Now therefore, I, Mayor Tim Busy, do hereby proclaim October 2026 as National Chiropractic Health Month in the city of Bloomington, Minnesota, and call upon the people of Bloomington to recognize the chiropractors for their care, compassion, and contributions to the health care profession dated this 12th day of October, 2026.

I'm a year into school at Northwestern Health um Science University. The school has chiropractic, acupuncture, Chinese medicine as long as well as a postbachelorette program. I've never done anything like this before, so I really appreciate um Mayor Tim and the city of Bloomington for supporting us in chiropractic.

On behalf of the Minnesota Chiropractic Association, where I serve as the West Metro um director for the board of directors, uh it's really a privilege to be able to join a student with you all. Uh before we were coming up, uh I said, 'Oh my gosh, every time I'm with students, I'm reminded like how to be better at what I do.' It's our privilege to serve the community here in Bloomington, Minnesota.

I tell all of our new employees uh it's a big responsibility being a member of the Bloomington staff because in a lot of ways you are the face of the of the city of Bloomington. They don't care a lot about who sits up here. They care about the people they work with every day and that's our staff.

Throughout the year, we work with staff across the city to promote city events, services, projects, and much more to help ensure that we have an informed and engaged community. When entering these contests, we look at the most effective communications and the communications that we're most proud of.

It's helped a lot with kind of our respect value as well. Um being out in public, people see me. I've been recognized in Cloquet, Minnesota when I'm not working. Someone's like, I know you from somewhere. No, you don't. You never seen me. Um, but it goes to show the outreach that we have. People from Australia have commented on our post, all different countries and stuff. So, it goes to show that we uh are able to build a lot of community trust based off that as well.

Um, we cannot judge an entire community based off the actions of a few. And this goes for all groups, right? Because if we're going to do that for one, we need to do it for everybody else. And we don't do that.

If we would have had these drones, the shooters um for the incident on Harriet would not have gotten away. They would have been caught um because the drones are up quick enough to where we can figure out where people are going. Uh this is not a contract where we're spying on people. This is not spyw wear.

I think that um you know a big part of what gets people concerned is um when they don't know what's going to happen and so being having you here just to give people that comfort um that you know your your you and your people and you know director Cheney and her people are making sure that that data stays safe and also that that data is used properly and that's in you know in the best interest of us as citizens and residents. I think that goes a long way.

The reason we are bringing this to you tonight uh in addition to making sure our department has the technology at their disposal uh is it does have budgetary implications. It's an expansion of the existing contract. So uh new spend and we wanted to make sure we had that programmed into the budget.

We originally established it in 1991 with the goal to reduce our overall street repair cost by taking the right action at the right time. Um, every city street segment in Bloomington has a score and we call that the pavement condition index or PCI and that's a score of 0 to 100. Zero being a end of its usable service life with 100 being a brand new street.

The assessment role before you this evening if it's approved and levied, property owners that are facing an assessment would have until November 24th to prepay a portion of the assessment up to the entire amount and no interest would be would be applied.

Good evening, council members and Mr. Mayor. I agree to a building height of 40 feet maximum.

The reason that the height map increased medium density areas is medium density. if you're recalling the comp plan allows uh low density apartments and uh other town home projects. So, it's contemplating even more dense residential types.

The public benefit of reszoning this would get you two additional homes. I guess that's true, except that there's no requirement that they get built. What we do tonight does not guarantee that these homes go in in a timely manner. And you know that bothers me.

This is going to be essentially more single family homes in a single family neighborhood. And I think that's positive. Um, and to both uh your point and Council Member Rivas's point, um, I mean, I have attached town homes in my neighborhood, in the middle of my neighborhood, and um, it works fine.

So, what are the impacts of too much parking? Uh it's very costly um to build uh especially uh surface parking and uh structured parking. Um high those costs get passed down to residents um in higher rents and in uh to businesses and the goods and services that we all consume. Uh it creates less efficient land use.

My experience is in Target over by uh Penn and American. Finding a parking space that is actually on Target instead of going to the other side is very difficult, especially at the times that I go... So I don't quite understand why. In some places a suggestion is to reduce parking spaces by 50% based on the square footage.

We always saw that eventually the zoning code would mirror that, which it has, and then the vehicle count would follow suit. So, if we're allowing six unrelated adults to rent a house and whatever number of children they may have, it makes sense to allow up to six vehicles parked outside.

My only comment on that is we I I I believe sometimes we tend to do things that kind of put ourselves at odds with our own policy. So, on one hand, we're talking about alternative transportation and getting people stop using their cars and all this other stuff. And another time we're saying, hey, a person per car, a car per person. And I I I struggle with those things all the time.