City Council - Regular Meeting

Johnson? Here. Jost? Here. Council president Naker? Here. Six present, one absent, that being council member Kim.

Thank you everyone for joining us at our city council meeting today. We're happy to have you. We invite everyone to join us standing for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Consent items two through 30 are before you for your consideration.

And I know we're going be pulling items ten and eleven for separate consideration. Is there anything else to come off of consent? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from vice president Yank for the balance of the consent agenda. All in favor say aye. Aye.

All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The consent agenda is adopted as amended. So then we'll do these. Right? So resolution 26 dash 700, approving the mayor's appointment of Alyana Golds, Hua Lohr, and Mary Wa to three year terms on

the Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity Commission. And I wanted to pull this item and the next one off because, as all of us know, we have a really wonderful Youth On Boards program in the city of St. Paul, where we place young people on boards and commissions throughout the city. This is something that I think is an amazing opportunity for young people. It's something that I wish I'd known about or had available to me as a young person.

I probably wouldn't have qualified. But we have so many amazing young people who do this work and who are putting in the time and effort and bringing that perspective to so many boards and commissions. So we happen to have two of our youth on boards appointees today in the audience, and and they are here for these two specific items. And Juha Lohr is the first who is with the Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity Commission. So I wanted to invite Juha up to introduce herself and tell us what her favorite thing is about the city of St. Paul and also what she's looking forward to about serving on the commission. So come on up right in in between the two golden columns so that all five live cameras can be on you at once.

Hello. Hi. My name is Jewel Lohr. I'm going to be appointed on the hero commissions. And one thing I love about Saint Paul is the diversity, the people in the community. I love the fact that when I look around, I can see my culture being represented and just see familiar faces, and most importantly, our mayor who also kinda looks like me. So yeah.

Awesome. And actually, tell us if you're in school, where you go to school, or if where you what you do when you're not on the board.

So I'm a senior. I go to Johnson Senior High School. And I got accepted to the U of M Twin Cities. So I will be attending there this fall.

All right. Thank you so much for your service. All right. Since you go to Johnson High School, I'll take a motion from Ms. Johnson for approval. Any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed?

Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Resolution 20 six-seven 100 nope, I'm sorry, seven zero three, approving the mayor's appointment of Michelle Collins, Ollie Grotsky, and Sir Wah to two year terms on the Labor Standards Advisory Committee. And for this item, Ollie Grotsky is here.

So I would invite them up to introduce themselves also and tell us what you do when you're not on the Labor Standards Advisory Committee and what you love best about the city of Saint Paul.

Hi. My name is Ollie Grotzky. I go to Como Park Senior High School. I'm a junior, and I'm being appointed to the labor standards and advisory committee. And my favorite one of my favorite things about the city of Saint Paul, I think, is the public transit system because I think it's really cool seeing a way for people to get around and to explore and to do all these things without being restricted by, like, a car or a bike or whatever. That's just something that I think is really neat.

Awesome. Thank you for your service. Your council member for Como is not here, but we'll have someone very close. Council member Coleman, who's fairly close, make the motion. So motions for approval. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed?

Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted.

Congratulations and thanks again to you both. And all of our Youth On Board members. I'll take a motion from Vice President Yang to suspend the rules to consider item Resolution 20 six-six 19. All in favor of suspending the rules say aye. Aye.

All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The rules

are suspended. Vice President Yang.

Thank you, Council President.

Sorry, can

you Would you like

me to read

it out? Yeah. Regarding Resolution 20 six-six 19, urging European financial institutions to divest from companies that enable the United States Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and supporting the delegation of Twin Cities residents advocating for this divestment to be withdrawn. Vice president.

Thank you. Thank you to our city clerk. Well, I appreciate the counsel here for your support in suspending the rules. We had a clerical error, so we brought it under suspension. On behalf of Council Member Kim in withdrawing this item.

Thanks, Vice President. And this brings us to the public hearing section of our agenda. For all of our millions of viewers at home and everyone who's here, whenever we adopt ordinances in the city of St. Paul, we always have three readings. The first reading is just the first time the ordinance is introduced to us. There's usually a staff report that accompanies it so we know what we're considering. The next week we have a public hearing on the item. So some of the public hearings here are ordinances having their second reading public hearing. And then the next week or a subsequent week if we have amendments, we would take a final vote on the item. So today, there are some things that are in front of us.

You'll see two ordinances for a public hearing. Those have already had a first reading, and those will be considered for adoption next week. And then there are some other items that we just have public hearings on because we're required to, often because they have financial implications. For any public hearing, if you're here to speak on that item, when your item is called, we'll ask you to come on up, stand in between the two microphones and in between the two golden columns so you're on all five live cameras. We ask you to start with your name and where you're coming from, and then you'll have two minutes to testify. And when you're done, please sign in on either of the two sign in sheets. So with that, this we'll read the item.

Is item number 31, ordinance 26 dash 25, amending chapter 66 of the legislative code to correct a scrivener's error related to allowing additional lot coverage for providing functional green roof space. This is a public hearing.

Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Jones to close the public hearing and lay the matter over till May 13 for final adoption. All in favor say aye. Aye.

All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The item is laid over. Item number 32, Ordinance 20 six-twenty six, updating chapter three ten of the legislative code pertaining to uniform license procedures to extend payment of license renewal fees owed in the calendar year 2026.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Johnson to close the public hearing and lay the matter over till May 13 for final adoption. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed.

Six in favor, none opposed. The ordinance is laid over to 05/13/2026. Item 33, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-one 103, authorizing issuance of and awarding the sale of general obligation various purpose bonds series 2026 and levying attacks for the series twenty twenty six bonds. And prior to

this public hearing, I believe we have a staff report. Mr. Youngens, welcome up.

Hey. Well, good afternoon. I am here for both this resolution and the following one. So council president Nacre, city council members, I'm Youngins, the city treasurer in the office of financial services. This morning, we had two competitive bond sales, one for the city's 2026 b, GOCID bonds, as well as our 2026 GO Street reconstruction bonds.

For our GO sale, the 26Bs, we received seven bids with Cabrera Capital Markets receiving the winning bid with a true interest rate cost of 2.89% for the ten year term. Last year, we had 11 bids of a slightly higher interest rate at 3.26. And for our Geo Street reconstruction bonds, we had we had six bidders with the winning bid being Stonex Financial, receiving the winning bid with a true interest rate cost of $3.92 for the twenty year term. And last year, we had similar or actually, we had a slightly more bidders, so 13 bids and true interest rate cost of $3.93. Back about a month ago, the city was assigned a AAA stable outlook by S and P and Fitch.

They highlighted the city's robust financial management and forward looking strategies, which have been instrumental in preserving fiscal stability. There is a lot more information in those your packets in front of you, so those rating reports from S and P and Fitch, that information is in there. And I wanna thank our partners at Baker Tilly and Ballard's bar I guess, Barnes and Thornburg now, as well as OFS leadership for completing all this work for the transaction. So I can stand for any questions.

Thank you, Mr. Youngens. Questions from my colleagues? Not seeing any. Just one quick one. Is the street reconstruction bonds, did we get are we getting a lower interest rate this year on those than last year as well?

Yes. I believe by one basis point. Since I think it looks like last year we had a 3.93% interest rate and this year was 3.92%.

I'll take it.

Yeah.

Awesome. Well, I want to really commend you and your team for the strong financial management that saves taxpayers many, many thousands of dollars on financing costs, maybe even more than thousands of dollars because of our AAA credit rating, which I know we're all really proud of and we work really hard to maintain. So it's not something that is shiny and that gets it's not often talked about, but I think it's really important for people to know that you're doing all that hard work to save us lots of money and get these good rates. So thank you. We'll now hold the public hearing. Don't go too far in case people have questions for you. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Bui to close the public hearing and approve.

All in favor say aye. Aye.

All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 34, resolution public hearing 20 six-one 111, authorizing the issuance of and awarding the sale of general obligation street reconstruction bonds series twenty twenty six C and levying a tax for the payment of the series twenty twenty six C bonds. This is a public hearing.

Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Coleman to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed. Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 35, resolution public hearing 20 six-one 114, authorizing a transfer of appropriations between the St. Paul City Council General Fund and Special Projects Fund in the amount of $50,000 to align audit committee spending with past practices. This is

a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from our newest addition to the Audit Committee, Ms. Johnson, to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed. Six in favor and unopposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 36, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-one 115, authorizing the city council to utilize fund balance accumulated and unspent in 2025 to increase the financing and spending budgets in the city council special projects fund by $245,050.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Johnson to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 37, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-forty eight, accepting grant funds authorizing execution of a grant agreement and amending the operating budget with respect to the city's sponsorship of a Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Contamination Cleanup Grant for the benefit face to face at 1170 Arcade Street North. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here

to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Yang to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed. Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 38, resolution public hearing 26 dash one zero two, authorizing the acceptance of $298,000 from the Minnesota Department of Commerce's micro grids at community lifeline facilities grant program for Oxford community center and authorizing the execution of a grant agreement and amending the 2026 grant budget. This is a public hearing.

Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Bui to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 39, resolution public hearing 20 six-one 109, approving an interim use permit to allow temporary cellular telephone antennas on a 76 foot monopole tower at 732 Central Avenue West.

Nice job with that one. Thank you. Was going to go monopole. It's also a vocabulary lesson. Yes. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here? First, we have a staff report.

I'd like to say someone.

Yep. We're going have a staff report, then we'll have a public hearing. So call that right up. Welcome.

Hello. I'm Chris Hong, City Planner in Planning and Economic Development, here to discuss this IEP application. Okay. And this is the location of the application just right at the location of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Summit U. The zoning application requests an interim use permit to allow temporary cellular antennas on a 76 foot monopole tower 732 Central Avenue, right where that yellow dot is.

And the proposed IEP would expire on 04/27/2027, about this time next year, at which point the antenna and the tower would all need to be removed. And this request is precipitated by a T Mobile tower being decommissioned in early April of this year, which was less than a quarter mile away from this proposed location. And So the proposed tower is to provide coverage until a permanent tower can be constructed and that is expected to be incorporated into forthcoming development on the site. On the same parcel is what I mean. So staff does recommend approval of this IEP and with the condition that it be terminated by April twenty seven, twenty twenty seven.

And when we and when it expires, at that point, it does need to be removed entirely. We heard some questions from the district council, but we did not receive a specific recommendation. And I'm happy to take any questions.

Thanks, Ms. Hong. Are there questions?

Ms. Bui. Thank you so much, counsel president. Thank you so much for providing this brief staff report. I know my office had a chance to get briefed on it as it's in my ward. I'm just curious, and you might have said this in the briefing before, but is this a singular provider or will the would this tower service multiple providers?

Thank you, Council President, Council Member Bui. This would just be for T Mobile.

Okay. Thank you.

Ms. Hong, a follow-up question as well. I know normally we when we consider these I'm not sure why our voice activated camera's going nuts, but that's okay. We when we consider these sorts of applications, we often see conditions that have to be considered in order for approval to be granted. Does the department have similar conditions? Or what are the factors that go into recommending approval or denial of use like this?

Council President, we usually have conditions on cellular antennas. But we and all sorts of uses, obviously. But for IUPs, because they're temporary in nature, we kind of use a discerning eye on deciding which conditions would be important for the temporary use. And it didn't seem like any of the conditions that we have on antennas would be appropriate for this one year period.

Okay. Thank you. Other questions for staff before we open up the public hearing? Ms. Bui.

Thank you so much again. Another question I have is particularly around where it will be installed. I know sometimes with these towers, they're installed on top of buildings. If this is going to be the same type of installation, and if there's any, I appreciate that question. I didn't even think about it. Because one of the things around the conditions is ensuring that it's the safety, just making sure as we know, we have a challenging issue with copper theft. And just want to make sure that when it is temporary installed that there is not any, you know, access, right? And want to prevent any unauthorized access to that tower.

Well, it would be on a on a monopole tower, just a tower stick in the air, and it's 76 feet tall. We do have the applicant here who can tell us if there's any fencing planned for that. Does that answer your question?

Yeah. I guess I'm just curious around like the safety and, you know, I guess safety and theft prevention just because that is a big thing in terms of getting unauthorized access to, whether it's wireless towers or, in this case, a service tower. I'm just curious.

Okay. Of course.

But could

be a follow-up.

And we could also open up the public hearing and hear from the appellant on or the applicant ask them to address those concerns when they testify.

Yes. I would defer to the applicant regarding kind of these site specific questions.

Okay. Thank you.

So we'll go ahead and open up the public hearing. Thank you, miss Huang. Don't go too far.

Would you want the applicant to

Yeah. We'll we'll have the applicant come up as part of the public hearing. Okay.

Thank you.

So if you're here to testify on this item, including if you're the applicant, please come on up, and you'll have two minutes. Remember to start with your name and where you're coming from today.

Hi. My name is Blair Ransom. I'm here with a consulting company called Insight, and we're here representing T Mobile on this project. I'll start by addressing the fencing. We don't have any proposed fencing outside of what's already surrounding the church property.

If that was something, you know, you felt would warrant adding a condition, we'd certainly talk to the church. We have Nate Galloway in attendance so we can talk about putting up a temporary fence around the equipment. And then just in general, we're here, specifically asking for the IUP, because we can't comply with the residential dwelling setback. So the ordinance imposes for even a temporary pole like this, where we're not building a permanent foundation, it's intended to be replaced someday by a permanent structure, to be tower height plus 38 feet away from any residential dwelling. The reason we can't comply with that is because the location that we otherwise would go is too close to where we're gonna be building the permanent foundation, and you have to dig, you know, quite a a large hole, so that would affect the structural integrity of the pole during construction.

So, that's the specific reason we're here. I'm happy to answer any other specific questions you may

have. Great.

And I do have a coverage map actually. Would that be helpful to look at?

You've got fifty five seconds, whatever you'd like

to Yes, tell okay.

On the voice activated projector. All right.

Am I able to project that?

Sure. Yep.

And sorry, how do I project it?

Wait, it's half Oh, of

you can see it. Mhmm. Okay. There you go.

It's activated.

Perfect. Okay. So right here in the center, that's the existing tower. Just to the right here or to the east is the proposed tower. You see this is existing as of a couple weeks ago before the tower was decommissioned. This is the current coverage loss you see in the Frogtown area and then south in the Summit University area. There's a significant loss of coverage that affects everything from just regular data usage and calls, and importantly, 11 services.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Make sure to sign in, and don't go too far. We might have follow-up questions for you. This continues to be a public hearing. If you're here to speak on this item, please come on up.

Can I move? Oh, come

on up to the microphone, sir, and just start with your name and where you're coming from, then you'll have two minutes.

Mike Brennan. I I live at 726 Fuller Avenue, so it's very close to my house. I'm not really thrilled about having a tower like that so close.

I've

heard they can be a health hazard, lower your property value, and it's an eyesore too. It's I mean, I got my grandson comes over on weekends. Sometimes we take a telescope out, and we're looking at the night sky and stuff and just, I think it's you'd never see something like this going up on Summit Avenue. I know that. You know? So it's like, just wanna throw it at us. You know? That's that's my

opinion. Thank you, sir. Make sure to sign in before you sit down. Yep. Okay. Is there anyone else here to speak on this item? Doesn't look like it. I'll take a motion from Ms. Bui to close the public hearing. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Oh, the

public hearing.

Just the public hearing. I'm so sorry. It's okay.

Ms. Bui. Yeah, I motion to actually adopt the staff recommendation. I had a chance to talk with the staff. And first, I just want to say I do appreciate you, sir, for showing up and participating in the public hearing.

I know those are also concerns I've heard from other constituents in terms of what are the impacts. And I think there's a lot of information and misinformation that needs to be dealt with when we think about connectivity and the purpose and the use and the impacts the environmental impacts, importantly around how our towers are installed. One thing I would say the reason why I am strongly confident in this vote is to ensure that our neighbors, my neighbors have connectivity, that we have service. It actually would be a deficit if we didn't have this tower and we had a complete loss of service. And, I fully, fully believe, you know, having more connectivity is equity centered on priority.

We want to make sure that people have access to the internet, access to their families, and we have just a strong variety of different services. So, that's why I'll be adopting this. If there is any other questions that presidents and award winning have, I definitely encourage us to have conversations with the leadership at Pilgrim Baptist Church. I am happy to hear that the pastor is here. And I look forward to continuing to have engagement on this. But I just think it's important that we keep the connectivity and strengthen that as well.

Thanks, Ms. Bui. And I'll support your recommendation and appreciate the offer to also get more information out to constituents and others who might have doubts about this and explain kind of the clarify some of the misunderstandings perhaps about these structures. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 40, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-ninety six please excuse my pronunciation approving five applications of Elberito Mercado for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for La Serres de Verana de Elberito Mercado, including Fiesta Mexicana and El Patio event on the May '8, June 5, July 10, August 7, and 09/11/2026. What's that? Really? Yeah. Okay. Dot, dot, dot. Thank

you. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I will move to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed.

Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 41, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-seventy eight, approving the application of Ordway Center for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for a Flint Hills family event on May '30 at 109 West 4th Street, Rice Park, and 379 St. Peter Street, Landmark Plaza.

We are getting to the fun and lively section of the agenda. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Jost to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say

aye. Aye.

All

opposed? Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 42, Resolution Public Hearing 20 six-seventy nine, approving the application of University of St. Thomas Campus Life for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for a Tommy Fest event on Friday, May 15 at 2115 Summit Avenue, University Of St. Thomas, John P. Monahan Plaza.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Coleman to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye.

Aye. All opposed. Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 43, resolution public hearing 20 six-ninety eight, approving the application of Dual Citizen Brewing Company for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for Friends of the Mississippi benefit concert. Music for the Mississippi event on Saturday, May 30 at 725 Raymond Avenue Dual Citizen Brewing.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Coleman to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say

aye. Aye.

All

opposed. Six in favor, none opposed, the resolution is adopted. Item 44, resolution public hearing 20 six-ninety nine, approving the application of Skinner's Pub for its sound level variants in order to present amplified sound for a Music in the Patio event series Tuesdays, June through September at 919 Randolph Avenue Skinner's Pub.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Vice President Yang to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say

aye. Aye.

All opposed. Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted. Item 45, resolution public hearing 20 1, approving the application of Wabasha Brewing for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for live music at Wabasha event series on the Saturdays at 429 Wabasha Street South at the patio of Wabasha Brewing.

We just have so many events going on. It's hard to read the entire title. That's the problem in St. Paul. It is too lively for

the agenda.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Johnson to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor, aye.

Aye. All

opposed. Six in favor, none opposed, the resolution is adopted. Item 46, resolution public hearing 20 six-one 104, approving the application of Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound for a train days music festival event on Saturday, June 6, at 240 Kellogg Boulevard East Union Depot.

This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Ms. Bui to close the public hearing and approve. All in favor say aye. Aye.

All opposed. Six in favor, none opposed. The resolution is adopted.

This brings us to the legislative hearing agenda. Welcome Ms.

Mormont. Sorry.

Council President, I'm not aware of anyone here to testify on a legislative hearing item.

All right. In that case, legislative hearing consent agenda items 47 through 62 are before

you for your consideration. If there's anyone here on items 47 through 62, this is your public hearing. Please come on up. I'm not seeing any, so I'll take a motion from Ms. Coleman to close the public hearings and approve all the items with the amendations and recommendations of the legislative hearing officer. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed?

Six in favor, none opposed. The legislative hearing consent agenda is adopted as amended.

Thank you, Ms. Mormon.

That brings us to the end

of our agenda. Before we do good news, I do see some younger civic participants today. I don't know if anyone is here from any school or anything. You. If not, you're and just here participating in the civic process, that's great. But if you're here, like, for a class or something and you want to come up and tell us why you're here, you're welcome. Then you'll have proof for your teacher that we're here because you'll be able to show the video. I also won't put you on the spot. You can think about it. This is the good news section of our agenda. And if our friends want to come up at any point, they can. Any good news from the neighbor, from the wards. Miss Johnson.

Thank you, council president. And, yes, no pressure. But it's always great to hear from folks that are super excited to be here. Being put,

you know,

more on the spot. It's just a thing. But yes, so the citywide tenant protections community conversation is tomorrow and I, along with councilmember Coleman and the mayor's office, will be able to join the Department of Safety and Inspections and the Office of Financial Empowerment for a tenant protections conversation. Obviously, on May 14, the ordinance that we passed last year will go into effect. As such, we are having this meeting for really anyone who whether they're renters, property owners, landlords who want to just come in, get a recap of the ordinance that we passed, but also just learn how it applies or may apply to you.

It's an opportunity to ask direct questions. It's free. It's open to the public. It's from six to 07:30 tomorrow at the North End Community Center. I'm super excited about it and look forward to seeing

people there. Thanks, Chair Johnson. Other good news. Ms. Bouie. Just a second time, just to promote this amazing fun event that's taking place at Halleke Brown. It's going to be on Thursday at 11AM to 1PM, but it is their annual spring tea. So they're celebrating Mother's Day. You do not have to be a mom to be there, But, we are inviting everyone who has their cute hats and would love to celebrate their annual spring tea. I believe it's been going on for about thirty years, over thirty years. So, it's just a community tradition that I just want to invite everyone to. Again, it's at Howard Q. Brown Community Center.

Sounds lovely. Love a good tea. Other good news from the wards? Ms. Johnson.

Along the vein of Mother's Day, it is my first Mother's Day. And so I just wanted to take the time to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms of the council and also here in the city and throughout the city of St. Paul. So it's honestly been a pleasure and been an honor to be a mom. So, I'm looking forward to celebrating my first Mother's Day. But I'm sure that as more and more women are joining into these spaces and more and more moms, and especially women who are taking the mother figure and mother hat as well, and caretaker hat, this is the weekend for us. And so live it up. Make your husband buy everything because that's what I'm doing.

Thank you, Chair Johnson. I certainly hope Isaiah is planning to take you to tea. Yes. I will just share good news from War two, which is actually happening as we speak. So I'm kind of happy that our meeting ended a little early. The Downtown Alliance is having their annual meeting right now from four to 6PM at the Palace Theater. It's their first ever annual meeting, great time to celebrate progress happening downtown. If anyone is interested in joining me and stopping by, you would be more than welcome. I will be heading over almost immediately. What time is it over? Four to six. All right. With that, brings us to the end of our agenda. Thanks for a great one. We are adjourned.

I got better.