Yes, I'd like to note that it's the smallest disbursements I've ever seen in my 13 years on the council. $27,000 for the EDA, and I think it's money well spent as always.

This is a great program for them to gain job experience, leadership uh leadership qualities, um and just be a part of their community. This program has been around for 39 years. Um and each summer it continues to grow. I think every year I come here we have like one or two more volunteers, which is great. So, we're up to 50 this summer. um which is amazing. That's the most we've ever had since um I've been here for 16 years.

Thank you to all the junior rec leaders for your work. Thank you for the parents. I'm guessing our junior leaders don't necessarily get up on their own and make it to the park on their own. So, certainly we understand there's some parental support involved.

Whereas National Purple Heart Day honors those who were wounded or killed in combat as active members of the United States military. And whereas the Purple Heart medal originates from the badge of military merit given by General George Washington in 1782 and has evolved as a symbol of merit and sacrifice.

I'd encourage people that regularly follow our meeting to take a look at the agenda packet cuz it's got some links on there to various articles about veterans and their struggles here back in our community... we don't do enough for our veterans in this country. And we should continue to treat them as the precious resource they were and are for us.

One of the things that we have on here number 5B is the resolution approving the 2025 audit and comprehensive financial report... we had an absolutely clean audit this time with no recommended changes or anything like that on it to our practices that were ongoing. And that's just a tribute to the the finance department staff and the work they're doing here... reports like that allow us to maintain this triple A bond rating that we have and and makes it cheaper for the city to borrow money when we need to and that saves all our taxpayers money, too.

This public hearing relates to an on-sale 3.2 malt liquor license and an on-sale wine liquor license for Taste of India, Minnesota Incorporated doing business as Taste of India... The police department has run a full background investigation and nothing was discovered that would warrant denial of the license. The application also meets the requirements of zoning and building divisions.

This restaurant's been there a long time. It serves delicious food. I presume it'll continue to do exactly that even though they will transfer the liquor license to a new entity. And uh I'd encourage anybody to get over there and visit the place.