No discussion, but I wanted to make sure people are aware that we continue to have try to have meaningful conversations with our indigenous people's partners by through our work with AA Park and renaming that as meaning turtle in native languages. And then the school board's worked to rename a Betuta and other facilities. But we and our really nationwide involvement in the wild rice harvest. So just know that we continue to work for meaningful participation and meaningful relationships.

At that time, we did leave a door hanger for the property owner informing them, trying to educate them regarding the violations that we observe, the inoperable vehicles and the grass over 8 in.

Well, I appreciate the emails that were sent, but they don't change what the code is. and and um we have given the individual over a month's time to correct them and it seems to be not progressing as of today as Mr. England said. So I I think we need to go ahead with this.

Property owner was very understanding and it stated that it was the items that are placed outside were not as his doing but at the at the doing of his daughter.

I would just note a couple things. It was mentioned during the staff presentation that the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District does provide that service of removing old tires from properties. If you have tires on your property and you don't want to have to pay to dispose them, I would definitely reach out to the MMC because they will be able to help out.

If the feasibility report was ordered tonight, we'd complete a feasibility report, bring back back to council later this fall, likely hold a public hearing in, uh, January of next year, and then bring forward, um, if the project was ordered in with the assessments, we would add this as part of the 2027, uh, pavement management project.

I would agree with that and uh we've certainly gotten they have certainly gotten a lot of use out of that alley and it is from my opinion needing attention. So, I'm glad we're doing the study.

Based on the decision last week to not vacate a portion of Veterans Park that would have allowed the construction of the licensed passport dance studio building... We'll be talking about the phasing of the maintenance operations center, termination of the consultant contracts for the LPCDS... land use for land use approvals for the maintenance operations center... securing space for the LPCDS, and termination of the purchase agreement with the Boseville VFW.

My love of dance and softball has continued with the Raz dance team and the Ros softball team. A few years ago, I was very excited to hear about plans for a new dance studio and a dedicated softball field for Rose Hill Fast Pitch... At the last city council meeting, these plans stopped with two no votes... I ask, are these experiences for the youth of Roseville a waste of money?

I think the last question about keeping the license passport center and dance center together would really depend on the space and what's available. So, I think that can be at the discretion... I would lean toward a purchase if it was absolutely not necess not a possibility, maybe a extended lease term so that we can make sure we aren't building out a space that isn't going to be something we can rely on for a long term.

I mean, we heard just earlier talking about misinformation. I think it's really important here that we don't have misinformation, which is also why I recommend that we use a commercial real estate broker for this rather than having us up here decide this... A reminder that the majority of office or commercial real estate is leased out there in the world by a significant number. And commercial leases are also much better than say you would have in a residential lease.

I just first I wanted to say that it was not about having a dance program or having the um the license passport. What it was about was paying 12 to 14 million for our building for that... The thought about separating those two might be a good idea.

The university has offered us a dedicated space at 2721 Lincoln Drive that will support defensive tactics and scenario-based training, classroom instruction, and employee employee wellness. Many of these things uh we simply cannot accommodate within our existing PD.

We've got some space here available uh in order to be a good citizen? Let's uh let's work on this.

After the above mentioned cuts, the city fund balance reserve still short approximately $1.4 million. As a result, the city manager is recommending adding an additional 2% levy or $660,975 for a total levy increase of 9.8%.

Fire personnel as well, an increase approximately $1.1 million. uh same similar scenario, promotions uh of various staff, overtime increases, but also this addition this addition includes the city portion of that those 15 firefighters that were added in 2026 because the safer grant only covers 75%. The city has to make up that 25% extra which is about $582,000 for 2027 budget.

I just think that the department heads and the city have made a really good effort here. We all understand that times are difficult and and taxes are high. I think some of that frustration from even the federal level and the state level filters down to the city level and so people um bring out their frustrations here on the tax level levy. But I think that we have been very responsible and I think the city managers city manager and the finance department and city department heads have really worked extensively and I appreciate all their work and I'm supporting this.

I'm going to uh suggest an amendment to the proposed budget for 2027 in to account for the fact that we actually are not planning to spend $14.5 million on a building. It would seem that that might be appropriate to take that out of there going forward.

I just encourage the public to definitely uh still email, call, contact us about this. Yes, this is not final yet. This is the preliminary numbers and I can think of areas that we can still look to reduce costs and expenses. So encourage residents to participate prior to the November 30th meeting.

Your property statement includes three major categories includes a county tax school district tax city tax watershed maybe this tax or some other miscellaneous tax. The city portion is the only portion that we have control and we've been approving here. We we don't approve the county tax. We don't approve the school district. So you when you pay that large bill just know typically about 20% of that is goes to the city not the entire amount.