So on October 26th, we are going to have a fire, uh, badge pinning ceremony. It's not quite a swearing in, but it is a celebratory event where we introduce our new firefighter EMS personnel.

we also begin in earnest our budget presentations for the 2027 budget. And so we will start those conversations.

there is a very robust work session that will include a rental housing training and climate mitigation plan implementation update.

So make sure that you come to the trunk or treat on Sunday, October 25th in the parking lot of Maplewood City Hall.

So tonight, for your consideration, we have a wine on sale wine license for Chingu Korean Fried chicken at 1745 Beam Avenue, suite A that was formerly millions crab. So it has had a liquor license there before. It's just new owners at this point.

You have spoken to the police lieutenant. And he told you about not serving alcohol to underage people? ... Well, I want you to know we take that very seriously.

Yeah, we take that very seriously as well.

Like many communities across the metro, Maplewood wants to ensure that we have quality housing for working families that they can afford. At the same time, we have older homes in our neighborhoods that are in need of reinvestment.

Ultimately, ultimately, this approach allows us to invest in Maplewood's existing housing stock while creating a path to homeownership for households who might otherwise face barriers to purchasing a home in this community.

Rather than viewing the important investment as funding that is used once and then exhausted, the model creates an opportunity to move forward with acquisition of a property and then a pathway for a portion of that funding to get returned to the city to invest again in a future project.

although I think that this project is a very worthy project and I support it, I just, um, would ask if in the future could we, um, look at funds in a strategic way as a, as a council and, and see what our priorities are.

the distribution of charitable gambling funds is something that we do every year. We have had the great fortune of having an ever increasing amount slowly increasing over time. Uh, and so this year we have nearly $60,000 to distribute to organizations.

However, the total amount requested equals about $155,000. So, uh, there is, uh, there are more demands than there are resources that are there.

We're front line workers. So we go to housing developments that are new and we provide these services. So we go to the people. We don't expect them to come... We're not waiting for people to come to us. We know that there's a need and we want to see people stay housed, so we're going right where they are.

last year, 22 students were sleeping on the floor and were provided beds that they have never had before in their lives. And giving a safe and good night's sleep was a key success for them to be attending school regularly and learning.

Last month, we distributed about two 25,000 pounds of food to more than 500 households. That is more than twice the number of households that we served in September of last year. So the need is growing.

So we provide a newborn car seat. Now, if their insurance does cover a car seat, it's usually the convertible one... We want to make sure babies in a safe place.

And so I am here, um, because that program was defunded, um, through dosage about halfway through the program. And um, we are continuing wanting to continue to serve our, uh, typically ignored students in our special ed program who do not get the services that they deserve.