federal judge rules warrantless flock camera searches may violate the Fourth Amendment. I know we talked about precedence before. Yes, it's not precedence. Let me finish. I have one one thing here. I just want to read what the judge said. It becomes constitutionally problematic when law enforcement can indiscriminately and passively catalog your whereabouts over an extended period of time and then they use that information for any purpose whenever convenient. Whose side are we on?

This conversation is also a lot more about Flock cameras and just Richfield. We can't ignore the scary parts of this reality. And the fact is we live under a fascist federal government. Full stop.

Flock is building tools to help you fight the real crim the real crime affecting communities across the country. Many activists don't like that. Let's call let's call this what it is. Flock and the law enforcement agencies we partner with are under coordinated attack. The attacks aren't new. We've been dealing with this. You've been dealing with this forever and we've been dealing with it since our founding.' U from the same activist groups who want to defund police, weaken public security, sorry, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness.

Let's take all the ethical things off the table, and I want to stay on both sides. So, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing about anything in terms of federal policy, but here is the reality. The city is currently rolling with technology with known error rates, which means we're liable for negligence. Ambulance chasers and privacy activists all over the country are already on this. The lawsuits have already started. I don't particularly want to play pay for those.

Corporations and companies have proved in general time and time again that they cannot be trusted. We trust our elected officials. And with great responsibility and leadership, you know, those things matter. Outsourcing private public safety tools to private reckless corporations is a fool's errand. It is absolutely ridiculous. It is rife with conflicts of interest that are so glaringly obvious that yes, the anger and the emotion, the reason why this room is not full is because people are exhausted. They can barely get through the day.

Um definitely looking forward to um ultimate frisbee program here in Richfield. It's a great sport. It's uh it's known uh being unique among sports that people who are young can engage in because there's no referee that the children involved, the athletes involved um kind of self self-regulate and they referee themselves. So, it's definitely a unique sport and I'm very glad to see it coming to Richfield.

We were never informed that it should be in our name. Nobody contacted us to tell us there was no payments being made. Um so we just find it unfair that on top of the $13,000 in unpaid rent and the $67,000 in damages he did to the property, we're now being held liable for trash for a property that he was supposed to pay this bill for.

After more than 20 years of owning rental property in Richfield, I believe I should have a reasonable opportunity to address delinquent accounts with my tenants before thousands of dollars are added to my property taxes. I respectfully respectfully ask the council to consider the following. Provide a summary of collection efforts... please reconsider the assessment which were accumulated before the city clearly communicated its enforcement practices to property owners. And number three, establish a fair process going forward that promptly notifies owners when tenants fall behind and gives them a reasonable opportunity to address delinquent accounts before balances accumulate or are assessed against their properties.

I can confirm that our garbage haulers are required under our contract to notify the occupants of the household multiple times per year if bills are being left unpaid. Um, when we've asked them in the past though to include carbon copies um to the owners, they have expressed a number of concerns over proprietary information that's kind of been an ongoing discussion back and forth between us and the garbage haulers in general.

I can see the confusion for an owner that I mean typically the person who has the obligation is the person who's given notice. And here it gives the impression that the person getting notice is not the person obligated. And so I can understand the confusion on the property owners that why am I not getting the notice if I'm not the person and when I've when my understanding is that I've contracted with someone else to be responsible for it.

along that sidewalk or trail from the trail to the wall, um, it's the maintenance district's responsibility from that sidewalk or trail to the the the adjacent u private property is that that property owner's responsibility to maintain that area.

The changes that council member Burke uh uh was referencing largely bring our city charter in compliance with requirements of state law. As a charter city, uh our rules have to align with what the state requires. The changes are are such that um the forms that will that have to be filled out for initiatives and petitions now need to include the county that the citizen lives in.

Just wanted to say it's it's great to see so many youth applicants in these roles. We don't always get these filled, so seeing four all at once is so awesome. I first got involved in city government in Northfield where I was when I was in high school. I was a youth lead on or appointee to the library board. Um, and so I know it's just a great way to get involved in public service.

And I was too was very excited to see we had so many applicants. We used to have this many applicants and then the pandemic hit and it people didn't want to be online anymore than they had to because they were already going to school online. So, it's good to see this bouncing back and getting the youth involved again. So, thank you to everybody who's applied.

So any exceptions would have to be done by council and I would recommend that you would have some kind of um, policy around it and a process and criteria and it be uniform so that staff can apply that. Well, um, a couple things to consider about that. Um, since the sustainability commission has been advising the forestry policy, uh, and process, you may want to consider bringing them into any kind of discussion about some kind of exception policy.

my position would be that staff should plant the trees as planned. I think in general we should think of our boulevard trees as a street feature and not an amenity to the homeowner that lives there... when we allow people to opt out of public trees uh adjacent to their house, we kind of cement that for another 40 years.

we don't want to plant and will not plant on top of any underground utility sewer line specifically. Um with this specific project, there is one tree that was planted too close to a sewer line. We will be moving that tree.