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Good evening, everyone. I'm calling to order this August 25th, 2026 meeting of the Richville City Council. It's 7 p.m. If you're able, please rise and join us for the pledge of allegiance.

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Thank you. And then clerk Friedrich, can you please note for the record that Council Member Coleman Woods is excused this evening. Thank you. Our first thing is approval of the agenda. I move approval of the agenda. Second.

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Second.

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Sven moved in second and is there any discussion?

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All in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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All opposed.

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We've approved the agenda.

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Next would be consideration of the minutes of July 28th, 2026 City Council Work Session,

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July 28th, 2026 City Council Regulars meeting, and the minutes of the August 12th, 2026 City Council Work Session.

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I move approval of all three sets of minutes.

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Second.

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Okay, it's been moved and seconded to approve all three sets of minutes.

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Are there any comments or just corrections?

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Hearing none, all in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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All opposed.

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And we have approved the minutes.

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Next, we're going to move on to the open forum.

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Participants can share their comments in person by voicemail or email and

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may also request to participate virtually.

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for more information on submitting comments referred to the Council Agenda and Minutes page on Richfield MN.gov slash City Council.

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And the way the procedure works is that you please state your name and your city of residents.

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Then you will have three minutes to address the Council. I will hold up a yellow card when you have 30 seconds left.

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and then I'll hope a red card when your time is expired and please stick to the timeline so

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that others have a chance to speak. Council will be listening to the speakers but not engaging in a

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debate at this time. If you have questions the staff will provide answers either via email or at

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the next council meeting and thank you for taking the time to share your comments and feedback with the

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council? Is there anybody else that wishes to speak? There hasn't turned one in.

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So what

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we usually do is take three minutes per person and we have 30 minutes set aside and I have

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exactly 10 but now we have 11. So is there anybody else? So what was that?

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You can add extra people. I just need to know so I can make a motion to extend the time.

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Okay. So at this point, I'm going to move that we extend it from 30 minutes to 45 minutes.

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So we have time to listen to everyone. Is there a second?

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Second.

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Okay. It's been moved in second in any discussion. All right. All in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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all opposed and so then I'm going to wait for the last person to bring up their form and

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we'll

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start calling people up. No problems. Don't worry about it. We've got plenty of time.

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All right so

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first we'll call to speak is Jody Johnson.

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Do I have to touch this to make it work? Is there if there's a

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green light on, it should be working.

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Okay, good.

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I'm not great with technology.

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Hi, my name is Jody Johnson.

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I'm a retired social worker.

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I've lived in Richfield for 32 years.

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I had concerns about the flock cameras.

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My daughter pointed them out to me two weeks ago.

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And I looked up a number of informational pieces on them,

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but I was concerned by what I saw.

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I saw that they had a pretty large error rate

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that went between 32 and 71% and that in some cities people that had never committed a crime had been pulled over,

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harassed or harmed because they had been assumed to have been in a stolen car and I'm very concerned

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about the fact that people in Richfield could be pulled over and erroneously harassed based on something

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that's not very accurate.

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I'm also concerned that we, the citizens of Ritrile,

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were not asked before those were installed.

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I didn't know anything about any kind of informational meeting

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or anything like that.

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I also saw that according to the Washington Post

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in August, 2026, 50 law enforcement officers

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have stalked their former or current girlfriends

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using this technology.

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So, I am very concerned about domestic violence that could be committed using this technology.

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There is a high rate of domestic violence with law enforcement folks anyway in one of the

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older studies, but one of the ones that quoted a lot is 40%.

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So, it concerns me a great deal that this information could be misused and that those folks

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would then not be able to get services because their boyfriends are in law enforcement.

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There was also an incident in May 2025 where a woman from Texas fled from Texas to Illinois

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to get reproductive care and was tracked by the flock cameras.

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I think that's going to happen more and more because some of the states have created more

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restrictive policies.

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Minnesota still has fairly liberal policies and so I think we're going to see a lot of people

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coming here.

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And the problem is that it doesn't just record and keep the information here in Richfield.

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It hooks up to the cloud, and it's available nationwide to law enforcement.

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And so it can take that information and use it as it sees fit, and there isn't any clear

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answer as to where it goes, or how long they keep it.

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They say they keep it 30 days, but most things virtually are really hard to get rid of.

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They can also track where people go with their cars, so they can track people throughout

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up their day and that information, you know, could be used for a number of things, custody

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battles or different kinds of employment things.

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So it's concerning to me that those cameras would be able to actually track people when

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they go to the store, if they go to a bar, if they, wherever they go, that that technology

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allows them to do that.

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Also law enforcement shares the information they get from the flock cameras with ICE and that

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is okay.

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And that is a very concerning thing to me.

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We've obviously had a lot of issues with ICE, two people have been murdered,

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many people were illegally detained.

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And I don't, I would be concerned about the people in Richfield being at risk.

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I'm concerned about privacy issues, potential lawsuits, if anything would happen with harm.

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Okay, thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Next we have Angie Rieger.

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Hi,

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I'm Angie Rieger. Actually, today is my 20th anniversary living here, and I

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interesting day-to-day so that I'm coming here and speaking here. So I'm also

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talking about the flock cameras and surveillance, and it's more broad than just

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flock. So good evening everyone. I'm here representing the residents here who

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signed our petition. If you haven't seen it, I'd like you to go out and read it.

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Asking this council to pause and ultimately end our contract for flock. I promise

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to be brief, I promise I'll be respectful, I promise not to read the entire

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group chat that we've had in our community. Here's the short version, somewhere

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between one council meeting in the next, Richfield quietly acquired a network of

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cameras that photograph and log license plates of every car that drive past them.

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Yes yours mine, your pastors, your postal carriers. Whether or not anyone in the

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car has done anything wrong. Most of the residents I've talked to didn't know

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All these cameras went up, myself included.

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None of us got a vote.

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And I want to be clear, this isn't hypothetical privacy.

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These systems are real, they make documented mistakes with real people's lives.

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in San Diego.

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Officers.

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We were relying on flock to match a license plate on a red alpha roll mail near a car jacking scene, a passenger in that car spent nearly a month in jail before the mistake was caught. In Sherwood, Arkansas, the camera misread a license plate. This past February, they detained the two driver, the driver in the passenger at gunpoint with their daughter in the back of the car, the six week old. Just this week, actually, if you read an article article from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, they decided not to go with flock.

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They found flock was lying to them about what their their software does

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There in glitches their predictable cost of trusting algorithm with everyone's movements

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So on behalf of the signers I'm asking the council to formally and publicly answer the questions in the petition

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I can send you the link as well in writing by September 15th our

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Our request is simple, pause the contract, cancel any remaining contract, delete the

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data that's out there, answer our petition questions in writing, hold a form for everyone

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in our city, and commit to putting future surveillance proposals to an actual resident

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vote.

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We are not anti-safety.

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We're poor accountability.

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Our residents are capable of deciding together, whether we want to live under this kind of surveillance.

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We haven't been asked tonight, we're asking you to ask us.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Birgit Johnson.

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Birgit Johnson, Richfield.

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How to prevent an urban concrete jungle here in the future?

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There's an easy answer to that.

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Keep the parks screen and keep them natural.

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Don't fill them up with buildings and structures.

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What some may call wasted space, for example, a grassy area, is already in use.

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For example, kill deer probably nest there. Turtles use it for laying their eggs.

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People fly kites, etc. There will be a need for green space always.

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Our priority seems to lay with stuff, though looking at how condensed our park spaces are already on.

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We need to retain all of our green space now to prevent overcrowding.

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Urban development significantly contributes to habitat loss, causes alteration in local

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climate conditions in the form of the heat island effect, and overabundance of impervious

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surfaces in cities such as concrete, pavements and rooftops prevent rainwater from being

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absorbed into the ground. Instead, this leads to excess water run-off, overwhelming city

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drainage systems, and frequent and severe urban flooding. Elevated pollution levels are

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also associated with dense cities. Besides air pollution, wastewater management issues,

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service water contamination pose an issue. The lack of exposure to nature is an important issue.

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that contributes significantly to our overall well-being.

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You all know this, but you may think we don't matter that much in the big picture.

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Everything matters.

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We are part of nature, and we need to be with nature to thrive.

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When we ignore nature, we will always pay the price.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next we have Adriana Martinez.

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Good

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evening, major and members of the City Council.

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My name is Adriana Martinez, and I serve as board member of the Twin Cities chapter

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of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, or Narep.

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We are the largest Latino business organization in the United States, representing more than

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and 50,000 real estate professionals across more than 100 chapters nationwide.

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I'm here tonight for a simple purpose to introduce ourselves, who we are, and who we represent.

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And I want to put into perspective that starting nationally, the US Latino economy now represents

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more than 4.2 trillion in GDP, yes, trillion with T.

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If the US Latino community were its own community or own country,

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it would rank among the five largest economies in the world.

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And over the next two decades, nearly 70% of new homeowners in this country

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are expected to come from Latino community.

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That shift isn't coming someday, it's already here.

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Here in Minnesota, Hispanic community has grown more than 60% since 2010.

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And then we bring the story right here to Richfield.

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Nearly 18% of Richfield residents are Hispanic or Latino,

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almost one out of every five people in this city.

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But the number that really caught my attention came from research I conducted on residential

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purchases. During the second half of 2025, nearly 15% of all residential purchases in

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Richfield were made by Latino homeowners, home buyers. Think about what this means. These

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These are in simple people living in Richfield.

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They are choosing Richfield.

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They are purchasing homes here.

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They are investing their money here.

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They are raising families here.

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They are putting down roots here.

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We are building generational wealth.

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And let me say this in a way that might surprise a few people.

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We didn't live places like Mexico, Colombia, or Venezuela because we didn't like the food

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or because the music was in good.

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We came here for the same recent immigrant groups have always come to this country,

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opportunity, economic opportunity, a better future, the American dream.

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And now we are building that future here.

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So when this Council discusses housing, zoning, redevelopment, affordability, or neighborhood

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investment, the Latino community isn't a side conversation.

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We are already part of the economic story of Richfield and that's where Narep comes

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in.

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We bring data.

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We bring market experience and we bring credit connection to the families who are defined

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finding the next generation of home owners.

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We are not here asking for exceptions.

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We are not here hat in hand.

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We are here as professionals, as practitioners,

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as part of the economic engine in this region.

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So as these conversations continue,

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we would anticipate to be part of them,

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not as a formality, both as part as a partner.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And I will leave these handouts with somebody.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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If you could give them to the clerk.

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Next, we have Linda Peterson.

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Linda Peterson, Richfield, Minnesota.

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I'm here to speak about the flock cameras.

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They not only get your license plate,

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but also your day-to-day itinerary.

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Where you go, how long you're there,

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if you visit family and friends,

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If their cars are out front,

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they can probably get those two.

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Flot does this.

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It's supposed to keep us safe.

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This isn't only local, it's nationwide, and it's beginning to feel like I'm no longer

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in the home of the free, but more of a police state.

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I don't remember being asked if I wanted flat cameras in my neighborhood.

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I am asking now to cancel the contract and advise us of the substance being taken to keep

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Richfield safe.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next, we have Jess Lyons.

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I'm going to move it.

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My name is Jess Lyons and I've been a member of the Richfield community for almost 10 years.

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And I'm also here to speak about the flock cameras.

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My neighbor, a single mom, was kidnapped off the street in the middle of December before we had all the boots on the ground.

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I know her children. My children ride the bus with those children.

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And it threw me into so much of the mutual aid that I know many of us in this room participated in groceries for my neighbors,

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figuring out other kids and their safety needs, transporting them.

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I don't know. I don't know if it was trauma that made me not realize that there was a

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flat camera at both sides of my neighborhood. I'm not sure. But I remember after shuttling

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people to work being terrified that we were going to be seen in the car, I remember when

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and I did notice that it went up in mid-February.

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My neighbor had just returned.

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ICE stalked her at the place that she was released the same day.

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When I looked at the contract and saw that in 2023,

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our city paid $36,000 for a one-year contract.

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I thought I was going to lose my mind.

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All of the mutual aid work that happened here in Richfield

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In May, the leaders of some of those groups met to determine what we were going to do about the food needs

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because food was still an astronomical need here in Richfield.

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$30,000, our community was supporting in food needs.

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People were raising money in Richfield and out of Richfield, $30,000, hundreds of families had been fed in Richfield since December.

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My self and a partner raised $70,000 in January we paid 45 families rents and I know that

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I'm not alone in this story. $36,000, you could feed our community for a month, for a month.

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I'm concerned that I don't know what flock is selling that data for. I'm concerned that we would

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welcome it into this city. And the question that I want to ask is I choose to be here and what I saw

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from Richfield, I want to be here. Who are we? As the leaders of Richfield, who are we

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and who will we become? That question is deeply important to me now. It is deeply important

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to me moving forward. We could feed people. We could house people that choose to be here,

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that bring so much to our city and to our schools and to each other and to our neighbors. Who

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Who do we want to be?

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Um, Seika Don is next.

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Hey, Mayor and members of the council.

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Um, I'm also here to speak on flock cameras.

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I am Seika Don.

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I'm a resident of South Minneapolis.

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I am a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Richfield and I own a business here.

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I grew up here and I've spent my entire life in Richfield.

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I have done all sorts of things and seeing the flock cameras come up,

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especially without community input, just dropped my soul out of me, especially after what we did this winter communally.

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Things that concern me about flock cameras are the bad faith uses.

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Number one, tracking people's patterns as a pretext for arrest, as it happened in April 25th of this year,

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and a gentleman traveling from Milwaukee area over to Michigan, they tracked his whereabouts over and over again,

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and decided that was caused to arrest him

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on suspicion of cannabis distribution.

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That's a pretext for crime, not solving a crime.

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That's not keeping us safe.

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That's determining who they think is going to be a criminal

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and doing that instead of investing in the actual crime.

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Stocking, which is something that people have brought up.

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Many people have already been tried

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for the stocking cases.

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That's not something we need here.

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I, the JCC case in Georgia, a JCC issued a FOIA request to see what their flock cameras

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were showing up as and who was accessing their data, only to find out that for hours

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and inside of their gymnasium had been being watched, were killed, children were playing,

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where people were being entertaining themselves, and that was not something that they had approved

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of.

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services to-

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Other people without permission. They were never going to tell anybody if a FOIA hadn't been requested and authorized. Not only that, but them turning information over to ICE. Somebody brought up that we were a huge contributor to protecting our community during ICE, and knowing that they share this data with the very people that are causing so much harm in our town and our Metro. It is really evident that this is something that is negatively affecting people's lives directly. There's an error rate. There are people who are being pulled out

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of their car at gunpoint. People are going to jail and sitting in jail. I couldn't leave my job

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for six days because I was in jail on false claims because somebody had seen my car doing something

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and I know a lot of other people couldn't as well. This is not a safety measure to those that are

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being affected negatively. This is a situation like so many where we need to evaluate people over

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property. Yes, cars that are stolen are being recovered. Okay. I still don't want to see an 18-year-old

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pulled out at gunpoint, if that is happening to one person, that's one person too many.

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If these AI surveillance tools are misreading plates, that's a bad thing.

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Having surveillance, particularly owned by outside stakeholders that have had accountability

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issues in the past and offer very little transparency, undermines our community's autonomy to those

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that are saying, but I'm not doing anything wrong.

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I want to remind you that in a metro area where we had so many people injured and multiple

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deceased members for the activism they did during ICE, as a result of practicing their

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constitutionally guaranteed rights, with only one person currently facing charges and

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zero officers being tried for their crimes, you're not doing anything wrong here in America

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until they change the definition of what wrong is. We have processes to enforce, investigate,

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and prosecute crime, and while we can have progress to make these systems more efficiently and

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more practical, it cannot be at the expense of our quality of life. So please listen to these voices

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and request full transparency from FLOC, cancel these contracts, and find out where everything was going with that information.

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Thank you.

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Matthew Berg.

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I'm Matthew Berg, and my wife and I are actually three-year residents here next month, so we chose Richfield because not only do we have family here, but also the amazing community that is here.

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Many examples of that have been talking about our ice situation and raising all of that mutual aid for our neighbors.

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And I'm not going to reiterate everything that has been talked about with the flat cameras.

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I just want to point out that they've been advertised as license plate readers.

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But why do we have flat cameras aimed at parks?

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Why do we have flat cameras aimed at businesses instead of where they should be on the side of roads?

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and the overreach that has been well documented, the cases that have been talked about here tonight just add to this.

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And so I think the growing concern with not just rich fields here but across the state in the country is flock is impeding on our rights.

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It is a privacy issue and it is something that no one here wanted.

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We had multiple people say we never asked about this.

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And so in a time where our privacy is being sold, whether it's off of our phone, whether

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it's off of any app that we use, whether it's our car, we don't need another thing that

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is in our city using our resources, eating into our privacy.

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And so this is one thing I think should be an easy thing that we can say no to and join

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the growing movement across the state in the country putting a line in the sand saying

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we won't do this anymore. So thank you guys.

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Thank you. Dr. Aaron McKean.

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I appreciate

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everyone's time. I'm here speaking on behalf of two people. The first is Aaron and the second is

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Dr. McKean and Aaron's just like the dude down the street and when my neighbors stand up he gets

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choked up pretty easy and say that they don't feel like they're in America anymore. It really,

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really gets to me. And we got to talk about Dr. McCain for a second because Dr. McCain is

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the guy who writes a four-page memo for free to the city council outlining the legal liability

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upon adopting flat cameras and then spells out a very real national security concern that

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will likely happen upon adoption and would just give dumb dangerous people more dumb dangerous ideas.

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I'm going to share one with the chief of police, too. But to get you to read that memo, I have to

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actually say who I am and so I'm gonna do that and I don't really like talking about

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myself for my job so I'm gonna do this fast. For the last 20 years I've been a leading

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U.S. Privacy AI and disinformation expert. Within my little industries I am most famous

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for being the person crazy enough to become a disinformation diversity hire at a MAGA adjacent

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Bible college downtown to get the left and the right and I mean like hardcore evangelicals

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and the ACLU to agree on privacy or bar associations and big 10 and the RNC and the DNC and my kids

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get poached by the Illuminati and I have to keep my mouth shut.

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But when I pop up in my neighborhood, the reason I'm popping up is because I'm saying

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city council people are here for a reason.

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You're good at managing your community and city council was developed to handle local issues.

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We're not talking about local issues.

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We are talking about global issues of national security and our fundamental constitutional rights

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and the maintenance of our democracy and the prevention of civil war next door.

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And none of us signed up for this.

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And as a complete systemic failure of state and federal government over the last 10 years

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and all the weird rooms I have to sit in, that cities, and thank God we have like kind

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residents who care about their cities and kind city council people are trying to get informed

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on these issues.

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But these it's absurd that we even have to have these conversations at this level and so the only thing I guess I would ask is

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To for us to survive and thrive in the next decade

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Cities like Richfield are gonna have to lean on the experts in our communities

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And I only have three lanes y'all I know about AI I know about privacy

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And I know how to try to stop a civil war next door and you might have heard me say that one or two times but

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Everybody in this town knows something about something that we're gonna need them in a room for

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to get through this. We are a small city and we don't have much money. So my only two points on the

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flat camera would be this. Please read this memo. Please understand that the legal liability is

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nothing that the city of Richfield could afford. And to my friends and law enforcement please understand

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somebody tried to shoot me up in North. That's how I ended up here in Richfield. That's why Minnesota

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did not get the AI alignment superbowl ring. Hilariously somebody stole my car off the driveway the first

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I was here, but let's put that aside.

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I am a fan of law enforcement, but I'm also a fan of our civil liberties.

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And all I'm trying to say is, when people in a town come out on a Tuesday night and

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say, something about this smells funny, something about this doesn't smell like America.

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And the resident nerd is like, holy crap, don't do this.

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Please just listen when that coalition shows up, and hopefully you never have to hear from

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me again.

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I appreciate you all's time.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you, if you had a memoir or something, did you give it to the city clerk?

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Thank you so she can share it with us.

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Next, we have Nikhil Nadiav, my apologies.

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No worries, thank you Mayor.

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Okay, hi, my name is Nikhil or Nik.

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I live in Richfield, my family has lived here for about four years.

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I'm here, like many of you, to speak about flock cameras.

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Like some of the others here, my concerns with these cameras are because of a policy or

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at least an attitude of carelessness and non-transparency,

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as well as a total lack of accountability

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from flock the company.

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Some of you may know that back in January,

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a group of tech activists on YouTube were able

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to remotely access the flock cameras

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and view their live uncensored camera feeds

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as well as some of the scan data.

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They were able to do this to at least 60 flock cameras

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across the country before they simply stopped trying.

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These cameras were found to be almost completely

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unsecured on either the hardware or software level. This means that literally anyone

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who wanted and tried would have been able to also access these cameras and the data

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within them live as it was coming through the stream. We are lucky that the only people

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who did this were a YouTube activist who immediately bought the issue to flock. Even though the

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company says that they fixed that issue, the level of highly sensitive data that flock

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cameras gather is simply too dangerous to trust with a company that cannot be bothered

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to take simple security steps.

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If activists and YouTubers were able to do all of that,

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please think of what people with bad intentions are capable of doing.

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Indeed, may have already done and we have simply not been told.

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Speaking of the data that they gather, like a lot of us have pointed out,

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FLOC has marketed the cameras primarily as automated license plate readers,

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but their newer condor models pick up much more than that,

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including the color and make of cars as well as the body and facial features

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of the drivers in pedestrians walking by. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but when I go

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for a walk in the city, I don't wear a license plate, so I don't know what's up with that.

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But I would really like for it not to happen. They can access any of that data at any point and share

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with any agency that asks, all without a warrant. So that's concerning. All of that can and has happened

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in multiple cases, as many of you have helped me point it out. And people have been stocked. People

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have been falsely accused of crimes, people have been hurt, and flocks repeated lies have

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enabled all of that. People have mentioned what happened in Oshkosh

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was constant in April, and I'd just like to provide some additional context, so it's

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on the record. In Oshkosh, flocks was asked whether they generate heat maps based on their

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camera data, basically did they track people and create a map of where they went, and their

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activity throughout the day. Flock categorically said, no, they didn't. Within 24 hours, the police

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chief in Oshkosh was notified by subordinates that flock had indeed lied and activity heat

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maps were available to the police every car that passed by. Obviously from that data extrapolating

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your activities for the day is pretty simple because no one drives the car somewhere and

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then just doesn't do anything. This was a lie that was so blatant that it relied entirely

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on police officers in Oshkosh being either too stupid, too inept, or simply too careless

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to find out, as well as being too immoral to point out the lie. On the recommendation

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the police chief, the city council, its contract, and I hope we follow through here, too.

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Because to me, any single one of these issues would be bad enough.

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Taken together, they paint a picture of a company that is deeply broken.

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It doesn't care about the people that their products are supposed to be quote unquote helping,

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and has proven that they have no issues lying to local politicians and regular citizens to get additional contracts.

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I don't want any of their cameras around our homes and having them in our city will lead to a loss of personal privacy that we won't easily get back.

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If the people of Richfield want flat cameras and those cameras are so useful and helpful their implementation in our city should be a matter of public debate and vote.

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It should never be something that sneaks in uninvited, resist leaving and in the meantime makes us pay for our own warrantless surveillance.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. Steve McKeon?

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Good evening.

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Steve McKeown, I lived in Richfield in the same house right down the street down here

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for 56 years and what I've seen in that time we've had a I'm speaking both on

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the Legion development and the flock cameras. What I've seen in that time it was

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all pretty much a white community when I first moved here. We were the youngest

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on our block and now we're the oldest and we're like the United Nations right

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right now. And back then we shared stuff, food, tools, you know, helping out

448
00:42:41,390 --> 00:42:45,650
each other. My first wife died. There was people just coming over all the time to

449
00:42:45,650 --> 00:42:54,710
take care of the kids. And that still is ongoing today. We still share. And so I'm

450
00:42:54,710 --> 00:43:00,470
not casting anything against the council here or the police department but we

451
00:43:00,470 --> 00:43:05,790
really don't need these flock cameras. That's so well said by everyone here. Now I've been involved

452
00:43:05,790 --> 00:43:11,270
on Penn Avenue where we have the demonstrations during the week. I've been at the schools in

453
00:43:11,270 --> 00:43:17,730
the morning where my kids went to school. You know, to try and be there to try and stop ice from

454
00:43:17,730 --> 00:43:21,490
entering and taking away little kids or their parents.

455
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:27,500
So what good are these flock cameras going to

456
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:33,860
do. When we have an administration that can't even get along with Canada, they can't come

457
00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:41,300
back and take somebody from Texas that shot through doors. They can't even come and

458
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:47,300
get killers of a couple of our citizens in Minnesota. This we don't have to feed into.

459
00:43:48,340 --> 00:43:53,800
So I am speaking against the flock cameras. The technical details were well set out here

460
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,020
about the dangers of them, I'm not going to go into that.

461
00:43:58,140 --> 00:44:03,160
Also on the Legion development, I'm just going to briefly say, living on Portland Avenue here,

462
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:08,460
we don't need more traffic, not against development, but I would like to see that scale, that project

463
00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:09,100
scaled back.

464
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,260
Thank you very much.

465
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,540
And thank you for everybody that spoke here tonight.

466
00:44:18,390 --> 00:44:18,910
Thank you.

467
00:44:20,250 --> 00:44:23,270
Tammy Cronerick, and I apologize if I said that wrong.

468
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:32,660
So my name is Tammy Cronerick.

469
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:38,840
I have lived in rich field areas for about 11 years since I moved to Minnesota.

470
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:44,520
I have spoken to some of you people about block cameras before because this is not new to me.

471
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,340
And I'm just going to kind of state what everyone else has mentioned.

472
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,780
These are not normal times. This conversation a few years ago would have been a lot different than it is now.

473
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:55,420
We all lived through these last seven months.

474
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,120
The other thing that I want to say on that is

475
00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:29,340
Since this is my first time talking about flock cameras, when I was at the Richfield Human Rights Commission meeting, I found out in the month of June, for the 30 days that flock kept the pictures in Richfield with 10 cameras. There was 1.8 million photos taken. 1.8 million with 10 cameras in Richfield, Minnesota. That's another 120,000 across the nation. So this is not a Richfield thing. This is a step back.

476
00:45:29,340 --> 00:45:31,220
and we have to see what this problem is.

477
00:45:32,180 --> 00:45:34,880
Has flock done anything about, yeah, the murderers,

478
00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:38,720
that in broad daylight flocked nothing for that.

479
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,760
The other part of this is cops love saying the excuse

480
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,860
of, well, you have nothing to worry about

481
00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:46,760
if you're not committing crimes.

482
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,180
I don't know if anyone's familiar with the Minnesota 15.

483
00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:53,180
That was neighbors talking to each other

484
00:45:53,180 --> 00:45:55,820
and protecting children, feeding children,

485
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,960
keeping families from getting terrorized.

486
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:04,700
in what way is flock going to make any of that better?

487
00:46:07,140 --> 00:46:10,320
Sorry, I am very passionate about this, I am so pissed off.

488
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,420
But okay, as long as you're not breaking any rules,

489
00:46:14,020 --> 00:46:17,600
but Trump's government does not care about that.

490
00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:19,780
They decide what's legal and not.

491
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,640
And the other part of this that I like to point out, 2013,

492
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,480
Edwards noted and released the files letting us know

493
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:35,200
that every single thing on the internet, everything as a backdoor, everything is built for the feds to be able to look and see into it.

494
00:46:35,380 --> 00:46:40,440
That was 13 years ago, no one got punished, nothing happened, they've only got more funding and more corrupt.

495
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,200
Do we absolutely believe for a second that they cannot access everything?

496
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,560
Do we really think those photos get wiped out after 30 days?

497
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:53,140
And again, 1.8 million photos in rich field from 10 cameras, that is insane.

498
00:46:53,140 --> 00:46:58,140
And you told me that directly, uh, we is on officer so definitely flat check me

499
00:46:58,140 --> 00:47:03,380
But I remember that I wrote that down. That's insane and it hasn't stopped her hurt

500
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:10,200
Stopped the terror that we're still experiencing the other point of that is and I hope you didn't show the sign

501
00:47:11,940 --> 00:47:18,060
Ice gets to drive around with no plate sometimes or a single plate even that's illegal

502
00:47:18,060 --> 00:47:22,120
They're front plate that we all have to freaking get clocked on they don't and

503
00:47:24,020 --> 00:47:26,020
And sometimes they have no place at all.

504
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,240
I've talked to the mayor about one specifically

505
00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:29,820
that has a novelty plate.

506
00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:31,960
It's Cleveland Browns says, number one dad.

507
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:33,800
He's been cruising around for months and months.

508
00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:35,300
Why did they not get pulled over?

509
00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:37,760
Why does that get to keep happening?

510
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,860
And yeah, that's pretty baseline compared

511
00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:42,540
to like the executions, but how about we start small

512
00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:44,640
and say, fuck, fuck, cameras.

513
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,240
And sorry, I probably wasn't supposed to say that.

514
00:47:47,780 --> 00:47:49,300
Times are bad, I'm disabled,

515
00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:51,180
and I have a quarter of a spoon.

516
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,660
Thank you. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak?

517
00:48:05,470 --> 00:48:07,030
We've got about five minutes left

518
00:48:07,030 --> 00:48:13,110
on the time we set aside. Anybody else? And Clerk Friedrich did anybody send anything

519
00:48:13,110 --> 00:48:16,190
in? We did not receive any emails, Mayor Sapo.

520
00:48:16,730 --> 00:48:20,550
Okay. Well, it looks like no one else wishes to say.

521
00:48:22,790 --> 00:48:23,270
All

522
00:48:39,590 --> 00:48:45,570
right. Thank you, everyone, for your comments. I know there had been a number of people that

523
00:48:45,570 --> 00:48:52,110
have been emailing us and asking questions and so the public safety department has been

524
00:48:52,110 --> 00:48:56,770
putting together a frequently asked questions document but they wanted to wait and see what

525
00:48:56,770 --> 00:49:01,430
people said tonight in case there were additional questions. So hopefully that will be coming

526
00:49:01,430 --> 00:49:06,670
out on the website in the next few days but it is in progress but we want to hear what

527
00:49:06,670 --> 00:49:09,230
people had to say tonight to see if there were additional questions.

528
00:49:09,950 --> 00:49:13,810
So thank you all so much and you're also welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting.

529
00:49:13,810 --> 00:49:14,730
All

530
00:49:26,570 --> 00:49:30,850
right, so next there are no proclamations or presentations, so we're going to move

531
00:49:30,850 --> 00:49:36,030
on to the consent calendar, so I'm going to turn it over to City Manager Rodriguez.

532
00:49:37,070 --> 00:49:37,950
Thank you, Mayor.

533
00:49:38,390 --> 00:49:42,570
The consent calendar contains several separate items which are active upon by the City Council

534
00:49:42,570 --> 00:49:43,510
in one motion.

535
00:49:44,150 --> 00:49:48,110
Once the consent calendar has been approved, the individual items and recommended actions

536
00:49:48,110 --> 00:49:49,650
have also been approved.

537
00:49:50,030 --> 00:49:52,690
No further council action on these items is necessary.

538
00:49:52,690 --> 00:49:58,110
On tonight's consent calendar, item A, approve disbursements claims.

539
00:49:58,710 --> 00:50:04,670
Item B, consider approval of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions, BCAs, master joint

540
00:50:04,670 --> 00:50:10,030
powers agreement with the Richfield Department of Public Safety, Police, for access to the

541
00:50:10,030 --> 00:50:15,730
criminal justice data communications network and the court data services subscriber amendment

542
00:50:16,290 --> 00:50:19,230
to CJDN subscriber agreement.

543
00:50:20,010 --> 00:50:24,950
Item C consider approval of an agreement for prosecution services with the City of Richfield

544
00:50:24,950 --> 00:50:33,770
with H.J. Law, Item D approve a work order in the amount of $189,050 with H.D.R. engineering

545
00:50:33,770 --> 00:50:36,790
Inc. for a water treatment plant feasibility study.

546
00:50:37,630 --> 00:50:41,310
And I submit these items for your consideration as part of tonight's consent calendar.

547
00:50:41,690 --> 00:50:42,050
Thank you.

548
00:50:43,510 --> 00:50:46,430
Is there a motion to accept the consent calendar items?

549
00:50:47,410 --> 00:50:48,530
A motion to approve.

550
00:50:49,610 --> 00:50:52,670
Second, it's been moved in a second, is there any comment?

551
00:50:54,350 --> 00:51:01,030
I did want to draw the public's attention to the engineering study for the water treatment

552
00:51:01,030 --> 00:51:04,470
feasibility because I think that's going to be an important topic and we're going to need

553
00:51:05,250 --> 00:51:06,810
feedback from the community as well.

554
00:51:07,070 --> 00:51:11,570
So I'm glad that we're doing the study before there's a crisis so that we can plan ahead.

555
00:51:11,570 --> 00:51:18,290
but that the treatment plant is older than I am, so I think it is time that we start looking at the feasibility.

556
00:51:19,450 --> 00:51:22,130
So, would that any other comments or questions?

557
00:51:25,260 --> 00:51:26,980
All right. All in favor, please say aye.

558
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:27,760
Aye.

559
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:28,960
All opposed.

560
00:51:29,540 --> 00:51:31,800
And we have approved the consent calendar.

561
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:36,940
Moving on, we'll go to item 10a, Council Member Christensen.

562
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:45,240
Yes, this item for consideration is to consider the first reading of an ordinance approving changes

563
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:54,860
to subsection 400.21 and the addition of subsection 400.22 to the city code pertaining to fire prevention.

564
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:11,220
The fire department is requesting changes in the city code that correct references to the adopted state code and adds language that allows the fire department to take on delegated plan review and inspections from the state fire marshal.

565
00:52:11,220 --> 00:52:13,720
Well, does the city have any further comments?

566
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:16,740
We're available for questions.

567
00:52:20,740 --> 00:52:21,680
Are there any questions?

568
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:23,360
No.

569
00:52:25,420 --> 00:52:25,640
All right.

570
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:28,780
With that, have you made the motion then?

571
00:52:29,700 --> 00:52:34,780
By motion, we need to approve the first reading of the ordinance to adopt changes to subsection

572
00:52:34,780 --> 00:52:42,440
400.21 and the addition of subsection 400.22 to the city code pertaining to fire prevention.

573
00:52:44,610 --> 00:52:45,010
Second.

574
00:52:45,010 --> 00:52:47,670
second. It's been moved and seconded, is there any discussion?

575
00:52:52,780 --> 00:52:53,860
All in favor, please say

576
00:52:53,860 --> 00:52:55,020
aye. Aye.

577
00:52:55,460 --> 00:52:56,100
All opposed.

578
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:03,620
And we have approved the first reading. Next we'll move on to the city

579
00:53:03,620 --> 00:53:04,500
manager's report.

580
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,720
Thank you, Mayor. Our last meeting was regular. Consume meeting was

581
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:17,500
July 28th and we had three speakers that opened for them and there were no questions so I don't

582
00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:18,700
have a further report tonight.

583
00:53:18,700 --> 00:53:21,060
Thank you.

584
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:26,000
Moving on to Council discussion, Council Member Christiansen.

585
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:33,460
Yes, the only thing I have coming up is the reminder that school is starting next Monday,

586
00:53:34,020 --> 00:53:38,740
August 31st for the 6th through 12th graders, so we need to be aware of school buses and

587
00:53:38,740 --> 00:53:44,380
extra vehicles around in our neighborhoods, and the younger grades are going on September

588
00:53:44,380 --> 00:53:45,140
1st.

589
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:46,220
So that's it.

590
00:53:46,220 --> 00:53:48,260
But thank you.

591
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:49,900
Council Member Heifel-Liri.

592
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:51,160
No items tonight.

593
00:53:52,340 --> 00:53:53,240
Council Member Burke.

594
00:53:54,160 --> 00:54:01,880
I want to encourage people to go play golf at Richfield and go to the pool and go to the farmers market.

595
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:02,780
Why do I bring all these up?

596
00:54:03,340 --> 00:54:09,440
I did a stay vacation and really, a bit of these places before, but it's kind of nice in the summer to go to all three, if you can.

597
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:15,460
My only concern is that the whole number 60 on the golf course, there's no way anyone makes a par three.

598
00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:19,940
So that really needs that really needs to be fixed. I'm telling you no one can do it, but regardless

599
00:54:19,940 --> 00:54:26,680
I really encourage people to go out and experience these things if you can before the summer's over. So that's that my

600
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:33,960
Has to home off to home town hits. We're also doing housing as long as I correct. Yes, I'm

601
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:39,960
Lele is on for the Human Rights Commission and that our last meeting we did have and this human

602
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:44,980
rights commission did invite the chief of police and the deputy is always there for all the meetings to talk

603
00:54:44,980 --> 00:54:50,920
talk about flock. Unfortunately, there were no members of the public there, so definitely

604
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:56,580
encourage members of the public to come to the Human Rights Commission. That is the best

605
00:54:56,580 --> 00:55:03,480
place, I think, to not only voice your opinions about flock, but to get some direct answers and

606
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:10,040
some dialogue with not only representatives from law enforcement, but also representatives

607
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:11,600
from the City Council because I will be there.

608
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:18,480
Part of that discussion was, we've heard a lot about the challenges and concerns about

609
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:18,720
flock.

610
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:26,360
I've got to tell you, one thing that was expressed was concern of at least this City Council

611
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:33,420
member, of if the flock cameras go away when it's been demonstrated that it has helped with

612
00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:34,800
important serious crimes.

613
00:55:35,380 --> 00:55:48,720
I would have a hard time having to look to the parents of a child who was kidnapped or murdered or something horrible happened, and to have to explain to that parent why we didn't have that system when it could have solved the crime.

614
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,140
That's the one thing that I haven't heard tonight and I haven't heard from anyone.

615
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:01,800
The ramifications of giving up a system that has been proven at least to this council member that it does help in solving crimes.

616
00:56:03,140 --> 00:56:07,280
I really hope that the public comes to the Human Rights Commission to engage in these

617
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:07,720
discussions.

618
00:56:07,980 --> 00:56:12,380
My mind is certainly open to change but that is where I'm standing on this right now.

619
00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:14,580
So that's it.

620
00:56:16,500 --> 00:56:17,000
Thank you.

621
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:21,620
I wanted to do a couple of shutouts to say thank you.

622
00:56:22,260 --> 00:56:26,740
There are a lot of volunteers that helped at unity in the community and I believe it was

623
00:56:26,740 --> 00:56:32,000
over 850 backpacks that were given out for kids so thank you to everybody that helped

624
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:43,480
with that. Also the Minnesota Arc and the Richfield Disability Advocacy, it's

625
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:47,560
art app and I'm forgetting what the piece stands for so I forgive me. They worked really

626
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:52,540
hard and we had a disability pride festival and that was the first annual one and we're

627
00:56:52,540 --> 00:56:56,360
hoping it's going to continue into the future but it was a really great event and I want

628
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:00,920
to thank all the participants and all the volunteers and I also want to thank everybody

629
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:13,900
that spoke tonight and want to continue the conversation because there's a lot to be talked about and I'm hearing from people in all parts of community on both sides of the issue, but I do think we need to talk about this and figure it out.

630
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:19,260
So thank you. Is there anyone else that has anything they would like to add?

631
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:23,920
All right, then a motion is in order.