All right, it is 135.

Um let's get started.

Uh we have four.

Uh so communications, are we ready to begin?

Uh Chair uh Vice Chair Stevenson, the meeting is ready.

Is it's broadcasting.

Great.

Um good afternoon and welcome.

My name is Soren Stevenson.

I'm the vice chair of Climate and Infrastructure Committee.

I'm going to be chairing today's meeting.

I'm going to call to order our regular meeting for Thursday, August 6, 2026.

Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all committee members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation.

These broadcasts include real-time captioning as a further method to increase the accessibility of our proceedings to the community.

Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast.

We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments.

I'll now have uh the Kirk clerk call the role.

Councilmember Vita.

Present.

Warren?

Present.

Trick time is absent.

Chandry.

Present.

Paul Masano is absent.

Vice Chair Stevenson.

Present.

Let the record reflect.

We have a quorum.

I'll remind my colleagues we'll be using speaker management today.

So please make sure you're signed up.

For members of the public that are here for the public hearing, if you wish to address the committee, we ask you to register with the clerks in the hallway.

You can also provide any written comments or materials to include in the public record.

If you have specific questions about your assessments, staff contact information and materials are on the public table to my left.

We'll start with our consent items, which I'll read for the record.

One, approving the Gopher Garden Large Block Event Permit.

Two, approving the annual target together core week block event permit.

Three, approving the target together core week community celebration block event permit.

Four, approving the Loring Alley Live 2026 Music Festival.

Five, approving the mode by Flickr Largeblock Event Permit.

Six, authorizing the contract amendment with Hennepin County for road maintenance.

Seven, setting a public hearing for October 8th to consider 2027 proposed services and service charges for special service districts.

10 authorizing the contract amendment with the with St.

Paul for the EV Spot Network Project Agreement.

11, authorizing contract with University of Washington Urban Freight Lab in support of the SMART grant stage two project.

12 authorizing the contract with the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies in support of the SMART Grant Stage 2 project.

13 accepting bid for large diameter cured in place pipe lining 2026.

14 authorizing contract amendment with Z Companies Incorporated for Engineering and Design Services for the Northside Greenway Phase 1 and 2 project.

15 authorizing contract amendments with Bolton and Menck Incorporated and Alliant Engineering Incorporated for Engineering and Service Designs for the 38th Street in Chicago, George Blade Square Street Reconstruction Project.

16 authorizing contract amendment for Alliant Engineering Incorporated for the Bloomington Ave and Mini Haha Parkway Highway Safety Improvement Project.

17 approving a legislative directive related to zero waste funding.

Colleagues, is there any discussion or uh are there any items that anyone would like to pull for discussion?

Seeing no further discussion, I'll move approval of the consent agenda.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, say nay.

That motion carries.

Next, we'll take up our public hearing reflected on item one in the agenda.

Anybody who has signed up for these items will be given two minutes each to testify.

Once again, if you have specific questions about your assessments, I would invite you to review the materials on the public table to my left, as you'll need to work with staff to resolve those.