The franchise requires equal access to broadband for all residents. So what that means is that every every citizen or every resident in your community is going to have access to the same quality of service of broadband throughout the city.

I feel like there's going to be some challenges with that 50 with all your middle tier service providers. There's a just a huge amount of gray area.

I don't think you can convince me it's not a tax, right? I mean, it might be a justifiable tax... I suspect the difference is probably about that 5 plus 3%, right? Like at least, you know, who's paying it. Maybe there's some elasticity of demand. Maybe the company needs some. But I guess I'm just skeptical that I my prices don't go up.

I would really not want to be the first to jump in, but obviously we have to um hear what other cities are going to do. And you know, it's like everything we you know, the conversations continue, I think, but again, I would wouldn't want to start drafting something or or putting something together at this point and and in incurring, I guess, um expense, but again, that doesn't mean we don't um keep our ears open.

It was originally slated for the first week in February but we moved it with everything going on. We gave it a pause kind of changed the messaging from get out to se celebrate to get out and support. So it had a real come together message.

I'm curious if there are figures uh for during the Operation Metro Surge time um for those months comparing the hotel revenues to the same time frame a year ago. And I'm curious if there was an increase in revenue or a decrease, like what impact did that have?

Unfortunately, both the hotel tax and the sales tax that's collected by the city are statutorily required to be used for certain purposes and so we don't have the ability to sort of use them for other purposes as I understand it.

The budgeted expenditures for 2026 are about $30 million. So when looking at that $8.9 million we lended we're projected to end the year about 29.61%. Which is below our low target of 35% or about $1.6 million short.

I just want to make sure folks understand that we weren't operating in a deficit for 2025. Not not that sometimes funds don't do that, just depending on what's going on.

And I'm very supportive that we're waiting for the adjustments to come through um that, you know, having the audit look at because that could, you know, be small, could be big, but it's good to have a better number.

The new thing is the uh April 20th meeting where we're going to come together uh as staff to talk about some general budget drivers that we're seeing based on decisions made in the 26 budget and what that means for the 27 budget and some um some um um projections on what we u would think some other cost drivers might be kind of uh in the budget process.

I would actually think that it might make sense if we do the informal off-site sort of, you know, more more casual thing that we allow a fair amount of time for it, too. I mean, I might might suggest, you know, it could be like some of our strategic planning sessions were maybe 3 4 hours long.

I would be okay with keeping on the 20th. I mean, I would be also okay since this is going to be a long meeting. I do think it should be a longer meeting. um moving the time up as well. You know, we strategic ones I think earlier as well.

I think the the relationship we've had with the Roseville schools and the approach that our officers take um is that is different than you know our officers are not involved in school disciplinary matters. Our officers are often times not even in uniform necessarily but in a softer yellow shirt and things like that.

I happen to talk with our SRO who's at Rams the middle school whose wife is a special ed teacher during the day. Um quite a different perspective on doing the work and um they can only be in that school for a year or two. Um and he just really told me about how much he's appreciated the experience.