Edina City Council — Transcript
5 Topics in This Document
2025 Legislative Session Priorities
Highway and Infrastructure Funding Requests
Sales Tax Exemption for Park Projects
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Rule Extension
Enhanced Assault Protections for Municipal Employees
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“A legislative agenda that is adopted and approved by a city council is really that City council's statement to the state legislature of what it wants to see accomplished in the upcoming session things that they want to see changed uh new things they'd like to see introduced it's it's a way that you can kind of put it all in writing and be clear to everybody involved what the city council wants”
“The current law recognizes the need to protect certain employees whose jobs make it more likely they will be the target of assaults by escalating charges from fifth to fourth degree assaults when they occur against peace officers firefighters school officials and public employees with mandated duties the current law does not extend to employees required to enforce ad administrative codes rules ordinances and laws as part of their job duties such as building officials utility workers and Municipal liquor store clerks”