. MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS NO ONE ON THE LINE. NO ONE ON THE LINE. LAST CALL FOR ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS COUNCIL NO ONE COMING FORWARD IN THE CHAMBERS. NO ONE ON THE LINE. I WOULD LOOK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4.1. SO MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN CLOSE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4.1 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING SO COUNCIL I THINK IT'S BEEN SAID A COUPLE OF TIMES AND REITERATED I THINK THIS IS NOT A A A REFLECTION ON THE COUNCIL AND THE CITY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ART HISTORY IN ANY WAY. IT'S A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS CHANGED CERTAINLY AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY I THINK TO TO RE-IMAGINE AND TO LOOK FOR A BETT WAY TO D THIS CONSIDERING HOW IT HAS CHANGED AND HOW THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURE NOW. AND SO I DO TO ECHO THIS POINT THOSE WORDS I MEAN I THINK WE WE HAVE HAD A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH ART HISTORY IN THE PAST AND I THINK WE'RE INDEBTED TO THEM IN THE WORK THAT THOSE FOLKS DID OVER THE YEARS THEY HELPED BUILD CREATIVE PLACEMAKING EFFORTS WITHIN THE CITY AND AND THE COMMISSION ITSELF. AND SO I CERTAINLY HOPE WE CAN CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED BUT I THINK THIS IS A LOGICAL OUTGROWTH OF THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY AND ART HISTORY AND AS THEY GO THROUGH THEIR CHANGES WITHIN THEIRRGANIZATION, THIS IS I THINK THERE'S A POSITIVE WAY TO MOVE FORWARD. COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESSANDRO I'M VERY HAPPY TO MAKE THIS MOTION ,MR. MAYOR. I WOULD SAY ALSO THAT I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY LANGUAGE IN HERE THAT PRECLUDES MEMBERS OF ARTISTRY OR BOARD MEMBERS OF ARTISTRY FROM ALSO PARTICIPATING AS COMMISSIONERS ON CREATIVE PLACEMAKING. SO I'M HOPING THAT THAT HAPPENS TO AS THEY HAVE A LOT TO CONTRIBUTE IN LOTS OF WAYS. I AGREE. ALL RIGHT. WITH I WILL IF YOU COULD JUST HOLD ON COUNCILMEMBER SORRY ONE LAST CALL TO ANYONE HERE. COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THANK YOU, SIR. SORRY FOR THE ENTHUSIASM. A MOVE TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER TWO OF THE CITY CODE RELATED TO THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO SECONDED COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER TWO OF THE CITY CODE RELATED TO THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION. NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE BY SAYING I AM OPPOSED I OPPOSE IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES AT SIX ONE WITH COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN IN OPPOSITION AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. SUMMARY PUBLICAON IF YOU COULD PLEASE MOVE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER TWO OF THE CITY CODE RELATED TO THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION. THE SECOND MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO BY COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN FOR SUMMARY PUBLICATION ON AND ON 4.1 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LOOK FORWARD TO THAT APPLICATION PROCESS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE APPLICANTS FOR THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COMMISSION. THANKS MUCH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. MOVING ON TO OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS TONIGHT ITEM 5.1 IS A DISCUSSION OUR BUDGET DISCUSSION OUR 2024 BUDGET DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC WORKS. MR. KEEL IS HERE THIS EVENING. I APPRECIATE YOUR FLEXIBILITY. I KNOW LAST WEEK GOT BUMPED AND APPRECIATE YOU COMING BACK TONIGHT AND BRINGING THIS TO US AND HAVING THIS DISCUSSION. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING TONIGHT ABOUT PUBLIC WORKS GENERAL FUND, THE FLEET FUND AND THE FACILITIES FUND. MR. KEEL, THANK YOU FOR HERE. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE EARLIER TO THIS NIGHT THAT COULD HAVE THE OVER OUR HOW HOW DO I GET IT UP ON THE TOP RIGHT. GREAT THANK YOU. SO THIS EVENING I THINK WE'RE PREPARED TO DO IS TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THOSE PORTIONS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET THAT THE MERE MENTIONED OF OUR INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS ARE FLEET AND FACILITIES AND THOSE THAT ARE PAID FOR THROUGH THE GENERAL. AND WHEN WE GET THE OVERHEAD I HAVE A COUPLE THAT WILL SHOW THAT GENERALLY PUBLICORKS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE RELATED ACTIVITIES WITH THE ENGINEERING WHICH DOES PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE OUR UTILITY GROUP TAKES CARE OF OUR DRINKING WATER AND SANITARY SEWER SERVICE NEEDS MAINTENANCE TAKES CARE OF FACILITIES FLEET OUR ROAD MAINTENANCE TYPE THINGS AND OUR PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION GROUP TAKES CARE OF SUPPORTING THOSE OTHER OPERATING DIVISIONS BUT ALSO OPERATES OUR SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING PROGRAM. THANK YOU SO AGAIN KIND OF JUST ROUGHLY AS I SAID, WE GO OVER AN OVERVIEW OF THOSE PORTIONS OF THE BUDGET ARE INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS AND OPERATED BY THE GENERAL. AGAIN WE'RE OPERATED OR ORGANIZED IN FOUR DIVISIONS WHICH I REALLY JUST KIND OF SUMMARIZED FOR YOU. I WOULD NOTE THAT WITH US TONIGHT JULIE LONG, OUR CITY ENGINEER WHO LEADS OUR ENGINEERING DIVISION IS HERE. TIM BEHRENDT IS OUR SUPERINTENDENT TAKES CARE OF OUR MAINTENANCE DIVISION. SCOTT ANDERSON WHO YOU HEARD FROM LAST MEETING IS NOT HERE BUT HE'S ED'S ARE OUR UTILITIES GROUP AND ELLEN BILLINGS IS HERE TO TALK ABOUT OUR ADMINISTRATION DIVISION ERMIAS SWAGGY WHO IS ALSO HERE HE'S OUR PUBLIC WORKS ACCOUNTANT. SO SO PUBLIC WORKS IF YOU LOOK OVERALL ARE WE FUNDED? THIS IS A PIE CHART THAT SHOWS THAT KIND OF THE LARGEST PORTION OF OUR FUNDING COMES FROM UTILITY FUNDS AND THESE ARE THE THAT PORTION OF OUR BUDGET WHICH YOU DISCUSSED AT YOUR LAST MEETING. SO I'LL BE FOCUSING ON THE GREEN AND THE YELLOW AREAS WHICH ARE SERVICE FUNDS FLEET AND FACILITIES AND THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR ROUGHLY 36% OF OUR OUR BUDGET . SO ONE KIND OF UNIQUE FEATURE THIS YEAR IS THAT WE HAVE CHANGED OUR PARK MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS WHICH IS TIME PEOPLE ARE MOVING HAVE MOVED FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO PARK AND RECREATION. AND THAT'S KIND OF A CONFUSING THING AS WE TALK ABOUT OUR BUDGET I'LL TRY TO DESCRIBE IT BOTH WAYS. SO THIS IS A SUMMARY OF OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR AND THIS IS INCLUDING SHIFT OF PARK AND RECREATION PARK MAINTENANCE TO PARK AND RECREATION. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WE LOOK FANTASTIC ON OUR EXPENDITURES. THEY ALLENT DOWN CONSIDABLY THIS YEAR. THAT'S NOT 100% TRUE WHEN I SHOW THE NEXT SLIDE. THE SO THIS IS IF WE WERE NOT TO HAVE PARK AND RECREATION YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR OVERALL INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES IS ABOUT 7% AND IT'S THE AREAS WHERE WE'RE SEEING INCREASES ARE VERY SIMILAR TO THE OTHER BUDGETS YOU'VE RECEIVED IN THE PUBLIC IN THE GENERAL FUND IN THAT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN INTERNAL SERVICE CHARGES INCLUDING FLEET FACILITIES AND SALARIES AND OUR MATERIALS GOING UP WITH KIND OF INCREASED INFLATION. SO THIS IS A SUMMARY OF OF OUR GENERAL BUDGET. IF PARK MAINTENANCE HADN'T MOVED WHICH IS PROBABLY A BETTER REFLECTION OF HOW WE'RE DOING MANAGING OUR OUR INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS. THE GENERAL FUND HAS 65 EMPLOYEES. THIS IS KIND OF A TABULATION OF ALL THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE ARE FUNDED PRIMARILY OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND THE WE'VE BEEN FINDING IN THIS PORTION OF OUR BUDGET ARE INFLATIONARY COSTS AND THE INCREASES TO WAGES AND MATERIALS. I THINK WE DID DISCUSS I THINK THE COUNCIL IS VERY MUCH AWARE OF THIS SHIFT. THE PARK MAINTENANCE AND OTHER KIND OF NOTABLE THINGS IN THIS BUDGET IS THAT WE MADE A VERY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TO HOW WE DELIVER A PORTION OF OUR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT IS OUR STEEL COATING OPERATION. THAT'S WHERE WE PUT AN OIL DOWN ON THE ROAD AND, PUT GRAVEL OVER THAT AND IT STICKS AND THEN PICK UP THE REMAINDER. IT'S A TRY TO DO THAT TO EACH STREET SEGMENT ABOUT EVERY EIGHT YEARS OR SO. IT'S AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR PAYMENT MANAGEMENT. WE HAVE TRADITIONALLY DONE ALL THAT WORK INTERNALLY. WE HAVE THE EQUIPMENT AND THE STAFFING AND THAT FRANKLY WE'RE QUITE PROUD ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE WORK WE CAN DO IN THAT AREA. RECENTLY THE SUPPLIER OF OIL HAS NOT BEEN WILLING TO GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC BIDDING PROCESS AND SO WE'VE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO PURCHASE THE OIL THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT WORK. LUCKILY THE WAS A IS A GROWING JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT SOUTH OF THE RIVER THAT HIRES CONTRACTORS TO DO A LARGE PORTION OF OF THE SEAL COATING PROGRAM SO WE'VE HAD A REJIGGERED OUR OUR OPERATIONS TO TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. SO FAR AND WE EXPECT IT TO BE SOMEWHAT BUDGET NEUTRAL BUT WE'LL HAVE LESS CONTROL BECAUSE THE COST WILL BE TIED TO THAT CONTRACT RATHER THAN OUR OWN KIND OF YOU ASK WELL WHAT'S THE EXTRA STAFF TIME DOING ON THAT? A PORTION OF THE STEEL COATING IS STILL DONE BY OUR STAFF ALL THE PREP WORK AND ALL THE CLEANUP AFTER THE SWEEPING OF THE ROCK. BUT ANY STAFF TIME THAT WE'VE SAVED HAS BEEN TO RIGHT OF WAY MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY BY PARK REC STAFF. SO IT'S SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED BUT IN GENERAL, I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT THE IMPACT ON THE BUDGET NEUTRAL MOVING ON TO FLEET OPERATIONS FLEET AS YOU CAN SEE AGAIN HAS INCREASES IN SALARIES AND MATERIALS AND A RATHER MODEST OVERALL INCREASE COMPARED TO SOME OF THE INCREASES IN SOME OF OUR OTHER ACTIVITIES. IS IS A SNIPPET FROM OUR OUR LONG TERM MODEL THE NEXT FEW YEARS AND YOU WILL NOTE THAT THE THE FUND PERFORM EXTREMELY DURING COVID WHICH IS KIND OF SURPRISING AND I WOULD SAY THAT THE ONE THING ON THIS THAT IS CAUSING THIS I'LL CALL IT SOMEWHAT UNREALISTIC VIEW OF THOSE PAST YEARS IS IF YOU LOOK ON THE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES THERE WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS WHERE WE WERE FRANKLY UNABLE TO PURCHASE VEHICLE REPLACEMENT THAT WE WANTED TH WAS A LARGEUMBER. SO KIND OF ARTIFICIALLY OUR FUND WAS HOLDING THOSE THOSE DOLLARS WE ANTICIPATE THOSE CONTRACTS ARE ACTUALLY FULFILLED BY THE SUPPLIERS THAT WILL BE SPENDING THOSE MONEY VERY SHORTLY. AND SO WE WILL SEE THOSE HIT THE BOTTOM LINE IN OUR FUND QUICKLY. SO AND THAT IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT GREEN THAT SHOWS BECAUSE IT'S SOMEWHAT ARTIFICIALLY HIGH FLEET HAS AN OPERATION OF 12 EMPLOYEES IN TOTAL CHARS TO FLEET ARE CHARGED TO ALL OUR OPERATING ENTITIES ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY AND WE CHARGE IN TWO TWO COMPONENTS ONE A MAINTENANCE CHARGE AND ONE A REPLACEMENT CHARGE. SO THIS IS GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE RECEIVING MAINTENANCE CHARGES AND KIND OF THE SCALE OF THOSE CLEARLY THE THE KIND OF OPERATING DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE LOTS OF EQUIPMENT THEY'RE THE BIGGEST SPENDERS PUBLIC WORKS BEING THE LARGEST POLICE AND THEN PARK AND RECREATION TH THE TRANSFE OF PARK MAINTENANCE IS A FAIRLY QUICK EQUIPMENT INTENSIVE OPERATION. THE MAINTENANCE CHARGES KIND OF COVERS THE COST OF REPAIRS, FUEL AND THE ONGOING RUNNING OF OUR FLEET OPERATION. I THAT'S THAT SAME GRAPH JUST SHOWN IN THE PIE CHART THE PUBLIC OBVIOUSLY IS HERE IS A LITTLE BETTER THAN HALF OF THE TOTAL COST OF MAINTENANCE AND THEN REPLACEMENT CHARGES ARE PRETTY IN SCOPE THEY'RE ABOUT 5050. AGAIN THE SAME DEPARTMENTS ARE THOUGH ARE THE LARGEST PAYERS IN THE REPLACEMENT CHARGE AND AGAIN THIS WHAT THE PIE CHART OF THAT THAT GRAPH LOOKS LIKE . SO OVERALL KIND OF THE PRESSURES ON OUR FLEET BUDGET IS THAT WE'VE HAVING SOME DEFINITE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES. WE'VE HAD MANY ORDERS FOR EQUIPMENT HAVE BEEN CANCELED AND THEN WHEN WE REORDER THEM THE PRICE HAS GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY. KIND OF AN EXAMPLE IS ONE TON PICKUP TRUCK A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WAS PROBABLY ROUGHLY $31,000 THIS PAST YEAR THAT IT ROSE TO $51,000 WE HAD TRADITIONALLY BEEN WE WOULD GET 20 TO 30% DISCOUNT FROM FROM RETAIL PRICES THROUGH THE VARIOUS STATE AND FEDERAL CONTRACTING VENUES THAT WE USE THOSE DISCOUNTS NOW ARE FROM FIVE TO ALMOST ZERO SO WE'RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING CLOSE TO THE DISCOUNTS WE HAD SEEN IN THE PAST. AGAIN, AN EXAMPLE A LARGE MORE TWO HAS GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY IN PRICE AND LIKE OTHERS EQUIPMENT COSTS ARE GOING UP AND OUR PARTS COSTS THE COSTS FOR OUTSIDE WORK ARE GOING UP BEYOND WHA WE HAD TYPICALLY SEEN IN PAST YEARS. I WOULD ALSO NOTE THIS FUND THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC WE HAD HELD THE FUND BALANCE ARE VERY LOW AND WE HAD TRIED TO MINIMIZE INCREASES DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE THEIR BUDGETS WERE STRAPPED DURING THE PANDEMIC ANDO ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE INCREASING IT NOW IS TO TRY TO CATCH UP FOR PAST YEARS AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS IN THIS CASE FLEET THE COST TO DEPARTMENTS HAVE GONE UP FASTER THAN ONE WOULD EXPECT IS THAT WE'RE CATCHING UP FROM YEARS PAST. MOVING ON TO FACILITIES AGAIN THIS IS A SUMMARY OF WHAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS FOR THIS YEAR. I WOULD NOTE THAT ONE OF THE BIG VARIABLES IN THIS BUDGET IS THE CAPIT OUTLAY PORTIONS WHERE WE HAVE TRADITIONALLY SPENT ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO $5 MILLION A YEAR ON CAPITAL PROJECTS AND A LARGE PORTION OF THE INCREASE IN TOTAL TO THIS BUDGET IS IS DUE TO THAT CAPITAL OUTLAY LINE ITEM. I HAVE ONE KIND OF LARGER PROJECT THAT WAS IS NOT TYPICAL IS IN OUR BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR AND THAT'S INCLUDING A SOLAR ARRAY ON THE PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING. SO AGAIN A PRETTY EXCITING PROJECT A PROJECT WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IT IS VERY MH KEEPING WITH OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS. THIS IS A LOOK AT THE LONG TERM PORTION OF THE LONG TERM MODEL FOR FACILITIES AND YOU CAN SEE AGAIN THAT IN THE PANDEMIC YEARS THAT THE FUND BALANCE WAS KIND OF IN SOMEWHAT QUESTIONABLE STATE AND WE'RE PROPOSING TO INCREASE FEES TO USERS TO TRY TO BRING THAT BACK INTO THE GRID OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. 14 PEOPLE IN FACILITIES IN THE SENSE OF WHO THEY ARE. WE NOTE THAT WE DID A COST OF SERVICE STUDY TWO YEARS AGO NOW THAT LOOKED AT IN DETAIL AT HOW MUCH WAS COSTING US TO RUN OUR FACILITIES OPERATION WHAT KIND OF LEVEL OF SERVICE WE WERE RECEIVING AND MADE RECOMMENDATIONS TO HOW WE MIGHT REORGANIZE OR CHANGE OUR OPERATIONS AND THAT RESULTED IN HIRING A NEW FACILITIES MANAGER CHRISTIAN DAVERN WE HIRED ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND ALSO OVER TIME WE HOPE TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL TWO TECHNICIANS. WE ALSO HAD ONE TECHNICIAN LAST YEAR ALSO HERE IN CIVIC PLAZA THAT KIND OF HELPS WITH DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES IN OPERATING THE CIVIC PLAZA. SO OVERALL FOR THE DEPARTMENT SOME OF THE NEW THINGS THAT YOU WILL IN OUR IN OUR BUDGETS OUR NEW TRAFFIC NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AND I THINK COUNCIL IS WELL AWARE OF THAT. I THINK WE'LL BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT AS WE TALK ABOUT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES IN A FEW MINUTES. ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT I NOTED WE HAD EMBARKED A SERVICE STUDY AND WE ARE DEFINITELY MAKING TO HOW WE PROFESSIONALLY MANAGE OUR FACILITIES AND THAT IS TAKING SHAPE AND HAVING SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR SERVICE SO WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT. SIMILARLY WE HAD A FACILITY STUDY OR A STUDY A SERVICE STUDY FOR FLEET WHICH ALSO IS HAD MADE SOME CHANGES TO OUR OPERATIONS. I MENTIONED SOLAR PROJECT FOR NEXT YEAR AND OUR CONTINUED MOVE TOWARDS AN EV FLEET SO OUR ATTITUDE THAT IS THAT WE ARE VERY ANXIOUS TO MAKE THAT MOVE AND HAVE BEEN VERY PROACTIVE WATCH ORDERING VEHICLES THAT ARE AVAILABLE THAT MEET OUR NEEDS. SO PASSENGER VEHICLES AND NOW KIND OF SMALL PICKUP TRUCKS ARE AVAILABLE AND THEY DO MEET OUR NEEDS AND SO WE'VE BEEN PURCHASING THOSE WHENEVER WE'RE ABLE AND I SAY WHENEVER WE'RE ABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD A RATHER DIFFICULT TIME ACTUALLY PROCURING THEM WE HAD ORDERED AND I THINK THE COUNCILECALLS THAT YOUAD SE ASIDE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES MONEY TO BUY AT THAT TIME ELECTRIC PICKUP TRUCKS THE FORD WE ORDERED TEN THAT THAT ORDER AND ACTUALLY AT THAT TIME THE PRICE WAS INCREDIBLY GOOD IT WAS SOMETHING $38,000 FOR THOSE BUT THAT ORDER WAS CANCELED WHICH IS THE FIRST THAT WE'VE EVER SEEN IN OUR IN OUR OPERATIONS. WE RE-ORDERED THEM WHENEVER THEY WHEN THEY BECAME AVAILABLE B SIXR EIGHT MONTHS LATER I THINK THE PRICE WENT UP TO ABOUT $58,000. IT'S STILL NOT A BAD PRICE AND WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED DELIVERY OF THOSE UNTIL JUST ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO WE RECEIVED OUR FIRST LIGHTNING VEHICLE WHICH WILL BE PART OF THE FLEET THAT'S USED IN ENGINEERING THAT SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE THE REMAINDER OF THOSE DELIVERED. I THINK I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT SCHEDULE BUT LIKE FOUR MORE YET THIS YEAR THEN THE REMAINDER IN 2024. GENERAL CHALLENGES. ONE THING THAT WE'RE WATCHING CAREFULLY IS THAT THERE'S A NUMBER GRANTS IN ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT FLAVORS AND PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN. MOST OF THOSE HAVE A LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT SO WE'RE BEING VERY CAREFUL TRY TO IDENTIFY FUNDS THAT WE CAN HOLD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE GRANTS. FOR MANY YEARS OR SEVERAL YEARS WE'VE HAD A CHALLENGE IN REPLACING OUR RETAINING WALLS IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. YOU MAY NOTICEN 90T STREET JUST TO THE WEST OF PENN AVENUE THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW A VERY LARGE WOODEN RETAINING WALL BUILT IN THE SEVENTIES WHERE THIS THE TIEBACK STRUCTURE HAS ROTTED AND WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE TYPES OF WALLS AROUND TOWN. SO WE HAVE A PRETTY LARGE UNFUNDED ID KIND OF NEED FOR RETAINING WALLS. IT CONTINUES TO BE CHALLENGE FOR US. I MENTIONED OUR OUR SERVICE AND THE NEED EVENTUALLY TO ADD TWO STAFF TO OUR FLEET OPERATIONS. I WOULD NOTE THAT CURRENTLY WITH OUR EXISTING FLEET GARAGE WE DON'T HAVE SPACE TWO NEW TECHNICIANS SO WE'RE HOLDING OFF ON THAT IN THE CAPITAL WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT. ONE OF THE PROJECTS IS A NEW FLEET GARAGE TO BE LOCATED NORTH OF OUR CAMPUS ON A SITE THAT THE CITY PURCHASED ABOUT A YEAR AGO. AND THEN WE WOULD BE WORKING TOWARDS ADDING TWO ADDITIONAL FLEET TECHNICIANS AND IN OUR FACILITIES MAINTENANCE WE HAVE A KIND OF TWO TWO PRESSURES THERE. ONE IS TO FULFILL OUR FLEET FOR OUR FACILITIES SERVICE STUDY THAT'S A SHUTTLE OFF TO AND ALSO WE ARE TRANSITIONING TO TAK OWNERSHIP OR NOT OWNERSHIP OR TAKE OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE FIRE STATIONS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY BEING OPERATED BY THE BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ESPECIALLY THE TWO NEW ONES. AND THAT EQUATES TO ABOUT ONE STAFF MEMBER IN TOTAL. AGAIN TALKED ABOUT THAT THE BULK MUCH OF THE WORK THAT WE DO IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT AND REALLY I THINK OUR FUTURE IS IN ASSET MANAGEMENT. WE WANT TO BE PROACTIVE AND SYSTEMATIC ABOUT HOW WE MAINTAIN TSE PIECES OF INFRASTRUCTURE. I THINK THAT IT WILL RESULT IN BETTER SERVICE SO WE'LL HAVE BETTER QUALITY ROADS, FEWER SHUTDOWNS, WATER SYSTEMS ETC. WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE CONSISTENT AND PREDICTABLE BUDGETING AS WE MOVE AHEAD WITH THAT AND IN THE END LIFECYCLE COSTS WILL BE LESS AND THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU, MR. KEIL. APPRECIATE THAT. AND ACTUALLY THE NOTE THAT I HAD JOTTED DOWN ABOUT 5 MINUTES AGO IS THE ONE THE LAST POINT THAT YOU COVERED WAS THE I KNOW WE HAD A FACILITIES CONDITION ASSESSMENT DONE A FEW YEARS BACK AND I THINK THE DISCUSSION WAS AND THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS IT'S A LOT EASIER TO KEEP THINGS IN THE YELLOW AND GREEN IT IS TO PULL THOSE THINGS THOSE FACILITIES IN RED BACK TO THE YELLOW AND GREEN. IT'S A LOT EASIER TO KEEP THEM THAT WAY. SO I YOUR LEADERSHIP WITH THAT AND THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT AND I MEAN SPEAKING FOR MYSELF YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT TO TO CONTINUE WITH THAT WE'VE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR ASSETS. IT'S MUCH EASIER AND MUCH MORE COST TO TAKE CARE OF E SETS THANT IS TO TRY AND CATCH UP ONCE YOU GET INTO AN ENORMOUS. AND SO I'M FULLY IN SUPPORT OF THAT AND LIKED IT AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE HEADING AND THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT WE'RE DOING THAT. MR. VERBRUGGE THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT TO MAKE. ONE OF THE BITS OF FEEDBACK WE'VE HAD FROM THE COMMUNITY AS WE'VE BEEN OUT TALKING TO FOLKS ABOUT BLOOMINGTON FORWARD IS THIS QUESTION ABOUT OUR FACILITIES AND WHY THE CITY DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THEM OVERECADES RIGHT. AN WHY DO THEY NEED REPLACEMENT? AND I THINK THE FACT IS THAT HISTORICALLY THE CITY HAS NOT DONE AN ASSESSMENT IN THE MANNER THAT WE DID A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT SORT OF WORK IS NECESSARY, HOW THE OF SERVICE LEVELS AS A MATTER OF POLICY TRANSLATES INTO OPERATIONAL FUNCTION AND HOW ON THE BACK END LEADS TO MUCH LONGER LIFE OF THE ASSETS. SO YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY CONFIDENTN IN HOW STAFF HAS TAKEN THAT ASSESSMENT AND STARTED INCORPORATED INTO THE WORK THAT WE DO ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS AND AS MR. TEED UP FOR YOU FUTURE BUDGETS WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK AND TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE REMAINING RECOMMENDATIONS THERE IN TERMS OF HOW WE STAFF TO KEEP THAT SYSTEM IN PLACE AND I APPRECIATE THAT I MEAN THERE'S YOU CAN NEVER CATCH UP ON DEFERRED MAINTENANCE IT JUST NEVER HAPPENS. IT JUST KEEPS DOWNHILL AND IT'S IT'S IMPOSSIBLE DO FROM A FACILITY STANDPOINT BUT IT'S INTERESTING YOU EARLIER ALSO FROM A FLEET STANDPOT AS WELL I THINK TO MAINTAIN THE FLEET TO THE POINT THAT IT LAST LONGER I THINK IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO THINK ABOUT . AND I ASKED THE QUESTION OF CHIEF HODGES THE OTHER WEEK AND I'LL ASK THE QUESTION OF YOU YOU MENTIONED A ONE TON PICKUP. HOW LONG WHAT IS THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A ONE TON PICKUP WITHIN WITHIN TWO YEARS? YES, I THINK IN OUR SCHEDULE IT'S A TEN YEAR REPLACEMENT. TEN YEAR REPLACEMENT AND HOW MANY HOW MANY MILES IS THAT JUST IN GENERAL FROM 40 TO 60000. ONLY 40 TO 60000 OVER TEN YEARS. SO IT'S SO IT'S A LOT OF START AND STOP AS OPPOSED TO A LOT LONG HAUL RUNNING. SO INTERESTING. OKAY. AND I WOULD NOTE THAT OUR OUR SYSTEM IN OUR FLEET OPERATIONS KEEPS TRACK THE BY VEHICLE THE AMOUNT OF USE AND THE AMOUNT ON MAINTENANCE AND THE REPLACEMENT COST AND THE POTENTIAL AUCTION COST OF VEHICLES AND TRIES TO OPTIMIZE POINT TO MINIMIZE THE OVERALL LIFECYCLE COST OF THAT. AND I KNOW ALSO THERE'S A GROWING INDUSTRY AND I THINK IT'S CENTERED IN MINNESOTA WITH WITH THOSE TYPE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES YOU DON'T ED THE HEAVY LONG HAUL VEHICLES. YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO GO START STOP AND START. POINT TO POINT IN THE LARGER VEHICLES SO THEY DON'T YOU KNOW, FROM A BATTERY SIZE A BATTERY USAGE STANDPOINT IT KIND OF BALANCES OUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO RUN ON A SIX HOUR RUN. THEY RUN 15 MINUTES TO AND FROM THE JOB SITE AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. SO IN THOSE TYPES OF VEHICLES ARE STARTING TO SHOW UP PRIMARILY IN THE WEST COAST STILL MUCH WARMER CLIMATE CLIMATES. SO WE'RE I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PURCHASE VEHICLES, YOU KNOW, LARGE PLOW VEHICLES OR THOSE TYPES OF THINGS YET BUT THAT TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING QUICKLY AND WE'RE WATCHING THEM KINDS OF QUESTIONS OF MR. KEEL. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THANKS, MAYOR. JUST A COUPLE EASY ONES HERE PROBABLY FOR THE FLEET VEHICLES WITH THE INCREASE IN THE NEW PRICES, HAVE WE EVER PURCHASED USED YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE A ONE YEAR OR TWO YEAR OLD BECAUSE OF THAT DEPRECIATION? AND IT SOUNDS LIKE IF A PROGRAM THAT MANAGES THOSE THINGS TOO SO I'M I WE HAVE NOT IN THE PAST I THINK WE'VE FOUND THAT WE'RE BETTER OFF BUYING NEW VEHICLES USING THEM NOT TO THEIR FULL LIFE AND THEN SELL THEM AT AUCTION IS WHAT HAS WORKED THE BEST. BUT AGAIN THAT THAT'S AN OPTION THAT WE SHOULD WE SHOULD LOOK AT WE PUT TOGETHER OUR OUR OUR FLEET OPERATIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING. NOTE THAT WE'RE IN SOMEWHAT OF A TRANSITION WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR FLEET GROUP MICHAEL KIME WHO IS THE FLEET MANAGER HAS LEFT CITY EMPLOY. HE WENT DOWN SOUTH AGAIN WHE 'S WARMER AND AND WE ARE JUST IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING A NEW FLEET MANAGER AND SO WE'LL HAVE KIND OF WORK THAT INTO INTO INTO THEIR WORK PLAN SOUNDS LIKE WE'LL HAVE TO ADD HEAT INTO THEIR OFFICES OR SOMETHING SO AND I WAS THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION HAD IS I WAS SURPRISED BY YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE FORD LIGHTNING BECAUSE EVERYTHING I HAD READ IN THE NEWS THAT THEIR SALES ARE WAY DOWN DROPPING PRICES, TESLA'S DROP IN PRICES A LOT OF EV PRICES ARE GOING DOWN. SO I WAS SURPRISED BY YOUR COMMENT THERE. WE HAVE NOT SEEN IT ON THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AT ALL YET. OKAY. AND THEN ONE QUESTION FOR THE CITY MANAGER. I MEAN IN TERMS OF I KNOW WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE SOLAR THAT THE CITY IS NOW ELIGIBLE TO GET SOLAR REBATES. ARE WE ABLE TO GET THE REBATES ON THE EV VEHICLES. IS THAT PART OF THAT AS WELL, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION SO I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY REBATES ON VEHICLE ON THE ECTRIC VEHICLEORTION OF THAT. ARE CERTAINLY TAKING OUR PLAN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE REBATES FOR THE SOLAR. OKAY. YEAH IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JUST CHECKING I MEAN I GOT THE 70 $500 ONE OF MY PLUG IN HYBRID AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT IN THE PAST MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE THINGS. WE'LL FIND OUT THE ANSWER TO THAT. THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY TO YOUR OTHER QUESTION, COUNCILMEMBER NELSON, AS I THINK YOU KNOW MR. KEELS BEEN TALKING ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE OVER THE LAST HALF YEAR YEARS WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO PROCURE VEHICLES. I'VE SN THE NEWS THAT YOU'VE SEEN TOO. I THINK THAT'S A RELATIVELY MORE RECENT PHENOMENON I WAS JUST SHARING WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY. I WAS JUST TALKING TO SOMEBODY IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO THE FORD LIGHTNING ON THE LOT IS STARTING OF ABOUT $74,000. SO WHEN WE WHEN WE'RE BUYING ONE IT'S STILL QUITE A BIT BELOW WHAT THE LIST IS FOR PERSONAL USE. SO I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT THE STANDARD CUSTOMER IS EXPERIENCING THAT JUST YET. I THINK ANOTHER THING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THAT IS I BELIEVE THE RETAIL PRICE OF THOSE FORD LIGHTNINGS WAS PUSHING $100,000 NOT TOO LONG AGO WHEN THEY WERE BEING VERY SHORT SUPPLY. SO THAT MIGHT BE WHILE THE PRICE IS GOING DOWN THEY'RE STILL QUITE EXPENSIVE BUT IT'S JUST ONE OF THEIR LAST COMMENT ON THAT. SO I ASSUME YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING THIS BUT I KNOW THERE'S MORE OTHER BRANDS COMING ONTO THE MARKET THE LIGHTNING KIND OF THE MARKET LEADER I BELIEVE CHEVROLET IS COMING OUT WITH A 2024 MODEL THAT'S AN EV. AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO THIS FROM MY OWN COMPANY SO HOPEFULLY BE MORE OPTIONS FOR IT IN THE FUTURE AND THAT'LL HELP WITH PRICING TO COUNCIL ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. YOU KIND OF ALLUDED TO IT I THINK HELPING HELPING US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE THE REPLACEMENT CYCLES OBSOLESCENT CYCLES WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING TO ME THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUDGET CHANGES YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE AND ACTUAL OBSOLESCENCE CAN BE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, RIGHT? AND SO IF THERE'S A FIVE VEHICLES THAT CAN WAIT ANOTHER YEAR, I'D WANT US TO DO THAT BECAUSE WOULD KEEP THE COST DOWN. YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING. AND SO I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THAT AND IF WE IF WE SEE THAT I'D LOVE Y KNOW, I WANT YOU TO BE AFRAID TO SAVE A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY FOR BRINGING THAT TO THE TABLE IF THAT'S ALL. SO IT'S. WE HAVE A KIND OF A ESTABLISHED REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE THE TEN YEARS ETC. BUT AGAIN I NOTED THAT WE KEEP OF PERFORMANCE AND COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL VEHICLE. YEP. AND SO DEFINITELY THE FLEET MANAGER MAKES DECISIONS ABOUT SOMETIMES DOING THEM EARLY IF IT'S A REAL DOG OR HOLDING THEM A LITTLE BIT LONGER. IF THEY ARE PERFORMING WELL SO THE WHILE THE MEASURE IN THE BUDGETING MEASURE IS IS TEN YEARS THAT CAN GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER A FEW YEARS SURE. SURE. OKAY. IS THERE IS THERE A SIMILAR STUDY RELATED TO THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES GENERALLY SPEAKING AND LIKE WHAT MEAN BY THAT IS YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT FOR EXAMPLE THERE'S THERE'S GENERALLY SOME NUMBER OF POLICE VEHICLES THAT OUT OF SERVICE BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE REPAIRED. RIGHT. BECAUSE THEY WERE YOU KNOW, IN YOU KNOW, PIT PITTING OR WHATEVER. YOU KNOW, SIMILARLY I KNOW WE HAVE OUR OUR RESIDENTIAL OR OUR OUR I GUESS YOU CALL RESIDENTIAL ARE MORE OF OUR PASSENGER VEHICLES LOT OUT HERE AND YOU KNOW WITH THE CHANGES IN THE WAY PEOPLE WORK AND THE VISITS PEOPLE MAKE ETC. ETC. ARE WE HAVE WE LOOKED AT LIKE THE REDUCTION THE TOTAL FLEET FOR THOSE PASSENGER VEHICLES OR OR OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE CAN LOOK AT TO KIND OF SHAVE OFF YOU KNOW DO WE NEED THE SAME AMOUNT THAT WE HAD NEEDED 20 YEARS AGO FOR EXAMPLE OR TEN YEARS AGO AS ANOTHER LEVER AGAINST PLAN MAINTENANCE? RIGHT. BECAUSE ONE ONE WAY TO THINK ABOUT THAT IS WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN CARS. WE HAVE AND THEN THERE'S A SECOND QUESTION WHICH IS DO WE NEED ALL THE CARS WE HAVE? YEAH. SO I'M CURIOUS IF YOU IT'S IF YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AS WELL. YEAH. SO YEAH SO LET ME SAY THAT GENERALLY SPEAKING WE WORK WITH DEPARTMENTS TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE EQUIPMENT THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOB WELL. AND SO THERE'S THERE'S A DISCUSSION BACK FORTH BETWEEN OUR FLEET OPERATIONS AND THE DEPARTMENTS ABOUT WHAT KIND OF COVERAGE THEY NEED, WHAT KIND OF VEHICLES I MEAN DOES THE PASSENGER VEHICLE WORK OR DO THEY NEED HAVE A LARGE TRUCK OR WHATEVER IT HAPPENS TO BE ALSO? ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO WE WENT THROUGH A VERY DELIBERATE REVIEW. ALL OUR VEHICLES LOOKED AT EXACTLY HOW MANY MILES THEY PUT ON PER YEAR, ETC. WHAT TYPE OF VEHICLES AND WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH DEPARTMENT SAYING YOU HAVE A VEHICLE HERE THAT ONLY DRIVES 600 MILES A YEAR. THAT'S WAY TOO LITTLE. WHY DON'T YOU USE A FLEET VEHICLE? AND SO WE ACTUALLY CHANGED OUR OUR CARPOOL POLICIES, MADE IT EASIER TO BE ABLE TO GET A CAR OUT OF THE CARPOOL WITH THE INTENT TO TRY REDUCE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES WE HAVE IN OURLEET. AND DON'T RECALL I CAN GET YOU THE EXACT NUMBER THAT WE WERE CUT BACK BUT IT WAS SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANT IN SOME DEPARTMENTS NOTICEABLE. I ACTUALLY IF YOU LOOK IN THE SLIDES I SHOWED YOU HAVE A SEAT YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN A REDUCTION IN OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AREA AND THAT WAS SOLELY BECAUSE THEY WERE ABLE TO TURN BACK, IF YOU WILL, A NUMBER OF THEIR VEHICLES AND THOSE ARE VERY LOW MILEAGE VEHICLES AND THEY'RE USED THEIR USE THE POOL VEHICLES INSTEAD WHICH IS A MORE EFFICIENT OF DOING THAT. AND I'LL CHIME IN CAN'T FORGET THAT FLEET REVIEW. IT WAS A SIGNIFICA REDUCTION THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES. MR. BROGAN YOU HAVE THE NUMBERS AT THE FINGERTIPS. MR. MAYOR I'M SCRAMBLING FURIOUSLY TO FIND THAT REDUCTION NUMBER. MY RECOLLECTION TIME WE ASKED MICHAEL CAMARA, FORMER FLEET MANAGER IS THAT IT WAS IN THE RANGE 30 TO 40 VEHICLES OUT OF THAT SHADOW FLEET THAT WE ELIMINATED. SO IT WAS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION BUT I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER AT HAND. YEAH THAT'S. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, MR. KEIL. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING IT SO THAT THA THAT'S OUR PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET DISCUSSION AS WE HEAD INTO NOVEMBER HERE. MR. FURBER YOU CAN YOU GIVE US A KIND OF A A A PREVIEW OF WHAT WE EXPECT IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS? I THINK WE'VE GOT ONE OR TWO BUDGETS LEFT IF I'M NOT WRONG AND WE DO MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS NOVEMBER 13TH WILL BRING IN THE REMAINING DEPARTMENTAL BUDGETS AND THEN WE HAVE ONE MORE MEETING AT THE END OF NOVEMBER WHERE TRY TO PULL EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND INCORPORATE COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FROM COUNCIL AND TRY TO GET CLOSER TO A FINAL NUMBER. REMINDER FOR FOLKS WHO ARE WATCHING AT HOME THAT THE PRELIMINARY LEVY THAT WAS SET BY THE COUNCIL AT THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER IS A NUMBER THAT CAN BE REDUCED BUT IT CANNOT BE INCREASED. AND SO PART OF THE DISCUSSION WHEN WE COME BACK AT THE END OF NOVEMBER AFTER HEARING ALL OF THE BUDGET CONVERSATIONS IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT FINAL LANDING SPOT IS GOING TO BE. THANK YOU AND I WILL SAY I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE REST OF THE COUNCIL BUT I FIND IT VERY HELPFUL AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS AND THEY'VE ALL BEEN THE CONSISTCY ANG THE BUDG PRESENTATIONS I THINK HAS BEEN HELPFUL IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS, LOOKING AT THE HEAD COUNT, THE CHALLENGES MOVING FORWARD I THINK I MEAN HATS OFF TO THE TO THE TO TO CARRYING THE THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE IT CONSISTENT LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR APPLES TO APPLES DISCUSSIONS. IT FRAMES IT UP IN MY MIND A LITTLE BIT BETTER. IT'S SO WELL DONE AND IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO I'M SURE THEY WOULD BE GLAD TO HEAR THAT. I THINK SO FAR SO GOOD IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS AND WHERE WE'RE HEADED WITH THAT. SO THANK YOU. MOVING ON IN OUR AGENDA W ARE AT ITEM 5.2 AND THIS IS OUR DISCUSSION OF OUR PROPOSED TEN YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN OUR CFP AND THAT WILL GO FROM 2024 TO 2033. MY GOODNESS A LONG TIME AWAY AND WE HAVE OUR CFO LORI ECONOMY SCHOLER HERE TO LEAD THAT DISCUSSION. GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO EVERY MAYOR AND COUNCIL WE CREATE FOR THE PRESENTATION HERE AND ONCE THERE THE WE GO. SO AS THE MAYOR SAID THIS IS THE DRAFT OF THE TEN YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FROM 2024 THROUGH 2033 AND THE CFP AND THE PROJECTS WITHIN IT'S ALIGNED OUR MISSION TO CREW TO CULTIVATE AN ENDURING AND REMARKABLE COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE AND IT WILL ENABLE THE CITY TO BUILD A CONNECTED WELCOMING COMMUNITY A HEALTHY COMMUNITY AND A COMMUNITY WITH AN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH SO IN THE PURPOSE AND TIMELINE SEE THE COUNCIL HAS SEEN THESE FIVE BOXES MANY, MANY TIMES. SO IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN IT IS A PLANNING TOOL. IT IS NOT THAT ALL OF THESE PROJECTS ARE MOVING FORWARD. THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD AT THE TIMELINES THEY'RE IN OR THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE IN THERE. THIS IS A PLANNING TOOL TO HELP US PLAN WHEN THEY WHEN THE PROJECTS COME WHAT WE MIGHT THINK ABOUT FOR COSTS FOR THOSE PROJECTS AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THOSE IT INCLUDES PROJECTS THAT ARE 50,000 AND HIGHER IN INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS. THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE LESS THAN 50,000. THEY'RE NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT AND THEN WE HAVE OVER THE YEARS BUILT AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND THOSE ARE PROJECTS OVER MILLION DOLLARS THAT ARE IN THERE AND THEN AGAIN THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE PROJECT IS IN THERE. SO SPECIFICALLY ON THAT ONE, YOU KNOW WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL SOURCES HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED, IDENTIFIED AND BASICALLY BEEN APPROVED BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT. SO IF WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE SOURCES I MEAN WE WANT A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. SO HAVING ALL THOSE MOVING FORWARD WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A GOOD PROJECT AND THEN AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE PROJECT THEY FOLLOW THE NORMAL PROCUREMENT SO ANYTHING AT 175,000 OR GREATER IT WOULD BE ON THE CITY COUNCIL'S AGENDA AND OR LESSON THAT THE CITY MANAGER HAS AUTHORIZATION THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL AND PROCUREMENT POLICIES TO APPROVE THEM ON OUR TIMELINE OF SPRING AND SUMMER CITY STAFF HAVE WORKING ON THE INFORMATION THAT'S IN THE UPDATED PLAN TONIGHT IS THE 30TH AND WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE DRAFT PRESENTATION AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS ON THE 16TH AND THEY HAVE THIS DRAFT AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO ELECTION NEXT WEEK. SOME OF THE STUFF THAT'S IN OTHER REVENUE CATEGORIES WE HAVE A POSSIBILITY TO CREATE ON THE VOTE A NEW CATEGORY FOR SALES TAX REVENUE AND THEN WE WOULD MOVE THE THREE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE OR WHAT PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE INTO THOSE CATEGORIES. SO WHEN YOU SEE THIS IN DECEMBER YOU WOULD SEE POSSIBLY A NEW CATEGORY FOUR SOURCES FOR THE SALES TAX BASED OFF OF AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ON THE 20TH WITH THE CITY COUNCIL HERE ON THAT BASED OFF OF WHAT IN THE CFP AND ONCE WE HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WE MAY MOVE THE PROJECTS FURTHER OUT AND AROUND DEPENDING ON WHAT THE COUNCIL DECIDES WANTS TO GIVE DIRECTION ON. BUT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHEN THEY LOOK AT THIS THEY LOOK AT THE PROJECTS TO MAKE SURE AND ENSURE THAT THEY MEET 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SO IT DOESN'T MATTER DOLLAR AMOUNT OR WHEN THEY HAPPEN BUT IF THE PROJECTS HERE THAT'S THEIR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT MEETS THE 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THEN SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2023 PROJECTS QUARTERLY IN BLOOMINGTON THIS WEEK THE THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD RECEIVE MORE THAN ONE WEEKLY THE QUARTERLY REPORT ON WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE CFP PROJECTS SO THIS IS JUST A SNIPPET THERE'S A WHOLE LONGER DOCUMENT ON OUR WEBSITE AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE STATUS OF THE 2223 PROJECTS ARE AND IF A 24 PROJECTS HAVE YOU KNOW SOME WORK MIGHT HAVE BEEN STARTED SOME OF THE WORK ON THE 24 PROJECTS AND THEN IN 2023 A FIRE STATION FOUR OPENED AND HERE WE HAVE THE FIRST LOT MORE FOR THE GREENS IT'S ONE AT ONE WE HAVE THE TRUCK WASH THAT WAS BUILT AND WE HAVE THE CIVICLAZA ROOF COMPLETED IN PARK DEVELOPMENTS WE HAVE A NORMAL DAILY MAINTENANCE BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION THAT WAS COMPLETED IN 2023. WE HAVE SMITH COMPLETION OF THE PARK IMPROVEMENTS THERE . WE HAVE THE WATER RESERVOIR RESTORATION AT THE NORTHWEST ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATIONE HAVE 98 AND NORMAND BOULEVARD AND HIGHWAY 100 PICTURES AND THEN HERE IS XERXES AND WE'LL CHECK ABBEY ROAD INTERSECTION AND THEN FOR OUR FIRST SIDEWALK POETRY POETRY STAMP THIS IS OUT ON CEDAR AVENUE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT ROAD FOR FIRST POETRY STAMP. SO THAT'S VERY, VERY COOL. MOVING INTO THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF , THESE ARE THE ITEMS THAT ARE OVER $1 LLION. SO JT LOOKING IN GENERAL THIS IS ALL OF THE EXPENSE CATEGORIES AND WE ARE AT $900 MILLION OF PROJECTS IF ALL OF CAME IN AND ALL OF THEM WERE AT THE RIGHT PRICE AND EVERYTHING IF IS A MAGIC DOCUMENT THAT EVERYTHING'S ACCURATE IT'S HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS AND THIS IS JUST THE GENERAL BREAKDOWN MAJORITY. THOSE ARE IN THE CITY FACILITIES IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. AS WE KNOW WE HAVE THREE ITEMS ON THE REFERENDUM NEXT WEEK SO THEY WOULD FALL INT THE CITY FACILITIES AREA AND THEN THAT BOTTOM LINE ON OTHER SOURCES THAT IS WHERE THOSE SALES TAX ITEMS ARE LOCATED CURRENTLY . AND THEN GETTING INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THE 2024 AREAS, CITY FACILITIES YOU THE EAST GARDEN USES COMMUNITY AND WELLNESS CENTER STARTING OF THE FIRE STATION TO THE MAINTENANCE GARAGE ANIMAL SHELTER SMALL BUSINESS SOME SOLAR SOME OF THE PUBLIC WORKS REFIT AND THE BIG RENOVATIONS SO A LOT OF THINGS ARE GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARK DEVELOPMENTS THE LARGE THERE ARE THE BRYANT PARK AND TREVOR PARK THAT THE COUNCIL HAS HEARD FOR THE LAST YEAR FOR THE PARK DEVELOPMENT ALSO THE MOYER CENTRAL PARK AGN ON THE RERENDUM PIECE AND THEN THE PARK SYSTEM FIELD FOR SOUTH LOOP THE AREAS THERE ARE THE TRAILS AND CREATIVE PLACEMAKING ARE THE BIG ONES IN THE WATER AND SEWER APPROXIMATELY 11 MILLION OF IMPROVEMENTS IN 24 AND 14 ALMOST 15 MILLION IN 2025 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AGAIN THE ONES ARE THE PMP PROGRAMS IN THE 17,000,001 YEAR AND 21 MILLION IN THE NEXT . JUST HIGHLIGHTS FOR OUR BONDING CONVERSATION IN THREE WEEKS CHARTER BONDS ARE FOR THE BRYANT AND TREVOR PARKS AN POSBLY THE ANIMAL SHELTER IF IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE GARAGE NOT I THINK SOME OF THAT CONVERSATION IS GOING TO BE OUT THERE BECAUSE I THINK AT ONE TIME THERE WAS CONVERSATION IT WOULD BE THERE BUT I DON'T THINK NOT SURE WHERE THAT CONVERSATION'S AT RIGHT NOW PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR FIT IN THE GARAGE AND THEN JUST WHAT WE MIGHT HAVE ON THE SALES TAX ITEMS AND THE PMP . SO PART OF THE NORMAL PROCESS IS THAT STAFF MOVE FORWARD WITH A GREEN LIGHT FROM COUNCIL. THEY WOULD ENGAGE CONSULTANTS, THEY WOULD PREPARE STUDIES I THINK THE BID PACKAGE DESIGN AND CONDUCTING ENGAGEMENT IS KIND OF A CONTINUOUS CIRCLE IF THERE AS THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH ALL OF THAT WITHOUT SOME PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT DAYS. SO I THINK THOSE ARE KIND OF A MUST TOGETHER AND THEN WE COME BEFORE COUNCIL FOR INPUT AND APPROVALS DEPENDING ON HOW THE COUNCIL WANTS TO REACT TO THE PROJECTS SO OPENING IT UP FOR FEEDBACK DISCUSSION QUESTIONS IS AGAIN A PROPOSED DOCUMENT AND WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS FEEDBACK CALLS WE DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK THE THE DOCUMENT AND ANYTHING SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OR ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AND SPECIFICS OR ANY MORE GENERAL KIND OF OVERARCHING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION AND WHAT WE'D BE LOOKING AT OVER NEXT FEW YEARS ON THIS 311 PAGES 311 PAGES THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER THANK YOU, MAYOR SO I DID HAVE KIND OF A MORE SPECIFIC QUESTION. I NOTICED THAT THE NATURAL RESOURCES NEEDED FOR NATURAL PRESERVATION WORK AT THE PARKS IS SEPARATED. SO FOR BRYANT PK IT'S 9.3 MILLION ON THIS SLIDE. BUT THEN WHEN WE GO INTO THE DETAILS THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES PART THAT AND I GUESS I'M WONDERING WHY IT'S PORTIONED OUT IF WE KNOW THAT NATURAL RESOURCES IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE PLAN THE PARK PLANNING AND KATRINA RECREATION DIRECTOR SAID THOSE ARE PART OF THE ARPA FUNDS SO THAT'S WHY IT'S SEGREGATED. GOT IT. THANK YOU. SO IT'S NOT LIKE SIGNALING IMPOANCE OR ANYTHIN LIK THAT. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. WHICH I THINK BRINGS UP A GOOD FOLLOW UP QUESTION ARE ARE WE THROUGH FEDERAL FUNDING? IS THERE MORE FEDERAL FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR ANYTHING OR AS I LOOK AT THE FUNDING SOURCES HAVE HAS THIS FIGURED IN POTENTIAL MINING PROJECTS AT THE STATE OR ANY FEDERAL FUNDING POSSIBILITIES? MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS FUNDING SOURCES ARE IDENTIFIED AS PART OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND SO WE TRY TO MATCH SOURCES AND USE IN TERMS OF THE FEDERAL FUNDS THE PANDEMIC ERA ALLOCATE FUNDS HAVE COME TO AN END. WE STILL HAVE SOME PROJECTS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN FULLY EXECUTED YET SO THE FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTED THOSE HAVEN'T ALL BEEN COMPLETED. BUT THERE IS NO MORE ADDITIONAL MONEY THAT'S COMING SO ANY FEDERAL FUNDING WILL BE IN THE FORM OF GRANTS OR CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT WE'RE PURSUING AND MAYOR CITY MANAGER ON THE ARPA MONEY IS THEY HAVE TO BE KIND OF ENCUMBERED BY THE END OF 24 AND SPEND BY THE END OF 26. THANK YOU. SO ON A COUPLE HANDS, COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. BEFORE ASK THE QUESTION I WAS INTENDING TO ASK JUST A QUICK FOLLOW UP ON THAT. I FEEL LIKE I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT DOLLARS STILL OUT THERE ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO SUSTAINABILITY AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. SO I, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NOT ARPA EXPLICITLY SO I DON'T KNOW IF IF THAT IS CONSIDERED PANDEMIC FUNDING OR NOT. BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS I ASSUME WE'RE PURSUING SOME OF THOSE. IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH. MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMAN DALLESSANDRO THAT'S WHY I SAID WE'LL BE PURSUING GRANT DOLLARS BECAUSE THE IRA MONEY IS ALLOCATED BY GRANT THE ARPA DOLLARS AND THEY WERE JUST A ROLLED THOSE WERE ALL ALLOCATED TO JUST GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES ON A FORMULA. OKAY AN THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE STATE VERSION OF THAT LIKE DISBURSEMENT THAT'S HAPPENING AS WELL THAT GRANT RIGHT. OKAY GREAT. THANK YOU. SO MY QUESTION IS I'M CURIOUS ABOUT LIKE JUST AS A GENERAL RULE, WHAT HOW DOES DOES A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT GET PUT ON THE LIST IN THE ORDER IT'S IN REALIZING IT IT'S A PLANNING DOCUMENT REALIZING THAT WE CHANGE IT IF WE WANT TO ETC.. I'M JUST KIND OF CURIOUS AS AS YOU ALL BRING UP HERE AND IT'S A TEN YEAR PLAN HOW DO YOU ALL START THAT PROCESS DERMINING WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO PROPOSE TO US? MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO FOR EXAMPLE IN PARK PROJECTS AS AN KATRI THE PARK DIRECTOR HER STAFF SEE DIFFERENT THINGS NEEDING IN PARKS AND RENOVATIONS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND ALL THOSE. THEY START LISTING THEM OFF AND THEN THEY'RE GROUPED TOGETHER AND THEN THEY START RANKING THEM ON YOU KNOW IT MIGHT BE IF THE FIRST TIME ON THE ON THE LIST BUT IT DEPENDING ON WHAT IT IS IT MIGHT NEED TO SHOOT UP TO A TIER ONE IT MIGHT NEED TO HAPPEN IN 24 OR 25 BUT THE PARK ACTIVITIES AND BRINGS TO THE TABLE FOR THAT CARL'S TEAM BRINGS THE STUFF FOR ROADS SEWERS TRANSPORTATIONS THE PORT BRINGS THEIR SOUTH LOOP ACTIVITIES TO THE TABLE WITH CREATIVE PLACEMAKING ITEMS ONLINE FOR LIKE THAT. SO ALL OF THE TEAMS LOOK AT THEIR PROJECTS AND BRING TO THE TABLE ARE THE OTHER ITER THAT THEY USE SPEAKING TO RANK THEM IF YOU WILL A PRIORITY GIVES THEM GENERALLY THE SAME MEANING YOU KNOW URGENCY IMPORTANCE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT WHAT THEY ARE BUT CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT A LITTLE BIT FOR US AS WELL? I DON'T HAVE THE LIST IN FRONT OF YOU BUT IT'S ON PAGE 16 AND 17. THE POSITION BECAUSE THEY NEED TO FOLLOW THAT THE PRIOR POSITION INCLUDING THE RACIAL EQUALITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND STRATEGIC NESS OF THAT PROJECT AND THAT'S FOR EVERY PROJECT THAT THEY SUBMIT TO YOU AND THEN AMONG THEM HOW DO THEY GET REPRIORITIZE SIZED? I'M JUST GO THERE AND SO IT'S BASED OFF OF WHEN IT COMES IN THEN IT COMES TO THE CITY MANAGER THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, MYSELF AND THE BUDGET DIRECTOR WE LOOK AT THROUGH THEIR DEPUTY FINANCIAL OFFICER IN THE BUDGETS GRANTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS AND WE LOOK THROUGH ALL OF AND MAKE SURE WHERE THEY'RE LISTED AND WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT IF THEY'RE IN THE 2425 RANGE THAT THEY ARE IN THE BUDGETS THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN . RIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU APPRECIATE IT. BUT I JUST ADD IN THERE, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESSANDRO THE CRITERIA THAT WE USE THAT OUR CFO WAS DISCUSSING IS IS AT THE DIRECTION OF CITY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT WE DEVELOPED THE CRITERIA INCORPORATING, THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS AS WELL AS YOU KNOW THE PRIORITIZATION . SO WE JUST STARTED DOING THAT TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO. IT ACTUALLY TOOK US A GOOD LONG WHILE TOHE CRITERIA. WE HAD A FAIR AMOUNT OF WRESTLING TO TRY AND GET THAT ONE RIGHT. BUT THE YOU KNOW, LORI DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING HOW IT IS THAT THEY COME THROUGH THE PROCESS BUT SOMETHING LIKE THE PARK SYSTEM MASTER PLAN, RIGHT. SO WHAT HAPPENS WE HAVE NEW POLICY BEING DEVELOPED AND THIS IS A PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT WE GO THROUGH EVERY YEAR OVER OVER AGAIN IT'S A TEN YEAR CYCLE. SO A LOT OF OUR ASSETS, A LOT OF OUR FACILITIES, A LOT OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE ARE SCHEDULED FOR REINVESTMENT REPLACEMENT ON REGULAR CYCLES. BUT THEN WE CONSTANTLY HAVE NEW THINGS THAT ARE COMING UP SUCH AS THE PARK SYSTEM MASTER PLAN. RIGHT. AND SO WE HAVE TO THEN GO THROUGH AND JUST APPLY THE CRITERIA BUT ALSO LOOK AT WHEN THINGS ARE GOING TO FIT IN THERE FROM A FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE. RIGHT. BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AWAY ONE YEAR. SO SOMETIMES WE MOVE PROJECTS AROUND TO TRY AND KEEP A LITTLE OF CONSISTENCY. SO IF WE'RE USING CHARTER BONDS FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, WE WE DON'T WANT TO SEE HUGE SPIKES LIKE THIS. WE TRY TO LEVEL OFF WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LORI AND HER TEAM HAVE WORKED REALLY WELL TO DO IS TO TRY AND CREATE MORE OF A STABLE FUNDING FUTURE IN SOME OF THE MOVING AROUND OF PROJECTS FITS IN WITH HOW WE DO THAT TO COUNCILMEMBER CUTTER THANK YOU MAYOR. SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I DO WANT TO ASK IN ADDITION TO MY LAST WAS RELATED TO THE FIELD IMPROVEMENTS OF 18 MILLION FOR FIELD IMPROVEMENTS. I GUESS I'M CURIOUS AND I'M SORRY IF I MISSED THIS INFORMATION IN A EARLIER PRESENTATION OR VIA EMAIL. WHAT DOES THAT ENTAIL? AND I AM ON THESE FIELDS ALL THE TIME SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. BUT I GUESS I'M I'M WONDERING WHAT THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT IS. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WE PUT TOGETHER A LARGE PROJECT FOR STATE BONDING THIS YEAR AND IT IS PROJECTS AT DRED SCOTT KELLY AND VALLEY VIEW PARKS. SO IT'S EVERYTHING FROM FIELD RENOVATIONS TO LIGHTING PROJECTS DUGOUTS. ANY SIGNIFICANT ELEMENTS THAT YOU SEE AT THOSE PARKS THEY'RE ALL 4050 YEARS OLD AND SIGNIFICANTLY IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND YOU SAID THAT WE PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL THIS PAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION. DO WE THINK THAT THAT WILL MOVE FORWARD LIKE THE WILL GO BACK OR IS THAT KIND OF TBD? MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER CARTER WE ARE ACTUALLY FINALIZING OUR BONDING REQUESTS AND PRIORITIZATION RHT N. WE WILL BRING THOSE THE COUNCIL IN DECEMBER WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM FOR 2024 WE ACTUALLY HAVE NINE ITEMS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS BONDING REQUESTS . WE ARE GOING TO AT THE ADVICE OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW THINGS WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO SUBMIT FOR BUT WILL WILL SHOW COUNCIL ALL OF THAT AS WE GET INTO NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER AND YES, THOSE PROJECTS ARE PART OF THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. I JUST SAY THANK YOU AND I DO ECHO I MEAN OBVIOUSLY I HAVEN'T SAT AT THE FIELDS WITH LIKE A CLIPBOARD LIKE TAKING NOTES BUT IT IS VERY OBVIOUS THAT THERE IS A MUCH NEEDED IMPROVEMENT. SO THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, I WANT TO NOTE AS WELL THAT ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS WERE IN THE CAP PREVIOUSLY. THEY WERE COMBINED INTO A LARGER PROJECT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL ANYTHING ELSE? COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN THANK YOU VERY NICE WORK ON THE ON THE UPGRADES AND CHANGES YOU KNOW IN TERMS OF THE POLICY OF HAVING TO DO WITH BOTH THE PORT AUTHORITY AND ALSO THE HRA. I'M JUST WONDERING YOU KNOW AS MADE THOSE CHANGES THIS YEAR YOU KNOW WITH HOW THE HRA AND THE PORT DO THEIR WORK ARE WILL THERE BE CHANGES WITH THIS OR OR WITH THIS DOCUMENT AT ALL OR WILL THE PUBLIC BE ABLE TO THOSE CHANGES WITHIN HERE? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A I'M JUST CURIOUS AND I SEE THAT THERE'S SOME YOU KNOW THINGS THAT ARE MARKED FOR PORT TO KIND OF DO AND I'M JUST JUST KIND OF CURIOUS IN TERMS THAT THERE WOULD BE ANY OF THOSE CHANGES THAT ARE WOULD BE REFLECTED HERE AT ALL IF THAT MAKES SENSE IN TERMS OF WHAT ASK THE MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN, IF I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. THERE'S BEEN STAFFING SHIFTS AND ONE REDUCED STAFF, ONE INCREASED STAFF BUT FOR THE MOST PART WHAT THEY WORK ON ARE DEVELOPMENTS. SO FOR EXAMPLE FOR BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL STATION FIVE PROJECT THE CITY WOULD NOT OWN OR HAVE ANY OWNERSHIP OF ANY OF THEIR IMPROVEMENTS OF THE RESIDENTIAL OR THE RETAIL OR, THE PARKING, HOW THEY DO THAT THAT'S ALL OWNED BY BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL AND IT'S NOT PART OF THIS DOCUMENT. SO DEPENDING WHAT THE PROJECT IS, IF WE'RE BUILDING A PARKING RAMP AND IT'S GOING TO BE CITY OWNED, IT WOULD BE IN THIS DOCUMENT IF IT'S GOING TO BE A PARKING RAMP THAT WOULD THROUGH TAX INCREMENT DOLLARS OR OTHER FUNDING SOURCES THAT THE DEVELOPER OWNS. IT'S NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT. IT DEPENDS WHO OWNS IT. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? COUNCIL. MR. RUBY ANYTHING TO ADD? WELL, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL NOTHING SPECIFIC TO THE CITY BUT THAT QUESTION ACTUALLY TRIGGER ANOTHER THOUGHT FOR ME . YOU KNOW I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT BLOOMINGTON FORWARD IN FACT THAT WE HAVE A BALLOT QUESTION NEXT WEEK THE AUTHORITY FUNDING STREAM HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ABOUT FROM THE PUBLIC AS WELL IN THAT THE THE PORT AUTHORITY HAS A GIANT OF MONEY SOMEWHERE THAT WE COULD BE PAYING FOR THESE PROJECTS OF THE PORT AUTHORITY. AND I JUST WANT TO STATE CATEGORICALLY THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO. THAT'S THAT'S NOT RIGHT. SO YOU KNOW THE PORT AUTHORITY ITS OWN RULES AROUND THE FINANCING AND THE FUNDING THAT IT RECEIVES AND SO THE ABILITY TO USE THAT MONEY FOR NON PORT RELATED ACTIVITIES IS IS PRETTY LIMITED WE DID THE PURVIEW OF THE PORT SO IT CAN FUNCTION. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ALL OF THE FUNDING SOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE PORT CAN SIMILARLY BE EXTENDED CITYWIDE . WE HAVE A PORT AUTHORITY LEVY THAT WILL BE TURNED ON IN 2024 . THOSE FUNDS CAN BE USED CITYWIDE BUT THE OTHER SOURCES ARE PRETTY RESTRICTED. MAYOR CITY MANAGER OKAY WE DID AD A Q TO THE BLOOMINGTON FORWARD SITE DETAILING THEM ALL OF AMERICA AND THE FUNDING WITHIN THE PORT AUTHORITY AND ITS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS TO THE DEVELOPERS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THAT OTHER THAN AS CITY MANAGER MENTIONED OTHER THAN THE DEVELOPMENT FUND THERE'S VERY, VERY LIMITED RESOURCES ON THE PORT SIDE TO GO CITYWIDE. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION AND FROM BOTH OF YOU I APPRECIATE THAT. AND THEN THE CONFUSION I GUESS IS SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT BUT I THINK IT'S IT UNDERSTANDABLE AND THE FOLKS WHO SHOULD KNOW SHOULD KNOW. AND SO I APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION AND THE CLARIFICATION THERE. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH THAT WE WILL MOVE ON COUNCIL IN AGENDA ITEM 5.3 IS A DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED SPENDING FROM STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND AND THE ONE TIME PUBLIC SAFETY STATED. WE KIND OF TEASED THIS I THINK OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS WHEN WE HAD BROUGHT UP A COUPLE OF THINGS AND WE KNEW THIS CONVERSATION WAS COMING FORWARD. MR. RUBY THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. I BELIEVE THAT GRANT IS GETTING PRESENTATION READY TO GO IN BACK AND MIKE IS GOING TO HELP ADVANCE THOSE FOR ME. SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND DISCUSSION. SO JUST SOME QUICK BACKGROUND ON THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND WHAT IT IS THIS A FUND THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO USE FOR PICALLY ONE TIME OR SHORT TERM PROJECTS THAT IT DEEMS YOU KNOW THE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY TO DO SO IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE MIKE I THINK YOU'VE SEEN THE SLIDE ALREADY THIS EVENING IF NOTHING ELSE WE'RE CONSISTENT SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS EXACTLY WHAT OUR MISSION IS AND WE'RE PROCEEDING AND IDENTIFYING WHAT IS IN THE STRATEGIC INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY ARE THREE PILLARS TWO CONNECTED WELCOMING COMMUNITY A HEALTHY COMMITY AND COMMUNITY WITH EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT. SO LET'S START WITH SOME OF THE PROJECTS WE ARE PROPOSING FOR THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND IN 2024 THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THIS OBJECTIVE COUNCIL HAS FOR A NUMBER YEARS TALKED ABOUT THE DESIRE TO TAKE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING CITYWIDE SIMILAR TO WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED THE PORT AUTHORITY THAT WHEN THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING INITIATIVE WAS ESTABLISHED BACK IN 2014 ITS FUNDING SOURCE WAS RESTRICTED TO ONE SPECIFIC PART OF THE COMMUNITY . SO THE ABILITY TO DO PROJECTS OUTSIDE OF THAT DISTRICT IF WE'RE USING THOSE FUND FUNDING RESOURCES WAS RELATIVELY LIMITED. SO WHAT WE ARE SUGGESTING IS THAT WE CAN USE STRATEGIC PRIORITY FUNDS TO BROADEN THE EXPANSE OF THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING INITIATIVES AND LOOK AT AREAS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY WHERE. WE CAN START FOCUSING ON MAKING ARTS AND ARTISTS THE CENTER OF DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT BLOOMINGTON AND. OUR CREATIVE PLACEMAKING DIRECTOR ALONDRA PELINKA WOULD ABLE TO DISCUSS IN MORE DETAIL EXACTLY WHAT THE IS THINKING ABOUT IN 2024 FOR HOW TO HOW WE UTILIZE FUNDS INSIDE THE OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONNG HAS BEEN IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL A COUPLE OF TIMES HERE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON. SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING AN ALLOCATION OF JUST OF $70,000 TO FUND THE WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON INITIATIVE AND YOU SEE THE FUNDS STAFFING AND RESOURCE THE I WOULD SAY IT'S HEAVY ON THE RESOURCE PIECE THE STAFFING IS IT'S NOT GOING TO BE SUPPORTING STAFF COST WITHIN THAT BUDGET SO IS REALLY ABOUT RESOURCES THAT ARE NECESSARY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. THIS IS ONE PROJECT THAT I CAN SEE THE OFFICE IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT MOVING FORWARD AND OUR PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE HELPED DEVELOP THIS ARE EXCITED ABOUT MOVING IT FORWARD. WELL NEXT SLIDE PLACER I THIS WOULD BE A 2023 EXPENDITURE AND IF THE COUNCIL IS OKAY WITH IT WE WOULD BRING BACK A BUDGET ADJUSTMENT HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. THIS IS A SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT IS GIVING US DATF WHERE OPLE SPEND THEIR TIME BUT ALSO WHERE GO. SO WHY IS THIS A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE FOR THE COUNCIL? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE GET THE PRIVATE SECTOR MORE ENGAGED IN A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE DO? WELL HAVING DATA TO MAKE SOME OF THE CASE THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR THINGS LIKE SPONSORSHIP THIS GIVES US THE INFORMATION TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK AT A PLACE LIKE THE BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN AND WE CAN SEE WHERE ARE GOING AT THE BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN AFTER THEY DROP OFF OR DURING TOURNAMENTS ALL THAT INFORMATION. SO THEN WHEN WE CAN ISOLATE SPECIFIC AREAS WE CAN GO TO VENDORS IN THOSE AREAS AND MAKE THE CASE FOR THEM THAT THIS IS IN THEIR INTERESTS THAT THEY MIGHT WANT TO SUPPORT THIS THING BECAUSE IT'S A BENEFIT TO THEM. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THOSE COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OR AT LEAST ALTERNATIVE REVENUE APPLICATIONS THAT WE MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN , OUR STAFF WILL BE ABLE TO DO LOT MORE REALLY DEDICATED ANALYSIS ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING TO OUR OUR PARKS OR FACILITIES TO HELP US WITH OUR MARKETING EFFORTS TO HELP US ANAZE WHO OUR CONSUMERS ARE, WHERE WE'RE GETTING OF OUR PARTICIPANTS FROM. IT'S GOING TO GIVE US A LOT MORE REAL DATA THAN WE'VE EVER HAD BEFORE THAT WE CAN ANALYZE AND IMPROVE THE SERVICE OFFERINGS FOR THE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE NEXT . THE COUNCIL HEARD FROM OUR COMMUNICATIONS BOTH DURING THE BUDGET CONVERSATION IN THE COUPLE OF WEEKS AND PREVIOUSLY FROM THE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW THAT WE DID THE PLAN TO HAVE A MUCH MORE A MUCH MORE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS MOVING FORWARD. THIS WOULD FUND THE ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN THAT WERE DISCUSSED IN THOSE PRESENTATIONS. YOU CAN SEE THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS AS PART OF THAT PLAN AND THEN IF GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE IT ALSO INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR A NEW POSITION IN 2024. THIS WOULD BE AN ASK FOR A ONE YEAR BASIS TO TRANSITION INTO A FUTURE WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE TO WORK INTO OUR BUDGET AND SO THE COUNCIL WANTS TO CONSIDER THIS WE CAN COME BACK AND MORE CONVERSATION BECAUSE THIS CREATES THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WHERE WE HAVE TABLES GOING IN TO A FUTURE YEAR AND ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THE COUNCIL MIGHT BE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT IS HAVING JUST LOOKED AT THE BUDGET FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND KNOWING THAT THE REVENUES AREN'T NECESSARILY KEEPING UP WITH THE EXPENDITURES BECAUSE REVENUES IN THAT FUND ARE LARGELY DERIVED FROM OUR FRANCHISE OR CABLE FRANCHISE AND THAT ONE HAS PLATEAUED AND IS NOT LIKELY TO INCREASE IN THE FUTURE. SO WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF A MISMATCH IN TERMS OF THE FUTURE FUNDING THAT FUND HAS SEEN INCREASING TAXPAYER FUNDED SUPPORT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. THIS WOULD THIS WOULD INCREASE THAT AMOUNT OF SUPPORT. SO THE QUESTION IS WHEN WE COME BACK AND HAVE A CONVERSATION THE COUNCIL ABOUT THIS IS YOU KNOW WHAT IS YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE COUNCIL'S SENSE OF URGENCY AND HOW YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR COMMUNICATION IN THE AREA OF HEALTHY COMMUNITY OUR PUBLIC OR PUBLIC HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMING THIS IS AN INCREASING AREA NEED I THINK YOU'VE HEARD THIS ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS FROM OUR TEAM IN PUBLIC HEALTH THIS WOULD BE GOING FOR SPECIFIC INITIATIVES SOME OF WHICH HAVE YET TO BE DEFINED LIKE NEXT SLIDE THE RETAINING WALLS. YOU HEARD MR. KIEHL MENTION DURING THE PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET DISCUSSION EARLIER. SO I WOULD THINK THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD SAY WHAT IS STRATEGIC ABOUT RETAINING WALLS? WELL, THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND IS NOT USED FOR THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARILY RELATED TO STRATEGY AND EXETION. FOR EXAMPLE IN THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND WE'VE HAD FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS A LINE ITEM TAX LEVY STABILIZATION THAT WAS A SPECIFIC DECISION THAT COUNCIL MADE FOR A FUNDING STRATEGY BUT. IT WAS REALLY TO UTILIZE MONEY TO KEEP THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY LOWER THAN IT OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN. IT'S THE SAME THING WITH THIS ONE IF WE WERE TO UTILIZE THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND THIS IT'S BECAUSE THE OTHER LIKELY SOURCE TO FUND THIS IS GOING TO BE PROPERTY TAX LEVY. SO AS WE WERE MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT TO BRING FORWARD TO THE COUNCIL A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WITH LEVY WE PULLED THE RETAINING WALLS OUT OF THE PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND SO STRATEGIC PRIORITIES BECOMES ONE WAY TO FUND THIS. WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT SOME OTHER WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH. WE CAN LOOK AT CARRYOVERS FROM OUR WHAT IF HAVE OPERATING EXCESS IN A GIVEN YEAR OR POSITIVE BUDGET VARIANCES ANOTHER PHRASE THAT WE'VE USED THAT WE CAN HOLD OF THAT OVER BUT THAT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE WOULD DO ON YEAR TO YEAR BASIS WHEREAS THIS WE'RE TRYING TO FORECAST A SPECIFIC AMOUNT FOR SEVERAL YEARS SO WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF A COMMITMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS CAN PLAN A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN A FOR A LONGER LIKE A A KITTEN IT'S SO DARN CUTE SO TUGGING TUGGING THE HEARTSTRINGS SO WE'VE HEARD FROM CITY COUNCIL THERE'S AN INTEREST DOING A COUPLE THINGS ONE IS LOOKING AT A LONGER TERM SOLUTION FOR THE ANIMAL SHELTER WE HAVE PUT A PROJECT INTO THE CHP. WE ALSO HAVE ON THE LIST OF POSSIBLE BONDING REQUESTS AN AMOUNT FOR ANIMAL SHELTER. BUT IN THE INTERIM THE CONDITIONS THERE ARE NOT OPTIMAL NOT OPTIMAL FOR CUSTOMERS WHO ARE GOING IN . IT'S NOT OPTIMAL FOR OUR STAFF WHO HAVE TO WORK IN THAT ENVIRONMENT AND IT'S NOT OPTIMAL FOR OUR TEMPORARY RESIDENTS WHO RESIDE THERE FOR SHT PIODS OF TIME. SO WE'RE SUGGESTING $100,000 THERE ISN'T LIKELY TO BE STRUCTURAL WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THIS AND I WOULD THINK IT'LL PROBABLY BE LESS THAN THE $100,000 OUR STAFF WENT OVER THERE, EVALUATED THE BUILDING AND THERE THEIR RECOMMENDATION WAS WE SHOULDN'T REALLY PUT ANY INTO THAT BUILDING THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO. BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE SOME OF THE ANIMAL CONTAINERS, JUST SO OF THE GENERAL ESTHECS THERE THAT WE CAN DO THAT FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK ON WHAT SOME OF THOSE OPTIONS ARE. WE'D BRING THAT BACK TO THE COUNCIL WHILE. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON A LONGER TERM SOLUTION. YOU HEARD THE REFERENCE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM EARLIER THIS EVENING WHEN MR. KIEHL WAS PRESENTING PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET AND YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT RELATIVELY RECENTLY SO WE WOULD RECOMMEND FUNDING IT AT ABOUT $80,000 IN 2024 AND THEN A SGHTLY MORE THAN HALF THAT AMOUNT IN THE SUBSEQUENT THREE YEARS AFTER THAT TO IMPLEMENT THAT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT . NEXT SLIDE. THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THAT COUNCIL TALKED ABOUT IS LOOKING AT OUR SPEEDS AROUND TOWN TRYING TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND HOW WE CAN ENSURE SAFETY IN NEIGHBORHOODS BUT ALSO ON THE MORE HIGHLY TRAFFICKED ROADS AS WELL. SO WOULD BE IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THE STRATEGIES THAT STAFF HAS IDENTIFIED T MAKE THAT HAPPEN AS WELL. THIS IS ANOTHER TOPIC FORESTRY AND TREE CANOPY THAT WE KNOW COUNCIL HAS EXPRESSED IN WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING HERE AN ALLOCATION YET THIS YEAR FROM STRATEGIC PRIORITIES THAT WOULD BE THE FUNDING SOURCE FOR A THE LORD LOG LOADER THANK YOU. I WAS GOING TO CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE SOHE ONE OF THE THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE HAVE SOME OF THE MOST INEFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF STAFF RESOURCE TO UNNECESSARY WORK OFTEN WE HAVE MULTIPLE STAFF WORKING ON THIS TYPE OF REMOVAL AND IT WILL TAKE NUMEROUS WEEKS TO DO THE WORK THIS LOG LOADER IS GOING TO ALLOW US TO DO THAT IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME SO IN TERMS OF UTILIZATION OF STAFF MORE EFFICIENT USE OF STAFF TIME, THIS IS A SOLUTION GOING TO HELP US BE MUCH MORE EFFICIENT AND THE FUTURE YEARS IN 2024 WE WOULD LIKE TO USE THE FUNDS TO THE URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN. WE WERE HOPEFUL THAT WE WERE GOING TO RECEIVE A GRANT FOR THAT. WE JUST LEARNED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT WE ARE NOT THAT GRANT WHICH WAS A $250,000 REQUEST. WE THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE SAKE OF OUR URBAN CANOPY AND THE FUTURE PLANNING ASSOCIATED OUR FORESTRY WORK THAT WE DO HAVE A MASTER PLAN AND SO ASKING THAT THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND BE USED TO DEVELOP THAT IN 2024 AND THEN THE FUTURE YEAR ALLOCATIONS 25 AND 26 WOULD BEGIN THE IMPLEMENTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS COMING OUT OF THAT PLAN. AND THEN FINALLY IN THE CATEGORY COMMUNITY WITH EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH WE HAVE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT HATCH PROGRAM WHICH YOU A PRESENTATION ON SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WE WOULD ASK THAT THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND BE THE SOURCE OF FUNDS THE REGIONAL CHAMBER WILL BE MATCHING THE 50,000 WHO WILL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM SO THIS WOULD THE THE SOURCE OF THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION THAT'S THE LIGHT BUSINESS RETENTION PROGRAM YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT THIS AT THE END OF NOVEMBER. BUT THIS IS ALSO A PLAN THAT'S BEING DEVELOPED BY OUR PORT AUTHORITIES IN RESPONSE TO COUNCIL DIRECTION TO BE MORE PROACTIVE IN HELPING RETAIN EXISTING BUSINESSES HERE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. AND SO STAFF IS GOING TO BE BRINGING FORWARD RECOMMENDATION ON WHAT GOING TO LOOK LIKE AND THIS WOULD BE THE ASSOCIATED FUNDING TO ACCOMPANY THAT PROGRAM. NEXT SLIDE COMPENSATION STUDY THE CITY LAST IMPLEMENTED THEIR COMPENSATION PLAN BASED ON A STUDY IN 2018. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED LITERALLY THE WORLD HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. YOU KNOW WE'VE SEEN DAILY THE STORIES ABOUT RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT. I JUST SAW AN ARTICLE TODAY THAT THE STATE OF MINNESOTA HAS ELIMINATED A FOUR YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE AS A REQUIREMENT FOR ALMOST ALL OF THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THEY NEED TO EXPAND THEANDIDATE BECAUSE THEY'RE HAVING SUCH A HARD TIME RECRUITING CANDIDATES FOR THEIR POSITIONS. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WE NOT FALLEN OUT OF STEP WITH OUR COMPETITIVE MARKET AND. SO THIS WILL BE LOOKING BOTH AT THE COMPENSATION PLAN AND HOW IT'S STRUCTURED AND ALSO HOW IT EXISTS WITHIN THE MARKETPLACE. AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY HIGH FOR HOW MUCH IT WILL END UP COSTING BUT WE WANT TO AT LEAST GIVE OURSELVES A LITTLE CUSHION GOING INTO IT. THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT WE HAD ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN OUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THE THE PROPERTY LEVY MORE ACCEPTABLE WE PULLED THIS OUT BUT WE STILL NEED TO DO THIS AS A STANDARD COURSE AND SO IT DOES FIT WITHIN OUR EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE RECRUITING AND RETAINING EXCELLENT STAFF. SO HERE HERE'S WHERE THE NUMBERS GET SMALLER SERVE BUT PUT YOUR GLASSES ON. I SAW THE MAYOR DO THAT AND. I GOT TO DO IT MYSELF. SO IF YOU LOOK AT 2023, A COUPLE OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED ARE IN THERE THE PLACER AIR AT $30,000 AND THE THE LOG LOADER AT 375 AND THEN DOWN AT THE VERY BOTTOM YOU CAN SEE THE ENDING FUND BALANCE. SO NEXT YEAR IN 2024 THAT'S THE COLUMN WITH THE RED NUMBERING AT THE TOP YOU CAN SEE OUR REVENUES WE ARE GOING TO BE RECEIVING LOCAL GOVERNMENT AID FROM THE STATE OF MINNESOTA FOR THE NEXT FISCAL CYCLE $56,000 EACH YEAR . WE'RE NOT PROGRAMING IT BEYOND THAT BECAUSE WHATEVER THE TAX DOES THE TAX COMMITTEE IS GOING TOO A WE HAVEN'T BEEN RECEIVING LOCAL GOVERNMENT AID FOR TEN YEARS IT WAS JUST RESTORED BUT NOT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT. SO WE FELT THAT STRUCTURED STRATEGIC PRIORITIES WAS THE BEST PLACE TO PUT THAT SINCE WE'RE NOT ASSURED OF IT BEYOND THE NEXT FISCAL CYCLE AND THEN BELOW ARE THE EXPENDITURES THE TAX LEVY STABILIZATION YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE THAT FORECAST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. WELL AND THEN THE LIST OF ITEMS THAT JUST RAN THROUGH ARE THE REMAINDER OF THAT COLUMN SO THAT NEXT YEAR WE'D BE LOOKING AT IF YOU TAKE OUT THE TAX STABILIZATION ABOUT 1.8 $1.9 MILLION OF STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUNDING AND THEN AT THE VERY I MENTIONED THE ENDING FUND BALANCE. SO IF YOU GO TO THE RIGHT YOU CAN THAT THAT NUMBER DECLINES THE THAT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THERE IS THAT THIS FUND IS LARGELY RESOURCED FROM THE GENERAL FUND POSITIVE BUDGET VARIANCE SO TO BOUNCE YOUR EYES BACK UP TO THE TOP AGAIN IN 2023 ON REVENUES YOU'LL SEE THAT ONE POINT $1,000,000 MILLION WE MADE THAT ALLOCATION COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. WE ARE NOT ASSUMING POSITIVE BUDGET VARIANCE IN FUTURE YEARS BUT ALMOST ALMOST CERTAINLY THERE'S GOING TO BE AN AMOUNT COMING IN EACH YEAR . WE JUST DON'T WANT TO PREDICT OR ASSUME WHAT THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO BE. SO THAT NUMBER BASICALLY TO THE NUMBER DOWN BELOW AND THAT'S IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT THIS FUND GETTING EXHAUST DID KNOW THERE ARE OTHER FUNDS COMING IN WE'VE ALSO ASSUMED WE WOULD BRING BACK A LEVY FOR THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND WHICH WE HAVE DONE IN MANY OF THE PAST YEARS. WE WE STOPPED LEVYING FOR THE FUND DURING THE PANDEMIC AS A WAY TO REDUCE THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY. AND SO IN THE FUTURE WE'RE PROJECTING THAT WE WOULD POTENTIALLY RESTORE THAT AS WELL SO THERE IS AT LEAST ONE CONSISTENT FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. WE HAVE A SLIDE AFTER THIS ONE LIKE ALL RIGHT, SO WE GOT A COUPLE HERE THAT WE HAVEN'T PLUGGED IN YET BUT. I WANT TO PUT ON TO THE RADAR SCREEN THESE WERE RELATIVELY LATE DEVELOPING SO IN THE PARK SYSTEM THERE IS A DESIRE TO HAVE MOBILE SECURITY SYSTEM SIMILAR TO WHAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT UTILIZES AND OFTEN WE'RE ABLE TO USE THAT BUT SOMETIMES THEY HAVE IT FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND SO WE THINK THAT THERE IS ENOUGH NEED TO HAVE A SECOND ONE THAT WOULD BE DEDICATED FOR OUR PARK SYSTEM AND THEN WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE DRED SCOTT WE'LL AS PART OF SOME OF THESE LARGER PARK PROJECTS THE IMPROVEMENTS AT VIEW ARE HAPPENING. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME PROJECT DRED SCOTT IS DIRECTOR KHATRI MENTIONED 40 YEARS OF TIME AND SOME OF THOS CONDITIONS HAVE JUST BECOME UNSAFE. RIGHT AND WE FEEL THAT THIS IS ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO SOONER RATHER THAN LATER WE WE HAVEN'T TAKEN THE TIME TO GO OUT AND LOOK FOR OTHER POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES FOR THESE SO BEFORE JUST PLUGGING THEM INTO STRATEGIC PRIORITIES TAKE A LITTLE TIME AND SEE IF THERE ARE WAYS THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS BEFORE WE COME BACK AND TALK TO COUNSEL ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT LATER AS WE FINALIZE A PLAN FOR 2024. ALL RIGHT. AND I'M GOING TO STOP THERE. THAT'S A LOT. AND LET ME WELL, LET ME SUMMARIZE BY SAYING HOW DID THINGS GET ON THE LIST HERE SIMILAR TO THE QUESTION OF HOW DO THINGS GET INTO THE IP? WE SPEND MUCH OF THE YEAR LISTENING THE COUNC A YOU KNOW TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME EMERGING CONSENSUS OR AT LEAST MAJORITY OPINION AROUND THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO AND OFTEN WE DON'T HAVE A FUNDING SOURCE TO GO ALONG WITH THEM. SO WE'LL LOOK AT THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FROM THE PART THAT WAS IN . SO IF THERE ARE ITEMS THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SURFACING FOR US AND FOR YOUR COLLEAGUES ,THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION IF THERE ARE THINGS ON HERE THAT YOU THINK ARE JUST NOT A GOOD FIT, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO US KNOW THAT BECAUSE WE UTILIZE THIS SORT OF LIKE THE CFP AS A PLANNING AS WE START TO THINK AHEAD TO 2024 AND THE WORK THAT WE WANT TO BE FOCUSING ON . THANK YOU, MR. BRUGUIERE. COUNSEL QUESTIONS ON THIS COMMENTS COUNCILMEMBER MERTEN AND COUNCILMEMBER CARTER COUNCILMEMBER MERTEN THANK YOU MAYOR. I'VE GOT A FEW HERE BUT I NEED TO CHEW ON THE SECOND SET SO I'LL JUST ASK RIGHT NOW I IN THE DOCUMENT PROJECTING EXPENDITURES IN FUTURE YEARS OUT OF STRATEGIC THINGS LIKE PATCH BLOOMINGTON BUSINESS RETENTION PLACE VERY HIGH WERE LISTED AS ONE TIME EXPENSES FOR 2024. I'M ASSUMING IF THESE TOOLS AND PROGRAMS ARE SUCCESSFUL THEY'LL BE CONTINUING ON IN FUTURE YEARS LIKE QUITE A LOT OF THE LINE ITEMS WILL BE CONTINUING IN FUTURE YEARS SO . IS THAT JUST WE DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION AT THIS POINT TO KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE OR WHY WHY AREN'T WE PROJECTING THAT AS A COST MOTIVE FOR MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION . OFTEN WE START UP A PROGRAM UTILIZING A STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND AND THEN WE WILL WORK IT INTO WHATEVER APPROPRIATE BUDGET IF IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ON A RECURRING BASIS THAT IT SHOULD BE COMING OUT. SO THIS IS A WAY FOR US TO INTRODUCE SOMETHING OFTEN TO PILOT PGRAM. HATCH IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT SO IF WE DECIDE THAT APPROACH IS SUCCESSFUL AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE FORWARD IT. IT WILL LIKELY GET ROLLED INTO THE PORK BUDGET AS A RECURRING ACTIVITY. OKAY. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO KEEP YOU ON ON THE SECOND HALF. OKAY. GOOD. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, I FEEL LIKE I'M ALSO CHEWING ON A LOT RIGHT NOW BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS SO I MEAN I AGREE, I THINK A LOT OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE INCLUDED ARE FOCUSED O PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED REPEATEDLY I THINK PARTICULARLY AROUND THE ANIMAL SHELTER AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM I WOULD SAY PROBABLY THAT ARE RED FLAGS FOR ME. I DON'T LOVE THE IDEA OF HIRING STAFF FROM THIS MONEY SO SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE PR POSITION I FEEL LIKE IF IT IS SUPER HIGH PRIORITY THEN WE SHOULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO INCLUDE IT IN THE BUDGET AND INSTEAD OF HAVING KIND OF THIS BRIDGE FUNDING SO I'M NOT SUPER COMFORTABLE WITH THAT AND THEN THE OTHER I GUESS RED FLAG WOULD BE INCLUDING THE COMPENSATION STUDY. I AM JUST NOT I GUESS I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT WASN'T JUST BUILT INTO THE BUDGET AND THEN IF WE DO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT I WOULD SAY I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT WOULD INCLUDE ALL STAFF ACROSS THE CITY SO UNION AND NONUNION I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY WERE DESIGNED IN THE PAST BUT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS I FEEL LIKE I'VE HEARD THINGS ABOUT COMPENSATION STUDIES SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S EQUITABLE AND AND INCLUDES BOTH UNION AND NONUNION BUT AGAIN IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT BE SOMETHING THAT'S BUILT INTO AN H.R. BUDGET EVERY SO OFTEN . SO I GUESS I'M NOT SURE I MEAN IF IF WE NEED TO PAY FOR IT AND THIS IS THE FUNDING SOURCE THEN I GUESS IT IS WHAT IT IS BUT THOSE ARE PROBABLY THE TWO RED FLAGS FOR ME, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER I WILL TAKE THOSE IN REVERSE. THE COMPENSATION PLAN LIKE I MENTIONED WE DID HAVE INITIALLY IN THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET REQUESTS AND PLED IT OUT BEFORE WE CAME TO COUNCIL BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO GET THE NUMBER DOWN ON THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY SO. WE KNEW WE'D HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER FUNDING SOURCE FOR THAT. NORMALLY WE WOULD INCLUDE IT BUT IT'S ALSO A ONE TIME EXPENDITURE. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S A RECURRING EXPENSE SO IT'S OKAY TO HAVE A ONE TIME FUNDING SOURCE FOR IT THEORETICALLY SPEAKING BUT. SO WHAT DO WE DO? WELL LIKE I SAID, THE LAST ONE WAS IN 2008 BUT BEFORE THAT IT HAD PROBABLY BEEN A DECADE OR MORE SO. SO IT'S IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, IT IT'S NOT I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT I DON'T WANT TO PROJECT THE PACE OF CHANGE. BUT THESE LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE BEEN PRETTY CONSEQUENTIAL IN TERMS OF HOW THE MARKET AND EMPLOYMENT AND ALL THOSE ISSUES HAVE SO DOING IT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AFTER THE LAST ONE PROBABLY SOONER THAN WE WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED AND I WOULD NOT EXPECT WE'D DO IT THAT QUICKLY AFTER THIS NEXT ONE. ON THE FIRST POINT THE POSITION IN COMMUNICATIONS I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU BUT U KNOW WE HAVE IN THE PAST UTILIZE THIS NOT AS A AS A BRIDGE BUT ALSO AS AN INTRODUCTION OF SOMETHING. BUT IF FEELS STRONGLY ABOUT IT WE CAN CERTAINLY ADD IT BACK OR WE CAN JUST ADD IT SUBSEQUENTLY AND JUST RECOGNIZE THAT WE MAY CARRY A LITTLE BIT OF A A LOSS IN THE IN THE NEXT YEAR TO DO IT. BUT WE JUST TRY TO MATCH UP OUR REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES SO IF THE COUNCIL WANTS TO COME BACK AT THE END OF NOVEMBER WHEN WE'RE TYING UP FINAL BUDGET AND DECIDE IF IS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO BUILD IN , WE'LL BE PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT AT THAT TIME. COUNCIL MEMBER MARTIN TO ADD ON THE SECOND PART NOW I GUESS I'M DON'T YOU THINK VERY MUCH CAN I ASK YOU TO PUT YOUR MIKE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THANK YOU THANK YOU I GUESS MORE JUST KIND OF A GENERAL THOUGHT AND SOME INFORMATION I'D LOVE TO SEE AS THE BUDGETING MOVES FORWARD. I GUESS I'M JUST CONFUSED AS TO THE NEED FOR THE ADDITIONAL POSITION ON THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM. I LOOK AT A LOT OF MUCH SMALLER CITIES THE NICE BROOKLYN PARK, BROOKLYN CENTER THAT ARE VOCIFEROUS IN THE PRESS RELEASES AND OUTREACH THAT THEY'RE DOING. THE MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS WHICH WITH MUCH SMALLER TEAMS THAN WE HAVE NOW OBVIOUSLY TO SPEAK ILL OF OUR TEAM WE'RE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS THAT WE'RE DOING BUT BUT JUST TO SAY THAT ARE OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTANT GAVE US A LOT OF GREAT SUGGESTIONS FOR HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND I COULD SEE IF WE WANTED TO GO THE WHOLE NINE YARDS RIGHT AWAY MAKING MAJOR EXPENDITURE SPENDING ANOTHER WHO KNOWS A FEW YEARS DOING EVEN PLANNING ON T OF THAT JUSTTART I MEAN BLOOMINGTON DEPARTMENT EMAILS OUR PRESS RELEASES ON GREAT THINGS LIKE OUR MENTAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM. IT GETS OUT TO MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS AND THEY'RE ALREADY DOING A JOB. SO I GUESS I WOULD BE CURIOUS FOR OF A JUSTIFICATION FOR WHY WE CAN'T START SMALLER, SIMPLER AND JUST START DOING THAT WORK AND SEE THE DIVIDENDS IT PRODUCES BEFORE INVESTING OVER ALMOST A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS. SO YEAH, AS THIS COMES BACK OFF I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE. PREMIER NELSON YEAH. THANK YOU MAYOR. MY GENERAL THOUGHT ON THIS IS TO COUNCILMEMBER CARTER'S POINT ABOUT STAFFING BUT I THINK OTHER THINGS THAT SHOULD BE IN BUDGETS THAT GOT TAKEN OUT I WOULD MY PREFERENCE WOULD BE TO PUT THEM BACK IN TO THE BUDGET THEY BELONG AND THEN IF WE NEED TO JUST INCREASE THE TAX LEVY STABILIZATION SO IT HAVE NO NET IMPACT ON EITHER THE AMOUNT IN THIS FINE BUT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IS JUST A MORE TRANSPARENT STRAIGHTFORWARD BUDGETING MECHANISM AND THEN COMPARISONS BETWEEN YEAR TO YEAR WILL MAKE MORE SENSE AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO HAVE THIS WEIRD EXPLANATION REMEMBER THAT WAS PAID FROM THIS AND NOT FROM THERE. AND SO I WOULD I MEAN THERE ARE THINGS AND I WITH WHAT WAS SAID IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, STARTUP COSTS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT THOSE MAY MAKE SENSE. I THINK THAT'S STRATEGIC FOR US TO DO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS FROM THIS FUND BUT IF IT REALISTICALLY COULD OR SHOULD BE IN A BUDGET JUST JUST ONE COUNLMEMBERS OPINIONHAT IT SHOULD JUST BE IN THE BUDGET AND I TEND TO AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN ON THE PUBLIC RELATIONS SIDE OF IT. I'D LIKE TO GET MUCH MORE INFORMATION THERE ON THAT AND OR ALTERNATIVES. I MEAN IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T HAVE CAPACITY FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO HIRE A PR FIRM FOR SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THIS TO HELP OUT WITH THAT OR MAYBE IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY MORE WHO KNOWS DEPENDING ON WHAT OUR GOALS AND THINGS ARE THERE SO THAT THAT ONE I THINK IS ACTUALLY GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME. I CAN'T REALLY DON'T KNOW THAT WE'LL GET IT DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR IN MY MIND IT MAY JUST TAKE MORE TIME TO THINK THROUGH AND THEN YEAH I THINK THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. LET'S REMEMBER WHAT THE MAYOR I WOULD AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER NELSON'S POINT IF IT BELONGS IN THE BUDGET I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT IN THE BUDGET. I THINK OVERALL I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE ESPECIALLY THE PUBLIC RELATIONS PLANNING AND THE MARKETING COMING FROM A BUSINESS MANAGER MARKETING POINT OF VIEW AND WHAT I'VE DONE LIKE THAT MAKES SENSE TO PROMOTE OUR CITY IF WE WANT THE CITY TO ACT LIKE A BUSINESS THIS IS HOW WE ACT MORE LIKE A BUSINESS. AND SO BY HAVING POLICE HERE AT THE I AND SOMEONE TO MANAGE AND AND MARKET THE VALUE THAT WE HAVE THAT MAKES SENSE BUT DOES IT MAKE SENSE STAY IN THE STRATEGIC FUNDS THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE AS WELL ESPECIALLY WE WANT TO CONTINUE THIS LONG TERM. I WANT TO SEE A LITTLE LONG TERM SO THAT WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS EFFECTIVELY AND I'D BE TRYIN TO JUST DO ONE TIME THINGS THAT MR. MARIN COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER IS SPECIFIC TO PLACE, RIGHT? THIS WOULD BE A ONE TIME EXPENDITURE. WE DO HAVE IT BUILT INTO THE BUDGETS FOR FUTURE YEARS INCLUDING 2024 WAS NEVER FUNDED FOR THIS YEAR . COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN AND COUNCILMEMBER NELSON AGAIN COMES FROM A THANK YOU MAYOR YEAH I THINK I'D FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IF WE HAD MORE OF THE YOU KNOW THESE POSITIONS THAT ARE ONGOING PAED THIS YEAROT IN THE STRATEGIC PIECE I DO I'D RATHER SEE THOSE IN IN THE BUDGET I THINK MY COLLEAGUES HAVE STATED THAT WELL YOU KNOW I MAY BE A LITTLE MORE INTERESTED IN THE MARKETING PIECE GIVEN SOME OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD HERE ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE KEEPING THAT IN THE STRATEGIC BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT MAKES SENSE AROUND THAT SO I'D BE OPEN TO THAT PIECE THE COMPENSATE ASIAN STUDY YOU KNOW CERTAINLY I THINK THAT YOU KNOW IF THAT'S THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO YEAR AFTER YEAR I THINK THAT WOULD WE WANT TO MOVE THAT OUT OF THAT BUT IT'S JUST KIND OF A ONE TIME SHOT. WELL THEN YEAH LEAVE IT IN THE STRATEGIC PIECE BUT I DO THINK WE OUGHT TO START DOING THAT MORE OFTEN. YOU KNOW I THINK WE AND WE LOOK AT OUR POLICE FORCE, WE LOOK AT OUR YOU KNOW, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT CHANGES WE NEED TO MAKE THAT WE'VE GOT TO BE AGGRESSIVE AND PROACTIVE WITH THAT STUFF. SO I THINK SOMETHING WE REALLY OUGHT TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW AND IF THIS IS JUST KIND OF THE YEAR WE SLAP IT IN THERE BECAUSE WE WANT TO DO IT LONG TERM I AM NOT GOING TO GET UPSET ABOUT THAT. WE GOT TO WE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO PAY FOR SOME OF THIS STUFF. ONE OF MY LAST QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE IS AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND THIS GIVEN OUR FIRE PENSION FUND YOU KNOW I KNOW THAT USED TO BE IN THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES PIECE. NOW WE MOVE THAT OUT OF THAT WHERE IT THAT IN THE GENERAL FUND NOW WHERE WE'RE FUNDING AND TAKING THOSE DOLLARS OUT ON AN ONGOING BASIS JUST I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THAT COVERED . MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN WE DID HAVE A 5 TO 6 YEAR TRANSITION PLAN FOR FIRE PENSION WHERE. WE WERE BUILDING UP THE FIRE PENSION RESERVE AND SO WE'VE ACHIEVED THE AMOUNT THAT WE WERE TRYING TO GET TO AND SO NOW WE'VE WE'VE GOT WE DON'T NEED TO FUND IT OUT OF THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES ANYMORE. OKAY. SO THERE'S NO RISK IF WE HAVE A COUPLE OF YEARS RIGHT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GO. I JUST WANT TO SURE THAT WE'RE NOT YOU KNOW, THEN FACED WITH THAT AND THAT WAS PRESSURE WE HAD TO TAKE CARE. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THANK YOU MAYOR. JUST ONE LAST QUICK THING. I BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD GIVE TO THE BUSINESS ITEMS ON HERE COMING OUT OF LOOP DEVELOPMENT FUND SINCE OUR INCUBATOR IS IN THE SOUTH LOOP IF AT ALL POSSIBLE I DON'T KNOW THE LEGALITIES OF THAT AND ALL THAT BUT THAT A SOURCE OF FUNDING THAT WE USE FOR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES AND I THINK WE WERE USING IT FOR THE INCUBATOR AS WELL SO JUST GIVE IT CONSIDERATION TONY AND ANSWER IT NOW. COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO SO THAN YOUR. MAYOR. SO AS A GENERAL RULE I DON'T KNOW THAT I YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK THAT THIS THE NUMBER THAT SITS IN THIS BUDGET BE VERY HIGH. SO I'M FINE SPENDING IT DOWN IN LIEU OF PUTTING IT ON TAXPAYERS IN THE NEXT OF YEARS TO BE CANDID WITH YOU AND I SAY THAT ONLY BECAUSE IF IF IF IT'S NOT A RESERVE IT'S NOT A RESERVE. RIGHT? IT'S INTENDED FOR US T LITELLY PUT OUR MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTHS ARE THROUGH THE FISCAL YEAR SAY HEY, WE DECIDED TO INJECT THIS THING EITHER INTO THIS YEAR OR INTO NEXT YEAR AND. WE WANT TO MOVE IT FORWARD. SO THEREFORE WE'RE WILLING TO PUT OUR OUR MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTH AND FUND IT. I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THESE MAP THAT TO THAT EXACTLY I MEAN WE SAID WE WANTED US TO FOCUS ON NATURAL SPACES AND WORK ON OUR TREE CANOPY. IT'S HERE WE SAID WE WANTED TO WORK ON YOU KNOW, THE BLOOMINGTON THE THE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPME CENR. IT HER YOU KNOW, THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND WE SAID WE WANTED WE'VE WE HAVE I HAVE PROBABLY BEEN THE MOST GUILTY OF SAYING WE AT PUBLIC RELATIONS. WE WANT TO DO BETTER AND IT'S HERE. SO I WANT TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T LIKE JUST HOLD THIS MONEY FOR SOME REASON THAT DOESN'T EXIST AND INSTEAD LIKE BE ABLE TO DRAW THE LINES BETWEEN SAID THIS WAS IMPORTANT AND WE FUNDED IT TO BE IMPORTANT AND I APPRECIATE THAT IN THIS MUCH THAN LAST YEAR IN MY OPINION THIS IS REALLY WELL LAID OUT LIKE THAT IT'S SAYING YOU ALL SAID THIS WAS THE THING AND HERE'S THE MONEY WE NEED TO GET IT OFF THE GROUND AND SO ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT OR AREN'T AND I ,I, I LIKE THAT ABOUT IT SO MAYBE MAYBE SOME OF THEM I COULD DEFINITELY LIKE GO WITH I THINK I AGREE. I THE IDEA THAT IF THE COMPENSATION STUDY IS SOMETHING THAT H.R SHOULD BE DOING EVERY X NUMBER OF YEARS LET'S KEEP THAT IN THE BUDGET AND STABILIZE IT IF WE TO IF WE YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING THOSE THINGS MAKE SENSE TO ME BUT WHERE WE DRAW A DIRECT LINE BETWEEN SOMETHING WE SAID WAS IMPORTANT AND THIS NUMBER I INKE SHOULD FUNDT OUT OF HERE AND I DON'T THINK WE BE AFRAID THAT THAT NUMBER DIPS BELOW $3 MILLION BECAUSE IT'S THE PEOPLE'S MONEY ANYWAY AND IT'S SITTING IN IN THIS FUND NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR MOVING OUR INITIATIVES FORWARD. DOESN'T ME FEEL GOOD SO I'LL JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE AS A COUNTERARGUMENT MAYBE AND MORE OF A PHILOSOPHICAL THING. THANKS. THANK YOU FOR THAT FEEDBACK. OKAY. I KNOW BUT DID YOU TURN YOUR MIND MR. FORGET TO RESPOND I THINK I LEFT IT ON FROM BEFORE SO YEAH JUST GOT A COMMENT THAT I WROTE DOWN BECAUSE I GOT MYSELF ON AND I DON'T LIKE THE RETAINING WALLS THING IN HERE AND THE REASON I DON'T LIKE THE RETAINING WALLS THING IN HERE IS BECAUSE THAT THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD A LINE ITEM IN IT TEN YEARS AGO THAT WE WERE PLANNING FOR FIVE YEARS AGO TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I GOT IN COUNCIL AND IT'S JUST NOW SHOWING UP LIKE THAT BUGS ME SO I THINK WE TAKE THAT ONE OUT, PUT IT IN THE CIP AND REPRIORITIZE IT AND GET IT ON GET IT IN THAT BUDGET PERSONALLY. SORRY. THANK YOU THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS THE FIRST PART OF COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO WAS COMMENTS I FELT WERE MORE TARGETED FOR THE COUNCIL, NOT FOR ME. SO I'LL LET YOU GUYS WRESTLE WITH THAT. THE SECOND PART SPECIFIC TO LIKE THE RETAINING WALLS. YES. AND YOU KNOW, WE WE HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS EVERY YEAR ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO MAKE IT INTO THE BUDGET AND WHAT'S GOING TO RIGHT WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO THE LEVY NUMBER THAT THE COUNCIL'S GOING TO BE WILLING TO CONSIDER. OH, REMEMBER I THINK LAST YEAR WE REMOVED ABOUT $800,000 FROM THE BUDGET FOR SIDEWALK SNOWPLOWS. GUESS WHAT'S GOING TO BE COMING BACK IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE FOR YOU TO HAVE A POLICY DISCUSSION ABOUT IT? SIDEWALKS NO PLOWING RIGHT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE THINK WE SHOULD HAVE AND SO THAT'S GOING TO BE A POLICY DISCUSSION. WE COULDN'T FIT IT IN WITH THE BUDGET. WE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION RETAINING WALLS WE COULDN'T FIT IT IN THE BUDGET. WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION. SO THIS IS THE THE STUFF THAT WE HAVE TO WRESTLE WITH ON A YEAR TO YEAR BASIS AND SOME THINGS JUST GET LEFT OUT JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE TO GET TO A NUMBER. THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS SO THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR COMMENTS I THINK AND I DON'T DISAGREE WITH ANYBODY I MEAN THINK THEY'RE ALL GOOD POINTS AND GOOD COMMENTS. I DO AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THE MONEY IS THERE I THINK AND WE HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THERE THE EXCEPTION OF RETAINING WALLS WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THING BUT DUE TO THAT WE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THESE AND I THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO TO SPEND THESE THESE BUDGET BUDGET OVER ENCES THESE BUDGET VARIANCES. LET'S GET LET'S GET THE WORK DONE, TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF AND GET THEM DONE. I MEAN I WOULD GO BACK AND FORTH ON A COUPLE OF THINGS I DON'T MIND THE IDEA OF IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 150,000 FOR A PUBLIC RELATIONS IT MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE TO HIRE A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM THAN IT WOULD BE TO HIRE A PUBLIC RELATIONS PERSON. I'VE WORKED WITH BOTH OVER THE COURSE OF MY CAREER AND IT'S THERE ARE PLUSES AND MINUSES TO EACH. BUT I MEAN IF YOU COULD BRING A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM AND BASICALLY TURN THEM ON AND LET THEM GO AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, BRINGING SOMEBODY ALONG AND UP BRINGING THEM UP TO SPEED AND THAT KIND OF THING. THE FIRMS TEND TO DO A BETTER JOB WITH THAT. THEY THEY GO AFTER IT PRETTY IMPRESSIVELY SOMETIMES. SO THAT WOULD BE ONE THING TO THINK OF THE OTHER THING AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE TREE CANOPY SOLUTION AND AS I LOOK AT THIS 1.5 MILLION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS SPENT ON THIS, THE BULLET POINT THAT I DON'T SEE HERE IS PLANT TREES REPLACE THE TREES THAT WE'RE CUTTING DOWN THAT ARE BEING KILLED BY THE EMERALD ASH BORER AND THAT'S A CONCERN OF MINE AND BOTH NOT ONLY ON CITY PROPERTY BUT ALSO TO GIVE SOME OPTIONS OR POSSIBILITIES FOR FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AS WELL BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WE'RE GOING TO A BARREN LANDSCAPE HERE IN JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AND I THINK WE NEED TO CONSIDER THAT AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WITHIN THOSE BULLET POINTS I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING SAYS GET MORE TREES IN THE GROUND TO REPLACE THOSE THAT ARE DYING BY EMERALD ASH . MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS SPECIFIC TO THAT LAST ITEM WE WILL BE GOING BACK TO SOME TIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE. HERE TO TALK MORE ABOUT FORESTRY WE DO HAVE A A SERVICE DELIVERY CHALLENGE RIGHT NOW IN TH T NUMBER OF DEAD OR DYING OR DISEASE TREES THAT WE ARE GETTING CONTACTED BY RESIDENTS TO COME OUT AND ASSESS IS IS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY AND IS COMPOUNDING THE CHALLENGE THAT WE JUST MANAGING OUR OUR OWN PROPERTY AND WE'VE GOT YOU KNOW A THIRD OF THE BLOOMINGTON ACREAGE GREENSPACE RIGHT. AND SO WE HAVE TO MANAGE ALL OF THAT AND WE HAVE ONE PERSON WHO IS OUR FORESTER WHO'S DOING THAT RIGHT AND. SO ONE OF THE DECISIONS THAT 'VE MADE FROM A SERVICE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE IS WE'RE GOING TO STOP RESPONDING TO REQUESTS FROM PEOPLE TO EVALUATE THEIR PRIVATE TREE. RIGHT. WE DON'T YOU KNOW, WE WE WILL ARRANG FOR A TREE TO GET TAKEN DOWN. COUNCIL APPROVED THE POLICY WHERE WE'LL ASSESS THAT COST FOR THEM THAT COST USED TO BE BETTER OR AT LEAST MORE COMPETITIVE UTILIZING CITY'S CONTRACTOR. THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE ANYMORE. SO IT REALLY HAS BECOME MORE OF A FINANCING TOOL FOR PEOPLE TO UTILIZE CITY'S CONTRACTOR. THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY BENEFIT OF IT AT THIS BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE STAFF RESOURCE TO GO OUT AND ACTUALLY MARKET TREES OR EVALUATE TREES FOR FOR PRIVATE RESIDENCES AT THIS POINT. SO WE NEED TO COME BACK AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE COUNCIL JUST ABOUT WHERE WE STAND CRENTLY ON OUR FORESTRY PROGRAM AND THEN TALK ABOUT HOW IT IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO RESOURCE NEED TO REPOPULATE THE CANOPY. WE MAY HAVE POLICY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT RIGHT AWAY. YOU CURRENTLY WE DON'T ALLOW TREES IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY EXCEPT VARIANCE OR BY EXCEPTION THAT THE FOREST HAS TO SIGN OFF ON. BUT FOR THE MOST PART WE DISCOURAGE AND DON'T ALLOW PLANTING IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. THAT'S AN AREA WHERE WE COULD ADD SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE CANOPYVEN IF WE DON'T FUNCTION ON THE NUMBER OF DISEASE TREES THAT ARE BEING OR DYING, TREES THAT ARE BEING REMOVED FROM PRIVATE PROPERTY. SO WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF ISSUES TO TALK ABOUT AND WE WILL OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS . THANK YOU FOR THAT. WELL SO NOW YOU'VE HEARD EVERYBODY CHIME IN AND THE DISCUSSION HERE WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS ON THIS? THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND ,MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I WILL TAKE THIS BACK TO OUR STAFF AND WILL CHEW A BIT ABOUT WHAT WE HEARD AND THE END OF THE YEAR WE'LL BRING BACK SOMETHING TO HAVE THE COUNCIL GIVE AN UP OR DOWN TO. BUT I THINK I HAVE A SENSE OF WHERE YOU WANT TO BE AND WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AS WE'RE GETTING INTO THE FINAL TEXT MAYBE ABOUT IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN PUT BACK IN OR HOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SOME CHOICES THERE AS COUNCILMEMBER CARTER. THANK YOU, MARTIN. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE ONE COMMENT SO I GUESS I JUST WANTED TO TO MAKE CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, I WASN'T TRYING TO SAY THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO FUND CERTAIN THINGS OUT OF STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. BUT I DO I WANT TO SAY AGAIN I THINK COUNCILMEMBER NELSON SUGGESTED IS MAYBE IT'S LIKE FOR SOME OF THESE THINGS THE DECISION IS DO INCREASE THE TAX LEVY STABILIZATION AND ALLOCATE THOSE CERTAIN THINGS IN THE CERTAIN BUDGETS I THINK FOR SOME OF THEM AND TO ABSOLUTELY MAKE SENSE FOR THEM TO LIVE IN THIS IN THIS STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND AND I AGREE WE SHOULD BE SPENDING THE MONEY I THINK WE ALL AGREE ON THAT BUT IT'S JUST KIND OF WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE STRUCTURALLY IN THE BUDGET AND I WILL ASK ALSO SO TS ONHE AGENDA IT DOES INCLUDE UNDER 5.3 A ONE TIME PUBLIC SAFETY STATE AID THAT'S NEXT I HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THAT WHAT THAT'S NEXT IN THE GET ONE MORE PRESENTATION ONE MORE PRESENTATION MY MISTAKE I'M SORRY I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF HERE. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO EVERYBODY COMFORTABLE WHERE WE ARE WITH STRATEGIC FUND DISCUSSION? VERY GOOD. I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T MEAN TO GET AHEAD AND THAT'S OKAY, MR. MAYOR. IT'S A GOOD THING YOU REMINDED ME. ALL RIGHT, SO THE SECOND ONE IS THE PUBLIC SAFETY STATE AID ALLOCATE AN AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS OR REFERENCED IT IN SEVERAL MEETINGS MOST RECENTLY WHEN YOU HEARD THE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS FROM POLICE AND FIRE. SO MIKE YOU WANT TO ADVANCE THE SECOND SLIDE HERE THE STATE OF MINNESOTA ALLOCATED $210 MILLION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DURING THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THIS IS BEING DONE ON A PER CAPITA BASIS. SO THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON RECEIVE ABOUT $3.9 MILLION. THIS IS ONE TIME MONEY THAT IS COMING TO THE CITY TO ADDRESS PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS IN YOU KNOW IF YOU ASK THE QUESTION WHAT IS IT SPECIFICALLY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNDED? WHAT IS IT THAT CAN'T BE FUNDED? I THINK IT'S EASIER TO SAY CAN'T BE FUNDED BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE IN THE BILL SO YOU CAN'T USE IT TO FUND THE PUBLIC PENSION OBLIGATIONS YOU CAN'T USE IT TO FUND ESSENTIALLY LAWSUITS WILL SETTLE ANY ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OR WRONGDOING. WE CAN'T USE IT FOR PURCHASE ARMORED OR TACTICAL VEHICLES OR SIMILAR TYPE OF EQUIPMENT CAN'T USE IT FOR TEAR GAS, CHEMICAL MUNITIONS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR ITEMS CAN'T USE IT FOR CAPITAL BUILDING COSTS AND SO WE CAN'T REMODEL OR EXPAND OR BUILD NEW A POLICE STATION WITH IT OR A FIRE STATION FOR THAT MATTER. SO THE LIST OF THINGS THAT THAT CAN BE USED FOR IS MORE EXPANSIVE AND IS A CATCH ALL OF OTHER OTHER ITEMS. RIGHT. AND SO SOME OF OURS FALL IN OTHER ITEMS THAT SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DID HIGHLIGHT COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMUNITY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE VICTIM SERVICES TRAINING PROGRAMS, FIRST RESPONDER WELLNESS AND THEN OTHER EQUIPMENT EQUIPMENT RELATED TO FIRE RESCUE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES. SO OUR REQUEST IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, MIKE, WE'VE BROKEN DOWN INTO THREE AREAS IN LEGAL IN FIRE AND IN POLICE AND YOU CAN SEE THE AMOUNTS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOR ALLOCATION IN EACH OF THOSE AREAS AND SIMILAR TO CONVERSATION WE JUST HAD THE THE REAL SUBSTANTIVE CONVERSATION TONIGHT HAS TO DO WITH COMFORT LEVEL ABOUT USING FUNDS TO BRIDGE SOME STAFFING POSITIONS. SO LET'S JUMP TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT FIRST HERE WE HAVE ADDITION OF FULL TIME SUPPORT SPECIALIST TO MEET SOME REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO DISCLOSURES AND THIS WOULD COVER THE COST OF THAT EMPLOYEE FOR TWO YEARS 2024 AND 2025. SO IF WE WERE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT NEED A COUPLE OF YEARS OUT THEN WE WOULD HAVE SOME TABLES THIS POSITION SIMILARLY WE HAVE A MATCH REQUIREMENT A SECOND RESTORATIVE COURT SOCIAL WOER AND THIS WOULD BE A TWO YEAR FUNDING COMMITMENT UTILIZING THESE FUNDS FOR THOSE PURPOSES. THE NEXT SLIDE FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT YOU CAN SEE THE LIST OF EQUIPMENT ITEMS THAT WE ARE DESIRING TO USE THE MONEY FOR IN THE CASE OF FIRE NO TALES ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OF THESE ITEMS. WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS ITEMS THAT WERE IN OUR SMALL EQUIPMENT FUND THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO ALLOW TOANAGE PRERTY TAX LEVY SO WE CAN UTILIZE FOR EQUIPMENT AND NOT HAVE THOSE THINGS AFFECTING PROPERTY TAX LEVY FOR THE COMING YEAR WHICH IS A GOOD THING. AND THEN FINALLY IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT $2.9 MILLION. LET ME HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THESE ON THE PATHWAYS AND ATTRITION HIRING THAT $980,000 THE REQUEST FROM POLICE IS ESSENTIALLY TO OVER HIRE FOR ABOUT THE NEXT 18 TO 24 MONTHS. THIS WOULD BE BRINGING ON I BELIEVE IT'S 13 POLICE OFFICERS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IN THAT TIME FRAME WE'VE GOT ABOUT THAT MANY WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT AND SO WE WANT T DO IS USE THESE FUNDS TO BUILD UP THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE. SO WHEN WE HAVE THOSE RETIREMENTS OCCURRING, WE'RE NOT SUDDENLY DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY ON STAFFING. WE WILL JUST RIGHT SIZE BACK TO WHAT OUR AUTHORIZED NUMBER IS CURRENTLY AND WE WILL NOT LOSE ANY EXPERIENCE WILL NOT LOSE ANY TIME GOING THROUGH FIELD TRAINING AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO GET AN OFCER READY TO BE OUT ON THE STREET. SO THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF ADVANCE TRANSITION PLANNING AND IT DOESN'T HAVE A TAIL BECAUSE IT WILL JUST GET ABSORBED. THE ATTRITION OF THOSE RETIRING OFFICERS IN , THE CASE OF TWO CIVILIAN JAIL OFFICERS WE CURRENTLY HAVE SWORN POLICE OFFICERS STAFFING JAIL. WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS HIRE TO CIVILIAN STAFF TO BE PRESENT IN THE JAIL WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO PUT THOSEWO SWORN POLICE OFFICERS BACK OUT ON THE STREET. SO THIS IS AN AD OF FTE BUT IT IS ADDING FTE THAT WILL ACCOMPLISH AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS ON THE STREET AND DOING IT AT A COST THAT IS LESS THAN THAT. SO THE COSTS FOR THESE CIVILIAN POSITIONS IS LESS THAN WHAT IT WOULD COST TO DO TO ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS. SO WE FEEL THIS IS A PRETTY EFFICIENT TO MANAGE THE NEEDS HERE. THIS WOULD CREATE BECAUSE AFTER 2026 AFTER THE THREE YEARS WE'D HAVE THE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE TWO NEW STAFF POSITIONS SENIOR CRIME ANALYST SIMILAR HERE WE CARRY THAT POSITION AT $133,000 A YEAR FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN HAVE THAT IN 2027 AS AN OBLIGATION AND THEN THE REST OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE ON HERE ARE FOR THE MOST PART ONE TIME ONE TIME EXPENSES. SO I THINK THAT'S THE LAST SLIDE ON THE LIST. IS THAT RIGHT MIKE SO HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE HERE AND ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE BRIDGE APPROACH AND THE STAFFING ESPECIALLY WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CITY ATTORNEY'S AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE LEGAL POSITIONS COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO THE VERY FIRST QUESTION I HAVE, MR. MAYOR, MR. CITY MANAGER IS KNOWING THAT WE HAVE 18 FIREFIGHTERS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY FUNDING, WHY THIS MONEY JUST EXTENDING THAT LIKE WHY WASN'T THAT THE FIRST THOUGHT YOU ALL HAD ABOUT IT? BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE IT FEELS KE WE DON'T YET KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THOSE 18 FIREFIGHTERS AND THAT'S COMING DUE HERE NOW I DON'T THAT WE NEED TO SOLVE FOR SOME OF THESE OTHER CHALLENGES AND I UNDERSTAND THE THE ATTRITION PROBLEM WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS AS WELL. BUT I DON'T KNOW IT FEELS LIKE IT FEELS LIKE WE HAVE A MUCH MORE EMERGENT IMMINENT PROBLEM THAT WE DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT AND THIS WOULD GO A LONG WAY IT SEEMS IN MY MIND TO TAKING A SIGNIFICANT PORTION THIS MONEY AND EXTENDING OUR ABILITY TO SUPPORT THOSE WITHOUT HAVING TO LIKE IT IN OTHER INITIATIVES. I JUST WAS CURIOUS IF THAT WAS A CONVERSATION YOU ALL HAD AND WHY YOU DECIDED NOT TO BRING THAT FORWARD. THANKS, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESSANDRO, THE 18 NEW FIREFIGHTERS ARE BEING FUNDED WITH THE GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE 2023, 24 AND 25. SO THAT'S AN OBLIGATION THAT WE WILL INHERIT IN 2026. THESE FUNDS HAVE TO BE EXPENDED BEFORE THEN SO WE ALREADY HAVE THE FUNDS FOR THOSE POSITIONS. SO THE FUNDS THAT ARE COMING HERE FROM THE STATE WE NEED TO ALLOCATE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO NEXT THROUGH THOSE TWO YEARS. SO THEORETICALLY WE COULD USE IT ON THE BACK IN 2026 TO BLUNT SOME OF THAT. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE WE TRIED TO MATCH IT UP WITH ONE TIME THINGS IN THE EQUIPMENT FUND RATHER THAN HOLDING ON TO IT UNTIL THAT THIRD YEAR IF THAT'S SOMETHING THE COUNCIL FELT STRONGLY ABOUT, WE COULD GO BACK AND UTILIZE THE SMALL EQUIPMENT FUND. THERE WOULD BE SOME IMPACT TO THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY AS OPPOSED TO TRYING TO BUY DOWN LEVY IMPACT IN 26. IF I COULD ADD AND THE ONE OF THE INTRODUCTION SLIDES HERE IT SAYS THERE'S NOT A SPEND BY DATE REQUIREMENT IN THE LAW IS IT. NO THAT'S IS WHAT'S IN THE PRESENTATION IT IN THE YEAH I THOUGHT WE HAD THAT'S RIGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO SPEND MY DAY THANK YOU SO JUST SO THEORETICALLY YOU COULD MAKE IT SO THE TRADE OFF THEN IS NOT IS THAT WE'D JUST PUT THOSE PURCHASES AND THE SMALL EQUIPMENT FUND BACK INTO THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY SO WOULD BE A LEVY IN EARLIER AS OPPOSED TO BUYING IT DONE LATER COUNCILMEMBER NELSON THANKS MAYOR I DON'T HAVE THE SLIDE IN FRONT OF ME BUT WHAT WAS THE NEXT POINT AFTER THAT BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT ONE SAID YOU CAN'T BANK IT UH THE FUNDS MUST USED TO PROVIDE PUBLIC SAFETY. YOU CANNOT ACT AS AN ONGOING RESERVE THERE RIGHT YET. SO THE LEGISLATURE WAS VERY CLEAR THEY WERE AGAIN YEAH IT'S A QUESTION WHAT IS ONGOING. YEAH YEAH EXACTLY. YEAH MM HMM. YEAH. COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN SO I JUST WANT TO SAY IF THERE'S A WAY TO USE THAT FOR THOSE THOSE POSITIONS I THINK THAT COUNCILMAN IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY IF THERE'S A WAY TO SOCK THAT MONEY AWAY SOMEHOW SOMEWAY THAT TO LESSEN THAT. BUT THEN I WOULD ALSO WANT TO SAY YOU SAID MANAGER WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT WE THOUGHT OF THIS. I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF THAT PATHWAYS ATTRITION I REALLY LIKE USING ONE TIME MONEY THAT WAY TO KIND OF REALLY SET THE CITY UP IN A POSITION FROM A POLICE DEPARTMENT STANDPOINT TO WHERE WE'RE READY TO GO AND SO IF WE COULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT WITH THE FIRE PEACE I THINK THAT WOULD BE WOULD BE AWESOME OUT OF IT JUST TO KIND OF LESSEN THAT THAT THAT PIECE AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WITH THE LEGAL PIECE WE GOT TO WE GOT TO SHOW THEM A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE SO I'M FINE GOING DOWN THIS ROUTE AND PUT THEM IN THERE SO YOU KNOW, I KNOW THIS KIND OF , YOU KNOW, WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU FROM A FROM BUDGETARY STANDPOINT IF WE COULD SEE THESE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL AREAS SO WE KNOW WHAT THE IMPACT IS LONG TERM BUT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU JUST IT YOU GOT TO DO IT SO I'M ALSO SUPPORTIVE. I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE PATHWAYS THE ATTRITION HIRING MY QUESTION AND I'M SURE THE ANALYSIS HAS BEEN IF YOU HAVE 14 POLICE OFFICERS WITH 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE RETIRING AND REPLACING WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF TENURE EXPERIENCES THAT, THERE'S GOT TO BE A SAVINGS IN THERE SO THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS TO IMAGINE SO KNOW THE THERE'LL BE A LITTLE BIT OF BENEFIT ON THE ON THE BACK AS WELL WHEN WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS WE'LL HAVE ALL NEW OFFICERS YOU KNOW AT ONE AND ONE TO YEAR EARNING RATES AS OPPOSED TO THE TOP END, YOU KNOW. BUT I DO WITH THE THE THE WAY OF DOING IT I THINK IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO BE TO OVER HIRE FOR IT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND THEN NOT FEEL THAT DIP WHICH I KNOW OTHER CITIES HAVE ONCE THEY HIT SIGNIFICANT RETIREMENT THAT THEY END UP SHORTHANDED FOR A OF TIME AND THIS IS A GOOD WAY OF AVOIDING THAT SO I THINK THAT MAKES GOOD SENSE. OTHER THOUGHTS COUNCILMEMBER CARTER OKAY. THANK YOU MAYOR. SO I GUESS I'D BE INTERESTED. I'M ALSO SUPPORTIVE I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO USE THE RESOURCES TO YOU KNOW, HIRE ON TO BE PREPARED FOR THE RETIREMENTS. I AM THINKING ABOUT 26 AND 27 AND SO IF WE'RE ADDING MORE TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND ADDITIONAL OFFICERS, WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY PERSPECTIVE IN 26 AND 27 FOR US? SO DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE ADDING 22 POSITIONS THEN TO THE TAX LEVY WITH, THE 18 FIREFIGHTERS? OH, GOOD QUESTION, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS CARTER ARE 18 FIREFIGHTERS ARE ALREA EMPLOYED. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS DOES IN TERMS OF ADDING FTE PERMANENT FTE ON A LONG TERM BASIS WE'VE GOT THE TWO CIVILIAN STAFFERS WE HAVE THE TWO POSITIONS IN THE ONE POSITION IN LEGAL AND THEN THE SENIOR CRIME ANALYST IT'D BE FOUR NEW FTE WITH THE OTHER YOU KNOW THE SURGE HIRING AND POLICE BALANCING OUT BY ATTRITION SO IT'S REALLY ONLY FOR TWO YEARS SO IT'S FOUR NEW FOUR YEARS BUT THE IMPT ON THE TAX LEVY WITH THE 18 FIREFIGHTERS COMING OFF OF THE SAFER GRANT THEN IT IS SO IN 2026 THAT NUMBER IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $2.1 MILLION $2.4 MILLION SOMEWHERE IN THAT RANGE. AND THAT'S YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE BOGEY THAT WE KNOW WE'VE BEEN FACING. SO AS YOU LOOKED AT THAT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUND, YOU HAVE SEEN THE TAX LEVY STABILIZATION TERMINATING AFTER 2025 LIKELY NOT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUTTRESS THE THE IMPACT OF THOSE EMPLOYEES. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ALREADY STUDYING. OKAY. I GUESS SO IN GENERAL I AM SUPPORTIVE I GUESS I'D JUST BE CURIOUS TO KNOW YOU KNOW HAVE THERE BEEN YOU KNOW I THINK AT ONE OF OUR LAST MEETINGS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY HAVING COMPLIANCE YOU KNOW A, YOU KNOW SOMEBODY ON THE LEGAL TEAM DOING COMPLIANCE LIKE COULD WE'VE REPURPOSED THAT POSITION TO BE A POSITION IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO I GUESS I'M JUST CURIOUS MAYBE FOR THAT ANALYSIS TO THIS IS MY KIND OF FEELING ABOUT THE PR POSITION. ARE THERE OTHER POSITIONS THAT HAVE INTERNALLY THAT COULD BE THAT MAYBE KNOW? LISA I USED TO HEAR THE PHRASE ALL THE TIME FROM YOUR MAYOR MR. MAYOR YOU KNOW WHAT DO WE NEED TO STOP DOING AND SO ARE THERE ARE THERE OTHER POSITIONS THAT WE COULD REPURPOSE TO FILL SOME OF THE FTE NEED THAT WE BUT AGAIN IN GENERAL I AM SUPPORTIVE I JUST I'M HAVING SOME PRETTY SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT THAT IMPACT ON THE TAX IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN 26 EVEN IF WE ARE USING A STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FUNDING TO HELP STABILIZE THAT OTHERS I'M HEARING THE CONSENSUS BEING THAT A BIT UNEASE ESPECIALLY AS WE GET TO 26 AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COSTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE LANDING ON THE PROPERTY TAX LAW JUST IN GENERAL WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER THAT. I DO APPRECIATE AS I SAID THE PATHWA ANDHE ATTRITION HIRING I THINK IS A GOOD IDEA AND FOR AS I ALSO LIKE THE USE OF THE ONE TIME MONEY AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THEY USE THAT AS A ONE TIME SPENDING FOR EQUIPMENT THE SMALL FIRE EQUIPMENT THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND THE NEEDS THAT THEY HAVE BUT MAYBE WE'LL LET YOU ALL CHEW ON THIS A AND THINK A BIT MORE. AND YOU KNOW MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS TELL YOU THE ONE THING THAT I THINK THAT I DID HEAR FROM MOST EVERYBODY SOME INTEREST AT LEAST ON THE FIRE EQUIPMENT FRONT AND THEN BACK END ON THE FIREFIGHTERS. SO I TELL YOU WHAT, WE'LL GO TAKE A LOOK AND MODEL WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FOR THE SMALL EQUIPMENT FUND IMPACT AND THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY FOR 24 AND CONTRAST THAT WITH WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN 26 IF WE WERE TO HOLD IT BACK THEN TO EASE THE IMPACT OF FIREFIGHTERS COMING ON. SO WE'LL DO A LITTLE BIT MORE . BUT WHAT I'M HEARING ALSO IS AT LEAST FOR POLICE AND LEGAL, YOU'RE GENERALLY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE HAVE IN HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM SOME DIRECTION TO BE ABLE TO START MOVING AHEAD ON SOME OF THESE THINGS. OKAY. I THINK SO. MM HMM. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. I'LL SAY ANYTHING MORE ON THAT. EVERYBODY COMFORTABLE WITH THE DISCUSSION AND AS COMFORTABLE AS WE CAN BE WITH THAT DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR THAT AND THANKS FOR BOTH THOSE PRESENTATIONS. GOOD DISCUSSION, COUNSEL AND ON THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MOVED ITEM 5.4 WHICH IS OUR CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATE AND I START OFF WITH A CAP OF OUR LISNINGESSION AS I TYPICALLY DO WE HAD ACTUALLY FIVE SPEAKERS THIS EVENING WE GOT THEM ALL IN WHICH I THOUGHT INCREDIBLE TIME MANAGEMENT BECAUSE WE TYPICALLY DON'T DO IT THAT WELL. WE HAD MIKE LIST SPEAK TO US REGARDING GROUP COMMS HE HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE DID GET SOME QUESTIONS IN AN EMAIL HE JUST HASN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW IT. SO THEN HE KIND OF SHIFTED GEARS AND WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF SALES TAX REVENUE THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MALL OF AMERICA AND THAT WOULD BE THE SALES TAX REVENUE FOR THE ADDITIONAL HALF CENT SALES TAX IF THAT WOULD PASS ONN TUESDAY. AND THE ESTIMATE IS THE MALL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 12 AND 15% OF THAT SALES TAX REVENUE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. SO THAT IS AN INTERESTING FACT TO HAVE. PAM PALMER TALKED ABOUT A HOUSE IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD IN POOR CONDITION AND EXTRA CARS, THE PROPERTIES AND SOME ISSUES WITH RENTERS AND SO ON AND I ASKED THAT MAYBE THE CITY LOOKED AT MORE WAYS TO ADDRESS OUR PROBLEMS WITH RENTAL PROPERTIES BUT ALSO WITH WITH PROBLEM PROPERTIES IN GENERAL TO BE ABLE TO REACT A BIT MORE QUICKLY IN TERMS OF ISSUES THAT MIGHT COME UP AND HAVE PEOPLE BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING THAT MIGHT BE DISRUPTIVE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD JUST IN GENERAL. AND CHRIS WICK LINDA TALKED TO US ABOUT A GAZEBO THAT WAS IN HER DRIVEWAY THAT SHE USES AS COVER FOR A CLASSIC CAR AND WAS FOR A VARIANCE AND RELIEF FROM SOME OF THE FINES THAT SHE'S RECEIVED. APPARENTLY THERE'S DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE GAZEBO ITSELF AND WITHOUT THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION I ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL THE MANAGER TO DIRECT STAFF TO TRY AND WORK T RESOLUTION THIS. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON BOTH SIDES I THINK AND IT WAS GOOD TO HEAR THIS WITH LINDA ABOUT HER COMPLAINTS AND HER CONCERNS AND THE PICTURES THAT SHE PROVIDED AND SO ON BUT KNOWING FULL WELL OF COURSE THERE'S THE THERE'S ALWAYS TWO SIDES AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR AND UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHERE THE CITY WAS COMING FROM AND MAYBE MAKE SURE THAT WE WORK TO RESOLUTION AS I SAID AND GET TO A POINT WHERE EVERYBODY IS AT LEAST SATISFIED WITH THIS SITUATION . SHARON BILLINGS TALKED TO US ABOUT SHE LISTED OFF THREE DIFFERENT THINGS SHE LIKES THE CURRENT LISTENING SESSION FORMAT B SHE APPRECIATES PAIRING OF THE EXCUSE ME THE OF THE LAKE DRIVE PARKING LOT THAT SHE FREQUENTS FAIRLY QUICK FREQUENTLY AND THEN SHE DID ADDRESS A CONCERN ABOUT PEDESTRIAN AND 84TH STREET SPECIFICALLY THE CROSSWALK AT THOMAS AND SHE SUGGESTED PERHAPS INSTALLING STOP SIGNS AND WE ASKED THE STAFF TO A LOOK AT THAT AND SEE IF THAT WOULD BE AN ADEQUATE SOLUTION THERE AT 84TH STREET BECAUSE AS SHE SAID, THERE'S NO STOP LIGHTS BETWEEN PENN AND SAID ALL THE WAY OVER TO WAS IS THERE NO I THINK THE XERXES YEAH THOMAS IS NOT A CONTROLLED INTERSECTION SO SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT SPECIFIC SIGNS AT THOMAS AND THEN OUR FINAL SPEAKER WAS JAN COOLEY AND SHE HAD BEEN WITH US BEFORE SOME SIGNIFICANT ISSUES THAT SHE HAD WITH A LOCAL RE REMODELING AND ROOFING COMPANY AND THE SUGGESTION WAS OR THE THE COMMENTS WERE WERE BASED ON WHAT WE HAD HEARD FROM HER THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT THAT THE CITY OR THE CITY COUNCIL COULD DO AND WE ASKED CITY MANAGER AND STAFF TO PROVIDE HER WITH A LIST OF RESOURCES SHE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACCESS TO TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT SHE HAS INCLUDING THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE AND HENNEPIN COUNTY RESOURCES IN SOME DIFFERENT WAYS. SO I APPRECIATE THOSE PEOPLE COMING FORWARD. APPRECIATE TAKING THE TIME TO COME IN AND TALK TO US AND I THINK IT WAS A WORTHWHILE AND PRODUCTIVE LISTENING ONCE AGAIN THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I HAVE TONIGHT AND I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT VERY QUICKLY WE WE SIGNED THE STAR TRIBUNE OBITUARY SECTION TODAY THAT HELEN FONG PASSED AWAY EARLIER THIS MONTH IN AN OCTOBER 16TH AND HELEN, OBVIOUSLY THE THE WIFE OF DAVID FONG OF THE FONG FAMILY, THE THE MATRIARCH OF THE ENTIRE FONG FAMILY, AN INCREDIBLE INFLUENCE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AND WAS A LONGTIME LEADER IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AND NOT JUST WITH THE FAMILY AND WITH THE RESTAURANT BUT WITH THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP AND WITH THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT SHE DID WITHIN THE CITY AND SHE'LL BE MISSED. AND WE WANT TO EXTEND HER SYMPATHY TO THE FONG FAMILY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT'S A DIFFICULT TIME FOR THEM SO MR. VERBRUGGE THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS REFERCED EARLIE THE WE HAVE SOME BALLOT QUESTIONS AND AN ELECTION COMING UP NEXT TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8TH I'M SORRY NOVEMBER SEVENTH THAT'S THE LAST THING I NEED TO DO READ AS HISTORY. SO NEXT TUESDAY WE ON TUESDAYS AROUND HERE SO EARLY IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND I JUST WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT EARLY VOTING IS AVAILABLE HERE AT BLOOMINGTON'S CIVIC PLAZA IF YOU'RE NOTAMILR WITH WHERE WE ARE 1800 WEST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD BUT IT'S EASIER TO ACCESS US OFF OF 98TH AVENUE AT 98TH STREET AT LOGAN AND JAMES ME AND I'M STRUGGLING TO MAKE SO 98TH AND LOGAN 90TH JAMES IS TO GET TO CIVIC PLAZA HOURS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THIS WEEK EIGHT UNTIL 4:30 P.M. WE ARE OPEN ON FROM NINE UNTIL THREE FOR EARLY VOTING SO YOU GET TO PUT YOUR BALLOT RIGHT INTO THE MACHINE. IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE ABSENTEE BALLOTING PERIOD THIS NOW EARLY VOTING S AND THEN AGAIN NEXT MONDAY THE SIXTH FROM EIGHT UNTIL 5 P.M. AND THEN TUESDAY THE SEVENTH YOU'LL VOTE AT YOUR REGULARLY ASSIGNED VOTING PRECINCT. SO THAT'S THAT'S HOW YOU CAN VOTE OVER THE NEXT WEEK LEADING UP TO NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH. I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND CHIEF HODGES. HE'S NOT HERE FOR THE MEETING THIS EVENING BECAUSE HE WAS BEING HONORED AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE WILLIAM H. SPURGEON THIRD AWARD WHICH IS THE HIGHEST RECOGNITION FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS CONTRIBUTING SIGNIFICANT LEADERSHIP TO THE EXPLORING PROGRAM FOR THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA HERE IN MINNESOTA. SO WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT WE CAN SHARE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION AND OUTSIDE OF THE ORGANIZATION. BUT JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE CHIEF HODGES ON HIS RECOGNITION AND CONGRATULATE HIM AND THANK HIM FOR HIS AND RELATIONSHIP. WELL DONE. ERYTHING ELSE MR. BROBERG, YOU KNOW SIR COUNCIL ANYTHING TO ADD THIS EVENING COUNCILMEMBER THANKS MAN I JUST GOT ONE QUICK ITEM. IT CAME UP TANGENTIALLY IN THE LISTENING SESSION. IT WAS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND RELATED TO COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES AND I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE I'VE HEARD A NUMBER OF COMMENTS OR TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPER EXCITED THAT THAT GAS STATION WENT AWAY FOR THE OFFICE EXPANSION BUT THEY'RE REALLY NOT HAPPY AND IN MY DISTRICT ABOUT THAT VALVOLINE AND IN PARTICULAR I MEAN IT'S UP IT'S LITERLY IT DOESN'T HAVE WINDOWS I MEAN I CAN'T SEE A WAY THAT THAT MEETS OUR COMMERCIAL CODE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND I GUESS THE BASIC QUESTION IS ARE THERE MORE WE CAN DO WITH THAT PROPERTY SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE OTHER REQUESTS WE'VE HAD TO SPUR SOME IMPROVEMENT THERE. MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH OUR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STAFF AND PROVIDE A REPORT BACK TO YOU AND THE COUNCIL. VERY GOOD. THAT WOULD TYPICALLY END OUR MEETING BUT ACTUALLY TONIGHT WERE AS WE D IN OUR LAST DAY OR A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO WE WERE MOVING TO CLOSE SESSION HERE ITEM 5.5 WOULD BE A CLOSED MEETING AND A REQUEST TO CLOSE THE OPEN PUBLIC MEETING FOR ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE. AND AS I STATED EARLIER TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE A POTENTIAL CONFLICT BASED ON MY PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT, I'M GOING TO STEP AWAY AND TURN THE GAVEL OVER. I ACTUALLY DO HAVE THE GAVEL IF YOU WOULD LIKE. THAT'S OKAY. NO, IT'S FINE. I DIDN'T I DON'T THINK I NEED TO BANG ON THINGS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE. SO I WILL I WILL STEP AWAY AND TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND ONCE AGAIN ELECTION DAY GET OUT AND VOTE FOLKS. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR.. ACTING MAYOR DE LA SONDRA BEFORE I DO HAVE ONE EDIT TO THE MATERIALS WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT OF MOTION MAKING IT WE HAVE AN UPDATE TO THE MOTION THAT WE NEED MAKE THE ONE FOR CLOSING THE MEETING. OKAY GREAT GOOD THINGS . THIS IS STILL HAPPENING BUT THIS IS AN OPEN SO WE CAN GO AHEAD WITH THE TWO TO MAKE THE MOTION. YEAH OKAY. SO DID YOU WANT TO MAKE AN DID YOU WANT TO AMEND THE MOTION THAT I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME. THANK YOU ACTING MAYOR MEMBERS WHEN WE PUT THE PACKAGE TOGETHER EARLIER IN THE WEEK LAST WEEK WE HAD INTENDED THAT OUTSIDE COUNSEL WOULD BE INVITED INCLUDED IN THE DISCUSSION. SINCE THEN WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO INCLUDE THEM AND SO THE REQUEST FOR COUNSEL ACTION REFERENCES OUTSIDE COUNSEL AS DOES THE RESOLUTION IN TWO SPOTS AND IF YOU'RE AMENAE I WOULD REQUEST THAT THE REFERENCES TO OUTSIDE COUNSEL BE REMOVED IN THE THIRD WHEREAS AS WELL AS IN THE THIRD NOW THEREFORE HOW I WOULD PROPOSE TO HANDLE THAT THAT I WOULD MAKE THOSE CLERICAL EDITS AND THEN CIRCULATE DOCUMENT FOR A SIGNATURE TOMORROW MORNING DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THAT AND SO YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THAT WE IN THE THIRD WHEREAS WHERE IT RELATES TO THE CITY'S INTERNAL COUNSEL AND WITH OUTSIDE ARE YOU JUST GOING TO STRIKE AND WITH OUTSIDE COUNSEL AND THEN THE SAME IN NUMBER THREE WHERE IT SAYS THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL YOU STRIKE THAT THAT'S JUST THE ONLY TWO AT IT'S ACTING MAYOR THAT IS THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS SO I THINK WE CAN VOTE THEN ON THE AS AS STATED AMENDED SO I'LL LOOK FOR A MOTION TO PASS A RESOLUTION. YEAH. COUNCILMAN THERE IS ACTUALLY I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR THE CITY MANAGER BEFORE THAT IF THAT'S SURE PLEASE. AND I BROUGHT THIS UP EARLIER GIVEN THAT THE NATURE OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, IS THERE ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC JUST SO THEY SORT OF NOT THE LITIGATION STRATEGY OR ANYTHING BUT I MEAN THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT BE OF CONCERN TO PEOPLE AND I JUST WANT TO HAVE THE HELP THEM UNDERSTAND AND WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT HERE ACTING MAYOR AND MEMBERS MY PROPOSALOULDE THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT INFORMATION THAT YOU'D LIKE US TO SHARE AFTER WE END THE CLOSED SESSION. I THINK IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FOR OURS TO SEEK A RECOMMENDATION FOR A MOTION DIRECTING STAFF TO PREPARE A COMMUNICATION THAT BE SHARED THAT WOULD BE PERFECTLY ENJOYABLE. OKAY. THANK YOU OKAY. SO WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE MEETING SO WE HAVE A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CLOSURE OF A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL ALL IN FAVOR I I I AND YOU WANT TO POST NO MOTION CARRY 601 ON CLOSED SESSION YOU'RE BACK IN OPEN SESSION THEN VERY SO WE RETURN TO OPEN SESSION FOR THE PURPOSES OF CLOSING TONIGHT'S I LOOK FOR A MOTION TO ADJOURN NO WHAT WOULD LIKE TO ACTEMRA WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIRECT ME DO ANYTHING CONSISTENT WITH THIS GO RIGHT YES LOVE FOR YOU TO PROCEED CONSISTENT WITH THE DISCUSSION WE HELD IN CLOSED SESSION WITH ACTING MAYOR WOULD YOU LIKE A MOTION IN A SECOND AND A VOTE ON THAT? I WOULD JUST THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR I ANY OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO THANK YOU VOTES AND NOW I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN SO WE HAVE A MOTION IN THE SECOND TO ADJOURN ALL THOSE IN FAVOR ANYBODY OPPOSE GREAT WE'RE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU FOR PAYING ATTENTION TONIGHT. HAVE A GREAT EVENING