##VIDEO ID:qo1obxHmizU## .  YEAH YEAH, LET ME OKAY THE NEXT ITEM THAT IS AN ITEM TO DISCUSS SEWER FUNDING WHICH IS PROBABLY NOT THE MOST GLAMOROUS WORK THIS NOW YOU CAN HEAR ME? YEAH.  DO WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND REDO ANYTHING BECAUSE IT WASN'T ON THE RECORD?  ALL RIGHT. OKAY. WELCOME, GLEN. YEAH GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT ERICKSON. COMMISSIONERS, GOOD TO SEE YOU . I'M HERE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SANITARY SEWER FUNDING AND THE LATEST IN BLOOMINGTON ,THE ISSUE THAT IT'S WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THIS LAST NIGHT TO COUNCIL MEETING AGO THERE THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE WITH AS IS THAT BLOOMINGTON SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED THE 1950S AND SIXTIES AND WITH A KIND OF A 1960S VISION IN MIND. SO IT ALLOWED SOME GROWTH. IT WAS SIZED TO ALLOW FOR BUT NOT A LOT OF GROWTH CERTAINLY NOT THE LEVEL OF GROWTH THAT SEEING ESPECIALLY WITH THE NEW YOU KNOW, HEAVY SEWER GENERATING USES MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.  SO OUR SITUATION NOW IS THAT WE HAVE SEVERAL AREAS THE CITY WHERE WE HAVE CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS WE'RE RUNNING AGAINST THE LEVEL OF CAPACITY THAT WE HAVE REMAINING AND SPECIFICALLY IN NORTH CENTRAL BLOOMINGTON IN SOUTH CENTRAL BLOOMINGTON WE'RE RIGHT AT THE POINT WHERE NO MORE GROWTH CAN OCCUR IN THOSE AND THEN LOOKING A LITTLE BIT FARTHER OUT WE RUN INTO SIMILAR SITUATIONS ELSEWHERE ESPECIALLY ALONG FOR 94 IF YOU LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC IN THE SCREEN THESE AREAS NOT COINCIDENTALLY WHERE WE ARE HAVING CAPACITY PROBLEMS ARE THE EXACT AREAS WHERE SEEING THE MOST GROWTH AND WHERE WE'RE FORECASTING MOST GROWTH AS WELL .  SO THIS IS A GRAPHIC OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS SANITARY SEWER CAPACITY PROJECTS PROPOSED IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN OUT IN THE YEAR 2040. YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE GENERALLY IN THE SAME AREAS THAT WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT BUT IF YOU ADD ALL THESE PROJECTS TOGETHER THEY PRESENT COST ESTIMATE IS JUST ABOUT $55 MILLION SO WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO COME UP WITH $55 MILLION TO CONTINUE TO GROW AS A CITY .  SO TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE FORMED A MULTI DEPARTMENTAL WORK GROUP NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL FIRST I MADE 20TH AND MOST RECENTLY OCTOBER 14TH OVER THE SUMMER WE HAD A LOT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH CONDUCTED THE SURVEY MET WITH DEVELOPERS AND STAKEHOLDERS AND ON OCTOBER 14TH WE DID RECEIVE ONE PRELIMINARY DIRECTION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL AND WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO THEM WITH A PUBLIC HEARING DECEMBER 2ND. I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE THAT DIRECTION. THE WORKGROUP CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF OPTIONS RANGING FROM JUST TAKING NO ACTION TO FUNDING IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH CITY SURCHARGE BASICALLY FEE ON DEVELOPMENT OR FUNDING THROUGH INCREASED UTILITY RATES LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OR DOING SOME COMBINATION OF THESE METHODS IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND FEEDBACK WE CONDUCTED A SURVEY THROUGH OUR LET'S TALK BLOOMINGTON WEB PAGE AT 60 RESPONDENTS TO THAT SURVEY 48 WERE RESIDENTS, 12 DEVELOPERS OR BUSINESS OWNERS . YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PREFERRED FUNDING APPROACH FROM THE SURVEY WAS DEFINED THROUGH THE CITY 62ND HIGHEST WAS FUND THROUGH SOME SORT COMBINATION AND THAT APPROACH IS EXACTLY WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED.  WE CONDUCTED A COUPLE OF DEVELOPER ROUNDTABLES TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE WITH DEVELOPERS. THE BIG TAKEAWAYS IS WERE NOT SURPRISED ABOUT THE NEED FOR A CITY SECRETARY BECAUSE THEY RUN INTO THIS FEE AND A LOT OF OTHER COMMUNITIES AND THEY DEFINITELY FELT THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO GROW AS A CITY .  SO THE COUNCIL DIRECTION FROM THE OCTOBER 14TH MEETING WAS TO MOVE FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS WE WITH TWO IMPORTANT SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT THAT WOULD ADDRESS THESE CONSTRAINTS IN THE NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH CENTRAL BLOOMINGTON AREAS AND THEN TO FUND THOSE PROJECTS AND OTHERS THAT WE NEED THROUGH MIX OF FEES AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FORM OF A CITY TAXI AND INCREASED SANITARY SEWER USER RATES.  AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME WE WOULD CONTINUE TO AGGRESSIVELY PURSUE ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES SUCH AS FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS .  SO ONE KEY LEG HERE IS THE PROPOSED CITY TAXI. THE PROPOSED $2,026 PER UNIT STRIKE UNIT IS EQUIVALENT THE FLOW FROM A SINGLE FAMILY HOME AND THE METROPOLITAN IN COUNCIL THEY ALSO USE THE SAC METHODOLOGY AND THEY DO THE CALCULATIONS WILL PIGGYBACK UPON THEIR CALCULATIONS FOR HOW MANY SAC UNITS EACH DEVELOPMENT HAS. AGAIN THESE FEES ARE FAIRLY COMMON AMONG CITIES NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES INCLUDING INDIANA, BROWNSVILLE SAVAGE CITY TAXI IF THINK ABOUT THE LONG TERM CASH BETWEEN THE TAXI AND UTILITY RATES WE'RE PROPOSING A SPLIT THAT'S APPROXIMATELY 61% FROM THE CITY SAC FEE 39% FROM UTILITY RATES INCREASES THAT WOULD BE AVERAGED OVER A 15 YEAR TIME PERIOD IN TERMS OF HOW WE CALCULATE THIS FEE 2020 $6, HOW DO WE GET THERE? FIRST WE START WITH THE COST OF OF THE CITY SEWER PROJECTS THAT WOULD INCREASE CAPACITY AND THEN WE SUBTRACT FROM THAT THE PORTION OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT CAN BE ATTRIBUTED ASSET RENEWAL IN OTHER WORDS THAT WOULD HAVE VALUE ABOVE AND BEYOND JUST CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT INSOFAR AS IT LENGTHENS THE LIFESPAN THE INDIVIDUAL PIPES SO THAT PORTION IS MEANT TO BE COVERED . THE UTILITY RATE INCREASES AND THEN WE DIVIDE THAT NUMBER BY THE NUMBER OF SAC UNITS THAT WE'RE FORECASTING WITHIN THAT SAME PERIOD PERIOD.  AGAIN A LOT OF DO HAVE THE CITIES ACTUALLY THIS IS A COMPARISON OF SEVERAL THAT HAVE RESPONDED TO OUR SURVEY YOU CAN SEE THE TAXES RANGE QUITE A BIT FROM A LOW END $130 PER UNIT AND MAPLEWOOD HIGH END IN BROOKLYN CENTER $5,000 PER SAC UNIT.  GLENN IS THERE ANY RHYME OR REASON FOR THAT VARIATION IN FEES? THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SOME HAVE KIND OF FACED UP TO THIS AND SOME HAVEN'T OR YEAH. PRESIDENT ERICKSON I WOULD THAT THE FEE NEEDS TO BE BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY IN THE CITY SAY MAPLEWOOD WHICH IS MAYBE A NEWER THEY PROBABLY DO NOT HAVE THE EITHER THE REDEVELOPMENT PRESSURE OR THE KIND OF AGE THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHY IT'S LOWER AND THEN CITIES ARE PROBABLY OLDER LIKE BROOKLYN CENTER WOULD JUST NEED A HIGHER FEE TO BASED ON THEIR SANITARY SEWER NEEDS THANK YOU SO.  THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION IS THE INCREASED UTILITY FEES AND THIS EXCUSE ME ON THIS GRAPHIC THE BLUE LINE IS THE PROPOSED INCREASE IN FEES JUST ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ASSET RENEWAL NEEDS OF THE SYSTEM. THE RED LINE IS ADDING ON THE ADDITIONAL INCREASES FOR UTILITY EXPANSION.  NOW WE TOOK A VERY CONSERVATIVE APPROACH HERE. THE CONCERN IS WE ISSUE BONDS AND WHAT HAPPENS IF DEVELOPMENT IS SLOW IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO COVER OUR BOND PAYMENTS SO OUR FIVE YEAR AVERAGE FOR SECOND UNIT PER YEAR 672 WE'RE ASSUMING A VERY CONSERVATIVE NUMBER OF 296 PER YEAR THAT WOULD BE $600,000 IN TAXES AND USING THAT CONSERVATIVE NUMBER WE HAVE MORE AGGRESSIVE FEE INCREASES. HOWEVER IF REALITY COMES IN HIGHER THESE ARE REVIEWED EVERY YEAR SO THE ACTUAL INCREASES BE LOWER. THAT RED LINE COULD BE MUCH CLOSER TO THE BLUE LINE IN THE SHORT TERM THE CASHER IS MORE 60% UTILITY FEE 40% SEXY BUT THAT'S MORE A SHORT TERM ISSUE VERSUS A LONG TERM WILL BE OF THE OPPOSITE OF THAT SO HERE YOU CAN BLOOMINGTON'S UTILITY RATES COMPARED WITH OTHER POORER COMMUNITIES BLOOMINGTON HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN ON THE LOW END WITH THESE INCREASES WE WOULD BE MOVING TOWARDS MORE TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THAT GRAPHIC.  HOWEVER, A LOT OF OTHER CITIES ARE GOING TO BE ENCOUNTERING THE SAME ISSUE AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR INCREASES MAY BE. THEY MAY BE COMPARABLE IN THE FUTURE.  IT'S SO THERE ARE A LOT OF BENEFITS FROM TACKLING THIS ISSUE AND NOT IGNORING IT. IT ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND EVOLVE. ADDING NEW HOUSING, ADDING BUSINESSES SERVICES THAT YOU KNOW EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY WANTS AND CERTAINLY THERE BE INCREASED ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, TAX BASE GROWTH ,MULTIFAMILY UNITS FOR EXAMPLE ON AVERAGE ARE ADDING $150 PER YEAR IN CITY PROPERTY TAXES WHICH LOWERS THE TAX BURDEN CITYWIDE .  SO WHAT IS THE IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT?  WE LOOKED AT SEVERAL EXAMPLES FIVE DIFFERENT LAND USERS LOOKED AT WHAT FEE WOULD REPRESENT IN TERMS OF A PERCENTAGE OF PROJECT COST.  SO FIRST EXAMPLE A SINGLE FAMILY HOME IN THIS CASE WOULD BE IN THE RANGE OF 0.41% OF PROJECT COST LOOKING AT THE CURVE AND 31 OXFORDSHIRE'S DEVELOPMENT HAD THE FEE BEEN IN PLACE AT THAT TIME BE AROUND 0.68%. THE PROJECT COST 8200 HUMBOLDT THE NOBLE 0.7% PROJECT COST THE SECOND PHASE ONE DEVELOPMENT 0.41% PROJECT COST AND THEN FINALLY HOTEL RADISSON BLU 0.35% OF THE PROJECT COST SO WITH THESE EXAMPLES YOU'RE LOOKING AT BETWEEN A THIRD OF A PERCENT AND TWO THIRDS OF A PERCENT OF TOTAL COST.  SO THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SMALL AMOUNT BUT THAT COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PROJECT PROFORMA PENCILING OUT AND MOVING FORWARD OR NOT.  SO WHAT HAPPENS YOU KNOW WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS ON DEVELOPMENT? WELL IF THAT PERFORMER HAS ENOUGH CAPACITY TO ABSORB THE FEE THAT'S POSSIBILITY. BUT THE OTHER POSSIBILITY IS THE PERFORMING JUST CANNOT ABSORB THE ADDITIONAL FEE THAN WHAT HAPPENS. WELL THEY COULD TRY TO PASS ALONG THE FEE THROUGH HIGHER RENT LEVELS OR HIGHER SALE PRICES BUT THAT ONLY WORKS IF THE MARKET WILL ABSORB THAT HIGHER RENT LEVEL OR SALES PRICE WHICH MAY NOT BE THE CASE. THEY COULD OBVIOUSLY PURSUE THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION VERY LIKELY THEY WOULD SEE PUBLIC RESOURCES TO FILL THE GAP ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE A GAP ALREADY THAT GAP WILL JUST WIDEN SO THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL REQUESTS BASED ON HAVING THIS FEE IN PLACE AND THEN FINALLY THE DEVELOPER WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE THE OPTION OF JUST NOT PURSUING THE PROJECT.  SO WE RECOGNIZE THAT THESE IMPACTS DEFINITELY EXIST IN TERMS OF NEXT STEPS WE DO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON DECEMBER 2ND WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THAT'S TO ADOPT THE NEW CITY SAC FEE.  ALSO ON THAT AGENDA IS THE ORDERING OF A FEASIBILITY STUDY WHICH STARTS THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL PROJECT. THE SOUTH CENTRAL PROJECT ALREADY HAD ITS FEASIBILITY REPORT APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER AND THEN IF THE IS APPROVED AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING THE CITY TAXI WOULD TAKE EFFECT FOR ANY NEW BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR IN 2025.  WE DO HAVE TWO SEWER PROJECTS IN THE WORKS AND THE PLAN WOULD BE FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PROJECT TO COME ONLINE IN NOVEMBER OF 2025.  ALREADY THE NORTH CENTRAL PROJECT BEING MUCH MORE COMPLEX INVOLVING HOUSING UNDERNEATH A FREEWAY AND THAT'S MORE EXTENSIVE WOULD TAKE MORE TIME SO THAT WOULD POTENTIALLY COME IN NOVEMBER OF 2027.  SO THAT WAS A QUICK OVERVIEW. HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS OR LISTEN TO YOUR DISCUSSION FOR THREE QUESTIONS. COMMISSIONER PETERSON I GOT I GOT TWO QUESTIONS. FIRST, HOW WAS THE ORIGINAL SEWER SYSTEM IN THE CITY PAID FOR? WAS IT PAID FOR DID THE CITY BOND FOR IT AND JUST DO IT OUT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION FUNDING ? IS IT PAID FOR? YEAH I RISK PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER PIERCE AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE WAS BONDING AND THAT THOSE BONDS WERE PAID BACK PRIMARILY THROUGH ASSESSMENTS ON PROPERTY OWNERS OF BENEFITING PROPERTY OWNERS.  OKAY SO IT WAS EFFECTIVELY FUNDED BY EXISTING PROPERTY.  OKAY. SO THEN QUESTION NUMBER IS JUST LIKE A HYPOTHETICAL IS IF I WAS LIKE BUILDING AN 82 AT MY HOUSE DOES GENERATE A WOULD THAT WOULD I NEED TO GO ACQUIRE A SAC PAY THAT'S ACTIVE TO BUILD AN 80 YOU PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER PETERSON THAT'S CORRECT ANYTHING THAT WOULD ADD ADDITIONAL SEWER FLOW ON THE SYSTEM WOULD TRIGGER THAT SUCCEEDS. SO A DETERMINATION BE MADE BY THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR AN 80 IT WOULD BE SOMETHING UNDER ONE SAC UNIT GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE THE UNIT SO A FEE WOULD BE DUE. OKAY BUT IT'S IT'S THE ACT OF ADDING A UNIT SO I ADDED A BEDROOM THAT THAT'S KIND OF BELOW THE THRESHOLD THAT YOU WOULD DO IT BUT IF I ADD THE 80 YOU WOULD COUNT AS PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER AND IF YOU A BATHROOM MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT DOES TRIGGER THE FEE SO FOR EXAMPLE SMALL BUSINESS IF THEY'RE ADDING IN ADDITIONAL SINKS ADDITIONAL BATHROOMS WOULD BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE THAT TRIGGERS THE FEE. IT MIGHT BE VERY SMALL BUT POTENTIALLY WOULD TRIGGER IT. OKAY MR. LUNTZ I GOING JUST IT'S IS JUST A PURE CURIOSITY HOW FAR BACK ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ABOUT THE EARLY INITIAL SEWER WATER SYSTEM OF THE CITY? IS IT THE THIRTIES, THE FORTIES OR IS IT I MEAN SO OUR CITY INFRASTRUCTURE THIS REGARD WHAT'S THE OLDEST SECTION I GUESS IS WHAT I'M JUST KIND OF WONDERING ALL FALL FAR BACK WE GO YOU KNOW YEAH PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER AND LUNDS I BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST ORGANIZED SYSTEM WAS IN THE LATE FIFTIES EARLY IN THE CITY THERE MAY HAVE BEEN VERY SMALL LOCALIZED SYSTEMS BEFORE THAT BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG PROBLEMS WHEN.  A LOT OF THE CITIES STARTED TO BE DEVELOPED AS EVERYBODY WAS AND SEPTIC SYSTEMS AND WELLS AND IT DIDN'T TAKE VERY ON A QUARTER ACRE LOT TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THAT. YEAH MY FIRST HOUSE HAD A WELL YEAH OKAY INTERESTING AND I'VE BEEN IN BUILDINGS IN DOWNTOWN SAINT PAUL WHERE THE PIPES INTO THE LOWER LIMESTONE FOUNDATIONS WERE WOOD SO WHERE THEY DID THE OTHER ONES ON AS I WAS READING THROUGH FIRST OF ALL ON YOUR EXHIBIT TWO ON THE MAP YOU'VE GOT NEAR TERM THAT WOULD MALL OF AMERICA SOUTH LOOP AREA WHAT IS NEAR IS THAT AND THEN AND THEN HOW DOES THAT RELATE TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD? I MEAN WE DISCUSSED THAT BEFORE BUT THE WATER USAGE OF THE PROPOSED WATER ATTRACTION IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S GOT TO BE IN THE THINKING HERE. YES. PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER IN LOANS DEFINITELY THE WATER PARK FOR EXAMPLE IS IN THE MODEL AND INTERESTING WAY THE BIG ISSUE THERE IS HOW BIG THE IS AND BECAUSE THEY NEED TO DRAIN OUT THE POOL AND THE LARGER THE DRAIN THE BIGGER THE IMPACT ON THE DOWNSTREAM. SO LESS TO DO WITH THE SIZE OF THE POOL AND MORE TO DO WITH THE SIZE OF THE DRAIN.  BUT THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE MODEL AND IT DOES HAVE A LOT OF IMPACTS ON THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. SO THERE ARE MANY YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP HERE MANY PROJECTS THAT ARE ANTICIPATED IN SOUTH LOOP BY 2040 ARE GIVEN FORECAST DEVELOPMENT LEVELS.  ONE WOULDN'T HAVE MULTIPLE DRAINS IN THE WATER ATTRACTION I.  I MEAN I DON'T KNOW BUT JUST CALL ONE. I MEAN YOU'RE TALKING LIKE IT WAS ONE DRAIN SO I DON'T YEAH PRESIDENT.  ERICKSON COMMISSIONER LYONS I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY DRAINS BUT THE COLLECTIVE SIZE OF THOSE DRAINS IS IS THE PROBLEM THERE JUST TO BE A MID COUNCIL INTERCEPTOR PORT SOMEWHERE TOO I IMAGINE THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE BIGGER THAN AVERAGE UM YEAH. AS THE AS THE WHITE WATER SEWER IT GOES DOWNSTREAM IT WOULD REACH THE INTERCEPTOR UNDER HIGHWAY 77 AND THEN I JUST YOU KNOW FROM THE WRITE UP WE GOT UNDER THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SECTION THERE'S A SENTENCE IN THERE JUST CAUGHT MY EYE BECAUSE I JUST DON'T I, I MEAN I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW IT APPLIES IT SAYS IT'S KIND OF A LONG SENTENCE. THE LAST PART SAYS THIS IDEA TO INCREASE SANITARY SEWER CAPACITY ACROSS THE CITY WOULD ALLOW FOR MORE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL IN PRIMARY AREAS AND WOULD HELP LEAD TO EQUITABLE OUTCOMES AND SERVICES DELIVERED.  AND THIS IS THE PART I DON'T GET AND REDUCE RACIAL INEQUITIES SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE PROVISION OF WATER AND SEWER WOULD HAVE AN EFFECT ON RACIAL INEQUITIES. I COULDN'T PUT THAT TOGETHER SO I WAS JUST KIND OF WONDERING WHAT  YEAH.  PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER LUND'S DIDN'T WORK ON THE RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT THAT WAS PERFORMED ON THIS. I'M TRYING TO THINK BACK BUT IF SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE IF WE DON'T MOVE FORWARD WITH IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD BASICALLY STIFLE FURTHER GROWTH WHICH IF YOU HAVE A GROWING METROPOLITAN AREA BUT A FINITE NUMBER OF HOUSING UNITS THOSE HOUSING VALUES WOULD RISE QUICKER WHICH WOULD HAVE A RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT. UM, A LOT OF OUR NEW DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT HAS ALSO BEEN RENTAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING AND IF WE CAN'T ADD ADDITIONAL RENTAL HOUSING THAT TOO WOULD HAVE A RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT.  SO IT BASICALLY GETS THE IMPACT COST DOWN TO THE COST OF THE HOUSING, IS THAT RIGHT ? THE RENT OR THE COST OR WHATEVER? YEAH.  PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER LYONS THAT'S CORRECT. BETWEEN A COST AND THE TYPE OF HOUSING THAT COULD BE OR A TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT COULD BE THINGS OF FUTURE OTHER WELL THIS IS JUST HERE FOR INFORMATION SO WE APPRECIATE IT. I MEAN THIS IS THIS IS OF THE THINGS THAT THE CITY HAS TO DO. IT'S GOT TO HAVE BASIC SERVICES AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THEM, YOU'RE YOU'RE NOT DOING YOUR JOB. SO IT'S IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE LIKE TO CONTEMPLATE ON THE SAME POINT IN TIME IT'S NECESSARY AND SO I DON'T KNOW, GLENN, WHETHER YOU WILL BE BACK HERE AGAIN BEFORE YOU RETIRE IN FEBRUARY . BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BLOOMINGTON HAS BEEN SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU AND MANY OTHER LONG TERM EMPLOYEES AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE.  AND SO WE APPRECIATE VERY MUCH ALL YOUR SERVICE AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN. BUT IF NOT WE WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR RETIREMENT AND THE NEXT PHASE OF LIFE.  YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'VE ALWAYS ENJOYED WITH THE PORT AUTHORITY AND REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT EXPANDED YOUR REACH CITYWIDE. I THINK IT'S WILL A GREAT THING AND PROBABLY OVERDUE THANK YOU YOU KNOW JUST AT THIS AND I GUESS ONE OF THE REASONS THE THIS COMES TO THE PORT AUTHORITY IS THAT BEING THE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE CITY, OBVIOUSLY IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP AN EYE ON THE TOTAL COSTS THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON AND ALL THE THINGS AND OF COURSE IT'LL BE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING UP IN THE STUDY THAT'S GOING TO BE PRESENTED TO TALKS ABOUT THIS. SO AT ANY RATE WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.  THANK YOU. THE NEXT ITEM THEN IS THE DRAFT OF THE FIVE YEAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN.  I THINK WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING QUITE A WHILE. WELL, PRESIDENT ERIKSEN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONERS. IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN. MY NAME IS JEFF MARCEL, A SENIOR PARTNER WITH TIPPY STRATEGIES AND JOINED BY ELIZABETH SCOTT WHO'S A SENIOR CONSULTANT WITH OUR TEAM. WE'VE PUT TOGETHER A SLIDE DECK FOR YOU TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE MATERIAL WE WANTED TO COVER TODAY WITH YOU TONIGHT I WILL TELL YOU WE'RE EXCITED TO BE HERE. WE'RE EXCITED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ABOUT THE DRAFT THAT YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN AND PROVIDE YOUR INPUT. BUT ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS. A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK HAS BEEN DONE.  LET ME SHARE WITH YOU LET ME JUST INTERRUPT YOU FOR JUST A MINUTE.  THIS IS HERE FOR INFORMATION WE'RE GOING TO IF WE HAVE A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS HOW LONG I'VE TALKED ABOUT I MEAN WE'LL HAVE AT LEAST ONE MORE MEETING BEFORE REST OF ORDER AND IF THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THINGS WE COULD EVEN HAVE ANOTHER ONE. SO I THINK THIS IS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN A MAJOR UNDERTAKING AND DESERVES A LOT OF TIME AND ATTENTION BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF MATERIAL IN THERE AND.  AND TO YOUR POINT, PRESIDENT ERICKSON, WE WANT TO MAKE EVERYONE APPRECIATES THIS IS A DRAFT. THE MATERIAL THAT WE'RE SHARING YOU IS DRAFT. WE TYPICALLY ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT IS DEVELOPED FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY IS ABSOLUTELY TOP TIER AND IT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU ALL WANT AND IT GETS EVERYBODY EXCITED AND BOUGHT IN AND YOU HAVE COMMITMENT TO THAT. THAT BEING SAID, WE FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY. LET ME SHARE WITH YOU WHAT WE'D LIKE TO COVER . THANK YOU.  SO WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS FIRST I'LL GIVE YOU JUST A QUICK INTRODUCTION AND SURE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PLANNING PROCESS. WE WILL COVER DATA POINTS FOR YOU BECAUSE WE ALWAYS LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF DATA.  BUT THEN WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS TAKE YOU THROUGH THE THE THE DRAFT STRUCTURE OF THE PLAN AND THE ACTIONS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS WELL. AND WE'LL WE WILL HAVE TIME FOR Q&A .  I'M GOING TO ASK FOR SOME OF YOUR PATIENCE AS WELL BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF MATERIAL HERE. WE'LL TRY TO GET THROUGH IT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE CAN GET TO YOUR QUESTIONS. I ALSO WILL MAKE SURE IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK OR SOMETHING STRIKES YOU LATER ON. ELIZABETH AND I WILL ENSURE THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH YOU AND GET ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK SO THAT YOU FEEL LIKE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN AND THAT WILL HELP US ALIGN AND REFINE THE DRAFT IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS.  SO WITH THAT LET'S MOVE FORWARD WITH A JUST A QUICK REMINDER ABOUT WHO WE ARE A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING WE'VE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR 30 YEARS AND WORK WITH COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO HELP THEM DO JUST THIS KIND OF WORK ON THE.  AS I SAID, WE'VE DONE WORK ALL ACROSS THE STATES AND HAVE DONE SEVERAL PROJECTS FOR PORT AUTHORITIES WELL AS CERTAINLY MANY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.  THIS IS THE STEERING THAT WE HAVE HAD THAT HAS SUPPORTED US ALL ALONG THE WAY. I YOU'RE PROBABLY RECOGNIZE THE NAMES THAT YOU SEE HERE. THIS WAS AN OUTSTANDING GROUP OF LEADERS THAT REALLY HELPED US ALL THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS AND THEY WERE GREAT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY THEY ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY AND HAVE BEEN DEDICATED TO THIS PROCESS AND I WANT TO THANK THEM. I ALSO WANT TO THANK HOLLY AS WELL. WE'VE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO WORK WITH HOLLY THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OF THE THE DRAFT AND I WANT TO THANK HER FOR HER EFFORTS AND INPUT INTO THE DRAFT. WE'VE ALSO HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO HAVE INPUT FROM THE CITY MANAGER AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR . SO LET'S QUICKLY GO THROUGH THE PROJECT GOAL A LITTLE BIT OF THE OVERVIEW THE PROJECT THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PROJECT GOAL FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WE'RE DEVELOPING AN ACTION ORIENTED STRATEGIC PLAN THAT'S METRIC FOR THE PORT. WE KNOW YOU'RE TAKING YOUR FOOTPRINT, YOUR AREA FROM THE SOUTH LOOP ALL THE WAY TO COVER THE ENTIRE CITY AND YOU WANTED A FIVE YEAR PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS CLEAR ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN A METHODICAL PROCESS OF MOVING FORWARD ON STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE PLAN.  OFTEN TIMES WE DO GET ASKED THE YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THE STRATEGIES THAT WE THAT COME INTO THE PLAN? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? THEY'RE THREE POINTS THEY COME FROM FIRST IT'S WHAT WE HEAR IN STAKEHOLDER CONVERSATIONS. I THINK WE'VE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU THAT INPUT I THINK I YOU SEE REFLECTED IN THE DRAFT BUT WE ALSO SPEND AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME LOOKING AT THE DATA. YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT AND THEN WE SPEND TIME THINKING ABOUT WHAT OUR 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE DOING THIS KIND OF WORK WE BRING THAT TO BEAR ON THIS PROJECT. WELL AND TALKING ABOUT STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, WE HAVE SPENT A FAIR BIT TIME TALKING TO LEADERS, DOING FOCUS GROUPS, DOING ONE ON ONE INTERVIEWS. WE'VE DONE THAT VIRTUALLY BUT WE'VE ALSO DONE THAT IN AND THE THERE'S SOME BIG THEMES THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THE QUALITATIVE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD. THESE ARE THE SOME OF THE TEN OF THE BIGGEST THEMES THAT SURFACED THROUGHOUT CONVERSATIONS.  THEY AREN'T IN AN RANKED ORDER ARE JUST THINGS THAT HAVE REALLY STRUCK US THROUGHOUT THE CONVERSATION AND THESE ARE CERTAINLY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE START TO THINK ABOUT.  WE DEVELOP THE STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS ANALYSIS .  I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO ELIZABETH NOW TO TAKE YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE DATA POINTS THAT I HAVE WE'VE RELIED ON. THANKS, JEFF. GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND COMMISSIONERS, THE FIRST SCREEN THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU OPEN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND AND ANALYSIS THE THIS IS WHAT YOU'LL SEE THIS IS THE MENU. IT IS A SAMPLING AND THIS IS THE NAVIGATION PANE FOR THE THOUSANDS OF DATA POINTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO ANALYSIS.  THIS ANALYSIS IS PRIMARILY DESIGNED TO INFORM THE PLANNING PROCESS AS WELL AS SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION. THIS IS NOT TO BE AN EVALUATION TOOL I AM GOING TO TAKE THROUGH A HANDFUL OF SLIDES. WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF BROWSE THROUGH THEM. SO IF I'M GOING QUICKLY PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STOP AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I ALSO DECIDED TO CHOOSE DATA SETS THAT WERE NOT ACTUALLY STATIC IMAGES IN THE PLAN TO HELP GIVE ADDITIONAL TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE THINKING ABOUT AS WE CREATED THE SWOT ANALYSIS. SO WITH THAT THE FIRST THING WE ALWAYS LOOK AT WHEN WE OPEN UP THE ANALYSIS THE POPULATION LINE COMMIT A STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY THAT IS GROWING LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT FROM ONE THAT IS DECLINING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE NOTICED IS THAT CITY OF BLOOMINGTON HAS HAD A REMARKABLY STABLE POPULATION SINCE THE 1990S ALTHOUGH WE KNOW THAT IT HAS A LITTLE BIT SINCE 2022 BUT THIS IS THE MOST RECENT DATA THAT WE HAVE FOR FOR THE CONTEXT TODAY THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT DRIVE THAT PARTICIPATION OR THAT COMPOSITION THAT IS AVAILABLE FURTHER IN THE DECK . WE'VE NOTICED THAT OUTBOUND MIGRATION IS ONE OF THOSE LARGER CATEGORIES SORRY I WAS ANTICIPATING DELAY BUT IT WENT FASTER THAN I EXPECTED.  SO LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATES BLOOMINGTON THE DARKEST COLUMN IN THE MIDDLE RELATIVELY ON POINT WITH THE NATIONAL AVERAGE HENNEPIN COUNTY AVERAGE AND THE PEER PEER TO PEER COMPARISONS THAT WE LOOKED AT WORK FROM HOME I HAVE CONVERSATION ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POST-PANDEMIC WITHOUT HEARING ABOUT WORK FROM HOME AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN THE REGIONAL REGION GENERALLY A LITTLE BIT LOWER FOR THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON JUST 15%.  THERE ARE A TON OF CAVEATS THIS DATA THIS COULD INCLUDE HYBRID WORKERS. IT INCLUDE SOLE PROPRIETORS THAT ALSO HAVE THEIR BUSINESS OUT OF THEIR HOME AS WELL AS ANY COMBINATION OF REMOTE WORKERS THAT ARE TRULY REMOTE OR HAVE MORE OF A HYBRID SITUATION.  IT STILL PRESENTS AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON AGAIN COMPARED TO THE COUNTY, THE MINNEAPOLIS REGION AND OTHER PEER TO PEER REGION PEER TO PEER AREAS NEXT TO TRANSITIONAL LITTLE BIT INTO THE DYNAMICS AROUND WORKFORCE KNEW THAT BEING PART OF A MAJOR METRO AREA WE WOULD EXPECT LOTS OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN COMMUTE PATTERNS AND WHERE RESIDENTS WORK AND WHERE LESS RESIDENTS LIVE. SO THIS VERY FIRST CHART IS LOOKING AT WHERE YOUR RESIDENTS WORK FROM THIS COMPOSITION THE MAJORITY LIVE AND WORK THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON THE NEXT MAJOR DESTINATION IS THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS.  FROM THERE SAINT PAUL, EDEN PRAIRIE, EDINA AND THAT GOES DOWN THE NEXT SLIDE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IS WHERE WORKERS LIVE.  SO THIS TALKS ABOUT THE IMBALANCE OF COMMUTERS AGAIN STATIC WITH LIVE AND WORK IN BLOOMINGTON BUT COMMUTING IN THE MAJORITY MAKES A VERY SIMILAR PATTERN SO MINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL LAKEVILLE AND CONTINUES I'M ALSO GOING TO PAUSE HERE THESE ARE STATIC IMAGES BUT IF YOU WERE ACTUALLY IN THE TABLEAU ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN YOU WILL SEE SOME DROPDOWN MENUS YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT CHANGES LONGITUDINALLY SO.  YOU CAN GO BACK ALL THE WAY TO EARLY 2000S AND THEN SEE HOW THOSE COMMUTING PATTERNS HAVE CHANGED TIME WE CAN ALSO BREAK THIS DOWN BY AGE LOOKING AT THE AGE OF THE WORKER THAT'S COMMUTING TO IDENTIFY IF THERE WERE ANY TRENDS THERE. LOOK AT DIFFERENT SECTORS TO SEE WHAT SECTORS ARE PREDOMINANTLY COMMUTING IN OR OUT AND ALSO LOOK AT THAT DATA BASED ON EARNINGS EACH ONE OF THE BAR CHARTS YOU CAN ALSO HOVER OVER IT WITH YOUR TOOLTIP AND YOU'LL RECEIVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SAME THING WITH THE MAP YOU CAN HOVER OVER EACH OF THOSE ADDITIONAL CENSUS TRACTS TO GET MUCH MORE NUANCED DATA SWITCHING FROM THE WORKFORCE TO LOOKING AT INDUSTRY CLUSTERS AND WHAT THE CONCENTRATIONS AGAIN YOU'LL SEE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MENU ON THE SIDE WE COULD LOOK AT NEXT CLOSED SECTORS BUT FOR THIS CHOSE TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION THEY'RE DEFINED THIS INCLUDES BOTH THE TRADED SECTOR AND LOCAL SECTOR LOCAL SECTORS AND THAT GRAY COLOR TRADED SECTOR IS IN THAT BLUE COLOR WE HAVE DEFINITIONS OF THOSE BUT PREDOMINANTLY WE'RE LOOKING AT SECTOR AS BEING THE MAJORITY OF GOODS AND SERVICES FLOWING OUT OF THE REGION.  SO THE LARGEST EMPLOYMENT CLUSTER FOR JOB COUNTS IS BUSINESS SERVICES FOR THAT TRADED CLUSTER FOR A LOCAL IT'S LOCAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES HEALTH HOSPITALITY A LOT THAT TIES IN TO WITH THE TOURIST ECONOMY THAT IS HERE IN BLOOMINGTON AS FROM HERE WE'LL LOOK AT THE CONCENTRATIONS OF SECTORS COMPARED TO NATIONAL AVERAGES . SO UNLESS THERE'S A LOT TO LOOK AT HERE WE CAN LOOK AT THIS LONGITUDINALLY TO SEE HOW THOSE CHANGE. I KNOW THIS THAT DID NOT MAKE IT ONTO THE SCREENSHOT THAT I HAD BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AND GET MORE NUANCED DETAIL.  THE DARKER THE GREEN THAT MEANS THE HIGHER THE CONCENTRATION IN THIS REGION COMPARED TO NATIONAL AVERAGES SO ON THE VERY TOP MEDICAL DEVICES INSURANCE SERVICES BUSINESS TOURISM ALL OF THOSE A HIGHER THAN AVERAGE CONCENTRATION IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF BUSINESSES VERSUS ANY OTHER GIVEN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES THAT'S YELLOW IS RIGHT ABOUT ON PAR WITH WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT AND THAT RED MEANS THAT THERE'S A SMALLER LOWER CONCENTRATION OF THOSE INDUSTRIES HERE WE ONLY ARE LOOKING AT TRADED SECTOR ON THE SCREEN WE COULD ALSO LOOK AT JUST LOCAL OR WE CAN LOOK AT THE FULL SPECTRUM AND THIS HELPS US GIVE A OF WHERE BLOOMINGTON IS AN OUTLIER ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO DEVELOPING INDUSTRY CLUSTERS.  SO OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT I REALLY LIKE THIS SLIDE BECAUSE IT US MARRY TOGETHER WHERE THOSE CONCENTRATIONS ARE AS WELL AS OUR COMMUTING DATA SO THE ORANGE BUBBLE ON THE SCREEN REPRESENTS THE POTENTIAL NUMBER OF RESIDENT WORKERS.  THE GREEN BUBBLE INDICATES THE NUMBER OF JOBS AND THEY SAY POTENTIAL BECAUSE THERE IS SOME NUANCE COMES WITH BOTH OF THOSE WE'RE EXTRAPOLATING A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES TO IDENTIFY THOSE NUMBERS. WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD SENSE THAT THIS IS WHERE THEY FALL AGAIN YOU CAN SEE THAT THE NUMBER OF COMMUTERS ARE REALLY WE HAVE A LOT LESS WORKERS THAN WE HAVE JOBS HELPING TO SHOW AND DEMONSTRATE WHERE THOSE INBOUND COMMUTERS ARE COMING FROM TRANSITIONING TO THE LAST SECTION ACTUALLY WE DO HAVE ONE MORE AFTER THIS BUT IN THIS TABLEAU DOCUMENT THE LAST SECTION IS OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS. IT IS VERY TIMELY THAT WE GOING AFTER THE SEWER CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE SOME OF THE AREAS THAT LOOKED AT AS PRIME DEVELOPMENT AREAS ALSO MATCHED WITH WHERE THE EXPECTED GROWTH WAS FOR SEWER FOR THIS ONE YOU CAN SEE THAT THESE ARE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES WE ARE LOOKING AT RENTS RENT ESTIMATES AND THIS DOES INCLUDE THOSE PRIORITY SITES THAT THE PORT AUTHORITY IDENTIFIED WHICH ARE THOSE DARK GRAY BOXES.  ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT TO US WAS THAT WITH WITHIN EACH OF THESE CONCENTRATIONS THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF DIVERSITY IN THE LEVEL OF RENTS WHICH FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE WE WOULD SEE THAT AS IS GENERALLY POSITIVE IT SUPPORTING ALL SORTS OF BUSINESSES WITHIN THESE NODES IF YOU WOULD JUST SEE ALL GREEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THERE'S A CHANCE THAT SMALLER BUSINESSES COULD NOT COMPETE OR BE AFFORD TO BE IN THAT AREA. SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY NEGATIVE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF COLOR ON THAT SIDE LOOKING AT THE SAME SIDE BUT AN OFFICE INSTEAD OF INDUSTRIAL YOU CAN SEE THAT THOSE NODES A LITTLE BIT ESPECIALLY IN THAT SOUTH IN THE SOUTH AND FURTHER TO THE NORTH THERE'S MORE OF A CONCENTRATION OFFICE BUT AGAIN SIMILAR DIVERSITY NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS WE SAW WITH RENTS RATES ON THE INDUSTRIAL BUT STILL A FAIR AMOUNT OF FULL SPECTRUM RENT OPPORTUNITY.  IT IS SO FROM HERE WE TRANSFER INTO THE SECOND MAJOR BODY OF ANALYSIS AND THIS IS THE JOB QUALITY AND ACCESS TOOL AGAIN SAME THING HELPED INFORM THE PLANNING PROCESS BUT WILL ALSO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION. THIS IS THE MAIN MENU.  THIS ONE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE NUANCED AND NOT AS TANGIBLE AS THE OTHER SLIDE DECK OR THE OTHER DATA SET. SO MORE DEFINITIONS HERE BUT ONCE WE ENTER THIS TOOL WE ARE LOOKING AT ON A SPECTRUM OF THE EASE TO GET INTO A JOB AND THE JOB QUALITY AND THAT IS BASED ON A LIVING WAGES WITHIN THE LARGEST OCCUPATION SECTORS.  ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY WERE ASKED WAS HOW DOES THE PORT AUTHORITY DEFINE A GOOD PROJECT AND THIS TOOL CAN HELP GET THERE BY LOOKING AT WHAT LIVING WAGES WHERE AVERAGE SALARIES ARE WHAT YOU WOULD NEED MAINTAIN A FAMILY IN BLOOMINGTON OR BE AN INDIVIDUAL YOU CAN SELECT AND PLAY AROUND WITH THAT AND THEN LOOK AT IF THIS COMPANY COMING IN THIS IS WHERE THE MAJORITY OF WORKERS ARE WE SEE IT AND HELP EVALUATE HOW THEY FIT WITHIN REGION.  THIS ALSO IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY HELP LOOK AT WHERE OCCUPATIONS MAY NEED TO BE UPSKILLED SO ON THIS SCREEN ALL OF THOSE POSITIONS ARE INDICATING THAT THEY'RE LOWER JOBS, LOWER BARRIERS TO ENTRY BUT WOULD NOT BE SUSTAINABLE WITH TRYING TO RAISE TWO CHILDREN WORKING IN HERE. SO SO COMMISSIONER, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? OH YES. METRO AREA, CORRECT? CORRECT.  AND THEN THE SECOND SLIDE SO THIS GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO EACH OF THOSE OCCUPATIONS . AGAIN AT THE TOP YOU CAN SELECT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE YOU CAN SELECT THE LEVEL OF LIVING WAGE. THERE ARE A NUMBER DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM SINGLE INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS UP MULTIPLE ADULTS MULTIPLE COMBINATIONS CHILDREN. WE CAN LOOK AT WHETHER JOB QUALITY OR THE ACCESS HOW EASY THE PATHWAYS TO GET INTO IT AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL FACTORS RIGHT.  NOW WE HAVE EARNINGS AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES SO UNDER ONE ONE ASPECT THAT DIFFERENTIATES THIS TOOL OR THIS SCREEN FROM THE LAST DATA SET IS THE CAREER OPPORTUNE IS SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW MOBILE AND POSSIBLE UPSKILLING COULD BE THIS SCREEN SUGGESTS SOME OF THE DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS THAT COULD BE AVAILABLE ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND THE LAST ONE THIS IS THE SO THIS CHANGES AND THIS IS THE SAME SCREEN BUT IF WE CHANGE THE SELECT FACTORS EDUCATION LOOKING AT THE SAME OCCUPATION BUT BARRIERS TO REQUIREMENTS TO ENTER INTO OCCUPATION RIGHT THEN THE LAST ONE OVER PLAYING WITH TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITY IS SO ON THE LEFT SCREEN AND IT IS VERY TO SEE I APOLOGIZE ON THE STATIC IMAGE BUT IS BUS STOPS AND LIGHT RAIL STOPS SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD OFTEN IN OUR ROUNDTABLES AND WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR WHERE WE CAN MATCH THE THE DATA ANALYSIS TO WHAT WE'RE IN OUR QUALITATIVE REVIEWS AND EAST-WEST CONNECTIVITY CONTINUOUSLY CAME UP AS A FACTOR AND THAT WE CAN SEE IN THIS MAP AND A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MOBILITY AND ACCESS.  SO I KNOW THESE ARE THERE IS A TINY HERE AND THAT'S A LOT TO UNPACK.  LET ME JUST JUST SO EVERYBODY HAS A SENSE SO RATHER HANDING YOU A 25 PAGE PDF OF STATIC CHARTS THAT YOU WOULD SEE FROM AN ECONOMIST RIGHT? WHAT WE'VE DONE IS BUILD A UNIQUE DATA VISUALIZATION TOOL THAT VISUALIZATION TOOL MAPS WHAT'S GOING ON IN ECONOMICS DEMOGRAPHICS MAPS IT IT OUTLINES GOING ON WITH THE INDUSTRIES THAT DRIVE THE ECONOMIC GROWTH HERE AND IT LOOKS AT OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION AS WELL AND IT CROSSREF ANSWERS ALL OF THAT RELATED TO TO AGE AND RACE AND A WHOLE WIDE RANGE OF OTHER OF OTHER CATEGORIES.  IT'S A TOOL THAT NOT ONLY THE POOR CAN USE BUT IT'S A FRANKLY THAT THE ENTIRE CITY CAN USE ON. AND WE'VE SEEN POST THIS TOOL ONLINE IF YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST GO ONLINE CLICK ON THE TOOL YOU'LL BE ABLE TO NAVIGATE AND THROUGH AND EXPLORE YOUR OWN STORY ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS ECONOMY.  IT'S IT IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOPHISTICATED LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE BLOOMINGTON ECONOMY THEN I THINK WE HAVE FOUND SO FAR DURING OUR PROCESS OVER THE LAST NINE MONTHS. SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T TO TAKE A LOOK AT SOMETHING WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF AND PUT A TEAM ON DEVELOPING THIS TOOL I TOOK ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO IT BUT WE THINK IT'S VERY POWERFUL AND IT  WILL IF YOU AND I KNOW ALL OF YOU ARE VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS ECONOMY ON IT, I THINK YOU'LL BE FASCINATED WITH IT. SO I WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT AND ASK YOU PROBABLY AN UNFAIR QUESTION BUT YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE COME INTO THE CITY YOU DON'T HAVE AX TO GRIND NO PROTESTOR BIAS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SO WITH ALL THIS DATA WHAT ARE THE THREE OR FOUR THINGS THAT YOU WOULD TELL US WE SHOULD DO BASED UPON THE DATA YOU'VE ANALYZED? WELL WHERE YOU JUST READ OUR MIND SO GLAD WE CAN TAKE YOU TO THAT AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT ERICKSON THE NEXT SECTION SO ONCE WE HAVE THE BODY OF IN THE DATA AS WELL AS THE QUALITATIVE REVIEW JEFF WENT OVER WITH OUR INTERVIEWS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT THAT SUMMARIZED OUR DISCOVERY PROCESS OF THE PLAN ESSENTIALLY EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE LEARNING AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN ABOUT THE REGION.  ALL OF THAT COMES TOGETHER IN THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PLANNING PROJECT OPPORTUNITY AND WE FOCUS ON DEVELOPING REFINING THE SWOT ANALYSIS, THE STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS SO.  THIS INCLUDES BOTH DATA FINDINGS QUANTITATIVE SIDE AS WELL AS THE QUALITATIVE SIDE WHAT WE HEARD FROM YOU AS WELL AS BROAD STAKEHOLDERS WE DO THINK ABOUT AND UNDERSTAND THAT CERTAINLY GLOBAL AND NATIONAL TRENDS WILL INFLUENCE THAT ARE HAPPENING IN BLOOMINGTON BUT WE REALLY TRY TO FOCUS AND HONE IN ON WHAT THE THINGS THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED LOCALLY BUT ALSO KEEPING THAT LENS IN MIND THAT THERE ARE CERTAINLY EXTERNAL FACTORS SO THOSE ARE INCLUDED HERE AS WELL BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE'S LESS OF A DEGREE OF CONTROL.  SO STARTING WITH THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUAL BUT A FEW THINGS THAT STOOD OUT TO US THE PROXIMITY TO SAINT PAUL REGION CERTAINLY THE MALL OF AMERICA, THAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE COMING IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY LEADING STATE IN THAT REGARD THE CHIPS OPPORTUNITIES AROUND HIGHER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT. I THINK TO ADD TO THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD ADD AND AND MAYOR WE ACTUALLY HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS PREVIOUSLY ON THE THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THAT YOU ALL HAVE HERE YOU WERE THE HEART OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA'S SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THAT'S IT'S NOT THE REGION.  IT'S THIS COMMUNITY. IT WAS INTERESTING IN THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAD WITH STAKEHOLDERS WHERE WE BROUGHT UP YOU KNOW, THEY TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY AND THERE WASN'T LOT OF REACTION.  YOU ALL HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING TO TELL AND THERE'S SO MUCH TO BE PROUD OF . I DON'T THINK PEOPLE FULLY APPRECIATE WHAT AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY AND IMPACT INDUSTRY PLAYS IN BLOOMINGTON AND FRANKLY FOR THE ENTIRE STATE FOR A WEEK THIS IS THE ITEM THAT WE HAVE IS LACK OF LARGE DEVELOPABLE SITES FOR TARGET GROWTH AND I WOULD ACTUALLY EXPAND THIS TO RESIDENTIAL GROWTH AS WELL. PRESIDENT ERICKSON, WHEN YOU MENTIONED WHAT STRUCK US THE DATA, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE INCLUDED IN THE STATIC IMAGES IN THE PLAN WHICH IS WHY I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO INCLUDE IT TODAY WAS THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND THE PACE THAT HAD IF YOU LOOK AT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN SOME POOR COMMUNITIES IS THE ONE THAT STICKS OUT TO ME AS ALWAYS. AUSTIN YEAH A VAST AMOUNT OF HOUSING HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS JUST GROWING AT AN INCREDIBLE RATE WHERE IF YOU LOOK AT BLOOMINGTON THE AMOUNT OF HOUSING IN THE PAST DECADE IS VERY SMALL IN COMPARISON. SO THINKING ABOUT ESPECIALLY KNOWING HOW MANY PEOPLE COMMUTE INTO BLOOMINGTON AND THAT WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO TAKE A JOB IF THEY COULD AND WORK IN THE COMMUNITY. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT STRUCK ME STUCK OUT TO US.  THE OTHER THING FOR WEAKNESS IS DEPTH OF TRADED INDUSTRIES SO WE KNOW THAT THERE IS AN INCREDIBLE STRONG INDUSTRY AROUND THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY REALLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP THE DEPTH AND DIVERSITY OF THAT ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY WITH EXPANDING THE SUPPLY CHAIN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT COME WITH IT. EAST CONNECTIVITY I MENTIONED THAT WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE SLIDE DECK LACK OF A CENTRAL COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE TOO WAS INTERESTING SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD A LOT OF THOUGHT YOU KNOW, BLOOMINGTON DOESN'T HAVE A MAIN DOWNTOWN SO WHERE ARE THE THIRD PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN GO OUTSIDE WORK OR HOME THIS THIRD SPACE? SO WE TRIED TO THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN.  WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL NODES AND OTHER WAYS WITH LYNDALE AVENUE RETROFIT. HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT PART A CENTRAL GATHERING PLACES AND THEY CAN EVEN BE CULTURAL AREAS THE ZAWADI CENTER OR THE LIBRARIES AND HOW WE'RE UTILIZING NAVIGATING THE PERMITTING PROCESS ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD REGULARLY ESPECIALLY A LACK OF CLARITY OR 2020 NOT KNOWING AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS WHEN A FEE COULD HIT. SO HAVING SOMEONE HELP NAVIGATE THEM THROUGH THAT SUCH AS AN OMBUDSMAN WAS AN OPPORTUNITY OR A POTENTIAL WEAKNESS THAT COULD BE EXPLORED AND WE WOULD JUST ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR IN MEETING WITH SOME OF THE LARGER DEVELOPERS FOLKS IN THE PROFESSIONALS AND IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY THEY HAD HIGH PRAISE FOR THE PERMITTING AND DEPARTMENT FELT VERY GOOD ABOUT IT IT WAS TALKING TO VERY SMALL BUSINESSES THAT YOU KNOW ARE REALLY LIVING ON A SHOESTRING AND JUST TRYING TO GET A PROJECT AND I A PROJECT'S DELAYED BY 30 DAYS FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT'S A MASSIVE IMPACT, RIGHT?  IT COULD IMPACT YOU KNOW, THE LOANS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN OUT THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WHICH RELATED TO SOME OF THE STRATEGIES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED.  THANKS, JEFF. YES, IT WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THERE WAS A LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION SOMEONE WHO WAS USED TO NAVIGATING THE PERMITTING PROCESS HAS DONE PROJECTS HERE SAYING HIGH PRAISES BUT WE HEARD A A DIFFERENT STORY FROM SMALL BUSINESSES. DID YOU PICK UP ANY FEEDBACK?  THERE'S BEEN A REAL EFFORT IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO TO EXPAND ACCESS TO SMALL BUSINESS. I MEAN I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN A FOCUS. DID YOU PICK UP ANYTHING ON THAT? YEAH. SO TO ELIZABETH'S POINT WE DID HEAR SOME FOLKS WHO WERE HAD HAD A CHALLENGE CHALLENGING OF SMALL BUSINESSES. RIGHT. TRYING TO YOU KNOW, RUNNING INTO CHALLENGES THEY WEREN'T AWARE OF . RIGHT. AND AS THEY WERE TRYING TO GO THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND PUT IN A RESTAURANT OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT. I WILL ALSO YOU THOUGH WHEN WHEN OUR PROCESSES PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE THINGS MORE EFFICIENT SOMETIMES IT TAKES TIME AND IT OFTEN TAKES PROMOTION AND MAKING SURE YOU'RE COMMUNICATING TO THE WORLD THAT HEY THESE GREAT THINGS ARE NOW WE'VE ADJUSTED, WE'VE ADAPTED, WE'VE CHANGED. WHERE'S EFFICIENT AS WE CAN BE AND YOU HAVE TO TELL YOUR STORY AT THE SAME TIME.  I WANT TO GO BACK TO YOUR LAST SLIDE IN SO AT THE TOP UNDER WEAKNESSES IT'S LACK OF LARGE DEVELOPABLE SITES AND OF COURSE THAT'S BEEN A KEY THING THAT WE'VE DONE WITH SOUTH LOOP IS WE HAVE NOT BEEN BASHFUL ABOUT HOLDING PROPERTY AND LOOKING FOR DEVELOPMENT OUT THERE. WE HAD A REVENUE TO DO IT AND REALLY WE DON'T HAVE MUCH OF A REVENUE SOURCE FOR THE REST OF THE CITY BUT BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONSTANTLY CHANGING. YOU HAVE THESE THINGS AND SO IT'S A QUESTION OF SHOULD THE PO AUTHORITY BE FOCUSING ON CREATING SOME AREAS WHERE YOU COULD HAVE THE ASSEMBLAGE OF SOME SITES AS PROPERTY BECOMES AVAILABLE OR SOMETHING ELSE AND IT'S REALLY A QUESTION OF HOW YOU DO IT. SO.  MR. LYONS WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO COMMENT THAT YOU JUST FROM MY YEARS IN REAL ESTATE KNOW A LOT LACK OF LARGE SIZE COST AS WELL.  ONE WE HAD THE SITE BUT IT WAS NOT APPROVED WITH TARGET WANTED TO BUILD A STORE SOUTH WEST BLOOMINGTON THAT GOT BIG CITIZEN DISAPPROVAL AND I KNOW COSTCO WANTED TO BE IN BLOOMINGTON TOO BECAUSE THEY COULD GET A LIQUOR LICENSE. THEY ENDED UP IN EDEN PRAIRIE WITH US CITY WITH MUNICIPAL LIQUOR AND I WAS TALKING TO A GUY OVER THERE THAT THEY SAID COME DOWN CORPORATE COSTCO THEY WILL NEVER EVER DO THAT AGAIN. BUILD A STORE CITY THAT HAS MUNICIPAL SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING AGAIN AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS IN READING HER REPORT THERE ARE MANY THINGS AND THE ISSUE THAT WE GET INTO WE HAVE LIMITED STAFF, LIMITED RESOURCES AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THESE THINGS HAPPEN SO WELL AND PRESIDENT WE HAVE THAT WE'VE BEEN MINDFUL OF THAT WE APPRECIATE WE THAT THE DRAFT STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS THAT WE PROVIDED WE KNOW IT'S AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT IN SOME WAYS WE FELT LIKE IT WE WOULD RATHER GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY'S WORTH AND PROVIDE A WHOLE HOST OF DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE CITY COULD TAKE ON OR THE PORT COULD TAKE ON AND THEN WORK TOGETHER TO PRIORITIZE THOSE.  I ALSO WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU JUST TO NOTE THIS IS A FIVE YEAR PLAN. ALL OF THOSE ACTIVITIES DO NOT AND WILL NOT START IN THE FIRST YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE TEAM TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A FULL APPRECIATION FOR PRIORITIZING ACTION AND CLARITY ON WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE PLAN. WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE SECOND THIRD YEAR, FOURTH YEAR, FIFTH YEAR RIGHT THROUGH THE WHOLE THE ENTIRE PLAN JUST SO THAT ON THE SAME PAGE IT WILL BE A BUSINESS PLAN FRANKLY RIGHT FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY AND WE TRY TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT AS WE GO THROUGH. I WILL ALSO WITH YOU WE'VE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO WORK WITH THE TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS AT THE PORT AUTHORITY.  WE HAVE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE IN THEIR ABILITY. THEY ARE EXCEPTIONAL EXPERTS IN WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WE KNOW THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT MOVING FORWARD.  CAN I JUST ONCE I WANT TO COMMENT ALSO ON ONE OTHER WEAKNESSES LACK OF EAST-WEST CONNECTIVITY CONNECTIVITY I CAN'T SEE EVERYBODY IN THE CITY LONG ENOUGH THAT THERE WAS I RECALL BACK IN THE SEVENTIES THEY WANTED TO TAKE NINETIETHS THROUGH HIGHLAND PARK AND IT WAS A REFERENDUM IN THE CITY GOT VOTED DOWN MASSIVELY AS I RECALL SO I MEAN I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW YOU PHYSICALLY DO THAT MR. MAYOR,  IF I COULD I THINK IF I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY I SEE EAST-WEST CONNECTIVITY THE SAME WAY AS NORTH-SOUTH CONNECTIVITY NOT NECESSARILY ROADS BUT PERHAPS TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES WAYS TO GET PEOPLE FROM ONE SIDE OF THE CITY TO THE OTHER. WE HAVE PLENTY OF EAST WEST WE'VE GOT AMERICAN BOULEVARD,  WE'VE GOT OLD GEOGRAPHY ROAD ALL THAT, ALL THE NUMBERS AND ALL THE NUMBERS IN BETWEEN. BUT I'M THIS AS TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ACTUALLY I CAN'T REMEMBER EXCUSE ME COMMISSIONER NELSON WOULD CONFIRM THIS JUST LAST NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL MEETING WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AS OPPOSED TO THE INNER CITY TRANSPORTATION THROUGHOUT THE TWIN CITIES AND IT'S THE INTERCITY I THINK THAT'S BEEN THAT'S SEVERELY LACKING  IN THIS GUY WHO IS ON THE OTHER SIDE AND WE THIS AFTERNOON WHEN WE MET WITH STAFF THE WORD MOBILITY CAME UP AND SO THINKING ABOUT MOBILE AND THAT SENSE AND THE PLAN WE TALK A LOT A FAIR AMOUNT ABOUT NON-MOTORIZED CONNECTIONS TO AND WHAT COULD BE DONE IN THAT REGARD TO HELP IMPROVE THAT CONNECTIVITY AS WELL.  MOVING ON, COMMISSIONER I'M SORRY I CAN'T GIVE YOU APPROVAL. THANK YOU PRESIDENT.  WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SLIDES GO BACK. I'M SORRY. YEAH, IF GOOD. ONE OF THE THINGS I MEAN CLEARLY WE DON'T HAVE LARGE DEVELOPABLE SITES LIKE A LOCATION LIKE LAKEVILLE AND STUFF WHERE THEY HAVE FARMS AND WE HAVE ONE FARM BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT ISSUE. I THINK NEED TO RETHINK LARGE DEVELOPABLE SITES WHEN WE HAVE SO TOWN STILL HAVE DEVELOPABLE PROPERTY IN SOUTH LOOP. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL NODES THAT ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR A HIGHER DENSITY HIGHER USAGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I THINK WE NEED TO ARTICULATE THAT WE DO HAVE DEVELOPABLE SPACE HERE EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT JUST RAW LAND AND WE NEED TO BE AS WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE SEWER CAPACITY AND WE HAVE TO BE AWARE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE IT'S OVER FOR THOSE AREAS. BUT WE I MEAN FRANKLY I THINK WE HAVE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN BLOOMINGTON AND THE OTHER ASPECT IS WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW COMMUNITIES THAT HAS MADE A SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON OUR HOUSING GOALS WITHIN THE REGION WHILE OUR OTHER AROUND US ARE ARE MAYBE TRAILING A LITTLE BIT IN WE'VE DONE THERE SO WE'RE TRYING TO PROVIDE THAT HOUSING AND THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES THERE. SO JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS ON THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES HERE AND COMMISSIONER NELSON, I WHAT JUST COMMENTED REMINDS THAT WE'VE JUST FINISHED A PROJECT JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK FOR THE GREENVILLE AREA IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND THAT WAS AN INTERESTING PROJECT BECAUSE THEY HAD SO MUCH SUCCESS BEING ATTRACTING LARGE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS BUT THEY GOT TO A POINT WHERE THEY WERE THE STARTING TO BE BUILT OUT AND THAT WHOLE EFFORT WAS A IS A WAS A CONVERSATION AND LET'S LOOK AT WHAT ARE YOU TODAY RIGHT WHAT NOT WHAT YOU WERE 20 YEARS AGO WHAT ARE YOU TODAY BUT WHAT'S THE VALUE PROPOSITION A LOT OF THAT WAS THEN CENTERED ON HOW DO THEY LEVERAGE THE RECOGNITION THAT THAT GREENVILLE HAS HAD ON BEING A GREAT TO LIVE AND A GREAT PLACE TO RUN A BUSINESS AND SO THEY TO POINT IT'S ABOUT ATTRACTING IT'S ABOUT FINDING THE RIGHT AND GOING AFTER THOSE WITH FULL FORCE WELL YOU KNOW IT REALLY BECOMES ONE OF FOCUSING ON ADAPT REUSE BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY THAT IS ESTABLISHED HAS TO DO THAT AND YOU KNOW THAT WAS THE WHOLE GENESIS OF THE MALL IN A SENSE I MEAN THE WHOLE SOUTH LOOP BECAUSE IT WAS ADAPTIVE OF THE SITE THAT BECAME AVAILABLE AND WE HAVE LOT OF INDUSTRIAL SITES THAT YOU KNOW PROBABLY TERMS OF THE COST OF SOMEBODY IN INTO INTERIM IS NOT THAT GREAT IN TERMS OF THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND THINGS AND THEY'RE BUILDING. SO AGAIN AS WE FOCUS ON THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE PROCESS OF GETTING OLDER YOU CAN'T FOCUS ON YOU CAN'T DO YOU HAVE TO FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN DO AND AS EACH OF YOU GET OLDER THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO AND CELEBRATE. SO I MEAN AGAIN I THINK IT'S MATTER OF FOCUSING OUT AND LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AND THEN TRYING TO FACILITATE MAKING THEM HAPPEN IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. SO THANKS PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND ALSO RECOGNIZING THAT DON'T SPEND YOUR ENERGY RESPONDING TO AN RFP THAT'S REQUIRING 500 ACRES OF GREENFIELD IT'S NOT WORTH YOUR TIME YOU BETTER OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEND THAT ON TWO SO THAT'S ANOTHER KIND OF NUANCE WITH THAT CONTINUING OPPORTUNITY IS THERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE NO SHORTAGE OF FOR BLOOMINGTON TALENT RETENTION AND ATTRACTION WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT ONE ALREADY ESPECIALLY HOW THAT MARRIES WITH THE DATA THE WILLINGNESS OF THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORM TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECTS LEVERAGING UNIQUE TOOLS. THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT AND REFOCUS US THE PORT AUTHORITY AS IT GOES FROM JUST FOCUSING ON THE SOUTH LOOP TO CITY WIDE, HOW TO DELIVER SERVICES EQUITABLY ACROSS THAT LARGER REGION AND CERTAINLY INCREASING COLLABORATION WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENT.  IT'S WORKING ACROSS WITH REGIONAL AND STATE PARTNERS AS WELL.  I WANT TO FOCUS ON YOUR WILLINGNESS SUPPORT LARGE SCALE TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECTS. WE OBVIOUSLY DONE THAT IN BLOOMINGTON, THE SOUTH LOOP BUT I DON'T THINK WE TALK ABOUT IT VERY MUCH AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC REALIZES HOW THAT INVESTMENT HAS PAID OFF HAVING BEEN PART OF IT YOU KNOW WHAT WE'D ALWAYS HAD HOPED AT THE TIME WE KNEW THE TAX AND THAT WE WEREN'T GOING TO GET A BIG KICK IN TERMS OF REAL ESTATE TAXES INITIALLY.  BUT WE HOPED THAT THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY WOULD GO UP IN AND IN FACT IT HAS. AND SO I THINK PART OF THE THING THAT WE NEED TO DO TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IS IN FACT TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS THAT WE'VE HAD AND COMMUNICATE TO THE PUBLIC THAT YOU KNOW,  BECAUSE OF THAT AREA OUT THERE WE HAVE 10% OF OUR BUDGET COMING IN LIQUOR AND LODGING TAXES AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT MOST CITIES DON'T HAVE WHICH ENABLES US TO HAVE LOWER TAX RATES FOR OTHER THINGS. SO AGAIN PART OF IT IS IS TELLING OUR STORY AND IN TO DEVELOP A CONSENSUS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DOING THESE DEVELOPMENTS MAKES SENSE AND AGAIN IT'S GOING TO HELP THE TAXPAYER LONG TERM.  THANK YOU, PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND THEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SEMICONDUCTOR. WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON THOSE BUT STILL OF COURSE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES TO DEEPEN AND DEVELOP THOSE CLUSTERS.  MOVING ON TO THREATS, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT NEED TO AND AND THE PORT AUTHORITY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT ESPECIALLY AS IT PURSUES OPPORTUNITIES? ONE COMMERCIAL NODES WAS REQUESTED AS A FOCUS.  AND CERTAINLY THERE IS THE RISK OF IF YOU'RE REDEVELOPING . WE SAW THAT THERE IS THAT NICE BALANCE ALREADY AND RENT RATES ESPECIALLY IN TARGET AREAS.  WHAT WE WANT TO BE AWARE IS IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO THOSE COMMERCIAL NODES WE DON'T WANT THE RATES TO ALL OF A SUDDEN INCREASE AND DISPLACE GENTRIFY AND HAVE THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, REALLY VITAL TO THE FABRIC OF BLOOMINGTON BE DISPLACED ENSURING INFRASTRUCTURE KEEPS PACE WITH GROWTH. AS WE LOOK AT INCREASING THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY AND ADVANCEMENT FACTORING AND NEW INVESTMENTS IN HOUSING, E-COMMERCE GROWTH WE RECOGNIZE THE PRESENCE THAT RETAIL HAS .  RETAIL IS SO UNIQUE IN BLOOMINGTON BECAUSE IT ACTS ALMOST MORE LIKE A TRADED SECTOR BECAUSE OF THAT EXTERNAL DRAW KNOWING A FAIR AMOUNT ABOUT THE RETAIL INDUSTRY THAT THE MALL OF AMERICA IS IS A CENTER FOR ATTRACTION AND TODAY'S RETAIL ONLY THRIVES AND SURVIVES IF PEOPLE ARE COMING FOR THAT EXPERIENCE AND THAT EXPERIENTIAL ECONOMY. BUT E-COMMERCE IS GROWING. WE KNOW THAT THAT MAY HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE ON THE LARGE RETAIL PRESENCE, RISING COST OF LIVING, THAT HIGH PERCENTAGE OF LOW WAGE RETAIL WORKERS THAT WE SAW FROM JOB QUALITY AND ACCESS TO ALL. AND THEN THE LAST TWO ARE QUITE INTERCHANGEABLE IMPACT OF STATE POLICIES ON BLOOMINGTON BUSINESSES AND PERCEPTIONS OF BUSINESS CLIMATES. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DID HEAR IN OUR ROUNDTABLES AS BEING CHALLENGING TO OPERATE A BUSINESS HERE. BUT AGAIN IT WAS MAINLY ABOUT PERCEPTIONS HEARING YOU KNOW A LOT OF THE CONFLICTING FEEDBACK THERE BUT CERTAINLY SOMETHING TO BE AWARE AS THE PORT AUTHORITY THINKS ABOUT HOW THEY ARE DELIVERING THEIR SERVICES.  ANY QUESTIONS ON OPPORTUNITY THESE ARE THREATS RATES?  OKAY. SO YOU'VE HEARD LOT ABOUT THE DATA THAT WE'VE COMPILED. YOU'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE QUALITY, THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD ALL LEADING TO THE STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS.  SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS IDENTIFY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. THE DRAFT YOU SEE NOW IS REALLY DESIGNED TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES, MAXIMIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE IDENTIFIED AND THAT'S WHERE THIS PLAN IS REALLY BEEN DEVELOPED ON THIS IS THE DRAFT PLAN STRUCTURE.  WE FEEL IT'S IMPERATIVE TO BEGIN THE DRAFT PLAN WITH A VISION.  THIS IS THE VISION STATEMENT THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR TEAM WORK TOGETHER ON AND DEVELOPED BLOOMINGTON WILL BE A LEADING ECONOMIC CENTER IN REGION FOSTERING INNOVATION, SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL RESIDENTS THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND SUSTAINABLE EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE PLAN IS AIMED AT REALIZING THAT VISION AND SO WE TAKE THE VISION STATEMENT VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. WE ALSO IDENTIFIED A SET OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY WE THINK ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF VALUES. THESE ARE THE VALUES THAT THE PORT AUTHORITY HOLDS AS IT CARRIES OUT THIS STRATEGIC PLAN BEING ACCOUNTABLE BEING TRANSPARENT BEING INCLUSIVE AND FOCUSING ON EQUITABLE GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY AS WELL AS COLLABORATION. ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE FACTORED INTO THE STRATEGIES THEY ARE ALL COLLECTIVELY BAKED IN TO EVERY STRATEGY SO THE TEAM THAT'S GOING TO BE CARRYING OUT THE PLAN THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THESE VALUES EVERY SINGLE DAY IN EVERY INTERACTION THAT THEY HAVE AND WE ALWAYS FEEL THAT THAT'S A BIG PRIORITY AND WE FELT LIKE THAT'S A MUCH BETTER TO APPROACH EMBRACING THESE PRINCIPLES THAN JUST HAVING STAND ALONE SYMBOLIC KIND OF THING. WE FEEL IT'S IMPERATIVE TO JUST A QUICK QUESTION, JEFF. YEAH. AS THE AS THE CORE TEAM WAS USING THE WORD SUSTAINABILITY, WE'RE USING ECONOMICS SUSTAINABILITY ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OR FOR YOU THAT'S A VERY PERCEPTIVE THANK YOU FOR THAT AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IT WAS BOTH AND THE TEAM FELT VERY THIS THE STEERING COMMITTEE FELT VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU AND SO EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE FOLLOWING THAT THE ACTION PLAN THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WITH THE EIGHT OBJECTIVES AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THOSE FAIRLY QUICKLY AS WELL AS THE STAFFING THAT WILL BE ABLE TO HELP FACILITATE AND ADDRESS THOSE OBJECTIVES.  AND SO THAT'S THE STRUCTURE OF , THE PLAN.  LET'S NOW GO THROUGH JUST SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES SO YOU HAVE A SENSE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. THE FIRST IS FOCUSED IN ON TRADED SECTORS AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE WE TALK ABOUT WE'VE HEARD REFERENCE TODAY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRADED SECTORS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS A COMPANY THAT MAKES SOMETHING,  PROVIDES SOME SERVICE AND SELLS IT OUTSIDE OF THIS COMMUNITY.  THAT WAY NEW DOLLARS COME INTO BLOOMINGTON AND ARE CIRCULATED AROUND. SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT LOCAL RETAIL OR OR DENTISTS AND DRY CLEANERS. THEY'RE IMPERATIVE WE THINK THERE SHOULD BE A LOT OF ATTENTION PAID TO THOSE FOLKS TOO.  THEY MAKE THE QUALITY OF LIFE SPECIAL IN THIS COMMUNITY AND . WE CERTAINLY WANT TO FOCUS IN ON THEM BUT WE ALSO WANT TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME TRYING TO MAKE SURE AS MUCH MONEY COMES IN TO BLOOMINGTON AND THE TAX BASE AS WE CAN. SO THAT'S WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE TRADE IT SECTOR AND FOR THIS IT'S IT'S VERY TRADITIONAL STRAIGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDING BUSINESS RETENTION EXPANSION AND RECRUITMENT. WE'RE TALKING HERE ABOUT A FORMALIZED PROGRAM WHERE STAFF MEMBERS AT THE AT THE PORT AUTHORITY GO OUT AND SPEAK REGULARLY TO TRADED SECTOR COMPANIES TO UNDERSTAND THEIR CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. I DO WANT TO SAY THAT ACTIVITY IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE. GREAT WORK IS BEING DONE BUT WE FEEL LIKE IT'S IMPERATIVE TO MEMORIALIZE THESE THINGS AND START TO MEASURE AND QUANTIFY WHAT'S TAKING PLACE, WHAT WE'RE LEARNING AND WHAT WE'RE HEARING IN ADDITION TO THAT BUSINESS RECRUITMENT THIS IS THE THE OLD FASHIONED LET'S KNOCK ON DOORS AND DO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT WORK ON BEHALF OF THE BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY. RIGHT. WHETHER THAT MEANS GOING TO TALK TO A COMPANY IN MINNEAPOLIS OR GOING TO TALK TO A COMPANY IN HONG KONG OR NEW YORK CITY ABOUT WHY THEY SHOULD CREATE AND INVEST IN THIS COMMUNITY, WHY THIS IS THE BEST PLACE FOR THEM TO PLACE THEIR FUTURE. RIGHT. SOHOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS IN ADDITION TO THAT PARTNERSHIPS YOU ALL ARE VERY FORTUNATE THERE ARE SOME OUTSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN BLOOMINGTON BUT WITHIN THE REGION IN THE STATE THAT CONDUCT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INTEGRATED SECTORS LEANING ON THOSE FOLKS PARTNERING WITHIN THE GREATER MSP IS ONE THAT JUST JUMPS OUT IN MY MIND . THEY'VE BEEN A GREAT PARTNER THROUGHOUT THE LIFE OF THIS PLANNING PROCESS AND A GREAT GROUP TO BE WORKING WITH AS WELL.  I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ABOUT FOCUSING IN ON SMALL BUSINESSES. AS I SAID EARLIER, THEY IMPERATIVE TO THE SUCCESS OF QUALITY OF LIFE HERE AND THE ECONOMY AND MAKING SURE TO PROVIDE BUSINESS SUPPORT, LOOKING FOR TRAINING RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE WHEN A SMALL BUSINESS IS STRUGGLING OR IS IS LOOKING TO EXPAND OR GROW AND THIS REALLY FOCUS IN AND INCLUDE AND PRIORITIZES WORKING WITH AND MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES ACROSS THE CITY AS WELL ANOTHER I REFERENCED IS THAT TOPIC WE WE SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT PERMITTING PULLING TOGETHER AND HAVING A POTENTIALLY A PERMITTING LIAISON THAT CAN HOLD THE HAND OF A SMALL BUSINESS THAT DOESN'T DO THIS KIND OF STUFF ON A REGULAR BASIS. RIGHT. THIS IS KIND OF THINGS THAT THAT IS OUT OF THE ORDINARY AND THEY MAY NOT KNOW ASK APPROPRIATE QUESTIONS AND SO REALLY HOLDING THEIR HAND THE ONE NUMR REFERENCE HERE IS BUYING LOCAL BUY LOCAL CAMPAIGN THAT BE DONE WITH A GIGANTIC EXPENSIVE MARKETING PROGRAM OR IT CAN BE DONE WITH GUERILLA MARKETING RIGHT? IT'S ANYWHERE IN BETWEEN BUT WE FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY IN BLOOMINGTON TO UNDERSTAND YOU SHOULD SPEND AS MUCH OF YOUR DOLLARS IN THIS COMMUNITY AS YOU CAN TO ENSURE THAT THE BUSINESSES BIG AND SMALL HERE SUCCEED.  I'M GOING TO ASK LIZ MR. HUNT TO TURN YOUR MICROPHONE WHEN WE AS A GROUP HAVE OUR FOLLOW UP MEETING TO DISCUSS. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALSO BEAR IN MIND WHEN WE HAVE OUR SMALL BUSINESS SURVEY PRESENTATION COMING UP BECAUSE WERE SOME THINGS THAT CAME UP FROM THAT THAT YOU KNOW, COULD BE BLENDED WITH THIS AND AND JUST SOME CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE WE WENT THROUGH A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THAT BUT I KNOW IT'S COMING A PRESENTATION IN AT A FUTURE MEETING SO OUTSTANDING.  THANK YOU COMMISSIONER.  OBJECTIVE THREE IS ALL ABOUT INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPING A STARTUP ECOSYSTEM. THIS INCLUDES ACTIONS SUCH AS REALLY DEVELOPING THE ECOSYSTEM, UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE ASSETS ALREADY ARE IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE BROADER REGION.  THIS DOES TWO THINGS HELP YOU BE BETTER INFORMED TO SERVE YOUR COMPANIES AS WELL AS UNDERSTAND WHERE POTENTIAL GAPS ARE AND ADDITIONAL SERVICES COULD BE ADDED. A LOT NETWORKING AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING ESPECIALLY AROUND FUNDING THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST FIRST TO OFTEN IDENTIFIED NEEDS OF STARTUPS IS THAT FUNDING SPACE AND DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS WITH SEED EYES ANGEL CAPITAL JUST CAPITAL ACCESS NETWORKING ADDITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS WITH THROUGHOUT THE REGION AND THE STATES AS WELL AS EXISTING COMPANIES TO HELP SUPPORT STARTUPS COMMERCIALIZATION TRANSFER.  AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS OBJECTIVE THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE FEEL THAT THE PORT SHOULD OWN AND SHOULD LEAD. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT THE PORT SHOULD SUPPORT AND THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT THE PORT SHOULD JUST BE INVOLVED IN AND BE AWARE OF BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ARM FOR THE CITY AND THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE. YOU HAVE TO OWN THE ENTIRE INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE, RIGHT? YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE AN INCUBATOR, YOU DON'T HAVE TO YOU CAN OFF OF GREAT THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY TAKING PLACE. BUT WE DO THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AS AS I SAID EARLIER, AS THE BUSINESS LEAD IN THE CITY TO BE AWARE OF ALL OF THESE THINGS AND TO LEVERAGE WITH THE LAST THING WE WANT IS FOR YOU ALL TO LOSE OUT ON AN ENTREPRENEUR HERE OR IN MINNEAPOLIS OR SAINT PAUL THAT COULD BE HERE MYSTERIOUSLY.  JUST A QUICK QUESTION. DO YOU ENVISION CONNECTIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH HIGHER EDUCATION WHETHER IT'S THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OR ANY PRIVATE SCHOOLS WOULD THAT FALL UNDER THIS OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE COMING ANOTHER OBJECTIVE COMING UP THAT WOULD ADDRESS THAT BETTER? ABSOLUTELY UNDER THAT WOULD FALL UNDER MULTIPLE SPOT SO TRADED SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS CERTAINLY AN OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR HIGHER ED BUT YES ESPECIALLY IN INNOVATION WE OUT HIGHER EDUCATION ESPECIALLY AS WE THINK ABOUT COMMERCIALIZATION AND TECH TRANSFER. WE TALK ABOUT HIGHER END PARTNERSHIPS LITTLE BIT UNDER WORKFORCE WHICH WE'RE COMING TO THINKING ABOUT INTERNS AND WHAT THAT RELATIONSHIP NETWORK LIKE TOO. THANK YOU. THERE ARE SOME GOOD EXAMPLES OF THAT THE PAST AND AGAIN I THINK IT'S JUST IMPORTANT THE FUTURE NORMAN DELL COMMUNITY HAD A VACUUM TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM THAT THEY WORKED WITH TO DEVELOP THE WORKERS THAT WE NEEDED IN FRONT OF THE INDUSTRY AND I THINK AGAIN THERE UNFORTUNATELY HAS NOT BEEN THE DEGREE OF COOPERATION INTERACTION THAT WE ALL SHOULD HAVE BUT I WAS JUST THINKING ANOTHER POINT WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT BLOOMINGTON CAN CREATE AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT ARTICLES IN THE MINNEAPOLIS PAPER AND OTHER PLACES ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF DOING BUSINESS IN MINNEAPOLIS FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS.  YEAH. I MEAN I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT TO THE EXTENT WE CAN STREAMLINE OUR PROCESSES AND HAVE SOMEBODY GUIDE SOMEBODY AND SAY WE WANT YOU HERE AND THE SAME THING IS TRUE EXISTING BUSINESSES AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME WORK STARTING ON THAT BUT AGAIN JUST YOU KNOW LET'S JUST TELL PEOPLE YEAH WE YOU TO BE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO KEEP YOU HERE ETC.?  I WAS JUST WONDERING AS EVERYONE SAW THE ARTICLE I THINK WAS IN YESTERDAY'S STAR ON PUTTING A RESTAURANT TOGETHER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND I'LL REALLY DIFFICULT IT IS YEAH RIGHT OBJECTIVE FOR WRAPAROUND SERVICES THESE ARE THE THINGS ESPECIALLY IN OUR CONVERSATIONS ARE OUR COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLES WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS. YOU CAN'T HAVE ECONOMIC WITHOUT THESE COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT SERVICES SO HOUSING CHILD CARE WORKFORCE DEVELOP SO HERE'S WHERE WE HAVE HIGHER EDUCATION IN THERE BUT CHILD CARE WHEN WE HAD A ONE ON ONE WITH OUR OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT GREATER MSP THERE THEIR THEIR OBJECTIVE WAS IF BLOOMINGTON CAN FIGURE OUT CHILD CARE AND COME UP WITH SOME REALLY UNIQUE TANGIBLE STRATEGIES FOR THAT THEY WILL STAND OUT AS A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT HAS SUCH A TREMENDOUS NEED TO SUPPORT THE WORKFORCE. THIS ALSO UNDERSCORES THE REGION'S AND BLOOMINGTON'S COMMITMENT EQUITY. KNOWING THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IMPACTS AND DISPLACES MORE WOMEN AND LOWER WAGE WORKERS AND CHILDCARE PLACES GREATER BURDEN ON THEIR INCOME AND THEN HOUSING BROAD FULL SPECTRUM FROM EXECUTIVE HOUSING TO MULTIFAMILY.  OBJECTIVE NUMBER FIVE PLACE MAKING THIS IS ALL ABOUT QUALITY OF PLACE AND ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS VISITORS AS WELL AS BUSINESSES. THE TEAM UNDER THE PORT AUTHORITY IS THE OFFICE OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING SO THIS IS HOW THAT FITS INTO THE STRATEGY BUT IT ALSO GOES THAT TO THINKING ABOUT ACTIVATION OF PUBLIC SPACES THOSE THIRD SPACES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE SWOT ANALYSIS HOW WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. SAME THING WITH THE COMMERCIAL NODES OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND THAT'S 5.2 HAS BEEN ONE OF MY PET PEEVES FOR YEARS IN BLOOMINGTON WE'RE 30% PARKLAND BUT NOBODY KNOWS IT.  I MEAN WE SHOULD LABEL OURSELVES PARK CITY OR ELSE BECAUSE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO RECREATION THINGS HERE THAT'S JUST UNPRECEDENTED. I MEAN AGAIN BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT.  OBJECTIVE REAL ESTATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE AGAIN THINGS THAT THE PORT AUTHORITY IS ALREADY DOING EXECUTING AT A VERY, VERY HIGH LEVEL SO INFILL DEVELOPMENT IS CALLED OUT HERE AS AN OPPORTUNITY AS WELL AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING. LAND BANKING WAS AND HAS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ACTIONS UNDER IT AS WELL AS BROADER INFRASTRUCTURE THINGS LIKE ADDRESSING THE SEWER AND THE UNDERSTANDING THOSE CONSTRAINTS AND THE IMPACTS THAT IT HAS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. JEFF ANYTHING TO ADD TO ANY QUESTIONS?  ALL RIGHT. WE TWO OBJECTIVES LEFT AND THEY ARE SHORTER ONES.  IF WE MOVE THERE WE GO. TALENT RETENTION AND ATTRACTION KNOWING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS COUPLE TIMES NOW THE COMMUTE PATTERNS WE KNEW PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO THE REGION FOR WORK ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER TALENT RETENTION AND ATTRACTION THAT'S GOING TO ALSO CORRELATE WITH REMOTE WORKER OPPORTUNITIES OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING REMOTE WORKERS HERE AS WELL HIGHLIGHTING THE CITY'S QUALITY OF PLACE SUCH AS PARKS AND GREENSPACE, THE THINGS THAT TALENT IS REALLY LOOKING FOR AND MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE BUT WE HAVE THE LARGEST SINGLE CAMPUS IN THE MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN IT IS LARGER THAN ANY OF THE STATE UNIVERSITIES AND SO IT'S JUST AGAIN SOMETHING WE DON'T TALK ABOUT I THINK I THINK IN TERMS OF FTE, I THINK NORMAN DALE IS 17,000 YEAH SO I MEAN I WELL IN WE CAN BUT BUT AT ANY RATE I MEAN IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT IN TERMS OF BUSINESSES LOCATING HERE AND THINGS JUST SAY YOU KNOW WE'RE THE HOME OF SO I BELIEVE WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY OF YOU ABOUT THAT JUST THE TOPIC OF TALENT ATTRACTION AND YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS HAVE ALL BEEN ABOUT HOW DO I ENCOURAGE COMPANIES TO COME TO MY COMMUNITY INVESTOR LOCAL COMPANIES TO EXPAND AND THAT IS A PRIORITY AND WE CERTAINLY TALK ABOUT IT HERE IN THIS PLAN BUT MORE AND MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS AS MUCH OF AN EMPHASIS ON ATTRACTING TALENTED PEOPLE AND KEEPING TALENTED PEOPLE THAT'S THE IN THE ECONOMY OF THE FUTURE THAT'S REALLY GOING TO BE THE DIFFERENTIATOR I FOR A LOT OF COMMUNITIES WELL FROM A STANDPOINT OF EQUITY COMMUNITY COLLEGES HAVE LONG BEEN GATEWAY TOWARD EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS AND THERE WAS A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION THAT NORMAN DALE OF THIS GENTLEMAN CAME FROM AFRICAN STARTED AS A STUDENT AND HE'S NOW A CARDIAC IN NEW YORK. AND SO I MEAN AGAIN THERE'S LOTS OF EXAMPLES LIKE THAT BUT THERE'S SOMETHING TO THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT CREATING EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES IS SOMETHING THAT WE CERTAINLY HAVE AND OBJECTIVE EIGHT MARKETING AND EVENTS ON THIS IS ALL ABOUT PROMOTION. IT'S ALL ABOUT COLLABORATION WITH OTHER CITY AGENCIES AS WELL AS BLOOMINGTON TRAVEL AND TOURISM AND GREATER MSP AS WELL.  ANYTHING ELSE I'D HEAR NOTHING ELSE TO ADD.  ALL RIGHT.  AND THAT TAKES US TO THE END OF THE ACTION PLAN, THE OVERVIEW WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE YOU KIND OF NEXT STEPS AND WHAT THAT PROCESS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT TAKING YOUR YOUR FEEDBACK AND INPUT AND I SAID IN THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS PRESENTATION WE WOULD WELCOME ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH YOU IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU HEARD THIS EVENING OR IN THE DOCUMENT AS YOU GO THROUGH IT THAT YOU THINK GOSH, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH OR I'VE GOT ANOTHER IDEA WE ARE WE ARE ALL EARS.  AS I SAID EARLIER, THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT. OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE YOU AS COMMISSIONERS FEEL CONFIDENT AND GOOD ABOUT THIS PLAN AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL THAT HAPPENS.  SO WE'LL WORK AROUND YOUR CALENDARS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE AVAILABLE TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK ON BUT I ALSO WILL WILL SHARE AS WELL I KNOW  READING ALL OF THIS MATERIAL YOU THINK OH MY GOSH YOU KNOW WE'VE GOT A RELATIVELY SMALL TEAM. YOU KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ALL OF THIS ON AND I'LL JUST REITERATE YOU'RE MOVING FROM BEING KIND OF A REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT ENTITY IN THE SOUTH LOOP.  NOW YOU'RE COVERING THE ENTIRE CITY DOING A WHOLE WIDE RANGE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND SO THAT AND OF ITSELF REQUIRES A LOT OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES THAT TAKE PLACE BUT I SAID WE'RE GOING TO WE WILL WORK WITH THE TEAM TO MAP OUT YEAR OVER YEAR WHAT SHOULD BE DONE FIRST. THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TODAY THAT MAY NOT GET DONE UNTIL YOU'RE FOR OR EVEN IN YEAR FIVE AND THAT'S ALL RIGHT. WE EXPECT THAT THE PLANS THAT WE CREATE ARE DESIGNED TO BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPT TO CONDITIONS. BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE FOLKS ARE AWARE OF THAT AS WELL. WELL, I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IS WHAT ADMINISTER HOLLY HAS TO SAY AND THINK BECAUSE SHE'S ONE WHO'S GOING TO HAVE TO FOCUS THE ATTENTION AND WE MEET ONCE A MONTH OR MORE OR LESS I MEAN AGAIN YOU HAVE TO LIVE A DAY TO DAY AND MY COMMENT TO YOU AS YOU HAVE TO SOME HIGH PRIORITY IS AND SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DO WE MAKE THIS A LIVING DOCUMENT SO WE CAN HOLLY IF YOU WANT WE CAN TALK ABOUT KIND OF NEXT STEPS TO KIND OF HELP BREATHE LIFE INTO THAT. AND THEN HOLLY, IF YOU YOU CAN COMMENT IS THAT ALL RIGHT? CAN I PLAY THE MALE PREROGATIVE CARD FIRST SO WE HAVE TO YOUR NOTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ISM WE HAVE A CEO START GROUP THAT IS KICKING OFF AND IT'S BASICALLY A GROUP OF WANNABE CEOS THAT ARE BASICALLY GOING THROUGH A CLASS AND LEARNING HOW TO DO ALL OF THIS. AND I HAVE TO GO WELCOME THEM AND CONGRATULATE THEM ON ALL OF THIS. SO I APOLOGIZE ARRIVING LATE AND LEAVING EARLY BUT THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK. I THINK I THINK IT'S A GREAT ROADMAP AND I WILL SAY I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT YEARS TWO, THREE, FOUR OR FIVE. I DO THINK THE CITY STAFF, OUR CITY COUNCIL AND THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE AT LEAST BEEN INTRODUCED TO THIS NOTION THROUGH OUR CURRENT FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN THAT THE CITY IS WORKING ON UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S NOT ALL HAPPENING AT ONCE AND IT'S A IT'S A PROCESS THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH AS A COMMUNITY AND ACHIEVING THINGS WITH A YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY ROAD MARKS OR ROAD MARKERS WHERE.  WE CAN SAY YES, WE'VE MADE IT THAT FAR OR NO WE HAVE SOME MORE WORK TO DO.  SO I THINK PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. WE JUST NEED TO PUT THE WHOLE MAP TOGETHER AND START MOVING FORWARD. SO I'M THANK YOU. I THINK IT LOOKS FABULOUS. COMMISSION MEMBERS I APOLOGIZE BUT SUCH AS YOU KNOW AND THERE WE SEE YOU AND WE'LL SEE YOU ON DECEMBER 16TH WHEN WE PRESENT THE REFINED UPDATED DRAFT TO COUNCIL.  SO WHEN WE REVIEWED THE DATA QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE WE ABOUT THAT BEING THE DISCOVERY PHASE OF THE PROCESS THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN IS REALLY ALL ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY PHASE AND AT THAT POINT WE'VE IDENTIFIED WHAT THOSE KEY PRIORITIES ARE AND IDENTIFY THE ACTIONS AND THE STRATEGIES NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE. THE THIRD PHASE OF THE PLANNING PROCESS IS IMPLEMENTATION AND THAT'S ABOUT ALIGNING THE PRIORITIES IDENTIFYING AND MEMORIALIZING WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING, WHAT IS AN IMMEDIATE TERM? WHAT IS LONGER TERM? WHAT ARE THE RESOURCE SOURCES ? WHO ARE THE ADDITIONAL PARTNERS THAT ARE GOING INTO THAT SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING THROUGH REFINING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE STAFFING PLAN IN MIDST MEMBER WE WILL BE CONDUCTING AN IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP WITH THE AUTHORITY TEAM AND THAT IS AND I'LL YOU A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE EXPECT TO DO THEN AND THAT LEADS TO THE FINAL EDP DELIVERABLES.  AND JEFF, DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE YOU KNOW, LIMITATION WORK? SURE. SKIP AHEAD TO YEAH.  THINK WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS ALREADY. YOU KNOW WE WANT TO MAKE THAT THAT THERE ARE METRICS AND MILESTONES ATTACHED TO STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS THAT WE IDENTIFY ON. WE WERE SAYING EARLIER I LOVE A GOOD SPREADSHEET AND THE DOCUMENT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND THIS IS NOT THE DOCUMENT THE DRAFT YOU RIGHT NOW THE FINAL DOCUMENT WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL HIGHLY PRODUCED DOCUMENT WITH GORGEOUS PHOTOS AND WOULD CALL OUT BOXES. IT'LL LOOK GORGEOUS I PROMISE YOU.  BUT THE THING THAT I GET MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS THE SPREADSHEET THAT ALSO COME WITH THE DOCUMENT AND THIS IS WHERE WE'LL TAKE EVERY SINGLE STRATEGY ACTION THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PART OF THE PLAN WILL BREAK THEM DOWN STEPS WILL HAVE TEAM ASSIGNMENTS, WILL HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR HOW TO MEASURE SUCCESS PRIORITIES WHEN THOSE SHOULD HAPPEN AND THEN IF THIS ENDS UP BEING A LIVING DOCUMENT IT ENDS UP BEING A LIVING TOOL WHERE THE TEAM THE PORT CAN MAKE A CAN MAKE ADJUSTMENTS OR ADAPT AND CHANGES AND INCLUDE NOTES AND THEN ALSO USES IT USE IT AS A TOOL TO UPDATE YOU ALL ON A REGULAR BASIS.  SO THAT IS WHAT WE WE'RE GOING TO WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE TEAM SO THAT THERE'S NO MYSTERY.  THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF OF THEIR OWN YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE AS I SAID EARLIER, THEY'RE VERY PROFESSIONAL, HAVE A LOT OF EXPERTIZE AND THEY'RE GOING TO APPROACH AND TAKE ON LOT OF THE STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS IN THE WAY THAT THEY SEE MAKES MOST SENSE FOR THEMSELVES AND WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING AND WILL CERTAINLY FIT THAT INTO THIS EFFORT. BUT WE WILL WANT TO MAKE SURE WE WORK WITH THEM VERY CLOSELY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO AND EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT TO DO FIRST AND WHAT TO NEXT.  SO NOW WE HAVE A DRUMROLL FOR HOLLI.  YEAH, WE'LL JUST YEAH. HOLLI, YOUR HONEST ASSESSMENT ,YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE PLAN AND OH MY I'M PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND COMMISSIONERS THANK YOU ALL FOR SPENDING TIME WITH THIS MATERIAL. OUR TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US SINCE.  I THINK YOU SAW THEM LAST IN MARCH. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH THERE HAVE STEERING COMMITTEES. THERE HAVE BEEN ROUNDTABLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS AND SO IT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION COME TOGETHER.  I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK ON IT MAKING SURE THAT THE PRIORITIES WE HAVE LANDED ON ARE ALIGNED WITH WHAT YOU HAD IMAGINED FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PORT AUTHORITY. THIS IS ALL VERY GROUNDED IN FEEDBACK AND DATA.  WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK AS WELL BECAUSE YOU WILL BE OFFICIALLY ADOPTING THE PLAN IN A MONTH OR TWO AND SO ALSO THE TEAM HAS YET TO SEE THIS IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY THAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE WORKSHOP WE'RE TO DO THAT TOMORROW. I'LL SEE TOMORROW WE'LL ALSO BE TALKING ABOUT MISSION STATEMENTS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO JUST CONTINUING THIS PROCESS WRAPPING UP THE PLAN, REALLY REFINING THE VISION AND SOMETHING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME THIS EVENING WAS I MEAN HOW MUCH WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT STORYTELLING AND MARKETING AND ALL THE WORK WE'RE DOING GREAT. BUT IF WE'RE NOT GETTING THIS OUT THERE WHETHER THAT'S THE STORY OF BLOOMINGTON IN GENERAL OR THE STORY OF THE PORT IS DOING OR THE STORY OF OUR BUSINESSES HERE WE'RE NOT DOING OUR JOBS. SO THE PRIORITIES UP THERE ARE NOT THE OBJECTIVES ARE NOT AN ORDER OF PRIORITY. BUT I AM SURPRISED HOW MUCH MARKETING AND STORYTELLING KEEPS COMING UP THE TOP AS WELL AS COLLABORATING WITH OUR LOCAL AGENCIES AND OUR LOCAL AS WELL AS INTERNALLY HERE WITHIN THE PORT. SO THOSE ARE JUST A FEW INITIAL OBSERVATIONS I HAD.  WELL I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WILL BE LOOKING AT THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND THAT REALLY GIVES US AN IDEA WHERE YOU'RE PRIORITIZING AND BECAUSE AGAIN IT'S A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF DATA IT'S YOU KNOW, YOU CAN LOOK AT THESE THINGS OBVIOUSLY GIVEN THE SIZE OF OUR STAFF AND I KNOW HAVE SOME UNFILLED POSITIONS AND THINGS TO BUT JUST JUST TO ACCOMPLISH THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS TO TAKE A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT. SO I THINK LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING THAT. HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE A MORE ROBUST DISCUSSION OF THE THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN NEXT MONTH THEN WHEN WE MEET IN UH GO FORWARD AND AND AGAIN THIS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP FOR US AND SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE THE TIME TO DIGEST IT ASK ANY AND TO MOVE ON AND YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY BE A LOT OF CHANGES IN IT BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE ENVIRONMENT'S CHANGING AND WE HAVE TO ADAPT BUT AT THE SAME POINT IN TIME WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH WHERE WE'RE AND SUFFICIENT PRIORITIZATION AND THINGS TO MOVE FORWARD.  ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS I GUESS WE SAY UP ON THE SCREEN WHERE WE WILL SAY THANK YOU AND WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ITERATION AND AND GO FROM THERE. WELL, WE THANK YOU.  AND IF AS I SAID, WE WOULD WELCOME ANY ADDITIONAL CONVERSATION, ANY POINT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE. WE KNOW WE HAVE WORK TO DO IN FRONT OF US BUT APPRECIATE THE COLLABORATION AND LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THE WORK. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. WELL WITH THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA WE HAVE OUR BUDGET BUT IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WRITTEN MATERIALS.  I TOLD HOLLY BEFORE I THINK JUST FROM A STANDPOINT OF THE PUBLIC I'M RELUCTANT TO VOTE ON THIS WITHOUT HAVING IT BEEN OUT IN THE PUBLIC.  SO I THINK IF IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN REFER THE NEXT MEETING WE SHOULD SOMETHING WELL FOR APPROVAL I THINK WE CAN APPROVE THE LEVY BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE TALKED DOING THAT HAS TO GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL YOU KNOW THE PORT AUTHORITY LEVY BUT I'LL JUST REACT TO COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE ON THAT I WHETHER THEY THINK IT'S PRUDENT THAT WE WILL HAVE THE PRESENTATION OBVIOUSLY ON THE BUDGET AND PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND COMMISSIONERS IF I MAY YOU ARE WELCOME TO DO EITHER ONE. WE DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT?  WE'RE ALIGNED WE ARE PLANNING TO BRING THIS TO CITY COUNCIL FOR ITS FINAL APPROVAL OF THE LEVY ON DECEMBER SECOND BUT WE COULD ALSO GO ON THE 16TH IF WE NEEDED TO WHICH WOULD BE AFTER OUR DECEMBER 10TH MEETING. SO IF THAT IS WHAT YOU PREFER TO DO DELAY EITHER OF THOSE APPROVALS, WE CAN DO THAT AND IT WILL STILL FIT IN OUR SCHEDULE BY THE END OF THE YEAR. BUT I DO WANT TO JUST SHARE THAT THIS INFORMATION IS ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHAT YOU SAW IN AUGUST OF THIS YEAR. YEAH, WELL I MEAN THEEVY IS IT'S SOMETHING PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.  I'M JUST WONDERING ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT'LL TAKE? I NEED TO I OUT OF HERE IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES.  15 MINUTES? WHAT 15 PRESIDENT ERICKSON COMMISSIONER LYONS AND COMMISSIONERS I THINK WE CAN GET IT DONE AND PRESENTATION DONE LESS THAN TEN AND WE WILL STILL HAVE A QUORUM IF YOU HAVE TO LEAVE RESTAURANTS. OKAY LET'S GO.  ALL RIGHT .  ARE WE ON? ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT ERICKSON AND COMMISSIONERS. I HAVE WITH ME THIS EVENING MARY KAY HANAN PORT AUTHORITY ACCOUNTANT WILL BE GOING THROUGH SOME OF OUR NUMBERS IN MORE DETAIL.  AND SO THIS EVENING WE PLAN TO PRESENT TO YOU THE PORT AUTHORITY AND LEVY REQUEST AND AGAIN I WANT TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS MEMO NOT BEING IN THE PACKET THAT WAS MY FAULT. SO YOU DO HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU HAVE THE FULL BUDGET BUDGET DOCUMENTS IS A PRINTOUT SO YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG .  ALL RIGHT. SO JUST A QUICK RECAP OF THE PORT AUTHORITY'S WORK AREAS AND PRIORITIES WHICH ALL GUIDE OUR DEVELOPMENT AND OUR PROGRAMING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE YEAR AND SOON IT WILL ALSO BE GUIDED BY OUR STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT BUT THE PORT AUTHORITY'S CHARGE IS TO PROVIDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AND WE DO THAT THROUGH THREE CHANNELS. ONE IS DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT THAT'S REAL ESTATE WORK THAT THE PORT REALLY STARTED AROUND. WE'VE ADDED BUSINESS THAT YOU'RE SEEING WITH BOTH SMALL AND LARGE BUSINESSES AND THEN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING WHICH THE PORT HAS ABSORBED AND WHICH STARTED IN SOUTH LOOP AND WE'LL ALSO BE EXPANDING CITYWIDE AS THE PORT HAS AND WE ALSO ARE GUIDED BY THE CITY'S FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN BLOOMINGTON TOGETHER TOMORROW WHICH INCLUDES THREE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES ONE TO WHICH ARE VERY RELEVANT TO THE PORT A CONNECTED AND COMMUNITY WHICH REALLY COMES TO SHINE OUR PLACEMAKING WORK AS WELL AS ALL THE COMMUNICATION THAT WE DO WITH OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND THEN A COMMUNITY WITH EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH. SO ALL THE WORK WE DO WE HOPE IT UPLIFTS EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND SOME OF OUR PROGRAMING REALLY GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REACH OUT TO COMMUNITIES THAT ARE NOT TYPICALLY WITH THE CITY.  SO AS A QUICK THIS IS OUR 2022 TO 25 TIMELINE WHICH BROUGHT US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY IN 22 THE PORT WAS IDENTIFIED IN A NATURE ASSESSMENT AS READY TO MOVE CITYWIDE AND THAT WAS TO HELP DO SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT WORK FOR THE CITY AND LET THE AGENCY REALLY FOCUS ON ITS HOUSING STRENGTHS.  AND THEN IN 2023 THIS WAS THE FIRST YEAR THE PORT WAS ABLE TO BE FUNDED. THE LEVY WAS NOT PASSED THAT YEAR FOR TECHNICAL REASONS. HOWEVER THE HRA $1.4 MILLION TO GET THE PORT STARTED ON ITS WORK AND THE PORT INCLUDED BUSINESS ASSISTANCE SERVICES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2020 FOR THE PORT OFFICIALLY IMPOSED ITS FIRST LEVY OF $1.5 MILLION AND STARTED OUR FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN PROCESS TO BE COMPLETED.  WELL THAT WAS OPTIMISTIC BUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR AND THEN 2025 WE ARE REQUESTING 2.5 MILLION FOR THE LEVY THAT WILL FUND OUR RESERVES AND STRATEGIC SEED A STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS FUND.  AND JUST A QUICK NOTE ABOUT THIS. THIS IS WE'D INCLUDED IN ANOTHER PRESENTATION THE MAX LEVY. SO YOU ARE AWARE AVAILABLE FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY WOULD BE $3.2 MILLION 3,000,206 229 TO BE PRECISE. WE ARE NOT THE FULL AMOUNT WE ARE ASKING FOR 2.5 ALL RIGHT. AND SO I GOT IT I THINK. ALL RIGHT SO THE TOTAL BUDGETED REVENUE FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY FOR 2025 IS 3.394 MILLION AND TOTAL BUDGETED EXPENSE SOURCES WOULD BE 2.7 MILLION. THE DIFFERENCE IN THAT BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY SOME RESERVES THAT WE ARE TRYING TO BUILD WHICH INCLUDE 200,000 FOR BUILDING OPERATING RESERVES WHICH SUPPORT HAS NOT HAD BEFORE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A LEVY BEFORE WE HAVEN'T WORKED CITYWIDE SO WE NEED TO START PLANNING FOR THAT AS OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AND FUNDS DO BY CEDING OUR RESERVE AND THEN ADDITIONAL FUNDS ARE BEING ADDED ON TO START TO PLAN FOR STRATEGIC WHICH MAY COME DOWN THE LINE. WE'VE ADDED HUNDRED THOUSAND THIS YEAR. THAT IS NOT A HUGE AMOUNT WE KNOW THAT BUT WE ARE GOING TO BUILD THOSE FUNDS TIME AND THEN SOME OF THE REMAINDER OF THE DISTANCE DIFFERENCE CAN BE PLANNED BY NEW PROGRAMS THAT WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD AND A BIT BUFFER THAT WE HAVE BUILT INTO THE BUDGET. SO THE TOTAL LEVY REQUEST TO SUPPORT THIS WOULD BE 2.5 MILLION.  ALL RIGHT. AND A FEW BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR PAST YEAR INCLUDE ADDING OUR BUSINESS SERVICES. WE NOW HAVE RIBBON CUTTINGS WE BRING THE MAYOR OUT TO DIFFERENT EVENTS.  WE ARE GOING TO BE EXCUSE ME IN A RESET. SO IN 2025 WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE AND EXPAND OFFERING FOR COMMERCIAL AND MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT SERVICES CITYWIDE INCLUDING TIFF APPLICATIONS AND GRANT ASSISTANCE. YOU SEE THAT AND THINGS LIKE SIC AND POEHLER FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF BLOOMINGTON'S HOUSING ORDINANCE THAT'S WHAT KENNY NIEMEYER OVERSEES OFFERING BUSINESS ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO SMALL BUSINESSES AN EARLY STAGE ENTREPRENEURS YOU'VE SEEN A LOT OF THAT COME THROUGH ALREADY OFFERING CREATIVE PLACEMAKING CITYWIDE AND BEGINNING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITYWIDE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING PLAN YOU'LL START SEEING THOSE COMING OUT IN THE SPRING OF NEXT YEAR OFFERING DIRECT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES TO THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT PROGRAM AND BUSINESS RETENTION PROGRAM. YOU SAW THAT ABOUT THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT PROGRAM LAST MONTH. IT'S BEEN VERY POPULAR AND VERY SUCCESSFUL AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING INTO THE FOLLOWING YEAR PARTICIPATING IN REGIONAL COLLABORATIONS SUCH AS THE CHIPS COALITION. WE ARE ACTIVE WITH GREATER AND OTHERS THOSE ARE MEMBERSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIP FEES SO TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE SERVICES AND THEN ALLOCATED GRANT FUNDING TO ASSIST DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS CITYWIDE OR PREPARE STUDIES CITYWIDE. SOME OF THOSE FUNDS HAVE BEEN REALLOCATE TO SUPPLEMENT IN THE FACADE GRANT PROGRAM THIS YEAR BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING DIFFERENT FUNDS AVAILABLE TO US IN THE FUTURE . WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD IN 2025 LAUNCH AND MORE OF THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE FIVE YEAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN BUILDING OPERATING RESERVES FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY AS I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED LAUNCHING A STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS FUND FOR FUTURE LAND PURCHASES BEGINNING A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MINNESOTA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER  EXPANDS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OFFERINGS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES THEY STOPPED BY HERE AS WELL I THINK ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. THOSE WERE OUR COLLEAGUES FROM DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT COLLABORATE WITH THE SBA, DELIVER THAT AND THEN DEDICATED FUNDS FOR PROMOTING THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON THROUGH MARKETING, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRADE SHOWS ETC. THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE SEEN A LOT MORE DEMAND FOR. WE HAD A BOOTH OF THE CAR EXPO FOR THE FIRST TIME AND SO WE'VE SET ASIDE $50,000 FOR THAT.  LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PORT AUTHORITY TEAM RIGHT NOW THE WAY WE HAVE IT PLANNED IS VERY SIMILAR TO HOW IT EXISTS NOW ONE POSITION THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN FILLED IS THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST WHICH WOULD BE WORKING UNDER BARB WOLFE AND ASSISTING IN THOSE CITY NAVIGATION THROUGH THE PERMITTING SYSTEM PROGRAMS AS WELL AS HELPING TO COORDINATE OTHER PROGRAMS FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND DOING OUTREACH. WE STILL HAVE THE SENIOR POSITION VACANT. WE'RE HOLDING THAT IN THE BUDGET IT WAS 50% FUNDED BY PORT AND 50% FUNDED BY THE ASSESSING TEAM.  ALL SO MOVING ON QUICKLY TO OUR PORT AUTHORITY GENERAL DEVELOPMENT FUND 2020 FOR 2025 BUDGET REQUEST. SO WE ARE GOING TO SHOW THIS TO YOU TOGETHER AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SPLIT THEM OUT SEPARATELY AS.  YOU MAY REMEMBER THE GENERAL FUND IS FUNDED BY A TRANSFER FROM THE LOOP DEVELOPMENT FUND AND CAN ONLY BE USED IN THE SOUTH AREA OF THE CITY.  THE DEVELOPMENT FUND OUR NEW FUND THAT IS FUNDED BY THE LEVY AND THAT CAN BE USED CITYWIDE AND IT CAN BE USED FOR A BROADER ARRAY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS US TO MAKE DIRECT GRANTS TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND DO SOME OF THAT MORE DIRECT ASSISTANCE. WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT WITH.  OUR GENERAL FUND AND WITH THAT I AM GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MARY KAY TO TAKE THE NEXT PART . GOOD EVENING. WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND JUST LOOK AT THE GENERAL FUND SPECIFICALLY TO START.  SO AS HALLIE MENTIONED THE TRANSFER THE GENERAL FUND GETS THE REVENUE FROM A TRANSFER FROM THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON FROM THE CITY SELF DEVELOPMENT FUND AND SO 2025 IT WOULD BE A $44,000 INCREASE LOOKING AT THE EXPENDITURES SALARIES ARE ACTUALLY GOING DOWN BY 86,000 BUT THAT'S BECAUSE OF AN ACCOUNTING CHANGE THE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING EMPLOYEES USED TO SPLIT THEIR TIME THE CITY IN PART AND JUST THE HAVING TO ALLOCATE THEIR TIME EVERY PAY PERIOD AND THE ACCOUNTING PART A LITTLE MESSY. SO THEY'RE GOING TO QUOTE TIME ENTIRELY TO THE CITY BUT THEN PORT WILL REIMBURSE THE CITY FOR A PORTION OF THE EXPENSE.  SO YOU'RE SEEING THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS DOWN BY 86,000 BUT THEN MATERIAL SUPPLIES SERVICES ALSO WENT UP FOR THAT CHANGE AND THAT WAS ABOUT 108,000 OF THE INCREASE IN MATERIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES.  THE OTHER INCREASE FOR MATERIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES WITH THE POSSIBLE WATER PARK COMING IN WE FIGURED THERE WOULD BE MORE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, MAYBE MORE LEGAL EXPENSES AND SO WE ALSO INCREASED THAT LINE ITEM THERE FOR THE WATER PARK.  BUT OVERALL THE FUND WERE PRETTY MUCH BREAKEVEN WITH A NET GAIN OF ABOUT 4000.  AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND SO IN THE DEVELOPMENT FUND THE REVENUE IS THE PROPERTY TAX AS HOLLY MENTIONED TRYING TO BUILD UP A RESERVE IN FUND AND PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF PROPERTY TAXES COME IN TWICE A YEAR.  THEY COME IN JULY AND DECEMBER. SO FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR THE FUND NEEDS TO RELY ON THEIR RESERVES OTHERWISE THEY'RE BORROWING FROM THE TIFF FUNDS BASICALLY SO THE REQUEST IT IS 2.5 MILLION SO THAT'S A HELPFUL EXPLANATION ON THAT. THAT'S THAT'S GOOD. THANK YOU.  SALARIES AND BENEFITS ARE GOING 22,000 BUT PART OF THAT CREATIVE PLACEMAKING IS ALSO GOING TO BE MOVED DOWN TO THE MATERIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES . AND THEN AS HOLLY MENTIONED OVERALL THERE ARE SOME NEW INITIATIVES. FOR INSTANCE COMMUNITY NODES FOR 100,000 IS INCLUDED IN THE MATERIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES IS 50,000 FOR MARKETING IS INCLUDED IN THE 2025 BUDGET WHICH IS NEW.  SO THOSE ARE THE TWO TWO OF THE LARGER INCREASES IN THE MATERIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ,INTERNAL CHARGES OR ALLOCATIONS FROM.  THE CITY THEY'RE GOING UP ABOUT 32,000.  SO OVERALL IT WOULD BE A NET TO THE FUND OF 676,000 .  SO THIS IS A PROCESS THAT STARTED OVER THE COURSE OF THE SUMMER WE WORKED WITH THE CITIES TEAM AND THE BUDGET MANAGER CORY CARLSON TO WORK THROUGH THE PORT'S BUDGET ALONGSIDE ALL OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY AT AUGUST WE IN AUGUST WE BROUGHT THIS TO YOU FOR THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET LEVY AND BUDGET APPROVAL VERY SIMILAR TO YOU SAW TONIGHT NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES SEPTEMBER 9TH WE BROUGHT IT TO CITY COUNCIL FOR PRELIMINARY LEVY APPROVAL. THEY DID NOT NEED TO APPROVE THE BUDGET THEY JUST RECEIVED BUDGET AND THAT WAS ON CONSENT AND THAT WAS FILED HENNEPIN COUNTY NOVEMBER 19TH WHICH IS TODAY WE ARE LOOKING FOR BUDGET AND LEVY RECOMMENDATION AND APPROVAL THAT WE DO HAVE TIME TO MOVE IT IF WE CHOOSE TO.  DECEMBER 2ND IS THE PLANNED DATE TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL. THEY APPROVE LEVY. THEY RECEIVE THE BUDGET. THEY DO NOT APPROVE OUR BUDGET . THEN THAT WOULD BE FILED WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY BY THE END OF THE YEAR.  SO WE ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS WE'VE GOT THEM UP THE SCREEN THERE SO THERE'S A RESOLUTION ON THE APPROVING THE FINAL LEVY AND THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED AND THEN YOU HAVE A RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.  SO I WILL DO WHATEVER THE GROUP, YOU KNOW, WANTS TO DO IN TERMS OF THIS. I MEAN I THINK IT'S VERY EASY TO APPROVE THE THE RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FINAL LEVY BECAUSE THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED AND BEEN OUT THERE FOR A LONG TIME.  THE RELUCTANCE I HAVE AND THE BUDGET DOCUMENT EVEN IF HAS BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE IS I'M ALWAYS RELUCTANT WHEN WE'RE A PUBLIC BODY TO HAVE SOMETHING TO VOTE ON SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED.  AND SO ONE OF THE ACTIONS THAT WE COULD TAKE IS TO, YOU KNOW, APPROVE THE SECOND MOTION OR VOTE ON AND IF IT'S APPROVED THE SECOND MOTION AND THE LEVY AND THEN DEFER THE RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE BUDGET UNTIL A LATER MEETING IF WE HAVE TIME TO DO THAT.  BUT AGAIN I WILL COMMISSIONER PETERSON. MR. TRY AND MOVE THAT WE LAY THE BUDGET DISCUSSION OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING I'M SORRY. LAY THE BUDGET RESOLUTION OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING. OKAY.  MORNING MADE A SECOND ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION NOW ON FAVORITE PLEASE SECOND OF SAYING I PAUSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO MR. PETERSON THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT I THAT WE APPROVE RESOLUTION NUMBER BLANK 24 APPROVING THE FINAL LEVY FOR THE YEAR 2025 PURSUANT TO MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 460 9053 SUBDIVISION FOUR BY THE PORT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON.  DO WE HAVE A SECOND  THE SECOND ON THE I'M ALONE.  OKAY WE HAVE ONE MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER I'M SORRY WHAT I MISSED WHICH ONE? THIS ONE WITH THE LEVY ONE.  THE LEVY ONE. YEAH THAT'S THE BOTTOM ONE. YEAH THAT THAT WAS THE BOTTOM THAT'S FOR BOTH FUNDS IT'S THE LEVY.  NO IT'S JUST THE LEVY IT'S THE LEVY.  OKAY AND THAT'S SAID THAT'S APPROVED BY HENNEPIN COUNTY RIGHT.  WE GET IT TO HENNEPIN COUNTY THAT WE APPROVED THE PRELIMINARY THIS HAS TO GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THEY HAVE TO SUBMIT THE FINAL. SO THERE'S THERE'S SOME TIMING ON THIS THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S THIS HAS BEEN OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT OUR BUDGET EVEN IT WAS PERIMETER HAS NOT BEEN OUT THERE IN THE FINAL FORM WHICH IS WHY SO COMMISSIONER THANK YOU PRESIDENT THE LEVY EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE PRELIMINARY LEVY RIGHT SO THERE'S NO CHANGE SO WHAT TO YOUR POINT WHAT THE PUBLIC HAS SEEN ON THE LEVY IS HAS BEEN CONSISTENT FOR A TIME PERIOD AND THEN LEVY WILL GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON DECEMBER SECOND FOR ALL OF ITS APPROVAL OR CONSENT OR WHATEVER IT IS BUT FOR FINAL NOTICE BEFORE IT GOES TO THE COUNTY. SO THERE IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO WEIGH IN TOO BUT IT'S THE SAME IT DIDN'T CHANGE.  SO COMMISSIONER PETERSON MADE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE SECOND MOTION ON YOUR PAGE I THINK YOU SECONDED COMMISSIONER NELSON WHO CAN JUST ONE MORE JUST ONE MORE POINT, MR. PRESIDENT IS.  I DID I DID GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING IN AUGUST WHEN WE KIND OF LOOKED AT THE BUDGET ON A PRELIMINARY BASIS AND THE THE BUDGET THAT THE STAFF RATHER THE MEMO THAT IRAQ TODAY IS SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME. IT'S ACTUALLY SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE BUT IT WAS IN AUGUST . AND SO I JUST YOU KNOW, TO BE HONEST, I COULD HAVE GONE EITHER WAY ON THE BUDGET CONVERSATION.  I'M HAPPY LAYING IT OVER AND DOING THAT. BUT I THINK THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DISCUSSED BEFORE SO AND THE BUDGET'S ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHAT WAS DISCUSSED BEFORE. SO I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM DOING THE LEVY AT THIS POINT. OKAY. WELL WE HAVE A MOTION THAT'S BEEN MADE IN THE SECOND END TO APPROVE THE SECOND RESOLUTION IN YOUR PAGE WHICH IS TO APPROVE THE FINAL SUBMISSION ON THE LEVY AND SO ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT RESIDUAL SAYING I, I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO SO WHAT WE WILL HAVE IS IS WE CAN BRING THE BUDGET BACK AND I AGAIN I ,I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY CONTROVERSY WITH IT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WE GET INTO AND I WAS TALKING WITH HIGH A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF THE DETAIL WE WANT AND WE GO BACK AND FORTH AND SOMETIMES HAD SO MANY CHARTS THAT OUR EYES GLAZE OVER AND IN ALL THE DETAIL ACCOUNTING BUDGETS I THINK IT MIGHT BE WHEN WE BRING THIS BACK LAST MONTH TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL OF WHAT YOU KNOW THIS MILLION DOLLARS IN THE OPERATING EXPENSES YOU TALKED ABOUT DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND STUFF JUST SO WE CAN LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT THE SPECIFIC AMOUNTS ARE AND WOULD BE HELPFUL. SO I THINK THAT WILL MOVE US FORWARD AND THEN WE HAVE A CONTRACT FOR STAFF SERVICES. DO WE HAVE THAT IN THE WAS THAT INCLUDED IN HERE? PRESIDENT ERICKSON IT'S PROBABLY NOT IN YOUR PRINTOUT BUT IT WAS IN THE PACKET. YEAH IT WAS IN THE PACKET YES BUT PROBABLY NOT PRINTED SORRY PRINT OUT WAS JUST THE AGENDA TODAY SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE DIGITAL PACKET.  OKAY WELL I MEAN SO THEN WE WE NEED A MOTION ON THE STAFF SERVICES THING I'M JUST LOOKING THE  SEE WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON PAGE 90 HERE . YEP IT'S THERE MR. CHAIR AND PRESIDENT AND COMMISSIONERS JUST FOR CONTEXT THIS IS THE STAFF SERVICES AGREEMENT THAT IS BROUGHT BEFORE YOU EVERY YEAR. IT IS BECAUSE WE CONTRACT WITH CITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES LIKE ACCOUNTING I.T. SPACE AND OCCUPANCY. FOR US ONLY ONE MINOR CHANGE WAS MADE BETWEEN LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR WHICH IS JUST SOME CLARIFICATION OF HOW OUR PORT COUNCIL AND THE CITY'S COUNCIL WILL WORK TOGETHER.  SO IS THERE A RESOLUTION THAT WE HAVE ON THAT? IT IS SIMPLY A MOTION TO APPROVE OKAY SO THERE IS NO SUGGESTION OF RESOLUTION THEN THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING ON IT.  MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT WE ADOPT THE CONTRACT FOR OUR STAFF SERVICES AS SHOWN IN THE STAFF REPORT STARTING ON PAGE 91. OKAY, COMMISSIONER PEARSON AN EMOTION DO WE HAVE A SECOND STATEMENT.  WE HAVE A MOTION MADE AND SECONDED. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? IF NOT ALL THEIR LISTENING WE'RE SAYING I I OPPOSED. MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO. OKAY.  THAT I CONCLUDES OUR BUSINESS SO I GUESS WE CAN ADJOURN