Whereas this mar month marks the anniversary of the American dis Americans with disabilities act ADA, the 1990 law that codified civil rights and access for disabled Americans.

As as the parent of a couple of boys and a number of grandchildren that has disabilities, um, this is an important proclamation. It's important for us to note the existence of widespread disabilities among the populace and also the need to not only recognize them but treat them and educate the public about them.

I just want to thank staff for putting together the resources in our packet um and in the public packet around this um proclamation because there's all kinds of great information in there, including how all of us benefit by some of the um modifications included in the in the uh protections.

of course, we're approving city dispersements and as always, it's $3.3 million well spent. So, I'm happy to see that. And um it we're doing a number of u approvals of of uh grant agreements, a grant agreement for Cedar Lake Road in Louisiana, which was nice to see. It's always nice to get money from other sources to pay for it. And and in reviewing the uh Cedar Lake, Louisiana project, I'd note that it ran almost $29 million, but the city itself only had to pay about $9 million. That's that's a remarkable leveraging of available resources to get it built.

I'll just say that um we also have some pretty exciting grant applications on the consent agenda. So, for some uh two different affordable housing projects that uh we have hopefully in our future and excited to see that we're taking full advantage of that.

I just wanted to throw out it's a little item there at the end, but just uh the approval of replacement of lights at Keller baseball field in Dakota Park where our varsity baseball team plays. And I know we've updated the lighting in this softball fields around there recently. So, it's uh this is just another good use of dollars for for public good that um I know gets used quite a bit between varsity baseball and our town ball and all of that. So, woohoo, better lighting.

This public hearing relates to an on sale 3.2 malt liquor license and an on sale wine liquor license for Best of India Incorporated. doing business as Best of India. The city received an application from Best of India Incorporated for on sale malt liquor and wine liquor licenses for their property located at 8120 Minnotonka Boulevard.

I just wanted to um say that this is uh pretty exciting um to see them back um back um applying for this and uh in the Texatona shopping center where things are just hopping these days. So, it's really exciting to uh to see that they're um pursuing this as well. And uh I've enjoyed their restaurant many times. Their food is delicious and now their libations will be as well.

I just wanted to say also thrilled to see I'm applying for this. I'm imagining this will increase uh some in in-house dining um and improve business, which we love. And uh I'll just also throw out if you are like me and you like truly spicy food, their India Hot is the real deal.

Mayor Pam, I've just gotten an update from Council Member Angel King. He's still about 20 25 minutes out. So my recommendation um with your support and the attorneys would be to recess this meeting so that we can move on to the special study session, invite our guests, our first item up and when that is completed then we could come back together and finish this meeting so anyone else who needs to leave can and then go on to our second study session item.