public safety is the number one thing I'm looking at there's a lot of other competing interest. You know, diversion is important, rehabilitation is important. Um, you know, deterrence, all these kind of things are important. But the thing I look at that I think is for me the single most important quality that we have is um is public safety.

the number of people who are willing to just run from the cops is incredible and that tells you something about the mentality. Either they're just feeling really lucky or they don't respect law enforcement and they're not thinking about the consequences or maybe they're thinking they can get away with it.

our focus has been on um just under I've tried to reorient us a little bit to be do we still do the stings in the recovery arm and they're really important but the recovery and particularly runaway uh kids is where I think you know our our effort is best spent because you know the these kids um the the you [clears throat] say you know they get solicited within sex for the first 48 hours and being a runaway or homeless is the number number two contributor to um being sex trafficked.

He has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide. He has he was 0.05 at the time of blood draw. So that's few hours after the accident. And um he was um prescribed clinazipan but the mix didn't help. So there's one count of uh recklessness and then one count of um under the influence.

a technical assistance panel is essentially where a community comes to us with a land use challenge or a policy question and we put together a panel of cross- sectoral experts who are willing to spend you know a significant amount of time both at ahead of the tap and during the tap really investigating that question in order to come up with recommendations that are neutral that are marketbased. and are actionable.

I think the other thing that this enables you to do once you have some ideas what's the highest and best use what's possible in the site is to actively pursue a developer. um [snorts] you know that's probably foreign here in the metro area but in the outside the metro area when you're a city trying to attract a development you actually actively go out and meet with developers and potential businesses and try and tell them we have a site for you and this site works for this reason and you convince them to come in and look at it and try and you know encourage them to develop in your community.

this 180 acres is is not something that many cities have a chance to and I won't even say development utilize to be able to set forth and say what is the outcome that we want to see was the pacing. We've already had the discussion and the previous council we did as well for land use and it didn't work and it didn't work twice and there's a reason it didn't work and so we're going down a different route. So, I I appreciate that as a council we had this as a one of our two-year priorities and that staff has gotten us to this point to have these discussions with ULI, which I I have full confidence with two and a half days that well, I expect that the product will be something that meets our needs and is something that aligns with the history of the products that you have produced before. Um, I guess the the thing for me is these 180 acres are a result of a lawsuit. a lawsuit that's from 3M because our water will be polluted for centuries to come. And so to me, this is not all that different from the 70 acres for the sports site in that this is a site which we have an opportunity to do right and we need to do it right the first time.

this project is the um extension of uh municipal utilities to Oakland Junior High School and then down to uh the new elementary school site and then eventually um a force man that discharges to a gravity line at Fifth Street.

As it moves forward, what are some of the steps that on our end that we are still responsible for as it moves along versus the things that we are not responsible for to make sure that the project is done on time for their needs?

I think just with with Tracy's experience on that park advisory commission, I think that's something that speaks a lot. um you know, she's already done some work there. She has some in um she's gone through that process of seeing the parks plan. Um I think that's a pretty valuable asset.

I would just say to Mr. Bler that the fact that you are obviously far younger than any of us and you're willing to uh offer your time and your services for the city says a lot. And do not take this to be a a negative or a a push back to stop you. Um there spots will open again. Um that happens for various reasons. Um there's also a planning commission spot open but uh yeah you will you will find opportunities to serve when when you are so willing. So please continue that.