Yeah, I have the pleasure to make a motion to nominate Danielle plants to the Human Rights Commission. And Michelle Salado to the Planning Commission.

It is my privilege to present the Corporal Timothy Bow Award to Chief Tim Hoyt, chief Hoyt’s distinguished law enforcement career spans decades, with services across multiple agency and leadership roles. What makes his recognition today truly remarkable is not just his professional accomplishments, but his ongoing dedication to the transit police. As a part time officer for nearly 13 years, even after assuming the role of chief of police for the new Hope Police Department, an immense responsibility. As you all know, he continued to serve the transit police with the same steadiness, humility and devotion that have defined his entire career at the Transit Police.

This award actually means a lot to the part timers because it’s in honor of someone who actually gave the ultimate sacrifice to his community. So it’s a it’s a pretty big deal to the part timers at transit police Department.

Since 2011, the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association has generously contributed over $77,000 towards arena improvements over the years. All right. While we certainly are grateful for their financial support, their contribution to our community extends far beyond these donations.

We asked for partnership from the stakeholders and a few organizations were quicker to move forward than the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association, and they have been true partners and stakeholders in this rink. They stepped up and just an incredible organization, group of people. And providing these positive alternatives for children is immense.

As far as the audit results this year. Um, I wouldn’t say it’s about as good as you can get. It was a very clean audit. Um, once again, we issued an unmodified opinion on your basic financial statements. Um, highest opinion that we can give. We had no findings or noncompliance to report with your internal controls over financial reporting or your compliance with governmental accounting standards. Uh, and we this year had no, uh, Minnesota legal compliance finding Shreveport either. So clean report card.

One of the areas that we took a look at, uh, with your city is documentation of approved vendors, changes and vendors. That’s one of the areas that we most typically see fraud occurring in our client base.

Basically an unmodified. It’s kind of commonly referred to as a clean opinion. It means that we neither qualify or give an adverse opinion. There’s there’s no reservations on that opinion. It’s unmodified that it’s fairly stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Basically.

Item 6.6 is a resolution approving the Elem Lutheran Church Facility Use Agreement for the gymnastics program. The proposed lease agreement for Elem Lutheran Church from September 1st, 2026 through August 31st of 2027 is $40,000, which includes all utilities, custodial and cleaning fees.

Our code requires that, uh, for implementation, a one year period for implementation. If nothing occurs after that one year, then, uh, the conditional use permit can become null and void or revoked by the council.

So actually, we the statute or the code does require that we give notice and have a public hearing because, um, a copy is a property, right. And to revoke it, even though technically a year or the time frame had passed, we still needed to give them notice and the right to appear.

It’s unfortunate that the applicant and their organization was unable to come to the ability to develop this. Uh, however, I think that, uh, the city hopes for some great opportunity in potential redevelopment for this site as it’s a very attractive site. Uh, and my fingers are crossed that in the future we will see a proposal submitted to the city, uh, that everyone will be proud of.

Reduce the max number of. commissioners serving on the Human Rights Commission from 10 to 9. Number two require two of the commissioners serving on the Human Rights Commission to be students. And number three, reduced the maximum number of commissioners serving on the Citizens Advisory Commission from 15 to 9. We believe the reduction in membership will help to ensure that the Commission is representative and responsive, while still having the expertise to accomplish the task.

What this means is that this action will ensure that the new owner will take on all responsibilities and obligations of the current owner and relation to the development and purchase agreement, and will allow the new owner to become eligible to receive, uh, the payments under the TIF. Note.

Like when you say complicated finance, it truly is because they move this into a family trust. And I was against this from the beginning. I think I’ll be against this you know transfer and whatever again. So thank. You.