--------- because it's a big thing not there's a lot of lots in town that could feasibly get it but we want to make an educated response um and then we went over the proposed cannabis and hemp product ordinances and at that time it was
decided to put to council that we follow whatever the states wanted in short term look like they'll be going back to work a little bit a little bit that was it what you do this
weekend uh this weekend I had the pleasure of going to the league of Minnesota City's conference uh meeting with a number of representatives from the league and quite a few uh first time members and
Mayors for their towns um the canabas ordinances were definitely the talk of the room I can say we are definitely not alone in this um I've heard opinions going from one end to the other from no to let it run
wild um so but yeah that was Friday and Saturday morning and made some good contacts learned some good things good don't remember anything
okay administrator report oh man that's [Music] me in tonight's report you have the January reconciliation from the bank you have the cash balance report dated last Friday um we did print out the entire
city budget as far as the UN audited numbers that's why this is so thick there's about 25 pages of it is that and as they did say the Auditors will be here next week again um we did receive the December settlement from the county as far as property tax
settlements we get that every month we just wanted to point this one out to you because there were a few delinquent tax payments on there so we got that all coded to the right place you have the building permit report from the last 3 years uh permits
were down a little bit from 2023 but the valuation increased due to the project that did take place in 2024 and then you have the uh the annual board of appeals and Equalization that
the county hosts uh for Jamesville resident that will be Tuesday April 22nd at the County Courthouse I put the notice on the bulletin board out here in the lobby and then last but certainly not least they do have good news um Ceda
started working here last week um so James started working with us 3 days a week he will be at the Eda meeting tomorrow introducing himself that's all I got
appr second all in favor all [Music] right department heads we have Steve and Mike both I yeah if you have more to add otherwise I think we covered most of it
in the meeting anybody have any questions for Mike he sitting too [Music] long sorry to hear [Applause] that
um gave you the end of the year fourth quarter report um couple of the highlights that I wanted I want wanted to point out is um we are up almost 500 calls from 2023 um which is about
20% um down one arrest from 23 with 129 and then we have uh of the 123 cases there's 118 that were convictions um eight dismissals three of those dismissals were proof of no
insurance basically that that's the ticket that if somebody gets um and then they can take their proof of insurance to the courthouse that just gets dismissed so it kind of counts in the negative aisle but it's really not um I did get two more convictions today but
it's too late to get it into the packet so um that's a 96% conviction rate um pretty proud of that it's we've we've done pretty good with that rate um for years we're really fortunate to have that that kind of a
number um and then there's a breakdown of the um of the crimes and and and what days they are on and stuff like that um we're still down part-time
officers um we're sitting at 8 right now and uh so we we do have a couple spots open yet um what all i h anybody have any questions for Steve just a curiosity
um how many officers are at Max Capacity right now we have eight on the roster we have 10 badge slots available we did retire one normally that would be at 11 so we have two openings available and
then if we were to get to the numbers that we had before we would have to create another so we have essentially on the on the roster we have now we've got two spots open Officer Steve could you explain the last page in your report it's the 911
hang up that's not the first time I've seen that come through on a report basically somebody calls 911 hangs done but it's from our community this is from our community this is handled by
the was County Sheriff's Office um and from time to time we'll have um officers on call and the Count's able to respond quicker um they're in the area they handle it and so that's typically um
that number is usually zero but from time to time they'll be in the area and just run the call for us okay thank you invy
[Music] phy for a 50y old [Music] yeah and more often than not it is something I mean not always but I'm guessing it also rings when the money crawl into the wires under your desk and
chew them on okay next on the agenda anything else thank you Steve thank you thanks Steve thanks Mike all right under staff reports yeah I have a couple things under admin
tonight the first one pretty pretty excited about this uh about a week and a half ago or so I went over to Wasa um the Wasa County along with the University of Minnesota extension they were successful in getting a grant to
construct a Workforce Development Center in our area so we we will be discussing this over the next 18 to 24 months as to what what would be the best fit for the Wasa area um there's people from kind of all walks
life that was in the original meeting that kind of you know kicked this off I think we probably plan on meeting about every four or six weeks or something for a while here so pretty excited about that thought I'd put it on
the agenda cuz that's uh it's good news um it's something that's needed here and it's a good opportunity for government schools churches healthc care private you know all to get together and talk about what's best for the what's best for the county
so I like it and the second item I have is letter B we do have a vacancy on the Planning Commission Mark spitzack has moved from janille so there is a vacancy with his seat so if you know of anybody who would
be interested please let me know we can recruit them the vacancy the term expires in December of 2026 so you had almost a couple years left so tonight's resolution will
declare that vacancy motion to approve resolution 20254 all in favor I all right Public Safety we just kind of heard from both of them guys so how a public works yeah Joel while you come up here I'm going to give
them we some updated numbers [Music] all right so so yeah basically just have two proposals in front of you here for a
purchase of a new payloader um this has been in our long-term plan um and we have budgeted approximately $100,000 for this year's budget cycle um kind of as a down payment for this p P of equipment
this is not a replacement we're adding so we're not selling trading um thought about trading in our road grader um just for the value that they would have offered to us for it just kind of makes more sense just hang on to it and do
keep maintaining our alleys and using it for snow plowing um so this is adding a new piece of equipment um so yes the I think the old numbers were in the packet before um has since
been adjusted we removed some did a lot of trimming did some some of the stuff we didn't need heated cooled seats fancy monitors you know stuff like that we kind of Trimm so that's kind of what the numbers are reflecting while they're why why they're lower um so that being said
um John Deere both comparable models same size basically same specs just different vendors um came in at had a total of $255,400 and the cat
930 came in just under that at $254,950 um both with pretty much the same warranty um 84 month full warranty full machine warranty hoses axles all covered um the only difference with the
warranties is deers was for 2,000 hours cat offered us a 20 2500 hour warranty um our current loader we have now we've got in 2014 and I think that has right around 2500 hours on it just
for um just to kind of know the hours that we put on the equipment so the ears are going to burn up before the hours correct yep um and with two of them that's actually likely to probably decrease correct on both y um
yeah I was quite surprised that cat came in with the numbers that they did um are there any questions on the numbers the $177,000 credit yep basically just cat wants the business is
that just Tak 17 is that reflected in that 254 yes it's not a trade in credit or no no it's they're hungry Bic what it comes down to so just a minute ago we were going to get a John gear but now it looks like we're going to get a cat
huh which would you prefer um we haven't had very many issues with our deer that we currently have we have a deer um but being that cat is lower uh cat's a great machine I like I said I didn't think cat was going to come anywhere
close to Deer um historically they're usually a little bit higher um cat service I've had better luck with their service um getting parts and stuff like that but um but yeah my recommendation would be would be to move forward with a
cat just to break down the financing like I said um the $100,000 down payment and the remainder we would go through Jamesville State Bank um three or four year I I'll have to adjust that for
whichever way we go um just cuz those numbers I work with Mr Finn Le on have change so um when we do decide I'll have to meet up with him and change those numbers so if we're buying the C and keeping the John Deere are the
attachments uh interchangeable between the two no no they are not because cat has their own new coupler even if he went with a deer our old attachments would not work with it because our old it's an older style they have since come
up with a newer um coupling system and the the fees to upgrade both units is not included in this is that correct no the coupling unit you mean no not included it would be it would be much more cost effective to just get new
attachments because those couplers are so expensive yep so if if you want the certain size Pucket if you've got on the joh or on the cat you would have to buy that one
again yeah yeah they're the same size bucket same size thing yeah to start up with but you've got other aach yeah like uh well included in the in the bid is is a set of forks which is what we use quite a bit too of pallet Forks um so
that is included in both packages um but yeah the only other thing would be uh grapple some kind of grapple unit in case trees go down and stuff like that we use that quite a bit but that would only be for the older machine now
um touch on the snow plows same exact snow plow both packages um it's just that it has to be deer in their plow or cat in their plow you know you can't buy the the deer and get the cheaper cat plow you can't they're not that's not
that's not uh allowable so to say so now when you say coupling systems you talking like the hoses and stuff or the actual the actual we you drive into your Implement and hook up really yep they're different yep even when we did when we
purchased our one back in 2014 we upgraded and I say upgraded but it's the older style so um just trying to keep moving forward with the technology too so yep and the snow plow would be one
basically exactly like we have for our current payloader um Pusher both Wings move oscillate um just real Handy as far as safety wise and payloader I know we talked about do we get a dump truck with plow set up or add a you know another payloader and
just for safety being up there ped and residential all the time it's just the visibility is unmatched so but and the plow purchase would be coming out of the street Reserve fund um
we would be financing the payload or the tractor itself but the plow out of the reserve fund well I think if you want a cat I'll make a motion to purchase the okay I'll
second all in favor of moving through with the cat 9:30 all right what else you got for us Joe um anything else you're up here that was really it so oh let's touch on the
uh Park that property how would I have to talk to you about that yeah how would is there a way to move forward with that or how would what's the steps I guess I'm not sure I'll talk to you you got it all right is that attorney guy was talking to me the other day so I got to tell you what that attorney guy said
perfect cuz I talked with the property owner today and it is still available okay awesome okay four is sanitor sanitarian Storm you got anything on that five is golf course nobody here for
that thank you Joel thanks thanks motion to adjourn sir all in favor Part: 2
we'll call the meeting to order at 7:00 please stand for the [Music] pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible liy and [Applause] [Music]
Justice all right we'll move into the first Township fireboard meeting of the year at 701 yes uh Township members you should have received the agenda packet so hopefully have that with you y
the first item to look at are the minutes from our October 15th meeting has everybody reviewed the minutes are they satisfied with them just a point of order you going take a r of attendance before you V that
you can definitely do that yeah can thank you you start [Music]
Anderson thank you I'll move all in favor opposed motion carries okay the second item here we have the Run report sorry I can't display it uh we had a total of 226 calls for
2024 that average about 19 a month uh Mike do you have anything to add no that run mix is pretty close the last couple years um more medic
right Mike have a update on officers and Chiefs for the all our officers are staying the same were last [Music] year
okay motion for the approval of the list Council all of the officers yeah motion to approve uh 225 officer list I'll second that all in favor all
all right the fourth item is the uh budget report I just want to point out that the Auditors were here in December for a little bit they're going to be here next week we should have the final audit I would say in the next couple 3 months um right now what
we're looking at un audited is that there is what 20 is about 20 21,000 extra revenues and there were expenses this year uh we talked about this at a previous meeting
uh the council would like to once we have the final audit numbers in place if you would like to transfer that money to the you equip fund okay everyone have any input on that bit of with us extra money extra
money should go back yep and that's what we're that's and that's exactly what we're proposing soon as we get to final numbers we'll transfer the exact money left over and the equipment fund when
when do we tap that fund um well there's a schedule for equip whenever we are purchasing new equipment okay so I I understand that this you know Lo that we took out for the pump truck y you know kind of snuck
up on us and and maybe had not been prepared for that financially um but you know when we are looking at uh 140,000 in that capital reserve budget you know it might be helpful to the fire board if we have
some kind of a projection on where we can just that money is going to go something that we can get our arms around and read you know so I mean if we have a schedule that says okay we're going to we're going to get another truck
2027 Etc so we kind of know where it's going cuz we kind of got blindsided you know with that 60 grand um we weren't anticipating the pumper being the price that it was the price jumped so much since the last one that we bought
but no I don't see a reason that we can't share we have proed should be really simple get what projected needs to be put
into the to stay of of that $20,000 though I believe that would be split between uh um the regular fund and the rural fire
fund uh because they they fund different vehicles that makes sense you know it should be that same distribution with which we pay you know 25% is com from the township 75% from
the city and so when there's excess 25% of that should go into rural fire fund and 25 for we we have two separate funds set up for the purchase of buying equipment and I believe that's the was
originally set up for buildable Bill R Township and that money that's collected from that goes into that fund that's how but that's that's where we got the money for the last grass truck or pickup it is because we had the
money there yeah and and any money spent out of that was set up that has to approval out of that fund because that was basically money came in from Services provided in the
townships yep I was on the sen SE when we form that years ago y that's how that was how it set outo and uh City by all buys all
equipment and owns all equipment for contract and then charges for the service of coverage and it's not I know that's not how all fire deps work but that's how we but you know just as a point of reference you did use the roal fire fund
money to buy that we did so we can't sit here and say we just use it for services when we are actually buy equipment with it and I don't I don't think you know I don't speak for all the other cont numbers here but I don't I think we have an issue with that we we want the fire
department to have the equipment they need to do the job we want the fire department to be funded adequately and and we appla the job that the fire department's doing staying under budget we're we're just asking for that transparency and that accountability and
that that so whatever excess is left because of the good job they're doing not spending it at all we just want our percentage to go into that dedicated World fire fund okay is that going to be an accounting issue no no I don't see any problem with
that and as far as the schedule M will get it to you as far as what we're going to replace when we're going to replace it yeah that that'd be great you know then we kind of feel like we know what's coming it the list is constantly updating but he has a list of two biggest things big item we have our air
packs coming up their expensive um current one 10 grand a piece 10 grand a piece 13 um their compressor is some and none of these
are currently looked at right here in this year but those are things you can just email that list to him or get it he can get it out okay yep currently what we're putting into the
um equipment fund with the set up for 6% increase in cost be a little high things seems to jump a lot sometimes not others Public Safety
Equipment trucks and all that you guys seen in the past other stuff um but then also that to what year so currently we
are okay any other questions on the UN audited numbers I have no further questions I think I got it here oh I probably can't print either [Music]
now the next two items on there just the current balances ass everybody can see that there's not not lot to talking about there they will change y when we get our final numbers they'll be put into the two funds accordingly as we just discussed
and we have the agreements which I actually have a couple of them already back to me yeah we had just we were talking about this last month um in the township contracts that we have there's a statement that says the meetings of the board will be held during the first
council meeting of the months of July and January we've just noticed the last handful of years of February meetings a little a little better cuz we have have more knowledge of our numbers so in our contract should we say
the meetings of the shall be held at least two times a year then we can agree to when that works out that year how should we I'm just looking for suggestions this is where we ran into you showing up last month and right so
we're try to head that off for next time yeah no I appreciate that um I mean if February is when it works let's make it February well February is better because we have more numbers back yeah okay yeah I I mean twice a year
that's great calling it out in the contract what the dates are going to be you know that's that's just helpful because supervisors come and supervisors go Y and so then we know what to expect k then do we want to put first
council meeting in February and the first one in July that works that's before we get too deep into our budget stuff and no so basically we're going to change the wording from January to February and it'll be the first meeting of the month
which will be the second Monday yep there's nothing only nope we have to have another one call have a special one we can certainly do that all right any other business on the
fireboard um I just I apologize I haven't had time to read this and digest it early before do we have it memorialized in here that the 7525 of surplus is going to be
designated to those speciic well we will now because it's in tonight's minutes okay so is it in here right now no because that was just decided moments ago as long as as long as we get that language in there we're golden okay um one more thing I'll just
scoll out there before we get done with the fireboard um I gave Mike some of my business cards I'm uh uh Minnesota license heuring instrument specialist I transferred back down here from Burnsville I'm back in man now at the
heing there and so for fire department workers Police Department city employees I believe currently you're paying to have annual hearing testing accomplished so they can maintain a record and that sort of thing and uh my office will be
happy to provide that free of charge as long as it's uh lined up in advance and actually I gave I gave you like 10 cards there um we got a little program where if they call my office ahead of time say that they're connected with the city
they got the share card from me we'll we'll give the individual a $20 uh virtual gift card for coming in and getting tested and we're not going to build a city or a fire department for services so that'll help you with your budget a little bit we we're more than
happy to help wonderful we certainly appreciate that thank you and Ivan was just pointing out to me here it is in the contract this 7525 is in there V section 12 is a v is that a five or that a is that 12 or is that seven
seven seven seven stupid Roman numerals just use numbers section seven thank you Ivan all right any other business motion to adjourn
second all in favor opposed 717 we will adjourn the fire meeting all right thank you very much everybody [Music] [Music]
let give them a minute to everybody clear out okay so now this Roman noal is four yeah yeah well I well can't use numbers all right Roman numeral 4 is going to be our public
hearing on the sale of cannabis within City Limits yes uh City attorney Jason Moran is here tonight he will help present with our public hearing we have met quite a few times the last two years couple three years
yeah yep it's been doing one for quite a while me to see it up yep all right for your consideration here tonight essentially several ordinances we'll start right at the beginning we've got ordinance 117 that basically this is
what I'm going to call is your general cannabis ordinance just like you have a general alcohol ordinance you would have a general cannabis ordinance the big thing to take away from uh your general cannabis ordinances is that you're essentially adopting all estate
law similar with alcohol anytime the Alcohol Law changes yours changes on the Cannabis law anytime State Law changes yours will change so that's uh one big thing uh to take into consideration the
other thing is you don't have a whole lot of say with regard to this cannabis and I know I've said that several different times but it truly is that the state is going to regulate the majority of of the the
cannabis stuff what you do have say on is you do have say on hours of operation and zoning and so really at page nine that's where your regulations would come in into play Planning and Zoning met
they did discuss hours of operation and some radius restrictions basically what they have recommended is that um no cannabis business would be located within 200 ft 250 ft of any
school or any licensed daycare Residential Treatment Facility or an attraction that's likely to draw kids basically public parks playgrounds athletic fields you can go higher than that you
can go all the way up to 1,500 ft but frankly if we went up to 1500 ft eliminate the city eliminate 90% of Jamesville um Planning and Zoning felt the 250 ft was appropriate and many of my other cities
are doing that so what you would have to weigh here tonight is what type of radius restriction would you want if any somewhere between you know Zer and 1500 ft I suppose the other thing that cities are
doing is they're regulating the hours of operation and every city treats this differently basically on page nine what I have got for you is um cannabis businesses will not sell um cannabis
between 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. now some cities are being more restrictive some cities are treating the high potency which is your adult cannabis use differently than the low
potency beverage stuff that is typically found at convenience stores or bars and restaurants some cities are taking the position that the high potency stuff you should end earlier in the evening for instance 9:00 p.m. what I've got here a
proposed 900 p.m. 9:00 a.m. between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. the overnight hours wouldn't be any High potency stuff sold but the low potency stuff at the bars would be 2 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. again it's
your town whatever you guys choose to do on that but you know you do have that option to treat the high potency and the low potency different some cities are saying well the low potency we're just going to make it bar hours which is the
2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. and then again a lot of cities are saying the high potency stuff they don't want people coming into town midnight buying the high potency some cities have backed that down to 900 p.m. 10 pm. um I did also put some language in
here about um cannabis can't be sold from any food trucks Motor Vehicles recreational vehicles or stands can only be sold from a brick and mortar permanent structure most cities are going that route and then they have to comply with
the zoning ordinances I do have a proposed caps on licenses the state is saying we believe the state is saying at least right now it appears that you guys can put caps on licenses
um we discussed uh some of this was discussed in uh in planning and zoning and essentially we have a cap of one for the major dispensary the high potency stuff and six for the low potency stuff again your convenience stores and your
bars and we felt that six was probably the in the level of interest that would be in play right now certainly if we got to the point where we're almost reaching that cap you know we would probably revisit that and then you guys would
decide whether you want to allow more um in but we would at least start out with a cap right now can charge a fee uh the initial fee $500 renewals 1,000 that comes right out of state
statute so that's the general cannabis ordinance it does also give the power to law enforcement to do uh compliance checks just like they do with alcohol so keep that in mind um letter G yes letter G home
occupation yes yes yes um I've heard a couple questions about allowing this in residential zoned districts if you look at letter G on page N9 it says no products low potency or adult products shall be sold in any residential zoning
district and the sale of such does not qualify as a home occupation yeah that that is in there as well then turning our attention to those zoning regulations as Clinton just said we're not going to allow you know the intent from Planning and Zoning would
was a recommendation to you guys not to allow sales in residential areas essentially we've got proposed ordinances for the B1 B2 and B3 District essentially this is where your uh bars and restaurants would be
convenience stores um bowling alley is is uh is also included in those business districts low potency again the beverage stuff would be allowed to be sold as an accessory to retail sales so essential
in it's a permitted use it wouldn't we wouldn't require a conditional use permit but essentially what that does is it allows the convenience stores to sell the small low potency Edibles that are legal and have been legal for quite a while and then uh the bar and in Bowling
Alley the opportunity to sell some of the beverage stuff but again as an accessory to retail sales it couldn't be a primary sale and then in the M District which is your that's that's essentially where we would we would put the uh the high
potency dispensary you do have to allow at least one and this accomplishes and meets state law in that requirement so planning zoning felt that it would be best suited in the M1 district and like Clinton
said um we do not have an option at this time for residential district I mean you could certainly do that if you wanted to um most cities are taking a position that they don't want that in residential districts just because of some of the traffic that it could generate extra
deliveries from Amazon [Music] from products and manufacturers U and the potential for odors and the general consensus among cities has been
to uh keep this stuff in uh in the business district those are the ordinances in in a nutshell um keep in mind that this is new um I don't anticipate the state issuing licenses at least until summer
fall of this year I've even heard now not even until 2026 so who knows what will happen but you guys are a little ahead of the curve by getting these on the books you've got them in place so when the state does start to issue licenses you
guys are ready does anyone have any questions on all that it's a lot of a lot of material it's a lot of stuff but planning zoning did meet and they recommend these I don't any question specific to that we give our opion
yes ask for Yep this is tonight's public hearing and at the public hearing it's just that it's the opportunity for the public to get count either in favor or against thank you anyone have any questions for me on this I think I was
going to ask you because we had talked about 500 ft but now they've dropped it to 250 but then you put in here the residential area so I'm guessing that's why uh the thought the thought was even 500 was a little restrictive that if we went 500 it's
still taking out quite a bit of uh real estate in Jamesville and 250 ft would be a little more appropriate and then again we did Planning and Zoning decided that we did not want to allow it as a home occupation in the residential district
so residential districts completely off limits at 250 ft ex me you're targeting maybe three to five Lots or homes that's not a big
distance from a school or a playground and that's what I am thinking is 500 would be more appropriate even if it does take some are correct yep it's it's
your town you know this this is a this is your regulation certainly you can go as high as500 even at 1500 there was available real estate it was just very little and so by dialing that
back from 1500 it opened up some more but you are correct 250 ft that's two blocks less than two block yeah yeah yeah so I don't I don't have a problem making it restrictive for our
community because this 15 mies down the road they're going to be able to do whatever they want correct correct most of them work there and buy most of their products that are already correct I just don't want it in that
residential area and I live very very close to buiness District I want well then we need to look at 500 or 750 or 1,000 see we did go to the upper limit ,500 00 you said there's very
little real estate that's potentially putting into the state saying that we have to at least offer one correct dispensary so wouldn't that kind of just us be making the decision whether we had a dispensary cuz probably a lot of people aren't going to
want to go if we're telling them hey you can only go over there yeah even even if you guys went with 1500 there is there is area in town for it that's even at the 15th my only issue is you know in one
meeting two days from now we're trying to promote growth in this town right for business and everything else and now are we're going to sit here two days before it and restricted that's it's that's where I have issues it's a balance believe it or not it's a legitimate business that's
the way it's going to go correct I just want a clarification on everybody that dou Advocate as the word I believe we have a question I'm like from businesse but like within the St like stat St like set rules like OPP from
school or dayare [Music] butv sool what you recomended right right can I get your name so we can get it in the minutes and yours if you don't know it just to have it in the
minutes yeah [Music] so I [Music] oh um like so we don't have anybody currently in town that like had want to
do this business [Music] Notre correct the state the state isn't even ready to start issuing licenses and probably won't
until summer or fall this year and I have even heard that it won't be ready until early in 2026 now a year ago you know they were supposed to have already been issuing licenses but it seems like every 3 or 4
months the state comes out with a new projection it's still not up to running they don't have a director they don't have the employees so you know the state's not anywhere near or ready to issue licenses you think wanted it they
would question we would hope so we hope so yeah yeah so Planning and Zoning talked about 250 we've heard some public comment tonight it sounds like and we've heard had some Council discussion it sounds like you know maybe we want to
look at increasing them and so what you guys then have to Grapple with is is is that magic number 500 is it a th000 you know what it is it really depends on your comfort level and earlier I have a question on
20age from the school may not understanding correctly if you go much more than 250 ft for the beverage side of current business we're not selling it right now I know what that has potential
I know when it comes time to vote on this I will not be voting yes yeah it's under 500 I'm just saying the bowling alley is got to be about 200 from school y it's
close I'm just thinking you know you you got about two places from stop sign to the school up off you go that 1500 ft beond stop to the sou if we go anything less than 500 ft
we're going to be on that farway St right so you be pring those business soon I I know right way to like is there a way to have it be we like not restrictive like where like current businesses that are currently
established would be able toate like based on like the that we know that grandfathering I think she's referring to I I I don't think we do that but is there way for
like were to sell it but not be able to agenda and that's we contr with to some extent yes is there a way the distances up on theuse versus the low dos stuff so that bars can still
sell the beverage and then not not have an impact where we put the dispensers it's possible that we could do that um you know I would be willing to give that a try if that's how the council wanted to go [Music]
I where you would you would want the high potency maybe the th000 ft and the low potency the 250 the 250 yeah to step off that distance
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points correct probably can we go that L yes okay yes is this something the planning zon wants to look at again or we're deciding here or not it may not be a bad idea to send it back
actually we've got if we can separate it I think a lot more people sure is that something a variance or is that just open thean it would not be we would not be able to do a variance set it accordingly it's going
to have to be a firm firm number Lauren are we allowed seate out cuz the part that truly bed me was the likea like I don't want like that's what we're looking at doing now is separating out the the dispensary from
the lowy sales I think manufacturing all that that should be but that can be I don't have a problem doing that because we don't currently have a dispensary here I have a little bit of a problem handcuffing some of our
businesses that are already here yes that would be likely to sell it and all of a sudden we're saying you can't yeah honestly the low potency isn't any different than beverage alcohol right right um it typically doesn't have an odor I mean the low
potency I see no problem going lower but then on the the other side of the dime you know there are some people that's just against it so yeah you know and that's why you guys get the big bucks on on the personal side I'm 100% against
it no question about it but still got to do what's right for the entire city well and it's legal it is legal to some extent the state is already set the bar for us we have to allow at least one y and there's nothing that says we even get one but the low potency do we want
to set any distance [Music] take it back to the Planning and Zoning I guess and see what they say let them bring something back to us yes um I I agree with pretty much everything all that I think you got to
have some type of distance you just mentioned something I think have something even if it's what 150t you know like whatever the bowling Alle is you know have no
problem with that then have to have some type of [Music] distance there is no mobile we did that is in there [Music]
Mike business districts distri manfa can well we already are eliminating it from residential but what's the Bing alley considered we could take that be we could take we could take the feet away on the low potency and essentially it
would be a zero with the understanding that it's only the low is only sold in the business district right B1 B2 and B3 yeah which is what we have now correct correct
[Music] typically we could bring one up on the screen but we are having some problems with the screen not tonight anyway basically it would go from the
bowling alley to Casey's and then goes as far down as how far down 14 about to Russ B place okay so passive bed Clinic so sounds like we want to send it back to Planning and
Zoning yeah I think so have them do some measurements and maybe that is 150 ft I don't know but uh we should at least look into it high potency I'm hearing that you guys want the maximum I've fine with that because we don't have one here
now if we go and start trying to handcuff the B alley or the sure yeah we're going to purple Goose or my liquor store I don't have agree with that keep keep in mind that even with the maximum distance the dispensary still couldn't operate in the business district no it's
only industrial it's only in the industrial right go [Music] old get from the school okay that's my No they can not that no it has to be in
the manufacturing District okay so so um as we're talking about the distance and stuff does this include to a point I guess be usage to that it would not we have a separate ordinance about and I know the
Privacy correct and even to some extent in in the yard um you're going to smell it and that was that was really what I was getting at was we have great neighbors I mean I problem but my daughter has run into this city where
she has little kids but the neighbor all SM well you can't state law is you can't smoke in a um apartment complex multif family apartment complex and then we are
we passed this several years ago a couple years ago a couple years ago uh no public consumption so for instance out on the sidewalk down at the beach park at the park um parking lot at the uh at the community celebration you know
you can't be using in those plac now the state has told us that that the maximum penalty that we can impose is a petty mustand it's relatively light unfor can't issue 10 of them at once yes no more than 300 B but yes we do have that on the
boot so as the accounts and agreement with that it back to planning is only to get few things tweaked and then maybe bring it back to us so the motion should be to table these ordinances and to uh continue this public hearing I would say to the next
city council meeting do we want to go two months well and yeah just when this planning Z meet again February 26th and then the council is March 10th that'll be okay March
10th 7 make motion 7 p.m. I will second Ivan's motion all in favor I I all right any thank you Jason any other questions on it I have none probably should just call for public com
that as a matter is there any more public comment on this [Music] yeah okay well that's that's what we're going to have the Planning and Zoning
look at any other public comment Ron when when was that meeting the 26th of February that will be the Planning and Zoning what time 3 p.m. 3:00 Wednesday the 26th
anyone else he I'm telling you right now he's our attorney he says [Music] no no no we can't I'll leave
now I I do I don't want to interfere I that's what we're looking doing with the change don't get the CL what's that the hear y yes anyone
else all right we're going to close the hearing at 7:45 and we are going to move on to the rest of our council meeting thank you everybody it's good to have a it's good to visit [Music]
all right is there any changes or additions to the agenda motion approve agenda all in favor consent agenda okay the consent and jedon
tonight we have our minutes from our last council meeting January AR 13th and then you're going to have um the accounts receivable then we have three sets of invoices that we've paid since our last meeting uh one of them is a a small list
of bills that we were able to code back to 2024 uh your second set of payables would be from the January 27th time period and then your third set would be for tonight's meeting uh really as far as this time of the year and everything
everything is really root R and standard um just wanted to point out that we you do see the league of Minnesota City's Insurance trust we did have some annual insurance premiums due so we uh sent those out actually on January
27th Sarah Joe do you have anything to approve second all in favor I public forum anyone here to speak to public forum good evening
my name is Robert Burns my address is 36 994 73rd Street Jamesville um I'm here tonight to discuss with the the council about perhaps opportunities to spend some
money with our current engineer to look at the feasibility of uh developing the property just south of the City Garage we own that lot right next to what my family does and we've been approached now for the fourth time in the
last approximately well pretty much since the administration change of businesses that want to buy from us there's a buy that lot and develop one of the businesses will be would be employing 16 people and the other be 22 and that would be
retail that area is is Shan M's property at this time I know he's paying the taxes um as an industrial Zone if I'm not mistaken but I'm just here tonight as a citizen hoping that we can uh be
competitive and give opportunities to um for our community to grow and that's why I just want to address but I I I guess more than anything is I was hoping that the council would take a look at I guess spending taxpayer money is the best word
for it for future growth in that area so typically something like this would fall to a developer but I do have to agree with Bob on this that I just sat here a minute ago and said how we're trying to promote growth in our town and that is the direction we're looking at
moving I personally think it would be worth the conversation with Bolton and making at least getting a small cost analysis on it and then we could uh bring it back to us once we have somewhat of an estimate on what that would cost us yeah I know Joe has done a
good job in talking about perhaps we'd need a lift pump but as just in conversation as far as what opportunities might be there with impervious surfaces and so on and Y plus what the county and state would allow for the grading of the property because
it's rolling ground to the West there and also I think the retention Pond behind Casey would need to be changed because it looks like the street where that stops uh the barricade is where the tire ends the way that's designed it
appears as though any uh overflow would go right where the new road would perhaps go in if I'm looking at that but I'm not an engineer that's what we got them for yeah but I'd sure like to see that if we could as I someone else will get that those businesses if we don't
and right and uh it'd be great but thanks everyone for your time no I I would like to comment on that Bob uh I've been working too with trying to do something out there I know the county the city and Sean have talked to
multiple people in the last last year and it'd be really hard for the city to go out there and build the streets not knowing what size of business wants to come in how do we
plan for a Lage on a business we don't know what it is oh I certainly understand that Ian that's a good comment I think at this time there's State and uh state city county City standards as to how
that uh infrastructure would be put in as far as sizing uh for not only that expansion but future expansion I would assume that's how the city has written up the U uh opportunities for that and of course the size of the lift
pumps uh that would have to be put in there and also uh what types of lot footage there could be how much impervious surface would be allowed to go into that lift pum you Al so I'm assuming Excel Energy
serves that area um we had J of utility own utility rights out there they do at this time so there' be no deregulation with Excel Energy that okay okay but those are the things it's not that that the city goes out and puts in curban
gutters and uh uh Tire streets and and water and that would be along the lines of what would what is needed what is needed to do it a what is needed and then the developer comes forth I I would never recommend well it'd be nice if the
city did but I would never ever think the city should come in there and uh start throwing taxpayer money to put something in where there's absolutely no no type of uh plan in place how the city
be compensated but the city does have requirements and that's where I was hoping that there would be money allotted to come with the those requirements and the fees ability what it would take so that's what that purpose
SP anyway thank you everyone for your time thank you thank you any other questions on that CL you want to strike up a conversation with Jason on it yep and
Paul is here yep public uh Forum Paul my name is Paul vogus I live at 102 East Grove Street here in jeansville and this is just a really brief uh update on the songs in the park um there's not a lot to cover other than it's moving forward
things are going well everything is settling in um I applied for three grants this year got two of them so far the other one I'm just waiting to hear I just haven't heard yet from it um the only change well there are a couple
changes I'm making this year uh I'm I've got it scheduled to do it every two weeks instead of once a month with the exception of June because Heyday Falls in there okay so um I'm hoping to do better promotion this year uh we'll go with um different things in the
newspaper and hopefully there's radio stations that put these on for no charge and things like that better poster coverage things like that if anybody has any suggestions on that please let me know because that's my downfall right there I'm not real good at it so if
anybody has any suggestions let me know and I also want to bring back the Jamesville night out this year um and I don't know really much about that other than I've been told to speak to officer Johnson Chief Johnson and we'll go from there kind of try and figure it out from
there uh problem I'm thinking in August but I don't what is is typically the third the third Sunday in August uh it's there's a typical day when all cities National out oh okay I'm I'll see
what it can work out I'm kind of hoping to do it on one of the Thursday nights but if not we can we can talk about we can work around that put it that way but I would like to bring it back so and tie it in with terrific yeah tie it in with the rest of the stuff so it's really all
I got unless anybody has any questions about it um and if anybody has any questions that they don't think of now you can get my phone number from the city office and call me and or my email or whatever let me know so otherwise that's all I got so National Night Out
the first Tuesday the first Tuesday okay so maybe we could do it though I don't know we we'll see what we can work out there yeah we'll we'll have to get together and talk about it and uh even if it's not that day um maybe we
can work it on on a different day yeah I was going to say it yeah we'll work it out okay I'll I'll get with you as the time so all right very good unless there's any questions no I just want to thank you again for doing this and your hard work into this it's a lot of people
were very happy with it last year yeah we've enjoyed it and we hope to do it better this year which was a plan all along start out last year figure out what we can do what we can't do what works what doesn't and kind of move ahead and that's kind of what we're doing this year so yep so all right very
good thank you thank you Paul thank you thank you anyone else here for public forum public forum moving on notice and Communications yeah you have some material from the league of
Minnesota cities I put that at your table here before the meeting started that's all I have C reports I have none currently I don't either got
zero might only one has um the park board met on Monday the 27th um excuse me we had talked a little bit about music in the park series um maybe partnering with Community Ed to
get some boost going um a look into that um excuse me we uh talked about uh getting inventiones for the part how many to get uh potentially pouring that pads under all of them so they' been positioning um that was going to be
looked into for prices and um potential umil um and then there was a uh a park can't remember the name of park over here in the southeast side of town there's a lot right next to it uh we going to talk to the owner about
potentially buy having Council buy that or city buy it just so that we could do something with it um engage advice counc that was all the part we had I know there was a resident that uh talked to me about the
beautification committee kind of teaming up with maybe some of the park stuff that might be coming up next that might be coming up we didn't get touched on that I don't think that's howth East Park as a name down by us Eastwood Eastwood
Eastwood park instead of letting it some it's not be used the St could find a use for it or at least we have it if we had to we could flip it back may for without profit and this is looking something
we're looking at doing out a park budget or they were yeah um or P to approval um they were hoping to get her wasn't her was that yep um going to make an offer potential offer don't say
the number Central offer okay thank you Clinton I think I should have gone to a meeting over the weekend about this um Planning Commission had met on 22nd uh we talked