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Massopust suggested a Council recap program be considered in the future. Councilmember Dunsworth supported the City completing a year in review program. Mayor Niedfeldt-Thomas stated she would like to know more about how Nine North was addressing diversity, equity and inclusion. Ms. Healy stated Nine North made a conscience decision to have leaders from the BIPOC community a part of City Speaks. In addition, she noted she has been working with the City of Roseville to highlight the MAC team. She reported internally she has been reviewing the employee handbook through a DEI lens. Councilmember Dunsworth stated she visited Nine North last week. She encouraged all Councilmembers to visit the new space. Massopust explained it sounds like there was interest from the Council in completing a State of the City program. Councilmember Allen supported the City's communications team working with Nine North to map out the year in order to collaborate programming that would benefit the community. He suggested staff work to have programming that correlates with the newsletter but to not have this information overlap but rather be released a month or month and a half apart. Massopust stated he could work with the communications team to make the newsletter content and Nine North content complement each other going forward. Ms. Healy thanked the Council for their continued support and noted her team would be in touch with the City's communication team. Massopust requested the Council discuss how to address the request for the City allow for the keeping of ducks and other fowl in a number more than six. He reported staff recommended the Council keep the number of chickens and other fowl on a property at six. He commented another option available to the Council would be to create a variance process to allow a resident to request more than six fowl. Councilmember Dunsworth asked what type of complaint was brought to the City. Massopust stated the original complaint came to the City as a noise complaint. Councilmember Dunsworth questioned if current code allowed for chickens or fowl. Gozola reported existing code refers to fowl, which would include chickens, turkeys, or ducks, but no roosters. Councilmember Allen commented he would want to know how staff would be impacted if the code were amended to allow for a variance. Massopust stated he would have to investigate this further. Mayor Niedfeldt-Thomas explained she spoke with City Attorney Sonsalla and City Manager Massopust regarding a conservation variance and understood this was not a thing. Councilmember Abdulle discussed the environmental preservation concerns that were raised by this resident. He stated he did not want to see residents being allowed to have as many fowl as they wanted, but rather these requests should be reviewed on a case by case basis. Massopust explained these matters would have to be reviewed and addressed by Assistant Director of Community Assets & Development Gozola.