four minutes. We are adjourned. In the favor. No one opposed. The resolution is adopted, as amended. Item 14 is a staff report of the 2025 legislative Report, and this is item is being laid over to JULY 23rd. I ll take a motion from MR. Trotsky to I m sorry. We ll take it from his boy to suspend the rules, to consider a resolution that we considered earlier at a public safety committee. Uh, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The rules are suspended. Resolution 25 1015 honoring community partners and recognizing National Gun Violence Awareness Month. MISS Bowie. Thank you everyone. So, um, like I said earlier today, we had our
community partners there to present, um, and bring awareness to national gun violence, uh, month, which is the month of JUNE. So, um, because it is the month of JUNE, I want to visualize it. And I, you know, respectfully appreciate, you know, suspending the rules for us to adopt this resolution. Thanks, MISS Bowie. Thanks for, um, again, your leadership at the committee and also inviting all of those wonderful community groups to come. It was really great to have them here. So, um, any discussion of the motion? MR.. Thank you. Council presidenen And yeah, I just want to offer my thanks. Uh, Chair Bowie. I mean, I thought the every time we ve we ve had several times this month where
so many community members are up here introducing themselves, and it shows sort of the scope and the breadth of what it takes to try and get at some of these complex issues and even even the amount of appreciation I heard from them for the staff director Blakey, and just the amount of intention and strategy that goes in to try and tackle like such such difficult issues as gun violence. It was just so helpful to see them all here put like human faces to the names. All the youth working on this stuff, all the all the folks in the schools, folks working with our Korean folks. You know, it was just the the breadth of it was so impactful. So really appreciate being able to see it and all the work ons
and all the community groups do to try and attack this problem. Thank you. I do want to add to that. Thank you so much. Um, Council Member, for highlighting because the organizations that spoke today, they re in partnership already in partnership and in contract with the Office of Neighborhood Safety. Um, so through the leadership of nea and also Director Blakey is why they were here today. Um, I know in the past when I reviewed, uh, previous, um, National Gun Violence Awareness Month, we ve had organizations, advocacy organizations like Moms Demand Action. Um, we ve also have shed light on like, you know, uh, people who have lost their
lives. So and particularly for this month, um, I wanted to be in partnership and collaboration and highlight, you know, the investments that our city already has when it comes to our community. Who s who are doing the boots on the ground work, um, every day. So it was, um, you know, every single time we have opportunity to bring people up to actually hear the impact. I think that s really important. So I couldn t agree more. MISS Johnson yeah. I just. Want to echo the same, uh, gratitude sentiments and also just say that it was really great to see all the young folks in the chamber today during the public safety meeting. Um, I ve had a few different chances to at least have the opportunity to
communicate with Worldview Connect, and so it was really cool to see. And the group of young leaders stand during their time, um, to share a little bit about the work that they do. And so, you know, humble shout out because they do meet in Ward seven. But I genuinely appreciate, uh, the continued investments that we re making around the especially at this time, I feel like, about bringing awareness to gun violence in our city, but also throughout, uh, our country, because it just continues to need to be brought up, unfortunately, to bring awareness to such an important and vital issue. I think one of the things that stuck out to me was that it was more than just policy changes. It s also about, you know, how we interact and how we do efforts like this which bring awareness
to them here in the community. So just genuinely appreciate Councilmember Bowie for bringing forth this resolution and time, um, to still acknowledge it for last JUNE meeting, because I think it s just important that we don t let this go by and that we honor the organizations doing great work. So thank you. Uh, thank you again. I wasn t expecting, you know, for all of the remarks, but I also want to give better context to, um, not only this, uh, resolution. Um, but we ll be following up in the next couple of months to hear it directly from Office of Neighborhood Safety and also Saint Paul Pub or Saint Paul Police Department. Around the non-fatal gun unit, um, that launched last year. I know there
s been a lot of, um, coverage on like the great work by, um, dramatically lowering homicide related, um, or gun related homicides by just one single digits. Um, especially around this time. Um, you know, that s not a huge victory because still, a family has lost a life. Um, but at the same time, we want to just highlight the incredible investments and how, you know, we re actually seeing the results, the outcomes drastically go down when it comes to gun violence in Saint Paul. Great. Awesome. Well, with that, it sounds like there s a lot of support around the table. Any further discussion of the motion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Seven in favor. No one
opposed. The resolution is adopted. I will take a motion for MISS Yang to suspend the rules again to consider a resolution in support of the Hmong International Freedom Festival. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The rules are suspended. Resolution 25 Dash 1030. Recognizing the successes of the Hmong International Freedom Festival held by the United Hmong Family, Inc.. MISS Yang thanks Council PRESIDENT. Well, last week we got. To hear a lot from the board members of the United Hmong family about the 43rd annual Hmong Freedom Festival being hosted this weekend. So it s Saturday and Sunday from 8 A.M. To 8 P.M. At the McMurray fields. Um, and I want to say thanks to Council Member Johnson for making a suggestion for us to present a resolution
to them. And also shout out to Councilmember for going this weekend to present thiso them at their grand opening. Um, this is a resolution that recognizes the profound leadership of the United Hmong Family Corporation and also the contributions of the Hmong community to our city. It also proclaims this Saturday as International Freedom Festival Day in our city, too. So I m really looking forward to it. And I know it s going to be a lot of fun, as always. So thanks everybody for your support and suspending the item, and hopefully we can get this approved. Great. Sounds like a motion. Any discussion? Seeing none. Thank you for your leadership in seeing and bringing this forward. And it was great to hear firsthand
about the the festival from the organizers. Uh, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 15 is final adoption of ordinance 2536, amending the appendix to chapter 409 of the Legislative Code pursuant to section 17.0 7.1 of the charter and section 409.20 of the Legislative Code to create an additional commercial development district at 1624 1626 White Bear Avenue North. This item is before us for final adoption. We had a public hearing in the ward last week. Um, so I ll take a motion from his yang for approval and look to my colleagues for any discussion of the motion. MISS Yang. Thank you. I just wanted to say I
m very supportive of the request here. I think that it s a very good fit for the properties, especially with this being a business corridor. I also appreciate all the testimonies that we got. Um, there were a few that were in person last week and also more that were submitted onto the memo, onto the agenda item here that I was able to review. So I think that, um, you know, overall, the concerns on safety is always the question that s being raised when it comes to, um, commercial districts and anything related to bars and alcohol. I, the, the business owners, they did send a memo just following up on their safety plan. And if you do ever go into the restaurant, you ll always see that they are they
have a top notch signal security system and plan in place. Um, and also have a great reputation in the community overall. Um, this is a really well trusted establishment that even like, you know, the port, the city, lots of business organizations, they host events here. And so I think that they did really great, just really addressing the concerns overall. So I look forward to supporting this. And um, with that, I move approval of it. Great. Thank you. MISS Yang. MR.. Thanks. Council PRESIDENT. And I would just echo the points made by Councilmember Yang. I think, um, obviously when hours change, you know, you need to have safety and, um, in place, you know, safety plan in place, need to have, um, things to make sure things don
t go awry. I also think the flip side of this relates to what we talked about in the hra, which is when we re trying to help businesses in distress, like in emergency. And we ve dealt with this in my ward recently. Um, it can feel like we re sort of coming in after and trying to address. And I think the business owners at the hearing last week made clear this is them trying to be a little bit upstream and saying, hey, we are struggling a little bit. Like things are pretty lean. And this is one way where we can, you know, expand our revenueue stream or expand our client pool. Um, and so I view this very much as one of the ways we can be more proactive, like I mentioned so much in the hra just earlier, um, just ensuring our small
businesses have the chance to succeed and be flexible and innovate and try new things. And so I think this is the type of thing we absolutely should be doing. Thank you. Any further discussion, MISS Johnson? Yeah, I just would share, um, that I m really grateful to the team. Uh, that of business owners that came out both to the public hearing, um, offsite, but as well as the follow through that it was, um, immediately kind of met after some other questions that were just surrounding from the district councils and some of the neighborhood folks that wanted to know a little bit more about their, um, about their plans for safety and for security. And I think just how we respond to our community is always really important. And so when the public comments pose
questions, I think sometimes it s, you know, it s more than just folks being able to vocalize their opinion, but also being able to hear back from those same business owners about what their plans and what their, uh, you know, what their efforts will be to continue to match that. And so that was really appreciative to, um, to the Cups and Cheers team for actually following through with that request and following through with the memo providing the memo to some of the leaders that did speak at the public hearing as well. And that was positive feedback that I also received following after that. And so I just think that, you know, that continued communication that goes along with doing innovative ideas and how we inform folks how we be a community partner is so relevant. Um, so I you know, I appreciate the motion here. And
uh, overall just really, really excited to see this go through. Uh, but I think in part that s just an a testament to how they do business. I think that s part of the reason why they ve been they do have a positive reputation on the East Side. And just being able to have, uh, an open dialogue about what their plans and intentions are. Um, and have that up front and just be responsive to what people are asking. I have a lot of respect for that. Thank you. All right. Seeing no further discussion. All in favor of the motion, say aye. All opposed. Seven in favor? No, oppose. The ordinance is adopted. Item 16 is first reading of ordinance 22, Dash 34, amending chapters 33. 60. 61. 62. 63, 65, and 66 of the Legislative Code to
correct errors and to update and clarify language. I want to know what s wrong with 64. Just kidding. Uh, this is the first reading where we normally have a staff report. Welcome up, MR. Dermody. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT And council members, Bill Dermody, pd staff, uh, standing in for Chris Hong, who actually did the work on this study and isn t here today. Um, just want to give you a little background on this. We call this the Minor Text Amendment study. So this is not major significant policy decisions. It s clean up stuff like fixing typos. Um, updating language, codifying long standing interpretation of the zoning code would be the categories I
d put this into. I ll give you a few examples. I won t go through everything, but, you know, for example, issues should have been issued. Um, we had for travel demand management when we worked on updating that part of code inadvertently a some language that had been a committee recommendation earlier, but not the Planning Commission recommendation got put in in addition to everything else. That was inadvertent, that needs to be taken out. Um, we had a couple of big zoning studies in recent years, including the, the, uh, 1 to 4 zoning study that created the h districts and replaced most of our districts. While we still have some references to our districts in the code that need
to be cleaned up, cleaned up and taken out, and we have some other outdated language we used to call our conditional use permit, special conditional use permits. And there s that word special still shows up sometimes and confuses people. So we needed to take that out of the code. Um, maybe the most substantive change that that s in here is, uh, we had the electric vehicle parking, um, amendments last year that that went through, and, um, they were the general intent of that was to make sure basically, uh, opportunities weren t lost to prep for future ev charger installation. Um, but one thing that got caught in the last minute additions was that if somebody
s doing a, a surface parking facility reconstruction, uh, there was no differentiation about what applied to them and what didn t. And it just it was never the the intent to make people do electrical upgrades to a building when all they re doing is a parking lot reconstruction. So just cleaning up that that bit of code to match the intent, um, on electric vehicle parking. And that s actually, incidentally, uh, an important one to the school district. They have a few parking lot reconstructions going through this year, and they thought, oh, wow. Um, we ve got a big price tag on our hands if we have to upgrade the electricity electric panels to all the
buildings. Of course, that will make more sense if they re doing something with the building in the future. Not for projects like this. Um, there s a long standing interpretation of the zoning code that, uh, needs clarification, and that s that. Colleges, universities and seminaries have a maximum campus building height of 90ft. If it s a campus of, uh, five acres or more. Um, there had been some confusion where we have the maximum heights in the zoning code that apply to most buildings. And then this, um, that allows heights up to 90ft. It has always been the
interpretation that campuses have special height limits. And that was recognized when those height limits went into place back in 1989. Uh, it is not new interpretation. It s the way it s always been interpreted. But it does cause some confusion. So this is an effort to clean up, um, the zoning code and clarify for, for people how we always interpret. Those. That s all I have. Any questions? Great. Thanks. MR. Germany. Uh, it looks like MR.. Thanks, Council PRESIDENT. Um, I, I guess I, I went in thinking I have the most of these but other folks might have many as well. I have several, several higher ed campuses that fit the five acre plus. And so we actually got questioned directly about whether this change would have sort of make dramatic change on
all of these campuses. And, uh, Chris and Bill were both very helpful in clarifying one of the reasons the impact wouldn t happen overnight is because almost all of these campuses have a conditional use permit. In addition, that would be sort of the ruling law. So, for example, you know, Hamlin, Luther, Saint Thomas Luther is being sold. That will no longer be a campus. But places like that already have sort of the plans overlaying it as well. So I appreciate staff clarifying that. Um, and also very much agree with the these like the thrust of the zoning, the fact that a five acre campus really is kind of its own downtown and having higher density makes sense. So appreciate the
underlying zoning and the fact that it won t change in the real world, where those cups are in place. Um, thanks, MR. Petrovsky, I have a, I guess two small questions. Just out of curiosity. One, do these minor text amendments, like major text amendments, also go through the whole planning Commission process before they come to us? First question. Yes, they do. Okay. And we, including the public hearing that was held at Planning Commission. Okay. Good. Okay. Um, thorough process. That s good. And then um, second question is I m glad to see these things happening. I think the cleanup is important. And often we don t take the time to go back and do that work. And then our code gets really
messy. Is this part of a longer, larger effort to do this throughout the code? Um, that we re just seeing a piece of or otherwise? How is this generated? Does someone just sort of say, hey, you know what, like chapter 60 or 65 really could use? Can you contextualize how this works a bit? Good for us. Question. Council PRESIDENT Baker we used to do this every couple of years, uh, for a long time. And I think it s been since like 2017 since we last did it. So it s gotten to be more than a couple, and it s just building and building, and we get questions and had the chance to finally do what we used to do more regularly and clean this up. It s it s, uh, I d like to,
to say we can avoid this, but it s almost inevitable that small things will need to be fixed over time and and probably should be a regular part of what we do going forward every few years. As well. Yeah, it s great to know you re back on back on track. Uh, any other questions? Doesn t look like it. Thanks so much, MR. Dermody. Um, do we need to move to late? Over. I can just say it. The ordinance is laid over to JULY 9th for second reading. Public hearing item 17 is a public hearing of ordinance 22, Dash 37, authorizing public works to collect fees from road use for garbage services to support the costs of operations and disposal, and. Setting the 2025 late fee for delinquent garbage
bills. So this brings us to the public hearing section of our agenda. If you re here to testify on any of the next public hearing items, what we ll do is we ll say the item just like MISS Moore just did. When you hear your item. If you re here to testify, when I call for the public hearing, please just come up. Stand right between those two microphones. You don t need to adjust them. They will pick you up just fine. Um, you ll have two minutes to testify. Start by telling us your name and where you re coming from. And when you re done with your testimony, please make sure to sign in on either of the two sign in sheets right next to you. Uh, so with that, this is item 17. Is there anyone here to speak to this item? Seeing none, I ll take a motion from
Vice PRESIDENT Kim to close the public hearing and lay the matter over for final adoption on JUNE, JULY 9th. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed. Seven in favor. No one opposed. The public hearing is closed, and the ordinances later to JULY 9th for final adoption. Item 18 is resolution. Public hearing 20 5-1 22 approving the application of Saint Paul Saints Baseball Club for a sound level variance in order to present amplified soundor the rock. The fourth event on JULY 4th at 360 Broadway Street chs field. Sounds like fun. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone
herereo speak to this item? Seeing no, no. Seeing none. I ll take a motion from Chair Johnson to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The public hearing is closed and the resolution is adopted. Item 19 is resolution public hearing 20 5-1 23 approving the application of Rondo Avenue, Inc for sound level variance in order to present amplified sound on Saturday, JULY 19th at 271 McCubbin Street, Martin Luther King Recreation Center. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak to this item? Seeing none, I ll take a motion from his Bui to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The
public hearing is closed and the resolution is adopted. Item 20 is resolution. Public hearing 20 5-1 26 approving the application of El Burrito Mercado for a sound level variance and ordered present amplified sound on Tuesdays, JULY 1st, eighth, 15th, 22nd, 29th, AUGUST 5th, 12th, 19th and 26 at 175 Cesar Chavez Street, El Burrito Mercado Patio. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak to this item? Seeing none, I ll take a motion from is just to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The public hearing is closed and the resolution is adopted. Item 21 is resolution.
Public hearing 20 5-1 27 approving the application of Marcella Vega to for the Chicano Fest event. Sound level variance. In order to present amplified sound on JULY 12th at 235 Marshall Avenue in the parking lot. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak to this item? Seeing none, I ll take a motion from MISS Boy to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed. Seven in favor. No one opposed. The public hearing is closed and the resolution is adopted. Legislative hearing. Consent agenda items 22 through 28 are before you for your consideration. Welcome, MISS Mormont. Good afternoon. Council PRESIDENT. Council members, could I have item number 25? Read into the
record, please. Item 25 is to 25. Dash 290. Amending Council file r h r 2534 to ratify the assessment for collection of vacant building registration fees billed during MARCH 11th to OCTOBER 17th, 2024 at 1003 Arcade Street, MISS Ormond. Council PRESIDENT, this is a vacant building fee that s been assessed, but it s also been ratified already. Uh, the reason that I m bringing it back to you and that I look at these things, is when there is a question where I believe there is reason to believe that there s been error in the city record. Uh, a person could bring that to the attention of the city attorney
s office by filing in district court. In this case, we can look at it. And if they want to pursue it further, definitely they still have those options available to them. Uh, in this particular case, the thing that gave me pause and I wanted to double check was the, um, address where the notification was sent. So was that where it should have been in the timing, that it should have been the vacant building fee you have is from SEPTEMBER of 25 or 24. Excuse me, to the SEPTEMBER of 25, when it first got when she was the owner, first received a letter. MISS Ellie, who I believe is on the phone, she appepeed that registration
notice. And you, as a council, granted a 90 day waiver. The address was clearly correct at that time, having received the original registration. Uh, when we were in hearing, uh, there were questions back when the waiver was granted, there were questions about address change and cleaning things up at Ramsey County. Uh, I understand that that address was actually changed in county records the day after the council ratified. So the the record was changed after the council had locked in its decision. The. So my review was basically yes, notices did go to the correct place. The second layer of argument that MISS Lee presented had to do
with her not being able to complete the work within the three months, and that was an unreasonable expectation. Uh, the answer is, of course, that a three month waiver is grace. And if you can get it done, then you would not be looking at a vacant building fee at all. In this case, uh, MISS Lee got the certificate of occupancy for the property last week. Um, some permits, all the permits have been filed in JUNE, so that puts us really 9 to 10 months into an annual fee. I can t find a good argument for that causing any reduction. You know, at all. Given. Given the waiver, given the notice, the ability to
appeal earlier, just all the I don t see anything extenuating in this, uh, there was also, um, the expectation MISS Lee expressed, that the Department of Safety and Inspection should be sending these out via email. Um, both, uh, the real estate office and financial services and the Department of Safety and Inspections operates with us mail for all notifications so that that simply wasn t a reasonable expectation. All of these things I looked at and could not grab on to anything that would make me recommend to you that the assessment should be decreased or eliminated. Were you to make that decision,
that it should be, and that you could definitely hear testimony that convinces of you, of that we would go, we would develop a resolution that amends the already adopted assessment rule and spells this out. So I m sorry to bring you the complicated case, but I do feel better double checking these things before, um, gets too far along. Okay. Thanks, MISS Moorman. So just to clarify, we re talking about the period MARCH 11th, OCTOBER 17th, 2024. SEPTEMBER 7th of 2024 through SEPTEMBER 6th of 2025 is what the vacant building fee covers. Okay, so that s not what s in the title of this item. This is actually the title reflects
when the bill went out and for her case, because the council had given a waiver, they wait, they wait. So SEPTEMBER 7th, 30 days, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, December, they send a new bill in DECEMBER. And when the bill goes unpaid, it gets sent to assessment. What this says is anything that was billed in that time period from MARCH through OCTOBER is what s on this assessment roll. And this falls in that group. It doesn t speak to when in the vacant building program. It speaks to the bills, which are out of kilter because of the waiver. Okay. I know the titles are terrible to navigate. They really are. It s all good. I just want to make sure we understand we
re talking about any further questions from MISS Mormont? MISS Johnson. Could you simply repeat, um, that the so the no permits were pulled into it last week? Uh, the permits had been pulled. Um, some of them one, I think in the fall, I say one in MARCH, one in APRIL, and then a few in JUNE. And all the permits were filed in by mid-JUNE. And the fire certificate of occupancy was issued JUNE 23rd. So, okay. And then your recommendation, MISS Moorman. What s up? Just can you repeat your recommendation? My recommendation is that the council not amend the already ratified assessment rule. Okay.
Thank you. All right. Uh, doesn t look like there are any further questions. Thanks, MISS Moorman. So this is a public hearing. Um, I understand we have someone on the phone to testify, and we are ready for that phone testimony. Thank you. Council PRESIDENT. I have MISS Lee. On the phone to testify. MISS Lee, please press star six to unmute yourself. Please begin your statement by saying. Your name. And you will have two minutes to address the council. Thank you. Hi. This is. Hi. We can hear you. Go ahead. Okay. Um, so I want to make it clear that I was not aware of, um, any mail coming through to
the building or to me at my my at my home address. Um, which I have given, um, the city, um, and I don t know which department because there s multiple different departments that, um, I guess handle this. Um, this case. So I don t know who is supposed to send it out to me. Um, and the only reason why I found out about the fees was when I went into the office last month to pay for the property taxes, and it shows that there was a vacant building registration bill f f billing for $5,077. So I would I would really like to, um, ask for a waiver because we
ve been spending a lot of time bringing this building back up to cold. And the building we acquired, this building, um, back in 2022, and there were some fire codes that the previous seller did not disclose to us. We were not aware. So a year later or two, um, it went into category two. So we veeen working very, very hard with the fire department and the city of Saint Paul and contractors to get this building back up and running, and it is in the in Saint Paul Arcade, where it s very tough with homeless people. And, um, you know, we
ve had, um, issues like that, but we want to bring the building up and occupy it so that we can help eliminate some of that issue to, um, but at the same time, uh, we during the renovation, we had to get every little step has to go through, um, the city of Saint Paul for permit and inspection and then approval. So it is a very lengthy process. And I talked to the contractors and I m telling them about what s going on. And they said they can only do a step at a time. And you are at time. So we need you to to wrap up your testimony. Okay. So I m asking for leniency and for a waiver in
this, um, this fee, um, and now that it s all closed, it s all done. So I m asking for for the.. Thank you, MISS Lee. Um, okay. Uh, is there anynye else here in the chambers to testify on this item? Seeing none, I ll take a motion from his yang to close the public hearing. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed. So in favor? No one opposed. The public hearing is closed. MISS Yan. Thanks, Council PRESIDENT, I did review all of the attachments to the case here already. So thanks, Marsha, for the the the staff briefing. And then also to the property owner for testifying. Since we have already ratified the assessment here, I m not
inclined to amend the amount, but I do understand that, you know, especially with all the construction happening in Arcade Street and this being a really tough time for businesses. And really I m seeing the commitment from the the property owner to bring the property up to code to what I would be willing to do is to spread out the assessment over five years. So that is my motion for approval. Okay. So the motion is to, um, ratify the assessment but allow it to be paid over five years. Yes. Um, and I would support that motion. MISS Yang, I think, um, I understood from the testifier there were some questions about the address, but it seems to me that regardless of whether or not it sounds like from MISS Mormon, there there was an address on file that things
were sent to, and even so, the vacant building fee would still need to be paid. It s not one of those situations where we re notifying someone of, you know, a couch to be collected or something like that. The work wasn t done in time. And so, um, the fee needs to be paid. I m also glad to hear the project is done. Um, and I know that we re going to be looking at our vacant building ordinance, uh, very soon. And, um, talking about things like how to make sure that, um, we re encouraging work to happen and not keeping it from happening. So, um. Yeah. Thank you. Just one more thing. I m not sure if more mail from the city will be going to this,
this property, but can you just make sure to follow up and and make sure that if there is that it s going to the, the address that it s intended to. Uh, we went through an exhaustive review of all the addresses that the notifications have been sent to. I believe there s like four different ones, and there was no returned mail to the city. And these were all confirmed at the time of the hearing. Okay. Thank you. Great. Any further discussion of the motion? I just. Have a question, MISS Johnson. Yeah, just a question. Um, for clarity, were the permits pulled or was the project done? Both. Okay. So they re both like, so all the permits are done and the project is done. So yes. Okay. The certificate
of occupancy was issued on Monday. So it can now be occupied. Oh well that s great okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Uh, since it doesn t look like there s any further discussion. All in favor, say aye. All opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The resolution is adopted, as amended, to spread out the payment over five years. Is there anything else for separate consideration, MISS Moorman? I m not aware of anyone else to testify on a legislative hearing item. Okay. We will hold a public hearing now for items 22 through 28. So if you re here to testify on any of these items, this is your public hearing. Uh, please come on up. Seeing none, I ll take a motion from MR. Privacy
for the balance of the legislative hearing. Agenda items as recommended by the legislative hearing officer. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Seven in favor. No one opposed. The public hearings are closed and the consent agenda is adopted, as amended. That brings us to the end of our agenda and our favorite part of the agenda. Any good news? MR. Porowski. I ll just say briefly. Everyone come to Ward four for the Freedom Festival this weekend. Let s let s get crazy. Strongly support. Hard to follow that MISS Booty. And I ll just say after you go to the Hmong Freedom Festival, you can hop on the Green Line and go to the Little Mekong Festival as well. We ll be, um, not getting crazy. But. You know, having a good time on Saturday and Sunday. You might be crazy. You never. Know what you. Get
though. And if you don t want to wait that long, sorry to steal Ward five Thunder just a bit, but tonight is the party for the parks in Como Pavilion. I think it s still on. Bring your umbrella. It ll be great. It s always a good time. Oh, nice. Uh, any other good news? All right. Thanks so much for a great meeting. We are adjourned. Oh, we re not MISS Johnson. I was looking back, and I just want to shout out our right track interns that started in, uh, Ward one and Ward seven, respectively. Um, so we have ward ones, uh, right track intern. And we also have Ward seven. Right. Check intern. Mimi. So just wanted to welcome you all before the meeting was adjourned.
Apologies, but I looked up and I saw their faces and couldn t not acknowledge them. Welcome. Would you like to come up and introduce yourselves and be in front of the five five cameras? I feel like you should. Yeah. Come on, come. On, come on up. This is part of the welcome ceremony. Yes, yes. It s what we call a rhetorical question. Would you like. Yes. That s so fine. There you go, Mimi. Thank you. Hey. Yeah, we know that you ve prepared l lg speeches. We ll expect those. Just kidding. Just come on up and tell us your name. Of yours. Yes, for our millions of viewers. Welcome. Just say your name and something you re excited about this summer or anything else about yourself. We should know. Um, my name is Mikayla. I
m not really excited for the summertime. Um, I want winter to hurry up and come back, so I can continue to wrestle. Oh, oh, yeah. What s cool? Oh, yeah. Say your school and then also tell them the placement that you had in the state. Becauau we got. Some wrestling chants in the room. Um, I go to Como Park Senior High and I play second in state. Next year, I ll be first in my bracket. Wow. Wow. Okay. Security detail. Right? Yeah. I can see why you don t want someone. Hi. My name is Nima. Um, I m a college student at the University of Minnesota majoring in computer science with a minor in biochemistry. Wow. Wow. Um, I m excited to
know about the council. Yeah. All right. Yes, that s exactly. We re really excited you re here. And we re looking forward to working with you and MISS Johnson. Thank you so much for not missing that opportunity. MISS Yang. Thank you. I just have one thing to share. Um, I needed time earlier to pick this up, but tonight, there is a popsicle pop up meet and greet happening with the Greater Eastside District Council. So if any folks live in the Greater Eastside and want to get to know the district council, they can come to the Hayden Heights Rec Center from 4 to 6 P.M.. Anything else? All right. With