[Music] 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. Thank you. I know a lot of you are here for a couple different items and I'll try to accommodate you and move those items up in the agenda. But before we do that, we have a couple other things we have to take care of. The first item on the agenda is approval of the regular
agenda. Uh I believe we're going to be adding item 96 under the liquor committee, item 10 C under the public utilities committee, and item 6B under the public works committee. Is there anything else you can think of that needs to be added? If not, I would
entertain a motion to approve the regular agenda with those three additions. I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the regular agenda. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppose. Motion carries. The consent agenda is 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 and I believe we're going to remove item 6 U and item 11D. Are there additional items that need to be removed or added? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the
consent agenda. So move second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. The minutes of the regular city council meeting which was held April 8th, 2025
are before the council. Is there anyone in the audience or any member of the council that wishes to make any changes or additions to the minutes of the regular meeting? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion for approval of the minutes of the regular council meeting held April
8th, 2025. So move they be accept as presented. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the minutes of the regular council meeting held April 8th. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppose. The motion carries. At this
time, I'll adjourn the regular meeting and I'll call to order a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposed 3.2% on sale wine and Sunday liquor licenses for Clarity Wine Bar LLC.
Uh, is there any staff report on that item, Kelsey? Mayor and council, the application is in your packet. Um, we're required since this is a new license to have a public hearing. Um, other than that, everything else is in line. Okay.
Is there anyone in the audience that has any questions or wishes to make a comment regarding the proposed licenses for Clarity Winebar LLC? hearing none. That public hearing is closed and I would entertain a motion from the council. Uh Mr. Mayor, so the
liquor and gambling control committee uh discussed this at their this afternoon's meeting. So we have consideration to approving the issuance of a 3.2 on sale wine and Sunday liquor licenses for Clarity Wine Bar LLC pursuant to their application and fees. Uh as I mentioned,
we uh the committee reviewed and we recommend approval and I so move second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the issuance of a 3.2% on sale wine and Sunday liquor license for Clarity Wine Bar LLC. Discussion.
All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. So with that, I'm going to jump around a little bit here. Without objection of the council, I'd like to go to item 6L under the public works. Chairman Zean. Okay. Uh, item 6L is the
consideration to approving a memorial signage at Sucker Creek for Janet Bo and for uh, Donna Dustin. Um, I'm going to ask on Kelsey Clem to give us a little update on this. Mayor and Council, uh, there is a
request in here um, in your packet from Sally Hoskins about getting permission to put up some memorial signage in Sucker Creek. And I believe Sally is here too to answer any questions and Mark is here to answer any questions about it. Okay. Do you want to make any kind of
statement either of you? I'd like to make a statement. If I if you could come up to the podium, Sally, and I want a different parallel of universe with the computers. Sally, if you could get a little closer to the microphone,
please. Uh, Sally, closer to the mic so we can hear you. Uh, we're old. We Okay. Is this better? Yeah. Oh, sorry about that. Okay. Uh, we got a natural and scenic area grant, which was a very
tight grant for Sucker Creek Preserve. Now, that's not for upstream. I'm talking Sucker Creek Preserve. And it was in uh uh it said we needed to expand and protect natural and scenic
areas and once it was done we were not to add anything. There were many committees I think you can imagine. Well, you've all been to Sucker Creek I assume and there are lots and lots and lots of signs there and they they are
signs for education. we intended to teach while we were building them. Uh the most important committee I felt was the sign committee. There were just four of us. Uh Donna, Dustin, Janet Bo, Mark,
and me. And uh Janet Bo was a botonist. She was from central Minnesota someplace uh near Brainard. Donna Dustin was a DN both DNR. She was DNR re research biologist for fisheries and Mark Olsen
was the artist and I was chairing the committee as the text was being edited. So we were getting down to the wire on these things on the signs for the preserve. Now um Janet go came down with
breast cancer and she died. So panic I needed to do the editing which I I I wasn't as knowledgeable boy as I was too. Uh then two to three years ago
Donna Dustin got breast cancer and died. Donna Dustin was my close friend and I feel really bad about that. And at in that time, Mark Olsen was affiliated with a very bad
cancer and we almost lost him and God help us, we would have lost the best artist in the community. Uh, so Mark and I are applying to the grant office in St. Paul
to install a monument dedicated to each with dedication words words on it. Uh and the name of the grant officer in St. Paul now is
Jennifer Bubkkey. Uh she's she's a tough one. I I don't know if we'll get this through or not, but we'll sure try. Uh because I feel these people were outstanding people uh in our community. I also
wanted to say that before Joe Hiller, he was the grant officer be that I was working with all the years. And Joe Hiller said, "I have seen Greater Sucker Creek and this is the finest use of grant
funds I have seen in my 25 years." And I thought that was pretty darn nice because Joe gave me a rough time lots of times. So anyhow uh I can prepare the necessary letter if need be. I know there are questions and I I will defer
to him. I do want to add that uh in accordance with climate change and stuff I am presenting on native wild flowersowers at St. Luke's Episcopal Church next Monday evening under the opices of the Isaac Walton League. So
you're absolutely invited to come. Mark, thank you. Hey, Mark. Yeah. So, I was just gonna help you with any questions that you may have, concerns. So, are there any questions by the council or concerns
that you want to bring up at this time? I I just want to say a few things, uh, Sally, Mark, in regards to your request for a memorial signage. We understand that you want to have a sign to memorialize these two people, but the size of your sign being 8 feet tall is
is more than we ever thought it would be and we're thinking more of a 8 by10 plaque or so forth on it. So we we think instead of making decisions tonight and not saying we don't want to do it at all, but we like to sit down and talk to you to to get a proper size to put in
there cuz we we we don't have this type of signage any place in our city that our parks and they're a little little larger than we expected to to have on it. We were under impression it was going to be a lot smaller. So, we'd like to sit down and uh uh you know, sometime
in the future here and and talk to you about it and and um move this into our next next month's meeting for the city council. Yeah, we can certainly sit down and discuss it and I've got drawings for you. We can go over and we and we saw some drawings that you have here and so
forth on it, but but we we just think we want to sit down and talk about that. Absolutely. We can certainly do that, I guess. Okay. We'll and we can you can work with Kelsey CL and we'll get a we'll get a date set up and we'll sit and and talk to you about this. Sounds
good. That's okay. Okay. Thank you very much for coming. Yeah. Thank you for your time. Okay. So, we're not going to take any action tonight. And Kelsey, we Kelsey, will you put it back on the public works for next month, please? Thank Thank you. Uh, without objection, I'd like to move
to Well, just out of curiosity, how many people are here regarding the Minnesota state flag? If you raise your hand. Okay. If I think what I'm going to do is if you intend to ask to make a comment, I would restrict each of your
comments to one minute. We've got a pretty full agenda tonight and nobody up here packed a lunch. And so if you could hold your comments to one minute, that would be great. Uh but with that, I would uh turn it
over to uh Chairwoman Spry or No, that's it's under public works, Chairman Zean. 6 under 6A 6A. We had our committee public works had quite a bit of discussion on this and when we're all said and done we decided to uh make a
recommendation that we keep the keep the flag as is right now. Okay. Is there anyone on the council that wishes to take any other type of action at this time? Yes, your honor. Okay. I would
like to make a motion to not hang the old flag or the new flag. Okay. Is there a second of the motion? Mayor, I think from a Robert's rules of order standpoint, uh there would need to be a motion to
resend the prior decision first. uh because two months ago there was a decision by the council and so the appropriate motion would be a motion to resend that can be made by any member of the council. Um and it requires
twothirds majority. So okay I was using Matt's rules of order but that's not going to work right I think I think Bob has more precedence. Okay. All right. So, with that, Erin, uh, I guess you have to
change your motion to a different motion. I'd like to make a motion to resend. Okay. Is there a second to the motion? Second. I have a point of order question maybe for Go ahead, Wendy. Um, I was um informed recently that if you
voted against something, you don't have standing to bring it back. In a motion to reconsider, that would be true. But the motion to reconsider would have to have been made at the meeting where the action was taken. Okay? And then only one who was on the prevailing side could
bring that motion. But a motion to resend. Remember a motion to resend says I I you know the prior action is null if it passes by twothirds majority. That can be brought up any time as long as the
action is not changeable. I mean we haven't entered into a contract or that type of thing. So this would be a changeable action. It can be brought up. Um and the only thing is it requires not just a simple majority but a a twothirds majority. Okay. Thank you.
Okay. So why don't I open it up to the public if you want to make a comment before we proceed with any further motions. If anybody wants to make any comments, you're welcome to do so. If it's only gonna be one or two, I'll even give you two minutes.
Hey, Todd. For you, that's pretty good, isn't it? That is. All right. My name is uh Todd Simmonson from 1774 East Shore Drive, and I'm obviously here to talk about the flag. Uh it seems to be quite a
controversial subject, no matter what side of the fence you're on. Uh, a lot of people think that the new flag stands for the Democratic Party. I don't necessarily believe in that. I just don't believe that the flag stands
for anything that we stand for in the state of Minnesota. So, on the way here tonight, I thought, what am I going to talk about? Kind of busy at work. Didn't have a chance to really write anything to talk about. So, I just got into my phone
and I started digging around our old flag. It says under Google, it says, for those of you that believe Google anyway, it says the depiction of pioneer of the picture on the flag is the depiction of pioneer
plowing a field while a Native American on a horseback rode by. Next it says representing the state's agricultural heritage and it indigenous history obviously Native
Americans. The seal also included elements like a setting sun, a tree stump, and a state flower. The beautiful pink and white lady slipper.
The flag's blue background was a representation of the state's many lakes and rivers. Then, as I was sitting in here tonight, I just Googled the new flag. It says, "The dark background is a is in
the shape of the outline of the state of Minnesota representing the land of Minnesota. The remainder of the flag is a solid bright blue representing water." Okay. So, I think in the state of Minnesota, especially Detroit Lakes where we're from, we're all about
agriculture. We're all about tourism. Those are two of our very biggest incomes around here. So, if we can't agree that we're going to fly the new flag or the old flag, let's just agree to fly not no
flag. I mean, if you look at our county, that's what our county has decided to do. They've decided to flag no fly no flag at all. And if you look all throughout the state of Minnesota, I haven't written down what what what you know, communities have decided not to
fly the new flag, but you can bet there's a bunch of them because when you go online, there's a lot of controversy online about the new flag. I just don't think with all the tourism we have in this city that that's what we want to
represent. And if you disagree with it, let's just agree that we don't have fly a flag at all. So, thank you very much. Thanks, Dad. Anyone else wish to speak before we take our vote? Good evening, Jim. Evening. Jim
Sinclair, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. I was wasn't planning to get up here, but I can't understand what we're doing here. It's the state flag, isn't it? Are we in or do we belong to the state of
Minnesota? Uh why would we the city council be wasting their time talking about the state flag and and changing it? If you want to change a change, go to the legislature. They represent the state of Minnesota and they've made a
decision. And if you want to change it, have them change it. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Anyone else? Otherwise, I'm going to call the vote. Mayor, I was asked to repeat what I said at the committee meeting last night and
so Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you come up. I apologize. I'll call from County Highway 6, Detroit Lakes. Um, I'll try and keep it quick. I have a lot to say. I could go for three hours about Minnesota history. No, let's go two minutes. Okay. Okay. I'll do one
minute. Um, I don't think it's in the best interest of our of our town to fly the flag of the Twin Cities. Uh, a large amount of motans do not want the redesigned flag. And I understand this is not about redesigning the flag. This is about talking about not flying a flag
in our community. Um, historical. Geez. Um, let's see. The flag has been called dated. Uh, I think that's an insult to the 25,000 soldiers who fought under it in the Civil War. The first Minnesota alone lost 82% of their men in 10 minutes holding the line
for the Union. To call their sacrifice dated is despicable and morally wrong. It's been called offensive, racially offensive toward indigenous people. And while that is uh considered, it is an opinion. The
ninth Minnesota Infantry Company G was made up primarily of Ojiway men, which is proof that not every indigenous person shared the same opinion about colonization in North America then, nor do they today. The 1862 Dakota Wars left scars
on both sides that should never be forgotten. The symbol should serve as a reminder to our history and I hope the city council remember or council members would consider that that we don't need any more division and some healing could be done and if that's the step is not
flying one until we figure out what to do with that thing then I think that's the best course. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So just a point of order Charlie before I open it up to the council. You said it requires a
twothirds majority. We have a council person absent this evening. How many votes are required? It's not above my pay grade on the math. It is of the of the entire council even if there's one. So it's six votes. Okay.
And remember that you know the motion to resend just resends what you did before. Yes. It doesn't necessarily coincide with Mr. Gman's first motion. Um, that would require
then if the prior motions, it would require another motion. Yes. And that would be a simple majority at that point. Wendy, I know you have something you'd like to say. Okay. Thank you. Y I wasn't um so when I saw this on the
agenda for our committee meeting, I wanted to put my words down um on paper so that I could communicate myself well. So, I'm going to read it. I'll try to read it really fast like I did last night. Um, regarding the state flag, um, as a
city, we've been flying the state flag at a couple of city properties for as long as I can remember. I've lived here since 1992. The current conversation, I think, began when a constituent asked why we continued to fly the old one when we had a new official one. To me, that seemed
like a reasonable and logical question. and I forward it to staff and and and it's been brought to committee meetings and now we're having this discussion. As our committee considers this, this is last night. As our council committer considers this, I have some
questions that I think bear consideration. What is the objection to the current flag? Aside from design, I don't know what the exact objection is. If a constituent had voiced opposition
to the previous flag, found it problematic in some way, would we as a council have considered removing that flag from the poll where we've flown them for as long as I could remember? I I can't imagine that we would have done
that if a year ago I had walked in or a staff person or a person off the street said, "That flag is really offensive to me. I don't like the design. I think it's out. Whatever it might have been, would we have taken the time to consider and possibly quit flying the flag at
that time? Ask ourselves that. I I can't imagine that we would have done that. As a department head or council member, if I preferred, this is just an exaggeration. I recognize the former American flag. I like that designed
before Alaska and Hawaii were added. So now, can we come before the council and ask the council to fly the old American flag? Because I'm not really thrilled with the current American flag. Is that reasonable? Would that be considered? I
have a hard time believing it would, but it's just it's it's a question I think that bears thinking about. Um, should we quit flying that flag entirely because some of us don't like that American flag? I don't think so. We've flown these flags forever and I can't imagine
why we would want to stop. What would be the rationale to consider not flying the flag at all? Again, we have been flying these flags at these places for as long as I can remember. I know um there's only really
a couple spots and so that it's become this huge conversation is um complex complexing to me. It's just so um I've received emails from citizens expressing their concerns. Um I haven't
um heard really an a explanation for the objection to the new flag. Um except it's not liked. Um some of the emails have been, you know, kind of personal and sounded kind of critical. And I don't mind being called on the carpet
for a decision I make, but I didn't appreciate necessarily the tones of them. That made me really concerned that this city that I've lived in for 33 years and that I've that I love and that I love the community and I recognize what great people we have here that this
issue is is being brought to this level and it's um it's it's really it's it saddens me. Um it was insinuated um that to fly the flag would create an economic issue and that I would be responsible for that. And I'm paraphrasing, but it's
like these are the kinds of things that are coming to me in emails. Um, but again, I never gotten any of those emails. And it a really explanation of why this flag we should take it down. Um, I've gotten uh I could I'm not even going to mention the other one. My
opinion for the council is that not liking the design itself is highly subjective. That um we all have our personal preferences on any number of things. We like different colors. We like different shapes. We like We have different views on the world. And so to
subjectively decide after flying it for many years that now we should not or that we should have flown the old one longer um does not seem reasonable in my opinion and I think those questions I raised earlier bear consideration as we
consider this question. Lastly, this council is a non-partisan entity. We don't run for this council as a Democrat or an independent or a Republican party. Our goal here and our responsibility is to provide for the infrastructure and
the public safety of our community. And I think we need to get our concentration and our attention back to doing so. Um I think to have uh to make the decision not to fly the flag makes a statement in and of itself.
And I don't know that this council should be in the business of making those kinds of statements. We've flown the state flag as long as I can remember. Um I can't imagine a situation where if somebody had said they didn't like it anymore that we would be here and it is my position that we maintain
the status quo of the decision we made previously. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Is there two minutes? I apologize. No, it's okay. Is there further comments from the council? I just got one quick comment. I think this is a fair compromise. We don't hang either one. I
think it's fair amongst everybody in the city. That's that's what I think we should vote on. But first, we got to resend this other one. Right. Right. Further comments from the council. I think I think an objection I have to the flag is not the content of either flag,
but I think the objection I have, which is similar to my objection to the marijuana issue, here we go on the marijuana issue, but it's the process by which this state enacted a new flag. It enacted it based on a political division
and it enacted it legislatively without any input from the public. um this wasn't the public coming forth and voting on it. This was the legislature um enacting it. But on the other on also on that same point, they enacted it, but
this legislature also from what I understand has given municipalities an out. They're not required by state statute to fly this flag. So, if they felt that this was a an absolute to Rafida's flag, then why are they giving
cities and counties the option? Um, it's the same with the marijuana issue. They didn't ask the voters, they didn't ask the residents, they did it on a legislative basis. And there's a lot of people in outstate Minnesota who don't agree with it. but they also allowed us
to make ordinances with certain restrictions which is what we utilized to control the marijuana issue. And so we have the same opportunity to make a decision locally in regards to this flag. So once again, I think the the
process by which it came about was in was not appropriate and I think the voters should have had some input and therefore I'm I'm not in agreement to uh running the new flag and it I'm not saying I'm making my statement not based
on the content of either flag. Okay. I'm going to let allow one more comment and then that'll be it from the audience and I'll restrict it then just to the council. So go ahead, sir. Danny Steyets, 1233 Minnesota Avenue.
Ma'am, you brought up that you didn't like the prior American flag. That's not what I said. I was using should we hang the other one? We're all Americans here. We all agree on the American flag. You know, we're not here to argue with the council members. So why don't you make your
statement? But we do agree that there's discrepancy between the new and old flag. So flying either one of them would probably solve a lot of the problems. Okay. Well, thank you. Further comments from the council. We need to wrap this up. We got a full agenda. Sorry, Mr.
Mayor. I do have one comment. There was a lot of opportunity for public input as far as the design of the flag. You have to you have to understand that. And as I understand the person the the design that was sent off to the final flag committee was uh from an individual in
Lever. So outside of this, you know, outside of the metropolitan area. So it there was a lot of input, but people didn't seem to care at the time and now there's a stronger opinion on it. So I Well, there can I make a rebuttal on that? There there was input as to the
content of the new flag, but the the desire to change the flag um and vote on a new flag uh that was not brought to voters discretion, your honor. Okay. I I think I I the we've spent a lot of time talking about
this. Wendy really touched on I think our we have a duty to remain somewhat objective. This is the the the the challenges we have around legislative decisions. Uh but if we're going to fly a flag, my opinion is we should fly whatever the official flag is. And with that, I call the
question. Okay. So this is a roll call vote. Our city attorney tells us we need six affirmative votes to resend the action taken previously by the council regarding the flag. So I'll start with Jay.
Hi. Sean, no. Mike, nay. Matt, hi. Ron, I Wendy, nay. Aaron I
Craig I that's five yeses. So the motion fails. So thank you folks that are here for the flag issue. We we appreciate your politeness and your concern. And uh without objection, I would like to
move to item 5e and that is on the community development committee agenda and I would call on chairwoman spray. Thank you, mayor. Uh item 5E is consideration to the first reading of ordinance uh number
541 reszoning R21 and two family residents to LB Lakefront Business District at 1321 Summit Avenue. And I would hand it over to uh city staff to uh share with the rest of the council.
Did you have a motion? I you didn't not yet. Or you did have a motion. Do you want me to do it now? Okay. All right. Let's have a motion on the table and get it try to get a second then we can Thank you. Okay. Um our committee uh discussed this at our meeting yesterday and we
agreed to uh move this forward and so I make a motion to approve that. Is there a second to the motion? I'll second it. Motion's been made and seconded to give first reading to ordinance 541 reszoning 1321 Summit Avenue to Lakefront Business
District. Uh Kelsey or Larry, do you want to chime in at this point? This is a city-owned parking lot. Excuse me. This is a city-owned lot that the city intends to use as a parking lot. And in order to do that, we would need to
change the zoning from R2 to LB where this would be a permitted use. And just for clarity tonight, we aren't approving any parking lot with this motion. We're just appro giving first reading to the zoning change. Correct. That is correct.
Okay. Uh is there any comments from the council so this will also require twothirds vote correct Charlie? Uh yes and again that would be six right?
Is there a second? Okay, I'll call the question. I'll start on the other side then this time. Craig, I Aaron, is this the parking lot by Well, it's the reszoning of the area we're considering doing a parking lot in.
Okay, I'm going. Okay. I Wendy I Ron Matt Hi Mike I Sean I Jay I So the motion carries and also on the community
development committee agenda Wendy can we take item 5A please? Yes. Um item I excuse me item 5 A is consideration to beginning city council meetings with prayer. Um our council or excuse me our
committee um discussed this last night and um we did not come to any con you know conclusions at that point and just had a matter of discussion. Okay. So is there anyone on the council that wishes to take any action this
evening regarding beginning our council meetings with prayer? Your honor, I make a motion to institute uh prayer at the beginning of regular city council meetings. Second. Okay. The motion's been made and seconded to begin our city
council meetings with prayer. Would there be any uh should we give some consideration to any restrictions on that as far as time or anything like that or we'll work that out later? Sure.
I would I would say we'd uh would do a threem minute prayer or less or less. Up to three minutes. I was married to a Catholic family and they pray fast. Is there the motion and secondary? Would
you be okay with keeping it to three minutes or less? Okay. Three minutes or less. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. Opposed? Nay. Nay. The motion carries. And with that, I know Barry, you're here
this evening and I know you're the one that made made the initial request. So, we would certainly want to get together and meet with you regarding the logistics of it. So, if you would be in contact with Kelsey, go ahead, ma'am.
Hi, my name is Celeste. Can I also be a part of that meeting? Sure. Thank you so much. I recognize you. I recognize you too. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Without
objection. Uh can we go to item 6F, Ron? That's on the uh has to do with the donations towards the Washington Ballpark project. Okay. At this time, we'll look at item 6F, our baseball project. Uh this is a consideration to a
funding uh of $600,000 from the American Legion Capground fund and for $400,000 from the park dedication fund for the purpose of uh the Washington Ballpark project and this amount of money specifically for the grand st stand
project. I'm going to call on Kelsey Clim and get more information from him because we have Mr. Ider here with us tonight and I know he wants to say a few things too. So, Kelsey, mayor and council, this project's been a long time coming. We've been working on it for a few years now. Um, as they get prepared
to kick off kind of a campaign to do some private fundraising, uh, first step was to nail down what the city funding is going to be. So, in your packet is a couple of spreadsheets that show the American Legion Campground Fund. Uh, that's basically revenue that we received from the American Legion
Campground Management Agreement. uh we've been putting in a separate account uh with really the intention of this project from the beginning. Uh so the recommendation is to dedicate $600,000 from that fund. Uh the second part of
that is the park dedication fund. If you recall last year we received an anonymous donation of about $570ome,000 to the park fund. Uh this would dedicate $400,000 of that uh that donation towards the Washington uh park
project with the city committee the million dollars and then plus what we hope to uh secure also through the from the U DL schools through a use agreement based upon current budget. We're hopeful that that would at least be able to fund
uh the grandstand improvements that are being proposed. So um nailing down the requests would again basically provide us the opportunity to move ahead with design. It would also provide the opportunity for uh the volunteers to proceed with their
fundraising. So with that um mayor, if there's no objection, Terry Id here to say a few things. Terry, I don't know if we ever gave you an official title for this project, but you've been awful helpful. So thank you.
Well, I've been called awful before. So, I'm Sherry Ider and yeah, I I don't have a I don't have a a title. I guess I'm just a community just a community volunteer. Um that's kind of come along and trying to put this puzzle together. As Kelsey said, it's uh it's
been a long time coming and uh um anytime you drive into that part of town, it's it's the biggest eye store kind of still remaining down there. and it's high time we we do something about it. And so I I'm really just kind of
tickled pink to be here uh because um I envisioned this moment for a long time. Um and I'm thankful for you folks um for allowing me to do this.
Um, and I'm a softy and I'm an emotional guy and and so forgive me, but but um um I've been been wanting to do something with Washington Park. I remember 20 years ago when I was a groundskeeper down there and I asked uh a city staffer
if I could get some paint from the hardware store and paint the bathroom floors and they said, "No, no, we're no, we're going to be fixing this place up." Here we are. Okay. So, like like I say, that's why I'm so fired up about about this. So, thank you for for um allowing
me to to work on this. Um Washington Park, the obvious thing is is is the eyesore that you drive by each time you go down there, but there's so many more things uh that are are public safety uh concerns, ADA uh concerns that um we're
going to show a video that we put together, and a lot of those things will be addressed. So, I'm not going to double up on them, but um again, as Kelsey mentioned, we we started with uh actually several years ago and kind of formulated a committee with some um um
city council people, some school representation and representation from the park board. We did some tours and kind of came up with a a plan not only for the stadium, but for the field and and all the amenities down there. Um what you see tonight um is a pretty
good definition of what we want to do. And if we are able to raise the funds to do this, it's going to be um the current gem. I I remember speaking years ago about the the crown jewel of Detroit Lakes back when I was working on the community center. I'm going to like to
think that this is going to be the new crown jewel of Detroit Lakes. And um it's going to be a place that uh you can be proud of. You don't have to shy away from it when you drive down there. You bring people to town and uh it's going to be a place that uh kids even more so
are going to want to come to play. They want to come there now. But if we get everything done that we want to do, it's going to be a huge draw. And and you know, um Todd Simpson talked about DL being a tourist town. This place will attract tourist tourist dollars as well.
So, there's some uh economy behind this as well. So, um we're ready to go on our on our fundraising campaign. Uh we wanted to get this done. We're waiting to get some final costs uh from uh once this goes to bid, right, Kelsey? And uh
before we actually say how much money we're going to have to raise, and I'm very confident that we can raise um what we need to. Uh, I think I hope it's okay for me to save. We're looking at about three million, maybe a little bit more uh dollar project. So, we've got a
couple million to raise and like I say, I'm I'm confident that we can do that. So, before we do the video, any questions? So, just to be clear, Terry, the initial phase would just be the grand stand and we're still kind of planning on trying to get that done this year. Right. Well, Kelsey, do you want
to address that? The plan is to bid um it's kind of two bid packages. will be kind of the architectural and the buildings. So, the base bid would include the grand stand. We probably do some alternates for like the concessions and stuff which would be more pending on um the fundraising and then the second
bid package would be a civil package on the field improvements probably come a little bit later in the year. Um again, that's going to be reliant to on fundraising. So, okay. Thank you. Just want to say that's the official stance from the city. My stance is this is one
project. We're gonna get it done. Sounds good to me. Thank you, Terry. You're gonna run the video now, right? Okay. Before we start the video, I want to mention they're talking fundraising and you're talking to the two co-chairmen, Terry and Natalie Bllye. They're they're
they're going to be uh the fundraisers. So, um if they come and talk to you, uh please consider what their request is. Thank you. Okay. Nicely done, Terry and Natalie. Thank you. So with that, Ron, we do need a motion
to accept those funds from those two sources. Need a motion to go ahead accept a funding of $600,000 for the American Legion Campground Fund and also $400,000 from the park dedication fund for the Washington Ballpark. And I so move second. Motion's been made and
seconded to accept uh those uh funds. And I would uh call the question. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. Thank you again for coming tonight and it's a nice video. Thank you. Especially the
[Laughter] mayor. So, is there anyone else in the audience that has an item you wish to bring up at this time? Otherwise, I'll go back. You've got Amy Stern then. 6 I and 6J. Okay. 6 I and
6J. Uh let's move to the public works. Chairman Zean. Okay. First item is I is a consideration to approving a park use lease with the Fritz Family Foundation regarding the Ortonstone Garden lease. This lease is
for $1 and we'll renew it for a uh 12 month lease at this time. A committee recommends and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve a park use lease with the Fritz Family Foundation regarding Orton Stone Garden. Discussion on the
motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Next item is J. Consideration to approving a special event application from project 412 uh for the uh for the uh property of the Ortonstone Garden for the summer and
fall of 2025. This this will start uh uh now all the way through November 3rd. And this would allow them to have uh a merchandise areas at uh at their uh spot out there and also food trucks when
necessary and this would be for for this uh summer and fall season through November 3rd. Committee recommends an ISO move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve a special event application from project 412 for the welcoming Ortonstone Garden for the
summer and fall of 2025. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. Sorry, Amy. I could have moved you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that's got an item on the
agenda? Okay. Hearing none, we'll go back. We've got a couple more uh public hearings to take care of. So, at this time, I'll adjourn the regular meeting again and call to order a public hearing to receive public comments on the Shorewood Drive utility
improvements. And I would call on uh there's actually two resolutions that the council will act on, but I'll call on our city engineer, John Pratt, first. John. Thank you, Mayor. Um we have a supplemental public hearing this
evening. uh related to some improvements uh for Shorewood Drive. Um little background to get everybody maybe up to speed is we prepared a preliminary engineering report and then subsequently held a uh public hearing for street improvements to Shorewood Drive uh back
in March of this spring. Those street improvements were going to consist of full depth reclamation of the roadway. Uh subsequent to that, we determined through a variety of different events that really there was an opportunity to extend some sewer and water to s to an
area u on Shorewood Drive that doesn't currently have any sewer and water and it would be prudent to put that sewer and water in before we make a 20-year improvement uh on the roadway. So, that leads us uh to where we are this evening. Those proposed improvements
would involve some special assessments to some of the adjacent land owners. And of course um anytime we're doing special assessments, we're required to hold a public hearing uh related to those assessments. So I'll run through what we're planning to do, what the costs are, what the special assessments are,
and we can have uh time for comments and questions afterwards. So again, uh the Shorewood Drive project as a whole includes the entirety of Shorewood Drive. Um, this particular piece that we're talking about tonight is about a 600 foot long area kind of extending uh
from White the intersection of White Clover Beach um uh to the west again about 600 feet. So, a relatively short area, but that area does not have any existing sewer and water. Um those properties that are adjacent to this
area are currently undeveloped, but could be developed. Um the nearest infrastructure is either up at the end of Bay Ridge Drive or uh down by White Clover Beach. So what we're proposing is fairly uh fairly straightforward from a
sanitary sewer standpoint. Uh we'll extend uh 8 in sewer from White Clover Beach intersection uh and then drop off 4-in service laterals to those adjacent properties uh along the way that would benefit from uh the sewer and water. Same is basically true with the water
man and 8 8 inch uh water mane and some service laterals and pop a hydrant in at the end for uh flushing and fire protection. So little bit of an image that you can see there what we're planning to do. Um, as far as costs go, uh, looking at
about $170,000 improvement in total with, uh, the water and sewer improvements, including the service laterals. Uh, this particular project would be funded by the sewer and water utility funds, uh,
and special assessments. Um, we would do all this in accordance with the city's, uh, special assessment policy. uh to that point, generally speaking, the assessment policy for improvement like this is 100% of the uh cost would be
accessible to the benefit and adjacent properties. However, in this case, there is a little bit of uh running room or transmission that we need to do to sort of get there. And while we get there, we're going by properties that do not benefit.
um either they're already served or uh they're undevelopable undevelopable wetland areas. So in this case, the city would be assuming about the first 200 ft or so of of sewer and water costs just due to a lack of benefit and that
balance would then be allocated to um to special assessments to those adjacent properties. So this is sort of how that shakes, pardon me, how that shakes out. Uh we've got the city picking up just under $60,000 uh of that cost and the remaining
$100,000 or so would be allocated as special assessments. Um the assessment policy allows some flexibility how we allocate those costs to those adjacent properties. Um we could do it by a front footage uh
methodology. We looked at that. didn't feel that that was overly equitable in this particular case just because of the size and and shape of the the adjacent lots which sort of led us to the recommendation to assess this on a per lot basis. And so there are four total
lots um that would benefit um at least in the future. There's two future lots uh on the larger undeveloped track on the north side of the road um that we would drop service laterals off to and then two on the south side of the road. So you take those assessable costs,
divide them by four, that's what lands us on the uh the assessment rates that are shown on the screen there. So in total uh each of these lots would be assessed um just under $28,000 for the sewer and water improvements. Um, as far as assessments
go, we would hold an assessment hearing once we receive bids. Either we do that in June after we receive bids or uh after the project's completed in the fall of 2025, and those uh assessments would be levied to those properties starting in 2026
uh over a 20-year term. Properties of course have the option to prepay uh any portion of those assessments to either eliminate or reduce interest charges. That's it. there. Okay. Is there anyone in the audience that has any questions or wishes to make any
comments regarding the Shorewood Drive utility improvements hearing? None. That public hearing is closed and I would entertain two motions. Chairman Zean. Okay. The first motion is give to give consideration of resolution accepting
the addendum for the preliminary engineering report for Shwood Drive utility improvements and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to accept the addendum to the preliminary engineers report for the Shorewood Drive utility improvements. Discussion on the motion.
All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. The second item is consideration to approving the resolution ordering the improvements and approving the plans and specifications and ordering and advertising tribul for the Sherwood utility project. Can I so move? Second. Motion's been made and
seconded to approve a resolution ordering the improvement and approving plans and specs and ordering advertisement for bids for the Shorewood Drive utility project. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I.
Opposed. Motion carries. Uh, at this time I'll adjourn the regular meeting and call to order a public hearing to receive public comments on the public nuisance at 1513 Carol Avenue. And I would call on
uh our city staff Priscilla. Okay. And John, I apologize. I I wasn't linking while you were here, but I'd just love to be here. All right. Thank you, Mayor. If I just tee this up real quick. So, um, there is a nuisance
property at 1513 Carol Avenue. Uh, Priscilla, who is our code compliant specialist, will show some pictures and explain kind of the extent of the nuisance violation. And then, um, it does require a public hearing and then there's a resolution in your packet that if approved gives the city the ability
to abate the property and clean up the nuisance. Okay. Thank you, Priscilla. Hello. So, the photos from the first roster. Uh, so during a routine inspection on March 17th, which was
prompted by repeated violations of the city's nuisance ordinance, I observed multiple violations at 1513 Carol Avenue. These included tires, overflowing garbage, and assorted debris scattered around the front yard, the driveway, and near the garage. Priscilla, move that
mic a little closer, will you? Thank you. The homeowner was out of town at the time, but was notified of the violations upon her return. During the inspection on March 24th, Miss Maxfield and her partner were instructed to clean up the property. Shortly thereafter, another
agency informed me that the homeowner would not be returning to the residence as they have moved out of the county. Due to the lack of compliance and no known alternate contact number or address, a notice of violation and public hearing notification was posted
on the front door of the residence on April 15th. Attempts to reach the homeowner through the family and outside agencies have been unsuccessful. Since then, I have engaged with the mortgage company's representative who is now responsible for securing the property and bringing
the property into compliance. They intend to initiate cleanup efforts, but the process could take up to 25 additional days from today. I got an update today on on their time frame and they have a certain time frame that they have to follow with individuals
personal property. So it could be up to 25 days from today. Uh so the staff recommendation is to allow seven additional days uh for the mortgage company to initiate cleanup actions. If no substantial progress is made within that time frame, the city should proceed with enforcement measures to ensure
compliance. So abate the nuisance. This is what it looked like on Friday. So the items have been neatly tidied up by thoughtful neighbors.
Okay. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to make any or ask any questions or make any comments regarding the public nuisance at 1513 Carol Avenue? John, if you could state your name and address for our minutes, please.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. My name is Excuse me. My name is John Thorp. I live at 1511 Carroll Avenue, next door to this horror story of the past decade. Uh, excuse me again.
Um, we've been uh residents of Detroit Lakes, but I grew up here. We've owned a home that I grew up in next door at 1511 Carroll Avenue since the year 2000 when my parents moved into senior living and
we bought the home from them. Uh for at least the last 10 years, we have on almost on an annual basis and sometimes more often than not
reached out to the city, reached out to various uh appropriate personnel and expressing our concern about what's we've been living next to.
Uh Priscilla showed a couple of pictures. I have about a decade of pictures on my phone. Uh the house in its current condition is uh falling apart. Uh the
sophets are rotting out. The windows are rotting out. Uh it's in really bad condition. I have not uh entered the house myself, not for quite a number of years. But uh I know from uh various
individuals I've spoken with that the condition of the house is uh in serious disrepair. I've thought about over the years uh tried to make a take a make an effort to purchase this property. I
figure if I were to do so, I would, you know, put it back together, but I'm I'm not sure that it's uh in a condition where that's even possible anymore. I'd like to see a nice little park next door to our
house. Um it would be really nice. I don't know what the uh uh process would be to uh moving forward with the current residents and whether they've just abandoned the property or whatever. Um,
but I would be interested in uh exploring uh personally an alternative to uh um purchasing the property myself. And uh I don't know. I guess that's about
it. There's so much I could say about things, but it's all past history. I'm so glad that uh we're moving forward now uh in a positive way. I've been glad to see that there's been uh efforts to
clean up the front. Uh the back is still in terrible condition. Uh I had to put up a privacy fence about five years ago because I couldn't take it anymore. But anyway, enough said. Uh I just appreciate the opportunity to uh
comment on uh what we've been dealing with. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, John. Priscilla, do we know who owns the who owns the property? Is it is it the people that were living there? Yes. Oh, okay. And you said you said they they vanished now. They have
vacated the process or the the property. So, the mortgage company now owns it. It's going through the fore codes. I believe it's going through the foreclosure process. So, it's they have to post it for 14 days and then there's another time frame that they have to meet. So,
okay. Is there anyone else in the audience that has any questions or wishes to make any comments regarding abating the nuisance at 1513 Carol Avenue? Hearing none, that public hearing is closed and I would entertain a motion. Your honor, I move to approve
a resolution declaring nuisance, ordering abatement, and assessing costs as a service fee at 13, excuse me, 1513 Carol Avenue. Is there a second? Seconded. Motion's been made and seconded to approve a resolution declaring a nuisance and ordering abatement at assessing costs as a
service fee at 1513 Carol Avenue. Discussion on the motion. Just to say thank you to Mr. Thorp. I know I've been on the end of a lot of emails. Uh so happy to see this getting cleaned up for not only you but for also the neighborhood. Um for city staff, it'd be great. I know there's
other neighborhoods that are kind of going through this as well. I know that we're up against the time frame of what we can do legally and that, but I appreciate your due diligence to stay on top of these things. Okay, further discussion. All in favor of the motion
say I. I. Opposed? The motion carries. And that brings us to the community development committee, Chairwoman Spry, and I believe we're on 5B. Wendy. Yes. And I think we are going to uh plan on um addressing B and then D. Um they're
kind of tied together. Okay. Um so 5B is consideration to second reading and adoption of ordinance 536 for the annexation of property Detroit Township of a 1/2 acre more or less and reszoning the tract R2 one and two family residential district at
26208 North Tower Road. Our committee uh discussed this yesterday and I so move second. Motion's been made and seconded to give second reading and adopt ordinance number 536. Discussion on the
motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I opposed. Motion carries. Second reading is given and ordinance 536 is adopted. Wendy. Um item 5D, consideration to the second reading and adoption of ordinance number 538,
reszoning from RA, Agriculture Residence District to R2, one and two family residence district for Broadlon Estate, second edition at 26208 North Tower Road and 1774 North Tower Road. Um our committee discussed
this yesterday and we agreed to move this forward and I so move. Is there is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded to give second reading and adopt ordinance number 538. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say
I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item 5C. Yep. Consideration to second reading and adoption of ordinance number 537 amending section 20 of the zoning ordinance reszoning property from uh I1
light industrial district to I2 heavy industrial district at 983 Richwood Road. Um, did you want to The purpose for this reszoning is so that the development authority can enter into a lease to have
someone remove the gravel and the top soil from this site. Once that's done, it's the intent to have this reszone to I1 again. Okay. Thank you, Larry. Our committee considered this um and we are all in
agreement and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to which item were we on? D C. We're on C, I'm sorry. To give second reading and adopt ordinance number 537. Discussion on the motion. Well, I just want to
mention that that property uh we have a contractor that wants to take the gravel off of that property and we're uh the available authority will receive an amount of over a million dollars for that gravel. So this is a good project for the available authority. That sounds
good. Further discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. Second readings given and ordinance 537 is adopted. Um, item 5F, consideration to first
reading of ordinance number 542, reszoning property from RA, Agricultural Residence District to I1 Light Industrial District at 1160 Fortune Avenue. Our committee um had discussion
um on this and we move I move to uh consider the first reading of this ordinance. Is there a second? I'll second it. Motion's been made and seconded to give first reading reading to ordinance 542. Discussion on the motion.
All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries and first reading of ordinance 542 is given. Item 5G, consideration to request for Broadway Welding authorizing a one-year extension on a non-conforming use permit
to allow a 35,000 square foot addition to an existing industrial building with a 17 ft side yard setback. a variance from the airport zoning requirement to allow a 110,500 square foot building on a 5.56
acre lot in land use safety zone B of the airport and a variance to allow paving of 71 parking spaces for 4 110,500 foot manufacturing facility at 1090 Legion Road to May 14, 2026. Um our
um committee reviewed this and we would uh recommend that the council approve this request and uh I think Larry has some additional information he would want to share just kind of explaining okay the continued extension this particular uh variance has been extended
for a number of years. It started in 2019 so it's been going on for quite a while. COVID was one of the reasons why it's been delayed, but it's also been delayed because the airport zoning was being done at that time and it was uncertain as to how that would play out
and what kind of hoops they would have to go through to get airport zoning. Uh we have now determined that the planning commission will act as the board of adjustment for airport zoning. So in the future this can be handled fairly straightforwardly and I think that f
further extensions won't be necessary that they could come back and request these variances when they're ready to build. Okay. Thanks Larry and Wendy. Our committee considered um the request and we would
move uh to uh approve it. Is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve a request from Broadway Welding for various extensions and variances etc. Discussion on the motion.
All in favor of the motion say I. I opposed. Motion carries. 5H consideration to a resolution approving the final plat of Southwood Shore Estates. Our committee um discussed this and uh we I so move. Second. Motion's
been made and seconded to adopt a resolution approving the final plat of Southwood Shores Estates. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item 5A, consideration to a resolution
setting a public hearing for the proposed vacation of a portion of the dedicated public road in the plat of Kirman Beach at 144 and 150 Shorewood Drive. Our committee discussed this yesterday and unanimously uh agreed to move this forward and I would so move.
Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the final plat of Southwood Shores Estates. Is there discussion? This is letter I. Oh, I'm sorry. I for Kerman Beach and for Sherwood Drive. Excuse me. Discussion. I would note
there is one change to the resolution and that is in item one regarding the park dedication. It says that 49,584 will be paid prior to the city signing the final that is actually changed to being paid prior to December
31st of 2025. Okay. Is the motion and seconder okay with that change? Yes. Okay. Further discussion and I see this is a dedicated public road easement that we're giving up. Are we still keeping utility easements in this or is there no
utilities? Larry, I'm sorry. Am I on the wrong I think you were referencing H I'm on I'm on two different things. I'm sorry. This is the vacating the um portion of the dedicated public road. This is setting
the hearing for that. Yes. Yes. What's happening there is I'm sorry. I thought we were on the other item. What we're doing there is the applicant has requested that we vacate the public road right ofway that is not being utilized
for Shorewood Drive and then they would dedicate to us the portion of road right ofway. That would include where Shorewood Drive is located. We're waiting to hear back from John Pratt about whether or not what they're proposing is adequate for what we need. If it is, we'll take what they're
offering. If it's not, we will amend that. But that will all be taken care of prior to the public hearing. Okay. Yeah, I've reviewed. We're fine. We're fine. So, our act our action right now tonight though is just to set the public hearing. Just setting the public
hearing. Okay. Correct. Discussion from the council. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. Wendy, anything further? That is that is the final item for Okay, your honor, do
we need to go back and fix the resolution for the Gar properties then? Because yes, the one we approved says paid prior to the city signing the final plat. Which item is that, Sean? That'd be the previous H. Oh, do we need to go
back and fix that? That's probably a good idea that there would already to reconsider the final fl of the self and that just needs to be made by somebody who voted in favor of it last
time. I move to reconsider the motion on what is it 5H for the approval of the final PL of Swood short of Estates second to add to yeah to add in the language or replace the language to say
paid prior that the $49,584 in one uh bullet one sub bullet three now say uh by did you say December 31st? Yes I did. uh paid by December 31st, 2025. And I'm sorry I didn't say
it sooner. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to adopt the motion that Sean made. Discussion on the discussion on the reconsider. Further discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed.
Motion carries. Does that take care of the the thing, Charlie? Okay, we're good. Okay, we're going to move to the public works committee. Chairman Zean. Okay, the next item here we're going to have is uh item 6B, discussion regarding a bike uh bike lanes on Southshore
Drive. I'm going to ask John Pratt to give us a little update on this and and we'll go forward from there then. John. Yeah, mayor and council, I I think there was just a sort of a renewed interest on examining the options relative
to making a portion of Salshore Drive a dedicated bike lane as it sits right now. And we've got two 12-oot traffic lanes with 10-ft shoulders uh on either side of those. And we've examined this a number of different times over the the
course of history. Uh there was a memo in your packet uh that I think is maybe a couple of years old now, but for the most part uh still relevant and some of that memo talked about options for bike lanes and things like that. Um I think most recently the thought process was
well can we just eliminate parking on on one side of the road or the other and designate that as a birectional bike lane? And the reality of that is that is no. We can't do it just in that simple
of a form. Meaning get rid of parking and let bikes go both ways on one shoulders. In fact, against uh state law to ride against traffic on a bike on a on a roadway that's got no division or separation from traffic. So the only way
we'd be able to do that is to actually provide some form of a vertical barrier and some other clear zones. You know, we would have to literally put up, you know, jersey barriers or curb or delineator tubes and things like that in order to accomplish all that. So it's
it's not overly practical to to just do it in that sense. And we just need to be careful that whatever we do on Southshore Drive needs to be in accordance with different state regulations so that we don't uh jeopardize the the state aid status of
that road. So we'll take any questions that might have. Okay. Any questions for John? Ron. Is there any action that we would take? Yes. After having much discussion on this, we've decided to to leave Southshore Drive as it currently
is without any parking lanes. Nice. So move. Is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded to uh not make any changes at this time on Southshore Drive regarding a bike lane. Discussion on the motion.
All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Next item C is discussion of utility extension on 270th Avenue and U. You all have a we're given a little agend addendum here resolution
uh number 2025013 and I'm going to call on John Pratt to give us an update on that. Also, mayor and council, a little bit of background here before we get to the to the action, but a number of years ago, um, two or three years ago, we redid a
portion of 270th Avenue, installed sewer and water. Um, this was done with the last phase of the Lake Forest subdivision and part of the Southshore Park development. And when we installed that sewer and water, we also reconstructed that roadway. we
effectively stopped um that work at the southern limits of the the city limit or south portion of the park at the time. Um if you're familiar with the area, there's about four houses uh on the east side of 270th Avenue that are in the
city limits, but there's they're currently on well and septic. And at the time uh those properties were not interested in receiving uh sewer and water. So we we effectively stopped the project. Uh at that point we were going to then just do a mill and overlay on the remaining portion of the roadway uh
that was within the city limits. Uh subsequent to that we the um agricultural property across the road sold and it became apparent that that was going to be developed. So we sort of called off everything in terms of any improvements until we could figure out
what's going on there. Uh fast forward here a little bit to where we're at now. We've got a number of factors that are perhaps um suggesting we should finish this project off with sewer and water extension um further south on 270th Avenue. The
things that are driving that is, you know, first off, we have approved uh the construction of potentially some apartments on the property on the the west side of the road. Um, the property
south of Lake Forest has been purchased and has now been annexed into the city and there's at least plans and discussions for development of that property which would require us to extend infrastructure down that roadway.
And then lastly, there was a property owner, one of those four houses that has a failing uh septic system, I think a drain field specifically, and is in need of doing something out there uh with that. So, of course, you know, from our
standpoint, we would really prefer they didn't put a new drain field and septic system in only to have us come by a year or two later with new sewer and water. So, that's sort of the whole background. And I think uh there's a uh a resolution
for the council to consider authorizing a preliminary engineering report which would be the first step in all of this process. So we could go look at what is the cost and what's this project look like and depending on the outcome of that potentially try to move a project
forward rather quickly this year uh to get that infrastructure project completed. Thank you John. Same thing Kelsey Ron. Okay. The committee did re reh review review this project and all this is inside the city limits. Is that correct
John? Yeah, everything's inside city limits. Right. So in the matter of authorizing a preliminary uh engineering report for the 27th Avenue South project, I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to authorize a preliminary engineering report for
utility extension on 270th Avenue. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Item D. Uh this is a project where the VFW has
offered to to donate to the city uh the vac that is right behind their building. But uh after reviewing that building and looking at it for the location uh the committee uh looked at this and uh we've
decided to uh to deny their donation because we really don't need a parking lot there. So uh the recommendation from the committee is to deny the uh the donation uh from the VFW for this uh vacant lot and I move
second. Motion's been made and seconded to decline the donation of a parking lot from the BFW. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. The next
item is uh uh item E there consideration to a second reading to adopt an ordinance of 539 amending the city code 502 uh for dogs and and and cats and 503 for animals. This is a clarification of
the rules and amending the code. Uh Kelsey, do you have anything you'd like to add to that? That about covers it. Okay. The uh committee review this and I move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to um give second reading and adopt
ordinance 539. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. Second reading is given. Ordinance 539 is adopted. Okay. The next item is 5G. Uh this is to give consideration of
accepting quotes for the rotary soccer field irrigation well and to award the uh the contract when call on Sean is Sean King here tonight. Chair is right there. Mayor and councel. Yes. I received four bids to uh put in a
irrigation s or a a well to hook up our current irrigation system that we are currently using treated water for. Um so this would replace that treated water which is many many gallons and I recommend uh Clint's well service being
the lowest bid. Okay. The uh the uh motion has been to uh give this uh uh project to uh cleanse well service with $71,65. A committee uh review this and I
move that we move ahead with it. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to award the low bid on the rotary soccer field irrigation well. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I
opposed. Motion carries. The next item is the H. It's consideration to approving a a cooperative agreement with Minnesota DNR for the fishing pier on the east side of the Holiday Inn. Uh we did receive a grant from them for
$75,000 for this project and what that would be a fishing pier and also an area for to launch a kayaks. Uh the committee review this and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the cooperative agreement with
Mandot for the fishing pier. Discuss. Do we have to accept the grant or has that already been accepted? Move that we accept the grant. Right. That's what So that's part of the motion. Yes. Okay. All in favor of the mo. We had a second, right?
I'm losing second here. I'm losing it. Wendy. Yep. All in favor of the motion say I. I. I oppose. Motion carries. I motion motion is made. Yeah, we're we're good. Yeah. Okay. So, we're on. So, the next item is uh item H here then
or excuse me, item K. Uh it's a consideration uh to approing the snappy park uh uh fee agreement for this year. And I'm going to talk to Kelsey Clam, have him give you update on that. Mayor and Council, the existing three-year agreement with the DLCCCC that provides
them basically scheduling rights over Snappy Park and also uh use of the concession um is expiring. So, the new three-year agreement includes just a $100 increase per year uh as part of the agreement.
The uh committee review this and I so move that we approve this. Second. Motion's been made and seconded then. Okay, I lost my place. There's so many items on here. Item very very last one there. Motion's been made and seconded to
approve the Snappy Park fee agreement. Item K. Yes. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Next item is M. Item M is consideration of resolution accepting bids for the
south southwood shores estate street and utility improvement project and awarding the contract to RL Lararsson excavating. This is quite a large project and I'm going to call on our city engineer to give us an update on that. Mayor and councel, we received bids uh I think
this one was last Thursday for the first phase of the Southwood Shores uh subdivision project. Again, this is a 24 lot subdivision south side of of uh Southshore Drive. So, five bids received which was fantastic. Um the low bid was
submitted from RL Larson of St. Cloud in the amount of 1,71,618 and some change and we are recommending approval of that bid or word of that bid. Okay. So at this time I will give consideration resolution
accepting the bids for the south of wood shore state street and utility improvements and awarding the contractor Larson excavating from St. Cloud. Nice so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to adopt a resolution accepting the bid on the Southwood Shores estate street and utility improvement project.
Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. The motion carries. Next item is in consideration of resolution accepting bids for the forest street and utility improvement project and avoiding contract bids to RL lararsson
excavating. And once again I'll call on John Pratt. Yeah, mayor and council pretty much the same story here. We took bids last week, last Tuesday. Uh five bids received and again the low bid for that project was also uh submitted from
RL Larson of St. Cloud in the amount of a little over $1.2 million. We're recommending approval. Okay. So, the committee reviewed this also and we give consider consideration resolution accepting these bids for the forest street and utility improvement
project contract for L arson. I move second. Motion's been made and seconded to accept the bids for the forest street and utility improvement project. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say
I. I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. The uh next item is item uh O consideration resolution ordering preparation of the assessment role for the forest street and utility improvement project and setting the public hearing on the
proposed assessment cost for the forest street in and street and utility improvement project. Uh and I so move but before that I'm going to call on uh John Pratt to give us an update on that one. Yeah. Not uh mayor and council, not a whole lot to add. This is just the
routine. We've got the the bids in hand now, so we've be able to firm up our costs and the subsequent special assessments. So, we'll be drafting those. Uh the good news is in the way of a bit of a sneak peek here. I don't have
the right thing open here. One second. uh the bids came in pretty significantly below estimate somewhere around a little over 20% below the the project estimate which was great which in turn you know drove the uh cost of the special
assessments down and the city share of the project down. So everything looks very favorably there but we'll have that hearing at the June council meeting. Okay, Ron. And as I said, the committee recommends an ISO move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to order the
preparation of the assessment role and to set the public hearing for those assessments for our June meeting. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Before I go to John Pratt's uh his monthly engineering
report, I want us to go down to item U. Uh we had pulled this. I'm going to call on on Sean King because uh we've we've got a project that wants to come, but it's going to interfere with our water. So, so we may have to work something out there to get a different date. Sean?
Yes. Mayor and Council, if you look in your packet, uh exhibit 6U. Um that's for a special event application for Kicks Band of Fargo Morehead. They would like to use a band shell on the 18th of July. And also, if y'all saw
the handout I gave you for the water carnival that was approved last month. They do have a teen bash at 5:00 p. p.m. and then a pre-bash party with Triidor at 9:30 p.m. on the beach. So, they're right next door to each other. Um,
so I think that'll be conflicting events going on. Could Could you uh get a hold of those folks and see if there's a better time for them after the water carnival? Yes. Okay, thank you very much. Let's let's go up to item P then and we're going to
call on John Pratt to give us uh the monthly engineering report. Yep. Mayor and councel, we've talked about a number of the items on my report uh this evening, so I'm not going to hit on everything. Um I think the first thing to maybe touch on would just be progress on the
water tower project. The contractor is there working on the uh the central pedestal and getting that concrete poured. uh that whole process is going to speed up pretty e exponentially here over the next few weeks. So you're going to start to see the the center column of
uh of the new tower kind of rise above the tree line here over again probably in the next couple weeks they'll have that pretty well wrapped up. Uh Hartland State Trail um haven't said much about that lately. the contractor. We have a
precon scheduled and hog is planning to start work on that project and again that's the vacant property uh just to the east of Casey's and west of uh country and its suites there along Highway 10. Uh so it'll include a small parking lot and some trail head
amenities. Um that work should start here sometime probably towards the end of of May. Um no real update on Westlake Drive phase three the beach. We're sort of in the process of refining designs
and things like that and getting that uh information back to the committee. I think we've got a a meeting next week on that. Uh and after that meeting, I think I'll probably have a little bit more to to update the council on. Um contractor is going to start work on the some of
the DMR uh legacy grant projects up at DMRA. I think the first thing is going to be some work on the parking lot. Then they'll be moving into some trail work. Um, no update on Sherwood Drive other than we'll be bringing those bids to council here in
June. That is all I have for you this evening. Thank you, John. Okay, I'd like to make a motion that we go ahead and accept our monthly engineering report from John Pratt. 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. Does that complete the agenda for the public works? That'll be all your honor. Mayor, didn't we have BB? Yeah. Uh, that's two things. Do you want to do you want to
take a motion on AB? AB, there's one we have to add. Carrie, what what is it again? Item BB. Oh, we have that. Well, that's that wasn't on mine. Mayor, can I just two things? Yeah. Go
ahead. Excuse me. Okay. Do you want to take any action on you with that special event permit? Either postponing it or denying it. What do you re What do you recommend we should do? You can postpone it or we haven't talked to the person, but I'd
make a motion that we postponed it until Sean King gets hold of table. Okay. Okay. Motion to table. Is there a second? All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. And then mayor
correct whether you want to do it underneath licenses or if you want to do it under public works but there was an addition of one excavator license for classic concrete that was handed out. So okay I I I I thought we going to do it under addition but it's a addition under
11D uh it's it's for a license for under excavation for the classic concrete uh company and I so move that we approve it. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve an excavation license for classic concrete
contractors. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Okay. So with that, we are down to the finance committee. Chairman Bokei. Thank you, honor. Item 7A is a discussion regarding leasing the public
works warehouse. Uh currently we are on a month-to-month lease with a business here in town. Uh the committee's wishes was to go out to RFP and uh city staff is going to be working to bring that up uh next month. So more to come on that. Uh 7B, consideration of the request from
Becker County for trail study funding. Uh this was discussed at finance committee and we recommend a $1,500 uh contribution to keep this trail study moving. This would be a trail from Dunton Locks to Shore Shore area. Correct. Chorum
Bucks Mills area. Yeah. So, uh, this was discussed at finance committee and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to contribute $1,500 to the Becker County for the trail study funding. Discussion on the motion. All
in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. Uh, thank you, your honor. Item 7 C, consideration to authorizing staff to work with LG, excuse me, JLG architects to draft a contract for the Pavilion Architect Services. Uh this past Friday, uh the
finance committee met with six architects. Uh we've come to the realization that JLG rose to the top uh and would move this forward to the staff to work with JLG architects to get a contract going. And I so moved. Seconded. Motion's been made and
seconded to authorize our city staff to engage in a contract with JLG Architects for the Pavilion City Park improvement project. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. I.
Oppos? Motion carries. Thank you, your honor. Item 7D, consideration to supporting the preservation of federal tax exemption on municipal bonds. Way over my pay grade. Uh Mr. Clem, please help me out here. Mayor and councel, in your packet is a letter that was drafted by the League of
Minnesota Cities. They have asked cities within the seventh congressional district to consider adopting uh the resolution and sending it to our uh repres our federal representative. Um basically there is discussion um about
the possibility of limit eliminating uh our tax exempt status for any bonds issued as a municipality and this would really go towards um really any type of of local government issued bonds. So it'd be the same for school districts,
counties and basically as that is taxexempt we get more favorable interest rates. So, if that uh tax exemption goes away, we're going to pay more for our borrowing. Um so, we're seeking approval from the city council to submit that
letter uh to Representative Fishbach. Thank you, Kelsey. Uh this was discussed at finance and with a unanous unanimous approval to move this forward and I so move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to uh authorize a letter to
support urge supporting the preservation of the federal tax exemption on municipal bonds. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I opposed. Motion carries. That's all from finance. All right, Matt. Thank
you. Chairman Dolman, anything on public safety? I'm good, your honor. Okie do. How about Chairman Sterns? Anything from liquor management? They did add we did add item 9 G. Um there was a special event liquor application that was received after the agenda was prepared.
So uh Silver Moon Lounge and Steakhouse uh would like to obtain a special event liquor uh license for uh a wedding scheduled for June 7th of 2025 from 4 p.m. with a 1 a.m. conclusion. Uh liquor and gambling control committee committee
discussed and I so move for approval. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve the special event liquor application for uh Silver Moon Lounge and Steakhouse for a wedding at the pavilion. Discussion on the motion. All
in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. And also we'll move to the public utilities commission. And I'm going to call on Alderman Stern. Keep going. How about that? Um, so I have uh item 10A, uh, consideration to a resolution approving
and authorizing conveyance of real property. Uh, back in March, the council approved the, uh, sale of a small sliver of land uh, that is a a a land owner or homeowner uh, kind of assumed it was their property. Um, they're at the point
of trying to sell that property and so city council approved the sale. Uh, we do need a resolution though uh, recording that to allow for the city to transfer the property. So, u public utilities commission discussed it. Um, I recommend approval. I so move. Second.
Motion's been made and seconded to approve a resolution approving and authorizing the conveyance of some real property um that's near the new water tower. Correct. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say
I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. So we next item is item 10B and I am going to turn this one over. This is a new power generation uh in for a generator to be installed um in the what's it called? Well, I'm
going to turn it over to Vinnel at this point. How about that? Mayor and council. Yeah. On March 11th, we took an open bids for new generation for L electric utility in Detroit Lakes for DPU. Um the bids consisted of two components. The first one was two
smaller units. They came in at a price of 18,880,490 and the second component of the bid was for one larger unit of 13.7 megawws for 15,303645. It became apparent there that
we wanted to go with a single unit because of the cost differential between two smaller units and the larger one. So we started DGR engineering firm and myself started negotiating with solar turbines. Uh we walked about 1.8 $.8 million off of that original bid price.
Threw some options back in and settled on a price of 13,624,61. And that's what the recommendation is and that is contingent upon legal review of the actual contract once refed and reviewed and finalized with
solar. The this contract does not include the construction of the facility. This is just for the generation facility itself. It does not include the black start generator which will be an additional option and does not include the balance of the work remaining at the substation itself. So
this this request is for the 13 million624601 for the one 13.7 megawatt generation unit. So Vernell can I ask you what's the reason we need to do this? Biggest reason is our existing jet
turbine is almost as old as I am. uh it's it's aged out and there's a definite shortage of capacity within the Mso North footprint which we sit in. So Missouri River is asking and working with their member communities to put in local generation. And part of what makes
this nice is uh Missouri River will contribute an upfront payment to this project and a monthly capacity payment for the life of the unit. So this is a very good deal for us to renew our local generation that we've had in this community since the inception of the
utility. And it it just makes it affordable and and adds reliability and a cash flow to the utility. And then we'll decommission the old turbine. That is to be determined yet. We're going to have to take a look at what those capacity requirements are. Okay. All
right. Okay, Mike. So, public utilities heard uh this uh presentation this morning from uh DGR Engineering uh and we discussed it in great detail. So we have consideration to accepting bids for the new generation and awarding the contract. And I so move seconded.
Motion's been made, seconded to accept the bid and award the contract for the new generation station. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. And Mike, I think Reell has an additional
item. Yeah, we also have item 10 C. I guess we'd like to toot the public utility commission or public utilities horn a little bit and uh general manager Vernell Roberts would like to say a few things. Yeah, thank you Mike mayor and councel. We got some pretty good recognition from the American public
power association over the last few months. Uh the first one was our diamond recognition of a diamond award for RP3 program and that stands for reli reliable public power provider. And what that does that benchmarks us against the 2,000 other public power utilities in
the country against reliability, safety, workforce development, system improvements, and system innovation. We're one of six utilities in Minnesota that have achieved that diamond designation, and public utilities be very, very proud of doing that. We've also received the diamond award for
excellence and reliability and that's based on our outage rate and or lack of outages if you will uh for the utility. That's uh hard to achieve. Um that's a excellent kudos for the work that the line crew does maintaining the
reliability of the system. The diamond award is the highest award we could achieve. And we've also received the diamond award for safety in group D, which is work hours between 60,000 and 110,000 work hours in a year. We had zero lost time accidents in 2024. Again,
diamond is the highest we can achieve and we've achieved that for several years in a row. So kudos to our utility employees for no lost time accidents for several years in a row. Knock on wood, we can keep that one going because that's another one that's hard to keep doing. And then I think I sent you one
from uh Public Power magazine a while back. Uh there was a article in there that Maline Suki GL Tucker and I participated in. Uh we got some pretty good kudos and recognition for Detroit Lakes's efforts of advocating for public
power within Washington DC and we go to Washington DC a couple times a year. Uh they were they recognize Detroit Lakes's efforts for that and what we do on advocating for public power in Washington DC. And one of the things we talked about when we were there is exactly what Kelsey was just talking
about with tax exempt financing when we're looking at issuing debt for new generation. Tax exempt financing is a big deal for us. So we've been on it. And then I just one last thing I want to give a shout out to our electric supervisor Andy Delique. Andy
participated in a project called Light Up Navajo which is in the four corners area of the United States on the Navajo Nation. Andy went down there with seven other linemen from Minnesota to work on light up Navajo 6. And it's a project
where utilities volunteer employees to go down there and kind of do a mutual aid effort or training effort to put electricity into homes on the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation covers 27,000 square miles and it's the size of West Virginia. When they started that
project, there were 10,400 homes on the Navajo Nation that do not have electricity. And the project runs from the first week of April. 10,000 people, not 10,000 homes, 10,000 people. The project runs from the 1st of April to the first week
of August. We anticipate they'll bring uh electricity to 400 more people during that time, and there will still be 10,000 people left without electricity until this is done again next year. The overall cost just for the material to provide electricity to the remaining
people on Navajo Nation is $9 billion. That's a huge footprint and huge cost. One of the projects that Andy worked on was the first ones they did. They met a elderly lady that was in her late 80s, early 90s and she'd never had
electricity in her home before. And when they fired that up, she got a little turried and so did everybody else. Andy talked about how moving this was for everybody that worked on that project to help bring power to the people in the Navajo Nation. I'm proud
of them and we can all be proud of our people to do that. The commission is supportive. If we can get other people do it again next year, I think we're going to try to do it again next year. Um, Mr. Sterns can talk about that. When we first brought this up, it's an emotional deal and it's really cool to
be part of it. We're proud to be part of it. All right. Thanks, Vanilla. And so on behalf of the council, let your employees and Andy know how much we appreciate them. We will do that. Thank you. Okay. We've got a few city
administration items and I believe uh Alderman Bokei is going to take 11 A, B, and C. Correct, Matt? Yes, your honor. Okay. Uh 11A, consideration of the first reading of ordinance 540 creating city code section 216 of civil enforcement.
Uh Mr. Clem or Mr. Ramstead. This is a this is a proposed uh ordinance u that would assist the city attorney's office and city staff in enforcement of um basically our codes. Uh what it
effectively does is it uh specifically authorizes us to bring civil action uh to seek certain relief. It also would authorize us to require as a condition of permit applications, permits and licenses that the applicant agree that
in the event they were to violate that permit uh and a civil action was necessary to enforce it, they would be responsible for the attorney's fees, costs, and dispersements associated with doing that. Essentially, that's an a civil
enforcement mechanism. uh that will hopefully uh mean that we don't have to do that thing. Sort of similar to what you see when you have uh contracts in Minnesota where there like for instance promisary notes and those type of things
always authorize uh that the undeault the borrower has to pay costs and dispersements. That's because Minnesota law prohibits that unless it's part of an agreement. And so we're asking that the uh council um give first reading to this ordinance tonight
and second reading in the future. It will assist with uh ordinance enforcement. This was discussed at the finance committee uh with unanimous approval and I so move. Second it. Motion's been made and seconded to give first reading of ordinance 540. Discussion. I have one
question. Go ahead Wendy. absent um enacting this ordinance, how do we manage violations of the code at this time of the civil nature? It depends. Uh we, you know, this clarifies some of it
gives specific authority to what we otherwise can already do. In other words, it does uh specifically authorize us to seek an injunction. Well, the law probably allows us to do that, but we don't have a specific directive from the council to do that. It authorizes us to
seek specific performance of a permit that we don't we we may have that authority um but we don't have a specific director from the council. So, it's in clarifying that type of language and the type of civil enfor uh uh enforcement that we can do. I mean most
of our ordinance is enforceable by criminal prosecution and we do utilize criminal prosecution in a lot of instances but one thought with this is that to the extent that we can avoid criminal prosecution there are some types of ordinances where you know you
don't really want to charge somebody with a misdemeanor um but you might be able to get them to comply with civil enforcement and so that's the thought. Okay. Further questions? All in favor of the motion
say I. I. I. Opposed. The motion carries and first reading of ordinance 540 is given. Thank you, honor. Item 11B, consideration of the first reading of ordinance 543 amending city code section 204.14, which is administrative appeal.
Kelsey, mayor and council. So, we have the administrative appeal process in our city code. This change just removes the word employee from those who can be uh basically agrieve that decision. Um
employees will still have uh their grievance options as spelled out by the personnel policy or in their um collective bargaining agreements. It just removes it from the administrative code. Okay. Matt that in uh discussion at
finance committee. This was unanimously approved and I so moved. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to give first reading to ordinance 543. Discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, your honor. Item 11
C, consideration of approving a resolution resolution authorizing execution of grant agreement with MIDOT for a broom attachment uh at the airport. Currently, we do not have a broom option out there, and that's a big deal. So, we need a broom out there. Uh this is a $28,000 piece of equipment
where the airport share would be 11,000 uh discussed at finance committee. We did agree they need a broom. So we are going to move this forward. Okay. Is there a second? Seconded. Motion's been made and seconded to authorize the execution of a grant
agreement for a new broom the uh airport. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. Is there any other items that any of the city staff needs to bring
before quick question? Did we actually remove 11D from the consent agenda in entirety or did we So, I think we need to take action on 11D. We went ahead and we moved it to be on and we just redid that out of Well, we just we only
approved the one license though. We didn't approve the rest. The other was on the rest was on consent agenda. We I thought we removed the whole thing from the consent. No, just that one. Just that. Yeah. So, yeah, Carrie's telling me we the whole thing. You know what? I think we removed 11D, Ron. So, I think
we need to come back. Okay. All right. And approve all the other licenses. So, I'll make a motion that we go ahead and approve uh 11D as presented. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve item 11D. Discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion say
I. Oppos? Motion carries. Thank you, Sean. Is there any other items that city staff has to bring before the council this evening? Hearing none, uh, at this time, I would like to recommend the appointment of Dan
Josephson to our planning commission and he will be replacing Justin Koig for the balance of the term which expires December 31st, 2026. And that would be my recommendation. So moved. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to appoint Dan Josephson to the planning
commission. Discussion. I I have discussion. I've received uh comments from people in in Ward 3 about this uh appointment and and this is what I'm going to say about it here. On November 5th of last year, the voters of W 3
voted Dan Josephson out of office because the voters did not share or agree with Dan Joseph's on his ideas for W three. The voters of war three do not approve the residential residential bridges zoning that Dan Josephson approves those and supports. If the
Baron City Council allow Mr. Josephson to be on the planning commission, it tells the citizen voters of W3 that their uh vote uh doesn't matter or count. This isn't to me this is not good government. Do you think that by putting Dan Josephson on a planning commission
that his ideas are going to change as far as dealing with zoning for the area of not only the city but also war through? This is not what war three voters wanted. The voters of war II have lost confidence in Mr. Josephson and and
his ideas. They for there therefore voted him out. And if the council approves this move to him on the planning commission, the voters will lose confidence also in the city council because it allow him to have his approval come back on the planning
commission. As I said before, this is not good government. We have many positive things going on in Detroit Lakes right now with West Lake Drive, a new pavilion, new water park, beachfront, ballpark, etc. as things move on. Let's find someone else to
replace us on the replanning center besides Dan Josephson. Well, I'm not going to, like I said, I'm I'm representing the people of uh WI three that called me on this. So, I'm not going to argue with you, Ron, but I'll I'll give you my uh reasons for
asking for approval of Dan on the planning commission. I think he'll be an excellent addition. Uh number one, he's got extensive experience from his time on the city council. Secondly, any recommendation from the planning commission still needs to be approved by
the city council. And thirdly, he'll be reliable and we've had a little bit of trouble with people being reliable on some of our advisory boards. So, I highly recommend to the council to approve Dan. And with that,
did we have a motion? Yeah. and a second. All in favor of the motion say I. I. Opposed? I motion. The motion carries. I don't have an appointment on the Arts and Culture Commission. I erroneously recommended someone who couldn't serve
on there because of her residency. So, I'll work on that as well for next month. Uh, couple announcements. The Coalition of Greater Minnesota City Summer Conference is July 23rd through the 25th in Baiji. You can
let Carrie know if you'd like to attend. Uh there'll be a special joint governance meeting held this Thursday at 7 a.m. in the city hall community room. The balance of the 2025 joint governance meeting dates are listed and the balance
of the 2025 city council meetings are also listed on the agenda. Which brings us to the end except if there's any of the council members. Jay, anything further tonight. Anything further for the No, I'm good. Thanks, Sean. Absolutely not. Mike,
nothing. Matt, uh, one quick thing just to tell everybody about uh, at noon today, the sophomore class for the engineering school at the high school here created this air piston, which they did this, it kind of blew my mind with
CL or CNC machine. Uh, it runs about 660 revolutions per minute, which I don't even know how you start making this, but I never had that option in high school. Thought it was dang cool. If you guys get the option, stop by the high school to check it out. This does has a CNC
city logo on the top as well. So, Kelsey, your mayor, I'll hand that over to you. Cool. Well, when I was in high school, we had shop and we made wooden salt and pepper shakers instead of my technology. Pretty close. Yeah. Well, this will look good on the mayor's
desk, won't it? Ron, anything further? Yes. I I just want to comment on our joint government meeting that the mayor mentioned here on Thursday at 7 o'clock in the morning here. The keynote speaker is going to be Jeff Seagler. Uh he's going to be the
the main speaker at the at the chamber annual meeting this year, but we put in some extra money. He's a heck of a speaker and um I hope that we have a good turnout for him and we come and everybody to see him at 7:00 on Thursday
morning. Okay. Thank you, Wendy. Um I um just want to say a special thank you to public utilities um for sharing that information tonight. I think we live in a community where we're really fortunate to have all of the amenities and and you know, our involvement as a council
making sure those things happen. Um, and then to hear about object poverty and people don't have electricity today and I think people don't recognize that. So, I really appreciate you sharing. Plus, thank you for all the good work that you do and providing service. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Wendy. Erin, anything
further? Just a little disappointed in the city council on this whole flag issue. I thought we had a good compromise. It's kind of sad that we can't compromise as a city council. Full life's full of disappointments. I'll just move on. That's all I have. All right. All right, Craig. Anything
further? Uh, just really excited for the baseball park. Uh, just getting going on that. I've been bugging Terry Meyer for a long time. Terry Meyer, Terry. Uh, just when is this going to take place? And it's exciting to see uh, you know, the city support it and get get going on it. So, yeah. And also, we're going to
cut the ribbon on the uh, expansion of the gymnastics on Thursday. So, Exactly. Is that noon? You know, noon. Yeah. 12:00 noon. You're all invited. So, it's going to be a beautiful day. Yeah. Right. Rain. The business of this council has come to a conclusion. The
meeting's adjourned. Thank you. [Music]