The survey is currently sitting at 164 questions. We are looking to get that numbered lowered to around 115 for questions.

the goal of a survey is to find out what the person is at without any additional information. You can't make the assumption that everybody will hear that what was it? Uh 54% would come from residents outside the community. And you do this whenever you're talking elected officials. You see bad polls, you they push polls. Here's all this information. Does this What do you think now? But you have to understand what they think and then you can test okay does this make you more likely or does this impact your potential decision.

try to I my suggestion and recommendation is try to think about yes, it's interesting data, but what do you what would you do with the data?

I do because I just I think about the conversations that we have on the deis and if we are not asking people how they feel about their taxation we're not asking them and it does and it feels uncomfortable for me to go on the desk and talk about you know we surveyed hundreds of people and you know the vast majority said that they would support higher property taxes to maintain gives us a certain amount of um ammunition or cover or rationale for moving forward just to maintain.

I would I would want to u make a pitch for the teen program. Um, I know that we've done a lot um for teens, but as our city continues to um diversify, I I still want to make sure that we keep that on our radar to provide programs and um you know, for lower income families that come to Minnetonka.

all this really started back in 2019. We uh partnered with the cities in the West Metro and did what was called the West Metro Trail study where we went out into the into the public and asked a lot of questions about in this area. Uh we did public engagement long range planning in 2020 and 21. And then um like all with all of our regional trails, once we have a long range plan and we go to construct the trail, it's the responsibility of the park district to fully fund and and execute and build that that trail. So we're fully responsible for the development of it.

So some of the design initiatives were taken is to minimize the impacts. So we are narrowing up the roadway um and shoulders to try to keep the trail entirely within the uh county and city rightways.

So we're looking at, you know, few a few years of disruption. And so, um, I wanted to know a little bit about, um, you know, communicating with the residents. Is there an end, uh, you know, are we starting on the north and working south? Sort of. How is it going to work to for people to get out in and out of their driveways? Just because I know those questions are going to come up.

100%. It just I mean it just one of the most disappointing aspects of this. I mean I'm willing to take the hit and have the the path on my side of the road, but the utilities are on the other side of the road. And so we were missing that that piece of it. And it just seems like such a lost opportunity if we're doing that much work anyway.

from a crosswalk standpoint, there's eight locations throughout the project uh where there's enhanced crosswalk, which means um a concrete median where people can have a refuge uh look out for the traffic in one direction, not have to worry about both directions when they're crossing

by delaying the project with those schedule impacts, we're probably adding about a million dollars to the project cost with inflation by missing that bidding window. It wouldn't necessarily be attributed to the trail improvement fund, but it would be split among the other funds that are remaining.

I support the trail on both sides of the I mean because I feel like I mean what you said about people may come back later or you've seen people come back I can see why someone would come back um to ask u for trails on both sides and then I do remember um there was comments about you know trying to um make sure people are safe as they're crossing you know you have to will walk up a mile or half a mile to um cross over and I can I I'll just say I I just support it.

I also support trail on the both sides. Um, as a cyclist, there have been times when I've chosen to ride on a busy road rather than ride on the opposite side of the road where the trail is because it's it's not it it's more difficult to get to where I'm actually trying to be when there's not a trail available and crossing the busy roads a lot of times trail access you can't you can't get to where you want to get to easily and it's dangerous trying to cross that road.

I am just asking that we find a way, whether we, you know, offer to buy them out. This is a $30 million project for these people. And I understand precedent or we find a way, you know, to help these people by not having a segment in this stretch if if it's possible. These are people that are butt up to the wetlands. They have no backyard and they're going to have a trail 20 ft from their front door and they're not going to be able to sell their houses and there's other parts of Minnotonka Boulevard of 101 that do not have trails on both sides including in front of my house.