[0:00] our educators members of the community and those who promote it i'd also like to thank Mayor Busy who just a week ago [0:07] sat on the stage at the Alumni Mcamera Center during the chamber's annual meeting and talked about the need for a [0:12] regional vision partnership and solutions to some of the problems that m municipalities face across the state in [0:19] our current economic environment today is about Bloomington's future its economic development opportunities its [0:25] place on the national stage and most importantly service to his to its residents thank you Mayor Busy for this [0:32] continued partnership come on [Applause] [0:44] up good afternoon everyone welcome uh I am Tim Busy i have [0:51] the honor I have the pleasure of serving as the mayor of the city of Bloomington and I am so excited to welcome you to [0:57] our 2025 state of the city address of all of those honors and pleasures I have [1:02] as mayor this is one of my favorite such great energy in the room so many supporters so many folks that I haven't [1:09] seen in too long it's so great to see everybody thank you all for being here uh to our chamber friends to my friends [1:16] to our city staff to supporters to all the folks watching us on Bloomington's [1:22] YouTube channel welcome we are so glad to have you here so glad that you're part of this as we get started I want to [1:28] take just a moment to thank our sponsors you've seen their their name up on the screen throughout lunch and if you [1:35] haven't had a chance to please seek seek them out talk to them they were out in the hall earlier they're they're at [1:40] tables around you these folks without these folks without these companies we would not be able to do this uh and I [1:47] want to say to them thank you for your work and thank you every time I go to a Bloomington event a lot of these names [1:55] are on the sponsor sheet they've always supported Bloomington and it's greatly appreciated i wanted to call them out [2:01] specifically i want to thank Bloomington Minnesota Travel and Tourism our friends at Mall of America Comcast the [2:08] Bloomington Community Foundation Centerpoint Energy Commuter Services HSU [2:15] Construction Larkin Hoffman Normandale Community College T-Mobile Fiber and XL [2:21] Energy as I said we couldn't do this without you thank you so very very much [2:33] we have a number of special guests and elected officials that I would like to say uh hello to and acknowledge this [2:39] afternoon as well uh I want to acknowledge we have our state representative Julie Green where did Julie end up here where is she stand and [2:47] wave there she is we have John Pacheco who is our Metropolitan Council representative [2:53] where is John there he is our Henipin County Commissioner Debbie Gutell is [2:58] here we have an entire table full of school [3:04] board members right down here uh Matt Dimmick Tom Bennett uh Mia Maya Olsen [3:09] Heather Starks and Don Styigraph beth BBE I th…