2026-10-14 - City Council

Welcome everyone. It is Wednesday, October 14th, 2026. Welcome to your Sioux Falls City Council meeting. I would ask that the clerk please call the roll. Council members Basie? Here. McCurris? Here.

O'Quay? Here. Oppenheimer? Here. Pankinan? Here. Sigaty? Here. Spellerberg? Here. Thompson? Here. We do have a quorum. Next up is our Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. I'd like to welcome tonight

Reverend Dr. Brett Best, who is retired from the Immanuel Baptist Church. Thank you for being here. Please rise for Invocation and we will follow it by the Pledge of Allegiance. Let us pray. Almighty

God, we recognize that together we are greater than the sum of our parts. In unity, we exercise greater influence and achieve a great deal more than we do working individually. That's part of

community. Community is your gift to us. And as we exercise that gift this evening, I pray, Lord God, for a spirit of kindness and cooperation. I pray, Lord God, that this meeting may be productive

and follow in the steps you have ordained. Bless this council, the mayor and all of the city employees. We pray in Jesus' name. And God's people said, All right, Councils, I'm looking for approval for

the consent agenda. Move approval, Pankinan. Second, Akoy. There's been a motion and a second just for the record. I want to make sure it's noted that Councilor Basie has rehused herself. Any comments

or questions, discussion on consent? Seeing none, roll call, vote. Council members McCurris? Yes. Akoy? Yes. Oppenheimer? Yes. Pankinan? Yes. Sigurdi? Yes. Spellerberg? Yes. Thompson? Yes. That item

has passed seven to zero. If you could please grab Councilor Basie. Next item, regular agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? Move approval, Sigurdi. Second, Spellerberg. There's been a

motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, vote. Council members, Basie? Yes. McCurris? Yes. Akoy? Yes. Oppenheimer? Yes. Pankinan? Yes. Sigurdi? Yes. Spellerberg? Yes. Thompson?

Yes. That has passed eight to zero. Before we continue with our regular agenda, I just want to review public input for regular agenda items. Comments are limited to three minutes unless the item is

being presented for final adoption, in which case public input is limited to five minutes. For all other regular agenda items, comments are limited to the agenda item under consideration only. During

the general public input portion of the meeting, comments will be no more than three minutes per person, and comments are limited to the topics that have not been covered previously on the agenda that

we've already received public input for. Next item, please. Item 11 is a second reading in ordinance of the City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, amending the Code of Ordinances of the City by amending

Chapter 37, Taxation. Sponsor, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor, City Council, Dustin Powers, Planning and Development Services. With me tonight is also Brandon Hansen, the CEO of downtown Sioux Falls.

Tonight's amendments are related to the downtown Sioux Falls Business Improvement District. This would remove two exemptions that exist within the current ordinances. Those exemptions are related to

industrial properties and multifamily properties in downtown Sioux Falls. By removing these properties, there are 21 properties that are, these exemptions, there are 21 properties that will be

affected by tonight's changes. They were notified of those changes. The bid board didn't make a unanimous recommendation of approval for your support here tonight. If the council were to make these

proposed changes, they would go into effect for the 2027 assessment year. And because the funds that are collected go to downtown Sioux Falls, I'll have Brandon come up and give a little bit more

detail about the proposed changes in their services. Brandon Hansen, CEO of downtown Sioux Falls. Thanks for the time tonight. I'm grateful to get to be here with you all. DTSF is a nonprofit

organization whose mission is to boost the return on investment that downtown creates for the whole community. We really do that through a few ways. That's through advocacy activation of the district

and through the ambassador program, which primarily is funded by the bid, which is what we're talking about tonight. We are the organization who's charged with deploying the business improvement

district resources and we're responsible to the property owners that provide them. This first slide really in front of you explains the bid model. It's a shared investment model where the property

owners have self elected to be taxed in addition to their property taxes. And these are services that property owners can't really provide as effectively on their own. That includes trash and waste

removal, graffiti response in downtown, cleaning, beautification and hospitality and safety support. We do a lot of reporting back and forth of the city with social services providers with property

owners and making sure that downtown looks. It's best every single day. These resources supplement city services. They do not replace them. They stay focused on the district, the boundary that's

outlined in the ordinance. They support property owners, businesses, residents, workers and visitors. And because downtown is one of our city's economic, cultural and civic centers, that shared

investment produces value well beyond the bid boundary. So why change it now? Really trying to articulate why we're kind of proposing these these minor changes. The bid was established in 1989. We

just moved away from the pedestrian mall in downtown. That concept and needed a way to bring business back. That's when the bid was created. That's when the organization was created. Flash forward to

really twenty twenty one twenty twenty two downtown has grown. It has changed in twenty twenty two. The bid board adopted a bid growth plan, which is public on our website. You can you can look at

that. There's a couple versions that came out of that and some more internal, some more about this ordinance and a three phase approach to expanding the bid efforts. We have really been focused on

phase one and that was about building the team, the systems and creating what we all know as the ambassador program in downtown. We've been focused on operating capacity and delivering dependable

service, shortening our response time and the ambassador program was started right there in twenty twenty two. Today we have seven full time employees on an ambassador program. We've had a marketing

services event support for the community. This robust flower program, which we get tons and tons of calls about downtown. We do some snow removal within the handicap accessibility right away on the

sidewalks. And then we also do break our boundary a little bit with the social service sector blocks on the eight street blocks just servicing trash and graffiti over there to give some support over

there. Today's proposal begins at phase two. It's the sorry, the the red dot there, the measured update. We're looking at a very small measured update. So we really the board wanted to pull on two of

the absolute smallest leverage we could possibly pull to get into the habit and the muscle of enhancing this ordinance year after year as we see such incredible growth in downtown. So let's move from

the bid growth plan and the direct conversations with the specific property owners and the specific policy change that you guys are voting on tonight. These exemptions that my board is proposing to

remove or not necessarily unreasonable when they were created way back in 1988. They reflected the use of downtown was trying to attract at the time. But we just know that they no longer match today's

development priorities and they really have it for some time. Multifamily housing is now a major part of downtown's growth and is self sustaining the long term direction and the long term direction of

the district has shifted away from heavy industrial. Uses toward mixed use developments removing these two exemptions also improves a consistency with properties that already pay into the bid and the

full assessment. So the change today affects 21 properties produces approximately $23,600 annually. Seven multifamily properties at that 10,832 amount, 14 industrial properties at $12,805. This is a

very limited change, but it advances the fairness of the ordinance and begins our baby step into phase two of this plan. Just a couple comments on the process. We've talked about this last week, but

before bringing this count this proposal before you, we wanted to go beyond the required process. That's very important to the DCSF organization and the staff and the bid board. We use direct letters,

one on one conversations, group meetings, phone calls, emails. We invested in opening communication more holistically with existing bid payers and the downtown development community. The reality is

that we heard both support and hesitation, but nothing that inherently undermined the fairness of the proposal. I kind of called out this middle example last week. I'm going to call it out again. I'm

dealing with trash, human waste. They were talking about specifically people squatting on their property, and they're not currently getting any help. This was an industrial property. It was really

exciting for us to get to say, as soon as you're paying in, we get to help you and take care of those issues and get rid of the graffiti, get rid of the trash. But again, more broader support for this

ordinance indicates just a more consistent service and a fair shared service and investment model. And then finally, I would be remiss if I didn't connect the output of the bid and the DTSF

organization to the broader community. I will share this every time I get up here because it is what fuels our team every day. In 2025, the ambassador team with five full time employees removed nearly

250,000 pounds of trash out of downtown. The ambassador's also identified and responded to changing conditions, social needs such as adding dog waste stations when they found new activity going on

with dog waste. They protect public art and place making spaces in downtown. They report cleanliness and maintenance issues before most other people notice them to city departments. And then they help

test public realm improvements through planters and bump outs and some of our advocacy efforts with the physical environment downtown. So those services really reflect the thoughtful deployment of bid

resources. We are lean and we're excited and happy to take care of the trash and the graffiti in downtown. We invest in the people who are present in the district, notice problems in real time, and

act before small issues become larger and more expensive for everybody. We also adjust the services as downtown changes instead of using a fixed program that no longer matches the realities and the

needs of today. So in summary, removing those exemptions really makes participation more equitable. It aligns the ordinance with today's downtown and economic development priorities. It adds capacity

to a service model that's producing visible results. And I respectfully ask for your support on this second reading. Thank you, Brandon. Anyone else here from the public want to speak on item 11?

Seeing none, Councillor's questions, Councillor Pinkin. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I do have one question for Brandon, and it was on the hours of operation of the Ambassador Program. Yeah, so we have two

different seasons, if you will. So April through September, we go 7am to 7pm, seven days a week. We maintain that seven days a week throughout the year, and we just reduce the back end of those hours

to about 3pm. So 7am to 3pm during those colder months. And we do a lot more vehicle patrol and making sure if we see someone sleeping on the sidewalk, that they're well taken care of, that we're not

going to see anyone pass away in downtown. And then we're managing the trash more so in those colder months. Any other questions? Councillors, is there a motion? Second to quay. Second, Sigurdi. I

miss the motion and the second, who did the motion. Councillor Basie made a motion, second by a quay. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call vote. Council members Basie? Yes. Akeras? Yes. Akoi? Yes.

Oppenheimer? Yes. Pankinin? Yes. Sigurdi? Yes. Bellaberg? Yes. Thomson? Yes. That item passes, 8-0, item 12. First reading, an ordinance of the City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, amending the code of

ordinances of the city by amending Chapter 41 fees, Section 41.005 and Chapter 77, Parking Regulations, Sub-Chapter, Parking Ticket Appeal, Section 77.999. Recommendation, set a date of second reading

for Tuesday, October 20th, 2026. Sponsor, Mayor. Welcome, Matt. Matt Nelson, Public Parking and Utility Billing Manager for the City of Sioux Falls. Tonight I'm here to talk about the rate package

that we have moved forward, and this ordinance is specific to the rates. Last week we walked through our rate proposal to the Council on Informational Meeting. And the intent is not to redo the entire

presentation. So there are some things I want to highlight for those that are here tonight listening, or those that are watching at home. The first thing is that we are an enterprise fund. So what

does that mean? Like the landfill, the light department, we need to pay our own bills. So we are structured to be self-sufficient. There's actually a resolution that says we have to be self-

sufficient. We're not supported by sales tax. We're not supported by property taxes. So our fines and fees that we collect need to pay our bills. And then what do we use that revenue for? It's to

support our downtown. One of our main missions is turnover at the meters. We want to create turnover because every customer that comes into a store is dollars in revenue. So our intent is to create

turnover and then to provide safe and adequate parking off-street. So as we maintain and build ramps off-street and provide lots and all of the things that you need to get to downtown, that's what all

of these fines and fees support. We are essentially a small business inside of city government. We work as a co-op and so any money we save, we save the citizens. We support businesses and a good

example of that would be if you have a small business and you have five employees that park and you want to grow and you need six the next year and seven the following year, you don't need to build

the parking for that. We have it and we'll sell it to you as you need it. So it is a pay as you use it system and that's what Sioux Falls has been built on. That includes CIP funds, OSEP funds, and

operating funds. So we are fully self-sufficient as an enterprise fund. The other is just a theology in parking and that is there is no such thing as free parking. It's just a matter of who is going

to pay for it or how are we going to pay for it. I would love to receive general funds would make my job a lot easier every day because people want to know why am I paying for parking. But as we do

it, we're always trying to balance the best needs of all of downtown. And with that we're constantly shifting balance and usually when someone wins, someone loses. Maybe it's not always the best for

this business, but it benefits another business. And again, we're always trying to balance that system wide for the entire downtown to continue to grow. And we've seen a lot of growth over the last

year and changes. One of the major changes we made a year ago was Saturday parking. So with Saturday parking, why did we have to do that? People ask it's because of the growth. It's because of all the

employees downtown. We want people to park where we want them to park, which is off street. We want customers that are metered and front door parking. So when we did that, we shifted the balance. It

was controversial at the time. And here we are again, we're looking at shifting balance with rates. And it is to benefit the entire downtown and distribute that cost amongst all businesses and more

visitors downtown. Just again, it's to create turnover when we talk about rates and make sure that we're adequately charging the appropriate rates for inflation, for improvements and for anything else

that we need to maintain our system. So what's changing? So before I get into what's changing, as we get into the ordinance, there's some things I should point out. These are caps or maximums. So as

we look at this, if you see a rate increase to two dollars, that doesn't mean we're going to two dollars. We're going to under we're going to operate under that cap. The other is that the last rate

increase we did was over a decade ago. And we didn't touch all the rates at that time. There are rates that we're looking at in this increase that weren't touched for nearly 20 years. I've been here

for about 20 years and there's some rates that have been the same since I've been here. And then I just want to reiterate, this is a rate package. So I know when we see the news stories, they love to

put rate increase. It's great click bait. There's a lot of comments on parking there always is. But there's also rate decreases in here. There are rates that were decreasing by half to make certain

areas of downtown more affordable. But it's also to influence behavior of our customers and where do we want them to go. So it helps the businesses downtown. So to get into what's changing, the first

is on street parking. We're looking at taking that cap rate from a dollar fifty to two dollars. So again, that's a cap rate, so that's the maximum we could charge. We'd look at doing a dollar seventy

five increase on meters near and adjacent to Phillips. They are busiest meters. It's about 200 of our 800 to anywhere from 800 to 900 meters, depending on what's going on with construction in 2027. So

we're doing a small increase there. It would be next year and it would only be on a portion of our meters, not all of our meters. Off street parking, we would also be reducing rates to help push

people into those ramps. We're actually cutting rates in half from a dollar fifty an hour to seventy five cents an hour. That's to encourage employees that come downtown late that have later hours

that usually they're servers and waiters. We want to push them into the ramps. We also want residents staying off the streets at the end of the evening. So those spots are open for when people come

downtown for that last rush in the evening. We're also looking to increase the thresholds for lease parking monthly. So typically we do about a one to three percent annually on our lease parking. It's

usually a dollar per space per month. So we are at our maximum now. We so we were not able to do rate increases at several locations. Meter bags we're going to increase that from seven dollars to

fifteen dollars for a day. One hundred to two hundred dollars for a monthly rate. Pretty minor impact there and impacts a small amount of customers and it actually aligns it with our daily rates. And

then the last one is fines and fees and there are fines and fee increases in here with the parking fine. So in properties go from 15 to 25 over times go from 10 to 15. But we're also decreasing it. So

when you look at the top rate for an overtime citation if you don't pay it we're actually cutting that in half also goes from 60 to 30. We're cutting the improper and prohibited tickets from top end

from 50 or 60 to 50. And then snow alerts we are increasing from 35 to 50. And with all of those there will only be one escalation. So one of the things is we have multiple escalations. We've had them

for years and you had to pay a ticket within seven days or it would increase on you. We're removing that escalation at seven days gives people more time to react and there's one escalation for every

citation violation and it doubles once. With that I'm here to answer questions that you may have this evening. So we'll go ahead and take those at this time if you're ready. Sounds good. Thank you

Matt for the presentation. Is there anybody else from the public that wishes to speak on this item. Come on up sir. State your name for the record whomever. If you'd like to line up behind so we can

be efficient please come forward. Please state your name for the record. And you do have three minutes right here in the front. Yep. Right here. My name's Rodney Brokaw. I want to address why downtown

businesses you have to pay to park right downtown but yet you go out by the Falls Park out here and those businesses you don't have to pay to park for those businesses yet. You make the businesses

downtown have paid their customers have to pay yet you go down a business along the Falls Park you have to pay every part of the whole business. You don't have to pay. Why why you treat them different

and you are treating downtown businesses. My daughter has a business downtown and they those customers have to pay the shop there but the customers go down down there you don't have to pay a question.

All right. Thank you sir. The counselors will address that if they see fit. And next step for public input. Fred Hanson CEO of downtown Sioux Falls again or still I suppose I am speaking in support of

the city's continued efforts to enhance and refine the public parking system. The conversation today is obviously exclusive surrounding exclusively surrounding these raising the caps or the ability to

charge different rates whether that's higher or lower. Over the past two years the DTSF organization our committees our members have engaged with the parking team through all the ways articulated.

Already but we independently bring this into our conversations with business owners operators and property owners because it matters to the business community. We appreciate the city's willingness to

share data and seek feedback and continually evaluate opportunities to improve how the system serves businesses employees residents and visitors. What has stood out through these discussions with city

staff is our focus on supporting small businesses. From our perspective anyway the goal is not simply to manage parking. The goal has always been centered on maximizing customer access and turnover at

the curb creating more opportunities for people to visit downtown businesses and making sure the spots right in front of the businesses are for paying customers. This has been a long standing

conversation with business owners and some would even articulate that they've been asking for these changes for a couple of decades now. One of the things that we believe is often overlooked is the

scale of downtown's overall parking supply because some of them are privately owned but they're available to the public as well. And so downtown has roughly 13000 parking spaces when you include these

900 meter spaces public private ramps surface lot shared use facilities all into this equation that we're considering many of which are available to the public like I said during evenings and

weekends. The street parking system continues to experience very high demand while downtown's parking ramps continue to have available capacity. And from our perspective it makes sense to regularly

evaluate pricing, policies, technology and operations to encourage greater use of available ramp parking while preserving convenient curb size access for customers making short visits to downtown

businesses. DTSF has also provided strong recommendations along with the residence association to Matt and his team to invest in way finding. Greater consistency across the entire system and a better

user experience throughout the system as well to make changes more holistically. Less incrementally parking should be easy to find it should be easy to understand and easy to use and so in support we

DTSF supports these changes. Thank you Brandon anyone else from the public wish to speak good evening Joe Kirby downtown resident today I was on my way home. I live downtown on my way home and I

wanted to stop at Lewis to pick up a prescription but there was not a parking spot on Phillips between 12th and 10th people are paying the going rate they may not like it but they're paying the

current rates. I think they'll pay the increased rate without any objection they may object but they'll continue to pay it we have a finite number of desirable spots and I guess money is probably the

best way to decide who gets them and to encourage turnover. So we downtown residents I'm involved in the association we like these efforts that Brandon and the others Matt are working on to

rationalize downtown parking to encourage more people to use the ramps and to free up the spots in front of businesses. Thank you. Thank you sir. Good evening. I'm Arthur Crens 218 South Main with

dance gallery of South Dakota and we're between Mackenzie River and Parker's restaurant and we've been in that location for 27 years part of this parking program that you're not even voting on is the

extension of the meter parking until 7pm and that will have an adverse impact on our business is we have our young children's classes that run from four to seven. And that will make it difficult for

the parents to have to leave their child and run out and plug the meter. We've established our business relying on that free parking after 5pm and we do have enough turnover in our area unlike the

problem area which is over on Phillips where they don't have the turnover and that's what I understand that all this is resulting from. So we would ask you to reconsider or platform to not do the 7pm

extension to leave it at five. Another proposal is that they're going to raise the overtime parking ticket to fifteen dollars from ten dollars and that's a really big jump. And when tickets are raised

from five dollars to ten dollars it caught everybody by surprise as well as this is all doing that. And the city council members you don't get paid you don't pay your parking tickets you hand them

back into somebody and they waive it. I suggest that the next time that you get a ticket that you pay it so you can feel the sting of why people don't come downtown that if you're a server or a retail

clerk and you have to pay that 15 dollars that's like an hour's worth of wages. And so we would ask to reconsider the capping the parking till five p.m. and increase the parking overtime fees at a

lesser rate maybe a dollar a year instead of five dollars all in one year. Thank you. Thank you sir from representative. Good evening Madam Mayor council members Keaton Whitman downtown resident I've

lived in the same 10 block radius for 14 nearing 15 years and in that time I've seen a tremendous amount of growth and change in our downtown from the skyline to our older buildings that we've been

able to rehab more and more residents living downtown. And with that growth comes the responsibility to keep up with infrastructure and I this is something that I often grapple with at a statewide

level in the legislature. And I recognize that changes to fees are typically unpopular but parking systems need to be financially stable as you heard that this system is self funding and I think that

the opportunity you have in front of you gives the city flexibility to maintain that financially sustainable parking system. I would also mention that yes the increases exist within this but I am also

delighted to hear that they are having the hourly rate of the ramps. I can't speak highly enough of our ramps when I talk to folks who want to come visit downtown Sioux Falls our ramps are safe

they're clean they're easily accessible one issue I've always had is they are not marked as well as they could be. So again I'm delighted to hear that our city is working to take proactive measures to

make clearer way finding opportunities to use our parking ramps and also make it financially a smarter option for families and visitors to downtown. I'm proud to call downtown home for 14 almost 15

years and I think that this is a way we can invest in infrastructure for the next 15 to 20 years. Thank you. Thank you so much. Anybody else wish to speak on this item. Robert Colby here. What bothers

me most when driving through the downtown and you get a four door pickup with dually's short bed long bed pickup and it's pulled up against the curb and you get two of those one across from the other.

It cuts the two lanes of traffic down to one. Is there a standard traffic vehicle length for people parking against the curb in a diagonal fashion. It would be nice if you would just take and put a

white line down anything that hangs over the white line. You get the ticket and then make it a sizable ticket. Thank you. Thank you sir. Anybody else wish to speak on this. Hi my name is Jackie

Peterson Krenz I'm the owner of dance gallery across the street and I have to say that I have had discussions in the last couple of days since I've heard about this proposal. The two hundred and

seventy eight families that I have are not happy and you will hear from them because I feel that they have a right to say what's happening to them. It is a safety issue with some of the children that

we have that are drivers. They are now I know there's the way you can automate automatically do it through your phone but many of them are going out and having to feed the meter and in cases where

there's a lot of parking they're they're having to in the dark walk four to six blocks to get to a car to feed the meter in downtown Sioux Falls which I think is a bit scary for parents. My biggest

concern is I will lose my business. I think it's something that's possibly something I'm going to have to deal with. I've been here for twenty seven years. It has been the right of my life. I feel

that this is going to be when I hit a wall and I feel that something needs to be looked at in terms of perhaps just look outside the box. Does it have to be this you know this much of a hit a hard

wall on the on the seven o'clock hour. Is there something else that could be looked at. Could we could there be a way that the areas that are difficult perhaps the Phillips Avenue maybe that is

something where you have a different time frame that you're dealing with. But I just it's not like the entire downtown is equal. We've got different we've got different businesses running in different

areas. Mine is not like a restaurant. It's not like a gift shop. It's it's different and we have a service that we're providing. So I would just ask that maybe you take a look at maybe alternative

ways to deal with the problem which I agree there is an issue. But I would love it if there was a way that you could take a look at an alternative way of dealing with this. Thank you. Thank you.

Anybody else here wish to speak on this item seeing then counselors turn it over to you for any questions. That's amazing. Thank you Madam Mayor Matt. Can you just clarify my understanding what we're

voting on tonight is specifically the fees portion when you presented last week at our informational. There is quite a suite of other changes but council action is only on the fees tonight. It's

correct. That is correct. Thank you. Any other Councillor Pinkerton. Yes. Thank you Madam Mayor. And I was just reading this item B 41 point 0 0 of the fees for parking and then there's B it's monthly

permits for daily parking shall be valid and it looks like it used to read Monday through Friday beginning at 6 a.m. and not to exceed beyond 6 p.m. but we're changing that to read you know shall be

valid during the hours determined by public parking. And so I do think it's a good thing for us to you know I'll probably vote yes on this tonight because it's a first reading. But I do I do think

that there are some things that should be looked at in the in the week coming up. So thank you thank you. Councillor Spielberg Madam Mayor Matt can you address probably the dance studios questions

here. What is still free downtown and maybe over the next couple of weeks while we're working on this if you guys can have conversations with them as well. Sure. Absolutely Councillor. And I'd like to

take a step back and kind of address the the range of hours because I think maybe there's a concern that we would get too restrictive on the public parking side and maybe expand hours contract hours.

I'll tell you that was taken out to make it at the determination of public parking because it did not meet the hours that we're currently enforcing. So I think the ordinance used to say 6 a.m. to 6

p.m. We currently do not enforce till 6 p.m. That was a change made well over a decade ago again to accommodate businesses and balance things downtown. So we're shifting things to benefits and away

from benefits depending on what business you are at times to just balance all of downtown. And the 5 p.m. change free parking the ramps was to help people get off the streets and allow free parking

after five instead of after six. It used to be after six. So we want to be responsible. I want to remind the council you always have the first strings if you need to put an ordinance in place if we

get out of line. That's what you're here for. But just we do act responsibly and we'll continue to do that specifically to the dance gallery. Just a few things to note. They've been downtown for a

long time. I've had a lot of conversations with Arthur over the years. They run a great business. They do a service to our town and a lot of the children in our community. It's a business we want to

support like we do every business downtown. Noting that when someone says my kids have to walk four to six blocks to get into my business or the place with training. That's a concern. It tells me

immediately we need to change how we're doing it because we want that parking opened closer. And part of it is with the residents and other things going on downtown. If it's pushing them out that far

we want to keep people again off those meters that are closer and give them more parking that's nearby. And when it comes to free parking there's a lot of free parking still available. And let's I'd

like to address the dance gallery issue because we offer free parking across the street which is in the lot here for the Carnegie. It's free after five. If there are smaller groups that come in after

that we could look at providing hourly parking options there so they could pay till five. And still it could still remain free. The parking in the alley which is adjacent to the lot that would remain

free because it's technically off street. We also have parking in the block 11 ramp which is a half a block to the north. There's approximately 400 spaces in there. That is free after five. So there

is a lot of parking that's there and for a safety concern when the main avenue was done done. But it's been about a decade ago. That crosswalk that you see there was put in specifically for the dance

gallery and the safety of their their students. So we've worked to accommodate them over the years. If we need to meet with them and talk about how can we accommodate this going forward. We're open to

those discussions. That's what we're here to do. That is our mission and then all parking still remains free on nights and weekends. So lots and ramps that are off street are free nights and weekends

after 5 p.m. On street parking would be charged during our business hours. It would be longer than they are now. We'd look at nine to seven as what we've proposed. But again it's to propose turnover

and push that balance into the ramps and off street parking. Thank you. Councillors any other questions. Of course thank you. Madam Mayor Matt could you clarify the decision making process of the

hours of enforcement. Is that a mayoral decision or is that a parking advisory board decision. It is and it's ultimately an administrative decision that falls under the director of our department. So

ultimately that's the way it's written in the ordinance. That being said this is something that's been worked on through multiple administrations. It was worked on before Mayor Erickson was here and

we've continued to push it forward. It was originally backed and supported through the downtown Sioux Falls board. The development committee committee for downtown Sioux Falls and it's also been

through our parking advisory board for support. And they've all been supported unanimously for downtown. So that's the process we've gone through for all of it. But we are gathering feedback as we go.

Thank you. Any other questions. Councillor Oppenheimer. Thank you Madam Matt. Matt just one question start with. What will what additional revenue will be created by these various changes. So we do

our best to estimate. That's the thing. And we're probably looking at approximately 150 to 200000 dollars per year the per year on our budget. So we'll be to probably 250 because we've got some things

that go up and go down. We we think we know where they're going to land. So I would say 250 is a good estimate. But again it stays in our fun. We reinvested downtown and these aren't about necessarily

revenue or revenue only. They're about balancing and shifting parking to how we want people to behave to make the system operate better. Thank you. Councillor Spielberg. Just one other statement not a

question that but we do have one counselor that is anti big truck already to point out to the constituent and we do have that white line downtown already to stop that. Thank you. Councillor Pinkerton.

Thank you Madam Mayor. I just want to point out to to this council that the ordinance does read that the hourly rate for all meters shall be determined by public parking. And you know I think that if

I'm so appreciative for you to be here tonight Matt and also say that you've worked with dance gallery. And I think if if if there's some things that need to be done by the council we could probably

look at amending that statement under 41 0 0 5 C 1 under meters. If if needed. So that's one thought I have. And again with the first reading I'm planning to vote yes on it tonight. Councillor Quay.

Matthew thank you. I know adjustments are very important to reinvesting in downtown. I know in the past I've received my fair share of citations but a 50 percent increase that that's a huge jump. Why

did we not phase this out within the past five years. Let's say like a dollar a year. So there's a couple reasons one but the way we operate on the citation side raising those rates would incur

additional costs because some of our tickets are still manually printed. We manage and process all the police tickets and all of the airport tickets. So having to print those every year would be

difficult. We also knew when we went from five dollars to ten dollars which was a hundred percent increase. We were well behind the times. So going from 10 to 15 we also feel like we're getting to

where we need to be. If you look at our comparable city set we're well at the bottom end of that price range and below many cities for what we're charging and it also needs to line up with if I didn't

pay my meter for four hours and I'm going to get one ticket and four hours is going to cost me nine dollars. Do I choose to pay nine dollars at the meter or roll the dice and get an eleven dollar

ticket. So we want to make that sting of a fifteen dollar ticket slightly above a nine dollar meter fee. You may be coming downtown for an hour but we've got to try to balance that and looking at our

peer cities and what we're seeing with our current rates and what we're asking for. We think 15 is appropriate and we're also lowering rates too. So we're going from 60 to 30 on those citations do.

Any other questions Councillor. Councillor Pinkerton. Thank you again Madam Mayor and I do have this one final thought on and more of a question will not here. Is it important that the hours that you

use are the same across the city like the same on every block or can they be different on one street versus what are your thoughts with what you do every day. We can do almost anything it's just a

matter of cost efficiency and how easy it is to understand the struggle with having varying hours is then as a customer. You've got to look at one little strip that we do put on the meters now that

say it's enforced this time to this time and you'd have to know to check every meter. Is this a is this an evening meter is the daytime meter is this like which meter am I at. And we believe that

would create more confusion than just being consistent across the city. And to be quite honest once you get out of our core area where Phillips is most of those areas already have a fair amount of

free parking available. Most of the businesses I'll just take a step back and say when we built the meet or the ramps downtown we built it for the historic downtown. So when the gentleman asked about

why why do you charge for parking downtown. Well the system was built for the 50s and 60s when we didn't have malls and Sears was downtown. Montgomery's Ward was downtown. All these places that our

grandparents came to ride the escalators and tell stories about those were the only places you could go. Everyone in Sioux Falls had to come here and there were only a handful of spaces available plus

every employee was working down here that worked in retail. That's not the world we live in now. So the downtown core buildings were built for that. So the ramp support that the meter support that.

And when you get outside of downtown will they build their own parking. And when you get outside of the very core of downtown a lot of our new developments like the steel district they built their own

parking. So they charge there also. But there's also a lot of businesses that have parking lots and it's just because they have parking available because of when they were built. Thank you. Any other

questions. Councillor or a motion move approval. Basie second. Speller motion by Basie. Second by Speller. Roll call. Any discussion. Councillor of course. Thank you Madam Mayor. Appreciate the

intentionality and the goals and I think the overall goal of utilizing the ramps and the infrastructure that we have in place and turnover is really important. It's something that the old councilor

nights are just hammered away and I think he gave me about eight books on that. That was the importance of it. But here's how I'm thinking about it. If I think back to the high school days when

Richard Thomas was at Lincoln High School and probably getting a D in geometry and his parents said to him hey we need to get that D to a B. And if his parents said to him hey let's get that D to a B

and when you get to a B we'll get you a tutor. I'd be like shouldn't you get him a tutor when he's got a D rather than wait until he's got a B. It's not a perfect illustration but what I'm struggling

with is wayfinding improvements is in phase three. If we want to move people to the ramps today we should do the wayfinding improvements as we're doing the rate changes because that's supposed to help

people move to the ramps. Now I realize there's financial implications to this and we're trying to raise revenue that ultimately will help create the thing that can pay for that. But if in three years

we've increased our traffic to the ramps well then why do we need to pay money to have signage and ramps at that time. We need to pay the sign for the money for signage now alongside the fee changes

to increase the participation in the ramps. I 100 percent agree with the goal. I 100 percent believe in the in the fee thing what I'm wrestling with before second reading is how can we simultaneously

make sure that we're putting the appropriate wayfinding and signage in place that helps us accomplish our overarching goal of moving more people to the ramps because we've got affordable ramps and

we've got safe ramps. To me those are the two messages to the community tonight our ramps are safe and they're affordable. Now let's make them as accessible as possible and making the wayfinding

really clear so us as a council we've got to think about where do we make a financial investment that maybe we haven't in the past to improve that wayfinding. So that's number one the second thing

that is sticking out to me here a little bit we run into this and other issues as well as we get into the situation where we've got to change a fee or a fine every 10 years. And then there's a council

body sitting up here and going we've got to raise this by 50 percent or 100 percent I think we've got to dig deeper and we've got to this isn't the right words but fight back with the attorney's

office a little bit and say we've got to find a mechanism in the city ordinances and in policy that we can create opportunities for these fees and these fines to change annually with inflation rather

than us having to come back once every five years in one body being responsible. For these big jumps so I'd like us to take a harder look at the ordinance what can we do or an ordinance that's not

going to just leave this 15 dollars for somebody 10 years to change again but what's it going to what's how can we put in ordinance where it's going to move from 15 dollars this year to 1575 next year

and then 1650 I don't know what the exact numbers are but for me as a counselor I think that's helping future policy bodies and we set ourselves up so we're not so far behind in the future so those

are the two things that are sticking out to me that I'd wrestle with. The most before we head into second reading I appreciate the way you've done with downtown Sioux Falls the parking advisory board

all of that very supportive of the overarching goals I just want to see how we can accomplish those two other objectives at the same time thank you Councillor any other discussion Councillor Basie

thank you Madam Mayor I just wanted to articulate I don't really have an issue with the specific cost or fees I appreciate the sentiments of Councillor McChorus and being proactive. The signage is a

really big component for me I think we talked a little bit about that and information too so I appreciate those efforts and I'd like to see those efforts done earlier in the process as well. Thank you

Madam Mayor and Matt thank you so much for your efforts with this I'm struggling a little bit with this and we'll vote in favor of this at first reading but I'm going to need a little convincing on

the second reading. I see a increase in fees with a goal of getting people moving on Phillips Avenue and turnover pushing people to the ramps 25 cent increase in fees I don't know that that will

necessarily do that I see that it's something that will deter people from coming downtown will cause additional costs on those coming downtown so I don't know that this fee increases Nestle

necessarily going to going to have the desired effect that we're looking for so I will vote in favor it today but. If I was to have to vote on the second reading it would be a no and I would like to

have some further discussion on that. Thank you Councillor any other discussion seeing none roll call vote please. Council members Basie yes McChorus yes way yes Oppenheimer yes. Pankin and yes

Siggity yes Bellibert yes Thompson yes that item of second reading 8 0 next item item 13 as a first reading an ordinance of the city of Sioux Falls South Dakota approving a lease of city real property

recommendation set a date of second reading for Tuesday October 20 2026 sponsor mayor. Matt Nelson again so this is an ordinance that we are looking to put forward that there's already an existing

agreement in place with this company. The lease is for a parking lot that is on the north side of Ace Hardware downtown it is a gated and secured lot so it's got it's got a fence around it and then

it's got a sliding gate. They would lease the entire lot which is 28 spaces it's a five year lease with two five year renewal options on it and as you get into the details it's a 4% annual increase is

built into that rate and we're looking at a cap rate of about 8 to 9% so. We don't have an exact number because we do the maintenance there we do feel like this is an advantageous lease for the city

and we we offer them a pretty good incentive to come in and now with the second lease we're signing with them we're we're going to collect and do fairly well and it's it's just going to market rate is

where it's going right now with where we anticipate it to be. Thank you Matt anybody from the public wish to speak on this item seeing none counselors any questions seeing none is there a motion so

moved Siggity. Second to play there's been a motion by Sadie second by O'Quay any discussion seeing none roll call vote council members Basie yes mccurris yes okay yes Oppenheimer yes Pankin and yes

Siggity yes spell the bird yes Thomas and yes that item moves to second reading a 0 item 14 a resolution authorizing an application submittal for funding from the transportation alternatives TA grant

program for the purpose of constructing shared use paths. Connections along South veterans Parkway in Sioux Falls South Dakota sponsor Mayor evening Mayor City Council Andy bird Public Works

Department tonight we're asking for your support for application of a grant for some transportation alternative funds that are provided for multimodal transportation throughout our city this

specifically this grant will go towards connections for the veterans Parkway corridor. We have two connections in the segment from cliff Avenue to sick more Avenue and if you have seen them along

those segments we generally have an underpass each mile along those segments for that connectivity for safe passage. Not at grade on the veteran on the veterans Parkway corridor and so for this

specific grant we have letters of support from both the Sioux Falls MPO a metropolitan planning organization and the active transportation board. The most recent grant of this kind that we received

was in 2023 for the connection over by 26th and veterans Parkway near the Fred ass and I'm sorry the Rosa Parks elementary school. This plan is consistent with several of the plans that the city

participates in with the MPO the long range transportation plan that goes to falls plan and our city's bicycle plan as well. This specific project the total cost is anticipated to be about seven

hundred seventy five thousand dollars with federal share or the TA grant funding six hundred thousand of that and then a local match of one hundred seventy five thousand and so with that I would

certainly entertain any questions you might have on it. Thank you Andy anybody from the public wish to speak on item 14 seeing none counselors any questions their motion move approval move approval.

Siggity seconds forward motion and a second any discussion seeing none roll call vote council members basically yes McCurris yes okay yes Oppenheimer yes. Yes Siggity yes fella bird yes Thompson yes

that item passes eight to zero we are now to the general public input portion of tonight's agenda as a reminder input and during this time will last no more than three minutes per person and you may

not speak on any of the items covered previously at this time I'd welcome anybody to please come up for public input and state your name for the record. Good evening council and Madam Mayor I want to

speak from my heart tonight because there's something I really hope you understand about why I keep showing up throughout this entire process with Gemini I've always approached each one of you with

grace respect and understanding. I know I'm persistent I know I ask difficult questions I hope that persistence is never a mistake in frostility because I genuinely want to help you guys for a well

over a year I've dedicated an enormous amount of my life to researching this industry. I spent countless nights reading scientific studies looking into what other communities have experienced and

trying to understand what this could mean to pursue falls and after all that time I'm still learning. I've been actively sharing that research with the regulatory oversight committee have already

submitted 83 submissions and that's a fraction of what I have of collected this is all scientific studies really great resources if you go check and look at the resources that I'm providing they're

solid. And I'll continue submitting that information until I've shared everything that I've collected but something has been really weighing on me lately and I'm beginning to realize that even. For

that month long process that we've established submitting these to the regulatory oversight committee that time isn't enough time. And if that's the case how can we responsibly expect like for you

guys to thoroughly evaluate it involve our community and bring independent expertise and establish comprehensive protections in three months. So not only just that one month of the submission period

but in the three months period to learn what I've had to figure out for this last year and I'm still learning right. So like there's this big disconnect with that and I don't want you guys to have to

navigate that alone and that's why I'm doing this when I asked for more time community involvement and temporary pause on hyperscale data center development it's because I want us to have every

opportunity to get this right. I don't ever want to stand at this microphone microphone years from now and say I told you so I want to stand here and thank you because I love the city I love the

people will call it home and I genuinely care about all of you and I want you guys to succeed. I don't expect you to have all the answers because I certainly don't I don't expect you or but I believe

we can find them together I can take I can't take the responsibility of these decisions off your shoulders but I can offer you my time I research and everything I've learned. And I hope you let me

because someday these meetings will be over but we'll still be neighbors and I want us to look back knowing that we gave this community everything that we had thank you thank you. Good evening my name

is Savannah Holloman I was born and raised in Sioux Falls I'm a private citizen with concerns about the Gemini project and all other large scale or hyperscale data centers. I've learned about

communities around the country whose residents are experiencing life altering changes to their environment that they attribute to the hyperscale data centers that were built before proper regulations

were put in place. I've tried to rank my concerns in order of priority but they all feel so heavy so in no particular order I'm concerned about water usage and costs soaring electricity bills and grid

stream who takes priority when those resources run low. What happens when things go wrong what kind of accident or incident notification and remediation plans exist how with Gemini and the eventual

end users be held accountable when these incidents occur. Concerned about soil contamination air pollution noise pollution including infrasound impacts to wildlife and as a result the local

agriculture my expectation is that all of these questions will be answered prior to continuing progress on the Gemini data center. That's just because I've lived a privileged life being here in South

Dakota and Sioux Falls and things have just been taken care of things have just been running smoothly for me personally. And so that's why I had that expectation right is just to make sure that I can

look the future generations in the eye and say that we did everything we could we asked all of the questions we made sure everything was put in place so that they have a safe place to live and be

healthy and raise their families thank you. Thank you anybody else wish to speak. Yes my name is Rodney Brokaw I've lived in the Sioux Falls since 1978 so I've been in Sioux Falls projects as long as

anybody else here has or more okay I just like her sentence all with all my city councilman an area about. Passes around Washington high school the parking okay my request is requesting a traffic

review a regulatory signing around second ward Avenue going north on that avenue because it had actually second ward there's no parking on the street because it's a street that street there okay each

council member has a copy has a copy of my agreements or deal okay that daily parking between two thirty two forty and three forty p.m. When parents are picking up the students are as really hazardous

they bought they blocked the north and south traffic lane on second ward Avenue at times they also blocked the turn lane which creates a traffic high as you go down at that time you see north and

south lane one lane is blocked but is open then you see other lane you see the turn lane block I don't know what the response time will be for the far far to get through there but I live over in.

Richmond stage two and my concern is ambulance response for spots or in a neighborhood and also the hazards they that those the parks here might even record is it nation is that the school system if

they if they are in a park for the parents to pick up the students they need to take in the living things to park and they can use a bus system like my daughter used when she was in school there so

the school district has come over the plan for the parking. Another thing also also the police department has been informed about this and they don't they ignore the problem and don't enforce it the

city is in the city is advised to order seven seven seven point three three zero a state law SDCL three two. Thirty point six point one they were expressly prohibits part of standing standing or

parking vehicle and active travel lanes obstructing traffic flows and double parking which that's what they're doing are violating the origins the city is that enforcement. City Ordinance 7.005

requires vehicles to be part parallel park two and within 12 inches of the curb starting or waiting as designated center left turn lanes or outer driving lanes on north Sycamore Avenue directly

reaches the statute. Number three SDCL32302 mandates that no person shall park or leave a vehicle standing upon a highway unless clear or unstructured within at least 20 feet with remains for free

passage. Blocking driving lanes reduces the capacity of violating the state laws. So the city is not by the police department. Rodney, thank you for your time. Your time is up. If you would like to

talk further, we can do that. Thank you. Anybody else wish to speak for public input? I sir welcome. Please state your name for the record. Good evening, Madam Chair, council members. My name is John

Coonerty. I live on West 52nd Street. I own a home there and I was here in January this year and spoke to some of these issues. I won't repeat what some of the people have said here as far as things

that are dealing with health with these hyperscale at AI data centers. But one of the things I know that you feel that you have dealt with is water usage. That's only input, but we have not dealt and

you do not have in any kind of a conditional use permit. What do you do with a highly contaminated coolant that comes out of those massive data centers? And this is a tremendous amount of coolant. In

this size data center, it's estimated there would be 350,000 GPUs. GPUs are high end, think about CPUs, that AI uses. And that would result in approximately 1.2 to 2.5 gallons of highly contaminated

coolant. And that's not a one time thing that has to be dealt with because these systems, they put a tremendous number of things such as corrosive inhibitors, biocides, scale corrosive, also glycols

and so forth, which are highly toxic to people, to flora. And every three years these GPUs on average have to be swapped out. So that's one third of 1.2 to 2.5 million gallons. More toxic than what's

in your radiator that you have to bring to a special place. Where is this tremendous volume of highly contaminated coolant going to be properly disposed of? And how do we guarantee that it's captured

and disposed of? Who will be paying for that? How do we hold these people accountable? How do we know that when this is eventually decommissioned, who is going to pay for that? And it's done properly.

We know that this is a problem because in meta in Wyoming, they were storing this outside. We cannot have this out in Laguna outside. That place out there is a hilly place. It will roll downhill the

water, the contamination down into the river. That contamination went down a hundred miles to dozens of communities to tens of thousands of irrigated properties contaminated. We cannot allow that.

There's other things of even why this is being built. I would refer to Miguel and Susan Lucas's. Miguel is running for second district house. They've written a white paper. They are PhDs, electrical

engineers. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody else that wishes to speak? Good evening, Mayor and Council people. My name is Nancy Reagan. Yes, that is my name. And I just decided to come up

here at the last minute. I am definitely against the data center. The regular data centers, that's not an issue. But the hyperscale, that's an entirely different matter. And I really believe,

thoroughly believe that we need to set a moratorium. We need to investigate this further. The things that I've even uncovered and just the minimal amount of investigation I've been doing, it's truly

frightening. What I've, documentaries and things that I've watched about the areas of Northern Virginia where it's supposed to be the epicenter of the world's data centers and what the consequences of

what's going on there. It's truly frightening. And the idea that we have NDA's out there, nondisclosure agreements, that scares the bejeebers out of me. I mean, they are nondisclosure vote agreements

for a reason. They don't want us to know what's going on. And then when something happens, we can't investigate it because there's a nondisclosure agreement. There is a reason for that. And it's

wrong. And we need to investigate this further. We need to take the time, the energy. We owe this to our community. We owe it to our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren. And we owe it

to ourselves. And we've got to do this. That's all I have to say tonight. Thank you, Nancy. Anyone else wish to speak? Robert Colby, Madam Mayor, Council. I wish to invoke elder status, a tradition

among the Native Americans. Today, shortly today, we will be tomorrow. And in that same amount of time, it will be yesterday. When elected, people often tout tomorrow. This is what's important. In a

sense, it is true. Tomorrow is an unknown quality. But you forget you are here because of yesterday. You have convinced the electorate your yesterday's have helped shape you to deal with today and

tomorrow. These are important because they have made us what we are today. That includes our refinements and our screw ups. Such as the tearing down of structure. Not all deserve saving and

repurposing. But we have an old courthouse. Mayor Mike Shermer said it would make a fine parking lot. We also use the Coliseum in jail as a repurpose. And we use this building, which is a former

library. I remember Jack Rentschler saying I think we made a mistake after they demolished the Dakota Iron Building. We have lost the old brewery and the Queen B Mill, but that was for other reasons

than being torn down. I believe it was said we had the last golden arch, McDonald's, in the United States, which no longer exists. But that would have been a point of interest for our community. We

have served up several opportunities to be creative in the near future. It's your past that pleased you or placed you by virtue of the citizen's vote and act of faith that your yesterdays are or were

valuable enough so you today would do your best for tomorrow. We come here together to watch you do the business of this community. You sit and you hopefully listen to all the presentations you have

at each meeting. You must remember no one, myself included, is going to tell you something they do not want you to hear. That goes for both sides of any issue. It is up to you to listen and to make

sure that both sides of what you are considering are given equal and fair listening. Do not be too stupid as to not ask questions. Sometimes you may not know. That's a good reason to ask a question.

Sometimes you know but you want to find out if the person speaking knows what they're talking about so that they answer appropriately. When you were elected, remember, people put their faith in you.

That faith is a trust. Are you a babysitter who shows up more or less on time, wants to know where the refrigerator is, is there a TV, and glad you brought your cell phone and when you get paid or

yes, are you a babysitter or are you going to be a parent. Thank you Bob. Thank you. And a smile from any one of you would help. Anybody else wish to address the council? Welcome sir. My name is Derek

Swanson. Could I ask a question while I'm up here? You can but we do not engage back and forth so this is the time for you to address the council as a whole. I was just going to say it sounds like

there's not a whole lot of let's just say agreements of any kind on paper of this proceeds. Let's just pretend this just went forward and there's no further discussion about a memoratorium or whatever

to slow it down. Why would Sioux Falls benefit really at all from it? If they do what they want on paper, whether it's use gray water, don't use gray water, work out whatever tax arrangement. If

there's not a list of things, since it's all about the money, this is why everybody wants to send here this in favor of it, tax revenue, whatever. If there's not a strict list of whatever saying that

this is what you have to do to do this, why would anything go to Sioux Falls? Other than like excel energy is obviously going to get, they're going to love this I suppose from a profit point of view

but outside of excel energy getting, doing the electricity, I can't imagine that financially it's going to really matter if they're not, I mean if they're a business. If they can just use you or your

land to make their money and if you happen to somehow benefit revenue wise, great, they don't care. It's a business decision. They're not here because they give a shit about the well being of Sioux

Falls which makes sense and I don't even hold that against them because that's what a business does. It doesn't care, it just makes money so I just think it's a common sense no brainer to have a

detailed moratorium or maybe I'm not wording it right but whatever to have it built so that there's a strict list of rules just so that Sioux Falls gets the profit. One last thing I'll say about why I

immediately think of this is I believe there was the contract a long time ago to remove the emerald ash borer trees. It was a really big contract that like one outfit got to remove most of these trees

in all of Sioux Falls and it wasn't even somebody in Sioux Falls that got it so why would that be any different with the data center where the you know the lowest price of the contractor who can build

this massive thing. If it's not on paper that they have to be in Sioux Falls why would it even be in South Dakota just like this situation with the emerald ash borer outfit that came in here they

could just hire somebody from New York or whatever whoever is willing to do it they'll bring all of their workers in won't be a single construction worker out of Sioux Falls I'm not saying it would

happen that way but why wouldn't it. They don't care they're going to get the lowest bid from whoever they get from to do the whole project just before it's even open so. Thank you Derek appreciate

it. Anybody else wish to speak tonight? Seeing none, Councillors I'll take a motion to adjourn. It's been a motion by Mccour second by Sigurdi. All those in favor say aye. Aye. We are adjourned.