the biggest thing that has happened this year for prosecution, at least with my firm, is that we've had some staffing changes. Our long-time city prosecutor, Robert Olson... retired after 20-plus years... His last act before retirement was he trained in his replacement, who is John Palmer.

So, after 8 months, they determined that their change was unnecessary, and they are removing them from our calendars now... So, we're hoping in about 3 to 6 months, we'll be back to our normal schedule...

under the new law, if you have one prior, you are required to be on an ignition interlock for 2 years. If you have two priors, you're looking at 6 years. If you have three or more priors... for 10 years.

191 person-in-crisis calls... Those person-in-crisis calls tend to be more time-consuming. They We have higher expectations... We're trying to figure out what's the source that issue. And so, we might have to spend more time de-escalating. We might have to spend more time trying to connect that individual with resources.

one of the biggest challenges that we're having with these fraud cases is once they're coming to our attention, we have very little recourse or very little ability to go back and investigate those. And so, really what what I think it we're going to be doing is focusing our efforts on, you know, making connections, doing some communication, and trying to prevent these frauds from occurring as they're coming up.

a police department that reflects our community is very important to me and and a high priority. And a lot of that is really going to be in building relationships and it's building relationships with like our local area high school students... We really need to identify them, you know, before they're getting to that college path...

I do think the city of White Bear is a very safe place... our crime is is mostly property crime and it's it's at a low volume and it's a safe community. People are very proactive in in calling the police.

The city of White Bear Lake does not have a contract with flock. We do have partnership with Ramsey County that Ramsey County Sheriff's Office has one ALPR in city limits... When we implemented drones in White Bear Lake, we had a public hearing and we had a community conversation... that's the approach that Chief and I would take and bring it an operating recommendation to council.

We have section 2.02, which basically says um when our elected officials' terms begin, they will begin the first business Monday of January. And then we have in section 4.24, those terms will begin the first business day of January... it made sense to say the first Monday in January in both instances.

There have been about three years of elections that I have been through where this has been an issue... what do I who do I call when if there's a crisis if there's a critical incident and I who do I work with in that moment... we are already operating as if January 1 or that all Monday in January as the new person is in is in charge if you will.

the person who is in that new seat doesn't get to act until that oath is taken. They don't qualify until they take the oath... But until they take that oath, they are not qualified, and the previous person still is technically legally um in that position.

the township will pay the entire outstanding amount owed that was in dispute within 30 days. Uh that amount, as you'll see in the draft agreement, is approximately $200,000. Uh the township would also pay any additional disputed interest amounts as they become due through the duration of the contract.

this is a really big deal. Um this is a this is not a pleasant dispute between neighbors in the township... we were sufficiently patient I think with the township, um sufficiently strong in our legal strategy, but also looking for an opportunity to to end this and I think some creative legal work to see an opening in court to offer a settlement...