Scott, uh, very similar to other collar counties, a little bit more residential heavy. um you know dissimilar from Henip and Ramsey which has more commercial and apartment property and Minnesota as a whole which is of course uh a little more agg heavy.

When you're shifting costs, you're not cutting spending. So this is cuz this is often times one of the easiest and this is, you know, bipartisan frankly going back decades. This is an approach that legislators have taken is shifting costs to local governments or moving money on a spreadsheet without either cutting spending or raising revenue to balance a budget.

So structural imbalances. Um, what's the answer? You are the man of the moment. You've got the podium. You've got a silver bullet. I'll even give you three shots, not just one. What is as you see it because you're down there and this is not a loaded question. This is not meant to be a loaded question and we can talk about offline but what is the answer because it cannot sustain itself. The system cannot sustain itself.

In 2026, all three county associations had the top three priorities and, uh, Nathan touched, of course, on the technology modernization. And I just want to say thank you to all of you and all of the staff that showed up on that. The unanimous vote is very unusual at the legislature, as we all know, and it's reflective of of the pressures that were put on them. So, thank you for that.

I just want to make a comment on 6.13, which is the benefits plans. And I just want to thank Denny Lind and Jeff Schmodish for the work that they did um in presenting the information to the board and the work that they did to get that done. That's all I had.

There's a lot of things that can be done within the county. We can meet a lot of needs that don't have to be done by the county itself. Um, we are very fortunate to have a lot of partners in our county. Whether those be faith organizations like Shepherd of the Lake being here, uh, whether they see some of these nonprofits that we work with, some of the professional organizations, there's a lot of things that have happened over the past year where work has been done that aligns with some of the values that we have, the things that we're trying to accomplish that we don't have to do.

I think one is being very clear. I mean, clear purpose matters, right? So, we're not trying to be something we're not. I think churches, listen, I I won't speak for every church, but I think a lot of churches, including our own, do that a lot. We we try to be it's a purpose that isn't really our purpose, and it's really not the community's need, right? So we're trying to be clear to purpose and that's something I set as a [clears throat] as as you know it's something that we're going to talk about [snorts] continuously right as we do this work as we jump into new um partnerships.

I think for me, I don't know if I would call it challenge, but it's more of a goal to reach more of the diverse communities. Um, you know, as being someone who's originally from Mexico, um, I my one of my biggest goals for, I guess, the remainder of this year and 2027 is really be very intentional about reaching to the Hispanic communities and other communities, diverse communities, the East African communities, the Russian communities.

Our medical reserve corps has people that have medical skills as well as non-medical skills, but everyone was under that chunk. So, it's kind of a misnomer in the chart just because of how we logged data during that time. If you recall, the pandemic was a little chaotic. So, our data tracking has changed over time, which is why it's a little separate now.

All application requirements have been complied with and the Bellplane Township along with ourselves recommend approval of the on sale offsale intoxicating liquor license and barring any objection recommend passing of resolution 2026196 will which will allow for the combination liquor license. Final adoption will take place uh during the October 6th board meeting um with resolution 2026 3122.