So, it's our job to review mental health in the county. We're supposed to identify any unmet needs and present them to the commissioners for consideration as they plan their budgets and their mental health plans for the county.

Our goal is to find actual gaps, not gaps that the county has, but or perceived gaps, but actual gaps in the in the system that can't be met by other organizations that are already in place.

Transportation. This is our most cited, biggest gap, biggest need. We hear this all the time.

Um, number two I believe was Victoria, three was Watertown, and four was Waconia. Um, I've since talked to Watertown. They have a group home in Watertown that [snorts] is a very high call rate for both medical and mental health issues. That's why their numbers have been driven up so high. The city is aware of that situation. So, you know, you can throw Watertown out of the statistics there if you want.

It always seems like, especially at the county level, we're we're facing these cost shifts, burden shifts, uh trying to figure out, you know, how how can we take care of it because nobody else can.

I did want to before you flip off this chart point out AIS inspections which is a very uh popular if nothing else service it is a difficult recommendation ation for me to make personally to as an environmentalist to to uh cut the and let me let me make it clear the inspection side of aquatic invasive species. We are I'm not recommending cutting the monitoring and ongoing education but one of the dynamics is that the first of all the state legislator legislature cut it h half of it. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. It's a top line item on our charts. So it's it's really the only only item that I could look at and go well this it's not a mandate. The state cut it and we can cut it right.

Too much for me is anything that leads to a tax rate increase. So um three years ago, uh I think it was a historic, at least one I've never seen before, 6.8% increase. Last year it was 8%. This year we started at 14.5 and whittleled it down which is good and encouraging to 8 8.5. But if we take the context of 114,000 residents, that 8.5% increase represents a doubling of your property taxes on the county line every 8 and a half years. I just don't think that's right.

I also think that the concerns of a library, not just in the isolation of a conversation with Chaza, and nobody loves our libraries more. If you look at our data, I'd venture to guess my family's probably used the library more than most people in this room. We have young kids. We value that. It's not that I don't value it, but we can't continue to not look at some of the data when we look at our solutions. Our library, our library usage has gone down 43% in the last decade.