Tuesday. Let's try that again. The Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 meeting of the Eden Prairie City Council is now called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States to the stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. It's always an enjoyable meeting when we do have the words in action award winners here tonight. Plus, it um lowered the average age in this room by about 20 years. So, thank you all the students for being here and their parents, their young parents. I meant that as well. Uh during this time in the meeting, I um always um at these meetings read an open podium invitation. Open podium is an opportunity for Eden Prairie residents to address the city council on issues related to Eden Prairie city government. Hello. Prior to each council meeting, typically the first and third Tuesday of each month. These open podiums occur from 6:30 to 6:55 right here in the council chamber. If you wish to speak at open podium, please do contact the city manager's office at 952-9498412 by noon of the meeting date with your name, your phone number, and subject matter so we can be better prepared for you. Open podium is not recorded or televised. If you have questions about open podium, please do contact the city manager's office. Mr. GCO, I'll let you introduce this uh next part of our meeting. Uh thank you, mayor. Yes, as you alluded to our our words and action contest and award presentation. This is something we've done for a few years, not a long long time, but it's something that's has some history with the city. But one thing of note is as we continue to do the words and action contest and I think you're going to hear about this, the participation has just been growing very quickly. And I think number one, that's great to hear that there's so much more participation. And two, um, having these award winners actually share their work has been something we've done for the last two or three years, which has also been really positive. So, what I'd like to do, mayor and council, is introduce um our human rights and diversity commission member that's here, Bobber Khan, along with our liaison to that commission as well, who's our housing and community services manager for the city, uh Pa Jeang, to come up and and walk us through, uh the award presentation. Mayor Casease, council members, thank you so much. The Black History Month award um words and action contest is hosted by the city of Eden Prairie, the Eden Prairie Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission, and the Eden Prairie Community Foundation to recognize the legacy of Black American Civil Rights Era leaders. The youth participants uh were asked to select a quote from a black American civil rights era leader to and use art or writing to express their thoughts on the quote as well as the ways they that they could carry forward the spirit of the quote in our community. This year we received 43 submissions and evaluated them for quality and relevance to the theme. The words and action subcommittee and our review committee ultimately selected four winners and four additional honorable mentions. The four winners and their guests have joined us tonight to share their pieces with the council. In addition to the recognition here tonight, we'll be recognizing the winners and honorable mentions on the city's website and social media. On behalf of the HRDC, I'd like to thank city council members for taking the time to recognize the winners. The Eden Prairie Community Foundation for providing cash prizes to the winners and honorable mentions. The review committee for taking time to score entries and select winners. City staff for their work coordinating the contest, facilitating the review process. Eden Prairie School staff for helping share the contest with the community. and all of the youth who participated with us. So I'll introduce Bober. Hi um Mir case council members and uh my name is Babar Khans a few of you know me most probably and I am a commissioner on the human rights uh and diversity commission. I have the honor of standing in front of you today to present our four words in action winners out of the 43 contestants um we received this year. I'll be inviting each of them at at a time to share their work and give few words on what inspired them to do it. All the submissions were amazing and reading them was a pleasure. uh each of them should be extremely proud of themselves and they are truly proof of the wonderful future of the next generation. Okay. So our first winner of this year's words in action contest is Buddha Bagunta. She is a fifth grader from Eagle Ridge [Applause] Academy. Good evening council members. Thank you for this opportunity to share my artwork with everyone. I am Idisha. I am 10 years old and a student of fifth grade at Eagle Ridge Academy. I enjoy reading, practicing taekwond do, and want to write books someday. For my art piece, I chose the quote, "Racism is a grown-up disease, and it is time we stop using kids to spread it," by Ruby Bridges. When I read this quote, I could imagine why Ruby Bridges might have said these words. When kids were being segregated at school, it was a decision made by adults which affected children. It made children look at the differences in other children rather than the common things. It doesn't matter to kids what their friends look like. Kids want to be with other kids who look who like the same things as them. Nothing else is important. That made me think of organizing an afterchool club, Children United, where kids can come together to and understand each other better. Instead of looking at each other's differences, kids could connect over their similarities. Uh we could also find books or activities that help us see how our differences make us so special and unique. If everyone was the same, life would be boring and we and we would all be like copies of each other. There wouldn't be different types of food or clothes or music and many other things. That is why we need different people to make the world more interesting. At school, I hear kids being mean to each other because someone looks different, sounds different, or acts different than them. A lot of times, kids do not understand the meaning behind the hurtful words that they use. They are simply repeating something that they have heard being used. They don't realize that when they make fun of someone, it makes kids think of their own history, traditions, race, and family in a bad way. I think if kids knew how their words make other people feel, they would not want to use those words. Many times when we tell classmates how their word words make other people feel, they realize that was not their intention. When kids see that other kids might have the same hobbies or likes as them, even if others look or sound different than them, they might not think much of the differences. With the Children United Club, we could share our different stories and relate to others experiences to make everyone feel welcome. We could discuss what certain words may mean and and why we shouldn't use them without knowing the hurt that they could inflict on others. My artwork depicts how children can participate in breaking the chain of pain and hurt and create a bond of togetherness. When someone's when someone hurts another person's feelings, they be they may feel like putting putting that hurt on somebody else who is different from them. That chain will keep continuing ending up with several broken hearts including the ones who hurt others. As Mahatma Gandhi said, an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. But if we all try to understand each other and accept our differences, we could be a stronger and more harmonious world. Together, children could lead the way to overlook differences and spread kindness. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] Are we um uh grouping for a picture afterwards? Is that your thought? Okay. Can I um make a comment after each one? I just tisha that was amazing, incredibly wise um and just really insightful from someone your age. I used to teach fifth and sixth grade quite a bit. And I'll just say quickly, Ruby Bridges, I used to show a movie every Black History Month for 30 years on Ruby Bridges. And I think a lot of her, but I I I look um you may think of her as a kindergarten or 5-year-old. She was born the year I was born. So Ruby and I I know you don't have to look exactly like that. I get it though. Um Rub Ruby and I are both 70 this year. 70 years old. So but she's really um a hero of mine as well. So thank you for choosing her and um talking about that. So really well done. Okay. Thank you. Uh and now um next we have uh Amaya Deiri. She is a third grader from uh Cedar Ridge Elementary School. [Applause] Hi, my name is Amaya Demery. I'm 9 years old and my favorite MLK um quote is that they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I like this quote because he doesn't want people to be judged by their skin color, but by their characteristic. This is important to me because I want people to see me for who I am, not because of how I look. [Applause] Hi, my name is Amaya. I'm 9 years old and my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King's speech is that they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I like this quote because he not he doesn't want people to be judged by the color of their skin, but by their characteristics. That means a lot to me because I want people to see me for who I am. Not based on how I look. I choreographed dance because that's what I love. [Music] [Music] on. Listen. [Music] Take a drink. [Music] It's hard to [Music] [Applause] understand Maya, you're an extremely talented young woman. Um, I think all of us up here thinking that if we did any one of those moves would be in the hospital right now. But very very impressive and I I love your statement about the quote too. That was so good. Did you want to say something as well? No. Yeah, I did. My go. Um, both my daughters are professional and um that brings back some really neat memories, you know, watching what are you nine years old, right? Yeah, that was that's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you Maya. Uh next we have uh uh Sunakshi Diwiri. She is a seventh grader from Central Middle School. Sonakshi. [Applause] Hello um council members. Thank you for this amazing opportunity. The inspiration for my poem is how during the civil rights movements, African-Americans had faced injustice for centuries and then through um after yeah um I wanted to take what I learned about this from school, the movement, how they decided to stand up for what is right during this influential time in history and apply it to a medium poetry in which I thoroughly enjoy expressing. myself through. And then um this is the poem, the time for what is right. They say I'll do it later. Day after day, I'll save my breath. The efforts will go to waste anyway. And so the same seeds grow. The chapter doesn't close. They'll say what a sad sight, but still won't stand up for what's right. This is not a game. It's giving what they've been denied. It's worth more than just your look of woe. Instead, you should speak or show. The time is always right to do what is right. Let this quote be your guide to join the fight. To stand for those in the present so that here, there, everywhere in sight, justice will finally be brought into light. Or you could stay home and lounge. Keep the tape over your mouth. You say it's a vast problem you can't control. But what will happen to all the innocent souls? Your racism isn't patriotism. Don't go throwing bricks because of politics. Instead, augment the foundation for this nation. Abdicate the madness. Light a match not to ignite violence, but to not give into silence. And in this, we can start a new page. And in this, we did. We started a new age. They didn't go out picking street fights, but peacefully stood up for their rights and showed them their view. And in this, the caged birds flew. And in this, I'd like to say my thank yous to these valiant fews who saw the time and just knew that it's time for something new. Though history hasn't repeated itself, it's rhymed. The outcome of the fight still isn't the most divine. But now they have their rights and the world has been changed so many times. We stand together unified in this nation with these new ideas and innovations. Oh, what a world would we be living in if no one turned on this light and no one decided that the time was right. Thank [Applause] you, Sinakshi. Wow. um timely timely timely for what's going on in our nation today. Not being more political than you were, but you are so correct. I love um your line about history may not have repeated itself, but it's rhymed. That's pretty powerful. So, really nice job. Thank you so much. [Applause] Thank you, Sonakshi. And now we have the last winner. We have Lysa Mala. She is eighth grader from Central Middle School. [Applause] Good evening, city council. My name is Alicia Michael and I'm an eighth grader at CMS. The quote I chose was, "We must accept infinite disappointment but never lose infinite hope." which was said by Martin Luther King Jr. I really like this quote because it made me realize that it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, or what you look like. There's one important thing that we should all remember, which is to have hope because in our lifetime, we are going to face a lot of criticism. And whether it's now or in the near future, it's something really important to remember. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa. You just memorized all that, didn't you? Yep. I love it when um well, I'm sure there's many brilliant adults in the room, but I love it when they put me to shame. I um don't memorize well. So, nice job though, all all four of you. But thank you so much for coming up. Babar, go ahead. Okay. All right. Uh um thank you, Alicia. And with this, we got like all different forms of formats of uh there's a video with leashes. We still have the video. Yeah, we need this. Thank you. We must accept infinite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. This was said by Martin Luther King Jr. in February 1968. Martin Luther King went through a lot in his life. He was born when segregation still existed. And as a child, he never really understood why they had to be segregated. According to castle eiation, Martin's mother instilled in him a great sense of respect in not tolerating racism from anyone. There are many accounts of when he faced racism as a child, even when he wasn't old enough to understand it, such as when he was six, according to brutanica.com, one of his friends parents didn't let them be friends with Martin because they needed to go to separate schools because of their skin colors. Another example is when he and his dad went to a store, but they sent them all the way to the back because they didn't serve black people in the front. There are so many more scenarios like this that Martin needed to face, whether it was in his childhood or that his entire life. However, through all of this, he managed to find hope and started giving out many motivational speeches such as his famous I have a dream speech and he even organized peaceful protests. He got arrested for this multiple times, but he still kept going. Martin could have easily given up. He had a family and kids he needed to support, but he kept going. And he managed to still hope and dream. Even when things seemed impossible to do, he still managed them. I find it so admirable how throughout all of this, he managed to keep going and fighting for his rights. Although, I feel like none of it would have been possible without him having hope. And this quote makes me realize that no matter what life throws at us, we just need to hope and know that things will turn out right. To me though, this quote goes much deeper than just having hope. It makes me realize how lucky I am to have all these wonderful opportunities that some people could have only dreamed of having back then and that people still dream of having. It also makes me realize that sometimes we have ups and downs. And when those downs occur, instead of just not even trying or just even giving up, I need to get back up, try my hardest, and just hope that things will turn out right. Because my hopes and dreams now will one day become a reality. It also shows me that when life gets much more difficult, we just need to work that much harder and nothing is impossible if you believe that everything is possible. Because although not every one of our dreams will be possible, some will be, whether it is now or in the future. So, we should never lose sight of them. In the future, I plan to look at everything in a positive way. And no matter how hard something seems, I will still try my best. I also plan to help others have hope, especially when they are struggling. I plan to do this by doing small acts of kindness. Whether it's including someone when they're left out or donating toys and clothes so that people can have something that gives them hope because sometimes all it takes is a little bit of motivation and hope for someone to succeed and keep going. Also, in the future, I would try to stop complaining about something. And even when I feel disappointed, sad, or mad, I'll remember how no matter how much Martin went through in his life and how impossible things felt for him, he got through it and never gave up by having hope. This is why the quote by Martin Luther King, we must accept infinite disappointment but never lose infinite hope, means so much to me. And in the future, I will try to have hope and try to accomplish my dreams, even when they seem [Applause] impossible. Once again, really, really wise and important words for today. So, thank you. Bye-bye. Right. Thank you, Alicia. And with this uh we are pretty much uh here with our winners and awards and um uh we have seen all different formats somehow they come together as like a kind of a bug like poems uh artwork speeches and videos. So it's great. Um so I would like to thank everyone here. Thank thank you to the winners and the guests that you're here uh tonight. We thank you for all the hard work and dedication towards highlighting uh the important work of these civil rights leaders. Um you all have bright futures ahead of you and our step towards increased equity within the world. Uh thank you mayor and thank you council members uh for having us here. We'll call everyone up in just a moment um for pictures. I just want to say Babar you've been um involved in our human rights and diversity I don't know forever but for a long long time and we really appreciate all that you've done through the years and Haj I think is this your first um event I think you've been with the city three four months seven months how time flies but um welcome so much still even after seven months and thank you for being part of this today um I'm sure your your leadership was important as as well. So, we definitely want the two of you and anyone else, anyone that wants to go down, but we'll um have a picture or picture. You would like um and give the certificates as well. Absolutely. Maybe maybe a picture with the four winners and then maybe families and everybody kind of get in on the fun. So, we'll come come down and see any any of you can join or do whatever. Let's just get the four winners. Do you want to do you want to first give them their so they can hold them? I'll give it to you and you can for so right. Oh, it sorry too quickly. So I don't know if you want to pull it back like that. Hold it and Oh, do we want Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. So hang around. Don't don't go far. We're do like four of you. Okay. Then we have Amaya. Okay. Don't go far. Hang over there. I don't know if you picture book somewhere. Okay. All right. All right. For the city, Lind. Yeah. Let's get um PA and the view and then the four winners right here for the for Joyce. So four winners come up and line up up in here and then maybe hold your certificates and we'll be famous. will be out on a long look at me. Other pictures. Nothing ever gets out of control. Any family members want to come up and Joyce can get a shot and put it out somewhere. Show people come on up. Anyone grandparents, cousins come here also comp? You want to get one in there? Sure. Everyone look at All right. Thank you everyone. Thanks a lot. [Applause] Thank you sir. All right. All right. Again, uh these are always enjoyable times. just a you know a word here that um diversity will always be important in the city of Eden Prairie for many different reasons but one mainly that it's who we are so we have we're 28% people of color in the city of Eden Prairie I believe our school system I've heard different figures is somewhere around 50% again it it's it's who we are and even the nonside of color we're diverse I mean the if you want to go deeply into neurodeiversity, we're all these unique people, but our outward diverse characteristics are so important to celebrate and accept and be part of this community. All right, moving ahead then we have approval of the agenda. Council, any items to u add uh to the agenda this evening? If not, is there a motion to approve the agenda? Move to approve the agenda. Is there a second? Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. All right. The council minutes from February 4th, both the workshop and council meeting. Any edits, any concerns, anything you wanted to uh say something about or learn more about? If not, is there a motion to approve both minutes from that evening? Move to approve the following city council minutes. City council workshop held Tuesday, February 4, 2025. City Council meeting held Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. Is there a second? Second. Any um further discussion? All those in favor say I. I oppose. Moving on to the consent calendar items A through G. Are um I'm just looking out. Are you two students with the high school? Oh, nope. No. Sorry. Nope. I was looking at you. Are you like 35 years old? And I really kind of I don't have my glasses on. If I I threw you there. So you you you must say what? We're in our mid20s and we just are interested in how the city operates and Oh, I'm thrilled. Um to see how taxes work and how they're levied because there's so many nuances to fantastic. And so I mean think you guys all do a great job. Are is it offensive to think that you're 18 and not 25? I I don't know. But what what So the reason I say that was that I often explain what the consent calendar is. It's items that are important, but we clump them together because they generally don't need further discussion. However, council, if you have any items that you wish to learn more about. Nope. So, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar items A through G? Move to approve item A through G on the consent calendar. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. We have one public hearing this evening. A fairly housekeeping prefuncter code amendment, but nonetheless important. Mr. Gro, thank you. Uh, mayor and councel, we we do this is very much um housekeeping. We're we're talking about um uh cleaning typographical errors and relocating words and definitions um within our zoning code. Our community development director is going to briefly go through those changes. But since it's chapter 11, since it is a zoning code, regardless of how um minor the changes may seem, we still hold a public hearing. Julie, member, mayors of the mayor, members of the council, um I wanted to share a few slides with you to just give a brief overview of the uh some of the themes that are present in this code amendment. So, I wanted to start off with sharing some information about the relocation and duplication of language um that this code amendment addresses. So, there are definitions in various sections of the ordinance. It might be the landscaping section or the sign section that has its own definitions. We're relocating all of those definitions to the very beginning of the chapter with all of the general other definitions so a user knows to just look in one spot for th that information. It also removes the fence provisions from chap chapter 11. As you might recall, you just recently did a code amendment regarding fences in chapter 9. So now we're taking it out of chapter 11 since it's already covered in chapter 9. And then there's also some headings on tables that were mislabeled and some provisions that were inadvertently omitted in previous code amendments. We're just adding those back in to make sure that everything is reflected consistent with current city practices. And then there are also some clarifications. So verifying that the practice of a allowing an EV parking stall counts towards the overall parking requirement. Um and that's important because we want to make sure that that's clearly communicated early on uh to developers in the community as a whole. And then it also includes language regarding the types of financial securities that are acceptable to the city consistent with current practice. So very wide ranging. Um but very much as others talked about just a cleanup of uh certain language in the code. Um council, can I go ahead and open up the public hearing if you still had questions when we close it? Um I have a just a question um Julie probably for you and and maybe Rick, but um you mentioned this is chapter 11. This is why we're having a public hearing. My guess is if if there's people in the audience want to discuss this, I'm I'm super happy about that, but my guess is we won't have a lot of conversation tonight. So why what raises something to the level of a public hearing? Is it all because it's chapter 11 in zoning? That's correct. Is that state statute? Okay. So if it was other statute or other um uh code numbering whatever in our system, uh we might not we would just do it. We might not need to have got it. Correct. But that's correct. So this is a public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on approving the first reading of the ordinance doing all these corrections of all the inconsistencies within chapter 11 zoning? So, seeing none, council, someone want to close the public hearing and go ahead and make the motion. I'll move to close the public hearing and approve the first reading of an ordinance correcting inconsistencies found in chapter 11 zoning. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I opposed. All right. Moving on to payment of claims. Uh basically, as I've said in the past, it's um classically the checks that got written, all the expenditures that the city paid out since our last meeting. Council, any um specific items in the pages and pages of expenditures that you wish to learn more about or question. If not, is there a motion to approve the payment of claims? I'll move to approve payment of claims as submitted. Is there a second? Second. Roll call, please. Council member Fyberg. I. Council member Nion I. Council member Nelson. I. Council member Tumi. I. Mayor Casease. I. All right. Mr. Getro. Moving on to report of city manager. We have our general obligation capital improvement bonds. Thank you, mayor. As you know, um we've spent quite a bit of time discussing planning for um approving bids for our city hall remodel, police remodel, unless the council has questions because I think two of the last three meetings we spent quite a bit of time going through all the plans in detail. Um we I we weren't going to do that. We are going to simply talk about and vote ask you to vote on um the issuance of the debt. And we have our uh financial advisor here this evening, Bruce Kimmel from Ellers and Associates. And he's going to walk us through um the uh bonding that we're doing in the bids that we receive for the bond bonds and also uh talk a little bit about how our bond rating uh stayed AAA. Excellent. Thank you. This, by the way, this is nice for us this evening because we do take great pride in our staff's work to keep our AAA bond rating and these are the examples illustrative of why that matters tonight. So, thank you for um commenting on that. Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and council members. I thought that today's presentation was going to be the highlight of your council meeting, but I think the student presentations kind of blew me out of the water. Yeah, sorry about that. we put the same nice you. Um, but that was really impressive. And and here's another feel-good story, although very, very different from the one you had with the students. Um, I'm just going to go through some of the highlights in the sale day report. Um, as your city administrator, city manager noted, we had really excellent uh, sale results today on the city's behalf. We received a total of 15 separate proposals to buy the city's bonds. And those 15 proposals ranged only by eight basis points or 08%. In my 25 years of doing this work, I don't think I've ever seen the combination of so many bids and such aggressive bidding as we had for Eden Prairie. Usually you have a few people who just throw in a bid trying to get lucky, but they all really really wanted to buy these bonds. And I think that's really illustrative of your credit rating. But deeper than that, they just know what a vibrant, economically diverse, and well-managed city the city is. So, it was really tremendous to see those results at 10:00 this morning and and I called Tammy Wilson right away and said, "You're not going to believe this because it was really something." A couple of the points I would just note is you might remember um that we were actually going out to bid for 26.5 million. that was equal to the amount of proceeds that you're targeting for the police station remodel itself. You received about $2 million in what's called a premium bid. So, we used most of that to reduce the bond issue size while still netting the 26.5 million for the project. So, that's why you'll see the final bond amount is about 24.8 million, but you're still getting the full 26.5 million for the project. It's because of this so-called premium pricing that we received from the winning bidder, which was Piper Sandler from here in in the Twin Cities. I should also note that these are very good interest rates. We don't expect anytime soon to have an opportunity to refinance, but future councils will have the ability to refinance, restructure, pay off, whatever you want to do in about 10 years time or anytime thereafter. So you have that call flexibility uh should city finances or market conditions give us an opportunity to reduce the interest cost for the last 10 years of the bond issue. Um moving on to the bid tabulation. Um I just want to note it usually doesn't run three pages because you again receive so many bids. You'll see that Piper Sandler was the winning bid at just over 3.7%. Um, the yields range from about 2.7 on the short end to about 4.1% on the long end of the 20-year bond issue. And I won't go through all of those bids, but you can see again how competitive and and and tight that bidding was for the city's bonds. Moving on to the debt schedules, I just wanted to point out that u the debt service on this bond issue will be about $1.9 million per year uh for about 19 years. And that's well below what Ms. Wilson and her team were estimating for debt service conservatively and appropriately. So the city will be under that target um starting with next year's budget cycle for 2026. So that's that's really good news. And then finally, as um the city manager noted, I did include also the S&P and Moody's reports. I won't go through all the details, but you really did have your AAA ratings affirmed with flying colors. The calls themselves went very well. Your team prepared uh very thoroughly for that that those discussions and there were really no red flags, much less yellow flags at all about how the city is run, your fund balances, your economy, all of these key drivers that really contribute to the AAA rating. um you have strong fund balances. Um but even up there with fund balance is the fact that you have such a diligent method of budgeting and of projecting the city's finances so there's no surprises. The rating agencies just hate surprises and you're in very good shape in terms of guarding against those. So that's really most of what I wanted to cover. Again, I'd be happy to answer any questions, but congratulations on the great result and on the affirmation of the AAA ratings. Thank you. Thank you for those words and for your work on this um not just today, but in days past, but especially this morning. And Tammy, you and your department um deserve just tons of credit and kudos. So, thank you. Yeah, we we feel I think in really good hands with our staff. So, council, um, questions, comments, Mr. Gretcho, anything else to add before we, um, take a motion on this? No, Mayor, I think we we appreciate the work of our financial advisor. They've uh worked with us on the past few bond issues and we've had obviously great results and part of that is due to them and as you mentioned mayor um the work of Tammy and others that are involved in gathering all the data that the bond agencies want to see. They should be commended. Great. With that council, would somebody u make a motion? We'll get a second and then we'll I'll move to adapt a resolution relating to 24,760,000 dollar general obligation capital improvement bonds series 2025A authorizing the issuance awarding the sale fixing the form and details providing for the execution and delivery thereof and the security therefore and leveling ad bell laurum taxes for the payment hereof. Second. Second. And uh who would like to um define ad valorum taxes? Kathy, did you just kidding? I'm I have no idea. But it sounds I've heard the word, but what is that? It sounds lawyeristic or something to me, Maggie. I don't know. But um All right, council. Any uh further dis Oh, is there a second? I second it. Second. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. It It's not a regular occurrence that a council gets the opportunity to be part of a major either new construction or renovation project. So, um, in many ways it's exciting for us to be part of something that will carry on in the city of Eden Prairie for a long time and have a positive impact for 20 to 30 years minimum, if not more, on our public safety, police and fire, but particularly public uh, police. So, um, did you want to say one other thing or no? Or you're you're good. Okay. I was going to say, can we say thank you to the accounting department for all the work they went through to put this together and the great results. We really appreciate it. Absolutely. All right. Um, is there any other regular business to come before the council this evening before we talk about the city manager performance review meeting in private? So, anytime cities deal with legal issues or um professional human rel resources issues, we only the council only has one employee and that's the city manager. The city manager hires the 300 full-time, 700 part-time, seasonal. So, he is our employee. Every year we do an annual review and then out of that annual review, we establish his salary uh for 2025. Other cities uh are either doing have done it doing this now or will. Uh so this is a very normal part of what we do as a council. So, because it is um private information, we're allowed by state law to go into close session. So, I need a motion to move into close session and then the meeting will be adjourned, Maggie, from there or we won't have to come back in here. Um it'll be adjourned from our close session. Correct. Okay. And we should note the mood is being closed pursuant to section 13D.05 subdivision 3A. Okay. And and in actuality, it's not like we're um doing something secretive. It's not public data, but it is taped, right, for if if somebody were to um you have to go through legal channels, it would be very complicated, right? It it is recorded. I I believe that's still private data. So private data. Okay. Yes. But the city is required to record it and keep the recording for a certain period of time. Got it. Perfect. Rick, you're looking at me like I'm joking. Yeah. I just I just want to make sure for the uh sake of transparency in government people understand uh but this is private data because this is employee um issue with us relations. So all I was going to say mayor is you need at the at a future council meeting in an open session to provide a summary of the close session and any action that you take um would be at an open future meeting. That'll be at the next meeting. Perfect. Thanks for clarifying that. So is there a motion then council to move into close session? Move to enter into close session for the purpose of conducting city managers review. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. So we are now going to move into close session. Are we going to actually get up and move then into that other got? Yep. Okay. Thank you everyone for coming and we'll um and my two 25-year-old visitors. Thank you so much for Do you both live in Eden Prairie? Nice. Yeah, it's really nice you came. We appreciate that. If you want to be more involved, we have, you know, commissions to get on, councils to run for. We're all, not all of us, we're aging, so we need the next generation to get in here. So, thanks for coming.