My name is Deany the 16 Beacon Street here in Roseville and I would like to address like they got the really nice Evergreen Park here in Roseville that they've done up for pickle ball and the park looks nice now and it's really popular for us aging people and um during the state fair they post no parking signs for the fair there but people just kind of ignore it and go through I was wonder if there's a way we could maybe get that more enforced somehow.

We do designate some of those areas as no parking because of our experience with parking around some of those parking ride Lots uh and we partner with the state fair uh to make sure that that's all obviously that they're covering everything associated with the parking rides but we've actually also had an agreement with them I think for several years now that they cover the cost of additional enforcement.

Whereas uh the Hispanic Community has had a profound influence on our country through their strong commitment to Family Faith and culture and they have enhanced and shaped our National Heritage with centuries old traditions that reflect the multiethnic and Multicultural customs of their community.

Now therefore be it resolved that the City of Roseville hereby declare September 2017 through 23rd to be Constitution week in Roseville and urges all to reaffirm the ideals uh the the framers of the Constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties remembering that lost rights may never be retained regained.

The first first place that we received was at our website redesign... a lot of for all three of the awards was the intentionality the purpose the thought that we had and we put into a lot of these Awards... one of the opportunities that I think was really big was giving Parks inter direct their own celebrated site... the accessibility was brought up as well.

I see a huge difference in our communication since I came on the council and this summer what I've really experienced it I really appreciate this award reflects it these Awards reflect it of course but I have heard over and over again people who know your names out in the public and say specifically what you've been doing and how great it is for the city.

I appreciate again just that consistent uh face in the crowd that people know but I I thank you for being forward-looking I've had many people who are disability Advocates with concerns about the readability of our website and as we hear over and over and over again why can't we have a paper we we know that that's not necessarily the feature of communications but really appreciate where you're taking that and moving it forward.

We are introducing this because we primarily wanted to reduce the use of expand polystyrene more commonly known as styrofoam in the food service business as well as to reduce posos in the waist stream... this also aligns very nicely with Ramsey and Washington County's food scraps pickup program which has been rolling out to a few counties... and it also adds consistency with nearby communities who've already implemented some um ordinances like this.

One person said that the containers are considerably more expensive and sometimes twice the price and they can be hard to get in a timely matter because sometimes they're special order... I would be open to using something sustainable that was more economical than what's currently offered.

It would be nice to be able to find a way to measure this in a meaningful way because my understanding is the cities that are already attempting this don't have a lot of data yet because you know from the comments you see you know they don't know how what happens once it leaves and so and I don't know what the answer is but it would be nice to figure out ways to what measurements or how do we know this is working and is the education getting to the people.

I brought this up in 2019 and we had a little pandemic and uh you came and you help make it happen but I understand that maybe that time was good because a lot of things are changing uh in Supply chains in our how we're handling waste and so sometimes things need time... This is I think is a great time to be doing this for all of those reasons.

This is a very unique RightWay uh it varies in width but in some cases it's 99 ft wide which is very excessive... The excess RightWay does cause ownership issues with residents... the city the biggest need or the biggest reason we're we're looking to vacate it the city has no need for this much right away.

I think this makes a lot of sense as you said uh Mr fmer you know the goal of the city is not to own property that we do not really have an intended use for and it should go back to the owners.

I appreciate how thorough um this proposal is and how um delineate is it's rare that I've seen a contract with so specific of outcomes and processes and I appreciate that and hopefully we'll be able to keep up our end of the uh of the planning process.

I think it would be really really hard to record a session like this if there are things going on the walls and people are talking in small groups and so obviously it needs to be open to the public it is open to um as as we would always be required um but I I don't know how we can record in a way that would be uh meaningful or even accurate to what's actually happening.

This budget does maintain all of our existing programs so no programs have been cut... Biggest cost drivers each year in the budget is relating to personnel as you know last year we had a very substantial increase due to the implementation of the classification and compensation study.

My Levy proposed Levy increase um uh we are showing a $ 1.48 eight million Levy increase um and these categories... for new Personnel 194,000 for compensation adjustments that is both a cost of living increase of 3% as well as steps... and then 354,000 that covers everything else from supplies operations and our contracts.

For this budget cycle I am proposing that we use some existing fund uh balance in the cash Reserve fund... I am proposing to use 500 and 25,000 to put in some key um Capital funds to help uh sustain those This is onee funding so it's not sustainable in the sense Beyond this we're going to have to look at Levy funds.