nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Thank you. First up is open forum and we do not have any guests tonight for that. So, we'll move on to approve agenda. Council members may add items to the agenda for discussion purposes or staff direction only. The council will not normally take official action on items added to the agenda. Anyone have anything to add? >> All right. Can I get a motion? >> Second. >> All right. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. That motion passes. Now we will move on to consent agenda. These items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a council member so requests in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and placed elsewhere on the agenda. Anyone have anything to remove? >> Me? None today. Move to approve the consent agenda as printed. I'll >> second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. >> All right, that motion passes. Okay, we will move on to or we have no public hearing, so we'll move on to general business. First item 7.1 and Chief Wills. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. These are always fun nights for us. Like to introduce our new police officer, Zach Wells. >> Welcome. Uh, what tonight I'm looking for is a motion to approve resolution 2026-57 hiring Zachary Wells as full-time police officer effective June 24th, 2026. At the December 9th, 2025 Rogers City Council meeting, the city council approved a deputy chief of police position in the 2026 police department budget. The subsequent backfills included promoting a captain internally, backfilling a police sergeant internally, and hiring a new police officer. Zachary brings uh us to our sworn strength of 25 officers. He is from Princeton, Minnesota and recently graduated with a bachelor of science degree from St. Cloud State University in criminal justice. He previously worked with the Sterns County Sheriff's Office as a water patrol officer and more recently began as a community service officer with our department in February 2026. A swearing in ceremony will be conducted at the November 24th city council meeting upon Zachary successfully passing our field training program. Zachary is very excited to continue his employment here in Rogers as a patrol patrol officer and he will be an excellent fit for the patrol division. He obviously passed his pre-employment conditions and was recommended for hire. It's always good when we can stay inside with our community service officer program has produced very good officers. somewhere in the back today and I appreciate the strong support we have from our staff today. So before I move it over for a staff recommendation, Zach does not know this, but I will turn it over to him if he has anything he like. [laughter] >> Welcome, Zach. >> Welcome. >> Just want to say thank you very much for the opportunity and thanks everyone for being here. >> Congratulations. Welcome. >> Well, I'll make a motion to uh approve a resolution 2026-57 hiring Zachary Wills Wells as full-time police officer effective June 24th subject to the conditions set forth in the resolution. >> I'll second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> All right, that motion passes. >> Thank you for Zach. Now brings three Zachs for the police department. >> Awesome. [laughter] >> Should be set. [clears throat] >> All right, next up we have 7.2 and approval of a data request software project. Assuming that's director Grener. See, >> is that you? >> Yep, that's me. >> Okay. >> So, tonight I'm going to talk a little bit about the data request software. >> We currently have a couple challenges um with data requests. Um right now we have a manual process that really relies only on email to communicate among staffs and the public. Um, we use spreadsheets and then a manual form for intake and routing and tracking for each of these requests. We figure we average about 200 to 400 public data requests per month and the majority of them are for the police departments. Um, like I mentioned before, primarily this process has been through email. Um, we have very limited redaction tools and we have issues with version control, security controls and just communication bottlenecks that come with communicating by mainly email. And we rely on heavily on um our city clerk to do a lot of the coordination and it takes up quite a bit of time to try to manage all these data requests. So staff started talking um a few months ago about this and started talking to other cities to see what they're using potent to potentially help fix this problem and from what we've gathered um we've looked at two different products one is called just foya and the other product is called next request and we got a number of demos from them and had a lot of back and forth um learning about their products. This next slide here gives you a little bit of idea about the cost. They're fairly similar, but they're a little different, too. Um, just FOYA is going to be cheaper at the first year cost. And, um, every year there's going to be a 5% annual uplift for the cost. So, both these products have a lot of similar um, features. They're both have a public facing portal. So, it's going to allow the public to submit requests through the city website for information. Um, and then the public facing person or I mean the person that submits it, they're going to be able to track the request and see where the status of that request is. Um, and then internal staff will be able to track that request as well. um it's going to be a very configurable um digital request forms and it's going to be very customized depending on the type of request they're asking. So, for example, if they're asking for a request on just a property, um some old documents or something we have on it, it might be a simple form, but then if they're asking for more information for the police department, it's going to be a lot more questions are going to be asked. um that will help us then to get the information we need right away to hopefully process their requests a lot faster than we do today. Um once their request is entered in the system, there's going to be an automated workflow um that are route to the appropriate people that are responsible to provide that information and there'll be due dates um automatically set up with reminders to the staff to make sure that we submit the information that's requested on time. Um there's going to be an integrated internal and external communication tools. So it's some of it's going to go through email, but a lot of it's just going to be through the public portal. It's going to support um uploading and managing documents of any file type and any file size, which is really important, especially for videos. There's going to be built-in redaction tools, text searching, audit trails, and reporting dashboards for staff to be able to see. What after reviewing those two products, staff felt that just FOI was the easiest product to use. We also really liked it that there was no file storage limitations. Um, again, especially with our video files, they can get very, very big. And it's also lowest cost. and we heard a lot of positive feedback from other cities that are using it. So that's kind of it in a nutshell. Um I stand for any questions. >> Looks like Bob has one. >> Yeah, mayor and council, I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't have a question. Just I I didn't anticipate saying anything about this. Of course, I don't have any uh opinion about uh the right vendors for this kind of work. um and and don't have any any comment about uh Jason's presentation. I I would just say that uh data practices act requests requests for public data just generally speaking are very much among the cities we represent on the rise. Uh and they are particularly on the rise in in the context of you know normally if a party wants to sue the city or is threatening to sue the city they'll do what's called discovery and that's a court driven thing. many many uh claimants now are just foregoing that and using the data practices act to get the documents and the data they need in litig or threaten litigation or litigation and so the fact of the matter is both just generally and then specific to litigation we're just seeing a lot of increase in data practices act requests so having the ability the functional ability as a city to respond competently to data requests is really important I think your police department would say the same thing they get a lot of data requests so just as a general concept. I think this is a good move. Whether this is the right vendor, I'd leave to Jason, but it's this is a good this is an important thing for a city. >> Thank you, Jason. [laughter] >> Any questions, anyone? >> I do. >> So, I see they're both stating 5% annual uplift. Y, >> it just seems that seems a little heavy. I mean outpacing inflation, you know, I would expect something more like three, but what did they have any comment about what drives that? >> No, but it's not a surprise. Um, quite honestly, um, we have a lot of our vendors that are doing the same thing. Um, I know when we did our website, they have a uplift, too. I don't remember exact percentage, but it's it's very common for them just to build it in now. >> I mean, beyond inflation, what does it cover? probably inflation. Yeah, I I can't really speak to that. And their cost I >> I can just tell you that at least technology costs in terms of computers and hardwares and servers, all that is drastically gone up over the past couple years. And I think it's due to the chip shortage. Um my guess is like a vendor like this, they're just trying to cover their increasing costs um and including you know um they're hosting their own servers. So I believe that's >> Are they hosting our documents? >> Yep. Yep. Exactly. So it's a it's a website basically that they're hosting for us and they're hosting our data. >> Where's our data today? >> It's on our email servers. It's how we communicate right now through the manual process. So we're emailing the documents back and forth. Um we have some manual forms, things like that. This would all automate it. >> So when we go with them, we got to push a whole bunch of data to them. >> Nope. It's just more about the portal be open up to the public. So then the public can start at making requests through the website and then we'll be able to respond through the website and stay organized through that website. >> But we'll still hold our data. >> We'll still have access to our data whenever we need it. Yep. >> No, I mean >> we we don't hold the data at our at the City of Rogers servers. >> Where is it today? >> It it's on the city of Rogers servers right now. >> Okay. But we're basically providing a copy whenever they make a request. We're going to give them a copy of that data and we're going to basically put it onto the vendor's website. So then the the people, the public can access that information and download it without having to deal with the um limitations of emailing files back and forth. A lot of times they can't accept files that are more than you know a certain file size. this they would just go to a website and they would have a link and they would download it themselves. >> Right. So as they make as we get more and more requests the amount of data on their site is going to grow. >> Correct. >> And then our data will be in two places. It'll be here and there. >> Yep. It will be. Um but really we're working off the data, our own data. So we're just giving them a copy of that data. That vendor is hosting it. um with this application too what made them a little bit different uh compared to the other vendor was there's no limitation in terms of the amount of data we have them host for us um I believe after 12 months or a certain period of time that data does get deleted and they do go through a extensive um we have reviewed their agreements um and make sure that they're following best security practices in terms of our data um I would also say that a lot of this data is pretty public and open anyways to a certain degree. So, it's relatively low value in terms of security for city data per se. >> As these requests time out, they'll be deleting it and managing the size of that beast that they're >> Yeah. >> developing. >> So, does some of our data have different retention time limits or is it all pretty much the same? like is there certain things we have to retain longer than >> mayor members of the council? It is uh dependent on the type of data. Uh and just to summarize this, it's really the functionality of is what we're looking for. It's the ability to compress all of this currently being sent through emails. We're currently sending it out into the world one way or another. It's all public data. Anything that we have to redact manually has to be done through, you know, sometimes printing and crossing things out. It's a very manual process and when you have multiple departments involved that gets to be a lot um of coordination >> and this isn't changing the data that we retain or the the schedule that we retain it on. It's creating an additional file of the data being provided to the to the requester. It's my understanding. >> And another benefit would be that sometimes we'll get the same data request specifically for environmental studies. will get something from one company, then another company a week later for the same address. This allows us to basically pull what we've already created, which is like a digital file folder essentially, and reproduce that. >> And you know, it just takes a lot of redundancy out of the process and it also timestamps um when we send it. It sends an automated message saying we've received your data request, which fills a legal obligation um that we have to respond within a certain number of days. So it it just it streamlines things to a point where it's it's becoming pretty essential. >> My question wasn't about its necessity. I mean I understand and I I agree. I'm just was curious about the 5%. And then of course just this proliferation, but I I can see if they're these requests are timing out and they're deleting it and and cleaning it out. On the one hand, that's good because it's not just this mass of data growing and growing and growing, but if they're deleting it out, then that limits I don't know. I just find 5% pretty excessive, but >> So, is it an annual renewal then? >> Yep. So, we could, you know, after a certain per Yep. Exactly. We can say we can find a different vendor, go to something else if we ever want to. Um it's pretty standard what I guess what they're doing. Um I know we've um negotiated with other vendors in the past in terms of increase. Um you know I'm thinking about Esker in particular but it can be um it's pretty common to see this percentage amount unfortunately this time it >> is the 5% [clears throat] 5% of the previous year. So it's always kind of growing. >> Yep. >> It's always increasing. I would imagine the RFP probably called for that. You know, usually they ask for fee structure like base cost. So, it could be marked that they just they said what is the annual increase and five is probably a industry standard or something. But >> yeah. >> Yeah. >> No, it's good though. It sounds like it's going to be a big benefit. I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't enjoy printing copies and crossing stuff out and scanning it more copy, but >> no, it's good. Nice work, Jason. >> Is this the stuff, Chief Wills? Is this like if you were asked to provide information on a criminal case? I mean, is this the same software that it is? Uh like like Stacy was saying, a lot of times we'll get a data request and then the same request will go over to city hall. So instead of Stacy emailing our department and us emailing her, we now have just one format where we can work really is the big benefit is saving staff time internally with this. So when we do get our data requests specifically for the police department right now, Chris has to send out a records request for them to come back with. They send that back. This just shoots this form out to them. It's on them to fill it out. It comes back and then we all have access to it internally. So, >> so you're not on some other system. That's what I was going to do. No, this was going to put us all on one system as it said. And beyond that, you mentioned, you know, PD, city hall, but when you're dealing with some of the criminal items that are maybe stemming off of zoning code violations and start to get mixing in together, then it's bringing in community development and and potentially building inspections and and it's multiple multiple departments and a lot of back and forth with the original requesters and >> Yeah. And as Bob alluded to earlier, our requests are increasing all the time. >> Yeah. every month they're going up. >> Sounds to me. >> All right. Well, I don't really see I mean, is it just a motion to approve the data request software project? >> Yep. >> Well, then that is my motion. >> I'll second it. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. >> All right. That motion passes. Next up we have 7.3 and uh we are talking about North Community Park playground plan. Director Bower. >> Okay, let me share my screen here. Madame Mayor, members of council, uh thank you for your time this evening. Tonight we are talking about the um North Community Park playground replacement plan as outlined in the 2026 capital improvements plan. Our goal here was to deliver a fully accessible, inclusive destination level playground for the community. Um although it doesn't seem that long ago to some of us, the playground was installed in 2001 and um which makes it 25 years old and um we've been having some ongoing issues with some of the equipment no longer um up to today's stand new safety standards. We've had issues in our um sand play area where uh we've had ground wasps that have been reoccurring as many times as we've um tried to get rid of those. And um with that uh we had a budget of $1 million set aside for um this year's plan for replacement. Um, back in November of 2025, we had an RFP um, go out. We had four different firms um, reply with plans within our budget and um, six plans from those four firms. And with that, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission um, narrowed that down to three finalists. They gave all the finalists um some changes and then we had a public meeting where we advertised it on the Facebook page to um and we had several people show up and ask questions about the plans and help us um select. Then we went down to two finalists. Then um after that meeting um in June or I'm sorry in May, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission recommended having a city survey of um the two finalists. So on the website and promoted also on our Facebook page was um the survey to select the two um plans for or the finalist for the um playground replacement. And with that, we had 178 residents um take the survey and overwhelmingly they picked um Minnesota Wisconsin playgrounds um/game time for the replacement. After that meeting or at that meeting in June um when those results were shared with the advisory commission, it was a unanimous vote to uh move forward with this um this plan. Um this would have a majority port in place rubber surfacing um play zones for two and 2 to 5 year olds and 5 to 12 year olds. It has um many inclusive adaptive swings and um and then also shade structures as part of our design um design goals. Um this uh this particular playground um comes in at $971,000 $5741 um of the $1 million budget. We plan on using um the rest of the um allocated funds u for site furnishings and to repaint the pavilion to match the new equipment that is coming in. Um the city of Rogers, as we have done with other um playgrounds, will uh remove the existing playground equipment and surfacing. We'll auction the equipment off as we have done in the past. And then um we'll pre prepare the surface and drainage um hookups for them and then provide a water uh water line to the uh water misting feature that will be in the former um sand play area. Um so at this time um I want to introduce Dan Lanes um with Minnesota Wisconsin Playground um who will walk the council through um the various design features. So Dan, if you want to come up to the microphone. >> Hey guys, how you doing today? >> Fantastic. Thanks for being here. >> I don't sing, so no request, please. >> Um hopefully you like the proposal that we've provided. I love it. Uh Mike is going to tell you the other thing, too, is if you want the RAL, the paint codes for the playground so you can match the structure or the shelter, we can do that. >> Awesome. Um, actually, do you just want to flip it over the top view? It might might be easier. Then we can go through the 3Ds in the in the video. Uh, it's the black and white one. >> Oh, that one that on there. >> Yep. I just have that. >> There you go. So, um, we'll start at the top and work our way down. There's three misting features in the upper leftand corner. That is actually uh from a sister company of ours. Game time is owned by a big conglomerate uh called Playcore. They own 50 companies and 47 or 48 are directed uh specifically to the park and wreck division and that's where I'm going to get the elements from. To the right uh is an adult fitness area. There's the three activities there. Uh it's all wheelchair accessible. Uh it's going to be the same height. We're going to pour a concrete slab there and uh we'll have surfacing there as well. Uh now moving into the playground, you have a two-base swing. It's going to have two belt, two buckets, uh and then two different uh accessible seats. The one on the upper half, the top um is a expression seat. That is a seat where an adult will sit on one side. It has a top seat on the other and it's connected so you actually swing together. It's called attunement. And we have some really cool videos seeing a kid play with their parent. Um, we have another playground by our office. The coolest thing I've ever seen, there's a 40-yard dash there. Seeing the look on a kid's face, beating their parent in a fun race, it is just awesome. And I get to drive by it twice a day minimum, so I'm happy. Um, and then in moving down below the swings is it's just a little triangle hut where the kids if uh if you have any children with uh disabilities or they have anxiety, it's a place for them to really just go hide until they can gather their thoughts and then they can go back to joining the others. Uh it's just their own personal timeout. They know they know they didn't do anything wrong, but it's for them just to gather their thoughts. Um, moving up to the Duo spinner with the two green lines, it's just a little tiny spinner holds two kids. Um, doesn't take up a whole lot of space. Uh, the climber that's directly below it. Um, it's one of the few play activities that it's accessible from both sides. And so if you're in a wheelchair, you're you're actually able to roll up to it, transfer from your chair to that climber, and you can spend time on it. And as soon as you get to the other side, as long as your caregiver moved your chair over, you can transition yourself and and get into it. Um, the two to five structure, it's just a ramp structure. It's going to come right off the sidewalk. It's going to ramp up six inches and then you're going to have uh, you know, your various climbers and and panels, um, music area, come across to the bridge, and then you have another, uh, slide, monkey bar, uh, more music. I'm a big fan of the music. So, the because I didn't grow up with music, so I put it in my playgrounds, if that makes sense. And the kids love it. Uh then you have your uh upper body activities. Uh this playground is going to meet the needs for anyone from two to five without a problem. The thing is with the two to five playgrounds, as soon as they master it, they're going to go join their older brother at the the 5 to 12 right away. So for them to have a small playground to master the slides, master a climber, it's a good way to transition to the older equipment versus we get calls, hey, my child was hurt on a playground and once we find out the story, they're on a 5 to2 playground. They're four years old and mom and dad walked away. This playground keeps them from getting hurt. So it's a it's a good idea to have both 2 to 5 and 5 to 12. Uh go ahead and transition over to the other one. Okay, starting at the top, you got a ton of swings. Again, again, you're going to have the expression seat and an ADA seat. So, if you're in a wheelchair, you can roll up right to the ADA seat and transition into it or if you need a caregiver. Uh, going to the left, uh, is another spinner. This one is actually you can roll your wheelchair onto it and you're going to play with the abledbody kids as well. So, they're getting that interaction like like they should. Um, moving down a little bit more is the seessaw. It's a four-way seessaw and actually one person can play on it. Um, now the playground that's I love this playground. If you guys want to sneak take a sneak peek at it, I got one in Chaska for you to go look at. It's right along the river. Uh, but it's not as broken out as this one. It has the tower part, but all the ramping and all the other activity. This playground is wheelchair accessible all the way up until um it's going to be hard for me to point, but do you see that 90° bridge right there is where they have to transition to get to the upper half. So, the cool thing is is the material for that bridge and the one just like it, it's a conveyor belt material. So, and it has hole holes in it for hand gripping. So, they're able to get it be out of their chair and they can pull themselves up to get to the higher area. Uh, once we go through the 3Ds, you'll see also on this playground that there are cubby holes within the playground. So, again, if they need a a spot to gather their thoughts, they have it. And there's actually a play activity in there. Um, but you're going to again ramp from the ground right from the main side, uh, the alleyway. It's going to gr ramp from the ground to one foot, two foot, three foot, 4 foot. Um, [clears throat] so you can see on the left hand side there's a balance beam coming off of the deck. The square activity that you see. Uh, what it is, it's it's a rocker, so you're able to wheel in. There's a bench on each side, but if you're in a wheelchair, you're able to roll in and the kids will get that thing rocking and they're just going to love it. Just so you know, it does start tight, but it does break up. Um then uh with the slides, if you look at the two lower slides, you can see that there's a little square deck that we attach to it. What that is, it's a transfer station for the slide. So if you're an able-bodied uh caregiver, you don't have to bend all the way down to the ground to get them to the slide. Now that slide's a foot tall, so it's easier to transition. Um why don't um to the right is the double zip line and then to the bottom is a net that spins. Um the net that spins if you guys want to go up the road to St. Cloud they got one at uh St. George Lake >> Lake George >> Lake George. Um and they've had one there uh for 15 years. Um, the big thing is is with the netting, as long as the maintenance is done on it, it's keeping it tight, you're never going to have a problem with it. Uh, go ahead and flip over to the 3DS. >> Before we go, just Yes, sir. >> What's the element on the right? [clears throat] >> Uh, the one above. >> Yeah, the all the straight lines. >> Yep. It's a double zip track. So >> Oh, that's the zip line. >> Yep. So for one one child, it's going to be just a rope and a disc. the other. It's a full chair that they they need to get into and it's the same chair that we use on the swings. So, they're going to be able to master using the the mechanism to lock it into place. >> Nice. >> Um I I do I've done gosh every playground in Dayton. Their version of the zipline is different. We use a cable with them. The cable thing is a nightmare to to use and you can only have one. Whereas this one, we're able to do two next to each other and the maintenance on that is nowhere near intense because with the other product line, the cable can sometimes fail and then you got to pay, you know, a couple thousand dollars for that. And I I try to sell playgrounds that don't have moving parts or as minimal as possible because I don't want Mike or Buildings and Grounds to call and yell at me because I'm sensitive. >> [laughter] >> And I don't want that. Go ahead. >> You'll have to go to that cubby and just kind of um >> You want to start? Where do you want to? >> Yeah, right there is fine. Um the one thing that Mike brought up to me is the park board didn't uh they like the port in place, but the where we use just only parts of the logo, they want to change that. Uh we're happy to do that. That's there's no cost, no additional. Uh Mike, the only question I had is do you want to leave the the Rogers Minnesota thing in the bottom right? >> Oh yes, I think so. >> I think this is the coolest thing. And a lot of times we'll do a proposal where they don't ask for port in place, but we'll show it as a you know, you could possibly do this. Um but putting logos in it and believe it or not, we've done one with the Packers. It has the Packard helmet on. Sure. It's actually pretty cool. Actually, we have a playground at Title Town. Uh, go ahead and switch to one of the other ones. Mike, is there I was hoping they were closer. Let's go. Let's do the video because I think you get a better view. >> And so, actually, I had game time. And this is Ron Blake. He's actually the regional sales manager from Game Time. He happened to be in town. So, I asked him to come up, but one of the people that he works with, Shauna, put together this video for us, and it just turned awesome. Except for the music could have been better. >> Oh, yeah. [laughter] I did turn the music off. So if you if you want to hear it, >> this is just an amazing example of having not only inclusive playground, but a playground that intergenerational, social and inclusive play. That ability to develop kids, all abilities physically, mentally, socially. Oh, the one thing that he that's showing up on the video, and I told Mike about this, is there's a panel on here where it's neon green. That's the only color that panel comes in. So, we can we'll change it out to something else unless you really want that to stand out. We're happy to to leave it as well. Um, but yeah, as soon as I got it, I'm like, why is that green? It makes no sense. No, it's interesting. the video shows, you know, when you talk about wheelchair accessible and you think of kids with disabilities, but you're showing the grandparents get to >> participate. That's pretty cool. >> Yeah. >> And the other thing that um I know I think I've told Mike about it, but this is going to be a national demonstration site. So, Game Time has a program that goes throughout the country. If it meets certain criteria, you get put on this. You get a free sign and it's going to show the city the benefit of buying a playground and what kind of return on investment you get because it's going to it's going to actually Ron, why don't you talk about it? >> Yeah. So, real quick, um, dash demonration type program. This is based on best practice research. Our research from inclusivity comes from Utah State University. And what they're doing is they're consistently continuously researching how kids are included into the community. And that's what we have here. A place where people have an equal opportunity to participate, not only access the environment or participate in the environment independently while also having the opportunity to play. And what we do is we continue, not only do we design based on proven research, but now we continue to do research off of this project. So, you're going to see starting to see reporting from us that we will share with you that show the impact that it's having on the health and wellness of the surrounding community, who's coming to the playground, how long they've stayed. We're using mobility data to do that, which is is legally. And we'll share that with you. And then you're also going to be able to actually have user data, too. and and what how long people have stayed, who came, um how far they traveled, where they came from before and after, and then how what they feel about uh the the actual playground as well. So now you're going to be able to again show the impact it's having on the community, hopefully advocate for other similar type of projects going forward. >> And Jason or I guess Jason already left. I'm like, hey, more data you can put it in your system. There you go. [laughter] Um, this is actually a great panel right there, communications panel. So, if you happen to have a child that is non-verbal, this sign helps them. They point to it. It actually Ron, where did the the because it's not something we created. We partnered with somebody, right? >> Yeah. And, uh, it's the coolest sign. And we have the ability to actually have it be a panel on the playground. I don't like that. I like it out in the middle so they have easy access to it and they can roll up and just point to something. Mom and dad are going to know exactly what they're talking about. >> Um, that was a quick version. Uh, do you guys have any questions? I know you got one. >> You just seem so mesmerized. [laughter] He can't wait to get on it. So, one of the other priorities that we kind of skipped over was the um misting area. That was actually um one of Andrew Simmons ideas is to have an area not not to compete necessarily with our splash pad, but it's a cooling area, not a get soaking wet. So, the idea was if there's kids playing soccer or lacrosse or baseball or softball at the park and it's 90°, they can come up there and cool off and go pack down and um >> just like at State Fair. >> Yeah. Yep. go back down and keep participating. So, um, with that, um, if there's any other questions, otherwise, our recommended motion is on the screen. >> Any questions? Anyone? >> No, I'm excited to >> Yeah, I'm excited. Go ahead. Thanks for coming. >> Nice. >> Spoke with me. >> Yeah, I'll admit [laughter] I'm the only one that says name Let's [snorts] see. I move to approve to proceed with North Community Park Playground Plan per the 2026 CIP. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> All right, that motion passes. >> Thank you very much. Thanks, guys. Thanks for coming in. >> All right. >> Yeah. [laughter] What's the timeline? >> So, we'll we'll work around that timeline to get the old stuff out. And I would say probably >> I mean, not to not to hold you to anything, but roughly when it would be up and running. >> August. Awesome. >> August coming into it and uh that's going to take a lot of time actually wants to come and help. >> Very good. >> That's north community park. >> It's over by the um >> middle school. >> Middle school. >> Yeah. just uh just east of the movie theater. >> All right. >> Yes. >> You did sign again. Thank you guys for helping. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Yes. >> Right. Right. >> Well, thanks again. >> Thank you. You're off the hook. Thanks for coming. >> Very much. Appreciate it. >> Yep. >> All right. We have no other business. Correspondence and reports are online and so we are going to adjourn to a close session to discuss attorney client privilege matters per Minnesota statutes 13D.05 subdivision 3B. Well, it doesn't cost money. I mean, it's going to cost us a lot of money. >> I like the cooling. >> So, soaked out. We are returned from close session and we are adjourned.