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e e e e e e I have we're live all right uh good evening everybody it is June 26 2024 at
6 o'clock p.m. we will call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I would first like to welcome Libby canner she is filling in for uh attorney Bose he is out this evening she's also been the individual
who's worked diligently on our tax abatement with good you living so she's here thank you for joining us yeah no problem any question okay great okay
um on item three um approve or amend the agenda I get a motion for that it's pretty straightforward today approve approve it all second all those in favor I I opposed motion
carried thank you um the minutes we are going to move those to the July is that 11th I think July 11th meeting um so and that was a decision that was made by
Lori and I so we'll kind of explain there were a couple missing pieces so it's easier to fix them now before for be the 10th is it the 10th thank you Wednesday yeah Wednesday the 10th so we'll just move those so next on the agenda um I would like to open the
public hearing on the proposed good you zoning ordinance and obviously there is no one here from the public so there's no public comment so we can close could I get a
motion to close the public comment period thank all those in favor I I opposed motion carried on the next item we just need to make a motion to adopt the good use zoning
ordinance I'll move to adopt the good you zoning ordinance a second the Tre seconded all those in favor I motion carried oh opposed motion carried thank you very much six we will now open the public
hearing for the good you living tax abatement again no one here from the public so any no did I get a motion to close the
public comment move all second all those in favor I I opposed motion carried liby do you have anything before we take the mo motion before the council
on the tax no I I think from my understanding the council has discussed this already in depth um but just as uh as a reminder this is kind of clean up for a contract
that was originally adopted back in 2021 um and there was just a couple of um abatement steps that were missed along the way so holding the public hearing passing this resolution um and so we'll do those tonight and then we can start on February 1 of next
year great so could I get a motion to approve resolution 2410 good you living tax AB so move all those in favor I I oh I'm sorry I didn't get a second patri second
all those in favor I opposed motion carried thank you very much okay the next items um on the agenda are pretty straightforward we did Disc discuss all of these at our work meeting so we put
on the agenda to approve um and to make the motion to purchase a new lawnmower from John Deere using um covid funds and the balance due would be $26,000 after we traded
in our previous more so any other comment or I think that's great absolutely I had to have it so okay so I could I get a motion to approve the purchase of a new
lawnmower so second all those in favor I I opposed motion carried thank you very much next on the agenda is the motion to pay off the tractor from FM First
Farmers and Merchants Bank I'm also using Co funds remember those Co funds were roughly $109,000 so 68,000 $ 64367 which obviously would save us the interest over time lot of interest so we
can use that money elsewhere so okay so could I get a motion to pay off the tractor so move second all those in favor I opposed motion carried thank you very much okay next on the
agenda is the motion to close Tiff now that came from Tammy amdall from um Northland Securities that has been sitting out there and the and it was never sunsetted so again if we return that money of
$9,985 17 cents to the county then in turn we receive a third of that back and we can use those funds for um whatever we want without the stipulations for the Redevelopment so Tammy recommended we do
that yeah well was costing us money every year correct yep we just did another one so another $1,000 went out okay good well it's good to close them out okay so I'll move to close that out okay did I get a second all those in
favor I opposed motion carried very good okay next on the is uh the resolution 24-9 request to approve election judges so I did um put that document together
hopefully I put it in here did guys good good um so those this is the document that will then be forwarded on to the county Lori and I have had some uh good discussions about
the election we just trying to stay well ahead of it as we know this is a very very big election this year so um we have the primary in August and then we also have the general election in
November so we have um very appreciative of all the people have stepped forward to be judges so we have and training is going on people are going taking online training and they're also going in so this is the resolution that needs to go to the county okay so could I get a
motion to approve the resolution 24- 09 I get a second all those in favor I I opposed motion carried thank you very much okay the next one is resolution
24-11 so it has been brought to my attention and I kind of was um doing some research on this and we should be um whenever the city receives money as a
donation we should create a resolution for those dollars and so this is something that needs to continue in the future that every time there are donations so when the Lions Club this is in particular to the Lions Club and then
you can also um you can list in there in spearhead where those dollars are to go so they specifically donated $1,500 to the city of goodu that was to be used for the goodu flower
fund so that's where that new document has come from so so okay for the signs did they give some money they did but we didn't really want to go back retro since we've already
that was in a whole different calendar year so moving forward and I and I talked to um Mr V about that so he said we're going to move forward and we're going to make sure that we're doing this so um this is a good template for Lori
she will have it on hand and so we can just simply plug in the numbers um and get that done okay so that's how that all came about and the signs areful they look nice when look do okay so could I get a
motion to accept the resolution 24-11 so move get a second I'll second all those in favor I opposed motion carried thank you very
much next on the agenda this evening is the uh Farm lease so this is for the farm land that we've had Mr V Drew up this document um and we have not had a farm
lease since I think approximately 2012 so we needed to update that remember um in Jason's findings when the tax property taxes um came we were paying taxes on it
because there was never a contract or a lease that was forwarded onto the to the county so we need that lease so um we requested that Bob go ahead and do this and this is what um he came up with you
did have this in your packet at the work meeting same I went through and we will be I will be bringing before you at the next work meeting um a general kind of usage lease of facilities usage lease that is also something that we need to
have so um so if I could get a motion to to approve the farm laas so what how much is it this is just the document this is just the document I know but I'm just asking how much is the rent um they've already paid for this
year it was it was enough to cover the taxes yes it was enough to cover the taxes and so yeah I saw a couple yes correct you are correct
yeah and so Jason has been doing an excellent job um looking at the acreage so Scott Ryan all of those Parcels have kind of shrunk as developments have occurred so it was 17 Acres but we're
re-evaluating that to 16 because he should not be paying rent on a waterway that the city owns even though he cuts it that's as he's benefiting that's that's he does that as a courtesy to us so that's
something that would go in there and as the property is moved forward then the acreage would be adjusted okay okay once we get this approved then we can go back and Lori can plug in the numbers for this year for this year
reevaluate and then we'll reevaluate every year they have to do a new lease every year so we'll do the ones it'll be easy once it's all drawn up and Doney it says for three years the T this leas number
two for three years and he took this from kind of we have to have that changing it supposed to be a year thought we Chang I thought we did we went to a year I did too that but I could be wrong we postpone it and
we can table it until we get exactly that's a good good catch I would it would be best to go every year because you know because it could change every year y okay I thought it is right there let say
for these three years connecting on you I have to have Bob change that okay anything else T your sharp is a pencil I you
okay so um a suggestion that might be is we can table this so we don't have to take a motion because as soon as it's tabled it's it's just tabled we could bring this up we can have Bob make the
corrections um and then we can look at it at our work meeting on July 10th and ever ready to go sure okay it's not like the um the renters are waiting on this
lease they paid for this year from a legal standpoint Libby is that acceptable to just we'll just table it and have Bob redo it and then we'll adopt it yeah absolutely okay um I mean if you
if that's the only change just the years you could amend it yourself right now but you can also table it like you said there's not a huge rush oh okay so we could amend it to one and then just fix the document
ourselves yeah we do it for you yeah we can well then let's do that to get this done get it okay so Patrice since you caught it do you want to make the motion to amend it to okay we can we can amend this so that the lease is for
um yearly okay did I get a second on that I second it all those in favor I I opposed motion carried thank you thank you lby [Music]
perfect thank you very much okay all right here moving right along here tonight okay all right um there wasn't anything on other
so nobody made any amendments to the agenda so the next thing would be the motion to pay the bills well it wouldn't have to go on other not but they did good on the streets didn't they Jason I looked at them yeah they did a really nice job they did lo my parking lot too out there
they in town yeah they do nice work they I drove and checked it out it was really nice s was what the hell are they doing out that street they're cutting holes I says they're they're repairing the street [Laughter]
Sunny yeah okay all right so I forgot to mention that Mr Keir would be going at the end of the meeting because we didn't want him going first with the public hearing so he graciously agreed to be last come on you
told me it's called diplomacy it's called diplomacy can you amend [Laughter] that okay so go ahead and look over checks are um ready to
go so you see that we did get the farmers market donation on there so that's good yeah that's ni on the page three and just asking that this the first one there to Lincoln National life
that disability that's for the people that work here correct yeah that is a monthly bill to Lincoln and so long-term short-term disability and Lori includes that every month
okay okay so on three of four down the semra the 38,000 remember that that's a pass through so we get that money they put it in but then we got to give it back so
that check is yeah we already verified that and so she's been working on that so that's why that amount is in there okay so um the other thing on the bottom is the annual dues for Minnesota
Association of small cities so we have in the past been members of that it's kind it's a standard renewal um they do offer us um different types of services and um information so that's always a good one too
abely any questions on those I think there'll be more bills at our work meeting in the first part of the month just a few pages because we'll have a lot of things at the work meeting don't get comfortable with the short meeting tonight because next time we got a lot
to discuss yeah I list he always has a list has aist stuff he wants that's right like christas all right so could I get a motion to pay the bill
BS all those in favor I I motion carried can I get a motion to adjourn the regular city council meeting so move I get a second all those in favor I
F motion carried thank you very much and we'll move in Mr kefir go to the microphone yeah Ed you did give everybody a you if you don't one I do have another yeah yep right here was just one page
Joel has it yep everybody you you want you to find another way um I you know I don't think there's any big decisions being made tonight a lot of discussions so kind of standard so
really you wouldn't have to say if you want to sign off we're not going to be making any discuss uh decisions he's going to just give us an update on some projects that he's working on so okay all right well sign
okay thank you thank you bye bye thanks nice to meet you okay so so help me out do I need to make the motion about opening the meeting uh I don't think I need to do roll call I was just using one from previously we know who's at the meeting correct um actually the minutes I had
down approved the meeting minutes but we really didn't have any from last time so uh we don't need to do that um as you look at the agenda are there any amendments that you might possibly want made to it or are you good with what it
looks like give you a chance to kind of read through it could I get a motion to approve the Eda me meeting agenda move I'll I'll second all those in favor
all right opposed motion Carrie okay so then for the informational report um we have been doing some work on the current tennis court and um and we've communicated also
with Evan goof today as uh and um the interest is there based on the survey that was done for the and wreck that people are really interested in pickle ball courts so what I've been doing is I've reached out to several companies
about the surface and about designing them and and um transitioning them into four pickle ball courts now the Jason just had someone go to Dave they rounded up the weeds that are in in the cracks
um and uh when I talked with multiple companies last week they all said we have repaired much worse cracks than this so what they want to do is they said they can come in they can repair the cracks after that then there's going
to be a layer that goes over they do not need to repair all of the asphalt or I mean replace it they don't need to replace it or put a new layer over the top they're going to actually patch it and then they're going to put their their um Coatings over the top of that
and it'll work out well um so we talked about four pickle ball courts and what we'll do is on the ends of them we're going to put fencing there to prevent the balls from going into the other courts okay um it is possible if you
wanted to you could put fencing in between them as well to really keep the ball separate from each of the games when you play pickle ball the ball is going to be it goes into the courts quite often it just means you got to stop the other game whatever it's not
crucial right now the two end ones are kind of crucial because the ball is going to be going past people all the time and that would be kind of a that would be a hassle for the people who are playing um we're going to have more information for we've received one quote
back I believe we have two others that are going are supposed to be coming this week we did have two companies that just said we aren't going to be able to get it done in 2024 and because we want to use some of the co dollars to help out with it that
was kind of a limiting factor so when we come to the working session we will have more information for you but just kind of wanted to give you you know little update on it that's that's just a chain link fence then like six feet high or 4 feet high or what is it exactly fouret
fourt high and it'll stretch in and it'll have a gap in the middle so people can go from side to side um but it does it does catch a lot of a lot of them um and I I I can I play a lot of pickle ball and I play in
Rochester and playing some tournaments and stuff like that this sport is growing immensely it is incredible um and the number of courts that are going up that's why these companies some of them couldn't even put a bid in because they wouldn't be able
to get it done in 2024 so it's rapidly growing some of the things that we talked about also were it'd be a great opportunity it would add some Community education classes not only for adults but it would also be for
kids in the summer you could have morning class other teaching kids how to play pickle ball and probably the best feature of it is then you can have kids and parents playing together and it's becoming an actual family event so I
think there's a lot of possibilities here for that um and I think too with the co dollars and the fact that the city gets to see something that they can use and utilize I think that would be uh that transparency would go a long ways for
the community um Jason and I have been talking about Cranson Park we counted up today there's 18 ash trees that need to be removed just in cron Park so what we're hoping for is we've
both been checking on it the D R has their Ash Tre removal grants um it's not open right now they're saying later July they're supposed to open up so we really don't want to move too quickly until we find
out about that assistance for removing the trees uh I bet each of those trees would probably cost anywhere from, 1500 to 2,000 to remove each of them so um and I know I do know the DNR is also very interested in people making sure
that they replace trees as well but you know when we were there that section would be real easy to level off and to put a little playground in there that would be a great park for families they have reunions or whatever there is a nice park there uses it the way it is so
it would be good to I think so too I think they'd use it a lot more if we just did a little something with it yeah yep and put a little playground equipment there where the kids can have something to absolutely I think it would be a great um and one of the things I put on there too is so once the trees are gone and if we start to do work on
the P picnic shelter itself one of the it's a very common grant that communities apply for uh and it's a Smith it's called Paint the Town Grant it's something like when you're in smaller communities if you ever see like murals on the side of buildings it
probably came from this grant so but that would be uh but but it doesn't have to be artistic it could be the sand blasting it could be the paint it could be whatever you're doing to bring it back up to um to improve it um the the last item I'm not going to go
too detailed into it but I just want to let you know I um with my experiences in other communities and also talking with other colleagues I would like to have us discuss this at the working session
about the Eda not Al not having to also be your responsibility as well in most in most um communities what they do is the Eda like I said there you've got like City administrator you might have a few
uh couple business owners might have a representative from the school but you're looking for people within the community that are passionate and that transparency that what the Eda is doing is putting together ideas that are
coming from the community but knowing that they don't make any decision the decisions are always made by you as the city council but they do the leg work they do the work to put that information together then they bring it to you you've got enough on your hands
with just being the city council so that's one of the things I'd like to talk about but I wanted to at least share it with you tonight so you could kind of think about it and then when we come back on on July 10th we can explore these things a little more
carefully and I just left the park survey review you've already seen that I just put it down for reference Y and in July um I will be here July 10th and oops I forgot to change that July
24ths that's a July July 24th any any questions or the park survey that was that the pie that she had created we we looked at okay that did yeah that was she did a pretty good job on that
exactly through that and that goes a long way I mean the suggestions have come from that it's coming from the community absolutely you know and that means a lback exactly know what what are
yeah direction to go I agree yeah but I think it's Unique too when Todd and I were talking about the pickle ball courts um you know then the company said you know and you can choose whatever color you want on the surface and since it's kind of a backdrop to the good you
Wildcat and our signs out there are purple and white you know we could have a purple and white Court um because you can choose any color um so um you know and um and we'll have little and we'll
be able to show you diagrams of them when we get together in the 10th just so you have an idea okay y absolutely y yeah and and we've talked about ways what are what are ways that we might be able to create funds that could sustain it
and maintain it for years to come rather than waiting until uhoh now something's wrong with the court what are we going to do oh let's go see if we have money in the general budget so Todd and I are working on that and trying to come up with some ideas and we'll we'll come
back with some some suggestions at the at the work meeting with that so we'll be putting our heads together on the on the tent as well with some of those and doing some research so good that
works any questions for Todd anything so up updating well I suppose it depends on how much it's used what's that would you would you have to I don't know whatever you do them up keep you
usually what they'll say is about every five years you're probably going to have some kind of upkeep it could be the paint it could be chipping or you might even have those cracks just the sun and the rain is just so hard on everything
and it's winter so yeah sustainability is key whenever it's one thing to get something but we've got to find ways that we can sustain it and keep the cost down and we shared it with Evan this morning too when we met with
him and you know just if the if physical education curriculum wants to use them go for it absolutely go for it so abut that's what I like about it's it's truly a community project matter so with that that would be that
Community use agreement that we're going to talk about too so how can we kind of cross over and use different facilities so the school could come onto the city property and use that they always have been but there's never been a use
agreement which is really really critical in anything nowadays so it's fairly simple agreement yeah we have one yeah it's already done so it's just going over it again so okay and
I'll bring it to the council work meeting okay do I have a motion to adjourn that yes we can can I get a motion to adjourn the Eda meeting move I get a second all
those in favor I opposed motion carried yeah yeah e e e e e e e
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