call to order for the city of Canon Falls City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. If I could get a roll call, please. >> Diane Johnson >> here. >> Zimmerman >> here. >> Chad Johnson >> here. >> Jeepson absent. >> Noach >> here. >> Croninburgger
>> here. Montgomery here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge 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. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second from Chris. All those in favor? >> I opposed. That carries. Gets us to our public input. Public input is intended
to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns to the city council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length, and each speaker will have no more than three minutes to speak. Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance, must provide their name, address, and the topic they intend to address.
Comments must be on topic, respectful, pertinent to city business, and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down. If the speaker refuses to comply, they may be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing. All such comments
shall be made at the public hearing. The city council will not generally act on issues raised by the public input, but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda. Leading off tonight, we've got Jim Hoffman. Diane told me I couldn't be long. Uh Jim
Hoffman, Park Street West, Can Falls. First thing I'd like to do is apologize that these comments aren't quite as timely as I wish they would have been. A few council meetings ago, it was brought up that maybe we didn't need to replace the signage at Mening Park. After all, the bolts were checked by a council
member. Happily, it was still approved. My hat is off to whoever saw these sign replacements throughout the city as a good thing, especially with the methodical approach that's being incorporated in replacing them. I feel these signs add a certain
upscale look to Canon Falls and Canon Falls needs something like this at this point. Any advantage over surrounding communities is a good thing. I believe it is vital that we continue this project until all necessary signs are replaced. There's an except this is an
exceptional investment in our city's image and I hope any attempts to derail the progress of this of this pro of this is uh is um met with firm opposition. The quality of these signs is outstanding. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Up next, Kyle McMongle. Did I pronounce that right, Kyle? >> You got it. >> All right. So, I'm Kyle McMongle. Uh, I own the home at 114 Minnesota Street West. And
so, that um property abuts the alley uh between 1 and 2nd Street North that is on the consent agenda uh tonight to approve the paving of that alley and two others in the city this summer. Um, in June 2024, my next door neighbor at 106
Minnesota Street West um, broached the subject of putting a fence on his property. And through the course of that conversation, we ended up agreeing to do two adjacent uh, four corner surveys. And so we hired Johnson and Skullfield out of Redwing to do a couple of uh,
certified surveys of our property boundaries. And in the course of doing that, I discovered that uh the alley that's behind the house is encroached into the north boundary of my property around 4 and a half ft. And so, while I'm very grateful that the alley is on the schedule to be paved, I'd like to
have it straightened out uh before it gets paved. Uh the the way that my garage is on the back side of the property, it faces uh east and so it's turned 90 degrees relative to the alley itself. And so when you actually back
out of my garage, having the alley drifted over and into basically the encroachment that it is, it creates a blind spot for backing out of the backing cars out of the garage because the traffic is tighter to the structure than it should be. And so on the safety
part of it alone, I'd like to have it straightened out because it would moving the traffic further away from the edge of my driveway and my garage would decrease that blind spot and make it safer to come in and out of that garage. Um the second thing with that is in addition to straightening it out, I was just going to offer up that there are
two spots that every year as they come and regrade. Um it they're prone to settling. >> And so I'd assume that prior to paving and creating a long-term maintenance obligation, if that pavement settles, it's probably more expensive to fix than just digging it up now, recompacting it,
and taking care of that before the paving's put in. So that would be my recommendation is to deny the motion tonight to approve that item on the consent agenda pending reconsideration of having the survey work done before getting the paving put in place. Thank
you. >> Thank you, Kyle. >> That gets us to tonight's public hearing. Uh, so the public hearing is for the 2026 street and utility improvement project. Uh, Darren, do you have a presentation
to go through? >> I do. >> Before we open up the public hearing? >> I do. >> Perfect. >> Right. Right. Let me get this plugged in. >> Yep. It should be on the podium. HDMI. >> There you are. >> Great. Okay.
Right. Thank you, mayor, councel. Um, as in your packet, uh, there should be a presentation from from us. Um, it also says that the presenter is Bill Angererman. Uh, that is not me. I am Darren Sik. I work with Bill. I'm the
assistant city chair. Um, Bill had a a personal uh conflict. Uh, Zimroto Mazeppa is in the softball playoffs, so he's very much behind his daughter's final season of softball. So, that being said, um this is uh for
tonight you you'll have uh this public hearing which is for the 2026 street utility project. Um we back in April um we received seven bids for the project. Um the low bidder was Fitzgerald Excavating. Uh they were the one who was
on the previous project from a couple years ago. Um but before the city can award those that project, uh we're uh hosting a public hearing for uh the assessments on that project. So, uh tonight the council will then listen to uh the residents uh
speak on the um the assessment. Um this isn't a a question and answer session. This is uh their chance to appeal or uh discuss their uh personal assessment on their property. So um and then after that public hearing then the council can
uh discuss and then look there's two resolutions. One adopting the assessment and then the second would be uh to uh award the contract if the council so chooses. So um that being said I'll just kind of go through uh these are the
items that we're uh looking to discuss tonight. just kind of going through the improvements, what the costs are, and then kind of just the the statute, which is 429 uh for uh the assessment process. Okay. So, on the project area, uh this
map is colorcoded for a reason. Uh we are currently the project is Fourth Street, uh from Dakota up to Washington, which is also County Road 17. Um so that uh four street is uh used heavily by uh
industrial type traffic. Uh there's the railroad tracks also on there and then there's a small uh oneb block section of Ohio Street from fourth to fifth street. Um this mainly serves there's a few uh residential houses along that street uh
in Ohio. Okay. So it's colorcoded for a reason. So the colors uh represent uh red is a street assessment, green being a sewer assessment and blue being a water assessment. So not all uh properties are being served. So the ones
that are just red only are not receiving any uh water or sewer services to their property. So two of them being railroad property obviously those do not need water or sewer. And then the ones along uh the fourth street on the west side that are red uh those that's the parking
lot for uh the old Canon Equipment building. Uh again do not need uh sewer or water service at this time. Okay. So the improvements are uh we're putting in the city standard street which is a 32 foot wide street from the
back of curb to back of curb. um all of the ones that are receiving uh sewer and water um will get uh a new service. There's going to be new sanitary main and then also uh new water manes in this area and also the each one of them is
going to get a new service except the ones that are um street only. Um, also part of this, if you remember back in the uh previous project, uh we did extend some storm sewer uh from Canon Street up the uh old rideway of Fourth
Street to collect essentially the low point on Ohio Street. So Ohio Street is the lowest point on this project and so we're trying to collect that water runoff. There's known water issues in that on that street. So that was part of this uh as well. So, we're we're putting
in storm sewer in that in that area. Okay. Um, as far as costs go, um, so the total project accessible project cost is at $1.58 million. Uh, that does not include uh oversized piping. So, what that means
is that uh we're putting in some trunk sewer mains um on this. This is uh kind of a main route that comes down uh four street. So those bigger size pipes are not we took out that oversized cost. So the residents or property owners are not
paying for that increased uh pipe size. They're basically the equivalent of an 8 in pipe which is the normal uh pipe size for a residential neighborhood. Okay. So that breaking it down the 20% accessible cost uh then is right around $300,000.
Um you can see the assessment range uh varies very widely. Uh so the $8,000 is more towards the single residential lot and then the 63,000 is to the large uh industrial lot that's on the north uh
east side of the project. So and there's a total of 13 lots. So um this was done by the front foot method. So each um item, so the street sanitary and water each kind of received a dollar amount per foot. And so that's applied to the
front footage of their property and that's how the assessments are calculated. Okay. So the items that uh or the the other things that uh they can do with an assessment. So if you're a senior citizen, permanently disabled or active military, um there are deferrals
available. The city has uh afforded them in the past. So they just need to come into city hall and and look to apply for those. So, if you uh do want to prepay your assessment, they need to do it uh before November 15th of this year. Otherwise, the those that assessment
will roll onto your next year's taxes. And then there is an interest rate applied to that and it's 3 and a half% and that goes for 10 years. All right. As far as the schedule goes, uh we had a preliminary hearing back in November. uh we opened I said bid like I
said bids in April and so tonight we're hearing at this uh final assessment hearing and then if you su so choose you can award the project and then if you do award the project the contractor is ready to start and so one of the things that um as part of this project we had
to deal with crossing the progressive railroad tracks so we have an agreement with progressive rail uh to do that in June so the contractor needs to kind of get going and get all of the pipes to the railroad track. So then at a certain
date, I think it's the 13th through the 21st or something like that is um the the contractor needs to go across the tracks and get across there. So that's out of service only basically for about nine days. So that's that's kind of the
limiting factor as far as schedule goes. Once we're past that and we can get it uh back open to train traffic, uh then we can go on and build the rest of the project. Uh so then final completion uh is fall of this year. So we gave him till uh the first week of November to
complete the project. Uh I think the contractor will stay on the job and hopefully be done prior to that, but that is his completion date. So, as far as the appeals process go, uh this is the um resident or property
owner's opportunity to object to their assessment. Um so, they can provide either a written objection or come and verbally object. Uh then they do have to uh then appeal or send their uh assessment to uh district court after
they serve notice to either the mayor or the clerk. Um so, excuse me. if the clerk um then files that and then so all those necessary proceedings need to uh happen so then this can be an official appeal to the court cl excuse me the
district court. So what happens is if this does go to court uh then the court will either say the assessment was valid or the assessment is not valid and is set aside and then orders a reassessment. So what
that saying is that there isn't a could be an assessment but it needs to be of a lesser value. It's there's usually no value that's down to zero. It is usually some what the city says is a number or some value that's slightly less of that.
However, if the person that's appealing the assessment does not win in court, then the city has the right to then um all the court costs could be also added to that person's um uh assessment. So, um so all objections um if they don't
happen tonight, so if the person isn't here tonight or pro has provided a written uh or appeal, uh so then that means that it those are done. They don't have a right after tonight to appeal the assessment. Okay.
All right. So, after I'm done talking, uh we'll open it up to public comments. Um one thing that I do want to note, uh our field staff did meet with uh the Hearnys who are here tonight. Um so, they they did have a request to uh look at us lowering that street. So, we will
look at lowering Ohio a little bit uh just so they can have uh additional drainage uh from their yard or from their garage. So, so just wanted to point that out. Um again, this is more for an assessment for appealing the dollar amounts. It's not necessarily a a
back and forth or question and answer session. >> Right. >> Right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Darren. >> Yep. Uh, so I will officially open the public hearing for the 2026 street and utility improvement project. The mic is open for
anybody who would like to step up and speak. Second call. 2026 Street Utility Improvement Project. Third and final call. >> You can you can go ahead step right up to the mic.
>> I'm just is um I was informed that at the I was originally told >> Can you please provide name and address? >> Yep. Name and address, please. And there. >> Um I'm Jane Roadie. I live at 1101 Fth Street North. Uh my driveway is right off of Ohio.
>> Um I was informed that the street was being widened. Ohio was um but I thought they were only taking like five feet off my property. But where are you getting 32 feet to go?
Cuz it's getting widened. 32 ft or something. >> So, no, it's the width is 32 ft total. It's currently 26. >> Darren, if you could speak into a mic, please. >> Yeah, I can hear. >> Go into the microphone. Sorry. So, the
the proposed width is 32 feet wide. So, it's currently 26 28 feet wide. So it'll widen basically from where the road is now to that. So the four to five feet additional on each
side. That's is what's being proposed. >> Yeah. It's just like the uh house across the street from me is already so close to the street. I'm just like, how are you going to make
that work? cuz that's going to make it like almost to their door. >> Yeah, we're we're keeping it so it's still in the city's right away, but there it it is getting on both sides getting closer to the houses because the
road is so narrow. >> Guess I'll see you when you rip it all up. >> Anybody else like to approach the mic for the public hearing? Do you know when the trees are going to be cut down? Most of them are ours.
>> Uh tree removal. Do we have a date? >> Uh no, no date as of right now, but it would be early in the project. So I would suspect here in June. >> Okay, thank you. Are the pines going to >> they can go
>> take those two. Not not sure which pines, but >> Ohio. Okay, we'll we'll >> they're going to be really close to the edge of the road anyway. >> Sure, we can look at that. But yeah, they probably are already looking at being removed. So, okay,
>> because I know they're also power lines right folks if sorry just to interject if we do want to have comments and questions we can reserve time for you after the meeting. Darren can speak to you uh you know just to get through our process
here of the public hearings and all just the business that we have to attend to. Let's try to let finish this up and we'll give time for you to you know meet after the meeting if you want so wish. >> Yep. Final call public hearing. All right. Hearing none. We will close
the portion of the public hearing for the 2026 street utility improvement project. Uh that leads us to item one, resolution 2874, uh adopting the assessment. Um any questions or comments from the council
after the presentation from Darren? >> I move to adopt resolution 2874. >> All right. Motion from Diane. Do I have a second? Second. >> Uh I'll give the second to Chris. All those in favor? >> I opposed. That carries. gets us to item
two, resolution 2875, receiving the bids and awarding the contract. >> If there's somebody any questions, comments >> and I would seek a motion to approve. >> Motion. >> Motion from Lisa. >> Second. >> Second from Chad. All those in favor?
>> I opposed. That carries. It gets us to tonight's consent agenda. The 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 and correct claims for the accounting period ending on May 13, 2026. Item B, meeting
minutes, May 5th, 2026, city council. Item C, second reading and adoption of ordinance 415, an ordinance approving the purchase agreement to convey city property to the Canon Falls VFW. Item D, approve 2026 event street closures. Item E, approve sewer credit request for 410
Street North. Item F, approve alley paving. Item G, approve hiring of the 2026 pool staff. And item H, approve new school board scoreboard at Independent School District 252. Um, before I see if there's any that they'd
want to uh pull down, obviously the concerns that were brought up by Kyle, um, that's item F, the approved alley paving. Would it be possible to uh address his concerns while still passing it so that we get the the bid approved, but all the the work and his concerns
can still be addressed? >> I think so. >> John, does it need to be relooked at with the survey and the fencing and the property boundary? >> Do we need to take his survey? Can he submit his survey to us as evidence? Well, I'm just wondering because if we pull it down and we take that into
consideration, the rest of the approval uh for the bid and for the work, we'd basically be taking like one third and we'd have to do that at a separate >> and we can approve the other two alleys and and then address that >> because they were they were addressed as three separate bids. You could if you did want to pull it, you could remove
one piece of it, approve the other two. We can table that or bring that back at a at a later date. >> I'm for pulling it down. >> Perfect. Then let's pull it. Yeah, I was going to say cuz we can pass it. Let's pull it >> just as a for clarity. I think it's going to add >> relative cost to it just to assess
exactly where things are. I mean, not not to say it's gonna be a ton, but >> sure, >> we might want to evaluate, you know, specifically where this is going to go and make sure that that's done correctly. Okay. >> But he's Okay. >> Well, no, but let's just So, Chad, we'll pull it down. That will become council business item D. All right. Is there
anything else that the council would want to pull down? Hearing none, I would seek a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. >> So moved. >> Motion from Diane, second from Chris. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Carries. Gets us to council business. The Canon Valley Trail bylaws
and Joint Powers Agreement. And Scott Repky will take the mic. >> Good evening. Uh I'm Scott Repy. Uh I am the trail manager of the Canon Valley Trail representing the Canon Valley Trail
Joint Powers Board. Um today's presentation seeks formal approval of the revised joint powers agreement. Uh while the bylaws were previously approved by the three local units of
government, the revised agreement establishes a new process. The joint powers board will now uh if approved adopt bylaws independently provided that all three units of
government are formally notified and given a comment period prior to final adoption. Just to give you a little background um first the trail is 40 years old this year. Uh however the first joint powers
agreement was back in 1984. The last formally revised joint powers agreement was in 2005 which is over 20 years ago. Uh recently this past year the joint
powers board formed a subcommittee to lead this update. The subcommittee met multiple times and collaborated with all three government uh administrators. So that would include Good Hugh County,
Redwing, and Cannon Falls. Revised drafts were sent to the Good Hugh County attorney and he made some revisions and we accepted those.
the Canon Valley Trail reviewed um after the revisions and actually made a few revisions themselves, but then um the agreement went back to uh the Good Hugh County attorney and the
three administrators. um these bodies formally approved the final um um joint powers agreement and we're looking for uh Canon Falls
approval today. Uh just a note that Good Hugh County uh Board of Commissioners approved the joint powers agreement this morning. I just want to quickly hopefully quickly here just go over some minor changes
that we've made. Um under the purpose of the trail. Uh two things we changed. Uh we did um accept ebike um use on the trail which is
considered kind of a motorized vehicle. Even though we say no motorized vehicles, we are making that exception. And then um some land acquisition updates which I'll eventually get to.
Uh the local unit of government responsibilities. Um this was formally um this agreement formally assigns the governments to um a few responsibilities.
Goodw County actually owns the property. The city of Redwing will be our fiscal agent and Canon Falls is our human resource department. As far as the funding formula, uh, since 1984,
uh, the percentages of funding has not changed and at this point it will not change. However, um, there is a formula hopefully you were able to review that. uh it will be based
on population. And another uh funding issue was uh we added if capital improvement reimbursement if uh a government unit of government such as Canon Falls. if you
um would give the trail maybe some engineering or something like that, we would reimburse uh the city of Canon Falls. Therefore, all three governments are participating
in that cost. Uh one new section that was added was indemnification. Um basically it states that we are not going to hold the three units of
government responsible for what we do. Uh we will carry comprehensive insurance. Um yeah and we will defend indemnify and hold harmless to all three governments.
the bylaws. I'm going to quickly just uh go over a few changes. Um the bylaws were updated uh to reflect the current trail reality today. Uh 20 years makes a big difference.
Again, the ebikes were um mentioned in the bylaws. Uh getting to the land acquisition as I mentioned earlier um the process we would like to go through is
uh the joint powers board would like to make the approval of acquisition but good hugh county needs to be involved since they are the land owners. Uh one minor change in board membership.
So there are nine elected officials or sorry nine official board members, three from each unit of government. Uh prior to this, it was one elected official,
one citizen, and then the third could be either or. Uh the board felt it was important to switch that to two elected officials and one citizen. uh for the bylaws as I mentioned uh
prior to this they were approved by um the units of government but basically bylaws are how the joint powers board will operate as itself. Um what will take place now is a
twothirds board vote um to change anything in the bylaws. At that point, a notice and comment period will go to all three units of government where you can contest what
you know if you're disagreeing with something that how we feel that we should be running. I'm getting close to the end here. So, um what is not changing is pretty simple. Uh the trails core comm uh
mission and route will remain the same. Uh the nine member board is unchanged. So finally, what I'm asking is um that Canon Falls consider adopting a
resolution approving the 2026 revised joint powers agreement. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> Questions for Scott? So you say that
certain things aren't changing, but as soon as you get the power to, then you can change them without having to go back to people. So the agreement is basically um the three units of government agreeing to have the Canon Valley Trail.
The bylaws are kind of uh how do I describe this? John, you might be able to help me, but it's kind of how the joint powers board itself will operate. >> Yeah. So, it's Yeah. So, it's the operation. It's It's guiding how the
board is going to oversee the operations of the trail. It's still an asset that is part of the joint powers where the city of Canon Falls, Redwing, and Goodyu County are all part of. We have memberships that members of our elected body and our citizens that will be
representative on the board that used to be if they had a change in the bylaws. So if if they wanted to add ebikes then that was an approval that all three entities had to have like their city councils or county commissioner board change. Correct. And and then then the
board their board could adopt it. This is taking away part of that middleman. However, they're still providing us the notice and we still have the comment period that if we object, then we can share that and our hopefully the representatives of that are coming from
our jurisdiction are going to advocate for that and making that change. >> What's stopping you from going out and buying equipment that probably isn't needed or some people would think isn't needed? you know there is but then now say we object doesn't really mean
anything if we can't do anything about it after you already bought it >> right so that's where the three representatives from each unit of government um we come together as a group to make those decisions and I
think in the 40-year history um the trail has proven that I I know for certain during my era, the equipment that we're buying is actually funded by grants. So, I mean it
I mean we I think a lot of people know me. I make the best use of money, but uh that it does come back down to the joint powers board and the representatives on the board. >> I just hope people show up, >> right?
Correct. Anything else? >> Any other questions for Scott? >> All right. Thank you, Scott. >> Yep. Uh, hearing none. >> I move that we adopt the Canon Valley Trail bylaws and joint powers agreement as presented. >> All right. Motion from Diane. Second
from Chris. All those in favor? >> I opposed. >> Nay. >> All right. Passes four to one. That gets us to item B, resolution 2876, approving variances for minimum lot depth and front yard setbacks for land to be platted as OGorman addition.
Izzy. Okay. So, at the May 11th planning commission, uh, we held a public hearing and considered an application um from Mr. Oorman um for variances um from that's one 152.611.
Um so that's for lot depth and it's for front yard set back. Um so looking for a decrease in the minimum um lot depth. Um so the requirement is 142. This is down to about um it depends on the lot and
blocks um within the development but one is 133 and the other is about 87. Um and then the minimum front yard setback for um two of the lots um is down to 17 um to from 25 is the requirement. Um so the
variances um also coincide with u Mr. Ogorman's application for the um Gorman edition final plat um which is also on the agenda tonight. Um it's the next item. Um so just kind of as an an
overview on that um at the planning commission meeting that did not require a public hearing for final plat. We just considered the um application um and planning commission approved the final plat. Um, just noting that
prior to I guess we were able to record the final plat, release the final plat. Um, but we will still need to um negotiate the development agreement. Um, so we're still able to record and do all of that, but the development agreement
um will still be negotiated um at this time. So at planning commission both the variances and the final plat were approved um unanimous unanimously um at the meeting. So any questions on that um
just let me know. Um but otherwise um just those two approvals tonight um on the council business. >> Right. Questions or discussion for the resolution? Uh again, we'll treat these individually, but resolution 2876 approving the variances for minimum lot
depth and front yard setbacks. >> Hearing no questions, I would seek a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Motion from Diane. >> Second. >> Second from Chris. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Carries. Gets us to resolution 2876 approving the final plat for the
Ogorman edition. John, is there anything you'd like to add before discussion? >> Yes, I will would like to add. So we do have Mr. for Gorman here to answer any questions or provide additional information about the the plat. Um so in that conversation u you know he he
presented that you know in trying to determine what the ultimate end design conditions. So the staff recommendation has been that the alley should be paved as it says you know that's basing that on our code decision having u multiple
conversations with Mr. Gorman he believes that the there's he has reasonings on why the alley shouldn't be paved and he would like an opportunity to speak to that tonight so he's here to be able to you know talk about that uh issue and if there's any other questions
we can certainly be able to ask of them. So Mr. for mayor if you would >> sure >> be okay. Let me provide him the opportunity to share his >> Good evening. >> Go ahead, babe. It's yours. >> Um, just a couple little side notes. I'm I'm sitting back here. We've got an alley that might be platted in the wrong
place and the street right away is right next to the door. And so on my property, and John and I went through this, and this has nothing to do with the developer agreement, but this setback business, John insisted that I depict an 8-oot rightway on my alleys. Well, those
are the oldest alleys in town. Okay. And we can go all we want about it. They're platted in the right spot. I've got to depict the rightway. I'm 26 feet from the front of the garage to the alley. Got to be 25. But he takes eight feet
from me for the rightway. So now I have to come back to get it. You see what's I'm talking about now. Just a few years ago when Neil Jensen was here, you went to Habitat for Humanity, >> that garage is 15 ft off the actual
alley. That means it's only 7 foot setback. There was never uh variance. You following what I'm saying? And what I'm saying, and Diane and I were discussing this at length today, there's all this hodge podge goes
on in these old neighborhoods in Canon Falls. I I don't know. We seem to still get along just fine. Um and and one of them is this black top. Now, that is my issue. There is not a residential black top
alley that has been assessed even though it's in your code to assess them. And you know that is because you've got one and and they're doing them. And there's nothing wrong with this. And Jed will attest to the fact, and I was here long before
Jed, knowing what they were doing, and I've researched it, and I know exactly why they're doing it. It makes it easier for those guys to snowplow. They're no longer getting stuck. They're no longer throwing sod up on everybody's yard and all this other crap that goes on because winters are different than when I was a
kid around here. Now, you go out and plow, you're plowing half dirt and half snow. And I don't know for the life of me why I would be the only one in town to pay to have an alley paved. So John
comes at me with well it says right here. This is what the code says. And what this talks about is streets and what they're supposed to be speced at. Well, it isn't a street. It's an alley. And I told John give me this alley
specs. He comes back with what my engineer drafted. It's for a seven ton road. Okay. And it's excessive. I know what Billy Robinson and Jed are doing in
these alleys. I've known Billy all of his life. I've talked to him several times in the last couple weeks. I know exactly what they're doing. It's nothing like they're requiring me to do. I call up my engineer. Now, keep in mind, I'm paying the survey,
okay, to come and depict these right ofways that are depicted across town by ordinance. I'm paying him to write a speck on this alley when there are none. And you can ask John, I've asked him
four times. He finally came back and said, "I can't find any." And it's too bad Bill Angerman isn't here because he's the guy along with John that instructed my engineer to
develop this. It's for a seven ton road. That's more than most of your city streets are. You follow what I'm saying? Well, along with that comes money. Okay? And so why am I held to a completely different standard than what
Jed's doing in other alleys? And why are you not assessing them, but you're assessing me? That's the bottom line here. >> Would the city be required to remove snow from this uh alley or I mean, we're
calling it an alley, but is it classified as an alley or a road? I think it's being classified as an alley, but yes, if it's a public if it's public rideaway and designated public rideway, the city would be removing snow and m doing maintenance. >> If I may, they have been plowing it. It
is an alley. It is platted as an alley. The entire thing >> that that I I Mr. here. Mhm. >> Absolutely. >> The the variances that were approved in in 2018 and then recorded as as a legal document. They are not plat they are not
platted as an alley currently and the legal standard. Now they exist as alleys physically. They are they are there. They have never not been there in the physical form that they they exist. But in 2018 when the vacation was completed and then recorded that as a legal
document and that's how we've come to the process in which today we're you know this this issue right now is the final plat to replplat those as public alleys so that they are based on the legal definition an alley in the city.
>> Can I just put a a quick pause on this? This discussion that we're having right now is basically a step before what we have in front of us is approving the final plat. What we're talking about is more the developer developing agreement or development agreement which we can talk about at a later date too. Right.
>> I don't expect any action. It's not on the agenda. That's why I asked if I could talk about it and the only reason is to inform you all and let you all do a little research on it. Would the council uh be interested in continuing discussion or taking a motion to app because I I have a feeling that we're in
approval of the final plat the development agreement hashing things out that's a that's another conversation for a different day but uh in interest of time >> does the development agreement come back to us or is that just done between those two? >> No, that is that will ultimately have to be approved by the city council. >> Yep. >> Okay.
>> So, we can save that discussion for another day if we would like to uh seek a motion to approve resolution. >> Clarify just make So the the 2018 document says that it's not an alley. It's vacated.
>> It was it was vacated in 2018. >> We're saying that we're going to say they're an alley. >> Yes. >> That it's an alley. >> Yep. So >> and if I may, because John and I went over this, I was not I was not supposed to be allowed to vacate it according to
your ordinance. I didn't know that >> and at that time none of us in No, I understand all that. >> Yeah. So, so yeah. So, >> clarify. >> Yep. So, the the alleys, the vacation in
the alleys because the intent at that that meeting was they would go in as private streets to serve the houses that were going to be built. That plan is not moving forward. So now they're going back to being public streets, alleys,
whatever you want to call them, but they will be maintained and to the future by the city. >> Okay? >> Which they have been all along. >> All right. Uh, I know we're going to have a lot of discussion and a lot of questions regarding how this is going to
be developed, but for right now, I would seek a motion to approve resolution 2877 approving the final plat for the Oorman edition. >> So moved. >> Motion from Diane. >> Second. >> Second. >> Second from Chris. All those in favor? >> Opposed? It carries. All right. Uh, we
pulled down what was item F, the approve the alley paving. Um, Mr. Mcgon McMonicle spoke during public input. Um I think those are some pretty valid concerns. Um I even looked it up
on the the old Google map here and yeah uh you know from looking at it at satellite that alley has a little bit of a twist and curve to it and his garage is pretty much right up against it. Um, I have no problem with the passing and
the two out of the three and then we uh maybe have to separate the uh would that be alley one that runs between second street north and first street north. >> Yeah, I think it's alley one on the agenda here. >> Y >> So if we we subtract the cost um the total cost for the other two alleys
would be $16,427.75 for alley two and three. Now I just want to uh by taking this out looking at the survey the fencing the property boundary and the the safety issue that Mr. McMonicle brought up uh will that increase the cost then for the cost of
alley one as a project as a standalone. >> It shouldn't the um right in the our quote from Bill's black top it is to final grade do the base work. So the the depressions that you talked about would be uh addressed when when he would
because he would address the the the prep before we put down asphalt anyway. So that would be removed and and put back to for >> he's going to do subgrade prep. >> Yes, he would do subgrade prep before we put asphalt down. Um the other thing is is I mean I guess if I may I could pull
I have GIS here so you can kind of see where property lines are. We try to fit them in in the rightway. It's only a 16oot rideway. We would we would put that we would straighten it out and put it in that right away. So, >> yep.
>> But if we do need to survey it and and identify property pins or whatnot, we can, you know, >> can we >> put that on like a rush request? So, like at our next meeting, it could be at least a topic or how long does this take, >> John? What does it take to get a survey done? I don't know. >> Oh, I mean, if he's got a legal survey
available, we can >> So, if you already have a survey, I mean, we can go off your property pins. I was going to say I have for mine and a lot adjacent. I should have offered this up during the public info, but you this you guys can have this copy to at least start from >> because I can I can show you like our
GIS. I have it pulled up on my laptop here if you want to see what it looks like based on there. So, >> Sure. >> Yeah. I just don't want to have to wait like another year, you know, how things go sometimes. Mhm. >> On the north side of the alley, there's a hedge. And I suspect over the years
that hedge has grown and it's just over time, they've just slowly as they've come in and graded or whatever, just slowly kind of let it drift south. >> Yep. >> So, you can you can see I I'm assuming this is your property here. >> Yep.
>> Okay. Yeah. You can see how the it it's Wow, that's not my mouse isn't working really well. But yeah, the hedge right here that he's talking about, it's drifted over and here's what the county has as property lines. >> Yeah. >> So, we would straighten that out. Oops. Best we we could.
>> So, there's there's one hedge there and then right at the intersection line of mine and the property next to it, there's another smaller hedge. >> You're talking right in in here? >> No, the other corner >> right here. >> Yep. Straight from that second. Okay.
>> So that's where it kind of starts to trail. >> Yeah. And we would we would straighten it out. So >> Okay. >> That and that garage that accessory structure on the lot across the street that got torn down last summer. So that
>> So you're talking this one right here. >> That's right. >> So that's not there anymore. >> That's not in play either for having to have any clearance to that. That's been torn out. just great restored. >> Okay. >> I mean, I don't we would we have a 16
foot rightway there. Uh the road's going to go you would try to put a a foot or so on each side and and put the the alley right right in the center of that. I don't see any problem with with figuring out where property lines are and moving forward with it as it is. You know, we have an idea where rightway is
already especially if you have a survey done. >> Okay. So >> would um with Jed using the survey and that would you be comfortable with us approving tonight or do you want to >> have us wait a two weeks and I
>> I really don't care as long as you don't pave into my >> I was going to say are you are you going to have someone out there Jed >> like can you just get someone out there to talk with with >> Kyle and just be like hey this >> the way that we do this is we work with Billy um so Tony and my guys are the
ones install the alley. So if I give them direction that this needs to fit between the in the rightway and we need to straighten it out, that's that's what will happen. >> Your guys put the post down and then they go they they do everything in between, right? >> Yeah. So Billy comes in and we and preps
everything. So we decide where the alley's going to go and I mean we're the ones in charge of putting it down. We work with Billy to do it. We we're the ones that buy the asphalt and provide it that some of the trucking and whatnot as well. Billy is the one that that you know will prep the prep it to be paved.
But >> yeah, >> you you'll like stake it out so we have a >> we will identify to the best of our abilities. I mean, if we can't if we go out there and decide we can't find right away, then we can uh we could call in a survey. But >> I can relocate my pin if you want. I
still have I still have the stakes up two years later. >> Okay. >> I just never did anything about it. So, they're still up. So I can measure off that stake to where I know the corner to be and just mark that and then as long as >> John do you have concerns with this or
>> my recommendation would be to identify it from where the property owner has said that their stakes are and then have some you know engineer either stake the rest of the alley to determine where that fits within the rightway so that we're ensure that we're getting it right
because if you know looking at what's going on and if the hedge has impacted it and now the alley's kind of roofed around the hedge but that's hedges in the rightway then we're going back to you know earlier conversation about moving trees so that we get those out of the way when we're building streets like
we may have to do additional grubbing work um I think in terms of if we want to get it right and do it the the right way and it's now being paved and it's going to be there for a long period of time we want to make sure that those things are there and we're not just working around current conditions when
over time things change and you know they're not where they say they are going to be. That's >> so to me I I not saying like we're delaying the project. I don't think it's going to take additional you know years or months. I mean it's matter of weeks
and it's us contracting to do additional diligence to make sure that these alleys get put back in the right place. >> So we could actually prove it tonight conditional upon >> Yeah. I mean I don't >> staking the alley >> in terms of what you're approving is is
the quantities and and quote from the work. I don't think that's changing from uh what we have from Bill's blacktop. what would be added to the project based on just the quote in and what Jud has presented is going to be that additional
work to either you know make sure that we're vetting the right lines and having that staked out appropriately and then you know any other windfall of uh you know does that impact any of the vegetation that's grown up along the alley that's now inside the rightway that's going to be paved and having to
remove that we by right have to the ability to do that we can take down things that are within right away, but it's going to have an additional. That's my my point of that will cost additional. Um, and if you're comfortable with approving it tonight and knowing that those costs are going
to be added to the project later, I I think you can move forward. >> All right. >> I like that. >> All right. I would then uh seek a motion to approve uh alley paving including the additional work to alley one. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Motion from Lisa, second from Chad. All
those in favor? >> Opposed? It carries. Gets us to our reports. Um, the EDA met on May 7th. If John if you would or Diane if you would speak to
that >> hand off to John. >> Yeah. >> Excuse me. Can I can we come back to that? >> Sure. Of course. >> I'll I'll put the agenda so I make sure I'm I'm speaking accurately because I'm we had our community meeting before. So, >> yeah, there's a lot of a lot of stuff going through May.
>> Uh planning or uh public works and park board met on May 7th also. Jed, if you want to talk to that one. >> Sure. Um majority of that was on the consent agenda, but we did bring up uh Don Mansing Park. I threw out a couple options about adding some picnic tables
and uh the public works park board uh also brought up they would like uh um >> bags bags uh some and so we uh are going back to the drawing board to to maybe design with with uh an idea of I think
it was four picnic tables and and uh and bags and and then also a couple benches to to go go around the >> the do or the volleyball court over there. >> Are they talking the uh I've seen some parks they have like those permanent they're like almost concrete. Yeah, >> that's what we were talking about just
because um they'd be put in a lower area that potential flooding that concrete would not get washed away. >> Mhm. >> So I I other that other it was that or just a cement pad so people bring their own boards but I I do like the idea of concrete. >> Yeah. So
>> I've seen that at parks. It's very it's interesting. >> Yeah. Uh, planning commission met on May 11th. >> We dealt with the two Gorman. >> There we go. Wonderful. >> Did you find the EDA, J? >> Yep, I did. >> There we go. >> Thought I've got it, too.
>> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> All right. So, EDA update. So, we the EDA did have the uh the want to note that everything is current on our current loans. I think that was a really good um update that the Hogson land lease agreement. So that's the farmland
lease that was approved and that there will be the closings on the two lots that u yes two lots of in the new addition um that for Fieldstone uh we talked about grant updates so that is um
I'll I'll touch on it now. So we did um submit the letter of interest to the Blandon Foundation. We received an uh an invitation for a grant application and Laura and I actually met uh Monday with uh the staff person from Blandon that will be overseeing that grant
application. So it was submitted uh in in time. Uh then we have the opportunity to make any revisions uh for what we have. But just wanted to share the updates. So there's 91 participants that were invited for the grant application. They have around $6 million in total
grants. And of those applications, there's $1 million in requests. So part of the conversation was whether or not there was potential changes in the budgets uh for the grants, but um I feel like the conversation was very positive. And as a reminder, this is for uh doing
work to do a an assessment and plan for all of our parks, wrecks, trails, kind of the public uh recreation facilities. uh streets was included in the in the title of the grant, but I think a part of that work is going to be uh shifted
on to what um staff are doing with doing the road assessments and the pacer ratings and things like that. So, so really uh it was a really great conversation we had on Monday because she was also talking about well how does this fit into other things and having the comprehensive plan meeting that we
did earlier tonight and then um the work that we did with the water wastewater related to the data center um was was um I think very positive in our our our work that we are touching a lot of things. We're coming coming up with a overarching comprehensive view for our
community. Uh and then finding different action steps that we can do to support the the various assets and things that the city um will do to support, you know, our growth and um joy that can happen within our in our city.
>> All right. Thank you, John. Let's go around the horn. Jed, anything else? Uh last week we uh were able to finally install our uh demonstration project from that uh the oh now I can't remember the name of the grant that we received from MIDOT. Um it
>> active transportation >> active transportation grant. There you go. Thank you. Uh it the actual uh installation went in really smooth. We had no problems there. Uh Mandot came and uh did traffic control for us. Uh had kind of mixed reviews of
people what they whether they like it or not. Um I the delineators going down the the south side of the road. There was there was a couple of pedestrians walked down that that were overjoyed at uh and felt safer walking down the side of the road and not feeling like they're going to get run over. So >> all right.
>> Thank you, >> Darren. Thank you, Mayor. Um so, uh as I mentioned during my presentation, uh so you'll probably see construction starting on the 2026 project right away because they want to get go. Yeah, they want to get going. um so they can meet
that deadline for the railroad. Um also ongoing um is the um hardwood estates third. So that project is uh currently under construction and then Jed and I and and Tony um went around and started doing the street rating project. So
we're we've got through half of about half of town and we'll we'll finish the other half coming up here and report back what what the streets are rated at. So >> it's ongoing. >> Thank you. Izzy. >> Uh we had our community meeting tonight
for the comprehensive plan. So that was u kind of an openhouse style meeting uh where residents could come and um learn and and provide us feedback on the comprehensive plan. So we had different booths and activities and um
opportunities for them to provide feedback. Um so everything from our parks and natural resources to transportation and economic development. Um, we had pretty good turnout tonight which was good and everyone provided great feedback. Um, so it was a it was a great meeting tonight for the
comprehensive plan. So we'll keep moving forward with that. >> Awesome. Anything from our police department? >> It is click it or ticket month. So just make sure you wear your seat belts. >> Awesome. Thank you, Sarah. >> Uh, the pool. I know it doesn't seem
like pool weather yet, but um they um there are lessons signups tonight and Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Um and then I think the tentative open date. They're kind of looking it depends on training. It will be for sure for
sure June 15th, but they will hopefully get it open the week before. So >> all right, >> then more to come. I had somebody ask me the other day if we filled it yet and I said I don't think so. >> It's filling right now. >> Is it really? >> It is. >> Wow. Yeah. Definitely not thinking about
when it's 57 and gray out there. >> Do we need anything from legal counsel? >> Uh Mr. Mayor, members of the council, Scott Lansen, city attorney. Thanks, Scott. >> Um when I come to city council meetings, I review the entire agenda. I observe the council. And if you don't hear from
me, that's a good thing. and you did not hear from me tonight. >> All right. Well, that was a good thing. Thank you, Scott. John, >> want to share so uh watched the there's a housing study, good uh actually regionwide. So, it was multiple counties
in in southeast Minnesota housing study that was supported, I think originally by Mstead, um but included Good Hughes. So, they they did touch on uh things that are happening within our county and the city of Canon Falls related to housing. um very common Trenton that
we're we're hearing the housing stocks are are low relative to the demand and then the cost of new construction is very high. So uh kind of the t big takeaway that I heard from the presenter was anything that cities can be doing to support creative projects to develop
housing that people can afford is a good thing. So, example of our hardwood estates and and the developments that we're doing is is actually leading to people uh being able to construct and and live in new homes as well as uh they talked about multif family units and and a lot of that growth and development
actually happening. Um a strong part of the growth and development happening in Goodyu County is a testament to the work that we're doing here in Canop. So, I think that's something we can take pride in. uh data center they have been working on the preliminary uh uh plan and design for the infrastructure to
serve the site. So I know they had a site meeting about our at our wells and and looking at the water man for that. So I know that's uh ongoing process. So that that work is happening. And then just wanted to update you that on uh Thursday there is a I have a meeting
with tracked about our original escrow agreement the original and amended escrow agreement of the $100,000. So that's going to be closed out uh because that has money has all been spent and actually a little bit more which they'll be paying for and then we'll try to convert that into the next escro agreement which will be related to this
development for the for the infrastructure. And then I did want to touch on uh I just wanted to dispel some information out there. uh is he reported to me that you've had some com uh residents talk about uh the frontier fiber build project and the the you know
lawn restorations and that there's this magical Izzy list. There's no magical Izzy list that is Frontier's responsibility to be working on the turf restoration. That work is happening. They touched hundreds of properties in the in our community. There's a lot of
of stuff that they need to do. inevitably it could be that uh properties are missed. Um however if you do have that we do have contact that we can put you in touch with them much rather direct you to to the people that are going to be ones responsible for doing that work versus you know us
trying to be your middleman for you. So we're happy to to make sure you have direct contact so if that's what you need but don't expect that we're going to call us and someone in the city and it's magically gonna uh that we're coming out there to do that. Now when the project is done and they claim that
they are, you know, restored and complete, that is work that we do. Jed and staff go out and assess and make sure everything meets the standards that we've we've set within our permit process and we make sure that that's done correctly. And if it's not, then that's where we have the resources
within the permit that we we have to make sure that they get done correctly. So So just know there's a there's a process. It's going to be it's going to take some time, but they are actively working on it. >> John, do you know how much u how far along they are with the project?
>> Uh well, they're way I mean, in terms of the the soup to nuts of the project of digging down, putting in the fiber and everything, they're very far along in that. They're on to the you know, mostly left is these turf restorations. >> Okay. >> All right.
Thank you, John. Laura, >> I'm good. >> Chris, I'm good. Dan, >> good. >> Lisa, >> happy Memorial Day weekend. >> Yeah, there you go. >> Chad, >> uh, I want to thank Officer Berg. They did the, uh, triad. It's on the, uh,
cable channel. >> And, uh, I think the school did the walk to school. Was that pretty recently? I saw a bunch of stuff down on the road there. So, >> that's that's all I got. That was pretty awesome. >> Uh, I want to say congratulations to all the seniors who are graduating. I
believe commencement is next Friday night, the the 29th, and then the last day of school is June 4th. We will have counsel on the 2nd. So, uh for everybody who's not a senior, they will still be in school, but uh all those seniors are are wrapping up. Um so, thank you everybody. Uh special thanks to
everybody who was here present for the community meeting. Um we have roughly 10% of our citizens or 420ome have filled out the online survey. So our comprehensive plan is coming right along and there were 40ome people who
came here tonight. Uh we would love to see more people involved to come to those events there. A lot of people are here. A lot of uh good conversations, a lot of good questions. Um but it also it lets us know what are people's concerns
and to be able to be meeting face to face with members of the community. So a great event and u all the people from CEDA that were here uh also did a great job. Uh with that I would seek a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion >> motion from Lisa second. >> Second from Chad. All those in favor? >> I.
>> We are adjourned. Thank you everybody.