And the the idea behind it is that the city would have to pay somebody to sit there. So instead of paying someone to a temporary person to do that, we take whatever that x number of dollars and give it to a nonprofit and they then sit there and man the hours and everything and is that is that how that works?

it saves the city a substantial amount of money because these are all nights and weekends that that is open after three during the week and then all day on the weekends and if the city were to staff that it would be a huge burden.

The accounts included in this certification consist of past due utility bills, administrative citations, and other outstanding fees for services or costs already incurred by the city. If approved, these delinquent balances will be certified as a special assessment against the applicable properties and added to the 2027 property taxes. Each assessment will be a one-year assessment payable in 2027 and will include a 10% administrative fee to cover the costs associated with the certification process.

I just don't think it's fair to the public that we've got over $200,000 that we're fronting to to residents and the 10% is is not it's not penalizing them. We're just recouping the expense we got into it. So, it's not like it's a penalty. It's ju it's just covering our expense to do it.

We do know that this is an issue that some house household holds use just to pay their bill. They they know they don't have to. They intentionally do this year after year. So, some of these names are repeat from years past, too. So, it's it's really how do we address that? How do we educate, right?

I'm kind of appalled that I get a notice every now and then that uh I'm not allowed to water my lawn yet I pay my bill every month and all these people here are uh not paying their bill. I just kind of find that ironic that uh you're sending me notices to quit watering my lawn on my non-watering days even though I watered my damn lawn.

We need to stay a small community and actually work with our community.

Instead of walking across ice to get to the ice without ice skates on, I chose to be able to park up to the ice rink, then everyone could move into the warming house, put their skates on, and then go on to the ice. That's why I switched that. That was me last year.

When when mayor and council when this project in a little over a year and a half ago when we first started it, they had it set around $800,000. So, I'm hoping it doesn't go I'm hoping it's 10% or less above that at this point.

This is about maintaining what we have. This really isn't so much about expanding into other things. This just lends itself to the opportunity to improve it and bring things up to code, but it's not like some big going out there buying another whole 40 acres and creating a whole new park.

The applicant's not proposing any physical changes to the site. This is really just to clean up um clean up the legal description and clean up the the lot lines so that you don't have lot lines kind of bicting that property.

So, do these rightways allow enough space to it? I hate to say it. I I personally don't mind them, but I it's screaming for a roundabout at some point in time.

The reason that that policy is in place primarily uh is to prevent overall sprawl uh within the region uh and then to preserve the opportunities for future regional sewer and water expansion.

One challenge we face with responsible growth, I think, um, as many residents have put it forth, is that we don't have any mid-grade lots. We have city lots and we have big lots and we don't have any surrounding areas are starting to do that.

I know this parcel and the what they're thinking about here would fit in there very nicely. The gentleman PNZ also said they were going to be between 650 and $800,000 homes. So very nice for the tax base for sure.

The amount of people you see when we have a development come forward is what Jod and I are telling a family member they can't split their lot for a family member constantly. So, it is a request that even our current residents try to split two two and a half acres off for a child or a family member and we can't allow it.