[music] Good afternoon. I'll call to order this meeting of the Henipin County Board of Commissioners on Thursday, June 11, 2026. It's 1:31 p.m. I'm Irene Fernando, chair of the board and District 2 Commissioner. I'm joined by District 1 Commissioner Jeff Lundy, District 4 Commissioner Angela Connley, Vice Chair and District 5 Commissioner Debbie Gotel, District 6 Commissioner Heather Eden, and District 7 Commissioner Kevin Anderson. Henipin County acknowledges that the magnificent land and vibrant waterways from which our institutions benefit are located upon the cultural, spiritual, and indigenous homeland of the Dakota Oate. Henipin County calls attention to the Dakota people's ongoing connection to this special place. Onto the agenda, the first item is the pledge of allegiance. Please join me to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Next is to approve the agenda. May I have a motion? Please >> move approval. >> Second. >> Thank you, Commissioners Connley and Commissioner Green. All those in favor of the agenda, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Uh three is listed as Henipin highlights for which uh we don't have a highlight today. Four is minutes from the previous meeting. May I have a motion for for a May 19, 2026 meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Commissioners Anderson and Kotel. Any notes or corrections? Hearing and seeing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. F. Item five is referral of correspondence and department communications. Items 5 A to C are correspondence and items 5D to 5X are department communications. May I have a motion to accept and refer as recommended. >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Commissioners Lundy and Gotel. All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Six is commendations. Uh we have no commendations today. Seven is commissioner communications and we have several. So we'll go down the list and I will begin by celebrating Pride Month. June is Pride Month, a time to recognize the history, strength, and contributions of our LGBTQIA plus residents and neighbors. This week, our LGBTQIA plus employee resource group hosted their annual Pride celebration, which I attended. Super fun. The event was a combination of celebration and learning with opportunities to connect, share resources, and enjoy creative expression and performances. And actually, Commissioner Gotel and Commissioner Edlesen were there. I believe county attorney Mar Morardi uh joined. And so, I want to express gratitude to the artists and the employees that put that together. Hanniban County Library is also celebrating Pride throughout June with queer focused book clubs, gender affirming clothing swap, a trans fabulous buttonmaking program, and familyfriendly pride story times. You can view the full schedule of online and inerson pride events at hcib.org. Many county departments will be at the Twin Cities Pride Festival on June 27 and 28 and the Lowry Avenue Bridge will also be illuminated with rainbow colors in recognition of the festival. I'm also to share that for the first time, Henipin County will proudly participate in the Twin Cities Pride Parade. If any employees are watching right now, you can register to walk and are welcome to bring your family members to join the celebration. We hope that everyone has a sa safe, happy, and affirming Pride Month. knowing that pride is every day. The next commissioner communication is celebrating Junth offered by Commissioner Conley. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes. So, next week, June 19th is Junth. Junth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. This year marks just 5 years since Junth was declared a national holiday. Our African-American ERG employee resource group hosted their community Junth celebration earlier this week on June 8th. This [snorts] community- centered event honored freedom, resilience, um, black cultural expression with an inspiring lineup of wellness activities, reading, and guiding guided conversations. We will have several teams of Henipin County staff out at events all across the county celebrating, talking with community members and sharing about county resources. Events include the Minneapolis Junth celebration at Bthun Park. Hanniban County Sheriff's Office will also be at the Change Starts with Community and JCP Edina Junth celebrations. Henipin County Libraries are celebrating Junth with Black Storytellers Alliance on June 16th at the St. Louis Park Library. Learn about characters from African and African-American folk tales and the tradition of storytelling in the African-American community in this very lively performance. [snorts] This event is part of the City of St. Louis Park's Junth series. Find event information and curated book lists for all ages at hcib.org. Lastly, the Lowry Avenue Bridge will be lit red, black, green, and gold on June 19th in celebration of Junth. Thanks to all of our staff who are attending a Juneenth event on behalf of the county. I know I'll probably see you at one of those. These events are great opportunities to connect with our residents and community members, and we just hope everyone has a very joyful and meaningful Junth this year. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, I get to do the next uh communication because Commissioner Connley was traveling uh for for work during this time. And so I'm thrilled to share that on Tuesday, June 2nd, Henipin County held our annual recognition of success graduation ceremony at the McNamera Alumni Center in Minneapolis. We celebrated the success of 79 young people who graduated or earned their GED while receiving county services in foster care, teen hope, or the juvenile justice system. I had the honor of welcoming the graduates and their guests to the ceremony and recognizing their grit and determination [clears throat] overcoming considerable odds. This ceremony is an opportunity to lift up the contributions they have made and will continue to make to our community. It's also an opportunity to shift the narrative about young people away from the obstacles they face toward their strengths, hard work, and richlyd deserved success. I want to give a special acknowledgement to the graduates who are part of the youth advisory group and staff that were essential in planning the event as well as this year's recipients of the Young Scholar Award. On behalf of the entire board, congratulations to our 2026 graduates. We are incredibly proud of each one of you and we know that this is just the beginning of your continued success. It is quite the event. I see why you uh I see why you're eager about it every year. [gasps] Next up, we will have 20 250th anniversary celebrations offered by Commissioner Lundy. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Hipper County has joined the nation recognizing 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. To honor this anniversary, we're creating and supporting programs that highlight the state, local, indigenous histories. This shared history has shaped our land, community, government, and culture. Our programming draws on the American Association for State and Local Histories Field Guide in a collaboration with the Henipin History Museum. Our central theme, Power of Plays, focuses on local stories, people in our unique spaces and places. We are also hosting, partnering, and supporting a number of events that highlight our local, state, and indigenous cultures, including the go outside with Henipin County event series, the Henipin County Fair, America 250 genealogical research, ongoing exhibits at the Henipin History Museum, and community screens of the American Revolution documentary series, which is directed by Ken Burns in partnership with the Twin Cities PBS. There are many events, many more events happening in cities and counties across the state. I encourage you to check out hencount.gov for more information about the events we shared today or check out check out the events happening in your community. Thank you. >> Thank you. And our last commissioner communication is the governor's workplace safety awards offered by Commissioner Goodell. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Um excited to present this. June is National Safety Month and we're reminded of key safety topics that affect all of us. From building strong culture of safety to staying safe on the roads to supporting overall worker health and preventing slips, trips, and falls. I encourage all of us to take time to reflect on the safety. Think about the small actions you take each day and make in your workplace. Home and community make it safer for everyone. The National Safety Council also offers free resources to help inspire safer habits and prevent injuries. Henipin County is proud to be recognized as the 2026 Minnesota Safety and Health Conference with the Governor's Workplace Safety Award. So excited. We earned the Gold Achievement Award for our strong performance. This is really a big deal. I've been at these awards a lot of years, so this is a really big deal to get this award. um its strong performance in preventing workplace injuries in 2025, including an incident rate better than the 75th percentile of both state and national averages. This achievement reflects our employees commitment to working safely each day and the people um people first and the stewardship core values that we have. Our employees are the county's greatest assets and protecting their well-being and their strengths. our ability to serve residents effectively. The safety and health representatives here today are just a small portion of the many people across the county who work every day to keep everyone safe. I want to thank all those who contribute to our safety culture, our 21 department safety and health committees, department safety contacts, uh employees who speak up about safety concerns, our union partners and county leadership. Your efforts truly make a difference. We have wonderful folks from our workplace safety team here today. They have the governor's award here with them. So, I would like to first give them a round of applause. [applause] Congratulations. Then I'd like to invite them up to take a photo with the award. Come on up. You come on around this way with the board. Let's see this beautiful award. animal. [clears throat] >> Congratulations. >> Receiving. [laughter] >> Hey, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. You're all matching today. That's very cute. [laughter] >> Very nice. It's good to match. Congrats. >> Thank you. Thank you. Love the matching. So glad. Thank you. We have like a formal receiving lineup. Good. Thank you so much. >> Congrats. Congrats. >> Congrats. Congrats. >> You should be in the middle. I guess >> Oh, yeah. I'm always in the front. >> I'm sorry. If you're like heightish, you have to be Everyone in frame. All right. >> [applause] >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. No one [laughter] I did that. [laughter] >> I'm surprised you don't have your hard hat out just >> I know my hard hat and I I've got steel toes. >> I got steel toe shoes. I got all that stuff. >> My ear protection. >> Debbie, those are not steel toes. Not these, but I have them. No, these are not. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Yes, you are welcome. Thank you. We are on to um eight on the agenda. The claims register. We have three today. 8 A's for the claims register period ending May 22nd, 2026. 8 B for the period ending May 29. And 8 C's the claims register for the period ending June 5, 2026. May I have a motion for all three, please? >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you, Commissioners Lundy and Connley. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Nine are consent um items. These would have passed unanimously out of committee. We have 9A to 9T. May I have a motion for the block? >> Second. >> Thank you, Commissioners Anderson and Gotel. Um I'd like to highlight uh one right away. And it is, let me get the number 9Q. Uh this is about my favorite project, many people's favorite project, the blue line extension. So I just want to offer uh to those watching at home and to the 20 decade 20 decades who two decades of residents and advocates um and work for >> satellite office. >> Yeah, it [clears throat] says it's the Richfield Human Services. >> That was that was fun. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, we do. We do have them. Okay, back to the blue line. As always, again, very eager to support this. While there's no change in the NTE and the conditions um to the actual item, I wanted to take this opportunity to express gratitude to residents, workers, and all of the communities who have made this uh such a important and real. Um we're just so close to the reality of this project. We're at 90% design kind of for this second time. Uh we have had a wonderful relationship with my council members and the chair and have uh been uh grateful to get to know the the now not so new chair this year in 2026. Uh want to appreciate last fall's municipal consent process where over 85% support and that the cities along the corridor have made incredible investments to tee up this project. And so that's what I wanted just to take a second to talk about because all of us have to be moving together in order uh for us to even be at this moment and I want to express that over half the residents in the corridor. Um this isn't just an add-on. This is a need to have half of the residents don't have cars. This is the most transit reliant community uh sets of communities in the state and uh certainly where I live and into where uh Commissioner uh Lundy represents, this is also an area where there has not been as much economic development and and at a time where revenue is decreasing. We need to invest in economic development in our tax base. uh because those investments have cascading impacts for all of our services, all of our schools, and the long-term kind of sustainability um of our broader region and the public good. So, uh I'll be opening it up here for any of the consent agenda items, right? This is a consent agenda. So, these are items that would have passed unanimously out of committee. Um, but I wanted to uplift 9Q to express my individual gratitude and uh to express um my gra um my excitement about the county's long-standing commitment and what we're going to do to make sure that residents get the services they deserve. With that, any other Okay, Commissioner Green. >> Um, thank you, Madam Chair. When I when I hear people talking in excitement about the Blue Line extension, I gota [laughter] I gotta, [clears throat] you know, the what the energy hits me. Um I just couldn't agree with your remarks more and want to underscore what you said about 85% or more than 85% municipal consent um for this project like there's just enormous interest from the community and community leaders in this project. Um you mentioned the figures about transit reliance along this line. I also want to underscore the climate impacts of having uh light rail and as part of our system and I think that's going to be my final point is a system you know to be the city and region that we envision ourselves to be becoming in the future we need a system and the blue line extension is an important piece of making our light rail system um more than a few little lines. Thank you. >> Thank you Commissioner Anderson. [clears throat] >> Thank you Madam Chair. I wanted to uplift uh item 9T on this. Uh are moving ahead with um contracts and uh uh retaining a consultant to assist with the vetting and finding of candidates for the uh Henipin Healthcare Systems uh professional board. uh governance change is is underway and this is in part uh a response to the legislative directive that we received um this year but I think it is also a reflection of like our shared desire to be moving towards this this new governing outcome. Um and so uh looking forward to engaging in that process and and having this uh rolling along. So thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Lundy. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to say ditto to your comments. It does feel like 20 decades, but it has only been two. Um but just I wanted to highlight 9M and really highlight not as much as the what we are doing but the discussion we had as a as a board along with staff and the Henip County Attorney's Office about understanding not just Minneapolis but countywide what's happening how there can be such a difference in services available depending on where you live even though a crime is a crime is a crime um and so really trying to understand that that cities do things differently how they approach things what services are made available. And it's not about whether people care, don't care. It's just where people have the wherewithal to make sure that victims, no matter where you are inside Henman County, that you have access and have support and know that you matter in a in a crime that knows no boundaries as far as uh race, as far as people's finances, as far as where you live. It uh happens everywhere. And so, uh I just want to highlight that I know we're going to get some good information back. and I think we may discover opportunities for us to to help anybody any everywhere in our county. Thank you. >> Thank you. Colleagues, we have the consent um items before us 98 and9. Any others that uh individuals like to highlight? Uh for those uh watching at home, we uh verbally expressed additional support for our unanimous votes. Um with respect to 9M which was about victim advocacy specifically regarding domestic violence, 9Q which was about the blue line extension and 9T which was about Henipin Healthcare System um board recruitment for the January uh 2027 deadline. With all that before us, all those in favor of the consent items, please say I. I >> opposed. Motion carries. 10 are non-consent items. Uh this these would have passed out of committee but not unanimously for which we have none. 11 are progressed items. These are items that would have progressed from committee to board without a vote and we have one. 11 A is to establish an annual heart of Henipin service award offered by Commissioner Eden. Would you like to move it? >> I'll second it. Go ahead. So, I I spoke about this before. Um, but what this will do is establish um a way to recognize community members for doing work that's important to um the county. And so, I'm happy to take any questions. Otherwise, I would love your support. Thank you. Uh discussion is open, colleagues. [sighs] I'll just say that we had a a very, you know, I think productive conversation. Glad to see that it's here and I think we'll be proceeding to vote. All right, colleagues, with this item before us, all those in favor of 11A, please say I. I >> I opposed. >> Motion carries. And we have now um established a new award. And thank you, Commissioner Ellison. 12 on the agenda is old business. These are items that would have been seen by this board previously and laid over to today for which we have none. 13 is immediate approvals, and we have two today. 13A is to establish closed labor meetings on Tuesday, July 14 and Tuesday, August 18 at 10 a.m. to discuss matters related to labor strategies. I'll move this. May I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Commissioner Gotel. Colleagues, this is uh straightforward scheduling. Any uh discussion hearing? None. All those in favor of 13A, please say I. I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. 13B is a submission of 2026 Henipin County local performance measurement data to the office of the state auditor and declaration of participation in the local performance measurement program for the 2026 budget year. May I have a motion, please? Second. >> Thank you, Commissioners Anderson and Connley. Miss Willland. Chair Fernando, commissioners, item 13B is the submission of the 2026 local performance measures data to the office of the state auditor. Cities and counties that participate in this effort may be eligible for certain reimbursement opportunities. Henipin County has submitted performance data since 2011 when the effort began. Jodi Werma, assistant county administrator for the operations line of businesses here to provide more detail. Thank you, Jod. Welcome. >> Good afternoon, Chair Fernando and commissioners. This bar, as Jody indicated, is one that we bring before you. Um, we've done it each year since 2013. Um, and we do it after we've completed our performance measure report for the state auditor's office. The county does receive about $25,000 for our participation in this voluntary program. So, the goal of the program is to provide residents and elected officials with comparable data on how the county is doing with local services and whether or not they're meeting community needs. The full report is included in the agenda materials. You should have that. The areas that we're required to report on include public safety, public works, public health, social services, taxation, elections, veteran services, library, budget, and the environment. The report is prepared each year by the uh uh department of integrated data and analytics and they leverage data from the state and from county systems and the current report reflects data collected in 2025 or the most recently available data for the required measurement. The survey also or the the data also includes survey um data uh from for example from our shape survey or from our veteran survey on quality of services that we provide. We're required to file this report with the state auditor by July 1st um with the per performance measurements then to be published on our county web page and I'm available to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Colleagues discussion commission. >> Um thank you Madam Chair and Miss BMA give us a few highlights. I bet there's interesting stuff in there. How are we doing? >> Sure. [laughter] Well, I think we're doing well. Let me let me just pull up the report. I'll give you a example of the kinds of data that we report on for each of the areas. So we do crime rate, uh we do recidivism rate, road and plowing conditions, election accuracy, uh quality of veteran supports, number of library visits, bond rating, and recycling percentages. Is there a particular area that you're interested in uh a statistic on? >> They all sound interesting. Thank you. I think um and maybe maybe let me ask the question a different way which is that clearly we're required to submit this data. Is there a way in which we respond to the data and in which case highlight a statistic that we might be responding to? >> Sure. Chair Fernando, uh Commissioner Green, we we're not required to do this. This is a voluntary program, but we have participated um and we collect this data internally and again use data from the state. We don't provide a specific response. We simply put the data out there for people to see. So, it's really about transparency. But the the report does not reflect um commentary on the data. It simply reflects the data itself. Is if that answers your question. >> It does a little Thank you, Madam Chair. It does a little, you know, yes. And I guess I'm wondering, I suspect maybe in other venues we're tracking whether or not we're pleased with the number of library visits or we want there to be more or you know, are we happy with how the roads are getting plowed or we want to do better at that. So um because those are the things being measured, it makes me want to evaluate um and so I'm wondering how do we evaluate those services if not through this report? >> Sure. Chair Fernando, Commissioner Green, I think each individual department that provides the data, then receives the data, they give the data to um our chief data officer, Eric Ericson, I imagine, and I can follow up with you and provide a written response with respect to our response to each of the data metrics in here, but I believe they're done individually by each department that provides the data. So, for example, um roads being plowed. I imagine public works collects the data. They they submit it to ERIC for compilation in this report and then use that internally for their own department metrics to respond. >> Okay. >> But I'm happy to give a full accounting of, you know, what each of the responses is for our for our areas. >> That sounds like a lot. Um >> I don't know that it actually is Commissioner Green. I think that's probably information that we have and I think we'd be happy to provide that. >> Okay. Okay. I do I feel sensitive on staff's behalf that um I don't like asking for memos unless I'm going to read them and make a decision that you know directs us in a different way about it. >> Sure. >> I I'm sure that our departments are responding to to information that they have about the quality and thoroughess of their own work. So I don't want I don't want there to be a whole lot of like jumping through additional hoops based on this question. [laughter] >> Okay. Chair Fernando, Commissioner Green, understand. I will follow up and ask about the the workload to do this and and follow up. >> Thanks. Thank you. Further [clears throat] discussion. Um I have some commentary that might not be exactly uh what Commissioner Green was getting at, but uh perhaps I'm very interested in the public safety um the public safety portion specifically understanding the relationship of of the metrics here by municipality. So public safety has is a very has a lot of kind of regulation if you will. And so are these all federal offenses? Are these misdemeanors? Are they gross misdemeanors? Um what is the clearance rate? Is there a disparity in clearance rate by municipality? So I individually am very eager to have an understanding around what what public safety in today's context from a resident perspective. Um there's just a lot of news all of the time about public safety statistics and then um public safety budgets. So how might this lens of report give us yet another perspective into uh ensuring that we are doing what we can to increase safety for residents while also being mindful of of the aggregate taxpayer demand. So that's my comment. if you uh I don't require anything back. It was more um how I see it, but I'm happy to receive a response if you have one. >> Sure. Chair Fernando. Um in the report, if you look at the public safety, it does give you a little bit of background about the crimes and how they're organized. It doesn't speak specifically to what you just said about um increasing safety for our residents. Again, this is simply a a data making transparent data that we're making available for individuals, government officials, the residents, taxpayers who want to see this. Happy to follow up on that if you think that is something that you'd like to see. >> Yes. >> Tied back to the tied back to the metrics. It's not tied back to this metric because this is the optional submission to you right for um I'm expressing this kind of connecting to other conversations we've had as a board um because what while this is it's it's it's organized by type not necessarily by level or by location. So um to put to kind of uh intersect this with a discussion we had at the committee level when we approved the domestic violence victim advocacy services right that came to us be what they were proposing is there was a bit of a misalignment on city reviewing uh felony charges and the county reviewing misdemeanor and gross demeanor misdemeanor charges. So I'm just very um interested in the data around level of charge location right which municipality [snorts] and um what is the funding mechanism for uh for that locality uh we are we are a datadriven people first organization and I'm certain that there will be illuminating data for us to consider is there a disparity that we should be paying attention to um not unlike what commissioner Lendy said earlier here there's likely opportunities when we kind of dig in from a different perspective and you know for everybody watching at home we've been talking a lot about budget and I am interested about budget right so if there's a location that has a very high clearance rate that's favorable then what are those interventions what is their funding model what is their response model um you know uh the success of the embedded social workers for example like is does that have a role in this clearance rate does that you know s we want to do we want to continue to to provide the services and engage in the activities that increase resident outcomes and hopefully um limit or mitigate uh undo taxpayer burden and uh seeing it from this lens county level. I totally understand why the state wants to see at the county level. I'm interested for all these metrics when we break down each of our 45 municipalities or at least kind of the the law enforcement zones that residents are served in. So this is the report submitted. Great. Um offering additional points of interest that you know uh that doesn't affect the report being submitted. >> Is that if that makes sense? >> Thank you, Chair Fernando. >> Yeah. Thank you, Commissioner. >> Thank you. I just I just want to um I really like this report. I think it's great. I think it's good for each department to kind of take a like look at what how things are going and then they each department is probably going to assess um maybe they want to do something different. One thing that I thought was really interesting was on the the post-election audit um and the numbers and looking at as we have an election coming up this November. If you look at 2024, the 12 randomly selected precincts have 100% accuracy. back to 2022 again 12 randomly selected precincts 100% accuracy back again to 2020 same thing happened back to 2018 so I guess one the one question I had I don't and I know that maybe this is election so it may be a little bit um do we are different precincts selected each random time do you know that because I mean I think this is a great way for voter trust to understand that we have these postelection audits >> um madam chair and commissioner. Yes. Uh they are um selected uh each each election uh differently. We actually do it in this room. The canvasing board selects it. We have a random way of of selecting from our 400 precincts. And there have to be a certain one a certain number that go for each um congressional district that we have, but it's always random. Um and it and as you said, we've had 100% accuracy uh for the past um several elections really showing the the strength that our and just so just so it's clear, the the post-election audit is taking what we produced on election night to say what the vote totals were for the different candidates and then they the the audit is actually taking out the ballots and handc counting them. It's usually for governor or senator and then representative and then one other uh um race and it shows that the uh hand count for those 12 precincts match the electronic count at 100%. As you said, highlighting that that our elections are uh accurate and the election results that we report on election night are are sound. >> Well, and then thank you Mr. Rogan and to that um Madam Chair. I just if there's something we could put out it on social media on communications, I just think that there's a lot of things that are going about if if somebody doesn't like the the the result of an election that it's just something's wrong. We have we do these audits and I think the public should know just how much they can trust voting in Henipin County. So, thank you for that, >> Madam Chair and Commissioner. We are going to be doing a uh elections um presentation um coming up uh before the um the primary and we will make sure to highlight that and to and to talk specifically about um our election accuracy. >> Thank you. Uh colleagues, any other discussion? So 13B is before us which is a submission that we do every year around measures and um multiple commissioners including myself have a lot of feedback on the data that uh and further ideas on where to take the data but before us is submitting it to the state auditor. Um further discussion on the item seeing none all those in favor please say I >> opposed. Motion carries. Uh, we've reached the end of our published agenda. So, a motion to adjurnn is in order. So, move >> second. >> Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Anderson and everyone else. But I'll give it to Lundy. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. But don't go too far. We have another meeting and I will hand the virtual gavl to Rail Chair Green. Oh, sorry. >> I'm really excited to see you all for a week. Just want you to know. >> No, just not with you here. [laughter] >> Thanks. >> I don't I'm not going anywhere. I'm just not here on this dance. >> Nothing personal. >> Nothing personal. Nothing personal. >> No, it feels personal. kind of like overheating with us. >> Exactly. >> That's [laughter] pretty bad. >> It feels [clears throat] personal. See you. >> She doesn't She doesn't want to see our hands. [laughter] >> Exactly. >> I'm sure you feel the same. Honestly, >> I know. And as long as we're not fighting about the hospital, I'm happy to [laughter] be dinner at your house. for sure. [laughter] >> I haven't published yet, but um yeah, thanks. >> I'm just I've gotten the signal. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the Thursday June 11th 2026 meeting of the Henipin County Regional Railroad Authority. The first item on our agenda is to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> Moved by Commissioner Anderson, seconded by Commissioner Fernando. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed. Our agenda is approved. Um next on our agenda is to approve the minutes from our May 19th, 2026 meeting minutes is item 2A on the agenda. I'll move approval. >> Second. Second from Commissioner Connley. Uh all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed. The minutes are approved. Under new business item 4A, we have something that we saw recently in our full board meeting on the consent agenda. It's the um negotiating agreement with the Met Council and Henipin County for the Blue Line extension project. The extension of the date to June 30th, 2027 2027 um with no increase to the NTE. Uh I will move approval. Is there a second? Second, >> a second from Commissioner Lundy. Uh we had ample discussion uh and expression of enthusiasm in our board meetings. So all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed. That item is approved. I will call us adjourned.