kind of parse out the the time that we have that half hour of time based on the number of speakers that we have and the folks who want to speak I called yet haven't even called theor yet um and so uh the folks we have on our list uh from last week Thor steinhagen and Andrew Davis Andrew I'm here I'm waiting on Thor okay you'd be first on on uh on the list but we'll wait for Thor if he gets here you
guys can jump on somebody uh marrier yes yep you are on the list and then we have Sheila Barry yes yes thank you uh Cheryl Cruz yes Michelle suy Su very good Susi okay and then I think those are the the folks who have called ahead and who have pre-registered and so why don't we get started and with h the five people that we have on our list it's going to be a little tighter time tonight so maybe like no more than five minutes tops for everybody okay so I will call our to order our Council listening
session for Monday February 10th 2024 and I would why don't we wait until Thor we'll see if he gets here yeah we're find him push to the back and we'll start with Mariner and I'll need you to state your name for the record and off you go I'm supposed to write it down also yeah you can sign in after you're done too that's fine okay my name is Ganon I've been here before on the same subject which ising the boutique
for the new Community Health and Wellness Center which is going to be built okay um I'll go over my points and I have some handouts too which cover the same points so that you have something in your hand to refer to okay I've been a volunteer at the boutique for I don't know 10 years maybe the boutique has been in existence
for over 40 years started in the 80s and right now there are over 100 Crafters who contribute handcraft and merchandise for sale there are over 20 volunteers who run the place I am one of the um leaders there are three of us replacing one who did we too much there are thousands of happy satisfied customers over the years um
points as to why we need the boutique why it should continue because excuse mebut to I'm sorry hold on can we silence our phones yeah she didn't mean to do that oh no okay thanks okay y go ahead the boutique is very important because it does contribute to the health and wellness to the participants both crafters and customers so it really fits in with the health and wellness center
it counteracts loneliness and isolation and they are public health issues public health is a big part of the new building like onethird of it and Bloomington has an aging population there are uh people stay put pretty much there are lots of new senior residences being built and um the younger
population is not growing as quickly I don't think another thing and this has been written up and researched lonel loneliness and isolation and Lead contribute to premature health issues which probably wouldn't happen if they weren't lonely and isolated and even premature death because of those health issues so I think being
at uh a Health and Wellness Center we should cherish the boutique and make sure that it has a place in the new center and right now I don't see that we are feeling very disappointed disregarded disrespected that a suitable space is not being made available to continue the precious undertaking which contributes to the
health and wellness of so many people okay going on from that I have time right um one of the features that is taking up another third of the space is the aquatic center that is a big cost item per square foot I did talk to the architect on Saturday and he agreed yes it does cost more per square foot than
just about anything else well then anything else I'll just say that it's a big space user big maintenance area so if we um made that smaller or just eliminated it that might be a good idea okay so what kind of aquatic features are available in the area for people who want that sort of thing yes I know it was at the top of the list from the
um the um statistically valid survey and I've got a problem with that too because I do not and I have studied the survey and I took the survey I don't think it addressed cost at all really n it didn't it just like what would you like to see what would you use okay fine nothing no so it was kind of like in a vacuum at um for example if I um
Mar I'll just tell you you've got under a minute now okay oh my gosh well okay Bloomington Community ad has three pages of swimming things um the high school teams use Oak Grove and Olen and there's a proposed water park over by Mall of America um we have Lifetime Fitness with a couple places YMCA nearby so you know there are facilities available and then this was just
in the paper a pool closing because it's too expensive to keep up and maintain and that is in woodb maybe you all saw that I thought that was kind of an interesting headline that could happen pools are very very expensive not only to build but to maintain okay right if you a wrap up please wee that's it all right thank you much and I apologize for I think I butchered your name at least a couple of times Mari Mari
I've written it phonetically now I will remember thank you very much so with no's author yet why don't we go with Sheila why don't we head over to Sheila and we'll go with Sheila Cheryl and Michelle how about that come on up Hello thank you for having me y I'd like to pass these out and I would like you guys to see what happened at my house last
June of 2023 I had actually met you mayor many years ago prior to you coming mayor if you can state your name just so we have it for the record she bar okay thank you where did we meet years ago uh this is before you were mayor you were actually looking for my vote you came into my yard you and another gentleman okay uh do you remember it all that was a long time ago it was a long time ago it was and anyways um you were actually quite
convincing you told me that you listened to the community that you were going to fix things in Bloomington and you wanted to know if I voted and I told you no I just don't vote and you asked me why and I said because if you ever becomeing become the mayor that's when you're going to stop listening and for me that Rings true because in June of 2023 I was looking for I was devastated I called you you were the first person I called
when those things happened at my house and I was looking for a meeting with you and hajes that would never come after three times coming here to see you guys that's when I think his name was Jamie offered to meet with hajes but by that point it had already been two years and so many things have happened um and I was hoping those things would end for me I feel like you know my son he makes his own choices he's an adult man but that should not reflect on the rest of my
family the things that have ha I feel like we're judged I feel like we're judged by the police I feel like they think that they can do whatever they want to us and we're just going to bow down and let them do that and that's exactly what's happened with my relatives who don't know how to put a complaint in who don't know how to go after them or or speak up for what's happening we have literally in my family there's been like eight of us that have been raided by your police officers never
finding any drugs is that fair is that fair that these police officers continue to come into our house and do this to our home and nothing happens and now I go to retrieve my things back from the police now all of a sudden they're telling me that I need to give that or give show them and they're going to make a copy of my carrying conceal in order for me to get my license or in order for
me to get my guns back I they need to take a copy of that that's not the Minnesota law Minnesota law says all I need to do is just provide them an ID but yet your department wants more than that just like when you guys have meetings here when do you ever see a police officer here never we have a police officer at every meeting well every meeting up here and every meeting down in the council chambers okay well I've never seen one here I've seen them across in the other room one time
but never right here here but that's fine and so I mean I should be able to get my guns back without having to go through all of that because we've been through enough with your police officers I don't know the details of it and I will have to tell you I know it's an active and ongoing case so that goes to show what you know because it is resolved I believe one portion of the case is but I understand from our City attorney that there's another portion the case that is active and unresolved at this
moment and I I want to be I want to caution the council as well that we have to be careful what we say and the questions we ask and and that uh any comments that we would make make because that could impact the investigation and I don't want to oh my goodness every time I come here this is what I get from you that's pathetic it's pathetic thank you for nothing again is there an active investigation what is there an active investigation no not that I'm aware of that's that's what I have been told so
okay this is the first I'm hearing about it I know you'll do anything well we will get we will we will get back to you with the reasons why we're not able to comment on this okay when um this week or later this week perfect next week yeah thank you yeah but I want him to see
that your house yeah while we're doing that just to clarify you said 2023 yes is that right okay MH right well thank you for bring pict
bringing the pictures in I appreciate it oh yeah [Music] Cheryl I got to sit again hi I'm Cheryl cross I'm Sheila's mom and I've gone through all of this with her for the last 10 15 years
and um they've even come to my place looking for her son and he used to stay there once in a while but he didn't live there and I'm a grandma and he's the second one of the top of my 17 18 grandkids so my first two grandkids really mean a lot to me and anyway just an incident the other day on January 10th I believe uh he had an
over dose and he was picked up Tony now he's like 6 feet 300 lb and he's like a teddy bear he's a very nice guy I mean he he wouldn't hurt anybody anyway um he was brought to emergency room in Adina where he was handcuffed hands behind his back on a table for 15 hours said he had to
pee and they said pee sideways and then uh the doctor or they must have asked the doctor if he could be loose or whatever he said it's up to the Bloomington Police and they said no and he ended up leaving there with some kind of urinary infection and they were supposed to follow up with him
within 4 days they never did and I guess just recently um Sheila has talked to the nurse at the jail and they were kind of checking into did you want to say something your phone's your phone's ringing again it is I have it down oh my god well you got good ears I got it so anyway
I'm 76 years old and to keep continually seeing all this and the hurt the hurt my daughter has gone through the embarrassment she's gone through arresting her at her home when they're breaking in and they're not finding anything handcuffing her in her garage destroying her basement which was beautiful destroying her front
front door and then Tony at that time was there but they didn't find anything they had him walk out Barefoot on glass to the car and get in their squad car and say if you move I'm going to tase you and it's just pitiful to hear all this poor boy has gone through and he
has an addiction that's what it is an addiction he never gets help for it they need to send him away way to one of those year yearlong ones because the other ones they sent him to either sell drugs or tell them where to get them or plant them on him like they did in Rochester and then bring him back to Hanah County I guess that's all I got to say but I wanted you
to hear it's still going on and I pray to God every night that this ends but it never ends do I need to sign in or anything if you could as you finish up here if you could just sign in just I guess I'm pretty much done thank you thank you for sharing with us sure is that all I do yeah CH thank you I'm Michelle Susi um
Good Friends of the Barry family and I don't have a whole lot different to say what the previous two have said but I've been witness to the harassment and the stalking and the intimidating that the family has gotten because of their son it's not it's not
a family addiction he's an addict gentle but the family's paying the price I mean even when they did a warrant search back in June 2023 their 12-year-old daughter was in the shower and was taken out by a male officer naked she's traumatized from that their grandkids are traumatized from that and they're actually in therapy right now and garbage man we were at at
her daughter's bus stop and he was there motioning his hands to come on come on come on and when we wouldn't get out of the car he started video recording and it's just it's just coincidence after coincidence and there's been a couple times where I've left the Barry home and I've been pulled over within a block no reason oh we noticed your license plate my license plate is good till September when my tabs are due you know and I'm I'm not
I'm just saying the harassment I feel like they're being singled out I feel like they're being stereotyped and treated in a kind of a derogatory way and it's affecting everyone's mentality it's affecting I I'm their friend and it even affects me you know witnessing and and it's been it's been heard this story has been heard a few times but let's let's fix it please try to
fix it I mean show show the family respect they're their sons in custody so they shouldn't be getting harassed or anything yeah you know I I don't have a whole lot more to say but please I'm I'm just another person asking please fix this please do something about I mean she's she when they
when they found her weapons they were locked up so why were they confiscated and then to try to get them back after the issue's been resolved and they're putting her through the hoop on that too you know it's it's just it's not fair to the family you know and just because one person is an addict doesn't make the whole family an and
I don't like to see them stereotyped and discriminated against and that's that's pretty much what I have to say thank you thank you for listening I appreciate it okay thank thank you did you want to speak tonight or no I'm here to support Boutique got the new center but I was looking got the drawings on Saturday and I
believe okay if if if you want to talk we've got a couple minutes here so if you want to if you want to talk come on up identify yourself but thank you for allowing me to speak for a moment my name is Christine Thompson and I was looking at the drawings and I do believe that the need for boutique still exists it's is inspiration for the people that do crafts they have a source and a place to sell their goods display their goods and
I believe that behind the front desk between the front desk and the elevator if a glass room was put in glass walls and then that would be displaying the artwork as people were passing through and it would be able to have it underlock and key because it is in a glass room and you don't need as many PE when you're having talking about kios too many people have to look after kios and
then you have to call them off and lock them up somewhere having a room that's all glass displayed doesn't matter what time of day there's always something on display as they walk by and the door could be at the front desk right at the side of the front desk to get into that glass room so that's my idea about the boutique and I really believe it still needs to happen so I'll sign in I did did did you share that idea on Saturday with the you said were there on
Saturday did you idea with he I did and and I'm going to talk with him again on Thursday good all right well thank you thanks for stepping up right Andrew any word on Thor is he coming nope I heard for him so speak he was suppos to be the one more prepared but he didn't show up well I will do my best um my name is Andrew Davis I run a small business here in Bloomington as well as a few other people I know
that have had similar issues um so I just first-time homeowner I just bought a house back in February and since moving in I believe I've had eight complaints from the city now it's not I mean obviously the city's job is doing Force because I run with my business I do like lawn care and Landscaping so I have one trailer that dumps all like the goods and I have a nice enclosed trailer none of my vehicles none of my trailers have any sort of branding not like they're big Billboards isour everything is 2022 or newer so it's like nothing's torn down like a wreck in my yard and this is not the eighth complaint that I've had I I
just love to come to a compromise on I mean I get it's the city laws but I'd really like I'd appreciate if somebody's like willing to hear like if we could register like a vehicle or a trailer and just like make sure things are there because just down the street for me I've got a neighbor who's got a gravel driveway with like waste Tall Weeds an old RV rotting in there he's got an old truck that's like rusting away you can see the rust in the driveway from where it's been sitting so long and a boat that sits in his yard uncovered yet it's one of my I I know who but people on my block have told me there's a lady
towards the end of the street that calls in every little thing so I've got one person who calls in everything we're just trying to come to a compromise because I'm sure as some of you guys are homeowners comes like Leaf season you guys don't want to do your Leaf cleanup or snow removal you don't want to plow your snow all small businesses are the people who take care of that and now if you go to like a storage unit to store one of these things you're looking at like sometimes like a thousand to $22,000 a month just to store this stuff and like the only reason I bought a house if I would have known this prior to buying house house in Bloomington I truthfully would not have bought a house
here but now living here I've learned this stuff so I'd really like to just be able to come to some sort of compromise or some way to make this stuff work that way I'm able to like run my business out of my house is like the state of Minnesota lets me write off a portion of my house and my taxes feel like the city of Bloomington should allow me to use a part of my house for my business as well and so you've been contacted by environmental health and safety I'm assuming uh Josh oh I don't know what exactly he does but he's the guy I've dealt with every single time that's environmental health and they they are the folks who they're required they they
go out they follow basically it's city ordinance following city ordinance uh what you can have in your front yard what you can't um I'm guessing that if you're if your neighbor calls in every little thing I'm guessing we've probably heard about the Rusted truck and the waste deep weeds as well but like technically reading on like online I don't think that's against the law which is kind of what throws me for a loop is you can have a big old RV or like there's somebody off it's like 82nd and pen or like 84th and Pen they've got like a party bus it's like you look in and it's got like stripper poles in
the middle it's painted all black with tinted windows it's very clearly a party bus I mean I haven't heard of very many people running a party bus for private use so I'm assuming it's like their side business or something that they're running out of their driveway and you see it parked there all the time so it's just I I don't know I mean I feel like if you can have a big bus RV any of that stuff and and then the other thing that I have is I also have I have a storage already but it's like I get the harassment like over a weekend like if I'm like during The Fall season it does doesn't make sense for me to drive to my storage every day and put my trailer
right then just turn around next morning get it feel like I should be able to park it there overnight like during the week then the weekend I get it it goes away because it's not in use over the weekend but it's like dayto day like I get up at 7: am in the in like the fall I'm working 7 to S like 12 hours a day so it's like the trailer is not there but clearly whoever's on my block is persistent about getting rid of it so I just love if we could come to like some kind of compromise at the city like register vehicles or something or figure it out there because what I have here is a portion of what I see around me
that people are allowed to have aside from all of that have you sat down with my my point being with the environmental health and safety is you sat have you sat down with environmental health and safety I haven't had a chance to sit down I've only talked to him on the phone okay uh I would recommend that as a starting point to figure out why they keep calling you you know and I don't know what the I don't know what the specific violation might be so uh so I I would have that conversation with them ask them what it would take to resolve that if they say he basically told me there's no resolution and that he's being nice
to me ah okay well um I was like H there's a lot of other people I'm sure you can go be nice to it too but I'm the one who gets picked on C member dandro yes Mr Mayor I I thought and maybe I'm wrong but I thought we had on the work plan at yeah we do right I think that we're looking at this because this is not the first time we've heard of this so I think that we had a request to take a look at some of these ordinances and see if we can make some changes to make it a little easier okay I I don't know where that's at but
I'll defer to you all about that but I thought we had that in the workpl somewhere this year and and the small business yeah say I'm not I'm not a big business it's literally it's me and one guy that I have working for me and all I have is the two trailers yeah and like it was not related specifically to the small business initiative but it was related to there were a couple of other complaints about uh the catalytic converter problem was another reason right people were people were bringing their work trucks home because it was safer than leaving them on the lots and having their cataly converters you know stolen
and stuff like that so I thought we were looking at that okay I'm not the only one who thought it okay so may we may be already working on a resolution is another thing I wanted to yeah I just don't want it to get to the point where I'm like starting to have to like pay fines and stuff and like understand get on some type of like bad list where it's like they're going checkups because it's what it feels like because I've seen this I've seen the little like city of Bloomington Toyota Corolla drive by my house like countless times I could pull up like security footage of the guy just driving by randomly and then sure enough like three
days later in the mail here comes a citation is how it works it is um we I will ask environmental health and safety to reach out to you maybe you two can yeah I'd love to give you my info I mean talk my shirt if you want but write whatever down if you want to write down your name and phone number there contact information you can make a connection to Community Development too because Y and we'll we'll make the connection with Community Health also and um you know and and understanding
that you know for everybody that's got a business there are you know how many people in their neighborhood who don't don't want to look at their business in their front yard I'm aware but that like that's my thing is like I miss I might be biased but a like untouched trailer that has nothing on it looks a lot better than like a 40 foot RV and a rotting boat sitting there in somebody's gravel driveway where it's like I mean I try and take like pride in my house I don't like let things get nasty out of hound there's nothing in my yard all that I keep it I know
what you're saying simple understand what you're saying but yeah we'll get your contact information and we'll have folks reach out to you awesome thank you all right would you also be able to send us uh photos of your trailer if you haven't already oh yeah no I mean he hasn't the only one I've sent to him is my enclose trailer he made me send a picture of a four-wheeler in it because I have it registered as like whatever um recreational use because it does get used for that stuff every now and then okay but yeah I can send it to to the council yeah I can send
it to whatever yeah it's just I think it's council at Bloomington mity city council let me write we got get downstairs give me one second sorry all right have to do it right now just send it to Legal you can send it to Legal we'll take we'll get you we'll connect we are a journ
let's head downstairs thanks to every