recording in progress. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Chaza City Council meeting for Monday, May 19th, 2025. Can we all at 7 o'clock, can we all rise for the pledge of pledge of allegiance, please?
Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, Elise, will you will you call roll, please? Council member Hatfield
here. Council member Bennish here. Council member Shavelin. Council member McGrath here. Mayor Hubard here. All right. Next we have the adoption of the agenda. Are there any uh corrections or um additions to the
agenda? Otherwise, I'd entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. Motion to adopt the agenda. All right. Second. All right. I got a uh first from Council Member Hatfield and second from Council Member Benes. And all those in favor say I. I opposed. All right. Uh
agenda is adopted. Next we have visitor presentation. Uh if anybody here in the audience is here uh to come up and talk to the council, you certainly can at this time. Unless if you're on the agenda, you can sit tight, but I don't see anything on the
agenda. All right. Last call. Okay. Uh moving right along. We have approval of previous meeting minutes from uh May 5th uh 2025. Any additions or corrections to the minutes? Otherwise, I would
entertain a motion. Motion to adopt the minutes. Okay, we have a motion by council member Benes. Second. Second by council member Hatfield. Any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor say I. I
opposed. Minutes are approved. Moving along um to our consent items. We have a few here and consent items are items that receive really little to no discussion unless someone wants to pull something off on the uh consent agenda. We can have more of a discussion. But
does anybody have any questions? No discussion. I just want to confirm that I was reading it correctly that the licenses that had a note in the contingencies that's so they're approved with those contingencies. they still have maybe a missing piece, but once
they get that in there. Okay. Yeah. And one of the reasons for doing that is that, you know, the licenses don't technically start until July 1st, which is the state's calendar year. It just gives people a chance to do it without having to tie into the council schedule.
Okay. That was my only question. Motion to approve consent. All right. I've got a motion. Council member Hatfield. Second. and second from council member GR. Any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor say I. I.
I. Opposed. Consent items are approved. All right, moving right along. Uh you can stay or you can always go too. Moving right along to our action items. 8A adopt resolution number
2025-27 and ordinance number 1060 approving the preliminary site and building plan preliminary plat and reszoning for EDCO/popesign group PC number 2025-08. Mayor and council member this is an item coming out of the planning commission
with a recommendation for approval. uh this is one that uh we have seen before in concept and now we're moving into preliminary more of the of the details of uh design. I should uh you know point out that as part of this whole process we're also sort of simultaneously
working on uh the road improvements to Creek Road uh as well as the utility improvements that will occur uh along with this project. Uh so uh that's something that we're actively in the the process of doing to make sure that we uh match up with uh EDCO's timeline uh for
moving in which actually matches up really well with our timeline for our municipal service building which will also uh be out there too. So uh with that being said I'll turn it over to Liz and she can go through uh through her presentation. Thank you Matt. Thank you
mayor and council members. Uh we have a preliminary site and building plan, preliminary plat and reszoning request this evening for EDCO proposed on Creek Road. Uh the applicant is Pope Design Group. Uh the site in question is
located directly north of Creek Road uh on kind of the western edge of the city of Chaza limits. Um there's other industrial properties that immediately above the eastern side of this property and then southeast of this site is uh
the future MU municipal services building that Matt mentioned. Uh we have uh rural residential to the south across Creek Road and then immediately west of the site is what is Delgrren Township and additional rural
residential properties. Um and then uh immediately northwest of the site is what is considered Lake Township. Um and then north is Angler Boulevard and additional uh industrial properties. Uh so we're at the second
step. So uh this is the preliminary step um um in the process. There's still another step following this one which would come to planning commission and council. Uh but this step gets into more of the technical details um such as uh
civil and architectural uh storm water, wetland, those sort of things. Um Edco uh is a current business that operates out of Hopkins. um one of their facilities there will be the one
moving to this site in Chaza um which will house more of their office and warehousing manufacturing portion of their business. Um they specialize in metal fabrication specifically in um exterior building material materials
like roofing and siding. Um just in terms of uh previous approvals, um it was in January that they held their neighborhood meeting and that was shortly before their concept plan. Um and then March uh 2025 is when their
concept plan was approved with us. Um the the site in question is roughly 28 acres in size. Um it's zoned rural residential or RR2 today. Um it's currently vacant farmland that's been
farmed for several years. Um there are wetlands that exist on site both on the north and south sides um that they're showing to avoid in their overall site plan um with some minor impacts with uh
a secondary access. Um the property immediately west uh again is a rural residential property um that is within the Dalgrren Township area. Um and it operates as a residence. There's also a
2.8 acre parcel just immediately northwest of the site. Um that'll kind of come in to play a little bit later on in my presentation. Uh but Edco uh is planning to purchase the 28 acres for their facility. Um but they also are
purchasing that 2.8 acre Haskan parcel as well uh which was a part of the the purchase agreement. Uh just a few views looking into the site both from Angler Boulevard and Creek Road. Uh this view from Angler
Boulevard does have a pretty mature row of uh significant trees along that edge. And then um it's more open kind of on the view looking from Creek Road looking north. Uh so the current request again is for pre preliminary sight and
building plan which is specifically entailing a new building that's totaling 235,000 square feet and 34 feet in height. Uh they're also showing a building expansion area uh up to 120,000 square feet. Um, in addition to that,
they are proposing parking uh around the building. Uh, that'll total 312 parking stalls uh for the building. I'll get into what they're building initially later on. Um, this building will also
house a total of 155 employees for the EDCO business. Uh, the second part of the request is a preliminary plat. Uh, so this lot is currently an outlot from a former uh subdivision. So they uh are required to plat this into a buildable
lot as a part of this request. So they are doing that uh as a part of the preliminary and final. Uh the third part of the request is a reszoning. Uh so resoning from the rural residential category to a category more appropriate for the use which will
be a planned industrial district P12 uh to be exact. Uh so a snippet of the comp plan is shown on this screen here and it's guided for business parks. So the use for a industrial office type user uh
is consistent with that guidance. Uh this is the preliminary site plan uh with an aerial overlay just to show uh relevance uh for what's being proposed and the adjacencies. So, it's a rectangular building. Again,
uh 235,000 square feet total. It's pretty much centered in the site in between kind of those known wetlands um in this on the north and south sides. Uh the 120,000 square foot building addition is on the east side of that
235,000 square foot build. Um so, they're leaving room for that to occur. Primary access will come from the southwest of the site off of Creek Road and that's where utilities will also stub in from is off of that main um
access point. Utilities will be extended up Creek Road from the roundabout at um Creek Road and Chesca Creek Boulevard up to this point here. Um there's a secondary access point that's shown. I'll show another
exhibit following this slide where that is exactly, but it's basically on the eastern side of the site um that will primarily operate as a truck access uh direct uh access to the shipping yard or loading dock space. Uh the parking is situated on the
west side of the site and uh where the main entrance is which is on the northwest side of the building. Um so they are showing a total of 312 parking stalls. uh 192 of those will be built with the onset of the building and then
120 of those are shown as proof of parking. So they won't be constructed immediately but will be there um for the future when when needed. Um based on the future square footage of the building, uh they will still need to show 29 more
stalls to um meet the city's parking code for future buildout. Um with 155 employees uh the 192 initial construction does appear to be sufficient for the onset and gives them a good buffer amount as well for future
expansion. Uh the truck quantity per day is roughly 10 to 12 trucks um to um bring uh product from their facility to other
facilities or uh their ultimate destination. Um in the concept plan, we did note the relocation of the loading dock door to occur on the southeast side. before they were showing it on the northeast side of the building fronting
Ingler Boulevard. So, they did make that change in this preliminary submitt to reorient uh that loading dock to the southeast side um which will also have more direct access off of Creek Road. um with it moving to the southeast side,
screening uh was kind of um uh the most significant uh piece that will need to be looked at with this, which I'll show in their landscape plan later on. Um one thing we also noted during the concept plan is um the access potential
to the 2.8 acre Haskin parcel northwest of this site. Um and hence why they've chosen to uh purchase that parcel is to better control access opportunities um in the future
um anticipation for that parcel. Uh one thing um that was noted is uh access potential on Creek Road um during the concept plan. Um, there were some comments received from Carver County, but also from a staff standpoint of uh
how uh access spacing would be achieved on Creek Road, specifically on the north side for these remaining parcels immediately west of Edco site. um just leaving the potential to have uh multiple options there uh for access in
the future when these two parcels are ready to develop is really um the comment or the reason for that comment in the concept plan. Uh so they did show uh a potential access opportunity through their site
that um is preserved uh on their site. Uh but because the 2.8 8 acre parcel doesn't immediately abut um this parcel. Um access would obviously have to be achieved uh with the 4880 Creek Road
parcel as well or be looked at at the same time that parcel is ready for development. Um and Matt mentioned also the improvements that are um starting uh to take shape with Creek Road. It's currently a rural section roadway, so it
doesn't have any curb and gutter uh today. So, the plan is to uh upgrade that to an urban section roadway um as well as working with um designing the utility corridor through there as well.
So, that is actively happening um as we're um taking a look at the uh site site planning for EDCO's site. Um this is just the site plan again. Um that secondary access is here on that
eastern side. Um one of the things that was significant or important during the concept plan was making sure that screening was adequately achieved uh both on the west side of the site and the south side of the site with the reorientation of the loading dock. uh
ensuring that those uh spaces were screened from view. Um the parking lot and the some of the building from the neighboring residence to the west and then the loading dock from the views from Creek Road to the south. Um they
are showing some burming along the west side, but it does start to taper off on the northwest portion of the site. So there is a comment or condition of approval for that to be further evaluated into their final um to include
additional landscaping and burming opportunity there to help provide that screen to the neighboring residents. Um and additionally on the south side um there's a condition of approval to evaluate the extension of
that BM so that it comes all the way to that secondary access drive aisle here so that that loading dock and shipping yard is adequately screened from Creek Road. Liz, how tall is that BM that's by
the parking lot and and over here between Yeah. Yeah. on kind of the southwest side. Um it's roughly four feet taller uh than the parking lot. The parking lot is kind of recessed into the
site and so uh the landscaping in in Birming there will be roughly four feet tall and then it starts to taper down kind of midway through the parking lot and up to zero kind of at the northwest side. Okay. So the thought process is to have it be an even four feet all the way
through. Yes. Okay. Um, so they do have some substantial uh work to put into their landscape plan as they go into final to make sure that they're meeting our code for quantities. Um, and that'll be a big um item into
the final uh submitt. Uh here are a few cross-sections. So, this shows kind of that um recession of the parking lot compared to kind of the burm and uh vegetation on the west side here and
where 4880 Creek Road or the existing residential is to the west there. So, um there is a nice uh dip there. Um but on the northwest side is where it kind of tapers and evens out. And then on the uh
north to south uh cross-section here, they're showing roughly a six-foot burm on that south side um which will provide a good amount of screening and then uh proposed vegetation on top of that um
from the loading dock area. So, and then another comment received during concept plan was making sure that uh they provide for pedestrian gathering places on their site. Uh much like uh some neighboring industrial users have
done have provided some repose areas for their employees to take advantage of. Um, Edco has also proposed a couple amenity opportunities such as a patio kind of on that western side adjacent to
their front entrance and then also a pedestrian loop paved trail around the building that would basically follow uh the front of the building uh the fire lane around the building and then back out to Creek Road. So, it does provide a
full looping opportunity for employees which they can then connect into the trail that will ultimately be extended on Creek Road 2. Uh the building design is uh pretty much the same as what was shown during concept. It'll it'll be primarily
concrete panels uh with some ribbed detailing and then some significant uh uh uh glass uh area on the front side or the main entrance of the building. Um and then some metal accent panels
that'll help uh accentuate the main entrance and provide a little bit of color around the building too. Um and they do meet our uh industrial ordinance for building design and materials with what they're
proposing. Uh so just to reiterate a few things that they have to work on for final uh parking. They need to show 29 more stalls to meet the ultimate needs of the site. Um working on their landscape and grading plans uh to meet
all landscaping requirements for the site um in all categories. and then extension of Birming and landscaping both on the northwest side and on the south side. Um and then working on their final plat uh to ensure that they are
providing adequate rightway needs for Creek Road and the improvements planned there and then coordinating with Carver County on any right-of-way needs uh from Ingler Boulevard. Um, in addition, they need to show an easement on the west
edge for um uh the future trunk uh sewer extension along the west side of the property, which would help serve kind of the north side of Angler Boulevard and when that area is ready for development.
Um and then also finalizing their wetland mitigation and impact plan as uh as a part of that final submitt. Uh so with that um we have two motions that we're requesting this evening. One motion to adopt resolution
number 2025-27 which is approving the preliminary site and building plan and preliminary plat for Edco on Creek Road. And then based on the conditions that are listed within that document and then a motion to adopt ordinance number uh
160 approving the reszoning from RR2 to Planned Industrial District P12 uh based on that uh ordinance that draft ordinance. Happy to answer any questions. We do have the representatives here from EDCO and their
design team too. Any questions for for Liz or staff? Uh, quick question about road improvements. So, this is tied in with that. Um, is will it be something
that coincides with the building of it or after it's done or It'll be in conjunction with when the building's actually being built. Okay. Um, so does that put a stress on the construction vehicle or getting in and out of the site? No, it shouldn't really. The uh
you know, because we also, you know, we're going to more than likely be under construction at the same time uh with our municipal service building and that road is going to be improved in front of that uh site as well. Uh so you know part of that
construction project is going to be making sure that there's construction access into the site which for their site likely is going to come off of Angler as opposed to Creek Road during the the construction. For us it's probably going to come off of Creek Boulevard, the one that goes north south
uh there. Um but uh yeah this the sewer extension, utility extension, road extension stuff will all be happening sort of simultaneous to uh when buildings are being constructed out there. Okay. Anybody have questions for for
staff otherwise? I just had a quick question for the applicant if you want to anybody want to come on up. Hello. Looks like they left you to walk right up there. The Edco Edco wear, so I
get nominated to speak. Wonderful. Well, go ahead and state your your name for the record, of course. I'm John Lewis and I'm the CEO of Edco products. Thank you for being here, John. My pleasure. Just quick question. Your operations are they like 24 hours a day or is it uh
primarily it's one shift. Okay. Uh so the bulk of our uh office well our entire office staff just works a normal day shift. Most of our manufacturing works a day shift. We do have a small uh second shift distribution operation. Okay. So we just prepare loads for the
following day at night. So but it's primarily a daytime operation with I think we planned on about a second shift of about 20 folks for the evening shift which is again it's not an overnight shift. It's an evening shift. Sure. Just curious about how much Yeah. traffic. Traffic
will primarily be during the day. Okay. Wonderful. Well, thank you for clarifying that for me. So, you bet. That was my only question for you. All right. I was just going to say thanks for choosing Chaska. Yeah, we're very excited about Chaska. Again, as we uh mentioned at the concept stage, we think
it's a perfect fit for our business. It's a great site. It's a great community. Um you guys uh and your your staff has been exceedingly helpful to us as we plan the project. So, um, we're really excited about it. Well, yeah, we I mean, it's it's fun to talk about an
industrial building being beautiful, right? But looking at the plans come into shape and just see how wonderful the building looks and all the thoughtfulness. Um, we're excited to have you here in thank you for choosing us. Yeah. Right. Sounds great. Yeah.
Thank you. Uh, anybody have any questions or comments otherwise? I know we've evaluated this things are like I said taking more form, but yeah, I don't I just it I mean it's good
looking plan. I like the things to work on. Um, it's refreshing sometimes when you have these spaces with not a lot of neighbors, some neighbors, which we're listening to, but it is it's a lot easier when things are just kind of set up there and it's kind of planned and
um, you know, I like to look at the building. It's exciting and I echo the thoughts, you know, welcome to Chaza and um, you know, excited excited to see get built out there. So, and I echo those comments and say, you know, the Birming, you know, helps, you know, mitate that
disruption to the one existing neighbor there on Creek Road. And it's exciting to see the infrastructure underneath the road get get redone. So, as as part of this, so yeah, if you haven't driven on road lately, it's rough. Not nice. I I
decided last week I was going to take a drive out there. I hadn't been out there for a while. It's not good. It's pretty It's pretty hard on the car. So, um No, that is exciting as as part of this Well, with that, uh, I would entertain,
let's see, we've got, uh, got two motions to make here. And the first one is to, I think, I'll adop make a motion to adopt resolution number 2025-27. Uh, is that an No, the
ordinance is separate. Okay. Yep. Second that. Okay. So, we have a motion from council member Hatfield and a second from council member uh Gra. Uh any other discussions? Otherwise, all those in favor say I. I
opposed. That motion passes. And then we have uh another uh motion to adopt ordinance number 1060 approving the reszoning of rural residents R2 to plan industrial development P-12.
Motion to adopt ordinance number 1060. Awesome. We got a motion from second. Got a motion from council member Pennish and a second from council member Chevlin. And any other discussions on that? Otherwise, all those in favor say I. I opposed. All right, that carries as
well. So, that's adopted. Congratulations. We'll we will see you again. Yes. Hopefully you guys don't get rained on too hard out there. It is pouring. So, all right, moving right along on the
agenda. The next up is bills. Um, does anybody have a question on a on a bill? Don't all jump in at the same time. I mean, I did not have any this time. Um, all right. Well, I would I'll make a
motion to pay the bills. Got a motion from council member Hatfield. Second. A second from council member Bennish. All right. Uh otherwise let's go ahead and call roll. Council Hatfield. Yes. Council Banish. Yes.
Council member Shlin. Yes. Council McGrath. I. Mayor Hubard. I. All right. Bills are paid. All right. That moves us along to other business. I don't know where I started last time. Let's start with Council Member Gra. Um, I just had
a question. We're talking a little or a couple things that were made me think of it. So, I find myself because I confessed last time I was here that I forget to go on Savannah Way and Creek Road. I can cut through easier. I assume that like the roundabout on Savannah Way
there, it still needs another layer. And that's why like you take the roundabout, there's all these weird patches. Y because I'm assuming it puddled and I was just because it's it's like nice new road and like this doesn't look like a nice new road that that section. I was just curious. Um, that's a little bit like I said,
I've I always find myself on 212 going, "Oh, I could have just taken Savannah away." Right. But it'll get programmed into my head. Um, it's a little fuzzy in my head because I missed our last meeting. I think we had our um parkathon
park, what do we call it? Park Palooa. Thank you. um which if you're not sure what the park palooa was right it was a well I got just the end of it the council kind of came the end of it but uh all day event with the um planners for the
southwest park uh and and kind of put some in it was really cool because I just thought it was a neat plan bring all the the city groups together you know all the individuals that would touch it and get their feedback on those plans um and then they then we provide feedback which we had plenty of feedback
um no it's good it's just exciting to see that come together and um you know I'm that the public will be really excited when we start getting boards up and getting some of our events in this this the city. Um lots of fun ideas. Some will will make the final thing and
some will be like, "Oh, that's that's a super dream cool way with if money wasn't uh an object or anything like that." But yeah, it was just a good event to kind of see what that space would look. Um, I don't go a day probably if I'm outside and my neighbors
catch me when I get asked about that development of that space. I think people are really excited. The houses keep going up in that area. So, there will be a demand. And I think even more important and really more exciting is really the destination that that place
can be because it is meant to be a destination. It's a it's it's a community park, not just a neighborhood park, right? And so, uh, I think it's exciting to kind of see what those opportunities, uh, you know, I continue to travel the ball fields of of greater
Minnesota here and I'm spent a lot of time at Ham Lake this weekend and these fields will be nicer than Ham Lake. I can tell you that. No offense, Ham Lake, but it was because the weather will always be good here. Yeah, it's true. It was not a good weekend for baseball. Um, so with that,
you know, one thing I'll point out with the the park plans, so we we'll have three plans that end up being sort of the ones that go back out to the public. We're not going to ask people to say which plan do you like the most? We're going to be asking what components of
the plans that you like the most so that we can bring them together because I it's hard to look at it and say, well, I like everything in that plan, you know. Yeah. That's what we kind of experienced at Marapooa was looking at them. I had like a favorite and then as we went through them I was like I like a little
bit of each and we had more than three. So Yep. So that's going to be the plan. Um and we'll have multiple ways to do that. We're really gonna focus on making sure that, you know, the two big public events will be uh Fire and Ice and then
River City Days uh to be able to talk with people uh through that. And then there'll be also some other uh engagement opportunities for people to be able to to tie into or comment on those. But the one thing I thought was really interesting going through that
process is, you know, all of them had different elements, but they all uh were sort of design the same the same the layout and it made you realize how important it is to understand the
topography of the land because you could sort of you could definitely see as they put it together where certain elements really should be because of of the topography of the land. So even though each plan has different elements in it, all of them have very similar sort of
layout schemes, which I thought to me really speaks to their knowledge of that property. So did they draw right on site? They drew it all that day. I would have loved. Yeah, I wish I had that talent. It's very impressive because, you know, looking at those plans and seeing them done because that was when
we got to kind of take our our look at them, it was like, are these were these kind of already roughed in in the details or were they amazing with a blank piece of paper? And I think it's cool if we get since
we're just on the topic that they brought in like from around the country for like their initial ones that they did where they were just kind of like there these are park people that designed parks from all over the country for confluence that
came in to have input on our park which is just really cool to me. Well, and it's quite frankly it's serendipitous because they were going to be doing that anyway. Our project just happened to be the project that they're focusing on now. So, we got the benefit of their
basically their company's retreat. Wow. So, that was very cool. Yeah. Yeah, that was really it was really exciting to see what came about. Um, I was just perusing because I couldn't figure so. I'll ask the question because I couldn't find the details. Can you please provide the
information about Memorial Day events in the city of Chaza? Yes. Um, I was going to find it, but I couldn't find anything. I was like, I'll just ask the question and then we'll we'll work it that way. Well, all the veterans go around to each of the cemeteries uh early on in the day and then they all
get back here right outside the mill on Pine Street at about 9:15 and about 9:30 uh is when they all line up and they do a short parade over to Veterans Park. uh 10 o'clock then they uh have their uh
ceremony uh that they have and um they always have a great speaker with it. And then right after that then they use the shelter building to have refreshments and things like that that they uh are open to the public. So it's it's really
well done. Yeah, I uh make my point to try to get there and just kind of observe people and um yeah, I would echo the speakers. They're always good. It's always a good job. Let's hope it's good weather. Um otherwise it gets a little tight inside
when we have to move it inside. But um I remember one year with when I was with the Cub Scouts and us running in with hail pounding down that was so there there has been those days which Memorial Day sometimes can be notorious for
weather, but I think this year's actually going to be nice. Supposed to be. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so with that, uh, as this weekend comes up, uh, keep in mind why you have the Monday off and have that celebration. Uh, and make also I remind
people make good choices, right? It's a it's a busy weekend. Um, I always, uh, enjoy the comical but not so comical posts like, you know, jail's closed on Monday, so if you find yourself in here, you're not getting any help till Tuesday, right? Um, so make you're not
getting any help if you go over the weekend until Tuesday. I mean, that's not just Monday. Make good choices here. So, yeah. Um, but yeah, I just think it's a good time to remember why why we have that day off and the individuals and what it really means. And that ceremony for me has been really
kind of that good reminder because you get caught up with life. Uh, and so it's always been a good summary to go to. So, uh, I believe that is all I have. And one real quick thing I'll mention. Uh there was a couple of us from Rotary
that went over to the DFW meeting was a week ago and we were talking about the Miracle League park, but um their old commander uh Dale, is it Hookin? Solari Hoken's uh dad um used to be the
commander of the BFW and and uh we were talking about park development and he he said I don't worry about you guys with park development. He goes look at look at how Veterans Park turned out. He goes, you know, I I trust that you guys are going to do it right and stuff. So
that's thought that was a nice compliment from them and everybody sort of shook their head and stuff that you know that Veterans Park is a really nice place to have that ceremony over there. Yeah, it's interesting you say that because um I agree that we did that
park. Uh I was on the park board. We went through that. Um because you do go through cities and locations and a lot of cities have a veterans park and a memorial and some are well better well
planned than others. I don't even know what city it is but it's on 212 and I always see it and it's just kind of off on the side of 212 and you just kind of drive by. You never see anybody there. You never see anything and it's just kind of like Norwood. Yeah, Norwood. That's the one. That's the one. And it's just like, okay, just know what you're
talking about. I mean, you put it up, it's there, but it's just like it wasn't I mean, it's it's just interesting because Yeah. So, I echo that statement. We we certainly did it right and it wasn't me and the park board. I promise you that. So, that is all I have. Mayor
A. All right. Council Sh. Um, I don't have a lot. I think Taste of Chesca was last week if I recall and it was I hear a great success. I was in San Diego for work, but my kids went and everybody said how fun it was and they saw all their friends supposedly furry friends
included. But it sounded like it was a really nice start to the summer and a great use of the, you know, wonderful space we have at Fireman's Park. So, I'm really excited as we look forward to Southwest Jask and City Square West, what kind of events we can hold similar to that in those spaces for our
community. Yeah. Um, and other than that, I really don't have anything either. It's That's all right. All right. Uh, the weather was good for Taste of Jessica. Moving along. Gosh, finish. I will echo uh Council
Member Gro's uh statement on make good decisions this weekend. As somebody who works with people who often find themselves in precarious situations. Um, yeah, this is a bad weekend to do something that's not smart. So, make
good decisions. Uh, in addition, today is the start of EMS week nationally. Um, so if you see a paramedic, an EMT or an emergency medical dispatcher, any of those people in the line that are there medically for you as a first responder, reach out and say thanks if you can. So give them a high five. Thank you for all
your service. Yeah. Thank you, Josh. So yeah, that's all I've got. All right, council member. All right. Well, you know me, I always have a lot. Um, count on it. You can count on it. Page one,
right? dear. Um, I was just going to the one thing we didn't mention on park pla was just how much I appreciated it was before council and park board got there but just all the participation from city staff on that and it's so smart to bring you don't think about this but bringing
in all the different departments because truly so many of our departments touch when you're building a new park so many things but you know building maintenance and public works parks team and um finance emergency services, literally everything um comes into play. So, thank
you to all of them for their participation in that um because that's really really important that we work together cohesively. So, um just wanted to mention that about Parkuza and then Taste of Chess. It was great to see so many businesses there. So it was a lot of food, new food
vendors like um Southern Edible India was there. Edible India like so many of new restaurants in town had booths and then along just with a bunch of businesses as well. So that was great to see um come up on a rooftop. I this is the first year I didn't have time to stop down by because I had a wedding.
But um cold I it was cold at the wedding I was at. Um it's always that's always a great event. Um, and I'll still jump online and make my Special Olympics donation because that's always the most important piece. But I always really appreciate the last couple of years have been with Eden Prairie Police because
they don't have a Duncan. And so, um, just the, you know, coming together to support a good cause and all of that. And I noticed that the fire department was willing to put the chief and the llama cutout board on the rooftop safely. I thought that was nice that our
fire department got involved too. Unsung heroes doing that for us. So, just a another good event. Um, and I appreciate that that we do that and support a Special Olympics. Does he and Prairie have a llama? I don't know. Do we have a llama? We did. It was I guess it was our chief
with the llama. So, um, we'll wait for next year when their chief gets a picture with a llama, which I got to take the chief's picture below the picture of him with the llama, which was kind of fun. Oh, I was like, wait, what did you do? Um, now that we're kicking
off summer in June, the Clayhole concert series starts. So, I saw that was online with all the different concerts, kid concerts, um, I guess adult concerts, few concerts in Carver. So, definitely check out that lineup. It looks
fantastic. Um, so there was that. And then what do I want to talk about next? Southwest Transit. um lots of summer concerts or summer festivals or things that uh you can ride Southwest Transit to. So, Post Malone tomorrow night, you
could jump on a Southwest Transit bus. That is the only way I recommend getting to a concert. So, um definitely do that. But they go to all over. They went to Artaw World, you know, they go to Pride, the Yach Club, Taste of Minnesota, Statef Fair, Renfest, Dragon Boat
Festival, Timberwolves, Twins, Vikings, Gophers, all of that. So, highly recommend using Southwest Shuttle for events to get around. Um, and then I think Oh, Bountiful Basket uh night at the Cubs game is tomorrow night, 7 p.m.
Hopefully it doesn't get rained out. It might. It's like a 100% chance of rain. I know. I just feel bad because their last was it the last one or the one before that? The rainfor the night got rained out. So, um, just keep crossing our fingers. And then um the last thing
I want to mention is uh at our last downtown business alliance meeting uh really exciting uh group of students from the U of M I can't remember what the business capstone well I was going to say capstone but the exact business school they're in that doesn't matter Carlson Carlson I don't the Humphrey
thank you Humphrey that's why I knew it wasn't um so they presented their capstone project to the downtown business alliance with everything that was um involved in just about activating our poos and they worked so hard on
that. They did a lot of interviews. At the end, I gave them more work to do by recommending more interviews and they did it just so willfully and great and it was just a really good group of students that had some really good ideas like using our electrical boxes. I don't
know how our electric team feels about this, but as art as to make it prettier down there. Like get some art on it and that could be something that could enhance downtown. like they gave way more ideas than that, but that was one that stood out as like really creative and I never thought of. So, um I'm
excited to see their final project. That was their presentation to the Downtown Business Alliance. They were wrapping up their final full actual like paper and everything. Um I think they're going to send that over if they have not already. So, I'm excited to see that. Um and then they graduating or have graduated at
this point now. It's been a couple weeks, but um I just want to thank that group of students. They worked really hard on it. It was great to have great to have staff attract that group. I think it was Julie or you Julie that connected with um the EU on getting them here to do that. Um and I just really
appreciate and it kind of goes well with all the work that the music group is doing um uh looking at downtown area and how we can activate it more. So it's just really exciting. There's been and then I also want to thank all the businesses that have been coming. That meeting for a long time was the same
five people which is great. they were really really invested in downtown but um there's been a lot more business owners coming to that meeting lately which has been just fantastic and I can't thank them enough. Um so yeah just wanted to give that quick update as well about the downtown business alliance meeting and mayor you may have more to
say about it but wanted to touch on that. So that's all I had. Yeah, I mean it's there's good energy coming out of that meeting and there was it was great to see the presentation um and see the feedback and see other people kind of look at something and be able to lend um
their perspective and uh and kind of how can we, you know, best use these tools now that we have them. So that's exciting. And I hear other people kind of, you know, uh, residents and business owners say that there is just like a different energy and a different vibe going downtown. So, people are seeing
it. People are feeling it. And that's really exciting, too, because I think that some of that narrative can kind of get lost in the shuffle. So, to kind of hear that being elevated up is always a goal uh when it comes to uh Elise, do you have anything? I do not
have anything. Nate, I don't have anything. Kristoff, Matt, the only thing I was gonna mention, I put in, you know, we have three, well, we have five Mondays in June. And so I put in here that we may not have a meeting on the
last Monday in June, but we'll probably have a work session to sort of kick off uh budget season. Uh because that starts Yeah. your favorite. Um but but I was sort of thinking uh so the 4th of July
is on a Friday and the 7th is is a Monday. We could have like a meeting to get all of our stuff done on that fifth Monday of the month and maybe have the the seventh off instead. Would that be
preferable to people if staff is ready? I would prefer it. That's my big family reunion weekend. I will be tired. If that works for staff. Yeah, I mean it it worked for us. I mean, yes, let's do that. All right, let's do that.
That was Alisa's idea, by the way. We shouldn't be surprised, right? Yeah. Is that That's all. I have a quick question. Yeah. Um, all the construction that's going on on Bavaria and and I don't know. It seems like it's going on
everywhere, but it's backing up 41 greatly when you go either way, especially when the times school gets out. And so, is there any thought of like making the just during the construction season the lane that is only to turn if you're going south on 41
past the schools there? Everybody's trying to turn into that school and the line goes I mean, literally back up to the highway. So, if we made that second lane on 41 a straight lane. Well, the good news is you won't have to worry about that in two weeks. I was going to say probably shouldn't mention 41's going to be completely closed. True.
Yeah. Which But it's not right there. Is it in front of the school? I thought it was south of the school. No, it'll be it'll be closed all through that area. Yes. Yep. So, okay. Guess what? You get to find a new way. I do. So, should I suggest Savannah way?
That's a great opportunity. That is really I've lived my last I literally live a block away for five weeks like this. Okay. Yeah. No, it's um it's just like I was trying to turn left today and the stop light already is kind of a pain. But then when you've got all
that school traffic, they back up so far that you can't ever get out even on a green light because it's so backed up. So I snuck around and went down the wrong lane and then pulled back over quickly because they were all trying to turn into the school. So there's plenty of rooms I could sneak in and I thought, well, maybe we could. Yeah. I the one thing I h cuz I actually drop off my son
at Middle School West and to be honest, the one thing I don't understand when I get down there is why everybody's trying to turn into that north entrance. Thank you. Because if you just go down just a little bit further down to Ingler, it's so much easier to turn in. I totally agree. So I always go all the way down
there. Everybody goes by that track entrance right there and it literally just backs up all the way to 212. Yeah. I I I haven't quite figured it out, but um the other place we're seeing significant backups in the morning is on Hunter Mark. Um so that's But um I will
say that I personally as as terrible as having 41 closed there is is going to be, I actually think it's going to be a little bit easier um having Bavaria and Ottabon uh open because now we're able
to take two sides of the city. where right now the whole entire west half of the city has to get over to 41 and that's what's making Huntermark so terrible. Um and also with schools being out the uh you know the backups on Huntermark mainly are because of
Southwest Christian and everybody having to come from the north as opposed to come from the south. So I think within within two weeks I think you're going to see things lighten up a lot. Okay. Yeah. Well, and then school
traffic just won't be an issue period because of the summer. I'll echo on that note just about, you know, it's change of season and we're no longer in our winter driving habits. You know, sometimes you kind of get a little bit complacent when you're driving and
you're not always paying attention and just be really mindful of your surroundings and paying attention because I almost got run over by a car on 100 mark crossing it on Sunday. So, um, Yep. I was walking and I was in the crosswalk and the other like lane
stopped for me. And as I was going to get into the other side, the cars that were coming, I thought, "Oh, they're going to slow down." Oh, gee. Oh, almost not. So, I had to jump out of the way and she stopped and then she looked a little frazzled and I thought, "You're
probably on your phone." Um, younger driver. So, just paying attention, I think, is it goes a long way. And uh yeah, I mean I guess leading on into that, we will have road changes coming up here. So what's the
initial weather dependent? Because we're having some rain this week, so that might change things, but June 7th supposed to be uh the date that things switch over. We've been hearing rumblings that they may not meet that date. That's good though because that means school will be out then. Yeah.
Yeah. So um I don't think they're weather related delays. They had some issues with the water mane uh getting that in uh and now they're able to just start on some of the roundabout uh work, but they do have like the curb and gutter going in all the way up the
median there. So, it's it's it's going in. So, it's coming along. Yeah. I couldn't get out of my neighborhood this morning, so that was fun. You didn't need to leave. I just Yeah, didn't need to leave. It was like the one morning I was running late with Ethan. Um but no
uh yeah and they're starting to do the uh resurfacing as well. So um all right uh we talked about Parka Palooa that was wonderful. We talked about Taste of Chaska. One thing I'd like to add to about Chase Taste of Chaska was I mean
it was such a gorgeous evening. Um they couldn't have planned that better weatherwise because like the next day was completely different. But with that, um, I read on the Carver County local news that there were over, they've estimated over 4,000 attendees. That's
pretty huge. Spectacular. And so fire and ice type of size. Yeah. I mean, it was it was pretty, it didn't feel like it was 4,000 people because I was there probably for I don't know, primary amount of time. But, um, it was really
nice. And it was nice as uh council member Hatfield said, the amount of booths that were there and the kind of just the logistics of the booths and the music and and so everything was um really well laid out. So, uh thank you to our Southwest Chamber for hosting
that event and our city because I know we put in a lot of work and effort into it as well um with some of our staff and all the other sponsors that that took part of that. Uh I was able so my son wanted to go swimming which I was I never did ask him how cold it was but um
it was he enjoyed it. uh and uh he was over there and so I was spent chunk of the time over by the playground and I happened to meet a really nice family from Lassour that were here and they used to live in Chask many years ago up in Jonathan but she said you know we're here for an appointment and we just
happened to be here and this is so great that this event was happening and she just expressed her love and for Chasa and that she wished that she could still live here and and everything. So they they were fans. So it's always fun when
you can meet fans. Um that's other than yeah, Memorial Day, we've all talked about making good decisions. Oh, on that note, my husband who works for the Carver County Detention Center
was um part of a recognition night uh last week. uh he was part of a team that had um they had gotten a like a citation um for assisting in saving someone's life. And so he was one of the award
recipients, but there were other people there, but one of the folks that was there was a resident um from Chaza and he was I did not realize that this gentleman was the one that assisted um the sheriff when the incident at Fleet Farm happened. And so that was a Chaza
resident. I unfortunately didn't have an opportunity to to meet him before he left, but um it was really nice to see him get an award, this gentleman. Um but it was also nice to see that the young woman that was the victim of that um attack be there and be present and see
that she was doing well and doing okay, you know, uh physically for the most part. So uh I just figured that was kind of nice to add in. But that is it for that. Otherwise, Memorial Day just recognizing um as
Council Member Gra said the, you know, thanking our veterans and the commitment and the ultimate sacrifice that they make um for all of us to have freedom in this country. June 2nd is our next meeting and that's all that I've got. So
with that, I'd entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. All right. Second. Motion by council member Chevlin, second by council member Benes. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. We'rejourned.
Thanks everyone.