We'll call to order. Briner City Council. >> It is Monday, August 3rd, 2026, 7:30 p.m. in council chambers. Tony, please call the role. >> Johnson >> here. >> Stunn here. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Evans, >> here. >> Chzach, >> here. >> OD >> here.
>> Please 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. Next up, we have approval of the agenda. Mr. Chzach, do you have an additional? >> Yes. Um, President OD would like to add an item on the mini roundabout discussion and perhaps at the end of our two items on safety and public works or wherever you like. >> All right. Roundabout discussion as number three under safety and public
works. Looking for a motion to approve the agenda with that change. >> Second by Chzach, second by Bevans. 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
have the consent calendar. This is a notice of public that all matters listed are considered routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no se separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the vote the council votes on the motion to be adopted by roll call.
>> So move to approve. >> Second. >> Motion by Chzox, second by Johnson. Any discussion? >> Tony, please call the role. >> Johnson, yes. Stunick, yes. Jagger, >> yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Evans, >> hi. >> Kazak, >> yes. >> Odicate,
>> yes. Next up, number six, we have 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. It is 7:31. I'll open the public forum. If you're here to bring something up to the
council, please come forward. If you're online, press star three. I'll ask one more time. If you're here to bring anything to the attention of the council that is not on the agenda, please come forward now or press star three online.
We have nobody. We will close public forum at 7:32. We have no presentation, so we'll move on to number eight, council committee reports. First up, we have safety and public works committee chairman Tad Ericson. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. We've got uh now three items
on our agenda. Uh the first of which is active code enforcement. Uh the motion coming out of committee is to obtain an administrative search warrant to abate junk, debris, and blight at 7-Eleven F Street Northeast. And I so move. >> Second. >> Motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Chairman Ericson.
>> I really don't have anything to add to this. Um I think the pictures speak for itself other than maybe to say that they've received the appropriate uh administrative citations and came to committee. Thank you. 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. >> Thank you. Our second item, this is award contract to Brainard Public Library improvements contract. Uh the motion coming out of committee is to uh direct staff uh to move forward with the
2026 Brainer Public Library community access improvement and storage upgrade project. awarding the bid to Hi-Tech Construction of Brainard and the total bid amount of 316,000 and then to authorize the appropriate city officials to execute the contract between the city and high-tech
construction and I so move >> second motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Uh so yeah, you'll recall that um the city received a grant uh from the Minnesota Department of Education August 2025. Um just over $400,000
and this uh project is being funded out of that grant. Um since that time staff went out for bids. Uh they received three bids and hightech being the lowest and um the the one in the amount of 316,000 as you can see. >> Thank you. Further discussion, Chzach.
Um, a [clears throat] little bit unrelated I guess is what was the cost of the um, improvement we did I believe last year or was it in 2024? Does anybody have that rough number for >> Connie? >> The budget amount was 426,000 and I
think it came under budget. We haven't made the final payment yet. >> Okay. Thank you very much. I was just curious. Thank you. >> Jezach Johnson. >> Yeah. I just want to express my appreciation for High-Tech Construction for once again coming under budget. They did the roof project that we budgeted
400 plus thousand and I believe that came in a little bit under budget and looks like we're in a good position here to come in under budget on this year's $400,000 we're spending in addition on the library. So, uh just appreciate hi-tech. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any further discussion?
>> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericen. >> All right. And then our third item, discussion on the temporary roundabouts. I think Jeff, you want to >> Well, I got a lot of calls and people uh
thumbs up, thumbs down, and I was I asked Mr. Sandy if he'd weigh in on some of those things. Um he gave me a little bit of information. I think just general questions. I I think it'd be good for the public to hear because I know there's a lot of people looking at those and good, bad, or otherwise. Uh I was
asking about the cost of those. Could we keep them permanent and those types of things? And I I let Paul know he was fine with giving us some information if you just want to go from there. >> Would that be okay? >> Yeah, I guess you know information-wise, I mean those roundabouts are put in to
keep traffic flowing um on Oak Street. Uh the four-way stops would cause a lot of backups and delays. And so those temporary mini roundabouts were put in as a way to uh keep traffic moving through those four-way stop intersections. when we start talking about um you know keeping those there
permanently, those are really a temporary measure um at this point in time um you know a typical how we would look at a project moving forward if we were to consider those going permanent would we'd probably get a traffic engineer involved and it might behoove us to study these intersections while
the detour is on it um to evaluate how the traffic is moving and how those roundabouts work. Um, the other big thing that comes up with any roundabout construction project is the drainage at those intersections. Those intersections right now are set up to drain into curb
and gutter. Uh, you know, just like a normal four-way stop would. Um, we would have to look at potential storm sewer installation in the center island and things to ensure that there's proper drainage at those intersections in the future. So, I would, you know, if the council is sincerely interested in in
moving forward in um considering making any type of temporary round or temporary roundabout into a permanent project. Um you know, it would be a good time to kind of start maybe the we call it a intersection traffic control evaluation. Um where you get a traffic engineer
involved and they they look at um the warrants at that intersection to see if it meets uh warrants for roundabout installation. uh produce a report. Um that also gives you the opportunity um if the that traffic control meets a certain threshold that opens you up to
potential funding sources to um make a temporary solution permanent in the future. So um you know it's a great conversation point. You know, we'll see how they operate and I've traveled through them multiple times here um over the past few days. Um once the public I
think gets used to them, it seems to be getting better and better as we move. I kind of look at roundabouts as kind of a 50/50 of 50% of the public doesn't like them and 50% of the public does. And so, um, if the council is sincerely interested, it's something that we can,
you know, put a a staff report together, uh, maybe on some of the benefits, um, of that type of traffic control at those tighter four-way stop intersections. Another one that um has been a a problem area, I think, you know, at least in my eyes, is the intersection at Fourth and
Laurel over here on the west side of the bridge. That's another um potentially prime location if these end up being uh a good traffic control uh resource for the city moving forward. That would be the next intersection I would consider
going after. And so, um, certainly if there's questions from the council moving forward on the process and how we would, you know, kind of tackle looking at these things, um, we're certainly all ears and we can provide any information that the council wants to see before we
start thinking about pulling the trigger on a permanent type project rather than what's there today. >> Thank you, Mr. Sandy. I think the temporary roundabouts actually work pretty good. I don't know if I want to talk about adding more projects to Oak Street because we seem to tear tear it up and rebuild it every
other year. Um, but I think it's something to keep in mind as we go through the construction season and use those as detour routes. Mr. Johnson. Yeah, I would like to see the actual costs, the estimate of what what it would cost an engineering and a traffic
study and what just so we can see the numbers on what we'd be getting into to even make that decision as opposed to making the decision right now of going permanent or not. I'll say as a daily Oak Street user, I absolutely love them. I'm not a pedestrian. I think it might
well our setup right now might be tough for pedestrians, but I haven't had to stop in a week and a half. It's been fantastic. So, I I like it and I'd really I'd really like to really like to look into it. >> Just got that implies that he used to stop at the four-way then
>> stopish >> once in a while. >> Stopish. >> All right. Anything else, Mr. Shzai? >> Um, yeah. Going back to some of the things I've heard. I I mean, I I had a longtime friend um senior friend who I've never heard her use bomb before, but when she called me up, that was
thrown out there. Surprised me. And I almost had to stop the world because of that. shocking and uh so angry about it. And then I had other people much in line with what Gabe said, cost it. It seems like it would be less expensive. It works great. There's such a difference variance of opinion. And one guy even
had the wonderful idea of painting that smiley face on it. So aerial views will show that we're a happy city. >> You know, yellow. It's >> already yellow. It's a yellow circle. just a couple of black, you know, I don't >> So there So I I mean I do we if we were to look at observing what's going on,
would that how could I mean there's no way we could take uh like uh GoPros or anything and set them up and do it that way. Could we or anything or I'm just throwing that out there. I mean to observe it, would you just go down there during the morning and evening when it's busy or >> Yeah, I mean we can provide some general
observations, but I mean really, you know, the >> we kind of live and die by the manual uniform traffic control devices and that's where those kind of warrant analyses come in. You're looking at traffic counts during a normal PM and AM peak hourly time. um and making sure
that those intersections meet a warrant for if make sure that that there's an issue that we're trying to address and if the issue is delay time I believe that's one of the warrants and there's other crash history is certainly one of them. I know this intersection of 8th
and Oak Street has had some crash history over the years and so that certainly might um warrant a closer look. Um, I haven't heard of anything at 13th and Oak, but I know Eth and Oak is definitely an area where we've had some crash history in the past. >> Mr. President,
>> yes. >> If uh we like to Gab's point, if we want to see caution, we direct staff to do that, would you recommend that then to make it official to get a >> Is that good? I mean, if somebody wants to make a motion on that, I know we have more comments by Mr. Ericen if we want to wait and
>> yeah. >> The end of discussion. >> That's why I'm asking. Yep. >> Yep. Mr. Ericen. >> Well, yeah. So I just I guess I wanted to clarify Paul too. So this is as a result of or in anticipation of the 210 project them wrapping up the the segment they're on now and moving west the
additional traffic and um going to those two intersections to help with with flow. Um so I guess I I feel like it's important to to let the public know that because it kind of for some it just kind of took them by surprise. Um, but if we're calling them a temporary roundabout, I think we need to be true
to that and just let them be a temporary roundabout before we take action. I'm fine if we look into the costs and, you know, and do a study. But I think if we I don't I guess I'm a little leerary to take any action tonight because I mean it's so new to the community and just
you know there is a lot of um public conversation about it and we're calling it temporary and then now if tonight we stay well they might not be temporary. I think it'll create some confusion. So I guess I would my view is we maybe just
do it study it um but I don't know maybe leave it at that for for now. So >> Yep. Thank you, Mr. Ericson. Any more discussion? We don't have a motion right now. We can leave it as is with just a discussion unless somebody wants
to throw a motion out there. >> I I'd move to have staff come back with cost estimates of what a traffic study and all the necessary steps feasibility report for for making them permanent would be. Nice. Move. >> Second. >> Motion by Johnson, second by Chzach. Any
discussion on that motion? Johnson, >> I'll just say one more. We are doing the east side of Oak Street here in >> 2029. >> 2029 and one of the plans does have a roundabout at 28th Street. >> So, this adding one on like 13th or 8th
could make a better circle and flow for traffic instead of just one roundabout that we are already looking at on Oak Street. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any further discussion? Um on on that note, may I uh is that are we putting in the one at the uh county road 25 then in Oak
Street as well at that time or is that that's way out there yet? >> Yeah, thank you uh council Chzach that I believe it's entered into the mind either CHIP which is our 10-year plan. Um there's been a traffic control study done at that intersection. I believe it's in their process right now. It's in
the queue. So next 10 years I would say >> but I guess Mr. to further clarify >> the one for the segment on oak that we're discussing is at um Holton or is it 28th 28th that we're >> talking about?
>> So they're potentially the one on 25 and 18 um 28th and Oak >> against same sign. Motion carries. Chairman Johnson. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Next up is the 2027 annual budget timeline and workshop. And the motion out of
committee is to set a budget workshop for Monday, August 31st, 2026 at 6:30 PM in the council chambers. And I so move. >> Second. Motion by Johnson. Second by Bevans. Chairman Johnson. >> Yeah, if you saw the uh agenda request we uh to meet the charter requirements,
the council president, chair, PNF, and city administrator will meet on August 26th to establish a budget that Connie will basically already have done, but she's not mentioned in the charter. and then and then we'll move forward have this budget workshop and then by September
21st we'll be able to set our preliminary levy which meets the September 30th statutory deadline. >> Thank you chairman Johnson Jezach. >> Thank you. Uh you guys consider having this at our first meeting in September because you know we do this every year
and there is pretty much the same amount of time. I just asking because you know we're here first and third Mondays instead of having that special meeting just add another hour to our first meeting of September. Is that was that considered at all?
>> We didn't consider that and I'm considering it now and I I guess it all depends on what the agenda in the first meeting of September looks like on if it would be tolerable >> if we meet the charter requirement. >> Does that meet the meet the charter? >> No. >> Oh no. It's got to be
>> It's got to be by September 1st for the for the >> preliminary >> president, PNF and administrator to present. >> Sorry about that. >> Thank you, Connie. >> All right. >> Stupid charter. >> Any any further discussion on this motion? >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All
those in favor say I. I. >> Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Johnson. >> End of report. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Moving on to number nine, unfinished business. 9A is a call for applicants. We do not have a mayor in the room tonight. So I will
try and get through all these. So for the mayor recommended, there are terms expiring 1231 of said year. Charter commission, two terms expiring 2029 and 2026. Economic Development Authority, one term expiring 2028, one term
expiring 2031. Library Board, one term expiring 2027. Public Utilities Commission, one term expiring 2026. Transportation Transportation Advisory Committee, two terms expiring 2027. And as council president, I have a opening
on the airport commission expiring 2028 and one on the planning commission expiring 2028 and two open terms on the water tower committee. Moving on to 9B, we have the final reading of ordinance 16007 amending section 1200 intoxicating
liquor and section 1000 append appendix A. And I believe this one is Connie. >> Thank you, Council President. Um, the first reading of the ordinance was held at the July 20th council meeting. There has been no changes to the post proposed ordinance since the first reading. The
fee is $6,000 a year plus investigation fee for the Northern Pacific Center license, and the council did opt to forego the public hearing. So, the recommended motion is to conduct the final reading of proposed ordinance 16007 and dispense with the actual reading. We need to adopt a resolution
approving the special law and providing for the necessary documentations to be sent to the state. This is required to make the special legislation law. Uh consider a motion to adopt ordinance 1607 and then a motion to adopt the resolution providing for a summary publication of the ordinance.
>> Thank you, Connie. Does anybody have questions for staff? If not, then we're looking for that motion. Move to adopt a resolution approving the special law and providing necessary documentation to the state administration. >> Final reading. >> Oh, let's do the final reading first.
>> Okay. Motion to conduct the final reading of ordinance607 and dispense with the actual reading by Bevans, second by Johnson. Any discussion? >> See none. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. Again, same sign. Motion carries.
Next up, we're looking for a motion to adopt the resolution approving special law and providing necessary documentation to the state of Minnesota. >> So move second. >> Mr. Beaven, second stunn. >> Any discussion, >> Mr. Chair? Mr. Mr. Chzach,
>> I just want to be known that this just shows how friendly businessfriendly Brainer is. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chzach. Any more discussion? Tony, please call the role. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Junick, >> yes. >> Jagger, >> yes. Erikson, >> yes. >> Evans, >> I.
>> Chzach, >> yes. >> OD, >> yes. That motion carries. Next, we're looking for a motion to adopt ordinance 16007. >> So move Johnson. >> Second. >> Motion by Johnson. Second by Bevans. >> Any discussion?
Seeing none, let's go to a vote. Tony >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Stunick, yes. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Erikson, >> yes. >> Evans, >> hi. >> Chzach, >> yes. >> Odic, >> yes. Motion carries. And last, we are looking for a motion to adopt a resolution providing for the summary
publication of ordinance 1607. Move. >> Second. >> Motion by Stunnick. Second by >> Johnson. >> Johnson. [clears throat] Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I. >> Mr. President, same resolution.
>> We got a resolution for that. Okay, that makes sense. Go ahead, Tony >> Johnson. Yes. >> Stunn. Yes. >> Jagger. Yes. >> Ericson. Yes. >> Evans. Hi. Chazak. >> Yes. >> Yes. That resolution carries. All right. Next up, we have number 10,
new business. 10A is a policy for leased parking lots. And this is administrator Broyals. >> Thank you, Mr. President. The city maintains four parking lots with leased spaces. Various questions have arisen recently regarding notification of lees of downtown events, allow allowable
vehicle types, subleting spaces, and cancellation. Staff developed a short page and a half policy to provide clarity and consistency to both staff and lees. The policy would apply to current and future lees and be distributed in the next quarter billing to all lees. This has been reviewed by
the city attorney. City attorney also recommended that we put these fees in our fee schedule. I concur with that. Um just a couple of highlights. Again, very short page and a half. We just identified the four parking lots. Uh subleting is prohibited. Use of lease spaces for non-motorized vehicles is
prohibited. We provided some definitions, terms and rates. This be first come, first serve. Either party can uh get out of the lease with a 30-day written notice. Council can change the fee schedule with a 60-day notice to the leie and the city's not liable for any damages. Uh that's kind
of the highlights. Um recommendation is for council to approve this short parking policy. Thank you, Administrator Broyals. Any questions for staff? If not, then we are looking for the motion to approve the least parking lot policy. >> So move Johnson.
>> Second. >> Motion by Johnson, second by Stunic. Any discussion on that motion? You guys don't want to talk about parking? Let's just go to a vote then. All those in favor say I. I. Again, same sign.
>> Motion carries. All right, that does it for new business. Moving on to staff reports. Tony Gage, >> Chief Holmes, >> just two quick things. We're in week 12 of the renovation. Things are going very well. Uh short rain delay on Friday, but
other than that, everything's well on track. And um the police department kind of won softball last week, [laughter] so >> kind of >> kind of. But uh no, the mayor did a fantastic job putting it all together and it was a great event. So, just
appreciate his work on that. >> Can I ask him a question? >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Uh, Chief, are there any fire uh danger alerts right now or restrictions on like campfires and that in in the Brainer Lakes? >> No, no restrictions on campfires.
There's burning permits required. Um, and I think it it's kind of changing daily, so just keep an eye on it. >> Thank you very much. >> Chief Holmes, what is the target date for the renovations to be done? Hopefully by the end of the year, maybe early early 2027.
>> So, not not by the open house this year. >> Not by the open house this year. >> You're still going to have one anyway. >> Um, we're still trying to work that out whether we have enough space over at station two with >> Okay. >> space and parking. So, >> yeah. Thank you, Chief Runy. >> Uh, nothing to report. He stole my
thunder on the south. >> All right. [laughter] >> Thank you, >> Sean at it. >> Nothing to report. >> Anything at CLC Max? Teresa, anything at the dispatch? Congratulations, by the way. Big wedding weekend. I heard it was a blast. >> Blast. Thank you.
>> You bet. >> Connie Hilman. >> Zack Suro. >> Nothing bad to ask. >> Welcome aboard. >> Welcome. >> James Cranic. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Just one item here. Um, so I wanted to give an update on 113 Washington Street Northeast, which is the former Kevin Matthews
pottery business, which is now tax forfeit. Uh, city council directed staff to begin legal proceedings for the owner living at the commercial property. he was served and ultimately removed from the property. Um, at a later meeting, city council motioned to clean up the junk and debris in the rear of the building. Um, however, the county is
planning on cleaning up the property on August 29th and demolishing demolishing the building once they fully take possession of the property. Um, staff will continue to work with the county to ensure the timeline will and will update city council um, if anything changes. >> Thank you, Mr. Cranic. >> May I ch
>> uh purpose for demolish it? Just the condition. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Attorney Langel, >> nothing for me. Thank you. >> Britney Comet, >> thank you. Paul Sandy, >> nothing further. >> All right, Eric Sharpener.
>> Nothing this evening. >> Thank you, sir. Administrator Broyals, >> just very quickly, um, very pleased to introduce Zack Sworth out as a public services director. Um, a fantastic addition to the team. We are now fully staffed in our senior positions for
first time in seven or eight months. So, I'm very excited. So, Zach, welcome aboard. We're lucky to have you and uh we're expecting great things. So, uh council, you got a great staff. Um if you need things, let us know and we will take care of it. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Administrator Broyals. Next
up, we have >> We get to skip the mayor's report. >> Oh, yeah. >> Gonna save us quite a bit of time. >> Moving on to council member reports. Start with Stunnik. >> I have nothing. >> All right, Mr. Chzac. >> Yes, thank you. Um, the police and fire
softball game was fantastic again. And I would agree with Chief Holm that the um mayor did a fantastic job. Once again, the police bats were on fire, but the fire department could not put them out. And they all both teams need to work on their fielding. It's it's lacking. Um,
we did two a couple of other things. I believe in a couple of days we're going to have that charter. It's 90 days pass here I think on the 6. So our charter change will be in effect if I'm not mistaken. And also the county board agreed to the airport ordinance. So
that's good news. [snorts] Um that's official I do believe. Is there a waiting period on that? Does anybody know? >> No. >> It's done. Okay. And then um and then that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Chzac. Mr. Beaven. >> Thanks uh Mr. Chair. I spent the weekend
at Gaza Zibi with the Lakes Area Music Festival. Kicked off the opening night on Friday with their big gayla and then Brahms and the Schumans on Sunday. It was absolutely fantastic. If you don't take advantage of that, you're really missing out with some of the most
fantastic orchestra music in the in the glo on the globe. So, uh the other thing is Tuesday National Night Out. So downtown on 8th in Norwood on Tuesday 5:37 and then a
week later so not to conflict with the fair. The Brainer one at Gregory Park will also be on a Tuesday celebrating National Night Out. Thank you. >> Tomorrow night Mr. >> Beans tomorrow night is actually National Night Out. It's also the
opening county fair, right? >> So there's the fir the downtown one will be tomorrow on National Night Out. Brainard's waiting a week. >> Makes sense. >> It does. All right. Thank you very much, >> Mr. Jagger.
>> Yeah. Thank you. Uh, real quick, uh, airport ticker, our summer travels still the numbers are just continuing to increase. So, word is getting out there and, uh, we're we're very very happy and pleased with the how the season has gone so far, adding the morning uh, the morning flights. So, uh, we have an airport commission meeting coming up
this Thursday. So, I'll have uh, you know, hopefully some news to report. our next meeting here, I think 17th. Uh, other than that, I just also wanted to say thank you to everyone that did work on that ordinance on the county side. I really want to extend my appreciation to the county for uh recognizing this
ordinance and and finally adopting it. This is a enormous step forward with the, you know, the relation the relationship aspects between the city of Briner and Crowing County regarding our airport. So, thank you to everyone that worked on that. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Jagger. Mr. Chairman
Johnson. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I have one thing. The the mayor isn't here tonight and he made a request of me to uh ask the council if we [clears throat] would let Mr. Dave Donaldson from Hutter Hubard RA radio do a promotion where he camps out on in the historic water
tower. I believe he's raising funds for school supplies. So, I would just make the motion to approve that request. The the request was to allow him to work with our staff to to get that in order. >> That's the motion to work with our staff
to get that in order. Yes. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion by Johnson, second by Bevans. Johnson. >> And according to the mayor, he already did receive permission from the law firm to be camping in in the water tower. Now, and we and we've had like George Walters has done it before. It's happened before for other community.
>> Gary Walters. Sorry. So, >> can I can I ask there's a roof on there now where there wasn't before. How do they do that? >> Yeah, I'm interested to see how they do it, Jeff. >> Okay. >> I'll let you know. >> Work with staff. >> This is just to work with staff to give the council authorization to move
forward with the fundraiser. >> Okay. >> All right. Any more discussion on that motion? >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Same sign. >> Dave. >> Motion carries. Anything else, Mr. Johnson? >> That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Chairman
Ericson. >> Uh several things just echo what um others have said, so I won't repeat that, but I did want to just call attention to uh BPU's social media presence and some of the videos you've been putting out about water quality, wastewater. Um if you haven't seen them, check them out. They're really well done.
>> Thank you, Chairman Ericson. I think you guys have covered it all. Connie, you have something? >> Sorry, I did think of something. Uh next Tuesday, August 11th, is the primary election. We will not have a race on the ballot, but all eight precincts, nine
precincts will be open all day. >> Thank you for that reminder, Connie. Beans, >> may I ask Mr. Cranic a question? Go ahead. I You guys just moved along so fast. The the the pottery place, does that have to be torn down? I >> mean, it's going to leave. It's going to
be like a missing tooth in that. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Bevven. Um, I have not personally been in the building. Um, I've seen pictures of it. uh utilities have been turned off for I believe a number of years in there. Um obviously somebody was living in there. So I think there are significant issues. Um once a
county takes possession of it, it's a tax forfeit essentially in their possession. Uh we don't have any code that would prohibit that. Um so I think it's kind of their decision. Um certainly if there's a council motion for me to ask for it not to be torn down um or look into it further, I could do
that, but um it'd be up to council. Yeah, I I I'd make that motion to ask the county for clarification. >> Second motion by Bevon, second by Ericson. Discussion on that. Johnson. >> Yeah, I absolutely support the motion
and if it needs to be torn down, I understand. But my understanding is county policy. When there's a structure on a tax forfeited lot, they just tear it down as as a as policy. But if this can be saved, it's not going to add any additional parking. think it's going to
take away a potential storefront in a dense retail area. I'd really like to see it stay. So, if you can work with the county and get some clarification and see if there's any path to not have it torn down, I'd really like to see that. >> Yeah, it would be nice to to save face
on the missing tooth look that it would create. So, I do agree with that. If they can somehow save the structure, maybe you have to take out all the plumbing, maybe you have to take out a bunch of other stuff, but if we could get an answer to that, that would be great. So, I support it, too. Any more
discussion? See? None. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Uh, I don't have anything additional. So, with that, we are just looking for a motion to move into close session
pursuant to Minnesota statute 13D.0. 05 subdivision 3C to discuss acquis acquisition of Laurel Street right ofway between Southeast 13th Street and Southeast 18th Street involving P 41300712
1307 Maple Street P1300557. >> So moved >> and P 4187. >> So moved again. >> Motion by Chzach. >> Second by Ericson. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. We will
move into close session. We'll give it about 5 minutes.