all right it is 5:30 we'll call the meeting order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance States stand even everyone time take the roll call please mayor King present council member at large Austin present council
member heli present HMA Pres Baker right here Basin Fisher present pusta we have a quorum your honor thank you Tom item number one is the adoption of the motion with the deletion of item number seven looking for a motion so
moved second all in favor I opposed the motion carries on item number two is a motion approving our minutes from our June 17th 2024 meeting move second all favor I opposed motion carries item number three under under the consent agenda looking for a motion so moved
second all in favor I I opposed the motion carries uh under petitions and request we have item number four is a resolution approving a contract for the assessment of pool conditions Jason honorable mayor and Council um staff brought this item before council at a
work session on June 17th 2024 and Council Council asked staff to bring it back to this meeting tonight for consideration um it's based to BR our concerns with the unknown status and consition of our swimming pool um and uh
this year alone we've run into quite a few repairs that were necessary to to open the pool that were not necessarily in the budget we also had some repairs that were um written in the budget as well but um from what we've been finding
um our goal with with this process if approved is to create a comprehensive plan for future repairs and replacement of certain areas of the pool um the pool or a pool evaluation and conditions assessment is intended to provide an
assessment of current conditions of our municipal pool facility and determine feasible options with costs for the future uh some of the objectives that um would come from the assessment are understanding the conditions of the facility reviewing the overall operation
performance of the facility including attendance and cost recovery recommend options for improvements opinions for costs for the improvements overall operations expectations including potential impact on attendance operating
expenses and revenues and provide a compreh or sorry a comparison character and cost for the option to replace the pool facility uh we have received two quotes uh from companies to complete an assessment
and staff is recommending that the best proposal we received is from from Waters Edge Aquatic Design they will provide us with the best information for our municipal pool their proposal includes more clarity and detail on what they are going to assess and evaluate and how
they are going to report it back to us so uh staff's recommendation this evening is uh asking Council to award the bid to Waters Edge Aquatic Design in the amount of $17,500 this fee in includes the three
base items as submitted with their proposal um staff is also asking for an additional uh there's an optional additional assessment visit with where they come back when the pool is empty and they can get some additional information that's optional and we
will identify whether we need to do that or not after we receive the the initial assessment um the addition for the um pool empty visit is $2,600 um so the the total is 17,500 for
both um to clarify and staff uh requests to fund the project with contingency funds and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have excellent thank you Jason Council any questions for Mr seon I think it's going to be interesting to see if this comes back at pool's 40 years old I guess it's time
for a plan uh looking for a motion for a resolution number four is there a second second Tomi hi posma hi Baker sure fiser hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 5- Z your honor thank
you Tom I have number five is resolution approving an agreement for the school resource officer Chief ke this would just be a renewal for uh this upcoming school year uh we've had a long standing and I and I think beneficial relationship with the Austin Public Schools with the SRO and the high school
um extending beyond my 26 years with the department and our LSS being here about 20 3 uh they handle a wide variety of calls Medicals uh and other things within those buildings they really give us a good eye eye on the ground they're part of our radio system uh they'll
serve other schools if issues arise and so uh for us we are recommending again extending this agreement uh for another year with the public schools all right thank you Dave any questions for the chief Council looking for resolution frame number five so moved second
Tom council member Hy I HMA I Baker yes Fisher I council member large Austin I resolution passes 5 Z your honor thank you Tom item number six is the resolution approving an ICM agreement with new tech biosciences LLC Stephen yes we present these from time to time
to council for review it's an agreement with NCH to regulate their flow and strength from their facility and what they discharge to the wastewater treatment plant we've had a interim agreement with them since their startup um we've been working with them to try and regulate their flow we have staff at
the treatment plant that will work directly with a facility to help them um work through processes to decrease flow or decrease strength um in this case we worked with them to decrease foam there's a lot of foaming in the system that was causing irregular readings with
our sewer meters so um that has seemed to be resolved and we feel like uh over their course of initial startup um that we're comfortable with the the flows and things and strengths that are coming to us at this time so we're we believe we're now ready to enter into a longer
term agreement uh before you tonight is a three and a half year agreement which has an expiration date of December 31st 2027 a couple of the items that have changed in this agreement from their temporary or interim ICM agreement is
that their allowable flow with is increased from 30,000 gallons per day to 35 ,000 gallons per day their total suspended solids is increased from 50 PBS per day to 100 and their tkn or total nitrogen is increased from 50
pounds per day to 85 pounds per day so with those changes we would recommend approval of this three and a half year ICM agreement very good thank you Stephen Council any questions Mr Lang looking for resolution frame number six
so moved second Tom council member Hy I kosma hi Baker yep Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 5 Z your honor thank you deleting number seven we're on to number eight is a series of motion ordinances uh
requesting approval for an ordinance change related to massage therapists and massage establishment licensing Bri mayor and council members before you I have the ordinance for the massage therapist and the massage establishment changes uh we spoke about this at the
last work session on June 17th so the clerk's office is requesting approval of the ordinance um an adoption and then resolution for summary publication of the ordinance um let me know if you have
any questions Council any questions for Bri then looking for we'll take them one at a time a motion for uh item 8 a preparation the ordinance is there a second second all in favor I opposed
motion carries 8B for adoption of the ordinance so moved second Thomas council member heli I HMA I Baker yep Fisher I council member at large
Austin hi ordinance passes 5 Z your honor thank you Tom and for item 8 C for summary publication of the ordinance so moved second Tom council member heli I osma hi Baker yes Fisher hi council
member large Austin I resolution passes 5 Z Tom item number nine is a resolution accepting these two donations to the City of Austin a gift of $500 from the friends of the nature center for the culture and arts commission and $500 from the Cedar River Watershed district for the Roosevelt Bridge mural uh and
that's under the culture and arts commission we thank them both for their $500 donation looking for resolution to accept them so moved second time council member heli I HMA hi Baker
you bet Fisher hi coun at large Austin hi resolution passes 5 Z your honor thank you number 10's resolution declaring a structure at 1906 third a Northeast as hazardous so moved second
time council member heli I HMA I Baker yes Fisher I council member at large Austin I resolution passes 5 Z your honor thank you Tom moving on to the citizens addressing the council there are in my observation some citizens in the audience
today and they're guessing you want to chat with us so whoever wants to speak first and give us step to the microphone give us your name and address and what concerns uh or compliments you might have Ken Gorman looks like a good spokesperson
[Music] hi welcome what's your name and address please my name is Becky Rector and I live at 1707 3rd Avenue Northeast um a week ago Saturday most of us in this Hall here we're woke up early in
the morning with tons of water in our basements some of it sewage some of it clean drainage and some PE people have never had water in their basement in over 30 years so we're trying to find out what
caused that problem and it wasn't just rain Stephen you want to speak for more people to speak first I'm guessing they're here for the same reason anybody else have anything to add to that I their name and address please sir my name is Steve James I live at 1902 5th Avenue
Southeast I've been there for 49 years this is the fifth time that we've had sewer backup in our basements there's been nothing done to rectify this situation it started back in the 70s and 80s here we
are in the 2020s and we've gotten nowhere I have reg gutted my basement five times I'm too old for this we need need a a solution to this
so I uh had a subp running for over 17 hours last Saturday the sewer never went down it just kept going up and up and up never stopped I never caught up at
midnight on Sunday I finally went to bed about an hour later something gave way and all water went down the sewer in a matter of a half an hour what I couldn't do with a sub pump in 17 hours went down
the drain in less than an hour why did it take so long what happened we need some answers thank you thank you sir sir you said midnight on Sunday pardon midnight on
Sunday Saturday morning went down went down it suddenly went down at midnight on Sunday no I went to at midnight it happened after that my wife Saturday when I I saw that city was out there by the ditch doing something about
12:30 qu to 1 I walked out there saw they were working came back 12304 to 1 a.m. on Saturday morning Sunday morning morning Sunday morning I don't know how long they've been out there but it wasn't long and
within half hour most of our water had left we have had in these five times proba got to come I just want to clarify so I can get time Barb James same address um in previous times we've had
the city out there working their tails off to get this opened up we saw no one right Beth no one until I saw them at 1:00 and that's negligent as far as I'm concerned especially when they finally got it and we saw it go down like it
did you know what like Steve I'm too old you just and no one should have to deal with this it's time if you can't reroute that ditch or do something different to help the people that work and live in that area I mean something's got to be
done after five times I would assume in how many years 30 40 you haven't figured it out yet that's it for me and for for sale sign in my house too oh boy Ken you keep getting that's
okay I'm Ted Slicker live at 1902 4th Avenue Southeast and I had the same problem and I used to live in bloing Prairie and when this happened up there when we had a backup they covered it
whole whole city they paid for everything that's my question does Austin have insurance like other cities for this problem and I'd like an answer once we hear everybody we'll get you an answer here thank you so are they going to cover I'm going to let our
engineer speak once everybody else speaks so they going to cover our problem I will let the engineer speak to you after we hear everybody speak so please if you could take a seat please Ken Gorman is waiting his turn no all right we're good okay if you're good we're good
and here he comes Ken Gorman 1803 1 Avenue Northeast Austin um I didn't come here necessarily to speak just wanted to get more information on you know what took place or why um we've been very fortunate in the 39 years we've been
there this is the first time it's ever happened for us to have water come up through the uh sewer the the drain um we don't have a finished basement but we you know we did lose a hot water heater washer dryer unlike many of these other ones that have finished basements throughout our
neighborhood too that carpet Furniture uh bedrooms waking up and standing in it so um I just happened to come home that night after picking up a daughter at the airport at uh midnight and we got about 1:40 we came into the house and uh I
drove through rain all the way from Austin to the cities and back so we did notice that there was some uh standing water in the window wells so we did go down and at 140 for us at our house it had just started we had checked with another neighbor and she claimed that
they hadn't had anything yet but I didn't know if she had really checked or not but later on she did have water so a lot of them in our area were at least 6 and2 Ines there um we do not have a a sump pump in our our basement and like I
said 39 years have never had that issue like James I five times I that's why bad enough with what we had there so but um I'm just here to see what others
have to say and what the engineers have to say our street was redid in 3 years ago so thanks for the moment thank you K yeah hi hi there I'm Courtney natian and I live at 1909 Fifth Avenue Southeast
and I just came here same issue but I advise um some members of the city to come drive down our block and also the 18th uh Street Southeast block you can see the amount of dumpsters in every single driveway if they haven't been picked up already they are there and then they go to the next house the
damage is extensive that we've experienced and again like everyone else here we're just looking for answers you know we've been here for 10 years and not a lick of water in our basement so standing sewage water coming up from the drains you know we lost everything so sorry yeah sorry you had to go through
everything you went through folks I know it's you're I don't know how what age you are but you're always too old for that kind of problem so I appreciate you coming here today and maybe we got some answers from Mr Lang I know it was a heck of a rain event but Stephen what do you have for the folks uh no good answers I there's
nothing that I'm going to tell you tonight that's going to be able to snap our fingers and solve the problem as you mentioned it's it's something that's been going on for 50 years that that's too long but it's not something that we're going to fix tonight
um so the the first thing that we're doing is we're gathering information we're we're we we're gathering information to map the area that was impacted um the ways that we're currently Gathering that information is
we're we're doing an on a a Facebook online survey if if you're interested in going to the city of Austin website for you and any of your neighbors to fill out that survey there's just it's three questions
to ask about how you were impacted during this last event that's one way that we're gathering information we also um are working with Austin utilities to gather the number of phone calls that they received related to sanitary sewer and we're more marking
down those addresses were're um during the event a lot of our questions were directed calls are directed to the LEC and then they're distributed out to our public works department from there so we're Gathering those calls that came in and those addresses that reported
different issues we had Direct calls to our public works and then as as was mentioned we've been driving around the area to look at and document kind of the extent in both the southeast and the northeast of where the backups occurred so that that's the first thing that
we're trying to do to determine the extent of the impact um we we implemented our some pump inspection program in 2018 we started in the Southeast many of you are familiar
with that and we thought we anticipated that much of this ground this so water gets into the sanitary sewer system through either inflow or infiltration um in filtration means that
water is filtered through the soil and then gets into the pipe so it takes time for that water to migrate down through the soil the other option for water to get into the sewer system is inflow and inflow is is quick and fast inflow means
there's a sum pump directly connected to the sewer line or sewer drain that is what we anticipated was happening is some pumps Beaver systems we came through and did our inspection in 2018 and um sometime later for the folks
in the Northeast it was probably 20 22 or something like that and we did not we we found about 10% 10% of our inspections I'll just speaking about the southeast and the Northeast was likely very similar um so forgive me for not
being specific to your area but in the Southeast we inspected a little over 1,500 homes and we found 160 had Direct connections to the sanitary sewer um so that was that was less than we were
expecting because like like you see the the water comes up very quickly and um impacts a large area the we're seeing the the areas that were described tonight even so the area
from 4th Avenue Southeast um to 7th Avenue Southeast that all drains toward the open ditch to a main trunk main along the open ditch and then it flows uh West toward the railroad tracks in the wastewater treatment plant from
Third Avenue North that flows into a different system Third Avenue Southeast that flows north toward Oakland Avenue where it's collected by the dam and taken into a different system and then the Northeast area that was talked about
um Third Avenue Northeast is is a funnel um many of The Avenues in the Northeast are collected in funnel toward Third Avenue it then goes underneath Oakland into a trunk mean so so it's three different systems that are all being impacted differently or impacted the
same way but they're the the systems are acting a little bit different um they're just they are not size to handle the amount of inflow that is coming we we thought that inflow was coming from some pump
that with our program that's should be eliminated hopefully people didn't go back and hook them back in afterwards but one one thing we did find we're we're finishing up this year our Citywide some pump inspection program in the Northwest and we have plans to come back
and bother you again in the Southeast but the bother is to try to find a solution we we found through happen stance or through luck there are we found a home on 7th Avenue where typically tile drains around your
house um drain into a su pump and then is pumped outside we found a home on 7th Avenue Southeast and a home on Fourth Avenue where those tile drains are directly connected to the Sewer Service so that is direct inflow going right
into your sewer service and into the sanitary sewer M that's that's a very the sum pumps were kind of the low hanging fruit they were an easy thing for us to inspect they were a relatively easy thing for homeowners to
fix this issue that we're going to come back and look for next these footing drains that are directly connected into your sewer Services they're a much more difficult thing to repair to fix and they're a much more difficult thing to
find um but we think we think that's our next lwh hanging fruit item to look for to again eliminate that surge of water that's getting into the sanitary sewer system we we have inspected our city
Mains out in the street we've inspected all of our manholes we've looked for direct connections things like that we're not finding those in the in the city collection system yes we'll we'll likely be out there lining sanitary
sewer Mains doing correcting the city-owned infrastructure um but the the next thing I see is us inspecting sewer services and trying to find those direct footing drain connections so
it's unfortunately it's a slow process we do plan on coming back looking for more trying to identify areas but again it's it's not something that we're going to be able to fix overnight um if I can get a clarification on the
time I wrote down the sewer went down at 1:00 a.m on Saturday suay that should be 1: a.m. Sunday Sunday yeah okay because it rained Friday night Rivers so so by what so Ellis ditch was down and nearly
back in its banks by Saturday afternoon right still coming up the sewer drain so so that tells it's not coming from Ellis ditch it's coming from water getting into the sewer system somewhere else and that's where these footing drains
flooded then because we're a block from there and our road was flooded till Saturday night Fifth Avenue 18th Street 18th Street okay okay but I think I think Ellis dropped Ellis ditch dropped faster than your sewer Mains dropped
right your sewer services and your basements then somebody came and un did something and down it went we so station in that area there is not there is not there was there was a City truck I I looked on my my phone I
just happen to catch it on my uh doorbell camera 1:30 they left 1:30 a.m. they left uh the pump uh the city pump we we typically pump sewer and dump it
into Ellis ditch behind Ellis at the little culdesac behind Ellis by the time we went to go back there I don't think we could get to the manhole that we normally pump from because it came up so high did it come up higher than you've ever seen the worst it's ever been yep
yep that's what we were seeing as well marking you know documenting how far it came up toward Fifth Avenue is essentially we hadn't seen it up that high before um and so you look East toward the um airport and east of the
airport you know that has stayed rural there there haven't been you know I don't think we could point to a major development that's occurred east east that would increase rainfall
in your area I I think it was just the nature of this storm really impacted W which which caused higher water than we normally see um we you the Cedar River
watershed so um s swcd they are working on impoundments Upstream of Ellis or Upstream of Dobbins Creek one spot that we have identified is trying to find a
water storage area Upstream on Ellis ditch as well somewhere east of the airport to try to hold some of that water back we haven't been successful in identifying a spot or identifying a farmer that's willing to give up
uh farmland for something like that but that is on our radar as another possible solution to slow down the volume of water coming into Austin and 6th Avenue and and your areas so that's what I have for you tonight um
don't know if Council has any other questions or if there's any followup that you'd like to entertain sure go [Applause] hi thank you name is Beth Houston I live at 618th Street
Southeast last time this happened in 2001 I worked quite extensively with one person here and he came with back with the same thing we don't have a sump pump we have a portable one we throw in the window and pump so we have no pit and he was the one that saidwell it could be
coming in from your house was tiled around that and I said I didn't tile it I've lived there 51 years the owner the person that built it tiled it why and now like with you said you hope the people that have the beaver systems didn't turn back on what do we do why do
we have to cover the cost of something that should have been inspected by the city when these houses were built and not let happen and so do we have to pay if you come back now and say oh you you have that problem with the tiling I can't afford to fix that at my my age so
what happens I mean this is where I feel like we're kind of caught in between a rock and a hard place because if there is a fix it shouldn't be us that has to cover the cost thank you thank you Stephen got any response to that I wonder if it's even a code thing back 50
years ago was a code to tile drain into the storm Waters I don't know the the service that we found on Fourth Avenue Southeast um it looked like the the footing tile had been
broken into or t or the the service was broken on the top and that's where the lines came in depending on what shoes you're in we could look at that and say oh looks like maybe they called the inspector out for
the inspection and then broke into the line after the fact you know so everyone could use a different lens and how you look at it so it's hard it's hard to go back 70 years and know what was done what was looked at we're just we're stuck with what we have today yeah so
can can I just ask a clarifying question and make sure I I understand this issue has happened before with the Heavy Rain event and sewer water backing up into homes in the neighborhood the city thought that a
likely culprit was some pumps and beaver systems draining into sanitary SE were we spent money and time inspecting house by house by house and hopefully eliminating that and then we had another big rain event and even worse uh sewer
backup and because we're fairly confident that it's not sump pumps and beaver systems we now think that it's possibly tile systems draining directly into sanitary sewer is that correct Stephen that's one very likely culprit
yes is it possible that one or two or three homes with this tile drain directly into sanitary sewer is causing all this problem or is it likely to be fairly widespread all of the homes were built during a common period of time so I
think it's WID spread just that was a standard during that building period okay and then um my last question was I I heard from one of these residents asking about the city's liability uh for
damages how does that work in Austin what is our current system are you passing that off to our cityne the right one to answer but I'll just say and anyone else can add to it is that um typically with a sewer backup
if in a normal situation if there there is a blockage in our sewer M or we can't show that we did our routine maintenance the city has some liability there if it's a sewer service it then falls on the homeowner in a situation like this
where it was Mother Nature an act of God it was a volume of water that is just not designed for we we would we would never design for that volume of water anyway I I don't believe we would
be responsible in a situation like this league of Minnesota City's confirmed that with us our insurance carrier said this is basically a AC of Nature and there's one of them exclusions in any policy you might have even if you had sewer coverage and this would not be
covered by our insurance company so it just falls on the homeowner policy is there a possibility of adding a lift station to the neighborhood Stephen so the trunk line that runs up 6th Avenue is a 12in
line the our no no our downstreams if we added a pump station to handle the volume of water we'd just be pushing it onto the next area we need to solve where the water's coming from and fix it there instead of upsizing all of the
pipes sir my name is Jerry wles I live on 1705 3rd Avenue Northeast and uh been there 30 years never had a drop of water in there in the basement come up to the Sewer just like everybody else said um
but when we had the floods of 2004 2008 we never have a drop water we had a brand new spree put in a year and a half ago they put everything in new and now we got the problem I got what do you do can you
leave we're lucky we were home to get the water out of there took all the carpet backing out 60 yards was all finished off now I got to cut the sheet rock out I mean it's expensive I'm sure it's 20 25,000 you know I have some sewer backup
coverage but about half of that so it is concerning sure do we stay home then don't go any place anymore more you know in case this happens again it smells in there even though it's you know it's sewer water so in my own home with 13 Ines of water in two
days um I've never had water in 40 years in that house never Sun pump's never gone off and the sun pump's going off there's a significant rainfall it certainly was an act of God or Mother Nature didn't didn't help Saturday morning you know the 5 Ines yeah then we come and clean it all out got it all out
of there and then that rain came in the afternoon the streets were flooded I mean I was out there at 3:00 in the morning morning and it was half there by Holy Cross church right there we all gathered and all of a sudden just like that like somebody flipped the switch it was gone and it came up in the basement
through the sewers and we cleaned everything up then in the afternoon we thought we were you know Home Free had the fans going and then that uh inch and a half of rain came in 15 minutes walked in there and looked in the basement 3 in in there again and the streets were all
flooded leas is deep there by the church right so I guess the uh the unfortunate news is checking with League of Minnesota cities and our liability is I appreciate what you're going through Mr woldts and all your neighbors but I don't think there's going to be any Li liability on born out side of the city
other than your home owners insurance I hope you have decent home owners insurance and can help offset those costs but feel bad absolutely for what you're going through it's just a ter finished off nice it's a nice townhouse it was anyway and then have all that happened I mean right so
unfortunate run yeah it's significant rainfall no no doubt significant rainfall for sure anything else Stephen just that Third Avenue Northeast that by Holy Cross that's a new problem um so we are going to map that area see um if we
can decipher anything from the information that we collect and um and yeah we'll we'll go from there we don't have houses that are tiled on that in the Northeast part of town like they do on the Southeast sure so that's always been a low-lying area I mean they've
lived there for 30 we're close to 30 and that corner right by those condos and Holy Cross always has when it rains and it doesn't have to rain hard that's where it sits yep and so you mentioned the street project and I'll I'll guarant
I'll guarantee that the surface water that you're seeing on the road versus the sanitary sewer backups those systems are not connected they're they're not connected in in that area for sure from Oakland place or yeah
to 19th Street those so um so why this is now um getting some sewer backups we'll have to we're we'll research that but if they knew that was a low-lying area when they redid the street why didn't they fix the problem the line going we we upsized all of the the storm
sewer lines underneath the street but the line going underneath Oakland place is still a restriction sometime in the future that line under Oakland Place will need to be upsized from a 30 in to like a 48 in pipe cuz many of the pipes
that we put in on Third Street Third Avenue to handle the storm water were 42 in size pipes and now we have a restriction Downstream going underneath Oakland Place Stephen I have a question
so why is it that some of the folks on Fourth 5ifth 6th 7th 18th Street got water and some didn't so say 7th Avenue Southeast where my parents live there some pump ran non-stop no water in the basement three
houses down Dan Sparks gets a couple feet of water in his basement why is it that maybe some of your neighbors didn't get water and some did if it's if it's all backing up how is it missing some houses again we'll it'll be interesting
to see that as we start to map it out hopefully we get good information and feedback from our survey but the only thing off hand I could explain that by is the basement elevation of one home is going to be different every home has a
different basement elevation so whoever has the lowest basement is going to get impacted by Sewer back up first so I the only thing I could assume is that those basements are that much different in elevation as to why one person did not get impacted and a couple doors down
someone did you know I think we did a lot of good things in the last 20 years with flood mitigation but we clearly got some work to do we got water on North Main we got sewage we had a problem with the waste treatment plant we spent 40
million bucks in the last 20 years and we haven't gotten there yet and so there's I mean there's clearly some work we got to do here and I think we got to think about you know we spend a lot of time I think talking about foolish things like in my opinion the you know
complete streets policy when we should be talking about complete wastewater treatment policies good suw you know let's address our sewers let's just I think we learned a important lesson here and that's we're just not there
yet and we had a record is our fifth highest water in Austin this last flood I think the flood mitigation efforts on North Main and the removal of homes and the BMS engineered BMS have certainly certainly held yes there's always work to do I think those holding ponds
impoundments out in the middle of people's Fields certainly help slowing the dobin creek down yeah there's I think this one appears to be it's a sizing issue with that storm water pipe as we go and those improvements have to be made there's no doubt um as the road projects up or whatever it might be we
need to prioritize those so uh I think there's obviously good money spent yes there's work to be done but this is just unfortunate that we got 13 inches of rain in a few days and I'm sorry you got what you got in your basements I hope that it can be resolved and doesn't happen again and City street and
Engineers department is going to do their best to map it and work it out so thank you all for coming I think did I get everyone's uh addresses that was impacted if you were impacted did I get did I get everybody's addresses did you have oh I
got my granddaughter's house okay H if you want to take them outside and just collect them on as your way out just talk to Holly and give her your address please thank you all right Isaac on to uh honorary council member comments anything
brother nothing to report thank you reports and recommendations Craig uh thank you mayor we had a um Blandon and University of Minnesota extension had a um ripple effect exercise that we participated on myself uh Chief mck and
Randy Hoffman from the park and wreck department um to look at the ripple effect of the wwan basketball tournament uh that's held here in Austin really great exercise great Outreach um you know probably nothing warms our heart
more than seeing our Parks utiliz so fully and um so we'll get that report and pass it on to council but a great Outreach to a ethnically diverse component of our community so want to pass that along we'll get the report to
you when it's completed very good thank Craig anybody else have anything department head no all right on to city council Paul uh speaking of flooding I would like to thank fire police all the city staff as I drove around and gawked
like some of the other residents did they put in a lot of hours uh cleaning up dirting traffic um one utility guy was out on the corner um at the county shop dirting traffic and the pouring rain um just
thank you to everybody who worked hard all weekend to keep residents safe so thank you thank you Paul Jeff uh nothing your honor Jeff check mik uh yeah I just kind of want to Echo Paul's thoughts I
know a lot of people um you know came in on vacations days off that they had scheduled it was over the weekend a lot of overtime put in um you know unfortunately we definitely still had some houses flood we heard from some of those folks tonight my heart definitely goes out to them um I also know that a
lot of the hard work those our city staff did prevented um a lot more damage from being done and so I don't want to lose sight of the fact that we do appreciate that and we're going to learn from this event and make some adjustments that will hopefully continue the forward progress of less and less
flooding in Austin thank you Mike Laura uh yeah and I I would Echo that when the big water events happen it's never convenient and um as always I was proud to see Austin people whether it be City staff County
staff are just ordinary neighbors helping each other doing what we could um to hold back the water and cleaning up together so um I want to just remind parents that uh taking your kid to a park it is heartbreaking when you see
that yellow caution tape around and realize that you can't go play on it but please don't tear it down and play on it because if the tape is up there that playground is dirty and you do not want your kids anywhere near it um so please respect that as our parks department um
cleans up uh some of those playground areas uh I want to announce that um the matchbox Children's Theater is partnering with the culture and arts Commission um we received a grant from CAC for $10,000 so they're putting on a special
um program all summer called exploring belonging and community Through theater so Area Youth will be um spending time learning about theater and connecting it to community and um city leaders are also spending time with those um
students helping them make the connection between arts and culture and future careers and daily life so mayor king um kicked off that program for us last week I appreciate his time and on others that are scheduled to serve later this summer uh I also attended the
league of Minnesota City's conference um the Statewide Conference was held in Rochester last week and um I want to make sure everyone knows that Austin's new tech project was shouted out at the General Session as a Innovative project
um so as usual Austin's attracting uh good attention uh and then I can also confirm that Austin is not alone as a community in struggling with uh housing employee Recruitment and Retention uh funding for various projects and racial
and Equity initiatives um those were topics that cities of all sizes were grappling with and and um some some good ideas some fresh takes and just the encouragement of the fact that um it's not that we're doing something wrong it's that the the whole state is
struggling in these areas so that's what I have thank you Laur appr app it and it's difficult to uh celebrate anything after the neighbors just told us the impacts of those high waters in their basement but we do want to recognize the good work of good City staff over there uh sometimes many decades of service so
the July anniversaries are are before us here Lance Ellingson 35 years the Waste Water treatment Todd clenon Chief or captain of our Police Department 25 years with the PD Steven Lang engineering 23 years congratulations Stephen Brian Blake police 18 years Jim
Hy with the fire of 17 years Sam shoeer police 17 years Joel mashing uh John mashing Street Department 12 years Aaron Heimer arena with 10 years Dustin Hicks also with the PD eight years Brendan bustad Street Department six years
Sydney we singer uh Nature Center five years Carrie harad with the PD for four Lauren bachan Planning and Zoning uh and building for three years Christian Wang uh W engineering three years and Evan Walker for the library for two years so we certainly appreciate all those uh
folks and their longevity and what they're doing out there for the public so again it's difficult to to celebrate anything at this point but we do want to recognize those employees doing the good work for those many years so thank you um with that I'm guessing I'm looking for a
motion to adjourn to our meeting on July 15th at 5:30 so move second all in favor I opposed motion carries we are adjourned thank you