I'm curious about the numbers here in the amount of 1.4 million for a total not to exceed of 18 million. That's a really big gap. I was wanting to understand these numbers and what um yeah, how much we're anticipating to spend. Are we buying the equipment or are we leasing the equipment?

What we're doing right now is we're not um upgrading any equipment. We're not expanding any service. We're just getting additional body cameras and tasers and the supporting equipment for that. This is a singular purchase to support that through the life of the contract. The $18 million, that's the overall cap of the contract.

Additionally, we're adding language under alarms regulating the sounding of motion sensors on private property so that the audio is not audible from adjacent residential uses.

By writing this clause in the code city risk by creating a administrative mechanism that can easily be weaponized by neighbors or personal grievances against uh responsible homeowners that are simply trying to keep their property secure.

There have been multiple uh complaints that we've received at various addresses across Minneapolis. So, this isn't an isolated incident. Um, we're seeing the issue arise more and more often.

We find the current language is unnecessarily restrictive. It incorrectly assumes that someone with a qualifying felony under that state statute wouldn't be a good pet owner. In fact, uh, in my tenure with the division, uh, we found that these felons often are great owners and they've just had an unfortunate situation in the past and they want to start have a good ownership and a relationship with their pet and they're prohibited uh, by doing so because they're often met with an immediate $250 application fee.

The proposed law accepts the opposite risk that someone with a recent history of serious violence may keep a large or potentially dangerous animal without review until there is an animal related reason for the city to act. I think the first risk is more reasonable. If the current law is too broad, narrow it. If the fee is too high, lower it. But please do not eliminate the preventive safeguard entirely.

I have a felony conviction. I own that. Uh, and I've worked to build a different life. Uh, but a fee on my dog uh, doesn't answer from my past. Uh it just punishes me for still being here and trying to live the best life possible. Uh I'm in recovery and you know having a dog to come home to has been one of the most important parts of uh the recovery process for me. Having that unconditional love is amazing.

I'm one year out of incarceration for 21 years at the age of 16. And what an animal means to me with no kids is family. Most people treat their pets like family. But this ordinance put in place that you got to pay to have family.

And so to have taken his dog away from him at this time would have been disastrous. So um yeah, for him and for many others, I I I think we should move forward with this. This is a great this is a great thing to do for our community.

our rates are still very high and um it is not going to zero, which is what we would like to be able to say, right? Nobody should die of an opioid involved overdose. Um and we have significant um racial ethnic disparities. We see that the rates for our residents are black and American Indian residents are four and um close to 30 times higher than that the resident uh rates for our white residents.

We have currently 26 syringe box dropboxes um installed across the city and are working to add an additional 15 through a pilot project with the Minnesota Department of Health.

I love that people know where it's going to be and know how to access it and that they feel safe. You know, one of the things that I had not thought about during Operation Metro Surge is like the people who needed urgent medical care that were too afraid to go in to get it. And how you all showed up.

It's always interesting when I when I hear people talking about Narcan and they say, "Oh, you can just go to the vending machine at the fire station." They talk about it like candy, right? Like it's just like a part of the community now. And I and I I appreciate that because that's the work you all have done. You don't just put it there and leave it. you put it there and you teach community how to use it, how to activate the space, that they're welcome there to get it, that there's no stigma associated with you going to help someone or you telling someone how to access it. And I think you've done um a fantastic job at that.