To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yeah. And I'd like to add one thing before we proceed. I'd like to take a moment to recognize today is 911. Let's take a moment of silence. All right. Any changes to the uh agenda? >> There are no, Mr. Mayor. Just for purpose of the record to note for the video audience that the reports were done underneath the work session. >> Can I have a motion to approve agenda? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? We have one presentation. >> The pulpit is yours. [Laughter] >> The pulpit. Uh Mr. Mayor, council members, and staff. Uh thank you for the opportunity. I'm Michael Bowman. I'm the superintendent for Lakeville Area Schools. And before we get started, I couldn't help but notice the displayed in case colors that are behind the mayor. Sir, uh, is there a story behind that that I could learn about? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> This was a gift to the community for the citizens of El was flown over the United States capital on May 24th, 1984. since it substantially predates anybody in this room. >> Not me. >> Um, we just >> But yeah, I got you. >> History. >> Okay, understood. Thank you. So, I have the pleasure uh and honor to come to you and talk about uh our school district a little bit and uh capital projects levy renewal and uh hopefully cover down on some questions you may have uh and then answer any questions that that may come from this. Uh there's a couple of very short videos embedded here. So um hopefully that'll add to the clarity. I know at least on the first video the narration is amazing. So you're going to want to listen very closely to that. Um but uh let's go ahead and do you have control of this Tom? Okay. >> I am the person I know there was detailed instructions that came. Okay. I have not read them. >> That's okay. We you and I can work through this as as we do on many things. So, um, let's, if we could, let's watch a quick video and then we'll move on. Hopefully, there's sound on the TV maybe. I don't know. >> There you go. Lakeville schools. [Applause] This fall, residents in the Lakeville area schools community will vote on whether to renew our school district's capital projects levy. Renewing means there is no new tax increase. This levy was previously approved by voters in 2015. And if approved for renewal, the levy would sustain $4 million annually for the next 10 years to maintain staff and student devices, educational technology, infrastructure, and security technology and continue to invest in career pathways and STEM education opportunities. If voters do not renew the levy, the district will face budget cuts for the 202627 school year. These cuts will include delaying device, equipment, and system maintenance leading to decreased cyber and physical security. Staff positions will also have to be reduced. You can learn about the maintaining our schools powering our future levy renewal by visiting our website. And don't forget to vote on or before November 4th. [Applause] So, the voice was great. The echo not so much. Uh I I understand technology challenges uh sometimes get the best of us. But uh what I want to share with you and what what the video is talking about is a renewal. And a renewal is very different than most other levies that uh that we talk about. uh we're trying to sustain and maintain uh funding that we received back in 2015 and acknowledging the fact that uh the voter population has changed over that period of time. So uh we don't take for granted that you know that's something that we uh just get we have to earn that. Uh and I think I should have the courtesy to share with you the rest of the story around what that is and be specific about that. Uh one of the things we always do if we are going to uh pursue any levy opportunities is we go to our community and the community is defined as those uh residents within our school district boundaries uh and a a uh statistically significant mix of how those residents um exist within our community. So, not all of our um residents that would be property taxpayers have kids in our system. And in fact, the split is about 6040 where 60% do not have students in in our uh school district. So, that's a a significant challenge all in and of itself. Um but we do go and we do uh get feedback. So, I want to share some of that with you um if you would. So, we did a very comprehensive communitywide survey and I've just pulled some things that are related to the um this particular levy renewal. Um we did this in the spring of 25. So, Morris Leatherman, some of you may be familiar with that organization that does uh a lot of political polling in the state of Minnesota. um they were the ones we went to to get this information and um Mr. Leatherman did come to the school board and share the whole thing uh back in the in the spring of uh or I'm thinking the summertime. Uh but if you're interested in seeing or hearing more about the whole comprehensive uh uh survey uh you can just if you let Tom know I can get you the link uh that you can watch just that part of the board meeting if that interests you. Uh so 76% of those surveyed uh say that college and career readiness is either very important or essential and their perspective on college and career readiness as it applies to how Lakeville area schools conducts that 84% said it was good or excellent. Um and I think those are some very good numbers. If you are familiar with surveying uh if you're anything in the 50s you're doing pretty well. So um just to give you a little bit of uh a calibration on that. Next please. Uh 71% say that educational technology is considered to be very important or essential to educating our kids today. And 79% say that educational technology and how we apply that in Lakeville area schools is either good or excellent. Again, I think those are some positive numbers. Uh we are committed to getting better at that. um and trying to be more and more focused on um just academic purpose for that. And I think we're doing a a really good job after being back for a year and making some uh some adjustments. I think we're we're very strong at that. And then the next um when we surveyed the community and asked if the community would support a renewal of the capital projects levy, 85% uh returned with uh support for that. And I think one of the key factors, you know, I'm I'm not naive. I think uh is the fact that it doesn't represent a tax increase for our communities. Um but we also am not naive and I am want to be transparent. Yes, we're asking to continue something that was started a decade ago. So, um nothing is free in this world. Correct. So, why a levy renewal? uh state and federal government. You may not know this. Uh there are no our we get no federal dollars and we have no state dollars that fund any kind of technology and that's any school district in the state of Minnesota. Uh there is no mechanism for that. Um they consider it capital uh only because it has infrastructure um pieces to it but there is no funding mechanism. You might have heard of long-term facilities maintenance and the program for that. When you're talking about like your brickandmortar buildings and the the what I call the guts of those buildings and keeping those maintained, there is funding for that, but there isn't for technology. None. So, the the challenge we have is how do you operate? Everybody here is sitting with a computer that's probably tapped into an internet and some of you may um uh use that in other work uh lines of work that you do. Um it's pervasive and our kids are going to use this uh and so they have to be capable if we're going to graduate them from school and have them personally ready for the future workforce. And you know a lot of people say well you know if they're in the trades and I I am a big believer in the trades. If you've looked at the trades lately or manufacturing floors lately, um, highly technical and highly computerized. Um, and I'll even say this because while I was away for a couple years, worked for a couple couple of companies and the uh the infiltration of um artificial intelligence into some of these systems is is growing fast. um not to remove people from work but to do other things. And if you've ever been in a manufacturing plant with robotics, you know, those all have to be programmed and monitored and people have to be very smart about the technical aspects of what the work is that's being done and then how to deal with robotics to do that. So that's the world that we're in and uh you know we are trying to be good about that in the school system. So if it passes, what are we what are we doing and and what is uh this all about? So if you could go to the next, as uh I shared in the video, we want to sustain $4 million annually over the next 10 years. And that is to maintain staff and student devices that we have to that we have to have in our system based on our current curriculum and the infra infrastructure support. There's also uh safety and security and I'll I'll be a little bit more specific about that in a minute. Uh some of the technology elements of that uh that we are trying to sustain. We want to continue to invest in career pathways and our STEM education opportunities. Um science, technology, engineering and math is what STEM stands for. Uh and these are very directed programs. They are um very much tradesoriented as well. And uh we've spent a lot of effort to try to boost that uh in our secondary part of our school system which is our middle school through our elementary school. And in fact with STEM uh with this particular levy we were able to uh bring STEM into elementary as well so that we're creating a pathway that starts in elementary uh develop interests in bo in both boys and girls to be able to move forward and pursue interests in science, technology, engineering and math. So we have a very comprehensive and connected system and we certainly feel maintaining that and growing especially in the high schools our trades and our capability in what maybe some of you might used to have known as industrial arts. We want to keep doing that. Our school board is very much interested in that. Um couple conversations I've been having as well is we have aoft over there at uh the Lakeville air facility at I call it an airhead. It's really an airport, I think. Um, but we want to get we want to get um perhaps a um aeronautical slashflight instruction, aviation kind of uh opportunities going. I've been working with a few business leaders over there who expressed interest in trying to help us. Minnetonka has a pretty robust program. When I was in St. Paul, we built one into uh one of our high schools. We did a meteorology and aviation and we had um a lot of federal dollars and we were able to get flight simulators and have a pathway for kids to graduate with uh private pilots licenses and meteorology uh technical certifications. Um little harder to do in Lakeville because we don't have those federal dollars, but if you have uh good partnerships with your community leaders, you might be able to carve something out and maybe start small and grow. So I just share that with you. Um it's a standard classroom. What we were also able to do with the 2015 levy and what we worked very hard to accomplish is um when I came to the district in 2013 and I was not the superintendent, but I'd go into classrooms and you would have a hodgepodge of stuff that um there was not an enterprise process to information technology in our school systems and our teachers were cobbling together whatever they could kind of put together. So one of the initiatives that we wanted to fully employ is have a standard package that served the teacher and served our kids so that our our technology integration was seamless and functional at a high level and um put some things that you would see in the private sector which are essentially internal control measures. So you're not buying all kinds of different stuff and then asking an information technology department to service it all. and it's very expensive to do that and uh I thought well that's not a smart idea and we need to reset ourselves. So we were able to do that. We have a projector, whiteboard and speakers for instructional purposes in our classroom. We're able we use Apple TV for wireless screen sharing. It's the most efficient and lowcost method to do that. So you don't have to have um overheads and different types of systems. Uh I'm sure you all are familiar with that technology. And then we have Apple classroom which is real- time student device management. So the teacher has direct control of all of the students that are that are in his or her charge um to do lessons and uh to do instructional interactive activities. Uh and it makes it very intentional instruction and learning opportunities. is it focuses the instruction on instruction so that the kids aren't back there playing I don't know Doom or whatever silly games are out there you you I'm showing my age probably they're probably way on to other things John Madden football you know whatever u but we don't want our kids doing that we want them to be engaged in learning uh I was in a classroom just today and there was this this uh program where the kids are all on it together and it's asking asking them questions um educational type questions about um you can pick the subject and then they're kind of they're doing two things simultaneously. They're competing to try to answer as many as they can as fast as they can. Um and they're getting, you know, displays right up on the screen real time. So, and they were just hooting it up, having a great time and and doing very well. And one I did catch one kid was just hitting the button cuz he thought if he went faster and he would get lucky enough he would, you know, win. I said, you know, cease and desist. Here's what you're supposed to be doing. But, you know, uh that means he's human and he's uh learning and he's gaming the system. So, there is some critical thinking going on there. Uh just not the right direction. Um anyway, the other thing too is classroom management. I don't know if you all have been in classrooms uh of late but obviously if you have think about it it doesn't matter what level but if you have 25 30 kids uh moving around and doing this that or the other uh classroom management it's a challenge and the technology also helps you do that um I would tell you one of the best things I've seen is uh we have connected audio connection so the teacher wears this little thing around his or her neck and they can be anywhere in the room and they can easily be heard without, you know, I don't know about you guys, but I remember I remember Miss Brown, fifth grade, she would walk in the room and this is what she'd sound like. I'm going to back away from the microphone a little bit. Settle down. Settle down. Settle down. That's exactly what she would say. We're in Texas, so a little bit of a twang there, but uh you don't have to do that. You know, it's like they have all kinds of little games they play. But be able to project your voice in a in a room uh without having to raise your voice, I think makes a big difference. So that's one of the other things we've been able to do with this technology. And I got a video here to share a little bit deeper, a little bit more so you can kind of get a better sense of what that is. In the fall of 2020, the program is part of a broader technology ecosystem with the goal to create a dynamic learning environment. Teachers have been leveraging tools like Apple classroom to support student learning, manage devices, and provide real time feedback. >> At its best, technology brings us together. The fundamentals of teaching of like collaboration, critical thinking, investigative learning, inquiry don't change depending on the tools that you have, but tools can augment those basics. They're kind of discovering things for themselves and learning skills like digital literacy. And so that enriches my teaching because I'm giving them the skills that makes them kind of more in the driver's seat of their own learning. Looking ahead, we aim to continue preparing our students for a future where technology is an integral part of their personal and professional lives. [Applause] If you could advance to the next one there. Thank you. So this uh I I wanted to put some numbers here to just give you a sense of the scope of the number of things that we have that fall under this levy. The other thing that we have beyond just the equipment and the infrastructure to support that equipment um are we do have 5.5 FTEES they are related to uh safety and security support support for all of these systems to ride on a network uh that's uh got the proper level of cyber security in it and also to be able to plan for future capability uh handle the apps. I I don't know if you're familiar obviously you're familiar with apps that are on uh you get through Google Play or through Apple uh store or any of those kinds of things but we have educational apps that we use uh and our teachers use that are built into the curriculum and so we have to sustain those as well and you have to do it in a in a secure environment. So, uh, to do that properly, we do have 5.5 FTEES that are supported and and authorized under this particular, uh, levy. Um, can you go next chart? So, keeping our kids safe online is a big deal. It's a it's a very, very big deal uh, for a lot of reasons. And I I don't think I I will lose anybody in the in the idea that uh safety and security, whether it's physical safety and security or cyber security is pretty darn important. Um we we have it to in our systems for prevention and for response. Uh if we do have incidences, we have to be able to track those and deal with the the uh perpetrators. Uh we want to be able to monitor our systems also for prevention and response. We don't want our kids playing all kinds of silly games and doing all kinds of silly things on their devices. So, it's very restricted. We've gone a long way to uh lock that down uh in order to make sure that it's educational purpose. And then we also have uh to vet all of our apps. And vetting is is do applications fit our curriculum and instruction? Are they teaching to state standards? um those those capabilities we want to retain in our system. So with software and equipment for STEM and career courses, you can see there on the far left um we have laser cutters, we have plasma cutters, um things that that kids can and would experience in the professional uh settings. Uh we have some of that is donated, some of that we've purchased with STEM again or with these levy dollars for STEM. We were able to outfit our entire middle school system so that the the interest development at middle school can carry on to high school. We have uh software uh and music production u contemporary or what I call state-of-the-art uh capability that we were able to introduce into our music learning uh so that kids could learn not just how to play an instrument or or sing or those kinds of things and we have many many programs but there's a whole industry of opportunity uh in music production and we uh are able to support that and then graphic design I think everybody here probably knows a little more than I do about graphic design, but it's everywhere. Uh, and there's great careers for young people to get into with graphic design, and there's different certifications. Uh, we also have nursing, a CNA program. Um, we have architecture programs. All these things are uh are supported by this particular um levy. And we aren't again, we're not trying to grow them and add new stuff. We just want to keep this going for our kids uh moving into the future. Security cameras and and storage and access control. I don't know any of you guys go to our schools back say 2012 2010 time frame. >> 2000 when I graduated. >> Okay. 2000. So, in 2000, um I'm going to bet that anybody at any time could just walk into the school and go around anywhere. Um when I got to Lakeville schools, um I had been uh I was amazed at the fact that you could just walk into any school. I did have I got a lot of emails from parents and this I wasn't the superintendent but I was responsible for safety and security in the schools but I got a lot of emails from parents saying I can't believe you can just walk in our schools and um I was in agreement that's a problem and it it's very challenging for us um if if in today's environment and I I don't think I have to paint a picture um you don't have to look much past yesterday to understand the the threat out there. And here's the other problem, and and this is this is a tough thing to have to say, but whatever's going on in our society, they're targeting schools. Whoever they are, they're targeting our schools. And that's a horrendous thought, but it's also an unfortunate reality. And in my mind, uh I've done as much as I can do, and I still think there's more to be done. I would love to have an SRO in every school. Um I would love to have um that capability because I think it's it's one of the strongest things that we can have. But um I did put in access control and then I did uh work with the board in our community to get uh our 3D response system which I think is state-of-the-art capability for protecting our kids. And um I will not apologize for uh wanting that for our students and our staff or any people that come into our system. Uh I don't walk around paranoid, but I live in Reelsville and uh I think it's important that we do everything that we can because I don't want to be the person who wakes up and says, "I didn't do everything I could and and be dealing with that incident. It's going to be awful enough." Uh and and I've written about this. I've tried to talk to other superintendents about this. I've gone to the legislature. There was a bill that was working its way through uh the legislature last year. I went and spoke to the committees on it. Um we cannot do enough. And I look at it as a fire suppression system was looked at back in the 1950s. We can do better. We have the capability to do better. And I'm thankful that our voters gave us the opportunity in 2019 to do that. and I followed through and put this system in every single school. I want to say I want to keep it. This is not the 3D response system, but this is the camera system that supports it. This is the access control for the front uh of every school vestibule. And I just want to maintain that and and keep that going. I will say out loud and transparently that if we are unsuccessful at renewing and I have to cut four million from the budget, I will have to find somewhere else to go to do that because I can't do it here. So, I'm not trying to scare anybody. Um, I'm just want you to understand that this is this is important and having this capability in our school system is vital. uh it'll have to come from somewhere else that you know is probably very important as well. I can tell you we don't run a um an open throttle spend as you will uh school district uh very tight and uh I think efficient. Uh we have a very good budget uh situation for fiscal year 26. anything that would happen here would influence fiscal year 27 which we're starting our planning for uh as soon as the 25 audit is done. Um but at the end of the day uh I I feel strongly that we should maintain our safety and security. I know I got an incident going on right now and I apologize but hopefully my team can handle it. Um so physical security technology support is also part of this levy. Again, no new tax increase. Um I I think that's a a good thing to note. Um and people parsed that many different ways because yes, we increased it in 2015. Just trying to sustain it in 2025. Um that's our that's what we're trying to do here. Um next chart. So if it fails, we're going to have to cut the budget. Um, and well, I'll figure out how to do that. Uh, I I don't know if you're familiar with school budgets, but uh the majority of a school budget is for personnel. It's we're a we're people inensive organization. We're the largest employer in Lakeville. Um, and there's no getting around the fact that that's what I'll have to do. Um, I I just I don't want to do that. I hope I can not have to do that, but that's that's the reality. So sobering, but there it is. This is the uh one of my favorite things. And you all have to deal with elections as well. The way you have to write a ballot question, I know you know is regulated. Uh but for transparency purposes and the purposes of making sure if people want to know what it looks like, this is I'm not going to read it to you, but um I you have the charts here. You can certainly read it. If you have questions, you can send them to me. Uh email. I can do my best to answer them, but it's basically saying we're we're looking for a renewal of the levy and are you for it or against it? And then November 4th is election day. I think everybody's kind of aware of that. Um early voting, I think there's a build there, Tom, if you hit the button. Yeah. Uh September 19th, uh we will have uh voting uh stations up in our district office on Juniper Path. Uh those will run from 8 to 4 Monday through Friday uh up through November 3rd. Um there is mailin. Go ahead, build again. Uh mailin opportunity and you can go to isd194.orgvoting-info uh and get more information about how to do that. And then finally, on election day, we will have all of our normal polling sites open from 7 am to 8:00 pm, so folks can come in and vote uh their desire uh on that day. So, >> yep. Um these are the different methods of learning about the levy or getting information. We also have online uh and uh frequently asked questions, voting information and all as much resources we can provide. Uh if you go to our website and you go to our levy renewal page, there's more stuff there. I know everybody's like, I got to get take a look. Um I think that's what I have. Uh I am open to your questions. Tom, can you go back real quick to the actual voting >> sheet where you do yes or no? I did not get through it fast. Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have it listed on that? There is no tax impact. Do you have that? >> Can't can't have the wording any other way than it's depicted there by law. >> Okay. So, these >> I tried >> be educated so that they understand because they're going to look at that number and be like, uh, no. >> Yeah. So they really need to be educated by everyone to say that there is no tax impact. >> Well, there's no tax increase. Um I I don't say impact because again this was voted >> already been assessed. >> Correct. Yep. Um and uh with net tax capacity the using the distributive property of math we know that uh your NTC would actually uh depending on how it plays out and I I I probably shouldn't I'm not going to speculate on what the number is but in theory it actually spreads it out and reduces. Um but I don't have the math to answer how much it reduces. I I think you have to know individual property. The other element of all this too is you have when your tax statement and all that is done as you know cities and counties can tax and they all have to be included in that. And so people some people understand that. I'm pretty sure everybody in this room understands those three levels or three types of governments uh and that they all have taxing authority. So, um, but I've been at it long enough, over 20 years, uh, most of the time, uh, levies are for increase in taxes. JVSR, very few times are people doing renewals and staying fast on a renewal. I think Farmington, if you remember, last cycle, they did a revoke and replace. That didn't work out for them. Uh, that was suggested. I push back hard because I don't think that's where our community is right now. >> Just a a more informational question. You may not know the answer, but do you know what the typical or average uh percent of the the voters with kids in the system? How much actually turn out and vote? I mean, because that's one of the problems we faced here. >> Only 39% of the actual families voted on the levy last year. And it's just like >> I could probably find out from the last one. and and you know there's always the the debates too around um what I guess I call them offcycle elections right and we all have to face those challenges um because when you need it and has to align with time sequences is one reason sometimes I know some school districts are very deliberate about that they know like in a presidential election oh you don't want to put anything on the ballot or you know there's there's all kinds of schools of thought on that I I don't know the answer. Um I know we could probably go back to the last one and find that data. Um I know that off cycle is usually a lower percentage. I mean just because there's not other interests. Um >> with the school of thought of it might be a smaller percentage but perhaps likely a higher percentage that vote yes. Yeah. >> Especially correlated with like early voting are more likely to be voting for in favor of something versus >> whatever. All you are saying m Mr. Berg are true. I will I will uh say that that I do know that data. >> It's impressive. I mean it's it's it's cool to see Lakeing in so many areas, but the the security and technology we've walked in and toured, you know, some have seen it the elementary schools. I mean, even the >> I call them panic buttons, but that's not the right word for it. uh you know the buttons the security like >> we don't call them panic buttons either. You know what we call them? We call them police buttons. >> Okay, there you go. Well, and I saw the blue one >> because we want we want the police >> right there with us. And I work a lot with um um Brad uh Pollson and I I think this particular school board they they've already expressed interest in increasing SRO's. I'll just share with you an SRO for us annual when you throw in the training salary and benefits and all that it's 142k a year. We have three. When I got to the district, we had two. I was able to secure a third. I wanted five at that point in time, but you know, I'll take what I can get. Uh the police department has always been very um uh open and wants to help us and so we don't get any problem in that area. Um, so I don't I don't know how that'll play out, but uh the conversations have obviously started again uh for all the things that are are going out and you see out in the in the public right here in Minnesota, too. >> I thought it was very impressive. Thank you. >> You are very welcome, Mr. Mayor. Am I dismissed? All right. Well, thank you. Thank Tom. Thank you for the invitation and and thank you for your kind attention. I appreciate you very much. Thank you. >> Anybody here for public coma? Next is approval of the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve consent. >> Second. Tonight, the council's being asked to um approve the final plat and development contract for Highlands at Eagle View. I'll have Renee give a brief overview. >> Sure. Um I do not have a presentation. Um but we'll just review briefly that the city council approved a resolution on July 24th approving the preliminary plat. Uh the plat contains 148 new residential lots and replplats two existing home sites. Um this particular phase of the development uh contains 53 new residential lots and replat of the two existing home sites on the west side. Um also contains six outlots. Three of those outlots will be conveyed to the city. Um they contain stormwater ponds. Also included in one of the outlots is 1 2 acres of park dedication that was requested in the central area of the plat. Uh there were 20 conditions that were included in the resolution that you approved um for the preliminary plat. All 20 of those conditions have been addressed in either revisions to the construction plans or included in the development contract. Um, also included, uh, along with the other normal development fees is a lumpsum $200,000 payment to the assessments. Uh, this will replace um all of the assessments uh that were previously levied against the property with the new market school addition plat. And they have been hanging out there for 15 or 20 years as deferred assessments. Uh so those will be um removed from the property and uh we will finally be able to close out permanently the 318 bond fund and uh we will at the next city council meeting there are some easements on the underlying plat that unfortunately we didn't get the hearing notice to the newspaper um in time. So those will be that will be on the next city council agenda. So tonight you are be being asked however to approve resolution 2551 approving the final plat and development contract for the highlands at Eagle View. There was a pre-construction meeting held today. The developer has begun grading at the site and uh plans to continue uh on um aggressively with construction and paving is planned yet this year. Um, do you have any questions for me or the developer? >> I got no questions. Just kudos to everybody for hanging in there and working through everything, however long it's been. But, I mean, it's just awesome to see this going. So, >> we just need to make a motion to approve. >> Oh, you need a motion. >> Can I get a motion to approve? I would make a motion to adopt resolution 25-51. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> I mayor, we can go into reports. >> Yes. I have nothing specific under administration unless there's any questions for for me. >> See, uh, anything from public works? >> Cory didn't have anything in addition to what was in his written report. Chief, >> I just wanted to thank you for what sounds like will be an approval for us to hire a replacement for Detective Barry and and the first additional, if I'm using the right term, officer. Um, greatly appreciated. Uh, Officer Send is going to be replacing Detective Barry as our new detective. Um, Detective Barry leaves on the his last day on the 18th. Going to miss him. uh greatly appreciate all the work he put into kind of building up our detective spot to where it is now. Um sucks he's going back to North Dakota. I don't know why North Dakota again. Um but you know, we will definitely >> It's the beautiful landscape. >> It is not Teddy Roosevelt Parks out there. I've been there. It is beautiful, but there's not much else there. But uh we will miss him. Um just want to let you all know that we are working closely with the school. Um, we always do, but more now than previously because of annunciation. Uh, we'll be meeting actually tomorrow to kind of go over more security measures, um, kind of evacuation plans, things like that. Um, part of my plan with the detective role going forward is to have them be more of a liaison with the school. >> Not an SRO, I got to make that very clear, but more kind of in that general vicinity. um just to kind of have a little better cohesion with them. We also got set up with St. Nicholas Church to be an evacuation point. They'll have an after hours box there where we could get in. There's no staff there if we needed that as an evacuation point and um a point where parents could go to pick up their kids. Um so we're working more closely with them to make sure we are better prepared here. So it's kind of part of that plan. Um, that's kind of what we have going on right now. But, uh, obviously we're going to have some staffing challenges ahead of us being shorter person. Kaylee is not a field training yet, so we will have some gaps in coverage. I'm just going to let you know that now, but we're trying to minimize those. Obviously, an additional officer, you know, whatever we can do will will help with those, but just so you're aware. Obviously, the sheriff covers where it's all I have. fire fire pass anything. >> Um I just got an update uh the other day from fire department. Uh they are looking over the next in September and October um doing their first their test runs on CPR program with Niagara who donated the money to get the program up and going and with city staff. We have not had a full staff CPR training in years. >> I been a while. >> Um, and so, uh, as we're working through that, I'll be working with the trainers to work through the details of how we're going to roll it out, how we're going to promote it, how we're going to do the registration, setting up program criteria for participation, that kind of stuff, or probably over the next 30 to 45 days. So I would anticipate by the time we hit November the program will be rolling. I did talk with the uh J Lieutenant Wishner who's the the lead trainer. He indicated that the intent consistent with our early discussions it's going to be a little conservative on the roll out to make sure that you know it's better to do it right than fast type of deal. Um so that that's moving forward. Uh you brought up my and it's kind of tied, but shout out to to Mitch and the team there that um I reached out to them earlier this week and they donated 10 cases of water that I brought over to the church in New Prague when they were doing the search for the gentleman that was missing. So uh he responded to a text and an email right away and had it all ready to go. So just a shout out to them for jumping in and helping. >> That's awesome. Sir, your turn. >> Question made it way to me about whether our roads can handle all the truck traffic related to construction asphalt trucks. >> That was me. >> Oh, >> I found them after we >> I just know I just noticed those numbers here. >> Those five axles fully loaded dump trucks. I just questioned >> residential roads taking that. It's there are certainly loads someone could imagine that would damage a road, >> but trucks probably aren't part of it, especially this time of year. If you have a weak road in the springtime when everything wet, mushy break it up. But these are designed for that. You might think of a semi as having the same impact on a road cars. One truck, 40 cars. So if we have 100 trucks, that's like 4,000 cars. if that helps. >> Well, there was these were what I what I brought up was these fully loaded dump trucks. >> Yep. >> That it. >> Yep. >> All right. >> You guys remember Jack? >> Hi, Jack. >> Hi, Jack. Uh, community development. I would say maybe the only thing is that we're still continuing to see new development inquiries come in, but they're more at the prospecting level, but um we are still continuing to get contact in addition to the stuff that's become more concrete. So, >> so maybe an update on the hiring process. >> Oh, they want to know about the hiring process? >> I would think maybe they would they would like to know that. So we did have first round interviews today. Um both of our candidates were very solid, but there we did have a top candidate that we felt strong enough about that I immediately did second round interview following the first round interview and um we may be in a position as early as tomorrow to make a conditional offer to that individual. Um, and then we will be and but both candidates are very loyal to their current organizations, meaning they don't want to leave them hanging. They both said they'd probably want to give a month's notice um to leave. And as you guys know, our philosophy is we'd want them to do the same for us. So, we're not going to um we're not going to complain too hard about that. >> Anything from parks? Um we did have parks commission meeting last night. The primary item that we uh two items that we talked about um one was talking about the possibility of providing temporary portable nets and paddles and stuff available for pickle ball. It turned >> it it came back because it's notable. >> Yeah, it's not a high volume inquiry, but Jess continues to get every month a couple inquiries from people that would like us to provide it. >> Josh, >> I haven't had anything to do with it for a while. So, >> for a while. >> So, we asked the question, do you want to pursue it? And if you do, this is what we recommend. The direction from the commission is that no, we're not going to do um we're not going to do the portable nets. People should be able to bring their own balls and paddles. But they did want us to revisit the issue of doing seasonally installed sleeved >> or or >> apparently there's a version out there that are several hundred pounds so that they just sit there. So we're going to do some research on that, bring it back to next month's meeting and get some direction on on that. The other item was >> the other item was the Wagner Park Trail um which they recommended to continue on with process. >> So it will be if it's not already um it will be included in the capital outlay um for 2026 in the final adopt adopted version of the budget. It would be park it would be park dedication funds of which we have sufficient dollars. So there's no budget impact for the project. The project as in the recommended scope will be primarily done by in-house resources. So our guys can do the subgrade, grade, fill, compacting. We just have to hire somebody to come and do the asphalt and concrete portions of it. >> We meet next week. Yeah. Um I will be serving on a panel talking about future of fire services from city administrator and small city perspective. Nothing you guys haven't already heard. So but I would appreciate the support if you you know showed up online or in person. So Uh, no. Nope. >> Meeting is on Monday. >> Monday 35 >> did not meet this Monday. >> Nope. >> LMC Metro City's policy committee updates. >> Nothing huge. on the 22nd will be the fun conversation uh with the rental licensing group home congregate setting stuff. So that's that week >> congregate setting group homes the police or the cities that don't appreciate not being able to do rental licensing anymore. All right. Um, anything else from reports? I think otherwise that concludes. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Any other uh business? Huh? Discussion by council. Anyone? Seeing none. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> I'll wait till we ask if there's any further discussion to the adjourn. >> I'll make a second. >> Any any discussion? >> Yeah. Well, so just very quickly, uh I totally forgot and they would kill me. Um, New Prague Area Schools is going out for a maintenance levy as well. Um, on October 14th, there will be an event at the library um for the public to get more information. Uh, Superintendent Volmouth will be there. Uh, it's October 14th, 6 o'clock. I think I'll get the flyer and I'll share it with Tom and then we can >> Superintendent Volmouth will be at our October 9th meeting. Okay. To give a similar presentation. >> Cool. Anything else? All in favor? >> I turned