The recommendation in the staff report was motion to approve the report. And after you hear this evening's reports from our boards and commission members, uh what staff recommends is to modify that motion to motion to accept the reports and approve the work plans.

The second item for your consideration is related, it's a new item uh which is 10F. So staff proposes to add a consent item uh which would be again after 10E would be AMA status in the state of Minnesota versus Gnome United States District Court file number 26-CV-00190.

Just just to um be a stickler for detail, we should since it is a new item, um we should the motion should include adding the new item to the agenda and then approving it as amended if possible.

As we all know across Minnesota and our city and communities, um our residents are experiencing fear and trauma due to escalating federal immigration enforcement... So, we stand ready to pivot and support um residents in the city where needed.

One thing that was newish in the last two years is the kind of housing visual dashboard, which you haven't seen it, definitely look at it. It does a really good job of helping contextualize all the data that helps us figure out where the needs are in our community for housing.

Marsh Run 3... staff recommended approval. Uh planning commission recommended denial and then um council ultimately approved it after lengthy uh public hearings for this particular um particular project.

We realized that there's this amazing list of 50 uh strategies or otherwise you could consider them as like policy directives. We realized pretty soon that we really need like these to be broken down and translated into actionable tasks.

Whereas Black History Month reminds us of the enduring legacy of resiliency, innovation, and leadership within the black community and challenges us to continue to advancing equity and justice in all facets of society.

Now for now therefore be it resolved that Minnetonka city council does hereby declare the month of February as Black History Month in the city of Minnitankka.

The three key messages that have been developed uh out of this coalition have been first community safety over politics... Second is economic destabilization... And then last, local control and constitutional rights.

I know that there's a variety of people in the room that have written they want um eviction moratoriums which is really um governed by the state and I encourage everyone that is concerned about it as I am to contact uh the governor's office and your state legislators.

Personally, I believe it's time for us to translate our words into one or more resolutions and ordinances or ordinances that, you know, kind of demonstrates our own values and our commitment as a city and a community to standing up for the constitution, the rule of law, democracy, and our neighbors.

This doesn't just impact um immigrants or black folks, white folks. It impacts everybody. It's impacting everybody. I don't care if you what side of the aisle you on. It's impacting everybody.

I think an eviction moratorum does very little for our vulnerable community because in the end of that they still have rent due and that means the eviction moratorum ends and they are evicted because they have rent due. And so I think where we can be provide meaningful impact and Minnetonka is committed to doing this is um in uh rent rent um rental assistance programs.

I'm here tonight to ask you in spite of what the mayor said a moment ago for the Minnotonka City Council to pass a resolution requesting the governor to declare a state of emergency, enact a statewide eviction moratorum, and provide rental assistance to ensure long-term stability of those sheltering in place.

Finally, and this is my most urgent point, we all the affected folks need you to continue to be loud and then even louder in your supportive and advocacy for efforts to protect us all from unconstitutional and inhumane activities by ICE. Be persistent about the city's position.

An example of this was evident in the case of a Minneapolis resident with autism and other disabilities when she was abducted by ICE in her car... I would ask that you consider um having these available um at city hall online and in any other manner available.

The Minnotonka school district is I think no one would argue one of the main reasons that people come to Minnetonka to families live choose to live here. People we have a huge open-enrolled population and the immersion program is one of the school's crown jewels. That program cannot exist without our incredible diverse staff and it will not continue to unless we show them our unwavering support.

Last week in my classroom, we were talking um the vocabulary word was displaced and we talked about how Native Americans were displaced by our government. And I had one of my little one of my students raise his hand and he said, 'This is what it's like right now in Minnesota. People are in the streets. They have masks. They have guns. And they're displacing people with black and brown skin in our community.'

If we're going to ask the governor to put this in place, ask our legislative folks to put this in place, you have to go a step further and ask them to put some type of policy or something in place to keep people from getting evicted once the rent is paid because this has happened to many people that they were still evicted even though their rent was paid.

We can put all the ordinances we want out there. And some of the reason they're not enforceable is because there are um you know there's a supremacy clause and there um superseding laws at other levels of government that don't allow it. It then becomes performative and occasionally um puts us in an adversarial position when we're in fact doing so many of the things that we're doing.

I uh move approval of consent agenda items 10 A, B, C, D, E, and with great enthusiasm 10F.

This is for the mayor's state of the city event which is being held here at the city uh community center and the Rotary Club is partnering with the city to provide on sale um sale of uh beer and wine at the event.

Everybody's welcome if you have an opportunity to come and mostly I'm going to also promote the state of the city which is February 25th again here in the community center. It's going to be my first opportunity as mayor but it's going to be great event.

First and foremost is that there are no new lots created here. We are starting with two lots with two homes and we're ending with two lots with two homes. Uh relocation of the driveway is something that supports the county goals uh for their county road. The change in the flood plane actually increases uh flood plane storage on the site.

Yeah, there's obviously some trees that came down, but there's a lot that have stayed. A lot of them that um I came down, there's a lot of dead trees in there... there is a tree uh replacement plan that is in place. We'll be planting uh hundreds of trees in there...

I also want to encourage you to try to keep the boulevard trees because there's a uh there's a development across the street and the trees along the road were removed and it it is just not the look. Um this is a treeline community. Um people like the boulevard trees...

The mayor did review those and is recommending Ryan Cadet to the park board to serve a 2-year term effective February 3rd, 2026 and expiring on January 31st, 2028. And then for the planning commission, Mayor Shack is recommending Gretchen Shir to the planning commission to a two-year term effective February 3rd, 2026 and expiring on January 31st, 2028.