Good evening everyone. I'm calling toorder this August 25th, 2026 meeting of the Richville City Council. It's 700p.m. If you're able, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance.>> I pledge aliance to the flag ofit stands nation liberty justice for all. Thank you. Umand then clerk Friedri, can you please note for the record that um councilmember Coleman Woods is excused this evening?>> Thank you. Um our first thing is approval of the agenda.>> I move approval of the agenda. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded. Isthere any discussion? All in favor, please say I.>> I. All opposed. We've approved the agenda. Next would be consideration ofthe minutes of July 28th, 2026 city council work session, July 28th, 2026city council regular meeting, and the minutes of the August 12th, 2026 citycouncil work session. I move approval of all three sets ofminutes. I'll second. >> Second.>> Okay. It's been moved and seconded to approve all three sets of minutes. Isare there any comments or dis corrections? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please sayI. >> I.>> I. >> All oppose.And we have approved the minutes. Next, we're going to move on to the openforum. Participants can share their comments in person, by voicemail, oremail, and may also request to participate virtually. For moreinformation on submitting comments, refer to the council agenda and minutespage on richfieldm.gov/city council.And the way the procedure works is that youplease state your name in your city of residence. Then you will have threeminutes to address the council. I will hold up a yellow card when youhave 30 seconds left and then I'll hold up a red card when your time is expired.And please stick to the timeline so that others have a chance to speak. Councilwill be listening to the speakers but not engaging in a debate at this time.If you have questions, the staff will provide answers either via email or atthe next council meeting. and thank you for taking the time to share yourcomments and feedback with the council. Um, is there anybody else that wishes tospeak that hasn't turned one in? Okay. Thank you. So, what we usually do istake three minutes per person and we have 30 minutes set aside and I haveexactly 10, but now we have 11. So, is there anybody else?So, what was that?>> You can add extra people. I just need to know so I can make a motion to extendthe time. >> Okay. So, at this point, I'm going tomove that we extend it from 30 minutes to 45 minutes so we have time to listento everyone. Is there a second? >> Second.>> Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion?All right. All in favor, please say I. I.>> I. All opposed. And so then I'm gonna wait for the last person to bring uptheir form and then we'll start calling people up.Oh, no problems. Don't worry about it. We got We have plenty of time.All right. So, first we'll call to um speak is Jodie Johnson. Do I have to touch this to make it work?Is there If there's a green light on, it should be working. Okay, good. I'm notgreat with technology. Hi, my name is Jodie Johnson. Um I'm a retired socialworker. I've lived in Ridgefield for 32 years. I had concerns about the flockcameras. My daughter pointed them out to me um two weeks ago and I looked up anumber offormational pieces on them, but I was concerned bywhat I saw. Um I saw that they had a pretty large error rate that um wentbetween 32 and 71% and that in some cities people that had had nevercommitted a crime had been pulled over, harassed or harmed because they had beenassumed to have been in a stolen car. And I'm very concerned about the factthat people in Richfield could be pulled over and erroneously harassed based onsomething that's not very accurate. Um I'm also concerned that we the citizensof Richfield were were not um asked before those were installed. I didn'tknow anything about any kind of aformational meeting or anything likethat. Um, I also saw that according to theWashington Post in August 2026, 50 law enforcement officers have stalked theirformer or current girlfriends using this technology. So, I'm very concerned aboutdomestic violence that could be committed using this technology. Um,there is a high rate of domestic violence with law enforcement folksanyway. And one of the older studies, but one of the ones that's quoted a lotis 40%. So, it concerns me a great deal that this information could be misusedand that those folks would then not be able to get services because theirboyfriends are in law enforcement. Um, there was also um an incident in May2025 where a woman from Texas fled from Texas to Illinois to get reproductivecare and was tracked by the flock cameras. I think that's going to happenmore and more because some of the states have created more restrictive policies.Minnesota still has fairly liberal policies. And so I think we're going tosee a lot of people coming here. And the problem is is that it it doesn't justrecord and keep the information here in Richfield. It hooks up to the cloud andit's available nationwide to law enforcement. And so it can take thatinformation and use it as it sees fit. And there isn't any clear answer as towhere it goes or how long they keep it. They say they keep it 30 days, but mostthings virtually are really hard to get rid of. Um, they can also track wherepeople go with their cars, so they can track people throughout their day. Andthat information, you know, could be used for a number of things. Custodybattles or different kinds of employment things. So, it's concerning to me thatthose cameras would be be able to actually track people when they go tothe store, if they go to a bar, if they wherever they go. that that technologyallows them to do that. Um, also law enforcement shares the information theyget from the flock cameras with ICE and that is okay and that is a veryconcerning thing to me. We've obviously had a lot of issues with ICE. Two peoplehave been murdered. Many people were illegally detained and I don't I wouldbe concerned about the people in Richfield being at risk. Um, I'mconcerned about privacy issues, potential lawsuits, if anything wouldhappen with harm. Okay, thank you very much.>> Thank you. Next, we have Angie Rager. Hi, I'm Angie Rieger. Actually, today ismy 20th anniversary living here and I um interesting day today that I'm cominghere and speaking here. Um so I'm also talking about the flock cameras andsurveillance and it's more broad than just flock. So good evening everyone.I'm here representing the rep the residents here who signed our petition.If you haven't seen it, I'd like like you to go out and read it. Asking thiscouncil to pause and ultimately end our contract with Flock. I promise to bebrief. I promise I'll be respectful. I promise not to read the entire groupchat that we've had in our community. Here's the short version. Somewherebetween one council meeting and the next, Ridgefield quietly acquired anetwork of cameras that photograph and log license plates of every car thatdrive past them. Yes, yours, mine, your pastors, your postal carriers. whetheror not anyone in the car has done anything wrong. Most of the residentsI've talked to didn't know these cameras went up, myself included. None of us gota vote. And I want to be clear, this isn't hypothetical privacy. Thesesystems are real. They make documented mistakes with real people's lives. InSan Diego, officers were relying on flock to match a license plate on a redAlfa Romeo near a carjacking scene. A passenger in that car spent nearly amonth in jail before the mistake was caught. In Sherwood, Arkansas, a cameramisread a license plate. This past February, they detained the two driver,the driver and the passenger at gunpoint with their daughter in the back of thecar, the six-w week old. Just this week, actually, if you read an article,there's an article from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, they decided not to go withFlock. They found Flock was lying to them about what their their softwaredoes. They aren't glitches. They'repredictable cost of trusting algorithm with everyone's movements.So on behalf of the signers, I'm asking the council to formally and publiclyanswer the questions in the petition. I can send you the link as well in writingby September 15th. Our request is simple. Pause the contract. Cancel anyremaining contract. Delete the data that's out there. Answer our petitionquestions in writing. hold a forum for everyone in our city and commit toputting future surveillance proposals to actual resident vote.We are not anti-safety. We're pro accountability.Our residents are capable of deciding together whether we want to live underthis kind of surveillance. We haven't been asked tonight. We're asking you toask us. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, Burgett Johnson, >> Burg Johnson, Richfield.How to prevent an urban concrete jungle here in the future? There's an easyanswer to that. Keep the parks green and keep them natural. Don't fill them upwith buildings and structures. What some may call wasted space. For example, agrassy area is already in use. For example, kill deer probably nest there.Turtles use it for laying their eggs. People fly kites, etc. There will be aneed for green space always. Our priority seems to lay with stuff, thoughlooking at how condensed our park spaces already are. We need to retain all ofour green space now to prevent overcrowding.Urban development significantly contributes to habitat loss causes allalteration in lo local climate conditions in the form of the heatisland effect. An overabundance of imperous surfaces in cities such asconcrete, pavements, and rooftops prevent rainwater from being absorbedinto the ground. Instead, this leads to excess water runoff, overwhelming citydrainage systems, and frequent and severe urban flooding. Elevatedpollution levels are also associated with dense cities. Besides airpollution, water waste, wastewater management issues, service watercontamination pose an issue. The lack of exposure to nature is an importantissue. that contributes significantly to ouroverall well-being. You all know this, but you may think we don't matter thatmuch in the big picture. Everything matters. We are part of nature and weneed it to be we need to be with nature to thrive. When we ignore nature, wewill always pay the price. Thank you. >> Thank you.Next we have Audriana Martinez. Good evening major and members of thecity council. My name is Adriana Martinez and I serve as board the memberof the Twin Cities chapter of the National Association of Hispanic RealEstate Professionals or NARP. We are the largest Latino business organization inthe United States representing more than 50,000 real estate professionals acrossmore than 100 100 chapters nationwide. I'm here tonight for a simple purpose tointroduce ourselves who we are and who we represent and I want to put into thatinto perspective that starting nationally. The US Latino economiceconomy now represents more than 42 4.2 trillion in GDP. Yes, trillion with T.If the US Latino community were its own community or own country, it would rankamong the the five largest economies in the world. And over the next twodecades, nearly 70% of new homeowners in this country are expected to come tocome from Latino community. That shift isn't coming someday. It'salready here. Here in Minnesota, Hispanic home ownership has grown morethan 60% since 2010. And then we bring the story right here to Richfield.Nearly 80 18% of Richfield residents are Hispanic or Latino. Almost one out ofevery five people in this city. But the number that really caught my attentioncame from research I conducted on residential purchases. During the secondhalf of 2025, nearly 15% of all residential purchases in Richfield weremade by Latino home owners, home buyers being think about uh what this means.These aren't simple people living in Richfield. They are choosing Richfield.They are purchasing purchasing homes here. They are investing their moneyhere. They are raising families here. They are putting down roots here. We arebuilding generational wealth. And let me say this in a way that might surprise afew people. We didn't leave places like Mexico,Colombia, or Venezuela because we didn't like the food or because the musicwasn't good. We came here for the same reasonimmigrant groups have always come to this country. Opportunity,economic opportunity, a better future, the American dream. And now we arebuilding that future here. So when this council discusses housing, zoning, reredevelopment, affordability, or neighborhood investment, the Latinocommunity isn't a side conversation. We are already part of the economicstory of Richfield. And that's where NARB comes in. We bring data. We bringmarket experience. And we bring credit connection to the families who are defdefining the next generation of home owners.We are not here asking for exceptions. We are not here hat in hand. We are hereas professionals, as practitioners, as part of the economic engine in thisregion. So as these conversations continue, we would anticipate to be partof them not as a formality but as part as a partner. Thank you.>> Thank you. >> And I will leave this hand out withsomebody. Thank you. >> Thank you. If you could give them to theclerk. Next we have Linda Peterson. Linda Peterson, Richfield, Minnesota.I'm here to speak about the flock cameras.They not only get your license plate, but also your day-to-day itinerary,where you go, how long you're there, if you visit family and friends, if theircars are out front, they can probably get those, too. Flockdoes this. It's supposed to keep us safe.This isn't only local. It's nationwide. and is beginning to feel like I'm nolonger in the home of the free, but more of a police state.I don't remember being asked if I wanted flock cameras in my neighborhood.I am asking now to cancel the flot contract and advise us of the stepsbeing taken to keep Richfield safe. Thank you.>> Thank you. Next we have Jess Lions. I'm gonna move it. Okay. My name is JessLions and I've been a member of the Richfield community for almost 10 years.Uh, and I'm also here to speak about the Flock cameras. My neighbor, a singlemom, was kidnapped off the street in the middle of December before we had all theboots on the ground. Um, I know her children. My children ride the bus withthose children. And it threw me into so much of themutual aid that I know many of us in this room participated in. groceries formy neighbors, figuring out other kids and their safety needs, transportingthem. Uh, I don't know. I don't know if it wastrauma that made me not realize that there was a flock camera at both sidesof my neighborhood. I'm not sure. But I remember after shuttling people to work,being terrified that we were going to be seen in the car. I remember when I didnotice that it went up in midFebruary. My neighbor had just returned. ICEstalked her at the place that she was released the same day. When I looked at the contractand saw that in 2023, our city paid 30 $36,000for a one-year contract. I thought I was going to lose my mind. All of the mutualaid work that happened here in Richfield in May. The leaders of some of thosegroups met to determine what we were going to do about the food needs becausefood was still an astronomical need here in Richfield.$30,000 our community was supporting in foodneeds. People were raising money in Richfield and out of Richfield. $30,000.Hundreds of families had been fed in Richfield since December.Myself and a partner raised $70,000 in January. We paid 45 families rents. AndI know that I'm not alone in this story. $36,000.You could feed our community for a month.For a month. I'm concerned that I don't know whatFlock is selling that data for. I'm concerned that we would welcome it intothis city. And the question that I want to ask is, I choose to be here. And whatI saw from Richfield, I want to be here. Who are we as the leaders of Richfield?Who are we? And who will we become? That question is deeply important to me now.It is deeply important to me moving forward.We could feed people. We could house people that choose to be here. thatbrings so much to our city and to our schools and to each other and to ourneighbors. Who do we want to be? Thank you. Thank you. Um, Sika Don is next. Hey, mayor and members of the council.Um, I'm also here to speak on flop cameras. I am Sika Don. I'm a residentof South Minneapolis. I am a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Richfield andI own a business here. I grew up here and I've spent my entire life inRichfield. I have done all sorts of things and seeing the flock cameras uhcome up especially without community input just dropped my soul out of meespecially after what we did this winter communally. Um, things that concern meabout flock cameras are the bad faith uses. Uh, number one, tracking people'spatterns as a pretext for arrest. As it happened in April 25th of this year, anda gentleman traveling from Madison or from mil Milwaukee area over toMichigan, they tracked his whereabouts over and over again and decided thatthat was caused to arrest him on suspicion of cannabis distribution.That's a pretext for crime, not solving a crime. That's not keeping us safe.that's determining who they think is going to be a criminal and pro and doingthat instead of investigating actual crime. Stalking, which is something thatpeople have brought up. Many people have already been tried for the stalkingcases. That's not something we need here. Um, I uh the JCC case in Georgia,uh, a JCC issued a foyer request to see what their flock cameras were showing upas and who was accessing their data, only to find out that for hours aninside of their gymnasium had been being watched, where killed, children wereplaying, where people were being uh, entertaining themselves.And that was not something that they had approved of. Flock had decided to usethem as a test case to study up and show and sell their services to other peoplewithout permission. They were never going to tell anybody if a foya hadn'tbeen requested and authorized. Um not only that, but them turning informationover to ICE. Uh somebody brought up that we were a huge contributor to protectingour community during ICE. and knowing that they share this data with the verypeople that are causing so much harm in our town um and in our metro, it isreally evident that this is something that is negatively affecting people'slives directly. There's an error rate. There are people who are being pulledout of their car at gunpoint. People are going to jail and sitting in jail. Icouldn't leave my job for 6 days because I was in jail on false claims becausesomebody had seen my car doing something. And I know a lot of otherpeople couldn't as well. This is not a safety measure to those that are beingaffected negatively. This is a situation like so many where we need to evaluatepeople over property. Yes, cars that are stolen are being recovered. Okay. Um Istill don't want to see an 18-year-old pulled out at gunpoint. If that ishappening to one person, that's one person too many. Um if these AIsurveillance tools are misreading plates, that's a bad thing. Havingsurveillance particularly particularly owned by outside stakeholders that havehad accountability issues in the past and offer very little in transparencyundermines our community's autonomy. To those that are saying, "But I'm notdoing anything wrong." I want to remind you that in a metro area where we had somany people injured and multiple deceased members for the activism theydid during ICE, as a result of practicing their constitutionallyguaranteed rights, with only one person currently facing charges and zeroofficers being tried for their crimes. You're not doing anything wrong here inAmerica until they change the definition of what wrong is. We have processes toenforce, investigate, and prosecute crime. And while we can have progress tomake these systems more efficiently and more practical, it cannot be exp at theexpense of our quality of life. So please listen to these voices andrequest full transparency from Flock. Cancel these contracts and find outwhere everything was going with that information.>> Thank you, Matthew Berg. I'm Matthew Berg and my wife and I areactually three-year residents here next month. So, we're we chose Richfieldbecause not only do we have family here, but also the uh amazing community thatis here. Many examples of that have been um talking about our ICE um situationand raising all of that mutual aid for um our neighbors. And you know, I'm notgoing to reiterate everything that has been talked about with the flot cameras.I just want to point out that they've been advertised as license platereaders. But why do we have flot cameras aimed at parks? Why do we have flotcameras aimed at businesses instead of where they should be on the side ofroads? and the overreach that has been well documented, the cases that havebeen uh talked about here tonight just add to this. And so I think the growingconcern with not just Richfield here, but across the state and the country isflock is impeding on our rights. It is a privacy issue and it is something thatno one here wanted. Um, we've had multiple people say wenever as were asked about this. And so in a in a time where we're our privacyis being sold, whether it's off of our phone, whether it's off of any app thatwe use, whether it's our car, we don't need another thing that is in our cityusing our resources eating into our privacy. And so this isone thing I think should be an easy thing that we can say no to and join thegrowing movement across the state and the country putting putting a line inthe sand saying we won't do this anymore. So thank you guys. >> Thank you Dr. Aaron McCain. >> I appreciate uh everyone's time. I'mhere speaking on behalf of two people. Uh the first is Aaron and the second isDr. McCain. And Aaron's just like the dude down the street. And when myneighbors stand up, he gets choked up pretty easy and say that they don't feellike they're in America anymore. It really really gets to me. And but we gotto talk about Dr. McCain for a second because Dr. McCain's the guy who writesa four-page memo for free to the city council outlining the legal liabilityupon adopting flock cameras and then spells out a very real national securityconcern that will likely happen upon adoption and would just give dumbdangerous people more dumb dangerous ideas. And I'm going to share one withthe chief of police, too. But to get you to read that memo, I have to actuallysay who I am. And so I'm going to do that. And I don't really like talkingabout myself or my job. So I'm going to do this fast. For the last 20 years,I've been a leading US privacy, AI, and disinformation expert. Within my littleindustries, I am most famous for being the person crazy enough to become adisinformation diversity hire at a MAGA adjacent Bible college downtown to getthe left and the right. And I mean like hardcore evangelicals and the ACLU toagree on privacy or bar associations and Big 10 and the RNC and the DNC and mykids get poached by the Illuminati and I have to keep my mouth shut. But when Ipop up in my neighborhood, the reason I'm popping up is because I'm sayingcity council people are here for a reason. You're good at managing yourcommunity. And city council was developed to handle local issues. We'renot talking about local issues. We are talking about global issues of nationalsecurity and our fundamental constitutional rights and themaintenance of our democracy and the prevention of civil war next door. Andnone of us signed up for this. and is a complete systemic failure of state andfederal government over the last 10 years and all the weird rooms I have tosit in that cities and thank God we have like kind residents who care about theircities and kind city council people who are trying to get informed on theseissues but this it's absurd that we even have to have these conversations at thislevel and so the only thing I guess I would ask is for us to survive andthrive in the next decade cities like Richfield are going to have to lean onthe experts in our communities and I only have three lanes, y'all. I knowabout AI. I know about privacy. And I know how to try to stop a civil war nextdoor. And you might have heard heard me say that one or two times. But everybodyin this town knows something about something that we're going to need themin a room for to get through this. We are a small city and we don't have muchmoney. So, my only two points on the camera would be this. Please read thismemo. Please understand that the legal liability is nothing that the city ofRichfield could afford. And to my uh friends in law enforcement, pleaseunderstand somebody tried to shoot me up in North. That's how I ended up here inRichfield. That's why Minnesota did not get the AI alignment Super Bowl ring.Hilariously, somebody stole my car off the driveway the first year I was here.But let's put that aside. I am a fan of law enforcement, but I'm also a fan ofour civil liberties. And all I'm trying to say is when people in a town come outon a Tuesday night and say, "Something about this smells funny. Something aboutthis doesn't smell like America." and the resident nerd is like, "Holy crap,don't do this." Please just listen when that coalition shows up and hopefullyyou never have to hear from me again. I appreciate y'all's time. Thank you.>> Thank you. >> Thank you. If you had a memo orsomething, did you give it to the city clerk? Thank you. So she can share itwith us. >> Next, um, we have Nikil Nadiv.My apologies. >> No worries. Thank you, mayor. Um, okay.Hi, my name is Nick Hill or Nick. Um, I live in Richfield. My family has livedhere for about four years. I'm here, like many of you, to speak about flockcameras. Um, like so many others here, my concerns with these cameras arebecause of a policy, or at least an attitude of carelessness andnon-transparency, as well as a total lack of accountability from Flock, thecompany. Um, some of you may know that back in January, a group of techactivists on YouTube were able to remotely access the flock cameras andview their live uncensored camera feeds as well as some of the scanned data.They were able to do this to at least 60 flock cameras across the country beforethey simply stopped trying. Um, these cameras were found to be almostcompletely unsecured on either the hardware or software level. Um, thismeans that literally anyone who wanted and tried would have uh been able toalso access these cameras and the data within them um live as it was comingthrough the stream. We are lucky that the only people who did this wereYouTube activists who immediately bought the issue to Flock. Even though thecompany says that they fixed that issue and the level of highly sensitive datathat flock cameras gather is simply too dangerous to trust with a company thatcannot be bothered to take simple security steps. If activists andYouTubers were able to do all of that, um, please think of what people with badintentions are capable of doing and indeed may have already done and we havesimply not been told. Speaking of the data that they gather, like a lot of ushave pointed out, um, Flock has marketed the cameras primarily as automatedlicense plate readers, but their newer Condor models pick up much more thanthat. Um, including the color and make of cars, as well as the body and facialfeatures of the drivers and pedestrians walking by. Um, now I don't know aboutthe rest of you, but when I go for a walk in the city, I don't wear a licenseplate, so I don't know what's up with that. Um, but I would really like for itnot to happen. Uh, they can access any of that data at any point and share withany agency that asks, all without a warrant. So, that's concerning. Um, allof that can and has happened in multiple cases, as many of you have helpfullypointed out. Um, and people have been stalked. People have been falselyaccused of crimes. People have been hurt. And Flock's repeated lies haveenabled all of that. People have mentioned what happened in Oshkosh,Wisconsin in April. And I'd just like to provide some additional context so it'son the record. Um, in Oshkosh, Flock was asked whether they generate heat mapsbased on their camera data. Basically, did they track people and create a mapof where they went and their activity throughout the day? Flack categor Flockcategorically said no, they didn't. Within 24 hours, the police chief inOshkosh was notified by subordinates that Flock had indeed lied and activityheat maps were available um to the police of every car that passed by.Obviously, from that data, extrapolating your activities for the day is prettysimple because no one drives a car somewhere and then just doesn't doanything. Um this was a lie that was so blatant that it relied entirely onpolice officers in Oshkosh being either too stupid, too inept, or simply toocareless to find out, as well as being too immoral to point out the lie.Um, on the recommendation of the police chief, the city canceled its contract,and I hope we follow through here, too. Because to me, any single one of theseissues would be bad enough. Taken together, they paint a picture of acompany that is deeply broken. It doesn't care about the people that theirproducts are supposed to be quote unquote helping, and has proven thatthey have no issues lying to local politicians and regular citizens to getadditional contracts. I don't want any of their cameras around our homes, andhaving them in our city will lead to a loss of personal privacy that we won'teasily get back. If the people of Richfield want flock cameras, and thosecameras are so useful and helpful, their implementation in our city should be amatter of public debate and vote. It should never be something that sneaks inuninvited, resists leaving, and in the meantime makes us pay for our ownwarrantless surveillance. Thank you. >> Thank you, Steve McHune. Good evening. Steve Mchuan. I've livedin Richfield in the same house right down the street down here for 56 years.And what I've seen in that time, we've had a I'm speaking both on the Legiondevelopment and the Flock cameras. Uh what I've seen in that time, it was allpretty much a white community when I first moved here. We were the youngeston our block and now we're the oldest and we're like the United Nations rightnow. And back then we shared stuff, food, tools, you know, helping out eachother. My first wife died, there was people just coming over all the time totake care of the kids. And that still is ongoing today. we still share.And so I'm not casting any thing against the council here or thepolice department, but we really don't need these flock cameras as so well saidby everyone here. Now, I've been involved on Penn Avenue where we havethe demonstrations during the week. I've been at the schools in the morning wheremy kids went to school, you know, to try and be there to try and stop ICE fromentering and taking away little kids or their parents.So, what good are these flock cameras going to do when we have anadministration that can't even get along with Canada?They can't come back and take somebody from Texas that shot through doors.that can't even come and get killers of a couple of our citizens in Minnesota.This we don't have to feed into. So, I am speaking against the flock cameras.The technical details were well set out here about the dangers of them. I'm notgoing to go into that. Also, on the Legion development, I'm just going tobriefly say living on Portland Avenue here, we don't need more traffic. notagainst development, but I would like to see that scale that project scaled back.Thank you very much and thank you for everybody that spoke here tonight. >> Thank you, Tammy Croneric. And Iapologize if I said that wrong. >> Okay, so my name is Tammy America. Ihave lived in Richfield areas for about 11 years since I moved to Minnesota. Ihave spoken to some of you people about flop cameras before cuz this is not newto me. Um, and I'm just going to kind of state what everyone else has mentioned.These are not normal times. This conversation a few years ago would havebeen a lot different than it is now. We all lived through these last sevenmonths. Um, the other thing that I want to say on that issince this isn't my first time talking about Flock cameras, when I was at theRichfield Human Rights Commission meeting, I found out in the month ofJune, for the 30 days that Flock kept the camera, kept the pictures inRichfield with 10 cameras, there was 1.8 million photos taken.1.8 million with 10 cameras in Richfield, Minnesota. That's another120ome thousand across the nation. So this is not a Richfield thing. This is astep back and we have to see what this problem is. Has Flock done anythingabout Yeah. the murders that in broad daylight. Flock did nothing for that. Umthe other part of this is cops love saying the excuse of well you havenothing to worry about if you're not committing crimes.Um I don't know if anyone's familiar with the Minnesota 15. That wasneighbors talking to each other and protecting children, feeding children,keeping families from getting terrorized.In what way is flock going to make any of thatbetter? And sorry, I I am I'm very passionateabout this. I am so pissed off, but okay, as long as you're not breaking anyrules. But Trump's government does not care about that. They decide what'slegal and not. And the other part of this that I like to point out, 2013,Edward Snowden released the files letting us know that every single thingon the internet. Everything has a back door. Everything is built for the fedsto be able to look and see into it. That was 13 years ago. No one got punished.Nothing happened. They've only gotten more funding and more corrupt. Do weabsolutely believe for a second that they cannot access everything? Do wereally think those photos get wiped out after 30 days? And again, 1.8 8 millionphotos in Richfield from 10 cameras. That is insane. And you told me thatdirectly, uh, liaison officer, so definitely fact check me, but I rememberthat. I wrote that down. That's insane. And it hasn't stopped or hurt stoppedthe terror that we're still experiencing. The other point of thatis, and I hope you didn't show the sign, ICE gets to drive around with no platesometimes, or a single plate. Even that's illegal. their front plate thatwe all have to freaking get clocked on. They don't. Andsometimes they have no plates at all. I've talked to the mayor about onespecifically that has a novelty plate. It's Cleveland Browns says number onedad. He's been cruising around for months and months. Why do they not getpulled over? Why does that get to keep happening? Andyeah, that's pretty baseline compared to like the executions, but how about westart small and say cameras. And sorry, I probably wasn't supposed tosay that. Times are bad. I'm disabled and I have a quarter of a spoon. Thank you. Is there anyone else whowishes to speak? So, we got about five minutes left onthe time we set aside. Anybody else? And um Clerk Friedrich, did anybody sendanything in? We did not receive any emails. Mayorsupple. >> Okay. Well, it looks like no one elsewishes to >> escort out a crowd of people. >> All right. All right. Thank you everyonefor your comments. Um, I know there had been a number of people that have beenemailing us and asking questions and so, um, the public safety department hasbeen putting together a frequently asked questions document, but they wanted towait and see what people said tonight in case there were additional questions. Sohopefully that'll be coming out on the website in the next few days. But it isin progress, but we want to hear what people had to say tonight to see ifthere were additional questions. So, thank you all so much and you're alsowelcome to stay for the rest of the meeting. >> All right. So, next there are noproclamations or presentations, so we're going to move on to the consentcalendar. So, I'm going to turn it over to city manager Rodriguez.>> Thank you, Mayor. The consent calendar contains several separate items whichare acted upon by the city council in one motion. Once the consent calendarhas been approved, the individual items and recommended actions have also beenapproved. No further council action on these items is necessary. On tonight'sconsent calendar, item A, approve dispersements claims. Item B, considerapproval of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions, BCAAs, Master JointPowers Agreement with the Richfield Department of Public Safety Police foraccess to the Criminal Justice Data Communications Network and the CourtData Services Subscriber Amendment to CJDN subscriber agreement. Item C,consider approval of an agreement for prosecution services with the city ofRichfield with HJ Law. Item D, approve a work order in the amount of $189,50with HDR Engineering, Inc. for a water treatment plant feasibility study. And Isubmit these items for your consideration as part of tonight'sconsent calendar. Thank you. Is there a motion to accept the consentcalendar items? >> Motion to approve.>> Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any comment?Um, I did want to draw the public's attention to the engineering study forthe water treatment feasibility because I think that's going to be an importanttopic and we're going to need feedback from the community as well. So, I'm gladthat we're doing the study before there's a crisis so that we can planahead, but that the treatment plant is older than I am. So, I think it is timethat we start looking at the feasibility.So, with that, any other comments or questions? All right. All in favor, please say I.>> I. >> All opposed. And we have approved theconsent calendar. Moving on, we'll go to item 10A. Council member Christensen. >> Yes. This item for consideration is toconsider the first reading of an ordinance approving changes tosubsection 400.21 and the addition of subsection 400.22.22 to the city code pertaining to fire prevention.The fire department is requesting changes in the city code that correctreferences to the adopted state code and adds language that allows the firedepartment to take on delegated plan review and inspections from the statefire marshal. Does the city have any further comments?>> We're available for questions. Are there any questions?No. All right. With that, um, have you madethe motion then? Uh, by motion, we need to approve the first reading of theordinance to adopt changes to subsection 400.21and the addition of subsection 400.22 to the city code pertaining to fireprevention. >> Second.>> It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say I.>> I. >> All opposed and we have approved the first reading.Next, we'll move on to the city manager report.Thank you, mayor. Uh, our last meeting was uh regular council meeting was July28th and we had three speakers at open forum and there were no questions. So, Idon't have a further report tonight. >> Thank you. Moving on to councildiscussion. Um, Council Member Christensen.>> Yes. The only thing I have um coming up is the reminder that school is startingnext Monday, August 31st, for the 6th through 12th graders. So, we need to beaware of school buses and extra vehicles around in our neighborhoods. And theyounger grades are going on September 1st. So, that's it.Thank you, Council Member Hayer. >> Uh, no items tonight.>> Council member Burke. >> I want to encourage people to go playgolf at Richfield and go to the pool and go to the farmers market. Why do I bringall these up? I did a stay vacation and really I've been to these places before,but it's kind of nice in the summer to go to all three if you can. Um, my onlyconcern is that the hole number 16 on the golf course, there's no way anyonemakes a par three. So that really needs that really needs to be fixed. I'mtelling you, no one can do it. But regardless, I really encourage uh peopleto go out and and experience these things if you can before the summer'sover. So that's the my hats to home off to hometown hits. Uh we're also doingcouncil leazison. Is that correct? >> Yes. Um I'm Leaison for the human rightscommission and at our last meeting we did have and this human rightscommission did invite the chief of police and the deputies always there forall the meetings to talk about flock. Um unfortunately there were no members ofthe public there. So definitely encourage members of the public to cometo the human rights commission. That is uh the best place I think to not onlyvoice your opinions about flock but to get some direct answers and somedialogue with um not only representatives from law enforcementfrom but also representatives from the city council because I will be there. Umpart of that discussion was we've heard a lot about uh the challenges andconcerns about flock. Um, I got to tell you, one thing that was expressed wasconcern of at least this city council member of if the flock cameras go awaywhen it's been demonstrated that it has helped with important serious crimes. Iwould have a hard time having to look to the parent of a child who was kidnappedor murdered or something horrible happened and to have to explain to thatparent why we didn't have that system when it could have solved the crime.That's the one thing that I haven't heard tonight and I haven't heard fromanyone. The ramifications of giving up a systemthat has been proven at least to this council member that it does help insolving crimes. Um, I really hope that the public comesto the Human Rights Commission to engage in these discussions. My mind iscertainly open to change. Um, but that is where I'm standing on this right now.So, >> thank you. Um, I wanted to do a coupleof shoutouts to say thank you. Um, there were a lot of volunteers that helped atUnity in the community and I believe it was over 850 backpacks that were givenout for kids. So, thank you to everybody that helped with that. Also, um theMinnesota Ark and the Richfield Disability Advocacy umum it's ARD app and I'm forgetting what the P stands for so forgive me. Um theyworked really hard and we had a disability pride festival and that wasthe first annual one and we're hoping it's going to continue into the future.that it was a really great event and I want to thank all the participants andall the volunteers and I also want to thank everybody that spoke tonight andwant to continue the conversation because there's a lot to be talked aboutand I'm hearing from people in all parts of the community on both sides of theissue but I do think we need to talk about this and figure it out. So, thankyou. Is there anyone else that has anything they would like to add? All right, then a motion is in order toadjourn the meeting. >> So moved and second.>> It's been moved and seconded to adjourn the meeting. All in favor, please say I.I. I. >> All opposed and we stand adjourned.Thank you.