good evening if you would please join me with a for a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible Liberty and justice
for all hey I forgot to say this before i'm calling to order April 21st meeting um and with that roll call please vul here burmal here walter
all right very good moving on to item number three citizens comments it's opportunity for anybody to address the council for typically up to three minutes moving on any additional agenda information Mr miller okay uh and then we'll move into five our presentations
and I think Ms anderson is here oh sorry this little computer screen is blocking your face come on up yeah to uh give us some background on the National Day of Prayer i sure will and this year I'm excited that I can speak boldly last year you remember I had lost my voice
and I had to have somebody else talk so with great excitement I come to tell you about the task force in Lakeville that is presenting a time of prayer for National Day of Prayer outside of City Hall at noon and you all are invited to join us and a little history hasn't
changed a whole lot from last year when I told you but the National Day of Prayer has actually began well it wasn't National Day of Prayer at that time but an observance actually began before we were a nation that July 20th of
1775 at that time it was a Continental Congress and they issued a proclamation recommending a day of prayer fasting and public humiliation to be observed and then our first president then a few years later in 1795 George
Washington proclaimed a day of public thanksgiving and prayer and it wasn't until almost 200 years later in uh April 17th of 1952 Congress proclaimed a joint resolution for a national day of prayer
in which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation in their churches in groups and as individuals and that was to be observed on the 4th of July every year since that time there's been
some type of an observation of that day and then it was Ronald Reagan Thursday May 5th 1988 he signed into law that designated the first Thursday in May as the annual observance for National Day
of Prayer and I found this quote that Reagan had said americans in every generation have turned to their maker in prayer in adoration and in thanksgiving in contrition and supplication we have acknowledged both our dependency on
Almighty God and the help he offers as individuals and as a nation and it has been proclaimed every year since then and then most recently our last president Biden in his 20 24 proclamation wrote "Scripture tells us
to rejoice in hope be patient in tribulation and constant in prayer our prayer for our nation is that we keep faith that our best days are ahead of us and continue to believe in honesty decency dignity and respect may we see
each other not as enemies but fellow human beings made in the image of God and precious in his sight our nation has been strengthened by the faith of its people and we are fortunate to live in a country that the constitution protects
that so again I invite you again first Thursday in May now is May 1st so come and join us outside city hall and pray for sunny days thank you Mrs anderson and I'll have Councilwoman Vog will read our proclamation okay proclamation for
National Day of Prayer 2025 whereas National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation and whereas the National Day of Prayer Task
Force a non- sectarian group with no political affiliation encourages citizens to pray for our leadership in America especially in the areas of government military military media business education church
and family therefore the city council of the city of Lakeville does hereby proclaim Thursday May 1st 2025 National Day of Prayer in Lakeville very good thank you thanks for being here look forward to it all right we'll
move on to item B which is our fire department badging recognition i'll turn over to our fire chief Meyer for a presentation good evening good evening mayor council members uh tonight we'll be recognizing the five full-time staff that were hired in March
of 2024 and as I call them forward uh we'll be I'll uh introduce them but if they can come forward with their families that are going to be pinning their badges so for a shift we have COP uh Captain Colin Heagen uh Bshift is Captain Zach Weise who is not here
they're expecting their second child either shortly tonight or tomorrow uh firefighter Steven Moses for sea shift we have Captain Tom Ness and firefighter Dan Parid so as they come forward this group obviously successfully completed their
first year probation uh which included four weeks of a joint fire academy with uh Burnsville Egan and South Metro Fire uh they played a very vital role in our transition to a hybrid department so these are obviously the first full-time firefighters and had a a long difficult
road in front of them as far as making this transition for us uh they've been instrumental in uh preserving and promoting our department's culture and in addition to that when they're on shift they're providing additional training hours to our pay on call staff to kind of hone their skills to what
they have and keep that going forward uh so and then how we serve our community better so all the skills that they bring or that they learned at the joint academy and then beyond that they're sharing with those that they're working with each and every day so you have who's going to we're going
to do an oath around so if I can have you raise your right hand and repeat after me i state your name do solemnly swearnly that I will support the Constitution of
the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Minnesota and the state of Minnesota and faithfully discharge the duties of your position and faithfully discharge the duties of my position of the city of Lakeville the city of Lakeville in the county of
Dakota and state of Minnesota in the county of Dakota and the state of Minnesota to the best of my judgment and ability so help me God to the best of my judgement and abilities so help me God awesome if your family member wants to now pin your badge on you so just a note out of the the five
that uh obviously there's four here but out of the five that we hired last year four of those are internal and one was an external candidate well first of all we want to congratulate all of you so we'll give you a round of applause and others can weigh in but I what I'll say is I you know this is a really
historic moment for the city um for you guys to be the first part of helping the transition to moving from volunteer to hybrid so we're really excited to have everybody here full-time and look forward to your leadership in our city and we thank the rest of your family and your kids and your spouses willingness to serve our city so thank you very much
for that council member Lee yeah I'll echo what uh Mayor Helier said but uh I love seeing your families here um to you all we are very proud of uh the firefighters that we're ushering in and uh I I know you all are too so thank you
in advance for all the the nights that are interrupted and the service that your whole family is doing for the city of Lakeville so I appreciate it and I'll just say thanks for bearing with us as we find you a a home in Fire Station 5 we'll give you guys a moment for you to
exit with your family and then we'll get back to business so thank you again for being here all right we'll move on to item C which is the fire department quarterly report so I guess you could stay if you wanted but I don't know if if the chief already gives it to you at the air meeting so treats and some pictures to
take across the street so that's better and of course they arrived at the last minute so two of them are on shift so we they were out on a call and had to change to get here so all right Mayor Council Miller I'd like to present the first quarter report for
the fire department for 2025 and starting with our mission statement the Lakeville Fire Department is dedicating to serving serving the community through the protection of lives and property by providing public safety education and a professional emergency response looking at incidents for the
first uh quarter and this is a three-year comparison as you look from left to right but the first one is just total incident so we ended the first quarter with 886 calls so obviously increasing each year uh that we see uh and then if we look at the first quarter by month you can see uh how busy those
months are they're fairly level uh obviously January and February are slightly busier busier this year than they were in previous years march is fairly level uh with comparative to the previous years breaking those incidents down so
out of the 886 obviously 500 or 600 of roughly are medicals so that's about 65% of our call volume in that first quarter uh good intent calls false alarms uh fires were at 17 for the first quarter so it's slightly up compared to last year uh but some of that accounts for
the dryness and lack of snow that we've had as far as that goes and then just looking at overlapping calls so out of that 866 incidents we had 236 incidents where we had multiple calls going on uh 228 were two incidents or more uh and then you can see three instance were
seven times and we had uh one occurrence of five in five calls or five incidents back to back on that and then just looking at the station incident so as far as if we're paging out a station uh and we fully suspect this as we move into the hybrid
staffing a truck is at the duty crew you can see that on the far right they're at 700 calls for the first or first quarter and then the stations you can kind of see those trending downwards as we rely more on that staffed engine but we're still in need of those stations to cover when we have those overlapping calls
that that one crew is busy and we will watch those numbers probably decrease about a third again when we add the second truck on this following Monday or this coming Monday just to highlight uh three of those responses that occurred in the first quarter so we did have a a
significant accident with a semi versus semi or a box truck on the left side that you see there with injuries to the driver uh the center picture is kind of a an interesting one where uh residents called that two male eagles that were uh fighting and got entangled and then got
stuck in the tree basically uh the raptor center came out uh we actually had raptor uh center people in the ladder going up to free them as as they got about where they're at the eagles unlocked or got free of each other and then flew away so that's
how uh and then the right picture is just showing a vehicle accident in a residential neighborhood that rolled over and just some of the measures to get the uh the occupants out how we have to secure the vehicle or make it stable uh to work in and around that vehicle uh our drone team was out in Farmington
for uh for one call helping search for a missing lady that uh walked off in the neighborhood and just to kind of show some of the support that we have with that is uh the red trailer is our I'll call it an all-encompassing trailer so we carry extra air bottles for structure
fires that we may need it's got a heater it's got uh water and such in there but it also supports our drone team so if they are on a lengthy deployment it's got a generator in to help charge batteries a heater for if it is in this time of year it was chilly out there but then we can also uh pull up uh a
software program that we can monitor any drone that's in the air that is registered to that mission if you will for flying for searching for that so we can actually see our drones the PD's drones and anybody else that we give permission to log in and see that response times in the first quarter
they remain fairly consistent uh the one piece that I'll just draw your attention to is that we've seen an increase on the alarm time that PAP handling so the time that uh our dispatch center receives the phone call to the time that they dispatch us uh slightly over it's about
2 minutes 15 seconds 2 minutes 20 seconds uh the standard or the benchmark that they should be is at 1:30 i know they've had an influx of new uh dispatchers now coming online from training so uh so we'll keep an eye on that uh and then just on the bottom I should reference these are all emergency
response calls not if it was a routine call those are excluded from this time frame or the the report there and then uh the bottom bullet point on EMS calls is that we are running about 55% of our EMS calls that we do respond to we're arriving in front of the
ambulance uh training uh so we had active shooter training or alert training this is a countywide uh program that's going on for this year to train all fire EMS and PD in uh different response plan as far as that and coming together with a grander or bigger
response plan throughout the county uh hazardous material operations which we have to do every year medical training uh and then we also added uh to our uh EMTs on the trucks that they we now carry a cardiac monitor and then we added some medical variances as far as
if it's a cardiac arrest or certain things that we can do above and beyond uh what we have done in the past and then we also had a joint academy with fire officer fire instructor training going on a quick question for you about training you know we keep seeing all these pictures of car accidents we have
specific training for EVs great question so tonight uh we actually have a company that came in this month okay uh is doing EV training so they actually have a Tesla over there that they're going through how to open it if the batteries are dead uh he has a semi-trail that's out back with different batteries so you
kind of get to see what's in there but it's uh been very good training they were out at FDIC for uh basically the international conference uh so it's been very good training some of the things that we're taking from that is just the how to make the vehicle safe if they're in a vehicle accident or if there's a
vehicle fire that that batteries on fire what do we you know some of the procedures that we have to update for ourselves okay good i take it you have to use a different fire suppressant or whatever the technical term is for for the electric cars the water is the best
thing is you want to maintain or cool the battery if the battery is in a thermal runaway so one of those battery cells ruptures and starts going okay uh they're also recommending fire blankets so if it's around another vehicle or an exposure is that we want to try to cover that and then protect the exposures
you're not necessarily going to get the extinguish the vehicle or the car fire the battery in there uh but if we can protect everything around it or move that vehicle out of the way so okay uh there's been some instance nationwide of a you know uh one of their uh pieces they had out in California car uh
electric vehicle drove into a house caught the house on fire the batteries on fire they drugged the vehicle out of the garage that it drove into to get it out of the house to put the house fire out otherwise you're dealing with that that batteries on fire for quite some time okay
uh community events so obviously fire prevention uh food trucks we've done 29 in the first quarter they continually come in uh fire safety talks we've done quite a few at daycare centers our uh stations and then also we had a crew at the home expo at Lakeville
North and then looking at fire inspections uh we completed 325 inspections and kind of the pie chart shows a breakdown of of those different ones obviously uh the annual inspection the the 52% is the majority of our work the the rest of the the ones are just
kind of follow-ups that we do are routine uh and then you can kind of see some of the pictures to the right uh of that we've found there so a golf cart blocking an emergency exit obviously is that something that we want corrected uh and then the bottom one is uh while they're out doing pre-pl or uh
inspections we're completing pre-plans on those buildings so we did 415 pre-plans were updated in the first quarter and you may ask what does a pre-plan look like uh so I thought as I was going through and I added this so the the picture on the left that you see is
actually Century uh middle school so a lot of the stuff is if it tells us where our key box are so if we need access into the building how where we're going to find the master keys so to speak uh any of the utility shut offs gas electric uh the sprinkler connection and
then for all of the schools we've gone through and numbered our door so if we get called and they want us to come in a certain door we can look at the pre-planned map and determine where that door is on the school uh a unique thing about the program that we are using is that our some of our neighbors neighboring cities are using
it and we can share those pre-plans with each other so uh the picture to the right is actually the Burnsville Center uh so that's Burnsville's pre-plan of that they've done on the Burnsville Center so if we're responding to the Burnsville Center we can pull up in our response and see uh if they tell us they want us to go to a specific door or
potentially go find the fire sprinkler system to support that uh so it's become very helpful that we're we're integrating in that way and it's not just Burnsville it's other cities around us that are moving to the the platform that we're using uh recruitment uh so in March we
started 16 full-time firefighters that were part of the safer grant uh as of last Thursday they completed their joint academy fire training uh this week they are and it's part of my update so I'm a little advanced but they are doing fire inspector one training this week and on Monday afternoon they'll start working
24-hour shifts uh late January we hosted our annual awards banquet at Brackets Crossing uh it was a very good attendance and you can see uh Joe Tolmes was our nominated as our firefighter of the year and uh Corey Blanchard was nominated as our our rookie of the year cory unfortunately couldn't make the
banquet because he was sick that evening and just some of the stuff we probably already covered but just some department updates so we added the easy kits which is uh we can do an IV line basically uh for a cardiac arrest uh patient uh the cardiac monitor which is
a picture to the top right uh we did the groundbreaking at the first responder uh skill center and then we've obviously worked uh been moving forward on the fire station as far as design meetings and such have been happening uh one thing we are waiting for is the report pending on our ISO review that was
completed at the beginning of January that we're at and as I mentioned the joint fire academy just completed this last week that completes my first quarter report and I will stand for any questions but thank you for your support to the fire department council any questions i think especially the EV
stuff that was I'm thinking about that a lot council member Walter thank you Chief uh okay moving on to item six our consent agenda anything you'd like to highlight Mr miller thank you Mayor uh tonight I want to highlight item 6D it's
a resolution accepting donations from customers of Lakeville Liquors uh this past month over $29,000 was raised from our customers and those are going to be split equally between the food shelves at 360 360 communities and the Open Door and so we're very appreciative of that and I'm sure that we'll have them here
at a future meeting and present them with with that item 6G it's time to start thinking panrog and so we're going to be uh asking you to approve a resolution temporarily closing streets for those festivities uh just as a heads up item 6J we are delaying the start time of the
work session next week till 7 p.m to allow for everybody to be there on time and then item 6L is an ordinance amending title 8 chapters 1 and two of the Lakeville City Code um that was the code that uh detailed the organization of our fire department as you know that's going through a lot of changes so
this was reviewed by the public safety committee last month and we're asking for approval of that change okay very good council any items you wanted to pull for discussion if not I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda i move to approve the consent agenda
there a second okay any further discussion seeing all those in favor say I i opposed nay okay consent agenda pass we'll now move on to item 7A Pumpkin Creek Preliminary Plat and Reszoning and
I believe the applicant David Nabel are you going to present first or come on up did I say that right cany oh it is Can Gez way off welcome yeah thank you mayor council members my name is David Canabaly i'm a
civil engineer with the firm Civil Site Group here to present the Pumpkin Creek Residential Development Project project is located just south of 185th Street north of the preserve third edition project off of Aexonia Avenue project is
for the subdivision of the property into 26 single family lots and a resoning of the property from an RS2 zoning to an RS3 zoning um the project we've been working with the city for quite a long time went through planning commission
they um approved or recommended approval of the project we're here for approval tonight and we're here if you've got any questions or anything on the project be more than willing to answer okay thank you any questions yet
thank you welcome thank you mayor members of the council um as Mr canaly said um the property is um Pumpkin Creek Pulary Plat is proposed just south of 185th Street um north of 190th Street um they are requesting both a plumeary plat
and a reszoning the existing um property the existing zoning is RS2 single family they're proposing RS3 which is the same zoning to the south um where Exonia Avenue will be extended from um this falls within the range for the
lowdensity land use category um the plumeary plaid um we've altered the the layout um north is 185th street um at the top of your screen you can see the layout for the 26 lots the street um main street is only will extend up to
185th street and then there is one other um short extension of a new street that could extend to the west as well as a culdesac um the property does include three wetland areas um the applicant worked um really well with staff to
protect these wetland areas as well as the buffer um and then at the same time tuck in all of the required storm water management it was a challenging site um they worked hard with us um we pushed them a little bit um lost a couple of
lots in the process um which they don't love but we have to um abide by our requirements and it turned out to be a really good layout um in the end the lots range from 11,000 square ft to a little over 24 um,000 square ft depending on um the location um all of
the lots meet all of the required setbacks um for the position of the the home site so um everything is being met um as he mentioned the planning commission did review this at their um and held a public hearing on March 20th and unanimously recommended approval of
the pulary plat and the resoning and I stand for any questions okay council any questions comments council member Lee just a comment not a question here um but I guess I appreciate the work that went
into adjusting this um you know I I was hopeful that through this process we weren't going to try to find the most the smallest possible lots um for this uh zoning and you know doing some some
statistics on the the uh square footage it's clear that most of the properties are larger than the minimum which is uh appreciated uh the preservation of the wetlands is is great uh congruence with
the properties to the south i mean I just it it's clear that this took some creativity and some work to make this happen um I know that there's there it's never uh our our priority to clearcut some of the forests that or I shouldn't
say forest they're wooded areas they're not always quality wooded areas um but to get all of the uh requirements in to maintain the water quality was was something that I appreciated too so um just well done uh around the board and and thank you for the work that went
into it okay other questions comments if not I'll take a motion council member Burma i move to approve one a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Pumpkin Creek and two an ordinance
amendment reszoning the property from RS2 to RS3 and adopt the findings of fact dated April 21 2025 is there a second second second any further discussion
i'll just say I want to extend my gratitude to to staff and the planning commission i you know as I mentioned they took a lot of testimony I watched that meeting a lot of answered a lot of questions so I appreciate that and and that of the developer as well so thank you for that and with that we'll take
roll call please I Walter Lee hi B Ier hi very good congratulations good luck uh moving on to items eight and nine unfinish and new
business okay seeing none Uh announcements next work session is next Monday at 7 p.m not 6 p.m here at city hall our next council meeting is May 5th here in chambers and with that I'll take a motion to adjourn to a close session to
discuss some land acquisition so moved we have to say out the Oh yeah council member V numbers in there uh we move to adjourn to a close session to discuss the land acquisition of P number
22733700 070 and 220090079011 persu persuant to Minnesota statute 13 D.05 subdivision 3C3 second any amendments to
that um any discussion not roll call please walter hi lee hi v hi hi burmal hi