“So again, welcome everyone here this evening as well as those watching on YouTube later on. I'm going to start with some introductions. I'm Lisa Whan. I am the mayor and to my left are council members. They need to get their names straight.”

“The petition process lacks transparency and informed consents. Liability shifts away from the state. to put it on the residents and then shifts ultimately to the city if the lid is disbanded.”

“Chemical herbicides are the default. Some are classified as PAS habitat loss and unattended consequences.”

“Our concerns is she will attempt to create a lid in Holstead's Bay and wipe out the vegetation as they did in Harrison's Bay.”

“Current efforts to manage invasive plants and lakes uh rely on repeated herbicide treatments which are costly and rarely lead to long-term control and native plant recovery. Although everyone is telling us that that's exactly what happens.”

“So it's really about getting information out there is what we're attempting to do.”

“So, we've seen it go through Mound. The city mayor said something in the meeting when it got struck down there. He said very interesting. He said, 'We have a $60 million water filtration issue going on in Mound. We had seven people show up at chamber the night that we had this lid that they tried to enact in mound. It was packed and the polar opposite positions people took and mound and eventually struck it down. He said if it was quite interesting that we have this $60 million water filtration project going on and nobody shows up act for lit.'”

“We live over on Wood Edge Road, a little tiny road that's surrounded by tar, pavement, sidewalks, and we're the only road in the whole area that doesn't have tar on it.”

“So, I think it's it's what a half a mile if even that. >> Right. This this was on slated with the project right now. But when everything got eliminated off cuz we were at was it 8.8 8 million and then you guys wanted to knock it down to a third of that. So, a lot of stuff got taken off and that was one of them that got taken off too.”

“So, I know that um Allison was going to put together some dollar amount. And obviously because it is such a small road or such a short stretch, we would probably want to kind of um put that together with another project in order because of course then you could save a little bit.”

“If you do put a plan together and figure out what that assessment would be, would that be something that would be ahead of time? It might go out to everybody in the next three months. Here's what it might be or the next just so we know that.”

“So, uh, does it have to be unanimous one way or the other? >> Well, >> no. And the city could actually decide if the city says, 'No, we're going to do this regardless of whether you want it or not, we could do it.'”

“I would have been on time, but the fire department wouldn't let me through.”

“So, when I was very young, took a family vacation to Breen Ridge, Colorado, and at a very young age on my own, I looked around and I thought, "This is really cool. This they had such a good sign ordinance that it just made the town look neat." And I don't think Minatrista needs to try to be or look like Breenidge, but it's just something that stuck with me.”

“And there are a lot of people in Minotrista who have decided to be entrepreneurs and I'm very happy for them and I wish them all the success in the world, but I think it's unfortunate that they think being in business gives them the right to clutter the intersections with their signs.”

“And I've done some research and I found cities and counties and a whole state that has ordinances or laws that impose fines. And I wouldn't want to do it to be punitive, but just to demon just a lot of the signs are the same people every year.”

“The mulch people, the mosquito spray, the gutter cleaning in the windows, and they just keep putting them up. The intersection by my house just gets full. >> And I'm sure often, well, I know times the the top of the sign gets separated and then the wire frame is there and either your co-workers or the county gets those things wrapped in the blades of their mower. They got to haul the mower back, put it up, take the deck apart and fix it and it just looks bad, I think.”

“So, I am very interested in encouraging the city to add fines. And the reason I think it would work is if you contact the people and say, 'Hey, you know, you got two weeks to get these down.'”

“Edmonton, Oklahoma has a $200 fine.”

“So, we will look into this and we will have staff bring something back to a a work session so we can get all of the details that we would need. So, and I I know you're not the only one that thinks this.”

“Looks bad.”

“I think it would save the city, you know, there'd be a little bit of enforcement. These few offenders would find out and I think 90% of the problem go.”

“So, we'll add that to a future work session.”

“So, all right. We'll bring it back maybe sometime in June. I mean, I don't know what we have scheduled, but”

“I have a chauffeur.”

“So Jasper and I are going to be down at the state capital. Andrew Myers, our representative, asked if I could um testify to a committee regarding the Highway 7 um corridor. Mindot has been has asked for some um additional funding for safety um things on um Highway 7 and we're going to go down saying we're all in favor of the I think it's 11 million that they're asking for, but we want it specifically earmarked for uh roundabouts and not the um raised um median um because that would really really styy and prohibit us from um development and or even current neighborhoods. So, we will make that very very clear that we're all in favor of the additional dollars and they would be desperately needed for roundabouts which would actually help safety on this corridor. So, that's kind of our our um thing that we're going to be saying.”

“I attended the Northwest League and let's see, we talked about a number of things. Uh Kevin Anderson was there. The other thing that um the chief and I signed on to a letter and it was regarding funding for the sheriff Henipin County Sheriff's Department and we both felt very strongly that they needed to continue to fund fully fully fund the sheriff's department. So there was a very very narrow window time frame in which to sign on to this letter and so both of us felt it was very important and we signed on to it. I won't go into all the all the details here tonight, but um basically one of the commissioners felt that um the cities the sheriff's department shouldn't be patrolling the cities. Well, they don't really patrol the cities out here, but there's a lot of other things that we partner with um the sheriff's department on. and that's DTF, that's the drug task force, there's the crime lab, there's um they come and help and support us when there's, you know, incidents that are big incidents out here. So, we really do need them and we need them to be fully funded. So, we just expressed our concern about that. I don't think that they there will be any cuts or that I don't think anything will happen. Um, but we wanted to be sure to be on record about that.”

“Nope. I think that covers it. Um, you know, especially Crime Lab is massive for us. If if they're very specially trained in forensics. If if Crime Lab went away, we'd be relying on the BCA. And if all of Hen County relied on the BCA, it would be detrimental to the entire state. So, um elements like crime lab, water patrol, um and and you know that that's just uh that's it it's needed. It's it's uh greatly needed. So, and we appreciate their partnership.”

“And then um Kevin Anderson will be hosting a town hall meeting here in Minatrista at the Gail uh Woods facilities on June 16th. And I will be there um as as one of the hosts, I guess. I guess I'm not sure how to say that, but I'll be there probably to introduce him. So, if you have questions or you would like to attend, please feel free. Don't forget on May 5th, we have our state of the city address. I asked Jasper to get the invites out um get those printed as soon as possible. So, if you would like to send some to people you know, um, neighbors, friends, family within the city, let Paula know so that we can get those out. I'll be sending out some as well. Uh, so that is going to be held again at the Burl Oaks, which is now renamed to Crooked Water Golf Course, but we're just going to call it Burl Oaks for now because everybody knows that. And, um, that'll be on May 5th, I think, starting at 5:30. So 5:30 and we'll start the presentation around six o'clock. I hope you can all make it agai”