We'll go over what ROI is for those members who don't know yet. Um and then the three cities that we primarily engaged in um diplomatic exchanges over in Germany. Uh and then we'll finish with our youth takeaways and community impact.

One major takeaway I took from Sarbeck was that it was really cool to see how the community came together and how this these like sustainability efforts brought the community together.

You can read things in books but when you're there and you learn it firsthand it's very different.

I think in general international travel largely reduces the the friction of that and I think it like international travel is the best bet that we have in terms of achieving world peace.

Many people are aware of Rochester's parks and physical amenities, but far fewer know about recreation programming, leagues, classes, and indoor drop-in opportunities.

40% note word of mouth which I think is really insightful when we think about the way in which we not only reach people but what has it stick so that when they're talking to their friends their neighbor their their family um that they can be some of our biggest advocates.

I see two pieces of this. And I think we have to really be distinct about the marketing and awareness piece and then there is the accessibility piece. And I think I think having a strategy around both is really key.

It'd be helpful, I think, for your staff to be instructed to ask, 'Is this your first time here?' or 'How did you hear about us?' when they sign up. It's a cheap thing to do. They can keep a tally of it.

I like the limit. I think that if you go over the limit, um you can pay for it yourself and there's nothing wrong with that. We all make a good salary and uh we should be able to do that. The other side of that is is I could run in on January 4th and decide that I want to spend $8,000 on something and at Biji and and decide that's for me and then everybody else goes, 'Well, but I don't get to go to anywhere.'

I I think it's difficult talking about the mayor's assistant under the topic of council rules. I think we have to be careful of uh this because I do think there's a separation there and I and we can't make rules about the mayor's office. There's a separate elected official.

I as a council member and council president have had calls from people whose streets have fallen down and we are a growing city and we do need to think beyond where we've been and look at you know the future as the city grows and I'm sure in cities of uh 200,000 people or 300,000 people when their tree falls down they don't call the mayor they call their council members.

The ordinance is not directed by state statute in this instance because we did find that in one airport committee had state statute tied to it. This is simply our ordinance that could be changed.