All right, it is 7 p.m. We will call the city council meeting to order. If we could all rise for the pledge of allegiance. 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 we will open up the floor for public comment tonight. And tonight we will again have the uh 3minut time limit. And please uh keep your public comment to city related business and not personal or political attacks. If
there's anybody that would like to come forward and speak tonight, you're more than welcome. Come on up and just state your name and address for the record, please. Thank you for coming in. >> My name is Pat. >> Can you pick up the microphone, please? >> Yes. Two and a half seconds.
>> Sounds good. >> My name is Pat Sunberg and I'm a 54 year old res 54 year resident of Iani. 25 plus years is Main Street Ice Sandy where I raised my kids and I love IMI. I now just live out on County Road 5. Did
I say that? I live on uh County Road 5 east town for whole. I'm here because I um love ice. It's always been supportive of the citizens and the parks and the schools. and I have heard nothing for
the past year but bad comments on the city council. So, I wanted to come and see what you were like because it's not fair not to to say anything if you've never seen anything. Well, I did meet one person. I met the mayor. We were at
the uh uh tour of the appalling tour of the Iani Primary School and he saw and heard all the desperate needs that they have. But he he did participate in the vote no campaign.
I um when I came to I've been here to two meetings and the two of them were short a couple people but it was understandable and there's not a whole lot of discussion at those meetings but I'm trusting that there has been in the past.
I know that um we um have a 400,000 park fund money that can only used for park funds. And I just read that the liquor store just gave you $2 million as 2020 to 2024 forward. I believe that was what
on Facebook today. And I'm not part of the Cambridge Facebook people or the Cambridge II Facebook just so that you know I'm not picking up information. I I'm disappointed that you're dragging your feet on the parks. We did Matson
Park. We did a walking path of the town. We did the basketball courts and now we have people coming with money and plans and willing to work and you have no splash pad. You're dragging your feet on the pickle ball court. The guys that
were here 15 years waiting for that bike path or bike thing that they were going to do last month and it's um the illuminate. It's very disappointing that a city that I love is somehow not reflecting that
they too love the city. I um in the last meeting you um discussed how you would and I see you're going to do it tonight. You were discussing on contracting employees so you don't have to pay for their paid leave. But I see it's on
agenda now. I see you don't you don't buy the Minnesota flag. I don't hear of any vision for the future and I'm hoping that and I'm trusting you because you ran for office you're here. So you must have some
concern for all the people when I say if they're preschool if they're homeschooled like the mayor's kids if they're going to the public school and want to just live here and enjoy all the park space that we have. So that's what I have to say. Good luck. But people are
watching you and people are talking about you and you do not have a positive impact on them. >> Thank you for your comment. Is there anybody else for public comment tonight? And I would just like to state that I I don't have kids, so I don't
have homeschooled kids. Uh Illuminate, we're still having that and hosting that. We've just allocated our resources in a more efficient way. Um we're trying to provide every amenity we can at the most affordable price for everybody. So just takes long-term planning sometimes.
were standing next to you when I come on up. Yeah. Anybody else? Just state your name and address for the record, please. Thank you for coming in. >> Yeah. Hi, uh Todd Christensen, County Commissioner, District 4. I was just going to say that I don't I don't have any other updates for you since our last
last time talking. I'm looking into, you know, with Justin there about perhaps what we can do down here by the schools that where the for the traffic on the road there kind of road 5. But I was also going to say though that, you know, as representing the city of Ianti, if you guys ever have any questions county
related or whatever, feel free to reach out to me directly. You know, I'm my number and stuff is online. So, all right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else for public comment tonight? Come on up. State your name and address for the record, please. Thank you for
coming in. >> Uh, hello. I'm Erin Zadon, 709 Bergman Court. Excuse me. I'm just here to thank the council for approving phase one of the skate park. Um, I think if you were at the last meeting, they did approve phase one, which is awesome. Got to start somewhere. Um, and that was park
dedication funds. Uh, as I think some of you have seen, I've kind of been patrolling the Facebook because there's so many people like you're raising my taxes, but trying to just dispel the rumors and the, you know, falsehoods that it's park dedication funds. The
money exists exists. There's no new fees, no new taxes. So, most people don't understand how that fund works. So, um, so I've been patrolling it pretty good. Thank you for that. >> Yep. So, um, yeah, tons of positive feedback on that. I know that that's all
sorted and David with with Ramparts will be up here in the next week to start already on the existing equipment. Um, and he's been coordinating with Josh. Um, and then people are super excited about the pickle ball courts. U, Josh is working on that and the pickle ball association. I'm pretty confident that
that can get down definitely under the 175 >> and that was the goal. >> Yeah, exactly. Pro, you know, I'm not going to guess numbers, but I think that can definitely get down. get a few more bids and there's some tweaking that can be done on that too. So, and then I illuminated Sandy, it's going great and the city wrapped all the light poles. It
looks amazing already just driving through there. >> So, they'll be starting to light that up pretty soon here, too. So, >> awesome. I'm got my hands in all three of those things. So, >> so do you think it's been going smooth >> and the BMX track? >> Do you think it's been going smooth with the roll out of the lights, displays,
and everything between? >> Definitely that that that Sandy Together group is amazing. I mean, they're like phenomenal volunteers. I mean, they used to run the scouts way back when my boys were in scouts and it's a really good group and Erica is pretty good, too. So, >> yeah. And I've been really excited about
that personally because we can provide a service and the community gets to volunteer and build a sense of community while not spending taxpayer monies to do it. So, >> yeah. Yeah. And then my BMX team, we're going to cover one night like we've done the last three years. So, >> cool. >> I think they've got most of the nights covered for volunteers. >> Awesome.
>> And Santa and all that good stuff. So, >> appreciate it. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you for the update. Thank you for your work. >> Phase two is coming. >> Sounds good. >> All right. I know. I like >> Keep looking for grants. >> I'm with you. >> Oh, so I have and I did see um uh Commissioner at the Lions thing. So,
I've reached out to the Lions to try to do some fundraising for the skate park and maybe get a couple benches donated because they do park benches. And then if we can get a QR code going for that and pickle ball, >> uh I guarantee I'll be the first donation. So, >> sounds good. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Thank
you. >> I want to kind of add something that's it's been brought to my attention that some cities, Cambridge does this a lot in the summer. They put up flowers on all their street lights. I don't know who's watering them, but
it's, you know, it's it's a task. >> It is. >> Um, and I know, you know, that it's been brought to my attention that they wish that would come back because we used to do that, >> okay, >> years ago. Um, and I I'm assuming we're
putting up Christmas stuff on the street lights now. Uh, >> it's already up. >> Yeah, I didn't pay attention. I don't, but I I do, like I said, people like seeing those things. I know that when we did the uh senior signs on it. I'll tell
you something, I had people rave about it. That was a great idea. And I think that's one way of giving back to this community is to show that, you know, we do care about our future. >> Sure. >> People
sounds good. Any other public comment tonight? You're welcome to come forward. >> Uh hearing none, we will close the public comment. We will move on to item E, adopting the agenda. Are there any changes tonight, Miss Wood? I have one modification that was made um before uh
today uh which I'm sorry was made today which was to add item L3 resolution to approve the offer of maintenance technician 2 to Jeff Pankin. That was a late addition. So I just want to point that out. >> Okay, sounds good. Any other changes or
>> add an item? >> Okay, >> the uh employee carry policy change. >> Okay, where would we add that to? >> K3. Item K3. Okay. Is that allowable, Miss Wood? >> It is if you vote for it.
>> Okay. >> Any other changes or do we want to vote on that specifically or >> I I didn't know we really had to vote on it. I thought we >> I thought we're going to package it with all the other policies,
>> but we have to approve the agenda tonight. So, do we want to add? >> So, just to clarify, the committee discussed it and we did say we were going to move it. Uh, council member Peterson is requesting to have this brought forward tonight and not wait for the full implementation of all the
revisions to the personal policy. >> Okay. I say wait. You >> say wait. >> I say wait. >> George, >> Steve, >> I'm okay with going forward. >> Doesn't matter either way. I mean, it's it's basically just changing language.
So, I mean, I think we all came to conclusion at that, you know, in committee of a whole, but >> Okay. All right. Well, I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda with the item with the addition of K3. If anybody has a motion for that >> motion, >> second. >> Motion by Commissioner Peterson, second
by Commissioner or Council Member Peterson, second by Council Member Heman. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. I >> I. >> Motion carries 32 to add that to the agenda. Uh so the agenda is approved. We'll move on to uh approval of the city
council meeting minutes from November 5th, 2025 city council budget work session meeting minutes. Any questions or changes to those guys? I'll entertain a motion on that. >> Motion to approve. >> Second.
>> Motion to approve by council member Peterson. Second by council member Heman. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Uh, next, the November 5th, 2025 city council meeting minutes. Any questions?
>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to approve by Council Member Peterson. Second by Council Member Holgren. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. The meeting minutes are approved. Uh, next we have the announcements. Parks and Recreation Board meeting Tuesday,
November 25th, 2025 at 6 p.m. City offices will be closed Thursday, November 27th, 2025 and Friday, November 28th, 2025 in observance of Thanksgiving. Uh, city council meeting Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 7 PM. The truth and track truth in taxation
presentation and public comment Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 during the city council meeting and the economic development authority Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 immediately following the city council meeting. Uh, are there any council committee reports this evening?
>> I have a fire district board meeting tomorrow and I'm I don't have any committee report, but I want to give an update. Um they're still looking to change the joint powers agreement um in more ways than we had a discussion
about. Um my last conversation was that I would agree to it as long as we only use the language to charge for extraordinary fees and we had a conversation about that. But um what they want to change right now
basically I I'm just going to read this to you really. It's simple. Under Minnesota State Statute 471, a joint powers agreement can only be exercised powers that are already common to all of
its members. So if the I'll use the chief uh as a fire marshal. Well, you're basically giving him police powers. And I really don't believe townships don't have police powers. So
to give them the fire district police powers when the township doesn't have that power. That's just one small example. But I'm going to hold firm for now. I'd like to really look into this more um before we go forward with that joint powers
agreement. Um I'd like to table it for a few months at least. Um and on the budget, what I I'll make one more note about this. you know, our original uh joint powers agreement intentionally create it
created a cooperative fire department and what they want to change um doesn't give doesn't give us any more power as far as township or or uh uh the city. The district already has all the authorities to provide fire and rescue
service, hire and manage manage firefighters, purchase equipment, maintain stations, plan capital needs, work with the relief association. Um, really no real operational gaps exist that require CEO authority, fire
marshall authority, ordinance authority, independent collection authority, expanded regulatory powers. um these additions don't these addition benefit the administration not the taxpayers not the firefighters not the public and and
that's where I'm at right now and when somebody convince me different then maybe I'll look at it a little different way so and I'll do my best tomorrow to uh fight for that 3.2% 2%. Um, I don't believe we need that much of an
increase in capital improvements. And if we do have to go with that 3.2%, I'd rather see them spend that money on a uh NOA, an organiza, organizational needs assessment, and really assess the fire district. Our op, you know, the
administration operational needs. I don't know if they've ever had an assessment. I know the League of Minnesota Cities has a free option. So does a fire marshal u state fire marshall department, but to get a good one, you'd probably want an independent
one. It' be about 25 40k. Well, that's right about that number of that 3.2%. Uh that's where I'd rather see that money go other than into the capital improvements at least this year. So we can get on the right track because I think we're on we're just not quite on the right track over that. That's my
opinion. Would the LMC option be that's never been used by the fire district? Maybe that would get you in the door, get you an idea of how bad you really need to spend money on an assessment, >> right? Well, I would like to, you know, the chief says
the chief does have a lot on his plate and I think I think we need more help over there. We haven't really had a full discussion on that, but um he does so many administrative type things that are
outside. We shouldn't be paying that type of pay scale to have that done. We should be able to hire somebody at a lower scale to do a lot of things that the chief is already doing and lighten up his load so he can concentrate more on training and
running the fire stations and doing what chiefs do other than having to do be bogged down on so many administrative things. But I don't know if that discussion has been made in the past. Steve would might know that. But I think it's a future conversation that needs to
be had too. I think we're jumping a gun on too many things right now. >> Okay. >> The way I'm looking at it. >> Any you have more to add to that or any other council committee reports? >> Community Ed was canceled due to illness
of other members. So, no report. >> Okay. I had a BMX uh association meeting. Um looks like they're going to be the number one track again in the country. So, congratulations to them. Um they're just working on trying to figure
out some of the concession issues. Um trying to revamp their concession area, so they're still working on some ideas. Um that's about it. >> What are the issues? >> They have to update some stuff due to um health codes that have been changed at
the state. So >> hoods and stuff. >> Yeah, just update upkeep to from the changes. So, they're working on trying to strategize the different solutions to it, cheaper solutions. So,
sounds good. Uh, and I will be attending the Arts and Science Academy board meeting this month for the school committee. I'm looking forward to seeing how those meetings go. Uh, and we'll come with a report for that during our next city council meeting. Uh and then I also got a letter from the League of Minnesota Cities and I wanted to let
everybody know that uh our Senate state senator Mark Karan uh was um nominated or decided on as a legislature of distinction. On behalf of the league's 842 member cities, I want to thank you for your efforts this past legislative session and to recognize uh Mark Karan
as a league of Minnesota cities 2025 legislature of distinction. Uh LMC members know that to be as successful in serving our common constituents, state and city officials must work together as partners to reach solutions that meet the unique needs of rural, suburban, and urban communities across Minnesota. Uh
city leaders also understand that without the support of legislative leaders like Mark Karan, the state local partnership would not be possible. And I would just like to give uh Mark a shout out. He is at so many community events. He's always interacting with with all of us uh elected leaders, um you know,
constituents, everything. So, he really does go far above and beyond uh his elected duties and I really appreciate that and a leader. So, I wanted to give him that shout out and let everybody know to thank him for his great service to our state and our community especially. Uh so, are there any other council
committee reports tonight? Hearing none, we will move on to public hearings. Uh item J1, assessment hearing for Hills Rehabilitation Project. Mr. Cook, come on up. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of
council. Let's see if Stephanie is telling the truth. >> She failed. >> Technology. >> Uh so this is the uh the final assessment hearing for the uh Sandy Hills rehabilitation project. Uh we've
been through the whole process here. I just have a eight slide type slideshow uh to to just kind of give everybody an update of what's all gone down and then we can open up to the public hearing portion and then
we can determine if we're adopting the assessment and we're wrapping it up. So guess we covered that. So here's the project area. We've already talked about this a few different times uh between well since January last year. Um
we had an open house to kind of give everybody a chance to have an opinion of what's going to happen, what we're looking at uh and get some questionnaires in. If you recall, we looked at those uh rain garden things from the the uh watershed district. We looked at some sidewalk infill ideas. We
looked at some trail alternate things. uh and we looked at some uh traffic calming things. Um with that we conducted a public hearing and approved the ad for bid back in April, awarded the bid in May, constructed the project
just in this last fall here, September to November um with just the final punch list items literally happening as we speak and here we are wrapping it up. So, the project ended up being a a reclaim uh project where we ground up that pavement with the the gravel
underneath and put new pavement down. Uh replaced just the curb that was in failed condition, which as we found out was a significant amount, but we accounted for it and and got at least all the completely failed stuff out of there. Um we constructed some ped ramps
along Whiskey Road to increase uh public safety and we added some no parking and striping on dogwood again for some safety concerns like we've talked before. And then the batuminous trail option, we bid out some alternates and we elected to move forward with the the
mill and overlay option with a little uh just um top soiling and seating along that trail and as I have parenthesis there uh wasn't part of the assessment. So final project. So the preliminary engineers estimate uh in the report that
we done with the the original um meeting, the improvement meeting, we estimated the project was going to be $1,65,000 uh with 25% of that being assessible, put it at $266,000 that we thought we'd assess. And
dividing that by the uh assessable front footage put the average estimated assessment uh at $2,63. So that's what we thought going into it. We moved forward with making the plans, made the project, bid it, constructed it, and now that it's wrapped up, we
have actual incurred costs, and the bids came in about 20% below what we uh had estimated. So we got really good bids. If you recall, that's back when we awarded it. We we knew that. Um and then the new news is we came in about 5%
under even that on our final project cost. So our total is about 25% under what our original feasibility report had estimated. So, with that said, for this assessment type thing, um the assessable amount went from that estimated 1
million and change down to just shy of 800,000, which then turned our average assessment from the estimated over $2,000 down to that $1,543, which is a $520
savings for those average assessments. Um, so there's that summary at the bottom. And as I said, the the lower bids and that value engineering and keeping our quantities in check and making sure we we don't let any costs get out of control. So, uh, with that,
um, everybody got an individual letter that has their individual assessment. Those assessments were based on the adjusted front footage of each individual parcel. uh we'd made that assessment role back on the uh original feasibility report
and uh nothing changed about the actual lengths of the project. So everybody's assessment frontage uh amounts didn't change but that dollar amount on how it distributed ended up reducing from the original study estimated at uh
uh $232 a foot and we ended up at $1721 a foot and so that's that $5.81 less per foot of frontage of somebody's parcel. Um so in comparison to our last three
assessment projects um that was technically 8 and a half% more than the South Brookview project which was very identical type project. Um this one did have a little bit more curb to replace um as we probably saw as residents there. There's full runs of curb that
had to get replaced. But if you factor in, you know, just inflation over the last three years, it pretty much came out almost identical uh to that assessment uh kind of level of cost per foot. Uh then you look at Main Street. Uh that was the previous project that
was assessed that had whole sidewalk replacement, all walk replacement, and road full section redone. And so those people were assessed at $52 a lineal foot. So, so that was a significant 67% less is this project than than what
those people are assessed at. And then the Sixth Avenue, so right along this this project and some of the people uh on our assessment role actually had one side of their lot on the Sixth Avenue project and that portion would have been
assessed at $3255 back on that project. And so this project, you know, again trying to value engineer out how to uh get the the benefit without the cost um was about half that cost. So things went pretty
well. So assessment payment options um everybody's letter uh laid out that they have from the date of uh recording that or approving this assessment uh if that
happens tonight. They'd have 30 days to fully pay off their assessment with no uh interest costs or and not having it applied to their their uh tax role. Um, otherwise they have a 10-year payment
plan with a 4% interest rate that would basically just go on their their property taxes as a special assessment, which that average um person's tax rate would be about $190 a year for that 10 years. Um, there is a deferment option
for people that are 65 years or older, retired due to disability or active military. uh that can prove that it's a hardship for them to be able to pay that $190 or you know whatever their individual situation may be.
So try to whip through that because I'm assuming most of everybody's heard this kind of same uh presentation about the project you know at least three times. So um now if we open it up to the public hearing um then I'll step back up once that's closed.
>> Two questions. >> Yeah. Just to clarify, I don't think he actually mentioned the words that the payment would be deferred if if you're over 65 or a veteran and it'd be deferred till the time they would what?
Sell their house or >> Sure. So, so first off, the deferment would be they can ask to have it deferred to the council, right? If there are those three scenarios and prove that it's a hardship for them and then you as
the council would can choose to approve that it's not automatically deferred. They have to request it and you guys can choose whether you choose to do it. Um otherwise the assessment policy then for closing that out has three or four or
five even different scenarios like if it goes into tax forfeiture you sell it um you try and subdivide it uh you know a variety of different scenarios kind of trigger it being paid and >> could you also clarify that what happens
if they wait they have 30 days from the time we approve it to pay in full. So, let's say two months down the line, they say, "You know what? I I have the money now. I, you know, Christmas was good to me and I'm going to pay it off." Can they pay it off or are they held to the
10 years? >> So, they can pay it off per year. Uh, but they have to pay the interest of that year that they pay it off in. And so essentially, if they don't pay it off in those first 30 days and they pay it off January 2nd, they're essentially
paying what it was going to be recorded on their taxes all the way through that year. So it wouldn't really make a difference if they paid it January 2nd or they have to do it by November 15th of each year. >> Okay? >> To to get that year's payment, you know,
uh recorded and cancelled off the rest. You can do partial ones as well. you could just pay a couple at a time. Um, you know, and that's all kind of once this gets recorded to the county. It's kind of things that they'd have to kind of work out with. >> Okay. >> Just getting that piece taken care of
with the county um payment. >> I just know a lot of people are listening, so I wanted you to give them options. >> Sure. >> So, yeah. So that letter I did hear a few people that were a little confused because it has this November 15th listed which they're like well this is
happening three days after that but that's in essentially that date is for every future year and they have this first 30 days essentially before we take this assessment role and bring it to the county and say okay record it. So, if you get it paid off before we go to the
county and say record it, well, then it never got on a tax roll and you got to dodge any kind of uh, you know, getting it on your tax or interest that went with it. >> Okay. >> Without a response or action taken, then just is going to automatically go to the
pay annually and get added to escrow. >> Correct. Yep. >> I I did just want to say that I did a lot of research on this. Um, the average per foot uh assessment is generally around $37. Uh we came in around $17 um per per foot and I want to thank
Jason and the council and everybody that was involved in that trying to get these costs down. I mean that's one thing that we we pushed to try and be efficient and we did that by bundling all these projects together by only replacing the stuff that had to be replaced by being flexible with the contractors and just
getting better bids with more competition. And I think that's huge for our residents. You know, the average resident probably saved over $2,000 on this. Um, and if we can continue that for everybody's assessment, that is that's the goal. Uh, keep people in their homes and give them the best services they can get for the most
value. So, thank you. >> And Jason, could you go back to your slide and share um when the letter went out, the notice uh to the residents of the actual amount that they owe? What date did you state that was? >> Oh, uh, datewise,
I guess I don't have it on here. I believe it was about a month ago. It was a little over three weeks ago. >> Okay. So, that would be the amount that is not an estimate. That is the exact amount that they would >> correct. Yeah. We made individual letters that have their individual
parcel number, their individual owner name, their individual tax or assessed amount for that parcel. Um, you know, very specifically made to each individual so that they would have the time to get here. And that's all
actually part of the assessment statute on timelines that it had to have been delivered two or three weeks beforehand and we got it out at least a week before even that to give people a chance to look it over, contact us, try and get answers on questions and and get things addressed.
>> Sounds good. All right. Well, we will open it up for the public hearing. If there's anybody that like to come uh come forward and ask questions or make comments, you're welcome to come forward and just state your name and address for the record. come on up. Thank you for coming in. My name's Ryan Tol. Uh 600 Dogwood
Street. See, I was just curious on uh the painting of the the parking and all that on that street. said it was for safety and whatnot, but all the mailboxes are you can't even check your mail without being in a driving lane.
So, just kind of curious on that aspect of it, how we came about to decide where to park, not park, painted lines, that >> Sure. >> curiosity. >> Sure. So, we'll have Mr. Cook answer that question.
>> Sure. So, uh, um, so that specific stretch of Dogwood, we've kind of been through quite a few different iterations of discussions. Um, that was something that we brought to that, uh, open house and had some questionnaires on. Um, we
tried to evaluate different ways to e do public safety, but also figure out how to do some traffic calming, see what we could do about slowing down vehicles. Um, you know, we've we've now posted it with 25 mph speed limit signs. Um, we
evaluated, you know, was asked to do speed bumps. It was asked to do uh curb bumpouts. Uh, and what we found and our traffic engineers recommended was to stripe slight narrower street lanes with
fatter fog lines, white outer line to try and make it feel more restricted. Um, and the original concept was actually to center that road down the middle with those fog lines, which there's not enough room for parking on both sides and two lanes of traffic. So,
it would have done no parking on both sides of the street. But, uh, in one of the final reviews, we determined that there was enough room to shift it one way and allow parking on one side and council uh, didn't want to cut off
everybody's parking. And so we went with that solution of being able to get parking on one side. Um the safety element of it is when it's not wide enough to be able to have two parking cars and two lanes of traffic at one spot, you literally have to take turns
to try and get through. as well as if you already have a speeding issue. If you have cars parked all along both sides of the road and a kid tries to come out in front of you, they you have that much less room to try and react to them while you're also trying to dodge the other cars when there's not enough
lane width. And so with the given width, we either had to do no parking on one side or both, you know, just to to try and get a calming element and a safety element in there. Uh you you do have a point on the uh a mailbox situation. Um
from the face of curb to the stripe I believe it should be at least two feet and and maybe we got to get some you know checks on that but even two feet I understand is you know is tight. Um and
I guess you know we can we can look into what's uh what is striped out there on that point. I mean that that isn't a that is a fair comment. I know I've heard some comments about a few mailboxes having been damaged as well that we have a punch list going to try and fix. So, if anything happened to
them being in the wrong spot, we'll be or you know um not set properly, we'll be fixing that as well. But, um I guess it's about all I got on it at the moment. >> And I I can add a little bit of something to that. We did uh there was another road that we had a similar issue
where um there it wasn't wide enough to have two cars parked on each side. And we did do parking on the mailbox side, but then you had issues of people parking in front of people's mailboxes. So then we decided in this one uh we actually changed that one to parking opposite the mailbox. This one we decided parking again opposite the
mailbox because otherwise people park in front of your mailbox and then you have even more issues. So you know hopefully it's supposed to be a 25 mile per hour zone. you know, a a lot of people, like myself included, we you're driving into the other lane to get your your mail, you know, so it's it's a residential
street and people should be cognizant of that, but we've been trying to do anything we can to slow people down and that was kind of the intent and make it as safe for for everybody as we could try and find the middle ground and but yeah, I I understand the the concern about getting your mail, you know, if people are speeding and I encourage in
the in the last meeting we talked about this today. Um, I encourage you if if there's, you know, constant speeders, get down their license plate number, call them in, and our guys can look for them. Um, just try and stay vigilant on that. You know, have conversations with your neighbors. You know, we we can't be
there for all this stuff, but at some point people have to be accountable for their actions. So, >> um, just a on the, uh, how did we decide how wide to make the parking side of the road? Um because just a guy who drives a
full-size pickup, there's if I park on the curb basically in the grass, my truck would still be hanging out into the driving lane. How did is it just because the width of the road we needed certain distances or
>> how do we >> Yeah. So, so on that um that's why I referenced that two feet that I was thinking from the the one side, the mailbox side. You're supposed to have two feet from like a curb to your drive lane for it's
called a reaction distance as a little safety element for vehicles. And then the two lanes are 11 foot lanes. Um and then a parking lane has to be 7 feet wide and where essentially how wide this road is once you do all that math it's
pretty much how wide it is. And so so essentially it is as wide as we could make it by making the lanes and that little reaction area kind of as small as we could and still just barely make the cut. And um you know if anything you know we earlier were getting comments
that people may want parking on both sides back in the whole you know taking turns situation going again. You know with a vehicle parked you know at least up against the edge of that fog line. I mean, that's significantly better than being parked halfway into a drive lane
where cars are having to take turns. So, you know, I would still say it's a better situation even if you are kind of on the white line, you know, um parked over as you can. >> I appreciate the clarification on that. Uh just one more thing and then I'll
leave you guys alone. Um how did we decide which curb was to be taken and which curb was not to be replaced? >> Sure. So, so we basically had to establish a a threshold that was going to be
we don't take everything but we don't you know leave completely crumbled away curb. Um so what we kind of determined was well what we've already done in the past on on South Brook view as well we've established kind of a baseline in
the city at least of a level of deterioration on the lip curb like along the the pavement edge if that's crumbled too far and then if the joint is open too far um to be able to have the water convey without going directly into the
wide open crack of a what we had determined was about a 3 inch kind gap on the lip occurred. um kind of established our baseline and then if there's obviously like large chunks out vertical offset settlements you know a
trapped water uh we go catch those and uh and we basically had to take I believe my inspectors took three different rounds to try and get the worst curb and then size up how much quantity we'd used and then determine how much was left and do another pass to
try and add the the next worst curb that was questionable and get that. And then once we kind of got to the running out of quantity, we kind of determined, okay, what when is it good enough to be able to last until the next time
we're going to be redoing this road mill and overlay specifically, which is about a 20-year game plan. And so, so what we believe we've left, you know, and it's obviously individual opinion as you go, is curb that we believe can make it that
20 years and get rid of all the stuff that, you know, we had entire blocks that were shot. And so when you compare one street that still has quite a bit left, it might look like, oh, there's some bad curb here, but if you think of how bad everything else was, it's
I feel like we got to a good point where we have stuff that's going to make the life expectancy we're trying for. >> You take like pack a curve into consideration on a lot of it. You were more worried about the drain pull. >> Only drain pull. Yep. >> Yeah. Performance, not
>> appearance. Got you. That was just kind of my biggest question coming from I do asphalt reclamation. >> Oh. >> Oh, >> actually the company that did the project. >> Oh, okay. >> So, I was just kind of looking as the project's getting done and the whole process and talking to the foremans and
everything about it. I'm like, >> I see x amount of driveways that are way worse than what was taken out. >> So, driveways we weren't ever considering. The only driveways that got fixed were because the curb was so bad. >> We didn't we didn't after a driveway at all?
>> No, no. The curb on the driveway is what I'm referring to. >> So, I was just kind of I was giggling and talking to the foreman as the project was happening. >> Like, okay, why did they decide to do this and not this? Couldn't get a clear answer, but I don't know who was above.
>> Sure. Sure. >> I just figured I'd ask the question while I was here tonight. >> Sure. So, thanks. >> Thank you for asking the question. And a lot of those things it's curbing is extremely expensive and these projects, you know, we don't want to overt tax our residents by having to ri rip out stuff
that still functions and we would have seen a much higher number if we if we had. So just try and keep it responsible and how a household would spend their money. They're not going to go replace a perfectly driving and capable truck with a brand new one just because. So that's kind of the the motto we've taken here. So I appreciate the input on that.
Anybody else for public comment tonight? Come on forward. Just state your name and address for the record, please. >> Is this regarding the the hills rehabilitation? Okay, perfect. Sounds good. Thank you. >> Okay, so my name is Janet Shock. I'm
from Athens Township, but I'm moving to Ianti. >> Um, so as a veteran, I was uh listening to your deferral part. So, if anybody has any questions on how to do that paperwork or how the process goes as a
disabled veteran, um I can help you get that done. There's also some other tax benefits that you can qualify for if you are over 70% disabled. So, I just want to let people know that they can reach out to me. Um I don't mind sharing my phone number. So, it's 612-78-9469.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, City Council, and distinguished guests. >> Thank you. Thank you for coming in. Any anybody else for the public comment during the public hearing here? >> Mayor and council, I do have two. Um, one of them is from Miss Mahoney. Uh,
she spoke earlier at committee of the whole and asked that I bring forward. She's at 809 Dogwood. Um, she had concerns over the integrity of the work of the curb line, which I know is going to be addressed um, as part of the the punch list and warranty issues. And she
also had concerns regarding um parking on both sides because similar to what the ear earlier gentleman stated um believes that there should be parking a lot on both sides um because of safety and people speeding through. Another uh
statement that is from um a resident on Dogwood is Mr. Mscavage. He had concerns regarding the short amount of time uh the 30 days to pay off the assessment um with no interest. He thought that given this time of year, close to the holiday,
he thought that it would be easier for residents uh to have at least six months to pay the deferral or to pay the assessment off before incurring any interest charges. >> When would the when would the assessment start? If is if we didn't change anything, when
would the assessment start? >> They have 30 days to pay before they would be charged any interest. After the 30 days, it gets sent over to the county and they will be incurring interest. >> And I will mention the interest there is it's 4% which is our it uses our um 2A
rating as a city to get us the 3% rate plus a 1% um service charge. And that is extremely low. If you were to go into the private market right now, it would be twice that. Um so that's something good that we can, you know, sort of ease a little bit of that burden. And we did we've told everybody about this since
March. So, it's been, you know, they'll have eight months essentially to, you know, come up with this money. Obviously, it's sometimes it's a hardship and it's it's easy to understand how that could be, but we we have this policy and we have to stick to the policy that everybody else has always always abided by. Otherwise, it's
considered favoritism. Uh the reason I say that is if the job was done in say July completed that assessment wouldn't start till the next t tax assessment period.
So technically their assessment wouldn't start until April. Am I right? >> Yeah, that is correct. It will be payable with the first round of 2026 taxes. It will be on the property tax statements for next year.
>> And Jason, it said >> the interest would still be due then after that 30 days, for example, with your July in August, then they would start acrewing interest, but they still would have through the end of the year to pay it directly to the city before it go to the county. >> So Jason, hypothetically, if someone
were to not make the 30 days and say they paid all of it in June, they would pay one year of interest. Correct? So on $190 4% you're roughly talking $9 of interest. >> Well, >> is that correct? >> No, that's that amateurization math. And
so like you know the first one of these is probably >> I don't know. We'll let Nick pull that one. >> Yeah. What's our average 1500? >> Yeah. Six months be. So, it's going to be around $60 in
interest for that first year. So, >> okay. >> So, $30 for half a year. >> It'll apply the whole year as soon as it's assessed to the county. Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, if if somebody could pay it off next year, the interest charge would on
average be roughly $60. >> Okay. >> That would be all if they made that payment the next year, that would be roughly the total interest that they paid on their assessment. >> Sure. for an average. Okay. Any other public comment?
If not, we will close the public hearing. Thank you everybody for the input. We really appreciate it. Uh the board here, you guys have any questions, concerns, feedback based on public comment or any of the numbers provided?
just like to read that. So they would have until November 15th of next year to pay it off in full and only have paid one year of interest charges and nothing beyond that. >> Yes. >> So how would it work if you let's say
you paid half in the first 30 days, >> which you're allowed to do. >> Yeah. But are you going to be assessed at $60? If if the interest if that's the case, if you paid half of it, >> the interest would be $30. >> That that's how I think. But that
doesn't mean that's how this thinks. >> That would be how that would work. It'll be if someone makes a partial payment, it'll only be the remaining balance that would get assessed to the >> Well, that's want to make sure >> interest on. >> Want to make sure that's clarified.
>> I mean, great point. I it's it's you know you look at it I I don't know people's finances and it's not my business myself I would probably make it either
pay it in full within the first 30 days or half of it and then you know the other half as soon as I had the money type of thing. So I mean that's why I bring it that point up. I mean, we're not talking $18,000. We're talking
$1,800. >> This is an unbelievably low assessment. It's great that we were able to make this happen. It's I remember we had an assessment on my parents house. I was 12 years old. It was $11,000. And I remember that one. It's like, oh man, you know, and then I I called around and talked to probably like 20 people on
this and it seemed to be the four or $5,000 mark seems to be the average. And we came in at $1,8 or $1,500. It's unbelievable. So, yeah. Any other questions or comments? >> Do we need a motion on this, Miss Wood?
I make a motion to uh adopt with the assessment and move forward. >> Second >> motion by council member Lundine, second by Council Member Peterson. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Uh, next we will move on to J2 assessment
hearing for certification of delinquent utilities. Is that Nick? Good evening, mayor and members of council. Uh, this is the delinquent utility assessment role that will be going to the county in December to be assessed on the 2026 taxes for the
listed properties. No public hearing requests were received by the November 10th deadline. So, unless anyone else is here, I don't believe we will have any public comment on this. >> Sounds good. >> Can I ask a question on that? Yep. >> Are you going to send out a final letter
before December's um they already received the final letter, so they're aware of their delinquent amounts. It listed on that letter what the process would be. So they knew when they were able to make the payment by and without any further
notification that that would be going to the county in December. >> I just looked at one of them, 62 cents. It's going to cost us more in mail. >> I mean, >> Yep. So, we'll clean up this list a little bit too for what we will and
we'll not assess. There will probably be some sort of dollar amount that we'll put on there where we will just leave it on the current account. >> I mean, I see some that are $3800. I mean, if if this is just assessment for sewer and water, that's gone on way
too long. It should have never went that long. >> Is I know we adopted this policy. Is this the first year we're implementing it? >> No, we've >> we do >> we've done this more than once. >> Yeah, the delinquent utilities have gone
to the county each year. Uh we did have a change in our shut off policy. That may be what >> that would be the shut off policy. >> So yeah, our shut off policy since changed. So that's why some of these numbers are bigger because we are not having those consequences for those
delinquent balances. So, it's allowing people to rack up larger charges than we've seen in the past. >> I think I think we should maybe maybe change that policy to x amount of dollars so it doesn't get to $3,800. That's a lot.
>> I mean, 62 cents. I knock on the door, dude. Or here, I'll give you the 62 cents. I I don't want to waste any more of our taxpayers money on that. But $3,800 has gone on way too long. So he hasn't at this point they have no
I mean they don't care because you're not going to shut me off. >> Yep. And we still are applying penalties to those accounts each month that they're not paying their bill. And then there's also an additional $30 charge for us processing this assessment to the
county too. So there is still financial consequences to them not paying. So that's the current thing to encourage residents to pay. But if we do want to revisit that policy, that is something that we can discuss if you guys as a council would like to discuss.
>> I mean, if if you look at on an average $60 a month, sewer and water charge, normal house, $3,800 is 63 months, >> five years. >> It should only cover the previous 12 months. So I would guess in that
scenario that this is a very high water usage household or business in the city. >> Okay? >> Because it would have gotten wiped down to zero last year with this same certification process.
>> All right. Well, we will open the public hearing in case there's anybody here from the public that wanted to come forward on this. Okay. We will close the public hearing. uh further discussion or >> I'm surprised nobody showed up. There's
a lot of people on the list. >> I thought there was only one page and it was like >> I thought somebody would show up and at least give some kind of argument or or or hardship story. >> Motion to approve with moving forward with this. >> I'll second.
>> Motion by council member Lundine, second by council member Heman. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. 50. Uh, next we will move on to business item K1. Resolution to consider approving the determination of Minnesota paid leave law percentage for employee and employer.
Miss Wood or Nick. All right. So, paid leave is back again. Uh, only change in this resolution from what we saw the previous time is that we added in a line about Sunlife to clarify that they are bonded and insured. So, we will continue
moving forward with using them to handle our paid family and medical leave to do the administering of that plan and do our coverage for anyone that is going on leave there. So, any other questions on this? >> Nope.
>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to approve by council member Lundine. Second by council member uh Peterson. All in favor say I. I. >> All opposed? I. >> Motion carries 41. Uh item K2, resolution to consider approving the final plat for Fairway Greens North,
fourth edition. >> Good evening, mayor and council. Um in 20121, the city council approved a preliminary plat and plan unit development for the Fairway Greens North development. Um subject to specific conditions outlined in the authorizing
resolution. Um today before you we have the fourth edition, um the final plat presented by JPB Land LLC. Um and it will consist of 46 single family residential lots. This is a final um plat submission. It's consistent with
the lot configuration, internal street layout and overall design approved by the council in 2021 and no significant variances or design changes are being requested. Staff has reviewed the final plat documentation and confirms that it complies with all relevant ordinances
and all outstanding conditions set forth in that approval. Um, and although it wasn't um recommended, we did have the planning commission review this um one last time since it's been a while since they reviewed it. And they did recommend
approval tonight at their earlier meeting. Um and staff recommends approval of this and the um resolution is attached and states all the conditions including um all comments and concerns in the city engineers memo
dated memos um dated September 26th and October 28th will be met and we don't see any reason why they're not. They're working through them with us right now. >> Did you change that from 15 to 1800? >> Yep. That was on a previous thing. So it
is 1,800 and the development agreement will be coming at a later date. So expect to see that at a upcoming meeting. >> And you said that it was not you say you had said recommended to go to planning commission but it was not required to go to planning commission. Correct. But we did it as a every get more eyes on.
Okay. I just wanted to clarify as a way to um really maintain awareness about this project for everybody just as if as we felt like it was the right thing to do just because of the length of time between the original preliminary plat.
Um they have been following the rules for that originally laid out um and they've been taking away at this development every year annually and so they've been progressing forward as is allowed. >> Okay, sounds good. and planning commission recommended it. Was it 70?
>> Yes. >> Okay. >> I make a motion to approve with all the corrections and yada yada yada. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Lundine, second by council member Peterson. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 50. Uh,
next business item K3. Uh, I don't remember what did we title that one? Just personnel policy. >> It's to remove possession or use of a dangerous weapon section and definition the employee personnel policy. Yep. And we had talked about this in the previous meeting. So, is there any other
questions or concerns, comments from the board? >> I entertain a motion then. >> Motion to uh amend the policy and remove it or >> second. >> Motion by council member Peterson,
second by council member Momegrren. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Heman >> or Heman. Heman. Sorry. All in favor say I. I any opposed? >> I motion carries 401 on that. Uh next we will go to the consent agenda. Are there
any concerns or items that anybody would like pulled out of the consent agenda? >> Make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to approve by Council Member Lundine. Second by Council Member Peterson. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. The consent agenda is approved. Any other
communications or questions from the board or staff? Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Motion to adjourn by council member Lundine. Second by council member Peterson. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. We are adjourned. Thank you.
>> Thank you everybody for coming in. >> Say ma'am. Thank you for your service.