Every time Dollar Tree came up in a Bloomington public meeting, from the official transcripts.
“PROPOSAL TO REMOVE HUNDREDS OF MATURE NON OLD TREES AND FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM ONE OF THE PARK'S MOST TREASURED FEATURES A PROPOSAL THAT THE PUBLIC NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ON. I DO NOT BELIEVE SPENDING MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO TAKE AWAY SOMETHING THAT SO MANY…”
Watch this moment“we use for smaller wall repairs. Um, we usually have to carry over a fair amount of dollars from year to year to get to these larger walls. Um some of these walls, for example, like the ones on 90th Street, some of them are $750,000 to a million dollars to replace. So they can ge…”
Watch this moment“years would be almost a million dollars a year in tree planting costs. So um staff is just offering this for discussion on a scale of what implementation looks like um where we could just simply start issuing permits while we take on the maintenance of trees. We could also come u…”
Watch this moment“Property taxes are meant to only fund a city's core obligations: public safety, essential infrastructure, parks, roads, sidewalks, and basic operations that cannot be supported by user fees. These dollars must cover the non-negotiable services every resident relies on. Police, fi…”
Watch this moment“property owners and then when the street's reconstructed, you've already prepaid, so to speak. So they're phasing out the special assessment and replacing that with a with a fee, annual fee for all their prop the residents. So they're still collecting those dollars, just doing it…”
Watch this moment“time. So, it's the section of Normandale from 94th Street to Old Shakipi Road. Um, it will construct trail on the west side and walk on the east side. Um, funding comes from the PMP trails program plus um a million dollars from that was awarded for the state safe route”
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