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Part 1 (Video ID: GBn4Cm0YCgc):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order, Pledge, and Agenda Approval
- 00:01:21: Public Forum Closed; Safety and Public Works Report
- 00:02:12: Direction on Active Code Enforcement Discussion and Vote
- 00:03:03: Fire Monitoring System Proposals and Funding Discussion
- 00:04:56: Awarding Pavement Marking Bids: Sir Lions Lot Discussion
- 00:06:18: City Hall Ephus Repair Proposals and Approval
- 00:07:27: Purchase of Parcel from Crowing County for $1
- 00:08:48: Discussion Regarding Maintenance Plan of Newly Acquired Land
- 00:09:37: Personnel and Finance Committee Report: Dermatology Fee
- 00:10:38: Unfinished Business: Nominations for Committees and Boards
- 00:12:33: New Business: General Obligation Bonds Series 2026A
- 00:13:55: Variance for Parking Lot Entrance at 411 Laurel Street
- 00:16:24: Resolution Approving Resurfacing Projects Plans and Specs
- 00:17:44: Discussion on Resurfacing Project Notification Concerns
- 00:19:39: First Reading of Charter Amendment for Public Utilities
- 00:20:43: Staff Reports: Siren Installation, Chief's Farewell
- 00:22:35: Tree Planting Update and Centerpoint Gas Work
- 00:23:39: Planning Commission and Annexation Agreement Updates
- 00:24:28: Facility Tours, Lead Service Line, Utility Projects
- 00:27:39: Administrator and Mayor's Reports; Park Improvements
- 00:31:23: Council Member Comments and Adjournment


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Council, it is Monday, April 20th, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Council Chambers. >> Tony, please call the role. >> Beans. >> TZak >> here. >> Johnson >> here. Stunn >> here. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Erikson, >> here. >> OD here. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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>> 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. flag code ask that you take your glasses

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off for the pledge or do you just do that? >> All right. Next, we have approval of the agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion by Stunnik. Second by Chzach. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. We have an agenda. Next up, we

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have the consent calendar. This is a notice of public. All matters listed are considered routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless uh good cause is shown prior to the time the council votes on the motion to be adopted by roll call.

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>> Move approval. Johnson. >> Motion by Johnson. >> Second. >> Second by Chzach. Any discussion? Tony, please call the role. >> Chzach, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Stunn, >> yes. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> OD,

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>> yes. Next, we have number six. This is a public forum. This is time allocated for citizens to bring matters not on the agenda to the attention of the council. Time limits may be imposed. So, if there's anybody that would like to address the council at 7:31, we'll

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open the public forum. And if you're online, you'd like to address the council, please, please press star three. >> Okay. >> Don't ask again if there's anybody that wants to address the council.

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There's no one online, Max. All right. And it is 7:32. We will close the public forum. We have no presentations tonight, so we'll move on to number eight, uh, council committee reports. First up, we have safety and public works committee chairman Tad

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Ericson. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President. We've got five items on our agenda. The first of which is direction on active code enforcement. Uh the motion coming out of committee is to uh tow take staff's recommendation and tow the vehicle at 10:05 3rd Avenue Northeast

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and to abate the junk and debris at 80 1805 Norwood Street and I so move >> second motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Any discussion? Yeah, just the the typical that each of these properties have received the one notice um first, second, and third citation and

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um came to our committee. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> All right. Thank you. Our second item is

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proposals um for public works building fire monitoring system. A motion coming out of committee is to uh take staff's recommendation and um following the proposals uh for there's three proposals here. Fire alarm

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system Midwest security and fire in the amount of $10,51. Fire suppression system for summit fire protection in the amount of 75,795. And then for 6 inch water service lines, D Chantel excavating in the amount of

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31,422. Um total amount of 117,268. And I so move. >> Second motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Anything to add to that, Mr. Ericson? >> Uh just that we received these three um

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proposals and took um took the the lowest bids for each each of the items. >> Okay. Thank you. Any more discussion? Johnson. Mr. Chair, I have a question. Are these Is this fire suppression system and fire alarm system add-ons that we didn't do when we

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constructed the building that we're just doing now because we know we didn't do it when we could have? >> These are mostly retrofits to the uh older uh section of the building. >> So, we have fire suppression in the in the new side.

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>> We do not. >> Okay. We're just updating the old side. >> Both. Yep. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> More discussion anybody? >> Mr. President, I think for clarification, there currently is no fire suppression in any part of the

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struct facility, right, >> Mr. Dean? >> Correct. >> Okay. Just so I I the way I understood that you >> Yeah. Thank you, Jeff. Yeah. >> Bringing it all up to code. Okay. >> Any more discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All

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those in favor say I. >> I. Again, same sign. That motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> All right. Then our third item is awarding bids um improvement 2603 the 2026 pavement markings. And the motion coming out of committee is to award the

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pavement markings contract to Sir Lions Lot in the amount of $29,15062. And I so move. >> Second. >> Motion by Ericson. Second by Chzac. Chairman Ericson. >> Uh yeah. So we put out for bids. This is the one bid we received. Um obviously

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for payment markings it is.9% overestimate which I think what can I ask staff a question if I what was the dollar am >> 250 >> 280 >> 280 >> is this a local company >> not not from this area I believe they're

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out of St. call it if I remember right. Okay. >> This is about the only company that provides pavement marking services in Minnesota anymore. They basically purchased everyone else. So, they kind of have a monopoly. >> Sir Lines a lot. >> Yeah. There may be one other, but >> love the name. >> Sounds professional.

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>> Yeah. Love the name. >> All right. Any more discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> Thank you. The fourth item, city hall ephus repair uh proposals. Motion coming

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out of committee is to approve the proposals from Kko drywall in the amount of $16,000. This includes both Ephus repair and the interior drywall repairs. And I so move >> second motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Anything to add, Ericson?

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>> Yeah, this is for basically the stucco uh around the elevator vestibule that's adjacent to city hall. Um there's currently $50,000 budgeted for this work. Um this proposal was significantly under the other two proposals. Um staff

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uh did um feel that they understood the the scope of work and provided photos and provided evidence that they understood the scope of work and are able to perform it. >> All right. Thank you. More discussion. Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All

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those in favor say I. I. I >> against same sign. Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> Thank you. Our last item, purchase of parcel 41250756. And the motion coming out of committee is to accept the offer from Crowing County to purchase said parcel in the

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amount of $1. And I so move. >> Second. >> Motion by Ericen, second by Chzach. Chairman Ericson. >> So this is staff's recommendation. Um, as you can see, Crowing County came back and offered this parcel for $1. This is the cons non-conservation easement parcels that we there was one parcel

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that we agreed with them to turn it to non-conservation. This is the one that we declined to agree because we've got the sewer line running underneath this property. Um both of the parcels that we uh took action on last meeting would go

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to public auction. Since we agreed on the one that's going to go to public auction and we disagreed on this one because we wanted to maintain it um on the public record so that we could continue this um work that we have on the sewer line. Um and again they're

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coming back to to sell it to us for the dollar. Um and staff uh did think it would be good for us to own that um for you know as we continue that work. It's pretty tight. Um you can see the sewer line goes right in the right behind that the neighbor's property there. there. So, it'd be good for this city to have

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legal control over the property. >> Thank you. It's a pretty good deal. Really, a dollar? I'll take it. >> Johnson, >> thank you. I support the motion. I think it's a it's a great deal. It solves both problems. The county doesn't have to deal with it and and we control the land over our pipes. Do we have a maintenance

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plan? Is parks going to be mowing? Is is streets going to maintain it? How how are we going to maintain this? It's in the middle of a densely populated neighborhood. We just can't let it run a muck for 5 years. So, what what's the plan for that? >> Do you guys discuss that or Mr. Dean, if you want to try to answer that?

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>> Our public works maintenance uh does have a handful of different parcels that very similar to this where they do have like a strip boulevard. Uh it's on their uh routine mowing schedule. >> Is public works maintenance the street or the the parks? >> Mostly streets. Okay.

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>> Parks can help out if needed, but usually they're streets groups. They they've got it on the schedule now and or will >> they will if this is sold. Y >> very good. Any more discussion? >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I.

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>> I. >> Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> End of report. >> Thank you, Chairman. Next up, we have Personnel and Finance Committee Chairman Gabe Johnson. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. We had an item on our agenda and it was a conditional use permit fee for Central Minnesota

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Dermatology. And the motion is to reduce the commercial cup amendment fee to $100 for central Minnesota dermatology. And I so move. >> Second. >> Motion by Johnson. Second by Stun Johnson. >> We're reducing the fee because they

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already paid 500 to get the original cup to increase the number of parking spots. After they revised their plans or looked at it again, they thought they needed more parking spots. So staff didn't need to put much time into it. staff thought the $100 covered the time they put in on

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this additional amendment to up the parking spots from James 65 to 90 or something. Yep. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Against. Same sign.

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>> Motion carries. Chairman Johnson. >> End of report. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Next up, we have number nine, the unfinished business. First up is a call for applicants and we have the honorable mayor Bedau. >> Thank you, President Oday. Before we do, I have one nomination for the

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transportation advisory committee. One, Jennifer Milton. >> Move to approve. >> Motion by Chzach. >> Second. >> Second by Jagger. Uh, any discussion on that motion? >> Yes, >> Mr. Chzach.

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>> Let's go transit. >> Let's go transit. All right. Any further discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. >> Against. Same sign. >> That motion carries. >> All right. The following applications are available on our website for the

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commissions and boards. Charter commission two terms expiring 2029. Turn two terms expiring 2026. Economic authority, excuse me, a development authority, one term expiring 2028, one term expiring 2031. Library board, one term expiring 2027. Transportation

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Advisory Committee. There are two terms. Let's say they expire in 2027. And uh yeah, that's it. Thank you. And as council president, I have one open term for the airport commission expiring 2028. Uh one term expiring 2027 on the

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planning commission, another expiring uh 2028, and two terms on the water tower committee. I would like to nominate James Kramer for the one of those planning commission terms.

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>> Move to approve. >> Motion by Johnson, second by Stunic. Any discussion? >> Jumped ahead. >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> That motion carries. And that does it

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for unfinished business. Moving on. Number 10, new business. First up, we have a resolution at 10A, providing for the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds series 2026A in the proposed amount of 13,55,000

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and consolidating certain accessessible improvement projects. And is this one Connie? >> Go ahead, Connie. >> So, um, staff has been working on a spring bond issue. Tonight, a resolution is before the city council to provide for the issuance and sale of the bonds

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as well as consolidating accessessible improvement projects. Included in the packet was a detail of the bond issue. A proposed resolution and pre-issuance report was also included in the packet. And I do believe Miss Chris Hogan from Baker Tilly is also available online to

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answer any questions as well. The recommended action is to adopt the attached resolution providing for the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds series 2026A in the proposed amount of 13 million55,000 and consolidating certain assessable

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improvement projects. >> Thank you, Connie. Does anybody have questions for Connie or staff? >> Not seeing anybody jump. Students making a motion to approve. >> Second. Second by Chzach. Any discussion? Johnson.

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>> Yeah, I won't belabor it too long. I spoke against it last time. I I'm still against it. I support the fire department project. Staff requested a $5.5 million budget item. We didn't touch it. We approved every penny they

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asked for. We budgeted $5.5 million. I can't in good conscious support a $5.9 million expenditure on the expansion. So, I appreciate the work that the chief and Noran has done to bring it down a little and I appre and I respect the

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fact that they're continuing to try and find ways to reduce it, but I can't vote yes on $5.6 million in debt on what was budgeted unanimously by the council to be $5.2 million in debt. That's all I have to say. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson.

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Further discussion? Okay. Seeing none, this is a resolution. Tony, please call the role. >> Chzach, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> no. >> Stunic, >> yes. >> Jagger, >> no. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> OD, >> yes. That resolution carries.

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All right. Next up, we have 10B. This is a variance for an expanded parking lot entrance at 411 Laurel Street. And this is James Cranick, community development director. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh Emily Fairbanks has submitted a request for a variance to expand the parking lot

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entrance at 411 Laurel Street with a 40ft distance to the intersection to allow for incoming and outgoing traffic. Uh the zoning code requires that the driveway entrances be placed 60 ft from intersections. Uh per the findings, this area of the city has been developed for multiple years. This block does not have

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an alley to provide for rear uh rear parking lot. Uh city engineer did review this and has no concerns regarding this request. Planning Commission reviewed uh this request and unanimously recommended approval of the variance as proposed. Uh so with that, staff recommends a motion to approve the variance request to

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expand the parking lot entrance at 411 Laurel Street with a 40ft distance uh to the intersection. With that, I can answer any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Kram. Anybody have questions? >> Quiet bunch. >> Move to approve as presented. >> Second.

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>> Motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Any discussion on that motion? Everybody's shy tonight. Okay. Uh let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. You guys want to go get to the wild

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game, don't you? >> Okay, we can do that. Next up, we have uh let's see. Are we on 10 C? 10C. Resolution 2026, resurfacing projects, approved plans, specs, authorized bidding, and call for a public hearing.

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This is uh city engineer Jesse Dean. >> Thank you, Mr. President. So, attached is a resolution that approves plans and specs and further authorizes staff and WSB to advertise the project for bids. The engineers estimate and plans are included in the packet for you. Uh further staff missed having the notice of the hearing for the last meeting in

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the dispatch. uh letters were mailed to the property owners, which is why we had folks up here testif uh testifying for the project. Uh however, without the necessary publication in the paper, staff's recommending calling for a rescheduled hearing at the May 18th council meeting. Uh the rescheduled hearing would not impact the timeline

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for the project as the council can hold the rescheduled hearing followed by the recommendation of bid award. Uh so staff is recommending adoption of the attached resolution that approves the plans, authorized bidding, and calls for the public hearing at the May 18th council meeting. And then we also have WSB staff

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here to answer questions if so. >> Thank you, Mr. Dean. Does anybody have questions? Mr. Chzac? >> Um, yes. When you say the uh property owners have been notified, um, uh, there's a there's at least one culde-sac where an individual that lives

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over there uh, did not receive one. Is that possibly just something that falls through the cracks, gets lost in the mail? Are those possibilities or >> so staff the requirement that we have is to file an affidavit that the letters did get in the mail and we mail those

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out to the listed property owner. As long as that's up to date, uh that's the best information that we have available to us. If there's a u kind of owner tenant type of relationship, the tenant may not necessarily receive that notification. Uh, so I can't speculate

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on on what the situation was with that individual gentleman. Um, but we do list or send out notices to all the listed owners on the county rolls. >> Okay. >> Anything further, Mr. Chzock? >> Thank you.

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>> Could you explain that to me again, Jesse? The part where you said this is not going to delay the projects. It seems like a month. >> Yep. So we would need this amount of time uh for advertising for bids. Um so the notice of the hearing, we can still

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hold the hearing at the same meeting that we would award the bids. We would just have to have the hearing before awarding the bid. So it doesn't impact the time frame to award the bid. Uh just because of the other time frames that we have. >> Okay. Thank you. More discussion and questions.

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I'll make the motion to uh adopt the resolution approving the plans specs authorizing bidding and then call for that public hearing. May 18th was it? >> Correct. Yep. >> Thank you. >> Second motion by Ericson, second by

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Chzach. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, Tony, please call the role. >> Chzac, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Junick, yes. >> Jagger, yes. Erikson, >> yes. >> OD, >> yes. That resolution carries. And next up we have 10D. This is the first reading of ordinance6001, the

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charter amendment for public utilities chapter. Um, and this is Mr. Broyals. Thank you, Mr. President. At the 14 April joint special meeting, the charter commission did recommend chapter 5 changes to our charter, some language changes. Uh, city

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council at the same meeting then directed staff to draft an ordinance and set a public hearing on forme. The ordinance includes language uh with changes as recommended by the charter commission. Recommended motion is to conduct the first reading of ordinance and dispense with the actual reading.

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Noting of course that the motion to dispense must be unanimous. With that, I'll take any questions. Any questions for staff? Now, we are down one council member tonight. So, I did ask staff this morning if we had to delay the the first

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reading, but it sounds like we can go forward with first reading. We do need all seven present for the second reading. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Chzach. >> Second. >> Second by Ericson. Any discussion on that motion?

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All right. Is this a roll call? Doesn't have to be. All right. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> That motion carries. That does it for new business tonight. Next up, we have staff reports. I know you got something for us tonight, Tony.

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>> Go wild. >> There we go. That's something. >> All right. >> Thanks, Tony. Chief Holmes, um the new outdoor warning siren was installed last week um at front and ninth. So, >> I've heard about it.

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>> There's a new siren. >> Heard it. >> Heard it. That's good. So, the one behind the BN will be removed when BPU has time to take care of it. So, appreciate BPU's time and effort they put into the project for us.

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>> Thanks, Chief Holmes. Chief Davis, how are you tonight? >> I suppose I'm on the hook to say something, right? >> You have to, right? The final address. >> I just let it loose. >> Yeah. Say whatever you want. >> No. No. Um, yeah. Believe it or not, um,

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really is quite bittersweet. Um, I am going to miss to an extent spending 24 evenings a year with all of you. um and sitting at what I affectionately refer to as this kids table over here. Um no, but it's been a pleasure. And in all

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seriousness, I do um want to make sure to mention that as chief, I've always felt um personally as the chief, very um that the council's been very supportive of me as the chief and supportive of the police department in a multitude of ways

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over the last several years and um doesn't go unnoticed and I appreciate it. I know the staff appreciates it and uh just want to say thank you. >> Thank you to you, Chief. We appreciate everything you've done, too. >> Max Hannon,

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>> Teresa, >> Connie Helman, >> Jesse Dean. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh so later this week, we are anticipating tree plantings for the streets and parks. And Alderman Johnson, I'm happy to report that this year will be the first time since I've been here that we've been

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able to replant all of the trees from the original build on College Drive. As long as they don't get hit. >> All right, let's find the next area. >> As long as they don't get hit. >> As long as they >> There's always There's always that. >> But you you've done that. You started it in your time here, too. So, you did the whole

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>> fix the whole street. Mission accomplished. And if you haven't seen the press release, uh, Centerpoint Gas is doing some replacement and relocation work on their large diameter gas man that services both Brainer and Baxter. Uh, so they've closed Oak Street for the work

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and they should have that area restored and reopened to traffic within a week. U, so this is going to allow for the traffic flows when they do the closures on 210 um, that they put in in early May. So we're trying to quick wrap this up and and get their relocations done in a hurry. >> Thanks, Jesse. We still have one more

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meeting left with you, correct? Are you going to be there? >> Okay, James Cranley. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Just a couple items here. Uh, planning commission staff and DNR have been negotiating on items for the Shorland ordinance update,

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uh, specifically to reduce the minimum lot sizes, uh, within the Shorland district, um, and have completed that process. The PL planning commission will be holding a public hearing at the May 20th meeting. Um, so it should be coming to city council soon um for your consideration. Uh, also staff will most

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likely be bringing the orderly annexation agreement amendment draft um to the May 4 city council meeting. Uh, timing will be based on review by our city attorney as well as the county attorney. >> Thank you, James. Attorney Langel, >> nothing here. Thank you.

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>> Britney Cummit. >> Nothing here. Thank you. >> Paul Sandy, >> I got a couple items to report on. Uh, Mr. President. Um we had our facility tours over the last couple of weeks here. Uh many of you were in attendance on those. Um they were very widely um I think enjoyed by all the participants.

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And so um I think we'll be planning for probably another round of those sometime this fall um after construction kind of wraps up while we still have some nice weather. Um a lot of city staff, council members, commission members. We had a kind of a wide array of people attend those. And I think there was um

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definitely, you know, when people get in those facilities, they see the size and scale and why things cost so much um in a real hurry. And so I think it was very beneficial for everyone from a staff to a council member to see those facilities. Um second item uh is the

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public utilities commission had a special meeting here last week on Friday uh to award um our first two lead service line contracts and that was for the Ronald and Joseph Alley project. Um, we've sent out quotes. We got quotes back and Treader Excavating will be

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performing that work. Um, and our two other lead service line projects are, uh, being solicited right now, um, with bid award to come at the May commission meeting. On the next commission agenda, um, it's been a while since you all heard about our, um, professional

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engineering and architectural pool for our on call services. Um, we received 33 proposals uh from across the 15 service categories, which is why it's taken staff so long to get this back um in front of the commission, the park board,

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and the city council. Jesse and I are finalizing scoring. We received all the fee schedules last week. That'll be coming before the commission and the park board and finally to the city council for final approval. Um, very huge success. We have a lot of interest in doing work for the city of Brainard. So, really good news there. Um some of

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the other things on the agenda for the public utilities commission will be the um section 705 water system draft ordinance will be reviewed by the commission at their next meeting. And um an exciting project for the utility. Um as you recall, we've been working

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through our um reclaim backwash tank at the water treatment plant here for the last few years. That project went out for competitive bids um and the commission rejected those because they came in substantially over budget and we transitioned to a construction manager

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at risk uh type delivery method. Um we've been working with Rice Lake Construction Group for the last oh eight nine months or so on um scoping down that project and getting it to a point that fits within our currently allocated budget for the project. Um the

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commission will be reviewing the guaranteed maximum price at their next commission meeting um and hopefully moving forward to the construction phase of that project um to commence probably in July this summer. So um those are a couple of the items on the agenda. There's a few more, but they're um a

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little less juicy than than those few items. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Sandy. Um let's see. We got Eric Sharpened here online. Yes, nothing this evening, Mr. President. >> Thank you, Mr. Sharpener.

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Administrator Broyals. >> Just a couple comments. I'm sure I won't be the last, but um it's always hard to say goodbye to people. It's exceptionally hard when it's a very, very good person. Uh John is a good man. So, I will miss you, John. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for your

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friendship. And I just uh I would pray God's continued blessing and favor over you and your family. So, best of luck to in your next adventure. Thank you for your service. >> Thank you, Administrator Broyals. >> Mr. President, >> Mr. President, >> can I just ask kind of a point of order

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question? Was there something about a resignation on the uh utility commission we missed? >> It was on consent packet. >> Oh, I apologize. I thought we >> consent. Correct. >> Sorry about that. >> No problem. Next up, we have the honorable mayor Bedell. Well, I would be

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aiss to not mention the loss of our chief as well, but uh we got plenty of days left to go after that. So, I I'll embarrass you later. Uh from my official capacity as liaison of the parks, the

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park department and the park board, I would just want to say that we are coming into another glorious year here in the city of Brainard. And I will say that of all my years here with the city, I think that we are in the best position to see the fruits of our labor, uh, the

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last handful of years, we've really buckled down in what we're trying to do in terms of reducing the scope of large projects and get down to the brass tax of trimming up the trees, cutting the grass, making sure we have a nice base of things. I will say this, last year we

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saw the first of the Bedau BMS go into place. And so those are wonderful units that you can see at Buffalo Hills and other places in our wonderful city. If you don't know what a burm is, it is a perfect perfect spot to sit on, roll down if you're a kid, watch a baseball

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game. Fantastic. Here's what you do. You take a bulldozer of some sort and you just push some dirt into a hill and then you throw grass on it and you call it a day. It's amazing. It's one of the greatest things that's ever been invented. But, uh, they've been put into

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place and my god are we not ready to see those babies get used. So, I'm really excited for the park board has their meeting tomorrow. But I just want to say to that whole staff, uh, I know that we're coming into our busy season of the year, but I want to thank all of them for what they've done in the last

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handful of years because honestly, I I think we're reaching a point with our parks where they are really starting to shine and that takes a lot of hard work. So to everybody that's put in the hard work for that part of it, thank you. For everybody that will put in all the hard work coming forward for the summer, I

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want to thank you as well. So ready to ready to use the parks. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> What's the movie coming up, Mayor? >> The movie coming up on May 8th, I believe, Friday, May 8th, Jurassic Park. >> Ladies and gentlemen, there's a thing

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called PG-13. This is a PG-13 movie. Be aware PG-13. I think we've all seen Jurassic Park. I think we know the trappings of Jurassic Park. This is a Steven Spielberg project, which means there are going to be some things that are a little questionable for the youngsters. At the

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same time, if we don't get a James Cranic or a Jesse Dean or a Connie Hilman in a Tyrannosaurus Rex costume running through the park in the middle of this, I think we failed. >> Can't wait. Are there plans for more Bedau burial

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melons? I mean, BMS. >> Bedau BMS. It's It's TM trademark. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Stunn. >> I'll second Tony's motion about go wild. Okay, >> you take the role.

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>> Any discussion on that? >> Thank you, Mr. Stunick. Mr. Chzi. >> Uh, yes. I would echo that. Go wild. And also, I have kind of a short riddle. A very good friend of mine I think originated. It is very short. What did communists use to light their homes

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before candles? >> Electricity. >> Thank you, Mr. Chzac. Mr. Jagger. Uh thank you. Uh really nothing here. I just would like to say thanks Chief Davis for every all of your service. Much appreciated. Um and believe it or not, uh May marks the beginning of our

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2027 budget talks uh at the airport next year. So uh we are um hoping to be ahead of the game and uh hopefully I'll have some feedback at uh our next meeting. So that's all. >> Thank you, Mr. Joerger. Chairman Johnson. >> Yeah, I I just want to echo everybody's sentiments. Chief Davis, you know, I

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appreciate all of your years of service in the in the department, but personally working with you as you as the police chief over the last few years has just been an absolute delight. You're a professional. You handle things to a point where everybody everybody involved

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is satisfied and and you put in a lot of hard work and a lot of extra work and it hasn't gone unnoticed and it's really appreciated. and Naz Reed still here. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Chairman Ericson. >> Yeah, just that the region five

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development commission meeting is coming up this Thursday. I'm the leazison there. So, looking forward to attending and participating in that meeting. And then just was going to mention too, I got invited to um participate in meetings for u a group called Brainer for All Ages. And so, I've been meeting

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with them. I think we all know Shane. Shane's been kind of leading that group. Um, a lot of the members of the group were on our former walkable bikable committee. And so that's kind of while it has a larger scope than just walkable and bikable. Um, that's kind of their

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one of their main focus. Um, one of the things that they brought up and I discouraged them from this is they were talking about recreating that committee that we used to have. And I I kind of let them know that, you know, we have a hard enough time filling the committees that we already have. But I did

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encourage them that individually, especially with their walkable and bikable focus, we're looking for a transportation advisory council member. And so I encourage them to to get on to those committees. And they were really resp receptive to that and they they understood that, you know, probably

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won't be able to form a new committee. So, um, and I think, um, there's they're putting together a lot of good goals and recommendations, and I think, um, we'll hopefully be hearing more from from them, and I think we can maybe have them see what they can do as far as

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implementing our old walkable bikable plan. So, >> thank you, Chairman Ericson. That I believe that was a ad hoc committee, correct? Which those are those committees are formed by the council for a specific purpose. Once they serve their their purpose >> and complete those tasks, then they

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usually dissolve. >> We do have we do we do have plenty of spots available on multiple committees. >> If they would like to apply, we would appreciate that. All right. I'm going to not repeat everything that everybody's already said

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about you, Chief Davis, but you know, I've loved working with you, and I think I think Chief Stunnick knows that once you're a chief, you're always a chief. So, I'm probably always going to call you Chief. It's been it's been a great time. Thank you for everything. >> Now you can run for office. >> Yep.

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>> A lot of you can run for office. He shakes his head. No. >> I saw in our agenda there was a Davis drywall. I don't know if that's him or not. >> Starting drywall. Yep. Yep. He's starting a drywall company. >> Business cards here. >> All right. Thank you everybody. With that, we're just looking for a motion.

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>> So move. >> Second. >> Motion by Stunnick, second by Johnson. All those in favor say I. I. Same sign. We are adjourned.