I really urge you to leave it to our voters. I hold our St. Paul voters capable of being able to cast a vote letting us know where they stand on this initiative.

It was seen to potentially violate the United States Constitution in different areas. And it also was deemed to unconstitutionally avoid um for vagueness in the ordinance written as is.

But for me this is about the concerns around the legalities of the language that's coming before before us and could potentially go to the voters because if the voters, when they vote on it, um and they're voting yes, they're voting no, if it passes, the voters expect it to be implemented um and we wouldn't, you know, if we have a petition where we have language that's conflicting with other laws and we cannot meet what is expected when um folks are going to be voting on it, then that doesn't uh that doesn't serve uh the purpose and it doesn't serve the the job that we do.

Personally, we're pretty big fish in the city. I think there are ways that on the front end we think the sky's going to fall and in the end it ends up being okay. So for me this is a risk that I'm willing to take on behalf of tenants in the city and I'm looking forward to supporting the motion.

I don't want as Councilmember Johnson said, I think really well, for tenants to believe that something is the case but actually we can't implement or enforce. Not to mention the legal risk that it sounds like we open ourselves up to.

It's basically modifying the language in our code around golf courses where there was language that you could not have miniature golf and also that golf courses could not be lighted for night use and now we're changing that language to remove the part where you can't have miniature golf courses and also that golf courses that are equipped for lighting which in this case right now would apply to the Highland National Driving Range. They can operate until 10:00 p.m. And so really excited to see this come forth. This is going to be expanding programming at the golf course. So that you know, more folks can can come out and use it and also adding to the the revenue that we'll be receiving as a city for [clears throat] that additional programming. And so I'm really excited to open up the golf course even more to our entire community.

This position would do work that is currently done by a union employee. This will result in the loss of a union job, and the Deputy Clerk role should remain as a civil service position to allow for greater continuity of service in the Clerk's office.

Asking union employees to compromise their values and leave a union job at the promise of more pay is at its most charitable a textbook example of union busting and more bluntly should be considered elitist and classist.

A higher level position with the appropriate authority, compensation, and accountability can still be a union position as seen by the various levels of of various high-level manager positions within the St. Paul Supervisors Organization.

My recommendation to the council is to give a 3-month waiver on the vacant building fee in which if they've completed getting their code compliance certificate, there would be no vacant building fee for the 26-27 cycle. If they fail to complete the work, then there would be a vacant building fee forthcoming.

I am actually planning on renting this property for a licensed cannabis grow that I am a licensed cannabis farmer. I've been farming hemp and cannabis for the past uh 7 years in northern Minnesota. I'm bringing the operation to the city.

I hear your concerns about Polly. It's very consistent with what I've heard from other folks too. Not just even related to legislative hearing items, you know, other things as well. And so I will be sure to have a conversation with our director of in our Department of Safety and Inspections about that because there are definitely areas of improvement for Polly overall.