I'd now like to call the city council regular meeting for Monday, February 20, February 2nd, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. to order. All rise for pledge >> allegiance. 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. Moving on. Item number three, roll call. Administer Pulus. >> Council member Ball, >> present. >> Council member Jensen, >> present. >> Council member >> present.
>> Council member Scott, >> present. >> Mayor Rogenamp, >> present. Item four, open forum. The city council invites residents to share new ideas or concerns related to city business not already on the agenda. However, individual questions and remarks are
limited to three minutes per speaker. No city council action will be taken, although the council may refer issues to staff for followup or for consideration at a future meeting. The mayor may use discretion of speakers or repeating views already expressed or ask for a spokesperson for groups of individuals
with similar views. Speakers should state their name and home address at the podium before speaking. Is there anybody here that wishes to address the council in open forum? I'll asking and is there anybody here that wishes to address the council in
open forum? One final time. Is there anybody here that wishes to address the council in open forum? Open forum is closed. Moving on. Item number five, consent agenda. 5 A, approve city council regular meeting
minutes from January 5th, 2026. 5B, approve public hearing meeting minutes from January 5th, 2026. 5C approved vendor claims totaling $224,400.31 for checks 14848
to 14903 and E checks 4076 to 4081 5D approve waving facility reservation fee for women's club and special event permit fee for north central bass 5
approve disc golf course event permit application ation for airborne disc golf. 5F resolution number 07-2026 supporting and authorizing application for source well thirdparty services
program and 5G resolution number 08-2026 accepting donation of $200 for the community garden by Cross Lake Area Garden Club. Having read the consent agenda, are there any comments from the council? Yes, I would like item 5e
removed from consent agenda and have dis council discussion on a couple items. >> So, we're asking for consent agenda 5e, approved disc golf course event permit application for airborne disc golf. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, we'll remove that and bring it
down under business items and that will become 8D 8 on the agenda. Okay. Having move removed 5e, is there any other things from councel?
Hearing none, do I have a motion to approve as changed? >> So move. >> I have a motion from council member Moroni. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second from council member Jend Jensen. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I.
>> I. >> I. Opposed. >> Abstensions. Motion carries. Moving on to item six on the agenda. We have a special presentation 6A Barrett Lakes Area Economic Development Corporation. Tyler Glenn, come on forth. Got Tyler.
>> Well, good evening everyone. Thank you. Uh, Mayor Rogenamp and, uh, thank you for having me tonight. My name is Tyler Glenn. I'm the executive director of Bladec, which is the Brainard Lakes Area Economic Development Corporation. So, uh, been your economic development
provider for a number of years and try each year to come and just give you an update and give you a presentation on our organization, what we're doing, how we're what we're working on, and uh, open it up for you guys to ask us or ask me any questions that you have regarding our organization. So, I do have a slide
uh, presentation for you. I think I can just You want me just There we go. So, um I won't go through each one of these, but we'll just draw some attention to a few of them. Um as we look at just kind of our motto and our mission and what we believe in and how we operate, um it
really is to, you know, drive economic impact in our county um in all of our communities in in Crowing County. That's what we're designed to do. Um we've been in place since 1987. We've been an organization. I'm just the second executive director of Bladec. been the
executive director since January of 2020. Um, prior to that, Sheila Havamp was our executive director. She was the executive director from 1987 till 20 end of 2019. So, um, we're a nonprofit organization led by local business leaders. I'll show who our board is in a
few minutes and a couple of our slides, but um, I'll just run through a few of our items for you guys and then just let you have some time to ask me some questions if you have them and we'll go from there. um our community profile, how we really define how we operate and the areas that
we operate in uh in Crowing County. We break them out into into really into um three focus areas. One is the northern section of the county which consists of uh obviously Razy Point, Peekquat Lakes, Cross Lake, Jenkins, um the eastern part
of our county, which is the Cayuna Range area. I actually have a separate board that operates in the Cayuna Range area. So the CO range economic development uh group which is have another full board over there deal with just primary primarily just with the Cayuna range
area. The reason for that is is that they receive different funding. So the Cayuna range area is part of the Iron Range and so they receive funding from the state through the Iron Range Rehabilitation Program. So IL RB is what it's called, but their access to dollars
is a little bit different in our county just because of that. And that um covers the uh the area that is confined by the the Crosby School District. So that boundary is what's allowed to access dollars differently than the rest of the
county can access. Same dollars they can access actually up on the Iron Range. Um, and then the the other uh section that we operate in through is is obviously through the Brainard and Baxter area. And so we operate in typically in three different regions as part of our countywide development
strategy. Um, this is just some of our marketing things. You know, why why dream? You know, your dream begins with Bladec. We talk about, you know, it's one of the taglines we use is that you can be from the from the boardroom to the to the dock in 10 minutes. And we promote that.
we promote that to the businesses that are looking to our area. We in our area um housing is still a challenge. So, we're always going to continue to address that. But as we as we seek out businesses and and opportunities to grow in our county, those are the things that we really focus on where it's a place
that you can um you can play and you can work and live. So, it's an opportunity for everyone. Um, I want to touch on our programs and our programs continue to expand and it's one of the things that as we go through strategic planning every few years our
board members look uh to myself and to our staff and you know honestly ask us what more we can take on and so the some of you are familiar um with some of our programs but I I want to highlight a couple of couple more that we've brought on in the last two years. Um our primary
programs uh the recruitment program that program is run by Mike Bknes and Mike is our uh workforce director. He has that program is designed to um hire management level positions for the companies located in Crowing County. So
if you're a member of our organization, you can access Mike's services. Um we on an annual basis, Mike hires between 10 and 15 professionals that come into our community that work here that live here. the majority of the people that he hires are coming from outside of our region.
Um I have some stats in here uh in a little bit that'll just kind of show you the impact that Mike's program has on this region and and the number of resumes and interviews he conducts on an annual basis. Second program that we have and both of these programs have been in place since 2017. Our gap
financing, our unified fund is strictly a gap financing tool. So we have the ability to assist businesses and as they grow as they expand or new businesses that are coming to our area. We have a couple primary functions that u that drive that program. One is job creation.
So we will not lend dollars out to a company that is got going to uh create new jobs. And the reason for that is is that as an economic development organization we want to make sure that we continue to watch and help our businesses grow. Um and by doing that is
bringing in new jobs. We are not a primary lender. We will never lend directly to a business. That is not our the function of this fund. We're not in competition with any of our financial institutions. We are there to help our financial institutions and help the
companies. Um the program uh designed to assist and is is designed to help create jobs. Um the decisions are not made by me. I have a separate board. So, I bring the I bring the loan presentations to our board and the board makes decisions
based off of that. I give recommendations. Um, but we've done 27 We've completed 27 loans since 2017. We've had about uh just over $2 million that has gone out of that fund in the last nine years. So, it's a program that
works really well. And like I said, our we just want to make sure that we are not people can't come to us directly and ask for funds. We have to be it has to be part of another loan. So another bank in another lending institution that's borrowing money and then we can hop in. We don't charge any additional fees. No
addition. We match rates and terms with the primary lender. We don't charge origination fees. We don't charge anything else. We are going off of the discretion and the primarily the direction that the lead bank is giving us. So it's been a really good program for us. Knock on wood. We have not had a
loan go bad yet. So, when you're a gap lender, you're in a pretty you're in you're in a uh a position. You're always in a junior position. We're always in a second or a third position. And thankfully, we haven't had one go bad yet. So, um kudos to those that are making those direct loans to them and
and providing the uh the lead loan. Uh thirdly on here, uh business consulting. We are a satellite location for the small business development center. So, the North Central SBDCU that operates out of Central Lakes College. Um Allison Medic who is the associate director at
Bladec and myself are both consultants for the SPDC. We provide one-to-one business consulting. We do everything from financial projections to business planning uh to marketing plans. We map out uh all of those services for new entrepreneurs. Those they come through
the North Central SPDC and then they're assigned to Allison and myself to assist them. We provided about 150 hours of consulting last year in 2025. So it's a really a good program. Provides free consulting to those entrepreneurs and
folks that are looking for um assistance getting their businesses up and running. So that's something we brought on in 2021 and very pleased to have that opportunity to partner with the North Central SPDC. Um the fourth thing that we have um is called is a foot traffic
analytics database. Um, don't shut your phones off because you are being tracked anyway. You all know that. But it's a it is a it's called Placer.ai and it allows us to really track consumer behaviors, traffic patterns, how we identify where
people are going, where they're coming from, how long they're staying in places. We have a number of our communities that are using it, a number of our members that use it. Um, we used a lot of this data as we um we worked on driving new activity out at the Briner
Lakes Airport. We brought with this data we were allowed to help them bring that 7 a.m. 6:30 a.m. flight back out to the Briner airport. They started looking at numbers and realizing that uh you know they could continue to maximize the traffic that's going in and out of that airport with this data. we have about it
shows us that we have we can tell the airport and the city and the county that we have over a 100,000 people that are going through our airport on an annual basis. This data helps drive some of those types of decisions. It helps some of our um other clients just look at
where they can get the most eyes on things that they're doing. Impressions as people are driving by businesses, locations, new locations. So, we help them we help them with a lot of that. It's a it's a really it's a really solid platform for us that we tested for about a year and a half and we've been now
using it for this will be year two. So it's a it's another outstanding uh tool that we have in our toolbox. Allison Medic is primarily running that program for us. I'll chip back this um just quickly here just uh you know we're economic
development. We're communitydriven nonprofit organization created to preserve and enhance the area's economic base. Expanding business, building community, growing jobs. That's the primary objectives that we have. Um here was my 2025 board of directors. You probably know a handful of the faces
that are on this screen with you. Um this year um our 2026 our board of our board chair or board president will be Sandy Zutichek and she is the executive vice president at Essentia Health. And then we'll have um Andy Isacson from CTC
and Andy who's the chief marketing officer, he'll be our vice president. Julie Anderholm is our uh treasurer and secretary and then John Oolen will step down and be our past president. So that's the executive committee. And then you can see the rest of the folks on there with Rob Berkeland with Larsson
Group with Mike Dylan, Harris Charier, uh Terry McFarland from Anderson Brothers and Jim Hokinson with CLA. So, I have a really diverse board and I we try really hard to make sure that we have the majority of the county covered as far as impact and individuals and
then we try and look at business sectors and how do we impact um the decisions that we're making as an organization through the business sectors that that are being complemented here and we feel that we've got a really I've got a really I know I have a really good board right now and uh they help drive the
decisions that we make and they help me on a day daily basis. So very pleased with that group. Here's my CREY board of directors. You may know a few of these names on here as I mentioned at the beginning. Janna Johnson, Dan Brown, James Taylor, Aubrey Coupe, who is the uh chairman of the brain of the Cayuna
Chamber, Anita Holland Horse, Matthew Steel, Jenny Smith, and then Todd Bark. Um this is just I'm going to touch on this really quickly. This is Mike's program, the the Blitic Recruitment Program. And I just want to touch on the and draw your attention to the bottom line there is recruitment numbers. In
2025, Mike added nine new positions. So that we added one more at the end of the year. So he actually added 10. He had nine offers made and declined. Um which is interesting in this environment. Last year, you know, people were a little bit concerned about taking new jobs or looking at new opportunities. So Mike
had another nine offers that he had made and those offers declined. A lot of times what happens is the employee goes back to their existing employer and says, "I've got other job offers." And it happens, but last year was pretty unique, especially at the beginning of the year. The end of the year ended a
lot better for Mike. Um, conducted close to 800 interviews and collected over 2,000 resumes. So, it's a it's a program when he puts these jobs out there, he's it's very active. He gets a lot of really good responses to his jobs. Um, and that the beauty of that is he holds
resumes. So then when other jobs come up or companies are contacting him, he can quickly pull a resume and say, "Hey, maybe this is somebody that would fit with your company now." Um, so it's worked really well for that. He, it actually happened here two weeks ago where he placed a new controller with a company. It was a resume that he had in
his bucket and they were looking for somebody and he didn't even post the job. He just sent the resume over and they looked at it and said, "This is the person we want to interview." And they interviewed him and he accepted the job. So it's a it's a fantastic program. And like you said, Mike does a wonderful job
with it. Here's just the just a snapshot of the unified fund and here's our financing. As I mentioned, you know, we've the numbers um will be updated. So, we have total of 27 loans out there. Again, the average loan size still is around that
75,000 and the total number of jobs created and retained will be over 300 when this slide gets updated from the end of the year. Here's our business consulting. I'll just breeze past a couple of these things. Here's some of the stuff that we're still working on. We'll continue
to work on with regards to housing, child care. These are still major issues in our county. There are major issues throughout the state. It isn't just here. It's it's all over the state. So, we're continuing to address these um with the help of especially on the childcare side, with the help of the state and some of our local
organizations help us address some of these issues. Um, you know, we're continuing to look at this and we're continuing to try and drive affordability with this. There's I've had a couple of examples that we I just had our state meeting and they had a um
they had a project down there that took 10 years and cost them $8.2 million in the community in the city of Lever if no if you guys know where Lever is at. Um, and the the entire organization the the structure itself is owned by the city is funded by the city. They bring in a
nonprofit to run it. It's a really unique setup how they got they got about $4.5 million of federal dollars into this program into this building, but they took a $30,000 square foot um which was a credit card processing center and gutted the entire building and started
new and now they've got about 130 kids in there where they have capacity up to 250 and they opened it four months ago. So they expect to fill it. to think about the 10 years and $8.5 million to get a project like that up and running. It's incredible. But it's addressing a
real need. So that they were excited to get it done and it was really interesting presentation on how that got funded. Um and one of the other things just so you guys are you know you are aware, one of the things that we did is we helped cloud stamping with their new expansion up there about a year and a
half ago and accessed uh quite a bit of state money for that project up there. um which is certainly helping them and helping them address some um efficiencies with that new building. So, it's been a really good program for us to help them out with some state
dollars. Um here's our staff. Uh myself, Mike Burkens, Allison Medic, Crystal Hinger, who is our new administrative assistant. She's been with us for about six months now, but Mike has been with Bladec. Uh he came in two at the end of 2016. I
came in the middle of 2017. Allison's been with us for about 5 years now. So, we have I have really solid staff that uh continue to do the work that we're doing. And uh you know, we're we're stretched thin, but we can handle it. Um
there's just one of our taglines. Why not work where you can play? And then we have some Oh, sorry. I jumped forward for you guys. Um does anybody have any questions? I'm sorry I breezed through that pretty fast. Um, it's a lot of information to take in, but um, you know, just know that we're here for you.
We're here to provide um, economic development assistance to you. If you have projects that are looking at TIFF, if you have projects that are looking at abatement, if you have projects that are looking for assistance from us, you know, looking at state funding, local funding, we access all of that on a daily basis. So, if there's something
that we can help you with, I know Ally will reach out and say, "Here's what we need and how do we how do we get there?" But I thank you for your continued support for the work that we do. Um, but I just I'm here to help you guys. So, if there's anything I can do for you, please let me know.
>> Thank you, Tyler. Any of the council members have any questions? Any followup to what Tyler presented to us? >> Yeah, I just got a couple of questions. >> Um, wondering what you're seeing or hearing that's playing into the child care shortage. Is there a particular
kind of element or two that's >> two significant elements actually uh Councilman Scott? One of them is facilities. We don't have enough, you know, with these certain with these facilities that are here and your engineer can probably tell you some of this as well is that to to build these
new facilities out to make them childc care ready. Um you know, we're looking at significant cost for if they're a larger facility for commercial kitchens, fire suppression. You know, there's a lot of a lot of factors that go into that. If with a if a what we would look
at as a um as a largecale child care facility, something like at the YMCA in in in Brainer, uh getting licensed for a commercial child care, it takes about 9 months right now through the state of Minnesota. So, it's it's extremely prohibitive when it comes to that. Um if
you put one into a home, the you know, you can get those turned around. a homebased childcare can get a a license turned around in probably 30 to 60 days. So, it's a little bit easier, but they're falling off pretty quickly. The homebased ones are um the second factor
is is pay. What they can afford to pay their child care providers. Um you know, getting someone that's licensed to come in and take care of these kids. Um they're at about a 167 $18 an hour jobs with zero benefits. So there it's pretty
challenging to draw quality individuals into a field like that. Um it's in child care, those of you that have been in the child care space, it's not getting any it's not getting any cheaper to take your kids to childare. Um so it's a it's
it's really kind of a it's it's a tipped upside down problem. You know, we don't have there's it's get it's expensive to do it, but then the people that are taking care of our children aren't getting paid enough. So we're looking at everybody the state is looking at different models. The federal government has looked at different models. None of
them have caught on to this point. So it's a it that's a that's probably the biggest challenge. >> Yeah, appreciate that. >> Um are you collecting any data at all on new home starts? I think we've probably
all noticed, you know, an increasing number of new homes being built in the area. And it seems to me like a lot of that's really kind of taken on a different light um through the pandemic and coming out of COVID. And I'm just
kind of wondering if you guys are gathering any information around why why are people building new homes and moving to the area. >> We are tracking we track we do track that data. The trouble with the data is that's at about a year and a half old every time we get it. It's it's delayed with the exception of a couple of our
communities that really broadcast it. Um, you know, Baxter as an example had 49 new housing starts, new building permits or housing permits pulled in 2025. So, a bigger they come out pretty regularly with those types of numbers.
Um, you know, I our population countywise has grown about 4% year-over-year over the last three years. And a lot of that is the growth is coming in the 45 to 60 year old bracket here. So we're seeing we're seeing
growth and we're seeing appropriate growth. We're one of the fastest growing counties outside of what I would call the nine county metro. It's not the seven county. You start bringing start expanding north now a little bit. And so um but population basewise we're growing
faster than anybody is. And so when we look at that and we look at the group that's grow that we're growing in as far as the population base is concerned or the demographic is 45 to 65 it's a little or 45 to 60 it's a little easier for those folks to afford the some of
the homes we have here. Um we're seeing a lot of new apartments starts uh especially in Brainer and Baxter um in um Brainard now which would be on old 370 business 371 Keepers is permitted and they'll be building a 170 unit
apartment complex um just south of town. So in 371 as you're heading out past you past Teen Challenge, you know, as you're heading heading south out there, they bought some of that land that was used to be owned by the Mills family. So, they're building that out there. We've
got a new apartment complex going. Um, another one in Baxter. We've got two senior living facilities popping up down there. So, those are I think we're seeing some transitional housing. People coming off the lake, coming out of that, and getting into some apartments. Um,
it's not cheap to build. It really isn't. So, this it is a little surprising that we're seeing it, but uh we're not seeing it on the affordable side, and that's the challenge that we are facing. as an organization because you you're we're looking at the stress
that some of this is putting on the our base population and that ends up being nothing out there is affordable, you know, and I guess we all have different different people are going to give you different views, Councilman Scott, on what affordability is. So, but we have that, you know, you start looking at
some of the new buildouts in Brainer in that $350 to $370,000 range and those houses, they're getting snapped up pretty quickly, but they're what we would deem affordable today. So, every community is seeing a little bit of
growth, but we're um we're still working on the affordability concept. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Other questions from councel? >> All right. Well, thank you Tyler for your presentation. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate the work that you guys do in
the county. It makes a big difference. So, keep it up. >> We will do that. Thank you very much. >> Thanks, Tyler. >> All right. Moving on to item seven in the meeting is public hearing 7A, ordinance 01-2026
amending chapter 91 of the city code and parks and recreation. And so I'm going to turn it over to Ally to give us a little background and then we'll go ahead and open the uh public hearing. >> Yes. Uh thank you. At the November 2025
meeting, the council directed staff to provide some additional information regarding an all-encompassing park ordinance. At the January meeting, the city council then gave staff direction to proceed with drafting a park ordinance. The proposed ordinance in your packet tonight includes amending
chapter 91 of the city code to establish clear rules and regulations for the use of all public parks and recreational areas. Um, a summary of what the ordinance includes is the hour of operations. Per our discussion last meeting, I've included maintaining the
existing disc golf course hours, the existing public beach hours, and then the Fishing Pier, Breezy Point Drive, and Four Seasons Trails are proposed to be opened um 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. or sunset, whichever is later. No alcohol
or drugs uh allowed in any of the areas. Alcohol is defined in our city code and then drugsmoking is defined in state statute. All gar uh garbage must be disposed of. All animals shall be under control and no animals um should be
allowed allowed in the public beach unless it's a service animal. No motorized vehicles unless it is operated by city personnel. There are no fires allowed and no engaging in offensive, threatening, violent, or indecent behavior in any public area. The proposed draft ordinance has been
reviewed by legal counsel and staff is looking for feedback on the ordinance as drafted and will either come back with changes or is looking for approval of the ordinance tonight and it would be effective upon publishing it in the
paper. So within the next two weeks or so. >> Y >> thank you Ally. >> So we've heard the background on it. I'm going to go ahead now and open the public hearing. Um, and the city council invites residents to voice their
comments and concerns related to this public hearing agenda item. In this case, uh, updating of our, uh, parks, uh, ordinance. Individual remarks are limited to three minutes per speaker. If someone before you has already made your point, feel free to simply state your agreement instead of repeating the same
comments. And speakers should state their name and home address at the podium before speaking. So, I will now open it up for public comments uh on uh ordinance 01-2026, an ordinance amending chapter 91, parks
and recreation of the city code. Bill to 31877 Green Drive, Breezy Point. Thank you for letting me speak and also thank you for addressing this issue of putting some teeth in the ordinance to allow our fine police to to actually issue citations. I just have two quick
questions. First of all, what is it what is the penalty going to be for people that are sight cited? Um I know of a city down in the metro area. I have a lot of customers that are police officers and citations start at $250. So before people go out there in a public
area and drink or smoke tobacco or cannabis or yell or scream, they know there's going to be a big penalty if they're caught. So I would hope it would be a stinging penalty which I think will will prevent a lot of this behavior once it's out there in the public. Also, uh
I've walked through every amenity we have that the city has and they are good amenities. Uh the disc golf course expansion area is almost impossible to enforce. It's probably 5,600 yards away from the parking lot. There's no way to get down there. And I think that's where
a lot of issues have occurred. In our opinion, again, I'm speaking for the Breezy Point Alliance tonight also. I should have mentioned that. We feel that really the only way to to actually catch folks and sight it sight them is to have a police officer walking down there on occasion. Uh, another police officer I
have as customer mentioned to me that uh, a particular city put an undercover police officer in a disc golf course area and resulted in actually eventually that course being shut down. I guess my point is is that I I think it's unfair
for the police to have to go to the parking lot, trapes through the side by side or they have no way to get down there if there's an issue. But again, that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. Is there anybody else that wishes to address the council in the public
hearing for comments? I will ask again. Is there anybody else that wishes to address this council on comments regarding the change in the ordinance? One more time, anybody that wishes to address the council regarding the ordinance.
Hearing none, I will now close the public hearing. So, we've had comments. We have a amended ordinance in front of us and it's now the council's decision to determine if they want to move forward with this ordinance as it's been
amended. It has been reviewed by legal. So, we know that that's all there or if the council wishes to direct the staff to do further amendments to the to um the ordinance. Here's a couple of things that make me wonder
if we may not need some additional time um to really clarify what we're what we're after here with the ordinance. Um, I tend to agree that short of a provision in there that gets to a level of enforcement,
um, how behavior, whatever might be going on in violation of this ordinance is going to be enforced, um, to me kind of really doesn't make the
ordinance, as it's written now, um, meaningful in the true sense unless there is something in there that gets to, you know, how are, you know, potential violations or lack of adherence to this
ordinance going to be managed? Um, so that's just, I guess, one consideration. Um, the other is wondering if we don't need some further clarification. Um,
I got to find my place. So, under rules and regulations, it gets down into number two, alcohol and drugs. Uh, no alcoholic beverages as defined in chapter 110 of the city code shall be
allowed in any public recreational area unless approved through a special city permit for a designated area or event. Um, I'm wondering what is meant or intended behind a through a special city
permit. I think it might be good to just really clarify under what conditions or types of events would we actually permit and see it acceptable to be consuming alcohol on
parkland. >> Those are I guess just initial things that were coming to mind. >> I think the intention with that line is um to speak to kind of city as a whole. So, if someone wanted to throw, I don't
know, a party in the the um shelter out there and they wanted to get a temporary liquor license, that would go have to go in front of the council for approval. That's just an example. I'm not even sure if that's realistic. Or if there was a parade or
something like that, they would have to go through a special permitting process, which you've approved earlier tonight. So that application um I think that's what it's intended to cover. Not necessarily in the disc golf course. Obviously I don't think that we
there would be any approval of selling liquor there. But if there were to be an event in a public recreational area, I know where I came from, we threw a holiday event and we did a temporary liquor license for our Lions Club to put up a beer tent and to sell their beer to
the residents there on city property. So, that's what it's trying to capture. Um, if that's not really applicable here, I think that's fine. But, I guess that was kind of coming from a past experience. If we were to ever have an event here and we would want to issue a temporary liquor license, it kind of
covers that. >> Yeah, I think it very well could apply in areas of the community. Um, again, just feels to me like maybe we would want to actually clarify in what park areas of the city would a
special event permit as such to allow alcohol to be served, >> right? I mean, we may permit it here, as an example, at this park, but in fact, we may not want it at either of the disc golf courses, as an example, or at the public beach or
>> Sure. And as a um part of the process, anything involving liquor has to come to they need a temporary liquor license issued by the state approved by the city. That would come from the council in addition to a special event permit, which is our permitting process. So you
guys would see that. Again, we could put something in here to that. Um, I guess that would be up to the council direction, but it would there could never be an event serving liquor that doesn't have an existing license. That
wouldn't have to go in front of you guys for separate approval. >> Correct. So, what you're basically saying is if somebody approached the city and said, "We want to have an event at a disc golf course and we want to serve liquor." And they go ahead and get that license, that's got to come to the council and the council needs to approve that. Yes. So at that point in time, the
council could then say, "Well, we are not going to grant this liquor license because we do not want alcohol being served on a disc golf course." >> Correct. Yep. >> So basically, we are then the point of entry and exit for any of that at that time. Correct. >> Even though it doesn't specifically
outline it in the ordinance, it still has to come by us. >> Correct. And if if that's not really applicable, if you guys don't foresee anything like that coming in anything we have listed here, the beach, the you know, the six places, if you don't
really see that being an issue, I imagine we could take that out too. if that really is a problem, you know, if you don't see a liquor license being applied for or issued on the six places that this covers,
you know, that's up to you guys. I think that's at least as I come at this and see how it's really applied part of the concern is we know right now that alcohol is being consumed on certain parklands in the city
>> and we're finding it extremely difficult to enforce that conduct and that level of behavior. So, I guess I would rather see it in there and mentioned, but with absolute clarity on
in what on what parklands is that going to be allowed? >> Well, it wouldn't be allowed on any, right? Unless they had a special permit, >> right? >> And temporary liquor license is the intent of the ordinance. It It's not
allowed right now. It's, you know, we have a separate alcohol city code that speaks to that >> which is which is chapter 110 of the city code >> which I had a follow-up question to that too. So according to chapter 110 of the city code do we have enforcement action
that takes place in that situation if somebody's caught >> chief sandal? >> Yes, we have uh city ordinance citations. >> Okay. And so those are when they're cited with that then there's a fine that's associated with that as well. Correct.
>> Correct. There's a fine and it's a increasing penalty uh for non-payment or second and third offenses. >> Okay. Thank you. So basically by having no alcoholic beverages defined by chapter 110 of the city code being allowed shall
be allowed in any public recreational area unless approved through a special city permit for a designated area in the event that somebody's caught drinking alcohol on one of our public properties. In this case, one of these areas, they could be cited. Correct.
>> Right. Okay. Thank you. >> Other questions, comments, input from the council as to what direction they want to go or what they'd like to see. >> I guess with clarification on 2 I, I'm satisfied that the city is covered, you know, per what was just discussed.
Um the disc golf course, I mean that is a difficult area for the police to patrol. There's no two ways about it. Um I would like to see, you know, enforcement of the parks overall as
resources are available. Um I think the ordinance as it is is fine by me. I don't have a problem with it. Council member Ball, any comments? >> Uh, I'd be fine with clarifying what a
special city permit means uh into I. Otherwise, I think it's uh well drafted and I I I like it. >> So, you'd like to see language added clarifying what a special permit would be in the ordinance itself?
>> Sort of. What what it what is meant by that? I think wasn't that sort of like the question just making sure it's clear that um I don't know if there's some section of the city code that refers to what these city permits are but we could refer to the ordinance section if there
was one or just >> what if we remove it? What if we just remove unless approved through special city permit for designated area event just strike that if that's giving everyone harm I don't
know if that changes this substantially. I don't see anyone coming here for a temporary liquor license in the park shelter. If they do, we could cross that bridge as well. Um I don't believe we have a special event
ordinance. I it's just a permitting process that we put in place after an event over the summer that we thought we should have known about before they just came here. So, it's more the special event permit is to notify staff if we need if they need any of our services,
if they need us to empty trash bins, if there's going to be 200 people biking through here on a given day. Um, if we need additional portaotties, cones, no parking signs, that sort of thing is what a special event permit. There's a list. It's like I could read it off for
you guys. Um, concert, parade, fair, show, festival, carnival, rally, party, filming of a moody show, television show, motorcade, run, fishing, swimming, lake activity, street dance, bikeathon, race, walk, or athletic event. So those types of events
>> post it on the on our >> on the website. >> Yeah. So we can link to it. I mean that would be sufficient I think. I mean I don't mind it being in there. I just think it would help clarify what what they're supposed to do if they wanted to do that. I've never had anybody come and
ask us to do that. And I think that >> I feel like similar language has been in there before or was this brand new? >> This is brand new. Yeah. cities have, you know, I kind of >> coming and asking us for that. >> Yeah. >> Before I feel like it's been discussed maybe
>> the only time I can think of where a liquor license or temporary liquor license, I believe, um, was at the Icer Inc. when Hairball was coming. >> That's the only time that I can ever think of, and that's not even recreation. It's not even city- owned. It was a private owned. But they had to come I believe they had to come to maybe
Chief Sandell remembers more but I believe they had to ask the city permission to essentially sell on their grounds because they didn't that ice rink didn't have a liquor license. Right. >> Right. They probably got >> Do you elaborate more? Do you know? >> I did obtain a permit and come to the city for approval to do so
>> and I've been here for 27 years and on my recollection otherwise I don't remember ever having a city permit to serve alcohol and you know on our city parks and stuff I probably wouldn't recommend that because you're going to have families and other people may be there as well which obviously could
cause some problems. I think just removing the unless approved through special city permit. It's okay. >> It's just not it's not allowed. >> Yeah, >> it's family grounds. >> Yep, >> I can do that. >> I'm okay with that. >> So, if that's removed, then how do we
address the documented known issue of alcohol being consumed on Parkland? >> No alcoholic beverages is defined in chapter 110 of the city code. Shall be allowed in any public recreation area. Period. Because we have a city code right now
that specifically address if somebody is caught drinking alcohol in one of our public places as Chief Sandell spoke, they would be fined and cited and it goes up based on their offenses. >> Correct. >> Mhm.
So, we already have something in our study code that addresses drinking alcohol on our public properties. We are now specifically outlining it in here. >> So, I'll make a motion to approve the ordinance with that modification to 2 I
to remove the language unless approved through a special city permit for a designated area or event. I'll second. >> So, I have a motion from Council Member Ball and a second from Council Member Jensen to approve um the resolution with
the striking >> ordinance. Approve the ordinance. >> Excuse me. Thank you. >> Approve the ordinance. My bad. Approve the ordinance. See, if I had went back to the top, I'd have got it. I should have went back and read it. So approve ordinance 01-226 an ordinance amending chapter 91 parks
and recreation city code. I have a motion from council member B. I have a second from council member Jensen to approve it except with the removal of and I got to get back to that. The words unless approved through a
special city permit for a designate area event as outlined in two I. Further discussion. >> Where else in this draft ordinance does it speak to not consuming alcohol on Parkland? If
that provision is removed, >> I I it's not being removed. Only the wording unless approved through a special city permit for a designated area or event is being removed. So 2 I would read with the amended language, no
alcoholic beverages as defined in chapter 110 of the city code shall be allowed in any public recreation area. Period. The unless approved through a special city permit for a designated area or event would be removed from set
ordinance. If the motion carries. Further discussion hearing. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> I. >> Abstensions. The motion carries.
Okay. Moving on, we have Moving on to eight business items. 8A, approve pay application number 14 and 15 to High-Tech Construction. >> Yes, Administrator Pos. >> Um, there are two applications uh for payment due tonight. These technically
aren't the final pay applications. We're still waiting on our roof claim issue that won't get resolved until um there's no snow on the roof. So, probably in the spring, but this is this is it thankfully. So, um if you have any
questions, let me know. >> So, in regards to the roof claim, not to go too far on down the road, no, that's fine. >> I don't need a lot of information. I understand what it is already, but would that then based on what happens with that, what would we see? Would it be a
would we get a credit? Would we get >> I don't quite know to be quite honest. I know it's in the insurance. >> Okay. in their hands and they've gotten the samples. >> Okay. >> And they've been very difficult to work with. So, I don't know the answer for you. I'm sorry. I can follow up though
with the council. >> Maybe some further information just to share with the council so that they're aware of what to Yeah. what to expect. I'd appreciate that. >> I can do that. >> And so, for those of us that are not as familiar as some with the issue, what exactly is the issue? >> Oh, you're asking someone who's not very
familiar with the issue. It predates me. Joe, do you know you you know the issue? >> I think it's more of a cosmetic appearance issue with a certain brand and a certain color of shingle that we
were made aware. Um they noticed like a it's very subtle shading. Um that's all I'm aware of. >> Yeah, I believe there was some discoloring in the new shingles. There was
>> we sent it off um because they're new and they I think they got discolored after a rain or something like that. So >> sent off the samples and now we're waiting for the insurance claim to come. >> So basically they put the shingles on the roof. It rained once and after the
rain you could look at the roof and see that there was a large area on the roof that was discolored shingles. >> So there was an issue with the shingles themselves from the manufacturer. As a result, the claim was filed through the insurance company back through Hi-Tech
to the manufacturer saying, "Hey, you need to honor this. These shingles need to be replaced." Well, here we still are working with the insurance company to get that taken care of. Tyler's smiling over there cuz he he can relate. Probably knows the pain that we're going through. But anyway, with that being
said, that's the situation right now. So, that's where samples were taken off the roof, sent in, said, "Hey, listen. Here it is. There were pictures taken of the roof." So they were made aware of it and so of course it's winter. >> There's snow on the roof. They can't really see it right now. So once the snow disappears then that's the process.
So that's what I know and that's pretty much it in a nutshell right now. So >> thank you. >> Is it more of a warranty question though, not an insurance or insurance is just assisting us in securing it? >> Well, it's it's basically to have them replaced and hold the manufacturer
accountable for bad shingles. So So basically manufacturer. >> Exactly. because it's a manufactured defect. >> Yep. >> I mean, you put a brand new shingle on it, rains once, and you have that. It's definitely something with the manufacturer. So, that's where that whole process is at, and that's where
why it's going the route it's going. So, I'm sure if Jerry was here, he could tell us the whole story because he's been involved in it from day one. So, >> any other questions regarding >> that? Do I have a motion to approve um pay application for number 14 and number
15 to high-tech? >> So move. >> I have a motion from council member Moroni. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> I have a second from council member Ball. Further discussion. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
>> Opposed. >> I. >> Abstensions. The motion carries. Moving on. Item 8B, Edgewater Circle project assessment discussions. Administrator Pouse, >> I know the saga continues. Um, so as you
know, the city council approved the reconstruction project on Edgewater Circle in coordination with Pelican Township early last year. At the time, the city anticipated assessing the full amount to the Edgewater South Condominium Association with the expectation that the costs would then be
allocated um among the individual owners. When I went to submit the assessment role approved in December to the county for inclusion on the property taxes, the county informed me that the parcel ID number is not a taxable parcel. So after consulting with our
legal council, the assessment process completed last year is not valid because the assessment cannot be applied to the association as a whole. So there are two options for you guys to consider tonight. Um proceed with a reassessment process for inclusion in next year's
property taxes. um each individual condo owner would be approximately $800. We'd do a final calculation if approved. Um or the council could vote to forego the assessment and allow the project to remain completed without assessing individual property owners. I think
there are some pros and cons to both. Um so we recommend the council have discussion on the options provided and direct staff on how to proceed. >> Thank you. Administrator Pulus, >> does the council understand what they the information? Okay, so basically we
have two options. One is to go ahead and reassess the individual property owners um and have them pay it would be assessed on next year's taxes, which of course realize the project's already been completed in 2025. So we're looking at a year later. Realize if we go that
route to do reassess, we do have to have another public hearing. Am I correct? Yes. because they have to have an opportunity to be given to speak to the council in regards to that. >> Correct. >> The other way is to go ahead and say we just take it on the chin and say, "Yep,
it was on us and and we we absorbed that." So, that's our that's our two options. So, what's the council's pleasure? >> I guess I'd like to see option one. We already approved it once. Um it should be assessed. Um if it's one year later,
so be it. Okay. Other comments from the council? >> Yeah, I think that I think I agree with Councilman. Uh that makes sense to just assess the the amounts to the individual
units. >> Okay. Council member, >> I'd agree. >> Okay. Council member Scott. >> Well, I guess as of right now, I'm the outlier. I don't know under what situation we do an improvement and then assess the benefiting properties after
the fact. Um I think this has got the potential of setting a very troubling um challenging complicated precedence and approach. In fact, I almost wonder if there isn't
something that says once an improvement to city infrastructure is made and I don't know the answer to the question, but can you is there a window of which how long you can go back and actually assess?
I think that's a question that we probably need to answer before we take any action on this. It just doesn't feel to me right or in a good place that we've moved forward. We made the improvement with the intention
of assessing it. As it turns out, um the identifying benefiting property owner is not able to be assessed. So now we're going to come back a year later and
and assess them. I I I don't like that. This is to me another example of what happens when things move too fast. >> Well, I would say that part of the process that happened here is is and and
to your comments, uh, Council Member Scott, and to the other council members, I can see it go both ways. So, I'm not I'm not sitting on one side or the other. I'm basically kind of saying, okay, what what do we do? Because either way sets a precedent. Now, in one way, I
agree. Council member Scott is correct. Is there a legal ramification? And we don't know that for sure. So, I'm not sure. I can't answer that. Is there or not? I don't know if there's a window there or how that looks. Um I think
along the other is with regards to the project itself, yeah, I think there just was some some miscalculations made. One of the challenges we ran into here is it was not the city's project. Now, I'm not laying the blame at somebody else's feet. I just think that
there was a lack of coordination between the two entities to make it a positive all the way around. So, you know, at the end of the day, we still have to figure out what we want to do and what direction we want to go. So, I am kind of hearing that maybe I don't know about the rest of the council if they'd want to vote on it now or if they want some
information back from administer pulus before we do. So, >> can I clarify the um um legal process? So there is an assess a reassessment process as defined by state statute. >> Correct. >> It says the assessment or proposed assessment or any part thereof is or may
be invalid for any reason. The council may upon notice and hearing as provided for the original assessment make an reassessment or new assessment as to such parcel or parcels. So there is a statute as defined >> with no timeline involved. So it just
says that any >> involved I ran this by legal counsel and he said that was an option. >> Thank you. >> Um so yes as I read it I can if you guys direct me I will confirm that >> the state statute spells it out in black and white and basically it does not have
a time frame in there. >> And >> sounds like it's been done before. Yep. >> I I think this happens probably more often than it should, but it was, you know, it was an administrative error for sure. And >> I also talked to Jerry and asked him
because our association was assessed years ago. There was no issue. When the answer I got from Jerry is you really have to go look at the titles when you're making these decisions on do you assess the association >> or the indiv individual property owners
because there's going to be this will come up again. >> Yeah. >> It's a good learning lesson. >> All right. So we've heard some comments on both sides. I hear um you know go
back reassess. I've heard a comment that uh you know basically it's up to the council. I guess what we need is a motion or an action item to be able to get the staff to move forward because they're going to go based off of what this council decides. So that's where we're stand. >> I'll make a motion that pending legal
counsel affirmation that we go back and reassess the individual property owners. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Okay. So, I have a motion from council member Rooney, a second from council member Jensen to move forward with reassessing the individual property
owners. Um, just to make and clarifying with legal just to make sure everything is good there. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? I
>> abstensions. The motion carries. All right. staff, you you know the direction. Yes. >> Won't happen again. >> 8 C proclamation of food share month. Council member Jensen. >> Well, this will be the third year that
the city has supported the Lakes Area Food Shelf for Minnesota Food Share Month. Um I had reached out to Tammy Larson who is the director of the Lakes Area Food Shelf and Pequad for some highlights in 2025. Um the Lakes Area
Food Shelf and Pequad served 1,333 families. Uh of those 649 were new to the food shelf in 2025. Um 68% of the families have children 18 and under. uh
110,000 pounds of food um donated or rescued from local grocery stores, convenience stores. Um also in the city of Breezy Point um this year uh the commander will be a food collection
point. The Commander Bar um the resort at Northstar will be doing it once again. And new this year will be the Pelican uh square will be the stores um have the ability when the food reaches
sell by date is past that that per FDA guidelines um the food can be distributed um you know as needed by the food shelves. Um, also, I didn't know this, the food share campaign is a fight 45-year-old Minnesota tradition of
raising funds and awareness for food shelves in Minnesota. I mean also within the surrounding communities there is numerous under other businesses churches um super one Schaffers
um trying to think there's Menard's has had huge food drives which have been publicized. >> Um I think the communities you know have gotten behind the food shelf because the need is there. >> Um Yep. Quick trip's another one. um
their uh gardener and Peekquad had fill the dump truck and the Lions have donated. I mean just many organizations. I'm sure I'm forgetting some but um I personally volunteer there as well as uh Bill to in the audience and u I just
hope people can support the food drive March through March 1st through April 6th. >> Thank you. Yeah, I mean that's no doubt it does a huge thing for our communities. I would encourage people to get out and give more donations. I see that when I look at 24 and I look at 25,
uh there was definitely a drop there. So maybe we can work to get it back up and surpass that number in 24 and break a thousand. That would be awesome. I think we can do it. So I encourage people to get out there. But yeah, um so basically we need to have a motion to proclaim uh
food share month from March 1st to April 6, 2026. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> I have a motion from council member. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. >> A second from council member Ball. Any discussion?
>> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed abstensions. The motion carries. Yeah. And I would just like to say real quick extra to the people who may watch this or are in the audience, get out there and spread the word, tell people about
this. This is a really important thing that we do for these people in this this county. There are a lot of people that that benefit from it. So, if you can do even just something simple, you're doing your part and that's good all the way around and we need a lot of that in this world right now. So, I would encourage
everybody to participate and be a part of it moving forward. So, thank you. Council member Jensen for leading the charge on that again. I appreciate it. All right. So, we have now the new item that was uh pulled from the consent agenda. That's item D 8D, approved disc
golf course permit application uh airborne disc golf. Um, the reason I asked for this to be pulled, um, we all know, I mean, the disc golf permit process was very long and
tedious. I mean, parks and wrecks spent numerous hours. The council spent numerous hours. Um, the permit is, as you know, stated, the individual that applied for this permit
disregarded the terms. the first draft that were set that were listed in the permit. They had proposed 250 individuals with a 100 family and friends as spectators which was never addressed.
Clearly stated in the permit that 90 per participants per course. um when you have this many people um participating in a tournament
with the course, you know, in a residential area. Number one, parking can be an issue that was really never addressed. staff. It was my understanding that Joe is working on it proactively to try and keep the parking
and not disturb the residents within the community, you know, close to the course. The second one is this course has two portaotties, one at the um eggot pass course and one
at the monarch trail. If you even at 180 plus say 50 to 75 spectators I don't think two portaotties is adequate. Now if it is you know it's the problem and if we don't do something
proactively you can have an issue after the fact. I don't think the city personally should incur those costs. I think there should be a minimum of at least one more on each course for a total of two for each. And I also don't
feel that at this point in time dis golf's course event permit should be on a consent agenda. I think they need to be for discussion by the council. The council is the approving authority. Um, with all the issues and things that have
gone on over two years, I mean, my first two years in council along with council member Scott, council member and council member Ball, we were consumed by it. Um, we need to take a close look at these permits and have a set and monitor
what goes on. Um, so those are two things I see as an issue. I would also hope that we do have some police patrolling of the parks to include the uh disc golf courses for those events. I
don't think it's appropriate to try, you know, for the police to be there eight hours a day, but they I think there needs to be a presence um during these. Um this is again this is the first permit that's ever been issued.
So those are concerns that I have and uh I think we need to keep close set eyes on this. >> So what would you like to do then? What is your I mean you're the one that pulled it off the consent agenda. So I guess I'm trying to get a feel for what
you're thinking. You've got some concerns it sounds like. But what I also hear is a couple of those concerns, council member, are ones that we'd actually have to go back in and readress that permit, which to do it now is a disservice to the person who did the permit in the first place. In my mind,
just being honest, >> that's not what I was told by administrator Pus. Okay, >> I checked cuz I knew this question was going to come up >> that the council has the discretion to require the person the group that applied for the permit to also supply
two additional portaotties. >> Okay. Now, as far as parking, I can't speak to what Joe has arranged or is working on, but he is working with them to try and specific areas, keep it out of the
residential areas, and we don't need to redo the event permit to do that either. Correct. >> If I may, you could approve it upon contingent on two additional portaotties. That's up to the council descri I mean you guys can you can do
you can approve whatever you feel comfortable approving. I think it could be appropriate for a big event to include two additional portaotties if you see fit. If not we can see how it goes and learn and add portaotties to the next. I think every application we
get maybe different number of attendees different number of participants. This is kind of a learning experience for us all on how to process these. So yes, you could approve it contingent upon getting two more portaotties out there.
>> Yeah. And I don't have a problem with it. It's whatever the council wants to do. I'm willing to listen to. So I guess it's up to the council how they want to move forward with this permit and I will make sure that as we have future permits, they get put on the agenda for discussion. >> I mean, I've never really agreed with
permits. you know, the events for these courses, period. Closing down public courses. Um, but that being said, if they're going to get passed, we have to do what we can to mitigate issues that have occurred um for the
residents. The above the courses is I guess where I'm coming from. >> Yeah. And and all I'm stating is I'm not stuck on one side or the other. >> Yeah. Okay. that that's I'm what this council wants to do, I'm I'm fine. Unless it's something that I see as
egregious, I'm going to stand up and say, "Well, hold on." But at this point, if that's what you guys want to do or if that's what you feel, then that's how we take action is to make a motion on it. And if you want to take action on this permit and approve it or disapprove it,
then put in what you want to amend it. So that then that's brought back to the permittee that's that's talked and then staff have to go back to them and say well yeah the council approved it but you've got to do this then it's on them. So I guess all I'm saying is that if that's what you want then that's how
this process works. I believe uh prior to the uh additional course there has been um I can't say permitted because I don't think we had the whole u per permit through but there has been um tournaments at the existing
course correct at least three tournaments. There's probably been more but three that I can think of. >> What were the number of participants? 90 um and maybe 95 because they I know um they can throw a temporary basket up to be able to get one more basket and get five more participants.
>> Um at that time we've only had one porta potty on the 9-hole course. Um so you know you have two now. Um to my knowledge I don't think we had I don't I can't speak I don't know if any
any complaints came in front of the council. Um maybe the police maybe public works involved. I do believe maybe the first one we had parking issues and so or maybe the first one that's when we said we put temporary no no parking on one side of the street. Um Joe's nodding his head so I know we at
least did that. Um that might have been from even um the police department or public works. Um again going back to the porta potty we had only one there before. Um to my knowledge I don't think that the um tournament required to bring
additional one in. I think it was kind of held to one. Um, so just giving you some history that with with 90 players, one course, one portaotti did work before. Times change. I don't know if that's still going to be, but I'm just kind of
restating the facts of what has been worked before. Um, I kind of agree with um, Mayor Roganamp that, you know, this was a lengthy process to go through the application process and figure out what we wanted to ask for. We we all sat and
saw this numerous times. And while I I agree that, you know, we can say certainly make amendments, we we kind of have to see what happens first because I think even the council said, let's see what happens first and maybe we don't allow it ever again. We have we can't we
can't start judging a book by its cover if we've never had a tournament like this before. Um you know we don't know the course of action of how the tournament director is going to run it. You know it's an actual controlled event. Um and it looks like
the insurance is covered by the PDGA association. Um so you know there's there's it's not just an individual running it. It's It's a professional disc golf association ran tournament.
>> Well, okay. But that means nothing to me. I mean, >> and it certainly doesn't mean anything to the residents that live in this area that have had to deal with one issue after another. And for any of us to sit here and say we're unaware of what those
issues are is a bunch of BS. There have been events that were held there last summer before this permit was in place and it was a mess. We had people parking on roads. We had residents that couldn't even get through
the road. And frankly, I question the credibility of the applicant when all of a sudden you apply for a permit and you're identifying players and spectators to be 250 people. And once it's discovered that the max on
a course is 90 people, oh, we reapply. Okay, 180 in total, I don't buy it. Parking is going to be an issue with that many people, even if a certain percent of them carpool.
Joel, how many vehicles does a parking lot there hold? I both parking lots together, I would estimate 80 very comfortably. That's taking half of the the parking area,
leaving half of it open and the other assuming the other half is vehicles by square foot. I think that's pretty conservative. I think you could do it more efficiently, but you could also be not efficient, but I think that's a
pretty reasonable amount for both parking lots, not just one. >> So, I'll reiterate again, this council then needs to make a decision on what they want to do with this permit. We can either approve it as it's there.
We can approve it with contingencies that we bring back to the person who's filed the permit or we can just say no to it completely. So there's we can approve it. We can approve it with contingencies or we can deny it. Those are the three steps that
we have in front of us to take and we can sit here and we can throw it around all night long. That's not going to get the job done. So, I guess what I'm saying is that the council needs to think about how they want to take action on it. And then with that being said,
here we are again back at this point where we seem to keep coming back time after time after time after time. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to deny the disc golf course event permit. >> So, I have a motion to deny the permit
as submitted by Council Member Jensen. Do I have a second? I'll ask again. Do I have a second? >> No second. >> The motion is second by council member Scott. Further discussion.
>> Do we know under section D what is meant by vendors? It indicates that yes, there will be vendors. Do we know exactly what that means? Are there going to be vendors out there selling merchandise or
providing food or do we know for sure? >> Give me one second. I'm just going to pull up the application. >> On the application, it says just us airborne disc golf. >> Yeah, I was going to say they didn't check yes. Correct.
>> They did check yes, but then they selfidentified. >> Okay. then I'm guessing they'll set up a booth selling their own merchandise. But I can confirm with them. >> To me, I think we would want to know exactly what is going on out there as
far as vendor operations, right? I mean, that in of itself, depending upon what it is, could even bring in more people to the area other than the players themselves and the spectators. So, I think it would be good to have
clarification on that um before this is approved. So, maybe it being denied and asking the applicant for further clarification on a few of these items um maybe just what's needed. Further discussion
hearing? None. All those in favor of not allowing this permit signify by saying I. I.
All those opposed I. >> I. Abstensions. Motion fails. So, we're still with the permit in front of us. >> So, I'm inclined to approve the permit
with the with conditions. Um, I agree with Councilman Jensen that we that they should have two additional portaotties. That's sort of my opinion for with that number. Just a quick Google search will tell you that two is probably not enough. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but um that will
be I make a motion to approve the permit um with the additional condition of one two additional portaotties one for each course and uh second clarifying um what
their vendor is doing and three making sure we have that insurance information which right now says more information upon approval which I I assume that's a given but >> all right So we have a motion from
council member Ball to approve the permit with three contingencies. One, add additional porter parties, one at each course. Two, clarify the vending and what the situation is there with regards to what they're going to be
doing and what type of vending it is. And three, uh, all the information regarding the insurance provided to the city basically because we don't have that right now. >> Yes. Perfect. >> Okay. So, do I have a second to that motion?
>> I'll second. >> I have a second from council member Moroni. Further discussion. >> So, we're on the verge of potentially approving a permit without the full benefit of understanding exactly what is
going to be taking place there on this day. Specifically thinking about vendor operations. Correct. they would have to clarify that and and that information would have to be shared with the city.
So, they're going to tell us what the vending what they're going to be doing with the vending. I would guess that if staff feel that it's a very ornous thing that they're going to be doing that they would bring it back to the council for further consideration. >> Yes. >> Well, how would that work if the permit
is potentially going to be approved tonight? >> But it's approved with the contingencies, council member Scott. So, the idea is is if they don't meet the contingencies, then the permit doesn't get passed. >> Can What's the contingency on the vendor though is what I'm getting at. >> I What's the >> I have a um idea.
Table it. >> Why don't I find this out? I'll bring the permit back, list the contingencies. You can approve it all at once or deny it all at once. >> I'm fine with that. >> If that we could do it either way, whether we want to approve it as Ball
said or table. I mean >> just another option you have time >> just just a clarification. Are you concerned about food or beverages or just in general like if we if we said because airborne disc golf I'm assuming is selling disc golf wares. Could we
just put a stipulation that the vendor only is allowed to sell disc golf wares discs towels etc >> and not bring in the food and beverages? Is that is that what you're looking for? You you really want to see what it is? No, I really would like to see what it
is. Um, first off to understand >> how much money is potentially to be made through this permit on city property. One, I think taxpayers would be interested to know how a private industry business is potentially making
money on city property. But then secondly, it's to understand the potential for that many more people on location that day while this event is taking place. I see this as a potentially huge
issue to have upwards of 200 people in the middle of the residential area congregating at one time. So I I think it's reasonable to ask and to understand and know what kind of vending operations are
taking place and is it anticipated to draw even all the more people on location. >> All right. Based off of that, what I would suggest is let's table this. Let's allow staff to get the information they need based on what we've brought up to them tonight. We'll bring it back to a
future council meeting. We'll make sure that that's all there. And I'll end it with this. This isn't going away, folks. Okay? We're going to continue to work with this. And this is the system we have in place. If we don't like the
permitting process the way we have it, then that's up to us to work with staff to get it to change or to do something to do. Maybe it's more clarifications on different things so we know. Maybe it's other things. And I will state this, if we don't have a permit process in place,
those people can show up and have the same event and we don't know about it, >> which is what happened last year, >> which is why we have a permit process in place. >> Why? This shouldn't be in the location it's in in the first place. >> Well, it is and it's not going anywhere. >> We had a motion on the floor that didn't
get voted on. So, are we going to amend to table it then? >> I can just I don't know what the proper term is. With your motion, we're going to withdraw. >> Withdraw the motion. I will withdraw. >> So, council member Ball withdraws her motion. Do I have approval from the seconder?
>> Yes. >> So, the motion is now officially withdrawn. >> One comment to piggyback on Brad's. I think what he's referring to is the leagues are having events quote unquote um on their Sunday mornings and they're
not meeting, they're not applying for permits because they're passing it off as a league event. So there is things going on in that course that aren't being regulated and um there has been issues. I mean when you have
this many participants and you don't know how many spectators are going to come, I mean there's potential for a lot of problems. I guess I've never supported the permits. I personally don't want tournaments on those courses. Um but that's it's going on. There's a
being a lot of events being held. Do we get the feedback from the residents because they see the foot traffic? Any other comments from council before I move on? All right. Hearing none, I'll move on to item nine in the agenda, departmental
updates and council reports. 9A, city administrator strategic planning reminder >> pretty much says what it is. It's tomorrow night and we start at >> 5 >> 5 >> 5:00 p.m. >> Mhm. >> Okay. So 5:00 p.m. tomorrow night strategic planning meeting here in city
hall. Um and then you do have aformational item of November cash and investment. So the council received all that so they can look at that. I do have a quick report on um parks. Parks did meet. Uh we looked at the um master plan
that was brought back to us uh by Woods if I'm getting it right. Yeah. And uh we went through some processes of looking at some changes. I think park commission had a good meeting with that uh and and directed uh Woodset to make those changes to the master plan. The next
step, I believe, is to wait for the master plan to be completed before the park commission meets again and then to look at that and to make forward progress with regards to what they're looking at there and steps in that process. So, um that's what uh parks did when they met this last uh month. So, is
there any other council reports? How about um roads? Did roads have a meeting? No. Okay. >> There'll be one this month. >> Perfect. >> So, we'll have an update. >> All right. Anything from P&Z? >> Unfortunately, family events took me away from that. >> Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. And then, uh fire.
>> Yeah, I can do uh Pekqua Lakes Fire District uh joint powers board meeting. Uh update. So, we had a meeting on January 12th. a couple of things discussed. I mean,
they had uh a couple UTVs that they had purchased. Those are uh ready to go now. Um there uh was a truck purchase update. So, they have the 2015 F350 crew cab
truck that is um at the uh with the fire district. It's in service. Um, they're just waiting on one last piece for that. There is also the 2015 F uh 550 crew cab
truck that is also in service. All um light, stickers, radio, that's all been installed. Um, few small things missing, but that is also uh being used. There was a year end call
report. There were a few calls less uh in 2025. Um just a a few down from last year. There uh uh we approved the hiring of two new firefighters. So a few weeks
earlier we had done interviews the personnel uh committee um myself and one of the other joint powers board members had done interviews for those two individuals. Um, uh, great. They seem great. Um, and approved the hiring of
them. Uh, we approved the 2026 2027 contracts that will go out to the members of the Pqua Lakes Fire District. Uh just a reminder that uh Peekquat and Breezy do get invoiced um their own fees
uh for uh being part of the joint powers board or joint powers. Um we also certified some service credits for those firefighters and then approved a relief benefit level increase um which is just
sort of standard practice that the joint powers board approves that um benefit increase. >> Excellent. that we've poured. >> Yeah. What does what does the two new hires bring our numbers to? Are we close to 30? >> Asking that, but >> are we getting close to the 30 mark?
Because 30 is full >> capacity. >> Yeah. I feel like we're probably still around 25 >> 5 26 something like that. Okay. >> 526, but >> moving in the right direction. So, okay. Great. >> Really well for numbers, I think. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Good. Thank you. And thank you for your work for doing the interviews.
Appreciate that work, too. So, good good report. Anything to add, Council Member Jensen? >> Uh, the only thing I one thing I remember, and we'll touch on this tomorrow, the number of calls between Peekquat and Breezy were basically the same. >> Uhhuh. >> So, >> yep. >> There's other discussion surrounding
that. >> Yes, there is. Yep. So, all right. Thank you. Any other reports? Hearing none, I move to the final item, which is item 10 on the agenda, which is a Whoop, Excuse me. >> Oh, sorry. >> Yes, Chief Sendell, I didn't see you wave your hand. I apologize. Go ahead,
>> Mr. Mary, just an update. Uh, Officer Salvald and Officer Garby have registered to take EMT training. >> So, when they're complete, we will have two paramedics and three EMTs. >> Excellent. Excellent. An excellent article that was in the dispatch.
>> Congrats. Well done. It's excellent. And keep up the good work and happy to hear that. Now, as uh we got a nice thank you card from uh the mayor of Cross Lake who commended uh the city as well as Chief Sandell for the work that we're doing with our police department and uh
anybody that lives in the city of Breezy Point can be very very proud of what we have going on with our public service in regards to our police because we have set the bar and we've set it pretty high and there's a lot of cities around you that'd like to be where we're at, but that's because of a lot of insightful
long range planning that took place over a lot of years. So, I commend the police department and the city and the councils over the years for continuing to work towards that because I think it's put us in a really good situation and our citizens can know that they're very safe in this city because of what we've done.
So, excellent. Thank you, Chief, for the update. Appreciate it. Any other reports from staff? Okay. Then I'll move to item 10 on the agenda, which is a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> I have a motion from council member Jensen. Do I have a second?
>> Second. Second from Council Member Moroni. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Abstensions. A motion carries. Meeting is now adjourned at 8:02