We'll call this, meeting of the City of Falcon Heights, regular meeting of the City Council on 01/14/2026. Call it to order at 07:01. I'm going to seek approval to change our agenda to after this call to order to move to our item D presentation. Any objections? We okay with that? So we'll go next to, presentation and our oath of office for Georgiana May and Jim Morgan.
Administrator Linehan, City Clerk, please come forward and, get the formalities underway. Do you need a microphone? Yes. Yes. For Georgiana. I believe and I believe Georgiana's first We have Georgiana's first We have Georgiana's first on the Yep. On the agenda. Yep. Let's see here if it works. Alright. Please raise your right hand. This is the constitution of The United States. The key after me. I, state your name. Georgiana May. Do solemnly affirm to support the constitution of The United States. Do solemnly affirm to support the constitution of The United States.
The constitution of the state of Minnesota. The constitution of the state of Minnesota. And to discharge faithfully the duties of the office. And to discharge faithfully the duties of the office. Of city council member of the city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Of the city council member of the city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. To the best of my judgment and ability. To the best of my judgment and ability. And this I do under the penalties of perjury. And this I do under the penalties of perjury. Congratulations. What a opportunity. I'll call up Jim Boggan.
Alright. Please raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, state your name. I, Jim Boggan. Do solemnly affirm to support the constitution of The United States. Do solemnly affirm to support the constitution of The United States. The constitution of the state of Minnesota. The constitution of the state of Minnesota. And to discharge faithfully the duties of the office. And to discharge faithfully the duties of the office. Of city council member of the city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Of city council member of the city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. To the best of my judgment and ability.
To the best of my judgment and ability. And this I do under the penalties of perjury. And this I do under the penalties of perjury. Congratulations. Okay. Did you want photos? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna do pictures? Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yep. Over the corner. Get your group up. I mean, he worked. He he he he's gonna show up here. You gotta be in a photo. Darren. Darren, you need to be in there. Sure. Hey. I was keeping it warm for you. Thank you. Yeah. We still might. We're Okay. Say Jim Logan. Jim Logan. Somebody in my family sent me on this.
What about the guest server? Yeah. Okay. I don't know. Oh, boy. Oh, are we supposed to have red? Oh, there might be. More or less. Alright. Everybody settled in? Yeah. Alright. Next order would be, roll call. Gustafsson. Here. May. Here. Morgan. Here. Milke. Here. Watsonberg. Here. Linehan. Here. Alright. Our next and we have, other staff as well. Let's see. Approval of our agenda. Any, changes to tonight's agenda? None, Mayor. And do I hear a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Wiesenbrug. All those in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Opposed same sign. We've done our presentations. Approval of minutes, we have the 12/10/2025 City Council regular meeting minutes. Any changes to, to the minutes that have not been forwarded to staff? I have a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. So moved by Melkief. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, same sign. Public hearings would be next. We don't have any. Next, I get to, walk us through the, consent agenda.
First, we have our general disbursements through 01/09/2026, of $338,097.18 payroll through 12/30/2025, dollars 23,026.29 wire payments through 01/09/1926, of $18,270.84 We have approval of city licenses as outlined in the packet. We have approval of Resolution 2,601 designating our official depositories for 2026.
Number four, designating the city's official newspaper as the Pioneer Press for 2026. Number five, mileage reimbursement rate for 2026 number six, approval of pay estimate number six, to Bituminous Roadways Incorporated for the 2025 pavement management project, FH01 seven, affirming the elected official out of state travel policy eight, reappointing commission members nine, appointing council members as liaisons for city commissions 10,
approval of Resolution 2,602, designating 2026 data practices policy for the public and officials 11, approval of Resolution 2,603, accepting the resignation of Wesley Goldberg from the Parks and Recreation Commission and declaring a vacancy 12, approval of Resolution 2,604, appointing the Community Development Coordinator as Assistant Weed Inspector for twenty twenty six thirteen,
approval of Resolution 2,605, appointing Emmett Fisher to the Community Engagement Commission as a Youth Commissioner 14, resignation of Georgiana May from the State Fair Task Force 15, approval of public works purchase of Ford Lightning F-one 150 truck from Transwest of Minneapolis 16, approval of repayment of pay as you go TIF district one-three and one-four payments. I'll move the consent agenda. Any, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
All those opposed same sign. Motion carries five-zero. Should honor consent. Next we'll move to, that's pretty good getting 16 items out of the way in the first, and getting our two new members on in the first ten minutes. So next, we want to move to, the modification to the 2026 city calendar schedule to move our city council workshops to 06:00 p. M, proceeding regular city council meetings. Administrator Linehan, would you want to explain this one or Yeah. As you're off to do to Yeah.
Protocol? Yeah. Thank you, mayor and council. So this, is a recommendation that came out of our, retreat at the beginning of the month where we talked a little bit about expectations, schedules, and it was determined that there'd be benefits of instead of our tradition of doing one workshop at the first meeting of the month or the first Wednesday of the month, I should say, moving that instead to doing two workshops per month, that would proceed our regular city council meetings. So these meetings would be at six. It does give us kind of a hard deadline of seven with the meeting following, but that more frequency allows us to be a little bit more responsive if issues
come up and that we can discuss. And there's other benefits too of reducing our meeting workload from three down to two. Allows a little flexibility if we have to do a special meeting or a a larger workshop. It creates a kind of a meeting that we know that that would be open for the city. And we try to reserve that for a bit if we could, to allow that. Additionally, one last night for nine north operators, one last night for additional staff. So there are some other benefits as well. So we're bringing it together today as a policy change, just because it is a little bit of a change to our general policy for,
what's been our calendar. We did adopt this original calendar, in December, but this is a new modification. So we're bringing it forward today for, formalization from the city council. Comments from council? No. I mean, I think we discussed this fair bit. It does have some advantages, some some maybe minor drawbacks, but we're gonna, heck, think, we all agreed to kind of give it a go and, and see if this is a more efficient way for us to, way for us to move forward. And I think it might help us get things done in a more timely manner as Administrator Glenn had mentioned. Okay. Do we have a motion to take policy H1,
change to the 2026 calendar to move workshops to six p. M. Preceding regular minutes or meetings. So moved. So moved by Wassenberg. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign. Second one is probably what brings most people here tonight. We'd like to, move to policy h two and it'll be, discussion on the immigration enforcement review of policies surrounding use of city property for federal staging and other issues.
On this, I'll have Administrator Linehan explain, kind of introduce the topic, and then we'll open it up to the council. Thank you, mayor and council. So this is a new and evolving topic. As we know, you know, that this continues to change and evolve, in the last week, especially with the shooting death of, you know, Renee Goode, and just the recent escalation in the suburbs, particularly as kind of a newer approach for the suburbs and how how we respond. And so the question came, not formally,
but kind of posed theoretically as a policy question as to, you know, what would happen if, ICE agents or federal agents use city property to stage. There's other questions and other things that we're exploring, and that's continuing to evolve. But we want to have an opportunity to kind of discuss this as a council, based on council requests and kind of show what we do know so far, what we don't know, and questions to answer. So I'll walk through a little bit, just a super brief power PowerPoint of what we know and don't know so far, and a little bit of our history on this. So, back in August 2020,
the city formally adopted an amendment to our administrative manual section one, which is our city council area. We added a section of standards concerning communication enforcement of immigration laws. You know, in short, this does operate similar to other other city's original separation ordinances or originally called sanctuaries, city ordinances that kinda got changed and modified over time. But for us, it states very clearly the city does not operate its programs for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws. City employees and representatives shall not use city resources to detect or apprehend persons,
you know, relating to immigration status. It spells out pretty clearly all of our different functions. It does have some differences and some of those are our differences. We do not have our own public safety in house. That is a difference from us and other larger agencies, but we do state in it, our expectations of our public safety agencies. Agencies. And so kind of throughout this process, as the cities discuss this, we discuss this also with our public safety partners and they're they're also, you know, do our our policies mirror. And one of the things that our policy states is that we will try to
find agencies that mirror our own expectations. And, again, disclaimer, we do continue in compliance with the federal policy. That's eight USC, thirteen seventy three. And that's important just in kind of our our cooperation in that regard. So then kind of in the last year as it started to become apparent that this was, you know, more of an issue, at our workshop in February, the council reviewed the policies surrounding immigration. We reviewed that policy. Following the review, we issued a statement of support for our community that was issued 02/10/2025. And then on December 5, the city released a statement of support of our Somali neighbors as that,
rhetoric and commentary continued to, increase at that time. And then, this week on Monday, the city issued a statement remembering Renee Goode and included a know your rights info and immigration resource on our website, included in our newsletter. And so we have a new page kind of with additional information, and suggesting other resources, understanding our role that we're not, there's no legal in house. We're a small city, so we really there are experts experts out there, and we try to guide people to the best resources to not not have us be, that primary resource, but we can help them find those resources.
So that leads into the the general policy question. And to to be honest, it's it's there's a lot of open endedness of this, and so there's not clear answers. But I will say, the question is, can city parks be used for federal staging? Park use is regulated by city code. We have chapter 34, park and recreation. In it, you know, it require it does have some areas where we can require permits for certain exclusive uses. So if you're gonna use the park exclusively, you need to have a permit. However, if you go and gather, you might not need a permit. And to include with this, ice staging is at best uncertain.
There's nothing that would specifically prohibit it, as currently written. And so the the you know, it's kind of there are there are things we can look at. There are ways we could have our ordinances could be further clarified that parks are for park use only. So there are language we could put it spell it out more clearly. There are exemptions and things that people can't do in parks. One of those that other cities are kind of around the country are adding is they are making it much more explicitly clear that it's not for, federal purposes. But which we can get into more in discussion as we continue to review and
work with kind of our legal team too, enforcement options and ability are unclear. So we could put up we could adopt a policy that says, it's not allowed, and what other cities have noticed is that they do that and they will stage anyways. They disregard city policy. And so then the question is, how do you enforce that? Where do you take it? Well, it's being tested right now a little bit. Just this week, Saint Paul filed a lawsuit in combination with the state of Minnesota, city of Minneapolis. Saint Paul clearly does have that stated that, you know, parks in Saint Paul are for park use only,
issued kind of a a cease and desist to, federal government, and they have ignored the legal demands. And so now it is going to, into the courts. So, it seems like the courts might be the enforcement in that regard is what we know so far. So with that, kind of open ended. We're doing this in open discussion, but our recommendation would be to discuss existing policies, ordinance, determine, you know, to recommend staff for further updates, areas for us to look at, and then also, you know, allowing tonight for a community forum on the topic, for an opportunity to hear from our community.
Thank you. Council members? James? I can start. I did, put this, I'm knowing of some that I think forwarded this to ask to make sure this is on the agenda today because it has percolated up as an issue of people, feeling powerless that want to do something and want their city to be seen doing something. And obviously, many of us share that concern. I will say my initial reaction always is not to be performative, simply to look like I'm acting.
But anyway, I do think that this is raised to a unique level that we should be, taking some action so that the city resources that we as taxpayers and the city is responsible for are not being used in methods that they shouldn't be, that we don't support, that don't protect our neighbors, don't protect the values of our community. And I think the two areas that are clearest is use of the city property and ensuring
directives of our police force are clear. I in saying that, I am very reluctant or scared to I should I'll say scared, to put our city of 5,000 up against the resources of federal government in trying to enforce this or asking our, new partners in the Saint Anthony Police Force, to put themselves in the way of thugs that we have that we all are scared of. So I don't know what the answer is, but I do believe that we should be taking some action and the very least,
we need to clarify that our parks, our city property need to be, I think need to be not used for the purposes of immigration enforcement, at least not without necessary permitting and knowing what's going on in our community. So that is just my general feelings. Would you give any thought also to including, I mean, truly our biggest space? It's a bold move, but it's right here off of Larpenter in front of our City Hall.
Oh, I would include any city property. Thank you. Because right now, we're just talking about parks, but yes, expand it. Georgiana? Well, to me, it's a public safety issue. Or one of the issues that comes out very foremost in my mind are the public safety issues, in particular, the safety of children and families who might be using the parks at the time that a federal agent staging would occur. So enforcement by lawsuit will be down the line. And I'm glad St.
Paul is pursuing that. But what I would encourage us to do, Jack, as a city, is to interact with our St. Anthony Police Department directly and just pose sort of scenarios to them and gain reassurance of how they might respond. You circulated their policy, and I did read that. And it seems very reasonable with respect to public safety in the case of federal agents being present in our community.
And at the same time, they talked about the position they're in, which I respect, that their first mission is public safety. And they pretty much openly admitted that there may be conflicts almost if they're asked to step in and provide that safety when you have federal agents who are making the place unsafe. So I'm not suggesting any specific change either to their policy or to ours, but that we engage in that conversation with the St.
Anthony Police and we run through scenarios like what would you do if the federal agents are pulling children off of a playground because they don't look like Americans. I really want to know those answers from our police department. Yes. Okay. All very good points. I agree it should be all city property. I think that is probably intentional that Parks has mentioned specifically. The city is in a difficult situation. I think we're all learning what happens when the the law enforcement agencies with the highest level authority in The United States are no
longer protecting its its residents and its citizens. It is frightened to see the lack of recourse that cities and states have in this situation. That said, I think we should lean heavily on on our counsel, sorry, that is to say our legal counsel, and write in what we can into our ordinances to give guidance to staff, and as Georgiana has said, conversations with, SAVPD, but to give our staff clear direction and also to give them some cover for when they are approached and or forced or bullied to cooperate in ways that the
residents of Falcon Heights don't wish them to. So I think the devil is really gonna be in the details and what we're able to write here. A lot of it may not be enforceable from a practical standpoint, either because it has to go through a long court battle or because federal authorities will outright ignore local statute law and code. But I think we're going to do what we can because I think we're together on this. Mayor Desmond, if I could read an example of a sign that Hennepin County has. Okay. So Hennepin County has put up signs that read, property may only be used for county purposes. Unauthorized use including but not limited to staging for civil immigration enforcement activities is prohibited.
So that's an example of what a sign could look like could read like. The, I know that our residents and our neighbors and our families are disgusted with the efforts of, the DHS agents and ICE enforcement here in here, and the disheartening murder of a citizen on of Minneapolis is just outrageous. And that we need to, to do that. We have noted for five, well, going on six years now that we do not cooperate with ICE.
That's part of our city history. That's part of our city code. That's part of what we are. And I think that we, we stand firm in that. And as we look at what more we can do to prevent the, that type of outreach happening using city property is is proper. I'm also being one who looks at tries to look at all of unintended consequences if we prohibit a specific activity because it's politically motivated or it's whatever one would put on
this because it seems like it's a political action against citizens and residents of The United States and by the federal government itself, Then do we how does what happens to other free speech and gatherings in our public spaces and what kind of message of unfriendliness does Can we is it a slippery slope that you that you end up on? I don't know. But, to to have legal counsel help us in the, in the weeks ahead to craft a,
craft a good policy that doesn't put us at risk, I think, would be in order. That's my opinion. Do we have a sorry. Go ahead. Do we have a city policy for possession of firearms in on city property? It's a good question. Generally, my understanding of it is that firearms is not something that we're able to ban from city property. I think so too. We might be able to do it for park space though, but will you add that to the list of things that we look into? Yes. Yep. We can look into ability to And,
obviously, the sub subtext of that is gonna be law enforcement with firearms, so it may have a different standard. Yeah. Yep. And it's time. Our park signs need to be updated to include other adopted rules. Mhmm. They're behind. We have our, park rules. We don't allow smoking. Are they up? Yes. But not cannabis. Okay. That is enough. Yep. No. We have to get new all new signs. Okay. So while we're updating the signs, we could see if we could add this at the same time and make it a, I think I would add firearms and maybe make this a separate sign. I don't believe we can add firearms.
Or whatever. But, I mean, I I just think maybe this one's temporary just knowing that I don't know. Because I don't think that, We're in crazy times. We're in crazy times. Unfortunately, I don't think that we would have the power to tell law enforcement that they can't have firearms because they're exempt in all other cases. They're the ones that can actually carry them into the court buildings. They're the ones that can carry them into government buildings. They can carry them in airports and on airplanes and everywhere. And if you're an authorized federal law enforcement person,
you have the ability to utilize. And, actually, if you're a member of, the, state department, you're required to always carry your firearm in all situations. So I don't think that we can preempt that as much as we would like to, but there are some things that a municipality, just does not have jurisdiction on. Do we, do we move this signage issue to next to our next workshop in So it'd be policy and signage. The policy on signage? Policy and
Policy and signage to, to get more detail in, give us two weeks or a week and a half to to gather information and look through information and figure that out so we can discuss and workshop on the twenty eighth. If I may. One thought. I I mean, just to give the staff and counsel some guidance, I have some suggestions. So it would be looking into I have three options. Law enforcement, staging can only be done with cooperation of the Saint Anthony Police Department
that we would narrowly defined define park use and prohibit other uses, and that the third option would be the clear prohibition of immigration enforcement staging using city property. I think those are just kind of three different levels of our ideas. It's how I'm thinking of it. Okay. That fits pretty well. I mean, in interacting or in developing that, if you will, joint policy with the San Antonio Village Police Department, could we arrange to have them come to a workshop or a representative come to
a workshop to run through some of these scenarios we're talking about so we can get an idea of I mean, we could declare things and demand things, but are they realistic? And so I'd like to make the most realistic and have their partnership in this as much as possible. So is that possible? Or is that Yeah. It's possible. We can request that. I think the challenge is if we are going to pose individual one offs, they're all you know, they they will follow their policies.
And so each of those one offs, I think, either either the the challenge might be is that it's there's a lot of it depends and variance in that. Yes. Well, at least we get clarity on that then. And we wouldn't develop policy that isn't feasible. If we can keep it if I may if we can keep a little bit more open than calling them in to ask them specifically those things. Because I don't if if if chief's piece is comfortable doing that, that may be an option. It I would be a little concerned about being posed
specific questions on a hypothetical basis that I'm being expected to hold to, in any case. Oh, I see what you're saying. And so I'd I, I don't feel that that is something I want to do, at this point with the police. I have one comment that sort of just, occurred to me. Since there is a lawsuit in progress, we should consider whether it's beneficial to have our wording and our actions parallel those of is it Saint Paul that is filed? Yeah. It's state it's state of Minnesota through kind of the attorney general, but a lot of part of it's stemming through Saint Paul and their,
you know, kind of their their their participation is in regards to their parks specifically. If we were to have have our language mirror that of St. Paul, would there be an advantage and I don't know would there be an advantage to having basically, if St. Paul were to win that legal challenge, it would then be more directly applicable applicable to us rather than us writing something completely different, which we would have to defend on our own or file a lawsuit on our own. It's just if we could be under the cover of another legal precedent if the lawsuit is successful. If I may defer to city attorney just on the the timing expectations of that
or any any other information you can share on that. Yeah. I mean, so even predating this lawsuit that the city's, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the state have filed against DHS. DHS already sued Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the state for their sanctuary policies. So it's kind of two lawsuits actually ongoing right now. And they're taking some time to go through the court. So, there could be a benefit to more closely mirroring their policies. I will note they're both charter cities, so some of their policies are stemming from their charters.
So they have a little bit more flexibility maybe than statutory cities do. Also, Minneapolis's policy is much more in-depth. Their separation ordinance is quite robust. And so maybe for a city like Falcon Heights, mirroring fully what they have might not be the most suitable for where the city is at at this point. Right. And I'm not thinking this of merely fully or doing putting everything they did, but that what we do be covered under Mhmm. What they have done. So some even if it's a subset thereof, so that if a lawsuit were successful that we would have protection under that,
under precedent of that successful lawsuit. And not to litigate on our own or restart the legal process. I have a question. Has the League of Minnesota Cities legal team issued any advisories on this issue within, you know, beyond what we, you know, what we helped use in 2020 and, another another times. Yeah. Not to our knowledge. Okay. If so, what other statutory cities are doing as well to, to figure out. Maybe we keep an ear on that as part of, part of this as well so that,
as we go. A new workshop for the city, summer meeting. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. It I don't think that, as as much as I'd like to have quick action and say, boom, here we go, and this won't happen again here, it's pretty complicated. And, in the meantime, I think that we should continue to express our disgusted ICE activities and share our viewpoint or our concerns about the illegal activities and the way that things are going about with our federal representatives.
I know that they're being shut out as well, but maybe we as individual citizens, we can make certain that we're telling our legislators who are trying to do their best at those levels that they have our support and encouragement to continue them. But anyway, so as everybody think we think of Jim's three tier approach here or those three angles there? Very thoughtful, Jim. Thank you. Does that provide us some clarity to what to address in two weeks?
Weeks? Does that provide you good understanding guidance as to where to go from here? Yes. I just want to make sure that that if that captures the group also looking at signage, to go with policy as well. So, but, yes, the two would have to relate. And we'll want to hear the public comment here. There may be additional things that come up. That are part of that, that come in. As this is a free throw, do we move on from H1 move to, as I didn't see in the, in our request for action
to directly have public input on this particular issue. But we could do that. Mr. Mayor, my understanding is that with consent to the council we could open this up for We could. Yes, sir. I'm gonna yeah. Since it isn't on here, would there be consent from council to, to open open it up at this time for that for this specific on this One thing about this as part of that is that you would be speaking specifically about federal staging if we're to
have it relate to this policy. Whereas if comments and then do we preclude more, then we could have comments that are beyond this that people could bring up as part of community forum. That's my suggestion, Mr. Mayor, is that we ask for people to comment on what we just discussed on the city action proposal. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Council have consensus on that? That sounds It's more direct and heavy weight to the community forum. Yes. Right. Yep.
I think that it would, would help. So if, what we can do or what we'll do, if anybody would like to to add their comments to this for on this topic, on this specific topic, to come forward and, state your name and address clearly so that we can get that on the record, so that our notes are proper. And then, speak for three minutes after you've introduced yourself on this topic. Or less. Or less. Yeah. You don't have to go a full three. And, but that would, Can I just ask one Three things again?
The ideas the general ideas are that, three levels would be law enforcement staging would need to cooperate with, say, Saint Anthony Police Department prior to using city property, that we may define, park use very narrowly, and prevent other uses, prohibit other uses, or that we would specifically prohibit any immigration and civil immigration enforcement using city property. Okay. Yeah. Please come up here and, so that everybody can hear and that the people at at home who are watching
online and who will watch later can, can hear you and see you and, do that. So if you can please Can you hear me? Yep. Alright. State your name and address, please. My name is Adine Stokes. I'm at 1800 Holton Street. Okay. Thanks, Adene. My name is Adene Stokes. I'm a social worker who's been a resident and a taxpayer in this city for the past ten plus years. I'm here today to speak to you as an immigrant to this country, my country. I care deeply about the safety, dignity, and well-being of everyone who lives or comes into our community.
The behavior of ICE agents in Minnesota is deliberate. It's meant to trample on those things and to terrorize our people into keeping silent or even reporting their neighbors. In response, we must be strong, thoughtful, proactive and deliberate and take what steps we can as a community to protect our neighbors. As a council, you must make decisions that are best for the Falcon Heights community, not to take the bait and be bullied into breaking apart the unity of the people who live here. The real intent of the federal actions are here.
That's their real intent. As a social worker, I know that trust is essential for healthy communities. Families need to feel safe accessing schools, health care, and services. ICE is operating in our public spaces without clear limits, knowing what little recourse we have to stop them. The role of policing is complex. For ten years, Falcon Heights, we've done productive work around law enforcement's role and we've come a long way together, but ICE is making it dangerous for them, overriding their authority by whipping up community outrage to divide us yet again.
People are afraid to report crimes. People are afraid to seek medical care, to take their kids to school, attend community and school events. People are not going to work. People are not shopping. As immigrants, we are not abstractions or statistics. We're your neighbors. We're coworkers, caregivers, business owners and taxpayers. We contribute to this city economically, culturally and socially. We deserve to be treated with dignity. Please exercise your local authority to protect us by limiting ICE activity in as many ways as you possibly can, clarifying non cooperation policies,
ensuring city resources are used to serve and support our community, not to create fear. We need more support and education so we know what we can do as citizens. Not just immigrants, but all of the people in all of our cities and state are being vilified as the government works every day to turn others against us. We are an uncharted territory, but we're not alone. Cities across this country have taken action because these steps work. When people feel safe, communities are stronger, healthier and more resilient. In Falcon Heights, we have the compassion,
the courage and common sense. Please do whatever you can to restrict ICE activity in our public spaces and affirm that this city is committed to the safety and dignity of all who live here. Thank you. Thank you, Adi. Thank you. What time? I can move to Wow. All the rules are right here. Yeah. How about that? That thing you can That's impressive. Can refresh and, Yeah. My name is Signe Nesting, and I live at 1447 Iowa Avenue West. I, could just say ditto to what you just said.
Thank you so much. And thank you, Jim, for those three ideas. I appreciate that clarity. I'm gonna give some thought to those. I think it takes a lot of courage to act on behalf of our neighbors and the other citizens and immigrants to our country. And I think this is a moment that calls for that from every single one of us. And I don't think it's easy, and I don't, envy you your jobs and the responsibility you have right now. But I am counting on you. And I'm counting on you just like I'm counting on people in Congress
and other elected officials. I'm doing my part. I'm standing here. I'm up at the corner. I'm writing letters. I'm saying thank you to those who are standing up. I need you to do your part. And your part is to find a way to protect the dignity, the safety, and the well-being of the adults and the children, especially the children in this community. We owe that to them. They are who will be running this country in twenty and thirty and forty years, and we owe that to them. I think the other piece that I would say,
are two more things. One is diversity strengthens us as people, it strengthens our community and it strengthens our nation. And if we can't stand up for that now in three months or five months or six months or a year, we're not going to be able to. So we have to do it now. And I also, have a great deal of this and the legality of it, and I don't want our police officers, disrespected or in any way endangered. We've had enough divisiveness in this country. We do not need anymore. But they also are going to have to find a way to stand up.
And if there's a way that we can be at the parks when you put the signs up or know that there's going to be a, raid or something and we can be there with our signs saying no, ice get out of Minnesota. I'll be there. I'll be there with the biggest goddamn oops. Sorry. Biggest gosh darn sign you've ever seen. I will be there, and I suspect a bunch of our residents will also. So really thank you for thinking about this and talking about this. I'm sure as I think about it, I'll have other thoughts. But for tonight, that's what I have. So thank you so very much. And I want to thank all of you guys for being here.
I'm so glad. We have a good city. Who's that? Who's that? Hey, Melanie. Melanie Leahy. +1 865 Thank you so much, council and staff, mayor, for having the courage to do the hard work to sort through all of these things with our council, to what we can do as a city to protect our residents and the people that come through our city. I know more than a handful, a bucketful of individuals who have been terrorized, that are here legally. Them with their children in their vehicles being stopped,
guns drawn to their vehicles to tell them to show their ID. And they have every right to be exactly where they're at going to their daycare or their school. I know of teenagers that have been beat up in a vehicle and then released once they find out that that person is legally here, whether they're a legal immigrant or a native of our country. I know of First Nations people. This is their land that we are all on who have been apprehended wrongfully.
And ICE is out of control right now. So I appreciate everything that you guys are doing. I never thought the day would come that I would have to carry my passport while I'm in my own state, my own country where I was born and raised. I know even Ukrainians have been arrested at their restaurant that they run, and the whole restaurant has had to close. I know restaurants that have had to close, grocery stores that have had to close, people that are afraid to go to work, and that then impacts their ability for their livelihood to stay in their homes.
So there are so there's so much I can't even say the word. I'm just so angry. But I appreciate you guys doing what you can in this delicate balance of being a municipality up against federal people that have gone rogue right now. So thank you for having these discussions and doing what you can. Thank you very much. Thank you, Bentley. Three minutes goes by very quickly. Good evening. Thank Thank you for having me. My name is Guillermo Navarez. I can work on the spelling. I'm a resident of Saint Paul,
but I'm employed by that little educational institution across the street. And I frequently, I know some of you, and I frequently travel through through your city. I'm here as as a researcher as a who researches, works with my partner who's a policing expert and we have followed events both in Minnesota nationally and internationally around police issues. But more specifically we have been talking with
others, city councils throughout the state on this issue and to answer something that was asked, earlier, we're having informal conversations with the League of Minnesota cities, but it's very and the bed council is very complex because the bed council, as you know, is 183 municipalities. So it's difficult to get consensus on actions to take. To get to my point, we are making a set of seven recommendations, which many of them will apply to your city, understanding the size of the city. And you know,
you're not St. Paul, you're not Minneapolis but we live very close together, right? So I'll enumerate these very quickly. One, no use of city of resources not just police, parliamentary control, crowd control, site security and scene support, but also consider the use of data, funding, staffing and other infrastructure and resources to aid any ICE operation. I know you have a requirement to provide data, but it doesn't have to be in real time. Two, city shall not cooperate in any cases involving immigration control except when there are judicial
warrants that have been properly processed through the courts. Three. No federal immigration activities in which officers are concealing their identities. For example, through face covering, failure to wear badges, lack of license plates, etcetera. Four, not sure how this would apply to you because of the way you have your police contract structured, but required the approval of the mayor for any deployment of your police department in crowd control, when they're wearing riot gears,
etcetera. This is actually a great concern both in many uplifts in Saint Paul given things that have happened in the last few months. Time, ten more seconds. Document and provide a timely public report of any request to the city from ICE and similar operations. And city staff outline the disciplinary actions to be taken if ordinances are not followed and also to provide proper training on how to engage with, ICE and immigration control. Thank you very much. And please keep I know you have a rough history in the past,
but please keep doing the great work you, you know, and make this place like the rest of the state a very welcoming place for all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. I'm Chris Moan. I live at 1785 Hamlin Avenue North. I would like to say that, again, don't envy your guys' position. I think one of the things that people like about what the other side is doing is that they're they're effectual. They do it quickly. They mobilize an entire department to, come to our our state in a very rapid manner.
I would encourage you to try and emulate the speed at I mean, they might be gone by the time we put up signs. Right? So like, it's a good signal to show your people that you are going to respond in kind. And I think that they're not they're not going to listen anyways. Right? They're not going to listen to the signs. So I'm a site reliability engineer by trade. And one of the things we do is we try and make things resilient. But when they break, we have runbooks for what to do when they break.
We were just talking about, like, we're kind of in a donut. If you looked at some of the websites, we don't have a whole lot of ice activity right here right now. Which means our community is not practiced with a response. Having these policies, communicating them out, will show our, people in our city that the city itself has their backs, and this is what we should do to to respond to it. I understand that Saint Anthony Police can't come in and just, you know, shoo ice out. That's true. But I'm sure there's plenty of the people in the community that would like to
respond, And they would like to respond in a quick and effective manner. And if there was any, like an email blast that came out and said, These are our policies as a city. This means specifically that if you see anybody, especially ICE, you know, going against those policies, this is the action that you take and then it gets out to the community that would have then a response to it in a in a quick and effective manner. So, yeah, I think that would be wonderful. Thank you. Thank you,
Chris. Hi. I'm Eric Winter. I'm at 1683 Larpenter Avenue West. First of all, I'll just repeat. Thank you all. This isn't an easy time. I was that annoying guy who sent an email with a bunch of questions earlier this week, and I got a response within a day from all four members of the council, so thank you for that as well. The three options that Jim put out I think are really great and really helpful to hear, and what it got me thinking about is the fact that just thinking about ICE or border patrol as immigration enforcement,
that's the issue we're dealing with today. I think, it's important to keep in mind that this is the largest paramilitary police force in the country, and they are only accountable to one individual. They can do whatever they want. They've made it very clear with their rhetoric that immigration is what they're doing now, that they are going to be looking at, all kinds of free speech and all kinds of different citizens as domestic terrorists, or they keep using to describe lots of people, including myself, because I go hold up a sign every now and then on the street.
So, let's not limit ourselves in terms of thinking about the problems right now. Let's make sure that we're thinking broadly about what is certain to be coming in the future as well. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Anybody else like to comment on this policy item? Thank you all for doing so. Please come to the podium so we can hear. The rules say once everybody's had a chance to speak, a second chance for three minutes will be allowed. On the town hall thing. Yeah. Those if you would you like to speak again?
Well, I Okay. Go ahead. But I also somebody else might want to also. Yeah. So every everybody who's wanted to speak has spoken? Reach your head nods. Okay. I would have something else that I would like to say. I would just like to second the idea of moving quickly. I I don't I'm sorry. I can't remember your name. Yeah. About the other past. Well, there's an old story about a couple in The Netherlands who were, faced with the fact that the, dam in the canal was broken and the water was coming to their house.
And so the man says, gosh. I think we should pray. And his wife says, no. Let's pray and run at the same time. So that means we can do more than one thing at a time. So we need to do more than one thing at a time. You need to think on our feet, and we need to have action steps, and it needs to be communicated to the community. And I know that's asking a lot. I get that. I've been in complicated situations myself. I'm a psychologist. That's what I did for a living is complicated situations. I get that. And we have to act quickly. So I just want to echo those words. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
Anyone else? All right. Thank you all for having the courage to come and speak before the council. It's not an easy thing to do, and we do appreciate it when people do tell us what they're thinking and what, what their ideas are. As as we move on this one, one thing I would like to follow-up with is make certain that you do, stay tuned to our Citi communication lines. We have a weekly e newsletter where this the issue, on this week, they come out on Monday afternoons,
kind of, to summarize what happened the week before. Did have a statement clarifying all of our city policies and practices regarding immigration enforcement, cooperation with immigrant, and did have resources for people to, to follow-up with to, to do. We take this issue very, very seriously, and we want this community to be a welcoming community where we all feel safe. So, Noah said, I'll speak on behalf of the council. I'll speak on myself because, I don't speak for the council,
because everybody we do those things together. But from my perspective, that has been, our goal since I, was willing to put my name on a ballot and serve here. And, it was to make this a welcoming community and one that supports each other, where we treat each other with dignity as humans, regardless of our color, our creed, our sexual orientation, our marital status, our homesteads, whatever it might be, we want everybody to be welcome here and to thrive here and to raise families
and to do what we can do best. So, thank you for sharing that vision with us and your ideas to make this happen as we're assaulted by the current unfortunate actors at the federal level. But anyway, so I apologize for stepping out of our role. Counsel, do we have I think have we I think are we clear what we're going to, going to look for? Staff understands kind of do we have a clarity for what kind of direction we'll take come? I think so.
I just want to clarify that it's still the same understanding and expectation. Right. So on January 28, we will come at the workshop with proposals as to ordinances and other areas that we can look at. Yep. Yep. I would say unless there's an opportunity to craft that sooner and Yeah. We take advantage of one of those little Wednesdays that we had so nicely preserved. Well, that would be the week after that our next meeting. That would be February. Yeah. Next Wednesday is State Fair Task Force. Oh. That's one of the one of the challenges we have most.
And then Thursday is, there's an event in this room. Almost every day has a event next week. Has has an event to, to go here. Yep. Friday is game night on a friendly note. So We should see what we can schedule. If if it's possible to move faster, if something's ready, we shouldn't be waiting as a council to to talk about it. My 2¢. Okay. Makes sense. It's up to count yeah. The council direction on that. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna take us a little, you know It's gonna take it's gonna take some time to get to get this
done. And I don't think you know, as as much as we want to do do speed, we are communicating that we are not in support. We are doing that and we are finding ways to strengthen our our city position. And I think that we want to be act as quickly as we responsibly can without putting the city at risk. It's fine. You know, minimize our risk as best as possible. But so by bringing it up in in two weeks, at our at our next workshop, at least we're not having to wait four weeks,
which would be the, the workshop after well, I guess it would only be one week after that one. Waiting three weeks to bring it up to workshop and then have it be an additional to go beyond. And just to add to timing expectations too and just kind of to have that discussion, if it is an ordinance change, you know, we would have to look at to, you know, whether a public hearing is necessary for it, noticing of that as well. So it does depend a bit on what we're doing so that, you know, if we bring something on the twenty eighth, that's for workshop purposes.
Mhmm. Right. Yeah. Go ahead, May. The only add on to that would be if it's possible for the for staff and council to present something to be prepared to present something in the workshop and then maybe be able to also carry that on to an the agenda at the city council meeting afterwards. Obviously, ordinances, we can't do public hearings and put things that need required notice, but it's possible if you have the ability to for us to discuss it at workshop and then decide to put it on the meeting agenda as well.
No. And then we can always amend meeting agenda. The, with with the risk of, making certain we don't violate, open meeting law. The Because with the items needed need to be presented three days prior to a meeting. No. Because it's a regular scheduled meeting, we can It's a regular scheduled meeting, but past practice of, this the city has been to have as much information as possible about each one of the, each item brought before a council and try to minimize the use of
adding in an item without prior notice and stuff in order to minimize well, basically, to minimize things that should be should be noticed ahead of time. Yeah. One consideration, you know, as I kinda think through this is that what we potentially could do and I guess I might I I don't wanna get too far offline with this. If if there was a public hearing, if I had direction from the council to notice a public hearing, we could get that process started. The challenge I don't know is if I can have a public hearing without you
know, if I could notice a public hearing without having the ordinance ready for review at that point. And that's where I think the challenge would be. I will say, though, depends on you know, for modifying city code, it generally is gonna require a public hearing. There are certain ones that don't. I will say our administrative manual, does not necessarily require a public hearing, but as we've faced with the state fair task force, it's a level lower than ordinance. It is our city policies. It's our rules. It's how we abide staff. We can hire you know, or we can kinda use that as our policy for disciplining employees.
I mean, there's a lot we can do with the administrative manual, but it's not as strong as an ordinance. Right? And so if there are code changes, we'd wanna follow that practice. So that's where it does get Right. Complex. Could it be a policy for a few weeks and then we do a vote on it as an ordinance? It could be something in the administrative manual for until we can have it as an ordinance with the hearing. Yeah. Yes. I'd say what we could do is we could bring this as a a dual item, put it on the agenda as a, policy item, with the idea that it's gonna be finalized at the workshop.
My understanding of that is that for the intent of the Open Meetings Act is that, you know, again, the council can add items generally to an agenda. We would we still could notice that that's an item on the agenda. Right? So we'd notice approval of administrative manual sections. I believe we could workshop them before. Does that sound reasonable? That we could workshop a a policy non ordinance and then approve it that night, but then the packet would not have the packet for the workshop would have materials we're suggesting, work through it, and then propose it to come that night at the meeting.
That make sense? Mhmm. Okay. I my my second one is I would suggest that kinda we've put out there as to what our workshop items are for the twenty eighth is can I get consensus from the council to cancel the rest of those and have this the priority? And then we can push all everything back a little bit. Yeah. I know we have a guest coming. We we have to work with them to reschedule and stuff. But just, the, Essence of time. Does it doesn't, affect any of the things that that require the city to operate. We've we took care of all of all of that,
must have must have in place things by, by this in order to meet meet our statutory requirements such as, you know, naming our our folks and, you know, naming our banks and naming our Yes. We've those we've got all of that done. Yes. Correct. The the two that are outstanding that were on the workshop is, appointing an acting mayor. We didn't talk about we talked about a lot of stuff at the retreat, but that was one that we missed as the acting mayor and then also, kinda going through the rules and guidelines.
So usually we adopt that this meeting. It doesn't have to be this meeting. We have pushed that into February, and so we exist off the existing council standing rules. So the previous councils, we'll call it standing rules from 2025, continue until modified. So there's just been some proposed changes to it, so we'd wanna talk about that. So we can talk about that in February. So yes. That sounds fine. Okay. Thank you for being creative and to move with all deliberate speed without abusing the rules. Even though others are abusing the rules, it doesn't mean that we have to.
We can still follow the rules of our civil society. Yeah. I would I don't think that the city needs to be sued over violating an open meeting law in order to expedite something that, you know, that we're trying to stretch our authority as best we can. The orange man may only come after little cities on little intricacies like that, and you never know what the gentleman is gonna do. So I'd like to avoid us being put there over a stupid open violation an inadvertent violation of an open meeting law.
That's how you get tripped up. Okay. Are we good? I would say yes. We have direction, and I know what to include in the, packet. It goes out next Friday. So that gives us you know, again, I know I know it feels like that's forever. You know, we've been working quite a bit on this, and I know, you know, I'm not you know, I I know everyone that this is a new challenge for us. Right? For everybody, there's not a lot of a playbook out there for this. You know, and a lot of our other activities and stuff. This is our this has been a priority for us. You know, as we work through this with staff,
we work with other cities, we learn from each other. We're all we all see kinda what we're doing, and for the betterment, we wanna all work together and and do that. So, we'll continue to do that, but I just wanna make clear this isn't one of those, like, you know we we need that time just to go through legal reviews, everything else, but it is a high priority for us. Yep. Okay. Good. We don't need to vote on that, right? No, Mayor. Okay, good. That's policy, Adam, too. Thank you, everyone, for your comments there. Next, we'll move to the down on our agenda and get to information and announcements as
an opportunity for each one of the council members to report on what the their oops have been involved with some things. Jim, you wanna start it off? Sure, sure, sure. Joe, I was, we had our parks meeting, earlier this, earlier this month, and as the mayor had previously mentioned, there's gonna be a game night, a chance to come together as a community here on Friday from six to eight. I the last one was great fun. It's a great way to meet your neighbors, bond with them, build your community. I highly recommend you do it. I'll be there if I don't have a conflict, but, I do recommend that you attend. It is great fun.
Bring the kids. And otherwise, the parks just, elected officers went over our goals for new year and did some creative event planning for further, events to bring our community together and to have some fun. So that's from it for me. Okay. Council member Melke? Environment commission met on Monday, and, it's good to be there and wrap up my role as the liaison. Again, also elected their officers and worked on their goals. And other I just wanna thank residents who came out and spoke tonight.
And, for everyone, I just encourage you, if you can, take the training that's offered for being an observer if that's outside your comfort zone, other things. It's really great to be at the corner of Snelling And Larpenter at 04:00 on Mondays. You could also be at the corner of Lexington And Larpenter at 03:00 on Fridays, and there's just a lot of community camaraderie being out there. And also, our school social workers are asking if people can do this to donate gift cards to grocery stores that are being given out to, families. So at Falcon Heights Elementary or Broomhall or wherever you can do that,
that'd be great. Okay. Georgiana? I'm not assigned to a, commission yet, but I am Yes. You are. You're just firm. I Yeah. Now I am. But, I will remind people that, I do serve on the Board of the Friends of the Philando Castile Peace Garden, and this will mark the tenth year of his killing in our community. And I encourage everyone to participate in the events that we have on July, where we'll be especially remembering that event and its impact on our city and
the community. Council member Morgan. Thank you. Well, I did actually get to, do, some work, on the, as the liaison to the planning commission. We've interviewed for, the my my the seat that I had to vacate. We hope to come to the council next meeting with a, recommendation. So Cool. And, I'll be serving on the Parks and Rec Commission this, this year as Jim stays with Northeast Youth and Family Services. And I am looking forward to rejoining Parks and Rec. When I first was elected to the Council in 'fifteen and 'sixteen,
I served on Parks and Rec. So they've done a lot more, a lot of advancement and a lot of work. They've had a lot more fun last few years with the renovation of the park, and I'm looking forward to being part of part of that mission. And I'm gonna miss game night. I apologize. I've got a five year old's first hockey game. But, the, so I encourage everybody to do that, to participate. We'll be interviewing, candidates who wanna be commissioners on Parks and Rec this Friday morning. And, so I get to take a little vacation time to to do that.
But anyway, so thank you for also everyone for coming out and and for being residents and, staying strong during these, cumulus times. And, you know, continue doing what you can. The, and then what else is going on at, at the city, Jack? There's a lot more happening than, what we've got here. Yeah. Thank you, mayor and council. So, staff has been busy. Our license renewals are in good shape, getting everything now in our 2026, doing all of our fire inspections. We had our new, administrative and communications intern, Ainsley Brown, began on January 4,
which was exciting to have her join our team. Ainsley grew up in Falcon Heights, goes to the University of Minnesota. Unrelated, she had kinda covered some Falcon Heights issues and her, kind of the U of M newspaper. And so I had some we had some familiarity working with her, and, so she's a great addition to have her on our our team. We staff worked we're getting we have a, a renter's rights and tenant's rights event, January 24, at City Hall. So staff work to get the letters out to all the, rental units for that.
We're going through public works has been plowing and replowing and replowing, sidewalks, going through scraping, trying to whenever stuff melts, even though it's not an official plow. And so I think it's been a tough year for that of, public works will go through, and we know that's frustrating for people when they go through after you've already, you've already shoveled the end of your driveway. But we're continuing to just get everything off. It's been a a tough year for freeze thaw. So continue to go out there, work on that. And, otherwise, just working community park, has been electrified. So they got the electric to the building, getting all the heat inside,
moving, different parts inside, getting all ready to go. And so working on that. So that's starting to pick up again as well. So that's what we've been working on. Cool. Alright. Well, that sets that. Next, we would have our community forum. Here's a chance for, people to come and speak on items not on the agenda that they would like to bring to the council's attention that, we could be referred for consideration. We may ask questions for clarification, but we won't take counsel action on those ideas or discussions held on them. But anyway,
so I'd like to, at this time, open it up for community forum. I'd like to come and have something else to talk about other than what we've talked about. All right. Thank you, Risa. Risa. Risa. Risa Davis. I don't remember news. 407 California Avenue. One that works with your team. A couple of questions. The city's official newspaper, Pioneer Press, not a lot of people get an actual hard copy of paper these days. Are there any other options for those of us who I mean,
can you how many possibilities do you have for the city official city publication? Thoughts? Can't answer? I don't know. I don't know. I think state statute requires you to use the a, a local newspaper that reaches as many as possible in in your area. So in addition so that's why we have to use the the pioneer why we use the pioneer press. Can you only use one? Can you have more than one? Could you do the Then what we do in addition Could you do the you some other local
publication that probably hits more people? Think about it. The yes. What we do do is we list all of those items in that weekly newsletter, and we have links to to the actual agenda items that have full full spots and are announcing things. And then when we do have a public hearing, as such on those, those are sent out with mail, direct mail to, to homes and those affected. That they're affected. Yeah. So that Okay. Alright. We try our best that way. And then we use our social media outlets Okay. To,
also, get get the word out. Okay. Back to plowing. The alleys in the North Home area are plowed privately that we pay for. The ends of every alley are so rutted that that I and I don't know if that's the alley people's business to take care of or if that's the city's because it's right at the end. And I know there's been some discussion about the city taking over the alley plowing in the future, possibly. So we want to keep that in mind with this freezing and thawing.
It's a big it's a big issue. It's it's hard to get out. Mister mayor? Miss Davis, can you identify, an example so that we can ask public works to go check it out to An example? Yeah. California Avenue, alley with On Albert K. And the one across the street. Okay? On the East side and the West side of Albert California Avenue. I don't know. What what about your so hot. On what street? Idaho. Idaho. Okay. Okay. Check them out. All of them, in other words. Check them out. Okay.
So that's the ends of the alleys in the newspaper. How many trucks does Falcon Heights have now? How many trucks and what do all those trucks do? I'm seeing a new truck here. This the oh, the the new, electric 150? I know it says a Ford Lightning F-one 150 truck. Yep. That's, that is replacing the current F-two 50 that has reached end of life. And, so this one will not only help us meet our sustainability goals and climate action
plan by being electric powered, it will also replace that one in the fleet. So it stays the same in order to meet the smaller plowing So the original question, my question is how many trucks does Falcon Heights have? I suppose offhand, I think we have seven, six Seven. What? Vehicles. If we've got a, we have we have three plow trucks. We have a, we have a a one a four fifty. I don't know. The numbers don't impress me because I don't know what F-one 50,
F-two 50, whatever they need. We have we have How many trucks, what do they do, how many do we need? We we, we have, we're staffed with, with enough ability to be able to clear the streets of Falcon Heights of snow within, within a six hour period of starting off and cover, Lauderdale at the same time. Well, all of the trucks are just snow trucks? No. In the winter, there's snow trucks. And then in the summer, there are other trucks. Once again, how many trucks does the city of Falcon Heights have?
How many? So respectfully to you, Risa, and to our mayor, I don't believe that public community forum is a forum for debate. Discussion? Okay. That's fine. Okay. I'm going to just throw it out there. Get back to you about that. That's fine. You can get back to me. You can get back to me and Okay. Anybody else who's interested in how many trucks the city has and what they do with them. And I have lived here for many, many years, and it's increasingly difficult to see the turned in to City Hall. There are no lights out there and I know that we've talked about this before,
Jack, and that there's some electrical issues going on and we can't light the city hall sign, but it's really hard. I know where I know where this place is. All of my friends here, we all know where it is, but it's hard to see. You want to advertise where you are, the city of Falcon Heights. Sign should be lit somehow. Thanks, Risa. I just wanna say it's been a busy red letter writing week for me because I also sent a letter to the Department of Public Works with four pictures from my alley about how I we don't use that end of the alley right now.
It's on Paschal between Iowa and Idaho on the they just did the West Alley, so the alley that ends up the west end. And I'm the east side of the alley. I don't know how to explain it any better. Anyway, I just sent a long letter explaining all that was four pictures attached for our alley. So Sure. Photographs. You got them. Thanks. Alright. Anybody else? Community Forum calling twice, calling three times. Well, I want to thank you all. It's always good to hear
from the community and what's going on. Our next item of business is number K. Anybody want to introduce it? Motion to adjourn. It's been moved that we adjourn by Councilmember Bogan. Discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you very much. We are adjourned at, 08:30. Yeah. 08:31. Time.