All right. I think we're we're ready to go. Good evening, and welcome to the City of Falcon Heights regular meeting of the city council on Wednesday, 03/25/2025. We'll call this meeting to order at 07:04. Roll call. Gustafson. Here. May. Here. Morgan. Here. Melke. Here. Wossenberg. Here. Linehan. Here. Next would be approval of the agenda we've added from what was on the web. Item number three, approval of resolution twenty six twenty five,
authorizing change order number two with new look contracting for the Falcon Heights Community Park Improvement Project, FHO one. Do I hear for approval of, any other changes to tonight's agenda? None, Mayor. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as amended? So moved. So moved by Melkie. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries five oh. Don't have any presentations tonight so we'll move to approval of the minutes. We've got three of them, efficiently here two weeks after we've done them.
We have 03/04/2026 City Council Special Workshop Meeting Minutes. The 03/11/2026 City Council Workshop Minutes. And the March 1126 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes. Any further changes to the minutes? No. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes for March 4, March 11, and March 11? So moved. So moved by Wassenberg. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign.
Motion carries five-zero. Public hearings don't have any tonight. We had one last night. Saw that on TV. Tonight we have, two items on our consent agenda. We have the general disbursements through March 20, payroll through March $21,496.27, and wire payments through March 20 $15,240.49.
Number two, we have approval of city licenses, as outlined in the packet. Our, massage parlors are licensed. I'll move the consent agenda. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries five-zero. Policy items tonight. Our first one is consideration of a contract with the City of Lauderdale to provide street sweeping services through 2028. Administrator Linehan, can you explain that for those tuning in for the, city council meeting? Yeah.
Thank you, mayor and council. So the city of Falcon Heights in Lauderdale have been in some discussion for a few years now about the potential that we could potentially take on their street sweeping. So in 2022, the city of Falcon Heights took on the snow plowing for the city of Lauderdale, mutually beneficial relationship that we're able to provide for them, kind of as we've expanded our public works services. And as we looked at this, we saw that street sweeping would be an opportunity. We've been working. We just purchased our refurbished, street sweeper this year. And so bringing on a partner helps us kind of continue to, finance that that project.
And so we also see the opportunity too of just helping continue our services so that we can kinda continue a little bit further west into the Lauderdale area, allowing us a nice, additional benefit there. So we have proposed this as a a multiyear agreement through 2028. The starting cost would be 20,000 per year with an annual increase of 3%. And the idea is that we would provide as we do our sweepings, we would sweep there. So it's a little bit loose. There wasn't a, you know, we're gonna do five sweepings per year. Keep it kind of open ended for that perspective was how it was framed.
Both cities that works well for us, works for our public works, works for their city. And so that was how it was presented. Both cities kinda came up with our Lauderdale drafted the contract with their attorneys. Our attorneys reviewed, and both cities are ready to go, ready to start sweeping in this spring. So it would start as of this spring and begin taking on this, additional service. Cool. And my understanding is the agreement excuse me. Go ahead. I was gonna ask for council, account. The the agreement would go through December, 2028. Correct? Yes. Correct. Okay. The only comment I had to have is that this there isn't any,
potential escalator for costs if our costs increase, if fuel increased or dumping costs increase. I am not concerned about it at this point, but I think I would ask, staff to track, time or mileage or whatever that is being spent on Lauderdale. So in three years, two years, we can, take that into consideration on a renewal. Makes sense. Yep. I assume that we're doing that with our snow plowing, services that public works is kinda keeping track and noting what what's working and not working as we've done that the last three,
four years? Yes. Correct. I wouldn't say we have the numbers for fuel specifically at Lauderdale, but we have been tracking our each response, our snowfall totals, the amounts. So Public Works has been kinda keeping that as part of their their metrics. So as we've tried to analyze that so we have some of those numbers. And fuel you could do by just knowing how many miles per gallon it gets and how many miles are in. How many miles are being done. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I did have one question. I mean, it's not about this contract, but where is the debris dumped ultimately?
Yeah. That's a good question. That's partially why we can offer this at a lower cost than a private contractor. So there's two different categories of debris. The first sweep of the year, that we do in the spring, is much more contaminated because it's mainly salt. And so for that, for the city, we transfer over to the Minnesota State Fair. We we leave a roll off there. And so and the State Fair, that's one of the services they will provide for Falcon Heights. Kinda transfer that, we dump it, and then it's, it's dumped. And so we pay for that.
That cost is about $200 a year for our disposal of the spring sweepings. So there will be, obviously, a little bit of an increase with Lauderdale based on weight, but it would be probably $100. And then thereafter, when we do the fall sweepings, if it's mainly primarily organic matter, we are actually able to bring it to the Ramsey County, compost sites. Okay. Private contractors cannot. So they do not allow contractors to come in. They love our sweepings even though there is some risk of random street debris in there. The county has always been accepting.
They like the additional leaves that we provide. It's good compost for them. So they've been happy to, allow us and other municipalities to dump our our street leaves there. So That's great. Cost. Because picking up all these leaves reduces the groundwater runoff contamination into our lakes. So it's really valuable. And to be honest, that's part of why we've moved once we got the sweeper. You know, we moved away from the old model of, you know, we we'd post up the signs, we'd go out, notify everybody, and then go and do a sweep, with a private contractor. Well, then what happened is you'd have a windy day the next day,
and all those leaves in the yard would end up again. And so it's kind of a perpetual battle we're fighting in the fall. And so how we respond to it is it is a generally a quieter time. So public works, their busiest time is in the summer with grass and keeping up with the grass. It's a the sidewalks, everything during the summer, they're as busy as could be. The grass slows down in the fall. So they have more time available to go out and do the street sweeping. So that's kind of, one of their their goals. So they'll go out and they street sweep quite a bit. So they'll go out multiple passes through the city, but it allows for,
at the end result, then our catch basins are clear, so they have a lot less leaf debris that they have to remove, less emergency calls for blockages, and then better better drainage and safer streets. So it's kind of a thing to to do. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. It seems like it's something that could be easily fit into the, into the work schedule too since Yeah. Other than emergency blockages, there's not usually an emergency street sweeping call. Correct. Yes. We we would do all this on regular hours, and so that and that was kinda part of Lauderdale's request for us. It's just they they still kinda you know,
that transition is always they're used to doing it that way, and so we'll kind of keep working with them. And maybe over time, they'll be less you know, they'll realize how we do it, but we just wanna make sure that we're, considerate of how they've been used to street sweeping for thirty plus years as well. So we'll kinda keep it within the hours usually of, you know, I think it was Tuesday through Thursday that they prefer, and that's something that we can help deliver on. Yeah. I think they're, they're win wins here. I mean, Lauderdale gets a better level of service. We build our relationships with our neighboring communities.
We get economy of scale so that we can leverage our capital investment effectively. I don't see a downside, really. Cool. I move approval of did you wanna say anything? Yep. No. I was just like, don't take questions. Move approval of resolution. Do we have a resolution? No. Approval of the contract, with the City of Lauderdale to provide street sweeping services through 2028. Okay. It's been moved by Council Member Wilkin. Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of, contract City of Lauderdale, signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign.
Motion carries five-zero. Alright. Second is approval of resolution twenty five twenty six approving a contract with Time saver office secretary for recording minutes. Just to clarify, it's the resolution twenty six twenty four. Twenty six twenty four. Yep. I'm sorry. Thank you. So that, this one so that, administrator, Lynn Hand, wanna describe this, and then, once that we do, I've I've I've got a motion on that. Yeah. That sounds great. So council discussed this at the workshop. This is a proposal to, kind of outsource some of our minute taking duties from staff,
providing kind of for a third party to help us. They would watch the meetings, record it. This is a firm that's used by, a lot of cities throughout the area. It's big and small, all the way from Maple Grove and Brooklyn Park to, Oak Grove and, Columbus, Minnesota. So there's a wide range of municipalities use this firm, to kinda just help offload. I mean, it's our they take a lot of staff time to get together and do. And so our proposal review was brought to discuss if we could, allow staff to, you know, again, if we save that time, you know, during the day to be able to allow staff to focus on their duties.
So as workloads for our staff are tightening and there's a need for more assistance, and we're kind of struggling with that. This is a way to avoid, you know, we're not asking for additional staff, but it's a way to offload that and allow us to focus on other duties. So we brought that before the workshop. But knowing this is not a time sensitive issue. So counsel had a few minutes to discuss at the workshop, and kinda to summarize the workshop discussion. There's additional want for us to keep looking at other options and kind of further explore this, so there have been a request at the time to potentially table this motion.
So I think at this time, I'd like to, table the, table this discussion with a favorable look towards how to make it happen, given that we got an additional proposal from somebody today. So we've got some comparisons to make and look at alternatives that would so I I would move to, table, resolution twenty six twenty four on recording minutes to to a future, future agenda. So moved. So moved by Morgan. Further discussion? I I just had a question. And that is, the process would be that they provide these notes,
and then our staff would go through and do the editing while they're watching the tape. Right? Or not? Generally, no. So the process would be likely, in my understanding, I guess we could it could be however we do it. But, essentially, within five business days, the firm would watch our recording. They would then type up the first draft. A lot of times what they'll do is they'll highlight sections, and they'll say, like, I think this was the name. I think this was the address. But then staff would read through, make sure that it's, you know,
accurate for that purpose. I guess there is the potential that they watch it as well, but that kinda defeats some of the purposes. Right? Okay. I would look at it. I always review all the minutes too. So staff reviews, then I do a review before it's approved. I live through it, so I usually can, you know, edit and correct and add some additional clarifications there. Okay. So we continue that process, but I I likely wouldn't have them watch it because that just Yeah. That would take too much of a piece of paper. A purpose. So if they if they had a specific question that required them to zip through the tape to that time period or whatever and figure it out,
they would. But, yeah, that makes sense to me. I just was wanting to be clear on the process. Before we vote, I just would ask, Jack, if you could do the same thing for the other idea, calculating what it would be do would would be using our current example. Like, we know what we know what TOSS would do. This this other option, just give us a number. Price assessment. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Look. Or or if you can figure out how to do it with a less detailed, thing as well. I don't I don't know exactly if that's something we you can guesstimate given that
we don't do it that way currently. Yeah. We could get an additional quote too. I think part of it is they looked at our minutes, kinda saw how we're recording and, you know because we and, obviously, we don't capture everything, but we do a lot of we are much more, you know, council member x said this. Council member x said that. There's some that gets lost, obviously. It's not like a full transcript of the minutes, but it is a different we did do that transition about '22, away from the city previously had done the very summary style where the council discussed. And our minutes used to be a page rarely ever sometimes two pages.
It just it depends on who's taken them to, has been kinda historically. It's different from staff member to staff member. We have a little bit of continuity right now, and so it's my long answer of Mhmm. Yes. Mhmm. And they okay. Do they have examples of what they look like? Yes. Yep. They did. Okay. So we can continue we can continue the discussion and do we do we need to vote on tabling it? Yes. Okay all those in favor of tabling signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries five-zero to table the discussion of recording minutes.
Number three policy item tonight is approval of resolution 20 six-twenty five authorizing a change order number two with new look contracting incorporated for the Falcon Heights Community Park Improvements Project FHO one. Administrator Linehan. Yeah. Thanks, mayor, council. And so this one kinda coming last minute. We added it as an amendment based on schedule of the park. So it's kind of a newer one that we're working on, and the floors are being poured soon for the new park building. And so having this in place in advance is important.
So the contractor had flagged to us. They were surprised that there wasn't a mop sink. If you're not familiar, it's kind of a we actually have one in the other room. Just a general low on the floor, little square thing that allows you to kind of dump mop water, fill it up. We initially have gotten the quote and our thought was, it seems a little expensive. Do we need it? We can work around it. But the benefit that did get sold to us as we kinda talk through it, looked to other cities that do this, is in kind of the, yes, our crews don't need it. We could we can lift the water. We could dump the water without it.
But if we do, the intent of the building being rentals, this allows us a lot more requirements as we build this out and say, as part of your rental agreement to receive your deposit back, you need to sweep, you need to mop, you need to, you know, take all the trash, tie them up, put them outside, and that's fairly typical in a lot of the rental agreements in the cities around us for their parks. And what it allows is, sure, some people aren't gonna do that, and then you have a problem, we call public works in, they do overtime, they go and, you know, clear it up on a Saturday because you have another rental coming in later that
afternoon or the next day. But if you allow that and you do it right, you can minimize that. That they can kind of prepare and do their own cleaning, helping kind of keep the thing for the next unit. So long story short, we believe it's a a good addition, but we have to move on this quicker than the next meeting because they wanna get the concrete poured and the floor drains and everything are impacted by this. Makes sense to me. Yep. I had a concern about this. And my concern is is that the the order also changes the way that we do heat water heating. So instead of having on demand, on the sinks,
this is now changing it to storage, which means that we are storing water for days on end when nobody's using any hot water, and it's going to it's changing the structure. And so I would I'm totally in favor of the mop sink. I think that's a great idea. I think that's Mhmm. We should continue that. I would be willing to and and we need because we're putting that in, we need to have some sort of heating heating water for the mop sink. And so my understanding is is that the the change was, hey. When you had two sink or two or three sink watering,
heating sources, it was one cost. Now that we're having more, we need it's cheaper to do storage. But I think it's worth it to have on demand at all of the sinks, to be more environmental. The the the equipment lasts longer. I think it's just a better better plan. And unfortunately, I don't have an answer for that yet. No. Just that was raised this afternoon. No. So I and which I brought it to you guys late. So I don't have an answer from the contractors on that. Essentially, the to kind of explain a little bit more, we were surprised as well. We're like, there's not a water heater in the building?
And so they were like, yeah. This is the new water heater. Well, they're switching, and they gave us a $200 credit on this because each sink had its own small water heater built into the sinks. So they were gonna remove those as part of the quote. We saved a couple $100 off of the pricing because now this 10 gallon mount wall mounted, water heater that is a large portion of this cost, would, essentially, service the building for that. Right? And so they were removing that. I don't know enough about if that is how it's functioning yet. I'm hoping to contact talk to the contractors,
and if that's I can work on that, and I don't know if that changes any decisions tonight. I think I can still continue to manage that part with the contractors and So just a their recommendation. Question. I wanna so there will be hot water at the sink, which is either way. I just wanna make sure there's hot water at the sink for Yeah. Kitchen cleanup. Yep. Yep. It's this is because they would put it in for the mop sink. And I don't know I I can't fully explain it. Maybe it's because the volume of filling up a mop bucket might be too much to do a,
to, you know, to do from a a small on demand unit. I don't know why they have to do a 10 gallon, but that's how they have to do it. A lot of I I through I agree with Jim there on that concern, and a lot of people are using on demand water heaters in their homes. For showers. And for showers and stuff. So I bet you can find one that has the volume that that I I don't know what that volume should be, but that serves the needs of the sinks and the mop.
Well, they're they're gonna be I I I'm guessing the reason they did is because they get my guess is is that they got to a point where having four on demand didn't make sense, and and they they felt now we can just get a a 10 gallon. And that that's my guess as to why they did it. Right. Before there was didn't make any sense to have a 10 gallon storage just for a couple of hand sinks. But now there's gonna be more more water, so they they did the the storage system. But I think that so my proposal is is that we approve a change order
delegated to Jack to approve it with the direction that they negotiate a, on demand system. Okay. Yeah. So that's basically what I'm saying is the a a large larger or, some there's some volume of an on demand where we can buy one one on demand heater, and it'll serve both the buckets and the sinks. Sinks. I'm sure there's such a No. Alliance. I think we're talking about leaving the option of either going with a tank water heater or leaving the on demands as originally planned.
With with a new on demand for the the mop sink. Oh. The the one of the one of the things that you were were losing by doing Snowflake. One we now have to pipe water from the hot water all the way to all of the other things, which you don't have to do when you have the on demand at the sink. So what I'm hoping is is that having the just maintaining the current structure and just adding one more on demand, we don't have to do the additional piping, but we have the on demand. Is that piping already in place? There wouldn't need to be piping between the hot No.
No. I mean, the are the sinks in place and the pipe and the pipes for those already in place? No. I believe it's just the floor. The all the floor plumbing is in. Right? So they're getting all the floor plumbing ready, putting drains, everything getting ready to go, and then they're gonna pour concrete. So that's kinda where this got flagged is, oh, we're gonna pour the concrete. Do you wanna and so they actually they did already cut us a line for the floor the mop sink just in case. They're like, you know what? We'll put this in for free. If you don't want it, we don't have to do it. And that's where this option came. So most of the cost is for the water heater.
That's majority of this cost. The actual mop sink installation is pretty low. You know what? I think we're getting down into the weeds. I mean, I think we have this principle that we want the mop sink to also be served by a on demand water heater, and somebody an engineer can figure out the best. This one. Yeah. So it's cost effective. So, basically, the box sink is a spigot low a low spigot with the the whole spent piece. That's the drain. So main thing for someone is being able to empty in the drain.
So worst case scenario, you could run a run a hose from out of the sink to fill them up as well. Yeah. Yep. I mean, you could do that too. Yeah. The the floor drain is the biggest benefit. It's And then we'd run a We don't wanna drain that mop into the kitchen sink. As well. Yeah. And from health code and other stuff, that's part of it. So that could be a third option. Yeah. Yeah. As if that would make one hot water if you're running the hot water on that kitchen sink. And I yeah. I don't know. Quite the hose. Yeah. We we'll dig in more. Again, this is developing Yeah. You can figure this out. We we'll I have the direction.
I'll try to work with that with the contractor and our consultants that, you know, to help get the best the best option for us, lowest energy, and the best solution. Yeah. So I'll try to see what we can do with that. Thanks. And I would the pouring concrete would, be dependent upon the water heater if it's especially with wall mounted. I would not think so. You're not running hot water lines through concrete. Yeah. I don't It's just the it's just the mop sink that is affects the pouring of the concrete. I think so. Yeah. Yes. So the water heater question could be deferred a little bit more than the mop
sink question. Right. Okay. Yeah. So basically, we're changing the resolution to authorize city manager to Yeah. Let me propose, mister mayor. Yeah. I would recommend as what you said, Jim, that we, we allow a change order not to exceed 7,500, but I think there may be things that we don't know here and with the allowing Jack to negotiate whereby we do not need to actually incur additional costs. So what I would would that would we would the resolution would be would stay the same. The third whereas, would be, expenses not to exceed 7,500
and authorize city administrator Jack Lenahan to negotiate a change order number two. And then similar language would be put in a resolution form for number one. So change order two not to exceed for additional? Here hereby approves a negotiated change order, newly negotiated change order number two to new hook hunting contracting. Approves. A new negotiated change. New Newly negotiated. A newly negotiated. Change order. You're just inserting newly negotiated. Negotiated. And change.
Between, yeah, proofs and change. Yep. A newly negotiated change order number two to contract, not to exceed for additional improvements needed for community park improvement project number one. Yeah. That's right. And would you add to the whereas, identified additional improvement adding and water heater, Potentially, we could. And, on demand water heaters? We could. Could we put can we add that to that as part of the council? Well, here's here's the thing. If if it ends up being not possible Yeah.
To do on demand, Jack can make that call. He knows that we want it. Yeah. He knows that we So I think we just can keep it water heater. We can keep it water heater and type of water heater is Preferably on demand. Preferably on demand. Do we need to, We're okay with that. I I'm comfortable with that language. Okay. It's just So we don't need to put in water heater parens preferably on demand? I don't feel like we need to. Okay. That's not for you. Anybody else feel like we need to? I think what Randy's missing, he's missing your, edit to the whereas statement.
Yeah. The whereas statement number this one for him. In the whereas number three. Something. No. In the whereas number three, I proposed to changing it to whereas new look contracting identified additional improvements to be made resulting from adding a mop sink, faucet, and water heater with expenses not to exceed well, actually, this is what they recommend. It's Yeah. Maybe we don't change it. I'm sorry. You're right. We don't change it because this is what actually what they they recommend. Right. So we have that changed. So we'll just keep that the same as it is, but we're but we're, maybe adding a whereas, we're in whereas let me just whereas the
City council authorized. City council is interested in maintaining an on demand system a water heating system and is authorizing city administrator Jack Langham to research that option and negotiate And negotiate with New Look Contracting that A change order. That on the change order. Should that be part of I think that should be a new whereas to explain why we're making To explain that So it's a whereas that would The whereas goes here. Yep. Before the now threshold. Therefore I'll give Jack a second to write it down and see if Yeah.
See how it go with it. Yeah. You comfortable with that, Wes? Yeah. That's fine. So you wanna read it back as you have it written? Yeah. So that then people who are following at home will know? Sure. So, currently, for resolution 25 and can we change this twenty five twenty four while we're doing this just because we tabled the last one to Okay. Our numbering. So for resolution twenty five twenty four, there's existing three whereas Twenty six fourth whereas is. It says, whereas the city council is interested in maintaining an on demand water heating system and
authorizes the city administrator to negotiate a new change order. K. I was going to end of mem by memory. I was at the beginning, so playwright missed out. Is that alright? Yep. That works. And the the new resolution would be the city council hereby approves the, newly negotiated change order to number two to new look contracting not to exceed 7,500. Etcetera, etcetera. Yep. Continuation. For the computer part project, yep. Alright. Because now the, does the okay. The second whereas in here, was that change order number one?
Yes. Was the, the additional $29.52, from the modifications of the storm structure because those costs aren't identified in in this resolution at all. So do we have to recognize that additional $20,952.53 or did we We've already approved and paid that. That earlier. Yep. So that one in the fall. So that was our first change order. So we we just go back and reference just for keeping track of So you're keeping track of your once bid the cost.
Number two is the first change order. Correct. And now this is change order two. Yes. Okay. Alright. Yep. That makes sense. Yeah. This authorization is purely just for that 7,500 for up up to 70. Up to 7,500 for this. Yes. Okay. At which point if there's another one, then that'll just be that'll be the third whereas with the final cost and then the next one will be the new change order if another one's needed. Yes. Okay.
Yeah. Just so those So I'll make a motion to approve the revised or amended resolution twenty six twenty four. There we go. Authorizing the change order. Authorizing the change order. Further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of resolution twenty six twenty four on the change order signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries five-zero. Thank you. The, and then we'll go to information and announcements. You started my this side last time. Okay. George Kenny gets to start this time.
Boy. You know, I'm I'm poorly prepared for that. But, see, here in the Environment Commission, we're moving ahead with plans for the sustainability fair. We do are recruiting, volunteers, to staff various functions like parking, and we need more help. So if you are so inclined to help all you Falcon Heights residents out there listening, please do, contact Hannah. Okay. And the sustainability fair will be on Oh, sorry. Thank you. April 18. Okay. Yep. From eleven till two. Coming right up.
And it's gonna be held Here. At the Falcon Heights City Hall Complex. Yep. That's right. And we'll have tables from a number of, different, groups, and it'll be, there's lots of good stuff going on. Okay. Councilmember Wattenberg. I have no announcements this evening. Okay. Councilmember Malke. So last week, Georgiana and I attended the Ramsey County Active Communities meeting to learn about the different funding grants available for active transportation planning and projects. And there's a couple different meetings coming up to learn, one from Metro Cities and one from,
I think, again, from Ramsey County on April 2. So there's two different meetings coming up to learn about the grant process. Community engagement commission map, still working on our mission statement. Also working on plans for spring together, which is on Saturday, May 16, three to five at Curtis Field. And I wanna give a shout out to our intern, Ashley Brown, who knew that our city has a Falcon Heights orchestra, and she's arranged for seven to eight members of the orchestra to perform at spring together. Otherwise, I had a couple board meetings with the university,
good neighbor, nine North board met as well. Good news is that we were able to, renew the lease in that space. Otherwise, we had to look at building out somewhere else, but that came through and, yeah, to re point it to the executive committee. And that's kind of it. It was a lot. Thank you. Councilmember Morgan. Yesterday, we had a great planning commission meeting. The developer for, it was now being the Fairway Commons, the former Amber Flats, a development next to the Amber Union, came to, get approval for their new plan,
a slight adjustment to the, planned unit development, for Amber Flats. This would be a 110 units of 55 and over, housing, affordable housing. It went over pretty well. The we had a number of members of the community here. People commented, and, the planning commission did recommend it, for our consideration at the next meeting, April 8. And and then we also talked about What else did we talk? What's that? The four zero seven. Then we approved and then the, planning commission also approved,
the, comprehensive plan for the compliance with the comprehensive plan for our plan to purchase the Get Press Building. So it was good. Cool. I did watch those on, TV last night. Yeah. Good times. Yeah. Watched the comments as well. Yeah. And, timed timed out well for, intermission on on the well side. Could go from my small computer to the big screen and and see, see comments. It was good. And, that's about, I think that's about it for announcements that I've got that, of things going on in the community. I know that I've interfaced with various things,
but I, like, I didn't write them down before I came. So administrator Linehan, what else is happening in the city? Yeah. Thanks, mayor and council. So just a week passed this last Saturday, public works responded to large, snow event, and so it went real well with it. They, got some video footage of some of their endeavors, working with our new, communications intern, Ainsley Brown. So our next installment of Discover Falcon Heights is coming out tomorrow, and it's about public works and our plowing and kinda how we plow our operations.
So it's a good really good video. So we got that coming out. So watch for it on our social media. Les Bulstead, kind of updates and development. So counsel earlier at the workshop discussed the appointment process. We are gonna be reaching out just kinda letting all the candidates know of what that process and timeline is just so they know the what to expect because we've been getting some inquiries of kinda where where that's at. So we'll let them know that. Staff's meeting with the University of Minnesota, team staff to staff team next week, kinda discussing the next steps. We haven't met with them for a little bit,
so we wanna get an update on their process. We'll update them on our process, and kinda fine. They have their next board of regents meeting is April is April the April, and then their following one is in June. So we'll kinda learn more of what their timeline is and how it kind of what they're bringing or not bringing to the border regions. So we'll get more information from them there. Our neighbors have been working on their appointments for the CAC. So Rosedale or Rosedale. Rosedale met on Monday. They discussed the next steps. They're gonna continue the discussion at their next meeting.
So they kinda discuss their process. They're gonna do some outreach. So you'll see some stuff on Roosevelt social media over the next week, asking for people interested to reach out. They'll discuss. Lauderdale last night appointed, their representative. So they have a representative who's, they've said kinda they'll be sending that name forward to us, but they did make a formal appointment at the meeting. And then the Saint Anthony Park Community Council, I know they're working on providing that recommendation to the city. So each of those partners are doing that. Community park is moving well. Work resumed this week. They were out on-site continuing,
kind of some of the plumbing work, moving water lines, and then they're next be pouring concrete. So working on that. And then we're working on finalizing our grant agreement with the DNR. So we had received the grant back last, July, and we've been pushing the DNR to get this agreement so that we can get our playground agreements in place. So we're working on that. They said that that's coming. So you'll see that coming up at a future council meeting to get that finalized. But things are moving well for that. 4207 get pressed as was mentioned before, went before the planning commission last night. They confirmed our potential use and purchase.
We will be bringing forward a purchase agreement to the city council on April 8. So all Okay. Everything's moving forward then. With that and with the packet, there'll be a lot more release of information. We have a lot of interested residents that have been giving outreach to the city, wanting to learn more, and so we'll have more information. Probably try to create some sort of page or some other way where we can kind of put the information we have, including environmentals and other set of parts there. So working towards that. And then Citywide and American Environmental is the contractor. We just approved that. I think it was the March 11 meeting or the February either a February meeting,
approved the contract with American Environmental. They're already out doing their televising, cleaning, so people will see that. We put out some notices just always reminding people because we do get every now and then air blows through, and sometimes it can cause some spray, if bathrooms, especially toilets are, the lid's not down. So it's a good reason to kinda further, join the team of putting the lids down for both. That is our updates from the city staff. I have two more things if I can. Yes. One is, just for the record or so for people that are watching, the plan for the appointment of the community advisory committee is,
to appoint on the twenty second at this point, and the, the interviews are planning happening over the next couple weeks. Jack will send out more information, but I think it's helpful to tell people what the expectation is. And then the other one is, springtime comes with the, the recognition of a bunch of garbage out there. So, anybody that is looking forward to go for a walk, you'll, clean out your gutters, clean out the, storm sewer drains, pick up, things along the field and along the fence, and, enjoy your new spring weather. Yep. Gives you a good reason to carry along an extra plastic thank you bag to
stuff, trash in instead of just, your dog, and your gloves. Oh, yeah. Bruce I did at Lauderdale so far from, or excuse me, Leppendor. So started on that one. Yep. And yeah, I'd suggest wearing some, some gloves. Nitrile or, or there's some work gloves that you don't mind, getting dirty. Good points. Well taken. So on that we'll open it up to community forum. Alright well hey everybody's come down to City Hall to talk to us. We offer that opportunity every meeting so think about it as you look for others.
We've got a had a beautiful day today and beautiful night. I don't know how much more we're gonna be able to catch of it but I'd be open for motion on item K. So moved. So moved. Velke moves for adjournment. All those further discussion? Hearing none, further or all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed same sign. Thank you very much. At 07:47, we are adjourned.