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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 24, 2011 Page 19 verse population, also a responsibility of Roseville citizens. While recognizing the different views expressed by speakers tonight, Mr. Branigan noted that no one had addressed current interest rates and the positive timing of a bond issue to get historically low rates on the bonds, providing a great opportunity. Mr. Branigan also noted the opportune time for construction and infrastructure renewal contrac- tors hungry for projects, providing for lower bids for the proposed projects as well. Mr. Branigan opined that the City had a historic opportunity to get a great bargain for their money, and now was the time to move forward and approve the- se two projects, for current and future generations, as well as providing for the safety of the City's well-trained firefighters. John Kysylyczyn,3083 N Victoria Street Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the parks and fire station debate mirrored that of the Vikings stadium debate, with people wearing blinders and not thinking clearly. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the question was not really about long-term implica- tions and the ability to pay or not pay of their fellow residents; but actually what was right or moral for the City Council and whether people should be able to twist laws to the point of absurdity as long as they got their way. While all private citi- zens were entitled to their own opinions, Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the City Council needed to rise above the fire station and parks issues, and as elected offi- cials care about how the process was done and about long-term implications and interests of all residents, not just those attending a public meeting; and to the bets of the City Council's ability. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that government should be operated in the original intent of the laws and business conducted in a moral and ethical manner; and recognizing that everyone supported the fire department and park department; the actual decision before the City Council tonight was whether it was ethically and morally correct to use laws written for transportation needs to attempt to borrow an unlimited amount of money without voter approval. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that a facilities upgrade project, ignoring the $3 million City Council expenditure limit on spending without voter approval, and changing the City's Industrial Development Plan had little to do with the final goal of the City Council borrowing $30 million without a voter referendum. Mr. Kysylyczyn re- viewed his perception of the annual and long-term impacts to taxpayers, and out- lined a series of questions, all with the same consideration: whether such an action was ethically or morally correct. Mr. Kysylyczyn alleged that the legal opinions provided by the City's bond counsel had been withheld by staff from the public and City Council until the last minute in an attempt to institute a plan that created the ability for the City Council today and forever in the future to borrow an un- limited amount of money for any imaginable project and to quadruple the com- munity's debt through this process; all in a community with a long history of vot- er referendums. Mr. Kysylyczyn alleged that the City currently had the cash available today to build a fire station or to address parks, without any of the pro- posed bond issue process. Mr. Kysylyczyn referred to his tenure as a City of Ro- seville mayor and the choices he made in renovating City Hall, replacing the Pub- lic Works building, and updating fire station; and his ethical and moral choices in