Whereas each year Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on Martin Luther King Day to serve their neighbors and communities in a variety of ways. Now therefore, be it resolved that the city of Roseville hereby declare January 19th, 2026 to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the city.

This was presented to our commission on November 25th and it represents approximately $9.6 million of work that we hopefully deliver this year. that is um in addition to the um buildout of the city campus plans. So, one of I think the largest um work plans we've had dollar-wise and projectwise.

So green to go tech according to the ordinance and direction went live January 1st. ...I was a little disappointed at some of the containers that came home that of businesses here in Roseville. So just curious to know um is that something that you know our residents are encouraged to reach out or how is that report that?

And then the last thing was on the curbside uh organics. Um, as I recall from the presentation, I think two years ago now, um, they said that that was a function of the transfer facility up in Blaine, getting the robotic equipment, uh, to be able to handle it. And I'm presuming that's still a work in progress with between Ramsey, Washington counties, and and the the transfer station people.

I'm not sure where this would fit in on this, but something, um, which was in and then they took it out was the cannabis sharing of the tax for the cities where now they took it out. So, cities are getting zero amount of the tax revenue to do uh, some of the work we have to do. So, I I think that's something we'd want to support changing back to where they were before.

The only thing that comes to mind is just regionally, you know, this um the car safety um has been an issue. ...trying to understand what someone who's an expert in that area would have would recommend at the state level, I think would be interesting or helpful to know because I think it is a quality of life issue...

Metro Cities actually does have a policy um about street racing and carjacking. And among other things, their policies support state funding to help state and local law enforcement agencies to prevent respondent street racing and carjacking. This could could include funding for state patrol air support, uh overtime uh details, targeted law enforcement saturations.

I think that the the nexus with the massage therapy licensing is the uh tie in with unfortunately with the potential for trafficking and and uh sexual predation and things like that. So, it's important to to to emphasize that that part. It's really about the safety of the of the customers of those establishments and and the community.

Well, it looks to me like most of the people that are asking for reappoint have been attending. And as far as I mean, I I admit I can't watch every one of these meetings, but I try to catch some of them. They've all been participating and doing the work. So, I I don't see any reason not to reappoint them tonight.

I think when we sought to uh rein people there was a bit of a disconnect. we'd seen some attendance issues um and we hadn't met a lot of the people because of COVID and interviewing people online and feel like as uh council member Bowers mentioned a lot of these are initial um partial terms. So, I would be comfortable, especially um in some of these where there's a fairly large number of people that do need to be added. And I think it would be really unfortunate for a committee like the Equity and Inclusion Commission to not reappoint two of the small group of people when they just got started.

I would like to stay on the North Suburban Communications Commission as I just had less than a year on there and just I've been working with them to update their um employee handbook and some employee policies. And so, good. Um, being able to assist with some of the HR components has been helpful to them and to me as well. So, I would like to around there for a bit if possible.

I'd like to see about surrendering the liaison role with the council struggled with um my work hours finding times and finding times to commit and to connect. ...I just haven't gotten any facetime this last year and um I'm not able to go during the day so I don't know when else it would be a time to meet.

I'd like to counter in the past I've been told that people who are up for reelection in that particular year were not people that had been considered and that was something that was a big deal was made up last time that in an election year those people were not being shouldn't be the acting mayor and that so just would like to put that out there if that's really a point of contention or if that was just a prior city council member's personal opinion but that was brought forward as a an issue.

Yeah, I think you know, following up what we were talking about with um uh the appointments to different groups. Um you know, it's nice to have consistency. It's also nice to change things up, too. I think having um it's nice that we've had council member Grain all his years of experience on the uh council and I think adding more people to have some you know opportunities as well.

Well, and if we went with that, neither uh council member Grath or I could be in the running then. And then Julie said, Oh, as far as the election year. Yeah. And also then Julie said she's not available during the day. So you would you would eliminate three people just like that. So I mean, and it isn't an actual um it's not in our rules. It was more of a Yeah. So I don't know.