Righty. It is 7:01 and we will call the city council meeting to order. If we could all rise for the pledge of 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. >> Doing roll call. All voting members are present. Uh public comment. We'll open the floor for public comment. If anybody would like to speak on anything, they're more than welcome to come forward tonight. Just say your name and address for the
record. And thank you for coming in. >> Hi, I'm Josh Bosmo. I'm too tall for the regular one. Um, good evening. I'm here because I saw some things online that frankly appalled
me and I wanted to address them because I try to tell my kids when you see things and you see people treated poorly that you should stand up and you should make sure that you are the one that stops it from happening. So, I'm here to kind of try to live by that right now.
Um, I was originally I'm originally from South Dakota. I've lived in Minnesota for about 20 years and I santi for the last 17. I'm a married father of two. I coach I volunteer coach multiple sports in our community and I'm active with my
kids schools. Um, both of them attend Cambridge public schools. I recently saw some social media posts from you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, you used extremely offensive, vulgar language. And if you'll excuse me, you called
multiple people lib And you called people >> Yep. >> Online. >> Yep. >> Um, >> when I got threatened, >> I You're a public official. >> Threats are never okay in a public. >> Threats are never okay, but you're a public official and I expect better out
of the people that have represent us and represent our community. That's unacceptable. >> And that was on my personal It's my time right now. No problem. talk, please. >> I appreciate the fact that you get threats, but you wanted to be in that office. And part of that, unfortunately, is you're going to get people complaining, so you're going to have to
deal with that sometimes. But I do Hold on. Hold on. This is my time right now. I do appreciate the fact that that happens. It's not okay under any circumstances. I'm not saying that it's okay, but it's unacceptable. You don't just represent you. You represent all of us.
And when you post things like that online, it reflects on everybody else in the community. Um, I have a wife, I have a daughter. I would never expect under any circumstances to have somebody call them
that name. >> If they were to hold on, let me get through my notes. Let me finish mine, please. Here. I'm I'm a little bit nervous. This is the third time I've been to a city council meeting. First time I've spoken. My legs are shaking. if you can see me behind you. So, I >> No problem. >> Bear with me because it took me a while
to get through all this. >> Um, I appreciate the fact that if you were threatened, that's not that's not right. I'm not saying that that's right, but it's also not right that you use that kind of language. Um, the ironic part about all of this is the
comment that I saw you make about not wanting people to vote for the school referendum. Mhm. >> Um, I can appreciate that you have the right, you have, it's your first amendment right to go and speak however you want. I have no problem with that. But like I said, I expect better out of our public officials, the elect public
officials. And the irony of that is the things that you posted online, if it was one of our public middle school, high school students, they'd be suspended. They wouldn't allow those kids to speak that way online, post messages that way
online. to anybody. I don't know if you've been to the schools in the areas around us. We're a class 4A school. All of the other ones in our area are 3A and our facilities in
schools are embarrassing. Our kids are embarrassed to have kids come to our location because of our facilities. They're that bad. My wife is the president of a of a travel volleyball club. There was an incident
last year at the Iani Middle School where a team was practicing in there and a light bulb exploded. The police came thinking it was a a shooting incident and had the volleyball team not been there, the building probably would have burned down. The high school gym just
flooded because the roof leaked. >> You can always make a donation. Again, this is my time if you want to comment when you get done. >> I'm just saying you're complaining, but you know, I'm glad that you're actually discussing. This is my time for us. Let
me speak. This is the third time in 17 years I've been here. Let me speak. >> We have no control over the school system. We just do city business. >> You're missing the point. >> You're making city business. You're making it all our business. Don't post online if you don't want comments. >> It's on my personal profile. Ma'am, >> this is this is my time. I app you can
comment when I get done. I've I've I sat and listened to you. I've never interrupted any of you while you speak. I don't know any of you. >> I don't know your stories. I don't know your collective stories. I don't know how you were I don't know how you were raised. I was raised in South Dakota, >> which isn't that far from here that you
treat people with respect. >> Well, we do. Can I please finish public speaking? >> Can I please finish? >> Just saying. >> Can I please finish? I've coached the teams that see this and it affects me because I see the kids and I see the embarrassment when the other
schools come here. Our kids want to work hard. We have so many kids that want to go out for sports. I get that this doesn't, you know, you don't have a lot for the school. You're not doing that. But when you post things like that, there are so many kids that come out for sports. Not
just sports, but activities. They they're in drama. They're in plays. They're doing all of those things and they're doing it not just because they want to go do it and they they're having fun. They're representing the entire community.
And there is no other event in a community like a a school activity, whether it's sports or anything. I guarantee you right now, I just left the high school. There's a lot more people up there watching tennis and volleyball
than there are here right now. Those events bring communities together. Those events invoke a sense of pride in the community. People show up and they want that pride. They want their kids to succeed. They want them to have good experiences.
So for you to just blatantly say that, if you would allow me to quote that this is a frivolous sports amenities project for teachers and administrators to fancy up the spaces that they work in. Mhm. >> That is so wrong. You are so wrong on
that. And it makes me sick that that is the what we get out of our elected leaders. >> You you violated with your online post, you violated the city's core values, specifically the service section. It's on my prof profile
>> to be fair, friendly, helpful, customer serviceoriented. You violated the community section to respect and promote our community and share opportunities to succeed. You violated the collaboration section to recognize that our people are our
most valuable resource, our our kids in particular. And most importantly, you violated the ethics and integrity section to be truthful, accountable, responsible, professional, and with good moral value. >> I'm 100% sure.
>> Good moral standards. Shame on you. Again, any kid that would have posted something like that online, they'd be suspended. I'm embarrassed that you represent our city in that way and you think that it's okay to represent our city in that way. I'm sorry if you were threatened. Not
okay either. But I would ask that the city, the city council, who I guarantee there is not one person in this room that would stand for anybody calling their wife, their
daughter, or their mother that name. Nobody. Nobody here would stand for that. >> It was actually a man that I >> I don't care. You shouldn't use that word for anybody. >> Okay. unacceptable. So, I would ask that the
city council have enough integrity to demand that he's held to at least the same standard that a middle schooler would be held to. The same level of integrity we should expect out of an elected official that we do out of a seventh grader.
If you have any integrity, you would demand that he issue a public apology for those online comments. And if we don't have some kind of a code of conduct for city officials, that absolutely needs to be something you need to do. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you for coming in. Uh I'll just start on the school referendum. I'd like to address that one. There is >> public comment. >> What's that? >> Are we done with public comment? Are you just >> I'm just >> Yeah, just to answer that if that's okay. Um so the school referendum, I'm
happy you guys brought that up. I guess maybe we need to have a public forum for the community to come in. That was something that we had I had thought about. Um there's some information that has not been told by the schools and I am demanding accountability for our taxpayers. I was elected on the premise of um providing taxpayers what I what
what they think is the best value for their taxpayer dollars and that's all I'm doing is trying to promote information. Um there's a lot of inconsistencies that I see and I'm going to call it out as an elected leader. I feel like that's my job to represent the 7,600 people and their families and their wallets because their money
affects their family as well, not just the schools. If you take money out of a out of a house's pockets, then that money is taken away from the children of that house as well. So, on that topic, that's I would like to have some more discussion on that potentially. Um, on the other code of conduct stuff, yeah, I
agree there's there's been some heated issues. Um, I have gotten a lot of threats. um some pretty nasty ones and this particular individual uh sent me a pretty nasty one and I'm just not going to I'm not going to, you know, just accept that. Um if you're going to treat me online poorly, it's going to be it's
going to have to come back. Uh that's just how it is, unfortunately. That's the climate we live in. Uh I don't post any of this negative stuff with my mayor page. Um that's a totally different page. So that's the public profile. I don't say any of this in meetings. Don't say any of this in in city hall stuff. So that's that's where that stands. Uh,
is there anybody else for public comment? Come on forward and just state your name and address for the record, please. >> Take a break. Will >> I call for recess? >> Hello, my name is Emily. I live in
Cambridge um over Springville Township. Um, so I just again saw this stuff online. Um, and I just want to say that there's been a lot of online recently about the bond referendum coming up, and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk uh to you directly about it.
>> I have tried to talk to you online a little bit, but I don't have time to post on it. What's your name? Sorry. I'm Emily. >> Yeah, that's my profile. It's my profile name. I again don't have a lot of time to be back and forth online with somebody. So, um, so I thought it'd be better to just do this in person and
have this conversation with you. Um, one of the things I keep saying is you say the school is not being transparent when there's a whole website of people. They have the same government standards you do for transparency. Even more so when you think about it for our school districts. So, I don't understand where
you keep making accusations. And again, if you have information, put that out there. Don't keep threatening to put it out. Okay. >> I have put it out. Yes, ma'am. >> You have used weirdly information you've gotten from the school district's website and then turn the numbers around.
Anyway, you can do better. Um, let's see. You also keep saying that it's going to cost every person $40, which also isn't true because it's based on your home prices. So, not everybody has the same home price in anti you talk on averages. That's how the school's doing it. A $300,000. >> You're not saying averages a lot. You're
just saying $40 for everybody. So, I would like you to watch your language. Be clear, right? Okay. Um, let's see. You also keep say forgetting that this was done by 60 community members, toured our schools, did a whole bunch of work, still
talking. >> It was 59. >> It's 59 and 60% work for the school. So, there's a conflict there in my eyes. >> Hi. Do you have a problem with letting people finish speaking? >> Go ahead. >> Okay. Cuz it seems like anytime you hear something you don't like, you feel like
it's okay for you to interrupt. And that's not how a polite conversation goes. Okay. See, where was I? So, 59 people did this. Then our school board who we all elected also voted unanimously,
right? And now we as a community get to decide whether we want to do it or not. I don't understand how that can be any more transparent. If you worked in a building that didn't have working toilets or the roof leaked, you would want money to fix it. And you would expect who'd pay for it? Donors. Oh, sorry. George left. I guess he doesn't
care. Um, but you wouldn't expect donors to pay for it. You would ask the city to help pay for it, too. Um, I have four kids in the school. Uh, I'm fortunate enough to volunteer, so I have seen the broken toilets, the bad lockers. I have seen kids crammed into classrooms. Uh, I believe the CIS building was a high
school and now is for third to fifth graders, which doesn't really work for third to fifth graders as it did for high schoolers. Um, a few years ago I went to pick up my preschoolers and the sheriff's department was outside because there's a gas leak and they had to evacuate the building. Do you know how scary that is to show up to a school? Do
you with your kids in the building and their sheriff's outside? >> No. >> Okay. So, don't shake. Yes. >> No, I can. I understand. Yep. >> I don't think you do. So, they have old furnaces. We've got
leaky things. There's a whole list. You can see it. Um, I know some of you went to the schools and I know some of you used to go to the schools, so I don't understand why our kids now don't deserve nice buildings like you guys got. So, I find that rude. I also think you're being shortsighted um because
you're not thinking about the project as a whole for the community. You're not thinking about the jobs, the construction jobs that will be had because they have to build the buildings. You're not thinking about the community center where our seniors can go walking, people can work out safely in the wintertime. we're not thinking
about them and their health benefits. Hey, maybe that would actually save the county some money with the health group. Um, let's see, what else do I have? Oh, and there's just more meeting spaces for our community, which is great for our community because then we can gather more and be in spaces together and maybe fighting online a little less. Uh, the
last thing is I will be voting yes. I think that was obvious. Um, because I believe in our community and I want to invest in its future. I want to put my money here in this town. Um, I want to see our kids I want our kids to see that they have a community who believes in
them and wants to see them succeed and wants we want to make this a place where our kids want to grow up and come back and have their kids and they're not going to do that if it's all shitty schools falling down. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'll just follow that up with I was an
elected official and I was elected and I've always been vocal and fiscally conservative and that's what I was elected on. So I if I don't follow through on what I believe and what I was elected for that I'm not doing my job. Thank you for coming in. Any other public comment tonight hearing? None. We will close the public
comment and we will go to adopting the agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda tonight, Miss Wood? >> Good evening, mayor and council. Yes, we do have some changes that have been made recently that I'd like to point out. We have uh rearranged. So, business item K1 is approving the special event permit at
Illuminate Sandy. Previous to today, that was a little bit lower on the agenda. We put that first just in case they were um in attendance. Then uh business item K4 resolution to consider a um a site plan review and zoning amendment
for Centennial Apartments has been added. And then also under N close session, we do have an addition of a close session that is for labor negotiation strategies and the attorney will be present for that this evening. Thank you.
>> Sounds good. Are you guys good with all the changes? >> Motion to approve with changes. Second >> motion to approve from council member Mendine, second from council member Peterson. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed motion carries 40. The agenda is adopted. Next we'll move
on to proclamations. So we have one tonight for pro proclaiming the month of October as pregnancy infant loss awareness and niku babies recognition month. So I'll just read off that proclamation for y'all. Uh whereas each year countless families across the nation experience the profound grief of
pregnancy loss, still birth and infant death, and many others face the emotional and physical challenges of caring for newborns in neonatal intensive care units, NICU. And whereas October is nationally recognized as pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, providing an opportunity to honor the lives of babies gone too soon,
support grieving families, and raise awareness about the impact of perinatal loss uh and premature birth. And whereas families with NICU babies endure extraord extraordinary emotional and financial stress, often spending weeks or months in intensive care settings while navigating uncertainty, metal
complex, medical complexity, and the hope of bringing their child home. And whereas the city of Iseni recognizes the strength, resilience, and courage of these families and affirms its commitment to fostering compassion, understanding, and support for those affected by pregnancy loss and NICU experiences. And whereas increased
public awareness, education, and community support can help reduce stigma, promote healing, and encourage access to resources for families in need. Now, therefore, I, Luke Merrell, mayor of the city of Iani, do hereby proclaim October as pregnancy, infant loss awareness, and NICU babies month in
the city of Iani, encourage all residents to join in honoring the lives of babies lost, supporting families who grieve, and recognizing the strength of those whose journeys began in the NICU. Uh, so with that being said, is there anybody from the audience that would like to come and speak on this? Come on
up, sir, and just state your name, name, and address for the record, please. Yeah. >> Uh, my name is Nicholas Lee. This is my wife, Shakria Lee. We live over at 416 Bluebird Drive, uh, right by the soccer fields. uh want to come and for for
foremost say thank you for for doing this. Um our family's story is back in 2022 our son Brave was born at 22 weeks one day one pound uh was expected to be a still birth after birth was still given a 1% survival chance. Uh after 341
days in the NICU, um after getting a tracheosttomy, a shunt in his head, a G tube in his belly, and over 30 procedures, he got to come home on life support. Some of his nurses are from the community, too, so they would also one lives right down the street from us, so
they would also uh appreciate this proclamation. Um, and if you couldn't get think the story could get any crazier, uh, four months after he was, uh, home, our daughter Faith was born at 23 weeks, two days, she was 14 ounces, spent 176 days in the NICU. So, we have
a combined total of 517 days in the NICU on top of uh, during my daughter's birth, uh, Shakri actually died twice. Um, they were able to revive her um, and keep her here with us. And so with our experience of 517 days in the NICU,
we've also started a nonprofit to support those NICU families too after our experiences. Um so it's important to show love to those families. Um I don't know how many times I've I've held parents who have lost their child in the NICU. It's something I wouldn't wish
upon my enemy um on top of our stay. Um, and so it's a it's a very challenging time and so we appreciate uh you guys doing this. So >> awesome. Oh, well, we really appreciate you guys coming in and I I certainly understand that the ICU world. I've
spent a lot of time there with my dad as a son. So, it's kind of the opposite, but I really respect the heck out of you guys enduring all that and uh pushing on with your mission and I want to support you how I can. Shakri, did you have something to say? >> Yeah, I was trying to keep it together so that I could. Um, I also just wanted
to now that I have the opportunity thank the city of Isanti. I remember when we first moved to this town, uh, we had just finished building our house and I think it was like >> two weeks after >> two weeks after we had our first preeie. Um, I don't know how the community found
out. We were we were we were just moved here, but um, fast forward a year later, the whole community rallied for our family. They brought fire trucks. They brought police cars. And they came riding down our street um for his first birthday because he couldn't uh he
couldn't have a birthday party because he was on life support. So um receiving that kind of love being new to the community was amazing. And I've always wanted to publicly thank uh the city of Icanti, but never knew how to do that. So, I just want to say thank you guys
for welcoming us to Icanti, honoring our NICU story just less than a year into the city. So, we're just so thankful to be here representing this cause, this this um proclamation. It's incredible. So, we're very thankful. Um and I know the families that stand behind us would
be very, very thankful and proud, too. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Would you guys like to get a picture with the proclamation, too? >> All right. Was that Cruises for a cause that that did that? I was involved with them for a long time and and what they did was
great. And they would coordinate with the police department and the fire department to >> very hug you. Hey, and thank you for stepping up for the city of Iani and being involved and being on the park and rec board and doing what you do. I really appreciate
it. >> So, we Thank you. We've kind of started a trend here in the last couple months with, you know, overdose awareness month and now this one. And if there's anybody that wants to come forward on pregnancy or infant loss, I would welcome that at this time. Otherwise, maybe in the future, I think it's cool to get some
sandy stories with these proclamations. Uh just to put, you know, two and two together that this does happen in our community and our affects our community. So, if anybody would like to come forward and speak on that or at any time if they see another proclamation that fits with them, we would welcome that.
All right. So next we will move on to the approval of the city council meeting minutes from August 19th. >> Motion to approve. >> Second and that was those were the so there was some confusion with those correct >> Stephanie we had talked about the August
19 um minutes. There was some confusion with that with the the numbers and >> we got it all cleared up. >> Okay. And it was the 40,900. >> Yes. It was it was because we had a h it was like No, it was 25 million actually at that time. Okay.
>> Um but it was just one house was had three extra zeros on it. So that was what was causing it. >> Okay, sounds good. I'm glad that's uh resolved. Um so we do we still need a motion on those to approve? Okay, sounds good. And there was a motion on the
floor and a second I believe. Who was the motion? >> I was a motion. I second. >> All right. Motion by council member Heman. Second by council member Lundine. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries 5-0. The August 19th minutes are approved. September 2nd. >> Motion to approve.
>> Second. >> Motion from council member Lundine. Second from council member Homegrren. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed. Motion carries. 5-0. Uh announcements. Parks and Rec board meeting Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 at 6 p.m. City Council meeting Tuesday,
October 7th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Economic Development Authority, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, immediately following the city council meeting. Uh, council committee reports, are there any tonight? I know Jeff and I have some. >> Yeah,
there's a lot with the LMC meetings, but I'll give you the brief uh version of it. Uh my big thing was pushing to do something and to raise awareness and get our legislature to uh start moving in the direction of figuring out how do we
get more new cops licensed and into being into the policing. >> I'll just pause for a second. Uh Commissioner Council member Peterson had to go home to put his baby to sleep and he'll be back in roughly half an hour. So at 7:27 Thank you. Sorry. Um, so
there is some uh policy support at the LMC to get some scholarships or grants or some form of account to uh reimburse cities for um recruitment and retention. Um, I would
like to see something more. Uh Min the city of Minneapolis has an academy and I found out that when their when their cadetses come out of that academy, a lot of the cities around them start giving them good job offers. I would like to see a statewide academy to fasttrack
this program. Um, but so hopefully we will get moving in that direction and I will also talk to our our state senator and our house rep and see if we can get some actual legislation because it affects every city in the state. Um, and
then I also had a BMX um board meeting and everything went well with their last big race and they're just moving on to the next one. So that's all I had. All right. Well, I'll carry on with the
LMC stuff. I have about 10 hours of meetings in today with LMC and and the city council. So, it's been a it's been a brutal day, but uh somewhat fun. Uh LMC is the League of Minnesota Cities for anybody that doesn't know. And it's basically all the cities come together and we work as a group to try and find legislation that makes sense for all the
cities that we can push to uh state house and senate members. Uh a couple things that I've been passionate about. I've already spoke with the legislators directly um about bringing back the local cannabis sales tax contribution and they are seem to be on the same page with that. Um it but it again it was
pushed by the budget and they needed to balance their budget so they took it away but I really hope next year they come back. Uh I know the LMC also passed a policy recommendation today um in Jeff's committee on that and uh hopefully that actually comes to fruition. I proposed one major change in the human
resource committee uh which was to allow local jurisdictions the choice to decide if they want to require the earned sick and safe time and paid family medical leave in their city. Um that's I think that's going to be a huge hit to a lot of small businesses and even the schools. Um a lot of people are going to be affected by that that state mandate
for paid family medical leave. Basically someone could take 20 weeks off of work and get paid for it. Um unfortunately the committee didn't agree. Um and we didn't get any traction. and they actually didn't even want to hear anything on it at all, which is not surprising considering the uh the lack of more rural and small towns that are
on that committee. Um it's all bigger cities that actually send lobbyists for their representation at these LMC meetings primarily. Um so that didn't build any traction, but I'm I got some feedback from um some people and I'm hoping next year I can come back with a
few things to inch it back. Um there was also a policy in place uh that provided a permanent increase in gas tax. Um which is scary. Obviously we need gas tax because there's infrastructure that has to be paid there. But permanent increase in gas tax was the wording. Uh
I came in somewhat hot and I wanted that to just go away entirely. Um but we came to the agreement that we would change the wording to say stable gas tax, not a permanent increasing gas tax. Um, so that I feel like that was a win considering I was the the lone loan
ranger down there. Um, I felt like representing us, but you know, it's little things like that that I think eventually hopefully we can do enough of that. Uh, I have some other plans for next year. There was a few things that I didn't have enough time to work with league staff on, but I think next year we'll come in uh with some other good
ones and just try and keep, you know, the state on on the trajectory that our residents are benefited by. So that's all I have to say about that. Any other U council committee reports? All right, hearing none, we will move on
to business item K1, resolution to consider approving the special event event permit for illuminated Sani 2025. >> Good evening, mayor and councel. Um, as previously directed by the city council along with um the city of Isani will be hosting along with the volunteers of
together the illuminate for this year. Um, and they submitted together we submitted a special event permit application to host it in Bluebird Park December 11th through the 25th with lights on each evening um
from 4:30 to 1000 p.m. Um the lights the festival of lights as they're referring to the event nights um will be held Thursday through Sunday December 11th through the 14th and December 18th through the 21st from 5:00 p p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Um, they'll be providing
activities including craft vendors and sheds, pictures with Santa, giveaways in limited quantities, music will play, mini concerts in the amphitheater, propane fire pits, food trucks, and competitions nightly. And they're also looking at the one change that they have
to the layout for this year is just to move Santa into the gingerbread house and to have some of those concerts in the amphitheater. And so otherwise, they're keeping everything else the same. and they've been working through almost all the sheds so far have stuff in them for them to have access to to
take out and so they've been making their way through them. I have another meeting with them just to discuss the next step logistics and one with um public services director Becker, interim public services director Becker
um for uh to discuss the next steps with public works and what they're what they're going to do as directed by council in our agreement. So everything follows the agreement. nothing has changed and they have raised almost enough money to fund that exact $16,000
amount that we discussed previously. >> Right. And I would just like to mention last time we didn't have the list with all the donors. So I would like to give a shout out to all the donors. Um they they raised enough money to offset almost entirely all the city explicit costs which is great and that was the whole goal of us pushing for a volunteer
group um so we can provide this with minimal investment from the city. Uh, so now that's Waffles, China House, Isani Chiropractic, Burgly Chiropractic, Healthy Hideway, Isani Rentals, Pretty Little Signs, Little Sprouts Child Care Center, Rem River BMX, Michelle Lundine,
Little Sprouts Childcare Center in St. Francis. The first one was Iani. Uh, Marvin Sun's Auto 413 Boutique, My Jungle Gym, K&Z Lawn Care, Next Generation Installation Installation. I don't know if that's supposed to be installation or installation. uh Cassie
Famosa LLC, Minnesota Equipment, uh Wolf Forever Electric, Mrs. Shrink, and Kexus Energy. So, that was over $16,000 of donations and we really appreciate that and providing that uh for this for the community at very little taxpayer cost. So, and thank you for the city staff for
putting the work into that to make it happen. >> I make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> You got >> motion to approve by council member Lundine, second by myself. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 40. Uh item K2, 2026, preliminary budget and levy
adoption. >> Good evening, mayor and members of council. So, just kind of running through the list. First thing that you'll see on there is the preliminary budget for 2026. This uh is the same as you would have
seen at the last meeting. The only change there is that we've made an adjustment to the fines and forfeitures to represent the police department switching back to their old software which should allow them to continue operating at previous levels for being able to ticket
and get all that stuff kind of taken care of. And then there's some minimal changes there in some of the allocations due to a change that is going to be discussed later today during Cal with uh potential change in staffing with public
works. So there's just some slight changes there. Nothing that was very significant. Couple departments went down, couple departments went up. Just a change in allocation of who's going to be in those positions. So >> any questions on the 2026 preliminary budget?
>> And all those changes are reflected in the preliminary tax rate analysis that we have in front of us right now. >> Correct. >> So it's a negative or a decrease in percentage by 0.58%. >> Yes, that's where we currently sit for the tax rate adjustment.
>> Okay. >> Any other questions on the 26 preliminary budget? anything, Jeff? >> Nope, not at this time. I look forward to getting some of the healthc care uh estimates back because I've been seeing
a lot of headlines, and I'm hoping they're wrong, but we'll see. >> Yep. So, >> what was our health insurance adjustment? What did we uh budget for? >> Adjusted for a 10% increase in health insurance and 5% in dental. Okay, that's
not too far off from projections. No, >> I think last year it actually went down from projection. So, we'll see. >> Yeah. So, we'll see. Hopefully, we get some favorable numbers there. But >> Sure. >> And then we got other other estimates or things that are not concrete yet. So,
hopefully that irons itself out in the next couple of months. >> Yep. And then moving on to the adopting of the proposed 2025 tax levy collectible in 2026 for the city of Iani. That is the levied taxes that will
go out for the proposed to the county. The only change there in those numbers was the EDA levy was decreased by $22,252 based on the recommendation from council at the last meeting. So that's the only change there. Any other questions on
that? kind of like Steve touched on at the last meeting too, this is setting our ceiling. So, we still have time in between now and December when we do that final levy to come down on that if we have any changes to the budget that will allow us some cost savings.
>> Sounds good. Any other questions, guys? >> I think we should set this as our ceiling and and so he can get moving forward and then we can concentrate on the rest. >> I'm good with this one. >> Agreed. Make a motion to accept the preliminary levy
>> as stated. >> Motion by council member Lundine, second by council member Homegrren. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries 4. >> Good job, man. >> And I'd like to say something to, you know, thank everybody. It was a long process. Uh it was very in-depth. We
went line by line, but we did fix some issues that we didn't really know what it really meant. So, we clarified a lot of different things. So, that's why you got to go through every couple years line by line so everybody fully understands what's in there and make any
updates. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Council and staff did a very good job of pulling this together. I feel like we're on a good track to get this all wrapped up and be good to go here. >> If I could ask just for clarification that the motion and second and approval was for all three resolutions in order
that they were presented. >> Yep. >> Thank you. You're welcome. All right. K3 resolution to consider authorizing expenditures from public safety aid. Chief Myers, mayor, councel, as you recall, public
safety aid to the city was around $37,000 in 2024, I believe. Um we've expended um $140,000 of that which was on the body cam system and encrypted radios to be in
compliance. Um so today we're looking at authorizing expenditures in three categories. One's the computers as we mentioned earlier with the whole Oracle system um that the county switched to that didn't work. we switched back, but
because we were planning on that Oracle switch for three years, we did not upgrade any actual squad computers. We did switch back to the previous system, the old system for the rest of this year and all of next year. So, this is to get
those computers so we can actually have one in every squad to run that system. And no matter what system we switch to, everybody's running off computers except for Oracle. They're running off a uh tablet Android based system. So
we need them for the LG system or whatever system is going to be chosen for the 2027 changeover. So it's going to be a requirement for that. Um identified $34,000 in tactical response gear to respond to critical situations.
And then also LAR, which is a speed laser to do speed enforcement. Like the difference between that and a radar is you could actually sit on county five where traffic's going, let's just say before the roundabout, but right now before the changes, you have the two lanes of traffic that always rushed to
get to the single one. Almost impractical to sit there to actually get speed on a radar from a squad car. So it's like a red dot we that you can shoot at individual vehicles. So that's what that expenditure would be for. So that'd
still leave around $100,000 in that fund for potential future purchases, which we're going to have a potential future purchase in 2027 of whatever records management system the county goes to. >> So for for the uh the laptops and the in
the cars, uh do we have any say in if we switch to something other than Oracle so we don't just spend this money and then have to spend other money? Is >> no. So no matter what, no matter what, every every other system other than the one we tried is based on Windows. Every
system is based on Windows other than the one we're not going with anymore. >> Ever. Ever. Ever. We're done ever. Forever with them. >> Forever. >> Okay, sounds good. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Is that in writing? >> That's a long time. >> Yeah. >> Well, >> at least for my five years and four
months. Yes. But I mean that's part of the problem with without getting into the weeds of the issues we had. I think I mean I'm not technologically advanced on why that doesn't work. But every other there's no other records management system that's ran off
anything other than a Windows platform. So no matter what we're going to spend it for to get back on LG, but then we're going to be able to utilize them going forward into 2027 with whatever system we use. Did we not have these laptops in the vehicles before or were did we get rid of them when we did the switch over
or they're just updating or >> We did some of them. Um some of were operating on I can't remember Curtis said that the old operating system Windows 9 and so we had were short some and some were obsolete. We didn't have enough, but we didn't like with the new vehicles, we always we had purchased
them previously in that new purchase for vehicles, but the last three we didn't because it didn't make sense to get a computer when we know that we were going to be switching to an Android system in a year or year year and a half. So, we didn't the last three vehicle purchases,
we did not get any. >> Actually, he's only asking to spend the expenditures even though this money was given to him to do that. >> Right. Right. I I think personally 100% it's taken it off the tax rule that he doesn't have to come back for taxes on it.
>> Agreed. >> So I make a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Motion to approve by council member Lundine. Second by council member Heman. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries 40 on that. >> Uh K4 resolution to consider approving a
site plan review and zoning map amendment for Centennial Apartments. >> Good evening Mayor and Council. Um tonight we have a resolution for you to consider uh the approval of a site plan review and for a 28 unit apartment along
with a zoning map amendment to um change the parcel from R3A lowdensity multiple family residential to R4 high density multiple family residential. Um the parcels will be combined via administrative lot combination and it
will include an easement on the neighboring parcel to the north. The city of Icani planning commission conducted a public hearing um earlier this evening and recommended approval of both the site plan review and the zoning text amendment. This was also reviewed
at previous cow meetings. Um and the applicants are here to answer any questions if you may have them. >> I I think we've already asked them to death. So is this the one that was added? So it's I make a motion to approve both sides of
that. both the zoning text amendment and the >> yesite site review that type of thing. Okay. Again with the same stipulations that they follow what Jason asked for. >> Second >> motion from council member Lundine,
second from council member homegrren. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries 4. And for anybody listening, there is no taxpayer dollars going into this. It's market rate apartments. um they're following all the the laws that we have in place and uh
I'm happy they decided to be in Iani. So, thank you. Thank you for being a valued member of our community and business community. All right, we will go on to the consent agenda. Are there any items that anybody would like pulled out or any questions?
>> I would just like to make a comment. U Josh u kudos to you absolutely if that's what you want to do. I'm all on board for it. Um, and I guess the rest of it is pretty much all what we need to do anyway. I
mean, so I make a motion approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. >> Motion from council member Lundine, second from council member Heman. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 40. Congrats, Josh.
Uh, other communications. Does anybody have any questions on um anything on there? >> No. >> Okay. Otherwise, we will move on to a close session. If I could get a motion to move on to close session pursuant to Minnesota statute 3D.03 subdivision 1B
regarding labor negotiation strategy, attorney client privilege. >> Can you does he have to add the other one too at the same time? >> Oh, okay. Um motion to go into recess for close session. Is that is that what I'm
>> Yeah. motion to go into close session. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Lundy and second by council member Homegrren. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 40. We'll go into close session. >> So we're going to have to go into open session and close session again. Is
>> Okay. So this will be for both.