That's a lot. >> Yeah. Will be coded for project. >> Anything they want to use it for. >> Feel entitled extra, right? >> I just like that's cool. There's their kitchen. They were asking a few months back.
>> Agreement we had like >> their own people >> reinvesting their retirement dues. back in right now. Is that what it is? >> I I don't know to be honest. It doesn't copy of this. >> We're not asking for anything. >> A very polite
reply that said >> my number. >> Nothing. >> Yeah, >> there might be a meeting um next month. >> We don't know yet. >> Which is quite the art form. >> Uh new contact I was check sounds like a cling on name in Star Trek or something
>> which is kind of cool. >> You know what I get a lot Chris for over a year and Becky Young's been calling me Chris too. You know who that is? Becky Omar, she was
>> Well, she saw me at that thing last week the convention at the school. >> John, did you have to get him online or Chris? >> Let's just say that's me. She was talking to me. >> Well, I don't know. Some people get I don't know how they get Chris out of it, but I've literally had like five or six agenda.
>> Was there something you wanted to bring up? >> I'm fine. >> We called a lot, but you know, >> technology doesn't always work for us. Thank you, sir. >> Call to order for the city of Canon Falls City Council meeting, Tuesday,
January 20th, 2026. If I could get a roll call, please. >> Diane Johnson >> here. >> Zimmerman >> here. >> Chad Johnson >> here. Jeepson >> here. >> Novak absent. Croninburgger >> here. >> Montgomery >> here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge algiance 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. >> If I could get a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> Motion.
>> Motion from Lisa. >> Second. >> Second from Jeep. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Carries. Uh there is no sign up for public input tonight, so we're going to skip item five, go straight to consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or
may be removed for discussion and resolution as council business. Item A, just adjust and correct claims for the accounting period ending December 31st, 2025. Item B, just and correct claims accounting period ending January 15, 2026. Item C, meeting minutes, January
6th, 2026, city council minutes. Item D, approve 2026 fire department officers and pay rates. Item E, resolution 2855, acceptance of a monetary donation of $11,440 from the Cannon Falls Fire Department Relief Association to the fire
department. Uh, item F, resolution 2856, acceptance of a monetary donation of $500 from Mstead Medical Center to the fire department. Item G, resolution 2857, approving a conditional use permit for outdoor storage for Canson construction. Item H, resolution 2858,
accepting a donor recognition sign and approval of installation at John Burch Park. Item I, approve Greater Minnesota small city's housing aid grant program application. And item J, approve cancellation of February 3rd, 2026 city council meeting. Is there any any
council member would like to pull down? Hearing none, I would take a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. >> So moved. >> Motion from Diane. >> Second. >> Second from Lisa. All those in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? Carries. Gets us to round the
horn. Uh well, we can do uh reports first if anybody wants to talk about uh EDA. Laura, if you just want to go straight with that one, >> unless there's something from the chamber that somebody wants to say first. I will um I did have a
>> a meeting brief meeting with Andy Alto uh from the chamber. He did come over to city hall and looked at uh the space. So in uh considerations that they do have for uh an executive director. They do have some applicants. Uh they're pretty um feel pretty good about them actually
that they're going to find qualified. Um at the time it was there were three applicants that they had and they felt all all of them were pretty qualified. for the position. Um, but we wanted to look at this facility for them to kind of base their operations out of. It
would still likely looking at part-time. Um, but they would, uh, need a office space and some space to, you know, store some things. So, we clearly have plenty of room here and I think we could definitely make that, um, an accommodation for them. Um I I asked
basically on in terms of rent. I really wasn't expecting anything since we are you know a funer for for the chamber. Uh this would help them to to make sure that they would have operations to continue funding that position and do other events and other expand other operations. Um, but one thing I did ask
is like, hey, if we can provide some training and if they're here and they can help cover our staff when, you know, maybe we have, you know, some lunch breaks or times where we're we're down to one person or they need to meet and they're meeting with somebody, they can just be a little backup for us to answer phones and just direct people to the
right place >> and I think that would be a um acceptable. >> Yeah. All right. Thank you. Sorry, I didn't mean to jump. Is there normally chamber now? Maggie's not here, so I thought we'd skip it. But EDA, they met on January 8th.
>> Uh just uh Thursday, I'll be up in Minneapolis speaking um at the Economic Development Association for Minnesota um about our hardwood estates project. So that's kind of a big deal for um Canop Falls. Um I've been working with a local business owner for a grant application
for some equipment for their business. Um otherwise, um not much else. Um, that's it. >> Thank you, Laura. Uh, public works park board also met on the ETH. >> Jed wants it.
>> I'll take it. Um, uh, the sign at John Burch Park, you know, it's on the the asenh consent agenda. We, uh, approved that. Um as well as we had pretty extensive conversation about the ice rinks and uh public works is going doing some
research of how we can upgrade either the soils or you know come back with a few options to improve the ice rinks this summer so that next year even if we have warm days we can should maintain some ice. Um >> it's cold enough now we have ice although it might be too cold to use it
but um yeah. >> All right. Awesome. Thank you Jed. uh planning commission January 12th >> and basically we had one thing on the agenda and that was Canudson uh conditional use permit which we passed. >> Wonderful. Thanks Diane. We'll do around
the war. Jed, anything else? >> Uh just that possibly snow over the next couple days. If we do get plowable snow, public works will be out plowing middle of the night. Um make clearance streets. So please park accordingly. >> Izzy anything. Laura,
Chief Jed talked about the uh possibility of snow. Just want to remind people in addition to that, we're going to have very extreme cold. Um so, you know, if your vehicle does break down, you can't get it started. Uh please call us and
let us know. Um we still may need to get it out of there. Um but we would much rather have you contact us ahead of time than you come out in the morning and find it gone. So, we can try to work with people as best we can. But the other thing would be is, you know, if
you've got uh u you know, elderly neighbors and stuff, just check in on them. Um make sure that their furnaces are working, that type of thing. In these temperatures, it doesn't take real long for a house to go cold if uh if the heat isn't uh isn't there. So, just
things to be aware of through the weekend. And we're still keeping an eye on for next week. Uh we might get uh some more days that are be going to be cold there. We just don't know yet. That's all I got. >> Thanks, Chief. Sarah >> John, >> I got a couple. Uh, so I got a call
today. Um, a different owner or partner that's involved in the nursing home property uh reached out to me and said that they would be the main point of contact moving forward. Um, so I expressed our concerns with the property
and that it is uh hazardous and that, you know, we don't want to be sending uh staff in there unless it's an absolute emergency. Um, that there's been, you know, series of breakins and vandalism that's going on. So, they needed to be working on securing that. They did have
a person that was out here that that had been trying, but I believe there were after the time that they were there, there's still some reports of activity going on. Um, so I uh they requested some time to just get an better understanding of of the property, what's
what's going on. They're actively trying to sell it. Um, but I did explain and I sent off the information and the application for for the deed redevelopment program, which does offer uh funding for uh demolition purposes for prop sites for that um would be used
for redevelopment. So, uh, there's two grant application deadlines for that. Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet the February deadline. Um, because it's at the beginning of the month, we wouldn't have a council meeting in advance of that and nor would we have all the documentation needed to put
together a comp a competitive one because the funding is competitive. There's limitations at each grant cycle to how many projects get funded. Um, so the next deadline is August 1st. Uh so which by that time hopefully if this is something that they would be working out
um and this would be the cleanest option for now um I would be working with them to to try to get that um demolished and uh continually advising them to secure the property ensure that it's safer and prevent people from going in there. Uh
one other uh update for grants. Um, so back in early December, uh, Bill and I, um, agreed to put in a submission for what's called LPP funding with, uh, Mindot District 6. Uh, this would be
used to fund a design study, design alternative study for the intersection of DAW 19 and that on-ramp to find a solution for for that. Um, present that to to Mindot to help um, move hopefully move forward with some sort of
improvement. so that the redevelopment of the nursing home property could be uh something that that could take place in the future. Then uh some uh con considerations going on with the cable commission. So we're having some issues with other equipment. Um obviously we
did have the tririccaster that was replaced. Uh that is now working and and doing the way it's supposed to be. However, there's other pieces of equipment and they're all kind of eating that uh end of their useful life. So we will be trying to schedule a C cable commission meeting uh to discuss options
for for that equipment upgrade as well. Um our franchise renewal with mediacom is due and that is something that I have been in contact with mediacom about drafts for for that renewal. Uh but one piece element of that that uh creates
some issue for me is that the uh funding for that comes from franchise fees which is a percentage of gross revenue b for the for cable services and cable services obviously for a lot of people are go are not in use anymore. Um so there's not a lot of more revenue drawn
from that. There's very few customers that are left on the system. So it just it strikes me as as challenging for us moving forward and that being the primary source of funds that we have for operating the channel um when when that stream is going away. So I know this is
something that is being has been brought up at the state level and trying to find ways that we can um modify that so it's not only um subject to maybe cable services but maybe it goes into some sort of fun fees for internet services
as well. And then uh for the council um I will need your devices dropped off at at city hall next week because we are doing our email conversion now. So um as a an update again the email server that we have is on a version of Microsoft
that is no longer um serviceable or upgraded. And in the process of evaluating what you know ways we can move forward, we can move to a Microsoft 365 cloud-based you know subscription service or we could try to spend the money and upgrade the the server to the
more current one. I think the long-term most cost effective is is actually the subscriptionbased. So that conversion is taking place. Um we actually just did a couple staff ones that were more easy today. Um, so but your devices will all need to come back so that we can get you
relogged into the system because there's um some different authentication and credentiing that needs to happen with that conversion. And then our fair ordinance committee will be meeting next week. >> Wonderful. Thank you, John. >> Uh Laura,
>> I'm good. >> Yep. >> Good. >> Diane, >> good. >> Lisa, >> good. Chad, >> thoughts and prayers go out to the police and ICE agents up in uh Minneapolis. >> Yeah. Uh I want to say thank you to our fire department. I know there was a fire
this morning and when we're dealing with these cold temps, I know we deal with snow and we talk about parking, but when we're dealing with the cold temps and house fires, that is about the worst combination and it it happens all too often. So, thank you to our fire department uh for what they had to do this morning. Also want to say thank you
to uh the um good Hugh County uh GOP hosting the uh guminatorial I would say debate but uh more of like a a meet and greet or a forum. Um that was very interesting. I'm glad that the high school is able to host something like that. Uh I encourage people to attend no
matter which political party you belong to uh to attend those events because you can learn a lot get to know uh the people and uh where they stand on the issues but also just you know when there's nine candidates out there put some names of faces so that when you read it in the paper you you see who they were. Uh and it was nice to see
some other familiar faces there as well. So uh with that I would take a motion to adjurnn. >> Uh motion is from Chad, second from Lisa. All those in favor? >> Opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you everybody.