Whereas parks and recreation programs are an essential part of the Roseville community. And whereas parks and recreation are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in Roseville, ensuring the health of all citizens and contributing to the economic and environmental well-being of Roseville and the larger community.

We're very thankful for the parks we have and we hear regularly about how much people appreciate them. Thank you for everything you do, Matt, and all the volunteers and employees.

It's a rescue vehicle that can be used to rescue victims or officers or first responders from a scene and will be something that we'll be able to use for a lot of years to come.

And he said undoubtedly someone will go home because we have a van to protect us in the years to come. And that is really what this is about. It's protecting our community. It's protecting our officers and making sure that everybody goes home at the end of the night.

I really liked one of the statements in the under the equity impact summary where it says careful consideration was given to ensuring the vehicle does not have a militaristic appearance. And I think that was really a smart move on on your part and the uh and the foundation's part to do that because under a scary situation like what we had that you were describing, we don't want another thing that scares the neighborhood even more.

I don't know for sure that this would have made a difference, but I but I just having this type of resource available has to make the situation a lot more uh tenable for the folks that might be injured in these types of uh incidents. So, um, it does it does hit home when you think about that.

It's staff's recommendation for the council to issue and administer the presumptive penalty pursuant to city code for on sale license holders for a second violation, which is a mandatory minimum penalty of $2,000 in a 5-day liquor license suspension.

We take alcohol compliance very seriously. We want to be a good civic member of the community. Um, all of our front of the house staff, anyone that interacts with guests, whatever age they are, gets mandatory liquor training. Um, and they have to pass the test.

Also, thank you for explaining your program for compliance training because that is the key here and you've done in my opinion everything you could as an employer.

I just want to thank Mr. Anderson for taking the time. Obviously, you have, um, a fairly good program. We haven't seen you here here before and as much as I'm sure you're lovely, we don't want to see you again. So, um, thank you again for your diligence and, um, we appreciate that. We appreciate when we, um, when the message is heard, um, because we really want to make sure that these are very few and far between, if if any.

The purpose of the popular annual financial report of PA or PAFER is to provide residents with an accessible summary of financial information uh and then complement uh not replace the annual comprehensive financial report.

It was a great way to spark a lot of conversation. it really did in help um bring some insight to where our funds are with uh residents that weren't really as familiar with our finances as those are of us that are up here.

I love that it's personal. Um, [clears throat] I think that Chief Brznahan appears to be running for something. [laughter] It's a really great photo of him with, um, but I think in action, um, it just makes it very personal and I think people will feel that it's really approachable and I thank you for that because most of our documents, um, have been and the mayor has tried really hard to put some great pie charts and stuff on there and he's really good at it. not to take him down, but this is a beautiful representation and I think it gives a nice snapshot for people and you know anyone who's a finance person um if they have additional comments you know I would take that more than mine but I I do feel that in my limited financial experience that it is a really nice snapshot and helps people understand where we sit in relation [snorts] of questions we've had in prior years about budgets how do we sit in relation to other um in other cities and things like that.

I think it it may be interesting if we can figure out a way where especially if there are particular years where we have a notable impact to the levy because of a particular decision we made on spending that that could somehow be captured as a as a you know a quick reference for some of those years especially if we see sort of one year you know a notable increase from one year to the next I think people might appreciate understanding some of the context of where that that comes from.

I would say uh overall I would say Roseville is in generally good financial condition. We are rated uh the highest uh bond rating of AAA. Uh, one of the factors is that our long-term liabilities are low.

from 2020 to 2025 in five years expenditures in uh public safety rose 69%. Which is an 11.1% compound annual increase. Another way of looking at it, uh the last year public safety was about 45 and a half% of our total governmental ex expenditures and that was up from 34.7% in 2020.

But I do want to mention that the the property tax levy is a plug figure. You figure out your budget, you figure out whatever your revenue is, and whatever's left has to be a property tax levy. So, I think the budget um we need to be careful when we do the budget.

maybe look at a little further out because when you look at say when these grants are rolling off, how is that going to affect things going forward? And so that you can see what they're doing this year, but it's always good then to have that conversation.

I do know that some nonprofits are borrowing and we've had this experience once in the last year where a nonprofit um worked with bonds from the city and wondering what kind of advantage that would be to the city if we were to pursue more or how do we market ourselves if she if we should as the city to um allow nonprofits to utilize our bond rating to obtain um that kind of uh interest rate on uh bonds.

when we look 20 years out right now we don't factor in necessarily inflationary costs into those numbers... I'd be interested in that CIP to make sure that we're adequately funding for that.

We also wanted to find a way to make what could look like a long low building have some sense of it being a civic building, not somewhere for the public that has a presence and not just trying to really avoid anything that might suggest more of a commercial structure.

So on the west elevation of the license passport and dance center they had indicated that the door to the back was to be eliminated and yet I still see it on the project that you share. Do you have any update on that information?

We're looking at some options that might might help with that. There there'll always be a large solid wall there that will reflect sound, but we're looking at some options with landscaping on on that surface that might help reduce that reflection at least seasonally.

The move to a single floor building really was to both minimize keep the height down but also um to do a second floor we'd have had to add two sets of stairs and an elevator which were a fairly substantial additional cost for basically one function.

We are at the point now where we are actually taking off square footages of walls, floors, ceilings as part of this design. So, we're no longer doing a cost per square foot estimate. We're doing an actual take off of your guys' building with all your existing all your actual finishes in developing a cost that way.