“it's looking like based on these bids that we're in a relatively favorable bidding bidding climate right now. Is that is that a fluke or you think that's going on here?”

“I'm very glad that we got a little county funding. Take some a little tiny amount of the pain, the financial pain out of it.”

“this will extend this connectivity all the way from the Grace Bay Bridge and actually into Weisetta hooking in all the way across and all the way to the marsh and hopefully at some point to the city center and to the other side of 494. But this is a great thing for my ward Ward 3 which will allow a lot of walkability. So and also connecting to other nearby communities.”

“I wanted to pull this because I wanted to get a better picture of what the bike lane is going to look like on the Cedar Lake Road um, project. I was a little confused about what I read on that memo.”

“I attended the spring fest um with resource west before and I would encourage everyone to attend. It's really a nice event that they do. Um and then also um they do it for fundraising. And then also I just want to um say this and I I spoke to Mike about this earlier too. Um I'm hoping that we can um build a build a closer relationship with Resource West because they do a lot in the community. Um, when I first moved here in Minnotonka in 2008, I was um I moved here um as I stated before I um am was a low-income person who moved to Minnetonka and needed resources and I went to Resource West to um use some resources there and at the time they didn't have as many resources but since then um I know um they've moved to Minnotonka and been doing a lot of work like um I know Tracy is the executive up there has done a lot of work to improve and make sure that they're supporting the families in Minnotonka and Hopkins. So, I just um encourage us to build a deeper relationship with Resource West and hope that we can support them because they do do great work in the community.”

“I just uh, you know, it was sad to see Tom Moho go, but if it had to go and we got something in its place, I'm very excited that it's a sushi bar and uh, I welcome you to Minnetonka. I'm I'm very happy that uh, we're going to have a sushi bar uh, right there on Richdale Drive. So, excellent. All you can eat sushi.”

“Does it comply with the tree protection ordinance as it stands today? ... That's what I was was getting at is that it also complies with the more strict ordinance. Is that correct? ... is there actually a change to the number of trees being removed with this proposal.”

“I just uh, you know, it was sad to see Tom Moho go, but if it had to go and we got something in its place, I'm very excited that it's a sushi bar and uh, I welcome you to Minnetonka. I'm I'm very happy that uh, we're going to have a sushi bar uh, right there on Richdale Drive. So, excellent. All you can eat sushi.”

“The state of Minnesota can do that. The federal government can do that. We're bound by statute under public purpose dollars. And so that ties back into what Miss Wishnack was saying is in terms of the city just not being able to per say write a blank check for an organization no matter how worthy the cause. So it has to be a contract for service for something that the city wouldn't ordinarily provide on its own.”

“I think where it's a little muddier, and I think this is where people really have a hard time understanding is if somebody knows that they can't make their their next payment, right? and they know the eviction notice is coming and they're concerned at that point. That's the point they're they should be plugging into ICA. So, if we get those phone calls and we they go, 'I don't think I'm going to make rent next month.' They're going to go to ICA first because they're going to get counseling. They're going to get um food. They're going to get all kinds of support. And then depending on what happens there and what they need, then his house may or may not step in depending on So, I think I think we always jump to like the worst case scenario, but I think what I just described is probably a more common scenario.”

“I know that our city is doing a fabulous job with helping people. We have put some programs in place. Um his house is a good program. I understand what his house do. His house is different from a when we voted to put his house in place. I knew that his house was about responding quickly to emergency situations where people are homeless on the streets where people need to um have some a place to go for maybe even a night or two like that's emergency services where people don't have no access to maybe they are losing their place like immediately like Judy stated. Um, and so it is different from ICA. ... what I'm trying to say to you all, the programs, the services, the funding is in place. I'm okay as one council member with how our programs are being used in our city right now.”

“My concern is that um we want to make sure that uh you know as we're seeing around the country there's been use of potential you know selling to the federal government and um you know plans to build or or use warehousing sites or other sites for detention centers and I just wanted to kind of explore that here ask about that here and I understand that city council would need to uh review any future use of this is this, you know, as a conditional use, we would have purview over that or how how would that work?”

“It was designed as a corporate headquarters and a corporate headquarters building has got a lot of large common areas, open stairwells. The link that's been referred to is three stories of conference rooms. Functionally, that is meant for a specific one tenant sort of building and their particular use that it was designed for. to retenant that, to repurpose that for a multi-tenant environment, very expensive, cost prohibitive, and functionally would be very difficult to change um to make any sense out of it.”

“I will say you know I I can appreciate council member Rome's concern. I guess for me another concern is you know a very large data center. I think some of that is um assuaged a little bit by this being actually divided into two separate parcels and presumably marketed separately. I mean I'd rather see the smaller smaller parcel size than larger um in regards to kind of both of those concerns. ... So, council, we would take a motion on this um recommendation.”

“I'm going to make one quick correction. Uh, sorry, Mr. Funk, but we don't hire these folks. They're volunteers and so we just want to be sure to be grateful to them for volunteering their time in exchange for maybe some tacos or something for dinner before the meeting.”