##VIDEO ID:qlYME6jOLd8## [Music] [Music] good evening and welcome to the Kun Rapid City council meeting for Tuesday November 19th 2024 if you could please rise and join us for the pledge I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please call the RO council member kovak here council member Ray rower here council member Novak here council member Geisler here council member Armstrong here council member Carlson here mayor cook here thank you all right why don't we start by adopting this evening's agenda motion to adopt the agenda Mr Mayor second motion by Carlson and a second by Novak is there any discussion or Corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and the agenda is adopted and the very first thing we have is we should have some special guests here from the Rapids women of today um we've set aside November 19th to recognize the many activities of the dedicated women of today across the state um are you are folks from women of today back there nice that's you're fa that's right you're the one okay all right can you please come up and I'll meet you in front of the Das here I don't need the agenda I need the proclamation hi up here in the center and kind of put your back to the Des there we go welcome first I'll read this and then you can introduce yourself and uh talk about what's going on give you a couple minutes to prepare all right well I have a proclamation for the Rapids women of today day whereas the Rapids women of today charted as part of the women of today and United States women of Today Chapter February 29th 2016 and whereas women of today believe that through US great lessons can be learned worthy Deeds performed and a hand of Fellowship extended to Millions of women everywhere and whereas the Minnesota women of today and the Rapids women of today are dedicated to actively promoting such public awareness and service programs such as Alexandra House Hope for Youth acbc food shelf and Feed My Starving Children as well as participating in Snowflake days and whereas the Minnesota women of today and the Rapids women of today provide personal enrichment and Leadership training for members of all ages and demographics through our belief in the advancement through equity and inclusion and now therefore I Jerry Cook mayor of the city of Rapids on behalf of the  Rapids City Council hereby Proclaim November 19th 20124 to be Rapids women of today day in the city of Rapids proclaimed this 19th day of November 2024 well there's only a little bit of time left in your day now yeah why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself um Virginia hopperman Lori mush Jenny or and if any any one of you wants to talk about what you've got going or if you want to invite anybody to join you or you know now's your time well we have our meetings the first Monday of every month unless it's a holiday so and we've been trying something new this year we are having guest speakers come so we just had Haven for Heroes and then this upcoming month we're having somebody from um we're having somebody from Elk River thumbs up a thumbs up uh they do a lot for suicide prevention and mental health okay very good all right and it's open to women from all around the community or the area y okay anything else all right well there is your Proclamation and I thank you very much for coming in thank you thank you thank you all right the second item on our agenda is another Proclamation and this is to recognize small business Saturday whereas the government of Rapids Minnesota celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions they make to our local economy and community and whereas according to the United States small business administration there are 33.2 million small businesses in the United States small businesses represent 99.7% of firms with paid employees small businesses are responsible for 62.7% of net new jobs created since 1995 and small businesses employ 46.4% of the employees in the private sector in the United States and whereas 68 cents of every dollar spent at a small business in the United States stays in the local community and every dollar spent at small businesses creates an additional 48 cents in local business activity as a result of employees and local businesses purchasing local goods and services and whereas 72% of consumers reported that small business Saturday 2023 made them want to shop and dine at small independently owned retailers and restaurants all year long and whereas  Rapids Minnesota supports our local businesses that create jobs boost our local economy and preserve our communities and whereas advocacy groups as well as public and private organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as small business Saturday now therefore I Jerry Cook mayor of the city of Clon Rapids on behalf of the city council and citizens of our city officially Proclaim November 30th 2024 as small business Saturday in the city of Rapids and urge the residents of our community and communities across the country to support small businesses and Merchants on small business Saturday and throughout the year proclaimed this 19th day of November 2024 all right a worthy day indeed all right we are up to approving the minutes from the November 6th uh city council meeting motion to approve minutes of November 6th second motion by Geisler and a second by Ray rower is there any discussion or Corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and those minutes are approved uh now we're looking to approve the minutes from the um November 12th special city council meeting mayor counc rovak I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of the November 12th 2024 special city council meeting second motion by groak and a second by Novak any discussion or Corrections hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and that motion carries we have two items on our consent agenda this evening the first one is to adopt resolution 24-11 requesting Anoka County highway department to perform a speed study on 85th Avenue Anoka County recently completed construction of a roundabout at the intersection of 85th Avenue and Evergreen Boulevard County Road 132 it currently has has a posted speed of 50 m an hour from a Point West of Springbrook Drive to County state aid Highway 1 which is East River Road construction of the roundabout will require speeds slower than currently posted to safely approach and navigate through this intersection the distances between the roundabout and Spring Brook Drive and the existing railroad crossing are limited and may not be conducive to acceleration and deceleration to match the current posted speeds the cities of  Rapids and Fridley share a common boundary along portions of 85th Avenue and are collectively requesting the county to analyze the speed along this Corridor with a desire of arriving at a uniform speed that maximizes safety so we're looking to approve the resolution for a speed study on 85th Avenue County Road 132 between East River Road and Springbrook Drive and the next and Final item on our consent agenda is to receive the schedule of electronic payments um and what we have here is we have a list of electronic payments processed since the last council meeting so we're looking to receive the schedule of electronic payments from October 31st 2024 to November 13 2024 and that's our complete consent agenda Mr mayor council member Ray rower I make a motion to approve the consent agenda second motion by Ray rower and a second by is it Carlson down there kind of councilman Carlson um any discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I opposed and that motion carries and now we are looking to conduct a public hearing for Metropolitan Council Environmental Services Rapids Interceptor Rehabilitation facility plan and uh Mr Hansen do you want to intr ruce this and I assume we'll do the public hearing after the presentation uh yes uh thank you mayor and council tonight with us we have representatives of the Metropolitan Council environmental services are also known as the mcees as well as their their engineering uh consultant team f INF infrastructure uh they're here tonight to provide a presentation about their planned Interceptor Rehabilitation project they will walk us through a number of slides that will detail their project and be available to answer any questions so with that I will turn it over to representatives of the MC and F all right come right up to the de here and introduce yourself welcome thank you very much mayor and Council I'm Peter lindström and I have the uh pleasure of serving on the Met Council for district 10 which is Blaine on the way uh South through Northern Ramsey County down to Roseville and and Falcon Heights area I had the pleasure and honor of serving on my city council as mayor and two terms on the council in Falcon Heights Home of the State Fair and you are welcome to park in my driveway for free anytime just for Council Members U but anyways that's neither here nor there uh so so um also wanted to say if you ever get an invitation in your in your inboxes to tour one of our wastewater treatment plants please take take it up um the uh the Wastewater from  Rapids travels all the way to our Metro plant which you're going to hear about in a minute but it is amazing it is a fascinating and amazing tour the Metro plant is just south of downtown St Paul so that's quite a journey um and uh and it's a lot of in infrastructure along the way so that we need to take care of and that's what we're talking about tonight so anyways Peter lindström is my name and we've got the a team with us today uh including Paka banderi and we have Tim wooden uh Dan schunard uh and then from our engineering team we have Rachel CR and Lexi uh duve and Jackie near bass as well there's Jackie so um if uh it's okay with you Mr Mayor today I will call the public hearing to order and if I could Advance this there we go so the subject of the of the public hearing is the Environmental Services Rapids sewer Interceptor rehabilitation draft facilities plan that's a mouthful but it's super important to our community here this plan outlines our recommendations for the Rapid sewer Rehabilitation project and the the P the uh reason the purpose for today's hearing is just to summarize the the project go through some of the Alternatives that we evaluated and of course get um our questions answered I'll just go over for a minute how uh folks can submit comments or questions throughout the upcoming presentation and we'll address them during the comment portion of the hearing uh when you do um uh if you have any questions please um please include your name address and the organization you represent if any and of course we know this is being recorded and we're going to going to be posting the recording on our me Council website which we do have a specific project website uh uh for this project and that's where you'll find the recording as we conduct this public hearing there's a few things that I'd like to point out anyone of course is welcome to provide comments and uh please sign in I think we have a signin sheet at the at the back of the room there um and then uh we can call upon folks from that sheet we ask that you state Again State and spell your full name each time you speak and we also welcome written comments um and so with that uh I'll welcome produa welcome thank you council member feel free to introduce yourself as you come up so we know who so you are yeah my name is praka bandari I work at the Environmental Services Division of the Metropolitan Council I will provide um a brief overview of the Metropolitan Council our regional Wastewater system and service area and Facilities after that our project team will provide an update about the planned improvements to the Sewer facilities in Kon Rapids the met I think sorry I thought there was um the Metropolitan council is a regonal policymaking body and planning agency we provide essential services in the seven County Twin Cities metro area the regional Wastewater system is run by our environmental services and operating division of the me consel this is a map of the seven County Twin Cities metropolitan area it is showing our Wastewater service area and Regional sanitary sewer facilities the color shading on the map shows the areas we serve basically the Urban and Suburban portions of the metro area um each of the color shaded area corresponds to one of our regional wastewater treatment plans as you can see there um our Wastewater collection system consists of approximately 640 miles of regional sanitary sewers also called Interceptor sewers 61 pump stations and over 200 meter stations these sewers intercept the flow of waste water from 110 cities and townships in the metro area and carry it to our nine treatment plans in addition our communities operate more than 5,000 miles of local sanitary swer pipes the icons on the map indicate our nine wastewater treatment plants they treat approximately 250 million gallons of Wastewater each day and discharge the clean water to the Mississippi Minnesota and San Croy Rivers to put this into perspective 250 million gallons would easily fill the Empire State Building each day we're often asked how the mech Council finances the regional Wastewater system the answer to that is we build the communities connected to the system to pay for our operation maintenance and capital Improvement costs the cities in turn build these costs and their local costs to Property Owners connected to to their loal local sewer systems about 60% of your sewer bill pays Regional system costs and about 40% stays in your community to pay for your local sewer system costs the user fees that we collect are enough to fund our regional Wastewater system without the need for tax dollars we also do not Levy special assessments on properties near sewer projects like we are discussing tonight the projects have a broader public benefit and so their costs are paid for reason wide we'll go into the facility plan now um I'll provide a brief um definition and then we'll start um a facility plan is a prerequisite for a portion of the financing on Environmental Services projects it summarizes the current state of the existing Wastewater sewer system it identifies the need for improving existing facilities it determines the potential environmental impacts of the improved facilities and recommends a course of action um we'll learn more about the plan now good evening Council I'm Rachel cran I represent F we have been hired by the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services to assist in the completion of the facility plan so while council member Lindstrom and Paka got to share with you a little bit about MC as a whole I get to talk to you about this facility plan about where how and why so in this facility plan we are evaluating three different sites within the city of  Rapids and they've been broken down into phases two and three phase three has two different sites this is similar to work that you have already seen completed within the city in the 2023 into 2024 construction that was phase one and that was um from the north side of Highway 10 near exion South all the way down to met council's existing lift station l34 um down near Rapids Boulevard so I'll talk about these in a bit more detail phase two which would be the most upcoming uh looking to 2025 2026 construction was originally constructed in 1965 there have been evaluations of this system by mcees and it's been evaluated as a condition for meaning poor so on a scale of one to five one being new five being not this segment of Interceptor which is met Council refers to it as Interceptor number 4 NS 525 and it starts on the northwest side of handsome Boulevard near Hansen Point Road and then extends all the way through Lions Park and mallerie park down to the north side of Highway 10 near exion Boulevard so it's about 7200 ft a 48 in reinforced concrete pipe RCP and there are 26 existing maintenance access structures or manholes on this system phase three site one continues from phase two Upstream which would be to the Northwest in this case starting again uh near Hansen Point Boulevard and then working North through Partridge and and 121st in that neighborhood this existing It's a combination of 42 in and 48 in RCP reinforced concrete pipe and it was constructed between in two different phases 1965 and 1972 and again this has been inspected and has been identified as being import condition phase three site 2 is further north it's on the boundary between Rapids and Andover and it was built in 1972 it's about 400 ft that we are looking to rehabilitate and it does include the meter station that monitors and meters the flow coming from Andover as it crosses the boundary into the city of Co Rapids as I said it's about 400 feet and it only includes two manhole structures on this one it's up on Crooked Lake Boulevard right around 133rd so those are the locations that we're looking at but why so the photos that you're seeing here are examples of the condition of this infrastructure of this gravity sanitary sewer Interceptor the photos that you're seeing on the left and on the right are actually pictures from the inside of the pipe so you can see the flow that's the water line in there and you can see the pipe is becoming deteriorated the photo on the far right side you can actually see that the reinforcement that helps bring strength to the pipe itself that reinforcement is starting to show and it's starting to corrode so it's it's lessening in its strength so that is one of the reasons why we want to do Rehabilitation on this system the photo in the middle is a picture from one of the manholes and you can see all those white marks on there indicates mineral staining and that's from water groundwater seeping in through the joints and leaving stains on the walls of the structures so this is an aging system we're seeing deterioration and also this system is through some pretty critical locations for the city in terms of important utilized Parks so they're very sensitive and we want to keep that in mind as we go for this work one of the things that we consider when we we are evaluating the system is what it has to convey or flow through today and what it needs to be able to convey in the future because that limits us as to what is an appropriate Rehabilitation system and methodology so there's a bunch of data here but the important thing I want to point out is that um phase three site two being our most Upstream that has the lowest um of the three the lowest Peak flow but we're looking somewhere around 4.8 million gallons per day that flow through the system by the time we get to the downstream end of this near exion and Highway 10 we're looking at almost 11 million gallons of day that flow through this pipe so it's very important that we maintain the system and the Integrity of its function we looked at several different methods for rehabilitating this pipe and part of the process is also to look at doing nothing what would happen if nothing happened to this pipe so we did evaluate that we also looked at a couple of methods for renewing the system and that includes CIP lining which stands for cured in place pipe lining I'll talk about that a bit more um slip lining as well which the best way I can explain that is you're taking a new pipe and slipping it into the old one and then we also evaluated a full replacement an open cut replacement and what that would look like in terms of impacts to to the city so several different factors were included in the Alternatives evaluation and we wanted to understand which alternative was selected what the environmental impacts to the community would be there are wetlands there are parks Kon Creek is critical through this area the Interceptor actually follows a very similar alignment to the creek itself looking at the community impacts what trails might be closed what roadway closures might be required to complete this work and then also permitting that's crucial that we comply with all the requirements of the local agencies whether that be with uh the Minnesota Department of Transportation and access near Highway 10 or whether that be working with the city and getting the appropriate permits for the work property acquisition which in this case would be temporary is also evaluated because the contractor needs to find a way to access the system system and able to perform the work the capacity of the pipe like we just talked about with those flow conditions we need to make sure that the system can handle future flows as well as today's flows constructability to and I like to think about this of the complexity how difficult will it be to perform this work whether it's less difficult or more difficult and then also of course construction cost was evaluated as well based on those different categories we came to the conclusion that CIP lining would be the recommended alternative in this facility plan so CIP cured in place lining and then there's also its partner which is CIP MH which stands for cured in place manhole and the best way that I describe this it's as if you were doing laundry and a sock got flipped inside out so you have a manhole and you're going to access that and flip your line er down into it it uses the weight of water to help push that into place and then that liner expands and presses against the edges of the existing host pipe and is cured using hot water because that liner is soaked with a resin so think of it like a cast but it's on the inside of the pipe so once it cures and that's complete it's structurally independent and it can act as its own pipe the materials used are also less um affected by corrosion that's often caused by the Wastewater stream so it has a longer life and is considered a trenchless method I do want to caution you when I say it's trenchless sometimes there is excavation that's required but it's much minimized because we're able to access from those different manhole points instead of digging up the whole thing all the way like we're often used to seeing one caveat to the cured in place pipe lining is that any of the existing flow any of the existing sewage in the pipe has to be removed in order to safely perform the work and that process and that piping system we call temporary conveyance so um I don't know if you recognize but the photo on the right here is actually at the dead end of XM Boulevard on the north side of Highway 10 with the work that was completed last it would have been the fall of 23 so temporary conance as I mentioned is used to remove the flow from the inside of the sewer it keeps it contained within a piping system and moves it up and around so the contractor can perform all of their work but the impact to the city is that you see these large black HDPE highdensity polyethylene pipes laying on the ground so you can see in the photo on the left is an example of a pumping location where the contractor will have large pumps set up they often use sound attenuation to help minimize the impact to the neighbors immediately around there and then you see the piping system so those two black lines that you see right down the middle of the photo on the right are the two pipes so the contractor required to have a redundant or dual system so that there is protection in case of any kind of emergency we have evaluated for phase two because that's the most upcoming project to be eval valuated a potential route for the temporary conveyance which you can see in the image here on the right utilizing the trail system utilizing existing right of way along both eagle and Highway 10 to help minimize impacts to the neighborhood phase three which won't be constructed until 2029 2030 will get evaluated in design at that point in time coordination is also key to having a successful project and we evaluate the necessary coordination as part of our facility planning everything from permits whether that be from Kon Creek Watershed District the Army Corps of Engineers related to their jurisdiction over Kon Creek um Minnesota DOT as well as the city so coordinating with all of those local agencies is really key to making sure that the project is successful and understanding what information we need to be sharing as we move through this process utilities as well we coordinate and communicate with private utility agencies as well as public so city of Rapids with your water and storm sewer systems as well as your Municipal sanitary sewer system that might Connect into this Interceptor so we communicate U Mark had the luxury of introducing us and he is part of our team so we work along with him to make sure that the impacts are minor to the community and then as well our environmental evaluation is a really big part of this facility plan looking at an understanding what environmental elements are in the area whether that be a wetland uh Kon Creek is you know crucial to this area also looking at an archaeological review to understand are we going to impact anything of archaeological value in the area part of the facility plan also includes what's known as an EI W or environmental information worksheet that includes everything from where a well might be to where a underground tank may have been at one point in time so that we understand if we encounter anything like that how to navigate and mitigate any of those impacts and a very important part of it too is understanding any threatened or endangered species we do have some in the area the blandings turtle um it's local so we provide information to the contractor about what happens if you encounter one how do you protect it we did not however find any endangered plant species because that's something we look for as well through part of this process so I get to turn it over to Tim and he can talk to you about the financing of a project of this scale thank you thank you Rachel um council members my name is Tim Wen I am assistant manager with Interceptor engineering at M met consult Environmental Services talk to you a little bit about the financing of our project as well as this project schedule so part of the reason that we do a facility plan is it's a requirement for funding through the public facilities Authority the the the the money will come as a form of a loan a low interest interest loan through the Minnesota public facilities Authority it's below market market rate loans Ed to finance eligible projects which really helps us keep our Wastewater rates low um we continue to pay those loan fees or those loan costs through our Municipal rates um that we work with you on there are as we've said before there are no assessments to the residents as a part of this work get the right button as far as the total costs and how those are going to impact the rates um again we're looking at a 20 year term through the PFA the public facilities authorities loans for these projects are paid for from two funding sources one is the municipal waste charge which is the Metropolitan ccil Environmental Services portion of the city's or the the resident sewer bill the other portion that pays for these costs are the sewer availability charge or the sack um this is a one-time charge that new connections pay when they connect onto the system might be a new home home uh new business um something along those lines similar to How the City Works where you have your sack fee that you charge for a new new connection our sack fee is a part of that sack fee that you that you issue we're looking at impact on on rates from uh $ 18.43 million loan of about 55 uh it's an annual amount that's included in the annual sewer bill per household uh and right now that average is about a $242 um wholesale rate charged to communities um this about $24 paid per year for 20 years um from the sac fund per new household connection or or relative equivalent so that's where all of our funding comes from to pay for this Improvement as far as our schedule we've been working on this for quite some time um we had a public information meeting on this project back October 14th of this year um pleased to have a couple of people that that were able to show up and talk to us about the project um our next steps make sure I'm looking at my right comments here so part of that was publishing a legal notice in the of of the public Hearing in the Star tribut newspaper which was published on October 13th of 2024 uh we mailed the public hearing notice on November 4th to property owners in the proposed project area as well as numerous government and Community stakeholders we sent email invitations on November 12th uh we're holding our public hearing tonight November 19th um next steps will include a review by the Metropolitan Council and Adoption of the facility plan which is scheduled for January of 2024 and then March of 2024 uh we will submit the plan the facility plan to the Minnesota public Minnesota Pollution Control agency which will include our application to be included on a priority funding list this funding will be in the form of low interest loans that Metropolitan Council Environmental Services will pay off over a 20year period with that I will turn the podium back over to council member Lindstrom who will talk about our next steps great thank you Tim thank you Rachel so um if you're out there and you're thinking gosh I'd like to learn more about this there are ways to do that uh we have this plan at the NOA County Library we have it right here at City Hall and uh you can check it out on our website as well it's going to be open accepting comments up until the end of the day on December 1st there's lots of different ways to um submit your questions if it's okay with you um uh mayor will uh open it up if there's any questions from the audience I don't think we've had anybody sign up um nobody signed up yet but um now would be your time hang on Peter let me let me yield take control of this meeting back again yes indeed um is there any questions of councel for Peter or anybody there before before we open the public hearing go ahead I guess I do have a question I don't know if I would ask this at the public hearing or or now but um this the next phase phase three that would happen in 2029 2030 you mentioned phase three site one of that goes along 121st and it looks like it's going to parallel or be right under our our brand new trail that runs through that Wetland can you tell me how that's going to impact that trail what that would if if there's more expense to the city and how it's going to impact our Trail users that's probably a question for Mr Hammer because I I think this actually starts I don't think this goes as far as our new Trail does it Mr Hansen phase three does yeah mayor and and council member gusak um indeed uh a part of our proposed trail that we will be building next year goes over the Met Council Interceptor line from Partridge street over to 121st Shan andoa Boulevard so we have been working with the Met Council team uh to make them aware of that and we're also working to uh to uh make sure that they to that we have uh all of the uh items in place necessary to have our Trail there and be accepted by the Met Council as well because they do have an easement there um as we get through the design plans and the design process we'll be working through all the details to make sure they protect the trail to the maximum extent possible and if there's portions that have to be repaved that'll just be part of the project that's typically part of the project part of the restoration process the the intent of any project is that it's returned in kind so the condition that it's in before we're there want to make sure that it's that or better when we leave okay well that's great because it's like brand spanking new that's not even there [Laughter] yet thank you I apologize I when I looked at it I thought it looked like it ended before the trails c m Carlson the cured and place pipe lining is that what was used last year correct the other project that's all same type of lining that was successful yes it was a very successful project it went very smoothly we were able to um get all of that system system lined from the north side of Highway 10 at exion all the way Downstream to met cil's existing l34 off of um down off of East River Road and Kon Rapids boulard yes the extension thank you is the life expectancy on that about the same as replacement or is it the life expectancy of cured in place pipelining is a minimum of 50 years which is uh longer than uh lot of materials that are available to date it is a structurally sound material once it's cured so even if the existing RCP that reinforced concrete pipe that it's inside of even if that pipe deteriorates the lining inside is structurally independent and will last longer than that and there will be no trenching unless something comes up no no trenching in terms of the replacement of the Interceptor um I don't know if you recall this on the phase one work that was completed but anytime that the temporary conveyance crosses Trail or roadway be we the intent is that the contractor buries the pipe so that the road is smooth for anyone that needs to cross it would be a temporary closure but shortterm um that way the roadways and trails would be useful after that pipe is installed and then it gets removed at the end of the project and the roadway or the trail is patched and repaired thank you you're welcome Mr com from Noak um you may have just answered my question but uh yeah it appeared that phase two was actually Crossing Hansen Boulevard and I was just going to ask at that point would there be a burial of that conveyance actually we have a really wonderful way of Crossing Hansen Boulevard so um Kon Creek crosses underneath Hansen Boulevard directly south and there is a very nice Bridge well it's a bridge and a culvert there so we will work with Kon Creek in order to utilize that crossing that's already there and minimize any impact to hen B part since that's such a busy throw far excellent thank you yes you're welcome I all I want to do is say thank you this presentation was very thorough very clear easy to understand um so I just appreciate the work that you put into into this all of you yeah thank you we have a really great team Mr Hansen do you recall when we did this last time um I'm trying to remember is this the is this the project where we had some neighbors complaining about smells uh uh mayor and Council yes uh let's see how can I put this delicately yes yes the portion that we did from North of Highway 10 through erinson Park and down to list station l34 there was a a City segment um just south of City Hall here where we did receive some some complaints uh and then over the course of the project too which actually the latter is relatively common with lining because it does create smells and as long as people are using all of the services in their house uh including the services in the basement that may be very rarely used and so that those traps stay filled uh it's it's not a problem okay okay Mark do you mind if I add to that absolutely when construction gets closer there will be public meetings held related to where the work will occur so that the neighborhoods directly impacted can attend and one of the pieces of information that is shared is how to minimize any of the odors that might be incurred in someone's home and it's a really simple go take two or three cups of water and pour them into your drain to make sure that they're not dry that water helps to prevent any of the gases coming up into the building itself so that is something that we talk about and share with the impacted neighborhood when it's much closer to construction that's a really important reminder for everyone anyway we don't want those gases in the house all right and this the curan pipe that is that what we did with all of our other um sewers lines in town yeah in indeed mayor and Council that is what we have been working on ourselves on our own 48 in and 36 in lines coming out of uh l34 as well uh where our system connects generally into their Interceptor then goes into the lift station all the way under Creek through the port Riverwalk development down 99th and then up Hansen Boulevard yes same same exact process all right any other questions from Council of the team or anybody Mr Mayor counc Gia you have one more and that's uh regarding the cost and the and the rate imp you mentioned that there is no cost or impact to Residents but let me just point out that we've got some mandates in the uh city of Rapids from The Watershed and from the state so our storm rates are being impacted a little bit in future years so have all of these costs for this project kind of been baked into the fees that the Met council's been charging through the sewer fee all along to say that has it been accured for or will there be incremental rate increases to our residents to cover this long question maybe certainly thank you council member and Mr Mayor I'll go back to our right information here y um one of the things that that I'll point out is is we're looking at about a 55 cent um increase or 55 55 cent uh cost that'll be coming out of that the 242 Ann annual average cost for um Environmental Services fees for the wholesale rate that's charged to communities um I'm trying to remember exactly how that gets rolled in that's usually usually as we go through and um work with communities and talk about what the rates are going to be we will really look at what our rates are for the operation of Maintenance and um Capital Improvements program for the facility itself um part of that is evaluating and looking at um loan repayments for this loan and other loans that we have um I would I would expect that yes the the 55 cents is is probably going to be something that we'll see as we move forward um for this $18 million um but that's you know not not only the residents of of Rapids but it's the broader region as well that we'll see that that change okay the broader reading upstream and downstream correct oh yep I I live in the the East Metro I'll pay this as well okay I what you're say okay all right any other questions of councel for this team hearing none let's open the public hearing is anybody here from the public to um ask questions about this anybody here from the public to ask questions about the uh the Interceptor Rehabilitation project all right one more time anybody here all right we'll close the public hearing and that's all we had to do tonight on that was right y listen to their presentation very nice thank you very much um and then hold a public hearing and we've done that so anything are we done are we all good thank you very much for being here than you and uh Peter what was that address again for the uh oh I'm [Laughter] kiding all right thank you so much um all right we are up to item eight consider a feasibility report and Order public hearing and assessment hearing for Street reconstruction project 25-1 and I think we've got the mark Hansen show tonight uh mayor and Council I'm here to talk about 2025 Street reconstruction already uh so we have developed the feasibility report uh we're here to present the details of that here tonight answer any questions about next year's Street reconstruction program just a little bit of background uh as always the streets that we are proposing have been rid by our engineering staff and our public work staff is either in deficient or in poor condition and we very routinely talk together and coordinate the streets that we want to fix for the following year or recommend to fix um a lot of it based on where our Public Works crews are spending the most time making repairs so that brings us here tonight in our proposed program one of the first neighborhoods that we are proposing is what we would refer to is The Oaks of Shan andoa North this is bounded by Kon Creek Boulevard to the West shann andoa Boulevard to the east hundred 33rd to the North and then it's north of 131 so it's that neighborhood that's just right on the edge of Andover and the proposal here is to replace the roads all of the damaged curb and gutter driveway aprons go along with that repair any storm sanitary manholes and then also the the plugged hydrants these are the hydrants that the bottoms exist within the groundwater table the natural ground water table so they need to be plugged in order for that it's like an irrigation system you have to pump it out and and that's where we have historically always had the most mechanical issues and repair issues with our hydrant system as well as the valves that exist nearby those so we're proposing to replace those as part of this project and then also upgrade all of the street lighting to LED lights um the other neighborhood is the Thousand Oaks neighborhood this neighborhood is south of Main Street and West of Olive Street this this group of streets for the most part began Life as a set of private streets so it's a very different neighborhood if you drive it you'll see very uh short or narrow uh front setbacks uh a very narrow uh uh right of way um but they are now public streets we we plow them we maintain them and it's time uh we've been looking at these streets for a number of years trying to figure out when it's best just to get in there and do it all at once so we are recommending next year is the year uh to do that and what we would recommend here is replacement of the street Pavements uh entirely uh replacing all of the damaged curb and gutter driveway aprons repairing the storm sewer systems man manholes and any pipes that need to be repaired and then the sanitary manholes this neighborhood has some stretches of cast iron water M pipe that we have historically had some issues with so we would recommend replacing that with new water main pipe as well as well as any other hydrants that are plugged or valves that exist within the groundwater table and then upgrading all of the LED or all of the existing City Lights to LED um the last area is the thresh Park area these are streets that we've been in this neighborhood reconstructing streets a couple of different times over the last 10 years last time we were in this neighborhood was 2018 um this proposal would finish off all of the remaining streets that are generally south of Main Street uh West and then little bit there's a couple CCS east of shannond Boulevard North of 121st but kind of generally around the thrush Park neighborhood coincidentally very close to where the new Trail is being built the new Creek Trail uh so very similar to what we've done in the past in these neighborhoods we're talking about replacing the streets uh the curbing gutter driveway aprons repairing storm and sanitary manholes and then all of the plugged hydrants and valves and then lastly uh upgrading the street lights to LED polls uh or fixtures rather and then the polls as needed the project schedule we would propose is January 2025 we would like to hold a second open house for the public we had one on October 1st went very well we had a lot of people attend we're able to answer a lot of questions there's a lot of interest in the neighborhood really appreciate that and then on February 18th we would propose to the public hearing and assessment Hearing in April and May the contracts will go out for bidding uh we will get bids uh get everything set up such that the council would be able to award the contracts at that time and then ultimately adopt the assessments of the first council meeting in May prior to that or around that time we will also hold a neighborhood meeting in one of the nearby parks to answer questions the biggest question we get is is schedule on on these projects people want to know exactly when we're going to be in front of their house or when we're going to be in a certain area of the neighborhood doing work we don't have all of that information right now because we leave it to the contractor to decide their best schedule that gives the best prices contract prices to the city when we allow them to innovate on their side and determine their most efficient schedule so we'll have schedules at that point we can go through all the those details with the property owners and then the construction uh would last through the summer generally I tell people it's going to go from May to October but within your neighborhood it's going to be more like six to8 weeks we have numerous letters that will continue to go out answering frequently asked questions uh we do put out weekly notices every Friday that gives a a one week look ahead very general very broad the general things that people can expect to see on their Street the coming week and then this year we introduced a new Option where people can actually sign up to get text messages we don't do too many we kind of leave those to emergency situations like we were trying to turn off a water M here and then this one broke and then now all of a sudden we have to turn another one off and that kind of messed up our shut down area so we have instituted that with our process just trying to get that word out as quickly as we can because sometimes it just takes a while and sometimes in gencies do come up it's a construction project things do happen like that so we're trying the best we can to get the word out estimated project costs uh the total cost is a very high level estimated at $8 million that includes all of the construction Administration staff time and uh survey work uh construction materials testing uh but that's going to be broken down into different funds these estimates will get dialed down more precisely as the plans come together over the course of the winter um but just different city funds like their street reconstruction fund all the way to assessments which are estimated about 1.2 million over the course of the project that would be used to fund the project so the 2025 assessment rates will be proposed at for single family residents people always ask if it matters if it's a front foot or if they're a corner lot it does not in Rapids all single family homes pay one rate it's the same rate next year it's going to be $2,430 MTI families town houses Twin Homes and things uh structures like that do pay at a different rate per our policy they pay at the front foot as well as commercial properties and Industrial properties multif Family Properties are proposed at $32 a front foot commercial properties are twice that c at $61 a foot and then another 30% gets you to Industrial properties latter two we don't have any in 2025 assessment payment options so we recognize that these assessments come up people and it's not something that people plan for it's like your car breaking down it's unexpected unwelcome and we totally recognize and appreciate that city does offer a number of different ways to be able to pay a street reconstru instruction assessment uh they can be paid over 10 years um but the first option is uh if you don't want to pay any interest at all uh because the assessments do carry an interest rate very low interest rate uh you can pay between May 7 so the day after the council would uh presumably adopt the assessment on May 6th next year 30 days pass that up to June 7th and no interest would be charged another option is to pay the assessment after June 8th at that point interest will start acre uh the property owner would need to contact our assessing Department to determine that amount owed up until November 15th and then after that it's going to go over to the the property taxes and be paid with the the the property tax statements starting in 2026 so if you are a single family property homeowner which most of them are in these neighborhoods and you wanted to pay it off over that 10 years it would equate to another $316 that you would see across two property tax invoices over the course of 10 years so um $316 a year so times 10 we'd get you the assessment plus the interest Mr Hansen the uh town homes in Thousand Oaks up that Circle up there's 77 Town Homes yes um do we know yet what they will be assessed yes I have that information I don't have the assessment roll off the here okay because that'll be Bas divided by 77 units corre right correct yeah actually we we just calculated over all of the multifam town home condos in that entire Thousand Oak so everybody that falls into that category is paying the same we use the entire front fion all of those streets times the number of homes divided by the multi family rate so everybody's paying one rate and it's generally it's a a third of the single family assessment cost which has always been historically where those assessments have been at thank you uh so we do have a couple of videos that are available on our City website that walk Property Owners through the process of Street reconstruction there's one that takes you through this process from start to finish as well as one that answers frequently asked questions and with that I will answer any questions that the council has thank you all right Council any questions of Mr Hansen Mr Mayor cobak um the project that you're calling the shanono area um it looks like you're going to be doing some reconstruction on 132nd right and two years ago we did 133rd so how does no 132 131 first um so we did 131st between Kon Creek and shann andoa in 2023 we also put a sidewalk on the north side of that road as part of that project I should say that there's no sidewalks that are proposed on any of these groups of streets we did look at where they may make sense as part of our checklist as part of our process but we determine that okay be recommended okay that that clarifies thanks for bringing this map back up for some reason the one that we had was smaller and fuzzier I apologize a little bit the the gray scale on the map is a little hard to read that's fine looks good other question I had for you is um so we're doing 3.9 miles does our is our cost per mile it seems higher than in past years is is that well like I said our assessments kind of right now come from a worst case highlevel standpoint and a lot of that you know it's it's about a it's still around a million dollars a mile to construct a street in Rapids but this project also proposes a a significant well not a significant but a length of water M to be replaced so that's going to be another million and a half right uh and then various storm water improvements we're going to have to replace a number of storm water catch basins ones that were constructed originally out of blocks or just have too much INF infiltration in them falling apart so sanitary manholes uh as well so all that kind of goes into that overall and then we just add some contingencies on top of that because we really just don't know exactly until we really get into the details which is going to happen over the next couple months got it okay Mr Mayor R having watched the street reconstruction process for four years now um I just want to compliment you on the work you do Mr Hansen with uh especially the communication to the residents they really appreciate that the the quick notifications and the responses to their questions um also the long-term planning that's done to always keep um you know the oldest sections being replaced and keeping cost down as much as possible so with that I will um uh I move to adopt resolution number 25-1 sub4 accepting the feasibility report and ordering a public hearing for February 18th 2025 adopt resolution number 25-1 sub1 declaring the cost to be assessed and ordering the preparation of a proposed assessment role and adopt resolution number 25-1 sub1 setting an assessment hearing date for February 18th 2025 motion by Ray rower and a second by Geisler Is there further discussion on this hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and that motion carries quite a multiple thank you Mark um item nine is to consider resolution 24- 99 for 2024-25 we had three contested miscellaneous assessments that were heard by the board of adjustment and appeal at their meeting on November 7th um their recommendations are outlined in the uh agenda memo and so the council is now asked to affirm those recommendations by adopting the resolution before you all right what did what is that that that first one I understand affirming the 340 on the second one and reducing the 340 um but that first one it says remove zero are we so we're not changing that at all so we removed all citations we removed all removing all citations oh okay all right very good um Mr mayor council member Geisler I'll make a motion to um adopt resolutions 24- 99 adopting the 20 2024 sub to miscellaneous special assessments contested miscellaneous assessments one year um and make that a motion second motion by Geisler and a second by Carlson is there discussion on this hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and that motion carries and I would just really like to thank the board of adjustment and appeals and everybody that's involved in this because this is it it just took us about a minute yeah and they probably spent the better part of an evening on this so we just thank you for all of your work on this um and yeah and all the staff's co enforcement everything that gets to this point so there's a lot of there a lot in that um item 10 is to consider resolution 24-100 approving a budget amendment to complete a traffic study on a segment of Northdale Boulevard Mr Hansen yes uh mayor and Council this proposal is for a traffic study on Northdale Boulevard between Main Street and Crooked Lake Boulevard that traffic study study is expected to collect and analyze traffic data along that entire Corridor and then investigate options to address vehicle and pedestrian uh safety concerns uh we did not have this item included in our 2024 budget so we are proposing to take half of the funds from the Riverdale fund uh and then the rest we do have covered in our available 2024 budget so that is the proposal very good anybody have any questions of Mr Hansen on this Mr Mayor coun M gak is that amount is that the amount of 11,250 that what we're talking about that's 50% that's the 50% that's the 50 budget amendment okay thank you Mr Mayor counc M rower I make a motion to adopt resolution 24-100 amending the 2024 Riverdale area fund for a traffic study on Northdale Boulevard between Main Street and Crooked Lake Boulevard second motion by Ray rower a second by Novak Is there further discussion on this and uh just so everybody knows we did spend a lot of time talking about this at a workshop just prior to the meeting so um all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and that motion carries item 11 is to consider a 2024 2025 Insurance renewals and resolution 24-12 establishing limited cleanup and property damage protection for sewer backups um is there any change on that they make the way it's described it almost sounds like it's a bit of a change but it's the same same policy right it's mayor council same policy we just have to opt into it every year if we want it okay all right Mr mayor council m grovia is this the Ron Manning plan is that what we're talking about again yes it is I think it is yeah yeah we I think we we did without that optional coverage for like one or two years and had things kind of hit the fan and we felt terrible that we weren't able to help residents that had sewer backups in their basement and so we've been as as Ron recommended it that year we've been paying for it ever since but I think it's I think it's serving our community well Mr mayor council member Geiser I'll make a motion um to authorize the following purchasing Insurance renewal through the league of Minnesota cities Insurance trust LM CIT maintain statutory legal limits of 1.5 million per occurrence and authorized resolution 24-12 purchasing sewer backup liability insurance second motion by Geisler and a second by Armstrong Is there further discussion on on this hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I opposed and that motion carries item 12 is to consider approval of a contract with axon Enterprise Incorporated Chief Steiner thank you Mr Mayor and councel as uh some of you may remember in 2021 the department uh got our first body born camera system at the time it was an add-on to an existing incar Squad system that we had since 2018 uh since that time that Hardware has become obsolete unsupported and uh it's nearing the end of its useful life um the the current provider in and industrywide has gone to a subscription based model where you lease uh the technology now so as we have to make that decision as to whether to enter into a new lease with our current provider uh our analysis is that it's it's not desirable for us we've had some backend and technical issues that have made working with some of our law enforcement Partners in the county and our in the criminal justice system uh difficult and so we've also become a little bit of an outlier in the county uh as the other agencies have all migrated gradually towards axon system it it works well for them so in addition to the bodyw warn camera system axon offers a required solution that we need for our interview and uh surveillance I'm sorry interview room and surveillance uh room in our detention area uh they offer unlimited data storage and the service of migrating all the existing digital evidence into their system they're also the parent company of taser which is a less lethal defense tool that all the Kun Rapids police officers are trained to carry and do carry uh our current tasers are a few models old they're in desper need of replacement and taser and axon has also moved to a lease subscription model uh and they don't offer them for sale as well so the current proposal also includes leasing tasers on the same schedule as the incar system and as we've discussed if you remember in the August 14th session the total cost of that system is $1,427 th000 uh 1, 427,000 over 5 years with that first install of $285,400 uh in 2025 which is included in the 2025 proposed budget uh the reason we're coming to council and asking to enter into that agreement a little early is because it allows us to be put on the implementation schedule with axon prior to Summer of 2025 and as you can imagine summer is a complicated time with vacations and whatnot to roll things out so getting on that schedule early is advantageous for us so it is our recommendation that the city council authorized entering into the 5-year contract with axon Enterprises Incorporated for the bodyw warn camera system incar video system tasers an interview and detention area security camera system unlimited data storage uh for digital evidence and all Associated uh implementation costs very good and this is the technology that will put us back in the good graces of the inoka county attorney's office that that is correct perfect your honor council member Novak for no the reason than that alone um I'm going to move to authorize entering into a 5-year contract with axon Enterprises Incorporated for a BWC system incar video system tasers an interview and detention area security camera system unlimited data storage for digital evidence and Associated implementation costs second motion by Novak and a second by Ray rower further discussion on this Mr mayor council member Ray rower and then council member SC uh uh Chief I remember when we um uh approved the purchasing of the body warn camera systems I think that this is this is great to have it protects both our officers and our residents the thing is is we have to have the hardware in the system to make it work for you to make it work with Anoka County um so very glad to see this come through and happy to um support it council member Gia and just to build on that I mean it seems like it was just yesterday that council member Brad Johnson was sitting over there and you know now he's County attorney and he was always saying we need to whenever we make investments we want to be on a program that's countywide so that's what this does so this makes sense for all of us I did have a question and I pretty sure it shows it in here but the um subscription base is for the equipment the technology and using it it is also do they manage all of that recorded data and store it um you know confidentially and that's all part of the program or do we have people in our office then that are going to need to be trained and to use this do you know what I mean council member groak a little bit of both we do have an employee that manages our body warn camera system um it's a full-time job you know fulfilling Discovery requests and and um redactions and it keeps very busy but it is also supported technically by axon it is cloud-based evidence storage um it offers a just a ton of uh advantages to us right now as we're getting it and as technology changes we're going to get uh upgrades and the most current equipment and you know that's part of the subscription model is we're always going to be uh you know with the most modern uh version and so there's a lot of advantages to it subscriptions are sort of industrywide and techn the whole technology sector now um we're running into that it's just sort of the way of the future I think has its advantages definitely and Mr Mayor just a little bit more on that I know that we talked about this in work session we talked about it a while ago actually and then again in August um so I'm glad we're moving this and I knew we were moving this and it is in the 2025 proposed budget and it's going to be in the budget for the next you know several years because it's a yearly subscription base so we don't need to make a budget adjustment we are just allowing you to get it ordered and then it's going to be paid in 2025 that's what we're doing tonight Mr St mayor council that's correct you know and actually in just a couple weeks we'll be asking you to consider the 2025 budget um so it seems like that timeline's pretty close however um given the nature of getting in line to get the system we thought was worthwhile bringing it to a little bit early all this is really doing is obligating you through the contract um to fulfill that that amount you know it's a part of the budget and so we don't anticipate any issues but if in the next two weeks you decide that something needs to be removed from the budget it just can't be this find something else um we're we're locked in if Council approves this tonight got it very good thank you Chief Steiner these upgraded tasers will you require council member Carlson to come back and take one for the team Mr Mayor I don't think I'd have to require him to do it he likes that sort of thing he's probably going to volunteer Miss Mar I was much younger then all right do we have any other discussion on this do we have a well we don't have a we don't have a motion on this yet do yes we do we do we have a motion in a second how come I forgot to write it down dang it all right any further discussion on this hearing none all in favor signify by saying i i i opposed and that motion carries that's right that was a ray roller Novak thing wasn't it that's right all right okay we are up to the open mic public comment portion of the meeting is anybody here to address Council for Open Mic this evening anybody here to address us for Open Mic no all right I don't have any reports on previous open mics and we are to other business well Mr Mayor we got to talk about all the fun things coming up right so um today's Tuesday on Thursday of this week we have our senior Bazaar that's at going to be held at the Civic Center and that's from 9 a.m. to 3 and so that's a great event you know run by our the senior group and it's one of their fundraising activities so if you have time please stop by and check it out um and then on Sunday this coming Sunday is kicks off our season of giving and the Toys For Joy skate will be at the the Kun Rapids Ice Center from 5:30 to 7:30 so that is on Sunday and then the next thing is a rem reminder that I people most probably know but next week not this Thursday the following Thursday is Thanksgiving and then so Thanksgiving on the 28th and the Friday after on the 29th our city offices will be closed so if you need anything um from City staff please check with them by Wednesday the 2 7th or you're going to need to to wait till December all right those are the updates very good um we have a council meeting before it but just so you can get it in your calendars the uh annual tree lighting will be December 14th and then immediately the next day at the same Ice Center will be the Winter Classic charity hockey game third annual operation healing Heroes Fighting For Freedom fundraiser it's a great hockey game on the 50 um Council M Carlson Kudos the kids fire department and the Kun Rapids Community um fund for their uh fundraiser on Saturday at the activity center Bunker Hills Activity Center uh raising money for the Patrick shover fund and the play for Patrick um May 17th um the uh play for Patrick Patrick shover fund will be putting on an event at the Rapids High School uh screening uh up to 300 young people for possible uh heart defects um most of your annual physicals uh for kids miss things like that because they're young they're not looking for that you'd be amazed at the percentage of kids that they find heart defects in when they do this talking like a full scale screen with cardiologists there EKGs everything it's just amazing uh they've already saved lives it was a wonderful event a great fundraiser and uh kudos to the fire department and all the wonderful volunteers that were there it looked amazing I was out of town for meetings and I was really sad to miss it it looked amazing all right um and to be it was Bunker Hills um Event Center event serop sorry yeah not the one in Andover right right all right and then as a reminder um we're thrilled to have The Season's dinner theater back in Rapids back at the Bunker Hills Event Center partnering with Kendall's Tavern and Chop House and they are back with their o crud it's Christmas those shows are between December 5th and December 31st and you can get your tickets online it's a fun thing any other business to come before Council this evening Mo move to adjourn second motion by Geisler second by Carlson that's to adjourn and wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving coming up we are adjourned