all right we'll call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and good evening everyone welcome to the
meeting uh Tom take the roll call please mayor King presid council member at large Austin present council member Waller present Basin present Bosman present USTA present Fisher pres we have a quorum your honor thank you Tom I have
number one as a motion for the adoption of the agenda so moved second all in favor I opposed motion carries item number two approving our minutes from March 3rd 2025 all move second all in favor I opposed that motion carries item
number three we have under recognitions and awards we have officer Jesse Betts being promoted to Sergeant M what do you have uh ex I exciting night uh we got two on the docket here the first one though is uh we're doing a promotion um like to recognize the rest of the staff that came like to recognize their
Chaplin for coming uh again it's always great to see this uh kind of support when we do these kind of things it means a lot I know to myself the the people getting promoted or people getting retired so thanks everybody for showing up um Jesse Betts um we were lucky
enough to get him from Filmore with a ton of experience uh right away he fell into helping Mentor a lot of our young officers the feedback I got from other supervisors on the work he was has been doing since he've joined us has always just been uh exemplary um again he's
been a steadying force for us in many ways he's already been acting um like a patrol Sergeant uh would would do for us but with Mike tier's retirement which we'll celebrate uh following this it does give us an opportunity to per uh promote another young man in the same
type of position um our sergeants have an incredible amount of influence uh on our younger staff and then many times uh he will be the supervisor for the city we get a major event he will be the one uh directing that initial response so there's a lot of responsibility with it
uh but really um this last Sergeant's test we had all outstanding candidates U like I said Jess he quitted himself very well and we're happy to promote him to Sergeant I think he's got his two pins and let a significant other come up and uh
pin the hardware of uh his new rank on him we'll have you go up there then you give your long stand back and watch give a big speech J right that's always a big question great job fantastic congr so if you're out and about from 400 p.m.
to 2: a. you might meet Jesse again congratulations Sergeant Betts congratulations about half that and also uh now we have the retiran of one Mike Ground Pounder tisher didn't uh don't see trip just the
city have a plaque too otherwise I do have a shadow box where's that oh perfect you have a plaque for him we'll get well good thing I do have something to to give so Mike's been with us almost 20 years he was well known to many of us uh
with his time at rer Bike Shop uh just across the the street from us um always wanted to be in law enforcement um studi a little bit later in life got that degree wanted to work for our department uh we were very fortunate that we were able to hire him uh did a really an
outstanding job for us uh first as patrolman uh did so well that we made him a field training officer again even before he was promoted There's an opportunity there to impart the culture and the values the things that we want into our younger staff Mike uh was outstanding at it uh he helped to
minister our evidence room for almost his entire time uh that he was here which is incredible responsibility did a fantastic job um we were able to promote him to sergeant again a lot of mentoring there a lot of responsibility uh Mike absolutely knocked it out of the park um
Mike's a busy guy though and and life sometimes your gaze turns to other things and his gaze has turned to something else in life so he's retiring leaving our agency internally uh we always give someone a shadow box um normally not at this event but uh it was
prepared Josh Bradley did a nice job of putting the different pieces together it's a representation of where an officer's been uh throughout his career he's got a couple of Patrol badges he wore including the one we wore in 2006 for the 150th um birthday of Austin got his
Sergeant's badge we got one opening he's getting another sergeant badge with a new L state seal in it so Mike if you want to come up we'll give you your shadow box you were giving a speech or now getting us spech oh Mikey it's awesome buddy it's
awesome just a few words for I got I was fortunate to be able to work with Mike in my corrections job and as the City of Austin and there's no finer cop out there he really did he came to work with just a positive attitude and that that just resonated throughout the department and it'll be absolutely missed you know
there's always a sense of humor uh and with Mike and brought professionalism along with that humor so thanks for years of service and best of luck in the sandwich shop business brother thank you all right also we honoring Randy Hoffner for his years of service and retiring out of the park and wreck and
Forestry Department all right thank you um so I get the honor to recognize Randy Hoffner um he has given nearly 29 years of dedication to the city of aus in the Parks and Recreation Department he's
right there um Randy uh he he started I think as a park maintenance me or uh maintenance um operator and then moved on to the Park's mechanic and and then in 2012 became the park supervisor um where he was um for the rest of his
career um so in your time Randy you've been a part of a lot of really great projects um I would say that Randy is as good a person as they come and just has the ability to really reach deeply into the community that he serves and every
day we see that um still Randy you know so um you also served our country we appreciate that very much I've learned a lot from Randy and um we're going to we're going to miss you and we wish you well in your retirement so uh thank you some of the
staff that are here tonight to to help celebrate this great time in your life Randy so thank you [Applause]
thank you Randy on your well-earned retirement I know there's uh been situation several situations where I've been at functions that are in need of Park and wreck service whether it's turning on the lights or bringing the trailer and the person always gets called for that with Randy Hoffner so I appreciated all those extra efforts on a
Saturday or a Sunday uh you bringing what we needed so thank you and uh congratulations on your retirement Randy uh moving on to the consent agenda looking for a motion uh for the consent agenda all move second all in favor I
opposed that motion carries uh under bids and uh opening and award uh Awards bid openings Awards we got number five is a resolution receiving bids for replacement of the HVAC units Stephen we have identified in our CIP the replacement of two um HVAC
units at our Public Works facility we took bids uh informal bids requested bids from Johnson Heating and conditioning MJ o Conor and Hardy mechanical Johnson Heating and Air was the low bid at $7,650 our actual budget for this work
was 40,000 so it came in considerably under budget which is a good thing and so with that we would recommend awarding this bid to Johnson Heating and Air Conditioning thank you Stephen counil any questions on this otherwise looking for resolution even are you sad that you didn't get everybody to stay for the h
pack discussion I was hoping they'd stay for all of them but that's that's all right fair I would second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi lusta hi Fisher hi council member
at large Austin hi resolution pass is 60 your honor thank you Tom now we have a series of public hearings for the street uh improvements for the next year here in 2025 item number six public hearing on Street Improvement on Sixth Street Northeast from 30th Avenue Northeast to 36th AV Northeast project 19601
amount to be assessed 161,000 at 5.75% 15 years Stephen in your backup material there's a few summary items that cover each of these next four projects and th that relates to the frequently asked questions that we've sent out to all of
the property owners letting them know of our assessment process questions that generally come up on Street reconstruction projects is trying to get that information out there ahead of the project also sent out to them for each project is information with specifics
about the project and then also specifics about the assessments and how how those are calculated how options folks have for repayment of those assessments and then each individual property owner is sent information
regarding their exact assessment um whether it's a a street assessment and or a sidewalk assessment in addition to that so they've received all of their information all of the information in your p packets regarding um presentations are exactly what we've
presented to you at previous meetings so with that I'll turn it over to council if you have any questions and Stephen we've had no written written objections to any of these Street projects correct we have not received any written objections Council any questions Mr Lang item number six then let's get through to we can
skip a b and c and go for resolution on 6D uh resolution declare public hearing oh sorry ises anybody here from the public wishing to speak on item number six all right hearing none item number 6D looking for resolution uh declaring the
cost some of second second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi Pusa hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 6 Z thank you Tom I have number uh 6E
resolution adopting the assessment role looking for resolution so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi pusta ier hi council member large Austin I resolution passes
six year your honor thank you moving on I number seven is a public hearing on Street improvements on 21st ad Southwest from Fourth Drive Southwest to 12th Street Southwest project 25102 the amount to be assessed is $950,000 at 5.75% for 15 years
Stephen and nothing additional to add unless Council has any question questions Council any questions on this project anybody here in the public wishing to speak on item number seven on this project hearing none looking for a resolution for
7D uh resolution declaring the cost second council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member large Austin I resolution passes 6 Z
thank you Tom I have number seven e resolution uh for the adopting of the assessment role so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi
pusta hi Fisher hi council member LGE Austin hi resolution passes 6 zon thank you number eight is a public hearing on Street improvements on six AV Northeast from 18th drive noreast to 19th Street Northeast and 18th Drive Northeast from 5th Avenue Northeast to 6th Avenue
Northeast project 25106 the amount to be assessed is $900,000 at 5.75% for 15 years Stephen I have nothing to add unless there are questions okay Council any questions on this matter public any anybody here to speak
on item number eight I've been looking for a resolution for 8D declaring the cost so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi boua hi Fisher
hi council member at large Austin hi resolution pass is 6 Z thank you I have number eight e resolution adopting the assessment role so moved second time council member Waller I Basin hi bosma hi pusta hi
fiser hi council member large Austin hi resolution passes 60 your honor the last two item number nine is public hearing on Street improvements on 25th Street Southwest from Oakland Avenue West to 7th and 8th Avenue Southwest project 25107 the amount to be assessed is
$200,000 at 5.75% for 15 years Steve anything to add in this one no sir Council any questions public any questions on this project looking for resolution 9d uh declaring the cost so move second Tom
council member Waller I Basin hi HMA hi boua hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 6 Z your honor thank you 9e uh looking for a resolution adopting the assessment role
so moved second Tom council member Waller I Basin hi HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 60 thank you let's talk fats oils and Greece item number 10
is requesting approval for the fat oils and grease and point of sale ordinance Stephen at previous work sessions we've discussed uh these two ordinance changes uh both of them mainly related to our sanitary sewer collection system and an
effort to remove fats oils and greases from the sewer system and the problems that they cause we're recommending uh adoption of this ordinance which mainly deals with um Food Service establishments
whereas we will work with them to ensure that their grease traps are being cleaned and monitored on a regular basis to allow for those greases to be caught in that in those grease traps and not be sent Downstream into our collection
system uh also before you tonight is uh point of sale inspections for sanitary sewer services and for Su pumps the Su pump point of sale is in an effort to maintain our program that we're just
finishing up on now our six-year program of of some pump inspections throughout our community um the way to maintain and keep that system working as as all those inspections um confirmed is by we've we
believe it's by uh point of sale inspections at the at the time of sale uh and then finally the point of sale sanary Sewer Service Serv inspection program is another way to ensure for homeowners that they are
uh buying a home with a viable working Sewer Service also for the City of Austin it is a way to um prevent problems down the road related to Sewer Service uh
Roots groundwater infiltration and uh footing drain connections that we are hoping to find through this inspection program with that I'll turn it over to council if you have any questions uh prior to reviewing the ordinances thank you Stephen Council any
questions on this matter Stephen how are we going to get the word out that these exist now sure uh a couple different ways from the the fats oils in Greece we will get the word out through businesses through our building official and our building department they will get the
word out to businesses of this new ordinance and the upcoming requirements that'll be through mailers and through inperson discussions for the point of sale inspections we will work with Realtors that'll be our point to get
this information out will be through through Realtors meeting with them and making sure that they are aware that this is will be a new and upcoming requirement um at the at the time of a sale of a property will we have like a list of available contractors who we
have certified to do this inspection or how does that work we will not um because we don't want to Soul Source it or be that involved in saying who who can and who can't but rather it's just a certified
plumber this would be we during our Su pump inspection program we gave Property Owners the opportunity to hire their own plumber to do the sun pump inspection if they didn't want us in their home mhm so we would use that same criteria that said if you're a licensed plumber uh by
the state you're then eligible to complete this type of work so we'd we'd fall back on those General requirements and let people call and choose whoever they wanted to whether it be a local plumber or someone that they know from a neighboring Community okay so the licensed plumber is the key part I mean
you can't just have neighbor Bob come and look at it with AER license plumber okay right anything else okay thank you step uh looking for a motion for the preparation of the ordinance so move second all in favor
opposed the motion carries item number 10B for adoption of the ordinance so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin
hey HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member large Austin hi uh ordinance does not pass because it was not unanimous at the first reading it will be carried over to the next one your honor thank you Tom item number 10 C resolution for
summ publication of the ordinance I think we can pass on that just because all got to be reved okay yep and I think it's I mean it'll pass I I think it's good in advaning I just my concern is I don't know about the bandwidth of it and adding more regulatory burden I'm toring
on it but not fully there but I don't think it's really going to matter which is okay we'll we'll bring it up again next time thank you I'm number 11 is a resolution approving the wastewater treatment plant change order number seven Steven yes before you tonight is a
change order in the amount of $258,800 hand out it details where where we are currently at with change orders as you mentioned this is number seven so there have been six prior um the cost of the change orders are generally decreasing in nature as we continue to
move through the project we have about a little over $3 million in change orders total with including number seven that's before you tonight that represents about 3% of the overall project cost uh the second table in your handout is
detailing where the costs are split for this specific change order uh some of those costs are 100% domestic many of the costs are shared in our combined system between domestic and Industrial and then there is one cost that is 100%
industrial and that is the cost split overall for this uh change order so with that unless there are any questions I would recommend approving change order number seven for the wastewater treatment plant project very good thank you step counceling any questions I have number 11 if not looking for resolution so
move second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member large Austin hi resolution passes 60 your honor thank you I number 12 is resolution approving
an amendment uh to the Austin Municipal Airport Construction Services contract Stephen yes so just a quick update on this project this was designed and bid in 2024 and uh there's a long lead time on fuel equipment so it is planned for
construction here in the spring and early summer of 2025 and it will involve two new um fuel tanks and fuel pumps at the Austin Municipal Airport we're also making upgrades to uh the system so that
people will be able to fuel and pay 24 hours a day like you would like like many opportunities you have at at fueling stations uh it's kind of a pay at the pump option which we currently don't have so that'll be a great Improvement for our airport but with that comes uh some federal requirements
that were not included in the original scope of work by our consultant those requirements uh involve uh EPA spill prevention control and counter measures plan so before you tonight is a request to approve additional funding for the
development of that plan uh in the amount of $7,100 that is split between 30% local funds and it is uh eligible for a 70% uh State Grant dollars so with that we would request approval of these additional
services for developing that spill prevention plan very good thank you Stephen Council any questions Mr Lang on this item if not looking for a resolution uh approving the amendment on item number 12 so moved second
Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi HMA hi boua hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes 6 Z thank you item number 13 is a a resolution approving a proposal for
asbest abatement of the Salvation Army Stephen yeah at the end of 2024 Council approved the acquisition of the Salvation Army thrift store and first step in this process is to do an environmental review of the property uh mainly testing for and looking for as best
the building was constructed in the 70s so and it's pretty Bare Bones structure so we're uh not anticipating that we'll find a lot but we need to go through this process to confirm that we have looked um our consultant that we work with on these projects is iea out of Rochester and they've provided us a
proposal of $2,600 to complete this work plus there would be additional cost for some of the bulk sampling but with that we would recommend um approval of iea for this uh inspection and material testing very good thank you Stephen Council any questions for Mr Lang
looking for a resolution approving The Proposal so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi bosma hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member at large
Austin I resolution passes 6 Z thank you Tom item number 14 is resolution approving a legislative citizen Commission on Minnesota resources Trail Grant request Jason honorable mayor and Council so this item was brought before city council at the
March 3rd 2025 meeting uh Council agreed to bring this item back as an action item at tonight's meeting all the information is in your packet I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have and um staff's re staff recommends city council consider approval of the
attached Grant submission letter and Adoption of the resolution to apply for the grant funding can answer any questions you very good thank you Jason for reaching out and getting this uh Grant going councel any questions for Mr Sean and looking for a resolution approving the grant
request so moved second Tom council member Waller I Basin hi HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes six year your honor thank you have number 15
is a resolution approving our budget adjustment number four Thomas first off I grossly misjudge the time of this meeting Pizza is not here till 6:30 so I could drag this out for hour or um before you tonight Council are the requests from different departments to
carry over budget items that you approved in the last budget for 2024 that did not get purchased for one reason or another technically we need to amend the 2025 budget then to authorize those staff to go through and make those Acquisitions most of them are all
capital outlay related um on the first one general fund playground and we like to add and surface equipment 124 Grand the pool assessment 175 lost consultant 20,000 City Hall stuckle repair
20,000 the police is watch Guard warranty is a fiveyear agreement so we had it all in year one to make sure it was there so that's 88 Grand comp plan has 45 Grand left and we had a new request it's not technically a carryover for the planing department for new
software for 7500 then Riverside Arena for 50 Grand in the Central Garage fund we'd like to amend that from 240 they only need 166,000 for the the plow truck number 66 because it's already partway in process then the fire department like
five grand remaining in their budget for the to stripe and Rehab their trailer um then in addition to that at the bottom we had a state aid Street project that paid for some local cost related to a project we'd like to transferred 267,000 from our CIP revolving fund
which is what pays for non-state Street projects into the state a street project for um that project all in all again these are for the most part budgeted items from 2024 that we like to carry over for 2025 plus those two additional items I'll certainly try to answer any
questions you may have thank you Tom Council any questions Mr Daner looking for resolution approving the budget adjustment number four so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi
postma hi pusta I fiser I council member at large Austin I resolution passes 60 your honor you're good thank you Tom item number 16 is a motion to appoint Jeff Baker to the Austin utilities board term expiring December 31
2026 I might imagine this will probably be the majority of the debate we'll be fine on Pizza as jeie Sheen exits the board uh midterm uh Mr nbow and the board chair uh Steve Greenman have offered to bring forward Jeff Baker back onto the Austin Jes board looking for a
motion so moved second all in favor I opposed that motion carries item number 17 is resolution accepting these two donations we have $100 from Michael and Susan Greg for the 2025 flowers and $500 from the friends of the Nature Center uh
for the Fourth Avenue Fest we thank both of those folks uh and organizations to for the money they're putting forward with that need a resolution accepting those two donations so moved second Tom council member Waller hi Basin hi
HMA hi pusta hi Fisher hi council member at large Austin hi resolution passes six year your honor thank you Tom on the citizens addressing the council is anyone here in the audience wishing to address the council and items that weren't on the agenda
hearing none looking for next uh reports and recommendations City administrator Craig have anything uh yeah thank you mayor members uh had the opportunity to testify before the Minnesota Senate housing committee last week uh on behalf of the Coalition of Greater Minnesota cities uh we had two pieces of
legislation to talk about one was a zoning preemption and then another one eliminated any parking requirements uh that went along with uh uh development projects um both of these are bad for especially bad I think for Rural Minnesota cities and we testified in in
behalf of that um some of the items of that would be elimination of a public hearing uh no longer would we be required to have a public hearing as part of a development project um I think that lacks transparency that we need at the local level while those can be
difficult at times it's I think important to hear from residents uh forcing density from St Paul rather than the good work that we've done locally to try to encourage uh more density the urban 3 presentation obviously told us a lot about that we're certainly able and
willing to be able to do that that meets the needs of our communities um you know in our residential areas they would extend those uh on MSA roads to include uh quad plexes triplexes so um not necessarily meeting the needs of of the
community you know sharing with them that we're in rural Minnesota we're essentially standing on our head to try to get housing development in our community were're uh nowhere near trying to put unnecessary regulations on development Pro projects talk to them about our
abatement program and the new assessment strategy that we're utilizing on the Nature's Ridge Subdivision uh shared with them that you know in 20124 we had 16 single family homes developed by the very nature uh most of those homes that you've seen come through for abatement requests have
been around that $300,000 level and those I think are affordable by any measure as far as what commonly could be built and what you might expect to pay so they have to be affordable by by Design here or else they're largely not being built in in
Austin um cost of infrastructure mortgage rates prevailing rents home values cost of construction and wages are really our impediment to having these projects move forward and so their Solutions really do nothing to help us in Greater Minnesota uh tackle the challenges of housing that we
desperately need um so it was interest interesting you know not a surprise that we'd have a more of a metr Centric focus on trying to fix fix the problem but I think that's what we have before us and um a little discouraging that the state
um didn't want to hear about that you know we had in our CR uh CR report I remind members and I shared it with the committee that you know there's a tendency to try to scapegoat local government that Were Somehow the um barrier towards being
able to bring forward affordable housing and the CR report distinctly spoke to that that the vast majority of the costs of new plats are fundamental hard cost soft costs land acquisition cost and financing holding costs aside from direct subsidy it would be difficult for
the city Administration to reduce the total cost of new lot development and incen incentivize increased supplies so even when we were evaluated by a third party outside third party of our housing challenges that it the city was not the skateboard that this legislation
purports so um the parking elimination you know they talked about the cost of that for um residential development certainly that's a driving cost but they're leaving it to the uh a private developer which when several of the
members went to us to the league meeting we set in on the housing committee and it was interesting Senator abler the thrust of his um bill was developers were bad and they were kicking seniors out of their Apartments I don't know if Council would
agree with that assessment that were there um but less than a little more than a week later they're saying that developers are certainly prudent and would provide exactly the right amount of parking necessary and wouldn't force it on our public streets so that was interesting to see the ju toos that um
developers bad developers good and we can certainly trust them I think generally speaking we have regulations in place to make sure that it each one meets the standards and we've allowed variances we've allowed uh We've reduced our parking requirements we're being sensitive to that that it might be
limiting development and we if the developer has concerns with that we're happy to hear that so anyway if you're interested and they did encourage me if there's council members that wanted to weigh in with elected officials that's certainly helpful more so than us lonely
lonely staff members but if you'd like to learn more about the legislation I can certainly bring you up to speed but I think it's really misses the mark for especially Greater Minnesota cities and the housing challenges we have very good thank you Craig appreciate you representing Austin as
well as rest of the Greater Minnesota cities on that testimony is there any other department heads need anything uh no all right on to city council uh Becky anything um I just want to say thank you to Mike tisher and Randy Hoffner for all their years of service and and um
they're what made our city great and they'll be Sly missed throughout our city thank you Jason I would Echo that I think great culture building tonight and obviously we you know very much appreciate their contributions and we'll miss them very good thank you Poe uh had
a chance to go with some folks up here to the league of Minnesota cities up in St Paul uh it was great to meet with uh Senator dorick understand representative Mueller was busy with conference committees and hearing ings that day um
but she did let us know that so I can appreciate that um the bills that Craig was just mentioning uh these are unique in so much as there's B partisan support and opposition to this bill so this does not break down along your typical partis
lines so I would encourage you if you do not want the folks in St Paul to be telling you what housing goes where in your city to please reach out on both sides of the aisle very good couldn't say it better than that posty Jeff uh nothing here
Joyce I also enjoyed uh City day on the hill it was a great learning experience I highly recommend it um congratulations to our retirees and our uh promotion um always proud of our city and today is um you know just seeing and
witnessing the promotions and retirements it's and with what I'm going to read in a minute it's it's an emotional day for me so forgive the emotions um and I'll read what I have written um it is with mixed emotions that I'm before
you today to announce my resignation from this Austin city council this decision was not made lightly but after much reflection I have it accepted an exciting job opportunity that requires me to move outside of my ward my last
council meeting will be on April 21st 2025 serving on this Council has been one of the greatest honors of my life I am incredibly proud of all that we have accomplished together over the last six years that I've been on it we have faced challenges navigated Uncharted Territory
and made difficult decisions all with the best interests of Austin at heart always I want to extend my deepest gratitude to my fellow council members our dedicated City staff and most importantly the residents of Austin who have entrusted me with this role your
support and engagement have been invaluable as my colleagues can attest serving in this capacity is both challenging and at times thankless every decision made is carefully considered and while we might not always agree we have always respected each other's
perspectives and decisions one of the most difficult aspects of this role has been dealing with online negativity we are all familiar with those who choose to engage in Relentless criticism on social media regarding um regardless of the decisions we make uh I would like to
take this opportunity to encourage these individuals to become more actively involved in our community community in a meaningful and constructive way understanding the complexities of local government governance and participating in a productive manner will always yield
greater results than criticism thank you again for the P privilege of serving it has truly been an honor and I wish everyone nothing but the best thank you thank you Joyce Joyce uh was very courteous and letting me know this was going to be coming so I
have the same response as when she first called is like you know kudos to you and congratulations to to you uh bad for the council because you've been a great council member thank you and a great advocate for your your aard so thank you and we wish you nothing but the best and I'm really really proud of you that you
were able to get that job that you wanted that has some perks to it that normal jobs maybe don't so yeah it was it was it was difficult but it's it's it was kind of an I just had to do it there's not going to be another opportunity like this so
thank you thank you looking forward to council member fiser following that thank you Joyce next couple months on your new position thank you uh thank you to the officers uh tish's retirement Jesse's promotion and thank you to
everybody who worked really hard in the budget um to come out like we did thank you very much to all your hard work right on well yeah uh thanks again Joyce for your years of service and best of luck to you as you depart April 21st is
your next meeting is that last meeting okay uh the only thing I would have to report is I had the uh I had the I had the fun uh of participating in the employee engagement open skate so I was able to be up on skates for the first time in exactly 20 years and uh it did
all right didn't fall didn't get pushed over by some of the little people uh made it home safely without hospitalization so I look forward to even the next one in April and uh open it up to coun members if you want to rough It Up On Ice I'm I'm ready I grew
up playing hockey so I'll take you forward to that get the video out Trish that ready so quite as good as Trish's son though it yeah there no doubt he's good so with that looking for a motion to adjourn to our April 7th 2025 meeting so
moved second all in favor I opposed the motion carries we'll take about a 5 minute break and open up the work session thanks folks h