How has your work as an elected official most tangibly impacted the community you live in? And going forward, how do you want your work to impact that community in the coming years?

That's such a great way of putting it.

And a lot of the work that the county does does require that sort of longer term point of view a little bit.

I would say the work that that has really impacted the community and that feels important.

I don't know, like there's been some deadline of sorts.

I mean, the principal thing is the pandemic and being chair of the board during the pandemic and together with my colleagues helping make sure that all of the federal dollars and state dollars that were coming through counties at that time were intelligently allocated and really responded to the moment.

And one of the themes that we really tried to take up at that time was Are there ways that we can do this work that also creates long term impact? So, for example, something that I really championed as as one of the first in the nation was buying hotels to be emergency shelter, but then to transition them after the pandemic to become housing, deeply affordable housing.

But I also want to... challenge you on the thing there's the idea of like if if you don't hear about hennepin county it's because things are going good we also hear this counterpoint where folks go like we don't hear enough from folks at the county level they have they play a significant role in our life but i don't know how to reach them i don't know how to be heard by them i don't know how they can respond to me when i can't reach them so i'm hoping you could talk about your priority list but also address maybe that the absence of if we don't know about hennepin county officials maybe it's because they aren't doing the right thing You know, they should be finding their constituents and making a deeper connection.

But, like, what, what did you learn? What was the takeaway for you thinking of Lyndale from what happened on Hennepin? Like, what, what did we learn there, you think?

Um, you know, it's such a good question because they are actually quite different streets.

Um, and, and the, the, um, [lip smack] vision on the streets was different because one, a, a big difference is that there was a bus rapid transit line planned for Hen- Lynd- I'm sorry, planned for Hennepin, and there isn't yet for Lyndale.

Although, um, I had hoped honestly that we would, this, that Lyndale would sort of make it into the top, um, two with the Met Council, but it didn't.

You know, there are other very worthy lines.

I think Nicollet Avenue is actually one of them.

Um, [lip smack] so that's sort of a big difference from the get-go, uh, on what, what, what makes sense on Hennepin versus what make- makes sense on Lyndale Avenue.

The sheriff is an elected position, but, uh, just do you have an opinion on that?