coming up on o p l update we'll get a recap of the latest legislative session with senator chuck wigger will visit a new business in the city and will learn about the city's farmer's market stay tuned oakdale update is straight ahead and we're going to talk about it so tell us what are you do you represent and then if the redistricting affected you would you tell us what well my district is oakdale maplewood north st paul inclusive of all of those communities however redistricting which was done by the courts every ten years there's a redistricting and the district has changed i will still have most of all till everything north of tenth street however i won't have southern maplewood and i'll continue to have north st paul but then in addition i will have part of white bear that section that is  south of cedar and then all of modern need i birchwood so it is a bigger generally speaking is a bigger than what you had but it's still the same price the same population but for getting their own formula that the court has for how they provide overall balance for the state that is what they looked in the best interest i look forward to that naturally my earlier district before the redistricting ten years ago did any so it's a real knighting of that and i'm very pleased to still have oakdale in fact feel we'll have two senate districts senate and total of four legislators in the future so that potentially can be helpful for that because of the population is that correct no it's just well we have redistricting because of population shift but the reason for dividing alltel had to do with the overall balance that the court thought would serve the state's best interests is what it is ok well let's look back on the session this year i always like to ask you when are slow with the way i just interviewed last month on a scale of one to ten how would you rate this last positive things that were done and very pleased that the bonding bill a half a billion dollar investment primarily in higher education century college i was the chief author for an additional five million dollars to help in additional classroom space some remodeling that needs to be done additional money that will go to the university of minnesota our state university system the whole minsk you program  are job training centers or retraining centers for our population so investing in education is very important and our bonding bill did recognize that in fact i would have liked to have seen more in bonding bill but we reached a compromise the other item and the bonding bill was is for a new east metro public safety fire training facility and o p l fire chief maplewood fire chief several around the area testified in favor of that and we actually had approved that earlier but it's a example of what the bonding bill can do and we recently had the ribbon cutting for that so we'll get into later but what about the century college i think was two million is that what you actually five million dollars for century college two million for tubman if that was ok we'll get on that with the country college and what all they're going to do there i mean i look at that every time i drive by there it just gives bigger and bigger and how many years it's y or go to the web site and it'll give a lot more specifics on the expansion plans for the school and a lot of this is based on recommendations that come forward from students faculty  very importantly the employers because we want this the students the adults too many of them these are adults going back for retraining we want them to have jobs to be job ready so that's why we invest in century and other higher ed ok let's talk about some of the other issues stadium bill how did you feel about it and how did you vote and how do you feel about k actually there were two different proposals one for the vikings and another one for the saints i voted yes for each for the vikings i was supportive primarily because it did not use general taxpayer dollars it was based on money that would come through  charitable gambling the various organizations me voluntarily it's voluntary if you want to participate first in charitable gambling but a lot of the clubs are going to be making some additions in terms of the electronic gaming and the boards be some bingo in items and but it's that'll be a part of that formula be some additional fallback things that will trigger and in the event there's not enough revenue from that based on the sweets the corporations purchased so how much did the vikings organization kick him in the end result you know three three fifty to four hundred million i believe and then there are some other items that are still to be coming forward as they work out the details over the next year and further go through that i think that's what most people were concerned about how much were they going to get their statement for and most of the public they were mostly wanted to make sure that it was not going to be a direct state appropriation of the general fund and once we reach that but i did support actually some other ways of getting their wrist you know was on the table i supported that again it would have been voluntary at didn't make it but the people said frank it's let's get this let's get it done get the job done move ahead thousands of jobs that will be a result of this dollars set aside for the department of employment economic development and that has an application process that's going on right now and we're fairly optimistic that the saints  that we want to make sure that eligible voters are the only ones that are voting and absent fraud or some compelling reason to change the law  why go through this process of changing the constitution i voted against it i posed the question to the county attorney peter when we met before the session how many prosecutions  social justice groups from the churches throughout the area just pointing out that this potentially will disenfranchise people particularly seniors who may not have that photo i you could purchase at this pass if and you could get up an id or the state would have to pay for that mandated idea if you want to vote and they're estimating across from twenty to forty million organizations and one just the whole health care industry that is the fastest growing part of our budget in terms of you know various programs and you know it's a part of the state interest and we provide a lot of reimbursement and oversight there accounting for we're concerned about the accounting and what's been provided and it's actually it's a congressional issue trying restroom and bachmann has raised a number of concerns as have others and i fully support those efforts to provide transparency especially when you're dealing with public money and with limited resources people that are denied sometimes care or needed services and then when you have that yes borders will decide in november whether our constitution should be changed to prohibit same sex marriage and right now the state statute state law statute does prohibit same sex marriage and then they want to on top of this put that in the constitution like a double lock i did vote against it i don't feel it's necessary to go even further on this just like the other amendment the voter id this is fraught with a number of legal legal concerns in fact as we talked there's briefs being prepared regarding the wording on and i again did not have people contacting me all upset that we needed to again change our constitution where you already have a state prohibition i have a number of friends on both sides on this issue it's a highly emotional inflamed one but as a matter of social justice i voted no i don't believe it's necessary but ok now i can feel bill's and you did says it was always about three to five votes short it seemed in the senate and you had an interesting coalition you had on this political spectrum people farther to the  left in the democratic area opposed and farther to the right and republican opposed but the overwhelming majority in the middle were supportive of it some polls saying seventy five eighty percent or more again this would be voluntary  it was controversial because of the monopoly that the the tribes have and you can understand that however the money that the tribes have is not the pie did equitably from tribes  canon barry that pretty much put a cease fire a legislative ceasefire on this per ten years or so running aces is still left out on that so we'll see what happens but i did support those proposals and a number of other options too and the overwhelming majority of people that contacted me felt that way ok that's quite ok now one of the things that failed was a business property tax cuts you want to talk us a little bit about that briefly yes we had a bill that we are controlled by the republican party in the house and the senate this time the republican party did have a number of initiatives in the tax bill one of the initiatives in there was sponsored by myself and represents quality it would provide for the extension of the tax increment financing projects at the oakdale mall in tanner's which you know we just had the turtle crossing dedication  and you know there's a lot of job potential that's going to happen we want to get a couple more years and we'll figure that out but because the bill got vetoed that had not only the texican financing which was not controversial but it had some business tax cuts i voted yes for not wholly to the test for oakdale but also for those tax cuts and as a matter of job development job creation and i had a number of persons that came down in testif y and there were five democrats senator metz and bought off stump and rest that had joined me in that but the bill was vetoed but i did see the need i've talked to a number of persons in business  many families and very many community including and we have been working with a vision a comprehensive vision that the tubman has for providing services for families  for the kids that the victims and sometimes it's meant to send that come in we have people providing services helping them get their life back together and i would be money well spent things actually and but this was really important and it did come together so a lot of things on the web site for tubman if you want to learn more you are you run out of time you're so on i want you to give me your thoughts on your fly with retiree and some other i think policy in her new role in addressing autism issues and i give her the highest of grades in terms of her constituent service her passion for public service being involved on issues i enjoy working with they're very much i have a feeling she'll be back in public service again it's some point she has a great deal of talent you're right so frank a lot of people are leaving the for term limits and that the voters decide that and a lot of times it's just voluntary people have said enough absolutely and i think that's probably what happened this time is a lot a lot of headbutting on this last question wasn't there yes ok now we've got ten seconds left what do you look to see for the next question ten seconds we put together the budget the new budget and we'll we'll see who's the majority i have to sleep i hope the democrats will be and will put together the budget work with the commissioners but that will be priority one getting the budget balanced budget down my highest priority education property tax reform ok chuck i want to thank you for joining us today and you are you will be running again for the next in the embers i correct yes i am ok sorry ok well good luck to you and thank you so much for your service because i know as you mentioned before it is a lot of work a lot of time i know when or even mentioned sometimes you're there at twelve one two three o'clock in the with a one thousand dollars prize sponsored by the oakdale business and professional association the medallion located in v f p park was harmed by that kelly young family on june nineteenth our trivia question is how many years has the medallion on been held is applied years nine years or thirteen years we'll have the answer later in the show we'll be right back with more oakdale update in just a minute a gray what do you do when the boys should you not then just doing some bird watching yeah yeah you know this doesn't seem like such a great place for birdwatching all right i was just trying to get a look inside my city hall i don't know any other way to get information greg you're such a silly man you don't have to be a creepy spy why don't you just watch g t n t t n yeah g t n the government television network it's on cable channel sixteen they've got a ton of information on everything that's going on in the twelve different communities in the northeast suburbs of ramsey and washington counties no kidding you mean i can get all this information by watching channel sixteen at my own home you better believe it and they've got all their shows on their website to the g t a and died all r g b wow i should go check out channel sixteen right away hey we are doing over there  welcome back to old go lucky it's now time for defining developments statement each month we profile a different business in our community there is this month's business associated bank opened its second new minnesota branch of the year recently in oakdale a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony was held on friday june first the new location features a drive up a t m and a two lane drive through mayor carmen cirrhotic was on hand to present a certificate welcoming the bank to the city associated bank is located in the former m and i bank building between mcdonald's and target at seventy eight six the thirty second street  the farmer's market in oakdale is quickly becoming that summer tradition here's more information about this popular weekly event farmer's market and it started on june thirteenth that runs every wednesday from three to seven we will tap off at about twenty two vendors like we had twenty yesterday and we have anything from honey butter five mckees sauces brads and fresh grown produce valves and these honey butter that's probably actually one of my favorite vendors they bring their garm a honey butter to the market every week and they sell it in a jar five dollars per jar karen mac from wendy ridge vineyards she sells homemade wine jellies along with cookie lead jory then we get richard flax who has three different types of barbecue sauces we also have the girl scouts they come sell cookies and they could do every week as a fundraiser for their organization and we just have probably about twelve vegetable and produce vendors that come every week we're just about out of time but first let's answer at derby a question we asked you how many years has my dahlia hunt been held the correct answer was thirteen years the oakdale business and professional association introduced in the galleon hunt for summerfest in two thousand each year the o b p a has sponsored the event the medallion