So Minnesota election security uses multiple layers of security. State, county, and local election officials administer the elections on different levels. Election security protects voting equipment, voter registration, ballot, and election results.

Uh election ready readiness means planning for weather, snow shootings, powder power power outages, ice, DOJ monitors, protesters, media. Also means preparing for technical, operational, physical, and misinformation threats.

We get a lot of questions on the election tabulator. So, that's what you feed your ballot into. That is can it is not connected to the internet.

And where that becomes important is when we start dealing with things outside of the realm of an ebike. And there's this is where I think the conversation will land is more about it's not so much about ebikes or e-motos, scooters, and everything else you can imagine. But really the the the important part is the motor cannot exceed 750 watts.

And I quite honestly, I don't think most people know what they're buying. I mean, I think they're marketed as whatever, but an e-oto is not an ebike. An e-oto is technically would be considered a what, you know, depending on there's some things that make it a determination, but it more like a a motorized vehicle, which is under a whole different set of rules...

my question is, as sometimes it seems like the education's not working. I was out in a neighborhood in Minnetonka this weekend and the kids were going so fast on their electric vehicles that they were almost wiping out when they turned around.

I said there's some biases and I was really pissed off when he told me about it. And so I know we haven't really talked about that, but that's one of the things I'm concerned about our city if we start um stopping children or people that look to be younger than 15...

And so my question to you all, will you all reconsider um the vote that we've had already? I know um I talked to Mike, he said it's not binding. um we can reconsider it. We can change our mind. It's not like it's in edged in stone.

I'm not interested in reopening this. we've made a decision and I unless there's some significant piece of data that we did not look at some some new argument and what I've seen is repetitions of arguments we've already discussed uh that I'm not interested in uh re uh relooking at this decision.

So we could relitigate this and get six months down the road and just have a different group of unhappy residents based on whatever that future decision is.

So, my vacation might be, yay, we're going to Hawaii or my vacation might be we's spending a night in a state park for $25 depending on what my budget is for that year. And I I think that's where a lot of our residents are coming from, that kind of experience of a budget.

I'd like to propose essentially in the in the budget process for next year moving that kind of what is the say the maximum uh levy increase earlier in the year give staff some more direction around we know kind of what it will be based on our public safety master plan...

we can be more specific and asking do you have a specific target in mind for a tax levy and I think we might have even done that a few years ago as like a target it can be really hard early on but nonetheless I think we can spend some time at that budget kickoff off teasing all of that out...

what you're suggesting may be helpful because it definitely would be helpful for the residents because they do want to know what's going on. And about time, like you said, by the time we get to them to where they see the budget, it's already been discussed multiple times and a lot of times they don't even know.

It's five units per acre. Used to be the guidance overall in the guide plan for Minnetonka. Um, it's now moved up to seven units per acre uh in Minnetonka.

We heard that that was something that maybe um people would like because there's a a public process associated with that. The flip side is that um we have a lot of people in the public who don't understand conditional use permits and that's maybe on us to do a better education on conditional use permits.

I I feel good about that. I mean, it's a long process, but um it feels like a big issue, but I I just want to remind you there's a lot of other pages that didn't get attention by anyone.