“And this year, I'm excited that I can speak boldly. Last year, you remember I had lost my voice and I had to have somebody else talk.”

“Americans in every generation have turned to their maker in prayer, in adoration, and in thanksgiving, in contrition and supplication. We have acknowledged both our dependency on Almighty God and the help he offers as individuals and as a nation.”

“Scripture tells us to rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, and constant in prayer. Our prayer for our nation is that we keep faith that our best days are ahead of us, and continue to believe in honesty, decency, dignity, and respect. May we see each other not as enemies but fellow human beings made in the image of God and precious in his sight.”

“This group obviously successfully completed their first year probation which included four weeks of a joint fire academy with Burnsville Egan and South Metro Fire. They played a very vital role in our transition to a hybrid department.”

“This is a really historic moment for the city for you guys to be the first part of helping the transition to moving from volunteer to hybrid. So we're really excited to have everybody here full-time and look forward to your leadership in our city.”

“I love seeing your families here. We are very proud of the firefighters that we're ushering in and I know you all are too. So, thank you in advance for all the nights that are interrupted and the service that your whole family is doing for the city of Lakeville.”

“Out of that 866 incidents, we had 236 incidents where we had multiple calls going on. We're still in need of those stations to cover when we have those overlapping calls that that one crew is busy.”

“We have specific training for EVs. Great question.”

“The water is the best thing is you want to maintain or cool the battery if the battery is in a thermal runaway. They're also recommending fire blankets. So, if it's around another vehicle or an exposure is that we want to try to cover that and then protect the exposures.”

“A unique thing about the program that we are using is that our some of our neighbors neighboring cities are using it and we can share those pre-plans with each other.”

“This past month over $29,000 was raised from our customers, and those are going to be split equally between the food shelves at 360 Communities and the Open Door. And so we're very appreciative of that.”

“That was the code that detailed the organization of our fire department. As you know that's going through a lot of changes. So this was reviewed by the public safety committee last month and we're asking for approval of that change.”

“Project is for the subdivision of the property into 26 single family lots and a resoning of the property from an RS2 zoning to an RS3 zoning.”

“The applicant worked really well with staff to protect these wetland areas as well as the buffer. And then at the same time tuck in all of the required storm water management. It was a challenging site. They worked hard with us. We pushed them a little bit. Lost a couple of lots in the process.”

“I appreciate the work that went into adjusting this. I was hopeful that through this process, we weren't going to try to find the most the smallest possible lots for this zoning. And you know doing some statistics on the square footage it's clear that most of the properties are larger than the minimum which is appreciated. The preservation of the wetlands is great. I mean I just it's clear that this took some creativity and some work to make this happen.”