I just wanted to uh give acknowledgement to the Frederick's family for their donation of the flagpole for the Miracle I don't know the any background behind as to why they wish to make a donation if it's in behalf of somebody or if they just want to be generous. I just wanted to give um acknowledgement to that donation.

Uh their main reason for wanting to donate it is so that the players in the Miracle League um could have a flag to look towards when they sing the national anthem.

There's no increase in fees because Dick's is volunteering as part of the contract that people on on board here to to work with the city to uh do the clean up days.

One of the things that we're investing in right now is really a track your truck. It will be similar to UPS or other items where residents will actually be able to see real time how far away their truck is.

Um one thing in recycling, well, there's still a fire in a recycling either MRF truck or facility almost daily across the United States. ... 98% of them are caused from lithium ion batteries.

The difference between 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and today, and moving forward, is you actually have less Christmas trees on the road. It's efficiency.

So, I mean to I mean just in my opinion, it just then makes this, you know, useless because um in 2028, it could go up to who knows we we don't know. It we and I get we can't we can't we don't we can't see into the future. We don't know what policies can be like you said can occur. But I don't know. It just I think if you're going to provide a chart that says here here's what you're um what we're voting on is what your expected rate increases are and I to take that into consideration, but then really it's not going to be accurate. Um I think it's something that if you're going to provide that, then you should agree to it and lock into it for that term. That's just my opinion.

If I may, I think one of there are multiple benefits to a closed system. One of the best is the economies of scale. So, individuals right now are paying almost 50% less than they would if they were doing it on their own.

Over the 5-year CIP, we have 118.2 million of projects identified uh with 30.4 million in 2027.

annually repayment would be about 1.16 million on a $10 million bond. ... The impact on the home on a $350,000 home would be about 43 bucks.

This budget is going to be a difficult budget. Um in in in 2027. And the biggest reason for that is that we went to 24/7 operations uh with two stations uh with our fire department.

Lions Park outdoor rink. This I know that it's not a project until 2028, 2029, and we just had mentioned that we're focusing on 2027. But the reason why I'm bringing this up and wanting to talk has the city ever um considered or um how other cities have, for example, I have pulled up here Lakeville has the Align and Align Health Pavilion rink. And we are looking to do the same thing that they are. Have you ever looked into seeing if we could find a partner like that for us to help offset costs?

I I will say one of those projects that I mentioned that may never happen, that may be one of those projects that never happens. Uh because it's way over what what the initial estimates were. ... it cost more to move it in to move it than to move it than than than so it you know, I I Yeah, that that may be a project that never happens.

Ridership is moving up a little bit. They want to point out uh on that uh be the third page in, I guess, the 11% increase to downtown on our express service and St. Paul, which might have to do with uh uh state government is up 21.5%. Um but look at that connect service. That's the one where you can get on your phone and just call up the the driver and have them come out. That's up 20% across the board.

Okay, we had a Spoke meeting and one of the big things was the they put a policy together for um use of AI in a large LLC. I don't know if that's something that maybe we as a city needs to look at, too, as AI kind of rolls out.