Good evening and welcome to the Rapids City Council meeting for Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. If you could please rise and join us for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Please call the role. >> Council member Brisco >> here. >> Council member Butler >> here. Council member Novak >> here.
>> Council member Gisler >> here. >> Council member Armstrong >> here. >> Council member Carlson >> here. >> Mayor Cook >> here. Thank you. Why don't we adopt this evening's agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Geisler and a second by Butler to approve the agenda. Is there any
discussion or corrections? >> Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppos. >> Okay. Got that little Tucson delay there. >> Glad to have you, Council Member Carlson. >> Thank.
>> All right. We're looking at the item one then is to approve the minutes from the October 7th meeting. Motion to approve the minutes from the October 7th, 2025 meeting. >> Second. Motion by Butler and a second by Armstrong. Is there any discussion or corrections? >> Hearing none. All in favor signify by
saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Abstain. >> The motion carries, one abstension. Council member Novak. Uh we have four items on our consent agenda. The first one is to approve a new singular wireless AT&T lease
amendment for the Hansen water tower. The city and new singular wireless AT&T entered into a lease agreement in 2007 to allow them to lease space on the Hansen Boulevard water tower for telecommunication purposes. AT&T and the
city have entered into three lease amendments in 2014, 2020, and 2024 to allow for additional antennas and equipment. AT&T is in the process of refurbishing its equipment on the water tower. In that process, they desire to
extend the least the lease past its current end date of September of 2027. So, the fourth amendment to the lease agreement proposes to add four additional five-year options to the current lease agreement. All other conditions of the current lease will
remain the same. City staff do not object to do not do not object to the lease amendment and AT&T's rent this year is $58,726.32 with an annual increase of 4% under the lease. So, the first item on our consent
agenda is to um authorize approval and execution of the fourth amendment to the lease agreement with new Singular Wireless. The next item on our consent agenda is to approve the release of a partial
deferral of SAC fees agreement for 21105 Northdale Boulevard. In 2023, we approved construction plans for Silver Silverstar Car Wash located at 2085 Northdale Boulevard, which includes a water reclaim system for the car wash
bay. And this system allowed the operator to reclaim or recycle a portion of the water used in the building and ultimately reduce the amount of gray water that is sent into the sanitary sewer system. As part of the process, the city and the property owner enter
entered into a partial deferral of sack fees agreement. The agreement covered both the car wash property and the adjacent property um at 21105 Northdale Boulevard. The property owner at 21105 Northdale is now in the process of selling the property and the buyer is
asking that the property be released from the agreement. So, the city staff did consult with the med council and there appears to be no issue in releasing the property. The vacant property will have its own sack fees determined at the time it's developed. So the original agreement will still apply to the car wash site. So we're
looking to release of uh I'm sorry, we're we're going to do a release of partial deferral of sac fees agreement for the property located at 21105 Northdale Boulevard. Next item on our consent agenda
is to approve anou with ana county for installation and use of flock safety cameras on countyowned traffic control signal systems. Uh since 2022, the police department has partnered with Riverdale Village Shopping Center for
the placement and operation of flack safety LPR cameras. The LPR cameras have been a great resource in solving and preventing crime, specifically shoplifting in the area. Um, in March of 25, the police department expanded the partnership with Flock Safety to lease
12 LPR cameras, which will be installed at various areas in the city. Some of the cameras will be installed on county-owned traffic controlled signal systems, and the attached allows for the installation of the cameras. So, we're looking to approve theou between the
county of Anoka and the city of Rapids regarding installation and use of flock safety cameras on countyowned traffic control signal systems. The next and final item on our consent
agenda is to receive the schedule of electronic payments. Minnesota statute requires a list of transactions made by electronic funds transfer be provided to the city council at the next regular meeting after the transaction. And we are receiving the schedule of
electronic payments from October 2nd, 2025 through October 15, 2025. And that is the full consent agenda. Your honor, >> Council Member Novak, >> um I would like to just mention uh for the record here that the uh
people of Rapids have been contacting me quite a bit with uh issues regarding cellular issues up and down Rapids Boulevard. I really do hope that soon we can take a look at that, but uh certainly we want to try and keep the AT&T antennas updated on the water
tower. the uh split on the fees. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the uh property that has the uh current car wash, and they're going to be developing the other side to do something completely different.
And >> yeah, it's it's between the Silverstar car wash and that >> okay branch. >> And so they wouldn't need that anyway because there's not going to be any gray water going down. >> Well, we don't we don't know what business is going to go in there. >> Well, sure. but they'd be doing their
own. And then uh I also want to compliment the uh cameras that are going to be going in over at Riverdale. Those have been incredible. So with that, I'd like to move to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> Motion by Novak and a second by Butler.
Is there discussion or questions on the consent agenda? >> Mr. Mayor, >> Council Member Geyser, >> just a question for staff. So to clarify, we're adding um effectively uh 20-year options on this lease agreement. So there's four additional plus the five-year here. Is that what we're
looking at, >> Mr. Bone? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Right there. >> All right. Any other questions? Um Captain Harmony, >> what's LPR stand for?
>> Thank you. It's just way too simple then. I thought, well, the first one must be licensed, but then I was still reading, so I wasn't able to think. All right. Uh, no further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. And that motion carries.
Um item six, we are going to be conducting a public hearing and consider adoption of ordinance 2333 and resolution 25-119 establishing fees for 2026. Miss Hansen,
>> thank you Mr. Mayor, city council. Um so at the last council meeting uh ordinance and proposed fees schedule for 20 2026 was introduced um that included changes to certain liquor fees that required a public hearing. Um since then uh following conversations with council at
the last work session. Um, we are including an updated version of that fee schedule that uh proposes no changes to alcohol licensing from 2025 except for a reduction of five uh specific licenses.
Um, those are included in the attached updated version, redline version. Um, in addition, the fees that require the public hearing, an updated amount is included in the memo. Um, other than that, there are no other changes regarding the fee schedule from the
introduced to the modified version. Um, so following that public hearing, we'll uh request or recommend that the council adopt the ordinance and associated resolution establishing fees for 2026. >> All right.
Um, so did we end up with any increases in liquor license fees? I just went through all this, but I don't recall because we're we're doing a public hearing regarding fee increases to le to liquor license fees and I think we
either held them static or dropped them. >> Mayor, council, that is correct. We um we initially noticed on the original plan which was introduced two weeks ago. Subsequently, council has given us some direction about um holding steady or decreasing those which are reflected in
the amended version. Uh there is a matrix on the bottom of the memo for those fees that require a public hearing and um of what is being proposed. See the see you see the 25 and the 2026 column is reflective of council's most
recent direction. >> Um and then of course the attached documents u show the the changes both that were initially introduced and then that have been updated since our work session last week. >> Okay. Very good.
All right. Any uh any questions on this before we open the public hearing? All right, then. Um let me go back to that. All right, we're going to open the public hearing uh regarding liquor license fees. Is there anybody here to
address council over liquor license fees? Anybody here to address council over liquor license fees? We're going to close the public hearing and we've got um an ordinance and a resolution there. Probably want do you want those
separately or >> Yeah, my preference is separate. >> Okay. >> Council member Gesler, were you about to say something? >> Yes, Mr. >> Okay. Uh so I I had a a few more conversations in the community um after our work session. The one thing and and
learning much more about Minnesota liquor law than I probably ever wanted to learn. um came to understand a little bit more about how non beer above 32 and below wine works and we didn't adjust
the on sale wine. When we think about some of the businesses that maybe don't want to have a full intoxicating liquor license but want to be able to sell craft beer is a pretty common one. Mayor, you were talking about going to visit one earlier today. Um, I I'm thinking that we need
to adjust the on sale wine amounts as well to cover because you need that that beer license and that wine license to sell strong beer um under state law till the legislature squares that up. I I feel like that's something we should do. I would actually like to further amend
the red line version for the there's two layers of 35 to 99 from 1,000 down to 500 and then from 100 and more from 2,000 down to 1,000. So cutting those fees in half. Uh as far as what staff had indicated, there was only one one
line deployed in the city uh at the 100 or more. There there were none at the other ones. That's what we saw in the work session. Um, so it wouldn't be a major impact to the revenue side like we were discussing. Um, but I wanted to float that out there before we got a a motions going on and and see what people
would think. Okay. Um, anybody have any questions or comments on that? >> Mr. Mayor, >> struggling to try to figure out which page that's on here because >> I got so many I got too many things highlighted, but I don't think I have that highlighted. It's in the It's in
the red line attachment that was in there and there's the little chart table and then on sale annual fee for on sale wine. It's just below the uh alcohol license, the intoxicating one. >> Yeah, Mayor Council, it's on page three of the
>> page three amended version. Um what like fourth row down annual fee for on sale wine and then there's sort of two categories there. Oh, and we didn't Oh, and we didn't do anything with that. >> We weren't proposing to do anything with that.
>> We did not. >> You're proposing that we consider reducing that. >> Further, >> cut them in half. Basically, the two lines. >> Is that arbitrary or based on other communities that >> uh it is closer to the other
communities? Uh some do 2,000, some do 1,000 for all of them. Um >> Well, that's what we're at though. Uh, so we're at 1,000 for small businesses and 2,000 for larger ones. And some do 2,000 for large, some do 500, some do a thousand. There was it
was kind of across the other community spots. The main thing would be um that I I'd talked to a few folks who were interested in doing say beer and wine, but the two the $1,000 plus the $800 on the beer makes it rather expensive
compared to the if it was 500 and 800 for a small business. It's 1,200. It's a little more palatable for them to do as an option to add onto their business. Okay. So, you're you're proposing Say it again. Now I'm totally caught up
now. You're you're proposing 500 and >> 1,000 >> 1,000. So just cut them in half. >> Just cut them in half. >> And Miss Lensmire, currently we have one business in the city that's using these licenses. Is that right, >> Mr. Mayor? Council members, we have one at the higher level. We have several at
the other. I don't have the exact number, but it's probably less than 10. So not a huge impact, but perhaps we could look at that for next year. and hold it steady at this point >> because we don't know. >> Well, that's I guess that's kind of
where I'm wondering because we've we we've discussed everything else >> in a workshop, spent a lot of time with it and I understand we could easily miss one. Um, but as long as we're not increasing them, maybe I I can go either way. I'm kind of
ambivalent about this. >> Mr. B. >> Council member Butler. >> Thank you. Uh, you know, I I agree with council council member Geisler on the reductions for both of the wine licenses. If we're not comfortable with the lower one just because we don't know how many recipients currently have it, I
I'd be okay just reducing the higher one as well. I I'll admit and maybe my notes were just bad. I I thought this was part of the agreement from the work session to include a reduction in the wine licenses. And I know I talked to staff a little bit and I think there was just a little bit of honest confusion there. So
I I'm in favor of this. It's not the end of the world if we need to wait till la next year. And you know, just for the general public in general, we did agree in the work session to come back next year with further fee reductions. Some of the smaller licenses we just need more research on. And for the largest license, I I think that this is a good
step forward to reduce it. We're still higher than all of our peers. We're the highest of all the peers that the city clerk was able to provide for us. And I think it would be good to include this in the next upcoming budget cycle to continue that reduction. and I appreciate why we couldn't go further this year. >> Mr. Mayor,
>> Council Member Novak, >> um I have to admit I was also a little confused about this. I thought we were including this with these changes. So, um if we did decide to move forward with it, I would certainly be in favor. Um it's not a hill I'm going to die on, but
I I really do think that this would be something that would go in the direction that the city is looking to go in and shouldn't be that difficult of an idea. Okay. >> Any other discussion on this, >> Mr. Mayor? Council member Krisco,
>> I do recall talking about this and uh council member Geyser, is this specifically for craft brewies because they have to have the wine license and the 32 license? Is that what we're talking about? >> Yeah, I think the clerk might be better answer that one. >> Okay,
>> Mr. Mayor, council member Chrisco, it is not. Okay, >> this is related to folks who would like to do strong beer with their wine. The state requires them to also have this 32 license. It's just an anomaly in 348,
which is the liquor statute. It's just the way it's required. So, the brew pub license is different. They don't have to have >> I mean, it's strong beer based on what they do. So, it's not related to them. We've already and we've cut that license, but it's >> so we've already got that one covered
for the brew brew house. Okay, that's what I need. >> Council member Grisco. >> Nope, >> I'm sorry. >> Were you done? Council member, >> thank you, sir. >> Okay, good. Council member Gesler. >> Uh to clarify what I meant, um a business that may want to sell other craft beers that they don't make
themselves or they aren't a brewery. So, if they want to sell beer over 3.2, they have to have that strong beer, too. That's what I was trying to explain. So, wine and, you know, think cans of cans of beer or cans of wine or something or bottles of wine, I guess. Um, that kind
of business what model is what I was thinking, but not a full intoxicating liquor which covers everything. I see. All right. Um, which way we going here? >> Was there an amendment offered or
>> We haven't made a motion yet. No, we haven't. >> Um, >> Mr. Mr. Mayor, >> uh, council, >> I like the robust discussion. I like where we've gone so far, but I'm kind of in the camp here with Council Butler that we've made these changes. We had a pretty good discussion at at a work
session with staff's involvement comparing other uh, cities. I'd like to see us look at this in a year from now uh because we also want to make some some adjustments then. >> Mr. Mayor, >> councler, ju just to clarify, I'm fine making the change for the higher wine
license tonight. I I do think for the lower one, maybe since we don't know how many recipients there are, that would be worth waiting. I agree that there's a lot more work we can do next year with it. I think if it is just one at the higher license though, $2,000 is quite a bit of money. And Andovers is 550. So,
we would still be considerably higher than our neighbor and we would then be lower than some of our other neighbors such as Blaine. And I I think that's a good medium of, you know, showing that we're trying to be receptive to the community knowing that we're still revisiting this next year. >> Yep. Good.
Council member Armstrong. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. >> Council member Armstrong. >> Yeah, I'm to be honest with you, I'm thoroughly confused. Um, I mean I I don't mean that literally, but um, yeah,
I I guess I would I would site on the air of of caution as far as knowing what the numbers really are, having a little bit of research behind this. I I don't I don't have any issue um reducing the
numbers if the the uh data is there to back it up. Um, and and who knows? I mean, it could be even less depending on what our neighboring cities are doing, but um, I'd like to
leave it the way it is, table it for next year, and then at that point when we've got more information to go off of. If it warrants reducing it, let's reduce it. >> Mr. Mayor, >> Council Member Carlson,
>> I'm in the same place. Um, I um wish we just had a little bit more discussion on this and a little bit more comparison research beforehand. Not not questioning, of course, Council Member Gisler's research, but I'd like to just see a little bit more a closer look at the numbers.
>> Okay. So, Council Member Carlson, are you are you supportive of the motion the way we've got the feeds right now then, I guess, is my question. >> I'm supportive of the motion where it's at right now. >> Okay. I see a couple pulled up.
>> Okay. >> So, um we need to we we should take these these separately. >> Um somebody supportive want to make that motion. >> Mr. Mayor,
>> Council Member Gesler, >> I'll move that we adopt ordinance 2333 establishing fees effective January 1st, 2026. >> Second. >> Motion by Gesler and a second by Butler. Is there further discussion on this?
Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Opposed. >> And that motion carries. >> Mr. Mayor, >> council member Butler. >> I move that we adopt resolution 25-119 establishing fees effective January 1st, 2026. >> Second motion by Butler and a second by
Geisler. Is there further discussion on this? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. And that motion carries. >> Yeah, I think uh that's great. And then we'll come back and look at that wine
again. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, Mr. Mayor. Council Geyser, >> I I I think you know getting a little deeper on all of them would be good for next year. I think and you know we had discussed a little bit of ordinance cleanup too to see if we can streamline anything or make it a little simpler. Um
so hopefully we can bring a little more relief to the uh folks providing in the city. >> Yep. Absolutely. All right. Item seven is to consider a contract for storm drain repair at Kilder Street and 99th Avenue project
25-20. Mr. Hammer, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council, uh, public works is looking to award a contract here tonight to repair some failed storm sewer. We discovered it uh some sand deltas down along the walking trail on the north side of uh
the regional dam park. Uh, we've got a corrugated metal pipe that's eroded. Uh, it's failing. And so, uh, we typically this time of the year are looking at ditch projects and other storm water enhancements anyway. So, the funds are available in our maintenance, uh, fund of the, uh, approved budget. So, we're
just looking to purpose those into resolving a concern that exists and, uh, correcting a problem. So, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. I will also note if I may that item 13 on tonight's agenda is goes hand inand with
this one because we have to go into the county park and they have to give us the right of entry to do that. >> Very good. Any questions of Mr. Hammer? >> All right, >> Mr. Mayor. >> Council member Butler. I move we approve a contract for services with Precision
Utilities for the Storm Dream Repair at Kilder Street and 99th Avenue for project 25-20 and authorize staff to execute a letter of engagement based upon an existing master contracting agreement with Precision's Utilities. >> Second. >> Motion by Butler and a second by Gisler
Carlson. If it wasn't for that Tucson delay, you would have had that one. Is there discussion on this hearing? None. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. >> And that motion carries. Item eight.
Get back to me. Item eight is to consider a letter of engagement for 25-8A West Water Treatment Plant Reclaim Pump Installation. Mr. Hammer. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This this also has an accompanying item uh number
14. That's the master consulting agreement with this contractor and this is a letter of engagement that's contained within it. Um we're looking to change the process a little bit at the west treatment plant. Currently now water goes into our reclaimed tanks and we've got a pump that kind of sucks the
water off the bottom and recirculates that back. Well, as things settle out and fall to the bottom, we're pumping that right back into our filters. So, um, we're looking to, uh, change the pumping system, add floating suction, so taking the water off the top, which will improve our water quality. It'll help us
when we go to maintain those tanks. Uh, we can get all the solids off the bottom. And, uh, it's it's very likely going to reduce maybe some of our fees and our discharge rates to the Met Council. So, um, this year was a little bit different. If you remember our well rehab program, we kind of lumped a few
projects together for water um distribution and treatment. So, the funds are available in the current budget. We've uh finished the well rehab project and now we're just trying to get a few more of these done at the end of the year. So, I'm recommending we use Minnesota Mechanical under this LOE and
uh we move forward with uh swapping out just how we process the reclaimed water in that West plant. >> Excellent. Your honor, >> uh, Council Novak, >> I do love it when he says funds are available. Um, I move that we approve the wastewater treatment plant improvements and authorize staff to
execute a letter of engagement with Minnesota Mechanical Solutions Incorporated for reclaim, pardon me, reclaim pump installation. >> Second >> motion by Novak and a second by Butler. Is there discussion on this? >> Mr. Mayor, Council Member Grisco,
>> I just wanted to ask I know further in the uh agenda we're going to add M Minnesota Mechanical to our preferred vendor list, but we hadn't done that already. So, you went out and got bids for this. These were actually solicited bids and we got these returned back and M mechanical was the low bidder. >> That's correct, Council Member Scoia.
Just because they're part of our our kind of consultant pool, that never stops us from going and getting bids. So, we want to make sure we got to comply with the rules that we have under our purchasing policy. And either way, we want to make sure we're getting a good value. >> No, it makes sense. Makes a makes it's a nice improvement. Makes sense all around
mechanically to do this. Thanks. All right. Any other discussion on this hearing? None. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. And that motion carries. Item nine is to consider planning case 25-13.
Consider adoption of ordinance number 2332 reszoning to LDR3 for 2831 113th Avenue Northwest, city of Rapids. Uh Mr. Brown, I'll bet this. Well, this is one we did we
introduced last week. >> We did introduced it a couple weeks ago. This is basically a resoning of the old fire station 3 property. You'll note that there is a somewhat related item a little bit later in the agenda that addresses the potential sale of that
property. Basically, the city uh at the staff level, we decided to initiate this resoning just to prepare for that eventual sale. So, this will be going from uh combination of zoning districts to the LDR3 zoning district, which is a
new zoning district basically allowing 60 foot wide lots. >> Very good. Any questions of Mr. Brown on this? >> All right, >> Mr. Mayor. >> Council member Ger, >> I'll make a motion in planning case
25-13. The city council adopt ordinance number 2332 reszoning the subject property based on the following findings. The proposed resoning would not have an adverse impact on the surrounding area. The proposed resoning is compatible with adjacent land uses and zoning. The proposed resoning is
consistent with future land use guidance and policies of the 2040 comprehensive plan. >> Second motion by Gesler and a second by Armstrong. Is there discussion on this? Hearing none, all in favor signify by saying I.
>> I. Opposed? And that motion carries. Item 10 is to consider adoption of ordinance 2331 authorizing the sale of real estate 123xx Gladiola Street. This was introduced at the last city council meeting. This is just that little
orphaned piece of property that we ended up with many years ago. Um selling it to the adjacent property owner for $1,100. Does anybody have any questions of Mr. Brown on this? All right. So,
>> Mr. Mayor, Council Member Armstrong, >> I make a motion that council adopt ordinance 2331 authorizing conveyance of the property at 123XX Gladiola Street to Chad Mowen, approve the purchase agreement, authorize the mayor and city
manager to execute a deed, and authorize staff to execute other closing documents as necessary to effectuate the closing. >> Second. Motion by Armstrong and a second by Gesler. Is there discussion on this
hearing? None. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. >> And that motion carries. Item 11 is to consider approval of the 2025 2026 ICE center user contracts.
Miss Ring, these are all based on the price adjustments we did at the last council meeting. Correct. >> That is correct, Mayor. council. Yes, we were here in September. You approved the fee schedule for the 2526 ice center season and we had part of the
contracts for you at that time. This is the remainder of the contracts. They reflect the new fees. There's really nothing too different um administratively as far as what we do. It just reflects the new fees. The only other new thing is there is um a list of dates for each of our user groups for
blue ox and the youth hockey that is with the contracts just for some uh keeping things together and tidy with the dates that are reserved for them. Other than that, it completes the uh user contracts for the entire season.
>> Excellent. Any questions of Ms. Ring? >> All right, >> Mr. Mayor. >> Council member Gesler. Uh, I move that this we approve the proposed 2025 2026 Rapids Ice Center annual user contracts with the Rapids Youth Hockey Association and the Minnesota
Blue Ox and authorize city officials to execute accordingly. >> Second motion by Gesler and a second by I'm going to give that one to Butler. You guys are like tied, you know, each time. >> Photo finish. >> Yeah, photo. Is there further any discussion on this
hearing? None. All in favor signify by saying I. I >> I opposed. And that motion carries. Um, as Mr. Brown mentioned, now we're looking to consider introduction of an ordinance authorizing the sale of real
estate 2831 113th Avenue. Mr. Brown. >> Yes. Good evening. Uh, this item relates to the potential sale of the old Fire Station 3 property. Obviously, the new fire station 3 opened up uh a little
ways back. We had to spend some time resolving some title issues with the old property. Talked with you about this uh and kind of the council's preferences for disposal of the property at uh a couple different work sessions in the last year or so. Uh we did a
solicitation of offers uh toward the end of the summer. Just got one offer. That's not a complete surprise just because uh you know certainly there are builders who are maybe looking to build a house on one lot. Some of the larger build really all of the larger builders prefer have an economy of scale and
would prefer to do a much larger subdivision uh than this. So this is kind of an in between project eight lots uh in total. The uh proposal we received was from AMA Homes, which has a fair amount of experience around the region in doing smaller subdivisions and also
single infill houses. Has a a nice uh house plan that they would propose uh at this location. So, since that time, we've worked uh out a purchase agreement with them. Some of the basic terms, sale price of $33,000, which we we feel is a very fair sale
price for the property. Normally, if we were selling a property like this, we would tend to sell it as is. Talking with this buyer though, we concluded that the city could actually do the demolition a little bit cheaper than they thought uh they could do. I obtain
some pricing. Uh so, we'll plan to demolish the building yet this fall uh before the closing occurs. That cost is estimated at $120,000. Uh and uh I'll note that when this
ordinance comes back for adoption in a couple weeks, we'll also have uh demolition contract for you to consider as well as an associated budget amendment for that. Uh in addition to the purchase agreement for for this project, uh we propose that the buyer
will go through the subdivision process over the course of the winter. We would close in the spring. Right now, the draft purchase agreement says March 31st. I think we're leaning more toward April 30th just to be on the safe side. So, they would get their subdivision approval and then have a development
agreement executed prior to that time. So, again, a total of eight houses. Four of them would face 113th Avenue. Four would front 113th Lane. This proposal does include uh that curved lot where
113th Lane curves to the north. uh it would be a smaller lot, but with the the new LDR3 zoning district, we have better accommodation of that. Uh they're proposing that the houses would have an anticipated sale price of around
$425,000. All of them would have three bedrooms, threecar garage, uh LP smart side on the front, vinyl siding on the other elevations. So again, in terms of process, this is simply an ordinance introduction. and we'll be back on
November 4th with some other items. I can answer any questions. >> All right. Any questions of Mr. Brown on this? >> Mr. Mayor, >> council member Gisler. >> Mr. Brown, uh the 120,000 for demolition, is there any additional site remediation because fire station and any
of that or is it just pretty straightforward demo and clear? >> No, it should be pretty straightforward. We had the uh various environmental reports done already and we'll be removing any regulated and asbestous containing materials other regulated materials prior to that. Uh the pricing
on that is very minimal. So there is nothing nothing uh above and beyond that. >> So hopefully no surprises then. >> Right. >> Thank you >> Mr. Mayor. Council member Greskovak. >> Actually in that same vein I think the purchase price even after the demolition
is fair for the property. It's just a little about 2 acres or so. So, I think we're doing good there. Um, uh, Matt, if you could just clarify, in the next meeting, we will have a purchase agreement with the buyer and we will also have, uh, bids from contractors
that are going to do the demolition. That way, I mean, if we see a demolition bid of $200,000, we can say, "Wait a minute, not not where we want to be." Is that what I >> That's right. I I I will say we we have uh those bids already and the low bid is 120,000. So that that is pretty well set
at this point. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Plus, even if the bids came in higher, it wouldn't increase the value of the land. No. >> So, we'd still have to just kind of eat it. But >> All right. Any other questions of Mr. Brown? If not, we will consider the
ordinance authorizing the sale of real estate 2831 113th Avenue Northwest introduced. And item 13 is to consider right of entry agreement with the Noa County Parks for
the storm drain repair at Kilder Street and 99th Avenue. So, Mr. H uh Mr. Hammer, this is just doing the the right of entry agreement for that same project. >> That's correct, Mr. Mayor, in order to accomplish the work, the county needs to let us on. It's certain criteria, no
charge to us. Just put it back the way you found it and be cautious because they have little hunt areas that occur in that park at the time. So, we attached all of that to the specifications for the contractor. They're aware of it. No surprises. It's pretty straightforward. >> Excellent. Any questions to Mr. Hammer
on this one? >> Mr. Mayor, >> councelor Butler. >> I move that council accept the attached right of entry agreement with the NOA County parks for project 25-20, storm drain repair at Kildair Street and 99th Avenue. >> Second motion by Butler and a second by
Gesler. Is there any discussion on this? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. And that motion carries. Item 14 is to consider a master contracting agreement with Minnesota
Mechanical Solutions Incorporated. And don't we normally do these on consent agenda? We do it, don't we? Okay, >> Mr. Mayor, that's true. But because we had to do the letter of engagement, they they go together. Without the master agreement, you have no letter of engagement. Minnesota Mechanical is has
been low bidder on some of our wellrehab projects. they've done some specialty work for us before as opposed to keep going through that same process. We said let's get them in the pool again. We'll continue to do the bidding. Um but we just want to make sure makes it easier to process going forward once we have that master agreement.
>> Sure. All right. Any questions of Mr. Hammer on this one? >> Mr. Mayor. >> Council member Gisler. I move that we approve the master contracting agreement with Minnesota Mechanical Solutions Incorporated and authorize city officials to execute the execute the
attached agreement for professional contracting services. >> Second motion by Gesler and a second by Armstrong. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. And that motion carries. Item
15. Uh we're consider resolution 25-120 amending the recycling fund budget for HVAC system replacement for um Yeah, we got to have some heat out there for Miss Sinclair for this
winter. You know, Mr. Hammer, >> that is true, Mr. Mayor. Um we've got a an aging piece of equipment that's in there. Um while the funds exist in the recycling budget, they weren't specifically budgeted for this purpose. And since they weren't specifically budgeted, thus the budget amendment. So,
we're looking to replace an aged piece of equipment, uh, we're going to take it from an overhead to a something that's placed on the floor. It gives us more flexibility to use the space uh, within that office. So, I'm happy to answer any questions. >> All right. Any questions of Mr. Hammer?
>> Mr. Mayor, >> Council Member Butler, >> I move we approve resolution 25-120 amending the recycling fund budget to allow for replacement and relocation of the HVAC system. Second >> motion by Butler and a second by Novak. Is there discussion?
Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed. And that motion carries. Item 16 is to consider an introduction of an ordinance amending section 5-203
sub5 lawful gambling trade area definition. Miss Lensmeer. Mayor and council members, the item before you is a request to introduce this ordinance which would amend the trade area definition in the lawful gambling code to include the city of Dayton.
>> Oh yes. >> Okay. Doing so would allow lawful gambling premises permit holders to donate to charitable organizations within the city of Dayton and receive credit toward their trade area requirements.
Does anybody have any questions on this? Okay, Nathan, do you do you want to say something? Otherwise, we're good. >> Thank you, though. >> All right. If there are no questions, then we are going to consider an
ordinance amending section 5-203 sub5 lawful gambling trade area definition introduced. And that is uh now we're up to the open mic portion of the meeting. Is anybody here to address council for open mic?
All right, >> that would be a yes. >> Um, yeah. >> All right. Well, I'm sorry. I should have been reading this while you were walking up. Hang on there. Open mic provides an opportunity for the public to address the city council on subjects that are not part of the regular meeting
agenda. The public is invited to express any concerns you may have which are relevant to the affairs policies or practices of the city of Good Rapids and remarks will be limited to three minutes should should you wish to participate. Please approach the podium and state your name and address before addressing the council.
>> Can you hear me? Okay. >> Name's Nathan Morgan. Uh address 13008 Kilder Street Northwest. Here representing uh our Rapids VFW which is at 1919 Rapids Boulevard. um an opportunity here for the um school
age kids for in our area to win uh money that helps go to college. We do put on a event that is uh due to our post by October 31st. This is the voice of democracy and this goes up to national. They can win from our post goes to
district and then it goes to national. They can win over 35 grand. last year um was from Arizona. Um last five years, I believe. Um the top three were out of Minnesota. So, we have good students that are doing well here and they're
being recognized nationally. I would really like to see somebody from Rapids go in there and and do this. Um our post does offer $1,000 for the first place winner, excuse me, for um Voice of Democracy and then $500 for the Patriots pen. Uh, the voice of democracy is for
ages well grades 9th through 12th. And then the patriots pen is for ages 6 through 8th. The prompt that they have to do is how are you showing patriotism and support for our country? The voice of democracy is a speech. It's a
three-minute long speech and the patriots pen is an essay that they have to write. And if they can get it into our post by October 31st, they'll be eligible for those uh winnings. Um, I'm pretty sure everyone here thought I was here to talk about liquor licenses, weren't you?
No. But, um, and that's it. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. And I'm I'm sure that second section was grades six through eight, correct? >> Yes. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> All right. Any other anybody else here
to address council for open mic? All right. Seeing none, I close the open mic portion. I don't have any reports on previous open mics and we are up to other business. >> Your honor, >> council member Novak. >> Your honor, I'd like to welcome first
class scout Ben Meisner who is here and has stayed the entire meeting working on his merit badge for citizenship. So Ben, congratulations. >> It's not like it was a marathon meeting like you know some long ones. Yeah.
Congratulations, Ben. Thanks for being here. All right. Any other business to come before council? Mr. Stem, we must have something. Nothing. Oh, Mr. Hammer. >> I can humor you if you'd like. Um, >> well, sure. I mean, well, hopefully it's related to something here.
>> Uh, yes. There's a couple of things that'll be coming up out of the ground in the next couple of weeks. This Thursday, they t uh intend to start stacking the tower on that new monopole up off of Northdale and Foley Boulevard. So by the end of the week, uh the it'll
be in the air and then they just do the final touches and get the perimeter work done. So that is that is occurring this Thursday. And then next Wednesday and Thursday there's overnight closures on Rapids Boulevard to hoist the to assemble the truss on the new pedestrian
bridge and lift it up into place. We're not quite to the finish line yet, but it's uh pretty it's going to be very intrusive. It's it's all night Wednesday. Road closures will be there. Uh it's a lot of work to do in a little bit of time. So um if you like some
construction and you like to stay up late and get up early, you can go pick each of those in backtoback weeks. >> Miss Ring, do we have anybody in CTN that's ready to work an overnight with their drone and uh their time elapsed camera? >> I'm not exactly sure what the entire plan is, but I will let you
>> know. Mr. Mayor, Council Member Gesler, >> Mr. Hammer, will that B are we basically closing between Egret and Zilla then? Is that the plan? >> Council member Gistler, I do not know off the top of my head what the exact detour route is, but it would make sense that we would probably bring them around
on egret over and then put them back down to Foley. But I I don't want to give you bad information. I don't currently have it, but typically u we'll get that through the county when it goes out to dispatch and it usually gets included like in the Friday memo. >> Okay. But it's late night, so it's
everybody should be closed. It's between I want to say like 700 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. >> Yeah. I'll bet I'll bet it's going to be fully to Egret. I can't imagine I'm sending them through the neighborhood. >> When you when you detour county road, you use county roads. >> Yeah. Perfect.
>> May I ask a question in regards to that? >> Nope. After the meeting, he'll be happy to answer that. >> Yes, I will. >> Okay. Um, any other business? Mayor Council, maybe worth noting there are some community events upcoming and I
know we had a successful event last week. Anybody wants to speak to that that was there, but Steph, perhaps you want to mention the Spooky Skate this Saturday or anything else going on in your world? >> Oh, for sure. Yes, we invite people to come out to the Spooky Skate at the Rapids Ice Center. Um, that's on Sunday,
October 26th. There are costumes, great skating, you can come in the spooky hallway. Um, it's a really good time, so you can come out to that. And if I may say, we did just wrap up the very successful Rocky's pumpkin patch. We estimate there was probably between
4,500 and 5,000 people in attendance. 1,500 pumpkins were given away. There's bingo and there's costume contest and you can learn about youth athletic and other extracurricular organizations in the community. That's the focus and the
goal. So, a lot of people came out to that. The weather was beautiful and a lot of different partnerships put that event together. So, we thank the community for coming out for that. >> It was abs. It was just an amazing event. I couldn't imagine it going better. I couldn't imagine nicer weather. It was just wonderful. And when
it all got tore down where they were playing musical chairs. Well, first I looked out there and I thought, did we have one of those pony rides here or something? The grass was all packed down and then it was like, oh my gosh, there were so many kids playing musical chairs. It looked like one of those little pony rides had been set up there.
But no, it was just tremendous event and >> great time. >> Or, you know, over 1500 pumpkins went out, which means there must have been over 1500 kids there in theory. >> Yeah. Wonderful. >> Rocky's pumpkin patch. Get it on your calendar for next year. >> Mr. Mayor,
>> council member Armstrong. to to add on to that. I could not believe the number of volunteers that we had from the high school at that event. My wife and I got to work with uh six of the the girls
from uh um both from National Honor Society and I forget the name of the what's the name of the group that's right below them in the lower grade levels that goes up to it was brand new.
It was brand new to me as well. But as far as these these they were unbelievable. They were phenomenal to work with. They actually were interested in what an old guy has to say sometimes. So, but uh no, they
did all the all the >> Yeah, all the volunteers did a fantastic job and with cleanup afterwards um they were all all six of them just pitched in and got it done. I was I was impressed with Rapids High School.
>> Mr. Hammer, what Mr. Mr. Armstrong, council member Armstrong wasn't impressed with though was the flat tires on the carts in the trailer with the trailer with the tables and the chairs over in public works. You know, those were a lot of work apparently to load up because some of the tires were flat on
those carts. Just I want to get it in. Want to get it done so we can get that fixed before next time we need those. >> I don't want to hear all their complaining anymore. Mr. River Gesler. >> Uh I was just going to say I I also took the family out to the spooktacular at
Riverdale. Uh saw the petting zoo. It was great. They had goats, sheep, uh an alpaca, a pig, um bouncy house. All all the local businesses had their little things out. Fire department was out there, the police were out there. Um it was great, great little time. Everybody
had a good time with that. Um but there w there is another business event uh going on on the 25th on Saturday. um Nest to Threads uh in partnership with Bad Wolf uh which is at 315 Crpts Boulevard. Uh so that little strip mall by uh Goodwill there. Uh they are doing
a trunk or treat from 1 to 4 for kids. So it's free to attend. Um but from 1 to 4 on the 25th. So >> what did you say the address is though? >> Uh 3015. >> 3015. There we go. >> Yeah. Not 3050. >> Well, I thought it was even different
than that, but okay. >> 30. Yeah. So, Nest of Threads and Badwolf are doing it in the parking lot there um for kids to come on and do a little trunk or treating during the day. >> Nest of Threads has been a great community partner for us with our uh tree lighting. >> Absolutely.
>> Yeah. So, awesome. All right. Any other business? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Second. >> Motion by Carlson, second by what? Novak, maybe. >> Sure. >> All right. Um to adjurnn. And all in
favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. We're adjourned.