Resolution 26-1544 appointing the public rights project as special council for the purpose of providing legal representation to the city of St. Paul in affirmative litigation to challenge a federal rule related to grants. And uh this is sort of late breaking legislation uh against the federal government and it was something we needed to get on the agenda um somewhat quickly.

The proposed budget was $200,000 in the fiscal year 2728. Uh the the intent to apply for the uh the funds was to uh add to our DDP drone program. that's currently uh in use in the city.

This is not flock related has has absolutely zero to do with flock. Um these these are drones from Skyo uh which is an Axon company which is the platforms that I had previously mentioned that our body cameras our incar cameras our tasers um many of the our RMS system our evidence management system is axonbased so it's just a uh a continuation of what the drone program is that we are currently operating you know our docked drone program so it's adding uh additional units to that each each drone can fly for 20 minutes up to a two two mile radius.

It's really critical to me that we don't make these decisions kind of one after the other, this contract, that contract, this grant application, that grant application, but have a a much bigger understanding of how we want to approach this decision-m in the future and what technologies we want to be using, when under what circumstances, how we want to be funding those, and again, how most critically we're building public trust in our policing institution and in our city as a whole.

Yep. That that that web page that I I I mentioned back in June when we were here, but there's a web page. It has it has the flight paths locations. So, if you look at the at the maps, you'll see that they all originate from three general locations. And there's a a you know, we can't tell you the exact street address of where where the drone was dispatched to, but it has the call type and the the location in which the general drone was was dispatched.

Mr. Evans, you know, had to basically plan with the partnership with the community a massive tour with our harm report uh contractors. Within his first week, um you know, Miss Dennis basically came in and we're like, "We need a press release and we need all of our social medias and oh yeah, you also have to run um the entire intercommunications role for the council during the midst of really complex times and encampment closures.

Kids shouldn't have to protest. We should be able to inherit a world that works, not one that we need to fix. Our job should be to imagine our future, not beg for one.

The specific asset we've gotten from the city are such of interest in the climate director to help help foster uh interest in sustainable and renewable programs in the city to increase the funding for Riterek to adopt housing first policies to assist with legal aid for immigrants keeping the CARES unit and safer biking routes for sustainable transportation.

Whereas Jaci Johnson Becker was born and raised in St. Paul two and a half weeks early and has always been in a hurry. Jaci is described as a voracious reader. He learned his alphabet before he was 2 years old, but stubbornly did not want to learn XYZ and was once convinced that he'd be fine with A through W. As a child, JC could often be found surrounded by piles of books he has read.

All of this work was pulled off I believe during a time when there wasn't the legislative aid available or you know in in your office. Um, and so JC, it just really speaks volumes about the the workload you can carry, your commitment, your passion to the work here, and I'm just truly in awe um of everything that happened at the state of the youth address.

Uh you could not forfeit any additional money of course just taking no action. You could modify uh to forfeit less less frequently than once a month. Uh you could also instead of doing a forfeite of the existing performance deposit require that additional performance deposit be posted and um in a case like this were the council to choose a path like that, I would say no less than $10,000.

So to forfeit the current perform I want to make sure I'm stating the resolution the motion to forfeit the current performance deposit and of is that 5,000 the the 10,000 there's 15,000 posted now. You have already forfeited five a month ago. And so you're dealing with what the balance is and whether to forfeit and in what amount at what rate. So to forfeit the remaining 10,000 every 45 days at an amount of Yes. Till the work is complete.

The police did indicate and um the referral says the female is living in her home alone with stage four cancer. She has black mold covering her basement and her sewage no longer works. Non-livable and unsafe conditions. She can't afford to fix her plumbing and hasn't been able to flush for weeks.

I respectfully dispute these charges because I have evidence showing the work being built. I have documentation and evidence supporting my position, including photos, videos, and invoices from a separate licensed and insured plumber who inspected and performed necessary plumbing work shortly after my mother had passed. The evidence shows that other than install installation of the new pipe, the work the city claimed to have completed was either not performed or not necessary.

There's two charges on the bill. One for digging, one for jetting the pipe. They never did the digging. So, we're not disputing the whole bill. It's just the part where they said they dug it up and replaced the pipe, but they never replaced. And they also claim on the receipts that there's a threemonth warranty. We were calling in May. They did the work in April. Nobody would ever come out to actually warranty it, come look at it. Vicki was in the hospital for 3 weeks. Came home. The whole basement was still flooded.