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52:48 JC has already talked about some of the conditions that changed as far as HB 2442 being passed and the new state grant program being created. But with the second one, we really focused on how many people could we accommodate within our existing facilities? Because proposition five was also accompanied by the knowledge that at some point the city was gonna have to add another building and that there would be an excess levy bond vote that would be put in front of the public and then that there would be in future years the likelihood of a sales tax vote being put out there to both pay for the cost of operating that facility but the ongoing costs of those officers. So it was a very long seven, eight year process with multiple asks that would have needed to be put in front of the public. And with the second one, we really worked to simplify it, work within our existing facilities. Part of the driver on the existing facilities was that annexation discussions actually started to happen

53:48 as the county and the city moved through our respective comprehensive planning processes and looking at the future of the area. That was not part of the original discussions and as those types of things take place, if annexation starts to occur, that changes our needs, it changes the possibility of facilities locations and trying to do something with locating a facility now really would have seemed premature. So those conditions changed as well. - Thank you. Chief, JC, Erica, thank you so very much. - Thank you. - Thank you. - That concludes our workshops and it puts us into a break. We will be back at 6.30 for our regular council meeting. Thank you.

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