all right we'll call a meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance indivis welcome everyone good evening uh Tom could you please uh take the role mayor King president council member at large Austin present council member
Baker yep Basin present present pusta present Kelly present PMA present we have a quorum your honor thank you Tom item number two is a motion approving our minutes from July 15 2024 so move second all in favor I
opposed motion carries item number three is a motion for uh under Awards and recognitions we have Tony Martin retiring from the street department not 24 years but four years Tony right not 2224 but in so in appreciation Tony you can step forward too sure you got a speech
[Laughter] what's that oh do we get approval for the agenda moved second all in favor I uh opposed that is carried under item number two in appreciation of Tony Martin for service of the City of Austin
Force December 7th 2020 to June 8th 2024 in the street department uh respectfully pres presented by the Austin city council and Mayor Stephen King so Tony congratulations and welcome to retired world if you'd like to say a few words then you're certainly welcome
good well least come get your May I'll say a few things on his behalf all right so um yeah you mentioned the time that Tony uh worked here for the City of Austin and he came to us with a a great amount of experience uh previously working for a
Paving Company a local Paving Company and then also uh prior owning a a Paving business of his own so he came to us with some uh New Perspectives and he was he was very well liked in the department so we really appreciate the time and
Leadership that he provided to us in his time here at the City of Austin where he served both as the assistant Street superintendent and then was promoted uh to the street superintendent he served both positions during his time here with the city of Austin excellent well thank you Stephen and thank you Tony for your
years of service and good luck in retirement thanks appreciate it uh also under Awards and recognitions we have a special night here with officer Daniel Osborne and Pastor Dan milky um for collaboration on a police call I I would love to see who wants to kick us off mckin I believe Lieutenant Hartman is
going to kick us off tonight liutenant Hartman good to have you thank you first I want to thank everyone for their time tonight for those of you who do not know who I am my name is Michael Hartman and I am the afternoon Shift Lieutenant for the Aus Police Department I was also the acting supervisor on the
night of July 7th 2024 on this night I approximately 2245 hours or 10:45 a night the a police department along with the maer County Sheriff's Office and state patrol initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle that and a driver wanted out of vatana
for multiple charges upon initiating the stop it quickly became obvious that this was no regular highrisk traffic stop if there is such a thing instead officers were dealing with the subject in a crisis that had barricaded himself within his vehicle with multiple weapons which he had made multiple threats to use throughout the night and his young
frightened juvenile daughter immediately negotiations started and what ultimately last 10 hours before the male subject would peacefully surrender during these negotiations multiple officers and members of our negotiation team played critical roles in reaching this outcome and I'd be remiss not to mention their
efforts however there were two key people that made this outome possible which is why I am here tonight officer Daniel Osborne and Dan milky better known as Pastor Dan to start officer Osborne is a train negotiator and member of our special incident response
team when this call initially started officer Osborne was on scene quickly and immediately started putting his negotiator skills to work unfortunately Osborne was not the first person to make contact with the individual so he did not initially start negotiating directly with this individual but instead stood behind the officer who was negotiating
and used his skills and knowledge to coach that officer on what to say in real time about one and a half hours into the negotiation officer Osborne was able to transition into the head negotiator role and took that responsibility head on negotiating with the mail for over 8 hours
now a few things you should know when it comes to negotiations are that these are high-risk stressful and extremely mentally and emotionally draining another thing that you should know is that unlike what you might see in the movies negotiators do not want silence instead negotiators want to keep the
conversation going as much as possible trying to keep the person talking the whole time now again officer Osborne was not the only officer or negotiator on scene meaning that he was not directly negotiating this entire time however every time he was subbed out he went to work making phone calls with the family
members any available resources we as a department might have and even contacting a local pastor Pastor Dan all this means that even when given a break Osborne did not take a break always finding more work to do to help the situation end with a peaceful result
officer Osborne went so far so far and above his regular duties that once the incident ended officer Osborne went with the individual to the hospital refusing to break a promise that he made to the individual during negotiations working a 20h hour work shift straight by the time
everything was done 14 of which were directly involved with this call I think I stated best in the letter that officer Osborne will will be receiving everyone who responded to that call that night did an awesome job but Osborne was in a whole new league in all
honesty I might have been in charge of making decision decisions but he was really the one in charge I just played off his needs now let me talk about Pastor Dan Pastor Dan was contacted in the middle of the night after the individual asked to speak with his local Pastor officer
Osborne was able to contact with make contact with Pastor Dan who immediately answered his phone and agreed to respond to the scene right away upon arriving on scene Pastor J Dan jumped into action and instantly started helping officers negotiators and officer Osborne Pastor
Dan provided ideas themes for negotiations and negotiated directly with the individual at times all while standing just feet from the subject putting himself directly into an extremely dangerous situation with only one goal in mind the safety of of his parishioner and his
daughter Pastor Dan even assisted with creating a surrender plan for the individual which included Promises of Pastor Dan going to the hospital with the individual and helping with the custody of his young daughter all of which Pastor Dan honored it was later discovered that Pastor Dan even canceled appointments previous previously
scheduled for that day to stay with this individual well past the ending of negotiations all with the drive to help and fulfill his Comm commment and care for this individual in short I watched a citizen with zero training and zero warning fully throw himself into a
situation where he would stand mere feet from an individual in a full-blown crisis where weapons were present and had been threatened to be used multiple times with no hesitation or reservations keep a cool calm demeanor and follow officers instructions to a te when necessary all while conducting himself
with the utmost professionalism showing constant compassion and expressing Sympathy For This this individual throughout to put it plainly Pastor Dan exemplifies what it means to be an ideal pastor and a model citizen for the City of Austin throughout this entire contact both officer Osborne and Pastor Dan were
able to build trust and a rapport with this individual when no one else could and without either of them I am not sure we would have the same outcome that we did that day I believe that Pastor Dan and officer osbor both wish to say something quickly but first I will turn it back
over to the chief thank you thank you Mike I appreciate the words that's going to be tough for me to follow up on um I do have two letters of commodation one for Daniel Lor one for uh Pastor Dan um rather than read those
off which is talking in a lot about the the same things Mike did um you know my role in this really is to support them I got a call from Mike around midnight saying that this is what had gone on this particular individual had fled the oana PD with the 7-year-old
in the car he had struck their cars in so doing it they ultimately decided not to pursue du the danger of the young lady in the car uh the state patrol and the sheriff's department did pick up uh on this car when it was in MA county they did
flatten the tires using some Tire deflation devices and the car ultimately ended up in the city of Austin uh the captain and I discussed it and one of the things was how does it end up in our lab when it starts with all these other agencies and I told them truthfully I
said I would want it in anyone else's hands than the folks that were working there I know them I know we've trained them I've worked with them for years I trust them I would rather have our folks on that type of call in our city because
I know they're doing the best of their ability to try to resolve the situation and and we know from experience there's always a person with in that scene we do not control we do not train we do not have any um really
ability to predict what their decision making is going to be that's what makes this so volatile he was threatening to use gas and other things in the car with the young lady um despite being at a family member's home he would not let her out of the car she ultimately had to
soil herself in her pants uh because he was not letting her go so to me that just shows how real this was how real it was for the officers um many of them worked well beyond their shifts Plus hours uh engaged 8 plus hours in a very
mentally taxing thing and then you have a private citizen who sees someone they know they know him professionally as a member of their Parish a family members in their Parish in need that person says I'm I'll come out in the middle of the night and I
will help aid you uh In This Moment Of Crisis and again it was a complete team effort uh I had driven back early that morning because it was still ongoing and Captain and called me about halfway back and said we've resolved it which I'm obviously thrilled to have seen and then
you see just the amount of work that that those two put in but really everyone on scene um you know that was there to handle it to keep the the neighborhood secure and then we had a lot of folks who were answering our other calls for service we had we had
Medicals we had an overdose I think that came in about that same time so life doesn't stop for the rest of what we do so again very proud uh of of our of our staff our department um officer Osborne went well above and beyond what we normally commend for and certainly
Pastor Dan did as well so as a token of our again our appreciation um for officer Osborne We do have an official letter of [Music] commendation congratulations thank you and for Pastor Dan we would have a
letter and although we're working on finding a way to do this more officially I did happen to have a small stack of our Police Department challenge coins and I'd like to uh give you one of these just as again appreciation recognition of your efforts that night thank you thank
you turn it over to you Dan all right appreciate your comments so far mck and and uh and Mike and and and Dan you know what can we say other than our gratitude thank you for what you did that night and I'd love to hear some comments from you but again thank
you first of all don't tell my congregation I don't have a prepared speech longer than three minutes so uh it is a great honor to be able to receive this and humbling but I do want to say probably the most humbling aspect is has already been been shared working
with men and women who are top tier but probably the most humbling aspect of the whole situation was to watch a gentleman who was confused be able to hand what it was most precious to him to look one father in the face to another father and hand
over his seven-year-old girl and that was a honor that I don't take lightly but I also want to say I was incredibly honored to be able to work with many of the officers that are in this room there are many nameless faces in fact when officer Osborne called and
asked if I would come I said I I don't feel worthy of this I said I'm just a teeny tiny Cog and so many more things were we working he said well you can say all that when you get here and my my little daughter ever since she was little every time a
officer's car drive by she yells out thank you police so I want to be able to say that publicly thank you officers not just did you work with professionalism professionalism can be trained but what was already mentioned not just
professionalism but true compassion several people have asked well were you afraid to go into that situation there were two reasons that I honestly was at full piece the first one when I got on scene and there was probably 20 25 officers many different departments that were there
and the the care was tangible I knew they were caring for me they were caring for each other but you could tell they were caring for the individual and his daughter care can't be trained and as was already mentioned officer Osborne I worked primarily with him and
I know others also did their shift but I can speak to to the time that I was with him he went to the hospital when he was off shift he continued to show Compassion Care to be able to just help put the gentleman at ease and then the second reason that I was at peace to
quote uh General Stonewell Jackson from the Civil War that if you're with Christ you're just as safe on the battlefield as you are in your bed and the peace of God followed me in my heart and there's one more thing that I'm very very thankful for I didn't know
necessar what I was getting into but being called and it was still dark and when I got on scene there was all kinds of cameras news outlets and I was just thankful that I had gotten out of my pajamas that beautiful Pastor Dan thank you thank
you officer Osborne thank you so I want to start off first by expressing my appreciation for all the kind words and the opportunity to speak before the council today um I honestly do not believe we would be standing here in this capacity without Pastor Dan
Pastor Dan's commitment to his fellow parishioner his church his beliefs and our community exceeded our expectations Pastor Dan went above and beyond the call for service by placing himself willingly in a dangerous and emotional taxing negotiation on 7 July
2024 Pastor Dan exemplified what it means to be a model Citizen and Pastor I'm proud to have worked with Pastor Dan and cannot put into words how grateful I am for his assistance that day before I step away I would like to share one more thing with everyone for
the past year our Department's peer support team has been working hard to create a chapy program we've been working with a nonprofit organization called Salt and Light Partners to help us in this Endeavor salt light Partners specializes in providing chapy services to First
Responders and are utilized by several agencies here in Southeastern Minnesota our goal is to provide our officers their family and our community with the assistance and resources they deserve in their times of need the incident that occurred on 7 July
2024 is a prime example of the positive impact a chaplain can bring to the cause of this magnitude our chap will not only be available for rare calls such as this but also for routine calls that they will assist us on during their ride
alongs their impact will be felt when called to a scene or their expertise will be beneficial We Believe with the assistance of our city in this endeavor we can foster a new era of support and wellness it is our hope that by
providing a resource such as this to our community we can forge build and cultivate a longlasting bond with the community while promoting the Health and Welfare of our officers thank you everybody for your time thank you officer Osborne and
again thank you there's no doubt there's no doubt in anybody's mind that you get has saved lives that night no doubt thank you all right uh that was very special moving on to the uh consent agenda need a motion so moved seconden all in favor
I opposed motion carries on your petitions and request we have it number five is requesting approval of an ordinance repeal related to Metronet I think you mayor remember remember like five and six together if you don't mind uh Jaguar adopted a
franchise in June of 2021 which is sub subsequently taken over by Metronet um Metronet as a company came to the conclusion that they no longer desire to provide Cable packages and Service as part of their um operation and as people
are moving to streaming services uh through this they've asked for cancellation of their existing franchise agreement the city worked to maintain the terms of the franchise agreement which provided dark fiber to several City facilities um also honoring the
construction obligations of the mou that was entered in November of November 2nd of this year for the completion of their Construction in the community continuation of the pole attachment agreement that was uh agreed to with a
utilities payment of unpaid franchise fees of 15,500 and payment of costs for handing this matter um the terms of the um continuation of the dark TR is through
2036 with a 15-year um renewal provision for the city to the benefit of the city um members of Metronet are here this evening as well as Brian Grogen our legal council for items related to our franchise agreement wel them to come up and make
some comments on in the counil Mr Roan would like to say a few things welcome mayor members of the council for the record Brian Grogan with the law firm of moson Barnett I always like to clarify I'm on the city's side of this
equation I work for the City attorney for the council um and tried to negotiate this deal I don't know if I've ever had a tougher act to follow than what I just so if I Stumble a little bit please forgive um I I think um City
administrator did a wonderful job kind of introducing this topic I want to be clear we're not talking about a company leaving town they have infrastructure and facilities in your right of way Metronet also known as Jaguar so they've been in town now for the better part of
eight or 10 years um they still intend to provide broadband service to Residents and to businesses but the cable television market the delivery of video service has changed and and we all know that we all know that we buy it differently than we used to they simply
can't buy the programming from ESPN or fox or CNN or whoever they're trying to buy from they cannot get a bulk contract that allows them to compete and and sell it for the same price that you could buy it for from Hulu or from any other streaming service no one's buying the
product it's it becomes um basically a lost product if you your cost of infrastructure is worth more than what you can deliver so what they did is rather than simply say well we'll charge $1,000 to everybody in Austin if you want to buy our product nobody would buy it it would sit there we'd have a
contract and we wouldn't have a single customer I think they did the the right thing by coming to the city and saying we want to terminate this but we want to do it in a way that is comfortable for the city you know your administrator just went through many of the issues we talked about um the iru which is called
an an irrevocable right of use it's also known as the dark fiber agreement that's a significant benefit that continues on this document technically until beyond the the time period of 2050 so covers the fiber needs for several of your
Municipal locations for several years to come there's you know payment of approximately $40,000 that would come from Metron to the city as a result of this agreement now what are the downsides of this agreement the downsides are we don't have continue to have a contract with them for the
delivery of cable service that doesn't mean they don't have to comply with your city code right of way restoration provide Insurance provide indemnification all the things that you would expect of any company using your right of way so those things are out there I understand there's been some
concerns about right of way restoration and right of-way occupation which is one reason why we have representatives of Metronet here to be able to answer those questions for the council um but mayor maybe at this point I'll pause and if there's questions I can answer for the council or I can be available after
Metronet answers any questions you have thank you Brian yeah this was tabled from our last meeting there was some concern from Council Members about I think exactly what you touched on undergrounding and maybe there's been some hiccups along the way so so we' hearing it from from residents that there's some issue so these these two
are really not tied together with the getting rid of the cable but council do you have any questions from Mr Grogan or representative from Metro if not we could probably go forward with the uh with the uh preparation of the ordinance well I guess no I I don't have questions for
the the counselor I I guess I do have some questions for the Metro folks mind please and I'll be Avail all right thank you thanks Brian welcome to the podium a name please uh Jill ctis Jill
Jill yes thank you Toby brummer Toby and Jill okay thank you you want to start with the questions Jason yeah so I guess get the getting out of the cable makes sense I work in business for my day job makes all the economic sense in the
world my question is can you help us understand what the game plan is to make sure that we as a community are getting the right level of service for right of-way restoration responsiveness to community members just
because there's probably four major complaints I've heard from residents and it's come from a number of residents over time one is hey the yard gets torn up and it either doesn't get repaired all that well or it takes a lot of followup to get repaired done two is
even after that's done you know I'm left with a cable that was supposed to be buried that ends up sitting in my backyard until I've got to call and follow up four or five different times to get somebody to come out and bury it three is that the work has expanded onto areas of the property probably beyond
what the easement is for and get it but I think the tolerance folks have for that probably becomes minimized by some of the other things and then number four is the level of sharing of information as part of sales pitches and that that one person personally had somebody
representing Metronet last week who was came to our house to ask if we wanted to sign up for service and showed us a map of everybody else that was in the neighborhood going look these are all the people that have you know signed up for service in your neighborhood I don't
know that I would be thrilled with folks knowing who I'm using for my internet service and so would just be kind of before we move forward with this would love your perspective on how do we make sure that your business on a local level is being represented in the way that I'm sure that you want it to
be yeah I can start so I will take that last question about the the sales folks uh thank you for bringing that to my attention Toby's Attention our attention at Metronet that is something we will immediately address because you know to your point I I would you know see I see
that completely and we will address that as um an organization we do have referral programs and that's where if Jason were to say you know to Scott mention my name you then would receive a a benefit right yeah but just an open m
map I will address that okay and then the other one I can address is the drops on the ground I work with a fulfillment team so field operations that's um the technicians who come in and do the install when they do the install they do
have to run a temporary drop our ideal time we tell customers is this time of year right around 14 days we got to get locates we got to get the crew back it takes about 14 days to get that that drop buried coming off of winter it does
we do have drops on the ground obviously longer since we can't bury them in the winter so come May April May beginning of June we are playing ketchup with the number of drops we do have on the ground but um our customer service can expedite
that for you and for those residents and then it gets moved into an an expedited queue basically so we get eyes on that and bring in other Crews to help with that workload come yeah so and is there a number that folks should contact our
residential customer service number okay and what do you know that number off the top don't off top my head I don't no but I can get that for you okay no that it'd be a good followup because I know that that's been part of the frustration is that hey I call this number and I either never hear back from them or I've got to
call multiple times or I get bounced to another one so if I was a manager with my business I would want to make sure that ABS how we knew absolutely we were putting our foot forward and earlier in the year we we restructured to to region so I am the
region vice president for Minnesota uh Michigan and Wisconsin so we have Regional local presence no one knows Minnesota better than you know people from Minnesota so that helps so we're hoping to have this
all turned around with with you know conversations right all right Doby I can address your restoration concerns um throughout this process we've been continuing to receive what we call Footprints tickets which is
a ticketing system that residents anyone can fill out a ticket online we receive that ticket as soon as it comes we have 24 hours to respond and in most cases um in all cases I should say we've
responded within 24 hours and most of those tickets have been closed out within 24 hours to 8 Days few have been put on hold depending on the time of the year but as those continue to come in from here till eternity um they can still fill out
those tickets and we have track of all those tickets also on on top of that uh stepen Mitch have sent me emails directly about customer complaints that they receive that we jump on pretty
quickly so excuse so I know there's I know there's some areas in town that we when we stopped work last September that we stopped work completely there's still some areas on the east side of town that have some restoration issues that we have
contractors lined up start very shortly we should be starting in those areas again so when you say 24 hours to respond what does respond mean respond means either a telephone call or uh uh an email back to them or uh uh we stop
at their house and leave a door knocker or a something that says we were there if they aren't home or we talk to them directly do you have a a turnaround time for when you get these complaints to close them out with within 8 Days eight
days okay yep you mentioned restoration Jason maybe you ask this does that is part of that the plastic tubes you see sticking out of the ground all over is it restoration part of doing whatever you can do with that pulling it out or
burying it or table in there yes there's there's a lot of that sticking out in places that we still have to either set a box or cut off on a pole and put a cover over which when we stopped work last year we stopped stopped and we've been slowly starting to get back to work
as our contractors are available so who's carrying the liability for these things if somebody were to trip and fall in one of these areas is that homeowner is that you um if they were to trip and fall as a result of something we left laying on
the ground that would be on us I I guess I'll weigh in and I to be I'll probably be a little more Frank than some of my colleagues so you know honestly the reason I think you're here is because not because we had any real problem with the agreement that was worked out with our lawyer it's because
there's just an insane amount of frustration in our city about your company and the work you're doing and it's really disappointing because we were all so excited to have a second fiber option in town it's something as a city we'd worked years for and so to
have this gone so poorly to be honest you're turning off a lot of customers you know when you say you're going to get to Something in 8 days or 14 days I have letters in my inbox I can show you of people who have cords across their yard for two years we've all seen the orange and blue things sticking up for
18 months two years you know one of the real issues is when the RightWay isn't used properly half the time you're dragging cords Across The Lawns of folks who are not your customers and so now you've got neighbors mad at neighbors and somebody doesn't even know that their neighbors mad at them just because they found an internet service that they
like better um you know all of our city staff who have had to constantly contact Metronet because we've had issues with lines getting cut and you know other things and are right away damaged is a real problem um I wish it hadn't come to the fact that we needed to bring somebody from Metronet here to have this
discussion in a public forum but that's where we are and so the level of frustration you're costing yourself business I can promise you that um and I don't like to see it because we are very excited to have two options in town we like having good you know business
partners in town but the actions that we've seen have not shown me that Metronet has been a great business partner for a lot of people in town I would like to continue this conversation and uh just let you know that being good stewards of the community is very important to all of us
here at Metronet we we take that responsibility seriously and so um you know if this is a a meeting we should do together and bring our construction
teams in for an in-depth conversation I am all in for that Stephen you when I called on a particular resident and you had IMC or something come in MTC is
that how is that connected here if they're saying they're going to do the restoration what about this other y so in in that particular situation in the southeast part of town you called I notified Toby of the concern with the
address and location Toby then reached out to their contractor which was MTC that showed up to do the restoration uh in the area that you rep so you're going to work with them as well then yes they did a good job I just
want to know the connection Mt MTC does a very good job and uh they're very excited to work in Austin they're they're very local I wish we'd have had them from the GetGo but we didn't partially because they weren't even a company at the time we started in
town but that's who we have now I think uh I I really think going forward we won't have these kinds of issues even though I know we don't have much left in town but they're also going to be the contractor that comes through town to
restore the places that maybe have fallen through the cracks so do you have some sort of internal tracking system to kind of map cuz I think that people when they see the blue and the orange pipe sticking up and they've been there for two years they think well they forgot about it like they literally don't know
this is still here looking like this yes so you have an internal tracking system for all of that we do we have uh we like I said we have our Footprints ticketing system I also my team construction team has a a list of the areas is that we
know we have to go back and finish some of those things so will that I mean I hate to say it but we're in August so in Minnesota we're always thinking about snow and ground freezing so we got what three maybe four months is that all going to get done before this winter yes okay
yes do we as a city I guess Stephen um or Craig uh can we put a deadline on this and if the deadline's not met can we fine tell me to take that one or okay yeah
whoever I didn't know so couple of different items I wanted to address one is one of the provisions of the settlement agreement says that the insurance and indemnification Provisions that are currently in the contract will continue forward till 2031 so the idea um which
was a really good question if somebody were to fall over some of their facilities that are improperly placed or not properly placed in the right of way that burden doesn't sit with the city they have coverage to make sure that they carry that water um when they are
negligent number two you have Provisions in your city code that also address anyone who occupies the right of way that you have enforcement tools there also you have construction permits and whatever restriction you may place in there finally you have rules from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
because without this cable franchise they're essentially now a utility because they're a telephone company and as a telephone company the only reason they're in your right of way is because the Public Utilities Commission gave him a certificate of need to be here and a bunch of other cities in the state of
Minnesota with that certificate comes a host of rules which include revification Insurance RightWay restoration Etc so we have multiple layers of regulatory Authority um but to the question of can
we put some obligation in I think what we have is all of those tools through the city code and otherwise to say how shall comply or and we have the tools available to us under the city code It's always important when we have so many
different users in the code to continually look at that every several years to make sure that we're keeping Pace with that some cities Austin isn't one of them you know they assumed that the code was fine because it it used to operate for all just three utilities gas
electric water you know telephone now we have cellular and broadband and all kinds of fiber companies sitting in your streets and they're not always playing together in the sandbox as well as they should I did want to note because I think um the council member Basin probably wanted this read into the
record I just happened to Google their customer relations um residential phone number so that number is 87747 3224 that's the Metronet residential customer service telephone number
um council member did I answer your question specifically that you had asked okay I just want to make sure I did happy to help in any other thank you anything else Council you'd like to have address with Metronet over here well I don't see us having any choice but
approving the deal I mean we've taken you to the Woodshed I'm usually the one that gets to do that so congratulations that was well done um yeah I I would just like to see you again in 90 days or something like that
so we can have a chance to because I got it's this it's spraying for mosquitoes it's getting trashy yards mode this is the kind of irritation that none of us like so if we just want to see again so we can we got a problem we can go
through it again please I move to approve second okay there's a motion to prep for the preparation of the ordinance and there's a second all in favor I opposed that motion carries under the ordinance the adoption of the ordinance need a so
moved second time council member Baker yes Basin hi fiser hi pusta hi heli hi Postman I counc member at large Austin I ordinance passes 70 your honor Tom we
took six and five together so I have six we looking for resolution approving the settlement agreement with removed second time council member Baker yep Basin I Fisher hi pusta Kelly hi PMA hi council member at
large Austin hi resolution passes 70 your honor very good thank you and thank you Metronet folks item number seven is a resolution um approving an update to the investment policy Tom uh yes mayor and counil we'd like to add or a credit union to page
six letter D of our investment policy um such that our investment advisors could then um have us invest in brokered CDs through Credit Unions uh currently there's a question whether or not that could be allowed so we just figured we'd make it clear as can be and just add
those uh for forwards to the um resolution or the investment policy and have you approve it very good simple enough looking for resolution Council so moved second Tom council member Baker yes Basin I Fisher hi pusta hi Hy hi PMA
I council member at large Austin I resolution passes 70 your honor thank you I'm Number Eight is a resolution accepting this donation for the City of Austin a $500 gift from our partners at Moore County for the culture and arts graffiti program what's a graffiti program I
think they go and take care of graffiti whether they paint over it or scrub it down and a lot of times so it's a get rid of graffiti progr ocean to approve create program you have to sign up for the other one but that's okay motion a second for I number eight
Tom council member Baker yep Basin I Fisher I boua I Kelly I HMA hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 70 y all right moving on to Citizens addressing the coun there any citizens in the audience wishing to
speak with Council and items that weren't on the agenda okay on to honorary Council Isaac you have anything for us next next uh meeting will be Isaac's last meeting with us we'll say our goodbyes then but thank
you um reports and recommendations Craig anything uh yeah just want to thank the members of the Benin Community for inviting us to their 64th uh celebration of independence from France and I enjoyed getting to know them they have uh they estimate 300
residents in Austin that are from Benin so it was nice to share in their culture and integrate um them into Austin and welcome them so wanted to thank them publicly for that otherwise that's all I have thanks Craig uh
Laura uh so I want to say thank you to um some city leaders who have been helping uh with the program with m hatbox Children's Theater this summer they are exploring the theme of belonging through community and so some of our city leaders have gone and met
with those um theater students the theater campers uh including mayor King uh arts and culture commission member Jenna vuser Nature Center Director Luke Ree and council member Mike posma who not only uh gave up his time but did it as a last minute uh uh switch out for
someone who had covid so um thanks folks for um you using your precious time to help uh Mentor our students um and then uh to answer the question about that donation um there was a project earlier this summer where
uh Lyall high school art teacher Christ ofy and Jeff Smith um completed a mural under the Roosevelt Bridge um that's what the uh painting or the donation was for was to cover the cost of paint Lyall
high school students um completed were're able to cover over some graffiti that was on the underside of the bridge so um a really nice uh City County um collaboration uh a really nice use of uh funds to have a outsized benefit of
getting that graffiti covered up and um covering it with art makes it less likely um to be retagged and then I also want to mention that if uh Chris of's name is um familiar to you that might be because he is also uh part part of our
fire department as a part-time part-timer so lots of uh great things happening in Austin um I also want to mention that parks recreation and Forestry is meeting on Wednesday and we're going to be discussing um dogs in
our Parks um so if you have uh some thoughts about what the policy should be or um some concerns you might have over uh people letting their dogs out to use the park as their uh restroom uh for
months at a time anything like that um this meeting on Wednesday 5:15 at the Nature Center would be a good time or you can let me know your thoughts um ahead of time but there's been some concerning incidents and um as we've looked into it uh I'm not sure even the
department itself is clear on uh what the policy is it's pretty clear what the ordinance is but there um were some postings uh in conflict with the ordinance so uh we got to really decide how we want to do it and then communicate clearly to the public what
the rules are that's it thanks Laura Mike uh yeah a couple things um first of all impressive presentation that we had to kick off the meeting thank you to all of those were involved in that incident um
a great way to support all of our Public Safety folks is to come out to National Night Out which I believe is tomorrow night down at B shell Park um free hot dogs have the kids come down check out the fire trucks check out all the cool stuff that the police officers bring out
it's always a great time um want to acknowledge all the hard work that the park and wreck folks are doing getting in the new playground surfaces um it's never fun to have a flood but the fact that we were able to use that opportunity to upgrade to a better surface that's ADA Compliant is really
awesome so I thank them for going as quickly as they can to get that done uh in the correct way and then lastly just uh a shout out I've been part of a posos working group um that's met a couple of times it's a lot
of very dense information that can make my eyes glaze over sometimes um but I've really been impressed by the great team of folks from the public works and the wastewater treatment plant who really all have a very special expertise that they are bringing to this conversation and help make some really hard decisions
um help us to make informed hard decisions so thank you for that great team thanks Mike Jeff um I got to tell you I had a uniquely outspoken member of the community engage me in a problem
getting a uniquely under underc cared for piece of property mode and Jason you saved my bacon and it's not lost on me that you did a lot of the work when you on on
vacation and I appreciate that and uh your team made everything quiet for me which was just lovely and uh USA lfg it's Olympics time baby thank you Jeff
Jeff uh just want to remind everybody there's a primary a week from tomorrow get out and vote gosh hard to believe August is already thank you Jason um briefer folks that want to absentee vote that aren't
going to be at their polling location asking for a friend do they come to the county or to to youy County all right sounds good I'll let them know um no I wonderful I mean just really moving presentation I thought that was exactly the way we should
recognize that type of stuff and I thank you for bringing it to this meeting as well I know we've had a lot of conversations around public recognition there's so much good work that our city staff does whether it's police fire Park and wreck Library you name it um you know streets so thank you because that I think that was a really good type one
experience and the kind of culture we're trying to create um and it's not just Olympic season it is Mauer County Fair season starting tomorrow night so come on out to the fair thank you Jason Paul I would like to thank the uh folks in the street department that spent many
hours fixing that Brook and Sewer on Fourth Avenue Northeast uh long days they were there in their early evenings um I stopped for a little bit just to watch them work and it was pretty impressive how they all work together to get that done so thank you to all those
guys um for your hard work and get taking care of that for the citizens of Austin thanks Paul Joyce you know I had nothing but just as having nothing now so um just hearing
everybody go down the line you can hear how fantastic of a city we have Park and wrecks been brought up the police department's been brought up the wastewater treatment plant Street Department I mean we and many many thank yous for above and beyond service so
thank you for above and beyond service that's all I have good agree more Joyce thank you uh I'd like to publicly thank uh step Lang for standing in for me in our lewi in Lewiston uh last week at our Southeast League of Minnesota City's um meeting he I had a prior engagement with
Riverland and Stephen couldn't wait to step in and I know he wants to do more so appreciate he did an update on Austin's uh flood mitigation program and I know it was well received there so thank you Stephen also uh Tom and I were in the middle of a fire uh trustees meeting when the fire call came out for
a house on fire and it was just impactful to see the amount of attention given at that moment and it just kind of puts you in like a movie situation where they rush out to their garage and get in the fire truck and hit the road response time had to be excellent because we probably had five paid part-time there
in that meeting but it was very impressive and it took me back to my dad's days of watching that happen it's just it's just seamless and the way they operate so uh just gives you chills to be able to be participating in that little bit I still wanted to jump on the truck and you wouldn't even know I was there could have just been hanging on
the back uh so that's um again kudos to everybody doing great things and I couldn't agree more that starting a meeting off with the uh with the police department being acknowledged and having Dan milky the the pastor that really did save life that day I know long guarantee it uh to bring that uh that uh very
emotional situation to a good resolution so thank you all for all your good work and I do want to read the August anniversaries we have Kristen Olson with the library 23 years of service Josh coonie with the fire 10 years Hans Gilbert Fire 10 years Julie Klein felter 10 years of the library uh Luke Reese
Nature Center eight years Emily suus Library seven years Jeremy Mason steart uh sewer maintenance seven uh Joe Johnson Street Maintenance 6 years Brian Mason facilities and buildings maintenance 6 years Mike ask water quality GIS one year and Craig hey
wastewater treatment plant one year so thank you all for the years of service that you're providing as we re happen to retire Tony Martin tonight so thank you all we'll take a motion to our next meeting on August 19th so moved second all in favor opposed motion carries
thank you and we'll take about a five minute break to the work session