So, first I really want to thank you guys um for your time and hard work dedication to the city making it a great place to live. Um I really appreciate your help at events. I can't do everything and having you guys there to I know that you guys will back me up and um help wherever you can really makes a huge difference. So, um I'm really looking forward to working with you in 2026.

Um, my only suggestion would be maybe is like now that you kind of have this list and I know not all the dates are solidified. Yeah. How do we get that out on like in one of the mailers or something? Um, I feel like with the fire and ice, I came to that and I think what it was I think people just didn't know it was happening because it was kind of like one of your first events of the year and people the word just wasn't spread quick enough probably because of the holidays.

I would be supportive like and maybe the other commissions would too but like if is spending some of our park fund money um for that because I think that's a really worthwhile investment. You think about bringing people to our parks and advertising the events so they don't go unattended and I think that'd be great for it to go out the first of the year so you get your fire in the ice and going forward.

The language that we currently have that's referenced in some preliminary documents we have is that all of that land needs to be used for park recreation field use and that's it.

And the consensus, it wasn't a vote, but they nodded their heads, said yes, the 8 to 10% was their comfort level. They didn't want to go down, they won't go up. The minimum really that just keep things running the way things are would be at least a 6% levy increase each year. So 8 to 10% has some money for projects, whether it's parks, streets, equipment purchases, those kind of things.

And then to find out that there's a potential that the city is going to tap into that to do other things while they've also tied our hands this whole time is a really difficult spot to be in.

Well, my only concern is it's $300,000. Now we've got what? You said 1.5 million we got in all these funds. Now we spend $300,000 on something where we might be able to put it somewhere else. And how what is that going to get us? And how long is it going to be before we can even get beyond this this consultation?

My counterargument Lloyd would be um an investment in this and hopefully it isn't 300,000 but if it isn't um is that we would need this to do something anytime... This is what happened with Casey Lake building. It cost us a million then it would cost us probably seven now. We did it at the right time. Waiting longer is only going to cost us more.