e e e good evening everybody and welcome to the chassa city council for Monday March 17th um calling this meeting to order at 7:01 can you all please rise for the Pledge of
Allegiance I pledge of aliance to the of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands under God indivisible withy andice for all all right least can you please Co
roll council member held herec Benish herec Shin herec here mayor hover here all right um next we have adopt the agenda uh does anybody have any additions or corrections to the agenda otherwise I
would entertain a motion to adopt second okay so I have a motion by council member chevin and a second by council member Hatfield um all those in favor say I I oppos same sign all right agenda is adopted next we have visitor
presentation um looks like we have state of the library first so come on up fantastic love the you're looking very festive today decided to own it today with the
green well we are so glad to be here um I'm jod edstrom the library director for anyone that doesn't know me I'm here with Kevin Spencer the chasa library branch manager here to share some highlights for what's been happening over the last year at the library and of course I'll start with some um system
highlights I'm going to go buzz through those pretty quickly because I know you're most anxious to hear about what's happening in chasa um so next slide but first of all we want to celebrate that we reached almost 1.5 million checkouts um in this last year in 2024
and that includes uh both print and digital materials and in the next slide you'll see a breakdown of that and I just want to highlight a couple of numbers as some of you have um been with us the last couple of years known that our digital checkouts have continued to rise which is our Libby app which
provides access to ebooks e audiobooks e- magazines so those saw a 25% increase again this past year then the other number that I would like to highlight in the pie chart is the 46% of Youth print checkout so that means of our whole
collection 46% is attributed to families and youth checking out print materials which I think really shows how much our families and our kids rely on our libraries which is terrific next um so speaking of Youth one of the
exciting projects we launched initially out in the aonia District but now finally we've um entered and expanded our virtual library card project into Eastern Carver County Schools so this past fall we started to launch that with our sixth grade classes at Chasco Middle School East and the end goal will be to
um uh have that available for sixth through 12th graders um over the next year and hopefully roll that out and for those of you that don't know what that is that means your school ID directly um connects you with the Library resources and through the district the parents have a whole option to opt into that
program but we fully um Embrace that collaboration with our school districts next so we can't forget about our adults we have lots of great things for adults and Kevin's going to delve more into that but we saw a 20% increase in adult program attendance so over 21,000 adults
attended our programs in 2024 one really fun program to highlight is a craft swap that we introduced at our wonan Chanhassen branches next we have new self checkouts fancy technology in all of our branches and now we have mobile printing available at
all of our branches as well so you can be anywhere and be able to submit a print job and then stop in during open hours and access your print in that picture oh yeah do that's awesome y exactly so we welcome
suitcases and you know coming one of the suit Cas it's anyway um Youth Services continues to grow that's on our next slide as well we had such great engagement um in our summer program and our thousand books before kindergarten and all of our youth
services Librarians are trained to support the read act now and continue to build that literacy and education next I think we're and next in our Charles J doy grant program which is an internal program we were able to expand some of our Spanish
collection this past year and some of our language learning programs including bilingual times continuing to BU on that important and it was a 20% increase of checkouts at the Chasco Library as a result of the purchase to that that
grant program and last but not least we were able to lay the groundwork to go fine free in 2025 so that was very exciting um for us to um to be able to make that happen and and final tidbit for me top
checkout titles on the next slide so for adults it was Kristen Hannah's the women for both print and digital it's um a good girls guide to murder for teens and uh coming in hot at number one of course Diarrhea of a Wimpy Kid so now I'm gonna
turn it over to Kevin and he can talk more about jasa for you all right so um our numbers kind of uh mirror the numbers for the entire County in that we have a larger number of child print being checked out which um is both
amazing and it speaks to kind of screen fatigue for kids they still want an actual book in their hands to read so that's uh over 108,000 uh children's settles that were checked out this past year
next I just want to preface a few of these slides by saying that I got some help with AI was just gonna say so if it looks a little insane I'm going to blame it on the AI um we welcomed over 58,000 visitors
through our front doors at the chasa library here there were over 334 hours uh that were donated by volunteers over 4,24 attended free programs at our library and uh Library staff promoted
the library to over 5,522 citizens at community events and it's only going to be greater next year I can tell you next story times kind of the bread and
butter of Library uh we had over 1,747 kids in their grown-ups attend and we've been seeing increasing numbers from day to day or uh we have two story times each week on Wednesday and Thursdays at
10:30 and numbers have been increasing with each week so um we're also looking at expanding into some night hours and doing more bilingual story times as well next other programming for kids um many
of my pictures really highlight the Partnerships that we have with our community groups the first two on the slide show um our partnership with the Historical Society here in town uh that's a Lego Club where they go and
they talk about historical things in town and then they build something with Legos that go along with it they take a picture of that and that's what the second picture is is uh placing their their build onto the map of
tasa the third picture is a a chess club that we started up this past year and the last one I put in there because we always try to have things in there that families can do together and so that uh that happens to be a puzzle we have a puzzle swap that's going on all the time
so if you have puzzles please bring them in and get something new uh but this is one of the things we always try to have activities of that the family can do together next programming for teens now the first one looks really gross but it was a
really popular programing it was zombie Barbies back in October and um all the materials were provided by by The Amazing Friends of the chasa library uh the second one was a trivia
night that we had for teens at the library um the third one is of teens I think that one was uh creating travel coasters where they were taking memories from their summer travels and creating a little artwork and the last one down
below is a book club that we had in the parks with it was in conjunction with Parks and Recreation of chasa next of course we also have to have some uh you know special things for adults
it's only fair so uh the answer to summer reading program for the kids for the adults is our winter reading program um they got that Nifty pack of cards just for signing up and then if your name was pulled out
of the Hat you got a 25 gift $25 gift card to someplace that you really want it as an adult um and then this year we also did a bookmark contest which has been really popular with the teens in the summer and those are the three
contestants from chasa right there next other adult programming um thank you to the city of chasa for allowing us to use the space right across the street for community garden we called it our
cultivation Commons uh we grew uh some PR uh we grew some uh native plants some native flowers there to attract some pollinators and uh we are looking to expand that program donate the stuff to
food shelves anything that we get from there also uh looking at some specific programming around growing and harvesting in particular uh we have book clubs for adult as well that have been running for
many years this one is a mystery book club the one next to that is another partnership with Parks and Recreation was a biking club or some biking programming that we're going to be expanding this year as well and on the bottom is uh we attended
a a senior fair and uh talked we touted our uh gardening programs that were coming up at that time next other partnership ships we've had uh the dog every month we have the the
Northstar therapy animals come in and kids can sign up for a time to read to the animals um which this past week we had I think over 25 kids sign up and they wanted to read the several animals they didn't want to one animal
out been longgo partnership and we're so thankful for them uh the one on the right is we've for the past year we've been partnering with the scouts and they've been bringing in some uh various programs with us this one happened to be
archery out in the little lot out in the back as well and we're continuing that partnership as well and the final picture is another partnership with the lodge uh we had some another book club the books were provided by our friends of the library and then they had just
kind of like a little coffee clash and talk about books at the lodge little comfortable uh surroundings there next Outreach uh I believe the top one was
Dia deos Muertos uh Jeff who is our Adult Services librarian was there representing he also speaks Spanish so it was just a good uh time for him to be able to actually speak with our community um chasa Pride
we uh always have a booth there and then you can see my bald head um in front of a bunch of kindergarteners I adopted last year the kindergarten class at uh uh Carver Elementary and this year I have the kindergarten class at Carver Elementary in the first grade at Clover
Ridge because I have a first grader this year so trying to get word out into the schools to the people who need it um hook them early on the library so they will be lifelong users our facility if you've been in there
recently we've kind of reconfigured the entry way uh we moved our computers around and we have some new desks for the service and information desk and we've kind of just opened up the area to make it more welcoming and have a greater flow
next and we are also the only uh stop on the national uh geocache Odyssey um it happens to be in our library if you know anything about geocaching it's using technology as a like a treasure
hunt and it's a three-step process so you see step two there you don't know what the final is but that's step two um it's kind of a fun thing to be included in that in a national kind of contest where there's only one in each
state next uh we really wouldn't be able to do what we do without the Friends of the chasa library um here you can see that they're very busy with our our book sale but um just the support that they give
us all year long outside of that is um so appreciated and so needed and next and for next year these are things that are for sure happening um we will be offering free NY Services be the
first in the county we're kind of uh um trying it out to see how it works we get asked all the time if we offer it so we're like we should do this we're let's do it I have turned my eye to maximizing the teen kids in Spanish collection
areas of her library after I kind of reconfigured the entryway um kind of turned around and said let's continue this how can we be really effective in our space and make this um more welcoming for everyone I I already mentioned our EXP
Ed Story Time and programming options to include more bilingual um offerings and making connections with area libraries who have built new buildings to see um what they have to suggest since we have one coming up
ourselves hopefully um what did they what were uh what were the best things that they chose to do and how can we build on that that's it any questions
does anybody have any questions thank you sorry because you guys do a great job and I always feel very lucky um not that I get like a lot of opportunities to brag about Librarians but when I do I brag about you guys amazing you guys are and I just
really feel lucky both of you um to have gotten you know Kevin we spent some time together last year I think it was getting to dream a bit and just I got to learn about you and that was amazing and of course Jody and I just feel very lucky we have you guys so it's very exciting to hear this um and one thing I
learned I think the last time you guys were here maybe about Libby and it's made me think is that it um counts as a book checkout and you only get so many checkouts of each book when you check something out on Libby right so I'm
always very mindful now because I was just like I want this book I want this book on Libby and then I learned that and I was like I'm be more mindful so now I like put it if I don't have time to read it I'll put myself back in line later so a little tidbit that uh it is helpful to actually read the books when
you check them out on Li the women yeah exactly yep or which one did I wait for a long time I can't remember there I don't know it's probably somewhere on the list but I waited I think a year for one of them and I was like I'm reading this so but
yes thank you for all you guys do you um if I if haven't had a chance to to meet with me I welcome that I I want to hear your story and what you see the community needs and I would love to be able to dream about how the library can
help meet some of those needs and uh grow help the community grow both intellectually and just uh uh with experiences I'm always appreciate when you come uh we haven't had time to meet my schedule's crazy and not great but
I will self admit that I love you when you when they come and talk to library because much to my embarrassment early in my life living in chasa Pre kids I had a thought to myself like what is the purpose of the library right and not really understanding and then you you
have you you get hooked in with kids and story time and all that stuff and then you just see all the good and that Gathering space and I because I know you just talk like well technology and people aren't using books but like nope still people find places to go to quiet spaces to to study to read to just get
away from you know you said the screen so I'm always appreciative I say that every year because It embarrasses me that I thought that a long time ago but it is I I guarantee you there's someone who's probably listening and wondering the same thing and that's why I say that because on the surface you're thinking like what where where have libraries
gone these days and and they are still very vibrant in a community Gathering Place libraries are one of the few third places where you're not expected to buy anything oh um so home work and then you have a third place where you can go a lot of people consider that third place
they're also their work so we do have people who do have like little business that they operate from their own laptop as they sit in the in the library so um yeah it's it's so much more than the the old librarian with the bun shushing news
who walk in we we want it to be vibrant really great all the kids programming too I have little little ones at home yet and ni they don't have preschool every day or they you need to get out and they're we have an opare opare can just bring them and they go to story time or they
do little art projects or they play with Play-Doh or something it was the other day but with these huge Smiles on their face that they were you know able to get out and meet a friend and yeah absolutely yeah I mean I'm a I'm a huge
fan of Library I'm a friend of the library um I love the liia app I I I listen to a book daily my son and I listen to a book to from school um you guys are instrumental
in his uh goal of 40 books before the end of the school year that is on them and um and we're you know we're going through that but yeah I mean libraries are more than just books it's enrichment right it's that Community Gathering space it's enriching people's lives
educating um you know exploring those opportunities and building people up so that they can Thrive and I just I'm so grateful you guys have such a wonderful staff that care so much about this community and you're always trying to
seek new and different ways to connect with all sorts of people young and old in our community um I appreciate that I appreciate all the hard work you do and I'm very excited for the future as we come around the bend to a new library I
it's so welld deserved and it's just going to be amazing in this community and I'm hoping that it's something that's going to be unique in this corner of the M too so that we can really I I look at it as a destination for downtown chasa and that's a really great Point
too because some people you know as I've discussed you know the buildings with people and some people say well Library why do we need the library kind of touching on council member gr's point of like maybe it's just books and and like technology and you know do we still need this big big building and it's like no
it's so much more than that it's a gathering space um but you know the nice thing is is that you know once you know we have that Foundation it's just it's going to bring such great Economic Development down to our area I mean it's
a destination that um brings um people in to you know spend money downtown in our other businesses and it's a partnership with that as well so it's you guys are a key Catalyst site and all that yeah to me one of the biggest uh
shortcomings of our library now is just size and if you look at Chan asen's library with the space that they have in there the you know it's more than books it's programs you know it's it's about the people that you bring together and uh if you don't have the space you can't
have the programs um and to me that's the biggest difference between Chan aon's Library and chapus library is that there's actually space to do things yely but no no questions you guys you
guys have covered it well it's very exciting um and I I've always look forward to this every year so thank you guys so much for coming thank you for having us yeah yes thanks for all your support you know where to find us if you you ever want to bring the dogs in next
time too I can come to a council meeting a late night session of uh late night council members or animals yes thank Youk you thank you good
night all right okay so next uh for visitor presentation do we have anybody else here that's here for visitor presentation that's not on the agenda come on forward you can state your name and address for the record and go for it
all right I'm Kristen Bartley 1480 Meadow Lane I apologize I'm getting over cold um I figure that now that people have settled into their roles that I could come and just shake things up a little bit that's what I tend to do on the topic of chicken
keeping um as some of you know backyard chickens have has been a passion project of mine for the last 10 years I've even helped enen Prairie Chan Hassen Cottage Grove Plymouth Apple Valley Hastings and Woodbury with their Journeys doing all the research and getting them all the
info um chickens provide value as pets teaching kids about responsibility through caring for an animal who can love them back they divert waste from landfills 50% of household waste is compostable and chickens are happy to eat up eat up all that waste chickens
also love snacking on Creeping Charlie and all sorts of bugs like Japanese beetles that we all get bothered by spiders slugs and ants I'm hoping to have your support with changing the current ordinance to five hens no
roosters 25 ft from neighboring um adjacent residential structures HOA rules supersede city ordinances in a reasonable application onetime application fee that's it oh all right um like I've
done the long presentation before a couple times so short iate that um uh does anybody have any questions for Kristen now this you know visitor presentation we don't take action obviously but um you're putting it on the record which is great we've I know
for myself I've gotten a few emails and like the last you know month or two and others have expressed interest in chickens and I say and I always tell people come on down do come forward like you have I know it can be a little bit nerve-wracking to kind of stand before a
microphone and camera and right staring at you right um but I really appreciate you taking the time to do that because I think this is like what's going to get the ball rolling to re-explore this topic because you know we've um we explored it back in
2020 20 2021 I think we did the vote early 2021 but so this will this will get that topic going back again at this point I know you guys have done the city's done a lot of research in the past all the info is there it's just figuring out yeah so I think at this
point probably yeah what we can do is you know we've we have a lot of the research done um just reuse the oran pretty much pretty much what what I was going to suggest is that we could schedule that for a work session uh because uh obviously we have a couple
new people here uh to get everybody up to speed with uh with what the requests has been and and sort of what we see with other cities doing and things like that um but yeah we can get that scheduled for for a work session okay
yeah so there you go can you remind me did you were in favor of the ordinance before yeah like the one we came up with that's what I thought okay except for the application fee it seemed a little high it was like $100 a year or something okay um I feel like that would
kind of scare people away from participating with having that high of a fee okay perfect yeah I think some of that just accounts for staff time because we have to have yeah people come out we have to make sure that we are you know making sure that we're taking care
of those resources as well financially but I think what we like to do is really explore neighboring cities to really see where it falls in line with other things and that will obviously be something that will re-evaluate again as long and in addition to the ordinance just to make sure everything kind of is falling
in line with kind of what neighboring cities are doing and and things of that nature so that's tends to be good best practice right so but yeah well I really again want to thank you for coming forward and taking the
time to do this and it sounds like we'll get this on the calendar for a work session and um otherwise I don't know that's that's about it yep then let us go from there yeah reach out if you have any questions otherwise so we'll we'll be in touch okay sounds good thanks for
having me all right thank you anybody else here for a visitor presentation an item that's not on tonight's agenda all right moving along then we have uh approval of the previous meeting
minutes for March 3rd um 2025 does anybody have any additions or corrections to the meeting minutes otherwise entertain a motion three 25 okay we got a motion was that kind of a murmur like a second it
was yeah it's a second so I have a motion from council member chevin and a second from council member Benish any other discussion all those in favor say I I opposed all right I almost Kil depending that um motion carries okay
that moves us along to consent items so these are items on the agenda that usually have little or no discussion to them um unless anybody has any questions on the consent item I see that 7D is one that's just been postponed so somebody's
here for for that otherwise I was just going to comment that I'm always excited when we see the consent item for I mean technically it's for the temporary liquor license for Taste of chasa but that's how I know it's spring was when we start getting the taste of chasa those like the events
popping up so I'm just excited but no other questions yeah I only like 7A I was going to ask the was that just something that was just really I read it over and I was kind of like what were they exactly needing in addition from what I understand the University of
Minnesota Board of Regents has a certain required terms that they always negotiate um when they're renting facilities um many of them are related to their operation as a public entity um so they're similar to for example um
they have a provision in here related to the data Practices Act um they're relatively boilerplate unobjectionable um in fact one of them actually obligates them to uh or provides the University's insurance policy to cover
their event where it wouldn't have been a requirement in the base contract so um all things considered I didn't have any objections um to the proposal it's unusual to negotiate a b a rental contract small over and I thought this doesn't sound like anything weird I just
thought the only question I was thinking I mean this isn't important I just thingo while I was reading it is like did we have to like pay to amend that so are we are we making any money then on the right yeah we don't have to answer but just kind of made me think anytime the
answer is yes but but uh um you know it's you know this is a good these are the types of events we want to have at it makes sense but I was laughing to myself because I do know what it cost to update a contract sometimes yeah no no doubt well all
right anybody else have any questions at all otherwise I'll entertain a motion moved second all right so I've got a um motion from council member gr and a second from council member Hatfield um all those in favor say I I opposed all
right moving us along to 88 approve fishing and Friends letter of intent for seed funding all right mayor and council member is the item in front of you tonight sort of exciting uh if you
remember uh well I remember back in 2010 maybe maybe nobody else who remembers because nobody else is here except for me but yeah but in 2010 uh we worked with a group of chasa volunteers to establish a local chapter of the let's
go fishing and let's go fishing is uh was a Statewide organization uh that was created to provide opportunities for people to go out and be ble to get on the water and go fishing if they didn't have those types of opportunities to them so you see lots of uh kids from underprivileged situations you see
veterans uh disabled veterans you see seniors who are in nursing homes uh those types of groups um you know to be able to get out and enjoy the water and get out and try uh try fishing uh at the time uh to get the chapter up and going
we did provide seed Capital uh to help purchase the actual pontoon uh that they use and some of the equipment that they use as well uh we provided a uh $40,000 uh Loan in which they purchase upon tune uh and uh uh as part of that it was set
up as a loan that they paid back over a fiveyear period and uh so they uh needed to pay that back by the end of uh 2014 which they did and uh ever since then uh they've been just continuing to offer uh the programs that they have uh they did
uh uh uh change uh during the uh course of the first few years moved away from let's go fishing uh just because you know was a lot of money that they were having to put towards the the state organization and not get a lot of return back on it so they really started their
own uh local uh group here which is uh fishing with friends and uh they've been uh providing trips uh ever since so they are going into their 15th uh season of providing trips uh out of Howard's Point
uh Marina which is uh uh just up north of Rolling Acres Road Road and Highway 7 and uh being that the boat is 15 years old it is in uh it is in some need of repair um they originally had looked at
uh uh replacing the boat but after doing some further research really found that the boat itself is really what they want the spec of the boat to be um it what it really needs is that just needs to get overhaul that needs new floor carpeting
seats uh uh you know engine those those types of things that that go into it and found that instead of spending $85,000 for a new boat that they could do that work for $40,000 and uh be able to to continue forward with it so the request
came to us again uh for uh to uh provide seed funding to for them to be able to do that um and uh uh you'll see attached to the staff report I did uh put together a letter of intent that sort of lays out the the conditions with it but basically
really similar to uh the conditions we had the first time around where uh setup where we'd provide the seed funding uh they'd actually go out and get uh uh the boat actually overall in sort of two phases they do like the motor uh components before the uh season starts
and then wait until after the season ends to do the over all the boats so that they don't have an interruption in their schedule uh and then they pay back over uh a fiveyear uh period um I'm seeing if there's any other
things that sort of stand out here um you know basically uh you know what we uh ask of them is just to to continue to work with us our park and wreck uh Department uh utilizes fishing with friends quite often for for programming that we have
which is really appreciated uh and uh um you know we you know would love to see that continue into the future so um this uh you know especially because we utilize fishing with friends for a lot of the
programming that that we do uh Beyond everything that they do we think this is a really good fit uh to to help provide these dollars uh and something that's a pretty small investment for us to to make and and uh just like they did did the first time around they really proved
that hey provide us the seed funding we have the supporters to be able to support us to pay this back over uh the fiveyear period and and hopefully get another 15 years out of the the boat so staff is recommending moving forward with providing uh this uh uh funding to
fishing with friends and we do have uh Laurence Simer and and do you call me your first mates or or are they the captains Captain okay all captains all right come on down captains yeah so come
on up and you can uh sort of explain a little bit more about the program well uh busiest captains Gary sson and George George Rosser any questions to begin well let me
talk thank you wow thank you thank you that's awesome one of the main things we do is take people out on Lake minona honor pontoon B that is really what we started
doing in the beginning and what we're mostly known for but one of the first things we started also was what we call at that time a youth clinic and we would get people together
in a room and with kids and we teach them how to tie knots and other things that they would need to know to be angling and it's really easy to get kids interested in fishing but we soon learned that if are
going to continue to fish they need to have an adult so we changed our whole program and we now have what we call Family fishing and we do a family fishing event it'll be the first Sunday in June every year this year it's the 1
of June at firemen's Park and we have tents and the DNR comes and we have other people that come and uh put exhibits and demonstrations and then we give every young participant a a
rod and reel of their own to take home and we all s some fish right at farman's Pond right then but every kid that comes has to bring an adult because the idea is let's keep the
kids going and it's perked out very well another thing that we've started recently it's all it's probably fourth year is what we call a Veterans Day on the lake and there we invite
veterans from the Hastings and Minneapolis veterans homes come out and we give them a morning of fishing of course we only have one pontoon boat and there are more people so we've arranged with some of the other
marinas on the lake to let us borrow additional pontoon boats so this past summer we had six pontoon full of people that we took out on the lake to go fishing well let me correct
that some of them actually don't care about fishing they just want to get out so so we had four boats that went fishing and two boats that went on touring around the lake and they had a great time too and then
uh playing of Honor puts on a great lunch and we have a little program and uh it's a we all have a great time and think the veterans do too was two CH I think channel five or channel nine uh a few times now has been out there
actually we had CH actually we've had channel five and 11 and channel N9 so and back when there was a newspaper we we get the newspaper people to come out as well when is your Veterans Day on
the lake event do you have a date nailed down for that yet the Veterans Day will be on July 15th okay and that's at the marina Howard's Point uh one one of them maras that loans us boats and they let
us use their facilities so it's a lot of fun but if you have any other questions we can uh answer we'd be glad to do that also we have night cruises you know all of you guys can go on it you just sign up for it oh all right it's lot of fun
go to our website I was seeing that is that the Wednesday Wednesday nights Wednesday nights yes wnes nights yeah that I didn't know about that that's cool yeah that's cool I that's me U the other thing about those cruises is they're all free yes
you sign up you show up and now some of you might have been on cruises on the lake before like alen Elma well I've been on elen Elms as well and they just go in the middle of the lake because they're so big they stay in the middle of the lake when I do my tours I
stay 20 feet 30 feet away from all the docks I can't make a weight but I can go real close you can really see the beauty of nature uh the homes the docks the islands that are there and if you look at Lake vonka we're on the call it the
west side or the left side the furthest away from us would be um well way Zetta Bay yeah gra Bay like way Zetta so we're on the total opposite end but the great thing is we're actually on Lake batonka which is
terrific yeah very popular Lake very we that that's one of the reasons we primarily operate Monday through Thursday because by Friday and Saturday Sunday it's pretty busy we have a cruise in the morning and
one the afternoon nor an hour and a half how do how do people do sign up to we can take 10 guests we we have two people as crew a captain and then we
also have a first mate that comes along to help out uh then 10 guests so um cool and then if if people have a special reason that they want to leave
uh early in the morning or stay later in the afternoon or operate on a different date we try to accommodate all those sorts of things as well one of the programs from the uh
Parks and Recreation is what one of they call Extreme kids and in order to get all of those people taken care of we have to do four trips in a day so we start about 8 in the morning morning and continue until about 4 in the
afternoon that's exciting and and George is usually it's a very busy day it is I even did it a couple times where I said I'm gonna be there so I might as well do there's four trips in a row and I did all four I was tired that that was great
kids are fun watching them catch uh sunnies are catching sometimes bass and kids always want to go in the boat it's a great great day with them yeah we also have officer Julius do it but now officer Martinez is doing we
have kids from Riverview Terrace that are able to to go out there um and then um kids with disabilities too I didn't know I took my son Lincoln out there and he caught uh is it pumpkin seed pumpkin that's right they're really just colored yes
it's it's a lot of fun for kids to go out there yeah my my son did your youth or your clinic um and I I was there too because you're right bring a bring a parent right and I think what's really nice my testimonial is sometimes your
kids it's hard to teach your kids something yourself right they're more apt to sometimes listen to another authority figure and so it's so great you you had the stations and and he learned about the different how to tell of the different types of fish based on their
Fin and tail and color and everything and then like you said tie aure and do different things and then fish right away and and it was it was great but then the other added component was we got to take a take a trip out on the pontoon on lake minona and so we signed
up and we went out there and did that and um there were there were like maybe four other boys on this uh Pontoon and they were all like catching fish and my son was trying and it wasn't happening and he was getting a little discouraged
cuz it wasn't going for him but then at the end he got this huge bass and in the smile on his face it was just totally worth it not about quantity yes it was like this big big fish and he was so
excited and so I appreciate the opportunity to give to him to have an experience like that and just like the library before you guys really enriching lives and that is just so important so thank you for being a part of this community and doing all of this good work everything's free and theable to
use Rod re's bait you give him a little treat some water one one of the things we say is our real mission is to bring smiles to everybody so all of our
guests kids seniors veterans always leave with us how do you get your funding like is there somewhere people can donate I'm sorry I have a hearing issue how do we get your funding well it's all uh donations from local service
organizations like the chesal Lions car Alliance too I might add and Victoria Alliance but uh uh we have a number of private donors not much but
it's expensive to be on Lake minaka I might add it uh well I started as Treasurer about 10 years ago and our expenses are almost triple what they were then if you can
imagine now it cost us over $5,000 just to be able to park the boat so things are uh expensive our fundraising has been people interested in donating do they just
successful but um it's always a challenge you guys do you guys do a fundraiser like a dinner don't have something like a fish fry or something like that no we but you can go online I see and donate with PayPal or mail a check so if someone's watching and you
know want to donate there is that opportunity just on chasa fishing withth friends.com to donate yeah so I think a lot of people love the you know and especially those whose maybe grandparents aren't local or can't take them out that's you know such a great opportunity
to do something in the outside and away from the screens definitely yeah would like to invite all of you to come out with us so you can come if there's we can schedule you as a group that would
be wonderful otherwise uh you can go on our website and and uh actually sign up your family come out on a trip sign I do you remember one of the highlights of the chasa park board was
they would do an annual trip on the pontoon really all right do a lot of trips with seniors and sometimes they're a little hesitant because they're in a wheelchair our pontoon boat is built with a ramp and I've had all kinds of
not just wheelchairs but Mobile station I mean with a joystick and I had one teenager he had incred he had a nurse with him and everything and luckily the ramp was wide enough you with his tires and everything got him on board and we can take cheers out to make room for
them we could take what about three three wheelchairs we can handle three wheelchairs at a time yeah I was at the legion it was several years ago now but I just appreciate everything you guys do for veterans I was talking to a veteran it was summertime and he told me he had gone on a trip with you guys and it was
like the first time in a while he didn't feel like a burden to someone I was like that's so meaningful so I love that and frankly we serve we areka area official friends were from
chesa most more supports from chesa but we actually serve the whole Southwestern metro area and uh not all of our volunteer are from chut they're also around the whole area that's so cool thank you for
offering this to the community excuse me she she says thanks for offering it to the community I have a naturally loud voice so I you know I'm limping I don't hear very
well this is I'm not going to be like you Lauren I'm not going to be I'm not going to be a captain any longer but uh uh I started with the I wasn't one of one of the people who started originally I didn't sign up until
2013 because I took my grand my oldest granddaughter to one of the youth conects and decided it was kind of a interesting outfit and the rest is
history well thank you oh well thank you for the opportunity to talk to you and and the opportunity to continue to work with yeah jesa we uh we really appreciate your help as well so thank
you very much absolutely thank you and thank you for the hats I love a hat so I'm excited thank you so sounds like what we need to do is a motion to approve a letter of intent with fishing
and friends to authorize the mayor to execute the letter behalf of the city so moved okay second all right so I have a motion from uh council member Hatfield and a second from council member Benish any discussion at all all right all
those in favor say I I opposed all right that carries wonderful okay yeah you guys are good thank you um thank you guys so much for for coming in and and talking about such
a you're a wonderful organization so thank you and you can stick around or you can take off too okay all right so next we have 8B on the agenda which is adopt resolution number 2025-the for Edco on Creek Road SLP
Design Group PC number 202-02 uh mayor uh council members this is a exciting one uh coming back in front of you a concept plan for uh uh the next site in our Industrial Park uh out on the west end of town uh the
company is named Edco and they uh they're looking at is just to the west of the opid in uh buildings in the chass creek uh Industrial Park um this is coming to you uh with a recommendation from the Planning Commission for
approval of the concept plan uh and we'll have Liz go over the presentation and we have representatives from uh the uh organization here as well thank you Council and mayor we have a concept plan in front of us this
evening for Edco which is located off of Creek Road or the proposed site is located off of Creek Road uh this is proposed by Pope Design Group so the site and question is centered on this aerial exhibit um it's
basically located north of Creek Road and south of angler Boulevard so sandwiched in between those major roads uh as Matt mentioned the site is directly west of chasa Creek Center uh which contains a medical office building
and two uh Industrial corporate industrial buildings that were uh built by Aidan uh other adjacent uh users are uh what will be the future uh Public Works
uh site for the city of chasa which is uh southeast of the site on Creek Road uh we have R rural residential uh Lots just to the south of Creek Road across from the site uh which are located in chasa and then we're on
basically a corner of uh the city limits here but delren Township abouts the west side of this site and then we have Laketown Township that ABS the northwest side um we are at the first step in the
three-step review process uh for development applications uh so we'll have two other chances um that this will come before us uh this step is the concept plan so it's more of that General overview highle uh analysis um
and starting to identify uh concerns or any issues to lead into the next steps uh so with any concept plan application the applicant is required to hold a neighborhood meeting prior to submitting their concept plan so they conducted that on January 30th of this
year they had four attendees at that meeting uh the questions uh centered around water usage and Wastewater uh of The Proposal potential truck traffic and screening on the west property line This
remind me because I'm familiar with that rural residential how many properties are in that space there for attended is there how many residents in that 500 roughly I'm just curious what the PO yeah so we have uh most of the
residents to the south on Wetzel Lane there's about five properties there there's one that's Direct ly south of Creek Road and then there is one uh that is directly west of this property and a few other uh rural residential sites as
well just a good refresher um just some background on Edco itself they're a business that started back in 1946 um within Minnesota and they currently have two sites located in Hopkins Minnesota uh one of their sites will be relocating to this
new site in chasa and then one will stay in Hopkins um so their distribution warehouse will stay in Hopkins and then their site that contains most of their office production and warehousing uses will be the the piece that moves to
chasa uh so they're a company that specializes in metal fabrication uh for exterior building materials uh and they're one of the largest manufacturers of pre-finished metal siding and Roofing um in terms of the site uh that
they're taking a look at um it is one parcel that comprises roughly 28 acres of land owned by the Haskin family um it's currently zoned rural residential rr2 uh kind of like the other properties
to the south of uh Creek Road uh it currently is used as Farmland so it's a big open field uh today uh there are known LS on the site both on the North and South sides uh that will be important in the subsequent steps uh there's also an electric
easement that runs along the north property line that's 20 feet wide um and then the hasin family which owns the site that Edco is proposing on they also own the property directly uh Northwest of this property uh that we'll talk
about a little bit later just a few views uh into the site both from angler Boulevard which is the top image and then uh on Creek Road looking North so you can see some of the existing vegetation along Engler and
then kind of that open feeling uh along Creek Road there uh so what they're requesting again is for concept plan approval uh which would be for a new building on the site totaling 240,000 square feet in
size and 38 ft in height uh they're also proposing a potential building expansion um with the building totaling up to 120,000 Square ft um a new parking lot uh totaling 185
parking stalls um and then an employee an employee count uh roughly around 155 employees at this site uh the comprehensive plan which is our long range plan looking at land use uh guides this uh property for business
bus Park uh which is consist so the use that's proposed is consistent with that guidance um the purple areas um shown on this screen here are those Business Park uh guidances uh so a majority of the
area um are also within that guidance uh the concept plan is shown on this screen uh with a few um supplements as well uh the building is basically a rectangular footprint that's proposed and it's kind of angled in a way to fit
into uh uh the wetlands that are both on the North and South sides um so this is a 240,000 square foot uh building shown in dark gray here the potential expansion
area is shown to the east of this footprint which will be anywhere from 60,000 to 120,000 square feet of added um square footage in the future they are proposing uh vehicular
access directly onto Creek Road basically on the west side of the site they also have a secondary access highlighted on the east side of the site that would act as the main truck access into the site um and this access um they
do intend or hope to um construct that with the onset of uh the development but they have to go through through uh potential Wetland U mitigation um but there might be um some Avenues there to explore in terms of that too but that is
the intention so that they have kind of individualized uh vehicle or employee access and truck access into the site uh the parking lot is shown on the west side of the site and west of the building uh which is um closer to where
the main entrance is oriented on the building kind of on that Northwest side in red here um and that'll total 185 parking stalls um they'll have to go through uh a more extensive analysis in
the preliminary to show um how they meet the needs of uh the employees there um but also uh how they could meet parking code on site um and proof of parking um if it goes above and beyond uh what they
need uh the loading Dock and shipping yard area shown on the northeast side of the building in site uh here I know they're starting to look at other orientations of that loading space on maybe the south side of the building
which is also a staff comment too uh with angler Boulevard being a hight TR Road and very visible um it seems to make sense to look at the south side of the site and building um to orient it away from those more highly visible
areas um landscaping and screening will obviously still be an important component that they'll that would match up more to with some of the other build I mean not or oriented exactly the same but it it more look like a lot of the other ones there correct yeah
okay um bringing back um the hasin property that's to the northwest of this property um being that the family owns both of these properties um one of the things uh that'll need to
be looked at a little bit further going into preliminary is access opportunity to that smaller 2 and a half acre um property that's Northwest of this one uh due to uh spacing requirements from the intersection um
and what the county uh will probably say in terms of uh providing enough spacing we are asking that uh together this site look at um access opportunities um potentially through their site or uh
other ways so that that's not an afterthought um as this project Contin continues to move forward and then lastly because there is uh residential immediately to the West here screening will also be really
important on this West Side I know the property owners spoke at the uh Planning Commission meeting and and had some some good uh insight into that in terms of uh more of the Northwest uh portion of the property being that more significant
open area and what they hope will get filled in as a part of this project uh they do have a pretty uh mature vegetative Edge today and there's an image of that on this screen here um that will help block off or
screen much of the site from what they see from their property so their their main concern is kind of that Northwest area but something that we'll we'll take a look at holistically um as we get into preliminary um another couple pieces
that um are important are pedestrian connections and um amenity areas uh for employees um this exhibit shows existing pedestrian Pathways in both red and blue blue um and then the green are uh those
future extensions uh along Creek Road uh so with this facility going in and um Creek Road eventually going to be reconstructed it uh uh there is a plan for a trail extension to continue along
the north side of Creek Road uh that they'll be able to um Connect into um and in addition to that one of the objectives that we kind of called out during the Aidan buildings is providing uh amenity spaces for the employees
there are some beautiful uh views in the uh the creek over on the east side so there's potential for some good interaction there um or taking advantage of uh some reprieve areas uh for the employees to utilize so we just um have
that as something to further evaluate and um address as they get into their preliminary saf plan this is something we're focusing on a lot more now um especially considering what we've seen happen up in our existing industrial
park in the north end of town in particular the Crosby Park industrial park so that's where like Lake Region and Beckman couter and those places um we've had them come to us numerous times uh looking for ways to make it safer for
their employees to be able to walk during lunch um and they you know they're like we don't need much more than walking around the loop but walking around the loop isn't necessarily the safest thing because there's also trucks and all that kind of stuff so having those places where people can walk uh
and get out during the work day um I think is a is a lot more you know we're seeing a lot more of that with industrial parks now than we did back in the 80s when those original industrial parks were built yeah now that
um the Savannah Way connection has been made I pop home for lunch driving that way frequently um it's amazing how many people I see walking around um and you know it's pretty clear that they're employees of that business park and
those buildings that exist today sure in terms of the building design um again they're proposing a rectangular footprint uh roughly 38 ft in height at its tallest point uh the front entrance area uh will kind of have more of that
emphasized um articulation with Windows and uh accent metal um to help call that out a little bit more prominently uh but the majority of the building would be uh pre-cast panels uh concrete panels with some ribbed
banding detail just to provide a little bit more uh detail um to the concrete building so they'll have to meet our industrial design standards and at this point in the process um it's just calling that out as something that
they'll have to come back and show how they meet that in preliminary just a zoomed in view to the front of the building or the Northwest side of the building or front entrance so just to reiterate a couple
things uh for them to work on towards preliminary uh parking uh being able to show a proof of parking exhibit uh as well as a parking summary kind of uh establishing or elaborating on the need for the facility and for the employees
um both for uh the existing and for the future needs that they plan with uh a potential uh building addition uh looking at uh the reorientation of the loading area to the southeast side of the building um working on the screening and
buffering um within the landscape plan uh both uh for the parking areas as well as the loading areas and uh using birming um were applicable uh pedestrian Gathering areas and
connections uh access opportunity to the 2 and a half acre Haskin property uh working on their Wetland mitigation and impact plan and their overall storm water plan both for proposed and existing or proposed and uh
future needs for the site uh so with that uh we're ask me to make a motion this evening to adopt resolution number 2025-the have any questions for for staff or for Liz I did some research on you guys and
and kind of the products that you make and you you do it sounds like exteriors to buildings and like I saw gutters and and maybe things that residentials would use but mostly you know commercial property so it's interesting to see some of the like the riveting concrete and stuff like that that you're incorporating into your own building as
you um think about that and I thought that was kind of fun um but it's exciting that you're exploring you know a move to chass and or relocation I should say stain Hopkins too but a relocation to chasa and part of our Industrial Development plan for the Southwest cor yeah would you like to
come up and speak at all or no he's like I'm GNA sit quiet the eyes the back I was just saying I did some research just to understand company and it's kind of cool you do but and that you approprate that into your design but I don't have any question this the part where you get to
show and tell so come on down you like we have no prepared remarks I have a question it was more comments so yeah we set a pretty low bar we're very excited about uh expanding our business it's been growing should
introduce yourself quickly I'm sorry I'm John Lewis I'm the CEO of Edco U so Edco is family-owned uh not my family unfortunately um but it has been family-owned since its Inception almost 80 years ago it's owned by the Edwards
family uh and it's just uh three second rather three third and fourth generation uh family owners and they intend to own the business hopefully for you know multiple generations going forward so uh we're very excited to be um looking at this expansion uh we think it's an ideal
site we think it's a the chasa is an ideal community um and I got nothing you good I have I do have a question if you don't mind we do and we do make beautiful mostly uh we do make beautiful building products for
uh for homes and businesses uh Roofing siding and and all the trim that goes along with it um so I know you're kind of relocating are there are these going to be additional jobs existing jobs maybe a mix so we have um so we've been
in business for almost 80 years in our facilities our original equipment in Hopkins so we are ripe for um a renovation uh and an expansion um we have uh a really quite a nice warehouse and Hopkins that'll continue service and
contractor customers there uh but all of our manufacturing uh and office staff and distribution and product development will be moving to this facility um so our business continues to grow so um we would expect that uh we will ultimately
have you know more folks this is a it's a move initially but it's to enable us to continue to grow awesome very exciting thank you and I like that it's family-owned a lot like you were talking about some of the Beckman cter and some of the other Industries it's not like targets moving in you know we're in it
for the next hundred years so it's going to be so colorful up there you guys are going to be bright red we have the bright yellow I think we have some other it's just been really fun to watch that area grow up and like be ated to and we're very excited so welcome to
the community all this goes forward so exciting thank you uh thank you for for coming out um yeah I I'll Echo the same comments it's exciting to have you guys interested in chasa and and to kind of move to expand
out here um it's great to develop that area that was the that was the dream so it's nice to see it realized um and have great companies and I like the I like that you guys are family-owned that's wonderful kind of having those sort of
roots um so and and just just to kind of for the general public this is a concept plan so like like um Liz had mentioned it's you know three parts and right now we're in that first step that's at high level so um we will reexamine this this
will come before us again I'm sure if it was through for preliminary and everything that nature so but thank you guys for being here very good thank you appreciate your time and consideration um any questions at all on I know it's pretty no I can make a motion to adopt
resolution number 2025 D21 approving concept plan for Edco cek Road all right we have a motion from council member Hatfield a second that and a second from council member gr any other questions at all all right all those in favor say I I
opposed all right concept plan um passes you're welcome to stay too we're going to cannabis cannabis next next thank you thank you all right that brings us along to Acy items related to cannabis and public
smoking he mayor and Council mayor if you'll remember at the uh last work session that we had uh actually we've talked about it a few times but uh we're sort of finishing up our discussion uh of uh creating an ordinance for use of cannabis and and how many licenses we're
going to provide in the community and then we also talked about you know when we get into public spaces uh smoking uh in those areas and some of the preferences that the council had expressed to to uh address that as we uh look at this ordinance as well uh as we
talked about um as we talked about in the work session uh the state uh is gearing up now to uh start issuing licenses uh they've gone through the uh they've gone through the proc or in the
process of a lottery uh right now to determine who's going to be eligible for licenses and then uh then people will be able to go out into communities decide what communities they want to go out into and see if they meet the ordinances and if there's licenses available so uh
so this is good timing for us to to have this done because I would expect that we probably in the May to June time frame probably will start to uh uh see things happen at the state where we could start to see businesses ramp up so um I'm
going to turn over to a lease just to sort of talk about the details of the uh of the ordinance that's in front of you and again there's sort of two ordinances here uh one is to deal with the regulation of cannabis as far as the sale of it uh and then the second one is
use of it within public parks uh so TR over are you great mayor and Council remember as Matt indicated you have two arnes before you and I'll kind of go through the highlights of both of them and these are things that you saw it um
two weeks ago at your work session but just spelling them out in more detail for you and these are all um in the ordinance which is also attached in your packet so kind of key components of the Cannabis ordinance um as in regards to
Public Safety uh so that ordinance reads cannabis products cannot be used in public places uh if there is use it is um a violation and therefore a petty misdemeanor that was something that you as a council had the opportunity to
weigh in on and something you wanted to move forward with uh something actually requested by our Police Department was that all registered cannabis retailers will provide video and audio surveillance equipment um that again that was
requested by police department and uh we help with that that Public Safety aspect of it and then also under Public Safety is compliance checks of cannabis retailers uh will be conducted at least once per year and this is something that the statute allows and that we have
added to the ordinance uh with regard to retail registrations this is another area of the statute where uh local municipalities have the ability to weigh in and make a decision on uh so while
the license itself will be issued by the state we can ask that um a retail registration will be required in the city which is what the ordinance dictates the maximum number of retail registrations um the way we have it written in the ordinance will be limited
to the minimum number of registrations required by the state we left that verbage like that so that if things change at the state level then we don't have to go back and necessarily change sure how that seat statute reads right now is one retail registration per
12,500 in population so we are required right now um with our current population of about 30,000 to have a minimum of three retail registrations I think it's important to point out on that uh that if you're so let's say 12,500 and 12,500
is 25,000 you're like well don't you have to get to 36,000 if you have one person over that that 25,000 then you have to offer that third
license and then additionally so we are requiring an application process we're currently drafting that retail registration right now um and the ordinance allows us to collect a fee for that registration and that will be set
at uh what the state statute allows us to set that fee at and then um it will also allow us to collect a renewal registration when they need to renew after one year I was just going to say if so
because the state is the one selecting but if they select and then we say okay here's your application and they don't fill it out or pay the fee we can reject them and then then it goes back to the state to pick another one
okay and then with the fees that we're you know collecting with that I suppose it's not a ton of money but that money be used to like enhance the public safety um the fees will be used to cover our time to administer this ordinance so it would cover police
departments compliance checks it will cover in administration covering you know the time it takes to do this registration that's what I was hoping for was that it was covering the additional police time it would take to exactly so since we're going to issue a
maximum of three registrations and because the state is doing a lottery system to determine who gets the licenses what if um let's say three businesses is businesses in chasa apply
to the state and they all get granted through the lottery to license and it's possible that one of those businesses doesn't look to um enticing to us as far as selling this product are we able to
deny them the registration even though we set the number at three three got approved and there's only three out there in the city of chesa and there's not a fourth option so there's two issues there yeah
so the first issue is um do we have the ability to say no to what the state has said yes and the answer is no okay we have to accept what the state said now if we do compliance checks and we're finding that they're not behav in the way that that is required that's the way
we can control that that side of it but we we couldn't just initially say no because they get offered but here's sort of the I think sort of the crazy thing of the state statute uh which I think might end up being a bigger issue is
let's say we have three businesses in town now Who You'd think would be most likely uh the ones that that would want to uh sell cannabis um the state does not guarantee because
you have a business in chasa and if you get a license that you're going to go in chasa they do it based on when the people are chosen in the lottery so you could have three people who don't have any association with the city of chasa
um end up getting licenses and say I want to be in Chaska and we'd have to be able to offer that um so we can't you know I can think think of three businesses in chasa that probably would want to sell cannabis and probably are expecting it at the end of the day this
the state's taking it on a lottery so it's whoever gets the the best luck of the draw uh with a lottery system so as an applicant for that system though are when they're applying as a business for this are they saying I want to be in
chasa or is it just like hey sure you yeah but you got to go put it over here say where they want to be but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily here now okay so you're saying like someone from Minneapolis could get it and put open sh you could have somebody from another town that's like you know I think I want to go out to chasa to to
set up a business and so they'll go in they'll find a location uh in the community they'll go through the state process if they're in line before everybody else that's already in chasa uh they have that opportunity to to do that to me I think that's going to be a
much bigger issue the first issue um because I personally think there's some expectations that have been created in the state not just in chasa but across the state with businesses that have gone and sort of set up uh shops similar to
this with the intent of moving into cannabis once they uh go through the licensing process and I think it's going to be a surprise to a lot of people that but you know just because you're here now doesn't mean that you're St gonna the state's gonna do that
so I I think it's going to be a really rough ride uh the the first part of this as this gets implemented um I mean the good news is is that you know we're not really along for that ride that's you know that's really a
state thing but but also it's like it's like anything else people don't always know that and so we yep yeah yeah but I just I throw it out there because I don't want you guys to get caught off guard by all a sudden one of the businesses in chasa Colin saying how in
the world could you give a license to this person who's not in our community and you don't give it to me we don't really have the choice yeah okay you can also see that that situation where it would may not actually produce a
business right because they may put the chasa they're not here they go find a place they don't find a place that works for realiz the cost they realize you know so so I mean it'll be it'll be frustrating potentially for that those groups too right um we just welcome the
new business you know hopefully new business in so like that's great um it is a little strange like I said like because there's like you know because there will probably be some who are just going to like look on the map and say where do you think I'm G to get lucky right and try to guess cities and they maybe have
no connection right to it because it's it's a it's a business opportunity and then they realize like oh I can't you know I got to rent this space or I got to buy this space I got to build this space and then maybe they choose not to so yeah it's now that being said I mean you think about three licenses within a
a city the size of of chasa that's probably about right for what the market can bear I mean there's a few more liquor stores but there's not a lot more liquor stores in the community and if uh I go out to Colorado quite a bit and it
is amazing how many dispensaries are out of business there it's it's just a they had sort of this huge swarm of people at the beginning and I don't think they did some of the things that Minnesota's doing with the the lottery and I think
they had just more of a freefor all and so I mean there's there's the opposite side of that Spectrum too what I think you know as you look at the ordinance the size of what what is
written it really most of it is directly related to that retail registration and that's really the area where the city has the most kind of ability to influence what happens there um other areas that you have uh influence on which you've kind of directed to staff
at the last work session was retailers will have permitted uh hours of sale of 8:00 a.m. to 10: p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday this mirrors the off sale Liquor Stores um which was a direction that you
looked at um and then temporary cannabis events as we talked about the statute requires you have to allow them to happen but you have the ability to limit the hours and um for that it's limited from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and it
cannot be held in a public place so really those are the highlights of the Cannabis ordinance um if there's not any questions with that I'm going to jump to the public smoking prohibition because there is while it's separate there are some kind
of over we talked about it in conjunction because of not allowing smoking of cannabis in public spaces we decided to look at the smoking of tobacco in public places as a part of that as
well um so right now um the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act does um that really only is referencing indoor air and it does not necessarily prohibit smoking
Outdoors uh so you as um a municipality have the ability to limit smoking in public places and because you're doing that like I said with cannabis or that's what the ordinance's propose with cannabis is to prohibit that smoking in
public places smoking a can abis uh we're bringing forward kind of a um kind of another ordinance to deal with tobacco so kind of again key points of this particular ordinance is that smoking is not allowed in indoor public
places as defined by the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act but uh the ordinance proposes that smoking and tobacco use is not allowed on property that is owned lease rented or otherwise used by the
city and those um include uh facilities grounds parking lots work areas vehicle and Equipment outdoor Park and Recreation areas and I think that's probably maybe the biggest change from what we allow now currently we allow
smoking and tobacco use in our Parks this would change that um same way with playgrounds beaches um swimming pools I guess the beach in this case nature areas recreation centers path Trails uh
the one area that we're proposing an exception on is on our public golf courses out in the actual Golf Course itself it would prohibit smoking in the parking lot though um and then the proposed um
public smoking ordinance would make public smoking a petty misdemeanor punishable with a fine so it would mirror what the Cannabis ordinance allows uh so with both of these ordinances staff is recommending approval um based upon you know the
comments that were made at the work session two weeks ago so we're happy to answer any additional questions you have does anybody have any questions for staff at all on this cannabis or smoking no I think we' talked pretty
thoroughly through it at a work session so yeah I guess that should be something that maybe gets put out there in the public that this has been something that we've we've reviewed um since the legislature had made their change uh we've done what we done two
maybe three work yeah two or three work sessions in regards to this um just really kind of talking about the logistics of what we can and cannot impose as far as limitations um as we discussed you know the state is responsible for the lottery system which
applies the licenses our end is the enforc piece and there are a few lovers and tools that we've discussed as um ways of trying to help mitigate I guess yeah make sure it's successful as as
successful as possible for for the city one of the things was really limiting the number of licenses right off the bat um we did have some uh discussion of whether or not to limit it into some of the there were boundaries that could be
established but what we found was that with the General locations of our commercial districts um that it really wouldn't be feasible and we didn't need to allow the allow the minimum and we want to make sure that the that minimum is dispersed in the community they're
not all located maybe on the same street from each other so so with Geographic limitations in regards to that um we didn't pull that but one of the things we did find was very important was to um to uh talk about the public smoking
prohib prohibition ordinance in conjunction with it just in the regards of like really just making sure that it leads to success for outdoor um when people are recreating outside that they're not smelling that and um and that uh you know even though that's
prohibited I just think that that's just another enforcement piece that that our police officers can use um when it comes to um you know having those discussions with the general public as this is going to be more uh widely available so well that's going to it's going to be
one of those that it's not like you're going to see our police officers out like handing out tickets left and right smoking things conversations it's yeah it's to me where it really starts to come into play is when you have things like fire and ice or you know those
types of community celebrations that bring a lot of people together in one place and you know some people are saying I don't want to have to experience that or I don't want my kids to have to experience that um you know I do think that um it'll get us to start
thinking too is do we need to designate certain areas um you know if we have people that U you know want to smoke or whatever when they're there to think about how we sort of handle that so that we provide those opportunities but also not infringe on people not wanting to be
around it if they don't want to be around it so yeah thoughtful are we G to create some AG for like the parks and other areas that okay so that it'll be widely known that you can't smoke here y
I think the other thing we um Ryan and team last week was there was a class they could take to be better prepared to identify people who had overused um so we should also encourage that part yeah that that for
sure will happen the uh because it's not like alcohol you know where you have a breath lizer and and you can you know it really is based on observations right that's what he was saying there's some class that they can take that really helps them hone in on whether you may be
intoxicated or whatever the word is for I impair impair yeah there is a difference I know that okay you can have one sip of alcohol you're intoxicated but if you're impaired you're over the line whatever that line may be so yeah
good to know yeah um um so yeah um so with that uh does anybody have any other questions or commentary at all otherwise uh looks like there are two different ordinances so let's first talk about ordinance
number uh 1056 here which is the um I'm looking at the ordinance itself here we go regulating the sale and use of cannabis within the city of chasa I'd entertain a motion to from somebody I was just going to comment for
the motion I appreciate staff and all the time I went into research something new something different A lot changes a little bit I I did think it was really presented well uh and kind of the options and kind of that thing so just just a shout out you you do good work and all the things you do really but I
really appreciated that um not an area that I uh was an expert I'm still not an expert but it was just really well thought of and kind of presented well through those work sessions to kind of get to a an end result and with that I would make I
all right now second Okay so we've got a motion from council member gr and a second from council member Benish any other discussion in regards to the Cannabis piece of things the ordinance otherwise all those in favor say I I I opposed all right so that ordinance is
adopted and then we have the next one is ordinance number 1057 which is the um God I keep clicking on the actual ordinance itself which is is um approving the chasa smoking and Commercial tobacco use
ordinance entertain a motion I'm entertain a motion to adopt the ordinance okay so I have a motion from council member Benish second a second from council member Hatfield any other discussion all right all those in favor say I I
opposed all right orance say adopted as well perfect thank you all right right that moves us along to to bills uh does anybody have a question on a bill no question a similar comment to
my consent comment is that whenever we start buying all the resale for the for the golf shop I also get excited and there was plenty of that on there I like y they're starting to stock
up y I was like this is good of you know it's always really weather but I would like to say historically they're pretty like they want to make sure that it's the is really good it'll be open um Mid April usually yeah I I
would say on average it's right around April 10th okay it was so nice last Friday I was like they've got know we were talking oh got a golfer over here if you want to get early golfing go to Shadow Brook yeah yeah yeah I was going to say they've been golf I've seen pictures I I
don't think they stopped I think you could golf in every month of the year at Shadow Brook this year so I like to keep my wrist from breaking so it's ground's still a little hard so Shadow Brook's over in SHP right yeah sometimes bring like a little
Hammer to get your tea in but little Mallet but you can do it um yeah no it's exciting it's the snow going away grass drying out until Wednesday I'll come back yeah we'll see
see down there won't be back for another nine months okay um we got off topic okay does anybody does anybody have a question on the bills if not I'll I'll entertain a motion to to approve them motion to approve the bills all right
all right so motion by council member Hatfield and second by council member shevin um any other discussion all right roll call pleasei yes Council M Benish yes Council M chevin yes Council M gr hi mayor hubard
yes all right that moves us right along uh to other business uh C never banished I really don't have anything but thank you that's okay yeah I yeah sometimes happy happy St Patrick's Day
here we go all right sometimes no report is a good report all right come uh okay so that let me look to my left council member Shin um so I think it was in partnership with Carver but there was The Little Leprechaun days last Thursday or Friday I can't remember what day it
was but my littles went to it oh and um they had a great time you paid them the chasa parks and recite but it was held in Carver I'm not sure who actually you know but very very cute um for the little kids and I thought that was fun and um then I saw spring sign up for
like t-ball and all those great spring Sports just come out and so I would encourage everyone to look through the if you got the brochure in the mail because there's lots of really fun things for not just youth everybody um in that and I think you it's a great way to support the community by signing up
and and joining some of those teams or events they do a wonderful job and it's really nice to have that brochure because it was all like the summer events so plug those dates into C the I saw your family on the little desk and you know thing and it was a great yes
yeah I did receive a text message from our former mayor saying that he's like for however many years I've been writing a letter for that magazine and helped give advice as they got started up and within two months you're on the cover of
that thing and I was like well you know that's just I'm just popular what can I say who you know because I got to be on the cover of it as well so you got to know the right person was on cover of that's pretty one of the early editions yeah you hav't you should bring it in
should I'm sure we compare our covers sometimes we should just bring them yeah them in we'll show and tell y so sign some copies awesome well that's all I head okay wonderful all right uh council member hat yeah I have uh several things
this coming Wednesday is coffee with a cop 9:00 a.m. at the Chess at Target Starbucks which is a fun location um mostly because you're also in a Target and because you're there having coffee with the cops that's also exciting but then you get also want to
Target anyways um with Starbucks right uh another thing I wanted to mention at the downtown business Alliance meeting um the Historical Society always attends that and I just wanted to remind people about the chasa history book that most recently came out it was about a year
ago I think just over a year ago that it the books actually arrived and they still have several for sale they're really really cool they're a great coffee table book especially if you love chasa but also has like a lot of cool stuff in it so I just wanted to plug that those are for sale at the um
History Center and they do have Saturday hours and daytime hours so um you can go to their website uh but I encourage you to you know go there it's just a cool place in general but then also um those history books are just really amazing so I wanted to plug that um and a lot of
time and effort went into those so and they won the George C clein award yeah that too they just won an award from the rotary so that was uh really cool congratulations to them so that um and then also uh the downtown business Alliance meeting um as you may know the
music hand group is working with them um and the city to do some placemaking things like that to as we just continue to look at downtown tras as a destination and uh there was a resident survey about downtown and some of those results were shared so one thing I was
going to ask I meant to ask you can you share those survey results with the council we will we receive them we will them with the c and then I don't know if they're going to be online anywhere or anything if we want to share but um yeah it was really they were really interesting results um there was 1,200
responses um a lot of people that had kids responded I think he said 78% hopefully I'm getting these all right because I was like jotting down so fast while he talking um this is a community this is a community resident survey yep not the business one um 76% of people
that took it live in chasa only 10% of them live downtown which I thought was interesting so it was a lot of people um that don't live downtown actually taking the survey um and people's favorite things really are the restaurants downtown the parks um walking downtown
uh I thought it was fun red bench ranked fourth on the list um which was one of the main businesses called out in that so that was cool um so there and then you know there were some touches on challenges that being like Fireman's Park is across a large road from the rest to downtown so that overflow
doesn't always happen um there was some mention of how many how oftentimes people are going downtown um and then what people wanted to see more of and that was um higher quality food options there was 400 plus responses that mentioned that um Ambiance which I think
we've been putting a lot of effort into doing um and continue to do with some of those wayfinding signage that'll go up some of the um final items of the poos I think will really add to that um and then just speaking to the experience of downtown like how you feel when you go down there in that obvian I thought that
was interesting to hear um I thought it was interesting to hear people mention obstacles at parking Highway 41 um kind of the word lack came up some so it was really good feedback I think for U Max and his team to take back uh
uh to to look at and see what we can do down there um but it was really interesting to hear in general so it'll be good to get those results um when they come out so can I ask CL question on something when we say downtown do we just mean like where we're at now or does that mean like all the way over by
cies and all like that Old Road Old chass Road yeah I think people think about it differently I think depending on where you live or how long you've lived here you maybe do think of it I think some people think of it as anything at the bottom of the hill so anything as you go down some people think think of it as just the historic
area so I don't think it's specified in the survey if I remember correctly looking more yeah more the downtown business align I mean I think yeah that core historic area historic area but I think it's also just about you know we do have Crooked Pint and fireman that is across a large road and how do we you
know a grocery store that's across a large and really incorporating that so people walk in that J talking about that journey of downtown is all encompassing so that's a good question yeah and then last but not least question is has there ever been a thought of like with all
these pedestrian Bridges going in like some type of bridge over you know like I guess Old chesco Road or whatever that where the curling Center like in front of that to bring them over to what your dominoes would be like from I think those just I mean I'm not an expert
maybe you guys are probably more experts but I think it has to be so big to make it like you need so much space cuz even our the one of the biggest challenges and it's Freez one of the biggest challenges with those uh to get people to use them is there's
a lot of those bridges that are put in around the metro area that um you know they sort of plop them in and they go over a road but they have stairways that go up and what they find is that those aren't used very often because like somebody has their bike or something
like that they're not going to push their bike or carry their bike up the stairs and then go across the the Road and so that's where you know uh pedestrian tunnels or uh sometimes you do see the overpasses like I just saw it
on 4 494 is is building one right now by uh Walmart uh over by nicholet Y and if you look at the length of Jack has one on 169 my Shutterfly if you look at the length of those ramps to get those things up and at a ada8 compliance over
there it's almost two blocks long to to get there you'd have to literally take off from about the license center and go all the way over okay that's one of the reasons we ended up that's a really solid question a
question we get that asked all the yep yeah great great question also along downtown um I'm really excited about this probably more excited than I should be about a sign but the public parking signs went in um I drove around after
the downtown buiness Alliance meeting to see them took pictures of them very proudly so excited so they're really they look really really nice um and some of the other signs that kind of just poin you around downtown are also up some of the larger ones um so if you are down there
look up you'll see them they very nicely Mark the public parking and everything so that was very exciting and kind of you can kind of see where some of the historical markers are going to start going in so um those are in fabrication so I think we'll see those going in soon and just all very exciting to see it
come together so that's the downtown update I think I had um and then oh I guess along that line um mayor Hub and I got to try curling the other day a little video that maybe he won't
make it to the internet we're not sure oh it is what oh oh somebody might have posted a picture of us yeah yeah there's a photo of us but anyways um but it made me think and see that their leagues are open so even if
you're a beginner it's not to discourage you but it's a little harder than I thought it was so you should definitely sign up for a league so you can learn how to do it um and the ice is also slippier than I thought it was going to be but those leagues are out there and they're in the evening so I encourage you to sign up through the parks and wck
programs because that it was pretty it was really really interesting we like did fin a league or you just went like we just no we just clay was just teaching us we were dangerous out there that's all mostly dangerous yeah but it was really interesting so I'd encourage people to sign up if you're interested in it um there's some beginners leagues
and stuff so um that's that and then finally my last thing is uh Southwest Transit uh the 686 route um is coming very soon that's the connection along the 494 Corridor so you'll be able to take um Express and local there it's
kind of two in one for a route um it'll have local service and express service so the local service will have 16 stops along on the 4 494 Corridor and into MSP and then express service will have it's a more direct route to four major stops
which is Southwest station and Eden Prairie Mall of America MSP Terminal 1 MSP Terminal 2 um and it's extended hours which is very exciting so it's Monday to Sunday 5:00 am. to 11: p.m. so that's all week long 5:00 am. to 11: p.m. um and you'll be able or just
because my husband is a pilot he'll love this yeah um I there's a schedule online um I'll see if I have it up oh yeah there it is um and it is also it's a little bit different like the airport service today comes right to your door so this will be a little bit different you'll be able to park overnight at the
Eden Prairie station but I uh also I think it's exciting if you do want to still leave from your door stop you can book a prime um trip Southwest Prime trip they'll pick you up at your door with your bags and you can transfer for free to the express route at Southwest
station in eting Prairie so if you still like that you don't want to park overnight you can still um it's also very affordable parking so if you don't mind parking overnight at the inair station there's also that so much still very very affordable good ways to get to the airport or Mall of
America or wherever you want to go um on this new route so very exciting um for Southwest Transit and that's uh the update there I think that's all I had after I've been talking forever but the schedule is online so I'd go there and look because I think very exciting yeah it's all out there on the PDF so um yeah
it's a pretty big deal wonderful all right com M off um just I've seen it circulate so I'll remind it the survey for southw chesca's out there it's on the web page right now I'm looking at it uh if you're part of any association that may be impacted I'm sure theyve
sent something out I know I got something from the baseball association um got I've also been a sounding board to my neighborhood right since I live right in that direction so um it's I think it's it's this is what I think is awesome about how we do things
and chascas things like this we hey we have this big thing we're going to do this thing help us shape what that looks like give us that feedback right um will we meet everyone's requests and be perfect no but will we be able to have a lot of space there to do a lot of fun things yes right so uh you know I think
it's a good Ser it's a good participate it's open through Friday April 4th one one quick note on that I I shouldn't look at comments sometimes but sometimes I do I think there's a I think uh and we were talking about today
about maybe doing a little piece on how we pay for Parks yeah um because I I I think PE I think people aren't uh don't understand sort of the the process that cities use to to pay for Parks you know
we have Parkland dedication dollars that are provided by developers uh to help pay for the added amenities that we have to add with new residents coming into the community and so I think some people assume oh you know we're going to do this and we're
just going to raise my taxes and all this um so we're we're talking about you know maybe doing some sort of a informational thing to say how are your perks paid for you know so that people have a little bit better understanding of that because I think um some people
can look look at the this and and it didn't really sort of sort of Click until I sort of you know when people see a 55 Acre Site and they're just like well that sounds expensive you know so um so yeah so um I think we're gonna be
putting something together just to just sort of educate people on that yeah I saw some of those comments too so yeah I appreciate that that was something that I was gonna mention that would be very helpful yep perfect um I miss a lot of
things of successes for of kids in high schools but some stick out so I'm going to take a shout out to the chass girls basketball constellation Champions I will point out that the team that won is the team they got beat so seating matters you didn't play Hopkins first and I think they played Hopkins the
closest of all the teams Hopkins won the championship by like 15 points I think we we only lost by like I think we was the closest game so all it's a bummer when that happens I've been a part of that where the seating Falls and your only loss and especially in this case of the constellation their only loss was
the team that actually won it yeah um so uh just a shout out because a couple things one great for them great success hard work pays off really dedication um you know I went to a lot of their games and and uh you know you can see them just working through to improve have a good senior class good
good coaching um but it also amazes me um the number of inspirational moments that occurs like that to me is how programs and success gets built you have to have teams see success cuz you see
the young girls or the young boys my boys were following that too it doesn't matter right and they see them go to State and they see them on TV and they're like that's cool I want to do that and so uh I know that uh everyone on the team may not think the impact
that they had but they have a lasting impact on the success of children in the city of chasa because they see that and they set that up so thank you for being a role model to young families the young kids um and to let kids dream to to be that someday as well so just a huge
shout out for that uh and that is all I have wonderful yeah all right leise Nate just uh Matt uh just want to remind that we are not going to have a meeting
on the 5th Monday uh March 31st so have a fun night off Disney World oh there you go wonderful all right well just just a few things uh the Employee Appreciation breakfast um was in between I can't
remember the exact date but it was the snowstorm it was the day of the snowstorm yes that's triing I was blown away at the turnout um and it was nice to see our Public Works Crews there you know having a little bit of a reprieve
and refresh from being out all night long and um great work on their part that that was uh that was a heavy snow and they did they did good work but yeah just so great to see all of the hard work and the turnout um I know Denise
and Vicky were big Parts I know there were other people committee wise I think leis you were on the committee as well so everybody that was on the committee to plan and execute the appreciation thank you um it was really great to see all the awards handed out and people
nominating each other and see Brian Jung get so many awards yes I was more funny than Brian Jung getting the awards was everybody that was making fun of Scott silin for nominating him so yes so it was really it was really a
fun event um I wanted to say congrats to officer Connor van Doan um he is the newest police officer on our police force and uh a wonderful thing about um officer vanan he's been a lifelong
resident of chasa he was a police police explorer he be was a community service officer and now he's thorn in as police officer and I just think one other thing too oh he was a Cub Scout when I was cub master okay I remember when he was like
this tall so he's overcome adversity yes he has he's overcome adversity that was his oh that was a good one n well played so I mean I just think that that's just that's just a wonderful
Testament to our community someone you know grows up here and they and they want to work here and live here and and and really contribute um so welcome to to Connor to officer Connor okay uh I know uh Michaela mentioned the banners
and wayf finding around town so as that kind of comes in through the whole the finishing touches of the highway project it's going to look so great I'm I'm just as excited as she is I didn't go out take pictures of the parking signs I might have taken but that's just because I didn't think to take pictures of the
parking signs so um I was able to attend the uh CH community center carnival that was last not this last Friday the Friday before um and that was really well attended it was really fun to see all the families my son may have be grown me because he's a little old for it now but
um nonetheless it was really cute to see all the families out in the little T-Rex and that night we went ate at Crooked Pint and I will say my curling lesson we were over there my and my mom really wanted to see what it was all about so I was kind of trying to explain but then
your the staff was just so great they gave me a sheet that like talked all about the rules and everything but then you know they took my son and they brought him down and they had him step on the ice and talk about it and everything like that and she gave him
the little foam thing and um it just he he you know it was really cool they were just so psyched in that bch B was happening at the time and so it was just really fun and the staff was just so engaged and just very excited about uh talking about curling so um let's see
okay things to mark your calendar for there are ground breaking Ceremonies for 82nd Street project which is the county but we we're since jasa and then also the highway 1041 project so the 82nd street is on April 1st and the Highway
10 and 41 is on April 8th they're at 2 o'clock I don't know where they're at but they're going to be somewhere somewhere on Engler and somewhere somewhere around that project area um the American Legion um chasa American Legion auxiliary is doing their
Easter egg hunt it's on Saturday April 19th in City Square Park it's at 10:00 a.m. and I think it gets over at 10:01 a.m because those kids know the game so make sure you are not there anytime after 10 o' cuz just my as little sad
people would arrive like 10:02 and but I think there's a there's usually a Easter bunny there that you can take pictures with so some sort of consolation prize um the rotary lions and City are teaming up again to do another tree planting event it's at 8 a am at Community Park
which is over over in Clover Ridge um on Saturday April 19th unless it rains and we'll get pushed the next Saturday on the 26 and that's just helped replace the Emerald ashore I know I planted some trees in that Park and then down at
Friendship Park yeah and last year we did uh Lion's Park we planted had to be close to 100 trees that was the other thing I was going to say the new um shelters and lights and all that that went in in Lions Park I heard from a couple neighbors this week that it's amazing and they actually said
Thank you chessica there was a on all those websites but one of them was very um complimentary of the new shelters and redo that so for pickle ball so I going to say so are they so they're working on
in community park let go around yeah so we we had another 50 some trees that we had to cut down because of em ashbar out there so you know we'll plant more than that uh that are out there um but it's sort of
nice because um you don't have to like dig the hole with your hand um that we have some of the public crew yeah I was picturing like this that would take us a long but they actually like get the whole like dug for
you and then your job is to put it in and re and plant it so so it's tree setting not treeing still still a little bit layer day it's good if you're tree can't grow if there's no dirt on top of it yeah I think it's a
good it's a good event to bring you know if you have children that you know can use a shovel and where do the trees come from it's usually 8 to noon uh the trees come from um we have a couple different Farms work with Hartman and then also P
Brothers parts of jasket like these these are they're like the little burlap they starter trees so yeah but they're all kinds of different varieties so we're not going to run into disease issues in the future so cool so yeah we got that coming up
and then Christmas and may I don't know if you're taking applications but I know you probably need volunteers yeah so we we actually do uh that's I say it every year the thing that makes me most nervous about Christmas May is getting enough applications of people's houses
to work on we actually did well with applications this year so we'll probably have four or five projects uh this year um I'll be talking to all you guys about uh um about being Runners uh for for the event if you're interested so I'll have
more information later but um but we should have some really good projects to work on this year perfect so it's on May 3rd uh it starts with like a kickoff at St John's has breakfast and then we kind of go over and you get to sign well uh
volunteers get to like sign up for the house project that they want to work on and then then you go out and you do the work and a lot of that work is kind of like landscaping and painting painting painting decks um there's if you are handy
um we'll put you in a lot of work other you know rake and weed and do all sorts of stuff so yeah it's a great way to like meet your neighbors and just other people that live in chesa too like that's probably my favorite part is just seeing people from the community come together to working on things and they
meet new people that also live in chesa and like make friends and stuff and it's just really cool yeah or there are like a lot of folks that don't live in chasa that come to help with this because just think it's such an amazing event and so
um so this year is our 29th year W it's been going a long time I learned how to build a retaining wall um and then yeah the next meeting is on April 7th for Council um since
there's no meeting on the 31st of March otherwise Happy St Patrick day tell those who are celebrating and do celebrate responsibly call a friend or family member I got three hours left we don't have the ability to drive so with
that I'll entertain a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn all right second second all right so motion from council member Hatfield second from council member chevin all those in favor say I I no pose Virg