I think the four of you in the audiencehave to make a lot of noise to make it sound like there's a lot of people inthe audience and be talking with each other. Yeah, I think we are set. The Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 meetingof the Eden Prairie City Council is now called to order. Please rise for thepledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of theUnited States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. Well, welcome to um tonight's meeting.It's um customary during this time for me to read an open podium invitation toour residents. Open podium is an opportunity for Eden Prairie residentsto address the city council on issues related to Eden Prairie city government.Uh these times occur prior to each regular council meeting. The regularcouncil meetings typically occur the first and third Tuesday of each month.Um, summer month schedule is a little bit different. Open podiums occur from6:30 to 6:55 right here in the council chamber. If you wish to speak at openpodium, please do contact the city manager's office at 952-9498412 by noon of the meeting date with yourname, phone number, and subject matter so we can be better prepared for you.Open podium is not recorded or televised. If you have questions aboutopen podium, please do contact the city manager's office.Let's see. We have no proclamations and presentations this evening. That's alittle atypical. Uh they're a lot of fun, but we don't have any this evening.So, our first item on the agenda is to approve the agenda. So, first, are thereany agenda items anybody here wishes to add to the this evening's agenda? So, Ido want to add two brief council member reports.Um, one just on the federal funding piece that uh Rick Etchel will respondto and the second is just to uh list out again um all the various many myriad ofcity activities that have occurred in the last uh two to three weeks thatinvolve staff and we just want to recognize and acknowledge their work.Okay, with that, um, council, is there someone that would move to approve theagenda? >> I'll move to approve the agenda withyour additional two reports. >> Sounds good. Is there a second?>> Second. >> All those in favor say I.>> I oppose. All right. Minutes. We have uh two minutes from the council meetingheld Tuesday, July 15th, the regular uh council meeting and the workshop. Um,anybody have questions about any of them or additions, edits? If not, could Ihave a motion to approve both of them? >> Move to approve the following citycouncil minutes. City Council workshop held Tuesday, July 15, 2025. CityCouncil meeting held Tuesday, July 15, 2025.>> Any further Oops, there second. >> Second.>> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I.>> I. >> I opposed. All right. Consent calendar.Um again the items that are important but nonetheless are fairly housekeeping.Um any um any council member have any questions about any of these items? Umeven to the extent you might want to remove one of them and and vote on itseparately. >> None. Okay. Is there someone that wouldmove to approve items A to V on the consent calendar?>> I'll move to approve items A to B on the consent calendar.>> Is there a second? >> Second.>> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I.>> I opposed. All right. >> Moving on. We have a public hearing thisevening. Uh Mr. GCO, I will turn it over to you. Thank you, mayor and council. Wedo have a project in front of you tonight. Uh first reading of uh zoningdistrict change from I2 to RM2.5 on just under 1 acre. Uh resolution for apreliminary plat. Uh basically the applicant is requesting to construct a15 unit assisted living and memory care facility uh 10 uh 10,761square foot singlestory structure that would be located uh east of Aztec driveand this is west of Flying Cloud Drive across from a Caliber Collision. Uh thesite consists of two parcels as I mentioned earlier uh just over an acre.The parcel is undeveloped. Um, there are residential uses to the east, officeuses to the north and commercial uses to the west and the south. Uh, the planningcommission uh held a public hearing at their July 14th meeting. They voted 50-0unanimously to recommend um approval to the city council and there were nocomments at that public hearing. The applicant is here tonight to provide anoverview of their project and then the staff and the applicant can answer anyquestions that you may have and then you would need to hold a public hearing andum take action on the project this evening.>> All right, please come forward. Give your name and address, company you workfor. >> Great.>> Social security number. >> All right,>> just kidding. >> Hi everyone. It's uh nice to see you allon this beautiful evening uh one in Minnesota. I'm I'm Bill Welch. Uh withme I have Dave Treak who is my architect. Uh I work for myself. So thisis my my first venture. I call it my second career. Uh so I'm a firstentrepreneur I guess you could say and pretty excited about that. Uh afterbeing in the software world doing tech sales for the last 27 years. So uhthat's who I am. I live in Prior Lake. I've lived in Minnesota going on 30years now and very excited about uh this new opportunity here in uh in EdenPrairie. >> Great. Anything else or do you want doyou have a presentation in terms of the project or>> I do. Perfect. Yeah, happy to go through that now unless you want me to.>> Thanks for your introduction as well. >> Absolutely. Yep. So, um we're calling itAspen Estates. The title is going to change slightly. It's luxury assistedliving and memory care. So, it'll be both um assisted living and memory care.And this is a I'll have got other pictures, but this is a uh a view ofwhat the front of the home is going to look like. So, it's uh the key here isthat uh where there's obviously large facilities uh in Eden Prairie that areover a 100 units. You know, there's lots of uh bigger ones like uh Eden PrairieSenior Living and Summit Place and the Waters. Wonderful facilities. Um theythey serve a great need. Uh the design of this is to provide a higher level ofcare, generally speaking, a higher level of care than what those largerfacilities provide. Um as the growing need is, it's really pretty substantial.The demand for senior living and um assisted living and memory care isoutpacing supply almost 2 to one in the United States and Minnesota is noexception to that. So lately, because the cost of build has gone up so much,the problem is getting worse, not better. U go ahead please.So, I'll do give I'll give you a quick uh project overview, talk real brieflyabout the where where it's located, although that was already covered by byRick. Thank you for that. Uh I'll talk about what the landscaping looks likeand we had a great uh neighborhood meeting as well. Okay,so as mentioned, it's about it's approximately 11,000 square foot. Thekeyword is home. That's that's the goal that we want to make this feel like ahome for our residents. Uh 15 bedrooms, all with private bathrooms. There willbe a living room, um, you know, a dining room and a kitchen much like our ownhomes have. And then behind the scenes, there will be a commercial kitchenthat's required by code. So, I'm going to have sort of two kitchens, a frontkitchen, so the residents feel at home, and then a kind of a more commercialkitchen behind the scenes where all the food is going to be prepared. Um, I callit Goldilocks. So, it's there's there's big facilities, um, which are reallygreat. They serve a purpose, uh, but they have their own challenges. forexample, do you you know do you really want mom or dad to be down a longhallway where they can face isolation? And then that was sort of the uh impetusbehind me doing this project. I could have picked you know like any of us alot of industries to go into. My own father passed away about four years agoand I I really think he gave up early on life because of isolation. He's a verysocial person and he struggled at one of these bigger facilities. So that'sreally the driving factor behind why or my passion why I'm doing this. Um, soit's it's got some of the, you know, we have a lot of the amenities of a largerfacility like a salon for example for, you know, uh, mom or dad or, you know,they can spend time in the salon, which is always fun. You know, at whatever ageit is, they still love getting their hair hair and nails done. So, we'llbring in a a stylist, you know, um, which will be fun, but then it um, itwon't be so small where it's a where people get too cramped up as well. So,it's kind of that in between number. And really, while this is very common acrossthe United States, there aren't very many of these 15 to 16bedroom homes.People ask, you know, what what are you going to do next? Um, some people say,would you do a 50 or an 80 unit one? And my answer is no. Uh, my next plan orphase two will probably be two or three years down the road. I'll build more 15to 16 bed homes. I might do two or three of those homes on one property, but Iwon't do a 50 bed, and that's intentional. So, this is going to beunique to Eden Prairie, which I'm really excited about. Great amenities, butstill small and small enough and homelike for people to avoid. Again, Ithink the biggest issue or one of the biggest issues is isolation. Okay,so there again, the the front of the home. Really proud of what Dave and theteam put together. It's going to be a beautiful home. Um, I would consider itreally, you know, five-star. It's going to have a a very nice curb appeal, andthe inside will be very nice as well. Go ahead. This is the back of the home. Youcan't really see it, but there's a walking path that goes in a circle.Really important for folks. I mean, I should I me should have mentionedbefore, but this is really end of life, you know. So, this is not independentliving. This is full assisted living. So, folks that are are um they're uhdisabled either physically or mentally. And generally, I'm guessing probablyabout 75% of the home is going to be memory care. So, Alzheimer's, dementia,but having a walking path is really important for them. I'll have a verylarge shaded area for them to stay out of the sun. So, we'll have it all allfenced in. You see that fence will be a be, you know, locked down uh to preventwander, excuse me, to prevent wandering. Okay.Uh this is not going to be the exact um view of the inside. We haven't gotten tothat stage yet, but this is gives you an idea as far as what is the inside goingto look like. It will be a vated ceiling like like you see here with beams in thetop. You see there that has a a nice kitchen and a nice living room anddining room. I will have a library as well like you see there. But the goalagain is to make this look like a really beautiful home and less of a more of ahome and less less of a facility. So this is a good example of what theinside will look like. Okay. Um it's, you know, not cheap as I'mlearning. Cost to build has gone up a lot these last three or four years withinflation, but it's about a $5 million home. Uh we're going to have veryprofessional landscaping and a crew that's going to be out constantly. Imean, I want this to look like a a private country club. I want it to bevery beautiful. Um, traffic impacts are very small. So, the neighborhood meetingI did have only had um two people, actually four people attend, uh, theywere very pleased to hear that it's going to be a very quiet home. You know,the residents are in bed by 9:00. You know, there's not going to be, you know,parties going on until we hours. And the traffic is going to be very minimal aswell. They don't drive, you know, so the traffic really is going to be peoplevisiting, uh, as well as the staff. And the staff is is, you know, at most fivepeople at any given time. So, it's not not going to be a a large number of carsever going to be at the home. Uh, go ahead, please.We already talked about the location, but it's uh just east of Flying Cloud,just south of Anderson Lakes. Um, as mentioned, it's, you know, right acrossthe street from Caliber Collision. To the north there, you see the officepark, which are um I think a good they look residential-ish. The the officepark does. It's not a big building with, you know, concrete and glass. These aremore um you know gable type um offices that are single level just to the north.Uh to the south is mostly woods there and then to the southwest is TGKAutomotive. To the to the to the west is Caliber Collision and then to the eastand northeast and southeast um are is all neighborhood and I've met with umsome of the folks that are actually joining the uh the property line andthey've been very supportive of of the project. you know, their their point is,gosh, I think I'd rather have a home like this than say something like aJiffy Lube like that's because it's industrial zoning. So, they're they'repretty pleased about this being a quiet home. Okay,this gives you an idea for the landscape plan. So, we're we do have to removetrees where the building is going to be, but then we're going to be adding treesback and in fact um providing even more, you know, umsegregation between the house and the neighborhood behind us. And then if youif you look at the property line, the entire east property line is going to beall shrubs uh that'll be added as well. So there's a lot of trees already thatare in the neighbors backyards. None of those will go away. So they're going tohave they already have quite a barrier as it is. We're adding more trees and afull line of of shrubs uh as well to uh keep that privacy for them.As I mentioned, we you know to the neighborhood we we are required to sendout notifications to any neighbors that are within 500 ft. Uh so I sent out flynotification out to about 60 neighbors. Uh one ne one neighbor within that uh 60that were sent out showed up and then another couple from Eden Prairie who'sjust in like excited about development. They they showed up as well. Uh a littlebit of followup um but nothing as far as any push back or any anyone having uhhaving real concerns. I also met with the HOA president of the neighborhoodand she was extremely supportive as well. So we spent about an hour togetherand get to know each other. I think people just love to hear that. I'm justI'm just a guy with a family building a home. I'm not a big corporation who'sdoing some big huge project. I just want this to be nice and quiet. And I like tocall it an extension of what our family, you know, our family will be reallyinvolved in. And this my wife and I will be. And that's all I have. So happy toanswer any questions you have. >> Council, anything right now? We can umalways ask questions later. Lisa, would you like to right now?>> I just have a couple comments. There's not really any questions, but um I'mglad you're keeping the trees on the east side. I know that the neighbor hada concern about that, but um and also uh you spoke about the isolation. So, thankyou for doing this because I think >> a lot of times>> um elderly people or people just every anybody in general suffers fromloneliness and this is a great little quaint, not tiny, but I mean it's a nicesize >> um not too big>> and I think I wish you luck. I really I really think it's a good thing.>> Thank you. Yeah, that's the goal is we want people to be living like a familyin the common area. you know, we we don't want them in their rooms. And I Ithink that's the big difference between what this is versus a very largefacility where people are down a long hallway. It'll be a large that's that'sreally the design. That's the plan. >> Yeah.>> Um just at least I just want to be really clear so neighbors understandwhat to expect, too. So on the eastern tree line,>> you're actually not keeping any tree that you have responsibility over. thetrees that are not going away are on actually the neighbors land.>> Um, can you pull back that the tree design again, please? So, we're keepingas many as we can on the eastern side, but um, I wanted I just wanted to pointout that there's a lot of trees already that are on the neighbors property line>> and they're they're of course staying because they're on neighbors.>> Correct. Correct. And >> where the bush line is, there's likescrub trees in there, but they're not being saved. Uh, so all the bushes yousee on the right hand side are going to be added by that's that's what I'm on myproject. >> So again, I'm just trying I don't wantexpectations of neighbors to think something that's not actually happening.There's there's no tree along that line that is there right today that you'regoing to be keeping on your own property.>> We are in fact. >> Which ones are those?>> I don't think they're in this design. Um,>> that's good news by the way. I did not know that. Yeah. I mean, so that's>> So they'll be the bushes will be mixed in among a few of the trees that you'llbe keeping. Actually, >> right. The entire lot is very wooded.>> Yes. And a lot of scrub trees, but Yes. >> True. Yeah. But um we're we're keepingall the trees we can uh along the east side and of course what the neighborshave. So I I don't think I described that very well. It's No, it's fine. Theneighbors have their own trees. Thank you for clarifying. I just wanted tomake sure residents >> don't expect something and see all thetrees being cut down or something. But >> Right. Right. I understand. Mhm.>> Um, okay. This we can do a public Go ahead. We can ask no and then we'll do apublic hearing in a few moments. Great. Thank you. Um, Mr. Walls, I was going tosay I had the opportunity to walk the property today and spent some time outthere. >> Uh, I like what I'm seeing becauseyou're right, there are no smaller units like that. You know, 15 and>> um the way it's built, it's designed uh with the layout of that lot. I was justthinking, okay, if not this, what else? >> I it looks to me like a a excellent fit.>> I'm quite familiar with the area. I wish you well. And I think there's a very bigneed for it. Um I'm seeing some in my family and I have seen it in the past inthe family. >> Uh and I think the need can onlyincrease and you know, I commend you. It's uh it's it's quite a design. Thankyou. >> Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh why don't you stay nearby incase we have questions obviously and then we'll go ahead and open this up asa public hearing. Um and then we'll um close that part of it and see if thereare more questions. >> Great.>> So this is a public hearing. Is thereanyone in the audience wishing to address the council this evening on thisparticular project? Seeing none,council, um, this is a pretty straightforward project and I think fromwhat people have said, we're all very excited about it. Um, does someone, wecan still ask questions. Does someone want to go ahead and make the entiremotion, close the public hearing, and uh, go ahead and make the motion andthen we can continue again having conversation.If you wish, I'll move to approve the first reading of an ordinance for azoning district change from 1-2 to RM to 2.5 onN08 acres and from rule to RM 2.5 on 1999 acres and adopt a resolution for apreliminary plat combining two parcels into one lot on 1.1 acres and adopt aresolution for finding a fact in support of park dedication fees and direct staffto prepare a development agreement incorporating staff and commissionrecommendations and council conditions and authorize the issuance of an earlyland alteration permit for Aspen Estates assisted living and memory care at therequest of the developer subject to the conditions outlined in the permit.Is there a second? >> Second.>> So, um just a a comment here. I um too went out to the property today. I was umin my council closed, so I did not get out and walk, but I did go around to theback side of it um to the culde-sac and knocked on the three doors. They theyweren't home, but I looked through between the houses withoutdoing anything that looked like I'd be arrested. I stayed toward the street.Um, but it is a just a block of of of growth. Uh, right now, granted, in thewintertime, leaves fall, but um, and I'm I I I couldn't walk it, so I couldn'texactly see where the lot line is, but it's good news that you're going tosave, even if it's scrubbed, some of the treemass, some of the um, stuff that's in there because that that stuff in thereis already on some of their property, and whatever you can save on yours wouldbe great. Obviously, if you plant the newer bushes, that's longterm betterthan whatever's in there now. Um, but anyway, um, it I I would think I'm notsurprised that nobody except one family maybe came out because what a wonderfulneighbor to have as a um, a residentelooking. Well, you've describedas a home and it is a home. It's a large home for 15 people, but it's a home. Um,very residential feel. And of course, the impact on the neighborhood um sominimal with people going to bed at nine o'clock and not driving. So, um it'slike an ideal neighbor. Not a lot of rock and roll loud music probablyplaying in the evening hours, I'm guessing. Um not that that's always abad thing. So, um I I would um think that um this is really a great additionto that neighborhood. So, um, council, any other thoughts you want to share orany other questions you need to ask? So, we do have a motion and a second.All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Uh, welcome. Um, when youhave that ribbon cutting, invite us back. We'd like to be part of it and seeit and take the tour. Uh, we're excited to have you in this community. And I docompletely agree there's a tremendous need. So, it really feels like you'readdressing the need in a very unique way. So, welcome Dean Prairie. We'reglad to have you here. >> Really excited. Thank you so much.>> You bet. You. >> All right, council. Um, next is upayment of claims which are all the um expenses that we've incurred and paidout over this time since the last meeting. So, council, any umexpenditures you wish to uh raise questions about? It's pages long.Anything? If not, is there a motion to approve the payment of claims?>> Move to approve the payment of claim as submitted.>> Is there a second? >> Second.>> Roll call. >> Council member Fyberg.>> I. >> Council member Nion.>> I. >> Council member Tumi.>> I. >> Mayor Casease.>> I. >> All right. Uh, Mr. Gro, moving on toordinances and resolution. We do have uh an ordinance relating to councilsalaries. >> Yes. uh mayor and councel is way ofintroduction uh as you know through some of the council discussion on the budgetprocess um playing out during some workshop inMay, June or July leading up to um the summer and the fall. There was somediscussion of uh council pay as we were talking about the city budget process.So staff was asked to do some research intouh mayor and council pay. And so council had a chance to look at where uh mayorand council fit compared to some of your peers. And there was a discussion onpossibly bringing forward an ordinance revision to make an adjustment andobviously the city council um would vote on that. Obviously the biggest piecerelated to that and this has always existed um is any uh revision that thecity council would make to pay um is not actually to your own pay at this time.It would have to take effect after a future election and that has always beenthe case. So, um, after a first and second reading of any adjustment, um, tocity council pay, um, any change would not take effect until, um, January 1stof 2027. And, um, that that follows state statute, but that's sometimessomething people don't don't always understand. Um, in terms of what'swritten, and you can choose to go in any direction that you want, what's proposedbefore you tonight, um, is a increase in, uh, the base pay of the mayor'ssalary of $2,000 and council member salary of $1,000.Um the other language in here is simply um a change in howum the the index has changed every year. Previously the change went along withwhat the governor's salary cap or the governor's pay was changed and there isno longer a governor's cap. The governor's cap was based on the consumerprice index. Um, and we just simply updated that to say the pay will changewith the consumer price index. So, the reality of what changes isn't going tobe different, but we just wanted to make sure the language was updated to whatwe've done. Okay. Um, I'll give any of you a chanceto speak in a moment. You don't have to. I just want to say thatanytime any elected official deals with raising what's perceived as their ownsalaries, it's problematic in our society. That being said though, we haveto sit back as a society and philosophically think about what do wewant any of our elected officials to make, whether they're full-time orpart-time, and what kind of people do we want to be attracted to those positionsbased on whatever salary. Um, if the legislature for four months, one year,and three months or so the next makes some $40,000 a year, is that a lot or alittle? I mean, everything is relative, right? If the governor makesundred andwhatever he makes today not much 60,000 is that a little or a lot the presidentof United States makes only 400,000 is that a lot or a little I mean everyeverything is perception often compared to what one you know makes themselvesright now this Eden Prairie city council the mayor is 18,000 something I shouldknow it I don't um Mr. GTO council members are 14 something or you've gotit. Would you read? >> No, you you're correct. So the mayor is18 to 60 and the council is 14,137. Um, so when we look at that, it's I knowthis may be um difficult to believe for some people, but we're really notlooking at like what we need or want just it's almost irrelevant to me and Ithink for many of you what we actually get paid the position of Eden PrairieCouncil or Eden Prairie Mayor. We look at the comparisons to other councilmembers and mayors across the region in cities that are comparable to EdenPrairie. So, taking just the mayor salary when that data got looked at, andagain, I'm forgetting the exacts. Rick can can straighten me out here, but oror keep me honest, but I believe there were five mayor positions around thearea that exceeded that already were over $20,000 a year and exceeded EdenPrairie's mayor and then uh three or four exceeded the council membersalaries. So, our thought again, I don't think Eden Prairie I don't think we'veever really tried to be number one. I think we are a number one city in thestate. I don't think we've necessarily always tried to make, you know, RickEtto's salary be number one or to make any salary um or have the policedepartment be paid as the top in the state. it we but we're very cognizantthat we want to be uh comparable in the sense that we are a high quality cityand we would like the salaries that Eden Prairie city pays to be relative to theidea that we're really um if not the number one we're a number one city. Soour thoughts were the way that we were getting pay raiseswas based on the consumer price index. And for those of you that wonder aboutthat it because we can only take salary only increases can only take effectafter an election which occur every two years. So if the CPI one year was 2.5and the next year it was 3% then two years later we would get a 5.5% payincrease. And again, um, small and that was barely keeping up. We're one of thethere's a handful of cities that do do that. Other cities do not have a regularincrease. Instead, they leap frog. Every, you know, five, six, seven, eightyears, they'll increase salaries three or four $5,000, which looks like a bigpercentage at the time. And we were trying to avoid that uh by doing umregular small incremental pay increases based on CPI. So, just to clarify,um if the mayor's salary goes up 2,000, um it will not take effect till January1, 2027. And uh council salaries going up athousand would not take effect till January 1, 2027.Um and I I hope you all are okay with me talking about four of the five ages, butfour of the five of us are over are 70 years old and over. So, this is notabout us. You know, we're not going to be in this position forwell, I'll just say forever. Um and um and also three of us are up forre-election next fall. We have not even decided if we're running. So this isabout the integrity of the position and making sure that we remain comparable sowe attract the types of candidates that should be attracted uh to this positionuh for the years to come. And that's really all it is. It's a salaryadjustment because others were leapfrogging and getting further andfurther and further ahead of Eden Perry Council salaries. So we decided what Ithink is a fairly small adjustment to make a small adjustment. 2,000 to themayor position and 1,000 to the council council.Do you want to add anything to that? >> Okay. Um and by the way, we had aconversation because of open meeting law. We can't talk outside of a meeting.So, this was at a workshop a couple months ago or a month ago now, I'mforgetting. Um and asked the staff to go back and look at this and asked ourattorney to bring back an ordinance um revision. And that's what is before youall this evening. And then the little tweak of changing the language aboutcomparable to the governor's increase which is no longer true because hedoesn't have a cap or the position it's really important to clarify there theposition of governor doesn't have a cap because governor Waltz hasn't evenannounced whether he's running or not. All right.With without any further ado, then is there someone that would make a motionum of the first reading, which means we'll need to have a second reading upum at the next meeting. So, of the first reading of this ordinance amending citycode section 2.05. >> Uh I'll move to approve the firstreading of an ordinance amending city code section 2.05 relating to thesalaries of the mayor and council members.Is there a second? Second.Any further discussion? All those in favor say I.>> I. Opposed. All right. Unanimous. Okay. Um, moving on down then. I thinkit's just report of city um member me. So, just quickly here, um, if any of youin the city of Eden Prairie out there tonight sitting there or at home saw,um, today's headline, it if anyone gets the I love the newspaper, but anyway,it's the paper copy anymore. This is what it looked like. Um, 500 million infederal funding at risk that was going to municipalities and counties. Now,it's at risk. They're not saying yet that it's been withdrawn, but it's moneythat was approved by Congress that now is being looked at by um the executiveoffice um President Trump and and his um the people working in the executivebranch uh looking at um not at either clawing it back or not giving the restof it. So um the article talked about Minneapolis, St. Paul, and others. So, Ithought it would be important for the residents of Eden Prairie to know are isEden Prairie at risk? Are we vulnerable uh to any cuts that may occur uh at thefederal level? So, Rick, if um I had asked you about this before, so um ifyou want to share for a few moments, go ahead.>> Sure, Mayor. So, and we talk about this again during budget discussions as well.Eden Prairie is a city that relies um mainly on our own funding sources. Wedo have some sources of funding at the state level. We receive very little ifany funding from the federal level. Um the funding that we do receive from thefederal level, the the vast majority of funding as you know is from ourcommunity development block grant program. And for us that is notoperational money for the most part for Eden Prairie. So we do not rely on thatfor city operations. >> It's pass through money to theseorganizations. pass through money to other organizations and for um some ofour programming. So we do um provide um a lot of our ho housing programs,housing loans um so it's obviously very important funding um but not for ourgeneral operations. But if you think about all of all the city funding, allour full budget, you know, you're talking 120 30 $140 million if you thinkabout all of our funding. um all of that CDBG money might be in the neighborhoodof $330,000 um you know when you think about all ofour funding and that and that would be at risk and it is at risk uh could be atrisk. We're still thinking we could receive that funding in the next fiscalyear. Um, and without getting into too much detail, um, we now knew ha we donow have another source of funding um, with a dedicated sales tax that's comingtoward um, affordable housing aid. So, we actually um, and that's probablyanother update at another time. If we actually do lose our CDBG funding forsome of those programs, we may have a way to fill that gap um, with the localand state affordable housing aid. And Rick, that uh dedicated sales tax is notsomething the Eden Prairie City Council voted on or applied to us individually.It's a statewide and we get we get our share of it. That's correct, mayor. Umyou know, outside of that, and I think we talked about this in January, thereare other grants, other programs where federal tax credits for some of thesolar arrays that I think I gave a report on at the last meeting. um chargeelectric charging stations um you know reimbursements for grantsthat are threatened. So th those are some areas um that we were concernedabout. I think we we do I think some of the news we've gotten is that we thinkwe are getting hopefully some reimbursements but again those aregrants and I think the the headline in the newspaper isn't even talking aboutgrant funding um necessarily or reimbursements for grants. So to answeryour question, um if anything falls under the purview of that headline, itwould be our community development block grant funding. It's a very very smallpercentage of our funding. Um we still hope to receive that funding and we havebackup plans in case that occurs. >> Great question, Council Member Nurion.>> Yeah, thank you. Um I was thinking in a resident's point of view and I'm so gladthat uh we are not dependent on the federal funding uh that much but we areas a resident you know we we care about the school and Henipin County. Do weknow how the school district is affected by this or Henipin County affected bythis? Is it a potential to increase taxesfor residents? Do we know any area that >> I think from the county point of view, Ithink our commissioners um were here. I think it was a fewmonths ago and I think there are major concerns from their point of view, butthey they would have that information. I think if you remember, they were they'revery concerned. Um, I think from different conversations I've had withthe school district, maybe the mayor can speak to that from meetings we've had.Um, I think um, they're similar to us in that a lot of their funding is state andfederally related, but they could be indirectly affected uh, federally. Um,but I couldn't speak directly to the school either, Council Member Nion, butum, we can check with the school, but I have not heard anything uh, recently.>> Thank you. Yeah, and I think definitely the schoolsneed to respond as they do regularly to that u question because it's not justEden Prairie. Um 5% of our student residents, resident students go up toMinnetonka. They're they're um they have issues as well. I think everything'sbeen the paper really talks mostly about special ed reimbursement fundingmandates that won't necessarily be backfilled and I think there areconcerns. I just think nobody knows quite yet what that's going to looklike, especially if the education department does dissolve and then itsresponsibilities get spread among other uh departments. No one knows really yet,but that really clearly is the school district, you know, responsibility andthey will um to share what their the impacts on them will be. So, all right.Uh just real quickly, my my second point I wanted to raise was that we we just doa lot of events and what I call them cultural amenities here in Eden Prairie.And it's really to the credit of our staff who run so many different eventsand programs. And since our last meeting, which is just a month ago, uhthere's been people fest arts. Some of these are future right around our timeright now and some are very recent in the past. People fest, arts in the park,picnic on the farm. It's a redo that's coming up here in the next is it thisnext week I think or >> uh next Wednesday.>> Yeah. U pickle ball Miller Park grand opening ribbon cutting. We did that. Uhnight to unite. Obviously we had 159 known um uh community block parties, butI'm sure there were another 50 or so that did not call in. Uh open house forthe four fire stations, neighborhood open houses for each of them. I I drovearound and attended all of them and they were um nicely attended byneighborhoods. Um two two days from now, our council were taking it on the roadand we're going to um visit two um buildings that cater to seniors. So,senior residence buildings um what are the the the two um um Rick Cabo?>> Sure. Uh Flagstra Bluffs.>> Yep. Um and we meet with their residents and they come into the community room.It's just a really wonderful time and we've done this now I don't know threefour years and we do different buildings. Um so that that's uh comingup and staff um our senior staff um go to that. So just a whole lot of thanksto our uh park and wreck uh sustainability people for the thingsthat Rick just talked about. But um HRDC human rights and diversity um uh policeand fire during night to unite. I don't know, hundreds, Matt, of um police andfire individuals. And we took all of our equipment on the road and we had ourfire five brand new fire trucks that had not been fully commissioned yet, so theywere not needing to be out on calls. Um and by the way, they're amazing. I tooka tour of um one of the new fire trucks. It's just phenomenal. I just have toshare a brief story. When we went to pick it up, I guess you hadrepresentatives from New York City, I think, in Kansas City coming to pickWhoop. Sorry, I should be looking at fire to uh pick up their trucks. Sorry,Matt's like, "You're looking at the wrong guy." Yeah, but you're both in theblue uniform. So, they and at the time, I guess the structure of the firetrucks, it's all the same, but the individual little design features we gotto be part of to design it just so well. And I guess their representatives fromthose cities were coming over looking at it going, "That's a great idea. Weshould have done that." I mean, we are I I think we're probably um get not onlygetting known around the state, but the country, but we've got to have some ofthe best fire trucks in the region. And I think that's important for ourresidents because you tell us in surveys and otherwise that you want a highquality public safety here in the city, the best police officers, the best fireuh personnel, the best equipment. Um, and so I'm I'm I was so proud of thatgoing around those four stations that night and seeing the people that uh workfor you, Scott. Um, and also the equipment that we have. So, council, Imean, we all again, I've you've heard me say that our budget reflects ourpriorities. So, our budget 40% of it or so goes to public safety is what thepeople of Eden Prairie direct us that they want. if you ever change your mindson that, you'll tell us by unelecting us or or by, you know, telling us on asurvey, but but that's what we um are operating on now. And I'm proud of thefact when we are um the best in the whole area of the region in so manydifferent areas. But uh thank you uh Chief Matt Sacka and thank you ChiefScott Gerber for all that you do and please communicate that to the people onyour teams. Anything else? any other uh itemstonight to come before the council? Um, >> do you say coffee with cops?>> No. And I didn't say anything about crime prevention.>> Oh, no. That's okay. >> So, Lisa is the head of that. No, Ididn't say coffee with cops. So, thank you. Thank you for>> There's one next Tuesday. >> What else am I missing? No, please. Any>> There's a coffee with cops next Tuesday at 9 in the morning. Round Round Lake.>> Round Lake. >> Round Lake coffee with the cops nextTuesday. >> And fire>> and firefighters. Yeah, we invited the fire or the police invited thefirefighters >> at Round Lake 9:00 next Tuesday.>> They say that right. Okay. Okay. Anything else I missed in terms ofevents? >> Yep. Yeah. So, again, thank you to allof our staff. We just um Yeah. I always know I'm leaving people out, but likepublic works is just phenomenal to keep everything running all the time, right?When you turn your water on, it just doesn't happen by accident, right?Actually, when you flush your toilet, it doesn't happen by accident that it goessomewhere. So, I mean, we have just amazing public works in our roads andand by the way, at night to unite, I went around to five parties and many ofyou did as well. And that's what we heard consistently, amazing, you know,plowing of the roads in the winter and our roads are the best maintained aroundand and we have the best public safety and that just makes us feel good becausewe're we're doing what you directed us to do and you sent us here to do.With that, I will um entertain a motion to adjourn.>> Move to adjourn the city council meeting tonight.>> Is there a second? >> Second.>> All those in favor say I. >> I.>> Oppose. This meeting is adjourned.