I would just soon leave Tony as president and I don't mind running for vice president if you'd like to change that.

Uh, treasurer can be the same as the president and I've been since there's nothing to to do really. I was a treasurer the past year and I wanted to continue.

What if she doesn't accept the nomination?

The phase two came back with a little bit of uh PAS around the fire station kind of surface level. They took core samples that went really far down. Um but some of this is at like the 4 foot level. So they're getting more samples based on their site plan that they are submitting working with us. and um basically submitting a response action plan um if needed working with Stantech to move forward.

Is there any chance that some of the environmental uh assessment information would potentially infer that pollution of the POS expands past the property lines or did Stantech not even hypothesize that?

there's ex uh exceptions to that. So like testing and removal of environmental contamination could be factored into that. So I do feel like we're in a path where we probably don't need to extend a business subsidy or go through the process with a tiff or business subsidy.

One of the questions that you will be asked or the council will be asked the workshop is do you want to move forward on trying to bring the sewer under the track? We already know that that's going to be a question that requires CIP and budgeting for.

I I think the proposal that TAP made was really exciting. A lot of interesting stuff there and uh and could really be a fantastic development. I was a little concerned uh when the presenter made a point saying uh hey the the tax benefit whether it's industrial or the full-blown uh project would be very very similar. uh and the one thing they did not include was any impact on city services and we mentioned that I think the last discussion uh and I'm still very concerned about that and I I the reason I'm concerned is well first you know as the being EDA if we're going to make recommendations on economic development I think I I I believe we want to make sure it's has positive financial impact on the city.

It is large and it is something that council definitely has tried to push on including this past year but you are correct on it is large and it's larger than it is in similar cities. One of the reasons why the tax levy went up this year was the council took the stance that it's better to use more often cash and levy for projects than to do bonding. So the part of our long-term financial plan is to try to proactively reduce that debt load percentage by percentage by percentage.

Have you know the idea of creating pages on our website that's something that we've been working on. So like the fire station page um the parks page when that comes. So creating pages and creating uh using it as a community engagement tool, communications tool and then you know any kind of social media. It sounds like people do engage in social media and figuring out a way maybe we can set up a survey.

One thing you might do as far as getting public input on this 180 acres is uh right now if we've discussed the you know what's the the distance that you have to be from a project before you're notified and was being changed from 350 to 500 ft on a project of this size. it might make sense to send out a basically a postal uh announcement about the 180 acres that there's a public discussion about this and if you want to be involved you you know here's a time and place or you can send uh you know your comments to wherever they they should be sent because it seems like that that those kind of uh notifications do tend to to create a lot of interest.

We had a workshop with different scenarios to just trying to better understand uh what this would look like if someone were to rent the site. The other thing that we're going to bring back um the old city hall site's going to come back probably we're talking about maybe with a parking plan too because that's another idea is this should be a parking lot and what does this actually look like? We have a cost estimate and how many stalls can we put there?

part of the option was see what it would take to do some fixes, what it would need to be able to house somebody. And then what could you rent that out as? And there's an assortment of, as Mr. Stoopa said, there's probably about six things that we can do there. So, we want to be educated on what can happen there, how much it's going to cost, all those factors before a decision gets made.

So, we released this uh early in the month and we have 62 unique addresses signed up. We have not vetted them yet, but there is uh interest in the program. It seems to be successful so far. And I believe our survey is going to close in the beginning of March, March 2nd, I believe. And from there, we're going to start planting.

I I think about it every time I look out my window at the Boulevard trees in wildflower. Now, the developer planted those. Many of them died. Uh a couple of them around our house are on the way. Does the existence of the homeowners association and the and the association presumably, you know, being responsible for the trees and the boulevards, uh, does this program uh, apply? Can it apply or

There's a survey to fill out. So, my advice is just to make sure the resident that lives, you know, the tree is going to go in front of their home is okay with it. They can enter it. Um, we do ask them to say the one requirement is they are um basically going to receive watering bag. So, it's up to them to water the tree.