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of Allegiance the pledge of aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all all right thanks everyone for being here tonight Carrie if you wouldn't mind would you start us with a roll call please Mr Steinberg here Mrs roric here Mr White here Mr Whittington here mayor Norton
here thank you Carrie I'll open for public comments if anyone wants to speak on something not on the agenda please come up state your name we'll give you a three minutes looks like you're all here for agenda item so I will close that portion public comments um approval of the agenda I do
have one slight modification uh Mr ginzel is here to speak on new business number one I'd like to move that from new business number one just before our third presentation with Nathan Hyde so if someone would like to
make a motion so we can get Mr gendel out to his daughter's recital I'll make that motion I'll second thank you any further discussion all in favor of making new business number one uh in between two
and three under presentations say I I anyone opposed motion carry that item will move um let's try this this month where we approved the minutes officially so we are looking to approve the meeting
minutes of April 1st and May 6th apparently we forgot that last month sorry folks I'll look for motions on both of those separately I'll make the motion to approve the meeting and start April 1st and May 6 on both of those separate
motions yes okay Carrie you got what you need for that all right thank you all right next item uh consent agenda there's quite a bit going on here I just wanted to mention there's several donations from the Comm for basketball hoops and for park things there's just a
lot here so I want to thank everyone um supporting the summer sounds donations uh we have an amazing new Eagle sculpture out in the hallway uh if anyone hasn't seen it yet check that out um donated by a resident that's moving um appointment of election judges
nothing I think too exciting there but just thank you uh Carrie for being the head judge and taking care of that for us so um sadly it looks like we are losing Jeremy hori from the park board after quite a few years yeah so thank
him for his service um anything else anyone would like to call out could I add a couple things yes please well just add one thing mayor Norton city council we need to add resolution um a new resolution it's 202 24-28 it would be appointing a new
Planning Commission member Michael Hughes so I did put a copy of that on your um workspace um and then I just wanted to modify uh resolution um 202 24-27 I did talk to the donor of the
eagle sculpture um and they just had wanted to get an update where we were at on accepting it and I mentioned that we talked about the possibility of either City Hall um like if we have a new fire hall or just a public facility in general and they specifically um
requested that it be displayed at City Hall for the public to view um and if we're not able to do that then they're going to maybe look at doing something else with it so I I did modify the ordinance or excuse me the resolution to specifically state city hall thank
you thank you for that um do we need to make a decision then on the Statue being oh okay well would anyone like to then make a motion to approve the
resolution that the eagle statute will remain in the city hall building or something more eloquently worded and maybe also mayor and city council first of all do you do you even want to accept it um it kind of came up
at Short no they were removing needed to um uh remove it from the property and we said we'll uh take it for now and then if Council will discuss it their upcoming meeting in June if they don't want it will be in touch and they agreed they would take it if the city wasn't
interested so um that's why it's here before you formally accepted it it gives us a good visual of what it really looks like I think it's fantastic it's [Music] beautiful I have no issues with it
either way um the only time I would maybe say there might be an issue is if at some point 50 years down the road we don't aren't in this building and the next group doesn't want it but that could happen I don't think any of our decisions at that point you
know but yeah I'd make a motion to accept their donation and keep it in City Hall all right thank you do we have a second I'll second thank you any further discussion related to accepting the eagle statue
donation all right all in favor of approving the resolution say I I um anyone OPP post no motion carries thank you and are we already doing a thank you to them okay perfect thank you it' be nice if we get a picture after
the council meeting with the council members around it and we could uh maybe do a post and then give them uh some credit in the community if you guys would be okay with that that's a great idea all right thank you and then do you need anything formally for the Planning Commission seat for Michael Hughes yes
please and you could uh do one motion for the entire consent agenda if the council is okay with doing that and then we we'll be covered with that I just also want to note that we have two other interested parties in serving on the Planning Commission they weren't able to make the last meeting um so the Planning
Commission um accepted Michael's application made a recommendation but they'd like the other two to come before him and talk to him and just make sure it's a good fit we could use all three so I'm hopeful that by the July meain will'll come back with another recommendation for two more people thank you all right would anyone like to make
that motion for the remaining items on consent agenda or something on its own I'll approve the consent agenda I'll thank you any further discussion on consent agenda did I hear anything Garrett no okay
oh all right well she she beat you sorry all right all in favor of approving the consent agenda then say I I I anyone opposed motion carries we will now move on to presentations oh Brian sarf uh
Bolton and mink the floor is yours welcome back good evening mayor city council uh I'll be really brief tonight just wanted to provide an update if you will on the Water Treatment Plant uh and also uh
something for you guys to consider this evening so since last meeting uh bonding bail bonding Bill uh did not pass uh so it kind of creates potentially some a little more limbo for the city here
previous discussion at uh the last meeting was to come tonight uh with a design proposal um just talking to staff it it felt right to pause and maybe push that off to July one critical component however is
uh the design survey there's a little bit of lead time for that uh just getting the utilities marked uh and uh certainly crops uh as they start to grow here um it's a relatively low cost for field
workor but um maybe something to consider tonight um and speaking with John grman uh design really needs to begin in about August if we want to meet a March deadline to get on the uh really to get on the shelf for
funding right um uh so there's some critical decisions coming up soon here uh really what I come for you uh come to you tonight for is uh I guess a consideration of getting the survey going just so that it's not
holding us up uh to do only field work for that uh talking with my surveyor Janelle she was thinking uh not to exceed 4,000 for that there' be some other costs later down the line when it comes to looking at the boundary work uh
and eventually splitting off a parcel for the plant itself but really the what would require the lead time at this point is uh the field work so if this council is interested in pursuing that I
just want to provide that information this evening any other questions about uh the project I know the number one question we heard from every single legislator is shovel ready shovel ready shovel ready I think this is one more step in that
shovel ready process right because mayor city council if we don't if this site isn't viable there's some surprise there with some utility we're in big trouble so yep absolutely makes sense to move forward right now it does not commit you to the project all it all it is is before we
would have an appraisal done try to negotiate purchase just making sure this actually is a good fit correct all right Council any other question or any questions for Mr sarf or would anyone like to make a motion to move ahead with a proposal to begin the
survey I'll make the motion to move forward with the survey I'll second thank you we have a motion and a second any further discussion on the survey I think just more of a question so do we do separate contract for survey or just there'll
probably be a proposal to accept right Brian would there be something else signed or maybe not it's it's up to you on you know a lot of times at this scale of work for engineering we uh we just a job okay if that's acceptable but happy
to put a a letter proposal together too that staff could maybe it wouldn't be bad with given it is a a project and we're we just to have that if it's not too much hassle and then we'll just put that with a project file if that's okay no problem at all should we just do that yeah I think that would be a good idea especially with the not to
exceed just make sure that's all right uh we had a motion second discussion any further discussion all right all in favor of approving The Proposal say I I anyone opposed motion carries thank you for being here tonight
as always appreciate your time all right next item this evening we have Annette Larson and Mark Griffith from towards zero death uh safe and sober ride program uh regarding Tater days so thank you and welcome appreciate you
being here thank you all right so we just have a real quick presentation for you talk a little bit about tzd um our vision our mission and then Mark's going to talk about joy ride today so so I'm Anette Larson I'm the southern
changing jobs I'm the state tzd uh program and operations director um and Mark if you want to introduce yourself yeah I'm Mark R I'm the director for the South Central Region and uh and that's uh liaison I guess for the the Blue
Earth and Nicolet County safe roads Coalition oh yes sorry I was taking a picture that's okay sorry all right so here's our vision basically we want to redu our fatalities and our serious injuries that are happening on our roadways our goal is to
get to zero and next um and then of course our mission really pulling together our ease that we talk about to address what's happening on our roadways so you can see them on the screen there so education enforcement engineering and
EMS so a little history about tzd we started in 2003 when you see on that slide there we' reached 655 fatalities on our roads and we said if if we don't do anything that number is going to continue to increase and we that's unacceptable to us and so we pulled
together all of the state departments were visioned after um Sweden's Vision zero program that began in 1997 so you can kind of see that 655 when we started um in 2003 and kind of that red line is the trajectory of where
we would be if we did nothing and so you can kind of see the numbers declining over the course of the past 20 years um we've reached about a 37% reduction in our fatalities um but again that's 414 lives that we lost on our roads in
2023 and that's way too many but this slide kind of looks at it in the reverse and so if we done nothing that red line is there so what we're seeing here is we saved over 4,500 lives so that equates to about 220 lives saved
every year since tzd started this slide just looks at some of the contributing factors that we talk about when we talk about towards zero death so we talk about seat belts we talk about speed we talk about um distraction and then of course impairment so you can kind of see where the numbers are we're seeing kind of that drop um we had a
little bit of a spike during the covid time and so now we're starting to see those numbers come back down again talking about our five E so when tcd started back in 2003 we started actually with just the four e that I Ted about enforcement engineering education
and EMS and we added a 50 and that 50 is everyone it's our elected officials it is our communities that are out on our roadways traveling from point A to point B um so really just anybody that has a desire and a passion to help us achieve our zero fatality
goal this is just our Geographic setup for our tcd coordinators so we have coordinators in all of the different regions that you see there with the exception of South Central that's currently open and we have a opening in the W the West Metro as
well these are just our strategic plans our goals that we've set for the toward zero death program across the state so you can see them up there but really our big thing with our local coalitions is finding that support um and making Traffic Safety a priority because we all
can make a difference on what's happening on our roads all right and I'm going to turn it over to Mark thanks um mayor members of the council thanks for having us um Joy Ride Joy Ride uh we've had the joy ride program active here in Bluth County
since 2016 so this will be our eighth year coming up um we do try to promotee it it's very easy very fun um and it's inexpensive as a matter of fact it it's free to the people that want to use it so um that's about as inexpensive as it gets so and the idea was is that if you
know rather than uh you know people worried about going home after they you know they want to go out for New Year they want to go out for St p P they they want to go out for tater days um you know if they come in from out of town we can get them back home um cheap and easy
really cheap and easy um and ultimately we're trying to reduce the number of drunk driving deaths certainly the number of arrests and uh and overall be a good partner to our other our other folks in the in the 5S there next so um you know having having
access to that potentially we do you know certainly anytime we have an alcohol related accident that's that's a domino effect right you're not only affecting the people that were directly in this accident but you affect their families you affect the people that had to go respond to these folks so overall
we try to Red you know the goal is to reduce the health care side of things um reduce the public safety cost um ultimately this event you know and in in particular we have done Tater days since 2016 um we will provide a ride or joy
ride for I ride from Eagle Lake out so many miles away from Eagle Lake typically about 15 I think is what we usually do so um since 2016 up through the end of last year we've given over 1700 people rides home um and we've changed our changed our Paradigm a
little bit on how we do that um U traditionally or up until last year we would use a bus we' Park a bus out here for four or five hours and they would run shuttles back and forth throughout the night um last year we moved to an Uber model
um and we had enormous success with that over the holidays and over St Patrick's Day so um it's just a little scan code they can scan it in they get a $15 voucher and it'll take them um I think it was 15 15 miles yep so um so it was on demand we didn't have to tie up a bus
sitting out here paying 150 bucks an hour to do to wait on people so um certainly that's it you know as uh obviously we have you know a lot of Public Safety involved in running this program and coordinating it but ultimately end of the day that program
is based on sponsorship hours so uh typically we've had two very uh two very steady sponsors um and eag Lake was one of our original sponsors back in 2016 so to Distributing and the Blue Earth County Health and Human Services each
have kind of kicked in about anywhere from a th or500 to ,000 doll a year to make sure we can continue to fund that um and uh um on occasion we've had bars and some of the local establishments would kick in but uh we would certainly
uh love to to maybe have Eagle Lake get back into that with us um as of this year as of today um there's been 151 traffic related deaths here in we're up quite a bit over last year at this point
um so again this is just one of the wheels in that c that we can try to reduce reduce that number um at least take alcohol and poor decision making at least mitigate some of that some of that action we go to the next so like Anette
said earlier we're looking for into next year we're looking for you know keep that traffic related death total under 225 addable 225 and under 980 for uh for serious traffic related injuries we do think we can get to zero
and that's been the you know it's toward death as long as it's been in existence with us since 2003 and we do and we strive every day to to to to make that happen one of the big one of our big projects has been to mitigate the the
hazards that go along with the holidays right your St Patrick say your Thanksgiving your hall or not Halloween I guess maybe if you're an adult Halloween but um but Christmas New Year that sort of thing so um um so yeah at the end of the day we can we can talk we
can show you grasp but this is this is one of those boots on the ground sort of programs that affects Eagle Lake every single year at tat days then that and I would be remissive and that put this slide in here if any of you are interested in filling that everyone slot we have Public Safety we
have enforcement here EMS engineering um but if any anybody here from the general public from the council would like to get involved with t Zer de simply contact in that we'll get you involved keep you busy any questions I was fortunate to attend the
conference last month over in Mano and it was amazing the information and the different programs that you guys support and it's just I am in awe of what you guys do so thank you for for that
um council do you have any questions thoughts comments what can we do to support the program in Eagle Lake how much money do you need consider supporting it so well you know in years past and we had touched on the bus issue right the buses when we
would park a bus out here at ran and and that correct me if I'm wrong I think it's about $150 in to have that Bus Sit it might make two or three runs and over the course of the evening maybe haul 100 people 150 people out um when we moved to that Uber um model last year we could
spend that same amount over the course of five hours and move three times as many people I mean it was so honestly I mean we would even like a $500 donation would that for tater days that would
probably cover the next three to four years I mean just just those Uber poost so um but I'm I'm a horrible salesman all this but uh but that and that's really at the end of the day what we're trying to do we you know we just
want to make sure we can continue this for sure this is our backyard and the nice thing with the joy program we don't just do tat days to cover Eagle Lake we also do St Patrick's Day we do the Wednesday day before Thanksgiving um this past year because of moving to the
Uber we were able to offer Jo R Services every single weekend in December which is significant so the program I think is only going to grow by the utilizing absolutely the Uber option also allowed us to you know with buses we went 15 now we can take it I think I
think December we were out 20 miles so it actually did kind of pull in your mael fols and bur Center Bol so was it was a wider expanse um The Uber we didn't get you know the Uber drivers seem to seem to appreciate it and work pretty strongly with
them yeah we're happy to try that again right here in town if I look historically what we done looks like we did a thousand in 2016 and a th in 2019 um budgeting is super fun so I would be more in favor of this being an annual
recurring um maybe I don't a thousand's probably a lot but uh smaller amount every year so it's just kind of you know next council is going to make that decision annually I suppose but I guess that's what I'd like to see that way you guys
know you know kind of what you can do there so I don't know Council thoughts yeah say I would say a recurring budget item would be a good idea to uh help support
tzd how much would you like to do Garrett council member Steinberg sorry uh no before you ask before you answer didn't we what did we do at tzd with when we had Eagle Lake Police Department didn't we have to do like a matching fund for tzd or I remember Chief cop was
they did no they covered everything so we weren't out anything just had to allow the use of our squads and you know our Personnel but they covered everything Pera um health insurance costs or everything that's tacked into the hourly rate so we didn't have exposure financially that way okay just
that our Squad was getting wear and tear on it but um I should note we do have some uh police forfeiture funds that we would like to use and get used up here so we do have funding if you want to make a contribution um this year I'd like to get that cleaned up and then we could budget each year moving ahead am
understanding correctly though but this is run entirely separate we're there's no liability on the city for this right okay just making sure okay we need to talk Insurance that's another thing okay um all right well uh we need
a motion or anything yes we would need a motion um I guess staff would recommend $1,000 uh we could do that we did that in 2016 2019 just do the same toate and then have a conversation in the future about a
recurring Year bye basis I'll second that motion all right we have a motion and a second any further discussion on the motion all in favor say I I anyone
opposed the motion carries thank you and thank you guys I'm glad we arrived at this I'm I'm really yeah this makes me happy I don't think any of us want to feel for a second that the fun things we do in our city would cause harm to
anyone so and thank you so much for your support sincerely appreciate it we can uh you can come back in August and present the uh how many how many wi you got out of that' be yeah yeah that'd be great perfect thank you both thank you appreciate it appreciate the good
partnership with you guys all right so then next up Nathan we're GNA as we talk about push you back a little bit here uh Mr gzel would you like to speak under new business item or Jennifer do you want to maybe I should kick it off with the c since it's really
a city discussion item um at this point uh hold on one second please just got to pull it up here okay uh the City attorney Chris Kennedy was not uh available to be here this evening um but I had talked to him on the phone um and also talked with star
homman with the um office of Municipal boundary adjustments so hopefully I should be able to answer your questions um if not we can always um table take any action and you know find out the answer to a question that I can't answer
so we've got with the packet um uh property owner petition for detachment of property from the city of Eagle Lake and that was receive from darl and Cynthia gunzel and that's parcel number r121 00072
0000001 um just give you a little background on the process because this isn't something we deal with uh frequently um the only way that we can detach land um that's already part of the city is with the approval of the municipal boundary adjustment unit that's the office um I reference that I
contacted um as one of my resources um to be able to detach um you have to meet some qualifications and that includes the land must be adjacent to the city's boundaries which this is um has to be rural in character which this is and not developed for urban residential
commercial or industrial purposes um this subject parcel is uh located within the city of Eagle Lake um a but Municipal boundary and is located in the county of Blue Earth um the reason Detachment is being requested as per the
petitioners in their um request is that since annexation took effect in 2019 um the property ownership has changed they purchased the parcel um the petitioner say they have no intention of developing the property and wish to maintain its rural character by keeping it in Crop
Production um the number of acres is just under 80 and um just to kind of walk through the process because I'm sure there's a lot of questions on so we have this petition before us what's the next step so um once we receive a Detachment
notice um the town board also should have received attachment notice and I believe they did it looks like we've got a rep in the um phyllis's um in the audience Dashner um and so the township um can either adopt a resolution
supporting the petition opposing it or remain neutral um it appears at this point they are potentially neutral um we haven't heard one way or another um so if the township would have voted to oppose the
petition and let's say the city oppos a petition it's done it doesn't go any further if the township support voted to support the petition and then the city decides to oppose it then we have to go to mediation um and um go to a public
hearing of which there's a cost so the cost would be split 50/50 between both parties or however many parties are involved if the township remains neutral it would be between the petitioner and the city and typically those costs are split
5050 um another factor to consider with the uh petition here is that um when the orderly annexation agreement was adopted um by both the city and the township there was a reversion clause in
there stating that after 36 months if it if the area was not to be developed it would revert back to the township so that's something else to consider um in that agreement is just binding between the city and the township it's not between the
petitioner um so just something to be aware of um and like I said the chief administrative law judge would divide the cost of mediation the hearing um typically 50/50 between the parties involved um regardless of who is the
winner or the loser you everybody has to pay their fair share um I did talk to Mike gunel um prior to this meeting um about whether there be an interest in creating a rural service ta tax District because we did discuss that with another
parcel um and they're not interested in that because they don't really see the purpose because they would end up leaving it in Crow production and just be agriculture yep so then also um as I me mentioned I have a copy of the orderly um joint resolution for orderly
annexation um and we have already paid Lor Township the full amount there was a clause in there I think that was the that was one of the terms to get that early annexation agreement approved and that was to pay the full amount in 2022 so that was about $53,000 that the city
um issued payment for to L Township um sorry what was that total 53,000 typically get paid in I'll scroll down and show you typically um you would pay it by year um and at the time when we were negotiating that early
annexation agreement the request was made to um after the first three years to make a lumpsum payment so you can see it spread out and so that was one of the terms the city council agreed to um and in 2022 the full amount was remaining amount was
paid so I mean at this point you guys can talk about you know your different options whether you support the petition for detachment you oppose it um and just kind of keeping in mind the different
um um correlating factors such as if you oppose it and the cost associated with uh mediation in a hearing oops to far thank you Mr bromand uh
Council thoughts comments I think the only question I have is there any way to recoup any of the 53,000 because you know obviously that was part of you know taxes moving back and forth and kind of that buyout so I don't know if there's anything obviously that was for the entire
project it wasn't just for that one parcel um don't know if that's possible or should we be asking for that um or not that whole entire thing but a portion of that um you know that' be my only question since we're not only
losing you know uh that we're losing that that tax base you know it's a small tax base but it's it's something um over the next several years so that's the biggest question for me I think you know yeah we know what the
what the land owners you know wants to do with it and that makes sense and you know it's his property should be able to do what what he wants with it um but you know having that that was a big number for us back then and kind of still a big number for us now so that would be the
only question I think that was my my thing too is you know reading number nine on the rever reversion after 36 months well if we paid the full amount after 3 years versus waiting until 2020 or 2038
you kind of feel like I mean for me I kind of feel cheated like we we it went past the 36 they said yep let's do this Clause pay us out and now wait now we want half half the land back and and here we are out the full amount when we could have
just kept taking it stop the payment of yeah so I mean I can understand them wanting to keep at egg just because it's under the city doesn't mean that it can't stay egg you know um whether it's under city of Eagle Lake or under Laray Township it's still
under one of the two names just as egland and being ran the same way um just under a different city or Township um so I think that's where it doesn't sit well for me is that I I understand the reversion piece I get that and I
also see that instead of following what was here we just paid lump suum after 3 years so it's like I don't I don't our time as counselor I'm trying I mean it's been a while so it was 20 um 2019 and that we
discussed that at Great length I can tell you staff was concerned about that um and I think that was the only way to get the early annexation agreement approved because I think it was a concern by the township on tracking and then you know looking at going out that far and remembering to invoice the city the city remembering to pay and I think
that was kind of where that stemmed from um but I I'm not an attorney I can't I mean I guess my just would think that we signed an agreement it's kind of done with um I guess I would think that it would be if you try to if this gets detach and then you want
to Annex this in in the future that this would be something you'd have to work out with Laray Township that hey we paid for this before it got detach why would we have to pay you again get messy again I don't know I'm just right I don't I don't know what what um we would have to what position
we have to stand on here since what the options are I think I just want to raise that because one is was kind of different right that we paid it all up front and that was negotiated by a council before us good on them um but you know we're
losing some property within the city we're losing some tax base how we're small that's that's going to be um but you have we consulted with our attorney um Y and the recommendation
is there's really not there's not have I mean what are we have this agreement we also are in a position where if um the township stays neutral then the city and the petitioner go to mediation in a hearing with the administrative law judge and it's out of our control the
city could certainly pursue that just know that there could be an expense if the city feels like it's worth it to do it that's that's an option and I'm not sure when Laray Township's meeting was but if you are here from L Township and have anything to add as far as what was
discussed um if they have plan PL thank you but my understand I mean the township did have a say in the annexation right back in 2019 because so you guys you know I'm just trying to clarify that comment of like when you said you don't have a say because you were buted up to Eagle Lake you did have
a say the township could have said no we don't want to an let you know we don't want to give the property up so there was that not that explains why the terms are as such because we we're trying to get it done to be able to make a potential project
happen it didn't happen I mean there's nothing saying that Eagle Lake won't say hey you can't keep that egg you need to develop it right we have other egg property that's under city of Eagle Lake that is staying egg right we would handle each situation
separately so what happens here does not set a precedence for other land this is totally you know every situation is going to be handled separately and that land's egg without an agreement saying that it needs to go back the process is though right is if
we oppose it it goes to arbitration and then we are we split the arbitration cost and most likely we won't win that arbitration um yeah so we'll be out another seems we've always burned enough
legal fees on this particular parcel well it is for us too I mean when we I mean it is for both parties but I think that's where it doesn't sit well for me and again it was before my time I know stuff you know conversations but that's where it's it just doesn't sit
well when it says Hey after three three years you got to pay a lump sum and the revision and both of them just kind of said well here you go and now we want that land back and we're not going to pay anything more assuming we're not going to pay you back back any of what you already paid L some so I feel like we got cheated twice right would anyone
like to ask that City staff consult with the attorney on recouping some of the funds paid before making a decision and tabling this till next meeting or you guys can make a motion to
just move on sign an agreement I I don't know what else we can do I mean it wasn't our decision so there was a contract we signed it and away we go so I think it it was a high tuition that we just played
yeah if you'd rather just table taking any action at all this evening I you know as I understand there's no specific time frame um with uh this process I mean they want you to show that you're trying to move through it but if the council has any reservations I'd say don't take action tonight we can wait
until the next meeting any questions you want answered I can look into them but I'm just telling you from my perspective I you know just this this was approved because the council wanted at that time to get this development to happen and um
it didn't so I I just don't know what I mean you can ask all the questions you want yeah I don't see any path to recouping any of the dollars but no oh look for motions then can you scroll down so yeah and I
can still ask a question I think we're talking about different issues because we can't hold the petitioners responsible for the money that the city paid that would be with Lori Township so I think we're kind of talking about separate things and you tell me where how far to go down well I just I want to
read is there a motion I can read we have to have a specific language and a motion to either supporting or opposing the petition for orderly annexation uh
we for detachment I could try to give the City attorney a call right now if you want uh if you just want to give me a minute to ask doesn't hurt I mean for what language you want for the motion well if you guys have hesitations or questions oh there's anything you guys want me to
ask I think council member White's ready to make a motion he's just not sure exactly of the language that we would like to have on the record so if you're looking to um for the resolution to uh support the the request or the petition
it's just as simple we support the um the request to detach from you know the city of Eagle Lake and we could actually just follow the the wording that's in their petition so it's motion to support the
petition to detach to detach anyone like to make a second I'll second the motion thank you any further discussion on the motion to accept the petition all right all in favor of approving the petition to detach say I I
I I anyone opposed I thank you um motion carries the eyes have it and it looks like you are out on time hopefully to get to a concert so appreciate that thank you for coming here and being available and thanks to I'm sorry I didn't catch her name from L Township
phis thank you for being here too and being available uh agency Street yep when Road um oh Overhead Door okay thank you for letting us know about that
okay okay we'll take a much thank you all right next item then on the agenda we're back to to uh Mr Hyde our forestry member Community forestry member has a presentation prepared for us I'll
just and I have to say I learned so much about the different like what's good and what's bad and what they look like I had no idea I thought those berry things were like poison Nightshade or something and I don't know I feel smarter after
reading your research so thank you I don't I don't know someone told me that I don't I'm not a weed expert but hello everyone I'm Nathan Hy I'm the community forestry member of for Eagle Lake um and my service term uh ends in
about a month so I just wanted to quickly go over all of the little projects and the things I've been working on um just share that with you all today um the first one is an emerald ashore or EAB I'll be shorten that for the rest of this so it's easier to say um just a little guide about uh Emerald
ashore um and the purpose of this guide and all of the uh guides that I've made are just to inform the public about different tree issues um and inform them on what they can do to combat them um and the
purpose of this first guide is just to describe what Emerald ashor is why it's such a problem the different signs that you can look for um and what you can do to help manage it here's just a quick little picture of all of the affected counties in southern Minnesota there's
34 listed here and 54 total in the state that have um their uh their County listed as an EAB quarantine Zone which limits or prohibits the movement of any ash tree material in or out of the
county um Blue Earth County is obviously under that um and here are just some cool pictures of um key identifying characteristics of an ash Tre you have opposite branching of the leaflets and a
key just uh key thing to note is leaflets are not like a single leaf they're multiple leaflets connected to a stem so that's pretty identifiable the seeds look like this um often in large clusters the main thing to look for for
an ash tree is the diamond um pattern bark I think um they also have wide branching um growth patterns so um these are some key things to look for when a tree is
um experiencing some stress from the emerald ashore Beetle the way it works is they lay their eggs on the tops of the trees and when the larvae hatches they burrow through the trees um cutting off Supply or cutting off the supply of
nutrients going up so the upper canopy will start to thin um and the tree will kind of produce these um vegetative Sprouts towards the bottom or the middle as like a last ditch effort to try and grow some new stuff um and this is
another major thing to look for is the Bark bleaching from woodpeckers or just it's splitting off because it's um not doing too well and then here's a little picture of the different tunnels that you can see um The larva making and I'm not going to going to
read all of this but it also goes over some other tree diseases like Dutch elm disease Baro blight um Oak Wilt um and then it talks about not moving firewood as well so and that's the main one I wanted to hit the other ones that I've made are
also important um and all of these will be available on the city website um under EAB management plan and other resources so this one is just a ID and planning guide the one that you just looked at um and it goes over the
benefits of Learning Tree ID and knowing what types of trees to plant for your area or this part of the state specifically um it goes over basic things to look for in doing Tri ID versus whether that's coniferous versus deciduous so you can look at different
bark types um Aspen and Birch here pretty good uh good ones to know as versus black walnut very similar um some other key ones are Hackberry and silver maple around here um and there's
different ways to look at the way the leaves are organized or characterized um simple versus compound and it goes more in depth um there's also some good apps out there that you can download called Leaf snap or plant ID um you just take a
picture of the tree and it'll tell you what it is that's probably all a lot easier than memorizing everything but there's also like little guides like this that are I think are PR helpful um so yeah and with those first two guides
I the main focus that I've been doing here is doing a tree inventory of the city trees and ash trees that are around the city and I'm in the process of writing a report on that it's not currently finished and it will be up on the website when it is um here it is so
this is the tree inventory it is it has a total of 1,025 trees to date um and there's different categories that I want the public to be aware of if they look at this um the green or the green and red
trees are city-owned trees uh green are non Ash you can see there's a lot around the city parks and along Parkway um the red are the city-owned ash trees and that's the main focus I wanted to hit
here is that most of these will be um under threat of EAB or already are um and will need to be removed and about a 100 trees being removed is about $2,000 on average per tree removal that's $200,000 to remove all those so um you
said the Orange is the bat that's the ones that are threatened uh orange is all of residential ash trees oh okay there's one over my house right now and I'm like what yeah I can zoom in if you want yeah when this is posted this is a great tool
for anyone here to know if they have an ash how many they have um and if they're under threat so I've added at as of today 457 I probably missed a few in people's backyard it's hard to see I'm just walking along the street um don't want to trespass or anything so um and then
this is a shortened version of just the trees that are dead or dying I'm adding more um currently and some leaves are on their way out unfortunately already so um this is a work in progress as well but I just wanted to share that this
will be made available so if you're curious on how many or where they are what the distribution is because a lot of the ash trees in Mano are already dying in showing signs and it can take up to three to five years for the damage from an initial infestation for the
damage to show so they're already here it's just the damage isn't very ex uh it's not widespread yet but it's starting to even last year when I first started I didn't see that many signs but this spring there's already some trees that are losing a lot of their upper
canopy are they too far gone for treatment I know there's some things you can do right like injections or something so yeah that is the next thing I was going to hit is the only way to go against Emerald ashbo is a treatment with tree injections of a chemical that
will kill the bug um it's not going to be successful uccessful for these trees but for some of the trees in the park um they still if they have a full canopy and they're looking like they're doing okay you don't see a lot of signs a treatment will be effective at killing anything and preventing further damage
um and I don't know the exact cost uh off the top of my head but it's around like an average tree would probably be 150 every two years to treat it so forever yeah uh well
wow I'm not I'm not too sure about the long-term data on this yeah yeah and I think uh as as time progresses all all of the untreated ones will die so the only ones that will be left will be the ones that
are treated um and if the bugs get in there the population will decrease and the stress on those trees will also decrease so uh yeah is this the only type of tree they can eat so if we just collectively let them all die then the
correct the bugs will die and they only target species of uh Native Ash which are Green Ash black ash and white ash and 99% of the trees in this city are Green Ash so kill the food source take them all out and replant and then the last thing
I want to go over is my other um project that I was doing I made a little guide about different problematic plants around here most common one on here um is common Buckthorn um I've here I'll switch over
so now here's a little fun graph or picture so buckthorne swallows up entire under stories of forests um here's a great picture showing what removals can do um and here's the affected areas that I
targeted so blue is areas that seem Buck seem to be Buckthorn free relatively um the highlighted areas were thick um areas of Buckthorn that were covered and then the red circled areas are the areas that I targeted for removal myself with
just a little cutter and some spray we should note too this is Nathan is it our fourth year and each one of them trying to tackle this Buckthorn it's incredible like he said it just keeps coming up and coming up so and one notable thing about Buckthorn is the
seeds can remain viable in the soil for reproduction for up to like five years so even if we got rid of all of this today it'll still come back so that's why I wanted to um just I tried to get rid of as much as I could to limit the spread um and Community forestry members
in the future if they follow that then it'll allow native plants to thrive here and make the park look a little bit prettier so do you know if um if goats like Buckthorn that they they do actually I read a study that um goats and other
like grazing animals will Target that but they will also eat everything else so it's maybe not super reliable do they eat Emerald Ash Wares too no no no Okay the reason Emerald Ash Boors are so detrimental is because there's no native
predator and they're from Asia that were and it was introduced um or shipped over via shipping materials wood from out east and now they just run ramp in so um and then the last thing I wanted
to say is just uh quick shout out for the people that went out uh during Earth Daye week um and helped us collect over 16 large bags of trash throughout the city most of which were at the parks here I'll go back up and show the map
again oh so I went around here and a little down here there's some Wetlands over here the wetlands by City Hall as well had a group go over the railroad and they probably missed a few um but here's just some cool pictures I
wanted to show there is a large is that an office chair yeah an office chair in the creek that the City Works people got out for for me so thank you guys um and then here's a cool before and after of one of the Wetland areas so there's a bunch of trash
look at that so yeah and that is everything I have is anyone have any questions well it looks like you did a extremely great job um with everything Nathan I've seen you out working in the um out you know in the streets and the
sidewalks and stuff one question that I have did you so is that on that map there that's going to be online eventually is do so you did you catalog all the city treat so like if there might be a hickory tree oh yeah I forgot
to mention are they all cataloged so all of the non ash trees are mostly identified to the species level some of which I have to get the specific type of spruce but you know I'll figure that out eventually where is this this will be on the city website then to look at are you
going to send it to the council members or um I available I don't want to on the website it' be just I I'm just curious out of just for browsing information yeah Y and when I random
trivia when I our com going don't have big open areas we do have we adopted we started this back four years ago have um I saw that in the notes of the the special session and we do have
ANH that we adopted so I just I just pulled it up yeah here's the plan but yeah I was going to suggest making this available either to the public for viewing and then maybe have it available for editing with the future Community forestry members public works or anyone
else uh for the city so that they can look at this and update it because trees will need to be removed when we get new when we remove Tre and then plant new ones that's what we we had that we had to Mark where the new ones are at and that's what we used our reporing so
right now you know we absolutely have that and and myself um and then we just keep giving access to the next that comes in it's just going to be an ongoing updating document Y and here's a great way of showing that too this was made by
the former Community member um and I took what they had and expanded upon it a little further um but some of the trees were just marked non- Ash but they weren't identified so I went back and identified all the non- Ash and then I wanted to include all of the um
residential ash trees so that people around the city can know how many they got what they want to do with that information whether they want to treat it or remove and replace um because some communities like over here in Creekside every tree is an ash tree almost so so I
think letting them know that that is the case is going to be helpful for them so any other questions with the bu I know personally how I know you put
a cut uh as far as I know if you sprayed a whole area you'd kill everything else too so if you want to do that that could work but no no I think it's just going to be an ongoing thing like I said this is year four in that area think that as
they start tackling it but I mean it's it's takes over I know y'all are going to think I'm crazy but I remember having very fun lunch breaks when I used to have to go to the office in Egan because the city of St Paul rented goats and they would
put up temporary fencing and the goats would just clear out these areas and and they'd move them around I well that's how they M the White House lawn before they lawn really pretty sure yeah I don't know I
mean laugh all you want but could we I that on record but is it worth looking into I think think it would be as long as there's a way to contain it um you don't want to just let them go through the woods but this is what you get for taking the cookies today now you're
going to be a goat Wrangler yeah they as far as I know I hav looked yoom know the there's the place um that you can drop off your Christmas trees instead of getting a lawn or you could should have just got a couple Golds well
I mean chickens don't what's chickens are good for irating the soil sheo goats I I'm not joking like can we is that something we could just look into for 10 minutes and just
see as aoke but I think it would I've seen it it's very da to only cut it then you have that place not too far away where we all take our Christmas
trees yeah maybe they oh yeah we we'll have Nathan look into it before perfectan yeah I'm Vaguely Familiar with some of the research done on it but I I'll look it for more y question is don't know I'm
cuber Vines cover trees um yeah I think that's what that's called I'm not entirely sure though yeah we've had quite a bit of it in the past few years and we just cut it
down and pull it out or cut it and let it die itself out all right any other questions comments for Mr Hyde maybe while he's here it's later on in the agenda but can I talk about that site agreement for our next community service or Community fory member if
that's okay um Nathan and I recently um uh and first of all I interrupting you Nathan did you have anything else you want to talk about I because if you do you go first thank so um Nathan and I were recently talking with um someone with the climate
impact cores um I can't think of her title um Jess program manager program manager and we were kind of talking about you know transitioning to the next person and so Nathan uh is our third Community First Year member but it it's our fourth year because we had won for two years because of Co and then U we
had Rachel last year and then Nathan this year and so we got approved for another one um um so Nathan and I were talking about now that um it's suspected that EAB is here in Eagle Lake hasn't been officially confirmed by Department of egg um yet but there's going to be a lot
more Demand on the um staff or somebody to be able to go out someone's residents are going to call and say I think I might have EAB and um you know first of all we need to go out we need to have somebody I'm just kind of giving you the background why it's so important that we continue with this program because um
Nathan and the other forestry members have laid the foundation of doing this tree inventory which has taken you know many many hours they've done a fabulous job um I as you can see it's very painstaking that he's he's um went through and did all the um private in the past the previous members had only
done City trees so um Kudos ten did an excellent job with that that'll be really nice to have that data but um I see you know once this really starts being more prevalent you can see the blonding of the trees and um people are going to be asking for help what do we
do um what resources are out there and that's where we just got to continue on we've got the EAB management plan that we adopted a couple years ago we had to have that to be able to get grants we've applied for Grants the last two years it's been super competitive haven't gotten any but we're going to keep
applying um the City Public Works budgets money every year to take down a number of trees so we've we're kind of shooting for a Target about 10 asht trees a year and try to take down and replace on on uh private property or excuse me public property we have about
200 in the park um total but um you know I think that's a reasonable amount unless we because not all the trees are that far gone some of them need to be removed because they're just maybe safety hazards anyways and so that's where we work with Nathan and the community forestry people to kind of
identify those um but anyways I just want to give you a little bit of an idea of what you know you might be wondering why do we need a person again I it doesn't cost us anything but I think that that person's really going to be you know out there educating the public helping answer questions and and the
common question that comes up a lot is do we have funding available there's no funding for uh private properties right now with um any grants that I've seen some cities make money available they may have resources to do it we do not we we just need to manage the trees on
public property for now um and um that's going to be a challenge in and of itself but the other thing that's going to be on the agenda later two that I put on there was Boulevard trees we've started to seen uptick and questions about Boulevard trees and while it's in the boulevard therefore it's not my responsibility but that's not the case
um the city has allowed trees we plant in the boulevard but just because they're in the boulevard um or in the RightWay does not mean it's the city's responsibility we have a provision our code that says you know Street trees are allowed um but it's the property responsibility to maintain so I
anticipate we're going to be getting more and more of those especially the ones that Nathan had mentioned over on Creek Side those are all in the um not all but I'm assuming most of them are Boulevard trees except for the Y go ahead um I forgot to mention
the distribution of Ash on the pr the playground um there's like a few non-ash around here but majority of the trees giving shade for the playground area is Ash and like five years most of those are going to be dead or need to be removed so I just want to hit own that
it'd be important to if we're going to be planting trees anywhere to replace that this is the most probably important part if we want to give shade for kids at the playground and stuff do we currently treat any of our trees no and that's what I was going to I was going to say that's where we need to look at
being strategic we don't want to take out yes we have 200 ash trees or whatever the number is on we do not want to take them all out at once we're going to have a major problem at our park with shade and that's a problem we have at the playground we don't want to lose that shade cover for the playground area so if there are trees that you know we
can extend the life of them by doing the treating then I think we absolutely should look at that um that's where we'll rely on our forestry Person Public Works to give us you know this is what we think we need to be treating um and then bring that to council and uh make
sure we have funds budgeted for that but yeah we definitely don't want to take out all the ashes at once we want to diversify the canopy tree canopy and Eagle Lake and and start doing it incrementally and then maybe we'll just tie into one more thing if while Nathan's here if that's all right I know
you guys are giving me the look stop talking but the other thing that Nathan and I were talking with the Eagle Lake lines um about is they want to do um uh an environmental project something to benefit the community and they um
there's a program that the Lions can participate in where they can get seedlings and granted they're really you know they're not mature they're not nice trees that are they might not make it all of them but if people have the proper education
and take care of them some of them might make it um and so we had a call with um the Lions Club and so theyve ordered two two bundles the city ordered one it wasn't very much money and we're going to be hopefully doing a distribution event coming up we don't know the date
yet but um Nathan I've asked him to be in charge of um maybe putting together some information for people on how to plant their seedlings and and care for them so that they're viable and successful and I don't know if you have anything else you want to add on that
Ethan no just that uh the seedlings are a great option for getting a ton of trees out there they have a low survivability um given that they're smaller and they have more time to die um and they're they have a harder time adapting to new environments but if you
do take care of them water them and all that then they should be fine um and we have what 150 seedlings to get rid of or hand out not get rid of yeah can we tie this into Tater days somehow well here's
the thing we don't know exactly when it's going to arrive I have an email here from the Lions Club I think it's actually the week of June 13th or June 10th um let's see what do we got here y so it's going to be we want to
get it out as soon as we can once we get them um so it looks like yeah estimate ship date is the 7th and then estimate arrival is June 10th and June 13th so I'll just try to push them out and um so we'll have to put do some quick um
promotion of this to Residents and let them know about it but just to give an idea the trees that they wanted that they ordered are the Red Maple River Birch silver maple white fur um for the varieties and we consulted to make sure he agreed that
those are good trees for diversification they got to start somewhere yep know put together on our personally I just planted trees and I was looking everywhere like what should I get I looked at our our other
for and to be able to go just tell what we've done locally versus trying to find someone in a different state that doesn't relate to our Zone I think this is really good information you together a wide yep and we've talked about we'll
get on the website we already have our EAB management plan on there and I think we might have some other materials you put together Nathan on there but we'll definitely U make sure that we get these documents um on there as good ref refences for residents and let them know about it too you do some promotion of it
so this is worn on the website at the time as far as the treatment do we have any information available to Residents about local companies that provide that service we've got some information stay on the table I think we've kind of been a little bit careful because there's different vendors that come in and they
want to push you know being the one to do it so we just leave their information available and If people ask we can give them their information but we can't recommend so they're out there I mean and they're once it's been confirmed here they'll be
in town like crazy trying to get business soy boy more door too sales well I'll e go best statements I thank you this is so much um great information and it's really fascinating
I'm just thinking if we could maybe if we post it with the app like link it into the app that way it's more like the residents getting in there I don't know something to explore but um e e that's okay no we've Nathan and I
have been talking about ways to push this stuff out and have the live links in there for residents so it's it's I like the idea of doing the using the app because then it's it's on your phone you can pull up and um reference it so great idea I'm just thinking of you know we
were talking about may be a microchipping clinic right like maybe we can have a ash tree treatment like if they everyone does them in the same weekend or something then their discounted rate I don't know if there's
you could research it yeah so oh yeah Nathan in his former life did he's an expert on the last two summers of my life I spent uh treating ash trees all summer um they do or at least Rainbow
Tree Care up in the cities they don't really come down here they have worked with like Albert Lee and uh and Redwing and some other cities to do large discounted treatments for City trees okay um as far as for residents I think
they get a discount if they get multiple trees treated or I'm not sure exactly how the company's down here do it but um they do give out discounts as an incentive to get um more trees treated well maybe it's something to look into
if we're going to have any done for the city you know obviously not endorsing but if it's out there if they're already going to be around and maybe n we could do like a talk or something at the park some night um use our new Pavilion
and Ash some event um I apologize if I didn't skip around all that well on the different are is on the agenda uh but do you need motions on anything that we just went over okay all right thank you and thank
you again Nathan here's your it's very very valuable what you do and we appreciate it all right moving on then next item will be new business number two so uh
sounds like the fire department might need a air conditioning replacement so Ministry romand or chief Simpson would you do we need any discussion other than the thing died or should we fight over it you go ahead just
kidding you go ahead system station is completely shot it was put in in November of2 yeah um so there's not much left except for the streams of water that he keeps dumping on Flor to
yeah so I've uh tried contacting a couple of different local companies to get someone in um all of which only one uh responded promptly so that's the one I went with because I didn't really want to push it off any longer um so up on the board is the uh we got from Davis
Comfort Systems um for the replacement that cost of $675 to replace theit that's up on the roof and um the condensing unit that is inside the uh the room on the second Flo um and there is an additional
approximately $1,500 for the electrical work because of course the wiring was put in at the same time so it would be nowhere up to code and when you're doing a replacement you got to do it right so that's what we're looking at for the air conditioning
system it's currently off so it smells great in there I but it's wonderful I will not be coming by until that is installed um um anyone want to make a motion I'll second motion thank you any
further discussion on the motion all in favor of making sure the fire department has air conditioning say I I anyone opposed all right thanks guys um I'm just thinking after they're doing
training and they're just all like years ago have AC sorry [Music] oh I love throwing money into a building that needs to be demolished but what do
you do clearly 1992 I was eight years old think about that that's how old that air conditioner is we'll probably save money just on the electricity running that thing well and and I did learn that the refrigerant
it's like a they don't even make it anymore so so it's very expensive they're probably going to have to get out those hazmat suits to take the thing down you know like when they take down the asbest building what how quickly can they get it in for
you oh good let me know when that check is C I'll get right up here okay they were going to do it tomorrow but then it's suppos to rain and so they thought we better not have the guys in oh and it's so warm today you guys have training tomorrow
night oh good you know we could lean on this hot yoga is a thing all right sorry way too much fun goat Hot Yoga yes all right I'm going to move on
here thank you for being here tonight Chief Simpson for all of your input support and entertainment um next item under new business replacement of basketball hoops at Lake Eagle
Park um I don't know whoever wants this one sure I can take a stab at it here so um we have a very uh dedicated parkboard member Don Wesley he is amazing at getting fun um second to Anthony with the summer sounds and donations I'm just
impressed they get out there and boots on the ground they're getting getting fun so this is amazing aming he brought forth an idea to the parkboard um being that he has spearheaded the three onree um basketball and then street hockey and um he said he wanted to come up with
funding to get four new basketball hoops that are adjustable and I thought good luck that's great we'll see how fast you can get the money and he's already gotten it so it's about um a little over 10,000 and he's he's he's gotten that money already so um like I told him I
just need to get approval from the C we can't cut a check to pay for this until the council says yep it's we're going to accept the donations and um move forward with it uh the other thing I want to talk about saying I haven't talked to Public Work Director Hartman yet um or
the park board about it but we should probably talk about what we're going to do with the existing basketball hoops at some point too they they're probably in pretty decent shape that maybe we could get some money for them maybe not good point so something to think about too um we try to recoup some money
from that so just need a motion to approve the um the expenditure for this project and accept those donations all motion to approve of 10,000 I'll second I had a feeling you two were going to fight over that one
didn't you see it coming who was you we work together we don't fight we don't fight yes okay gentle competition all right we have a motion in a second
any further discussion all right all in favor of accepting this amazing well done uh incredible donation uh say I I I anyone opposed all right motion carries that's
how long did he like literally like a couple weeks so and I forgot Beth and all of her um grants and donations like two months ago my first meeting yeah and he just asked yeah that's cool
H well if he wants to work on emerald ashbo tree injections next I'm sure no one was complaining all right moving on then um golf carts all right so I have updated the memo I sent out um Friday have a
little bit of new information so we've had some complaints from residents about golf carts being driven by kids not having slow moving emblem not having just the required um safety attachments that they're um required to have anyways
long story short kind of went back to look into it um because back in 2018 we had received a request from a resident to just uh repeal the city's requirement to um permit golf carts and instead just adopt the County's language and then
just have the residents go to the county and provide um the information there and then get a permit and um and so the city wouldn't have to do it just take care of it once with the county and so that's what was done so since then we've been telling people when they come in they want to register a golf cart get a
permit we say go to BL Worth County so um long story short we um I called Li to blor County to ask um you know what information do you give people because I was working on some education to be able to give residents um and I just wanted to find out well what are people getting
for information when they're registering their golf carts and it was um um I was told that they don't um issue permits for golf carts so that's kind of where this whole thing came about so we're working with um Lieutenant gayor um and
the Sheriff's Office a records department um to just make sure that you know the code that we adopted um you know everything is you know in place and we're just making sure that people are you know permitting their their golf
carts so uh there is um a County ordinance that does reference golf carts so we're just kind of going to work through that and figure out what needs to be done to make sure that people are in fact getting permits for the golf course and then at the end of the day if the county says you know no we're not going to enforce our code even though we
reference golf carts at the end of the day if they don't want to do it then it's going to come back to the city and the city's going to have to make a decision do we want to issue permits for golf carts do we not that'll be a discussion later right now we don't need any action um prior to
um uh today when I sent out the packet on Friday I was under the impression that um after hearing from the county and then talking to the City attorney um that well looks like if the county is not going to enforce it we're going to have to repeal or not repeal we're going have to amend our code and take out the
reference to BL Earth County issuing permits but there is another portion of um county code that does reference golf carts so it's just a matter of kind of figuring out um you know what do people need to do to get a permit and then we'll get that information out to Residents so um it's kind of confusing
but um that's where we're at right now so we don't need any action from the council this evening I do have one question so is there an age limit yes you have to have a license driver you know I I don't get a squishy if there's a kid and a parent but I've
seen a couple times where it's it's all kids um what we don't want to see happening is somebody running out running a stop sign or um I know I've had that on 598 Avenue before with a golf cart and kids on it um exactly so I just have no you
not good so just reach out and say hey there's some kids jamming around the neighborhood okay and in the meantime the police law enforcement can still enforce all other Provisions all we're talking about right now is the permit so everything else still applies
so I'm I live in maybe the quieter street but I there's a couple people go up and down my street every day just fine I'm thinking that's just great like use your cart it's lovely it's quiet it doesn't you know cause any issues but if
there's kids in other areas maybe that are you know I I am all for making sure that we are safe I I think whatever we need to do there but as far as making permits this just just seems like such
an administrative thing Common Sense has to Prevail at some point and I mean if you do away with the permits when if law enforcement has an issue with something they can always say do you have proof of registration do you you know have whatever is required so common sense
does prevail at some point but most people don't have it you know and one thing that I want to bring up too is is that um these electric scooters that students are riding around the streets those were banned in 2002 uh because I
was one of the culprits riding them around um but the thing is is that there's kids in the street you know and I I honked the Hornet the kids they were sitting in the middle of the intersection of 598 and Creekside and then driving down the middle of the street okay do you want to have one of
those kids get hit cuz that's going to happen you know so I think comprehensively we need to probably look at all of this golf cart stuffff you know I've seen golf carts on the trails you know so what what is Theo and the scooters and the bicycles
that you know okay fine buy a motorbike you know motorcycle bike you know I mean whatever those with the pedal assist you know those those ebikes you know I thought biking was for exercise um but um so my thought is is that we
need to actually seriously comprehensively look at this whole situation um with the bicycle with the electric the electronic pedal assist bikes the golf carts and the little motor scooters because I think they all fall under the
same umbrella um I'm not to me sounds like an ordinance rather than having permits I think there wasn't I mean I think with with regarding the scooters I think there was something that that's a different thing that for a different time but um yeah I think that there's an
education compon component um to the to the um golf carts I I mean I personally you know I'll say it right now I think they're stupid on the streets but um and I I don't think they need to be out on the streets you know
but you know again the common sense thing it goes back to the scooters what what what is the what tells you okay you can't you have to be 16 or what you know what are the parameters on these things because anyone can go drive a
golf cart at the golf course you know you I don't know if they does golf I assume you can be like 15 and drive a golf cart no you got they you have 16 gra card had a golf course but I know North vano just did it
last year they they okayed golf carts and you just got to get a permit so um and I know my boss said when he went and got his there was like two people that got permit so it's not like we are a smaller Community obviously but I don't
think it's a a huge issue I don't want to blow it out of proportion that are Ru it for the 90% 95% of others that are Cal and nicely going from house to house [Music]
without we have to also remember we don't live in a this is not a campground I I get that I get that people have um golf carts in campgrounds and rural areas but I I mean they can just get
them you know they can be dangerous and get in the way I that's just my opinion yeah one of the provisions in our code why we I don't think you want to take it out you want to leave everything in there is about not driving it after dark I mean that is super scary if people are driving a golf cart don't
have the proper you know lights on it I mean be terrible doing education talking we saw that in his num you called it out to doubling the traffic stops and the education and all that I think that's
big piece and it comes down from the parents we had this talk last year with the ebikes and I even talked to one of the parents of the kids that I'm like you need to slow down you need to stop before this kid one gets hurt um and and before you ruin it for everybody else
where it has to come back to us so what I don't want to see in my opinion is hav ital reverse where now we're like a big Metro and we're not allowing anything let's be the small community and have fun we have hoverboards and they're amazing they're fun they don't work anymore because we've ran them down but
I mean things can be fun if you're safe with them right yep um because you talk about that then it's like well can my six-year-old not mow my lawn then too or drive it out there because that's M you know motorized and things like that so like how far are we going to take this before we just pump the brakes a little bit and say you guys do your job and get
it under control which I feel like is happening and and it's I I see it more you guys can tackle it then as well at the music um down the park and we have that because that's when I noticed a lot of golf carts coming down because there is not handicap parking for me it was
like great these people can get here easily and enjoy this but technically not supposed to have that happen right so I mean I don't want to see us get so far the other direction where now people are like man you got to permit everything and you can't do anything without you
know thought we moveed to a small town to enjoy it versus we have an ordinance we enforce the ordinance yep the only issue really is the permit thing right now and just where do we tell people to keep going to blur County if BL County might be telling people no we're not
issuing permits but that's kind of what that's the issue we're dealing with right now and this all came up because of the issues and then me contacting blores County and then learning that no we don't issue permits but then I did talk to somebody today and Lieutenant gayer did too they showed us a sticker that they got for a golf cart so they
must be issuing golf cart permit so it's kind of confused we're going to get to the bottom of it and let's talk next meeting but for now everything's still in effect and okay you know law enforcement's going to continue doing the good job they're doing with they seen issue they address it and yeah and
we'll pump out information to the public too like you said reminding people about um uh the different rules and regulations because I think from my perspective that's kind of where in my mind I think why do we want a permit to so that people get that information if they don't get that
information um I mean I've talked to a couple people with golf carts like oh we're supposed to register them oh we're supposed to have a slow moving emblem I mean there's people out there that have no clue about what's required and it's not intentional they just don't know so you can give them that information we
told you yeah y y so sorry if I added to the confusion here like I said things changed from last week to this week but through Lots here yeah I do think that I I would like to have someone research the scooter thing though and I
think we should bring that up as a topic of discussion like sounds you know maybe next meeting I'm talking about okay here let let me clarify I'm I'm actually going to be talking about motorized scooters that are like
the kind that you can buy a you know they're maybe like three or 400 bucks you know they're cheap but I also think we should also look at the ebike stuff too I feel like this could be a a a topic that we go round and round on and
we would just get I think we should just see what you we have that but I I would not be opposed to doing a work session just to kind of sift through what are all the things that we want what are let's define them so we're not well can I say we did um already kind of have a
little bit of this discussion last year yeah and we talked about like the pocket bikes and there's some other stuff those hoverboards and maybe we could if your guys are okay I could talk to the City attorney and have him draft um some sort of a opinion for you guys and then decide from there if you want to have a
work session he might be able to lay out this is what you need to do if you want to accomplish what council member seinberg say well I'm not saying ban them I'm saying we need to just like y know what the and what law enforcement can actually do about some of the stuff so okay all right all right so
nothing further on that we'll look forward to hearing more next meeting um next item annual review of Emergency Management response plan all right mayor and city council we have the
emergency response plan in um like I know in my memo ideally we're supposed to be updating this annually uh we updated it during covid and the last time it was updated was 2022 so we missed 2023 um but um part of our process with
our new Regional safety group um one of the things that came up is we should be um reviewing that and then also working with blur County Emergency Management um uh coordinator Eric Waller was advised that each of the cities um view your
plan so really I think I mean it's it's just a matter of I think looking at annually updating contact information for elected officials City staff um obviously since this was last updated we've now contracted with B County Sheriff's Office so that change
has been reflected um um you know other than that not much has really changed um it kind of identifies just hit on some high points that I identifies who you know responsibilities of the mayor as a public information officer Emergency Management coordinator um where we'd
have our emergency Operation Center things of that nature so I think it's good just everybody review it be familiar with it um and uh if you see something that needs to be addressed uh we can get that changed but um unless you guys have anything right now I would
just ask that you um you know formally acknowledge that you've reviewed it and we'll update it with why did they say we need a bloodborne pathogen we we always have to have that we should have always had that it's it's
basically our like the um First Responders always have that in train we as City staff have that training as well so do you have one yes okay if if there would ever be like a an exposure I mean we could get in big trouble with OSHA if we don't have and we do have these
policies we just never maybe formally adopt or we don't know when it was to be safe we're just adopting guess I've just ever seen them in a hospital in clinical setting I've never seen them in well Public Works could have exposures we could have exposure at City Hall um you know anybody in the world could have an
exposure yeah right um but not we're a public the vast majority of businesses don't have that policy probably just because we're a public I was just curious as like it seems well you you'd be surprised at the list of policies that we have to comply with and
um if o should ever make a visit here we we do have all the stuff we just would have to show them a big binder for yeah and that's fine that's just one that stood out to me yeah weird so anyway so basically the big changes are we updated elected officials
City staff with current information and then um replace Eagle Lake Police Department FL County Sheriff's Office so all that's stuff just being called out of changes yeah just to be updated and I kind of Whited some of the stuff out
that you guys might have because I didn't want people's cell phone numbers or personal information we've got it at City Hall but yeah that's all stuff that just needs to be updated um and then obviously our inventory we just that's changing all the time so we got to update that um and then any contractors
if anything changes so pretty I mean a pretty straightforward policy I guess if you will I think this looks great I didn't catch any of the find and replace miss or anything on there um yeah it kind of
came up with the last time we reviewed it was like I said during Co and then we had to make sure we had it updated for all the different funding that was out there all right so we need a motion on this item uh to update the plan to re to
reflect those housekeeping updates for elected officials staff and uh blue Worth County Sheriff's office instead of the police department so if anyone would like to make that motion I'll motion thank you we have a second I'll second
thank you any any further discussion on the motion only thing I'd say is Page 20 Lisa your phone number seems off and it's going to probably get updated soon again but it shs off okay page there's too many numbers you said page 20 I don't oh up
on top okay oh yeah I was doing the same thing or it says 20 up on the top second to last page yeah I don't have a 507 in front of my 651 change thanks good catch y like it's right ear in the doc I guess your number and my number were in the
pack at Lisa sorry every all right um so with that edit then all in favor of approving the plan just say right say I
I I anyone opposed uh motion carries all right thank you uh next item is the approval of required safety policy for City departments so mayor and city council we kind of already touched on this bloodborne pathogens we every is it two
years Carrie we have a safety training I think it's every two years we get trained on bloodborne pathogens and so we have the training we just have to have a policy and then with that um there are just some expenses that'll I don't think they're going to be too much we should have had these a long time ago but just things
like every year okay um thank you every year but then we'll have like Sharps Containers and stuff this is a public facility and we should have that we should have had that before um so just some of those pretty standard um just need to be in compliance all right
anyone like to make a motion to adopt the bloodborne pathogens policy I'll make that motion thank you any further discussion all in favor of adopting the policy say I I I I anyone opposed motion carries
all right next item is display of the new Minnesota state flag at City facilities mayor and city council um as you know the new state flag is flying around some places it became official on May 11th um there does not appear to be
an official date that we have to retire the former state flag and fly the new flag um so it's up to individual cities and that's why I wanted to bring it to you guys this evening to find out um if you guys are ready to make that transition now um we only have three flags that we need to replace
so it' be City Hall the fire hall and then the one um or we used to have one in here it goes over there or over here yeah I hate the new flag 100% I would propose that we keep it until we are required to remove it until someone
drives down and tell us to sound like a motion yes that's a motion hold off uh who wants to make okay so council member white started the motion perfect Council witon second yes all right all right any further
discussion all in favor of keeping the flag until we absolutely have to get rid of the flag uh and replace it with the ugly new flag say I I anyone for my cold dead right shirt it's fine as the color of a
shirt it moving on they should have had Sports Picks design it both they should have had SPS just the new Flags around the states is just a fraction of what it's going to
cost with re you know Rel looing trucks and buildings and letter letter head and envelopes and it's going to be Millions can you still buy the old flag anywhere yet so we should probably stock up on those then
right yes we should great idea who would like to make a motion to approve extra funding for as many state flags as we could possibly purchase all right well thanks see hence why I put it on the agenda I knew I better not that was a very tricky one to
navigate I'm like I'm bringing this to the council I was holding my breath on how that would go I I'll be honest all right next item uh fee schedule for the new Pavilion um what a great topic we're talking about actually run down the
Pavilion so well okay so the park board and we've got Beth uh coun BR and and white that can talk a little bit more about this but just I want to give you a quick summary of what um the park board approved at their last meeting um they talked about different rates we did a
survey of other communities um and they came up with $25 for two-hour rental four-hour rental $50 and all day rental 100 and then a non-refund or a refundable deposit of $50 for all rentals just to kind of cover cleaning and and
damages um and if we do go this route we'll definitely want to and I've talked to councelor ro um or emailed about having some sort of an outdoor you know board that we could put who's going to be reserving it um but I have to throw out there my reservations as um a staff
person I am concerned about managing this um when I look at what we're going to be charging for rentals I do worry that you know it's we're going to have issues on weekends if we have backtack people using it it's dirty the garbage cans aren't empty there's not toilet
paper so when I see other towns and they have first come first serve I naturally think oh that's great I think that's what Eagle Lake should do but I understand the park board's perspective you know it would be nice to have you know rental um so I just want to throw that out there I do worry about the
management of it um just in when you have backtack stuff on weekends or people complaining about things just going to throw that out there so that's yeah go like to point out we've had
several calls already M and not all over and we we had that discussion as far as like local versus non and and tell me if I'm wrong but I feel like we first said let's just see what happens this summer right let's see how the fees kind of are CU they especially
for a 2our is that light is it not you know um do we do a resident versus non-resident we said for this year let's just make it easy um um and if we get too many from out of town we don't want our Eagle Lake residents not doing it so if we're getting a lot of Out of Towners then we I think we need to look at that
right away or have it's hard though because you say first come first serve with Eagle Lake residents getting first dibs at what point do they not get first in so I mean I'm okay with it being Eagle Lake residents get a discounted rate being these and non Eagle Lake
residents have to pay is it double 50 is it 25 you know what what is that number um secondly I will say that I have had several that have come to me saying hey the pavilion's done how do we rent it can we reserve it and having a dad in the back in the day who went out there
at 6:00 a.m. to make sure that we could have our birthday party out there at 10:00 and no one was there he's like it's nice not to have to sit there and wait for first to come first serve right um because we did have a couple that said hey I want to reserve it but I I know there's baseball that's always down there I think the expo's put out we
going to be under the Pavilion doing concessions or things like that so I think that's where it gets a little muddy with when does the baseball kids do they pay these fees do they not do they get first right over parties and we just want it to be open and see what
people want well and my concern is when you do like the two-hour rental I mean we don't have Public Works coming in in between shifts you know some cities have like a ground crew or whatever that's you know always working that's what my fear is that there's going to be somebody renting it from you know the
morning to noon and then the afternoon they're GNA then we're going to start seeing complaints um and then so as long as Public Works feels comfortable they can manage the you know emptying garbages and restocking the bathroom I think that's going to be the biggest thing at City Hall it's not going to be
a bother we'll just someone comes in they want to rent it we you know it's not really going to be that much of a hassle for us it's more just keeping up with the maintenance on there so we don't you know people are happy they're we're paying for this we want it clean and you know that sort of just want to throw that out there because these
things always sound really good but we have to really think about the practicality of like can we actually do do this I was surprised actually and I'm glad you brought that up because I first thing I thought is Eagle Lake residents should have you know a discounted rate
and if you're out of town great we welcome you but you're going to pay a little more this is for our community problem is man residents are going to catch on to this because our Pavilion is really nice it's big um any you're right next to a very nice amenities and and they're going to see
$25 um it's a steal to drive 10 minutes here than to have it somewhere else right so I'm fine with whatever discussion we want to have on that I just for me I'd like to see it and at least try it because as a parent that's the last thing I want to do is plan a party down
there only to have to fight baseball families or whoever else is down there to get even a chunk of the the space and I um I know we also talked at the meeting of of getting like a small dumpster down there because if we have added garbage is that
more efficient because U Public Works staff said they do have a significant increase in trash naturally in the summer um especially with how much baseball's going on and I think that might be part of the other discussion is we're paying a lot for garbage that
isn't coming from Eagle Lake residents the baseball kids down there are not always Eagle Lake residents um but we're not charging for them using the fields either so it's kind of a double-edged sword if we're not charging them for that garbage and the porter potties and
all of that um you know it it's yeah Andrew can you talk into the microphone please so we can hear you I said I think you have to look at the care that they give into the field too cuz a lot of that is the school district
in Maya and taking care of it all right right is there room for dster down there that that would be a really good idea would you put like a lock on it and a key for the person that or would you
just take the risk that some public might use it I don't know how Andrew do you want to talk about what you mentioned because wasn't it you that mentioned that because we had the discussion of like I don't want If I'm renting it I'm not emptying the garbages in the Pavilion I'm sorry I don't know if who used the garbages before me I'm not emptying other people's garbages right so making sure that if there is a
rental that weekend that there might be a couple extras down there but then I think it was more for you guys to not have to haul massive amount of garbage and fill up yours that's already full right yeah cuz I mean we empty the garbages at least twice a week and you
know through all the dog pots and the garbage cans and everything that we have we have no room to dumpster for you know just stuff around the shop that we need to get rid of and and whatnot so you know if we can right okay and I think we could do
them and even Maya having a lock where if they have a tournament down there they can help and I think that could be somewhat of an expectation like help us keep this good that's a good idea and that's the same push out to the parents of like take pride in what we have or else we can't keep doing this clean up
after yourselves or you may May's been pretty good at you know um some weekends they'll um Mitch c will text me and say there's a lot of garbage down there so he's just going to go throw it in the dumpster at the shop so that you know we're aware that okay there's extra
garbage in here because you know they're doing that but I think if they have keys and access to some of those amenities garbage toilet paper they're going to help yeah dumpster would help you guys out down there too then instead of having to haul it all the way up to the shop it shouldn't cost us anything per
contract with ljp so we should be able to get a one over there so we'll get going on that good idea has there ever been any talk about a like a grill at the park or not at the Pavilion I had someone ask me about one
of those and I just didn't oh like a charcoal one yeah like a charcoal one I I I didn't know what to I just said I don't I don't know with my experience with them we had them in madis Lake at the park by the lake um you get about a year and a half
to two years out of them and then they rust away and by the time you get a new one they have a different design so then you have to rip out the concrete and it's a disaster they make portable propane ones these days that's
true and I think the way we have the Pavilion set up now with a serving counter and Outlets it makes it more um conducive to bring crock Poots now right or serving things that way I think for us it would was just kind of the fees and where we feel that should
be and we had the discussion both ways and I don't remember if it was just out of ease that we landed on not having an eagle EG vers man C rate or I don't I don't I honestly do not remember I have concern just about having a 2hour rental because I mean
you're renting it for two hours there's the setup you have your event and then there's cleanup afterward if we get into a spot where Saturdays it's like it's rented from 8:00 to 10: and then yeah that tend to new I mean there's there needs to be some time you
got have a buffer right yeah so someone rent it for two no one can't rent it until half hour after you all starts at 12:30 I don't know I just think we do an all day and a half day and if it's a
half day then we just make sure there's some cushion that might actually eliminate some of my concerns then cuz that 2 was concerning to me thinking gosh someone's going to use it in the morning then in the afternoon someone's going to come in and complain and you know so maybe that is a good idea yeah
and then is morning is noon the cut off you know yeah I mean that sounds good I mean if they want to do an evening thing right right and I don't I didn't hear what Carrie said but if they want like a 10 to two are they a full
day you know or is it like what what's considered half day is it amm p.m. or is it block because if someone takes a 10 to two time can then they take a three to you know like cuz if you're going to have a birthday party 10 two is probably
time you would take right get down there early set up you know have lunch at and the kids play and does this just need to go back to the park board but the people are wanting to rent it is the problem right they or
they're wanting to reserve it well sorry to speak out of turn here but then I was just asking um Public Works director Hartman when the park closes because people might want to use it in the evening hours so maybe we should just look at when the park opens to when it closes and just I don't know should we
just say hourly and then if it gets booked there has to be some cushion or something I mean hours when when is the park open during this time of the month 5 to 10 5:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. well no one's going to get it until 8 right
what if you just make designate blocks so you have 4our blocks you know there's no ifans or butts you 8 to you know 8 to 8 to noon noon to 5 5 to 9: you know so it's three blocks and you either take
one of those three blocks or all three of the blocks and if you only want it for an hour it's but then there's that cleaning cushion time so that's part of your block I don't know yeah I would say it's if you have it done at at noon you have to be cleaned up and out of there for
noon your clean up is 11 right I I think there's going to be people that would love to have it for a morning thing there's going to be people that would love to do evening thing and everything in between I would just say this the 2hour thing is going to be too hard to administer
but maybe just back I [Music] had research and she came everybody AA so maybe that's this the solution you just do one person can rent it a day when it's rented that's what's
on the board and then when it's if it's open you know people can come to the park and look maybe we just do it's a one day thing it's just it's gonna get to be super hard to manage I think it's a trial and air I don't I don't think we can go wrong I mean I think if we say that that's fine
and if right got do something I don't think we we know until we know what we do know clearly based off of what Carrie has said is that we're getting out of town resident out of town um people that are wanting to rent it so the other question then would be is there a eagle a rate and is there
an out of town rate and I you know resident versus non-resident I guess is how I should word it and then what is that so if we're doing a full day at 100 is non-resident 150 or is resident cheaper I think my opinion on this we
just let City staff figure out schedules blocks however works best for them because I don't want to just say full day and then we find out that stinks and then we have to come back and talk about it again I would say you guys are capable of making a
decision but don't we have to approve the fee though kind but the fee the fee I was going to say um but the fee kind of goes in hand in hand with what they're putting out so this is what happens so if somebody contacts City Hall and says I want to reserve um on May 31st and it's already we're like oh
we got to Reser but this is looks like the time you if you want to go down there and check you know what time if they're done you can use it but I just think that having I think it's just going to be awful to do the blocks I just I can't I think it's an all day can't imagine we don't have
24hour um like nine uh 311 at man you know somebody to call if you need something I'm just picturing something where we do the all day and then they leave at lunchtime then they want to come back later in the evening and say well we have it for the day and there's already like 20 other people there well and then you're also saying your Bas
your softball kids can't use it for an entire day because someone was in there for a couple hours in the morning and we'll have it posted on the board that there's a reserved and you know on right and because I think and I think there can be some proper wording stating
that when this when it when this party is here it's reserved so I think then it's going to be talking with Expos talking with Maya if they're running to run concessions out of there then I feel like they have to reserve it otherwise or know that they might get
kicked out if someone else is reserving it they you're absolutely right they're gonna have to because otherwise you're going to have I'm showing up for my 10:00 birthday party and there's softball kids all over the place and now I have to kick them out that's not fair you might have to because you might have to which
right John so then the days that the games are there they either reserve it or they know that just might have to go under a tent or something instead of being when I talked to Al with mea when we got this project going he said really they didn't
I mean it's great to have that there but that's not something that they're going to be using was it the XO that I saw it from Garrett do you know did the xils do concession because I saw someone so would be the Expos which then I mean we can work with them on
that and they got their shed there I think they probably as long as it's like we know their schedule ahead of time then we just don't rent it that day and I honestly don't think they they are going to need the Pavilion because I can talk to them again but I think their thought was they've got that little shed there I think they maybe do some have a
grill or they can use it great if they if it's reserved they'll just adapt yeah but I you know I would say whatever Eagle Lake resident rate is if it's not an Eagle Lake resident we double it okay that's my thought I mean good do
all day rental $100 um and then nonresident $2200 yeah I don't know what do you guys think is that maybe yeah no I like that but then having the resident say I get it this
day from X tox but there's only one rental a day yeah there we go so yes you can rent it today but you have to tell me what time you're there what time you leave yep and then then it takes away from I'm coming back to cuz if there's
only one rental that day that signage in that thing is a key they open up and Public Works in the morning when they go do their checks can put a sign saying reserved from this time to this time and then there's zero arguments at that point saying I had this and it seems like an
easy plan and I know Andrew you're laughing at but it shouldn't I mean if we can only have one reservation for that week or that week that day it shouldn't be that hard to have a sign that says reserved from 9: to noon Y and pop
it in there okay okay someone want to make that motion then I'll make that motion what is it uh basically what Anthony said what Anthony said is one day one
day rental um one rental per day one rental per day and then with a hourly designation designation yeah sense no that makes sense so that eliminates idea that eliminates the
first two options here that's a good idea so it's nixing the two and four hour rental completely okay resident 100 non-resident 200 much simpler I think for staff good good we can always come
back if we get pushed back I mean okay um that was the motion yeah well one actually could I so second it then you can talk yeah I'll second it okay thank you go ahead um do you do we
do you think those fees are a little steep or not really I was thinking the same thing I mean do you think that maybe why didn't you make the motion I I didn't see any dollar BS yeah fatigue is setting in I's just get out of here yeah sorry I would say that you know maybe
like 50 for residents and 100 for out of if if the $100 is going to dissuade someone pretty quick I think yeah from from out of town all right let's do 50 and 100 we can always change it later this could prolong it but I mean
it's our Pavilion so I think if you're in town it's free but that's just me yeah I think that's fair I mean we're paying for for our tax dollars yeah that's true I'm going to put up a Facebook post anyone want use our prillion if you have I'll put it under my name I'm going to make if you have
the thing only one reservation per day first come first serve you you okay someone wants to I want to rent The Pavilion they call the city tomorrow uh I want to rent The Pavilion on Fourth of July uh then so then could you do a $25
fee for residents and a $100 fee for none I think there has to be some fee if you're going to um unless you're going to do the first come first serve I think there has to be like I have an investment into this I'm paying for them and take pride cleaning and cleaning Gage yeah for res $50 down
payment you leave trash you wreck something we take it if not you get it back but how would we know someone going to go there right afterward and check it off but the camera is out there you'll be able to look at if someone complains if someone complains about it you can pull it back up and see
that but then they're going to say well that person over there where that you see in the camera wasn't with my group so I'm not responsible for it because we do part of this is a $50 deposit wasn't it I thought it's a rental that looks like
a rental no there was a refundable $50 deposit would be required for all rentals regardless of the length of rental so that if anything got damage broke or anything like that they would lose that $50 rental from my understanding when we had for you like residents maybe you just say we we require a $50 rental deposit and then
that then but but the rental is free yes and then 100 for or what was the other one Anthony that you were going to say for out of town well you just charge out of town people but if you live in town you shouldn't I don't think you should be
charged zero with a $50 deposit what do we charge for this building it's free for nonprofits it should follow the how is this really any different than other city-owned facilities that we
offer for rentals I think the policy of I I mean yeah maybe the Pavilion isn't as easy to damage or make dirt I don't know well they're built for different uses right yeah's built for
public yeah this is not it is but it isn't because we're I mean we're talking rentals the problem is is you're going to have the people that are going down there for baseball softball t-ball that's going to trash it way more than these that are renting it mhm right we're the the person renting it is going
to go down and probably have to clean all the tables from the t-ball kids that were there ahead of them right the kids alone will trash it down there I just don't want to see someone who leaves it in good shape then have someone else come in afterward leave junk everywhere and then we're like oh yeah they didn't
clean and now maybe that's you just sure I'm fine with that yep 25 for resid and because what I do now I take picture oh that's
smart they an email a picture to Jennifer we would want every we don't want to add that but that would be my it may not be a bad idea honestly I like make it as cheap as possible but
there's some invest or go down 8:00 so 25 50 I'm fine I think I think you could leave it at 100 for the all day rental of a non-resident okay good
I okay cuz I agree you I mean so out of town would do a deposit of 50 the fee of 100 MH they get their 50 back if it's clean and that's anybody though right anybody is doing the $50 or just yeah anybody do the 50 it's just Eagle Lake
residents would get it back and there'd be no fee well they're they're both going to get it back obviously but residents would not have a fee wait at all or it be a $25 fee sorry I'm losing my mind we need to we need to
be done car go so residents $25 fee with a $50 refundable deposit n would be1 with a $50 refundable deposit right all day rental but giving us the time slots that they would be
there yep and then they just email or call you guys to try and reserve it call ideally right call you guys to reserve it is that something that could be posted on the City calendar we created a b parkar already so do we have an could we do a
QR code because then you would need to update it and just put it on a QR code and then we're not updating when it's reserved you just add it to that calendar and someone can just QR code it perfect no no you would but like if I went down there Saturday morning I could
QR code it to see is there anybody that reserved this today or can I hang out here here for a while you know that's a good idea so instead of Public Works having to put up a sign in the [Laughter] morning I question isn't the $50 refundable though
or not I thought you said it was not refund I thought the $50 was refundable regardless then we good I I misunderstood then we're all good I just didn't to have yeah I I I guess I took it as or I
can piggy to his motion of reserving it of saying we would have a refundable deposit of $50 regardless of residency but then 25 for Resident $100 for non-resident full day mhm yep all right Carrie you
good okay we are moving wait no we need to vote we didn't wait do we did we have did we vote we voted we didn't vote we we started we got to
discussion long this but can I make a comment that goes no no it because I read our notes from our meeting and our work session and it said to lock the gate at the top of the the hill once the Pavilion was done it's not been locked I haven't seen an
issue are we okay leaving it unlocked does anybody have feelings whether it needs to be locked or not I think if people are going to be using the Pavilion and Hauling stuff down I know like Mitch know you know I know baseball's been using it a lot it's been great if I'm hauling stuff down I want to be able to drive up to it ideally but
I know last year we had some significant issues with people parking everywhere and having a lot of people down there and stuff so I just wanted we already do authorized Vehicles only which would be any of the I think we already do
oh it seems to be fine right now let it ride until it's a problem probably I don't know if it's not I I I don't know if it's even been a problem I'm just I know it was in those notes that we had from the work session of BL IND theate now the pavilion's
done what's everybody's feelings on that all right let's can we should we vote I've never actually looked at this and gone like I should whack it I I kind of want to um are we okay leaving it a lot can we just say that are we leing it
unlocked yeah okay let's just do that I'm never going to use that thing no it's weird I don't all in favor of whatever that great motion was for the hours and the
fees that Carrie recorded So diligently say I I I anyone opposed motion carries thank God we are moving on all right next item on the agenda is a plan Grant agreement for storm water
Wastewater and Community resilience good news I will keep this brief okay so you guys have already heard about this we applied for um this grant funding you've there have been different rounds of funding for this um through npca for storm water and Community resilience
we're at the the the first stage of it so we are asking for money to do some planning grants we're not actually going to see anything um like we can't build anything but we can do um studies and and get some plans put together so um we got awarded a grant in the amount of $
48,6 180 um there is a City match of 8,460 um we will be contracting with isg um they help us with storm water and they'll be assisting us with the tasks and I was just going to kind of outline what those are real quickly um task
number one uh deals with a future flooding resilience plan um just looking at um you know 10 100e rain events and doing their different modeling that they can do with that that um then just talking about uh our community in general as far as um for task number two
um CommunityWide climate vulnerability assessment um and then also we added in a component on the compost site feasibility that comes up quite often from our residents that they would like to have a compost site we've struggled to find a location but I I do really think if we could revisit that try to figure something out it would be good
for the community and then they'd put together a final report so with this I need two motions one is to approve the grant agreement M acknowledging the city's match portion second uh motion is to um approve the proposal from isg for
consultant services and just to give you a time frame so we can start working on it once this gets approved and then it has to be done by uh next summer in 20125 um so have things done within a
year thank you thank you for that all right uh we need a motion to accept the grant agreement with mpca someone would like to make that motion I'll make the motion I'll second
thank you any further discussion on that motion all right all in favor of accepting the grant agreement say I I I anyone opposed motion carries and then we will also need a motion for the proposal from isg for the consultant
Services Mo thank you second anyone second they're fight F who wants it g G's all right any further discussion any fighting all in favor of the motion to contract with
isg uh say I I anyone opposed motion carries all right next item is uh request uh our request for a community forestry member for the upcoming year
term and I've already touched on this guys so I'll keep it very brief we already adopted um like I said this will be our fifth service term um the start dat will be August 26 and then that person will just kind of Carry On from what um Nathan and the past Community forestry members have done and then you
know we have different Focus points for each of the different service terms this is an evolving thing so just need a motion to approve that I'll make that motion second all right any further discussion all in favor of approving the
motion I I anyone opposed motion carries thank you um next item is the city administrative report all right so I this isn't going to take that long Boulevard treeses we already talked about that I think what I'll do is just try to get some
information out to what's it yes right no watch me now no um uh we'll get information out to Residents uh like I said there's going to be probably an uptick in um as we go forward here with questions about of AR trees so it's an education thing your date Revenue expend
report you see this every month so again if you have any questions need detail let me know annual League of Minnesota City's conference mayor Norton Council Whittington and myself will be attending the annual League conference it'll be held in Rochester June 26 through the 28th um uh just an update on the
automatic locking doors and surveillance camera project at the park uh per the contractor Freedom security it sounds like um The Pavilion should be done by the end of the week and then um hopefully there'll be progress made over by the um the rink or the warming house
Excuse me yes that's kind of been the final piece yep and then we can do away with uh one of the porta potty or probably both of those porta potties just leave the other one over by the rink then okay okay and then uh Fox medals Phase 2
Tiff I gave you an update at the last Mee I just want to kind of keep you guys in the loop on that so um City staff has been working with uh Shannon S with David J Associates and also Troy sham and we'll have an agreement coming forth um shortly for your review um regarding
phase two of Tiff um and then tree planting initiative with Eagle Lake Area liance Club I already touched on that already it's it's came up very quickly um we will push out information about distribution and and work with Nathan our forest remember on education and and
uh uh oh um oh I better not bring up another item I had written down here that's shoot oh I don't even know it's not easy topic cuz I just see where this is going no um I better bring it up though because we had a resident ask about
concessions Carrie took a call and there was a resident that asked about um kids doing concessions at the park and so we've had this question came up before about what about kids and lemonade St that's you just don't want to have we should ban them completely cookies too
especially letting law [Laughter] enforcement yes that's right no so um anyway so we want to encourage that kids having lemonade Sands that's just a healthy part of a community it's fun for kids but the question came up from a
family is it okay if my kids do um sell concessions at the park so that kind of gets into a little bit of a trickier area so just hear me out I did contact legal council to ask like am you know am I okay to not require permit or should we require permit because it's not on their own property it's at the park of
course legal council said because we issue solic permit if it's at the park it's a business we should ISS oh so I just wanted to bring it up to you guys are you talking like a kid pulling Girl Scout cookies in a wagon cuz I love those but if you've got kids frying up hot dogs and selling them for two bucks
it would be chips pop water I don't know I I know I don't even wants to go out there and do it and have your luck at it if you do good I want to pretend you didn't ask okay that's what I want to do right it never happened it's just on
the record no big deal it's it's a it's a tough one because you kind of have to use your discretion with the kids in lemonade sand are you going to review the ordinance Lally private property yeah yeah so they're doing their own driveway versus but at the same time
like I know all right well this never this never came up thank you guys I am done with my report sounds good all right uh council member reports council member Ro um community
and W we had the spirit of the youth award banquet so they just gave out all the awards to the recipients um I unfortunately couldn't make it to that with other arrangements but um probably the other Hot Topic which some think why
are you so on to this ases thing but those that have young kids and have need child care it's massive need um in Eagle Lake and the summer care for Eagle Lake came out and good news is Eagle Lake has
aces in the summer unlike last year when we had to get it back um bad news is they did not disclose at all that Eagle Lake um summer Aces would not have field trips they said weekly field trips um they consider weekly field trips to sibl
park oh a field trip but the other two sites which are Washington and Franklin get to go to kouo um Egan water park oana water park Apple Valley Water Park air insanity and the list goes on and on
um a resident sent me a side to side ratio of the three sites Eagle Lake get 7 to eight um field trips to Highland Park sibi um Lake Eagle Park is considered a field trip um while the other sites get
18 three times a week they get to go somewhere sometimes just mags or pickle Barn Mano um other times to those out surrounding areas so there's obviously a massive frustration from Eagle Lake parents that we are paying or you know
the the families are paying the same amount as the other schools are fees aren't any different but the um field trips are significantly different um nothing can change I've tried talking with them I I have also been in contact
with the school board and talked to a school board member today because as we all know Maps is all about equity and it is not Equitable at all when two Mano sites are going to three different field trips outside the 30 mile radius and
Eagle Lake families don't get to leave the school and what was their reasoning behind this when I talk to Audra who is the director of community and R um because I did call her after finding this out and um they said it was a very purposeful decision and I said okay
explain what that means to me cuz what's purposeful and apparently us parents were um filled out a questionnaire and the Eagle Lake families want to have a build better relationships with um Eagle Lake staff or you know Aces staff and
bring stuff and keep stuff more local um and my account was like well who did you ask cuz like when I filled out that like yes I want the small school me personally want this small school environment that's why we're in Eagle Lake but that doesn't mean that my child doesn't want to ever leave the school I mean he doesn't even stay at Aces
anymore he rides a bus home even though I'm paying for Aces um so and then they also talk about the experiences are different for everybody some people don't want to go an hour and a half out of town um on a bus they'd rather stay in town this sounds a little weird you
know I I disagree um I can bring my child down to Lake Eagle Park on the man they can ride their bike on Dem man but um unfortunately I can't change that they can't change it budgets have already been set we're paying Eagle L families will be paying the same amount as
Franklin and Washington families and get dramatically different field trips so I'm going to rephrase from saying experiences because I got shut down when I made that comment of from experiences because it's all in the eye of the beholder um and just say more dramatically different field trips um I
push to even get the field trips that are man at the pickle Barn at mags um to can you pick up the K2 because they separated them between K2 and 35 when they do the field trips can you pick up Eagle L K2 pick up Washington K2 and take them to these Parks so they can
interact and meet new friends and got shut down on that um there is a weight list so Eagle Lake families cannot switch schools even though it was not disclose that there will be no field trips and one family in particular specifically asked before registering their son for Eagle Lake if Eagle Lake
was getting field trips and was told yes Eagle L will be getting field trips just like the other sites so if you can imagine the Uproar in Eagle Lake has been very frustrating um when we're paying equal and frankly she said we should be paying more than the other sites because we
have less students so the cost to income ratio is not there so there's a big internal battle some things that can be publicly said some things that can't be I'm trying to Define with Community ad and W what I can publicly say I've requested to be more of an advocate
alongside you guys too of saying how can we get that transparency and I've requested that transparency month over month but it's not getting out there so um I felt that our voices weren't being heard from the internal Department of Community ad and W and have now opened
it up a little bit to the district to um open their eyes a little bit on that it's we're having some Equitable issues if you want to say well they really want our kids to go to St Clair and that's what some of them are and um to the point where I think some are
going to come to to school board meetings and say like I am leaving the district because of this and because when I brought that up last year they did not believe me that Eagle Lake residents will leave myself for one that even said like if I if my kids's on a
wait list I will leave the district I have other school options because I can't quit my job to get my kid thankfully where I live my kids can bus home administrator buls can't you know so families don't always have that luxury and child care is extremely
important and once your kid goes to school you kind of feel like the school is there to back you and two years in a row now um after school care and even before but mainly after school and summer care families have felt let down like they're trying to push the families out so I just want you guys to be aware
of it that I have it on my schedule for November to be pushing them saying what summer look like because asking in March April is too late they're already scheduling stuff in January February so year two we thought we were not just getting lip service we were actually
going to make action change and we got lip service again unfortunately so they haven't given you a reason why they treat kids in a different part of the district differently besides saying that we wanted it that way oh we wanted it did they give you guys but they don't have anything to show that we the survey
that I and I trying to remember because we get one from the school itself and it's it's very frustrating because when the district sends out these surveys they ask what we feel I've talked to in my case kindergartener and and Anthony's wife fourth grade teacher and um
unfortunately my kindergarten teacher she when I went and volunteered a couple different times she doesn't have staplers at work you know we bought her a stapler because the staplers don't work she they pay to get um stuff to teach our kids how to read Because what the district provides them it's not accurate um our kids don't use dictionaries anymore my fourth grader i'
had asked his wife I'm like do you not do dictionaries she's like NOP I'm like oh my god what have we got going so I mean it's it's not what it was and it's um when I talked to the teacher this morning and told her because she didn't know about some races she just said
families need to keep pushing back with the district and and make your voices heard you know any any piece of it um I talked with Aces staff that will be there this summer and they're not able to have their voices heard because they they're staff they're like we feel like
we get hit so they agreed that it's going to be a very boring summer and um relationsships are built when you're out going down water slides with these kids and plan on got going to the zoo versus let's go to the the library in the school because that's one of the
things so it's just disheartening to see our kids be in the school for nine months at a year and now be stuck all day in the school I'm going to be having a lot of alcohol by time they get home because they are not going to be happy when they come home all the more reason we need
goats at the park so that's just where I'm asking you guys to to help not I'm not trying to bash them at all I'm trying to help make the positive change so we keep our students in Eagle Lake if they want to go to the bigger school too but the district is always what's going to end up I mean I guess my question is
Beth is what's what what will happen if people keep going to St Clair and I mean I I I do keep hearing that from people saying I know that this is not a school district meeting yep uh but like do the district what are they going to do close the school down or what I think they'll always in my opinion there's always
going to be enough students to go there I think until Eagle L could be I think enrollment Eagle L could boost immensely if Eagle L could be a K12 or Eagle L and St Clair or co-opt K12 um because that's why a lot of them are going to St Clair you know my sister being one of them she
wanted that smaller town or smaller school all the way up to 12th grade not just K5 um there's no way they can secede from M District unless it's like 80% of the Mano School District allows
and comes in and actively votes for it and I don't know where we're at with daycare part but I know you know the school bonding I that went through or went out Eagle Lake residents voted it down last year I don't know if mean if you looked at the precincts Eagle Lake voted no from that that referendum um
but they were wanting to put daycare in the school is what their thing is and for me it's like okay I bring my kid there when they're born but then guess what once they're school age and you expect care you're not going to you're going to get put on a weight list so it's like we need to really navigate and really tackle the first problem before
we make a bigger problem um so I guess from you guys just anything you hear or any of that just trying to keep pushing that positive impact within the city and I'll keep giving updates that I have but unfortunately
eake residents do not get equal opportunities this summer as those at other schools I might have someone else might have to step in as Community ad and Rec Advisory Board because I might get kicked off but that's exactly why you need to be there though that's why I'm appointed and they
can't kick me off anymore but um no it's just and my kids aren't even in I mean my kid will go in at this summer and probably not again but I don't want to those families that are coming into it to feel what I felt cuz it's a really not a very good experience and I know Jennifer can speak to that and stuff and
I just don't wish that upon other families that don't know any different I want it to be a fun experience for the kids well I'm just worrying about getting them in even I mean we were we were in DC right and I remember you had to like sit up until or wake up really early whatever it was wake up really
early be on your computer she had to plan to be up just to get her kid booked in it and I'm like okay yeah I guess is there a point when the school district in the city of Eagle Lake are going to have to talk or something or
we've we have I can I public say one of the conversations a couple board meetings ago was that we internally or we also had the conversation as far as if there's not enough care what can we do to help with that lack of care whether
you know K through whatever right um or not K birth through um up and their comment was just I think that'd be a great idea you guys should build a child care center and and get that done because then you guys we don't rely on us and it's like well the school is sitting there now trying to get these School AG kids somewhere else you know
so we're paying for the school through our taxes let's let's work together make this happen not a mely yeah Eagle Lake is losing money because of the amount of staff that or amount of kids they can have in it but then you have Franklin that has 240 this
summer and they're making significant amount of money on not significant I shouldn't say that but they're making money off of it so pulling they don't I don't think so based on what I'm saying they look at each site versus at a whole I think the
Shen I think sh ien and that's what they cited during our meeting post postco the year after Co we had this massive Boom Like We went on all these field trips all the kids were super excited fast forward two years and we didn't even have eagly cases until we got it back so then it's
like okay now you're back but you don't get field trips now now you're back entirely and you'll get field trips just kidding we didn't sign you up for any you know so it's just kind of like what are we going to be told um but to pay the same and not get the same experiences is disheartening for parents
that have kids that know that they're going to struggle through the day to stay focused I don't know what to say other than I'm just so glad that you are there and you are speaking up and bringing this to light because that what it's going to take is other residents
though that are yeah that are prior former you know former current and um soon to be future um Aces families to step forward though and make this you know this is what it used to be this is why we're not doing it families are not doing it anymore because it's not what it used to be or um I'm not doing this
because I don't want what I've been hearing you know cuz what I say and what the what people want to believe believe is actually going on or two different things but I compiled the list of what residents told me at the carnival last Thursday and sent that off and CC Jennifer and it so she saw the list and
it it was very raw um and saddening to even write those comments that were being said but it's it's truthful comments So yeah thank you council member white um we got the shirts are being made right now for summer sounds
so we got um they ended up not having the same color or whatever for kids so the kids and the the adult size are going to be a little different but um they'll be still be sweet I like the I like the new logo I like the new look so that'll be fun um Garrett and I ended up
raising almost $4,000 so um with all the sponsors and all that type of stuff so um it should be a good year cool thank you um yeah council member
Steinberg Anthony covered everything that I that so he stole the grass is growing really nice yeah the grass is growing really nice I think it's going to be pretty cool awesome I think you're right yeah all right council member
Whittington no we didn't have an Eda this uh month so I'm good um I will just throw out uh I think I think we all know the legislative session ended in a way that it's not very good for us um it's unfortunate and
I'm really looking forward to Senator France and representative Frederick wanting to do a town hall here in Eagle Lake so they can come explain what happened to the residents so we're working on some date possibilities for that coming up uh later this month uh
we'll definitely get the word out so that they are here and available for questions um yeah I think congressionally the spending ask there is moving along quite nicely they've been proactive in
reaching out so the five million that we ask for that actually looks pretty good so we may end up um being taken care of much more from the Congressional funding side than the state um this year was not a bond
bonding year no it is sorry this is traditionally a bonding year and we didn't get bonding last year there was an abundance of bonding because they didn't have one the previous year so it's kind of like the calendar has flipped a little bit um so now the question is will there be any bonding
next year and there's a good chance there won't be and or it could be in two years and will we be in there who knows and that may be a completely different legislative makeup because the whole house is up um this year so who knows what will happen but it's pretty
unfortunate that it didn't happen for us um I have so many more things to say about that that I won't say here but uh again looking forward to that town hall when we get that scheduled um oh we're planning on making sure that
well so greater Mano growth had a town hall but it was very kind of I don't want say invite only but they only had so much capacity where they did it so um I did not attend and I'm it sounds like it was
informative but there weren't really there wasn't any time for questions and yeah line right right yeah well I'd like to make sure that whatever happens here in Eagle Lake that
one there's plenty of time so that residents can ask the questions they want to ask and Jennifer and I can moderate it I don't know but just making sure that um people have a chance I mean
it's really hard to get up to St Paul it's not always easy even to get off an email to their legislators make that call or know what to say it can be the whole process can be really intimidating and bringing them here to their home
District so they're available um it's best thing we can do so uh yeah working on that so we'll get that information out soon as it's scheduled all right anybody else
I I'm looking at you Mitch because I'm just really still mad about the the cookie situation yeah but it just goes to show how much Street time is is putting out there and the posts that we're seeing and everything
you're doing all the deputies are doing it's it's wonderful so again thank you and Public Works you guys don't get enough like I you guys are always out always in hot weather bad weather good
weather and it's like no one sees what they're doing but they see if they don't do it for four seconds you know I I I know I'm guilty of it too like we just appreciate we don't notice or appreciate the fact that the Lawns are mowed everywhere and the little flowers out
front they look really nice so yeah thank you um I could go on about everybody but the thankless work that staff and fire and it's it shows we have an awesome community and everybody wants to live here so that means
something but I know it was after hours for what Public Works normally would have been here and you guys were out there helping that too saw someone was oh gosh AR never seen when it's supposed to go up so thank you for getting people out there so you're you're saying he earned
the cookie that he got today fine to I want to discuss it now all in favor of adjournment say I I