I Don't Think The People Of Bloomington Understand How Lucky We Are To Have Our Own Electrical Inspectors In Buildings Here Because As A Licensed Contractor We've Recently Received Notice In Many Communities That Don't Have Their Own Electrical Inspectors That The Time Frame For The State To Do Those Inspections Has Been Pushed Not Just A Day Or Two But A Week Or Two. And So Thank You Very Much For Being Here.

The Authority Expanded Recently In The Last Two Years We've Moved From Working Just In The South Loop Area Mostly On Development And Redevelopment To Actually Working Citywide, Really Growing Out Our Services To Include A Lot More Business Assistance And We're Intentionally Incorporating Our Placemaking Colleagues Into Our Work As Well And So With That Very Big Change The Port Imposed A Levy To Help Support It And It Was Decided That We Should Do An Economic Development Plan To Help Our Work In The Future.

Certainly Equitable Growth Was A Priority Theme That Came Across During All Of Stakeholder Engagement And What We Mean By That Is That Really This Plan Should Serve The Entire Community. It Should Serve All Of The Residents Of The City Of Bloomington. Additionally Related To Business Retention Expansion And Recruitment, We Think About Small And The Priority That They Play In This Economy And That Was A Priority Especially With A Focus On Women And Minority Owned Businesses.

I would just say that she was wonderful to work with She was never afraid to speak Mind And Disagree And I Think Has Obviously Provided Very Valuable Insights And So I Have Great Respect For Her Name. I Support Your Your Suggestion I Do Have One Other Comment Though Please. So Since These Are Six Year Terms There Isn't A Lot Of Turnover On The Port And I Think We're Very Lucky That We Have Members Of The Port Authority Who Want To Continue To Serve Term After Term And I Think It's Really Important Provide That Historical Perspective But I Also Think It's Important To Bring In Some New Fresh Ideas And Fresh Perspectives And So I'm Not Suggesting That We Support Somebody Else Tonight, But I Do Think That We Should Have A Really Intentional Strategy Of Thinking About How We Do That And What That Looks Like Over The Long Term.

The Goal Is To To Provide The Entire City With A Voice Says In There Based On What The City States And So Far What I See Is The Same People For So Many Years To The Extent That The Other Night I Heard A Somebody Had Been There For 40 Years. Right. So To Me It Perpetuates The Same Ideas, The Same Bulls And It's Not That The Goals Wrong, It's Just That The Reality Is That We Should Have Different People In There Not Just For Change But Before The Mere Reason That Everybody Has Different Points Of View.

So Mayor And Council Members Council Councilmember Dallessandro So Since That Will Not Go Forward But It Was In The Original Budget That Was Brought Forward Tt Money Will Not Be Spent So It Will Remain In The Working Capital Fund Balance Othat Fund So It'll Just Stay There Because The Dwan Golf Courses Its Own Separate Fund So Any Money That's Not Spent 2025 Will Just Fall Down To The Cash Balance Fund And Be Available For Future Use.

I'm Concerned About Any Capital Expenditures In This Year Until We Know Exactly What The Aquatics And The Health And Wellness Center Looks Like Given That We're Going Back To A 500,000 Or So Support For A Facility That's Open About 12 Weeks A Year Versus A Facility That Will Be Open 50 Some Weeks A Year.

This Special Revenue Fund That We Call The Fire Pension Special Revenue Fund The Specific Purpose For It Is To Pay Our Annual Obligation And So We Fund That With Levy And Sometimes Don't Need To Pay As Much As What We Levy. And So It Has We Have Done Since The Investments Have Done Well Where We Haven't Had To Put Such A Large Obligation On Into The Fire Pension It Has Grown But It Always Depends On Where We Land At The End Of The Year With Those Investments But The The Source Is Tax Levy.

I Just Want To Reiterate And I Brought This Up Before That I Have Concerns About The Communications Fund. You Know, We Have An Increase Of Revenues Since 23 Of 400,000 Or 300,000 And Increase Of Expenses By 300,000 For Service Anyways We Were Losing We Were Adding 75% Of The Property Tax Support To This Because Of Declining Revenues In Other. And My Only Comment Is We Need Have This On The Agenda For Next Year To Address I Mean We Can't Continue To Go This Direction.

It Was Not Presented As A Vote. It Was Presented As A. What Is Your Opinion About Sidewalk On This Roadway? And Were Only Asking The Adjacent Property Owners And Obviously Those Are The People That Are Immediately Affected But Don't Necessarily Are Not The Ones Experience All The Benefit Of Sidewalk As Well.

I Wanted To Call Attention To The Public That We Are Looking To Get Expert Led Conservation Project Done In Tar Heel Park. Tar Heel Park Is A Beautiful Piece Of Land. It Has Not Been Maintained And This Will Go A Long Way Towards Making Some Real Improvements In That Area. So I Just Wanted To Pull It Off Not For Any Reason Other Than To Say Yay And Thanks To The Team In The Natural Resources Office For Continuing To Try To Find Money For These Kinds Of Things And Continue To Work On Our High Priority Areas.

Always A Fun Time To Talk To The Of The Folks In The Public About How Great People Are Here About Donating To A Variety Of Causes In The City. So Thank You To Everybody. We Have Some Donations This One In Particular Of A Wonderful Donation From Miss Ellison For One Golf Course To Replace 1000 Maple Trees There Which Is Pretty Significant In Memory Of . Frances Cuellar If I'm Pronouncing That Correctly, We Also To Get Support For Our Health Department For Newborn Baby Bundles. We Also Support For Our Bpd.

The Amendment To The Employment Agreement Was Related To Section 16 Point C Which Has Do With Employee Initiated Termination And Primarily Distribution Of Accrued Benefits And Just Allows Those That Distribution To Be In The Manner Of The City Manager's Choosing.

The Project Before You This Evening An Ordinance Is Yet Another Planning Commission Work Plan Project And This One Was Brought To Us By Our Colleagues In The Legal Department So Thanks To Them For Bringing This To Our Attention. Recently Was A Court Case That Went To The Minnesota State Supreme Court Poos Versus Of Burnsville Wherein A Private Party Challenged The City Of Burnsville Park Dedication Requirements Related To Their Subdivision Ordinance And. So The City Of Burnsville Park Dedication System Survived That Challenge And Was Affirmed By The State Supreme.

I'd Support This At This Time, Ma'am. I Think It's Something I Continue To Monitor And I Reason I Bring That Up Is You Know Fees Impact, The Cost Of Housing And Other Things And So Taking A Look At Those But I Believe That What We Have Done Or What We're Trying To Do Is Put Money Into Parks Based On The Impact That That Development Have On The Need For Parks. So It Meets The Nexus When We Get Into All The Weeds But There's A Connection Between That Development And What The Costs Are Going To And That's Why It's In A Segregated Fund And Then It's Reasonably Proportionate And. I Think It's You Know, One Of The Amazing Things About The City Of Bloomington Is We Have A Great Park System And It Makes A Great City.

I Just Want Acknowledge The Concerns Shared By Some Residents Regarding Tax Increases And The Rising Costs That Have Affected City Budgets Have Also Impacted Residents And Especially On Fixed Incomes And Balancing The Need To Fund Community Services With The Financial Realities Faced By Residents Is A Complex And Challenging Task. In Response To These Concerns The City Council Directed Staff To Reduce The Preliminary Budget Adopted In September. The Budget Being Presented Tonight Reflects A Reduction Of Nearly $2 Million Compared To The Proposed Budget That Was The Preliminary Property Tax Statements Were Based That Were Mailed In November And 2025 Proposed Budget Aligns With The City's Key Strategic Priorities Of A Connected And Welcoming A Healthy Community And A Community Of Equitable Growth.

Over The Last Several Years The City Has Continued To Increase Its With No End In Sight. So My Examples That I Seen. The City Has Its Own Earned Sick And Safe Leave Legislation And Personnel To Monitor It. The Esl Is Now State Law. All The Local Legislation That We Have Here The Personnel We Have Here Should Be Immediately Eliminated Several Years. The City In My Opinion Illegally Added Managed Garbage Collection. The City Fought This All The Way To The State Supreme Court Which Cost Us More Money As We Put Money In For You To Fight People That Didn't Agree With You. The City Was Found To Be In Violation Of Its Own Charter And I'm Still Convinced The State That If I Got My Own Hauler My Price Would Be The Same And The City Could Staff And Expenses In That Area As Well. The City's Ad Smoking On The Books That's Irrelevant As We Have A Statewide Ban This Should Be Eliminated.

My Husband And I Are 66 And 68. We Work Full Time. We Both Have Cancer. We Haven't Been To These Parks Because We Are Too Busy Working To Pay These Taxes. So I Would Appreciate Some Compassion In Thinking About Us And How Hard We Are Working To. Try To Maintain Bloomington Some Place We Do Like We Enjoy The Parks Because We're Too Busy Working.

So For Some Reason Our Residents Are Paying 25% More In In Property Taxes Than The Cities Around Us. I Don't Know Why That Is. I Haven't Been I Mean I'll Be Honest, I Hadn't Really Been Following What The City's Been Doing The Last Few Years. But I've Gotten These A Couple Of These Increases And It Seems Like Bloomington Is Out Of Line With The Rest Of The These Other Cities Have Full Time Fire Departments. They Have Police Departments, They Have City Maintenance Workers That, You Know, Fill The Potholes Of Their Streets And They Seem To Be Getting By Much Less Per Resident Than We Do In Washington.

You Guys Can Keep Doing This Every Year. It's The Same Thing. You Start Out With A Double Digit Increase And Then You Whittle It Down To What's Right Below 10% To Make It Look Like We're Getting A Good Deal And We're Not... Somewhere The Models It's Broken. I Know You've Got A Tough Job And. I Know The Staff Has Put A Lot Of Work Into This. I Don't Discount That At All. But We're Going To See Things In Washington Ten. They're Going To Revolutionize How Government Is Viewed, How Government Funded And We Got To Start Bringing Some Of That Thinking To Bloomington.

There Are Things That The City In My Opinion There Are Things The City Doesn't Really Need To Have At This Point. You Know, And As I Said This Might Not Be A Popularity With A Good Number Of People There Because This Is A Fact. I Mean Some People Do One Day Amenities. The City Is Offering All These People People Don't Care About It And It's Not That I Don't Care As I Had Stated In The Past The Council You Mayor Mr. Boogie, You Have Done A Wonderful Job In A Lot Of The Things That The City Has To Accomplish. I Don't Take Any Of That. What I'm Trying To Say Is That Due To The Fact That A Lot Of People Are Struggling Especially In My District, I Don't Know About The Rest Because I Try Not To Get Too Involved Even Though I Do Get A Lot Of Emails From People Complaining I Try Not Get Too Involved With That. I Respond When I Find That Nobody's To Them But The Reality Is That It Doesn't Personally Affect Financially What We You Know Whatever The Levy Is It's Not Affecting My Home In Any Way Whatsoever But I Keep In Mind I Was Elected By The People To Represent Them And To Represent Myself. I Do Like The Fact That Again I Will Reiterate This That As A Council, As A Mayor, As A City Manager You Have Accomplished A Lot Of Great Things That I Do Like Even Though I Don't Get To Enjoy It I Do Like The Fact That The City Is Modernizing And If You Guys Have Done A Lot But Tre Are Times That In Spite Of All Of That There Are Times That We Need To Do Cuts. I Mean, You Know, I Do I Wish I Could Have A Brand New Board Compared To The One I Have I K I Don't Want To Make The Experience Because I'm Planning On All The Things But That's The Mentality That I Come With. The City Can Do The Same. There Are Things That You Know It's Going To Sound Controversial But I'm Going To Say It Anyway D I The Community Outreach To Me Is Not Important Seriously Think We Approach Each Other As Neighbors And Create That Friendship And That Familiarity With Each Other That We Don't Need All This And Those Are Expenses That I 100% Of The Entire Council Might Disagree With Me With This And That's Fine. And Like I Said This Is My Opinion And.