As staff, we've been looking at how to fulfill the requirements of the budget amendment and been in touch with many different cities around the US who have different public restrooms. There are limited number of vendors who are able to um meet all the different requirements as outlined in the amendment and then looking at procurement for these restrooms. it takes time to fabricate as well as secure um enough of a target market I guess I'll say for it to make it worthwhile for the vendors to come to a new market and so we are um in conversations with partners other agencies um in the area to see if there is um ability to kind of partner in scale of these restrooms...

My understanding is that we uh I'm not exactly sure why they were these funds were originally transferred to the general fund, but we moving forward we can use we can charge directly to the value capture fund. The intention is to continue to use the 700,000 per year for the restrooms. So, this is an administrative change um to preserve the ability to have that funding available for the restrooms. Otherwise, if the funding is in the general fund, um there is less there's more chance there's a greater chance that it could be used for something else.

Great. As long as we're still going to work on those public restrooms, that's amazing.

This project is a full reconstruction of the roadway and the public space in this corridor from property line to property line. That is a great opportunity to uh concurrently build the infrastructure needed for a uh for Metro Transits Met uh Metro Fline bus rapid transit line also known as ABRT.

I want to begin by saying that this is a process that we at the ideal diner on Central Avenue have been looking at to better understand the impact on this business as a result of the changes that are proposed here today. And we started that process by communicating with the project team members back in early 2026 and have had several meetings. And I believe we have been successful in finding a common understanding of what we need and what the transportation system needs.

The current feline design unnecessarily eliminates 14 essential street parking spaces. Essential along this cor experience along this corridor shows that incremental parking reductions directly uh impact customer access and operational capacity for businesses... independent data shows that accessible on street parking is crucial to the economic survival of neighborhood merchants. Uh when customers lose nearby parking options, they patronize businesses elsewhere.

As a longtime commercial property owner, my principal concern with the current Metro Fline proposal is the direct negative impact it has on property values and asset visibility. It's hard to get to my building with the oneways that are also par perpendicular to central.

Vision zero is the tool that we use to uh address those and reduce those uh towards zero. Uh vision zero uh is uh an action as a set of policies that the city of Minneapolis is a leader in nationwide.

So there are a number of So first of all, I think we get the question about flock cameras in particular. So our cameras are not flock cameras. Um there our vendor is Novo Global... The data we actually what we've done is set it up. So regulatory services is um traffic control agents are the ones who review the uh the footage to confirm that there was a violation and actually issue a warning or citation. But but the way that that's set up is that there's also sort of a firewall so that they're not like seeing people's information as they're doing that.

I'm so grateful for this new pilot program that really look I mean you're wise beyond what we could have even imagined. Director Folly, like the the the work that you've done on this pilot program to protect residents and to um ensure that it's not a surveillance tool and that it's not uh this harm and benefit to people who maybe have not who maybe loan their car to someone.

All of the funding that we're talking about goes into the general fund. Uh and those are of course uh areas for the mayor and council to answer how those funds are spended. So they are not dedicated funds.

The idea of raising those franchise fees and then spending it on weatherization was to not burden low-income uh Minopolitans with higher utility bills. Uh the idea was if we were going to raise utility bills through this tax, we were going to then spend it on weatherization to reduce the utility bills um for people who might not be able to afford that increase. Um so I am just noting for the crowd that this is going back on that um this is going back on that promise that we made to our our constituents, our residents about not burdening them with additional costs. uh and at the same time this promise that we made to our residents about continuing to invest fully in uh our climate work.

Uncleared sidewalks are a health and safety hazard that pose a barrier to residents, especially those with mobility challenges. Uncleared sidewalks and pedestrian routes lead to icy conditions that result in dangerous slip and fall incidents.

I think we all know this anecdotally but it is nice when things are confirmed in the data. The best predictor that a property won't be shoveled next snow event is a history at that property of previous snow and ice violations.

When looking at per distance of sidewalk to cost spent, the neighborhood snow patrol can be considered the most cost-effective of the programs. There is a many hands make light work component to this programming and the paid snow clears or volunteers involved live in the community and and are able to quickly get by foot to where they cleared the snow.

When a 311 violation comes in, we send a letter to the property owner. We give three days about for that letter to arrive before we have sidewalk inspections dispatch to go check if they did or did not clear. Once Sidewalk Inspections conforms it's a violation, it goes on a work order for our contractor. That typically takes another they have three or four days from there. So on average, we hope to get it within seven days, but it can take longer depending on circumstances.

Um in meeting with um my Harrison neighborhood um organization, they were um extremely pleased with the pilot program that came through um our community. So, it is definitely something that we are welcoming back and and want to see um more of that that supports um residents um in neighborhoods within North Minneapolis um and residents as you know, individuals are aging and and senior.