okay like to call to order the April 7th 2025 uh meeting of the Bayport City Council let's all stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you matt do you want to call the role please
uh Council Member Do here council member Gilmer here council member Hill here uh Mayor Hansen here uh just of note uh Council Member Bliss is um out tonight yes he actually had plans before he was
elected so we can't be um upset with him no can't hold it against him okay um anyone want to um Oh approve the agenda i forgot we have to make one addition to the consent agenda um it's item number 10 renewal of the
boat trailer parking agreement with Anderson Corporation um so want to make an approval of the agenda with that one change that so moved thank you John second thanks Katie um all those in
favor i I All right we will go on and we don't have any proclamations tonight madam um yeah what did I do uh you didn't do anything okay um just a a correction on the uh for the open forum um Alex from the mosquito control
district will be going first and then um Kevin Magnuson is here from Washington County um office um just to uh to we're going to flip them is all you're asking yes oh okay well there that we're going to start the open forum then it's a portion of the meeting to address the
city council on subjects that are not part of the agenda city Council may take action or reply at the time of the statement or may give direction to staff regarding investigation of comments expressed a total of 15 minutes is allotted for public comment during the open forum we might have to allow a
little more than that um and we're going to start with Alex Carlson from the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District thanks for coming Alex yeah thank you Mayor Hansen and council members my name is Alex Carlson i'm with the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District i'm the public affairs manager and I'm lucky to have Kathy Beetle with she's a
field operations supervisor at the Oakdale facility and her service area covers Bayport so she can ask answer those very specific questions about every single pond and wetland in this area uh but excited to share just an update on the mosquito season a little background about who we are and what we do uh and then answer any questions that
you might have great um so just a quick background on MMCD we've been around since 1958 our governance is the county commissioners and Commissioner Cox is one of ours uh board members who's here tonight um so the commissioners are appointed to our board and they determine our budget and our operations we're one of the largest mosquito
control districts in the country with over 2900 square miles we serve over 3 million people and then we have over 80,000 wetland habitats and you'll see why that's important in a moment um our funding comes from property taxes so the median home in the service area pays about $10.87 87 cents per year for
mosquito control services which we think is a pretty good deal for the services which include comprehensive mosquito control mosquitoborn disease suppression which public health is really the main goal of mosquito control um we do tickorn disease surveillance public education about mosquitoes and ticks um
as well as blackflies which are the biting gnats and we do control for them as well so Kathy's going to talk a little bit about life cycle all right so um All right so mosquitoes there are over 3,000 species worldwide
and here in Minnesota we have 52 species um but only about 20 of them are human biting and are a concern for the public um the other ones tend to bite frogs or birds or things like that and they don't even bother us um and as you can see here it's the mosquito life cycle so
mosquitoes will either lay their eggs um at the edges of wetlands or on top of the water and once those eggs um get flooded with water the eggs will hatch they'll turn into mosquito larae they spend about a week in that time frame which is usually when we do a lot of our
work to try to control them and then they turn into mosquito pupa where they're turning into the adult mosquito then they emerge and then they fly fly away and then depending on the species they can live up to either two weeks or even the whole summer depending on what species they are
can we ask questions sure do they live longer if they bite you um so only the females bite and they're biting to get protein for their eggs um so that's kind of why they're biting um they to just
survive they're actually drinking nectar um so it's the males don't bother anybody they just hang out in the woods and drink from flowers and the females also do that but then when they're ready to make eggs they'll need to go get some blood that is so interesting thank you
can you guys figure out how to get rid of the 20 species that bite humans and we can just knock those 20 species out golden um it's a little more complicated than that unfortunately but we're working on it um all right so mosquito
habitat so there's a lot of different places mosquitoes will come from um essentially they need standing still water so you're not going to find them in lakes the river they're not going to be coming from there they need that still calm water so that's either like a
permanent water source um that has like cattails and stuff sometimes flood water so I know you all know the park down there that will flood every once in a while we'll get mosquitoes coming from that um and we'll we've treated that big pond or the baseball field before um and
also just containers so whether it's tires or tree holes buckets catch basins storm water drains um anything like baths i always think why do people have bird baths it's like a mosquito yep so as long as people change out the water once a week then they're usually fine
but um yeah you got to look out for the You'll definitely see them i mean I've seen them when I've had a bucket or something i mean you'll see those when I go so that's a good reason to dump it out i do this one i think I'm doing this
one um environmental stewardship so we use IPM so that's integrated pest management because we want to be mindful of the environment uh all of our decisions are driven by surveillance which includes identifying species um seeing the abundance of the mosquitoes
and where they're coming from we have a technical advisory board um and they review what we do annually so people on the tech advisory board are people from the U of M state agencies like the Department of Health and the DNR federal
agencies like the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the EPA so they're kind of overseeing what we do and making sure that we're not causing harm um to non-target species and if you are curious you can read the full tab report on our website
yeah basically the idea of IPM is we're very targeted now when it comes to mosquito control with a goal of just eliminating those 20 or so target species with no harms to anything else so how we do that is it starts with surveillance um if you see our trucks and our staff out in wetlands usually what we're doing is wetland surveillance we spend a lot of summer doing that
where we use our favorite tool the long-handled dipper skim along the surface where the larvae tends to congregate get a sample we use these pipets to pull them and uh put them in a sample vial it looks like this which I can pass around for you to see you want to go get definitely pass it to little
man so he can check um and then we we slap a label on those vials and send it back to our entomology lab in St paul so we have a full entomology lab um where they identify those samples and then for adults collections we do traps so we set up about 200 traps of different types around the Twin Cities every Monday night from miday through the end of
September so we have a pretty good snapshot of what the mosquito picture is at any given week um and we also have a vector ecologist on staff who can test those adult samples to see if they're carrying West Nile virus um or other mosquitoborn diseases so there's a our entomology lab so the lab is taking
those samples and they're trying to determine if they are one of the 20 human biting species that merits a treatment and if it's over a threshold um we find a lot of samples that have no human biting species last year was kind of a strange year we'd we'd get a lot of a specific species that only feeds on frogs and so we mark that as a a blue
site we call it means we're not going to treat it um and and uh we we leave those mosquitoes alone we really focus on on the ones that we're really trying to target that can spread diseases or really you know be a big nuisance for people and the way that we do mosquito control is there's three primary methods
but our main method is laral control so by far uh the majority of the work we do is treating for the mosquito larvae um and you can see the table below we do you know hundreds of thousands of acres of laral control every year maybe one or two thousand acres of adult mosquito control so our preferred method is laral
control um for a couple reasons one we have a geographic advantage because we have such a wide service area uh whereas if we only served Bayport or St paul you know mosquitoes would fly in from the neighboring towns and then we'd have to do more adult control um so that helps uh but also the larval control materials
are very specific to mosquito larvae so our main active ingredient is BTI um this is a corn cob that's ground up with a bacteria on it and that bacteria is toxic to mosquito larvae but it's a mosquito larva have an alkaline gut so anything else that eats this bacteria is
not impacted so it's not harmful to fish or other insects and it only works in the water table so it's not harmful to other insects that aren't um in the water so it's very very specific and very effective and it's been used for many many years um so if you see our helicopters flying around or if you see
our staff out doing treatments this is what they're applying so we're never spraying liquid or anything like that it's these dry granules that are going down um we do some adult control which is the the what people think of as like the barrier sprays um that's mainly in response to disease concerns so if we
have um you know West Nile positive samples that's usually when we'll send out people to do some additional adult control um we also work with cities um for public events so if there's ever a big event going on um and it's going to be outside evening hours um you can call us and we may be able to help out with
some additional adult control pending the um you know the IPM side of it if there's enough species that need threshold things like that you want to do this one sure um all right so just kind of back off what he just said no pun intended
because we use backpacks um we I'm going to talk about laral control for a quick second here so like Alex said we do apply those dry granules and we can do that in a very different ways sometimes sometimes we'll use helicopter for those really big sites we'll use like a backpack to throw the material out we're
using drones that's new this year so there's a chance that your people in town might see a drone flying and that might be us treating for mosquitoes um or just by hand so with a hand spreader and we have three different laral materials that we use alex talked about
BTI it's the corn cob that's mainly what we use but we also use something called methoprne um that is something that we put in the water and it actually lasts 30 days and it essentially just makes the larae not grow into adults so they'll like stay alive in the water but it disrupts their hormones and so they
just don't mol into that adult stage um and then another one is spinosid that is it's more of like a nerve it affects their nerves and kills them so so those are kind of our three main active ingredients that we use the the the last
two in terms of safety for people that get scared by chemical names like that can you sort of describe what they're all about so the BTI was corn husks going the bacteria sprayed onto it
um yep so pretty much all of these are perfectly safe for humans and other things even like your dog or a cat if they're like drinking water from a pond that we treated totally fine um it's again focused on those mosquitoes and a few other closely related species for
some of them but it's um yeah we're very mindful of that and Okay and very importantly they're all safer pollinators bees and butterflies so that's a big aspect of our program too make sure that we're not harming you know beneficial pollinators absolutely
um and all right so mosquitob born diseases so we don't have any of the really really scary ones here like deni yellow fever malaria that are very common and widespread but we do have some mosquitoborn diseases that you know unfortunately can harm people um luckily
the numbers aren't too high but we do have them um so westnile virus is our most common one and that mainly affects older adults we usually find it in the Twin Cities every year usually increases in around August just because of the cycle of mosquitoes um Jamestown
Canyon virus this one is found mostly in our spring species spring mosquito species um I don't think we've had a case here it's not common um but it's something that we're kind of keeping an eye on uh lacrosse and sephilitis this is from a mosquito that breeds in tree
holes or containers and tires and that kind of stuff so um the mosquito that spreads that we are try pretty hard to try to knock down because that one mostly affects kids and it can be deadly i don't think we've had a case in a little while but um it can
be around so we take that pretty seriously uh eastern ecquin and sephilitis this one is very very rare um but it is one of the more highly deadly ones that are around um and then dog heartworm that's transmitted by the summer flood water mosquito um so yeah
so we're kind of monitoring all the different species that um are connected to these mosquitob born diseases different species spread different diseases so it's um pretty intensive and then the 2024 season review so this
past year as you probably know we had above average rainfall which was great but that did mean that we had more mosquitoes than last year but for whatever reason it didn't get as high as it normally does um probably just because we've had years of drought before that um so as you can kind of see
on this graph here 2024 is in the green um and that is below our 10-year average um our main nuisance mosquito 80s vexans and kipidia perturbans they remained low um we had a mild winter in a warm spring which meant we had early detection of
deer ticks and mosquito larae um so yes we had to kind of get out there pretty early to start working and we had fewer instances of West Nile virus than previous years um which is because the vectors for Westnile virus they actually prefer the hot dry summers um so we had
higher numbers of that in years past when it was really warm um and then the spring flooding that caused a surge of blackfly numbers um but they did kind of remain tolerable levels throughout the summer um we kind of usually in the springtime we'll get that big spike and then they'll kind of drop off
so there we go and then these are just the totals for uh Bayport and um I put a caveat to the bottom just cuz the way our parcels work sometimes it's hard to get just a specific city um so 2023 to 2024 this does include Oak Park Heights as well um
just because we couldn't differentiate but um double the amount of sites inspected and increase the acres treated that was just because there was more rain a little bit more of the adult work about double that um just because um like I said usually we only do adult mosquito control when there is concern
about um vector activity um we we do remove tires this is a good just uh program that we offer we will come and pick up and recycle waste tires at no cost to residents so if people have tires that are causing nuisance call us we'll pick up about up to about 20 per
household so have people call us and we'll be out there and getting them uh and then catch basins are a good mosquito habitat so we treated slightly fewer than 2023 largely because we were spent so much of our time with laral control like you wanted to say something about tires i was just very excited were
you not all excited about this tire thing i don't have any when you say catch basin where where like where are these catch basins um just on the side of the roads yeah the therm storm water drains okay gotcha yeah yeah and this is the question we
always get is what is this year going to bring us um and it's it's very early to make an accurate prediction uh but there are a couple things that we have a pretty good idea on if you want a more detailed um prediction um Star Tribune actually did an article that we collaborated on them with and then we have a a post on our website as well um
but what we're looking for this year is uh it might start slower this spring because we're still below average even though we got a little rain and snow recently um and the National Weather Service is predicting a drier summer june July and August is predicted to be below average precipitation uh but there's one species called the cattail
mosquito and they actually are based on last year's rain um so they all hatch in the fall uh and then they overwinter as larvae in the water usually connected to cattails which is where they get their name from and then they come out right around the 4th of July in a big surge um and we're predicting the highest number of those that we've seen in four years
uh based on our models and that prediction is usually pretty accurate um and so that's kind of that was the kind of the headline in the Star Trek unit mmd is predicting a mid-summer surge of cattail mosquitoes uh just because just it just has to do with the weather and the surveillance that we saw last year and do they like to bite us the females
they do yes they're an aggressive human biting species so people will notice that surge when it comes uh other than that though we're just watching the rain like predicting mosquitoes is like predicting the weather we have a pretty good idea what the next two or three weeks might be but beyond that it's very hard to know
uh and then as Kathy mentioned we are expanding our drone program um some resources for residents uh we do post helicopter activity on our website so if anybody's curious when they're going to be out um we update it every single morning um so you can know when they're going to be we send email alerts people can sign up for to know when um
helicopter activity is going to happen uh and we do a weekly update on mosquito activity so that's all on our website um we have a really cool interactive map feature so people can pull up our website and click on all of the wetlands that we're monitoring and view about 20 years of data about when uh we were
there what treatments were done what mosquitoes were found and stuff like that just kind of cool people can explore their neighborhood and see where the mosquito breeding sites are we encourage residents to sign up for email alerts if you want instant notifications and finally we do a lot of outreach um
so if you know of any events that we should attend this is our mascot her name is Victoria so she makes appearances at parades and other events throughout the summer we also do you know uh we do parades we do city festivals we do county fairs uh we try to get out and just encourage people to dump out standing water put on bug spray
and just know everything that goes into mosquito control and with that we'll open up for questions wonderful wow so much in terms of Yeah information very interesting presentation for me um
for people at home I know it's been several years since I've had my yard treated by I don't know the people that come to your house and is it what are your thoughts on that or ways that people can I know of course get rid of
empty your stuff out so there's not standing water but any thoughts on those kinds of things thank you Council Member Dah um so a couple things with that one we do recommend people call a professional if you want to do any sort of mosquito treatments just because the Department of Agriculture licenses them
actually last week was all traveling around the state doing trainings for all of them on pollinator safety and things like that so they can follow the label correctly whereas I think if people are doing it themselves they might overtreat or just not do it in the proper areas um but we do have a great resource on our website is called a residence guide and
it basically says everything that homeowners can do to reduce mosquitoes okay from you know physical barriers to you know my one of my favorite tips is like if you're out on a hot summer night set up an oscillating fan because mosquitoes are weak flyers and it can also help distribute your scent so they can't find you as easily um so that just
works really well uh obviously if it's hot out if it's cool you might not want more cool air on you but um and then just covering up you know we say long light loose long sleeves light colors loose fitting and then we have a list of our recommended active ingredients for bug sprays that are the most effective that people could try that's perfect
thank you for that yeah that weak flyers is a good Isn't it like they can't even go if you're on a brisk walk they can't keep up with you isn't that sort of I feel like they do that maybe if you're running but it if it is a windy night you know they're
not going to be out as active yeah okay thank you good question that's what I was gonna ask like what what should we do here and then is there maybe a little bit bigger picture is there something as a city we should be doing that would help with controlling um I mean I guess
if you know of residents that have you know I I I can think of tires a bunch of tires and empty boats and like a bunch of stuff in their yard and we go there once a once a month in the springtime and you know they they know us by name and you know we treat their stuff but if
you know of other people that are you know looking for those resources to how to reduce their mosquitoes send them our way so that we can come and do those property inspections and dump out water and educate them about that kind of stuff not a bad newsletter article coming up here right for you got it
already of course you do um so these chemicals that you're using for the mosquitoes do they they don't affect the fish because I would assume the fish are eating some of this larvae and whatever okay and then you mentioned ticks but you don't actually have to worry about the ticks do you like is that part of
your job so for our program we do tick surveillance um and then we work with county public health and the department of health um there's not an environmentally safe way to do widespread tick control so that's one area where we encourage people if you have a tick issue in your yard you might want to call a professional to help with that okay um otherwise just you know
keeping grass short in areas where there's you know people around things like that but what we do is we do tick drags where we take a big cloth with all these threads and drag it through the woods and pick up pick off all the ticks um so we find ticks that way and then we also do live mammal collections as well
where we'll set traps and collect mice and then pull the ticks off the mice so we're getting a lot of data on ticks but we aren't controlling them at least currently that's great maybe you could have our highway cleanup team do this dragging thing for you at the same time because I feel like we always come back
with like three ticks give them your This has been really informative and I am amazed at how much I didn't know about mosquitoes and that you guys are out there helping us like Yeah did you all know this i mean I knew that you
existed but I didn't really know that that was your job really you know i like this is amazing and I don't think people I think we just take it for granted so thank you for in the swamps to get boots on usually a safety vest and you know much a lot of the wetlands along scenic
byway 95 here and the park we try to keep a good eye on to reduce those yeah awesome thanks for coming and informing us does anyone have any other questions or comments or Oh all right thank you very much thank you so much great presentation yeah that was great thank you i love how it had videos in it too
yeah I did all right so next up is uh Kevin Magnus from uh Washington County he's the Well he'll tell us but he's the attorney I I hear hi hi welcome thank you okay well thank you very much for having
me my name is Kevin Magnuson i'm the county attorney for Washington County um I thought it was interesting that you had Well it's really hard to follow the mosquito that's true i'm pretty excited but I was a little concerned when I saw that we were both on the agenda together and then you moved me to the back
largely because my computer wasn't ready but also if they if you thought maybe mosquito control and lawyers have some like blood sucking blood sucking at least you said lawyers tell the best lawyer jokes right yeah and of course it applies to other lawyers eric is shaking his head not the
good not the good i wish we did but there's a reason why we're in the profession we are we do not tell good jokes all right um so um again my name is Kevin Magnus i grew up in Lake Elmo i'm currently living in the home that I grew
up in from 1898 was Dr stevens Hospital if anybody is ever interested in Lake Elmo history very riveting history um I I bought it for my dad and he's laughing every day that I'm trying to spackle something and
the whole thing is held together by wallpaper and spackle the whole house you know it's just it's but it's a nice spot on the lake there great um and uh so my wife Lindsay is an attorney as well so we have some interesting dinner conversations and my 13-year-old daughter has no intention of going to
law school as a result and uh I have a fouryear-old who's going to be five tomorrow and I was looking at this little guy and I thought she must be like kindergarten huh yeah boy who's in prek okay
um we dads are lucky i uh So in any case we have um um you know I'm from here i went to I went to Wheaten College in Chicago i was in the military in in the army during the first Gulf War station in Germany i didn't
quite make it down because that ground war was like 62 hours so I missed that which is fine with me but just to be clear I was not in the Gulf at the time of the war but when I got out I was in Germany and I when then I enrolled in a PhD and philosophy program in a German
university and then wound up at a Belgian university and did something similar to a PhD it's called Lenciat and then I had to figure out well what do I want to what kind of career do I want you know something that doesn't require me renting a Santa suit you know to make money working in a McDonald's or
something so I went to law school at the age of 29 and then went back to Europe for some more education wound up at the European Commission doing antitrust enforcement kind of work there and but eventually we all come back to Minnesota right all the umbilical express back
home and and um I was in private practice for 20 years doing complex business litigation and then my predecessor who knows Pete Orpa anybody remember Pete mhm i mean I miss the guy every day i mean he was just uh such an amazing person and only he could talk me
um to leaving that life to come be a county attorney which is the greatest thing I ever did um and besides marrying my wife of course i mean she's watching um I'm sure she is everyone watching never miss watching i think
Okay um yeah so then that was uh 2019 and by uh and then in in the middle of summer in 2022 I became the county attorney was elected then that following year and it's just been a great experience you
know I never would have thought I'd be doing this when I graduated from law school i went in a complete opposite direction but I just love the job so So is Bethany your boss too well um my commissioner actually so I mean it depends how you look at it okay yeah boss is then I think you're we're her
boss exactly i mean we're believers in democracy yes getting rare these days no I'm thrilled to have her too i mean some big shoes with Phil but doing it aly and a lot of charm and grace has kind of start the new process i think he meeting with some
folks tomorrow I believe but unfortunately I can't go but talk about juvenile you'll you'll hear just a little bit about that well we have um about 60 people in our office now believe it or not so about half are
lawyers and half are legal professional support staff um we have a half a person who is um kind of back on a maternity schedule for a few years and uh so we're growing i think that's kind of a reflection of the times as
well so our our criminal division I'm not sure why they have the where the next slide is showing let me just see what's going on here [Music] okay
sorry about this i'm usually the guy that says next slide next slide yeah we lost your signal somehow all right um but we'll just go like this um and I'll wing it um I'm joking
so you know for us for me but I think I speak for the office that um you know we we feel like we can do a lot of good in society um and there's a lot of ways to do it but the most important thing Did we get no signal here yeah harrison should we just switch to the camera then
or uh yeah you know what i mean just give me a second here i don't want to take up too much of your time but I think if I um do here maybe I think did Here we go oh right as soon as you got there isn't that how it
always works perfect we're perfect you're very powerful you should stop at my house walks in and everything starts working great um so the uh but what what I was saying
here is that um you know we believe that one of the most important things we can do not just as a law enforcement or prosecutor's office but as a society is that people need to be held accountable or need to hold themselves be accountable to the laws of our society
it's a it's a nation of laws we don't have to put everybody's head on a pike you know and and but everything should be in proportion but we really feel like you know accountability is an important part of what we do um and we try to do that with a lot of
um you know specificity to which each of the needs are of the people um and so a lot of times it's not incarceration and so we have other programs that I'll talk a little bit about but I do think that the the most important concept is sort of the theory that I have is when we're
working with people you know who've been convicted of a crime or going through the process and we're looking at is this a person who's you know rehabilitation some training some diversion that sort of thing i don't want to put an undue risk on the public and make that sort of
rehabilitation happen on the backs of someone's next door neighbors you know so I'm kind of I want to be really careful that as we look at what it means to try to work with someone at time you're not the ones who are paying the price because you could be the next victim so public safety is a
consideration we think a lot about you know kind of the first and sometimes I feel with some of the prosecutors um they might get a little bit bent toward the direction of you know wanting to reform individuals at the expense of public safety in society and so I'm mindful of that line um but I don't want
you know people to think that we're we're about locking them up and throwing away the key i mean very much a lot of what we do is working with uh defendants um to to get to a place where they can um you know get another
chance but I will show you over the last decade the number of complaints that we've had and you'll see that you know 10 years ago we were at 820 and now we're at you know
1,170 and interestingly enough and this is this is the criminal this is the adult felony complaints right um so when you look at um you know 2019 at the peak you know that's actually before CO you
know a lot of that is before CO and so when you get into 2020 you know you're pretty high but then you know 2022 you know so you'll see it's different with the the juveniles but um and it's not this isn't based on like a per capita or anything this is just
straight numbers so that could affect it as well yeah okay everything we get is we don't have an investigating arm so everything we get is from law enforcement so they'll make the arrest the you know the booking and they'll decide what charge they want to refer to our office for review so everything
comes to us on referral and then um you know and about 75% of those cases are cases that we will then charge and that 25% about a quarter moves for a lot of different reasons sometimes you know there just isn't enough evidence sometimes you have
victims who are unwilling to testify which actually happens quite frequently in domestic abuse and and crimex cases um and um and a lot of those things is really hard to to prove if you don't have a you know the victim is willing to tell their story but that happens with
other victims as well sometimes you know the autothefts once the insurance money kicks in and they have a new car they're really not interested in eight months later coming down and and for the good of of society telling their story and they just want to move on with their life um so that's just examples we have other times that we have federal
prosecutions that may be going on there might be multiple jurisdictions where things are happening so something might wind up in Dakota or In Noa um and so you know but I think a 75 um you know charge rate is is uh pretty high and
pretty respectable in the in the in the metro area um talk a little bit trans i'm kind of going to blow through have a longer presentation but I'm mindful of the time here um yeah we're we're well over our 15 minutes for our open forum time we have Patrick waiting as well i'm in I'm
in I'm in like 6 minutes now 7 minutes I think so I'll blow through this really quick okay um you can see you know total felonies we we had that number there um so the homicides that's pretty been pretty typical the last you know five six years
hey there was a time when people you know would talk about there being you know usually just one a year um but uh but that's about right now this includes manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicides and so if you're talking about firstdegree intentional you know or seconddegree intentional you know it's
probably again to the one or two a year the the stuff you think of as classic murder autothefts are for me kind of a barometer of what's going on particularly with with juveniles and this is only adults we'll get to juveniles in a second um and the the uh
criminal sexual conduct number first of all most of the wants that we're going to charge are going to be on the on the more serious side for second and third degree um and that increase or I should say that reduction in 2024 that is actually just the variance between years and that's one of those
things where it just sometimes it just works out just different factors it's hard to to draw any conclusions from any changes in society from that number but auto theft which includes joy riding you know unauthorized use of a vehicle
but also receiving stolen property that's a vehicle because a lot of times you know we don't catch them in the carjacking you know or I should say the theft but when they do come into Washington County they're in possession of a stolen car and we can tie the car
we know that they don't own it we know that it was stolen and they're the ones who have it so they're receiving stolen property and um you know and that gets to be uh a bulk of what we're looking at but so these are autotheft related cases
that include um everything um now carjacking um as of 2023 was a new statute so everything's just charged under the normal theft law not specific to auto automobiles except carjacking because they really wanted to send a
signal you know and have higher um penalties and things for the carjacking crime fortunately we have not had a carjacking since 2023 or in 2023 or 2024 and in 2025 the last one was uh we only had one in um uh in 2022
so this is this is a slide that I always want to show because I think it tells you how people respond to encounters with law law enforcement tells me a lot about kind of where we are as a a society at least you know here um people
in Washington County um and this is it's not it's not as dramatic the numbers aren't proportionally as high as in other parts of the metro but you know you can see how in 2018 we're looking at 35 you know and in 20 uh 22 you know
we're peaking at 111 that's just a lot of people who are deciding they're going to take their chances and then it's starting to drop but it's still really high and I think that you can ask yourself what's going on in society that people are willing to take that chance now or are they even
comprehending you know the chance that they're taking i I get the sense that there's just a higher degree of unreasonleness in in some of the crimes that we're seeing than maybe we have in the past and I'm hearing that from the prisons too you know that they're seeing kids throw down over things that they're
going to go they're going to be punished in the system but they're not even thinking about that you know at the moment they get into a fight and they're finding that that's a newer um trend and I it's something I note when I'm looking at these uh these fleeing numbers um big
part of what we do a really big part of what we do and I'm really committed to it is um is law enforcement training um and Glamour's got a great program too they charge for theirs I believe so a reasonable fee a reason very um and you get some wonderful and talented people
there but we are providing as part of our core mission a lot of law enforcement training um as well and we only do it um you know in Washington County as opposed to national or international now training which is pretty impressive
i think we have time for just a couple more slides i don't know if there's certain highlights that you want to hit or because I think you had like 18 slides we're not even halfway through here um um the um the uh so the Eastb Human Trafficking
that's our sex trafficking task force um you know we had a sting the Friday before last right after the um uh the sting that was in in in Bloomington of course ours you know these are plans months in advance so we
weren't copying them but it does show how important that is and and we're fortunate because it's a just like in Bloomington these are local task force you know and if you get away like BCA or larger they tend not to be as focused on an area they're more focused on the big cities and that sort of thing and so
that's why this task force is really important but one of the things that we've done is really focus on runaways in the last couple years that's been something that I'm been working quite a bit about and I and I feel strongly about it um so in 2024 so there's a grandmother a 14-year-old girl who's
from Cottage Grove reported her 14-year-old uh granddaughter missing um and uh so our they contacted us and we have a lot of specialized technology law enforcement um in our task force and they were able to track her through the
text now app that she was using and they um had a had a location hit um that said she was at Boy's Motel in Newport they went there and they found this this 14-year-old girl alone in in laundry sitting on this bed in a hotel room and she'd been there for seven days um and
she had been assaulted by a 37 year old man um that she met online um and you know and that if you if you know about runaways and that in that journey into um that that oppressive life you know those beginning days are so critical um
and I'm gonna these are some of the people that picked up his things but this this is a this is an older photo from a from a national magazine but I find this is the same person so to the top left is the first picture and the bottom right is the
final picture and there are lots of these kind of uh series of photos that u show just how awful um this life is and that's why a big part of what we do is we'll two
usually do two stings together we'll do the sting to get the the um the buyers or predators but then we'll try to do one to go recover the victims and there we're not looking to charge anybody with a crime we're just looking to try to find somebody you know
and be able to say "Okay can we get your pimp?" And that sort of thing but also you know what can we do to get you out of this lifestyle and if I say there's one area where I think we really still need a lot of public um you know interest if people look you know what can I do and that is supporting those
groups that are trying to help these women usually women get you know out of that life and that's group home that's you know financial support other kinds of things you can't put them in a in a you know in a in a shelter someplace and expect them to you know be able to put
their life back together um it just it takes a lot um I'm gonna go really quick i'm gonna skip some of this i just do want to show you so this is the motor vehicle theft for for juveniles um there you can really see the effect
that CO had i mean this is what happens when you have a bunch of kids with an iPhone you know hanging out sort of in school um so here is a uh a car in Woodbury that um they they did a pit maneuver pinned it up against a tree here's a kid running with a gun in his hand and
that's one of the reasons we take this so seriously because you know they are so this situation is so dangerous um you know and here they run take the gun with them um and uh I don't have to tell you because
everybody understands the the problem um of what was that but I will say the entry level crime used to be you know probably we were kids or even up to 15 years ago you know kids were smoking dope or shoplifting or doing something that you know underage drinking you know
now joy riding is kind of the entry level crime so if somebody steals a car the friends piled in they're 13 14 years old you know and then then they use the car to commit crimes and so they'll stop and they'll get the the new kid to go
commit a crime and then that cycle starts pretty soon he's going to do the KIA challenge uh as well our civil division um so I'll just stop we fortunately pay for it is a pretty safe place we don't have a ton of interaction um as
prosecutors with Forks and Bayport and I think that's something you're probably pretty happy with i would be pleased we uh my civil division chief just um met with a um a group of seniors a few days maybe beginning last week it's like a community thread yeah um and it was a
good it was a good you know we do a lot of this kind of stuff and we love it we're talking about the extreme risk protection orders that's the the red flag law that was recently passed um and the idea behind that is if you feel like someone's mentally ill you have a credible uh credible allegation you know
based on that allegation you can have those firearms removed so the person doesn't injure themselves or others we thought when that law passed we just get hit but we've only had a couple here and you know there was one where you know the guy went to a therapist and told the
therapist because he knew something was wrong that he had a gun in the car and he wanted to kill a therapist or kill his family and you know the therapist was able to get the receptionist to call the police and and there you know we did an extreme risk protection order and now we're going through the process of uh
having the mental commitment issue and trying to figure out now how severe is mental illness and what does he need to get the help um and I actually have um I feel pretty positive about that individual that be able to get the cases to get the health that he needs so we've
only had three felonies in 2024 from uh Bport and that's partly because your esteemed council here handles the misdemeanor gross misdemeanor or maybe not you but your firm I believe right my firm not myself yeah um but
representative of the firm um and uh and that's no small thing i mean the city's handled the bulk of that kind of crime that affects a lot of people on a daily basis um and again Bayport's a pretty safe place given the level involvement that we
have so thank you it says that I that was exactly 15 minutes so well it's 50 minutes for the whole time but that's okay we We allowed you We got you first and then Yeah so now we're Yeah well where like if people would want to like
this presentation where could people that are interested in these kinds of things where That's a great question um and I have a QR code it's not with me unfortunately but um if you can go you go to our website or look me up in my office there's a there's a place to request presentations um but if you have
any trouble finding just call the office front desk they'll get you to me or my assistant or the person that handles our um community outreach stuff and we'll definitely anything you want to talk about within reason all right thank you all right thank you very much
thank you for coming all right um anyone else that'd like to come to the podium now's your chance hi uh evening mayor and councel Patrick
Mcan man 19 point road if we could get the overhead camera [Music] so um Harrison did you hear we need the overhead oh let's see i don't know who else is in there
he He must I think he's got a tree no he just has a visual on the Is there like a camera above that you can turn on no you have to use the Oh we can't do that anymore oh oh this Oh yeah the other thing the other
technology always available other thing i don't remember how to use it either the camera there break it is it something that we could pull up on a computer Patrick like if is it a map of something i just have some you know what I mean like like if Matt could pull
up Google Maps and just show it or something i don't know and then this is a street view you just want to show these two of like right here okay if you put this on flick I can put it up on the TV yep oh bring Google up oh okay
something we can look at on Google Maps like on our That's what I thought or maybe if Matt could do it and then put plug his computer in or something i don't know sorry i always thought when you were on the council we had that right you just had a camera up above yeah
so um I'll try to be brief here uh what I'd like to ask if the city can help out with a safety issue along Point Road if you're familiar with Point Road it's off of 95 it kind of winds its way back in the neighborhood um past Anderson and
the power plant and there's a particular stretch along there uh it's a curve along Anderson Bay where there's uh pretty heavy vegetation along that curve ah um there's a cable barrier between
the road and the trees and there's not a whole lot of leeway there coming around that curve visibility is very very low and um the uh there's a lot of uh residents and non-residents of Point Road who like to walk and bike uh there's people who like
to fish there i like to run with my dog and um the speed limit posted speed limit is 20 i've seen vehicles go in excess of 30 along there thank you yep thanks Matt
um and I I don't have a speed gun on me but I wouldn't be surprised if people are doing 40 along there uh if some of that vegetation could be trimmed back or removed yeah the other direction perfect right along there so you can see on the left is where uh all the vegetation that
and that is for sure city property i just I can't I don't know relative to everything else around there it's not like um Excel's property or anything where that is that would be Excel property to the left Anderson to the right I believe okay but we would have the right of way to have to clear that
as a city madame Mayor it would depend on how how wide the rightway is yeah exactly okay okay um so you know I get through there quite a bit obviously there's uh buckthornne ash trees that are dead or dying there's some climbing vines on there or some other what I
would call undesirable vegetation mhm and there's a row of pine trees along there too if they could just be trimmed up or thinned out I think it would go a long way i'm just concerned there's going to be an incident along there okay with the visibility and how how people
like to use that so okay thanks for bringing that to our attention yeah thank you for the time see you thank you for waiting through all the rest of it did you learn anything i thought it would be a good educational yeah so you know your dad used to sit up here uhhuh
he told you well thanks for coming to visit us thank you thanks Patrick thanks guys thank you all right have a nice evening okay i don't think any Well there is someone else here are you would you like to come and speak to the council okay
bethany she just Bethany did not want to speak she just came to observe okay um so now we will move on to the consent agenda we're going to consider resolution adopting items 1 through 10 the March 3rd uh workshop and
regular city council meeting minutes march payables and receipts march building plumbing mechanical and zoning permits report special event application from Anderson Parent Group for the Razledazzle Carnival on May 2nd special event application from Bayport American Legion for the Memorial Day parade on
May 26th and an application for a short-term rental license from Carla Estz at 4967th Street North replacement of beach retaining wall at Lakeside Park automated license plate reader
policy for the police department and renewal of the boat trailer parking agreement with Anderson Corporation do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda i move to adapt the resolution approving the
consent agenda as presented second all right thank you Katie and John roll call vote please council member D i council member Gilmer i council member Hill i mayor Hansen i no public hearings no unfinished
business we have new business that is to consider authorization to proceed with the hiring process for a full-time fire chief matt's going to present this item and I just wanted to point out that we did um discuss this at our workshop prior to the meeting and had a chance to ask any questions
and there were very few so thank you Madam Mayor members of the council um as the mayor already mentioned this was um a workshop item and so we discussed it um just to go over some of the wider
parameters on it um the city staff and fire committee um which is made up of fire personnel and also um a council member um collaborated on the job description um and the job summary for
this position um it was created well it was made a necessity when the current uh part-time chief Alan Agazinger um submitted essentially his uh potential resignation or retirement um here uh
coming up um he in the short term he did fill an interimm role for us um which is set to end roughly around July 2025 um so we um looked for other entities that had a similar um job um such as the
full-time chief and um the on paid on call firefighters um this is kind of becoming a thing um currently and there was a number of them within the um metro area that um we used to uh uh support
this job description so uh essentially after the review um a couple of reiterations um we feel we're at a good spot with what we have um and looking at um approval for the job description and
then also authorization for staff to move forward with the recruitment um it will be the intent to have someone in place um roughly about the same time when um uh the current chief Eisinger
plans to step down all right thanks Matt do we have a motion to adopt the job description and authorize the hiring process for fulltime fire chief so move thank you John second all right thanks Ethan all those
in favor i I anyone opposed all right let's uh hope we get a lot of good applicants all right city council liaison reports katie do you want to start uh yeah so I had BCAL meeting um they are getting another free little
library and they're putting it in Village Green by the school and the Yeah so that came in the mail and they have it um no one has put it together yet so they're going to see if they can put it together or drop it off for public works to maybe
help Simon um the Easter egg hunt is on Saturday April 19th at 10:00 a.m this is babies through fifth grade so they wanted to make sure it said through fifth grade not through it was an age
before okay um and then the bar crawl is going to be May 10th that's noon to 5 um they're still working on a band and where it's going to end because they like they're trying to rearrange it every year so
each business can have the ending be at their place mhm um and then also they would like to know if city council would like to scoop ice cream on the ice cream social day that's June 4th it's a Wednesday um it would be like half hour
time frame that you sign up for yep so I'm I will be there perfect there's at least two of us then i think Carl said something that he would do so if this evening starts usually at 6 yeah so yeah
you're probably Yeah you then probably can't i probably can okay perfect i'll relay that thank you yeah well there you like a sign up genius thing we have to actually Okay great madam Mayor yeah can I interject here um you want a scoop ice cream don't you you
can have my spot i knew it i'll eat the ice cream i don't know about scooping it um as far as the Easter egg hunt um at Barker's Alps just know that um uh today uh public works took down the signs for the parking on
the north side of the of Fifth Avenue so we're allowing parking there there's a baseball game actually tomorrow that will be occurring um Carl Anderson will be putting up a couple of um watch for pedestrian signs oh good on each of
Fifth Avenue but we're not doing anything exclusive like providing a crosswalk or anything like that um we might have some directed patrols potentially if we can try and coordinate maybe during the Easter egg hunt or even during baseball games to um just make
sure people are are acting appropriately through that yeah we want everyone to be safe is there a way I mean there it isn't road construction but um that we can leave some signage up just now that there is that north side parking
closer to your mic i don't know just to keep keep it a safe situation but yeah certainly on those events like the Easter egg hunt and obviously they're not going to probably be able to make every baseball game or softball game and stuff but that's a huge opportunity for
something bad to happen and I would be feel awful yes somebody who's injured because we're building a school in town so I don't know what could be done necessarily but yeah as I indicated they'll be putting up a couple of signs on each end for watch for pedestrians um
it's just more signage right um I would think that having police out there um just doing a couple of patrols is definitely better than signage um yeah if there's any other ideas out there on on stuff that we'd be open to doing
Absolutely so thank you yeah thanks i think people just have to be mindful they're crossing the street okay um John did wershed meets soon it doesn't or did you have one in between we I had a last minute
emergency and could not make last month i didn't see anything in the minutes that were super Okay bayport related but I have a meeting this Thursday is Bethany there she could update no I'm just kidding because I think you're on that too aren't you yes okay and I think I'm still your alternate so if you do
have a last minute thing you can always try so like I mean calling you at the last last okay I won't I it's better than not sending anyone if we can make wasn't there either okay you want to do you have uh any cable commission updates i do not yeah
we haven't we haven't met since the last time okay and then um Carl did send a note that the Lake Elmo airport advisory didn't meet um and but he did go on the tour of the recycling and energy facility and enjoyed that the rest of us
um I have a few things as usual um I did set up a meeting and chatted with Melissa Taphorn from the Washington County CDA Community Development Agency after attending the Greater MSP Partnership event with Bethany who just happens to be here in our audience
tonight um just wanted to better understand how the county and this greater MSP partnership work together and then how that could benefit Bport and so she helped me get a little bit more of that background um really for now I'm not sure there is much that they can help us with but at least now I
understand that um did have some calls to keep the um walkability grant moving forward with um Simon and um our partners at Safeep and SPAR uh St paul Area Association of Realtors contact so
that's all in place as you may have seen we have a a study out among for the residents to participate give their thoughts before we actually do the real study study just to talk about a little bit about like how any places that
they're maybe seeing gaps in how we're connected and I'm especially interested in connecting um our inspiration development to the rest of Bayport and everybody to our businesses and our parks and any um secret trails that we don't know about things like that i
think it would be great for us to know what's out there um we don't have any money to actually implement any projects but we're at least going to know what's happening and we could possibly work that into a future project someday if there's a gap in a sidewalk or things that um we would find
helpful eric why are you looking at me like that i'm just attentive and hanging intrigued but I'm like you look like you had something to say okay just checking i I was looking at the other council members when they were reporting were they Okay good okay all right so uh we're going to be meeting with Safeep
who's doing the study in early May so um Simon and I will be doing that and keep things moving i also had the opportunity to meet with a resident who reached out and was just wondering how he could be more involved in the community and civic affairs and so I thought for others who
are interested in that I would let you know that we talked a little bit about the planning commission which is now complete right we have all the seats filled but that we will have um expirations of terms coming up the library foundation is always looking for people we we have firefighters that we
need right Alan um and then also joining local clubs like the Bayport Community Action League or the Afton Bayport Lakeland Lions who both do great things in our community and then I also just encourage this person to make sure that they receive the communications from the
city so signing up for our e um email notices and then um engage with us if there's topics of importance to them i also had a chance to meet with Derek Jagger the new executive executive director at Community Thread um we
discussed ways to bring more attention to the senior center here in Bayport that's at at community thread and to make sure that it continues to thrive because I think they put a lot of focus on the Still Water location and Bayport sometimes gets left behind so um the
regional council of mayors meeting was the one where the police chiefs are invited uh Chief Jackson couldn't go with me but um we did have many police chiefs in attendance including um Still Water and Ted the mayor we even had
Mayor Fry there whoa yeah it was very impressive um where there was a panel of law enforcement officials that uh so a member of ICE a member from Homeland Security US attorney's office as well as Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the
Ramsey County Attorney we all just heard from our county attorney and I had just recently seen statistics from there and they're similar story with the the really uh emphasizing the drop in the car thefts so that was interesting um and the the upside the other side of
that is that there's an increase in lararseny at least in Ramsey County due to greater police presence so there's maybe not more crimes being con committed but more people being caught is kind of the way he would frame that i think um Matt and I had a Zoom call with
a fellow named Will Culie from the Minnesota Justice Research Center he wanted to discuss the viability and future of the Stillwater Correctional Facility in Bayport he first reached out to Mayor Ted Kazowski in Stillwater then realized he had the wrong wrong uh city
so um basically wanted to let us know that they're advocating for a legislative task force at the state level to examine the safety and viability of the prison and also the one in St cloud where they're both overund years old so that's
all we really know at this point but um he's promised to keep us in the loop uh I went to the fire relief association meeting uh we discussed some member training videos that they can watch other resources available uh there's a
new firefighter that joined Luke Swelland um congrats and thanks for committing to do that for us um let's see the treasurer noted that there's been a decrease in the earnings of the funds so far this year which I think
we're all seeing in our savings accounts or our um uh retirements retirements and that's basically what this is is the retirement fund for the firefighters so it's it took a hit but um we're still sound and can work through that
um we also talked about um just having someone come and talk to the council a little bit more about what the relief association does especially the new members like maybe Carl or some you guys might never really understood how it all worked before either so we could add
that as an item um the March leadership in the valley session was a really powerful one again it's so nice that Bethy's here everything is about her tonight so Bethany Cox is in my leadership of the Valley cohort as well um we learned
about diversity equity and inclusion and what that really means um and then we toured Valley Friendship Club and did a lot more than that but it's always a jam-packed day and then the April session so we've already had two leadership in the valley since our last meeting um uh that focused on public
safety and law and we went and heard got to hear a judge from the county speak and it was amazing i wanted to ask him if he knows Judge Freeman she's she's great um so we learned about what a day in her life is like we toured the the
jail we ate some jail food and then we went over the Stillwater Armory and the fire station and did tours and more learning and connecting over there i attended several chamber events as usual um just great to hear about the new
businesses coming in and ribbon cutings for those that have been around a while i was also nominated for the Chamber Ambassador of the Year award this was the second year in a row and the second year in a row that I didn't win but I got nominated so that's pretty nice hey thanks John um so I went to that award
ceremony they give you a free ticket if you're nominated so uh sat next to the guy who did win the ambassador of the year award Randy Gutsman um he's super involved with planning lumberjack days he's done the run still water events he's super guy um welld deserved went to
the library board meeting March 18th i don't really have anything to add you guys all saw Jill's report she's very thorough um we had the fire chief discussion meetings let's see king plant
stakeholder meeting on March 25th um my note here I wrote despite backlash from some residents near the proposed solar farm in Wisconsin Excel has secured agreements with land owners for installing the solar farms and they said everything is on track for switching
from coal generation to solar transmission by 2028 so I don't know if you've been reading about it in the paper but I did ask about that a little bit and they said "Nope we're still good." There is still no decision on what else
could be on the plant site after the switch over because they are still working through um just trying to figure out what needs to stay as part of the transmission of the solar and all that so we don't really know about that yet and then of course we went on the
recycling and energy center tour which was super interesting to watch the grabber pick up your food scraps bag and was Yeah yeah oh and I need to encourage everybody to It's such an easy program you can get
a free container a free You get free bags all you have to do is remember to put your banana peels and your coffee grounds and whatever scraps into that instead of your garbage and then um good things happen to it it becomes soil that is purchased and because their whole
goal is to just to have as the least amount going into a landfill as possible and so that's one way we can do that i think it was I saw two different numbers it was kind of confusing but for sure at least 20% of our garbage can be um food scraps and and put through that process
and right now 10% of residents of Bayport participate in the program or at least asked to receive the bags and hopefully they're actually using them the goal is to get up to 40% by in the first five years I think but we are on track because we just
started we're in our first year and they said they want 10% in the first year but I want to beat everybody else come on babore let's do it so that is my very long report um staff reports matt uh
Fire Chief Eising good evening Madame Mayor and Council members uh for the uh month of March the call volume was 111 compared to 101 in 2024 our 2025 year to date is 316
compared to uh 279 for 2024 uh monthly drills were CPR fire officer and SCBA fire inspections are ongoing and plan reviews uh we had members attending fire officer classes uh escorted the
Pony hockey team uh for the state championship uh anniversaries James Doyle 12 years carl Vendon uh 12 years uh Duth fire officer school we had four members attend that i attended the Baytown and West Lakeland
Township annual meetings one with Bethany see she's everywhere yeah she's everywhere and upcoming events we have FDIC this week uh with that I stand for any questions did you do our annual like
tell us how things went this past year compared to the last year and all that do we We used to do that it's by invitation i mean Oh definitely could i invite you to do that i feel like we've done it like years ago like it's been a
while yeah we we do a we I have a presentation that breaks down and I promise it'll be less than 15 minutes okay totally well yeah cuz you have it ready for the other cities so I assume it would be piece of cake yeah maybe we should slot Allan to do that sometime
when we're not super Every once in a while Oak Park invites me and that so yeah well you went to Baytown too right oh West Lakeland yep in Baytown yeah i'm confused okay thank you does anyone have any questions for Alan no thanks Chief
uh Assistant Administrator Taylor um it's been a busy few months for planning and zoning projects the new school is under construction uh the annexation for the Pratt Homes development Bay Haven is being considered by the state and once approved they will proceed with a final
plat application uh staff is also reviewing preliminary plans for two residential reconstruction projects on Point Road and one project on Lake Street and these are an effort to comply with the flood plane regulations um increasing the elevation out of the
flood plane and these um all these projects will require a variety of variances and conditional use permits um over the past month staff has also been busy with various recycling goals and initiatives and some of these were talked about in the workshop uh co coordinating with the county to offer a
free mattress pickup again this year for city residents um the date is to be determined but it should be rolling out in one of the next upcoming newsletters um allocating county recycling grant funds to offer activities and programming for youth safety camp this summer as well as purchasing new trash
and recycling containers for city parks also we completed a survey to identify what refuge haulers provide services to city businesses and whether opportunities exist for consolidating or cost savings for those efforts um also we did coordinate a tour of the county's
recycling and energy center for the city council um which Mayor Hansen covered uh lastly residents should have received the latest edition of the city's newsletter by now article highlights include the Barker's Elps Woodland Restoration Project pollinator friendly art tips upcoming programs and events
and the mayor's spotlight on several new businesses in town and the next edition of the newsletter will be printed in June stand for questions thanks Sarah you're welcome you skipped some you went out of order okay quick works director worth okay
well thank you mayor members of the council um three things this month uh solar on public buildings update really quickly um they are sourcing components from America and those are taking a bit longer so I did write in here that they
should be breaking ground by end of April um we are still hopefully on track for that um just to be clear it's called solar on public buildings but it's not going on the building nope it's going in the back essentially the backyard of the fire department yes so it is the the
title of the grant is solar on public buildings but we are doing a groundbased solar array okay um as you already mentioned the walkability study i won't go into that anymore um but we did apply or we did send in a letter of intent for the 3M PIFA settlement priority 2 grant
program which essentially um it's we're asking for $1.5 million to uh redevelop the clean water land and legacy property along the St croy um just north of Lakeside Park um that has been submitted
and these the intention of this would be to um beautify the area um and minimize the amount of PIFAs potentially going into waterways and with that I stand for questions all right no questions matt uh Madame
Mayor members of the council just a couple of things um to expound upon um Sarah's mention of Bayport Elementary I was happened to be out there today they're starting utility work um this includes sewer water and storm sewer um so that puts them slightly ahead of
schedule um it is their intent to and I know we've talked about this before but um to um have the parking lot back to gravel here roughly around June so that it could be utilized for 2 months um uh for some of the baseball games softball
games that occur there so um that was the intention all along to make sure that that gets done this first year so that um next year it won't get disrupted um just one other thing uh a little update on Croyale um they actually
purchased two other properties along um Fifth Street um north um their plan is to tear those properties down um the condition of them uh was beyond what they want to do in
repairs um for using use as rentals um currently they have no plan in place at least in the short term on what they plan to do with those lots but um ultimately they will own about it's either five or I believe it's five lots
currently along Fifth Street so with that I will stand for questions okay your update does say a total of five lots so yeah um I swear that the elementary school the parking lot I thought in the
contract said that they could use it for their equipment no good okay so when it's open and there's gravel there we will be able to park on it yeah so an update on that update so what they will do is um once
it is graveled it'll still be um gated all the way around or fenced all the way around they will just open a gate up right at the entrance there with a rock entrance essentially um and then open up another area roughly by the pavilion so
you're going to have to pay attention you'll be able to park there but it'll kind of look like it's still a construction zone they plan on doing temporary fencing in between what will be the gravel parking lot and then the school property so um there'll be a
fence inside the fence so that it's separated okay thank you um and I also wanted to just uh thank you guys for putting the um portaotty up in Upper Barkers i noticed that um a
couple days ago and that's all Simon you have nothing to do with that so that's great um and there are portaotties ready for the Easter egg hunt as well if in case anyone from BCAL asks you katie there okay there's a one just sort of
sitting there right on the walkway someone's giving me this perfect spot yeah it's really not to put it okay what was that no good place to put it yeah apparently not with the construction right now does anyone have any other items or
announcements just for a good of the city thing you know it it's been talked about before police chief's not here but um residents I know everybody's watching can please slow down on surface streets it there's
no reason to be going faster than 20 miles an hour and there's lots of complaints and it's our residents we've I've been told by the chief it's not people cutting through there would be no reason to cut through these um just be careful yeah
thanks okay any others motion to adjurnn so moved a second all right thanks John and Katie all in favor i yay we are adjourned