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The Edina City Council met on August 5, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Mayor Hublin opened the meeting by addressing the recent shots-fired incident at Yancey Park on July 22nd, outlining a three-pronged strategy of enforcement, engagement, and policy. The evening's agenda included a community safety update and crime statistics, a presentation on the Green Line Extension, a debate over a proposed park ordinance amendment, and approval of an agreement to join the BCA's Violent Crime Reduction Unit.
Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Adina City Council meeting. It is August 5th, 2026, and we are calling the meeting order here at uh 7 uh p.m. Uh Director Benarod indicated to you that um uh we've been handling these meetings on a hybrid sort of basis. Uh people can watch remotely, call in from remote locations. Uh if there's public hearings, they can call in to provide testimony in public hearings. Uh also community comment. People are welcome to call in and address the council on a matter that's not on the agenda this evening or scheduled for a future public hearing. So uh the numbers are on the screen. If you're watching and want to call in uh during public comment, uh feel free to get that information pulled down and we'll go to people that are in the audience first. Uh and then having provided that information, uh I'm gonna uh as I said call the meeting to order and then ask our clerk Sharon Ellison to call the roll. Councilmember Councilmember Agnew here. Councilmember Jackson here council member Pierce Councilmember Risser here, Mayor Hublin. Here. Uh next is the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge Allegiance to the fly of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation on the guard, individual with liberty and justice for all. The uh the next thing that we would do uh is approve the agenda, and uh we've had something come in uh that uh our count our colleagues may want to address this evening, uh mayor included, and that is the possibility of uh being able to join uh the uh uh BCA Bureau of Criminal Act of Apprehension Violent Crime Reduction Unit. They were holding a place for our chief of police on that violent crime reduction unit. Uh but it requires us entering into a joint power agreement, and I think we could hold it for a couple of weeks, uh, but we could also address it this evening, and if we were going to address it this evening, we should add it to the agenda as I think would make most sense to add it as item 8.2 uh after the uh conversation about whether to modify uh one of our park ordinances. So uh if anyone cares to to move uh the uh addition of the uh joint powers agreement uh with the BCA crime reduction unit uh to the agenda this evening, please as so indicate. So moved. All right, is there a second? Second. All right, we got a motion by member Jackson, second by member Pierce to add the uh joint powers agreement to the discussion on the by the city council this night tonight for the uh uh related to the BCA um crime reduction unit. Mr. Mayor, just a quick question. Uh so we're the proposal is to add it as item 8.3. Is that right? Um we've got 8.1. Accepting donations 8.2, the ordinance, the park ordinance. Uh yeah, so the other copy I had was yes, 8.3. Excuse me, 8.3. We did that as 8.3. Any further discussion? All those in favor of adding a discussion about the uh possibility of uh entering into roll call. Oh, thank you. Um okay, roll call, please. Councilmember Agnew. Aye. Councilmember Jackson? Aye. Councilmember Pierce. Aye.