“If you see someone in the audience that hasn't been here before and it's obvious that you can pick them out because there's nobody here anyway... Why don't you just come out in that 10 minutes after the uh workshop before the meeting and do you have something that you might want to say because they're not there to uh tick off an item on their bucket list. They're there for a reason and this woman was. But they get a better deal because they get more than three minutes like the last time because you got to straighten it out.”

“The second item is the uh situation that is it going to happen with the electric bill for the month of uh June that we get uh on sometime in July and the reduction in the uh rate for the power adjustment which I still you ought to have the the newspapers come to this uh city and do a story on uh that the rates for electricity across the nation have gone up 6% over a year, but you are reducing an item that you've already paid out because it's a power adjustment adjustment and has been paid for. But it was said at that workshop meeting and there hasn't been anything in the newsletter about this. I mean, this is wonderful. Get the newspapers, get the TV stations here to do a story on that you're reducing electric rates to your citizens. It is a story.”

“We did not find any special conditions or any special reasons in the code preventing them from meeting that 948 square ft. They want larger they they they want a larger garage. So it's in in staff's opinion because of that this request does not meet all the criteria in order for the city to grant a variance.”

“The variance will not adversely affect the health, safety, general welfare of the city because it subsequently gives better aesthetic to the locality and pre presents proper storage use.”

“We had a maximum size of 900 square f feet. We've changed that to 40% of the floor area of the principal dwelling. And in the applicant's case, uh that would allow them to have,60 or 80 square feet of ADU, which would be enough to accomplish their uh request, initial request.”

“Hiring a contractor for like to build your streets or to work on utilities, uh there's very clear um direction in terms of how cities might go about uh taking sealed bids, comparing those. Um requirement to award a contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, that sort of thing. Um, professional services a little bit different. There's no requirement to have to go out, you know, certainly you can go out for RFPs.”

“I'm confident in telling the council here that the the scope and the price that is being presented to you is competitive. We put a lot of thought into it.”

“Crack ceilings, a type of regular pavement manage maintenance that is used to extend the lifespan of pavement.”

“The lowest quote we received was from Sealros. Sealos is a new contractor to the city of North St. Paul. So, we did reach out to three references from the city of Brooklyn Park, the city of Eden Prairie, and the city of Afton. All three cities were happy with the work they did and would work with the contractor again.”