I thank all of us for being willing to put this on our agenda of annual rotation since it regularly impacts so many members of our community. Um, I brought this forward a few years ago because of a mom I know who lives in Roseville who who really has been long will have a lifelong um connection to her son who died by suicide and and um overdose and so I thank our city for the continued efforts and not just in words but by actions through our CAT team.

I think it's also worth recognizing that uh generally in this area the resources available to families and individuals are inadequate and our system often times does not prioritize this type of health. Uh and so it's important also, I think, in all that we do to make sure that we're continuously uh advocating for more resources to help people that are in these situations, whether it's uh dealing with drug or alcohol abuse uh or uh mental health challenges uh that um are we could do a whole lot better as a society. And um it's important that we do everything that we do, but we can always do more and should always think about ways to do more.

So if you're there thinking that uh it's the same cost the same to allow it to go on the prop tax it's actually more expensive uh we do a so if you do this on a quarterly basis you you're going to be paying more.

So this uh apartment building is being sold on August 31st. Okay. Um and I think it's important I communicated so building specialists to today that if the title company reaches out to really make aware the new buyers that there are delinquent unpaid utilities of at this a lot of them right high amount so they we want to make sure we collect a closing and that's typically what we try to do. we um real estate agents should reach out to us to check on unpaid utility bills with any real estate purchase. So in this case um I made aware our utility billing specialist to make sure we do that. Um if not paid and the new owners um purchase this uh property it becomes the responsibility of the new owners. So all the unpaid utilities do stay with the property not the owners.

Staff would suggest the approval of the noise variance be conditioned on maximum of 15 days of construction work outside of u normal hours. This would give the contractor some flexibility but also does limit potential uh negative impacts within each phase of their operation. Um staff would also suggest that the contractor be required to notify me, the building official, um with their intent to work overnight at each time they do it, just so we can keep track of the number of days that they're doing it within that time frame. Um, and lastly, with the loading of the concrete into the dumpsters, we are requesting that the contractor do it through a side loading operation rather than a dump over the top just to eliminate the excessive jarring noise that comes with that type of activity.

As David had said, you know, we've already kind of gotten through phase one of this. Not really anticipating that we're going to utilize the noise variance. Um specifically, as he said, um it's kind of a very weather dependent project. Something that when we remove the concrete, we have a waterproofing membrane. Something with forecasted rain. And it's going to be where something would like to some longer hours to make sure that we can get that membrane down. And then also with this the time frame in the year just to make sure that if it does encroach um in any of these phases run into a change order. Say we've we unbear something in the structural slab that would cause for some additional repair work to be completed that we don't cut ourselves short of the time frame of the season and can get things put back together before winter conditions would hit.

I agree that um it is a fairly wide open space and so that notification while we stayed within our 500 ft um does impact um only one um apartment or condo unit and many of the people who are just across uh snailing who might hear this um are just outside of that ring. So maybe for consideration in the future or further discussion, especially those right behind the Crossroads Mall at Rosedale who would also not be in who are also not included. There's not a lot of residential real close, but um because of the open spaces, I expect that they'll be more um people here a little bit farther away than we might anticipate.

One of the big pieces is really having that um partnership with both law enforcement and prosecution. So, with the city um of Roseville, their police department as well as uh the city prosecutors with EBBQ law, we work very closely with them in terms of getting information when a domestic violence incident happens and making that initial contact with the victim.

In the city of Roseville for 2025, um in terms of of people served, um we followed 77 criminal cases. Um nine cases we didn't follow because they were non-intimate partner cases. So we focus on the intimate partner situations. Um we worked on five protective orders. Um and folks receive 22 attorney services. So that's additional services through Tubman that's paid through another source. Um we offer uh eiling for protective orders where one of our attorneys will review the order and then efile it on their behalf so that the victim survivor doesn't have to go downtown and file the order. We do that drafting typically remotely with an advocate. So that's one of our advocacy services. And then we also try to connect that person with an attorney if at all possible to have representation through that order process because as I mentioned earlier that has become a lot more um lengthy and a lot more complicated. Um we also had 40 calls from law enforcement to our intervention line and over the course of the year we developed 205 safety plans um with an advocate.

Ultimately at the end of the legislative session um there was bipartisan support to fill that $12 million gap which was certainly a win which was fantastic news. However, that got us back to that stagnant funding that we've been experiencing since 2020 or since 2018. So that continues to be a struggle obviously as um cost to deliver services continues to increase.

I will say that Roseville is one of our higher usage cities being a bigger suburb. it typically is um unfortunately one of those cities that that sees a lot of domestic incidents each year.

At the April 20th meeting, we identified just to keep uh going with what we are currently doing with no other staffing increases or program expansion, we were looking at a 9.36% levy. That had a lot to do with just the rising cost, but also the rising cost of personnel uh based on our growth of our staff and uh union contracts and the need to make sure that we're competitive.

The real permanent solution is to build back that uh general fund uh through uh a series of reductions and or um tax levy increases to go right towards the general fund.

I will give the department heads a lot of credit. They worked really hard and came up with a $1.5 million in reductions. None of these reductions were easy, nor will they be without impact. I think if you ask any one of them, they would rather not um have those uh up for consideration for reductions, but they understand the bigger picture in play here and um have been very uh cooperative in trying to work through this collectively.

As we can see the general fund highlighted in yellow uh is projected to have a deficit still of $1.394 million. Uh this is based on the 7.8 levy proposed increase currently in front of you. Um and it's projected based on projected 2026 fund balance which is part of the budget and then compared to the 2027 general fund budget. Uh we are currently looking at 30.81% in reserves and our low lowest target should be 35%.

What that means for the median valued home, uh they will be paying $198 or $16.50 more per per year as compared to $1353 per month, I meant um versus 1650 per month. So about $3 or so. This additional 2% of the levy will not fully restore the general fund. Uh but uh will help uh put a dent into that to the tune of $660,000.