I mean, the question that I have is um clearly you know all these stations were built at a different time when the view of what was necessary for um adequate fire stations was dramatically different. I mean, exhaust capture, um, isolation of turnout gear, you know, all those things didn't really exist when these stations were built.

And I was just wondering what is I mean are there other things that can be done besides I mean what are we looking at? Are there you know 24-hour staffing? Is that a mustdo? ... this is going to be a really tough thing to try to finance when we have other needs. as well.

I'm almost speechless like with the price of these, you know, fire stations and how much it's going to cost with so many different needs in our city. ... is this something that we we need to be addressing now or is this something that we can pause for a little bit?

I would say more of the critical need and turn to the chief to question is more about the staffing. So if you look at our facilities, yes, they're 40 years old, 40 45 years old... But it's more about the staffing side of things as we now added full-time staffing and we're going to continue to add more full-time staffing and having the facilities to match that need.

NFPA 1710 actually calls for a 4-minute drive time from all fire stations, but due to the challenging geography of Minnetonka with the creek and the freeways and uh uh Grace Bay, etc., it is virtually impossible to get anywhere in four minutes time. So, they suggested adding additional minute of travel time to get us with the five minute time frame uh for our service level objectives.

I mean, if we're talking about maybe an ice rink, okay, maybe we could, you know, it'd be a little different, but this is public safety. So I think we have to go in with that attitude that what do we have to do to get it right?

I support these. I think they're good. I think we should include some kind of reference or you know if we're going to publish this or or have it laid out um that that's a phase in because if you know if I'm a resident and I'm looking at this I'm like our goal is 620 and we're at 11:06 what's going on?

The first thing I think I would say uh for next year's survey is we adjust the home prices. We we push them up. So we want equal sections within the within the categories at this point in time.

What leads the list still is high taxes and that continues to be um the big issue across the state of Minnesota. I I see it in every city survey, every school district survey, every statewide survey.

I can still think my taxes are high, but if the quality of services are exceed that level, I rate the value positively.

We asked folks would you prefer a sales tax, a property tax or neither? The first thing I think to focus on is the neither. Okay, you have a majority support. The lowest amount of support you have is for renovations to Williston. It's still 66% supporting it.

67% said it made them somewhat or much more likely to support a local sales tax. Now, keep in mind, if you look at where the sales tax is, it's anywhere between 37 and 55, and now we have 67% saying this tips it.

I just wanted to make a comment that I found the questions on page 12, which are about um recycling and organic waste. I thought those were really informative and they're they're helpful. And you know, I think we need to see that because it really talks about multifamily housing or certain housing conditions and why they're not participating.

One of the things that the school mentioned was they've with their budget shortfall... they've changed their policy that a student or family that lives within two miles of one of their facilities will no longer receive busing. And so I think I shared in the staff... I think that will put some more strain on our trail and sidewalk plan.