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All right 7 p.m. We will call this meeting to order please stand for the pledge

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Oh, we have a visitor

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Yeah, Shane with the coalition of greater Minnesota cities is going to give a little legislative update and what the

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organization does for us

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How's that I'd made that up

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Full great all sounds great. That was a great improv from Clinton. Well, thank you mayor and council for having me again

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My name is Shane

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Which sparked some discussion about the 1953 film Shane before the council meeting began is how we got on the movie topic

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But Shane's art. I'm with a firm called Flaherty and Hood

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But here today because our firm represents the coalition of greater Minnesota cities at the Capitol. So

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First we always start these with what is the CGMC?

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Which is a review for some like Clinton, but might be new to others

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But the CGMC is a membership organization more than 110 cities outside of the seven county metro area

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so we represent

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You and our member cities at the Capitol on a few key issue areas

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LGA and property taxes is always a number one for us since that's I know it's budget season here

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So top of mind, but that's top of mind for us all the time at the Capitol

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Environment and energy which also you know tends to include under the umbrella water wastewater infrastructure work on behalf of our cities

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Housing which we'll touch more on

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Transportation which Clinton has been a leader on for a number of years

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annexation land use labor and employment and then as issues pop up that

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Deeply impact rural communities in particular over the years. We've also added to this list a couple more recent examples of that or issues like child care or

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EM apps emergency medical services

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So what am I doing here today is we tend to after each legislative session

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Try to get to as many of our member cities as we can give you an update

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Let you make me stand here so you can throw questions at me about the

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Legislature or what we do

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This one comes sometimes we're here right after session

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Sometimes we're here before the next session. This one kind of falls right in the middle a little later into fall

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So we'll have to really rewind but but so we'll do a little looking back and looking ahead though

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I also see you've got some materials in your packet

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I sent to Clinton in advance those kind of go deeper on a few issues

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Those are mostly meant as for your information. Maybe you read them in advance. Maybe you'll read them after

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Maybe they'll look nice in the recycling bin

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but you have those at your disposal too and and

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But I will be touching on a few of those especially on the front handout that's titled

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2026 session report but

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To kind of set the stage as we do these things I know I'm on a time pressure here because Dairy Queen closes at 8

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I just heard so yeah

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But I'm not gonna scare you too much, but we got to rewind to January February heading into this legislative session

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Expectations to say the least were very low by there was not a lot that the Legislature was expected to do

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There was not a lot that I think between

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Doctor members of both parties that they felt like they had to get done

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They'd passed a two-year state budget in the previous session in 2025

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There were maybe a few lingering issues like it might be nice to do a

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Infrastructure bill this year to keep some projects moving forward, but part of that was influenced by politics to the

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Legislature these past two years has been as tightly divided as it possibly can

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As many of you know the house is tied

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67 67 which means everybody has to get along at least somewhat to get anything done the Senate

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I guess thankfully has an odd number of members so they can't tie but is as tightly divided as it can be it says

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One seat DFL majority 34 members to 33 members in the Senate

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So that means everything is a bipartisan negotiation which I I know

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It's easy to become a cynic if you're watching the Capitol too much even when

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There's a the terms are better. It's hard to expect everybody to get along after a while

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But the agenda I know we're

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Standing here with the the benefit of being able to look back and see that they did get some things done

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They did pass a bonding bill had some good

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Funding for infrastructure throughout the state had a number of local projects in it

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So what transpired in between there a few things I think pushed

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the

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Legislature to have to compromise on a few issues one of those was the

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Financial stability of hCMC you had a big county medical center

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Was located in downtown Minneapolis, but legislators from both parties with that institution facing a fiscal cliff

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I don't think that anyone was dying to be in this position

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But had to coalesce around the idea that hCMC is so central to our state's ability to

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Respond to medical emergencies that the state had to step in and do something stabilize that

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institution

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And then a number of other issues. I think

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Forced at least some conversation compromise

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One of them that gets a lot of headlines is the fraud issue in state programs

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There were some bipartisan compromises on that issue to repeal certain programs to initiate investigations into others

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But it really took a couple of issues like that where legislators had to act that kind of create the the

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The conditions for a compromise on other things like a bonding bill down the line

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So bonding very important to us as an organization of local governments

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If the legislature doesn't pass bonding bills that often means that other things fall behind

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That if the state doesn't continue invest in bonding bills that often means that programs that fund you know

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Local roads local bridges all those go either unfunded or just fall behind it also matters

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What's in a bonding bill?

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So there was a bonding bill in 2025

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But the legislature made a choice last year to really only fund state programs

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You know state assets invest heavily in those or to some extent to where local governments did realize some some funding through the 2025 bill

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It was through state programs or public facilities authority certain deed programs

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Did receive a little bit of money in last year's bill, but the state kind of looked out for itself in 2025

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There's no reason to say that some of those state assets aren't important

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But a lot of local governments were left on the outside looking in

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last year's bill so a lot of hope that

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2026 would bring a bonding bill that invested a little more broadly

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Outcome I'd say across the mostly across the board on 2026 and bonding is positive

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Thanks to the efforts of cities throughout the state and some organizations that represent local governments including CGMC

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Significant investments into local roads local bridges public facilities authority programs that help fund water wastewater upgrades

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Where I invest in I even well above what the governor's proposal was that doesn't happen without

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Somebody else pushing for it hard and in this case that was local governments

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one the one caveat that

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Was a little bit of a disappointment to the CGMC, but I think hopefully won't have much impact on Jamesville

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It led service line replacement as you know many of you know

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This with both the federal government and the state have by their set

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Mandates or goals that we eliminate led service lines for drinking water in

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Well throughout the entire country by by the late 2030s, but the state has set a goal

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It's a little more aggressive than that back in 2023. We helped

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We worked with some other organizations including a kind of coalition of labor local government

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State legislators to put some more money into that because often you know led service lines that run to homes or the homeowners responsibility

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So I think there was also consensus to say to the extent this is impacting individual homeowners

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We need to make resources available so that it doesn't

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Legislature had a lot of money floating around in 2023, so they put two hundred million dollars plus into that program

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That got out to a number of cities a number of homeowners got this work started

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I know I think Jamesville has been at least in my understanding. It's been very good very on top of this issue

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At least my understanding of the inventory

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Is that you didn't have too much of a problem with lead lines before but there were some in town both led

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Service lines and galvanized lines that will need to be replaced

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And but it does look like all of those have been inventory. That's step one is that the mayor mandated to inventory all of them

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That's done in Jamesville's case. I think you've only got about 30 lines left to to replace and I think I'd have to ask your

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Your utilities folks exactly where you are

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But I will say for cities throughout the state

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You know that wouldn't have been possible without the 2023 money this year

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I mentioned they only put that or they put over 200 million dollars into that in 2023

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This year only 15 million dollars for the entire state and that both reflects where the state's budget is

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But also I think that we need to continue to be loud at the capital for the cities that

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We have residents who still have service lines to be addressed and we'll be a focus of ours going forward

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I said it's a number one of my introduction, but so maybe I should start here, but LGA

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It's a natural transition because I mentioned the

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shaky situation the state's budget is in

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Sometimes say about LGA or even the just the state's budget situation is you might talk to two different legislators on the same day and one

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Of them will say oh don't worry the state's budget is balanced for the next two years

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We can spend this money or we can invest in this program

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You'll talk to another one on the exact same day and they'll say

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This is a this is terrible. We've been incredibly irresponsible

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We're facing a fiscal cliff and I think what I sometimes say about LGA is that they're both right

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Has issues with its budget. I often you know some of the first things that we see

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Propose of the chopping block the following legislative session LGA

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Sometimes education sometimes human services programs

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But LGA certainly on that list and that's a direct hit to you and your property taxpayers

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I looked it up just to make sure Clinton probably hasn't memorized

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966 thousand

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740 dollars was is your certified LGA number for 2027?

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So that's aid to the state, you know with no strings attached or excuse me from the state to the city

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No strings attached to help you keep property taxes in check but do the work that you need to do as a city

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Why we focus on this it was not necessarily a 2026 story

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2626 was good news, but 2025 scared us. I think is the way to say it in 2025

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Mid-session even though the state was sitting on you know by the fiscal situation shaky in the out

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In the longer-term outlook, but in the short term the state had the money to to balance its books

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We still saw at proposed $20 million LGA cut come from the Senate DFL that year and there are omnibus tax bill

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We've been doing this a long time. I've got colleagues been doing it longer than me

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We've seen LGA cuts pro proposed over the years. We've never seen one when the state is sitting on a small

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operating surplus

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That was a first for us. I was kind of a red alert. I think we

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Quinton you were probably a part of action alerts and everything else to tell everyone that's a bad idea

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to to cut LGA

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Because of that advocacy in 2025 we didn't see any additional

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specific proposals new proposals of the legislature to cut LGA, but

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2027 is a budget session and

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One of the reasons I say two things can be true at once and our about our budget is that

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In the short term the state's budget is balanced in the long term. We're still spending more than we're taking in

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So at some point that'll catch up with itself

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We're kind of living in our savings account right now. I'm sure to make the

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Household analogy work

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We may catch up to that at some point and that could be 2027. So LGA is something we're going to be very vigilant about

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Are already talking to both legislators and candidates about as they run for for legislature

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Because that's something I know as we sit here again during budget season for the city that if the state cuts that

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That can be directed to your pocketbooks not only as a city, but your residence if you have to absorb those

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costs by the three-year levy

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So I'm going to keep kind of buzzing through and and I know I'm talking fast covering a lot and then I'll pause for questions

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I do want to touch on

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Housing and zoning as one of our topics here because as I kind of said the LGA story is one that we're looking both backward and forward

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same with housing and zoning and

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I think you know to to tee this one up and and be very clear

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Cgmc and our partners and that advocate for you know rural, Minnesota

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But also for local governments generally we've been working on housing as a both an economic development issue

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I've you know a challenge for a number of years trying to invest in workforce housing programs the types of investments that will benefit

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Greater Minnesota communities in particular

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The I think the challenge has been is dating back now for the third year in a row

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There's been a number of advocacy organizations who see the problem in housing equation as being cities and have proposed

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I've worked with legislators to propose housing bills that would I try to attack the housing supply by taking authority away from?

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City so this has taken a few different forms

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First of them or it's come by a few different names in 2024. It was called the missing middle housing bill

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2025 yes to homes 2026. It was called the starter homes act all of these sound pretty good

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I challenge is I want to be I or some of the mechanisms in there would be restrict

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You know the the ability for those like the folks in this room elected officials at the local level

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From enforcing things like aesthetic mandates parking minimums in different versions of the bill

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The original version of the bill would have required up zoning in every residential zone in the state

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To allow up to eight flexes and every residential zone in your city

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In more recent version some of that got scaled back. I want to be careful because the particulars have moved around a lot, but

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Similar proposal to that is you know versions of these bills would require that all cities allow multi-family development in area zone

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are kind of coming at cities from a number of angles and

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I think even when the city government groups have tried to work with advocates and say well

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You know if we're going to do this

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We need this or we need some release valves on this or if you're going to put multi-family here

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The city at least needs to be able to weigh in and say yes our utilities can handle that or know they can't

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And a lot of those ideas have been shot down certainly by the advocacy groups pushing these as

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Proposals, but but also in some cases by legislators. I think though

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Why this one is is I

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You know a focus of ours tonight is that it's well by it didn't pass for three years running

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some of that I think is

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Going to the CGMC, but not just us you know some of the other organizations

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including ones that represent

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Cities in the suburbs and are in the metro area that have resisted

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These proposals as well

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And but we do expect it to return. I don't think that we've seen the last of it

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I don't know what the name will be for the fourth year running, but I think there's still motivation to

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Attack the housing problem from this this angle. I think our job is to continue to

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Gather feedback from folks like you on what you are doing to try to attract housing

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I also we would like to continue to play offense not just defense

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We want to continue to invest in programs that we think do help increase housing portability and a supply in greater, Minnesota

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So that'll continue to be our charge

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Now I know we're all kind of looking ahead now because it's

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We're coming up on an election as many of you know

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From the statewide sense. It's a big one. So all 201 legislators are up. I have to run for their seats

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All of the constitutional officers. We've got an open governor's race. We've got you sitting US senator Senate or running for governor

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There's a primary on the Republican side for governor. So it's very competitive very contentious election year

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I think for us as an organization

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We're in the process of setting our 2027 priorities and to some extent we know what they're going to be

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It's going to be you know the things that you help us identify. It's going to be LGA. It's going to be property taxes affordability

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Some of those things and I think but the November elections and maybe even more to the point that November budget forecast for the state

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We'll have a lot to do with what comes for us in in 2027

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including and I

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Want to touch on

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Transportation real quick just because it relates back to affordability

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I think you've got folks probably throughout the community

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There's like throughout the state who are well if you renewed your tab fees really recently for your car or your truck

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And I'm guessing that somebody you have where they hire or lower than they were before I think probably a lot higher

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And some of that was

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finally some of the changes that were made to

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Those fees and the depreciation schedules that help set what you ultimately pay when you renew your license tabs

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Each year those were all increased in 2023 and those are continuing to phase in I know by

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Senator jesinski for example is one that I

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Guess I don't know his source, but I take his word for it started saying a lot this session that

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We had the highest tab fees in the country

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So I know that some legislators are very focused on that issue of affordability

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You know we want to work on that as well

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Especially from the standpoint of are there things driving costs of living in rural, Minnesota

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But you know I also

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We need to be mindful too of

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Some of the you pull some of those levers and and the impacts that can have

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I know Clinton I for a number of years was one of our co-chairs for our transportation policy committee for the coalition of greater Minnesota cities

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Including during that time. We'll give you some kudos

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You know, yeah, imagine that cities under 5,000 population

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Don't receive MSA dollars

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So you know you have the constitutionally dedicated dollars when you pay your gas tax when you're filling up your car

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Cities over 5,000 get those directed by the Constitution cities under 5,000 population historically haven't gotten anything specifically for your streets

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And Clinton it was one of our transportation co-chairs when the legislature finally changed that

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But that was part of a big package that had a lot of moving pieces in it

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Including some like those tab fees increases where I think a lot of us at the time said, oh, you know

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We're gonna like where some of this money goes. We may not like, you know, all of where it comes from

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And so some of those challenges will persist going forward too, especially when we think about folks in their their pocketbook

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So I've rambled on quite a while

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touched on a lot

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I do want to highlight in your packets too. There's kind of a one-pager that has some of our events

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That are coming up. It might be the last one if I see Clinton is scrolling to it. You've got a lot of information there

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And yep events so we do typically three events through the year our fall conference is coming up in November in weight park

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And then February 10th is when we ask all of you or as many as are available to come to the Capitol and and

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Talk to legislators with us and then next summer by and this one

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I guess you'll have not much of an excuse because you can see the location there our summer conference next year is Oatana

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so by the other we

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Highway 14 is safe in four lanes for all the way from Newham to Rochester

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Last year's summer conference was in Newham. This next year's is in Oatana

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So there you go. No excuses not to not to be at that one. I'll see all your faces there

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But anyway, thank you. I'm happy to answer any questions and I'm sorry if I'm the reason you don't get Dairy Queen tonight

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Yeah

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Sean

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Talking about housing

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We haven't built an apartment house in this town in 30. Yep

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We find that we're competing against developers in make ito and draw

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For the $800 more per unit

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Then we could get here so it makes

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Apartments in this community

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Unaffordable to build

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That is there a way we can access additional funds or make that more attractive to developers

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Yeah, I think that's why well you're really at the core of the question that we've that we've been asking I think is

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You know where I kind of focus a lot on the defense. We've been playing like I said

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We want to play offense to I there are a couple of programs that we've had success in setting up

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But I think we're not all the way there in terms of where we'd like to be in supporting our communities

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But I you know some of you may have heard of a program over at deed

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This is not a housing program

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But it's called the greater Minnesota public development or business development public infrastructure program

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We just call it BDPI because it's kind of a clunky name

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That has been around for about 25 26 years now when that was set up

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The idea kind of was if you got a business in town that wants to expand and stay in town

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But in order to enable that the city would have to run you know new utilities, so frontage road

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Sewer water whatever it is. Let's create a state program where only in greater, Minnesota

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This is outside the seven county metro area the state can come in and pay half of that cost

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That has been a great program on the the commercial side or on the industrial side

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We just a few years ago were able to create a kind of housing

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Analogy for that so you know if we can I get developers in but the ultimately

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We can have a grant program to the city to help fund some of the public infrastructure costs that would normally be born by the developers

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Or the city

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We've set up a program to help defray some of those costs. That was one approach

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There's others where we've tried to seek some policy changes to make some of the greater, Minnesota

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Or in some cases greater Minnesota in some cases statewide workforce development tax credits a little more generous

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and so we try to attack it from both the

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affordability side on the

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The individual but then also the developer so you know I think the answer there is we've had some success

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But I think as you can hear in my answer

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I feel like what we've been able to do so far is nibble around the edges and we're not there yet where

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Because as you know, we're exactly what you're talking about is

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And in a community the size is a developer willing to come in and they just want to know what's in it for me

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If at the end of it I don't want to make it sound too greedy, but you know, it's got a pencil out or else

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It's just you know, they're not gonna come to some of our communities. So defraying some of that

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cost on the front end is some of ours or you know

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What we've also tried to do were encourage or even just enable some sharing the best practices between our communities is

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some communities through there I

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You know housing authorities or or other mechanisms

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Sometimes have taken on the challenge of kind of becoming the developer and I don't think anyone's dying to do that

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It's happened. I think we've seen that though in a lot of the markets that we see unfortunately

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We kind of see not keeping up where the the private market isn't fulfilling a need

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So we've seen cities get into the business of childcare cities get into the the business of housing development

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I don't think that's the perfect solution because it's the you know

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The city takes on some risk in those

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Circumstances, but I think where we can make some funds available from the state or from other

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Parties to help take some of that burden or some of that risk off of the city

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So that the city can take some of that risk off of a developer

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Maybe we finally find the magic mix and but you're exactly right and I think that's one of the things that we emphasize

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With legislators too is our communities are begging for developers to come in

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Some of these zoning changes and that you know, we're gonna oppose

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The vast majority of those because we believe in local control. We want folks like in rooms like this one to be able to make those decisions

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but we also think that

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Part of the challenge is some of these are one size fits all these are solutions that are maybe based on ideas that worked in

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Seattle or some of them work

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Okay, and Minneapolis frankly, but that's because the Minneapolis Council chose to institute them for their city

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So by kind of attacking the housing problem by imposing

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Go top-down requirements that work in big cities isn't gonna work for us. So I don't know that's kind of an unsatisfying answer because

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It's one of the challenges there that yeah, exactly. I mean, that's I wish I had a better one for you is

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But I hope that's it's all I hope it's also an honest answer is that you know, those are the things we've tried

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Yep, there you go

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I have a question on public safety. Yes, it's a

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statewide

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Country-wide problem with like towns like ours. We're lucky enough to have a good

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Police Department, but the cost of having a police department is

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Becoming very expensive and it's there anything. Oh, I mean because there's small towns

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All the way across the United States that are

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close enough shop

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They're police department non-stop and is there anything out there for the small towns that

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anything that they're working on or

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could work on for keeping the doors open for places like us I think the

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Well, you're right. I think that I even to where

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some of our member cities are

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Maintaining their departments

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You know officer recruitment has been an incredible challenge to so we've seen you know, both just the cost of

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Keeping up the department, but then also we've got the department

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So the challenges have been so deep

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I think a couple have said you know what we're contracting with the County now

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Just because we can't find officers to staff and and that's good the money thing because yeah, I mean

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It's it's expensive and yep

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There's not a lot of police officers all. I mean they they deserve a

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Good wage and that's that's hard to base. I mean it. Yep. Yep. Yeah, and and you know by

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I think I was in a city last week that doesn't have its own department and there are fees with the County

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Just went up 35 grand from last year and that and so, you know, there's no easy issues or no easy answers to that one either

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I you know

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the challenge

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With this one from the standpoint of the CGMC

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In recent years has been you know, there was some of it was coming out of the

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You know pandemic

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some of it was just the

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Both the availability of dollars in the 2023 timeframe and you know combined with the rise of inflation and some of these other pressures

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That we're putting on budgets where

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Now I'm gonna maybe look to my resource Clinton here

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did Jamesville receive that on one time public safety aid and

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So that was the one thing that we've seen in recent years that got across the finish line from the state level to just say

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You know what let's get some money out the door from the state to support

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departments throughout the the state

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When we came back the next year as those dollars were still in place, but we came to the following budget session

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There were a lot of legislators

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And folks at the capitol who said no, that's a one-time thing

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We don't want folks to become reliant on this. That was a special circumstance, you know to respond to inflation to respond to

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You know some of the rapid cost increases we saw during the pandemic era

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Well, I think you know, we're enough years on now that we know those challenges weren't exclusive to the pandemic era

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We're you guys are where you are

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So no, I think that

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That was the one thing that's got across the finish line. I know that the

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Public safety committees at the capitol have also looked at you know the

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You know officer recruitment training

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That type of thing how do we incentivize new folks to to enter the profession?

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You know, none of that is easy to because like you said there's only so many officers out there

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You also need it to be an attractive career that folks in their you know, late teens look ahead and say, you know

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Well, I want to do that and you know go to some of the institutions. We have run states train new officers. So do you have any answers?

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No, I think that other than kind of validating that you have a great point there

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But you know for Clinton to I and you may remember some of this discussion

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I remember it being a major piece of feedback. We got after that one time aid

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Ran out is was from cities saying we need that or something like it to be permanent

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And especially if you know in a world where LGA is going to be stagnant

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You know, it's not a program that you want to compete with LGA

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But you know if we can invest in both of these things and have something specifically for public safety. We need to have it

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so

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That's one. I think that yeah, I'd encourage you to well since Clinton has been active in the organization

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You can task him with it or you know sign up for one of our CGMC committees and encourage the group to get more active on that subject

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too, but

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But I'll take a note to take that back to my colleagues that we're still here in that as well because we know the issue hasn't gone away

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you know, thank you

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Any other questions

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All right, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, all right

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Jane yeah, we want Paul to go now. So is he has an extra sitter all night

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We should move Paula

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Yeah, I can I can live with that

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This will be very brief, so I

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Just wanted to first thing I want to say thank you for the support you guys have all given the songs on the park

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I mean, it's been incredible the

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The people who have come have really enjoyed it. We've had nothing would good comment

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So just thank you for all the support everything that you guys have given me

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James will night out went great. I want to thank the people who served the hot dogs and helped with that

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I

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Want to think that they enjoyed it too because they certainly seem to so and people enjoyed it

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It went really well. Everything went really well. So

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felt bad for

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Um, Samantha Westfall at the bounce house is if anybody was over there. She was buried

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with all the kids and I promise next year we'd have more people to help her and

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infinity

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Talking to mark afterwards. He says I my concern was with infinity is I gave him the option

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I said if you guys want to come fine, but we're serving the hot dogs, you know, yeah, we'll come

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Well after after he says yeah, I suggest him for next year is to get a second food truck because he were that busy

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So a J's all night. I was a big success

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We'll hope to do it even better next year. Just a couple, but thank you for serving the hot dogs

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I appreciate it. I'll be hitting you all up again next year. So

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Just a couple other things

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for next year the plan is to have a five person committee. It'll be kind of a loosely formed one, but

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Help with promotion marketing

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We want to get the businesses involved not not necessarily for sponsorships, but maybe tables at the

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At the at the events or something. I will talk about it

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We'd really like to get the town involved into that kind of thing promote it. You know, we also want to try to figure out how to

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The ones that sponsor and how to do more for them. I don't see if we can get their name out more of that kind of thing

442
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,240
So though, that's part of what the committee will be doing

443
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,280
Just mainly like promotion marketing all that kind of stuff and there'll be other things too

444
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:25,160
But that that's a lot of it and also I think we're gonna cut out the September dates next year

445
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,640
It by the time you hit to September in school starts. There's so much going on

446
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,160
So it went well this year, but I just think maybe through August is the best way to go with it

447
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,840
So that's kind of the plan for next year

448
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,880
We'll probably start planning again or at the end of October already because there's so many of them now that

449
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,440
The bands get booked out the food trucks get booked up

450
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,280
So you got to do it quick some hope and I have everything done by the first January this year, so

451
00:35:54,120 --> 00:36:01,280
Other than that that short and sweet hopefully if anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to answer but it was a great

452
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:07,800
It was a great season. It was a really cool, you know, talk about it

453
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:13,680
It was it was a good season on that. Yeah, it was we enjoyed a lot. James will night out was a lot of fun

454
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:19,440
We enjoy it. We went home and we set up a long time because you know everything going on

455
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,440
I couldn't sleep and all that you know how that goes, so I didn't have to work the next day, so

456
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:30,280
But no, it's fun. So thank you everyone for the help. I really in support. I really appreciate it. Thank you

457
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,280
All right, thanks

458
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,800
Do we have any additions or correction to tonight's agenda? I have none

459
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,680
Well, it's not being too big a hurry most to approve

460
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,520
Okay, all in favor. Hi

461
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,620
Uh, consent agenda

462
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,760
Okay, you have the minutes from our last meeting

463
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,220
Our payables that we have are pretty routine right now

464
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:23,760
For this time of the year. They total about $35,000. I don't know Sarah. Do you have any I don't really have any specific to point out

465
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,280
I

466
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,840
Have been on for a while um

467
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,640
Was that a was that a Jager project? Yeah, yeah, okay

468
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,760
So they'll will pay the invoice they'll donate gotcha, okay

469
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,800
Shouldn't be an issue

470
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:17,240
Well, I'm gonna ask the question. Why don't why do we not have to pre-approve the project they just go ahead with it and

471
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,640
pay the bill. I understand that

472
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,560
But it's still our golf course

473
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,160
Don't we have ultimate authority over what it's done. Okay

474
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,360
Yeah, I mean they they got a building permit and everything beginning of the summer

475
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,440
And that all gets ran through Jacob and I guess I

476
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,080
I trust Jacob's judgment on

477
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,120
Correct, yeah, there was right

478
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,160
We have a question

479
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,840
I'm not a golfer. I'm not gonna think about it

480
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,520
Hey Ed from the beginning. It's never felt right with me that

481
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:18,160
We allow a private group to come in and make changes to our golf course and it's okay

482
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,800
It doesn't make sense to

483
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,280
Well, I think they just needed it

484
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,280
The city would take care of the golf course they wouldn't have to

485
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:38,800
The city would budget money for projects and the improvements that community group was not half to the city goal is refused to take

486
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:46,560
Responsibility or pride in the culture. So I applaud that group for stepping forward to do

487
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:55,760
The city point that what they never have perhaps in the future that will change for the present the city if the the

488
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,320
week stepchild

489
00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,480
No

490
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:07,640
One thing that has changed is as we look at the golf course budget. They are returning money back to the city

491
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,960
They hadn't done that

492
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,800
Except for the last two years I think five five five

493
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,680
but

494
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,960
You know that is a change we could get in the history of that

495
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:26,200
But we won't yeah, there's a reason that that was that that deficit thing

496
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,640
The city short changed them on the land that they

497
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:35,840
Thought that they bought and then they sold it for housing and none of that money was ever paid against that

498
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,600
There was a part of history here, so

499
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:46,600
The city is always short James that I'm just applaud the group for stepping forward

500
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,080
And it does get ran by the city I

501
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,360
mean it gets

502
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,840
Jacobs every never Jacob the na

503
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:04,920
Kevin are you know, they're they're well in tune with what Jeg is doing out there

504
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,040
Anything else

505
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:16,840
Motion to approve all in favor. All right. All right public forum

506
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,280
You're up

507
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,280
Okay

508
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,960
Moving on

509
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:32,720
Notices in communication. Yes, you have the magazine from the league on the table there for you

510
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:40,600
Council reports got me them Ivan

511
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:51,000
We will be meeting down to park road again tomorrow and I'm not sure what that meeting is about because he called it just

512
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,160
Today

513
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,960
But at our finest meeting we were made aware of a resident

514
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960
who

515
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,600
the condition of their apartment became over bearable and

516
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,680
They have been removed and we've had to go through our

517
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:19,760
Procedures on conditions and responsibilities for residents

518
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,480
to find out what our

519
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,960
position really is on that so

520
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,400
We could be doing some of that information

521
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,200
I

522
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:42,840
Actually don't have anything at the moment, but I will ask Clinton if we could get a call for a advisory board meeting

523
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,400
fired up here

524
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:50,040
October November I would like to get the group together and

525
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:56,520
Look at next year's projects how everything's looking coming down the stretch and

526
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,800
Meet with them guys one last time

527
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,240
Caitlin canceled the planning commission for Wednesday

528
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,840
Park board met

529
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,680
Two hours ago

530
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,320
We went over the some of the upgrades for Elke park and

531
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,920
Reviews

532
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,920
Got redone

533
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:42,120
We are going to move forward with the veterans park upgrades a

534
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:48,160
Swing a bench and we requested a bar top table

535
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,880
We have to click with

536
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,120
Some stuff done at the

537
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,920
Nursing home is pretty high there between

538
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,640
You were in contact with

539
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,120
Thank you

540
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,360
Administer report administrator

541
00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:53,720
Yes attached is the cash balance report dated last Friday

542
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:55,920
I

543
00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:02,680
Has spoken with Dan peeps. We're still looking for a start date. So I'll just let you know. I think I'm going to talk to him tomorrow in fact

544
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:11,400
Health insurance we found out a couple of Thursdays ago that our health insurance went up a whopping 18 to 20% per person

545
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,440
So

546
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,280
We had to make some adjustments with our draft budget

547
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:23,240
But uh, we will have our open enrollment period coming up here in October so employees can choose

548
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:29,080
You know if they want to keep the same program they have now or if there's a couple different options it can choose from so

549
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,400
It's the rate

550
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,400
No

551
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,400
That's the new one

552
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,040
13 months into it right

553
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,280
The board and the

554
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,720
Morning Commission vacancies that that list was put together server and put that together

555
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:57,320
We're gonna have that in the newsletter coming up here, and then we'll get it in the newspaper

556
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,880
I do have a handle for you. I don't know

557
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,880
From what you want to talk about this tonight on

558
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,000
Sam bourniquet has requested that we

559
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,200
discuss

560
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,880
Like a

561
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,520
Development incentive for the locks are all here

562
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:30,280
He has sold all but one of the lots now in the past we have done incentives per lot if a building permit was obtained

563
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:37,640
Typically of occupancy was put in after the final inspection, and then someone you don't want to purchase and move into the house

564
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:43,320
This is kind of a different situation because like I said earlier most lots are have already been sold

565
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,000
But Sam sent this email to me last night. I'm sorry tonight

566
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:56,040
So I haven't honestly really read through it carefully yet, but I think Sam plans on attending our next meeting

567
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,480
So if you can read through that

568
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,160
I'm still getting some more information from Jason Moran on

569
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:04,960
this

570
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,280
This as well. Okay, I

571
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,440
Do want to point out that the

572
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,640
Electric utility

573
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:19,920
It's been quite a bit of money providing the electric infrastructure or the for the lots out there

574
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:28,880
In years past has the developer paid for all the electrical it depends we had a buy the territory from Excel on this one

575
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:34,280
So in years past if it was within city limits, and it was already

576
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,960
You know our territory it cost was so much less sure, you know

577
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,600
Yeah, food for thought bring that home with you and read through it if you would

578
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,880
And other than that I guess

579
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,640
I really don't have anything else for administrator report

580
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:06,640
The last half been transferred to other people I think 11 of the 12 half sold

581
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:12,320
So then it's already recorded at the core gums

582
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:21,960
And I will say I mean we're looking at our preliminary levy tonight. I did not put any money in our budget for this request

583
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,920
It's already transferred. I don't see how he could receive the money

584
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:49,280
The conversation if he wants to I

585
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:03,680
Possibly in the near future if you choose to do this again come visit with us early on

586
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:32,240
Because this is the first time we've seen this information. I don't think you can make any decision tonight

587
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:38,480
Yeah, and if there was any sort of abatement type program that you would do

588
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,240
I'm almost a hundred percent certain public hearings are required in everything. So

589
00:49:52,480 --> 00:50:00,280
Yeah, I'd say be it's kind of a tough call at this point prior starting it'd be nice to have

590
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,520
But we will

591
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,480
I

592
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,280
Motion to approve

593
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,280
All in favor

594
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,760
Department had reports I did not schedule any tonight's a new shame is gonna be heard

595
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,920
That's all right

596
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,040
We already talked Paul

597
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,640
I

598
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,800
Look nuisance special assessments

599
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:50,240
Yes a property on West North Street as you know people have come to address the council about the

600
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,480
the appearance and the quality of the life that we did have to go in the summer in mall and

601
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,320
Obviously, we sent the bill. It wasn't paid

602
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:07,080
We have the right to assess that onto the property taxes. So that is what the resolution here tonight is

603
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:13,440
We're required to do this. I think by November of each year to get it to the county recorder

604
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,080
so this

605
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,920
Expenses about seven hundred dollars to you know

606
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:26,920
Yep, I'm a motion. We approve the right

607
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,920
resolution 26 31 all in favor

608
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,840
Preliminary

609
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,840
General tax fund

610
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,640
Fund tax levy. Yes

611
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:53,600
Like I've always said, thank you to all the departments and employees of staff that helped with these budgets together

612
00:51:54,200 --> 00:52:01,320
As the council knows we look through this every meeting throughout the summer. So tonight we are going to adopt our

613
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:08,880
Preliminary levy and announce that the budget hearing will be on December 14th. I

614
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:16,160
Do want to point out that this preliminary levy increases a 7.2% increase from last year

615
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:22,640
I was recently at a regional meeting. It was kind of asked around the different communities in our area

616
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,400
What their increases looking like, you know, it was like kind of at that 8% level

617
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:34,040
So this is 7.2 my dream would to have with the five to six by the end of this year

618
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,440
Does anybody have any questions

619
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,440
I

620
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:50,440
Know I know in the past I think Andy has asked this question

621
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:57,160
How much is a percent roughly? Yeah, so

622
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,960
1%

623
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,040
Just

624
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,040
Just in terms of

625
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:13,680
1% is I'm just give or take a hundred and forty thousand dollars

626
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,240
Thank you

627
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,760
I'm ocean we

628
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,400
Move forward with

629
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,040
7.2% preliminary

630
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:40,720
All in favor

631
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:54,220
Anything else don't have nothing make a motion be doing

632
00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:58,260
All in favor