Whereas the Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. And whereas an estimated 6 million Jewish people along with millions of Romani, disabled, LGBTQ+, and political dissidents among other marginalized groups suffered grievously and were murdered under Nazi tyranny.

First of all to Mayor Hovland and to the city of Edina because uh the city under his leadership has been a leader in recognizing Days of Remembrance and it's actually um quite a good statement about how the city honors and remembers things like Days of Remembrance and other dates of significance to members of our community.

Dispatchers are the first point of contact in emergencies. They remain calm while handling multiple calls at once, coordinating police, fire, and medical responders while updating them with critical information. They must extract accurate information from panicked or distressed callers, all while managing the stress of high call volumes and the emotional weight of hearing traumatic events that they cannot physically and intervene in.

What this proclamation does is not only highlights Earth Day, but also continues to elevate our commitment as a city and for our community to achieving our climate action plan goals. To foster that environmental stewardship, uh we are looking and supporting several events this month.

Based on our 2023 greenhouse gas inventory, we've achieved a 17% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. This is on track with where we expect to be, but that emissions reduction is primarily due to grid decarbonization. So Xcel Energy is investing in carbon-free generation that is contributing towards our electricity consumption and our emissions reduction.

So what this report does is it evaluates extreme heat in our community and identifying those locations with higher than average temperatures than others. What we saw with the data is we were able to see vulnerable information on vulnerable populations, health impacts, and economic impacts in our community.

But if you look at if you take the 2024 numbers and double them, it is a reduction in the number of bags that were put out. ... So, if you look at it per month basis, it would you'd see the numbers go down.

Uh we can talk about this tonight or we could talk about it in the future, uh but we would suggest earmarking that money and and keeping it in a special revenue fund so that we have uh separate financials for it and we can share with with council and uh with the nonprofits and with the community about how it is spent. Uh my recommendation would be that we retain that money for a community events, uh special community events that currently right now uh require us to uh either go out and ask for money, ask for donations, or ask for sponsorships.

I would like to remove that, but I'd also like to limit it to um Edina organizations cuz this is very broad. So, the one of one of one potential member would be limiting it to Edina-based organizations.

I just want to advise you it's that if you don't, uh, establish this now, you the chances of establishing it in the future are very low, uh, because in the future then you would be taking money out of the pockets of people that have been expecting it and and, uh, generating it over the time period.