this has been a long process and I want to thank the city staff for the time that was put into getting this through and it's been some up and down so thank you staff for working on that um and this will be a good thing for the community and being able to provide a service to surrounding communities as well

copy which is a good opportunity for members of the community to take a look at that and provide input if they'd like... I'd like the community to be involved

reading through the plan it was kind of um it was kind of hidden that we need to do better at our sidewalks and stuff and connecting our kind of our what we call sub communities so I think if we keep that in mind if anything going forward that would be very helpful

mayor and council members the staff and I did talk about this I went over the the uh resolution and this is pretty profor of stuff this pretty standard

we do have records of this being a leak as soon as the new meter was installed the system flagged it as a substantial week... the homeowner as they rent um would like to work with us and get this taken care of for him um so he's asking for a greater reduction further than than the 15% because of the faulty equipment um I don't feel like this sets a precedence to other accounts because we do have record that I have that notice that it was a flagged leak of like 58 gallons an hour and the leak has since been corrected so their usage is back to normal

this is a unique situation so it's not something that is setting a precedent regarding um past accounts... asking Council for some support and making those modifications

1972 has been is the date that goody County Sheriff's Office started contract in the city of Pine Island... we've had quite the relationship... we started talking about increasing the the fee a little bit because we weren't keeping up with even the cost of living... and when the city of goodu disbanded in 2023 was when when this started to take a little turn

I'll stand here and tell you I'm not for that I've never been for that um and I've advocated against it correct

the recent fee increase has also strained our relationships with our contract cities making it challenging to restore the strong Partnerships we once enjoyed

I from the perspective of the council I feel is was how the um how the numbers came about and being able to to have some insight into how those formulas were created and trying to get those answers back from the uh County Board and that's where I guess I'll publicly say I appreciate your advocating for these communities to make sure that we have Services my my goal is to make sure that our community has Law Enforcement

the city is a opposed to the true cost of the Deputy I think we're opposed to how that's calculated... the city is being charged for 100% of all equipment and training costs well for instance a squad were charged for 100% of a squad car over four years well I know for a fact that sometimes squads aren't replaced for five or six years so then we're at asking well why are we paying for 100 12% of a cost of a squad if those squads aren't being replaced for five years like we're being charged for 25% of a squad every single year

I did a request today at our board meeting... to bring the policing contracts back again in September... I don't know if it'll do any good but we'll bring it back in and take another look at it here before the end of the year so... I just want to take a second look at it just to make sure that uh that everyone is comfortable with it

we were waiting for the state to come out this new state agency to come out with a model zoning ordinance for cities to take a look at... Both those things have happened now... so now our our our firms um advice to all the cities we represent is it's time now to turn to what you're going to do with cannabis

we've been talking about two large Financial issues going on with the city one is selling the uh the RightWay uh lands that we acquired for the for the overpass uh to the to the tribe... and then the other side of that equation is that we owe some money to the state to mend that um in relation to the deal we worked out a decade ago

most of my stuff is in my report I just wanted to highlight that we had over 300 kids for summer reading this year very very exciting about that um we're also working on a three-year strategic plan that's currently in the works

on Thursday there's going to be a housing Summit put on by ready Rochester Economic Development incorporation... myself along with several other of the uh smaller communities around Rochester are going to be on a panel in the morning uh to discuss what we're doing as far as Workforce housing

I'd like us to stay with the county I really would but I mean it'd be nice if if they would be willing to at least talk yeah you know match Olstead which I can't believe could use H instead right to me that just I don't get it