The consent agenda, what I always do here is I read them all individually, stop if there's any questions. Otherwise, we'll approve them all at the end. So the first one to start with is four AS city council minutes from October 14. Planning and zoning minutes, October 7. Approval after payment, 105425. Warrant list, 463839. And then four e is 2025 Street utility improvement payment request to Snow Contracting for 04/00/6399. And, we got a couple pickleball. They're working on the pickleball courts, which is awesome.
So pickleball court, pay request one, Winona Mechanical for 23385. Another one for the pickleball courts. Change order number one. Burrfest Parade Route. Any objections with that? Nothing? K. First responder appointments? Comments on that? Okay. Public works new hire? Alright. Any discussion on there? I move approval of the consent agenda. Second. K. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Consent agenda moved. Moving down to communications reports petitions, we have the deputy to give us a little update, thank you, of what's happening in Byron.
They took your normal spot. He'll remember that. He'll remember that. Good evening. Last month, we had 330 calls for service. Of those, 57% were, proactive. So, again, we're keeping up there. Everybody's out here staying active and looking for things to do. Nothing of note from my end unless any of you have any questions or concerns. How's 4th Street doing traffic wise? From what I've heard, it's been getting better. The school resource deputy, Derick, he's been watching that and he says, you you know, he's got a a couple here or there that he's gotta tell to move from
the front of a driveway or something like that. But, nothing too crazy right now. Just today, he did bring up a speed sign on 4th Street Northeast, right here where there's the the school zone on the South side of the intermediate school there Mhmm. With the the placement of the speed dropping to the school zone and then the normal 30 mile per hour speed zone and then the end school zone side. I guess, in the recent, you know, last few days or couple of weeks, they've had a a few people that would slow down for the school zone,
speed back up when they see the normal sign. We have to remove a sign, it sounds like. Right. So we're we're working on that. We've been working with Tom and we'll get that just got brought up today. So Yep. But other than that, as far as I know, PostStreet is doing well. Alright. Anything else? I think what that was, not to put a timeline on this, is when they built the primary, that other school right next to it, the school zone got extended, but the sign never got extended. Yeah. I suspect I mean, it's it's not like it's a new sign. It's just No. Nobody ever pulled it. It just It just needs to go over the side of it. Oh, we just pull it and don't put it back.
Yep. We'll get wow. I mean, you shouldn't have to. It's a unposted, it's 30. Yeah. It's 30 unless it's posted otherwise. So yeah. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. The next one on the communications is the Byron, new community newsletter. Obviously, we're looking at it here. Nice job again. For note is the Byron Fire Department annual open house. Obviously, it looked pretty good from the pictures there. It's a success there. And then, the pickleball is, as we talked earlier, we're well on its way for this year, doing what they can this year so they can get it early started next year.
So thank you for that for the newsletter. Any discussion on the newsletter? K. We have one public hearing. So do you need to open the public hearing? I move opening the public hearing for certification of charges. Second. K. We got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. May I oppose? Public hearing opened up at 06:05. This has to do with charges, for delinquent utilities, dating back, oh, more than a year. This is putting those fees onto the property so that they can be charged property
taxes versus being paid as a as a utility. K. I guess I'll open up the public for this, for the public hearing for the certification of charges. Any public comments on this? Public comments? More time for public comments? If not, no public I move closure of the public hearing for certification of charges. Second. K. We got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? K. I'll be hearing closed at 06:06. And then I move approval of resolution twenty twenty five dash forty three. K.
Second. Got a first and second. Any public comments? Don't have to do it again. Don't have to do it again for this? Okay. I have to do this. You just did it. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. The opposed? K. Resolution twenty twenty five forty three a, approved. Moving down to seven b, resolution twenty twenty five, authorization LRIP, grant application. I think Al's gonna take the bunch from here on. This is a resolution, authorizing us to apply for LRIP dollars to do the engineering work on Seventh Street Northeast, to help defray some of the costs on that project. That project does have a approximately 50% match in Federal Highway dollars.
Currently, the LRIP grant is a nice match to help with the engineering. Just out of curiosity, are you talking about the LRIP grant or you're talking about the county auditor, which is before that? Well, you just We approved that one. You just approved the county audit. Just approved the auditor. So that's number 33A. So Yep. 1B. Yep. So this would be the LRIP grant. Yep. Yes. Sorry. No problem. Yep. I move approval of resolution 25 twenty twenty five dash 44 authorization, LRIP grant application. Mhmm. Second. Okay. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution?
Any other council comments on this resolution? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Resolution twenty twenty five forty four approved. Moving down to seven c. A couple interim permits coming up here. This one, the first one is resolution twenty twenty five forty five interim permits, 61067 4th Street. That would be the hockey training. The nine hockey is an interim use, under our zoning code, so this just makes it fit in with that location. It's a good location for it. So we would recommend, as did planning and zoning,
approval of the interim use permit. K. I move approval of resolution twenty twenty five-forty five, interim use permit for 1067 4th Street Northeast, Suite 600. Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this? Again, I met the gentleman earlier today. Thank you. It's gonna be awesome addition to Byron. So alright. Any other council comments? No. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Resolution 202545 approved. 202546 interim permit for 2004th Street, and that would be Nate's group.
So, again, this would fall under the same classification in our zoning code. The zoning, in this area requires an interim use permit for this type of activity. Zoning planning and zoning also recommended approval. K. I move approval of resolution twenty twenty five dash forty six, interim use permit for 1204th Street Northeast. Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments? Council comment? Again, I just wanna thank Nate. I mean, the community center coming to Byron, getting a lot of good stuff with the hockey there and community center. Thank you for making Byron better.
K. Any other council comments? Nope. K. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? K. Twenty twenty five forty six approved. Last one there is, resolution twenty twenty five forty seven interim permit 11 2nd Avenue Southwest. This is dealer, Speedy Motors? This is for a car dealership. This is the same property that we approved an interim use permit previously. It's two different, individuals, using this as a car dealership or car sales lot. That is permitted under our zoning code, but it is a different applicant than the, intro interim use permit goes with the applicant,
not the lot. So, this was also approved recommended for approval at planning and zoning. K. Any motion? I move approval of resolution twenty twenty five dash forty seven, interim use permit for 11 2nd Avenue Southwest, and I did not know. Think about the fact that it asked to go to the person, not to the second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution? Any other council's comments? Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? 202547 approved. Moving down to no unfinished business, moving down to some new business, Al will take most of these,
I guess. So, Al, we'll start with the the dental benefit. We are proposing to change, dental benefit carriers. There's been some changes with our current provider, to the point where it has not been a very effective benefit. So going to Delta Dental, we'll provide more in network dental providers, and, we are proposing that the employee portion of this be covered by the city. That's being paid for through the healthcare rebate that we received, through our normal healthcare benefit.
Our total expected cost for covering the employee benefit is, dollars 8,500, I believe it is, and we had just over 17,000 in our health premium rebate. And this did go through the personnel committee and recommended approval. So what was the issue with the last plan? Just initiative they just network. They dropped network providers to the point where we had nobody that we could go to in network in our area or very early. Oh. The coverage became substandard to be polite. Provision. Okay. Alright. So I assume you're just looking for an affirmative from us.
So Because we have to enter into an agreement with Delta Dental, we do need your blessing. So I move that we approve city's administrator as a designee to enter an agreement with the Alta Deno. Second. K. We got a first and second. May I clarify, does that include the proposal for the Including the proposal for us paying the employee portion. Thank you. Revised. Do I have a second? Yes. K. I have a first check. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Got it, Al. Thank you. It's approved. Personal policy update. Again, Al? The personnel policy we went through,
we had several required changes because of the earn safe and sick time, and some other things that came through the state over the last legislative session. You'll see a lot of red line in the document identifying where those changes were made. There were a handful of housekeeping issues that we also addressed. No substantive changes, mostly language cleanup, beyond that, but the the real changes in here are all relating to the safe sick time and its impact on us in you know,
throughout the policy in different, areas that we have. K? And that's that's direct language from That's direct language from the state. And this attorney. Right. Our attorney did we we did send it to our personnel, attorney, and she reviewed it as well. But this language is from the state. Most of it's mandated. Yep. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the update? I move approval of the 2025 personnel policy update. Second. K. We got a first second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Update approved. The next three are kinda one that wrap around the same one, so I guess we'll start with annexation by ordinance twenty twenty five thirteen five acres.
This is the five acre lot, not far from City Hall here, referenced frequently as the Tompkins property. This has gone through because it was not in the orderly annexation agreement, this had to go through the annexation by ordinance process, And that's where we're at currently. We would recommend approval of the ordinance public hearing was held at P And Z. I move approval of the annexation by ordinance 25 dash 13.
Second. K. We got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Annexation ordinance approved. Next one, resolution twenty twenty five forty nine, approving the summary publication. Same Same kind of thing. Same thing. They just we have to Okay. Have you, approve our summary publication versus publishing the entire document. Yep. I move approval of resolution twenty five forty nine, approving summary publications for the annexation. K. Second. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution? No other council comments? Okay. All in favor?
Aye. Any opposed? Twenty twenty five forty nine. Approved summary publication. Approved. Nine e, concept plan, Byron two Development Group. I believe we've got some representatives here that, have a concept plan they wanted to share with you. They'd like your feedback on, what they're thinking, before they go too far down the road here. With the annexation in place, the next step will be to come forward with, in this case, a concept plan. We are looking at a planned unit development as an option for the zoning.
PNZ recommended a commercial planned unit development or PUD for this property. But before we do that and the fact that there is an adjacent parcel that, was acquired from Randy Fogelson, which are all gonna tie into this development. They wanted to come and share this with you and get your feedback. K. So I'd invite them to come forward and Robbie, can we get that up top at all or not? Well, everybody can see. So Good evening. Yeah. Thank you. So, yeah, we, we just wanted to get your your all your guys' feedback and and see what questions you had for us.
Okay. I guess we'll fire from the hip on this one. I guess my concern, and I realize you need two entrances and exits, is gonna be the access off of 10th Avenue. But as long as it's a right in, right only, right in, right out and I suspect the traffic study is gonna show that they're gonna need a turn lane. Based based on the location of that, right now, we've suggested them that it's probably gonna just be an entrance only because it's turning out into that turn lane on the other side.
Yeah. So at that current location, that one of our suggestions would be just an entrance there. Yeah. But are they gonna when they're when they depending on how many units they have here, you're gonna have No. Yeah. That's planning and zoning issue and traffic study issue. I think you're gonna have too much traffic for just one entrance and exit. That would be I mean, if it so are we set on these different businesses and facilities being in this development? Is that kinda It's just the the initial concept plan of Initial concept plan.
With these guys over here. We kind of got they've got their feedback and then put something together, and then had an engineer draw that up based on the setbacks and things like that as well. Yeah. That's my only concern and I'm sure that the study will prove out whether or not it's required or not. So Right. Because they're going to have to make some kind of assumption based on the number of vehicles entering the, subdivision. And then I don't remember from the fire code if there's a requirement for two entrances to be able to get entrance in and out. Well, if you don't mind They have two entrances now.
They can but if you only have one exit One exit. Yeah. And we're not able to get this image up for people to people to see? It's in the packet in there. No. I I got it here, but I'm just curious. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, I would like to take, just one at a time briefly. The first one is a full service restaurant. Obviously, the need there, you felt for that. And I'm assuming I don't need to know now. We don't need to know now, but you've got some idea what's gonna be there? Or just really that early we're just we're just hope we got it there. Okay. I gotcha. Yeah. We're that early to kind of Yep.
I gotcha. Like, a definition of where we want certain things to be based on initial feedback. This is why we're hopeful hoping to get your feedback today to see if there's anything that we're missing, anything that you feel that Vira needs that would fit into this plan. We got a lot of interest. Just for the people out there, there's a full service restaurant to the multi use building with parking, hotel. There's a plan as if you can't see, there's a hotel planned on this one, storage units, assisted living. Only thing on assisted living, just wanna ask you to keep in mind, we do have assisted living here. We have Madonna.
It went away from independent. Now it's all assisted. We don't have independent here anymore. So I'm just wondering when you go through the process if that would be something you would consider because we don't have independent. And I I do I visit a lot of seniors, and a lot of seniors wanna move to a smaller location, but there's nothing in Byron like that. So an independent since Madonna had a handful, they went away. There's no independent for these older the seniors to go to. So I think that would be beneficial. Again, it's your concept going down the road, but I was wondering if you would just look at both aspects,
assisted as well as or independent. We have we have connected with Madonna as well to see if they would be interested in in doing that again. Yeah. Because like I said, they got assisted and they're full, but if you had another assistant, may or may not fill. So anyway, just keep that in consideration, please, for me. It's not gonna be very big anyway. Look at it. It doesn't have much for parking around it. No. It is. Yeah. It's a fairly small area. I mean, you have to flush that out too. I mean, I'm sure that there is a demand for storage space. It just amazes me how much storage space though there is going in all over
the area. So That was one of the things with the easement for the cell tower as well. Yeah. It kinda makes sense to have something like that around there. Yeah. And then like I said, the hotel, I moved Calistat around for many, many, many years. So, that's been interesting thought too. Yep. So I mean, you can find somebody. Mhmm. Yep. Well, concept wise, you hit a lot of lot of things here. So Yep. Any other discussion on it? Anything you wanna add? No. Just appreciate the feedback. Thank you. And we'll be we'll be giving you more feedback as needed. Okay? Thanks. Thank you. Alright. We do anticipate this coming back to
PNZ and Council in December. Okay. Got it. Thanks. Alright. The last one is on a new business, is it delinquent utilities? Motion to I move approval of the delinquent utilities. Second. K. K. I'll go for a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? K. Delinquent u utility approved. Accent approved. Yes. And, nothing on there. Public comments. We got how we doing out there? Any public comments? Any other public comments? Any public comments? Three times? Okay. If not, we just go round table now, and we discuss some some of the meetings we were at.
So, Lisa, you wanna start first with the school? Otherwise, I'll forget you. So the biggest thing for the school board is that the referendum passed. So yay. Yay, Byron. Work. Nice work. Yes. And so, thank you. Huge thank you to Justin and everybody else that was on the vote yes committee. They did a fantastic job. Second thing will be renewing or kind of refreshing the strategic plan for the district. And that'll be in the next coming meetings that we have. Thirdly, we will be connecting with the community to find out what they would like to see the district look like within the next five years.
And we'll do this by, several different ways, probably, community survey, website, the district website, social media platforms, and focus groups. Any questions? Okay. For Lisa? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Greta, can you wanna you got anything for us from from the chamber? Yes. It is. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Just for today, though, it's 06:00 is the the tree lighting, which we're gonna Santa's gonna be showing up there. So we do the tree lighting at six, around 07:00. Well, what what's the hours for the the vendor show here? Yeah. It's thirty eight. Four to eight is the vendor show here in this in City Hall.
So once the tree lighting is done, we need to call her Santa to come over here for a couple minutes. And then if they're also planning a parade. Any idea how many units at all? Anything? Okay. So then with the vendor here, and then we're gonna have refreshments and some cookies here. Right? And then the hope is if we get enough, participants in the parade, they'll start from here and head out to city out to the BCRC. And then out there at 08:00, the fireworks go off. So it should all work together. So that's kinda where we're at with the with the bird fest for Byron. It's growing. So thank you. Okay. Alright.
Steve? I like the BurpFest fireworks the best because it's cool and there's no mosquitoes usually. Yeah. Wasn't it last year? It wasn't last year. It was a little foggy though, wasn't it? It? Yeah. It was. But, you know, you can't have it every year. I know. I know. Some years, it's been really cold too during the very best. So, you know, it's a it's a catch 22. But, yeah. No. Actually, because we had did not have a PNZ meet well, we did have a PNZ meeting. I was at a conference for something else, so I did not attend that. And we have not had a public works meeting real recently either. So Okay.
Myself, I had a pickleball groundbreaking, which we talked about, so that's rolling along nicely. We had a chamber luncheon. Had a nice little chamber luncheon. Third grade mock voting. Had the whole third grade class, 170 of them here. We're a couple days to do a mock voting where I set up booths over there and we talk about voting, how important it is, and they do actually voting. And then I calculate everything and I listen to them and what do they, you know, what do they think about voting. And things I asked them was what do you love about Byron and what do you want to see change? So some some interesting things there always. But that was fun, and I enjoyed that. And then we had the Burghast meeting,
fire relief meeting, and we had a house bonding meeting, which, which is a how do you wanna say that? The house bonding committee came through Bus bus tour. Tour Yes. And looked at potential projects for the bonding bill. Yes. And That's kind of the first step in getting into the bonding bill language. And Byron with the two, the two interchanges is getting a lot of got a lot of good front publicity on that too. So I went to another one and, same one I went to in, OTEC over there and same thing. Byron had made us talk, and so we're we're high on the list for that.
So that's gonna be awesome. Other than that, this is Alright. So, yeah, as Lisa said the referendum, vote yes. That was me wearing my teacher hat. So that was a a lot of fun getting getting onto the community, making phone calls, and, yeah, knocking on doors, which was a lot of fun. And, thank the city hall for allowing us to be in the basement to to do all that work, kind of where we're housed and stationed. What else? Let's see. No park board. We didn't have a park board meeting. The mayor called me on Saturday, asking me if I was would go and attend the ICAM event. That is the Indian Cultural Association in Minnesota.
For the first time, they had their event out at the Byron High School, and that was from started at 04:30, and dinner was at eight. And then they had a band, and they had over, over 30 different performances, dancers, singers. So it was just a wonderful night, to celebrate Indian culture. And so thank you, for inviting me to that and Great thing. Got to read the proclamation from, Mayor Norton there in in Rochester. So hoping that they can, can make it back. They really loved, the high school facility, the new auditorium that we have out there, and just everything was laid out really nice for them. So I hear nothing but positive things.
So, hopefully, they'll be back next year for that event. Let's see. What else? We've got, first responders, as we saw in the, consent agenda. We've had a new director and assistant director, so pretty confident that that they'll continue to do a wonderful job in place of Brian McGregor, who also did a great job. We had a recent diversity and inclusion council meeting. We, kind of big on our agenda for this winter is our, open mic nights. So those will be starting up again, December 13. So yeah. So you're talking about Santa. So Santa will be doing what he needs to do and then Shaking a leg
at the at that or not? I don't think Santa will make an appearance after the fireworks at Compadres for the open mic. Someone suggested that Santa host the open mic night, but that That'd be kinda warm for Santa. Yeah. Santa also has to be at the primary building that morning and at Oxbow the weekend before. Busy. Busy. So we will not be we will not be Santa will not make it to Compadres for the open mic night. But if you, anybody out there too know of anyone who's got musical talent, we've got music, poetry, any any open mic talent. We have our first one's December 13 at 08:00 after the fireworks,
And then we have it, on the second Saturday of every month until or through April. Except in February, the second Saturday is Valentine's Day, so we'll have it on February 7. But we'll have flyers out around the community. Alisa Jessen is part of our diversity inclusion council. She does she's our tech lady. She does all the the ads for us, so she may be making some awesome flyers for us. And we'll have those around the community for for them to register for all the different nights of our open mic nights. Those are always a good time. I already mentioned BurrFest.
And then I'm thinking we, mayor, you attended my classroom almost a month ago now to talk about some, you kinda acted as our lobbyist for our, kinda, model legislator that made sure that we, yeah, that we did, into my seventh grade classroom in US history. So some great ideas, especially around the community. Some bills were passed all the way through. Some thinking about maybe inviting a couple students to kinda share some other ideas with us next month. So, that was awesome. And yesterday was Veterans Day. So, thank you, veterans. If there's any veterans out there,
thank you for your service and around our town. We had a Veterans Day, program at the middle school today. It was was super awesome and always a good time. So that's all I got. Well, thank you. Appreciate it. Kyle? Nothing. No park board, but we had a just internal staff meeting. Okay. Anything else at all? The only thing is a reminder, January is our strategic planning effort. We we did this three years ago, so it's time to come back and and revisit where we're at and where we're going. K. Thank you.
Robbie, anything for us? K. Yeah. We got everything covered? K. Motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. First. Seconded. So high school kids are happy they came tonight and not last night. Last night is okay. Two hours last. Two hours last. Good call this this time. We had a first or second. We are adjourned. Yep. 06:31. Thank you, everybody. And for the high schoolers, any any one of the three of us can sign. So if you, need us to sign, Otherwise, he won't count it. So, you know Murakami. Hey. Did you ever get I wanna apologize.