Looks like it's six o'clock. That's okay. So, we're gonna we're going to call the meeting to order. All right. Here we go. Call the meeting to order. Um,
here 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, Carrie, would you do the roll call for us? Mr. Steinberg here. Mrs. Rooric here. Mr. White here. Mr. Lewis here. Mayor Whittington here.
All right, we'll open up for public comments. Anyone here that's for public comments that's not on the agenda? All right, looks like we don't have any. I'll look for an approval. Motion for approval of the agenda. Motion.
And we'll look for a second. Second. All right. Mayor Woodington City Council, sorry to interrupt. If we could just add the um additional resolution in front of your spot. Um resolution 2025-39. I apologize. It's for a resolution to
appoint Mario Hernandez to the Eagle Lake Fire Department active roster. So, we'll add that to number five in new business. Is that right? Is that where we want to put it? You you could actually add it to the consent agenda if you want to. That would be just fine. Thank you very much.
I'll look to add that to the consent agenda. So, I'll look for a motion for approval of the minutes. All right. A second. Second. All right. We have a first and second. All in favor? I.
All opposed. All right. I look for a motion to for approval of the consent agenda with the addition of the additional resolution. Motion to approve. All right. Second.
Okay. We got a first and second. All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. U start out with the public hearing. All right. Uh, mayor and city council, um, there is a public hearing scheduled
this evening um to talk about proposing an amendment to chapter 6 related to maximum lot coverage. Uh just to give you some background here, uh there was a zoning code update done in 2024 and at that time there was a revision made um by the former community development
coordinator that basically altered the method that we use to calculate maximum lot coverage. So the updated language combined um lot coverage for both structures and hard surfaces under one single maximum lot coverage threshold.
Um, I think this was just unintentional and we've discovered it's um, obviously overly restrictive for new development. Um, and in the past our code provides separate allowances for structures and for hard surfaces um, which allowed
greater flexibility in site design while still meeting storm water management and our planning objectives. Um so after reviewing the matter, checking with some other cities, um it was discussed with the uh planning commission that uh we should schedule public hearing to
talk about um restoring to the prior calculation method which would treat structures and hard services um separately. So, uh, with that, um, in your packet this evening, there's a copy of the notice of public hearing that went out.
Um, a copy of the memo that went to the planning commission with some more background. Um, I have a copy of our city code, current, and then past code. And so, basically what we'd be doing is just reverting back to the language from our
previous code. Um so with that guess we could go into the public hearing and then following the public hearing um the council can either approve, deny or you know approve with modifications. And the other reason uh this one is
going straight to the city council versus going to the planning commission first was because we ran into an issue with a development and to try to speed the process along after um researching um you know kind of what had happened and we hadn't come across this issue yet. Just wanting to try to um get this
taken care of as quick as possible. Thank you. All right, we'll open up for public public hearing here. So, anyone here to make any comments or
I guess I'm kind of here to make public comments on this one. I'm a member of the planning commission. Okay, perfect. I'm Ray. My recollection is that what we've done is basically set the maximum coverage of hard surface including dwellings and
other structur of structures surfaces and whe or business zone are the planning commission really have no issue with making the modification.
I guess I have a few personal questions and they are basically related to this meant to be for commercial areas or just all types. Good question. Just R1, R2, and R3.
R1, R2, um, nope. That code we're going to leave alone. For some reason, the code for R1, R2, and R3 was changed. And so I think we've got all the public comments we're going to get. How do we close this again? Do we just close the
You can open the public hearing. Oh, you open it. Sorry. I apologize. And then you just can close the public hearing then take action. All right. Perfect. We'll go ahead and close the public hearing. All right. And the action is look for a motion to approve the changes. A motion.
We have a first and and a second. A second. We got a first and a second. Uh any more discussion with the council? All right. All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. We'll move on to the
presentation with John Mayberry with Mayberry Investments. Is he not here? He's not here. any other background or any updates from the last time we Yes. U Mr. May Barry did contact us following um the decision made it was a
few months back now. Um and I did personally talk to him on the phone and he wanted to revisit this matter again and he stated that um there is no uh it's like a dirt area. There's no sewer down there. And I said, "Well, you need to prove that." And he said he wanted to
come back to the city council. And I guess when I left it with him, my understanding he was going to be back tonight. So, I think at this point we just move on and if he wants to come back to a meeting, he has that right. But, um, we've certified the charges. So, I mean, it's from the city
standpoint, we've we've already certified the charges. If he would come in and you guys would decide to wave the, um, the sewer charges, we could always change that before the end of the or by November with the county for certification purposes. We could take it
off the tax roll. So, but um I did talk to him and I thought he was coming to tonight's meeting uh but maybe didn't work out. So, did he buy this from a different company? Does that you guys know that by chance? I do not know that.
Okay. Sorry, I didn't. Uh, deputy deputy city clerk Ralph said she thought he bought it directly from the previous homeowner or property owner. That's something we could probably verify with county and find out for
sure. Guess since I don't see any reason for us to change our previous decision since he's not here, so wouldn't think there's any action that we need to take. All right, moving on. So, we've already
approved the ordinance. Do we need to do a roll call of that approval or Yes. Okay. All right. Do we We have a first and second carry. Right. Yes, we do. Could you read the roll call, please? Mr. Steinberg? Yes.
Mrs. Rorich? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Mr. Lewis? Yes. Mayor Whittington? Yes. All right. Second one under new business, onetime access via park property.
Uh mayor and city council, uh we've received a request from the resident at 525 Blinda Drive. Their backyard borders Lake Eagle Park, and they've requested one-time access across the park's property off of Lassour um to allow
their contractor to remove a tree. I did talk with public works director Hartman um and he did not express an objection as long as they do it um um by the end of August um as it sounds like they probably won't have time with their work schedule to be able to get
those ruts fixed until September. So with that um I just felt it should come to the council because we don't want to encourage people to be using the park for access to their um rear yards of their property. So with that, I would just ask for a motion to either grant or
deny the request. Look for a motion to grant the access or deny access, whichever you prefer. Motion to approve. Sorry, to approve access from the park to remove the tree.
So we have a second. Um any other discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. More tree stuff. Number three. All right. Uh, mayor and city council,
we um recently were notified of a tree that fell on um a portion of the property at 104 Red Hawk Court. And um after kind of looking into that matter and looking to see who the primary um taxpayer was of that parcel, we learned
that it was um in the city of Eagle Lakes name. And after doing some um making some phone calls, found out that the previous owner, Warren and Elizabeth Israelen or Warren Kathleen Israelson had deeded it over to the city in um
July of 2024. Um, however, the city wasn't given any notification. We're not required to sign anything. Um, so, um, that's one part of this. Um, and then, um, so after learning that, talked
to our insurance adjust adjuster. She filed a claim, came out and took a look at it, and basically is going to to deny the claim. But um to be I guess goodwill towards our residents and because it is now a city tree. We didn't know it was a city tree until just recently, it's
recommended that you know we do the right thing and clean up that tree. U the property owner has already spent um eight hours working on it. Um so I guess I would recommend that the city um reimburse the property owner at $25 an
hour per um after consulting with our insurance adjuster. She said that's a typical rate. Um, and the property owner said they spend eight hours total. So that'd be $200. Um, and that we would reimburse for their them for their time and public works uh would go and pick up
the debris and remove that for them. So that's one part of it, I guess, is just getting the council to approve compensating them for their time. It was archery. um instead of hiring a contractor, it's probably the best thing to do. Um there's no damage to the
property, so that's good. And then as far as the um city being on city property, um I guess with that aspect of it, um you know, we'll have to talk a little bit about how does the city want to handle that and you know, do we want
that property and and so forth. So, let's maybe the first thing we want to do is talk about um the request to compensate the property owner for their time and then approving public works going and pick up the um debris and then
also making sure that we go out there and do any other necessary maintenance, you know, in advance so more trees don't fall. Council have any other questions or concerns? So, I'd look for a motion to
approve the compensation. Motion to approve the compensation. All right, we got a first. How about a second? Second. First and second. Any other discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed.
All right. I guess this is the parcel that we just talked about. I'll give you a little more background on that parcel, too. So, um it was it's it was owned by the developer and the developer's name that you know had developed this area over
here um by Owl and Hawk and um we had recently um identified the parcel in our storm water and community resilience plan as a place for potential walkability or walkable trails, things of that nature. So, you know, from that
aspect, we it's probably not a bad thing the city um acquires this. And then the other thing is because water does flow in that area, it seems natural that the city would want to own that versus somebody else taking ownership of it and
possibly changing the flow of water. So, um, in the past when different, um, storm water wetland areas have been turned over by the, um, developer, usually the city does, you know, take over them. So, the only, you know,
drawback with this parcel is there's so many trees and we're going to have to go along and, you know, in these backyards of people and and make sure that if there's hazards, we need to address them. But do we need to do anything with this or
this just information? I think the council I wanted to bring it to your attention. I talked to the city attorney about it and he had advised that I bring the council up to speed and if you guys want to contest the fact that this property or this parcel was deemed to the city, we can then talk
about next steps. But if the city doesn't acquire it, I'm assuming it'll go up and it'll be available for anybody. And do we want just anybody getting a hold of this parcel since it does it was something we identified in our plan as potential kind of trails?
Um, and it it's around a waterway. So I think for me the parcel having the parcel was less of a concern as how they how a homeowner land owner can deed it over to the city without the city having any idea that it was even
done to where like will there be other issues potentially in the future where I don't want to deal with this property. I don't want to do it. I'm going to make it the city's problem and turn it over to the city. Um and maybe there's nothing we can do about it. I don't know. But I think that's where it's like, okay, if
this is a heavy wooded area and it's going to cost them a significant amount to clean it up, we just we're money ahead if we just deed it to the city and walk away. Which is, I think, exactly what they thought because we contacted them last year in the summertime because we had I think three property owners that
contacted us with tree issues. And so we put them in contact with KJ Walk and and then shortly thereafter, they must have just decided we're not going to deal with this, didn't tell us, and deed it over. What? So, if I'm understanding it right, anybody could do this and we would have
absolutely no idea or any way to contest it. Right. Well, I think there probably is a process to contest it. I don't know what that involves. Exactly. I'm not saying contesting this property, but in the future, if this happens again, like what if it's a property we don't want and now we have to maintain it? Yep. I think we'd have to talk with
legal counsel and try to um you know um I can't think of the right word, but reject it if you will. So, just seems weird that we wouldn't be notified. It does. I guess it's like it's just baffling. Yeah.
Yeah. It's really strange. Well, I think that when I was when I talked to the county, they said typically like the person that's doing the title work will out of courtesy contact the person that's getting the property, but in this situation, we didn't receive any notice.
So, very unusual. But, so I guess I just wanted to talk to you guys about it and make sure, okay, if the council is very feels very strongly you don't want this, I will talk to the city attorney and find out what the next steps are. But, you know, after looking at kind of where it's located, our biggest headache is going
to be just the maintenance and, you know, whether we have to contract out work or public works can manage it, we just don't want to have a rash. We get a big windstorm, we're going to have a rash of claims with people. Um, and not even just a a storm, just people not
wanting, you know, trees leaning into their yard. And I mean, it's it's a lot. I know last year when you went out there, you walked that whole stretch and it's just it's thick. So, is it connectable to our current trail
or just trying to see where our trail connectable to what was that, mayor? Well, to our current trail system. No. Um, no, it's too far east, right? I have a in in a copy of our community resilience plan. Um, see, I can show you
guys. So, there's like a stream. So, they proposed doing kind of where that stream thing is, uh, stream meander, a recreation trail, pedestrian bridge, um, potential habitat improvement. They kind of had it all drawn out over there. It's
in that exact area. So, oh, here's a better one maybe. Nope. So, what does the council want to do? we just want to kind of take it and deal with it or do we want to push back to
say we don't care to have this issa my concern is it's kind of so if we because I remember the the boy scout put did that scouting project with the adventure park and then it got dropped but at that time there was conversation
of taking that adventure trail all the way to 211 to where it makes a loop Um, if I'm looking at the map right, if we do that, we still wouldn't need that parcel, right? Or we still wouldn't use that parcel or would we? If it's if it's the
parcel that we're talking about is to the west of the creek that runs through there. Wonder if I could I don't have this right now ready at the ready to pull up, but there's a um part and and part of that parcel we have our lift station down there, too. So
like on the bottom of the culdeac that it touches. Okay. That's part of our, you know, that's our lift station down there. But other than that, that's all we have for utilities in there is just that lift
station. I mean, if it's good usable park property, I I'm all for keeping it. But if it's headache property that we would never use for park, then to maintain something that we'll
never use is I haven't seen it with my own eyes. Like, can you put a trail there easily enough or is it just so wooded and overgrown? And it's very overgrown. Can I pass this? Yeah. Yeah. And maybe I could pass this down to kind of show you what they're what was in our plan for
this recently as maybe an area that we could do something with. It's kind of hard to So is the one that was just deed is that 0046 one, right? Is it 4034? Yeah. 4.67 acres. Yep. Yeah. But that one that the 403
Oh, yeah. No, I'm just That's the one you're talking about? Yeah, that's the one right there. That line in blue, right? But if you go out there right now, it's it's just trees. I mean, it's thick. 211's me back up more, but if you take
that if you take that double line all the way, Yeah. it would hit you'd run into it. We don't quite make it through. So, I think when we first talked at our park board meeting, you can kind of see if you zoomed in, you could see like a a dark black line, and we were kind of following within reason that line. Um,
loosely. So, it's still on the list of things, but to what extent? Oh, did you back up? I never use Google Earth. Yeah.
But you could make a walking loop and from the park, put a bridge over the creek. Y little walking path loop through those woods. Mosquito heaven probably. That's where you had your um your I
think the some of the conversation was it would be at that time um was wood chips and people with like the fat bike because we had a lot of kids going in that KJ walk area and them complaining that they shouldn't be biking over here. So, we were trying to get other like off pavement
roads or areas, but it it's just maintaining it. Yeah. And I think we did have some complaints at that point because um and I don't know that that's going to stop even if we own it, but residents were mad because the Boy Scout was working in
city property, but the residents in that area by the park thought it was there. So, there was some fighting back and forth. Yeah. Well, never hurts to own land. Matter of fact, there's definitely some something we can do something we can do with it. Either a trail
or sell it back. They think they own it. Maybe we should sell it to them. Oh, to the land owners. To the land owners. To the residents. I mean, that's happened. Um other kind of like this when we reconfigure
everybody takes like their own piece of it. Yeah, that's kind of becomes a plat issue, right? Some nightmare. That's easy to change though. That's easy. Well, if we don't find any use for it, we could look at, you know,
I think the big thing right now, I mean, it's it's ours and we didn't pay anything for it. Um, so to off it right away, it would be more just looking if there's any other trees that are potentially dangerous for falling into private property if we need to address those. So we don't I mean, we got lucky on this one not having any
damage. Yeah. And now that we're aware of the situation, we have to do something because next time they'll come up, we can't say we didn't know. So, um, but unfortunately it falls on public works to have to find the time and and then possibly rent equipment or hire a
contractor because you might not be able to get everything back there. So, maybe it's something where we just have public works assess the area, you know, and then come up with um, you know, if you think you can handle it or if we have to contract out and get pricing and
Okay. So, all the grass are back into the wooded area. Okay. Think we need any So, for now, we'll just take no action. Just leave it as is. I'll file the property tax exemption paperwork so we
don't have to pay property taxes on it and that takes a little bit of time and we should I talked to Ryan Short with Blur County and he said, "Yeah, go ahead fill out that paperwork, get that going." Um, and if we want to take action on it at a later date, we'll
follow that process. Thank you. All right. Other business. Well, I think in the past couple weeks, we had some pretty big things happen in Eagle Lake. And I just wanted to kind of reach out and kind of thank, you know, the Lions Club, you know, for bringing the circus to town. You know, I think that was
great. You know, as even as old as I am, I remember back in the day, prehistoric, um, you know, with with the circus, I think we probably made some memories for people and kids and things like that. So, I think big shout out to
the Lions Club. you know, that was a lot of work and with the public works as well, you know, there's a lot of work and a lot of, you know, fretting of rain and damage and thankfully none of that came to fruition. Um, but, you know, I
think it'd be great for us to kind of sign a letter to the to the Lions Club. Um, thanking for all the hard work to bring that to to the groups uh to the city. The other one is I think you know as as you know I've been here over 20 years now you know the national night
out has just gotten bigger and better and you know I think we got a really good group that's working with that and then summer sounds you know that's just you know tremendous. So I think you know those things that are happening in the cities that are you know bring some quality of life and I think we just need
to call those out you know when we have them. So, thank you for that. Whoever's on those committees, Summer Sounds and the National Night Out, that's thanks for that. You know, it sounds like it was a really good success again. Um, so any other comments from you, Jennifer,
or Yes. Oh, I echo everything you said. It was wonderful. And, um, summer sounds, uh, Council Seyberg and White, I mean, it's really taken off and it's just, it's really kind of been the impetus for getting energy and excitement. And so
we've got some great committee members and we'll definitely pass this along to them. But I was going to ask, do you guys have a copy of the letters? Do you have the signature folder? I'm wondering if we could pass it out to all the council and have them sign it. And we're perfect. Great. Thank you.
Yeah. Perfect. No, I think those things are really what, you know, sings to the heart of the a small city like this. And the more we can do, you know, to do those little things and make memories and and have fun things. Tater days is
another one, you know, that was huge again this year. Um, you know, we'll get one to get a letter to Tater Days, too, and then have you guys sign at the next meeting. you know, and I think, you know, we just look to the community to let us know if there's other suggestions of things that we
should try to look for. And I'd love to at some point find a a permanent home for summer sounds that, you know, we could have a, you know, something like that to where the bands always know where they're going to be and there's good power and they don't have to set up. And, you know, that'd be great. You
know, as we look to and do some more future planning, you know, where could that potentially be? Mayor Winnington, can I interrupt you and add on to what you just talked about? So, I had an email today. I haven't I didn't get a chance to send it to forward it to you. Or maybe I did and I can't remember if I
did, but it was one of those days a Monday. But anyways, a resident had reached out with some pictures of a potential band shell. So, I'll take it to the park board on Thursday and then make sure you guys get um
uh copies of it as well. But it was just kind of some uh examples of what it could a band show could look like at a park. So I think that's you know as we go forward and look at these things you know plus it can be used for a lot of different things you know a spoon concert. Yeah.
Or something like that you know do they ever electrify the spoons have electric spoons? Oh it's called blender. Yeah. So, Oh, that's nice. So,
Right. So, you know, anything that we can kind of do to kind of I think those are fun, bring the community together. So, all right. The other ones press release for Highway 14 for tomorrow.
All right. Uh, mayor and city council, you guys are aware we push this out to residents, but I wanted to make sure it was on our agenda in case anybody hasn't seen it yet, but there will be um the Highway 14 corridor study openhouse from 4 to 5:30 at city hall and then the
special meeting following at 6:00 p.m. Um, try to reach out to me as many people as possible, let them know this is our opportunity to come in and provide input. If people are not able to make it here due to work commitments or what have you, um there is an option to
submit comments online and um hopefully the community will be able to attend and um you know provide their input. So it's open house from 4:30 to 4 to 5:30. 4 to 4 to 5:30
and then special counsel is at 6. Yep. And as uh talking with Angie with Bullming, she said they're not planning to make a presentation at the six o'clock meeting. They're just going to be I ask that they please be here to answer any technical questions that come up. So
they'll just be sitting in the audience. Questions and concerns about you know eariness of of that. But that's the open house. You know the public hearing though is at normal time. So everybody hopefully everybody can get here. If not um there's different ways. email the
city, you know, whatever. You know, we'll take electronic comments as well um as we move forward on this. So, Jennifer, do you get emails from the attack team on um any feedback that is submitted online? I haven't yet. Eventually, I'm I'm sure
that they'll send out something to all of us showing the comments received, but I haven't seen anything yet. So, um not sure what's been if anything has been submitted yet. Perfect. I think we're down to the city administrator report.
All right. Um, so just a kind of standard item on my report, the year-to- date revenue expense report, uh, as of the end of July. Uh, next we have the employee leave balances. Another kind of standard item you're starting to see from month to month.
uh wanted to talk to you guys about scheduling a possible special city council meeting to talk about roof proposals for city hall um and a recommendation possibly after we had the east side of city hall and water seeping
inside had our insurance adjuster come out and um just said you know you guys need to get pricing do something right away otherwise we're going to you know damage this beautiful asset that we have here thankfully we didn't have any water inside the walls. That was of concern.
Everything had gotten dried out. We might not be so lucky next time. So, it's not something we were planning to do um this year, but it sounds like we've got some major issues on our roof. And we've had three contractors take a look. We got pricing from two and then we've got another one that we're going
to meet with um is it this Thursday? This Thursday. Um to talk about, you know, what their their proposal looks like. So, we could either wait until the September city council meeting or we could try to schedule something before then. Um,
if we do a special one, are we looking to do that yet this fall? Yes. If possible, if they can work it in their schedule and we'll talk about how we're going to pay for and all that at our at the meeting when we look at the proposals. Um, what's the date of our
So, the next city council meeting would be September 8th. Okay. Um, so we could we'd have to look at next week because I am on vacation and out of state the week of the 25th. So it' either be the week of the 18th sometime. We'd have a
special meeting or just the week of the Labor Day or just wait until the regular meeting. Anyone have any preferences? I didn't know what's availability. You know, we're going to be scheduling a lot of meetings here between now and the end of the year with budget stuff and
are we if we did something next week, would you have everything you needed to present all quotes and everything? Um, as far as for the roof. Yeah. Well, because I I should get that on Thursday. Okay.
Have to be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Okay. Any any suggestions? Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday. Let's shoot for Tuesday.
The only thing is it's the first day of school, I believe. So, we want to be accommodating. Are we talking 18th week or 25th? Oh, sorry. I'm looking at the wrong week. Sorry. Thank you. I'm trying to fast forward August. Are you wanting your children out of the house sooner?
It's like at the Brumlin house, the school starts early. I was wrong, you guys. I'm so sorry. My calendar is so I'm sorry. This um gone the first week. I'm Nope. I'm gone the week of the 18th. Thank you, Beth. No, I am not gone the week of 25th. My kids will be at school. You're gone next week?
Gone next week. Sorry. So it would either be the week of the 25th or the first week in September or we just push it to the September 8th city council meeting to the point just to push it. I think maybe we just wait until the 8th the council meeting. Yeah.
Okay. The it just with the holiday in there too. It just gets Yeah. Let's just Okay. We'll do September 8th. All right. All right. and then utility company work in advance of street and utility improvements project. I think I sent you
guys all a notice that we got from Centerpoint Energy that went out to all the affected properties. Um so that's really helpful and we appreciate them giving that notice so that people know what those flags are about. We get calls at city hall and you know if we don't know here what's going on it's hard for us because we don't see the go for ones
here at city hall. So that was appreciated. So that stuff you've seen that going on around town. um GreenStep City certificate of achievement for step one completion a few months back. Um we had passed a resolution wanting to be a Greenep City and so we um got this
delivered last week. It's just a certificate we um completed step one and then they give you a block and then it's you get more steps and they build on top of it. So it's basically just trying to make your community more um efficient
and and green. So, as you can see, so um uh next item, upcoming ribbon cutting for Clear Path Psychiatry. Greater Mano Growth is going to be um assisting them with a ribbon cutting on August 20th at 10 a.m. So, any of you guys that are available, please plan to attend. I will
let the EDA know as well. I will be out of town, so unfortunately I won't be there. Um but hopefully we'll get a good turnout. It's just a good way to get them some free um publicity. And then emergency response guideline. I need I have it. I just have to get it on the
agenda. But the other thing I wanted to mention was the Blue County hazard mitigation plan update. I'm not sure if you guys saw a communication that was sent out um but it's uh from Blue Earth County and they're updating the countywide hazard mitigation plan and
they're accepting public feedback through August 15th. So if you guys get a chance um I sent it out via our notification app. You can go in there, click on the the link, and then it'll take you to where you want to go to submit any comments. And I think that's all I have.
Purposely skip over the budget one. Did I have just talking about uh coming budget process? I was wondering why it's not on my memo here. I thought something was missing. Yes. Okay. So, I have a note here. It's not on my on purpose.
No, I don't know. Maybe subconsciously I did. No. Um, so I was wondering if we could schedule a special city council meeting for the budget on September 9th if that works. It' be the day after a regular meeting on the 8th.
Same time. Six o'clock. If that works for you guys. Council have any issues? How How Okay, so you said September 9th. How long? What do you mean how long? I ask is I haven't done that video meeting with the fire department.
Oh, we do, don't we? Oh my gosh, there's so many meetings. I'm telling you guys. Sorry, I wasn't trying to, but I know we Okay. Nope. You're right. We do. That's at seven. Um, let's see.
Can we do five for a couple hours? Two hours of budget is enough. Should we do that? Sure. I can order some food. We can have some something to eat here for everybody. We'll do five o'clock. All right. I think this is a sign we have. What's it with the fire department here
afterwards? Um, well, I think we're meeting with the entire department. So, probably just unless they want to come over here. I don't know what works better. Is it easier just to meet? Okay. Okay. So, you have snacks and drinks.
I think this is a sign we have too many meetings going on that we're double booking ourselves. Fall when everything crashes, right? New sports, school starts, budget starts, vacations are kind of coming to an end. Um maybe.
Anything else, Jennifer? That's it. Thank you very much. So, I'll look for council member reports. No, but I would like to bring attention to the um the preschool that is opening uh Miss Beth. Um Beth and her team got
the sign made today and it looks awesome. Um so yeah, if you got a time just swing by and say hi to Miss Beth and if you have a preschooler, I would sign up for sure. Nick, no nothing.
No, I think just I think that Summers and National has been a really wonderful thing, you know, pouring some community involvement into the city. I think it's wonderful to see all the young people and families of all
ages out of the events. It's been really wonderful. I do think that the uh idea of getting location is something that we'll talk about with the committee. Not necessarily a permanent structure, but that would be maybe an end goal. But
I think that we've kind of gone back and forth on there's a lot of people that like the water tower. There's a lot of people that like that. I think it's kind of a good problem, but it's kind of a problem that we need to,
you know, definitely discuss more, especially as time goes on with a permanent structure. Jennifer, you have anything else? Just good job to public works um county sheriff's office fire department for all their help and committee members all of
you guys for either being there helping beforehand. I just want to echo everything you guys are saying about the positive energy. We just have to keep that going in Eagle Lake and I've heard from so many people that just you know comments and conversations about how much they really appreciate all these activities and events. So keep up the
good work and thank you guys for believing in the circus. I know some of you guys were probably a little bit skeptical at first, but I really appreciate you guys. You know, if you guys wouldn't have allowed us to use the park, it would have been done and over with. So, it I think it was a really wonderful thing. And so, thank you guys for that. So, keep up the good work,
everybody. We're still looking for somebody to open a coffee shop andor ice cream shop. I'm working on talking to people and trying to get it here. Everybody else do the same. A coffee ice cream shop would be perfect, but
I think perfect. Yeah. So, we'll look to We got the next city council. Oh, it says August 11th. So, September 8th is the next council meeting, right?
We've got the special council meeting tomorrow. And then we've got September 8th. Yeah, September 8th. Um EDA on the 28th, park board's on the 14th, and the planning commission's on the 18th.
All right. I think I'll look for a motion to uh unless there's something else. I look for a motion to adjurnn. I'll second and we're out.