“For the first time in in 2025, we had a court case decision come out that clearly said that broadband is not a telecommunication service.”

“So, some of those things include requiring buildout of your entire city, making sure that all of your residents have access to the same quality of service throughout the footprint, having a place for people to call with customer service issues.”

“I did ask him what he thought of it and he has some serious concerns about this given that there's no statutory basis for a franchise for broadband and obviously you know the city could get sued.”

“I find that unacceptable that we have any properties in the city that don't have access to broadband. Correct. I I find that unacceptable. It's the year 2025. Grants exist at the state. We have commission. It's just the process of how do we get there?”

“your job is to advise and recommend direction to the city council... and then also assist in setting city policy.”

“the legislature did away with that location requirement. So, that makes it a lot easier now to participate remotely because you can just say, 'I'm not going to be there.'”

“It doesn't matter where you put it. Because I have people say, well, that's on my personal computer or that's on my phone. It doesn't matter and it's not a city phone or it's not a city computer. It doesn't matter. It's the data. Is it about the city? Is it city business? Then it's government data.”

“you really need to avoid advocating a position until all the information is presented at the council or the commission meeting. And you know, you just need to be neutral and listen to both sides and then make your decision.”

“the city of Lake Elmo has always been historically environmentally friendly and very sensitive to things. That's one of the reasons many people came here to moved here. And many years ago supposedly I when I was on the council and sitting up there the Wheeler dealers came and said we can give you Bloomington and the res we we went out to the residents said do you want to be like Bloomington and they said no. So how can Lake Elmo retain its identity and still its protection of our and of our sensitive environmental areas that we do have left?”

“before I feel like before we can move forward and take on short-term rentals anywhere, we should manage the 11 that we currently have, they either need to be licensed or told that they can no longer exist.”

“the at least the feedback I've heard from other cities is if you do that, beware because you're the cost for staff is massive and you're hiring a massive amount of FTEEs and there might might be a value gain for Woodbury or Still Water. I don't know if there's a a value gain for us, but at least that's where I I stay.”

“Review and mitigate the pickleball noise at Pebble Park. I did bring this up with our parks commission in our December meeting and they did there's a couple members that are here tonight that would like to talk a little bit more may get some other information from city council in regards to that. It is pretty costly in order to do two sides of that but we do want to discuss that if if people are willing to.”