all of you to please stand and join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. >> 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. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, the first item on the agenda is approval of the regular agenda. Is there anyone who wishes to add or remove any items from the regular
agenda? >> Mayor, I'd like to add one item. Item 6J. >> Uh, item 6J is the transient merchants license. >> Okay. Are there any other items? >> If not, I would entertain a motion for approval with the one addition. >> So moved.
>> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve the regular agenda. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. >> Opposed. The motion carries. The consent agendas before the council. All items with an asterisk are considered to be
routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member or citizen requests in which event the item will be removed from the general order of business and considered separately in its normal sequence on the agenda. Are
there any items that anyone in the audience or any member of the council wishes to either add or remove from the consent agenda? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as printed. So >> second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to
approve the consent agenda. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I oppose. The motion carries. The the minutes of the regular city council meeting which was held June 9th, 2026 are before the council. Is there anyone
in the audience or any member of the council that wishes to make any changes or corrections to the minutes? I hear none. So I would entertain a motion for approval. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve the regular minutes of the reg
or the minutes of the regular city council held June 9th, 2026. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. >> We are welcoming a new firefighter this evening and I'd like to invite the chief
and our new firefighter to come up and we'll do the oath of office. You ready? >> I'm ready. >> Repeat after me. >> I, Dawson Grim >> I, Dawson Grim, >> promise that I will humbly serve all customers
>> promise that I will humbly serve all customers >> with an urgent response to their crisis >> with an urgent response to their crisis. >> With compassion, sincerity, and concern >> with compassion, sincerity, and concern. >> patience, kindness, and respect. >> patience, kindness, and respect. I
promise that I will at all times >> I promise that I will at all times >> conduct myself in a manner >> conduct myself in a manner >> that reflects positively on the fire department in the city of Detroit Lakes. >> that reflects positively on the fire department in Detroit Lakes. >> Finally, I promise to follow the
policies of the fire department. >> Finally, I promise to follow the policies of the fire department. >> Uphold the laws of our state and nation. >> Uphold the laws of our state and nation >> and the ordinances of the city of Detroit Lakes >> and the ordinances of the city of Detroit Lakes. and that and that I will faithfully discharge my duties
>> and that I will faithfully discharge my duties >> to the best of my ability. So help me God. >> to the best of my ability. So help me God. >> All right, Dawson. >> You want to introduce anybody or >> I got to meet her though. Elizabeth Wel is here from the Flity and
Hood uh representing the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities and she wishes to pro provide the council with the annual Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities update. Elizabeth, welcome again. Thank you, mayor and council members. Um, appreciate it. Uh,
we're going to pull my presentation up here. Um, I think most of you know me, um, but for those who don't, Elizabeth Wayel, the attorney lobbyist over at Flare and Hood representing the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities. I staff the Environment and Energy Committee and equally important, the
land use and annexation committee. I point that out because Kelsey Clem is my very able co-chair, sits on the board with the CGMC and does an amazing job. So, I think you all know that about him, but I just wanted to make sure. So, okay, >> we do. >> So, um I think you all know this, but
just for the audience sake, what the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities is is an organization of more than a hundred cities all the way from, you know, Roso down to Lac Crescent to Marshall, Detroit Lakes, all over the city, united on issues that are important to greater Minnesota. local
government, aid, environment and energy, housing, EMS, economic development, transportation, annexation of land use, and labor and employment. That list is quite a bit longer than it was when I first started visiting you because we try to be really responsive to the needs of our um our communities in terms of
what we're working on. Um going to give a brief session recap. Um a little bit less eventful, I'm going to be honest, than last year. Um we had pretty low expectations going into it. divided government um as we had last year, you know, one vote dividing things in the
Senate and um the House was evenly divided at uh 6767. Why I bring that up is that everything was a four-way negotiation which can be really challenging because you had to negotiate with the governor, the Senate DFL, the House GOP, and the House DFL.
And you ended up with some strange bed fellows on a number of different issues. I'm going to be honest. Um the focal point sort of overall at the legislature was fraud, guns, HCMC, which of course is Henipin County Medical Center, school safety, and bonding. Um for the CGMC,
our tasks were protect LGA, always important. Um pass a bonding bill, get money for leadline funding, and resist zoning and development preeemption. Uh this I am never very good at explaining it but what you need to know is that the budget situation got a
little bit better this year but we're still potentially facing challenging waters for the next bianium which means there was not a lot of money available to spend. Um it's still very challenging. So very little spending
contemplated this session. You know, sometimes in an off year there'll be a supplemental budget year or budget bill and we'll go after more money. There just was not the opportunity there. So, focus on bonding. We're also a little bit worried about LGA because back in 2025, as you remember, the Senate DFL
inexplicably tried to cut $20 million from LGA. Um, we were able to defeat that, but always on guard about that happening again. Thankfully, that didn't happen. Bonding. So, this was a bonding an actual real
bonding year and um there was a bonding bill in 2025, but that was actually the 2024 bonding bill. Um you know, it requires bipartisanship. It's actually one of those bills where they have to work together because it requires a supermajority. First thing that happens, governor comes out with his proposal
very heavy on stateowned assets, also putting money into capital security. He puts some money into PFA, which is public facilities authority, wastewater and drinking water, which is extremely important to us. Not as much money as I think you should have proposed. BDPI, also extremely important to our members.
That's, you know, the grants for putting business development, public infrastructure in nothing for local roads and bridges, which is not great. And then also only setting aside 35 million for local projects. We spent a lot of time working on that. You can see our current president, our most our
former president, some of our friends that we work with. Um, we spent a lot of time testifying, doing uh media, press conferences, meeting with legislators across the aisle, really trying to get a bonding bill done. And it passed. I don't want to say it was easy because we put a lot of work into it, but it wasn't
as hard as it was the year before. I think there's just a lot of pent-up demand. Um, it was great to see $400 million for the PFA. about $122 million of that was grants and loans. I would have liked to seen that number higher, but still a pretty good amount. Um,
local bridges 25 million, so a little bit higher there. Local roads 47 million. Um, the biggest disappointment was of course a low number on BDPI. I know that uh, you know, our friend Senator John Jazinski actually spoke up, you know, voted for the bill, but said that was the biggest disappointment of
the bill. So, got to continue to work on that. Um, I would say the other difference was lots of money for local projects. Another thing that we worked on very hard this year and was my personal biggest disappointment of the legislative session, I'm still a little
bit salty about it, is the lack of money for lead line service um, line replacement. Um, as you may know, the EPA is requiring all community water systems across the country to remove um, lead lines. We were able to, we had some great init um sort of initiative and
impact in 2023 with $240 million to help pay for that, but that money is running out. And we have an inventory of about 87,000 lines throughout the state that need to be replaced. I think I looked at yours. I think you folks I it's like around 60 or so. It's going to cost you
several hundred,000 to do that. We want the state to pay that for you because it's going to be very expensive for your homeowners. Um but to do all of that, we need progress every year and we need more money. We asked for working with our um our our friends in the trade
unions and um some others asked for $250 million. Um we were disappointed. Unfortunately, it got grouped in with the bonding bill which made it a lot harder to do. And honestly, it the challenge with it is it's a grant program. So I can't walk up to a legislator and say, "If you give us
money, this is going to do X, Z, and Y in your city." It's something we know it needs to be separated out because all we got, you know, we needed, you know, really $und00 million to have a good construction season. We got $15 million in general obligation bonds. And again, that's why I was disappointed with the
session. But otherwise, um, you know, we'll continue pushing on that. We need a dedicated source. Housing and zoning. I got to spend a lot of quality time with Kelsey on this issue again this year. I'd really like this issue to go away. Um, so back in 2024 there was the
missing middle built became yes to homes in 2025. This past year was the 2026 starter home act and it had a lot of the same elements as before but basically it was preempting cities ability to set standards. Um, all cities would have been preempted from using aesthetic and
material standards. They would have required everybody allow ADUs. If you're city over 5,000, which you are, you would have had to require allow up to four units of housing on a third of your, you know, buildable land, you have to no minimum lot sizes greater than 1/8
of, you know, in green acre uh in and green fields. Um, and then cities over 10,000, which I think you guys just sort of have inched across that line. So again, this would have uh impacted you. It created this system. I'm not even going to try to explain because I think
one of the biggest problems with it was that it was too complicated. But you had to pick and choose from all these different things in a way that would have effectively lowered your you know parking minimums, required more upzoning and your single family and multifamily zones um and other things. It just it
was I would say problematic and also really challenging I think to administer. Um we spent a lot of time on this. Um, the League of Minnesota Cities decided that they were I actually I'm not going to if if you know they had their way of describing, but they
basically I would say went somewhat neutral. They dropped their opposition. I don't know how the best way to describe it is, but it was really us metro cities and the municipal legislative commission, which is a group of wealthy suburbs that were up at the capital working together on the
opposition. Um, the bill, you know, went through the first house committee. It got through that, but then it went to the second committee and it was stopped. And you know, we spent a lot of time, again, the testifying, it all of, you know, all of our folks responding to action alerts really made a difference.
Um, they didn't even bring it up for a hearing in the Senate because I think there was enough opposition on both sides of the aisle to it. We do expect something will come back next year. We don't know what that's going to look like. We will continue to try and
engage. We recognize that housing is a problem. I mean, you all need more housing, you know, across greater Minnesota, but we think there are better ways to do it than the folks in St. Paul telling you what your zoning should look like. So, we will continue to look for solutions. We just don't think that that
was the solution to the housing crisis. Looking ahead, um you all know we have an election. I think the uh you know, the open governor's race with the primary um will set the field. It'll give us a better sense of what's going to happen in November. This is one of those years.
Both the Senate and House is on the ballot. Lots of retirements, especially from greater Minnesota. We are losing a lot of friends. Um, we'll make new friends, but it's always hard when you lose people like Senator W, Senator Dames, Representative Tolson, you know, from other districts. It just makes it a
little harder. Um, we are going to be using the interim to engage with candidates. You may recall we put together a candidate packet every two years. We have that. We'll copy all of you on it so you know what we're sharing with legislators, but it explains to them all the issues we work on. Um, and
then November will come and the new session starts January 14th, 2027. So, a lot of work to do um between now and then. Um, upcoming events will be in New Alm in two weeks. Um, I know I think Ron and Kelsey are joining us. The rest of you are still welcome, but if you can't
make that, fall conference in weight park and of course our biggest event is the legislative action day. Um, I also want to remind you again, Detroit Lakes, I think, has been, you know, was one of our earliest members, always a strong supporter. We really appreciate that and always encourage you if you're
interested. We're always looking to add more people to our committees, you know, whether it be transportation or housing or um environment or whatever, if you would like to get more involved, please do let us know. We'd love to have you. So, that was a lot of information. Any questions?
>> What does getting involved with committees actually mean and entail? Okay. So, it's not that hard and I'm glad you asked that question. So, um the primary responsibility for our our um committees is actually helping us to set the agenda for the next legislative session. We don't start fresh. I mean,
we do work from what we had, but basically it's usually one to two meetings via Zoom um and discussing sort of the issues. You get the materials ahead of time. You kind of look at it. You may have ideas to propose and then you discuss it. Beyond that, how engaged you get really depends on, you know,
partly who's staffing your committee and then also how engaged you want to be. I know with my committees, I um always try to, you know, email them every couple weeks during the session. Anytime there's new legislation, I send it out to my committees and say, "Do you have input on this?" Not all committee members give me input, but some do, and
that makes it really helpful. Um, you know, like I do the environment and waist wastewater and energy work, so sometimes I send stuff out. I've got a Fernel Roberts sitting on that one and I'll be like, "Franell, what does this mean?" Um, and he'll give me information back. Um, but it's it's just kind of
providing input. But I would say, you know, the minimum commitment is just that one, you know, one to two meetings right at the beginning of the year. If you don't want to do any more than that, you don't have to. If you want to, we are always welcoming more people, but would love to have you and any of your fellow council members engaged. So,
>> okay. Any further questions for Elizabeth? >> Okay. >> All right. We always appreciate seeing you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yep. So, at this time, I'm going to adjourn the regular meeting and call to order a
public hearing hearing to receive public comments on the proposed assessments for the Lyn View Estate Street and Utility Improvement Project. And before I open it up for comments or questions, I'm going to call on our city engineer.
>> Thank you, mayor, councel. I'll wait till the presentation's up here. See if this works. It's not going to technology is failing us here. Hold on. There we go.
All right. Uh this evening we've got a special assessment hearing uh for the Lyn View Estates First Edition Project. Um pretty typical hearing here. This is um related to the assessments that the city plans to levy against those
properties that were benefited by the project. That's requirement of state statute 429. Uh we'll go through the project background, what was done, uh project costs, and then at the end we'll have an opportunity for any questions or comments that uh the audience might have.
So little background on the project. Um we completed the preliminary engineering report uh about this time last year. uh in August then of 25 we had a public hearing and authorized the design. Eventually we moved forward with um bidding the project uh in the fall of
last year and we actually got a start on the construction uh kind of late in the season and then ultimately finished up um the street construction here over the last month or two which brings us to the assessment hearing tonight. Uh the Lyn View Estates project effectively was a
10acre undeveloped field uh right off of Shorewood Drive. It had no existing underground utilities. Uh we did have some utilities uh adjacent to the subdivision in Shorewood Drive. So basically what we needed to do was just extend sewer and water uh from Shorewood
Drive up into uh the subdivision. In addition to that, sort of kind of a a one-off is there was an adjacent a large adjacent residential property that did not previously have access to sewer and water and through some discussions with
them uh they were interested in that so that we we kind of incorporated um sewer and water service to that property as part of the overall improvements. Uh also did some storm sewer and drainage improvements uh to meet permitting requirements.
uh little bit of sight grading and constructed a pretty typical uh urban uh section street like we do in most of our subdivisions. It's got a culde-sac at the end of a pretty short street. As far as project costs go, um the
overall project was uh a little over half a million dollars, $521,000. Uh largest portion of that being the street. You can see the other costs there. Uh projects like this are funded primarily by special assessments to the
developer. Uh the owner of the property in accordance with the city's special assessment policy and the development agreement between the city and the developer. Uh the storm water utility fund does pick up a a small portion of that. Essentially all of the project costs, the sewer, the water, the street
in this case, 100% of that is assessed uh back to the developer to those properties that are being improved. Uh really the only exception is that the storm water utility fund or the city picks up 50% of the storm sewer costs.
So when you do all that, that 521,000 gets allocated like what's up on the screen. Uh the city paying a fairly small portion of this project to just a little over $20,000 and the development being assessed about a half a million.
Uh we allocate those assessable costs in accordance with the city's assessment policy. In this case, it's very straightforward. Basically do a per lot assessment uh of each of those individual elements of the project uh to come up with a a assessment per lot. Um
the other thing is our assessment policy has some prepayment conditions. Essentially projects with more than 20 lots are required to have 50% prepaid to the city before we advance the project to construction. and projects with less
than 20 uh 20 lots are required to prepay 25%. Which is the case for this project. So when you shake all of that out, uh you can see the various assessible costs and what it translates into in terms of an
assessment uh per lot. So, if you're looking at this prior to any prepayment that's paid by the developer, uh the assessments to each lot are about $50,000. Uh you take off that 25% prepayment, that uh nets out an assessment of about
$36,800 per lot. So, that's what will be levied against each of these uh lots uh starting next year. Uh again, kind of the odd one out here is that assessment to 1050 Shorewood Drive, which was just a sewer and a water service. They're
being assessed about $7,500 for that improvement. So, it's an assessed for a maximum of 20 years following substantial complete uh completion. Uh there's sort of two options for that. No deferral with a 20-year term, or we allow a 5-year
deferral followed by a 15-year term. And the interest rate for this project um that'll be tied to those assessments is five and a half percent. Any questions? >> Okay. Is there anyone in the audience that has any questions or wishes to make
a comment regarding the proposed assessments for the Lyn View Estate Street and utility improvement project? I hear none. So that public hearing is closed and I'll call on the public works chairman Zean.
>> Okay. Uh this uh project is uh is being done by bridge construction and uh it it is it is for housing and uh like John said it's $521,000 in assessments with the city shares only $21,915 but the committee reviewed all the
components of this and I go ahead and and give consideration the resolution to approving the adoption of the assessment role for Lake View Lyn View Estates Street and utility project and I so move >> second motion's been made and seconded to approve the adoption of the
assessment role for Lynn View Estate Street and utility improvement project. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppose. The motion carries. At this time, I'll call to order a public hearing for the vacation of a portion of
the dedicated public road in the plat of Lakewood Beach and Shady Oak at 997 Lakewood Drive and 1001 Lakewood Drive. And um who should I call on for this? For
>> Larry. >> For Larry. Go ahead, Larry. >> Uh yes, we have a request from Doug Rest Meer to vacate a portion of the road in Lakewood Beach and Shady Oak. It does appear that there's excess
right of way in that area because the road is shoved way to one side of the area. I think Charlie's letter explains very well why the city should not vacate that unless they have a 66 foot wide road right ofway for future road
improvements and for future uh sewer and water extensions. Um the owner has also contacted the property owner on the other side of the road to provide that additional right ofway. And so I think what we would like to do this evening is hold the public
hearing but table action on this matter until a future council meeting and if he comes in with the required easement from the adjacent property owner then we could go ahead and approve the vacation. >> Okay. Is there anyone in the audience
that wishes to speak to the issue of the vacation at 997 Lakewood Drive and 101 Lakewood Drive? Doug, come on up. And if you would state your name and address for our minutes, even though it's kind of obvious.
>> Sure. My name is Doug Rest Meer. My home address is 2033 Rose Creek Boulevard in Fargo. So my request is to uh to vacate the property, but um what I'd like to I have approval from Concordia. Concordia
owns a big chunk of land. The land is in CRP uh set aside. So, what all I'm waiting for is for the USDA to get approval for them to grant this easement. All they want to make sure is that this little piece of property of
1,145 ft, which is about the size of this room, uh, doesn't impede on the CRP land. And I've talked to Rachel Clark at Concordia. She's the VP of finance. She said, "As soon as I get approval from
USDA, I will sign it. I'll get it notorized." So, it's really just I'm waiting for her to send me the approved easement. So, my request would be to conditionally approve the vacate upon presenting to the city this easement
which gives the full 66 ft rightway because it'll be 33 ft on each side of the road. I'm only asking for it. It amounts to less than 3,000 square ft is the portion I'm asking to vacate. And my reason for asking to vacate it is today it's not maintained by the city. It's
kind of a barren area that's right at where the road turns. So all the neighbors have to look at this kind of ugly piece of property. My plan would be to take the vacate portion and make a a beautiful landscape out of it.
So, that would be my request rather than having to wait for another city council meeting when I'm literally on the verge of getting I was hoping I'd get it on the way over here uh the easement approved and notorized by Concordia. >> Okay. >> So, that would be my request is to
actually get conditional approval. >> Okay, Doug. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else in the audience that wishes to speak to the issue of that vacation? Uh, I would like to ask one of our city staff, either Charlie or Larry or Kelsey, what your thoughts
would be on Doug's suggestion. Charlie, do you have any thoughts? >> Yeah, I'll pipe in on that. Mayor, again, I've reviewed the material provided by Mr. Restimire as well as his surveyor. And I would agree that if um the city
receives the uh easement from Concordia uh that uh the city would then be within its um rights to vacate uh the portion of the rightway that Mr. Resttomire wants. But I don't think it's
a good idea to do a conditional uh vacation. Not sure what that is. You either vacate it or you don't vacate it. Uh and so my recommendation would be to do what Mr. Reman proposes, which is that the uh council take no action on
this matter tonight. If Mr. Ry Mtommyer comes uh in with these uh with the easement deeds from Concordia and now based upon his discussion I'm we're going to need to
see a release from the CRP. Um, so that's another document that we would have to have from presumably Concordia would be obtaining that and but I haven't seen that yet either. And so it seems to me that it's premature
and it doesn't seem to me to be any uh pressing need to do this at this meeting. I would rather have the council wait to make sure that we've got the proposed easement. >> Okay. And just for information, I have drafted that easement based upon the
information from the surveyor. The documents are out there. So again, I have no problem with them if we actually do have them. >> Okay. So, is there anyone else that wants to make a comment? If not, that public hearing is closed
and I'll call on Chairwoman Spry from the Community Development Committee. >> Thank you. Um, the CDC did review this and uh, Mr. Rest Meer was present at our staff our committee meeting. Taking into account all of that conversation as well
as what we've heard tonight, our um, committee recommends that we uh, defer action table to a later date. >> Okay. Is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded to table. >> Do I need discussion?
>> Done. Not on a motion to table. >> Okay, it's tabled. Thank you. Thank you, Doug. At this time, I'll open a public hearing to receive public comments on modifying the development program for development district number one, establishing tax
increment financing district number one-2 within the development district number one and adopting the I think it should mean tax increment financing plan. Therefore, an authorizing an interfund loan.
Uh, am I calling on hope? >> Yes. Thank you, mayor and councel. The city has received a request to establish a housing tax increment financing district for the proposed Southshore senior living development um senior living facility on Southshore Drive. The
proposed project consists of approximately 165 residential units serving a variety of senior housing needs. Um the action considered today is to approve the TIFF plan um which would overall establish
the district and allow the city to utilize TIFF um as a tool as a resource for this development to move forward. The development agreement which actually determines the amount that the city is willing to provide to that developer is going to come at a later date. That is not finalized yet. So today the action
itself is just the approval of the TIF plan. with that the overall tiff plan o presents that the uh overall development cost is $56 million. All the numbers in the tiff plan represents on that $56 million development cost. When we look
at the development or the development agreement itself, it will refer to what the estimated taxable market value will be, what our estimate would be for that property, um which we're still working on finalizing for that piece. So with that, the request of the TIFF is $6 to
$8 million. Um, our annual estimate of what this uh overall taxing jurisdictions would receive is about 1.1 million um with an overall maximum of 11.6 million in the 26 years. So when you review the TIFF plan, the 26 years
is the state statute maximum. The historically the city of Detroit Lakes does not go the full 26 years. However, when we establish a plan, specifically with being a municipal district now and the opportunity to do pooling, um we do like to consider it at the full 26-year
term. Um so, when we actually look at the development agreement itself, that's when we'll consider the length of the time and the amount of dollars that we're providing for that developer. When we do tiff, we always do have to do a but for it is a state um statute requirement showing that this
development would not happen or would not happen at the scale proposed if it did not qualify. And with this, you know, construction, the size, ROI, different aspects do make it qualify for the butt for test. So this project would not move forward if we did not provide
the tiff assistance. Be happy to answer any questions. We do also have one of the developers in the room with us today if >> Okay. Is is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to the issue of the developing the tax increment financing district plan?
Okay. Hearing none, that public hearing is closed. And which chairman am I calling on for a motion? >> Wendy. W >> Wendy, go ahead. >> Thank you. Um the committee did review this um information with hope and uh we
recommend that the council approve the resolution. Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to adopt a resolution modifying the development program for development district number one, >> establishing tax increment financing
district number one-2 within the development district number one and adopting the tax increment financing plan and authorizing an interfund loan. Do we want to do all that hope? >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. I just want to make sure I
was adding something in there. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. >> Opposed. The motion carries. >> At this time, I'm going to open up our public forum speaker segment and I have
four names that have signed up to speak the this evening and I think they're all Becker County candidates for different positions. So, the first one on the list is Shane Richard and I would invite Shane to come up.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, members of the city council. Uh, I'm here to introduce myself as a candidate for the office of Becker County Sheriff. Uh, um, I'm here with my wife, Christina. I didn't know if she would make it, uh, running from work right away. I wasn't able to get all the children here. They've got volleyball and basketball and all the
wonderful things that we've still got with kids in the home. So, um, I apologize for being late coming in. I wanted to get to you sooner. We married off our 27-year-old son on a destination wedding uh for the first meeting. I was at mandatory training for the second one and uh I was at the Minnesota Sheriff's Association conference for the third
one. So, I'm finally here. I apologize for making it during Water Carnival because I know you're all busy. So, uh a little background on me. Uh I've got 27 years of law enforcement experience. 26 years uh is here with the Beck County Sheriff's Office. I had about a year prior with the Dworth Police Department.
Um, many of you may or may not know this, but I actually got my start with the Detroit Lakes Police Department for four entire days during the Fourth of July celebrations back when it was uh much bigger than it is today when it used to come go from about Highway 10 down to Pelican Rapids or so uh with people. So, I remember those days of the
streets being clogged. Um, got to meet many of the wonderful officers back then. Um, you know, the the old crews we like to call them. you know, officer Todd Glander back then, uh Rob Wartz, Eric Berin, Edgar Brotten, two that aren't with us anymore. Uh Chris Bergleman and Chad Judes, um great guys
that really helped form me for who I am today. So, uh there's many more on that list. Window Widow, uh you know, uh a bunch of them, but um with the sheriff's office, I began in 1999 as patrol uh deputy. Uh I did some of our defensive
tactics. Uh, I was a field training officer in 2000. Um, or I'm sorry, I also had nine years as DARE officer. Uh, some great times. That was a good stress relief. Uh, going into schools with a bunch of fifth graders for 50 minutes a day. Uh, I think all of our officers should be able to do that cuz all the
stresses that we deal with, that is that is fantastic time in the schools. Um, I was promoted to patrol sergeant around 2013. Uh, and about a year after that, uh, um, Todd Glander won the election and chose me as his chief deputy. I've been in that position for 11 years. When
he retires here in January, that'll be 12 years as chief deputy. Uh some of my accomplishments specifically within the sheriff's office in that time, I created our drone program. Uh we can do indoor and outdoor searches with that. We've got uh thermal or fleer. Um me
personally, I'm a part 107 pilot. Uh we've got five of them on the department. I'm responsible for finding two autistic children uh uh within the past two years. Um it's great technology. It's really uh changed the way that we do searches. Uh helping out the fire departments on um burning
buildings that we can show them what the rooftops look like and uh live feed uh stream video right to them uh for those critical incidents. Um I've also been at the forefront of hosting a large scale drone training here uh at WeFest and this year uh down
at the uh fairgrounds uh where we bring in uh drone teams from both uh northwest and central Minnesota. Uh it's really improved a lot of the the the capabilities of those drone teams throughout uh this area in Minnesota. Um there's a lot of teams that are much
better prepared to find those kids, respond to those emergencies, things like that. Using our drone just recently up on some of the tornado destruction up on Floyd Lake. Uh those those tools are incredible when you have large scale events or just those critical events. I was also the project manager for those
of you that have been around a while for our armor radio system. Uh, I know that probably caused some angst and some um issues with the city for those of you who have been here for a while. Uh, that was a difficult decision. Uh, but it was the right decision and uh, I've always tried to make the right decision uh, not
just the popular one. Um, today we are in a better place with that radio system for uh, issues like we have with the tornadoes that we can communicate effectively with our public safety partners. Um uh I was the project manager in uh migrating to our new computer system. Uh
it runs our dispatch center, our mobile uh our jail system, our civil process that is uh with all our municipalities in Becker County along with with uh White Earth Tribal, Clearwater County and Manomomen County. So we share that system that gives us better uh information sharing between our
entities. Uh, I was also project manager for implementing our bodywn u cameras. Uh, keeping up our technology and our squad computers, uh, or I'm sorry, our squad cameras, things like that. Um, I played a pretty key role in a lot of those, uh, facets as the chief deputy with the
sheriff's office. I also played some key roles in the construction of the new jail, sheriff's office remodel, and joining the Lakes Area SWAT team. I try I for the past 12 years, I try to sit on the fire chiefs meetings. We've started a rescue and EMS uh meeting over the past couple years where we talk
about uh dispatching issues, protocols, trying to get uh a better level of public safety. One of the things that just came to fruition with the fire departments was we we were talking about tornado all calls and getting that information out to the fire departments when we have bad weather. One of the things that we heard up in Floyd Lake
was they couldn't believe how many first responders were on scene right away when they were walking out of their houses. That's through some of that uh uh collaboration with emergency management and all those public safety partners. Why do I want to be your sheriff? Um there's a piece of me that doesn't. I would love to spend the rest of my
career working under Sheriff Todd Glander. He has been an incredible uh leader. Um I value my time that I've spent underneath him. If I could continue my career working underneath him, I would do that because he's he's he's an incredible leader. Unfortunately, uh or fortunately, he is
going to spend more time catching fish, uh hunting gross, uh doing all the things that he's going to do, which leaves a vacancy on the sheriff's department. Over my past 12 years, uh as his right-hand man, I've developed the knowledge, experience, and leadership to run this department. Uh the job doesn't
scare me. I feel like I'm a unplug him and plug me in and I can I can run the sheriff's office and provide that high level of public safety to all the citizens of Becker County, including Detroit Lakes and all of our municipalities. Um, I look for your support November
3rd. Uh, I I hope that uh it's known that not only between our fire department, CMS, and everything else, even our government partners, for those of you that have contacted me with issues, drop of a hat, I'm there to help you. Um, I love collaborating with uh
all of our municipalities, whether it's uh vacating streets or GIS issues or, you know, whatever it is. Uh, I think those that have gotten a hold of me to ask anything of me or work with me, know that I'm here 100%. I try to break down the lines between county and and, uh,
city governments. And, uh, we're on the same team and we all have the same goals. So, um, if you have any questions for me, I'll stand for any questions. Otherwise, that's my uh hopefully only three or five minutes or whatever you give me. >> Any questions for Shane? If not, Shane,
thank you for coming. >> Thank you. Appreciate you giving me the time. >> The next person on the list is Kim Frederick. And I believe Kim is running for auditor treasurer. Kim, >> thank you. Mayor, council persons. I
appreciate the time. I'm here to personally introduce myself. I am Kim Frederick and I live at 17 356 County Highway 14. I am running for Becker County Auditor Treasurer. In the 70s, my mom met a wonderful man, Bill Walther, to spend the rest of her
life with. And it was a man which I was able to call dad. And he taught me strong work ethic, never give up, and take care of your neighbor. And I grew up as a Callaway kid um on a century farm. I did go to high school here in
Detroit Lakes and graduated from DL. And then after high school, I married my childhood sweetheart, Jamie Frederick, who is with me tonight as well. And Jamie is a decorated Marine. And we started our marriage in Charleston, South Carolina. And two weeks after
moving to Charleston, we did he got deployed for one of his many deployments. And during my husband's final deployment in the Persian Gulf, I did move home here to Callaway. Um after
Kuwait was liberated in 19 um 91, Jaime did end his active career as a Marine and we settled in De Moine, Iowa. And there we had a daughter that was born with disabilities and we also had another son, Roman. And I also started
my financial career there in De Moine. And I started my financial career at Brenton Banks and I started as a teller. I worked up as a customer service rep. And then I also worked on the investment side. When Brenton was sold to Wells, I
did go to Principal Financial Group and that's one of the largest financial companies in the United States. And working in Principal Financial Group, I worked at the banking side and I also worked at the procurement side. Alyssa's disabilities ended her life in 2011.
again bringing me back home. So then I started my career here at Becker County and I have um been with Becker County now for uh 13 years and I have also been
I worked there for I have a 20 years of financial experience. I was a licensed realtor in Iowa. I worked at Consolidated Title Services and I'm also serve as a clerk at Riceville Township and I've been there on my seventh term
and I do have a tax certification through um the department of revenue and I also am election certified. My responsibilities at the auditor treasures office is I work on the auditor certificates. I work with the cities, the townships and watersheds on
their special assessments. I provide critical oversight on the election process. In fact, we just finally today finished our over 400 election judges that we have trained. I have experience in the accounts payable and the receivables. I do the collection of and
the bouncing of the taxes and I work with abatements, delinquent tax, revenue recapture, confession of judgments, and the tax forfeite process. I complete the tax calculations. So, I'm very aware of of the levies and how the rates work. and I do work with the lenders to manage
their escrow accounts and I maintain up-to-date tax records on all of the parcels here in Becker County. So, I hope listening to me gives you a little bit of insight on who I am. I am very independent. I'm a self-starter. I'm results driven. I'm a huge advocate of
customer service and I have tenacity and gives me great pleasure in working with the customers and helping them resolve issues. So you may hear some of those running for the same position. Uh they talk about being transparent, uh having integrity and being accountable. And I
just think that those are things that are expected of this position. So why me? Because of my experience there. Mary trusts me currently to do 78% of her job. I can do 78% of that. The part that I can't do is obviously because I can't go out and do the investments. I don't
have authorization to go and do things with the banking account. So I know day one I can start doing that job. My commitment to you is I will lead the team with integrity. I'm dedicated to service. I am definitely going to find more efficiencies within our office. I'm
going to keep communication lines open internally with departments. I will regularly review departments upcoming financial choices and proactively communicate a maj a major updates to potential variances. I want to make sure that they are staying within their
budgets and externally with the taxpayers and of course collaborating with local businesses and I want to continue my trust with them and I really look forward to being the next Becker County auditor treasurer and I did give um some rat cards. Okay, >> thank you guys.
>> Voila. >> Thank you. Thank you, Matt. >> Thank you. >> The next person on the list is Nathan Martin, and I believe Nathan is also running for auditor treasure. Nathan, >> Mr. Mayor, council members, thank you
for the opportunity to address the meeting today. And a special thanks to Curry Tyson for educating me on the the open form process. My my name is Nathan Martin and I'm a candidate for Becker County Auditor Treasurer. And if you need it, our
address is 12789 Nelzeren Lane, Pelican Rapids. My wife Peggy and our son JJ and I live in Cormack Township. We moved to Becker County in 2021 uh to begin a new chapter closer to
family and friends. I bring more than three decades of leadership, financial oversight, and public service experience to this position. My career includes 32 years in the United States Navy, followed by service as a senior
executive at the US Department of Energy and now executive leadership in in an international engineering and architecture firm that serves government and community clients across the country. Throughout my career, I've been responsible for large organizations,
significant budgets, regulatory compliance, auditing, accountability, and leading large teams to achieve exceptional results. My education includes a master of business administration from a a top business school, and I subsequently
earned the Navy certification for expertise in financial management. My life has been dedicated to service. Whether in uniform, in federal government or in the private sector, I've focused on serving communities and safeguarding
the public trust. Now, I want to bring that experience home and put it to work for Becker County. As auditor treasurer, my priorities will be responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, strong financial accountability,
transparency, outreach, and ensuring free and fair elections for every citizen. I grew up on a farm in eastern North Dakota, and Peggy grew up in uh in the the big city nearby, big city of 2,000
people. Uh before I left home for college, my family and I would often spend summer vacation time on and around the lakes here in Becker County. My career required me to serve wherever the the nation and the mission called. But after
living and working around the country and frankly around the world, Becker County is where my family and I choose to make our home our forever home. It's where I want to continue my lifelong commitment to service. and I would be honored to earn your
support and your vote for Becker County auditor treasurer. Thank you for your time and please remember to vote in August 11th primary. Happy to entertain questions. >> Any questions for Nathan. Thank you, Nathan.
>> And the last person on the list this evening is Zack Bayer. And Zach, I believe you're running for auditor treasurer. Good evening. My name is Zach Bear and yes, I'm also one of the six candidates running for Becker County Auditor Treasurer. It's very important to vote
in the primary. That will narrow it off to two for the general election upcoming here. I was fortunate enough to have been born and raised here in Detroit Lakes. I went to high school here and that's where I also met my wife here. So, I learned a lot growing up from my father who was the fire chief for
Detroit Lakes about what public service means to people. So, growing up, I always knew that whatever I ended up choosing professionally, I wanted to emulate that with my own skills. I've been spending the last five years here working in the auditor treasurer's office. Uh during that time, I've done
payroll, motor vehicle, I've got my property tax certification, and then I've also served as an election judge. I've had my hands pretty much in every corner of the office here. So, when I decided to run, it just wasn't because I thought it looked like an interesting job. It's because I've been doing the
work. And I believe that I'm the next best person to lead it. The auditor treasurer manages the county's finances, oversees elections, and administers property taxes. Those responsibilities touch every single person in Becker County. every time the county cuts a
check, processes a payroll, uh calculates your property taxes, or when the final vote is certified after election day, that's this office. And the people of Becker County deserve to know that whoever is sitting in that chair understands the full weight of
those responsibilities. For me, this has never just been a job. I have a degree in political science from the University of Minnesota duth. So I always spent my time there trying to study up on local government and learn the processes myself. And that's kind of where I learned that real change
you see on a day-to-day basis is done at the local level. It's not in Washington DC. It's not in St. Paul. It's right here where we live. The decisions made at a county level about how money is managed, how public records are kept, and how elections are administered matter in a very real and
direct way to real people. I take that very seriously. I often get asked what separates me from other candidates. First, my energy and commitment. I'm a bit younger than most of the other candidates, um, but I see that as an asset, bringing new energy
and a long-term commitment to the county's future. Second is my experience in the office. In my current role as payroll accounting specialist, I work cross-dep departmentally with every department in Becker County. That's given me a lot of insight on their processes. It's kept me
up to date on board actions and making sure I know what's going on and when it's going on because it obviously will impact budget implications down the line and doing things like cost analysis, actually seeing that impact on the budget. Third, I show up when it matters. A few
months ago, the county board debated converting this position of the auditor treasurer to from elected to appointed. I'm the only candidate that's been able to stand up, put my opposition in writing alongside with dozens of county residents who did not want to see their vote taken away. What I'm running on is
straightforward accountability, transparency, and the responsible management of public funds. And not just because they're talking point words. It's because I've actually been able to use those skills in the office. I'll be knocking out on doors around
Detroit Lakes. Some of you may have seen me already or seen my cards if I missed you a couple times around here. So, I genuinely love the chance to talk with anyone who just wants to get to know me a little bit better before they decide how to vote or if they have any questions for me. So, if you guys have any questions for me, I would more than
certainly take them. >> Okay. Any questions for Zach? Thank you, Zach. >> Thank you. >> Before I continue on with the agenda, is there anyone in the audience that wants me to adjust any of the balance of the
items on the agenda? >> Nice and cool in here. You can just stay, right? Okay. I think we're at the community development committee agenda and I'll call in Chairwoman Spry. >> Thank you. Um item 5A is consideration
to approving a TIFF policy. Um and I will hand that over to Hope to >> Yes. Thank you, mayor and councel. Um today I'm asking you to consider an updated TIFF policy. While Minnesota state statute does not require cities to have their own tiff policy, we have um
historically maintain a policy um with the city's transition to utilizing municipal district. compared to how we previously have done it, it only fit that we come forth with a new TIFF policy showing the new procedure specifically of how um the steps we go
through with a TIFF application being previously it would go to planning commission for a public hearing, the development authority and then also city council for a public hearing. Now moving forward, it will only go to development authority for recommendation and then city council for public hearing and approval. So overall streamlining and
simplifying the process that needs to be represented in our tiff policy as well. One of the other major um changes within that or main changes I should say is the overall self-imposed um restriction of what our net capacity we can utilize for tiff. Um we do have 10% in there. That
is not a state statute. That is going to be one that we put ourselves at. In our previous policy it was 10% plus an additional 2% for housing. um we just kind of wanted to simplify it and keep it all into one one bucket on that. So, as of right now, because you're probably
curious on what those numbers look like, um we're currently sitting at about 2.67% of our net tax capacity being utilized for TIF. So, we are still well below the 10% we would be limiting ourselves to. And even with the projects that we currently are considering, we would
still stay under that. Historically, the max we've ever seen is a 5.72% which was back in 2019. I'd be happy to answer any questions on that. >> Okay. Any questions for Hope?
>> If not, I would entertain a motion. >> Uh yes. Um our committee did review this at length yesterday and we uh recommend that we pass a res adopt a resolution approving the policy, the t the tiff policy. >> Second. So move
>> motion's been motion's been made and seconded to adopt the tiff policy. Discussion all in favor of the motion say I. >> I opposed. The motion carries. >> Item 5B is consideration to a permitting memorandum of understanding with the
Pelican River Wershed District. And I will uh hand it off to Larry to describe that. The city the city of Detroit Lakes under its MS4 permit is required to have a rigorous uh permitting system for storm water management. We issue two
storm water permits, a mitigation permit and a land disturbance permit. And each applicant who gets those permits is also required to get a storm water permit from the Pelican River Wershed District. So in order to avoid redundancy, we are entering into a memorandum of
understanding with the watershed district where the city will be responsible for making all of the uh permit approvals for storm water in the city limits. So that means applicants will no longer have to get a Pelican River watershed district permit
in addition to their city permit. >> Okay. Thank you, Larry. >> Thank you. Um, our committee did review this yesterday um at length and we uh as a group recommend that the council approve uh this memorandum of
understanding and I so move >> second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Pelican River Wershed District. Discussion on the motion. >> All in favor of the motion say I. >> I opposed. Motion carries.
Item 5 C, consideration to the second reading and adoption of ordinance number 550, amending section four of the zoning ordinance reszoning an area from R2, which is one and two family residence district to R4 limited multif family residence district at 565 Southshore
Drive in relation to the Southshore Senior Living. >> Again, this is just the second reading of the resoning ordinance for the Southshore Senior. It's pretty straightforward. Um, our committee uh reviewed this and
recommend adoption of the ordinance and I so move. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to give second reading and adopt ordinance number 550. Discussion on the motion. >> I I'd just like to make a comment that I'm very excited about this project
because as Hope said earlier, this is a 165 unit senior living complex, but 90 of those units are going to be for independent living. And the reason I bring this up because I'm hoping that 90 senior families will decide that they want to sell their home in Detroit Lakes
and move to this new facility, but also give 90 young couples a place to live. And we do need housing in Detroit Lakes. So, this is a very important step for Detroit Lakes. Uh we're lucky to have such a facility coming in at $56 billion, but it will also provide not
only homes for senior people, but it'll also give 90 people maybe a chance to buy their first home. So I I'm excited about this proposal. >> Okay. Is there any further discussion? >> All in favor of the motion say I.
>> I. Opposed. Motion's carried. Second reading is given and ordinance 550 is adopted. Item 5D is consideration to a sec to second reading and adoption of ordinance number 551 amending the zoning ordinance of the city of Detroit Lakes relative to
permitted accessory and conditional uses in business districts. >> Larry, do you want to speak to this at all? It's just cleaned up some language and >> this is second reading of ordinance 551 and essentially we're clarifying the com
the permitted and accessory and conditional uses in the B1, B2 and B3 districts so that they are uniform and all say the same thing if they mean the same thing. So that's what's happening with this ordinance.
>> Okay. Um I have a question procedurally um adoption of the ordinance and then D1 is uh approving the summary. So I do do I need to make two um >> it has to be a separate motion separate motion has to pass by.
>> Okay. All right. Um our committee did review this and uh recommend adoption of ordinance number 551 and I so move. >> Second. Motion's been made and seconded to give second reading and adopt ordinance 551.
Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. >> Uh secondly, um we recommend approval of the summary of ordinance 551. And I so move >> second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to
approve the summary of ordinance 551. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries and I believe I heard four fifths or more. >> Okay, Wendy. >> All right. Item 5E, consideration to a
resolution approving a non-conforming use expansion permit to allow rooftop deck on an existing 12x 21 ft water oriented accessory building at 1342 East Shore Drive. Larry, do you want to speak a little more to that? >> Uh, yes. The planning commission held a public hearing on this matter. Uh there
was no opposition from the public on the request and the planning commission unanimously recommends approve. >> All right. >> Our committee did review this and also recommend approval and I so move. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to adopt
a resolution approving a nonconforming use expansion permit at 1342 East Shore Drive. Discussion. >> All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. Opposed. The motion carries.
>> Um 5F, consideration to the first reading of ordinance number 552, amending the zoning ordinance of the city of Detroit Lakes relative to parking standards and amending section 18 subdivision 7E to allow retaining
walls in the shore impact zone. >> Okay. The planning commission has met and discussed this at length and they are recommending an amendment to the zoning ordinance which will reduce the number of categories that we have for different parking requirements. It also
reduces the amount of parking required in some of those uh districts and it also then the final thing is that it will allow retaining walls in the shore impact zone which is typically where you find the need for retaining
walls. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, our committee reviewed this and recommend approval of the first reading of the ordinance amending the zoning ordinance of the city of Detroit Lakes relative to parking standards and amending section 18 subdivision section
18 subdivision 70 to allow retaining walls of the shore impact zone and I so move >> second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to give first reading of ordinance 552. Discussion all in favor of the motion say I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Um item 5G,
consideration to authorizing staff to solicit proposals for planning consultant services for a new comprehensive plan for Detroit Lakes. And again, I'll hand it over to Larry. He'll do a better job of explaining it than I could. >> Okay. Our current comprehensive plan was
adopted in 2000. It's been amended in 2009, 2018, 2019, and 2020. So even the most current amendment to our comprehensive plan is six years old. We feel that it's time to review that
and come up with a new comprehensive plan. >> All right. >> All right. Um our committee did review this and uh recommend authorizing staff to solicit proposals for the consulting uh planning consultant services for the
new comprehensive plan. And I so move. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded to authorize staff to solicit proposals for the planning consultant services for the new comp plan for Detroit Lakes. Discussion. >> Um I just wanted to clarify one thing
when we were discussing this yesterday. Um I had commented that I had it confused with our strategic planning uh meeting that we had held a couple of years ago. Getting an updated comprehensive plan was one of our goals of that strategic
planning session. Was it not? Did I understand that correctly? Okay. >> All right. I just wanted to point that out. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there anything further on your agenda? >> No, there is not. >> Okay. We'll move to the public works committee. Chairman Zean. >> Okay. The first uh Yeah. >> Did we vote on that?
>> I don't think so. >> Oh, good catch. >> All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. >> Thank you. Okay. Uh item 6A. We had discussion regarding parking at 410 Westlake Drive. This is the absorbers
and so forth. And with all the construction and stuff we're going on right now, we just tabled this until a later time to discuss about that parking after we get everything done with happening with the streets and so forth. Also on item 6B, we had discussion there regarding uh West Long Lake Road. We're
we're looking at that uh area too as far as uh repairs and roads and so forth. And uh that's also is going to be tabled this time too. We had the discussion on it, but we'll get back to that at a later time. Uh, moving on to item 6 C.
It's a consideration of resolution accepting the reports and setting a public hearing on the abatement of diseased trees for 2026. I'm going to call on Sean King to give us a little update on that. >> Yes, mayor and council. This is our annual uh tree abatement and diseased
trees. Uh every spring we go out, we survey the city, find uh any diseased or dead trees, we mark them, and then bring it back to council for approval to send these out for a public hearing where the trees will then be removed um either by
the property owner or our city contractor uh by the end of October. >> Okay. Um, as Sean said, we've reviewed this and uh Sean also they say there's a number of elm trees that we still have here in Detroit Lakes uh and working
with that, but uh the committee decided to go ahead and have a public hearing on this uh later and I so move. >> Second. Motion's been made and seconded to adopt a resolution accepting the report and setting a public hearing on the abatement of disease trees for 2026.
And that public hearing will be at our next council meeting. Correct. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. The next item we're going to go to 6J. You've got a copy that was added for us here. This is for renewal for a
transient merchant license for a backyard uh butcher. And I so move to go ahead and accept it. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve a transient merchant license for backyard butchers. Discussion.
All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Sounds like a horror movie or something. >> Okay. The uh next item is um item 60. We're going to ask the city engineer for his uh project status report. John.
>> Yeah. Mayor and council continue with uh a number of projects around the community here over the last month. Um wrapping some up as well which would include uh Southwood Shore Estates. Uh essentially that one is buttoned up. Work workhorse pavement was done in
June. Uh touched up some of the turf and we've actually started working on uh issuing the final payment for that project. Uh work continues on the water tower. Probably nothing anybody can see. Uh coating the inside of the steel bowl, coating the roof, uh doing some of the
mechanical piping and valves on the inside of the of the column and pouring the slab and things like that. Um there'll probably be a little more visible work here. Uh sometime in July, uh crew will be in to work on the site piping and the transmission lines extending from the tower out to Rosman
Avenue and things like that. So continue to work on that. Hartland State Trail, we had a ribbon cutting last month. That project is done. Uh working on issuing final payment to the contractor and closing that project out.
uh West Lake Drive. Uh plenty of work happening there. Uh good news is uh phase one on West Lake, which was from uh Washington to Minnesota, that was done prior to the 4th of July. Uh so we had that open over the holiday weekend,
uh took a short break and then started on phase two, which most immediately is the intersection really of Legion and West Lake. So, the contractor's in there. They've got two weeks to get that done and open because it's a rather lengthy detour out to 59 and around uh
for a lot of the community. Uh plan right now should have that open by the end of the week. So, they'd be a little bit ahead of their their deadline of next week. So, hoping by the end of the week we can have that open, which will shorten up the detour to where we can
use Legion and around on Cheryl and to Willow. But they'll continue work uh from Legion towards Rossman here over the next month. Um kind of just much of the same on the beach side. Uh sort of a pause there. They're done with with
phase one and and two uh for the most part and really need the road portion of the of the project to uh move along before they can kind of come in behind that and start phase three area of the beach down by uh Legion and heading towards Rossman. So, plenty more to come
on that. Uh DMR legacy grant, that one is done. Uh we did a walk through. Um council has approved final payments. We're just working through the final paperwork with the state on that project. Um Shorewood Drive. Uh most of the work is
done. Couple punch list items left to do. Uh little ways to go on the turf yet. We're winning some of those battles and losing some of those battles, but we'll keep picking away at those. Uh 270th Avenue, uh contractor did a great job on that project. That was Ryan
Contracting. We've never had them before, uh do any work in town. Did a great job. Um paving's done, curbon gutters done, uh top soils placed, and they're going to seed here in the next day or two. And then we should be able to, you know, fully reopen that road.
Um, just workhorse pavement to be to be completed uh in the spring of 27. Lyn View Estates substantially complete as well. uh waiting for some private utility companies to finish up some work in there and then that project will be
um seated and wrapped up and a final course of pavement put down probably in the later part of July and then we'll uh work on issuing final payment for that Rosman Avenue kind of the opposite end of the spectrum we're just getting going with that um the crews have done the
removals uh really last week and now this week they're um starting to install the deatering system um which will allow them to do the utility replacement starting sometime next week. So, ways to go on that. Nothing to report on the
north side for the moment. Questions? >> Okay. Any questions for John? >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to go ahead and accept uh John's project status report for Apex Engineering. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to
accept the city engineers monthly project status report. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> And that brings us to the finance committee. Chairman Bokei. >> Thank you, your honor. Uh item 7A is
consideration to uh authorizing a resolution for DMR legacy grant application. Uh this was discussed at finance committee and a little bit of a technicality that we have to match a 25-year term by the state compared to the 20 we already approved.
Anything else to add, Mr. No, mayor and council. Um, we haven't technically approved the resolution yet. So, >> but we're going to though. >> But we're going to the one I handed out is the accurate one. The one in the packet is old. >> You're right. >> So, thank you for the correction.
>> The motion is to adopt the resolution, Matt. >> Correct. The one that was 25 years this afternoon. Yep. >> Did we have a second? >> Second, >> okay, discussion. >> All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. I opposed. Motion carries.
>> Thank you. Item 7B, consideration of approving paving quotes for the American Legion Campground on awarding the contract. We had two bids that were very uh competitive, very close in your packet. Uh we looked at this and went with Howard Paving uh this afternoon at
finance committee. It was unanimous. So I so move. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve the paving quote for the American Legion Campground and awarding the contract. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I.
>> Oppose. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item 7 C. Consideration to approving bid package number two for the pavilion project. Uh Mr. Clem. >> Yeah. Mayor and council. Uh this is the next step in the pavilion project. Earlier this year, uh the council approved bid package number one that
include the demolition and some other site improvements. Uh this is bid package number two which includes uh the site work, foundations, structural concrete, masonry, structural steel, uh the mass timber roof structure and other
just uh general uh construction cost. Um see here they had uh they do competitively bid it. Uh over 28 bids were received. There's there was eight different uh bid packages. Again, uh the bids were favorable. Um slightly over
what our projections were, but um still seem to be very competitive bids. So, uh the recommendation from Moff and JLG was to approve bid package number two. >> We did speak to this at finance committee. It was unanimous that we move
forward and I so move. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve bid package number two for the new pavilion. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> That's all your honor. >> Okay, we're at the public safety
committee. >> Anything Aaron? >> Yes, your honor. >> Just a couple here. >> Uh we got 8A, consideration of the first reading of ordinance 553 amending city code 804 bicycles. Uh we'll have Dylan Ramstead come up here and talk about
what we got going on. Mayor and council, last month we had a discussion regarding an ordinance or a possible ordinance uh regarding ebikes. Uh throughout that discussion, we decided to open or the committee
recommended opening up the biking ordinance and looking at that, making sure everything was consistent um and updated. So, we did so we did that. Um the ordinance basically updates a few things and adds a few things. Um, most
importantly, what I want to highlight is the beachfront district, which is a new item, which is uh Legion Road to Washington, and an update an updating of the business district uh which is now uh Washington Avenue from Frasy Street to Grant Street, home streets from Lake
Avenue to Veterans Memorial Parkway, and the front and front street from Minnesota Avenue from to Washington Avenue, which is essentially uh Washington Avenue uh the cross streets north to Highway 10. Those are important
because we then included a speed limit uh in the re in the regulations. Uh for everything that is not the beachfront district, the speed limit would be 15 m an hour for bicycles and ebikes. And in the beachfront district, that would drop down to 10. Uh we made the distinction
just because we thought that there was a little bit of a difference between uh sidewalks and and bike trails uh that are not next to the beach and the characteristics of the beach area. Um other than that, just some language updating, making sure everything kind of
makes sense and is consistent with state statute. So with that, if you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. >> Okay, any questions for Dylan? >> I've got I've got a question. And um you know we see a lot of kids on these I call them electric skateboards or scooters. Uh are we addressing that
because some of those go pretty pretty quick downtown. >> We do address what is uh characterized as a motorized foot scooter. State definition. We use the state definition that limits them to 15 m an hour. Therefore they would technically be
limited to 15 m an hour on the um anywhere that is not the beachfront district. In the beachfront district, they are then limited to the 10 miles an hour as well. >> But I'm talking like for downtown though where you know even 10 or 15 that's
still when people are out walking or whatever and they have one of these kids come and if they hit you at 10 that'd be a pretty good hit >> in the beach in the business district. Uh we will uh bas if you are a bicycle or non if you are a bicycle electric
bicycle motorized foot scooter or what is an EPAD which is defined in the stat in the um ordinance. It's basically a motorized um mobility device. Um you are you would be prohibited from being on
the sidewalks and would be required to be on the street. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Wendy, you had a question. Um just yeah are these speed limits going to be posted? There was language in the ordinance that says um here's the speed limit
separate and apart from what might be posted for street traffic >> or is it just incumbent upon the biker to learn the ordinance? >> Kelsey, you want to take that one? >> Yeah, mayor and council, we've talked quite a bit about what we're going to do
for signage along to Beachfront. Um, Council Member Spry, we probably haven't talked a lot about signage maybe elsewhere around town. We've been focused primarily about the West Lake Drive and in the beachfront. So, we certainly do plan on on posting it somehow. We're still debating how to
best do that. Is it uh is it something on um on the sidewalk or is it sign? Um the one thing that we probably didn't talk as much about the committee is just education. Um Carrie's been working on some graphics that we can do, you know, on social media posts and stuff to
explain where you're supposed to ride, where you can't ride, what the speed limits are. So that's all coming. Um maybe we'll have that ready for second reading, but that's part of this implementation. >> Okay. >> My second question is about enforcement
of this. Um is there Oh, the violation of penalty. So, there's a fine for violating the Okay. Do we know how much >> it's a petty mis? Uh, it is a petty
misdemeanor. Um, and so we will have to work on a fine schedule for that. Um, but yes, there will be fines. >> Okay. >> Okay. Are there any further questions? >> If not, did we already have a motion, a second? >> No. Um, uh, Thank you.
>> Not yet. >> All right. >> But the committee unanimously uh says we need to be proactive and put this in place in the first reading. So I make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to give first reading to ordinance 553. Discussion.
>> One quick note. I think we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that several uh residents uh requested an extension of the 10 mile per hour zone all the way down to Pelican Lake. Um we discussed it at some length or Pelican River. Thank you. Um, Pelican Lake would be a long
way. Uh, Pelican River, uh, we discussed it at some length and and Dylan mentioned the fact that there's unique characteristics on the beach. So, what we we responded to them and I think we just kind of discussed, correct me if I'm wrong, Aaron, that let's implement what we have and then let's see where we go so we can discuss how would we would
want to set it up for future success if we did implement a change. >> You are correct. >> All right. Further discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I opposed. Motion carries. First reading to ordinance 553 is given.
And we are down to liquor and gambling. And Mike, anything from there or the public? >> Nothing, Mr. Mayor. On either. >> All right. I would like to recommend to the city council that they ratify the appointment
of Dave Schneider to the library board. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. Motion's been made and seconded to appoint Dave Schneider to the library board. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. >> Just some announcements. The balance of
the early city council candidate filing period is now open and it runs through uh July 28th at 5:00 pm. If anyone's interested in running for office, the entire I think the entire budget committee schedule is
uh printed. The joint governance meeting remaining date is printed and the balance of the city council meeting dates are printed on your agenda. Is there anything further from city staff that needs to come before the council?
Mayor just point out August um with primary all of our meetings will be on Monday. >> Okay. >> 10th. >> All right. Sounds good. Anything further from staff? If not,
Craig, do you think further? Aaron, >> I would just like to say that sympathies for the Dolby family. Um our golf club pro at the golf course did a great job and my sympathies for the family. That's nothing else you wanted. >> Okay, Wendy. >> Nothing here. Thank you. >> Okay, Ron, >> I've got a couple items. Uh, first of
all, I want to thank the parks department and um and Sean for moving the playground equipment uh on the city beach over to People's Park. We've got a brand new park over there. We took that and it looks like brand new and they did a great job. And uh also, I'm chairman
of the housing authority and we have a opening on our board. So, if somebody's interested in serving senior citizens for housing and so forth, just give Carrie a call here at the city office. I I'd be interested in uh serving on that. Uh we'd love to have you. >> Okay. Thank you, Ron. Jackie.
>> Yes. I just have a um a compliment for our parks department, police department, and also our um sheriff in um how they navigated the July 4th weekend, the July 4th event, the fireworks. Um, everybody worked together really well. It was a It
was a It's a great community event and I just thank them for the extra work that goes into that. >> And you meant the chief of police, right? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> There you go. >> Thank you, Chief. >> Matt, >> uh, only thing I have is just a reminder on the budget committee meetings coming up. Uh, they're early, but uh, very
important. Uh, public's always welcome. >> Right. Mike, nothing. Sean, >> I I would just like to note, and Vernell, of course, isn't here, but um a thank you to the uh public utilities for the the electric department in particular for their response after the
tornado last week and how quickly they got things restored and to the fire department, too. I've heard nothing but good things about our fire chief in the last week. Uh and I think, uh, you know, our community really rallied and our city played a big role in that. >> Great. And we're going to recognize Vanell next month. He just received a
pretty prestigious award. So >> great. >> More to come on that. Jay, >> I'm good. Thanks. >> The business of this council has come to a conclusion and the meeting's adjourned.