they were holding a a place for our chief of police on that violent crime reduction unit. Uh but it requires us entering into a joint power agreement and I think we could hold it for a couple of weeks but we could also address it this evening and if we were going to address it this evening we should add it to the agenda as I think would make most sense to add it as item 8.2 uh after the conversation about whether to modify one of our park ordinances.

I thought the the request to join the Minnesota Task Force One with that structural collapse training was really important and I think it's you know I think they folks in the public safety in uh arena expect that we're going to be good at what we do whether it's fire or police right our fire department has a particular skill in in this uh this particular area and uh so we want to make sure that they keep that up.

I think this is wildly broad. I I walk my dog in the day in the park every day. Now, that could be a use of a park that I don't have a permit to do that. Um, you know, I might go down and, you know, meet some neighbors. I don't have a permit to do that. So, I'm really concerned that this is overly broad um and could be selectively enforced.

but when I read through this, this was not actually what I had in mind. Um, so we already have an online system today that if you want to use a shelter, you have to go online, you got to have a permit for it. That's been part of the process for, I don't know, a decade, if not longer. Um, and so that is well established. I've used it. If people have called me and said, 'Hey, we want to use a park shelter. What do we do? Go online, see if it's available. You have to have a permit for whatever you're doing.' Right? That made sense to me.

from a law enforcement standpoint that I can provide on this and and and legal foundation is what we focus on. And so what in the criminal side, and Dave can certainly correct me if I'm wrong in this, but what we really need is to have foundation with a permitting process or structure from the city to even start that action.

Where I'm struggling with this is thinking about those like second order consequences that might come from it. um one because we would be setting an ordinance potentially unless we found time bound for it that would sit on our books indefinitely. Um and so while I might trust who we have in that position to be making the right calls of when to um use this as a tool, that doesn't mean that that's a forever situation.

I'm going to offer an amendment and then open up. We have two weeks or we could even push it to September if we want to have a longer period of time for people to comment. We But we get this on out on public notice. People can look at it and send us stories and make comments and we can decide to not pass it on second reading um in the future. But at least that we'll get this on record and then we can get a public discussion going.