The first resolution authorizes the county to issue up to 3.1 million of general obligation bonds on behalf of the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District to provide long-term financing for an approved capital project in their wershed management plan. ... The second resolution, which has the big dollars attached to it, um is $100 million of new money, taxexempt general obligation bonds to fund capital projects that are included in the 2025 to 2029 adopted CIP. There are also two proposed refunding issues.

The federal government has failed to pay the full amount of their interest subsidy that they have owed us uh as a part of issuing those bonds since 2012. And we are proposing hopefully market conditions will um go be favorable for us to finally refund those bonds with tax exempt bonds as we're permitted to do and completely mitigate that ongoing federal risk of non-payment.

The new system will be able to alert inside that polygon that the National Weather Service draws. Our current system can only go as small as the entire city. So for example, if Minneapolis had a warning uh and it was in South Minneapolis, the entire siren system in Minneapolis would go off. And we're trying over time to get those warnings more and more refined to those specific areas.

That that is a lively topic right now and we're we're in the midst of discussing that and I we'd be happy to kind of bring you up to speed on on the discussion points and things like that that we're talking about.

yes, there was a a long process um years in fact of we hired an engineering consultant to help us scope the project and come up with um really what we were after. And then we set it up for bids. We got five uh different bids, which is pretty good for a really niche industry that doesn't have too many manufacturers. Acoustic Technologies is an American company out of Boston, but they have um uh in fact the siren system in the nation of Israel is uh was their system and they've got some other um large clients.

I always think that uh what I love about Henip County is just that having people with lived experience advise us on the things that we do so that we do it better and never assume that we're doing it right. Um I think it's a credit and every time that we can do that is good. And so I don't have that experience but I know people do and having them at the forefront and being at the table to give us advice on policies or how could we do better or what are the challenges.

Like, it is a global issue that men are not involved in policymaking to do with family planning. And so, thank you for this. Like, of course, I support what you just said about um having people with lived experience at the forefront of policy design, but also that you brought this forward, I really think deserves heralding.

What I'd like to do with this is um and so I was inspired by by that ordinance and um have been working hard with administration uh to really see how to make this possible. But speaking of lived experience, I don't believe that we craft a policy without those who are experiencing or without workers present, without organizations who represent workforces present.

This policy uh uh direction is for Henipin County now to in in in essence kind of mirror what the state did in 2014 for those maintenance contracts really dealing with security and janitorial. ... this is really for us to to meet with stakeholders to understand what what the need is, what what we can do, and really to just clarify our prevailing wage and to really make sure that we have responsible contractors that are qualified, are the ones who are going to be qualified when we do a bid process.

prevailing wage is clearly not enough when it is not enforced. I mean from a wage theft standpoint there are certain industries for which a lot of public dollars go to through henipin um for which we don't have a sense of the kind of second or third impact of of wage theft.

we are working with black knight to uh set up a system so that we can ensure that uh uh all of the employees are paid the prevailing wage. As you know in in that instance the prevailing wage changed and that wasn't properly communicated to to Black Knight uh nor was it communicated to uh the employees. um that was subsequently found out um and uh we are taking responsibility for that and we have set aside money that we're going to be paying back wages to those employees.

My sense is that this this policy, which granted isn't written yet, will not actually address some of the concerns raised today by SEIU members. And I am interested in ways that contracts can be written that advance transparency for workers. So, we've talked a lot about wage theft, super important, but I also want us to use our leverage to have contracts to have contractors um treat their employees the way they would be treated if they were county employees.

Madam Chair, there's been one report that has been removed because it was not ready for approval.

So, the adult correctional facility or the ACF is authorized to charge a daily amount that is a pdeium for confinement of residents and they assess that amount to arresting municipalities for misdemeanor clients who are sentenced to the adult corrections facility. They assess this amount to other Minnesota counties that might request that individuals who are convicted by their courts be uh reside or be incarcerated at our facility.

I wonder about what's charged to the actual person because these are typically people who do not have enough money to afford $20 a day for the equipment that they have done something to earn. What I will say is I appreciate um that there is a sliding fee that you know it is a mechanism of accountability as well but I wonder too about um if people are unable to pay is there like a debt that they go into...

Um this is one I will admit I do not have an I am new to all of this as you know. I've been here about a year and this has not come up. I will need to uh ask those questions, but I will find that out for you, Commissioner Connley, and I will get back to you on that um as to how we handle that.

I just want to comment that I enjoy jurisdictional transfers that they just takes a lot of effort and a lot of steps and um especially for certain parts of Henipin suburban exurban areas is very very necessary.

I look at 2A and I know this conversation other commissioners have also talked about cost participation and so I don't think it needs to be dealt with today but I I think in the budget hearings briefings we go through that will be a topic I'll ask about not that I expect a resolution um you know meeting with uh Brooklyn Center who's looking at $24 million for Highway 252. ... the state and the the counties got additional money for road projects which has accelerated our ability to deliver them. But when we have cost participation with cities they didn't get any new money they just got that.

And their public works departments and just the maintenance costs alone too for some of their budgets, a third of their budget just to maintain county roads for us. Um, depending on how the city is situated, sometimes they can have a lot of county and state roads going through them and they're really small and they're highly impacted and they don't have a better tax base. And you're right to point out, Commissioner Lundy, that they didn't get any extra gas tax or anything like that to help them out and they are struggling to try to do these.