We've seen a 43% decrease in revenue, and we simply need to modernize our funding model.

in my view, the future of franchising really is in broadband.

The state doesn't handle it, right? The FCC doesn't handle it. Who handles it? if you have a franchise, you handle it or Mary handles it for you actually.

there's almost no regulations... affecting broadband systems and there's no cap. What we did in in Woodbury and South Washington County is we just did a balancing of of uh of sorts where we where we thought, okay, you know, maybe we could ask for more than 5%. But it seemed to us to make um sense that... it made some sense to go with 5%.

I actually think it's going to create an opportunity for more of these information service providers to want to come and compete.

this is one of the rare instances where government has the opportunity to help force customer services to be improved.

I find it absolutely abhorentt in the year 2026 that we have areas that don't have it when we're a second ring suburb. Like, that's just inexcusable. So, I think this is a very good vehicle for it.

should the city amend its 2040 plan to adopt new projections. So we have a current plan.

our population numbers at we knew they were seem low, but that they were um low because of the White Bear Lake case that the Met Council took that into consideration and lowered numbers for a few cities around the area.

what they advised was for us to amend our 2040 plan so that we could use our updated numbers that we feel are very accurate and to adjust that which would essentially increase the number for 2030 and 2040

the Met Council determined it's prudent to withhold its consent of additional growth in local jurisdictions affected by the White Bear Lake Area court decision until the council is assured additional growth does not conflict with court orders that cities must abide.

I think the residents would be pissed off if we don't try to minimize it as much as possible just given the history of of how hard we've worked to make sure that number doesn't go up.

what we have seen in the last two comp plan cycles is that density requirements for communities have risen.

I'd rather have a bigger allocation and not use it than have an allocation that stops and all of a sudden what do you do?

why do we have to I know some of the answers to this but why do we have to be told when to develop, how to develop from a from a from a different level. The city should decide that, right?

Legion Pond, which is adjacent to Legion Avenue, is a 17 acre body of water without an outlet. Over the last 10 years, the Valley Branch has done several amendments to improve the shoreline to minimize flooding in these properties.

The district is offering the property to the city for potential use as a public amenity or open space. If the city declines, the district plans to sell the par the parcels to on public auction with um with conservation easements which place um which will will restrict any building on those sites.

staff does believe that improving that to a culde-sac would benefit traffic flow through that area. uh especially for emergency vehicles.

This would possibly a trail connection or an access way from um from the golf course area down to um Blue Legion area to the Reed area where there's actually sidewalks on 30th to get you to the downtown area.

I'll just say straight up, I think it would be all the parcels, do it all at once, but they do all the restoration.

So with with a concept like this there'll be very minimal um very minimal. Our mowing contractor currently mows our lift station down uh just south or sorry to the north of this park or this proposed area. Um likely they would do any type of mowing if we did do anything there. Likely it just be right along the curb edge to make a curb appeal.