After careful consideration, I believe that I will not be making that uh motion to reconsider the vote... I I I haven't gotten as much request as many requests to bring this to vote again. So that taking taking that into consideration, I would just go ahead and completely take this away from the meeting and just if we can just move on...

So uh to let you all know we won't be considering we won't be reconsidering uh the the use agreement at Dar Al Farooq this evening and uh it will not be we will not be able to bring it back or bring it forward again. So the decision that was made two weeks ago by the city council will stand and will not be reconsidered.

I just want to highlight that the density of this project is almost identical to the density of the existing town homes uh just adjacent to the west and north of that um I think it's River Crest there. And you know, this will provide some additional owner occupied uh projects within the city, although uh from what I understand, fairly expensive, but you know, that's okay. It' be a place for people to move into and and uh do that.

And I also do believe we we are to the point uh any housing is good housing right now as if we can get any additional housing. I think it's it's a good thing because we continue to be significantly behind in our housing needs in in this metropolitan area.

last night, just after midnight, we got an email from our lobbyist saying uh we uh had been awarded the $4 million for this project. So, we scrambled very early this morning with our uh municipal adviser to downsize the bonds, but we can work through that.

I just want to recognize the work that our Bloomington legislative de delegation did on this to make sure that this was part of the bonding bill. Uh we have seen I think for the past 5 10 years Bloomington what's a nice way of saying it under reppresented in the bonding bill. I'll say it nicely. Uh so it was very nice to see the work uh that they put in paid off on this.

bear in mind, I'm under the assumption that the residents will paying these um franchise fees. And I find that interesting because um both Centerpoint and Excel are raking in record profits... I'm all for great public infrastructure... But at the expense when we have we when we could potentially be offered the choice of who's paying for this, I feel as though it should be the corporations that are breaking in record profits handover fist.

They don't have to pass them through to customers. They don't have to. Okay. But your beef can't be here. Your beef has to be with the PUC because it's this it's state legislature that allows these companies to pass through to rateayers and that's where it needs to change.

the property owner wants to add a retail tenant which is specifically a spa or salon. Um and retail is not allowed in its current zoning district. Um, and retail is a limited use in the B1, the proposed Oops, sorry. Um, retail is a limited use in the proposed B1 zoning district, which is uh can't occupy more than 25% of the floor area. And what they're proposing uh for the spa and salon is only um 6% of the floor area.

the current guide plan is office. And so this B1 proposed zoning district is more in line with that um zoning or the guide plan because um FD2 is more of industrial um which allows for more warehouse and u manufacturing uses whereas B1 is more um office uh oriented. So, this does comply with the um existing guide plan and they're not proposing to change a guide plan.

Our goal is seven minutes. That's when someone calls 911, the dispatcher picks up the phone, that's when the clock starts. 730 7 minutes 30 seconds. That's when we uh want to get there. Our uh stats for 2025 uh was 9 minutes and 11 seconds. You can see we did not meet our goal.

I I would love to be able to tell you it's this and when we get there, we've reached the goal. Um, but I would be telling you that based upon what the city is like today and in 10 years, I don't know what the city's going to be like... As the population increases, the more calls we're going to get. All right. As our demographic changes and as the age changes, the more calls we're going to get.

I think one of the things that's advantageous is that the the council has defined some pretty clear priorities. um establishing a full-time fire department is is certainly on that list, if not at the top of that list... we are planning budgets that will continue to deliver on that expectation. but also cognizant of the um economic pressures faced by residents and businesses in our community...