Yours has got personal hotspot. Yes, I'll do with that. Call to order for the city of Canon Falls City Council meeting for Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. If I could get a roll call, please. Excuse Diane Johnson here. Zimmerman
here. Uh Chad Johnson, I do believe we're trying to get online. Uh so Jeepson absent. No here. Croninburgger here. And Montgomery here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. should break into school. If I could get
an approval of tonight's agenda. Motion to approve. Motion from Lisa. Second. Second from Chris. All those in favor? We have to do a roll call with Chad. So, we'll do a roll call vote. Noach. I. Croninburgger. I Diane
Johnson. I Zimmerman. Hi. And Chad Johnson. See if we can. We'll say that was an I. There you go. All right. Uh, it is approved. That gets us to public input. Uh, 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 3 minutes to speak. Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance and 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, and 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 for the item on a future agenda. Leading off tonight, Rosie Schlutoter. Here you go.
And Sam was gonna help me with the flyer. I'm just here because every year we start looking. We have in only 600 acres there's a rare endangered species. The only place that grows in the world is in this area and a little bit south
of us. So, I just I just think it's such a unique thing and I just want to bring it to people's attention. It's fun because the trout lily is the size of a quarter. Its cousin, the dwarf trout lily, is the size of a dime. So the
thing I also want to bring to your attention is that isn't it interesting that we are so protective of a little flower but there's one thing more rare and it's
you would like to protect you and don't know how to do that but I just wish you well. Okay. Thanks. Thank you Rosie. You're welcome. Next up, Aaron McMahon. Hey, thanks for those uh poop bags in
Minasca and for the spell check of MiniSca. All right. Hi, Erin McMahon. Hoffman Street. My topic is the zoning amendment the city is negotiating with the Canon Valley Fair Board. On March 15th, the current fair board announced
by way of Facebook that they were ending racing. Their post contained numerous false statements, including quote, "Over the course of the past year, the Canon Valley Fair Association has been working cooperatively with the city." End quote.
This nugget was also a part of the post. quote, "The go-kart track at the fairgrounds was introduced to provide an economic boost to the broader cannonfalls community." End quote. There were more similar exaggerations and
outlight outlight outright lies within the post, but the worst was when the fair board chose to gaslight its own community with this warped comment. Quote, "Although there was support for the go-kart track, there was a small group of residents who expressed
opposition to the go-kart track racing, the Canon Valley Fair Canon Valley Fair Association worked closely with the city to address concerns and demonstrate its commitment to being a responsible and supportive community member." End quote.
When asked if the posted statement was endorsed by the entire fair board, the published reply was yes, 100%. Do I believe they really intend to dismantle the track and stop racing? No,
100%. I ask you to consider these actual truths that have been playing on repeat along with the insufferable noise. The track was constructed illegally without required input or permitting from spring through fall of last year. The year the track operated
unlawfully according to our local ordinances in addition to the following state agencies. The pollution control agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Quality Board, and the Department of Labor and Industry.
The current fair board was the complete opposite of responsible of a responsible and supportive community member partner, excuse me. Instead, they serve to tear the the community apart. And here are some actual facts. There
are 87 counties in the state of Minnesota. Each of the 87 counties has an egg society fair, but only four of the 87 counties, including Good Hugh, also have an association fair like ours.
None of the county fairs or the association fairs has a special zoning classification. I reached out to city and county officials and discovered that the St. Louis County Fair is zoned mining with a tourism overlay, while the association fair in St. Lewis County is
zoned open wreck. The C cuching county fair is zoned R1 while the district fair is rural residential. The Blue Earth County Fair has a combo reserva conservation and rural townsite classification. I don't know the classification for the Tri County Fair
since it doesn't seem to exist anymore, leaving only two other counties besides Good Hugh with an association fair. Considering other counties do not have special zoning classifications for state sanctioned county fairs or special special classifications for association
fairs, combined with the hard truth that the current fair board has acted illegally and continues to be dishonest while underhandedly scapegoating its own community, there are zero reasons they should be given a separate zoning classification in Canon
Falls. And one final parting truth is this. We've all mourned businesses no longer around. The movie theater, the bowling alley, Red Owl, Scoffield Drug, and my favorite, the Pirate Pizza.
Unfortunately, nostalgia and hometown affection aren't enough to keep a business solvent. And if a business is no longer viable, it's not the city's responsibility to ensure the doors or gates stay open. Thank you.
Thank you. Uh that leads us to tonight's proclamation. Uh I will read the proclamation for the National Police Week 20 25. Whereas there are approximately 800,000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United States, including the dedicated members of the
city of Canon Falls Police Department. Whereas more than 79,000 assaults against law enforcement officers are reported in 2023. Whereas since the first recorded death in 1786, more than 24,000 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate
sacrifice and have been killed or died in the line of duty. Whereas the names of 24,412 of these dedicated public servants are currently engraved in the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC. Whereas 345 new names of fallen heroes
are being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this spring, including 148 officers killed in 2024 and 197 officers killed in previous years. Whereas the service and sacrifice of all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the National
Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund's 37th annual candlelight vigil on the evening of May 13, 2025. Whereas the candlelight vigil on May 13th, 2025 is part of the National Police Week, which takes place this year on May 11th to the 17th, 2025. Whereas
May 15, 2025 was designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of all the fallen officers and their families, and US flags will be flown at half staff. Therefore, be it resolved that the city of Canon Falls City Council formally
designates May 11th through the 17th, 2025 as police week in Canon Falls and publicly salutes the service of law enforcement officers in our community and in communities across the nation. Adopted by the city council of Canon Falls on this the 6th day of May,
2025. All right. Uh that gets us to public hearings. So resolution 2809 certifying unpaid utility charges to be collected with taxes. We will open the public hearing if anybody would like to speak. Public hearing going
once, going twice. Third and final offer. All right, we'll close the public hearing. Uh any discussion from the council on resolution 2809 certifying unpaid utility charges to be collected by taxes?
Hearing none. I would seek a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Motion from Diane, second from Lisa. We'll go to a roll call vote. Croninburgger. I. Diane Johnson. I. Zimmerman. I. Chad
Johnson. Thumbs up. Perfect. Good. Uh, Jeffson's absent. Novach, I All right. Passes 5-0. That gets us to tonight's consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be
adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion resolution as council business. Uh, it's a long list here tonight, but I'll go through them. Uh, item A, just and correct claims the accounting period ending April 30th, 2025. Item B, meeting minutes for April 15, 2025, city council
meeting. Item C, resolution 2810, accepting a grant for $561.32 from Selco to the library. Item D, resolution 2811 accepting a donation of $500 from the VFW to the fire department. Item E, approve the hiring
of the 2025 pool staff. Item F, approve tree replacement at Hannah's Bend Park. Item G, approve asht tree removal at John Burch Park. Item H, approve striping proposals. Item I, approve alley paving proposal. Item J, approve
the purchase of a lawnmower. Item K, approve the purchase of a Chevrolet 3,500 with service body and crane. Item L, approve the 2025 event street closures. Item M, approve disposal of illegal dumping. Item N, resolution
2812, accepting a donation for $5,000 from Valley View Recovery Center to the police department. And item O, approve user agreement of John Birch Park with the Canon Falls School District 252. Is there anything the council would
like to pull down? I would like to have questions. Go ahead. Okay. On the three uh L, M, and N for the street closers and especially the illegal dumping and the donation. Was there a police
commission meeting to go over those? No. Is there some reason we don't? There really isn't a necessity for it. Street closers are a common thing we do every single year. Uh the disposal of uh illegal dumping is just items that we have to have console approval before we
could dispose because of the uh potential cost. And the resolutions uh those come in and are just standard straight to the council. Okay. I just I know public works has a number of things on the agenda and they all go through
the public works park board even if basically they just talk about it and then refer it to us. We try to be respectful for the volunteers that make up our commission. Anything else? I got a question on K. Yeah, go for it.
Uh just kind of wondering are we able to what's the condition of the crane? I guess. Can we use the old crane and put it on the new truck or how's that work? There be a cost savings there. We've already had to have the old crane repaired, I think, three times now. We'd
like to just replace it. Um, we could I mean, if that's that's your prerogative, but we we're going, you know, for a new one. Uh, it's uh the old truck is a 2013. It's got 60 I can't remember 60 plus,000 miles on it. It's been well
used. I mean, it's still in good shape, but we This is part of our uh our uh capital improvement or capital equipment fund. It was a planned purchase. It just And both uh ABM and uh GM are state uh
contract pricing. Yeah, state contract pricing. So, that's why there isn't any other uh quotes on there because they were both state contract. So, okay. And these these quotes are current? The these are most current. Okay. Yes. Right. So, we had budgeted 65,000 and it
came to 94 something. I can't remember. I can pull it up to Yeah. 90 94761 total cost and then we anticipate recouping um sale value of that truck. The other Yeah, the old truck we're
hoping at least 20,000. Um we're hoping for more, you know, but so we've we've found similar ones for at at that. So, we feel pretty confident in the 20,000 number. Additionally, like one of the measures we're trying to get into is,
you know, moving equipment that is at its useful life for us before it gets to costing us a lot more in terms of that maintenance. um with the crane in it in and of itself and then the truck in in its condition, they still have value um where we can sell that, recoup that, use
that to buy down the cost of of something new and then, you know, hopefully avoid that maintenance cost moving forward in in the future. It's it's a long process to kind of get to that and understand its total impact, but I've seen it work in other
communities and you know it just it's a strategy to you know kind of work towards implementing and I think in this case is a good good example where that selling that old one we recoup as much value as we can before it gets worse and it's saving us in terms of maintenance.
Yes, the cost increase wasn't what we anticipated. a lot of things had been going up, but um we'll we'll do better in the future to try to get more accurate in terms of our estimates for budget expenses in future years. Any other questions on any of the items?
If not, I would seek a motion to approve all the items on the consent agenda. So moved. Motion motion from Diane, second from Lisa, and we'll take a roll call vote. Diane Johnson, I. Zimmerman, I. Chad Johnson,
thumbs up. Okay. Novach. Hi, Croninburgger. Hi. All right. Passes 5-0. That gets us to tonight's council business. Item A, authorize outofstate travel for ICMA conference. John, I'll let you take this one. Thank you, mayor.
Uh, so per the state statute that it's required that any um city employees attending out of state conferences need to seek council approval. Um, actually in our charter, we do authorize that the city administrator has the authority to do that for other staff, but I don't have the authority to do that for
myself. So, I just wanted to bring this up. Normally, it would probably be a consent agenda item, but I wanted to just address it as a whole with the council, make sure that there is, you know, opportunity for discussion if they they had. Um, as part of my contract, it is uh one of the items and trainings
that I I do ask that I be able to attend. uh understanding the budget constraints that were we had uh in the previous year. Um there isn't the funding for me to have to uh cover the cost of that through the city budget, but I'm willing to take on that expense
this year for myself. We'll work towards planning those budgetary costs into into future budget or these training costs into future budgets um and get those approved accordingly with the council. But this one um has a kind of an extra special place in my heart because it's
where I did get my first full-time job was in uh Sarasota County, Florida, which is just south of of the Tampa area. So, I still have a lot of colleagues in in that vicinity. So, I'd hope to to make some reconnection with them uh while attending before and after
attending this conference. Comments or questions for John from the council? No. Then I would seek approval of authorizing out of state travel for the ICMA conference. Authorized to approve. Okay. Second motion from Lisa, second
from Chris. And we'll take a roll call vote. Zimmerman. I. Chad Johnson. Thumbs up. There's a thumb. Uh Noach. Hi. Croninburgger. Hi. Diane Johnson.
Hi. That passes 50. Uh, and item B for council business night, removal of items stored on city property discussion. John, I'll let you take this one as well. Thank you, mayor. Um, so we've had a number of of issues s
related to this uh item. Now I will inform you that there is related to this is uh discussion of homelessness within our community. So there is uh you know known individuals
that are exhibiting homelessness um and that they are staying and keeping things on uh city-owned property. So that in and of itself is something that the police department has been well aware of. They have uh done a in my opinion a very good
job to maintain connection with these individuals. Uh make sure that they're safe, the community safe, that we're not letting things get out of control, you know, to a certain mess. They're in contact with with them weekly if not
more than that. uh services have been offered uh to you know support them in trying to find and make their you know ex homelessness you know addressed. Uh however you know at certain folks and
their opinion they have refused those services. So it is certainly something that we recognize. Uh we want to have be respectful for uh and ultimately also want to know that um it's not necessarily just allowed for any and all
people even homeless and non-homeless to just store and use city property for their own purposes. Um so we do have other areas where it's happened and we've addressed that with with them. But in this instance with those individuals, there's not a lot of current ordinances
that specifically give us the opportunity to address this. So, it was something that has been brought to my attention by uh council as well as um you know, other uh officials from that are partnering with our joint powers agreement with the Canon Valley Trail. So, I just want to make sure that that's
recognized and that it is something we we wanted to, you know, find a way to address and work through. Um there are some changes in in law that um do authorize cities to do more enforcement to this. Um uh encampment laws are are
generally where where they where they go. I've seen a few um different states have enacted them kind of on a statewide level or authorized cities to do that um uh for them for their communities. U so it is something that we wanted to bring
to the council. Uh Jeff and I in particular have had a lot of conversations about this already um between the two of us and how to proceed and this is how we at least we felt um covered the issue at hand in terms of you know what is it that we don't want
to see in our community in terms of people keeping things on property that's not theirs. Um and how do we you know find a way to address that while also still being mindful that these are human beings. they, you know, deserve respect and and and fair treatment as well. And,
you know, I want that for them and they're ultimately not necessarily finding the ways that they can reach the services that they could use. So, tonight from the council, uh, I see that this no action is needed, just discussion. Do we need just a consensus
to give a green light that we work on drafting an ordinance or do we need to schedule a work session to if there's input from council members at this time? I you know I don't want to feel like you don't have the opportunity to speak. I know there's it was addressed to me and wanting to talk about this. So if
there's items that you want to address related to this if not um you know direction on moving forward with an ordinance would be great on our part or if it's something different um we can you know certainly discuss that and you know find a consensus on what direction
we want to all right make a decision. Uh if we could all get together a day and sit down and do an ordinance. Yeah. Related to Yep. Okay. Yeah. I think uh does that sound good to other council
members? I think so. Okay. Get together for a work session. Yeah. I I think we're all in consensus that we do need to have an ordinance. So, we'll move forward. Well, yeah. And I actually wanted to just comment quickly on it, though. I
I assume this is more or at least I thought you indicated that it's more than just about uh a problem that came up because of unhoused persons and their possession. There are actually other people Yep. things or leaving things. Yeah, there was there was one including
the semia tires. Yes, the semi- loaded tires being one thing like that. Um yeah, if we could find the the people that did that, that'd be great. Uh, no. There was actually, you know, complaint filed uh to in my time here uh relating to individuals that were keeping stuff
on city property. They had adjacent property to it, but we didn't know where the boundary lines. They didn't know where the boundary lines were, so we informed them of that. And had they, you know, not complied with our ask to, you know, get their stuff off the city property, you know, we may not have had
a lot of teeth in terms of the ordinances to address that. So it certainly can be an issue. Abandoned materials certainly could be an issue. Um you know where where people are adjacent to that. This isn't about like the parks and um you know people using
the parks as as you know public grounds that are designed to be used. Like if they you have stuff there, we're not going to go and you know keep you from using the park for an entire day. Um or if you're permitted to use it for a you know an event or something like that that we do allow for. That's not what
this is addressing. This is primarily on areas of city property that um tend not be utilized for, you know, the public to to access. So, this has occurred uh a few times over the the years that I've been here. Um in the past, it's
typically been related to um alleyways. Um you know, the city owns the the most of the alleys, right? Mhm. and some of them don't necessarily go all the way through and so people start storing stuff at the end of those. Um, in fact, you guys have vacated a few of them um
as part of that, you know, resolution of the the problem, but it would give us another tool. Uh, usually we end up trying to talk to them, get them to remove it. Um, they usually come in as complaints from somebody that lives in that area. um the situation at hand now
is different than those, but this would help address um those problems as they come up uh and give us just another tool in the tool box uh when there is property being stored on uh on city part owned property
is I so again a piggyback on that is and I and I have no problem matter of fact I strongly support having teeth in our ordinances because to have to make a law not be able to enforce it means you shouldn't make law in the first place or the ordinance. Uh and I would say that
especially in regards to this uh abandoned property or you know unusable unsightly junk that collects on people's private property is also one of those things where we send notes and everything else or you know things that has really no teeth to enforce and
perhaps we can look at if if we end up to enforce more than just this particular ordinance. Yeah. we end up doing a a work session, that might be a very appropriate topic within that um as far as you know how to utilize and enforce the ordinances in a manner that
uh serves the city's purposes u satisfactory and that and I will say and um I'm due to update the council and we have some you know staffing updates to that. I won't speak to it at this meeting. Um, but there's, you know,
certainly going to be a need to address that on our staffing level, you know, and how how that can be enforced and and who's doing some of that work. So, it's something that I dealt with in a previous community. We had gone through a number of different cycles and how to do it. And ultimately, we hired a person that one of their primary duties was
just code enforcement related issues to address things like that. and that pro more of a proactive approach to it can be beneficial. And definitely that more consistent communication with individuals that are in um you know are not in compliance with the zoning laws
is is helpful to to getting action. you know, the the next steps are, you know, get to be more get to be expensive when you're trying to, you know, put teeth to those and enforcing because that's bringing in the attorneys and getting court orders and removing property. Um,
you know, that's unsightly and getting getting that addressed and and that can be expensive. And, um, yes, you can go back and do what we did in in number one and certify that to their taxes because we have the authority to do it. Um, however, you know, in certain instances
that may not ever get collected and um, so it's it's found it was much more cost-effective on our front if we could, you know, be more proactive in addressing that than it was um, to be reactive and and trying to get it well after the fact. So, that said, we also,
you know, may need the resources to be able to do that. It sounds like, uh, we've got plenty of things to chew on at our work session. Um should we uh throw out some dates right now? Get it on the Yeah. And and to that regard, um we were I was
intending to to plan and get input in my update from uh about a work session before the next meeting to with the planning comm a joint one with the planning commission to talk about kind of the upcoming schedule of events related to uh tract and the potential
annexation of that land. Mhm. Um, you know, so I think we could do that and kind of, you know, start start there or even move it to a meeting in June. Um, but that would would have been prior to the next council meeting, you know, starting earlier. Uh, I was thinking
5:30, but now was thinking if we're going to add items to it, maybe it's 5:00. Yeah. So 5:00 on uh council the 20th. If that's we're comfortable with that, I think we can post and and make that arrangements. All right. What date did you say? The 20th. So, next next May
20th. Two weeks from today. May I won't be here. Okay. Is that an attendance problem for any Chris? I'll be there. I can make it. Yeah. 20th works. Vacation work. Work. Uh, we'll keep you up to date and
if there's any input, let's communicate before that then. Sure. All right. Yes, sir. Chad, Chad, does May 20th work for you? Just give a thumb up if that date. Yep. Perfect. Five o'clock. We'll uh we'll
put that on the schedule. Thank you. All right. Then that gets us to around the horn or uh recap of meetings that had happened. Uh Joint Powers Trailboard met April 22nd. No new
updates. No updates. library board April 28th. Uh I got a couple. Let's see. They're talking about because of the federal grant stuff going down, uh potential $1,200 a year not covered by the federal government for internet, I believe. And it's we don't know if the
state's going to cover that or not. So, I just told them to track their usage um because they do have those numbers. So, it's just good to know. Uh apparently, they got new bookshelves installed, too. And the new systems online. And they were doing like a system overhaul. That's right. So that's that's done.
Yeah. Um Yeah. Awesome. Uh the EDA met on May 1st. My apologies that uh I was not in attendance. So Diane or John, if anybody wants to take that unfortunately was not in attendance either. I was at a conference last week.
That leaves me. That's you Diane. Yes. Um I mean obviously agreed to pay property taxes that are coming due. Uh talked about something called the feast magazine ad and uh seeking
if there's enough interest how big two page one page half page uh did look at update on hardwood estates that will be coming up to both the planning. This is for the next phase of the development that'll be coming to the planning commission and if uh and then after that
back to the city council and there'll be input from the public at the planning commission. Um and then uh got to kind of look at uh the whole CEDA annual report which was quite interesting and we are of course a
part of that. Yeah, that was it. All right. Thanks, Diane. Uh, public works park board also met on May 1st. I'll take this because I was the only one there. All right. Well, but I'm not on it. But you're not on the board. Um,
everything that is on the that I have on the consent agenda was our our meeting. Um, I did want to address striping proposal. We will be striping the the leash overlay lot that we paved two years ago. Yep. Um, just to clarify that we will stripe that. We're going to try
to figure out the best way to get people to park in there, but right now it's we something needs to happen. So, somebody's got to be able to figure out we how we can fit the most cars and make it organized. Yes. So, but we will address that. So, um, and other than
that, um, and the purchase of several vehicles and, uh, well, a couple vehicles and, uh, uh, planting trees, replanting trees in John Burch, as well as tear, not sorry, replanting trees in Hannah's Bend and tearing out ash trees and John Burch. Uh, both will be part of
that uh, uh, shade tree grant that we have. So, any can I ask a question on that? Do you know like when are you going to replant John Birch Park? I guess. Um I was just thinking that's it's unfortunate that all this timed up with them hosting state and all that
stuff in like a year or two or 2028. Is that what it is? Yeah. Okay. Couple years. Yes. But growing trees. Yeah. We are planning to get the trees out as soon as possible. As soon as the contractor can get them out and we will be planting them. I will be coming back to approve trees to be planted back in
as soon as they're done. In fact, we'll start working on what I'm going to we're going to put back in there and we will put as big a trees as we possibly can that the grant allows. So, all right. Awesome. Oh, it looks good down
there. All right. Thanks, Jed. Yep. Uh we'll quickly go around the horn, Jed, if there's anything else you'd like to add. Um so, we are wrapping up our our projects from last year. the John Burch Park. Uh Blake Burough has got a punch
list. Uh there's some just fairly minor items. Um touching up paint on the the wall that you know some chips and different things. Also the uh first first base side turf restoration there. We're making sure that that's taking and
we got to give it some time to grow. But yeah, anyhow, um the 2023 2024 project, the uh they are out out working and and raising the the manholes. We paved over everything last year and so before they
put that second lift on, we got to bring all the iron up to grade and they working on that. They just started yesterday. So, we're working on the punch list punch list with Fitzgerald to get everything done there. And then there's a handful of things out with Hardwood Estates and Timber Ridge that
are punch list items that we're trying to just get everything tied up. All right. So, all right. Thanks, Jed Chief. So, tomorrow is walk to school day. Um, so the seven in the mornings at the city parking lot. Yes. Everybody's
encouraged to attend. Uh, it probably be a little more chilly tomorrow than it was this morning, but uh everybody's going to have a good time. Uh there will be some uh mild traffic disruption along uh Mill Street, Second Street in Minnesota. Um this is probably I don't
know sixth or seventh year we've done it. Um but uh you know it usually goes pretty smooth uh without any difficulties. But you know for people that do uh you know time their commute to the last second uh if you go run down Highway 20 or you know Second Street
Hoffman you may want to plan a little extra time tomorrow. If you had to guess how many kids participate in this, um, it really varies, but uh, you know, I would say at least, uh, a 100 kids are better every year. Great. Great. You know, some are are walking, some are
biking. Uh, some start out biking, change to walking, some start out walking, change to carry me. Um, so it it really varies, but uh, everybody has a very good time from what I can tell. So 7 o'clock tomorrow morning at the city parking lot. All right. Thank you,
Chief Sarah John. Uh just a couple things because I addressed a most of it in the in the meeting. Uh so I was at the Minnesota City Managers Association conference last week. Um it was a uh always always one of my favorites in terms of getting to know people and the
the messages that they have and the networking that that can happen there. a lot of lot of good information from can be exchanged uh with my colleagues and you know definitely had some things pertinent to stuff going on in this community uh that's also going on in other communities. So that was that was really helpful. Uh and then I just want
to you know share update plan commission we do it will be a you know big relative to that hardwood estate so we are trying to work on getting that information out early um so the packets can be you know kind of reviewed in a timely manner. So, we're going to do our best to try to get
that out either tomorrow or early t Thursday morning. Uh, and then there will be finance committee meeting on that Monday. I will have some items to address with on that. All right. Thanks, John. All right, Laura. I'm good. Chris, got a
few things. Go for it. Sorry. Uh, I I guess I'd just like to point out uh the the track open house. I thought that I I attended it. It was well attended by the community. I thought that was pretty awesome. Um, people from Randolph Township there, too. It I just thought it went well overall.
Um, I'm still kind of curious if we can get a frequently asked questions or something like that up on the website. I haven't checked it. That was one thing that came out of that that open house that I think a lot of people just wanted questions answered, right? Um, so if we can do that on our city website, that'd
be great. Um, and then just in general, um, do we have an update on Quick Trip or McDonald's for the public whatsoever? Good question. I guess, mayor, you want me to address that right now? Yes, please. Uh, I can I'll start
with I did get a message from Bryce this morning on Fire Chief Miller on the on McDonald's. Um, so they're concluding all of that investigation stuff. I think the fire marshall has uh filed start or completed. I don't know if it's fully
official yet on that report. Um but we don't have an update in terms of will they rebuild or will they not or you know what's going on on that front. That's lot to be determined. On Quick Trip, uh Bill and I met with uh Mindot this morning actually to discuss that
project. So we have um another action to follow up with them with quick trip hopefully soon. Uh we actually are trying to get a meeting scheduled either this week or early next kind of keep that that process moving forward a little bit further. Uh I'd say it was
positive. So um we had um at least conversations talking about solutions versus uh no that's going to be a problem. We don't want to do it. No. So it's it we're we're progressing. It's just good. It does take take time. Yep.
Awesome. Anything else, Chris? Um, one more thing for Jed. Do you know just as a concerned resident myself that waters his lawn? What's what's kind of the timing on that when when we go from that winter period to summer period? Isn't there a hard cut off on the date towards our water bill? Uh, sir, correct me if
I'm wrong, but it's May uh May of September. September through September. September 30th or 31st. Yeah. Yeah. And so that will show reflect on your October bill. Okay. Gotcha. Awesome. Thank you. All right, Chad, I know we're having some
audio issues. Is there anything that you'd want to type in or All right. He says he's good. All right, Diane. Well, and I shouldn't, but it's my neck of the woods. So, Darien's open again, which is really quite exciting, especially as McDonald's is not able to be there. So,
Mhm. Um, looks like so far I haven't stopped because there's too many cars lined up. Yeah, their first day I think we waited about a half hour. Yeah. But it was great. So glad to see they're open. See them back in business. Yep. Lisa, uh, prior to our meeting, could we also add to the agenda the senior center
to talk about that? Okay. All right. Yep. All right. Uh last Thursday uh when I missed the EDA, it was the National Night of Prayer. And Diane, feel free to uh interject with your your past professional history. The
uh the Bible verse that was the theme this year was I I I forget it was in Romans and it was towards the end. So it was talking about the the hope and trust uh and grace and unity of communities. And I thought it was a a great verse. And so I just want to say thank you to
the people of U our saviors. Uh they hosted and it was a well attended event. Um so uh 26 years running that the community has celebrated that and that the mayor has got to give a welcome speech. So I'm I'm happy to continue to
participate with that. Uh with that said, I would seek a motion to adjurnn. Motion. I got a motion from Laura and I got a second from Lisa. All those in favor? Roll call vote. Chad Johnson. There we go. Uh, Novach. Hi.
Croninburgger. Hi. Diane Johnson. Hi. Zimmerman. Hi. And it is approved. Chad, feel better. All right, we're done.