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From YouTube: August 3, 2020 Bloomington City Council Meeting
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Bloomington Minnesota City Council Meeting
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A
A
Motion
to
pass
tonight's
agenda
passes
7-0.
Thank
you
very
much
on
to
item
five.
Our
introductory
items
item
5.1
tonight,
as
it
has
been
since
early
march,
is
a
coveted
19
organizational
and
public
health
update
we're
joining
in
this
evening
by
dr
nick
kelly
from
our
public
health
department
good
evening,
dr
kelly.
E
E
E
E
E
Last
week
I
talked
about
how
we're
13
to
15
cases
we're
at
12.4
cases
for
our
seven
day,
rolling
average
our
ability
to
lower
this
number
is
directly
related
to
our
ability
to
manage
the
risks
of
kobit
19
in
our
community
last
week,
minnesota
released
the
safe
learning
plan
for
the
2021
2020
and
21
school
year.
This
plan
and
the
associated
guidance,
is
among
the
best
guidance
in
the
country.
E
Kovit
19
is
changing
many
things,
but
it
doesn't
have
to
change
how
our
community
responds
take
care
of
each
other.
Everyone
is
being
impacted
by
coved
19,
and
many
of
our
neighbors
are
being
impacted
in
ways.
We
might
not
be
with
changes
to
income
routines
with
contact
with
others,
and
we
know
that
this
impact
is
not
happening
equally
across
our
community.
It
is
disproportionately
impacting
our
bipot
community
look
for
ways
to
safely
help
your
neighbors.
During
this
time.
E
A
So
we're
hearing
and
we're
seeing
obviously
a
lot
of
attention
on
masking
and
face
coverings
over
the
past
week
or
so,
but
as
dr
kelly
mentioned,
the
social
distancing,
the
six
feet
between
people
avoiding
crowded
areas
and
keep
washing
your
hands.
Those
things
are
all
important
parts
of
preventing
the
spread
of
cobit
19..
So
thank
you
for
those
reminders,
dr
kelly
and
I
know
dr
kelly
you're,
going
to
head
over
virtually
to
help
the
school
board
with
third
discussion
that
they're
having
this
evening
about
the
school
reopening
here
in
bloomington.
A
Just
want
to
pass
on
my
best
wishes
to
our
our
colleagues
over
on
the
school
board.
They've
got
a
tough
decision
and
a
tough
few
months
ahead
of
them
as
we
look
to
bring
our
students
back
to
school
here
in
the
city
of
bloomington,
so
best
of
luck
to
superintendent,
fujitaki
and
board
chair
nelly
corman,
as
as
you
work
through
this,
it's
going
to
be
a
hard
road,
and
we
understand
that
and
we're
here
to
support
you
in
any
way
that
we
can
council
member
colter
a
question.
D
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
No
question.
I'm
sorry,
I
was
just
slow
to
getting
to
raise
my
virtual
hand,
but
I
I
did
just
wanna
to
that
point.
I
reached
out
to
some
school
board
members
after
the
governor's
announcement
last
week
and
and
was
told
several
times
just
how
valuable,
having
our
public
health
department
on
hand
to
to
work
through
these
decisions
has
been
so
I
just
wanted
to
to
pass
along
that
word
and
that
that
personal,
thanks
to
our
folks
over
at
public
health,
for
the
the
wonderful
work
they're
doing.
A
A
Let's
move
on
to
item
5.2
in
our
introductory
items,
which
is
an
update
on
our
community
budget
advisory
committee
and
co-chair
steve
peterson
is
here
this
evening
to
give
us
an
update
and
to
talk
council
through
the
progress
and
where
the
community
budget
advisory
committee
is
there's.
Mr
peterson
good
evening,
mr
peterson
welcome.
F
Thank
you,
mr
mayor,
probably
not
a
super
long
presentation
tonight,
but
I
do
have
one
question
at
the
end
and
I
thank
the
city
manager
foreshadowed
a
little
bit
on
that
question
last
week
in
the
the
meeting
that
I
watched
so
we're
we're
starting
to
pivot,
from
kind
of
introductory
materials
to
starting
to
review
city
budgets
and
the
first
budget
that
we've
been
looking
at
has
been
the
internal
service
fund
budget.
F
We've
also
started
to
kind
of
make
some
preliminary
decisions
for
the
committee
again
that
the
two
things
that
we
have
decided
on
so
far
is
the
reduction
in
the
normandale
lake
tax
abatement
district,
which
generates
about
650
000
dollars
worth
of
savings
in
fiscal
21,
and
then
continuing
the
savings
virtually
not
not
levying
for
savings
for
the
value
pool
that
generates
another
650
thousand
dollars
for
fiscal
21..
F
F
Our
thinking
right
now
is
that
the
remaining
gap
that
we
have,
which
is
about,
would
be
about
four
and
a
half
million
dollars
is
going
to
be
covered
by
a
combination
of
levy
and
cost
productions.
We're
not
going
to
be
going
and
looking
for
unbalances
in
order
to
plug
that
and
the
conversation
we've
had
around.
That
has
been
that
the
we
want
to
save
any
remaining
fund
balances
for
addressing
issues
in
the
fiscal
22
budget.
F
We've
still
got
a
substantial
question
mark
over
what
the
situation
is
going
to
be
with
respect
to
that
budget,
and
we
don't
want
to
have
the
coverage
be
completely
empty
at
that
point,
while
we're
discussing
that
we've
also
discussed
which
of
the
revenue
gaps
would
be
eligible
for
financing,
we
believe
for
fiscal
21,
that
using
financing
to
cover
for
delays
and
receiving
tax
collections
is
a
reasonable
approach
to
take.
F
We
know
we'll
get
we'll
get
that
money
eventually
for
fiscal,
for
revenues
generated
in
fiscal
21.,
and
so
we're
we're
looking
toward
recommending
financing
approaches
for
that.
F
So
the
one,
the
one
question
that
I
came
to
the
that
I
wanted
to
present
to
the
council
tonight
to
get
your
feedback
on
so
we've
started
some
preliminary
discussions
around
what
what
we
might
be
doing
in
terms
of
recommending
for
the
maximum
levy,
and,
if
you
remember,
that's
a
recommendation
that
we're
planning
to
come
back
to
the
council
this
month
with
the
the
question
that
we're
thinking
about
is
we're
trying
to
decide
what
to
set
that
maximum
level
amount
at
and
one
of
the
questions
that
we
ask
the
staff
to
present
on
is
we
ask
them
to
answer
the
following
question?
F
F
What
would
the
budget
be
like
in
that
situation?
And
if
we
had
a
budget
like
that,
and
we
were
gonna
levy
for
the
entire
gap?
What
would
the
levy
be
for
that
that
budget,
and
it
turns
out
that
if
we
take
those
parameters
which
is
effectively
a
flat
budget
except
for
negotiated
cost
of
living
increases
and
a
levy
increase
to
increase
that
to
bring
that
generate
enough
revenue
to
pay
for
that?
F
It's
about
a
10
levy
increase
if
we
go
down
that
path,
I
just
talked
about
two
things
that
we've
decided
that
each
reduced
that
levy
maximum
levy
by
about
one
percent.
So
if
we,
if
we
end
up
coming
out
that
we
accept
those
two
shifts
in
order
to
pay
for
part
of
that,
we'd
have
to
set
the
maximum
levy
at
eight
percent
in
order
to
be
able
to
fund
a
budget
at
that
level.
F
And
the
question
I
have
for
the
council
is
whether
the
council
wants
to
receive
that
as
one
of
the
three
funding
options
and
the
reason
I'm
asking
the
question
is
that
at
least
preliminarily?
The
sense
that
I
have
from
the
committee
is
left
to
our
own
devices.
We
might
come
in
slightly
lower
than
that
eight
percent
number
or
fiscal
21,
and
I
wanted
to
get
the
council's
feedback
on
that.
F
Because
if
that
was
an
option
that
you
wanted
to
have
come
back
to
the
council
now's
the
time
for
us
to
talk
about
that,
while
we're
formulating
our
preliminary
library
recommendations.
So
with
that,
I
will
accept
any
questions
on
that
or
any
of
the
other
items
that
I
presented
here.
A
Council
we
talked
about
some
of
these
questions.
Last
week
we
kind
of
teed
things
up
and
now,
as
mr
peterson
kind
of
framed
it
up
a
little
bit
more
opening
up
the
discussion.
I
see
council
member
beloga
and
then
council
member
martin.
C
Thank
you,
mr
mayor,
good
evening,
steve
thanks
for
your
work
and
to
the
others.
C
F
Sure
it's
actually
it's
actually
really
straightforward.
If
you
look
at
the
revenues
related
to
primarily
to
the
lodging
taxes,
that's
where
the
difference
is
in
the
budget.
There's
some
other
places
that
I
would
say,
are
minor
differences,
but
the
vast
majority
of
the
difference
in
the
budget
is
related
to
lodging
revenue
forecasts
for
fiscal
21
versus
what
we
expected
to
have
for
what
we
received
in
19
are
what
we
expected
in
20.
C
Got
it
I,
I
thought
you
were
just
talking
about
the
need
for
covering
expenses.
I
didn't
hear
that,
plus
the
revenue.
F
Yeah,
so
do
we
we've
in
that
the
staff
has
done
a
really
good
job
of
supporting
the
committee
and
producing
a
revenue
model,
and
if
you
look
at
the
areas
where
we
have
kind
of
flexibility
to
bring
cash
into
the
budget
for
fiscal
21,
there's
really
a
couple
choices.
We
can
go
and
do
kind
of
sharp
pencil
examinations
of
reserve
funds
and
see
if
we
can
identify
cash
and
reserve
funds
that
we
can
bring
out
of
the
reserve
fund
into
the
21
budget.
F
Those
were
the
two
things
that
I
talked
about
that
the
committee
seems
to
have
consensus
around
so
far
and
then,
if
you're
going
to
keep
the
you're
going
to
keep
the
expense
side
flat,
subject
to
the
parameters
that
we've
talked
about
already.
Really,
your
only
option
at
that
is
to
collect
more
property
tax
revenue
to
be
able
to
cover
that.
C
F
So
that's
that's
a
good
question,
the
with
respect
to
delinquencies
for
property
taxes
levied
this
year
and
for
delinquencies
for
property
of
taxes
levied
next
year,
because
both
of
those
are
dependent
on
valuations
that
were
made
prior
to
the
pandemic,
in
other
words,
for
property
taxes
next
year.
That's
the
valuation
that
occurred
on
january
1st
of
this
year.
F
We
think
that
it's
based
on
the
information
that
we
got
from
the
staff
that
it's
highly
likely
that
we'll
eventually
collect
that
revenue,
and
so
we
felt
that
it
was
reasonable,
through
probably
on
a
first
cut
basis,
using
interfund
loans
to
pay
for
financing
that
with
interest
rates
as
low
as
what
they
are
right
now
that
that
would
be
a
reasonable
path
to
take.
Given
that
the
likelihood
of
collecting
that
revenue
eventually
is
very,
very
high.
F
If
we
were
having
a
conversation
about
the
fiscal
22
budget,
the
budget
that
that's
a
year
and
a
half
from
now
that's
dependent
on
the
valuation
for
that
occurs
at
the
end
of
this
county,
the
one
that's
the
january,
2nd
2021
valuation,
and
that
one-
and
we
haven't
talked
about
that
a
lot
at
the
committee.
F
But
my
feeling
is
that
particular
evaluation
is
going
to
be
particularly
for
large
commercial
properties
is
going
to
be
subject
to
a
lot
of
negotiation
and
litigation
around
property
values,
and
I
think
that
we
won't
know
with
the
same
degree
of
certainty
what
we're
going
to
collect
on
that
levy
until
a
couple
years
pass
after
that.
So
I
think
I
think,
your
your
point
about
kind
of
financing
and
collectibility
and
how
we're
going
to
pay
for
that.
I'm
particularly
concerned
about
the
fiscal
22
level
with
regard
to
that,
not
the
fiscal
21.
C
I'll,
let
some
of
my
colleagues
so
also
thanks,
steve.
E
Thank
you
very
much
and
thank
you,
chair
peterson,
for
your
work
as
well.
I
guess
this
is
more
just
to
kind
of
refresh
my
memory
staff
had
brought
up.
I
think
it
was
at
our
last
study
session
or
maybe
our
last
meeting.
There
was
a
potential
that
unallocated
cares,
funding
that
the
city
hasn't
spent
on
any
particular
purposes
yet
might
be
able
to
backfill
lost
revenues
at
some
point,
maybe
through
additional
congressional
action.
Have
we
heard
anything
else
on
that
front
or
is
that
still
up
in
here.
F
G
Mr
mayor
and
council
members,
council,
member
martin,
thank
you,
chair
peterson,
that
is
language.
That's
included
in
the
senate
proposal
that
they're
negotiating
right
now
for
the
next
iteration
of
stimulus,
money
from
the
federal
government
and
until
the
the
house
and
the
senate
come
to
some
agreement
on
what
that
package
is.
We
won't
truly
know
the
issue
with
the
with
the
state
and
local
government
assistance
is
that
the
house
has
included
in
their
bill
a
substantial
amount
of
financial
assistance
for
state
and
local
governments.
G
So
if,
if
the
negotiated
outcome
is
that
there's
additional
flexibility
we
have
about
two
and
a
half
million
dollars
of
unallocated
cares
funding
that
we
could
utilize
to
offset
the
revenue
loss
for
either
this
year
or
next
year.
F
We
do
have
to
set
the
maximum
levy
shortly
here,
but
if
we
look
forward
to
later
in
the
fall
in
the
november
timeframe,
that's
really
the
point
at
which
the
budget
has
to
come
together
completely
and
we
ought
to
know
what
congress
intends
to
do
with
respect
to
that
money.
At
that
point,
if
that
comes
into
scope,
then
I
think
we'll
end
up
having
a
conversation
about
that,
because
if
there's
a
there's
a
policy
question,
you
know
the
council
could,
for
example,
the
council
could
say
we're
going
to
use
all
that
for
fiscal
21.
F
We
could
decide
to
use
some
of
it
for
fiscal
22.
There's
a
bunch
of
kind
of
questions.
I
think
that
we're
going
to
have
to
answer
together
to
decide
if
that
money
arrives,
how
it's
going
to
be
put
to
work,
or
there
may
be
other
incremental
spending
things,
because
I've
in
watching
meetings,
I've
seen
that
you've
been
discussing
other
things
that
that
might
be
allocated
to.
I
think,
there's
a
policy
question
that
that
probably
originates
at
the
council.
H
Thank
you,
mr
mayor,
thank
you,
mr
peterson,
for
all
of
the
work
that
you're
doing
to
help
us
out
here.
So
I
guess
I
have
a
question.
H
That's
in
a
similar
vein,
since
my
time
on
council
we've
gotten
the
results
for
a
couple
of
service
assessments,
including
public
works
and
fire,
and
I
guess
so
maybe
this
is
also
a
question
for
mr
ruge,
but
what's
the
timeline
on
taking
action
on
those
service
assessments
and
the
recommendations,
especially
related
to
some
of
the
things
that
we
can
do
to
save
on
some
of
the
expenses
and
could
those
be
applied
to
2021
and
again
kind
of
in
a
similar
vein?
G
Most
of
those
reports
when
they
come
to
council,
have
a
series
of
recommendations
that
council
has
has
typically
endorsed
that
we
begin
implementing
right
away
as
an
example
with
the
fire
service
assessment,
one
of
the
most
significant
finding
had
to
do
with
our
inventory
of
apparatus
and
by
looking
into
the
next
couple
years
and
our
large
equipment
purchases,
seeing
that
there
were
a
couple
of
ladder
units
that
we
don't
need
is
going
to
save
close
to
two
and
a
half
to
three
million
dollars
just
for
those
two
pieces
of
equipment
in
the
next
couple
years.
G
Those
are
funded
through
our
internal
service
funds
that
the
committee
looked
at
last
week,
and
so
a
lot
of
that
is
already
being
factored
in
through
the
service
assessments,
so
the
the
ones
that
we
still
have
active
right
now.
G
The
dispatch
service
assessment
is
close
to
being
wrapped
up,
and
then
we
had
the
motor
vehicle
service
assessment
that
was
getting
started
and
has
been
thrown
off.
Obviously,
by
our
current
circumstance,
so
that's
a
that's
another
issue.
That'll
have
to
get
resolved
during
the
conversations
over
the
next
several
months.
Does
that
sufficiently
answer
the
question?
Councilmember
carter.
I
Good
thank
you
mayor
and
thank
you,
mr
peterson,
for
your
work
and
the
work
of
the
committee.
I
know
you
guys
have
been
working
hard
on
this.
I
Just
a
couple
of
quick
questions,
I'm
wondering
if
the
committee
has
taken
a
position
on
delaying
of
items
like
maintenance,
repair,
capital
expenditures,
equipment
and
things
like
that
to
push
those
off
until
such
time
as
some
of
the
revenues
from
our
liquor
and
hospitality
and
they're
starting
to
flow
back
in,
and
what
impact
that
those,
I
guess
delayed
expenditures
could
have
on
our
budget
in
the
next
year.
F
Mr
mayor
and
councilmember
nelson
with
respect
to
capital
expenditures,
we
we've
touched
on
that
a
little
bit
and
that's
a
that's
a
surprisingly
nuanced
question,
because
at
a
time
when,
if,
if
it's
something
that
you
know
you're
going
to
buy
at
a
time
when
interest
rates
are
at
historic
lows
and
looking
ahead
to
next
year's
construction
season,
you
know
there's
some
indications
that,
with
respect
to
kind
of
larger
commercial
construction
that
it's
going
to
be
a
good
time
to
be
a
purchaser
of
it,
you
you
want
to
think
about
that
in
terms
of
kind
of
the
long-term
impact
and
with
respect
to
capital
expenditures,
you
know
trying
to
set
them
up
for
the
long
term
is
probably
you
know
personally,
if
what
I
was
going
to
go,
go
end
up
doing,
and
we've
talked
about
that
some
at
the
committee
with
respect
to
delaying
expenditures,
I
think
that,
where
that
will
end
up
getting
captured
is
in
the
expense
reduction
proposals
that
the
individual
departments
make.
F
So
our
intention
there
is
that
we
are
want
to
get
on
a
trajectory
where
we
get
proposals
from
departments
that
are
well
beyond
what's
necessary
in
order
to
be
able
to
achieve
the
kind
of
combination
of
spending
and
revenue
goals
that
we
end
up
creating,
and
it's
going
to
be
up
to
the
committee
to
kind
of
help
form
those
and
then
select
among
the
different
choices
in
terms
of
what
we're
going
to
end
up
doing.
F
So,
if
a
particular
department
and
the
public
works
department
is
the
department
that
controls
the
largest
amount
of
capital
assets
in
the
city,
you
know
it
may
come
forward
with
proposals,
delaying
kind
of
maintenance
expenditures.
You
know.
F
One
of
those
this
year,
when
you
decided
not
to
do
the
seal
coding
project
this
year
and,
as
we
all
know,
that's
the
sort
of
thing
where
maybe
one
or
two
years
you
can
get
by
with
it.
But
if
you
wait
on
that
for
too
long,
it's
basically
spending
money
in
future
years
in
order
to
be
able
to
kind
of
save
money
now
and
with
the
cities.
F
You
know
the
city
continues
to
have
a
really
really
really
strong
fundamental
financial
situation,
and
so
the
committee
at
least
seems
to
be
very
interested
in
making
decisions
that
are
the
right
ones,
long-term
for
the
city's
finances
and
not
doing
stop-gap,
things
that
end
up
fixing
the
problem
next
year
and
arguably
fixing
the
problem
the
year
after
that
too,
but
create
big
fiscal
impacts
in
future
years.
So
that
that's
the
balance
that
we're
trying
to
strike.
I
Thank
you
for
that
thorough
explanation.
That
makes
sense.
Just
one
follow-up
question
related
to
what
you
said
about
financing
for
some
of
the
gaps.
When
you
look
at
that
maintenance
repair,
some
of
those
things
that
maybe
we
tend
to
pay
out
of
current
income
streams
or
revenue
streams,
would
it
be
possible,
or
just
as
an
idea
to
look
at
maybe
bonding
for
a
few
more
of
those
to
help
the
current
year
budgets
and
spread
those
costs
out
into
those
future
years.
I
When
revenues
come
back,
I
I
think
you'll
probably
end
up
looking
at
that,
but
just
an
idea
there,
because
I
agree
with
you
that
if
the
costs
are
such
that
things
are
lower
and
less
expensive
now
and
borrowing
costs
are
low,
it
may
be
the
time
to
continue
with
those
but
not
have
to
pay
for
them
in
their
entirety.
In
2021.,.
I
Will
you
also
look
at
fee
structures
for
various
programs
and
things
like
that
within
the
community?
I
know
recently
when
we
looked
at
some
of
the
financial
information.
Some
cities
generated
more
revenues
than
bloomington
based
on
fee
structures
and
other
costs
for
services,
and
things
like
that.
Is
that
something
that
the
committee
will
be
looking
at
as
well.
F
F
Those
fees
are
largely
capped
by
state
law
in
terms
of
cost
recovery.
So
that's
not
that
that's
not
something
that's
subject
to
us,
setting
a
different
price
and
generating
more
revenue
from
it,
except
to
the
extent
that
we're
under
charging
on
things.
And
so
that's
one
thing.
If
the
staff
felt
that
there
was
a
particular
kind
of
development
permit
that
we
were
under
charging
on
and
they
had
a
study
to
support
it,
we
could
certainly
consider
a
change
in
that
fee.
F
The
other
form
of
fees
are
what
I
would
call
from
the
city's
business
type
activities
particularly
kind
of
park
and
rack
activity
fees,
and
the
way
it
was
explained
to
us
is
that
those
fees
are
set
on
a
marketplace
basis
where
they
go
and
they
compare
pricing
with
other
cities,
because
those
are
those
are
really
kind
of
quasi
business
activities
of
the
city,
and
we
have
to.
We
don't
have
a
particular
monopoly
on
those
sorts
of
businesses,
and
so
those
prices
have
to
be
competitive
with
other
cities.
F
I
Great
thank
you
for
that
answer.
Last
question.
I
think
I
have
right
now
is
you're
asking
kind
of
for
the
top-end
budget,
but
I
I
assume
you're
still
planning
to
bring
back
three
or
four
scenarios
where
there
are
not
holding
expenses
level
but
where
there
will
be
expense
reductions
and
trying
to
really
drive
that
levy
rate
down
lower.
I
So
I
am
very
concerned,
particularly
for
some
of
the
owners
and
renters
of
our
lower
properties
that
have
had
frankly,
their
values
going
up
so
they're
getting
hit
by
increases
in
taxes
already
and
in
many
cases,
they're,
probably
in
the
situation
that
it's
least
affordable
for
them,
probably
most
impacted
by
what's
going
on
in
the
economy,
and
so
I'm
very
sensitive
to
this
levy.
I
This
time-
and
so
I
just
want
to
ask
if
the
plan
is
still
to
bring
back
multiple
scenarios
and
just
show
us,
you
know
which
pain
we
want
to
endure
the
cut
pain
and
how
do
we
balance
those.
F
Yeah,
that's
exactly
right,
councilmember,
nelson!
So
the
question
for
tonight
that
I'm
looking
for
feedback
on
and
thank
you
for
for
kind
of
bringing
it
up
is
just
purely
around
the
maximum
levy
recommendation
and
whether
it's
not
really
it's
the
question
isn't
really.
Do
you
want
an
eight
percent
maximum
level?
The
question
is:
do
you
want
a
budget
that
couldn't
spec
that
has
zero?
F
I
Just
from
my
perspective,
I
I
I
highly
doubt
that
I
would
favor
the
one
that
had
no
cuts
to
it,
but
I
do
think
as
a
baseline.
It
is
an
interesting
thing
to
look
at
and
will
help
people
understand
the
budgeting
that
we're
doing
again.
Just
with
the
caveat
that
I
don't
think,
that's
the
one
that
I
would
ultimately
support
or
think
should
move
forward,
given
the
concerns
I've
already
raised.
But
I
guess
that's
where
I'd
stand
on
your
question.
Okay,.
D
Thank
you,
mr
mayor,
so
since
it
since
council,
member
just
councilmember
nelson
just
brought
this
up,
I'm
going
to
start
with
that.
D
So
you
know
from
my
perspective,
you
know
I
guess
I
I
see
this
as
as
that's
still
an
option
whether
or
not
you
bring
that
forward
as
an
option
anyway.
So
I
guess
my
you
know,
my
preference
would
be
to
sort
of
look
at
other
options
beyond
that
other
options
below.
I
should
say
below
that.
Not
beyond
that
choosing
my
words
carefully
here,
so
I
you
know,
I
I
think
we
it
sort
of
exists
in
what
researchers
would
call
the
null
hypothesis
right.
D
That's
what
happens
if
nothing
changes,
so
I
don't
know
that.
I
feel
the
need
to
to
know
a
lot
more
about
what
that
option
would
look
like,
because
I
think
we
already
have
a
pretty
good
idea
and
then
the
the
question
I
had
you.
You
say
in
your
memo
here
that
there
are
listening
sessions
scheduled
for
september
17th
and
september
19th,
and
I'm
wondering-
and
maybe
you
haven't
discussed
this
too
in-depth,
but
I'm
wondering
if
you
could
tell
me
sort
of
what
what
initial
thoughts
have
been
on.
D
F
I
think
I
think,
and
thank
you,
mr
mayor
and
councilman
coulter.
The
the
primary
kind
of
act
behind
those
so
far
has
been
kind
of
save
the
date
because
it's
six
weeks
out
and
I
think
we're
we're
still
having
a
conversation
with
the
staff
about
precisely
the
form
that
those
listening
sessions
end
up
taking.
So
if
you
know,
and
we're
happy
to
receive
input
on
that
from
people
on
what
they
think
would
be
most
effective,
I
think
that
you
know.
F
In
particular,
you
know
one
of
the
things
that
we
talked
about
is
you
know
if
we
do
a
webex
or
a
zoom
or
a
teams
meeting,
and
you
know
what
does
that
do,
for
example,
for
people
who
don't
have
computers
or
older
folks
who
have
trouble
with
technology.
I
know
you
know
if
I
was
going
to
get
my
parents
to
go
to
that.
I'd
have
to
go
over
and
push
the
button
on
the
ipad
in
order
to
get
them
to
be
able
to
go.
F
Do
it
so
trying
to
figure
out
a
way
to
get
that
sort
of
feedback,
and
we
may
have
to
fall
back
on
for
someone
for
reaching
some
of
the
communities
is
just
driving
awareness
and
using
the
old-fashioned
kind
of
email
or
letter
approach
to
getting
feedback,
or
you
know
or
phone
calls
to
people,
because
that's
the
technology
that
people
have
available.
So
I
think
big
picture.
We
we
believe
strongly
that
kind
of
meeting
people
where
they're
at
is
an
important
thing
as
part
of
that
outreach.
D
Thank
you
and-
and
I
would
just
say
that
that
when
you're
back
for
your
september
update,
I
hope
we'll
know
a
little
bit
more
about
what
that.
What
that
will
look
like
and
and
have
more
proper
feedback
on
at
that
time.
J
Thank
you,
mayor
former
councilmember
peterson.
I
guess
I
I,
like
your
question
and
one
of
the
things
that
occurs
to
me
as
I
think
about
the
question
that
you
raise
is
when
we
look
at
the
first
year
and
we
look
at
the
second
year.
J
If
you
take
those
as
two
budget
years,
I
would
imagine,
as
we've
seen
over
several
years
here,
where
changes
that
you
make
in
the
first
year
have
an
impact
on
that
second
year,
and
so
you
know
certainly
I'd
like
to
see
that
number
come
in
a
lot
lower
than
than
the
eight
percent
baseline,
and
I
would
say
that,
in
my
personal
opinion,
I
think
that
we
ought
to
use
that
as
a
baseline
and
then
come
back
with.
J
You
know
two
or
three
other
scenarios,
but
a
big
impact
to
me
would
would
be
what
is
going
to
happen
in
that
that
second
year,
so
as
a
part
of
that
charter,
are
we
looking
at
that
second
year,
as
we
get
ready
to
you
know
to
make
that
recommendation
on
on
the
on
the
first
year
that
comes
back
to
us,
or
is
that
just
you
know.
F
Discussions
about
what
would
end
up
happening
with
the
fiscal
2022
budget
with
respect
to
revenue,
but
the
information
that
we've
had
from
the
staff
is
necessarily
preliminary
because
we're
not
we're
not
at
the
point
where
they
believe
that
they
can
produce
a
forecast.
You
know
at
a
better
level
of
accuracy
related
to
that.
F
We
expect
to
get
more
information
around
that
in
the
information
that
we
get
as
we
get
farther
into
the
year,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we
are
trying
to
be
sensitive
to
is
making
sure
that
we
don't
leave
us
in
a
situation
where
we
use
up
all
the
easy
stuff
in
21
and
then
22
is
a
giant
valley
that
has
to
be
filled
with
no
options.
So
I
think
we're
we're
trying
to
look
at
that
with
the
data
as
best
we
have
it.
J
So
I
guess
you
know
I
mean,
and
I'm
not
sure
I
know
that
each
time
that
we've
looked
at
the
the
budget
from
a
from
a
council
perspective,
we've
gotten
that
you
know
here's
the
first
year
and
here's
the
second
year
and
here's.
You
know
here's
a
projected
level
as
we
kind
of
get
to
that
standpoint,
where
we
get
rid
of
that
that
primary.
So
I
guess
what
I
would
say
is
that
I
can't
imagine
us
you
know
doing
an
eight
percent.
J
You
know
when,
given
the
last
several
years,
we've
done,
you
know
the
tops
has
been
around
four,
so
I
just
I
can't
imagine
a
scenario
where
we
would
come
back
with
eight,
especially
with
how
our
entire
tax
base
is
is
stressed
at
this
point
that
that
would
just
be
a
very
difficult
thing
to
do.
On
the
other
hand,
I
know
there
are
important
services
that
we
provide
to
that
entire
tax
base
too.
J
That
has
an
impact
as
well,
so
my
personal
preference
not
having
seen
you
know
both
you
know
lined
up
together,
because
I
know
that
in
that
third
out
year,
there's
going
to
be
an
impact
as
well,
which
there's
no
way
to
get
a
forecast
for
that.
That's
just
too
difficult
to
do
so.
My
recommendation
would
be
try
to
use
that
at
that
eight
percent,
as
a
baseline
as
councilmember
nelson,
has
talked
about
and
then
really
try
to
come
back.
J
I
would
like
to
see
some
divergent
divergence.
You
know
and
differences.
You
know
in
the
three
different
scenarios,
so
you're
not
seeing
a
you
know
a
six,
a
five
or
four.
Maybe
you
know
what's
a
zero
look
like
you
know,
here's
the
absolute
you
know
and
then
something
in
the
midpoint
in
that,
and
then
you
know
something
that's
closer.
Maybe
to
that
to
that
eight.
J
I
just
I
can't
imagine
that
coming
back
with
an
eight
would
be
would
be
good
for
our
taxpayers
and
that
might
I
just
I
just
can't
see
that
that
scenario
being
anything
so
I
guess
the
tops
I
would
look
at
is
probably
the
4.5
at
the
very
highest.
J
I
just
can't
see
a
scenario
where
we
come
in
any
higher
than
that
from
a
taxpayer
standpoint,
but
maybe
you
guys
can
come
up
with
something
that
makes
sense,
but
I
just
I
cannot
see
anything
that
would
be
much
higher
than
that,
but
maybe
there's
some
things,
I'm
not
looking
at
I'm
not
seeing,
but
I
think
it's
you
know
probably
4.5.
J
You
know
maybe
two
than
zero.
Those
those
are
the
three
that
I'm
thinking
of
in
my
head
and
I
don't
know
what
the
impact
is
that
you
know
if
we
were
to
do
that,
so
that
that's
sort
of
where
I,
where
I'm
in
my
head,
where
I'm
at
certainly
coming
in
a
little
bit.
You
know
above
that
wouldn't
be
big,
but
I
don't
think
we've
ever
seen
anything
like
this,
so
maybe
it
makes
some
sense
to
come
in
a
little
higher
and
then
then
tailor
that
number
down.
F
You
know,
I
think
I
think
you
know
we're
paying
attention
to
those
out
years
and
one
one
thing
that
we've
talked
about
at
the
committee
and
that
I
talked
about
when
this
process
first
started
is.
F
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
try
to
run
a
process
where
there's
basically
one
set
of
cuts
if
we
end
up
making
cuts
and
that
we
don't
want
to
have
a
situation
where
every
six
months
we're
having
to
go
back
to
the
well
and
get
departments
to
give
up
more
because
just
from
an
organizational
health
perspective,
it
doesn't
work
that
way.
You
want
to
go
through
this
process.
F
You
want
to
go
through
it
once
and
then
you
want
to
be
in
a
position
where
organizationally
in
22,
maybe
your
level
and
then
you're
kind
of
growing
out
of
your
current
position,
and
so
necessarily
predicting
what's
going
to
happen
in
22
is
a
tough
sort
of
thing.
F
But
one
of
my
personal
goals
is
to
try
to
offer
you
some
options
that
that
allow
that
to
occur
so
that
the
organization
in
21
represents
kind
of
the
organization
structure
that
that
makes
sense
for
the
next
couple
years
and
if
there's
surprises
in
the
budget,
the
surprises
are
going
to
more
than
likely
fall
on
that
the
happy
side
of
the
the
budget
ledger
as
opposed
to
the
additional
pain
side.
J
And
I
assume
with
you
saying
that
that
will
also
take
into
account
this
just
kind
of
goes
without
saying
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
positive
variants
because
of
our
our
standpoint
of
our
fiscal
conservativeness
with
our
you
know
with
our
planning-
and
I
imagine
we'll
take
that
into
account.
I
know
that's
important
to
have
some
buffer
there
as
we
as
we
looked
at
to
make
the
out
years,
but
I
appreciate
your
your
philosophy
with
that
and
good
luck.
Thank
you.
I'm
looking
forward
to
seeing
those
scenarios
when
they
come
out.
H
Thank
you
mayor,
so
I'm
probably
going
to
be
kind
of
sharing
some
sentiments
that
other
council
members
have
shared,
but
first
I
really
appreciate
the
work
that
you've
done
to
to
show
us.
You
know
what
a
do-nothing
scenario
would
be
at
this
eight
percent.
H
I
appreciate
you
coming
into
the
meeting
and
already
have
that
clearly
outlined
for
us,
and
so
you
know
for
me
you
know
absolutely
aware
of
the
very
obvious
economic
challenges
that
are
facing
many
of
our
residents
right
now
and
but
also
you
know,
understanding
and
we've
heard
from
a
lot
of
residents
this
year
when
we've
had
conversations
around
cutting
certain
services
or
when
we
have
had
to
cut
certain
services
like
child
care
summer,
child
care,
for
example,
you
know
where
people
are,
you
know
really
upset
by
it,
and
so
these
decisions
are
very
hard
and,
from
my
perspective
I
think
starting
at
that
do
nothing
kind
of
baseline
at
eight
percent
is
kind
of
the
upper
limit,
and
then
you
know
obviously
staying
under
that
and
giving
us
a
variety
of
scenarios.
H
A
Councilmember
baloga.
Thank
you,
mr.
C
Mayor
steve
back
in
the
great
recession-
and
you
were
on
console
at
that
time-
I
recall
we
had
three
years
of
zero
levy
increased
three
consecutive
years
and
I
think
there
were
some
tech
techniques
that
were
employed
to
achieve
that.
Obviously,
and
I'm
wondering
how
far
you've
looked
into
those
or
application
into
this
set
of
circumstances.
F
So
here
thank
you,
mr
mayor
and
councilmember
logo.
You're
testing,
my
memory
here
on
precisely
how
the
budget
mechanics
worked
in
those
three
years,
and
so
I'd
have,
to
be
honest,
I'd
have
to
go
work
with
the
staff
to
kind
of
go
back
and
answer
kind
of
what
were
the
things
in
order
that
made
that
happen.
F
F
I'm
also
going
to
just
guess-
and
this
is
off
the
top
of
the
head
guessing,
so
it
could
easily
be
contributed
contradicted
by
real
data.
I
suspect
that
the
hospitality
business
was
not
as
big
a
percentage
of
the
total
city
budget
at
that
point
as
it
is
today,
so
I
suspect
that
those
maybe
two
of
the
factors
that
accounted
for
some
of
the
differences
and
how
we're
able
to
handle
it
now
versus
them.
But
we
can
get
you
that
answer.
I
just
don't
have
it
off
the
top
of
my
head.
C
And
that's
and
from
my
perspective-
and
I
think
what
you're
looking
for
is
you
know
all
the
console
feels
about
the
zero
to
eight
kind
of
number
and
I'll
just
harken
back
to
last
december,
when
we
had
the
final
budget
levy
and
we
had
a
person
that
was
first
in
person
state
that
this
was.
What
had
you
know,
roughly,
a
four
percent
increase
was
a
crushing
item
to
them.
C
Many
of
those
people
who
came
were
people
on
fixed
income.
They
were
seniors
and
they
were
mentioning
that
you
know
their
their
income
was
going
up
at
the
rate
of
1.8,
yet
their
burdens
were
going
up
at
far
higher
percentages,
whether
it
be
real
estate,
tax,
gas
elections,
food
medical
costs.
So
I
want
to
be
very
sensitive
to
that
because,
as
it's
been
previously
mentioned
at
the
kind
of
unemployment
rate
that
we've
had
in
our
enduring
right
now,
there's
so
many
people
who
are
hurting.
C
F
Mayor
and
consumer
baloca,
you
know
I
I
think
I
I
hear
that
and
I
one
thing
that
we're
pretty
much
guaranteed
is,
I
think,
we're
pretty
much
guaranteed
to
deliver
a
long
line
of
people
wanting
to
testify
on
our
final
proposal
with
the
council.
And
so
that's
maybe
I
could
put
that
as
a
fourth
deliverable
that
I'm
that
that
will
deliver
on
that
as
well.
F
But
you
know
that
you
know
I've
had
people
come
up
to
me
and
and
they'll
say:
what's
the
big
deal,
you
know
if,
if
the
we're
talking
eight
percent
on
the
median
value
house,
that's
96
a
year,
and
why?
What
what's
the
big
problem
with
ninety
six
dollars
a
year?
And
I
think
consumer
buloga,
you
know
others
have
talked
about.
F
There's
a
lot
of
people
where
96
a
year
is
a
big
deal
and
that's
just
our
little
slice
of
a
third
of
the
property
taxes
and
it
doesn't
include
comcast
going
up
and
their
mobile
phone
going
up
and
the
grocery
store
and
things
like
that.
And
so
we
have
to
really
be
thinking
carefully
about
the
people
in
our
community
who
are
on
fixed
incomes.
Who
are
on
social
security,
maybe
they're
getting
2
000
something
in
social
security
a
month.
100
bucks
in
our
slice
is
a
pretty
big
deal
to
somebody
like
that.
F
You
know.
Maybe
it's
birthday
presents.
Who
knows
what
it
is
and
we
gotta
we
gotta,
be
you
know,
keeping
those
folks
in
mind
as
we're
making
decisions
here.
A
Well,
chair
peterson,
I
would
agree
completely
with
your
last
statement
there
and
council
member
below.
I
appreciate
your
comments
that
you
made
also
your
question
about
the
somewhere
between
zero
and
eight
percent.
I
think
the
answer
there
is
yes
somewhere
between
zero
and
eight
percent.
A
I
I
would
agree
with
the
fact
that
eight
percent,
I
think,
would
be
tone
deaf
in
terms
of
what
we're
looking
to
accomplish,
to
try
and
to
try
and
find
this
balance
of,
of
the
the
services
provided
versus
the
cost
to
the
residents
and-
and
so
we've
got
to
be
careful
of
that.
A
On
the
other
end,
a
zero
percent
would
would
result
in
more
than
a
five
million
dollar
cut
in
the
city
services,
and
we
have
to
just
assume
that
that
would,
in
some
ways
dig
into
or
eliminate
services
that
people
use
across
this
community
and
and
the
same
people
that
we're
trying
to
save
money
for
would
be
directly
and
negatively
impact
by
budget
cuts
to
that
level.
A
And
I
would
agree
with
folks
that,
as
I
said,
yes,
the
the
number
is
somewhere
between
zero
and
eight
percent,
and
actually
it's
the
original
number
of
10,
which,
frankly,
is
was
surprising
to
me
to
hear
that
simply
by
having
the
the
flat
budget
and
just
the
contracts
and
and
the
salaries
we're
looking
at,
that
would
result
in
a
10
levy
increase
which
is
a
which
is
a
surprise
and-
and
I
want
to
make
it
clear
to
people
that
isn't
a
10
budget
increase.
That's
a
10
levy
increase.
A
Those
are
two
different
things,
but
it
still
would
would
would
maintaining
the
same
services
that
we
provided
this
year
into
next
year
would
be,
would
require
a
10
increase
in
a
levy
and-
and
I
think,
given
the
realities
of
today,
given
the
realities
of
people's
job
situation,
their
live
situations.
A
We
can't
ask
that
the
level
of
10
or
eight
percent
of
them,
but
on
the
other
end,
we
can't
ask
of
a
for
a
five
million
dollar
reduction
in
the
services
in
this
city
that
I
think
people
come
have
come
to
rely
on
in
so
many
different
ways.
And
what
make
this
the
community
that
it
is
so
echo
the
echo
council
member
lowman
and
wish
you
luck
and
and
tell
you.
A
I
look
forward
to
hearing
from
you
again
and
hearing
from
your
committee
and
if
you
could
please
pass
on
to
your
committee,
our
thanks
and
our
appreciation
for
the
work
that
they
put
in.
I
know
that
they've
put
in
a
lot
of
hours
and
we've
got
a
lot
of
folks
who
are
working
very
hard
on
this
and
who
are
doing
outstanding
work.
A
I
don't
know
council
if
you've
taken
the
time
to
to
watch
and
and
tune
into
the
community
budget
advisory
committee,
but
it
is
it's
rigorous
work
and
it's
it's
thoughtful
conversation
by
some
pretty
sharp
people
in
this
community
who've
got
who've
got
other
things
to
do
with
their
lives
on
a
beautiful
summer
evening,
but
they're
here
helping
us
to
work
through
this,
and
so
we
owe
them
a
debt
of
gratitude
and
a
big
great
deal
of
thanks.
So
are
there
any
additional
questions
for
vice
chair
peterson.
A
F
A
So,
mr
broogie
next
steps,
if
you
could
remind
me
again,
I
think
we
laid
it
out
at
our
last
council
meeting.
But
if
you
could
remind
us,
if
you
have
that
at
your
fingertips
and
you
don't
that's
fine,
the
schedule
for
the.
G
G
Mr
mayor
and
council
members,
we
have
a
study
session
that
is
focused
exclusively
on
budget
issues
or
mostly
on
budget
issues.
I
won't
say
exclusively:
we
may
have
something
sneak
in
there
for
august
31st,
so
the
committee
has
a
couple
more
meetings
yet
this
month
and
we'll
be
drafting
their
recommendation
on
the
preliminary
levy.
It'll
come
for
conversation
on
the
31st
and
then
for
action
in
the
middle
of
september.
A
D
A
Hands
are
up,
comes,
remember
below
yours,
just
not
go
down.
I
saw
councilmember
loman's
go
up.
That's
remember.
Loman.
J
Yeah,
just
real
quick,
I
wanted,
I
don't
necessarily
need
to
to
hold
6.3
just
really
a
question
for
the
mayor
and
for
the
city
manager
just
on
public
hearings,
and
you
know
why
certain
items
are,
and
certainly
there's
other
items
on
this
consent
agenda.
Why?
Because
some
folks
have
asked
why
not
a
a
public
hearing
on
some
of
these
items
that
are
on
there?
J
We
don't
need
to
necessarily
answer
that
now
we
can
answer
it
during
policy,
but
I
wanted
to
just
throw
that
question
out
there,
for
you
guys.
A
And
we
will
bring
that
up
in
our
policy
and
issues
update
at
the
end,
but
I
mean
I
think
the
teaser
is
that
a
5-0
vote
by
the
pa
by
the
planning
commission
generally
brings
things
to
our
consent
agenda,
as
opposed
to
a
public
hearing
here
at
the
council,
and
this
was
a
unanimous
vote
of
the
of
the
planning
commission
and
there
there
was
a
public
hearing
there
and
an
extensive
public
hearing
there.
D
B
D
D
A
A
A
G
You,
mr
mayor
and
council
members,
we
had
a
number
of
residents
that
spoke
to
the
council
at
our
meeting
last
monday,
I'll
walk
through
a
couple
of
them
and
then
I'll
save
for
last.
G
The
lengthiest
response
elizabeth
longo
had
concerns
about
the
contract,
with
the
county
for
temporary
housing,
for
people
experiencing
housing,
instability
and
also
needing
mental
health
services
and
asking
if
the
council
needed
to
vote
to
rezone
those
properties
and
if
what
the
process
was
there,
the
county
does
have
contracts
with
a
couple
of
hotels
within
the
city
of
bloomington,
where
they
are
providing
a
temporary
shelter
and
that's
anticipated
to
continue
at
some
level.
During
the
pandemic.
G
We
are
working
with
the
county.
To
look
at
their
options.
Is
our
understanding
is
they're
trying
to
find
something
that
is
going
to
operate
more
successfully
and
trying
to
plan
for
a
longer
period
of
time?
This.
This
approach,
they're
working
with
right
now,
was
an
immediate
and
anticipated
to
be
a
short-term
reaction,
so
they're
trying
to
plan
for
a
little
bit
longer
term
and
our
staff
is
continuing
to
work
with
the
county
on
that
there
was
an
additional
question
by
michelle.
G
Justin,
asking
about
the
cost
for
bloomington
related
to
those
services
being
provided
by
hennepin
county,
and
I
would
say
that
the
costs
are
to
the
city
are
no
direct
costs.
We
do
have
public
safety
costs,
we're
seeing
an
increased
number
of
calls
for
service,
not
just
at
the
sites
that
are
contracted
by
the
county,
but
a
number
of
our
hotel
properties
where
we
have
several
different
issues
that
are
happening.
G
One
is
a
number
of
our
hoteliers,
are
reducing
their
rates
pretty
substantially
to
try
and
bring
more
business
into
the
properties
and
the
others
that
some
of
the
hotels
have
contracts
with
other
social
service
providers.
Some
are
non-profit,
some
are
churches
and
we've
seen
an
increase
in
calls
for
service
for
public
safety.
At
many
of
those
properties,
that's
the
the
most
direct
cost.
I
don't
have
a
number
that's
assigned
to
that.
It's
just
recognizing
that
our
police
department
and
our
fire
department
are
busier
when
it
comes
to
those
properties
than
they
have
been.
G
We
also
do
see
a
what
I
would
refer
to
as
an
opportunity
cost
there.
That's
actually
the
the
loss
of
revenue
when
there
are
contracts
for
those
facilities
that
extend
for
more
than
30
days,
the
the
revenue
related
to
those
rooms
does
not
produce
lodging
tax.
So
again,
it's
just
continuing.
G
What
we've
been
seeing
over
the
last
number
of
months
is
that
our
our
lodging
tax
receipts
continue
to
drag
behind
we're
looking
at
right
now
occupancy
in
the
neighborhood
of
about
35
percent,
which
is
better
than
I
think
some
of
us
were
thinking,
we'd
be
at
right
now,
and
it's
actually
right
in
the
middle
for
the
council,
members
who've
been
tracking.
These
forecasts,
it's
right
in
the
middle
of
our
different
scenarios,
so
we're
we're
doing.
G
Okay
there
there
was
a
concern
about
the
excuse
me
I
lost
track
of
where
I
was
at
here
concern
about
one
of
the
items
on
the
consent
agenda
tonight.
So
the
council
dealt
with
the
success
academy,
application
through
the
consent
agenda
and
then
the
the
last
item
I
wanted
to
respond
to
comes
from
andrew
thule
and
mr
thule
had
a
specific
request
through
the
council
to
the
city
manager
about
what
the
city
is
doing
to
improve
communications
with
residents.
G
So
what
I
thought
I
would
do,
mr
mayor
and
council
members-
and
I
I
think
it's
good
for
the
community
to
hear
this.
It's
good
for
the
council
to
be
updated
on
this
is
walk
through
all
the
different
ways
that
we
communicate
with
our
residents
because,
frankly,
it
is
a
very
full
and
robust
approach
to
making
sure
we're
not
just
communicating
but
we're
also
doing
outreach
and
engagement
with
our
community.
G
G
G
The
city
has
a
notable
online
presence
and
uses
these
tools
to
engage
users
and
provide
timely,
important
local
information
news
of
interest.
So
this
includes
providing
content
for
a
website
that
sees
more
than
420
000
page
views
per
month.
More
than
20
social
media
accounts,
including
facebook,
twitter,
youtube
instagram
next
door.
We
have
thousands
of
followers
across
those
social
media
platforms.
G
In
the
area,
video
and
cable
tv,
the
city
of
the
city
produces
videos
and
news
shows
for
cable
television
with
a
potential
audience
of
up
to
20,
000,
cable
subscribers
and
thousands
more
on
social
media.
To
improve
communication
provide
a
recap
of
council
activities.
The
council
minute
featuring
the
mayor
was
launched
this
year.
So
far,
21
episodes
have
been
produced
and
cable
cast
on
cable
tv
three
times
a
day
each
week
and
posted
to
social
media
on
a
weekly
basis.
G
G
I
think
it's
important
to
note
that
our
communications
staff
is
about
the
best
in
the
business
for
city
government
here
in
the
state
of
minnesota,
recognized
by
both
the
residents
and
our
peer
organizations
locally
and
around
the
country
they
continuously.
G
G
So
that's
just
like
the
one-way
communication,
mr
mayor
and
council
members,
when
it
comes
to
outreach
and
engagement
events,
we've
had
13
events
so
far
this
year,
and
that
is
recognizing
that
we're
really
handicapped
by
the
fact
that
the
pandemic
has
limited
just
about
all
of
our
in-person
opportunity
and
so
we're
we're
having
to
do
a
lot
more
with
webex
and,
as
a
matter
of
fact,
we
just
approved
zoom.
G
This
may
sound
like
we're
behind
the
times,
but
when
we
started
utilizing
virtual
meeting
systems,
we
made
a
decision
to
use
webex
rather
than
zoom
through
the
course
of
the
pandemic.
G
What
we
found
out
is
that
many
of
the
groups
that
we're
trying
to
reach
utilize
zoom
much
more
than
webex,
and
so
we
actually
authorized
utilizing
zoom
as
an
outreach
and
engagement
tool
specifically
and
have
just
launched
her
zoom
for
engagement,
but
those
13
events,
coffee
with
the
cop
several
times
community
conversations
with
the
police
department,
the
lindale
avenue,
design
workshop
richfield,
bloomington
watershed
management
organization,
annual
meeting
this
state
of
the
city
address.
G
We
had
a
couple
of
park
system,
master
plan
listening
sessions
and
we
were
planning
to
do
much
more
related.
The
park
system
master
plan
so
their
currently
trying
to
revamp
the
engagement
plan
for
that
process.
We
did
a
workshop
for
online
and
organics
and
recycling.
G
We
did
a
bloomington
race
and
equality
forum
and
we
have
a
youth
speaks
town
hall
forum
coming
up
this
thursday.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
we're
also
very
active
working
on
census,
2020,
our
outreach
and
engagement
team,
our
planning
staff
and
others.
We
have
a
complete
count
committee,
that's
working
in
partnership
with
our
human
rights
commission,
we've
mailed
to
2500,
individual
households
and
census
tracts
projected
to
have
lower
response
rates.
G
We've
been
promoting
via
the
city's
communication
channels,
including
websites,
social
media,
the
briefing
in
personal
in-person
tabling
at
the
block
captain's
workshop,
that
was
pre-pandemic
census
promotion
package,
delivered
to
all
bloomington
faith,
communities,
senior
living,
congregate,
living
communities
and
rental
properties
in
the
northeast
corner
of
the
city.
G
A
new
thing
that
we
are
starting
up
is
called:
let's
talk,
bloomington,
it's
a
new
digital
engagement
tool.
It's
going
to
be
rolled
out
to
the
community
in
the
next
couple
of
months,
and
this
is
a
web-based
tool.
That's
going
to
increase
communication
and
transparency
on
city
projects,
they're
a
multi-function
approach.
You'll
have
surveys,
questions,
guest
books,
polls,
mapping
are
examples
of
the
methods.
Community
input
will
be
gathered.
Initial
projects
that
will
utilize.
Let's
talk,
bloomington
are
the
community
budget
advisory
committee,
public
works
street
and
traffic
projects
and
sustainability's
energy
benchmarking.
G
We
are
significantly
increasing
our
translation
because
we
have
growing
households
that
speak
a
language
other
than
english
as
their
primary
language.
We've
been
doing
radio
ads
that
are
focused
on
the
community
and
the
public
health
hotline,
which
has
been
working
with
our
public
health
clients,
the
need
there
has
increased
substantially
in
the
last
couple
months.
We've
also
been
utilizing
pulco
surveys.
Polco
is
another
new
tool
that
we
started
using
this
year.
G
We've
done
three
different
surveys
online:
to
get
input
on
household
status
regarding
community
center
motor
vehicle
and
an
ongoing
check-in
related
to
the
pandemic,
and
that's
just
since
april
of
2000.
So
that
does
not
include
mr
mayor
a
lot
of
the
outreach
and
additional
communication
and
engagement.
G
That's
occurring
with
our
police
department
right
now,
which
is
they
have
a
unit
with
our
crime
prevention
and
just
the
outreach
and
engagement
team
within
police
of
a
combination
of
sworn
and
non-sworn
personnel,
and
they
were
doing
good
work
earlier
in
the
year
and
their
work
has
has
doubled
in
terms
of
the
expectations
coming
out
of
the
events
in
may,
with
the
death
of
george
floyd
and
the
the
focus
on
communities
of
color.
G
So
the
point
of
all
of
this,
mr
mayor
and
council
members
in
responding
to
mr
thule
is
the
city
of
bloomington-
is
widely
recognized
as
having
one
of
the
best
communication
and
outreach
units
around.
G
G
I
think
the
bottom
line
here
is
that
residents
who
feel
that
we
are
not
improving
our
communications.
I
I
would
say
that
there
is
plenty
of
information
that
is
being
distributed.
A
I
think
I
I
was
I
know
I
was
aware
of
all
that
was
going
on,
but
to
hear
them
all
in
one
list
and
one
presentation
is
impressive
and
it
also
doesn't
include
the
outreach
and
engagement
and
the
the
community
work
done
by
the
members
of
our
city
council
here,
and
I
know
full
well
that
everybody
spends
plenty
of
time
either
online
or
interacting
with
community,
with
community
members,
answering
emails,
answering
phone
calls
or
for
that
matter
getting
stopped
and
talking
when
you're
at
when
you're
out
getting
groceries
or
when
you're
at
the
farmer's
market
or
anywhere
else.
A
And
so
I
would
agree
with
with
your
thought
that
I
don't
know
that
it's
a
matter
of
a
lack
of
communication.
It
might
be
a
disagreement
with
the
direction.
It
might
be
a
disagreement
with
a
decision.
It
might
be
a
disagreement
with
any
number
of
things,
but
I
think
to
claim
that
it's
a
lack
of
communication,
I
think,
disregards
all
that
we've
been
doing
here
in
the
city
of
bloomington,
for
as
long
as
I've
been
around
and
sitting
at
this
desk
for
the
city
of
bloomington.
A
Residents
are
limited
speakers
unlimited
to
a
five-minute
time
period
as
they
address
the
council
again
items
not
on
the
agenda
tonight's
agenda.
We,
as
you
all
know,
I'm
sure
that
it's
not
back
and
forth.
We
won't
give
an
immediate
response,
but
rather
we'll
wait
until
the
next
meeting,
when
the
mr
city
manager
will
give
a
response
to
any
questions
or
specific
or
direct
questions
posed
by
any
of
the
speakers.
A
We
will,
of
course
take
an
opportunity
if
there
are
simple
answers
or
corrections
of
fact,
we'll
we'll
definitely
do
that,
but
this
is.
This
is
folks
time
to
come
forward,
and
I
know
that
we
have
at
least
one
person
who
pre-registered
and
I'm
sure
we
have
others
as
well.
Natalie
morose,
I
think,
was
the
first
person
that
I
saw
on
the
list
to
pre-register.
So,
ms
wilson,
if
you
could
help
us
out
here,.
L
Thank
you
very
much
good
evening,
mayor
and
members
of
the
city
council.
My
name
is
natalie
moroz,
I'm
a
resident
of
bloomington,
I'm
calling
tonight
to
request
a
revisit
of
the
vote
for
ranked
choice.
Voting
on
this
year's
ballot.
Our
charter
commission
is,
as
it
should
be,
the
advisory
to
the
council.
However,
you
showed
flagrant
disregard
for
the
charter's
commission
decision
against
putting
rate
choice
voting
on
this
year's
ballot.
The
commission
met
on
two
separate
occasions
and
both
times
came
to
the
decision
denying
ranked
choice.
Voting
beyond
the
ballot.
L
In
addition
to
that
on,
the
advice
of
the
city
attorney
was
an
illegal
reopening
of
the
first
meeting
after
it
was
adjourned,
as
stated
in
the
city's
faqs
quote,
if
approved
by
the
city
council
and
charter
commission,
the
issue
of
ranked
choice
voting
would
go
to
the
voters.
At
the
november
3
2020
general
election
end
quote
putting
ranked
choice.
Voting
on
the
ballot
was
not
approved
by
the
charter
commission.
So
once
again,
you
ignored
what
you
want
to
ignore
to
do
what
you
want
to
do
to
bloomington.
L
You
also
disregarded
staff
who
informed
you
that
a
draft
of
rules
and
procedures
for
ranked
choice
voting
should
be
done
before
the
council
votes
due
to
what
seems
to
be
a
con
consistent
lack
of
integrity.
Citizens
cannot
even
know
what
we'll
be
voting
for.
Is
it
a
system
to
rank
our
top
three
candidates,
top
five
candidates,
all
the
candidates
or
something
else?
If
candidates.
L
L
Will
the
answer
to
these
questions
vary
from
year
to
year,
depending
on
what
you
want
to
do
to
bloomington
due
to
what
seems
to
be
a
consistent
lack
of
integrity,
citizens
cannot
even
know
how
much
the
new
voting
system
will
cost
as
taxpayers.
Your
guesses
are
not
acceptable
to
us.
It
is
irresponsible
not
only
with
our
voting,
but
with
our
tax
dollars
to
make
the
decision.
In
the
absence
of
an
actual
cost
analysis,
a
cost
analysis
should
have
been
done
before
deciding
to
put
rank
choice.
L
Voting
on
the
ballot
also
stated
on
the
city's
faq
page
is
quote:
if
there
is
a
ballot
question
on
ranked
choice,
voting
presented
to
the
voters
at
the
november
2020
general
election,
additional
information
and
educational
materials
about
right
choice.
Voting
will
be
provided
on
this
page
end
quote:
I
looked
before
tonight's
meeting
and
there
are
no
additional
information
and
educational
materials
about
ranked
choice.
Voting
provided
on
the
page
with
voting
beginning
in
just
43
days,
43
days,
43
days
is
not
enough
time
for
citizens
to
get
information.
L
B
L
L
I
would
like
to
understand
the
data
measurement
standards
being
used,
how
frequent
council
is
receiving
updates
from
staff
and
how
the
issue
of
racism
and
racial
equity
is
being
prioritized
internally
within
the
city
and
also
in
how
the
city
works
with
the
community
and
that's
all
I
have
thank
you
so
much
for
your
time.
L
Good
evening,
mayor
and
council
members,
my
name
is
michelle:
justin,
I'm
a
resident
of
bloomington.
Mr
mayor,
you
put
out
a
statement
to
the
public
on
june
27th
about
an
incident
involving
a
piece
of
rope
tied
into
what
appeared
to
be
a
crude
nuke,
its
states
that
was
discovered
in
the
locker
on
june
15th
and
reported
on
june
23rd.
L
L
Mr
city
manager,
I
would
like
to
know,
and
for
the
city
to
be
informed
if
the
city
has
determined
whether
this
was
a
hate
crime
as
implied
or
not.
I
would
ask
that
this
please
be
answered
at
the
next
council
meeting
team
that
has
got
national
news
recognition
and
since
then
there
has
been
silence
from
the
city.
L
K
L
My
name
is
sharon
billings,
and
I
am
calling
to
voice
my
concern
about
pedestrian
safety
at
the
intersection
of
west
84th
street
and
thomas
avenue
south.
This
is
a
t
intersection
located
between
northwestern
health
sciences,
university
and
washburn
elementary
school.
The
pedestrian
crosswalk
to
aid
pedestrians
crossing
84th
street
includes
highly
visible
signage,
painted
pavement,
stripes
and
pedestrian-operated
flashing
signals.
Nevertheless,
I
have
personally
experienced
several
close
calls,
while
crossing
84
feet
on
foot.
Additionally,
I
have
noticed
that
many
vehicles
appear
to
be
traveling
significantly
faster
than
the
posted
30
mile
per
hour
speed
limit
there.
L
A
All
right,
we
have
no
additional
callers.
We've
got
about
10
minutes
left
here,
so
I'll
leave
the
public
comment
period
open
for
about
a
few
more
minutes
here
and
we
will
close
it
up,
but
in
the
meantime
we
will
move
on
and
we
move
on
to
item
8.1,
which
is
a
public
hearing
regarding
american
square
apartments,
development,
tiff
project
area
and
tif
plans.
A
M
All
right
so
just
wave
introduction
once
again,
I'm
jason
schmidt.
I
am
one
of
the
analysts
with
the
port
authority
also
on
the
phone
tonight.
Four
questions
are
tom:
dunaway
from
baker,
tilly
the
city
and
port
authority's
financial
advisor
and
julie,
eddington,
the
port
authorities,
general
counsel,.
A
M
No
worries,
mr
mayor
tonight-
I
am
here
actually
before
you
on
a
port
authority
project
for
a
public
hearing
and
consideration
for
the
creation
of
a
housing,
tif
district.
M
The
development
proposal
is
two
phases.
The
first
phase
called
the
ardor
is
a
242
unit
market
rate
apartment.
The
developer
has
elected
to
pay
the
fee
in
lieu
of
affordable
units
to
meet
the
opportunity
housing
ordinance.
The
developer
is
seeking
to
start
construction
on
this
project.
This
coming
fall
phase.
Two
called
the
quinn
is
preliminarily
approved
as
an
86
unit
apartment
building,
which
the
developer
will
be
seeking
minnesota
housing.
Tax
credits
per
the
preliminarily
approved,
affordable
housing
plan.
M
M
M
Here's
a
quick
site
plan
of
the
the
quinn,
the
quinn,
is
actually
positioned
on
the
southern
portion
of
that
lot,
which
has
underground
parking
and
just
to
the
north,
is
a
separate
parking
ramp.
Note
that
any
tiff
funds,
if
they
were
approved,
would
only
go
towards
the
phase
two
apartment
complex
and
would
not
be
able
to
go
towards
any
of
the
construction
of
this
separate
parking
ramp.
M
The
port
authority's
financing
consideration
for
the
american
square
is
to
create
a
housing
tif
district
with
which
we
would
look
to
capture
increment
tax
increment
from
both
phases,
both
phase
one
and
phase
two,
and
in
order
to
capture
the
phase.
One
increment
the
tif
district
needs
to
be
established
prior
to
the
issuance
of
the
building
permit
on
phase
one
majority
of
the
tax
increment
in
this
district
would
be
coming
from
the
phase
one
project.
M
The
increment
that
would
be
generated
and
captured
would
only
go
towards
tiff
eligible
costs
associated
with
the
phase
two
affordable
housing
project.
M
M
M
M
Qualifications
to
meet
a
housing,
tif
district,
one
of
the
requirements
is
that
the
housing
tif
district
requires
at
least
40
percent
of
the
units
be
affordable
at
the
60
percent
ami
level
for
the
duration
of
the
tif
district.
M
The
city
and
port
also
need
to
analyze
that
the
proposed
development,
what
would
occur
would
not
occur,
but
for
the
use
of
this
tax
increment
financing
based
on
staff's
review
with
baker,
tilley's
assistance,
the
project's
preliminary
financials
identified
that
the
project
has
too
large
of
a
financial
gap
that
would
it
would
not
occur.
But
for
this
assistance
this
graph
is
driven
by
the
low
rents
for
the
86,
affordable
units
and
based
on
the
reduced
revenue.
The
project
has
a
low
debt
coverage,
as
well
as
low
project
returns
compared
to
a
market
project.
J
So,
just
to
help
me
understand
and
just
the
the
general
public
you
know
we
look
at
the
fact
that
this
is
a
tiff
district
kind
of
located
in
the
in
the
south
loop
piece
of
that
kind
of
help
me
understand
how
that
works.
I
know
you
showed
that
great
graph
there
that,
where
you
talk
about
it,
you're
capturing
the
increment,
that's
on
on
top
of,
what's
already
existing
there
help
me
understand
how
that
works
with
an
existing
tif
district.
J
That's
already,
you
know
there
just
for
the
general
public,
so
they
understand
how
that
operates.
Work.
M
Sure,
mr
mayor
and
councilmember
lowman,
let
me
actually
go
back
to
that
graphic.
M
I'm
a
visual
person
so
how
it
works
so
before
the
tiff
district
is
created,
and
so
in.
In
essence.
Today,
if
we're
looking
at
this
tif
district,
what
we
look
at
is
what
is
the
current
base
value
of
that
tif
district
or
that
tif
area
that
we're
looking
to
create
if
the
tif
district
today
is
passed?
M
All
of
the
taxes
that
are
captured
on
that
increased
value
would
be
would
be
captured
in
this
tif
district
and
would
go
to
pay
towards
the
tif
eligible
costs
of
the
project,
and
any
remaining
dollars
would
be
pooled
by
the
port
authority,
which
could
in
essence
be
used
for
any
other.
Affordable
housing
project
within
the
self.
M
J
So
we're
currently
in
a
taxing
you
know
this
property
is
already
currently
in
the
south
loop.
So
if
I
understand
what
you
were
saying
correctly,
what
you're
saying
is:
is
that
that
amount
is
part
of
that
base,
value.
M
Mr
schmidt,
mr
mayor
and
councilmember
lohman,
the
self
loop
is
the
project
area.
It
is
not
the
entire
south
loop
is
not
a
tiff
district.
We
have
multiple
tiff
districts
located
within
the
south
loop
area.
Okay,
so.
J
So
so,
basically,
what
you're
saying
is
this
is
not
already
currently
a
part
of
one
of
those
projects
that
are
already
occurring
in
the
soft
loop,
so
this
is
not
so.
This
is
its
own.
We're
starting
a
new
tiff
within
this
district
is
taking
place.
So
the
entire
south
loop
is
not
a
part
of
a
a
tif
district
right.
J
I
Thank
you
mayor.
My
first
question
is:
how
does
this
amount
of
public
support
compare
to
other
projects
that
have
recently
been
approved,
kind
of
on
a
percentage
basis
of
the
overall
cost.
M
Mr
mayor
and
council
member
nelson,
I
do
not
have
a
percentage
cost,
but
I
do
have
it
based
on
per
affordable
unit,
so
just
as
an
example
with
the
recent
rosa
project
just
to
the
north
year,
that
was
creating
37,
affordable
units
at
the
50
ami
level.
The
tax
increment
financing,
as
well
as
the
loan
for
that
project,
averaged
about
two
hundred
and
ten
thousand
dollars
per
affordable
unit.
M
The
preliminary
analysis
of
this
project
and,
like
I
said,
we're
still
analyzing
it.
We
have
not
determined
the
financial
total
financial
assistance
for
this
project,
but
right
now,
if
we
were
to
go
with
the
80
increment,
as
which
is
documented
here
in
this
tif
plan,
that
would
equate
to
about
one
hundred
and
sixty
sixteen
thousand
dollars
per
affordable
unit,
and
so
it's
about
about
ninety
six
thousand
dollars
less
than
the
recent
project
we
opposed.
M
However,
you
also
have
to
look
at
it
as
in
the
rosa
project
that
one
we
had
units
at
the
50
ami
level.
This
one
is
at
the
60
ami
level,
so
it's
really
hard
for
us
to
compare
project
to
project,
because
each
one
has
its
own
unique
circumstances.
I
All
right,
thank
you
for
that
information.
I
appreciate
it.
My
second
question
and
the
part
I'm
struggling
with
the
most
is
the
meeting
the
but
four
requirement
for
phase
one,
considering
that
the
tip
won't
be
used
for
that
phase.
So
I
mean
obviously
that
phase
doesn't
need
the
tiff.
M
Mr
mayor
and
councilmember
nelson,
the
butt
for
test
is
for
the
project
that
is
receiving
the
tiff
eligible
increment,
which
is
the
phase
two
so
phase.
What
we're
doing
is.
We
are
looking
to
just
capture
the
increment
from
phase
one
phase.
One
is
not
receiving
any
tax
increment
or
any
assistance
that
increment
that
we
are
capturing
is
helping
us
to
cover
the
affordable
housing
costs
within
the
phase
2
project.
M
I
am
thinking
of
one
project
that
and
I'm
trying
to
remember
if
it
went
through
or
not
is
actually
the
bloomington
central
station.
We
looked
at
adding
in
the
cambria
hotel
lot
to
see
to
capture
that
increment
to
assist
the
bloomington
central
station
development.
So
with
that
is
we
amended
that
tif
district
or
that
tif
boundary
to
to
help
capture
it
and-
and
I
can
actually
defer-
I
think,
julie
eddington
might
be
on
and
she
might
have
a
little
bit
more
background
on
that
project.
A
B
Excellent,
I
just
wanted
to
add
to
jason's
comments
that
our
firm
has
done
this
on
several
occasions
where
there
is
a
continuous
project
that
is
a
market
rate
housing
deal
that
is
included
in
the
tif
district
in
order
to
fund
an
adjacent,
affordable,
housing
project.
B
We
have
specifically
discussed
this
issue
with
the
the
person
in
charge
of
the
office,
the
state
auditor's
office
with
respect
to
tax
increment,
and
they
have
agreed
that
this
is
a
a
reasonable
use
of
tax
increments,
and
so
we've
done
the
these
in
several
different
cities.
A
Thank
you,
ms
eddington,
and
if
I
could
council
member
nelson,
I
know
that
we
have
shane
rudling
who's,
the
deported
authority
administrator.
Who
may
have
something
to
add
to
this
as
well
good
evening,
mr
redling,
are
you
there
just
a.
B
Mr
mayor
council,
members
yeah,
so
what
what's
being
referred
to
is,
is
pooling
generally
so
using
tip
districts
inside
of
a
either
the
tif
district
or
the
project
area
or
tip
eligible
expenses
is
done
a
lot
with
the
mall
district,
bloomington
central
station
and
others
across
the
city
and,
as
miss
eddington
said
you
know
and
other
clients
that
she
serves.
I
might
answer
councilmember
lowman's
question
a
little
bit
differently
too
from
earlier.
B
So
the
south
loop
district
is
our
industrial
development
district
and
has
lots
of
smaller
tif
districts
within
that
larger
industrial
development
district.
So
you've
got
them
all.
You've
got
the
old
district.
The
carlton
district
you've
got
bloomington
central
station,
potentially
rosa
and
potentially
american
square.
So
you
have
these
little
districts.
A
Councilmember
nelson
did
did
that
enlighten
you
with
your
question.
There
yeah
it
did
very
good.
H
Thank
you
mayor,
so
I
have
a
couple
of
questions
so,
in
addition
to
using
the
tax
increment
captured
from
phase
one
to
ensure
that
the
project
for
phase
two
can
move
forward,
you
said
that
the
the
developer
also
chose
to
do
the
the
in
lieu
of
they
had
to
pay
the
in
lieu
of
fee
correct
and-
and
do
you
know
how
much
that
was
off
the
top
of
your
head.
M
Mr
mayor
councilmember
carter,
I
do
not
have
that
off
the
top
of
my
head.
However,
I
can
get
that
back
to
to
the
city
council.
M
Mr
mayor
councilmember
carter,
what
the
opportunity
housing
ordinance
allows
is
for
a
developer
to
pay
the
fee
in
lieu
and
then
within
two
years,
if
they
develop
an
affordable
project,
the
fee
in
lieu
can
help
to
offset
some
of
the
development
costs
of
this
project
if
they
do
not
fulfill
that
requirement
or
meet
that
two-year
requirement.
At
that
time,
the
entire
fiance
payment
is
officially
deposited
into
the
affordable
housing
trust
fund
and
can
be
used
anywhere
with
throughout
the
city.
H
Okay,
so
that
fee
is
being
used
to
cover
the
cost
of
the
phase
two
development,
the
affordable
use
units
and
if
phase
two
doesn't
move
forward,
then
the
captured
tif
will
go
back
to
the
various
taxing
jurisdictions
and
the
fee
would
go
into
the
affordable
housing
trust
fund.
H
Okay,
just
want
to
make
sure
I'm
understanding.
So
then
my
second
question
in
the
packet
there
was
a
sentence
that
said
phase
two
proposes
to
rent
the
bottom
level
of
parking
to
phase
one
which
would
be
classified
as
commercial
use,
and
I
will
be
honest,
like
that,
does
not
sit
very
well
for
me.
That
feels
pretty
kind
of
I'm
trying
to
like
use
a
a
nicer
term,
but
I
was
going
to
say
it
feels
a
little
bit
icky
and
and
I'm
wondering
if
they
would
reconsider
that
I
mean.
H
Could
they
charge
for
the
phases
or
the
parking
in
the
underground
and
have
the
parking
structured
parking
spots
be
free?
I
just
it
feels,
maybe
I'm
misunderstanding
what
they're
proposing,
but
to
me
it
sounds
like
they're,
giving
the
market
rate
underground
parking
in
the
affordable
building.
Am
I
understand
that
wrong.
M
A
M
Mr
mayor
and
council
member
carter,
if
you
can
recall
the
entitlement
process
for
phase
one
when
this
went
through
the
parking
that
was
being
met
on
the
phase,
one
site
was
very
low.
It
was
almost
like
a
one-to-one
per
unit,
and
so
what
they
are
looking
to
do
is
to
build
an
additional
parking
rat
or
level
below
the
phase
two
project
and
tenants
within
phase
one
would
be
able
to
rent
those
spaces
levels.
M
One
and
two
of
the
parking
ramp
in
the
phase
two
would
be
free
for
the
tenants
in
the
phase
two
project
and
their
the
phase.
Two
project
is
fully
parked
and,
I
believe,
did
not
receive
any
parking
deviation
or
is
proposed
to
receive
any
parking
deviation
from
the
city
code.
But
I
can
let
the
developer
actually
expand
on
that.
If
you
would
like.
H
No,
I
I
think
you
answered
my
question
so
so
almost
all
of
the
parking
for
both
buildings
is
underground
for
in
phase
two
am.
I
am.
I
totally
misunderstanding
that.
M
Mr
mayor
and
council
member
carter,
almost
all
of
the
parking
for
both
phase,
one
and
phase
two
are,
is
underground.
H
Okay,
thank
you
for
clarifying
that
because
I
definitely
misunderstood
and
it's
very
helpful.
That's
all
I
have
thank
you.
A
M
So,
mr
mayor,
the
as
I
had
stated
earlier,
there
is
a
separate
parking
ramp
that
is
being
built
just
to
the
north
of
the
quinn
apartment
and
that's
going
to
be
detached
that,
but
it's
about
just
over
300
spaces
is
available
to
be
rented
from
the
apple
tree
towers
office
towers
as
well
as
any
guests
that
would
be
visiting
the
phase.
One
or
phase
two
project
would
be
able
to
park
there.
A
M
Mr
mayor
correct,
so
this
is
a
better
diagram,
so
this
parking
right
here
this
is
the
top
level
of
this
parking
ramp,
which
is
actually
in
line
with
the
first
level
or
the
ground
level
of
this
pro
of
the
project
would
be
be
able
to
be
rented
to
the
office
complex
just
to
the
west
and
then
additional
guest
parking
for
both
phase.
One
and
phase
two
would
use
this
ram.
M
No
tiff
assistants
would
be
going
to
cover
any
costs
of
this
ramp.
However,
the
tif
district
would
be
able
to
capture
the
small
tax
increment
from
a
parking
ramp.
A
Mr
schmidt,
you
said
the
applicants
were
available,
did
either
mr
keating
or
mr
waldow
have
anything
to
add
to
your
presentation.
B
Mr
members
of
the
council,
mike
waldo,
with
ron
clark
construction.
No,
I
think
jason's
done
a
great
job.
I
know
the
parking
is
a
little
bit
confusing,
but
the
reality
is
and
the
key
for
the
workforce
is
that
the
first
two
levels
of
the
workforce
building
will
have
all
free
parking,
so
each
each
resident
will
receive
one
stall
per
unit
then
because
of
the
elevation
of
the
existing
ramp
and
the
retaining
wall,
we
needed
another
level
to
push
us
up
in
the
air
enough,
so
that
the
first
floor
units
I
had
a
decent
view.
B
So
that's
why
we
ended
up
the
third
level
of
parking
at
the
bottom.
Just
from
an
efficiency
standpoint,
that'll
be
available
to
be
rented
to
whoever,
whether
it's
one
of
our
workforce
residents
needing
another
stall,
whether
it's
a
market
rate
needing
a
stall
or
even
whether
it's
one
of
the
office
buildings
who
want
a
heated
stall
underneath
so
that's
kind
of
in
that
revenue
is
generated
into
the
workforce
building
to
offset
some
of
the
need,
so
it
still
benefits
the
workforce.
B
B
As
many
council
members
know,
we
were
trying
to
cut
a
deal
with
the
existing
ramp,
which
has
been
nearly
impossible,
even
though
they
have
about
400
additional
stalls
than
what
they
need.
We
still
believe,
there's
a
potential
that
they
will
come
to
their
right
senses
and
allow
us
to
rent
spaces
from
them.
At
that
point,
our
goal
would
be
to
expand
the
workforce,
building
and
eliminate
that
other
parking
ramp.
B
A
B
A
A
Motion
carries
seven
zero,
so
council
any
additional
questions
or
comments
or
discussion
on
this.
This
is
this
came
through
the
the
port
authority.
We
had
a
good
discussion
on
it
at
the
port
authority,
a
good
presentation
this
evening
by
mr
schmidt
and
good
questioning
any
additional
questions
or
comments.
Concerns
on
this
council
member
lowman.
J
Well,
really,
I
just
I'm
glad
to
see
that
we're
adding
you
know
some
more
affordable
housing
in
the
city.
I'm
wondering
how
many
units
we're
up
to
now
I
mean
just
if
we've
got
a
just
the
public
kind
of
knows
kind
of
where
we're
at
don't
necessarily
need
to
answer
for
that
right
now,
but
I
just
well
every
time
I
turn
around,
it
seems
like
we're
putting
up
some
more
more
affordable
housing.
J
Certainly
I
know
we
are
losing
some
with
with
respect
to
some
of
the
other
units,
but
just
seems
like
we
are
making
some
progress
here.
A
I
would
agree,
we
do
seem
to
be
making
progress
and
I
think,
we're
frankly
lapping
some
of
our
neighbors
here
in
our
part
of
town,
in
terms
of
how
many
workforce
and
affordable
housing
units
we
are
adding
to
the
to
the
city's
stockpile.
A
Mr
fabrega,
do
you
have
a
specific
number,
or
can
we
get
that
back
to
councilman
loma?
I.
G
Was
looking
at
mr
schmidt,
mr
mayor,
see
if
he
had
that
off
the
top
of
his
head?
You
know
we
do
have
a
dynamic
map
on
our
website,
but
planning
and
our
port
and
hra
teams
are
constantly
updating
that
information.
How
about
we
go
back,
we'll
pull
that
number
together
and
put
it
in
an
upcoming
weekly
report.
D
Mr
mayor,
I
will
move
to
adopt
the
resolution
attached
to
the
staff
report
finding
the
modification
to
the
amended
and
restated
development
plan
for
industrial
development
district
number,
one
salton
district
and
approving
a
tax
increment
financing
plan
for
tax
increment
financing.
District
number
1k.
B
A
Well,
congratulations
and
I
look
forward
to
to
this
getting
started,
so
thank
you
very
much
to
both
port
staff
for
their
work
on
this,
but
also
to
our
applicants
and
the
folks
who
have
been
working
on
this
for
a
while.
This
is
a
this
is
a
big
step
forward
on
on
on
on
a
piece
of
property,
I
think
that'll
be
a
great
addition
in
the
south
loop.
So
thank
you
very
much
and
get
started
good
work.
A
Very
good,
thank
you
at
this
time
I'm
going
to
make
a
final
call
for
tonight's
public
comment
period.
We
are
well
past
the
20
minutes,
but
now
is
the
natural
break
time.
So,
ms
wilson,
if
you
could
check
make
one
last
check
to
see
if
there's
anyone
who
one
last
speaker
for
our
public
comment
period,.
L
B
A
L
A
I'd
like
to
call
now
move
on
to
item
9
our
organizational
business
and
call
item
9.1,
which
is
an
update
on
our
covet
19
community
meetings.
So
for
the
past
few
months,
our
community
outreach
and
engagement
team
has
been
out
meeting
both,
I
think,
generally,
virtually
I
don't
know
if
they've
met
any
in
person.
A
I'm
sure
we'll
hear
about
that
meeting
with
different
groups
across
the
community
to
give
those
community
members
an
opportunity
to
share
with
the
city
and
with
one
another
how
they're
dealing
with
the
kobit
19
pandemic
and
and
the
fallout
from
it
and
ms
melissa
wurst
prasad
is
here
to
update
us
on
that
ms
pot,
ms
wurst
prasad,
are
you
there?
I
think
I
see
your
name
on
the
list
there.
You
are.
A
K
Wonderful
well,
thank
you
good
evening,
mr
mayor
and
city
council
members
and
as
mayor
bussey
said
that
I'm
here
to
provide
you
with
some
highlights
from
the
community
meetings
which
have
been
taking
place
since
april,
and
these
were
developed
as
part
of
the
covet
19
outreach
plan
and,
if
you'll
recall,
I
presented
to
you
in
june
an
overview
of
that
plan
and
tonight
I'll
be
primarily
just
focusing
on
updates
from
those
community
meetings.
K
And
so
just
to
recap
here
are
the
members
of
the
outreach
team
which
are
myself
nancy
brewster,
joan
balfour,
who
is
from
public
health,
but
has
been
helping
us
with
this
effort,
as
well
as
amanda,
crombee,
emily
larson
and
tracy
smith,
and
the
target
audience
is
that
our
outreach
plan
for
cobit
19
includes
older
adults,
our
bipod
communities,
people
with
disabilities,
low-income
individuals
and
families
and
small
businesses,
with
a
specific
emphasis
on
women
and
minority
owned.
K
Initially,
we
started
our
plan
with
weekly
communications
being
sent
via
email
to
contacts
within
those
groups,
and
that
has
continued,
and
the
groups
in
bold
are
those
that
have
also
been
invited
to
participate
in
virtual
meetings
and
the
frequency
of
these
meetings,
including
the
agenda
and
topics,
are
determined
by
the
groups
and
what
they
are
interested
in
hearing
about,
which
are
facilitated
by
one
of
the
outreach
team
members,
so
we'll
start
with
multi-unit
housing.
So
the
number
of
meetings
that
they
have
held
are
six.
K
The
frequency
of
these
meetings
is
bi
weekly
on
a
bi-weekly
basis
when
they
first
began
and
they
are
now
taking
place
monthly.
The
next
meeting
is
going
to
be
august
19th
at
1
pm
and
again
these
are
all
being
held.
Virtually
participants
at
this
meeting
include
multi-unit
housing
leaders
or
property
managers.
K
K
They've
been
communicating
with
their
residents
by
email
or
going
door-to-door
with
flyers
and
they've
appreciated
being
able
to
connect
with
other
property
managers
through
this
virtual
meeting,
and
they
also
have
set
up
a
new
facebook
page
created
by
one
of
the
property
managers
for
others
to
join,
which
they
found
very
beneficial
in
being
able
to
connect
and
learn
best
practices
from
each
other
and
how
others
are
managing
emerging
challenges.
K
For
this
group
they're
seeing
more
conflict
management
than
usual
with
their
residents,
which
they
believe
is
a
result
of
people
just
having
to
spend
more
time
in
their
units.
They
do
see
challenges
with
their
residents,
who
are
not
paying
their
rent
or
are
not
applying
for
rental
assistance.
During
this
moratorium
on
evictions,
as
property
managers
themselves
can't
apply
for
financial
assistance.
They're.
Seeing
this
as
a
challenge
for
residents
that
have
not
taken
advantage
of
some
of
those
resources.
K
And
safety
and
social
distancing
challenges.
Those
include
finding
a
hard
time
having
guidance
on
maintaining
safety
for
both
their
staff
and
residents
in
common
spaces
and
amenities
such
as
lounges
laundry
rooms,
their
outdoor
patios,
as
well
as
swimming
pools,
the
role
and
expectation
of
them
as
staff
members
and
property
managers
to
maintain
so
safety
protocols
has
been
unclear.
K
So
now
I'll
talk
about
the
faith.
Community
leaders,
meetings
and
they've
had
a
total
of
five
meetings
taking
place
every
three
weeks.
The
next
meeting
taking
place
will
be
wednesday
august
19th
at
noon.
They
will
have
a
guest
speaker
from
hennepin
county
and
the
topic
will
be
the
hennepin
county,
family,
shelter
process
and
participants
at
these
meetings
include
the
face
based
community
leaders,
as
well
as
staff
from
these
different
congregations.
K
They
do
appreciate
the
outreach
from
the
city,
especially
during
this
time,
and
emerging
challenges
for
faith
leaders
is
the
next
theme
that
was
identified
and
things
they've
reported
here
is
just
challenges
with
being
able
to
carry
out
some
of
the
sacraments
that
they
they
do
with
the
cobin
19
restrictions
such
as
funerals
and
baptisms,
also
limiting
the
number
of
people
gathering
who
do
they
accept?
Who
do
they
turn
down
the
ability
to
express
unity
in
a
polarized
society
when
everyone
is
operating
virtually
they're
also
concerned
about
financial
needs
from
community
members?
K
K
So
next
we'll
talk
about
our
latinx
community
leader
meetings,
so
the
number
of
meetings
that
have
taken
place
here
are
eight.
They
originally
began
every
two
weeks
and
will
be
transitioning
to
monthly,
but
do
meet
depending
on
need
more
frequently
as
needed,
and
the
next
meeting
here
is
tuesday
august
18th
at
3
30
to
5
pm,
and
they
will
be
providing
input
on
the
city's
2021-2022
budget
as
part
of
the
community
budget
advisory
committee's
outreach,
which
my
team
is
also
helping
to
work
on,
and
participants
that
attend.
K
These
meetings
are
representatives
from
partnership
academy,
lorette,
the
office
of
educational
equity,
from
bloomington
schools,
hennepin,
county
library,
mujeres,
latinas,
minnesota,
navigate
minnesota
and
outdoor
latinos
and
they've
had
a
number
of
guests
at
this
meeting.
Several
different
city
staff
departments,
including
our
police
department,
community
development
staff,
legal,
our
racial
equity
coordinator
and
then
they've
also
had
bloomington
public
schools
attend,
as
well
as
the
executive
director
from
veep
staff
from
home
line
and
staff
from
hennepin
county
with
the
joint
community
police
partnership
program
as
well
and
council.
Member
carter
and
coulter
have
also
attended
this
meeting.
K
So
they've
had
a
number
of
guests
that
have
been
able
to
either
provide
resources
and
information
and
clarify
services
that
organizations
provide,
or
just
to
hear
the
conversation.
What
the
needs
are
in
the
community
and
key
themes
and
topics
for
this
group
for
resources,
information
and
updates
rental
assistance
has
been
a
big
concern
and
just
housing
stability,
also
questions
on
masks,
how
to
use
masks
and
where
they
can
receive
donations,
food
insecurity
and
just
getting
up-to-date
information
on
our
school
lunch
program.
K
Small
business
loans,
as
well
as
grant
opportunities
that
we've
shared
information
on
and
then
also
how
to
use
our
parks
safely.
And
then
there
were
also
a
lot
of
interest
about
tabs
and
license
renewal.
That
information
was
provided,
and
then
our
next
theme
that
came
forward
was
eligibility
for
resources
and
support.
K
So
with
the
latinx
community,
there
are
a
number
of
undocumented
individuals
and
families,
and
so
we
were
providing
information
about
resources,
particularly
for
rental
assistance
that
would
be
eligible
for
people
that
are
out
of
status
and
so
that
included
veep
and
having
joe
mcdonald.
The
executive
director
go
through
that
process
with
the
group
was
very
beneficial
and
very
helpful
for
them
to
hear
and
to
be
able
to
ask
questions.
K
George
floyd
and
the
death
of
george
floyd
was
a
topic
that
was
also
discussed
as
well
as
policing
and
community
relations,
and
some
key
themes
that
came
out
of
there
were
concerns
about
ice
use
of
force,
racial
profiling
of
people
of
color
having
spanish-speaking
officers
and
then
just
wanting
to
know
more
about
the
joint
community
police
partnership
program
and
bloomington's
multicultural
advisory
committee.
K
So
they
also
had
suggestions
and
ideas
that
these
leaders
wanted
to
share.
The
first
one
is
having
more
translations
in
spanish.
Specifically,
they
suggested
the
bloomington
briefing
wanting
to
see
more
key
messages
from
the
city
translated,
such
as
the
curfew
during
the
protests
at
the
end
of
may,
perhaps
the
mayor's
minute
or
any
safety
messages.
K
K
So
the
key
themes
and
topics-
and
there
were
several-
these
meetings-
have
discussed
tabs
and
license
renewal
also
came
up
here:
rental
assistance,
unemployment,
insurance,
loss
of
income,
covid19
testing
and
just
wanting
to
know
when
and
where
and
how
to
get.
Those
tests
also
concerns
in
this
community
as
well
about
masks
having
access
to
and
how
to
use
those
mental
health,
family
abuse
and
suicide
was
also
discussed
and
resources
were
provided
and
additional
themes
and
topics
included
food
resources.
K
This
community
was
also
wanting
to
make
sure
that
they
understood
how
to
use
the
parks
how
they
can
keep
their
kids
active.
They
also
had
concerns
about
racial
profiling
and
policing
concerns
about
kids
getting
behind
in
school.
They
also
discussed
george
floyd
and,
in
general,
just
parents
concerned
for
their
children,
especially
the
boys
in
their
community,
and,
as
I
mentioned,
chief
potts
did
attend
this
these
meetings
and
has
been
able
to
respond
to
questions
and
concerns
that
they
had
related
to
policing,
which
they
very
much
appreciated.
K
K
Next
was
our
african-american
leader
meeting
and
we
have
met
four
times
just
once
a
month.
The
next
meeting
here
will
take
place
on
wednesday
august
26th.
The
topic
here
will
be
on
the
parks.
Master
plan
focus
conversation
around
that
plan
and
then
in
september
they
will
also
be
providing
input
on
the
city's
2021-2022
budget.
K
The
participants
at
this
meeting
are
dr
hazel
claiborne.
She
is
the
pastor
at
potter's
house
of
jesus
christ,
and
the
guests
at
this
meeting
have
include
councilmember
carter
as
well
as
ashley
clemmer
from
our
communications
division
and
the
key
themes
and
topics
discussed
here
covet
19
concerns
and
resources.
K
Again,
I'm
concerned
about
having
activities
for
kids
to
do
during
this
time.
Rental
assistance,
food
resources
masks
different
messaging
regarding
copic
19.
K
They
found
confusing
they're,
not
exactly
sure
who
to
trust
just
with
so
much
different
information
out
there
from
local
level,
state
and
national
levels,
and
then
they've
also
been
interested
in
learning
more
about
different
grants
available,
as
well
as
how
to
apply
for
unemployment
insurance
and
they
did
discuss.
George
floyd's
death,
dr
claiborne
stated
that
the
community
is
devastated
over
his
death.
She
felt
that
it's
pushed
us
way
back
in
trusting
police,
but
the
community
has
been
praying
for
both
police
and
the
floyd
family.
K
She
noted
not
seeing
as
much
support
in
bloomington
for
black
lives
matter
as
compared
to
what
has
been
seen
in
minneapolis
in
terms
of
signs
rallies
artwork
and
she
reported
that
mothers
with
black
sons
are
afraid
or
scared.
She's
looking
at
a
way
for
ideas
to
bring
mothers
with
sons
where
they
can
share
their
concerns
for
policing.
She
reported
that
she
feels
police
need
to
be
more
honest
and
transparent.
K
K
Who's
also
been
attending
they've,
been
working
to
secure
and
manage
overflow
shelter,
space
for
families
experiencing
domestic
violence,
and
then
another
impact
was
the
challenge
of
being
able
to
provide
summer
meals
to
families
by
the
school
district
with
their
limited
staffing.
K
K
K
Dr
claiborne,
who
is
african-american,
will
be
featured
in
the
october
briefing,
based
on
her
suggestion
to
have
more
people
of
color
and
reflective
of
the
community
and
also
two
spark
grants
were
received
by
leaders
to
do
programming
in
their
communities,
and
these
were
resources
that
we
had
shared
in
our
weekly
updates
for
potential
funding
opportunities.
K
A
C
It
is
quite
impressive
and
quite
broad-ranging,
and
to
that
end
I
was
surprised
that
when
I
saw
our
community
partners
list
and
all
the
other
lists
of
participants
that
hence
county
wasn't
shown
onboard
was,
was
that
an
oversight
on
our
part
to
not
invite
them
or
did
they
decline,
and
the
reason
I
ask
is
that
they
have
more
mental
health
capabilities
to
meet
many
of
those
issues
that
you
mentioned
through
the
various
slides
than
we
do
as
a
city.
So
I'll,
let
you
respond
to
that
one
before
I
go
through
that
next.
K
So
hennepin
county,
as
I
mentioned,
with
the
faith
communities
as
well
as
the
monthly
unit
properties,
do
have
liaisons
through
hennepin
county
that
have
been
assigned.
So
through
these
meetings,
we've
been
able
to
provide
resources
to
hennepin
county
and
then
in
turn,
have
those
liaisons
connect
property
managers
or
faith
leaders
to
provide
that
those
resources
directly,
as
well
as
making
referrals
to
our
east
african
community,
which,
if
you
recall
in
my
presentation
that
was
a
community
that
expressed
concern
specifically
about
mental
health
and
suicide
and
domestic
abuse.
K
Okay,
so
we
are
connecting,
but
they
have
not
been
attending
every
meeting
but
have
been
brought
in
when
the
agenda
and
topics
are
set
by
the
by
the
groups
for
what
they
want
to
learn
more
about.
C
K
Sure
so
we
have
not
had
a
specific
community
meeting
with
seniors,
but
that
is
part
of
the
outreach
that
we
are
doing
through
our
weekly
conversations
and
emails.
We
do
have
a
group
of
staff
that
work
with
long-term
care
facilities
serving
seniors
as
well
as
our
creekside
community
staff
are
still
in
contact
with
the
creekside
participants
there,
as
well
as
public
health
senior
health
nurses,
but
we
do
not
have
a
specific
community
meeting
set
up
with
that
group.
H
Thank
you
mayor,
so
I
I
want
to
echo
my
thanks
and
I
want
to
just
say
that
in
the
couple
of
meetings
that
I
was
able
to
attend,
they
were
really
helpful
for
me
personally
and
understanding
some
of
the
different
challenges
that
people
are
experiencing
in
our
community
and
then
I
also
was
just
really
struck
by
the
the
really
the
relationship
building
happening,
the
collaboration
among
city
staff
and
our
community
residents
and
community
partners
and
the
trust
that's
being
built,
and
I
don't
know
how
many
of
those
relationships
were
there
before
the
pandemic
and
how
many
are
new.
H
But
I
do
think
that
this
is
one
of
those
things
that's
going
to
be
a
silver
lining.
Once
we
get
on
the
other
side
of
the
pandemic
and
have
all
of
this,
you
know
robust
work,
that's
been
done
together
in
partnership
working
toward
you
know
really
creating
a
community,
that's
better
for
everyone,
and
so
thank
you.
So
much
for
doing
that,
and
I
know
it's
been
a
lot
of
work
and
I'm
really
grateful
to
you
and
your
staff.
H
So
one
just
quick
comment
in
your
first
slide
related
to
property
managers
and
the
property
managers
coming
together.
I
think
that
you
had
you
know.
You
said
a
little
bit
about
how
you
know.
Some
of
some
people
are
struggling
to
pay,
rent
and
may
not
have
applied
for
rental
assistance
yet,
and
I'm
just
wondering
if
any
of
the
property
managers-
or
I
guess
more,
so
the
owners
of
some
of
those
buildings
would
be
eligible
for
the
small
business
loans.
H
I
know
that
that
application
will
be
closing
shortly
and
I
cannot
recall
in
our
application
if-
and
some
of
them
may
be
way
too
big,
but
I'm
just
curious
to
know
if
this
has
come
up
as
a
possible
resource
for
that
group
of
people,
especially
since
they
don't
have
a
lot
of
resources
to
apply
for
it
themselves.
K
Thank
you,
mr
mayor
and
council
member
carter.
That
question
actually
has
come
up
not
only
for
multi-unit
properties,
but
also
faith
communities
have
also
been
interested,
and
my
understanding
based
on
our
program
is
that
they
are
not
eligible
the
multi-unit
properties
or
faith
communities,
but
we
can
definitely
look
into
that
further
and
then
get
back
to
you
on
that
through
one
weekly
or
next
council
meeting.
A
And
I
think
it's
important
to
note
council
member
carter.
I
think
the
small
business
emergency
loan
program
closed
at
four
o'clock
this
afternoon.
So
but
good
thought,
though
I
died.
A
E
Thank
you
very
much.
Just
briefly,
I
wanted
to
echo
council
member
beloga's
point
regarding
senior
outreach.
I
just
know
kind
of
when
I
was
serving
on
the
advisory
board
of
health
and
early
on
in
my
term,
when
I
got
here
a
big
issue.
E
That's
only
grown
since
was
the
number
of
seniors
that
were
now
living
in
their
homes
alone
and
kind
of
the
social
isolation,
increased
risk
of
accidents
for
health
outcomes,
a
range
of
things,
so,
whether
it's
just
aggregating
the
information
that
we're
getting
from
our
public
health
folks
kind
of
throughout
all
those
touch
points
or
holding,
I
guess,
even
better
a
standalone
opportunity
with
now
substantial
risks
about
going
out
at
all.
I
would
really
love
to
hear
some
themes
about
how
we
can
best
support
those
folks
right
now,
especially.
K
Thank
you,
mr
mayor
and
council
member
martin.
I
would
be
happy
to
put
some
information
together.
I
know
public
health
does
have
a
group
that
we're
looking
in
a
program
to
support
neighbors,
specifically
older
adults.
We
also
have
our
public
health
resource
line,
which
our
city
manager
mentioned
during
the
response
to
public
comment
period,
but
I
would
be
happy
to
put
something
together
that
consolidates
all
those
different
efforts.
J
Thank
you
mayor.
I
don't
think
I
need
to
say
wow
good,
wonderful
work
being
done
here.
I
just
as
I
read
this
through.
It
makes
me
kind
of
tired
just
thinking
how
much
work
you
guys
are
doing
so
so
you
know,
I
think
councilmember
beloga
asked
the
question,
but
I
want
to
ask
it
a
little
bit
differently.
J
So
you've
got
all
these
groups.
You
know
that
that
make
up
different
demographics.
You
know
in
the
city
of
bloomington.
How
do
we,
you
know,
choose
these
groups,
you
know-
and
I'm
not
necessarily
looking
for
an
answer
today,
but
you
know,
but
I
think
that's
one
of
the
questions
that
I
kind
of
have
when
we
look
at
you
know
just
the
demographics
and
the
breakdown
within
our
community.
I'm
just
curious
about
there's
other
groups
that
are
kind
of
not
on
this
list.
J
Was
there
some
criteria
that
we
used
or
was
it?
You
know
you
know
how
difficult
was
it
to
to
try
to
get
these
groups
organized
that's
kind
of
one
of
my
questions.
Another
one
of
my
question
is
when
we,
when
we
use
the
terminology
leader
you
know
within
you,
know
the
slide
presentation
these
groups.
How
did
we
get
to
that
decide?
You
know
these
folks,
you
know
constitute
leaders
within
within
those
communities
again,
not
looking
for
answers
now.
J
We
can
take
this
offline
too
and
have
a
conversation
about
this
and
then,
when
we're
kind
of
done
with
this,
you
know
we
certainly,
I
saw
all
those
great
outcomes
that
are
out
there.
How
do
we
know
that
we've
succeeded
with
this?
I
know
we've
got
a
vision
there
you
know.
Are
we
gonna
do
surveys?
You
know
what
what
constitutes
a
success
within
this
area.
J
These
are
kind
of
the
things
that
I've
been
kind
of
thinking
about,
as
I
kind
of
look
at
this,
also
recognizing
that
you
know
we
had
that
limited
staff
there
and
it's
not
like
we've-
got
a
huge
department
to
do
all
these
things,
and
there
are
other
things
that
are
going
on
all
at
the
same
time,
but
I
wanted
to
just
throw
those
things
out
there
at
you
just
to
kind
of
get
some
ideas
out
there
to
think
about
this
as
a
maybe
as
an
ongoing
process,
or
just
you
know.
J
J
K
Sure
thank
you
for
the
question,
mr
mayor
and
councilmember
lowman,
so
to
address
your
your
first
portion
of
it.
How
did
we
identify
these
groups
so
looking
at
some
of
the
data
and
who
is
considered
more
at
risk
and
may
not
receive
the
same
information
that
that
others
might
related
to
the
you
know
why
it's
important
to
wear
a
mask
and
just
keeping
safety
and
and
all
those
issues
related
to
cobia
19..
K
We
identified
seniors,
which
is
we
saw
especially
on
the
onset
large
impacts
in
the
long-term
care,
which
are
now
we're,
seeing
the
demographics
change
for
to
younger
ages
being
impacted.
And
then
we
also
knew
that
our
bipod
communities
would
also
be
more
impacted,
primarily
just
because
of
disparities.
Whether
it's
you
know
living
in
more
congregate,
settings
or
working
a
lot
of
those
front-line
essential
worker
positions.
K
And
so
we
wanted
to
make
sure
looking
at
the
network
and
that
we
already
had
and
the
contacts
that
we
had
in
those
key
groups
and
then
expanding
those
out
for
to
make
them
larger
and
try
to
reach
as
many
as
we
can.
Recognizing
that
we're
not
we're
still
not
reaching
everyone
and
there's,
you
know,
there's
always
room
for
improvement.
So
we
recognize
that
in
terms
of
how
the
virtual
meetings
began.
As
I
mentioned,
we
initially
started
out
just
doing
weekly
emails.
K
We
initially
contacted
individual
community
members
who
had
a
fairly
good-sized
circle
of
influence.
We
knew
if
we
wanted
to
get
information
to
latina
child
care
providers
if
we
talked
to
the
red,
who
is
an
organization
that
provides
support
for
that?
That
would
be
a
great
connection
and
reach.
You
know
over
300
members
that
they
have
same
thing
with
action
for
east
african
people
that
provides
information
resources.
K
So
we
knew
if
we
contacted
the
staff
there,
they
would
be
able
to
take
the
information
we
are
providing
and
send
it
out
to
their
communities
and
so
were
really
looking,
and
not
only
at
organizations
but
also
individuals
that
we
knew
that
were
just
kind
of
a
go-to
in
their
communities
and
had
a
large
network
of
friends
and
family
and
in
contacts
within
their
own
communities.
K
So
we
connected
with
those
individuals
and
then
they've
been
sharing
their
information,
but
these
meetings
have
really
grown
organically
from
emails
to
we
were
seeing
questions
come
in
and
then
the
idea
was
well.
You
know
we
have
to
meet
virtually,
but
let's
just
try
it
and
see
how
it
goes,
and
I
think,
like
all
of
us,
we've
all
just
adapted
including
faith
leaders
and
multi-unit
property
managers
and
our
different
community
leaders.
K
I
will
say,
with
having
zoom
come
on
we're
actually
anticipating
this
to
be
even
easier
having
that
platform
available,
because
we
have
seen
that
that
has
been
a
barrier
with
some
individuals.
K
I
know,
even
with
the
veterans
that
I
meet
with
on
the
veterans
memorial-
that,
for
some
reason,
are
webex,
it's
just
more
challenging,
so
I'm
excited
that
we're
gonna
have
zoom
for
that,
so
just
continuing
to
and
and
work
with
these
groups
and
we've
actually,
as
a
team
discussed
today,
how
do
we
keep
these
relationships
going
when
covered
19
is
over
and
and
and
how
do
we
keep
developing
these
and
how
do
we
keep
connected
and
keep
them
engaged
and
involved
with
the
city?
K
A
H
Thank
you
mayor,
so
one
quick
follow-up
question:
have
you
done
any
kind
of
intentional
outreach
or
engagement
with
tenants?
H
It
strikes
me
that
when
we
got
the
kind
of
property
manager
update
that
there
wasn't
anything
about
tenants
and
I'm
curious
if
there's
anything
going
on
with
with
residents
who
are
living
in
the
multi-family
unit,
housing.
K
We
haven't
related
to
the
community
meetings,
we're
really
using
those
property
managers
to
get
that
information
out
to
their
residents.
With
that
being
said,
with
certain
projects,
as
was
mentioned
for
promotion
of
the
census,
we
did
mailings
and
outreach
to
individual
units
rather
than
going
through
the
property
managers.
K
For
that
and
we
are
with
the
parks
master
plan.
I
know
that
amanda
crombie
on
my
team
has
got
some
meetings
set
up
with
rental
unit
families
and
individuals.
H
So
I'm
just
I
mean
just
an
idea
throwing
it
out
there.
You
know,
with
the
established
meetings
that
you
already
have
coming
up,
even
like
thinking
about
the
veterans
group
and
hitting
this
and
reaching
the
senior
population.
I
mean.
Is
this
an
opportunity,
then,
for
existing
relationships
and
existing
meetings
to
just
add
on
a
little
piece
of
the
agenda
where
it's
like
you
know,
how
are
you
guys
doing
related
to
kovid?
You
have
any
questions.
A
Thank
you,
council
anything
else
to
add
here,
as
I
said
earlier,
an
impressive
body
of
work
that
you've
put
together
with
your
team
there,
ms
prasad,
thank
you
so
very
much
and-
and
I
think
I'd
echo
a
lot
of
the
comments
of
the
the
sentiments.
A
A
All
right,
let's
move
on,
if
we
could,
let's
move
on
to
item
9.2,
which
is
a
discussion
of
our
rules
of
procedure
which
we've
been
trying
to
tackle
bit
by
bit
and
piece
by
piece
here
over
the
a
few
meetings,
and
I
would
like
to
continue
to
push
through
this,
our
our
the
city
attorney,
melissa,
manderscheid,
is
on
vacation
this
week
and
she's
kind
of
the
resident
expert
not
to
take
anything
away
from
mr
zuniga.
A
Here,
I'm
sure
you
could
you'd
lead
us
through
ably,
but
we,
I
think
we
had
talked
earlier
about
perhaps
holding
off
until
melissa,
was
back
again
and
will
give
us
the
opportunity
under
this
category,
to
talk
about
the
public
comment
period,
which
I
brought
up
last
week
or
the
last
time
I
think,
as
a
possibility
to
to
continue
the
discussion
to
talk
more
about
it
to
talk
about
our
public
comment
period,
and
I
brought
up
a
couple
of
things
a
couple
of
concerns
that
I
had
and
and
suggestions.
A
I
talking
about
how
people
were
generally,
I
think,
hesitant
to
speak,
and
it
was
it's
a
combination.
I
think
it's
a
fear
of
speaking.
I
think
people
don't
like
to
stand
up
in
front
of
a
group
on
camera
and
so
on,
but
I
think
it's
also
a
fear
of
harassment
and
or
bullying
that
sometimes
a
company
is
speaking.
A
I
talked
about
a
desire
to
change
the
poor
format
that
we've
got
in
place
right
now,
to
make
it
more
of
a
conversation
and
less
of
a
five-minute
speech
for
folks
to
stand
in
front
of
us
talked
of
concerns
about
a
lot
of
the
same
groups
and
the
same
people
on
the
same
topics
coming
up
meeting
after
meeting
and
a
concern
about
those
groups,
not
necessarily
commenting
to
the
council,
but
rather
trying
to
to
play
to
the
cameras
and
to
to
talk
and
to
spread
their
to
make
a
speech
to
more
of
the
community
at
large,
as
opposed
to
bringing
issues
forward
to
the
city
council.
A
Which
is
why
public
comment
was,
I
think,
put
together
in
the
first
place
and
then
also
concerns
about
speeches
by
politicians
and
we've
seen
in
in
just
the
past
few
years.
Here.
Candidates
at
all
levels,
local
county
state,
federal
level,
folks
who
have
come
forward
and
used
the
public
comment
period
as
an
opportunity
to
give
a
five-minute
campaign
speech.
A
The
suggestions
I
made
we're
talking
about
moving
the
public
comment
period
to
a
time
prior
to
the
meetings
and
and
out
of
the
council
chambers,
to
make
it
more
conversational
and
less
of
a
speech
to
use
the
opportunity
to,
even
if
we
take
it
off
offline
to
be
able
to
review,
or
at
least
somehow
bring
forward
some
of
the
concerns
that
were
brought
forward
by
folks
and-
and
I
also
throughout
the
the
possibility
of
taking
time
to
address
things
that
are
not
necessarily
on
the
agenda,
give
people
an
opportunity
to
talk
to
that.
A
I
know
there
were
a
couple
of
responses
to
that
at
our
last
meeting.
So
that
is
what
I
had
brought
up:
kind
of
teeing
things
up
and
kicking
things
off,
and
mr
verbruge,
I
think,
do
you
have
anything
to
add
to
it
or
what
I
would
like
to
do
this
evening
is
just
kind
of
have
this.
This
conversation
among
the
council.
This
is
our
rules
of
of
procedure,
and
this
part
of
it.
A
The
public
comment
are,
are
what
we,
as
a
council,
see
to
be
the
most
appropriate
way
to
to
handle
our
business
and
to
handle
the
meanings
that
we
do
have
this
in
these
chambers
and
and
on
behalf
of
the
citizens
and
the
residents
of
bloomington.
A
So,
mr
verbruge
anything
to
add,
or
should
we
dive
right
in
or.
G
Mr
mayor
and
council
members,
the
you
provide
an
excellent
overview,
mr
mayor,
and
the
the
thing
that
I
wanted
to
just
remind
people
of
the
you
know.
Members
of
the
public
who
may
be
watching
this
is
the
the
city
is
required
to
have
its
meetings,
be
open
to
the
public
and
and
the
open
meeting
laws
is
well
established
and
well
understood
and
in
our
own
rules
of
procedure,
the
public
comment
period
is
established
for
the
purpose
of
residents
to
address
issues
with
the
city
council
on
business
items
that
aren't
on
the
agenda.
G
The
thing
that
that
I
want
to
make
clear
is
that
the
I
I
think
it
is
the
responsibility
of
a
city
council
to
provide
opportunities
for
residents
to
speak
directly
to
the
group
as
a
body,
and
I
think
that
most
city
councils
believe
that
and
have
established
a
public
comment
or
visitors
to
be
heard
or,
however,
they
describe
it
in
in
the
way
that
they
do
business.
G
I
don't
think
that
you
have
an
obligation
to
provide
a
platform
to
your
point,
mr
mayor,
that
you
know,
the
purpose
of
public
comment
is
for
people
to
address
issues
to
the
city
council,
and
I
I
think
the
you
know
the
changes
that
we
made
a
few
years
ago
in
terms
of
providing
responses
back
to
folks,
I
think,
was
intended
to
address
what
I
would
say
was
a
shortcoming
of
the
way
that
public
comment
was
working
a
number
of
years
ago,
where
it
had
gotten
to
the
point
where
it
was
just
a
lot
of
speaking
and
then
there
wasn't
a
lot
of
feedback
or
or
reporting
back
to
people
who
were
addressing
the
council
at
times.
G
G
You
know
I
know
there's
some
questions
about.
Well,
how
do
other
cities
do
this
and
we
can
provide
you
the
information
about
how
other
cities
do
this,
but
the
the
real
answer
is
each
city.
Does
this
in
the
way
that
works
best
for
each
city,
and
you
know
what
what
their
council
wants
to
try
to
accomplish
and
the
relationship
they
want
to
have
with
their
community?
G
A
shortcoming
with
the
way
that
we
have
it
now
is
that
the
rules
of
procedure
set
a
very
specific
time,
but
because
of
our
agenda
construction,
it's
it's
not
often
the
case
that
public
comment
occurs
within
the
time,
that's
in
the
rules
or
procedures.
So
either
way.
We've
got
to
address
public
comment
within
the
rules
of
procedure
to
deal
with
that.
G
The
public
comment
period
open
some
nights
at
7
30,
sometimes
it's
8
30.,
and
if
you're
somebody
who
has
an
issue
that
you
want
to
address
to
the
city
council,
I
think
it's
it's
better
from
the
council's
perspective,
to
have
some
predictability
for
residents
about
when
they
can
expect
to
do
that,
so
that
can
be
accomplished
either
through
restructuring
our
agenda
or
setting
a
specific
time
outside
of
the
council
meeting.
To
do
that.
G
The
very
first
thing
you
can
do
is
say
there's
a
very
specific
time
at
which
we're
going
to
do
this,
but
in
terms
of
the
rest
of
the
council
conversation,
mr
mayor
and
council
members,
rather
than
trying
to
amend
language,
that's
in
the
rules
of
procedure,
I
think
what
staff
is
really
hoping
for
from
this
conversation
is
some
direction
on
what
you
might
like
to
do
differently
and
then
staff
can
come
back
and
put
a
proposal
together
after
that.
G
For
you
to
consider
based
on
the
conversation
here
and
then
we
can
incorporate
that
as
necessary
going
forward.
So
we
don't
necessarily
have
to
come
up
with
language
to
amend
the
rules
of
procedure.
This
is
really
more
of
a
discussion
to
give
some
ideas
and
some
direction
to
staff,
to
put
together
a
proposal
to
bring
back.
C
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
I've
jotted
down
your
items
and
I
have
four
of
them.
I'm
gonna
start
doing
a
reversal,
because
I
think
that
the
last
one
speeches
by
politicians
is
the
easiest
one
and
we
should
just
eliminate
that.
C
The
replication
of
comments
we
do
have
a
provision
in
the
current
rules
of
procedure
that
says
that
a
person
who
has
addressed
an
issue
previously
does
not
need
to
be
heard
again
on
that
same
issue.
C
So
if
it's
new
information
and
again
it's
bringing
that
to
the
chair's
attention
that
this
person
has
spoke
on
this
item
at
choir
meetings,
there's
no
new
information
being
presented,
and
then
we
can
move
on
to
the
next
speaker
the
change
of
format.
I
I
favor
the
current
one
with
a
modification,
and
that
is
to
the
amount
of
time.
I
think
five
minutes
is
an
excessive
amount
of
time,
because
it
leads
to
a
lot
of
rambling
and.
C
C
Lastly,
is
the
persons
who
are
hesitant
to
speak,
and
I
have
no
suggestions
on
how
to
remedy
that.
It's
been
one
that
I've
observed
through
the
years.
I
think
we
all
have-
and
I
think
some
people
are
just
hesitant
to
do
that
because
of
the
environment
because
of
the
group
they're
addressing
because
you're
unfamiliar
with
public
speaking,
etc,
etc.
Whatever
the
case
may
be,
so
I
don't
think
we'll
ever
find
a
way
to
overcome
that.
J
Thank
you
mayor.
You
know,
I
appreciate
you
pressing
so
hard
on
this.
You
know.
Certainly
I
have
would
like
to
look
at
this,
but
just
looking
at
this,
you
know
mayor
in
terms
of
this
particular
topic.
One
of
the
questions
that
I
ask
myself
as
a
council
member
is
do
we
need
one
way
to
do
public
comment.
J
Is
there
something
to
be
said
about
the
idea
that
we
have
diverse
groups
of
people
across
the
city
and
that
we
might
not
look
at
this
particular
process
that
we
follow
here
today
and
one
you
know,
as
as
councilmember
beloga
has
put
forward,
look
to
modify
it,
but
also
look
to
explore
other
ways
of
doing
public
comment
that
allow
us
to
be,
as
you
have
said,
to
be
more
engaging,
and
so
I
think
that
the
thing
that
I
would
suggest
to
the
council
and
to
you
mayor
specifically
is:
does
it
make
sense
for
us
to
to
try
to
to
do
a
trial
basis
of
some
of
these
ideas
and
get
some
feedback
from
our
community
to
see
if
we've
really
kind
of
hit
the
mark?
J
In
terms
of
what
makes
sense,
I
mean
I
really
would
like
to
to
do
a
trial
run
of
kind
of
what
they
do.
You
know
in
eagan
to
see
what
type
of
progression
that
we
know.
What
do
we
get
out
of
that?
What
you
know
how
many
folks
show
up
for
that
you
know.
Are
we
getting
different
folks
to
show
up,
and
you
know,
is
there
a
way
to
modify
our
current
process
and
there
are
other
other
particular
ways
in
which
that
we
can
try
to
do
public
comment.
J
You
know
I
I
just
one
of
the
things
that
I
keep
hearing
from
a
feedback
standpoint
is
that
when
you
have
folks
kind
of
come
to
the
council
and
kind
of
repeat
things
over
and
over
again
we're
not
communicating
with
folks,
you
know,
and
and
and
so
I
think,
that
kind
of
begs
us
to
try
to
do
something
different
and
so
so
one
do.
We
need
one
way
of
doing
public
comment.
J
Can
we
explore
diverse
ways
of
doing
public
comment
and
two?
Does
it
make
sense
to
to
do
a
trial
basis
of
some
of
these
other
ideas
to
see
you
know
if
the
engagement
and
these
new
processes
work
and
have
a
dialogue
with
our
community
about
this
process?
It's
very
important.
I
think,
to
have
that
dialogue.
When
we
talk
about
transparency
and
and
openness,
you
know
I'd
like
to
see
what
the
public
thinks
about
these
ideas.
So
those
are
some
of
my
thoughts
in
regards
to
this
public
comment.
Discussion.
D
You,
mr
mayor,
so
I've
I've
spent
no
small
amount
of
time.
Thinking
about
this
over
the
last
week
or
so,
and
you
know
I
would.
I
would
say
that
our
public
comment
period
has
gone
off
the
rails.
You
know
it
exists
for
folks
to
raise
issues
with
the
city
council,
the
people
who
were
elected
to
serve
this
community.
D
It's
not
a
forum
for
anyone
to
broadcast
whatever
they
want
over
the
airwaves
and
be
granted
the
legitimacy
of
a
city
council
meeting.
It's
not
an
opportunity
for
political
candidates
to
use
it
as
a
public
platform
to
push
their
candidacies,
and
it's
most
certainly
not
an
open
mic
night
to
make
insulting
personal
comments
about
city
staff
and
council
members,
and
I
I
think
we
do
have
to
do
something
differently.
D
D
I
think
we
have
seen
in
our
public
comment
periods,
compelling
reasons
to
make
changes,
but
I
think
this
is
just
too
big
of
a
a
first
step
for
me,
I
would
say
that
if
things
continue
on
the
path
that
they've
been
on,
I
might
get
there,
but
that
I'm
just
not
there
yet,
and
I
I
the
other
concern
I
have,
and
I
want
to
be
clear
that
it's
not
a
concern
with
with
our
current
mayor
or
any
current
council
members,
but
my
concern
is
that
if
we
move
this
new
public
comment
period
off
camera,
that
a
less
scrupulous
mayor
and
council
could
manipulate
that
more
kind
of
private
arrangement
in
in
undemocratic
ways.
D
D
These
are
strictly
my
own
creation,
and
I
will
most
assuredly
be
relying
on
our
legal
staff
to
perfect
the
language,
but
I
see
these
as
as
sort
of
guard
rails
to
ensure
that
public
comment
meets
its
purpose
and
that
folks,
who
that
everyone
who
wants
to,
is
able
to
participate
without
intimidation-
and
these
are
all
ideas
that
are
based
on
standard
practices
found
in
robert's
rules
in
our
own
rules
of
procedure,
and
sometimes
both
these
are
not
in
any
particular
order
other
than
the
one
that
I
thought
of
them
in
so
first
commenters
shall
not
personally
attack
impugn
or
question
motives
or
otherwise
reference
personalities
of
council,
city
staff
or
other
commenters
of
members
or
members
of
the
public.
D
I
don't
think
anyone
thinks
that
personal
insults
and
attacks
represent
civilized
debate
and
discussion,
and
I
I
just
don't
think
they
belong
in
council
meetings
period.
Second
commenters-
and
this
is,
I
think
this
gets
to
something
that
that
council
member
beloga
just
referenced
as
well
commenters
shall
not
reference
political
campaigns
or
candidates.
D
You
know,
we've
all
been
a
candidate
at
one
point.
Campaigns
are
an
important
part
of
our
democratic
process,
but
there
is
a
time
and
place
for
discussions
about
political
campaigns
and
a
city
council
meeting
is
not
it
third
again
to
what
what
council
member
beloga
mentioned.
Commenters
shall
not
ask
previously
answered
questions.
I
think
clarification
is
one
thing
but
asking
question
again
simply
because
you
don't
like
the
first
answer,
advances
nothing.
D
D
This
is
akin
to
sort
of
in
that
the
principle
of
council
debate
that
you
know
we
we
debate
the
subject,
that's
in
front
of
us,
not
what
whatever
else
we
might
want
to
talk
about
at
that
time,
and
I
would
say
that
there
are
more
appropriate
and
frankly,
better
ways
of
addressing
a
series
of
issues
than
bringing
forward
sort
of
a
laundry
list
at
a
council
meeting.
D
D
I
think
we
all
council
staff
and
the
public
play
a
part
in
in
lifting
up
the
debate
and
encouraging
a
positive
and
productive
community
conversation
and
I'd
much
rather
try
doing
that
before
we
make
any
more
drastic
changes.
So
those
are
just
my
my
thoughts.
I
Yeah,
thank
you
mayor
just
a
couple
of
quick
thoughts
for
this
first.
I
agree
with
the
political
speeches
and
things
like
that.
Our
current
rules
do
limit
the
commenters
to
matters
that
the
council
has
control
over,
and
things
like
that.
So
asking
our
opinion
on
terrorist
groups
isn't
really
appropriate
or
helpful,
but
I
have
seen
public
comment
used
very
well.
I
We
had
a
gentleman
who
brought
forth
information
with
regards
to
rvs
and
other
places
in
the
region
that
were
doing
different
things,
and
I
think
that
helped
staff
get
some
additional
information
to
the
council
and
it
actually
moved
the
needle
on
that
issue,
and
you
know
so.
People
have
used
it
very
well.
I
think
it's
an
important
forum
for
people.
I
I
did
a
little
research
on
what
some
other
cities
are
doing
in
terms
of
kind
of
controlling
their
message,
and
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
we
have
is
that
you
can't
comment
on
something.
That's
on
the
agenda.
I
Other
cities
go
a
little
bit
further
and
say
that
it
can't
comment
on
something
that's
on
a
future
agenda
or
in
current
application.
I
think
the
principle
there
is
that
there
will
be
a
public
hearing
at
some
point
and
try
to
save
up
all
those
comments
for
those
the
flip
side
of
that
is,
it's
sometimes
nice
to
have
a
little
bit
of
a
heads
up
that
there
might
be
a
question
or
concern
about
something
that's
coming
down
in
the
future.
So
you
know
my
mind's
not
made
up
on
that.
I
Just
want
to
point
out
that
other
cities
do
it
differently
to
some
of
the
the
ideas
like
councilmember
lowman
said:
maybe
try
doing
something
a
little
bit
different
similar
to
egan
and
their
ability
to
meet
with
the
council
prior
to
the
meeting
have
more
of
a
conversation.
I
The
other
thing
I'm
interested
in
is
the
ability
to
make
it
easier
for
those
people
that
do
have
a
little
stage
fright
and
or
may
have
reasons
they
can't
come
to
a
meeting
on
a
monday
night
at
seven
o'clock
due
to
you
know,
maybe
their
age.
Maybe
they
you
know,
travel
is
difficult
for
them
or
they
have
children
or
something
like
that,
and
you
know
we've
been
using
because
of
the
situation.
I
The
phone
and
people
can
call
in
I'd
like
to
see
consideration
of
continuing
to
allow
that
to
make
it
even
more
accessible
that
people
could
call
in
to
whatever
format
we
have
allowing
people
to
submit
through
an
online
forum
or
an
email.
A
short
brief
comment
that
maybe
somebody
could
read
for
them.
I
If
that
was
their
preference,
you
know
there
are
probably
other
things
we
could
do
to
assist
those
members
of
our
community,
that
english
isn't
their
first
language,
maybe
isn't
their
best
language
and
be
able
to
communicate
that
information
to
us
about
their
concerns.
I
think
right
now,
that's
a
real
barrier
for
some
in
our
community
and
so
trying
to
find
ways
to
assist
with
that.
I
So
I
I'm
generally
in
favor
of
trying
to
clean
this
up
and
make
it
more
focused
on
the
business
that
we
do
as
a
city
and
allowing
people
to
have
that
input
and
allowing
people
to
get
answers
to
their
questions,
and
I
do
think
avoiding
the
political
speeches.
The
posturing,
the
personal
attacks
is
absolutely
appropriate
and
finding
a
way
to
do
that
is
important.
E
Thank
you
very
much
mayor
and
also
want
to
echo
my
appreciation
for
having
some
time
to
to
talk
about
this.
I,
as
my
fellow
councilmember,
knows,
and
folks
that
have
tuned
into
meetings
towards
the
start
of
the
year.
Transparency
and
engagement
and
kind
of
enshrining
that
as
a
top
priority,
is
something
I've
been
pretty
passionate
about,
and,
I
think
is
important
and,
in
my
understanding,
the
way
public
comment
was
initially
envisioned.
E
It
furthered
both
of
those
aims,
a
terrific
opportunity
for
folks
to
be
able
to
weigh
in
on
policy
that's
on
the
horizon
or
that
we
haven't
thought
of.
Yet.
I
think
it's
just
a
stronger
way
to
show
kind
of
the
way
we
formulate
policy
and
show
folks
how
they
can
engage
in
helping
us
get
to
a
good
outcome,
but
without
repeating
all
the
points
that
have
been
said,
the
public
common
period.
E
We
have
now
just
isn't
that
in
terms
of
of
transparency
and
show
how
we
work
on
things,
staff
has
met
with
we've
all
replied
to
emails.
We've
asked
these
questions
that
come
back
to
us
every
single
week,
again
and
again
and
again
and
they're
back
here
before
us,
because
a
lot
of
times
those
folks
aren't
here
to
talk
to
us
they're
here
to
talk
to
the
cameras
and
on
the
engagement
front
in
the
past
18
years
or
18
months,
or
so.
E
It's
really
seemed
like
the
engagement
capacity
of
public
comment
is
about
seven
people
and
granted.
They
have
every
right
to
express
their
opinion
and
participate,
but
if
that
is
choking
out
other
participation
for
fear
of
bullying
or
or
running
a
counter
to
kind
of
a
clicker
group,
that's
no
good
either.
So
I
want
to
thank
my
colleagues
and
offer
kind
of
seconds
to
some
of
these
points.
I
think
the
enforcement
on
the
prohibition
of
individuals,
repeating
speaking
terms
on
items
over
time,
well
that
might
be
awkward
to
enforce.
E
I
appreciate
council
member
bologna's
point
that
we
technically
have
that
capacity
now
and
encouraging
basic
decorum.
I
was
going
to
leave
that
a
general
example,
but
I
think
tonight
and
how
it
was
accused
that
none
of
us
have
integrity
is
a
perfect
example
of
what's
wrong.
E
Right
now
with
public
comment,
so
I
appreciate
council
member
colter
bringing
that
up
and
just
generally
providing
that
variety
of
avenues
for
folks
to
get
involved,
both
by
having
kind
of
a
fixed
time
period
for
folks
on
variable
schedules,
but
also,
while
I'm
hesitant
to
eliminate
the
on-camera
completely
adding
an
off-camera
component
ahead
of
time
for
folks
that
aren't
comfortable
kind
of
being
the
stars
on
b-tv
or
having
the
variety
of
submission
options
that
council
member
nelson
raised.
I
really
appreciate
it
as
well.
E
I
also
think
it'd
be
interesting
to
make
sure
that
our
public
comment
period
or
periods
whatever
they
are,
are
ahead
of
consent
agenda
and
there's
some
kind
of
way
for
a
resident
to
indicate.
If
there's
an
item
that
they
want
to
speak
to
generally
doesn't
necessarily
mean
that
it
would
get
pulled.
But
just
in
case
say,
there's
a
point
as
if
there
was
an
item
related
to
rvs
on
consent,
and
there
was
something
we
hadn't
considered
and
the
resident
wanted
to
say.
Hey
have
you
thought
about
this?
E
E
I
will
say
it's
a
little
bit
disappointing
that
we
have
to
set
all
these
guard
rails
to
have
a
productive
conversation,
but
we'll
do
what
it
takes.
So
thank
you.
H
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
I
will
try
to
keep
my
comments
brief,
since
I
think
everybody
else
has
spoken,
and
I
agree
with
a
lot
of
what's
been
said.
You
know
I
just
I
often
ask
myself,
you
know:
is
there
a
better
way
to
do
things,
and
I
you
know,
as
everybody
has
articulated
the
public
comment
period
in
our
the
way
that
we
have
it
structured
and
there
is
so
much
opportunity
for
improvement
for
all
of
the
reasons
that
have
been
stated
already.
H
You
know
for
me
personally,
you
know
when
putting
everything
aside
of
what
people
are
saying
during
public
comment.
You
know,
I
just
don't
think
it's
very
accessible
during
normal
non-pandemic
times
the
fact
that
people
have
to
show
up
to
the
chamber
they
have
to
sit
for
who
knows
how
long
before
public
comment
period
as
council
member
nelson
mentioned,
you
know
it
could
be
that
people
work
during
that
time
they
have
kids,
they
aren't
able
to
physically
get
there.
H
There
are
a
variety
of
reasons,
and
so
you
know
I
would
really
like
to
see
us
look
at
ways
that
it
can
be
more
accessible
but
also
more
inclusive
and
welcoming
and
the
other
thing
you
know.
I
would
really
encourage
us
to
start
thinking,
and
I
don't
know
if
this
is
maybe
legal
in
partnership
with
coed.
I
don't
know,
but
thinking
about
different
models
that
we
could
pilot
to
really
have
a
more
engaging
and
inclusive
process,
because
I
mean
community
engagement.
H
Our
public
comment
period
is
not
public
engagement
like
that.
It's
not
community
engagement,
because
community
engagement
is
about
building
relationships,
collaborating
working
toward
a
common
good,
coming
together,
compromising
figure
out
figuring
out
solutions
to
some
of
the
challenges
that
we're
facing,
and
that
is
not
what's
happening
during
public
comment,
and
so,
if
that
is
kind
of
the
ultimate
goal
for
this
to
be
an
engaging
process,
we
have
to
do
something
different,
and
I
mean
to
the
transparency
piece.
H
We
have
open
meeting
laws
for
a
reason,
and
I
think
that
by
having
better
community
engagement,
taking
the
time
needed
to
build
trust
that
we
will
get
there
in
terms
of
you
know,
making
sure
that
people
feel
like
they
can
really.
You
know,
trust
the
council
on
the
city,
so
so
with
that
said,
you
know
I'm
very
supportive
of
looking
at
different
ways.
I'm
also
very
supportive
of
you
know.
H
Changing
up
public
comment
right
now,
so
that
we
can
have
some
more
guard
rails
and
then
testing
some
different
options
where
you
know
that
we
may
consider
moving
forward
with
permanently
in
the
future.
I
Good,
thank
you.
I
just
want
to
follow
up
on
a
couple
things
to
come
to
member
beloga's
point
about
the
time
frame.
I
think
we
had
four
commenters
today
or
this
evening
and
they
took
a
little
less
than
10
minutes.
So
a
little
over
two
two
and
a
half
minutes
a
piece.
I
do
think
that's
an
opportunity
that
we
could
cut
down.
I
think
they
were
all
fairly
succinct
in
that
you
know.
I
I
would
say
that
we
had
three
people
that
spoke
to
issues
that,
I
think
are
you
know
fair
questions
regarding
public
or
racism
as
a
public
health
emergency
in
fbi
investigation
and
if
we
have
any
updates
for
the
community
and
safety
issue,
and
those
are
types
of
things
I've
seen
brought
forth
before
and
all
seem
like.
Very
you
know,
you
know
reasonable
things
to
ask
at
a
council
meeting
and
try
to
get
some
information
on
the
community.
I
So
I
see
that,
as
as
as
a
positive
thing,
I'd
also
like
to
just
say
I
support
council
member
martin's
idea
of
moving
it
up
if
we
have
a
period
where
people
during
the
council
meeting
can
speak,
which
it
sounded
like
generally
with
some
modifications
there
was
support
for
that.
We
moved
that
up,
possibly
even
to
before
approval
of
the
agenda,
and
then
I
did
like
the
idea
of
allowing
comment
on
consent
items
if,
if
necessary,
within
the
reasonable
time
limits
there.
I
Just
if
someone
wants
to
ask
if
we
pull
something
off
to
discuss
it
further
or
share
a
bit
of
information
that
they
have
specific
to
it,
I've
always
found
that
sometimes
it's
a
bit
problematic
that
the
public
comment
comes
after
that,
and
people
don't
have
a
chance
to
to
weigh
in
if
they
see
something
that
maybe
we
could
benefit
from
their
thought
process
on.
So
those
were
my
follow-up
comments.
Thank
you.
A
Well,
I
would
say
thank
you.
I
think
this
was
there's
a
lot
of
good
suggestions.
There,
a
lot
of
good
possibilities
it
it
gives
us
a
path.
I
think
forward,
to
have
staff
put
together.
A
Some
possible
changes,
some
possible
new
guard
rails
that
we
have
been
talking
about
or
a
different
way
of
doing
things,
and
it
will
give
us
an
opportunity
I
think,
to
to
do
it
not
only
differently
better,
and
I
understand,
if
folks
didn't
necessarily
want
to
go
to
the
nuclear
option
like
I
was
pushing
to
to
take
it
off
camera
to
to
get
it
to
a
different
spot
to
get
up
beforehand.
A
I
appreciate
that,
but
I
I'm
glad
we
were
able
to
have
the
discussion
and
and
start
to
consider
what
else
we
could
do
and
what
what
we
could
do
better,
and
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
I
appreciate
also
is
the
acknowledgement
that
everybody
has
has
stated
that
we
do
need
to
do
it
better.
We
need
to
do
it
differently
and
we
need
to
do
it
better.
There's
plenty
of
room
for
improvement
in
this
and
how
we
improvement.
A
A
Even
when
we're
out
of
cobit,
I
like
the
idea
of
giving
people
different
possibilities,
setting
having
a
set
time,
and
there
has
got
to
be
a
way-
I
don't
know
if
it's
through,
maybe
one
of
our
poke
tools
or
something
along
those
lines,
people's
other
suggestions
about
ways.
We
can
do
this
better
ways.
We
can
make
it
more
effective
and
more
accessible
to
to
the
folks
who
do
want
to
speak
up
and
speak
to
us.
So,
mr
verbrook,
you
have
folks
have
enough
to
work
on
there.
G
I
think
we
do
mr
mayor,
we'll
put
together
a
couple
of
ideas
about
some
changes
that
we
can
make
and
bring
them
back
for
some
subsequent
discussion.
I
think
the
question
for
the
council
is,
you
know,
what's
the
what's
the
timeline
we
haven't
had
a
conversation
about
when
we're
likely
to
return
to
in-person
meetings
here
in
the
council
chambers,
and
so
you
know
some
of
this
may
be
time
to
occur.
When
we
come
back
to
something
that
is
maybe
more
normal,
I
don't
know
what
normal
is
anymore.
G
You
know
I,
since
you
mentioned
it
just
in
your
last
comments,
though
continuing
to
have
call-in
options.
I
think
you
know
one
of
the
one
of
the
things
that
we've
learned
during
the
last
four
months
and
it's
not
just
bloomington,
but
I
think
many
businesses,
many
local
governments
have
learned.
Is
that
the
you
know
the
virtual
participation
is
something
that
people
I
think
are
learning
how
to
get
comfortable
with,
and
there
there's
certainly
an
opportunity
to
continue
doing
that
in
some
sort
of
forward
moving
fashion.
G
Even
when
we
do
come
back
to
in
person
is
not
to
say
that
we
can't
continue
to
have
call-in
opportunities
to
the
point
that
a
couple
council
members
have
made
having
to
get
yourself
up
to
civic
plaza
to
at
an
appointed
date.
An
appointed
time
to
then
sit
through
portions
of
meeting
is,
is
maybe
a
barrier
to
participation
right.
So
if
we
continue
to
allow
other
ways
for
people
to
participate,
it
probably
serves
a.
I
think,
a
higher
purpose
than
just
saying.
G
Okay,
pandemic's
done
we're
back,
and
everybody
has
to
come
back
to
city
hall.
I
don't
know
if
that
works.
For
everybody,
people
have
transportation
issues,
they
have
child
care
issues.
They
have
employment
issues
that
you
know
they.
They
don't
work
on
our
schedule.
So
I
think
the
comments
are
well
received
that
we
need
to
find
ways
to
engage
people.
G
The
other
thing
I'd
say
about
public
comment
is
that
these
rules
of
procedure-
I
won't
say
they're
antiquated,
but
they're,
a
little
bit
long
in
the
tooth
in
that
they
were
written
in
an
era
when
we
didn't
have
email
and
we
didn't
have
social
media
and
we
didn't
have
websites
right.
There
is
a
multitude
of
avenues
for
people
to
provide
input
to
the
city
council
either
to
council
members
individually
or
the
council
as
a
whole
that
people
do
take
advantage
of
those
opportunities.
G
The
the
public
comment
period
of
the
city
council
meeting
is
not
the
sole
venue
for
people
to
provide
input,
and
I
think
we
have
to
remember
that.
Mr
mayor.
A
I
would
agree,
I
would
agree
council
anything
else
to
add
any
last
thoughts,
any
grand
ideas
that
popped
into
your
head,
that
you
want
to
add,
if
not
I'd,
look
forward
to
the
staff
coming
back
with
some
ideas
and
recommendations,
and
I
look
forward
as
we
continue
to
plow
through
these
rules
of
procedure,
because
I
think
as
we
as
we
work
our
way
through
them.
A
I
think
we
are
realizing
that
they
are
perhaps
a
bit
long
in
the
tooth
and
maybe
it's
time
to
to
update
or
look
at
them
in
some
different
ways,
and
this
might
be
a
good
opportunity
to
to
do
that
and
I
do
think
the
the
pandemic
and
the
realities
of
it.
I
think,
might
give
us
some
some
good
ideas
about
ways
to
do
things
better
and
more
effectively,
and
it's
just
a
just
kind
of
the
reality
of
what's
come
out
of
what
has
been
the
reality.
E
I
am
not
sure
timing
around
when
we
could
practically
implement
this,
but
just
to
pick
up
a
thread
that
we
had
discussed
briefly
earlier
in
the
spring
we
had
talked
about
doing
kind
of
a
mentorship
program
with
city
staff
and
local
youth
in
the
community,
and
it
just
kind
of
rung
a
memory
bell
with
me,
considering
that
our
african-american
community
outreach
sessions
had
also
brought
up
this
idea
of
how
are
we
kind
of
mentoring,
our
youth
in
the
community,
so
just
kind
of
as
a
reminder
to
keep
that
on
the
radar,
and
especially
maybe
later
in
the
year?
E
Hopefully
when
things
are
calming
down,
I
would
love
to
continue
this.
This
idea
of
alignment
with
maybe
discussions
with
the
school
district
and
normandale
identifying
kids
when
they're
freshmen,
maybe
sophomores,
and
connecting
them
with
city
staff
that
could
introduce
them
to
some
of
these
really
in-demand
career
fields,
whether
that's
trades,
inspections,
I.t
and
then
see.
If
potentially,
maybe
we
could
hire
some
of
these
folks
and
keep
them
in
our
community
long
term.
So
that's
a
big
discussion.
E
I
know
staff
and
council's
attention
is
stretched
in
right
now,
but
I
just
wanted
to
lob
it
out
there,
and
hopefully
we
can
maybe
pick
it
up
in
the
fall
or
early
next
year.
A
Thank
you,
councilmember
martin
agreed.
I
think
it
would
be
the
reasons
we
talked
about
it.
I
think
we're
good
in
terms
of
trying
to
introduce
young
people
to
possible
careers
or
different
things
going
on
at
city
hall
and
if
only
we
had
a
connection
to
apprenticeship
training
in
minnesota,
in
some
way
that
we
could
look
at
so
council,
member,
nelson
and
then
council,
member
lowman.
I
Yeah,
thank
you
mayor.
You
know
as
we're
all
aware,
the
school
board
is
meeting
or
had
a
meeting
this
evening
wasn't
able
to
watch
it
because
I
was
here
but
they're
making
some
big
decisions
that
impact
our
community,
and
I
don't
expect
answers
right
now,
but
I
know
we
worked
in
close
partnership
with
them
to
help
with
food
for
for
kids
that
that
may
have
gone
without
because
they
maybe
get
a
meal
at
school.
I
J
I
couldn't
pass
up
the
opportunity
to
say
to
patrick
that
I
had
the
opportunity
to
be
an
intern
in
the
planning
department
with
the
city
of
bloomington,
and
so
I
think
that
your
your
thought
is
well
caught
in
that.
I
think
it's
a
good
idea
that
we
encourage
young
folks
to
to
take
on
mentorships
wherever
they
be
or
apprenticeships.
J
You
know,
certainly
for
me
it
was
a
great
opportunity
to
to
you
know,
learn
country
western
music,
as
I
wrote
down
land
use
coding
across
the
city
of
bloomington.
So
so
I
like
that
idea
on
a
more
serious
note,
one
question
I
do
have
mayor.
J
I
don't
not
necessarily
looking
for
an
answer
right
now,
but
you
know
when
we
look
at
our
at
our
agenda
in
terms-
and
I
brought
this
up
earlier-
there
are
some
questions
that
that
I
am
getting
from
from
folks
in
the
community
around
you
know:
how
does
the
public
hearing
operate
and
work?
What
what
do
we
put
on
there?
What
you
know?
J
How
does
that
work,
and
so
you
know
we're
kind
of
going
through
right
now,
as
you
know,
as
a
you
know,
as
a
you
know,
as
a
you
know,
group
we're
kind
of
going
through
and
we're
modifying
our
you
know
our
rules
and
procedures
and
that
kind
of
thing-
and
it
might
just
make
some
sense
to
kind
of
have
a
you
know.
You
know
here's
you
know
because
I
mean
the
manager
talked
about
it.
J
You
know,
how
do
you
feel
welcome
you
know
in
a
community
when
you
don't
necessarily
know
the
rules
and
that
kind
of
thing,
and
so,
as
we
look
at
you
know,
you
know
how.
How
does
the
construction
of
this
agenda
work
and
operate?
You
know
how
do
I
put
my
concerns
and
get
them
before
the
council,
and
when
can
I
expect
to
kind
of
see
that
information
we've
had
a
couple
of
occasions
where
folks
were
confused
even
even
myself,
I've
been
confused
too.
J
As
to
you
know
what
to
tell
folks-
and
so
I
just
you
know-
I'm
not
necessarily
looking
for
an
answer
now,
but
just
kind
of
long
term
as
we
as
we
as
we
shift
we're,
not
the
same
council
we've
been
in
the
past,
you
know
we're
shifting
and
we're
we're
changing,
and
I
think
it
makes
some
sense
to
let
folks
know
kind
of
you
know
where
things
land
and
how?
How
does
it
get
there
and
how
does
it
make
sense
so.
G
Mr
ruby,
thank
you,
mr
mayor
and
council
members,
council
member
lohman,
just
a
real,
real,
quick
response,
and
then
we
can
provide
some
staff
follow-up
as
well.
For
those
who
are
watching
and
and
may
share
the
question
or
maybe
prompted
the
question
that
council
member
lowman
had
you
know
there
are
certain
areas
where
we
are
required
to
have
public
hearings,
our
planning
activities,
land
use
issues,
property
issues.
G
We
have
a
required
process
for
public
hearings,
we're
often
required
to
have
public
hearings
related
to
city
fees
or
other
financial
matters,
and
then
we're
required
to
have
public
hearings
for
things
like
liquor
licenses
right.
So
we
have
different
different
standards
for
different
public
hearing
processes.
G
I
think
what
would
be
helpful
is
for
especially
our
planning
staff
to
maybe
delineate
what
types
of
actions
occur
either
with
the
planning
commission
or
with
the
city
council,
where
the
where
the
public
hearings
tend
to
be
scheduled,
depending
on
the
nature
of
the
action
being
considered.
G
So
if
there
is
something
that
is
heard
by
the
planning
commission
as
the
public
hearing,
there
may
not
be
a
public
hearing
at
the
city
council,
but
the
public
hearing
did
occur
and
was
properly
noticed
and
if
there's
something
that
we
can
do
to
improve
people's
awareness
of
where
those
public
hearings
are
publicized,
certainly
open
to
those
suggestions.
So
we'll
pull
together.
Some
additional
information
council.
C
Just
a
tag
on
to
councilmember
norman's
comments
on
public
hearings.
Historically,
the
planning
commission
has
a
public
hearing,
for
any
application
has
always
done
that
and
up
until
recently,
the
city
council
did
also.
So
I
think
what
council
members
norman's
point
is
not
trying
to
put
words
in
your
mouth
is,
is
how
do
we
distinguish
the
difference
between
when
there
will
be
an
item
heard
by
planning
and
not
by
city
council,
so
that
that
is
very
clear
to
all
of
the
city,
council,
members
and
the
public?
C
Maybe
more
importantly,
again,
no
need
to
answer
that
now.
But
I
appreciate
that
item
in
the
future
because,
like
councilmember
lolman,
I
have
had
some
confusion
on
that
in
the
past
a
couple
of
meetings
and
gave
out
some
inaccurate
information.
A
Agreed
and
we'll
get
information
on
that,
I
hope
and
because
yes,
I
think
I
know
that
you're
right
council,
member
beloved
the
change
was
made
within
the
past
couple
of
years.
I
think
in
an
effort
to
streamline
our
operations,
what
we,
what
we
took
up
as
a
council
as
opposed
to
what
was
approved
by
the
the
planning
commission,
the
different
powers
that
we
gave
them
so,
but
some
clarification
and
that
would
be
helpful
council
member
carter.
H
Mayor,
I
just
have
one
quick
thing
that
I'd
like
to
bring
up
and
that
is
related
to
food
trucks,
so
I
have
had
a
couple
of
people
reach
out
wondering
kind
of
where
we
are
at
in
that
process
and
when
we
will
be
moving
forward
with
that
vote,
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
get
a
quick
update
on
that
timeline.
H
I
don't
think
I
saw
it
on
on
the
upcoming
kind
of
draft
agendas,
and
so
I
wanted
to
touch
base
on
that.
Mr.
G
Ruggy,
mr
mayor
and
council
members,
council
member
carter
you're
correct
that
one,
not
it
didn't
get
buried,
but
it
did
get
back
bernard
when
earl
a
couple
months
ago,
we
anticipated
that
there
wasn't
going
to
be
a
lot
of
demand
for
food
trucks
because
of
the
pandemic
and
the
issues
that
were
being
experienced
by
other
food
service
providers
within
our
community.
That
the
timing
wasn't
quite
right
to
bring
that
forward.
G
I'll
check
in
with
our
planning
staff,
see
if
they
have
a
date
specific
or,
if
they're,
just
waiting
until
later
this
year,
but
certainly
would
appreciate
any
input
from
the
council
in
terms
of
the
time
that
you'd
like
to
see
that
come
back.
C
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
With
regards
to
food
trucks,
I
I
recall
that
I'm
them
quite
vividly
that,
with
the
stress
that
our
fixed
restaurant
tours
were
under
here
in
the
shutdown
that
we
intentionally
delayed
that
and
I
don't
think
that
an
awful
lot
of
that
stress
has
been
removed
from
them
financially.
C
So
I
would
ask
that
when
we
do
schedule
that
item,
we
do
have
that
subject
in
mind,
because
I
my
sympathies
are
higher
with
our
current
restaurant
tours
with
fixed
operations
and
high
overheads
than
food
trucks
with
low
cost
of
entry,
and
not
a
history
in
our
city,
so
not
to
say
that
that's
not
an
important
issue,
but
I
would
just
like
to
see
the
general
wellness
of
our
restaurants
improve
financially
before
we
go
forward
with
that.
H
Carter,
you
mayor,
thank
you
for
the
reminder,
council,
member
beloga
and
I'm
I'm
totally
comfortable
with
that,
and
I'm
just
wondering
if
we
I
mean
I'm
happy
to
communicate
that
back
to
the
residents
who
have
asked.
But
maybe
we
provide
some
kind
of
update
on
our
website
or
something
I
don't
know.
I
have
had
several
people
asking
because
I
think
the
state
rm
state,
fair
food
vendors
were
doing.
H
They
were
traveling
all
around
the
metro
and,
like
there's,
been
a
lot
of
social
media
posts
and
excitement
around
food
trucks
coming
to
different
places.
And
so
that's
probably
what's
spurring
some
of
the
questions
that
I'm
being
asked.
But
it's
helpful
to
have
that
memory
jogger,
and
so
I'm
I'm
happy
to
just
individually
respond
to
those
people,
but
providing
some
clarity
somewhere
would
be
great
too.