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[Music] I'll be Good evening and welcome to the June 2nd city council meeting. If you join me for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands. One nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, Miss Rosski, roll call, please. Michelle Vulk here. Luke Kelly here. John Burmel here. Dan Walter here. Joshua Lee here. Very good. We'll move
on to item number three, citizens comments. This is opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes. Okay, seeing none. Uh, item number four, additional agenda information. Mr. Miller, nothing tonight, Mayor. Great.
And we'll move on to uh item five, and we'll turn over to Mr. Burkquist, our arena's annual report and budget presentation. Thank you. Back for another year. Hopefully, it'll go a little faster. I know I bore
everybody with my budget stuff. No, I like it. Okay. Um, we've had another uh very successful year. I always start out for the public's understanding of a lot of people don't realize we are a separate entity from the city and we are
actually a partnership between the school district and the city. So, um, and we do not, one of the things we're proud of the city and everyone, uh, handles the debt service of the buildings and so forth. city leases the building to us at zero cost which we
appreciate citizens my users appreciate that. Um and then we uh since Lakefield Arenas was opened in 2006 when the posi was built I know you all are very proud that it has never had to dip into uh the
arena uh the city funds or school district to pay its operating expenses and we are continuing that path. So, uh, just couple things. Our management team is been, uh, the first couple years, as you know, I was pretty much on my own, um, through COVID and a
few things and we're really coming alive. Uh, Nick, Nick, our operations manager, has really stepped into his role and stepped it up. This last year, we hired a programs manager, Brennan BC, who um is really starting to get a good feel for it and taking over the camps
and a lot of the uh internal program that we're going to be doing this year and especially next year with the outdoor facility. Tanya, um I've mentioned her multiple times. Lori, my concessions people, Lori and Alyssa, do an amazing job. Our concessions continue
to grow be because of them. And then three of our drivers, Jeff Zimmerman, Corey Mogan, and Mike Cerguson, um are all I just wanted to mention them because they're a big part of what's happening these last couple years, um and our success. So,
um I'd like to talk about the partnerships we have. We have several partnerships. you. I always like to recognize the city and the school district cuz a lot of our users don't understand how much you actually do contribute and it's very much appreciated from the building leases to the the debt service and a lot of the
projects that have you've taken on and and helped us move moving this facility to a whole another level. So, I always want to recognize both the city and the school district and I appreciate it. Uh Lakeville Youth Hockey is one of our largest partners obviously. Uh they
bought 2,200 hours of ice last year, spent almost 600,000 on ice sales. Um they contributed about 85,000 annually towards debt service. They're purchasing approximately $20,000 of revenue per year, uh advertising per year, which
helps us, but they re they've got the spring sponsorships at Ames. So um it's very appreciated that they buy ads on behalf of their um sponsors. Um they purchased a $180,000 dryland facility a couple year a few years
ago. They um contributed $60,000 for upgrades to the sound system. uh purchased new video scoreboards recently last year for about $280,000 and have committed about $250,000 towards uh the rink the amenities on the outdoor pavilion rink
which is um so I I I do like to recognize them and they do a lot a lot of times so um I think it's they do step up quite often for us and I have some other uh Heritage Figure Skating Club obviously has been
and started here with Lakeville started that club and they they contribute about 11,000 towards the debt service. But I I want to mention specifically the Glenn Hassi family. They provided um naming rights for the Hassia facility a few years back when it was built and this
past year I think it was last year but they just reuped for another $250,000 in uh naming rights which helped us immensely because we had a lot of big expenses that were coming up within the facility and they were doing kind of a matching funds uh program with them
which is where LHA came in with matching some of the amenities work the Alina L systems for the Alina Pavilion Rink. They are uh providing $100,000 in naming rights towards that facility. And I want to bring up South Metro Rental. I think they always kind of fall off the radar,
but I I want you to know what good partners they are for us. We trade advertising with them and I feel like I always get the better end because I have lots of projects going on and they just bring equipment over, drop it off and we go to town. Um I'm on a been cutting
tree cleaning up posi the other day for quite a bit. So and then the ch uh chamber of commerce does a lot for us. They work with us on our activities uh helping us find advertisers. We've been getting more and more involved with the chamber each year. Now
uh some of our annual events we have the heritage figure skating show which is always every year they do a really good job. The annual skate with Santa is always packed and full and people appreciate that. Hockey Day Lakeville, which is a complete fundraising event. That money does not go to LHA. It
actually goes to the foundation of Minnesota Hockey, a couple uh programs there, uh Minnesota Special Hockey and so forth. And then this last year we were fortunate to get the w women's hall of fame game in which the Minnesota
golfers uh played Bumiji State at HSI Arena on first and we had a packed house and uh it was pretty exciting and fun. Next year we have been awarded the uh two divisions for the Minnesota Youth International Hockey Tournament which is being held by Minnesota Hockey in
conjunction with the World Junior Championships in the Twin Cities. It's a week-long festival. Um, it's going to be a really big thing. In fact, I'm meeting with Alina here soon. They're doing a big trophy tour of it and stuff. So, it's in the hockey world, this is a big
thing. I don't I don't know when we last had a junior championship or something like this. So, we're excited about that coming up. Our usage uh arena programs right now, that's the area that's been growing and is continuing to grow. So, we got about 4.6 goes for learn to
skate, our new Aspire program. We started might camps, might clinics, and uh might uh leagues, which we added on our kids just from the last year. Heritage Figure Skating Clubs responsible, they use about
6.4%. Our public activities, which is everything from open stick and puck to open public skating and other public type events, um uses about 20% of the ice time. And then Lakeville Youth Hockey is up, they're down to about
31%. And then other ice rentals all throughout the rest of the year, which is our biggest growing area. And a lot of our growth is driven from that is because we now operate all three arenas throughout the summer and all year round. So that's growing to 25% and I believe this year it's going to be them
and Lakeville will be almost even. Uh programming are we are always number anywhere from one to three I believe every year behind Egan. unfortunately and um Edina we always kind of we're always battling for the
third spot but we had 1,085 kids register for our learn to skate lessons and is very popular and very successful and that's a testament to Tanya who's been running it since day one and started it might league registrations are up um that's a new program that's really going
to grow next year we have camps this year and overall just our growth in general in every area we've we set out in 2022 to grow our growth uh facilities and utilize them year round and it has been from our pro shop to programming is up significantly. You can see the
numbers on it. Um admissions actually you can see a little bit of dip here in the next couple years due to an accounting change on how we're accounting public programming versus programs. Uh learn to skate is our biggest that's doubled in size over the last several years since COVID.
Um, concessions is our biggest probably. It's gone. You know, we used to do 25,000 for years and years of net revenue and now it's up to 178,000. And all that revenue I use to hire part-time staff to keep it's very
important to have people available for for the residents and for the users. So, um, that really funds them part-time people. And ice rentals is, like I mentioned, has gone significantly from 914,000 pre-COVID to 1.6 million. And
overall revenue, we will double revenue since 2021 this year. But we are growing. Asked, what are you doing with all the money? We're doing a lot with it. Things that we were never able to do. So these are some before and after pictures of
Ames Arena. Somebody asked me, you should put a before and after picture. So, you've got the lobby, the and this was all work that staff did as far as painted the entire facility. We we're always making improvements. Um, and it's been well received by by everyone. Uh,
this is our facility. Same thing. We painted we we've done a lot there. Got rid of the well, it's yellow I call it, but other people have another name for some of the colors that were up above uh the browns. And we redid a girls locker
room, helped them. and they contributed as well. We got a brand new camera system and locks. We've upgraded both concessions pro shop. We installed a light show for uh uh and with the blue line club or
boosters. Um they paid for the equipment, we paid and our staff installed it for them. the video scoreboards. We installed them as far as did all the wiring for it, pulled all the CAT 5, and we provided we had to get about $30,000 in upgrades to the building in order for them to be brought
in. So, we contributed that. Um, we've had the hos been upgraded. We had a brand new set of boards we had to put in at HSI that was no longer safe. We had to buy a new Zamboni for the outdoor rink. Um, snow removal equipment for the outdoor rink, which we're
financing right now. Uh we have a new skate skating treadmill, a company called Etrain that moved in this last year. We built them out of space and they pay a monthly rent rental fee. And then of course the hosi pavilion that you're you're all aware of and we are
now working on all the amenities for next year and some of our landscaping projects. We got rid of the haunted forest. I called it outside of Ames along the highway and we're doing the same thing for because we have a lot of problem with theft and people at the back by the road tracks. been so
secluded. So, we're fixing that. But most importantly, we're transitioning to a full-time workforce. So, we always have somebody full-time on staff. Um, that was a rarity in the past and we're we're we're getting there and we're very close. And I'm sure you saw that in the budget. We're getting close to where we
will always have a full-time driver there. And that's important, I believe, to really take our facility to the next level. And that's brings me to the budget. And I promised I wasn't going to report on that. and bore everyone. Um, so I don't know if anybody has any
comments or questions. No. All right. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. I I will just say it's very um it's promising and it feels good to see the growth since you've come. So I appreciate that and everything you've
done to really turn Yes. Appreciate. It's very exciting. Thank you. All right. Okay, moving on to uh our next item, the parks and recck department quarterly report. And I'll turn over to our parks and recck director, Mr. Macy Archin.
Mayor, uh city council. Uh good evening. Uh this is our uh March through May quarterly report. Uh so spring primarily is what we'll be talking about this evening. Uh starting out with administration. So some of the kind of overarching projects that we're working on. uh starting uh with uh park system
plan uh Grand Prairie Park spy glass and strategic plan is really what we'll be talking about tonight. Um so for the uh park system plan uh back in April um we sent out RFP uh for the next uh park system master plan. That's our next
10-year plan. That'll be 2026 to 2036. uh in on May 20th, we received five proposals and since staff uh have been reviewing those proposals, it's our intention to uh continue to kind of review those and make a final selection here by June uh 12th. Uh but that'll be
a great project, I think, for us to get started and and continue to move along as we look at the growth of the community and how we continue to maintain and utilize our existing properties. Uh Grand Prairie Park, I know this is a a topic we talk about every time I'm up here, uh but continues to move forward. At this point, we've uh
we've had some good progress on challenge course. A lot of the site grading. Um the fields are starting to come together. You can see all of the field lights are up. Uh but it's still our hope and intention that the playground, splash pad, pickle ball courts, and some of the other amenities
should be opening July to really early August. Uh still on track at this point for fields to be opening in spring of 2026. Uh Spy Glass Park, that's actually one of the items that's on the agenda tonight. Uh but Spy Glass phase 2 uh
that was the the neighborhood park that um was uh master planned and the design specifications were completed by SRF that went out for bid opening uh which was held uh the bid opening was held on May 13th. Uh and the low bid is Frig's
Landscaping. Uh the upgraded park amenities for that facility include um half court basketball court which like we've done with all of our other basketball courts will be striped for um partial pickle ball as well. uh botchi bell courts and then the multi-purpose
athletic deck. That'll actually be the first irrigated athletic deck that we have in a neighborhood park utilizing uh the storm water um in that park. So, kind of a great amenity for for that area as well. Uh recreation strategic plan. We talked about this a little bit uh at the
work session uh last week. Um but administratively we've been working on increasing the number of meetings we have between our different divisions recreation heritage and art center specifically looking at programming and use. Uh so those have now been scheduled and then staff has also been working on
a unified rental page to help streamline the process for residents and that's also coming along nicely. And park maintenance they have been busy this spring. Um one of the items I did want to talk about is actually a new piece of equipment that was purchased this year out of um this year's equipment budget. It's the ABI
ball field groomer. Um that piece of equipment uh has now been implemented. We've been using it to regrade and um um kind of upgrade several of our fields. Uh Aronson, um the Quigley, um King have
all received work already this year. Historically, uh we had to contract that work out. We usually would try to tackle one or two fields a year at a cost of 10 to 12,000. This year we've already tackled I think we're sitting around eight or nine. Um so it's going to be a great improvement for us. Not only does
it help uh in our ability to be able to respond and increase the quality of the fields, but also helps to reduce the number of rain outs that we have. Um by regrading the fields, we're able to make sure that um they drain correctly. Uh summer duties. Uh so this spring staff has been really busy with
uh playground inspections, uh setting docks and buoys, installing windcreens and sun shades. It's kind of that seasonal work that we do every year, but they really help us get the system kind of up and running in time. And with the early spring we had this year, they were out there right away um getting pickle ball nets up and all of those items. So
busy spring, but uh things have come together well. And this year, uh two playground replacements are scheduled. In fact, two playgrounds have already been removed. So those projects are moving along. Uh that includes Kensington Park and Marian Field. Marian Field is a kind of an easier project. That one is truly just a
replacement and we're utilizing the same container that's there. Kensington is receiving some additional work. It'll receive a new concrete uh container, little bit of a different shape. We're also doing some work to the uh trails and benches and some other things. So, that project will take a little bit longer. Uh but we anticipate both of
those should be reopened here later this summer. And we talked about this actually at the last session, but I thought it was uh or the last council meeting, but I thought it was a good opportunity to show you the completed project. Uh so the two AED units that were donated by Lakeville Soccer have now been installed. Uh this is actually
the example of the one from Steve Mashad Park and again we thank Lakeville soccer club for their donation to help make that happen. And staff update. Uh we had a notable retirement here in April. Uh Tom Weiss who had been with the city for 20 years uh retired and we want to wish uh
Tom well on his retirement and thank him for his years of service. Uh because of two retirements, we were able to bring in two new staff members uh who started here this spring, both in March. Uh and that includes Austin and Kyle, and we welcome them to the team. As far as recreation goes, uh
summer programs are continuing to register well. Um some of the notable highlights there would include, uh obviously our sports, a lot of those Rev sports programs that we do, uh including basketball, uh golf, soccer are all doing incredibly well.
And for other recreation programs, we talk a lot about the nature programs over at Admeako um and at Ritter Farm Park. So far, those programs are sitting at around 349 registrations for summer. So, a really strong showing and that is an area that we expect is going to continue to grow over
time. And uh implementation for the recreation heritage center strategic plan. Um the rec staff has been busy. Um they've completed uh the mission money matrix on the programming ranking and looking at our our fees versus our mission. They've worked on updating our
volunteer web page. Um they've scheduled uh and started working on increasing the access to our scholarship programs and then also um have dramatically increased the surveys to both participants and instructors. As far as facility rentals
go, um this is again our first full season with Antlers Park. So, we expected this was going to be a strong year. Um, we're sitting right now at 221 reservations for the John Hennon Pavilion and um all of our shelters combined. So, that's all of our parks. We're sitting at around
142. And uh for upcoming programs, recreation has some notable ones coming up. Obviously, the puppet wagon, which runs uh three days a week, that'll start here June 16th. Camp Kermit uh also starts June 16th. Fourth of July fireworks. Information on that is on our website and also on the Panrog website.
And then the Panaprog run will be on June 12th this year. And for the art center, uh this says summer visual art programs. This is spring, so my apologies there. Uh but the pottery program sitting a little over 300 registrations in a a 3-month
period. Uh the specialty workshops, 45 participants, and painting and drawing, that's an area that has just exploded in the new building, sitting at 134 uh registrations. And performing arts also doing really well. Uh this year um the art center staff has been working on
increasing the number of classes for performing arts. There's an increased number of those here in summer as well, but 41 registrations in that first season in spring. Um but otherwise, we've had several really notable performances including um over 700 tickets sold for Murder is announced. Um
the Mary Mack comedy show that was actually sold out at 228. Uh and then um tribute to hall notes did really well as well. Uh so 183 and this was our third year for the downtown Lakeville art crawl. It's always one of those events I like to
highlight. It's a great partnership between the art center and host businesses. So different than a lot of the events that we do. Um this is an event we would not be able to do without those businesses hosting artists. Uh but that was held on May 10th. It was a beautiful Saturday, really well attended, and the feedback from both
artists and host businesses were incredibly positive this year. And I do want to thank the staff and the volunteers that really made that event work. And the 2025 2026 play bill uh will be heading out here in June. That is um our annual play bill. So that
covers events from this August through next August. Uh that's a massive undertaking uh that the art center is um finalizing now. some great new events and uh some schedule changes and some other things that Nikki's been working on that I think we're all pretty excited about. And upcoming events, uh Live at
the Lake here starts uh June 11th. Um we've also got the outdoor raccoon classes, teen summer pottery, um storybook theater is back again this year, and then the art festival will be coming up here in September. And the heritage center, uh
also been very busy working on the implementation plan. A couple of not notable items there. They've been spending a lot of time looking at facility use um and talking a lot with the other facilities to try to um use some of our other spaces, which is great. Look at how we're using existing spaces to look for some efficiencies,
which has been a great project. Uh and upcoming soon, they will be doing that same mission money matrix that uh the recreation programs did. Aside from that, on April 29th, they held their annual open house. uh had over 140 participants. Uh at that
they had 26 uh new memberships that signed up at that event and are sitting at an all-time record of uh over 1,600 uh members. Uh they uh held their annual volunteer appreciation dinner at the art
center this year. Um that was uh held with a Cinco deio theme. It was a fun event. They had over 90 volunteers that attended that event and there's a multitude more that were unable to make it. Um but those volunteers for the heritage center really help things to move along including uh taking care of
the reception desk, the coffee area. Um it's the bread drivers and that's an important program for them. Um it's also group leaders that help run some of the other events that happen there and then the advisory committee members. Uh but obviously that facility would not run as smoothly as it does without their
volunteer time. And summer programming for Heritage has also been uh clicking along. uh their biking club is sitting at uh 65 members, golf at 80, pickle ball at over 200. That program just continues to grow exponentially, and
botchi sitting at uh 54. And some other notable trips coming up here for the heritage center, uh trips and events, the Lakeville lunchons, um this spring they've had 165 attendees. Um, and their spring tea event, which I believe was the first
time they held it, was a great event, really great feedback, and had almost 80 participants at that. And memberships for memberships and passes, um, attendance is also doing really well there. So, these are, uh, cards and board games, um, it's crafts,
it's the book clubs. Um, those events, these are individual people that sign up to participate in those events that participate all year long. So, the participation there is is really involved. um and represents a lot of time at the facility. And with that, I'll stand for
any questions. Okay. Council questions, comments. So, do you have to be a Heritage member to be in pickle ball? So, you have to be to do the Heritage Pickle Ball Program, which is 50 and older, you have to be a member of the Heritage Center. Yes. I want to make sure we're keeping the
numbers up. Yep. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item number six, our consent agenda. Mr. Miller, anything you'd like to highlight? Thank you, Mayor. Two items tonight. Item six I is a purchase agreement for property
located at 17622 Dodd Boulevard. Uh this is property that we've identified as a uh area for a future fire station and potentially a satellite uh water treatment facility. And so this is being funded through a series or separate funds both um water and sewer as well as
franchise fees that were being collected for that. And then item 6M is accepting a donation from the Lakeville Public Safety Foundation. This is two EV isolation blankets. So when electronic or electric vehicles catch fire, uh getting them out is is tough. And so um
these blankos will assist our fire department in that. And those are valued at $4,800. And we appreciate that donation. Okay. Very good. Council, any items you'd like to pull to discuss further? Otherwise, I'll Yep. Council member Walter. Mr. Mayor, can I pull
item D, renewal of liquor licenses? I need to abstain on that. Okay. Any other items? That I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda except for item D. So moved. There's second. Second. Okay. All those in favor say I.
I. I. Opposed. The consent agenda passes. We'll now move on to item D. It's just a renewal of liquor licenses. And I'll take a motion to approve that. Move to grant on sale liquor, club liquor, wine, 3.2% malt liquor, on sale
brew pub, offsale brew pub, tap room, and small brewer off sale malt liquor licenses effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 for entities and licenses identified in the staff report subject to providing the required certificate of insurance. Okay. Is there a second?
Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Yes. Go ahead. Would like the record to reflect that I'm abstaining because my employer is on that list. Okay. Very good. Um, roll call, please. Folk I Helier. Hi. Furl. Hi. Walter.
Lee. Very good. Moving on to item seven. Reserve at Cedar Creek preliminary plat and easement vacation. Is the Is John Anderson here or who's are you going to go first, Mr.
Anderson? I'm I'm seeing you're getting the signal from the sideline there that you're going to tee it up for us today. Welcome. Good evening. My name is John Anderson. I'm representing uh Brandle Anderson Homes or in this case Reserve at Cedar Creek LLC. And what we have is a plumary
plat and a emanation. It's a 48 lot single family residential subdivision located north of uh County Road 50 and south of 200 Street and uh directly west of the villas at Cedar Creek. So uh what we're looking for is the plumbary plat
approval and then the easement vacation is um there's a easement along the waterway or the ditch that or creek I should say in that area. uh since we're going to be dedicating that an outlot, that easement's no longer needed and we're also vacating the the rightway for County Road 50 since that'll be platted
as rightway at this point. So, um basically we're getting rid of the easements and giving out lots and right away in its place. Um the plan for this is to start construction here this summer and we are already basically got final plat submitted to the city to move that forward from that standpoint but we
are looking to get a grading permit and start grading out here as soon as we can and have streets and utilities and everything built this year and have houses going in by the winter. So, uh, with that being said, we went through a substantial review period through the plary plat and I think everything's been
addressed at this point and, um, uh, Brandle Anderson Homes will be the primary builder in this project and we're looking to do it in one phase. Um, so all 48 lots at one time. So with that, I can take any additional questions, I guess.
Okay, any questions? Okay, Miss Goodro for staff report. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um so just to um provide a little context for location um the property is located just north of 202nd
Street, south of 200th um between um Globe Drive and Hamburg over to the west. Um the property is zoned RST2 single and two family residential. Um Mr. Anderson did a great job um explaining the overview of the project. It is a proposal for 48 lots. Um this
area that's hatched is the area where um FEMA did a letter of map revision to readjust the flood plane line. So we were able to include this area into an outlot. So as he mentioned that easement is no longer needed. Um the rightway um
dedication for the road will be part of the final plot. Um so you can see the layout of the units. Um the landscaping plan. Um there will be some storm water ponding to the south that will be screened to those residents abudding it as well as to the north along 200th
Street. Um so both of those roadways will be screened and then the required landscaping for each lot. Um planning commission did hold a public hearing um at their meeting on May 22nd. Um no one testified at the meeting and the planning commission unanimously
recommended approval and I would stand for any questions. Any questions? Okay, I I do have a question for the applicant. One of the things that came up in the planning commission and parks and wreck was about tree preservation and it looks like they made a note to
encourage you to try to preserve more trees than originally is did you Yeah. any more trees, you know, as we're getting closer here or what was the decision on that? No, there's not really any way to preserve any additional trees uh with this layout. We do have a pretty good uh substantial area in the
southwest corner along the the creek area that will all be preserved. You can kind of see on the map up that there is quite a few trees. We are planting additional trees along the north property line along that uh pond area and then uh the standard, you know, landscaping stuff, you know, the front yard trees and then the rear yard. We
are putting trees in each of the rear yards as well. Um I do know um going to the west on the property there that creek kind of extends northwest along there and that's a fairly wooded area as well. So that will be in that clo uh uh location. But with the way the site
grades out and we have to match in uh there's really not a way to save additional trees in the interior of the site. Okay. Thanks Council. Any other comments? Otherwise I'll take a motion. Councilman Burbal. I move to approve a resolution approving
the reserve at Cedar Creek Preliminary Plat and a resolution approving an easement vacation. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Uh any further discussion? Okay. See none. Roll call,
please. Burmal. I Lee. Hi. Folk I. Helier. I Okay. Thanks. Good luck on the rest of your project. Um, now move on to unfinished new business. Seeing none, announcements.
Next city council meeting is Monday, June 16th here at the city hall and our work session is Monday, June 23rd. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. I move to adjourn. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed.
We're adjourned. [Music]