“Our goal is not to, you know, completely flatten that line out, but we are monitoring to make sure that we are going to try to underspend our 2026 budget knowing that we have a number of challenges and headwinds coming our way with losses of federal funds and other external factors.”

“This isn't that um we're in a position where we overspent for several years and now we're trying to rectify the situation. This is a situation where the federal government is intentionally disinvesting from counties and putting us in just impossible situations.”

“We will not shrink our way into the vision that our residents deserve. There needs to be a way in which we more broadly either offer accountability to where how we can receive the tax funds that we've uh put in um or you know how we as motans determine how we care for our neighbor and that has to come by way of a revenue source somewhere.”

“The recommended grant awards will allow an estimate of over 30,000 children of all abilities and backgrounds to benefit from increased and improved access and opportunity to youth activities.”

“At what point will we run out of funding for this and do we have an idea of what that looks like? You don't have to know right now, but I do think that we should, you know, make sure we're communicating that with the cities because these are really something where cities have relied on them and we didn't renew the ballpark sales tax and that's where this money is coming from.”

“As part of the 2026 session, the Minnesota legislature enacted a health and human services bill which included a provision requiring the Henepin County Board to reconstitute the HHS corporate board with qualified members and to transition governance to the reconstituted HHS board by January 15th of 2027.”

“My request is to ensure that there's some amount of public feedback opportunity or a mechanism for residents, workers, community members to be able to offer um a direct line.”

“We cannot create the same culture that was happening with the past boards. It wasn't working and it was almost a toxic working environment. Now if that was happening here at the county we would not allow that to happen.”

“We call it the golden moment. It's just reminding people what they wanted to be before they got involved in a risky behavior. What were you what were you doing before you got in a risky behavior?”

“The good thing about it also is that we're not just connecting with the youth, we're also able to pull their families in also. So, yes, their youth is benefiting, but we're also reaching out to their families and providing resources um and figuring out whatever it is uh that they may need.”

“This program is the strongest public health intervention to gun violence in the state kind of period. ... there are many of us that are seeking to work hard and fight hard to establish the funding source needed to ensure that this type of work is everywhere.”

“This particular item is a routine item. Uh we get the the FQAC subsidy on an annual basis. However, this year we um received a little more almost a little over half a million dollars um additional um given the current situation um in the healthcare landscape. And so this item um is really technical to receive those dollars, we're using them to just continue to support um individuals who come to North Point regardless of their ability to pay. um expanding some of our services within our schools, our school-based clinics, as well as taking care of some infrastructure.”

“When we are delivering services that cost more than what we are receiving, the more people we serve, which is our objective, means that uh that potential gap also grows. So that there's no change in operations or and whatnot. Just given the totality of our conversations today in this boardroom, ensuring that we are um a you know kind of just monitoring what is the cost of a service and the receivable so that uh we can continue to maintain what residents need and that we are able to balance that well with um what workers and the organization needs.”

“Um, these funds, we're so excited to have them. Uh, they're onetime funding that came in uh from the legislature in response to the housing related needs u from Operation Metro Surge. They will allow us to um uh prevent evictions for 2,000 households.”

“I want I want I I seek greater consistency regarding JPA and partnerships with law enforcement agencies.”

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“I'd be interested in autotheft crimes by city. Um also I'm very interested in clearance rates. Um, and the reason I ask is I had a number of chiefs, uh, obviously the county sheriff's office has really talked about that that you've got a small group people actually commit these crimes and if you're not clearing a case and getting some of those that small group, they just keep going.”

“Minneapolis does have an autotheft unit. They've recently stood up. I believe they have two detectives assigned to that. Two detectives assigned to that. We work in collaboration with them similarly to like their gun investigations unit, but they are not embedded in our autotheft task force.”

“This project meets our highest priority when considering loan servicing requests, which is to ensure the affordability continues. The Henipin County HR has also provided uh a recent supportive housing strategy award of 1 million to help the project address capital needs and secure the 50 years of affordability. So essentially, AHIFF terminates supportive housing strategy continues.”

“As we've all heard all day and our our residents um do need the collective property tax burden to be alleviated a little bit while maintaining services. Right? That's what we've been saying all year. And so if there are ideas that um you know we might have for other jurisdictions, just really encouraging that those conversations are taking place on the jurisdictional level.”