It's okay. Hello everyone and welcome to uh the city council meeting here tonight, Thursday, January 29th, 2026. Call the order of this meeting at 700 p.m. If you could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance.
>> 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, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> Brian Rmergian
>> here. >> Kar Miller >> here. >> Tom Berg >> here. James >> here and Stampala >> here. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh tonight's agenda goes all the way down to item 10 I. Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda?
>> Uh yes, mayor. I would like to add two uh items. Consider approval of a Minnesota lawful gambling LG220 application for exempt permit submitted by the Sons of the American Legion, Squadron 586.
uh and discussion about um possibly meeting with the EDA whether um joint session, work session, council meeting um like to add that to the agenda and um get direction from the council how you'd like to meet and uh schedule date.
>> Perfect. Do I have a motion with those amendments? >> I'll make the motion with the amendments. >> All right. Motion by Miller. >> Second. >> Second by Vika. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. >> All right. Approval of the minutes.
Consider approval of the minutes from the December 22nd, 2025 regular meeting. Is there any additions, deletions, or corrections to the minutes? >> Motion to approve the minutes from the 1222 meeting. >> Motion by Miller. >> Second. Second by Palava. Any further
discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. All right. There are no public hearings. on to a presentation of citizens petitions and comments. Comments limited to two minutes. So if you are not on the agenda, now is your
time to speak. Okay. Tonight's consent agenda, we have uh monthly and additional bills, treasures report, board and commission minutes. Uh, consider acknowledgement of a Minnesota lawful gambling LG220 application
uh for Ducks Unlimited at Rail 19. Consider approval of Grace Borggan's letter of resignation from the Founders Day Committee. And also consider approval of John McNair's letter of resignation from the fire department effective November 28th, 2025. Does anybody want any of these items pulled
for new business? >> I don't, but I have two things to say. Um, for Grace, I just want to say thank you so much for the time and efforts that you put in so far for the founders day committee. Um, we really appreciate the work that you've done and best of
luck and wishes to your next venture. And then my second thing is I just want to thank John McNair again for his service with the fire department. It's greatly appreciated. >> That's all I have. >> Anybody else want any items pulled for new discussion? >> Entertain a motion. So move.
>> All right. Motion by Warren Scrion. Second, >> second by Palava. I echo everything that uh council member Miller had mentioned as well. Um all in favor? >> All opposed. >> All right. There's no old business. On to new business. Consider approval to
make a conditional job offer to Parker Hemson as firefighter. Joe Pumper, fire chief. >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council members. Um let's see here so
uh this is public safety our guiding principle is public safety and efficient service delivery. Uh action requested is a motion to approve the hiring of Parker Henningsson uh as a firefighter for Lonzo Fire Department.
the justification background. Um, Lonzo Fire Department continues to prioritize recruiting qualified, experienced, and community- based firefighters to main effective emergency response and service delivery. Parker Heming Hemingson brings
prior firefighter experience, having served with the Alden Fire Department since April of 2017. Um, he has all required training and certifications are all current and in good standing. Parker re recently re relocated from I'm sorry.
Parker recently relocated to Lonzilla at the end of November and now resides within city limits. He works from home three of the five weekdays providing increased availability and the ability to make quick response to the fire hall. Uh his previous experience, dedication
and service to andability making a strong fit for Lonzo Fire Department. Um, for the fiscal impact, uh, no immediate fiscal impact beyond standard onboarding, training, and equipment costs that are already budgeted for for firefighting staff. Um, alternatives,
uh, the city council may choose to not approve the hiring and direct staff to continue to recruit in recruitment efforts. Um, the attachments that you have are partners application and certifications. And that's what I got.
All right. Thank you, Joe. Uh Brian, I'll let you kick this off if there's anything you want to add. >> No, I'm just glad that uh we've got new blood coming in and uh happy to see that there's still an interest in in backfilling those positions. So, does
this put us at full staff? >> No, we'll be at 26. Means we had the resignation of McNair. Parker would easily fit into his spot. So, >> okay. Um but so a full roster would still be 30 and we are currently at 26. So still still above that mark where you
know I say where we need to be concerned I guess. Um it doesn't it won't like this year 2026 year won't spark hiring um just because of all the other things we have going on. Not to mention we've hired straight I guess for the last three years. >> Yeah. >> So we'll give it a break one year and
then go back at it again in 2027. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, four down, I think that's within the the margin of uh safety, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, I agree. >> Great. Yeah. No, I'm I'm uh glad to see we got new blood coming in. Welcome to
Lndale. >> Yeah. This is Parker. >> I assumed >> new face in town. So, >> we're glad that you've uh decided to move to Lndale. Welcome aboard. And uh yeah, I'm uh I'm happy to support this.
>> All right, Carrie. Same. Um, welcome to to Lawndale and we're excited to have you and thank you for your service. We really appreciate it. >> Jamie, just a welcome to Lawndale and thanks for volunteering. >> Scott, echo all theirs.
>> You know, Parker, I got to say you were pretty honest with your your speeding on here. It's totally acceptable. But this is how much paperwork we get to see. I usually have my laptop, but got
the hard copies tonight. >> Yeah. Welcome to Londale and we're glad to have you and uh thank you Joel for for all that you guys do. So >> So So you're saying you can get us to the the calls fast. You let him drive. >> He lives he lives really fairly close.
Don't need his speed. >> He'll be within that time >> for reason. >> All right. I'll entertain motion. I'll make the motion. >> Motion by Miller. >> Second. >> Uh second by Worm Gersian. Any further discussion? All in favor?
>> All opposed? All right. Welcome, Parker. Item B, consider approval of a quote submitted by MEES in the amount of $12,416 plus freight for the turnout gear for new firefighters. Joe Pumper, fire chief. >> Uh yes. So, with the onboarding now of
four uh firefighters, um we've gone through what the gear that we have um and we've decided that we we're in need of uh uh a few more sets to to make make them whole. Um the subject here is a
purchase of structural firefight turn firefighter turnout gear for new firefighters. um guiding principle again public safety um and just regulatory compliance. Action requested, we a motion to approve the purchase of new structural firefighter
internal gear um for the new for firefighters at a total cost of $12,416 plus a 3% freight charge. Um introduction and background justification. The Alonzo Fire Department is requesting approval to purchase the new structural firefighting
turnout gear uh to properly equip new firefighters. Um when possible, the department utilizes turnout gear already in inventory uh that remains compliant within safety standards. However, OSHA um require mandates requirements mandate
that structural firefighting personal protective equipment um be removed from service once it reaches the the 10year mark. Um, additionally, tennal gear must be properly fitted for each firefighter to ensure safe and effective operation.
In some cases, existing inventory may not be available in appropriate sizes or configurations. Um, when when uh compliant, properly fitted, gear is not is not available, internal gear must be purchased.
A formal vendor quote has been obtained and ensured firefighters are equipped with compliant properly fitted PPE. The fiscal impact cost of the turnout gear purchased is $12,416
plus again a 3% freight charge. Um this expense will be funded through the fire department's capital outlay budget. Uh funds are set aside within Capital LA to support onboarding and and equipping new firefighters. For alternatives, the city council may
choose to deny or delay or deny the purchase. Um, however, doing so may result in firefighters being equipped with PPE that is no longer compliant with those requirements. And then the attachments that you have is the vendor quote for the turnup gear. And this this
uh MEES is a company that we typically have gone through for quite quite some time. All right. Very good. Thank you, Joe. Curry, you got anything you got to add? >> We just have to hurry up and get this in by noon tomorrow because I see that uh the price increase starts Monday. Yes.
The deadline. >> Yes, we're kind of up against something tight here. But yes, Harry is on it and he as soon as I give him the green light, there's a text message after this, he's going to send off the email. So, it will get done in plenty of time. >> Perfect. That's all.
>> Jamie, I'm good. Scott, >> uh, the only qu This is just coming out of the operating fund. This doesn't come out of the relief association. >> Correct. >> Correct. Okay. >> That's all. >> Ryan, >> got new firefighters. Got to get them the right gear. >> All right. Entertain a motion.
>> So moved. >> Motion by Warren Scrush. >> Second. >> Second by Pava. Any further discussion? >> All in favor? >> All opposed. All right, Joel. This is your last one of the night. Consider approval of a quote submitted
by McQueen in the amount of $13,737.94 to repair the pump seals on a 2014 fire truck. So, guiding principle again, public safety equipment reliability, my action requested again is yes. So motion approved the repairs of the fire
engine 4120 for pump seal replacement at a total cost of 13,737.94. Um the background on this uh justification is during the most recent pump testing of engine 4120 uh the service technician identified signs of
leakage at the pump seals where the engine uh passed the operational pressure test um conducted in November. failed the vacuum test. Um, if left unressed, failing pump seals can allow air to be drawn into the pump system,
uh, compromising the engine's ability to, uh, re reliably supply water. Uh, this this concern is especially critical when drafting water in areas without fire hydrants, including rural response areas
and portions of the city of Lonzil that are not served by Hydron or city water systems. Fire engine 4120 is a 2014 model like you said um and one of the department's newer engines. Unfortunate this happened to it. Uh it is used regularly for
training and emergency response. Um it was utilized more than on more than 70 calls just in 2025. So just to give you an idea of how often it goes out. Um despite it relatively recent age, the pump seals require replacement and maintain to maintain reliability and
operational readiness. Um the repair is expected to to place the engine without service for approximately two weeks. Um once parts are received while having this apparatus unavailable will be challenging for us. uh department will utilize our one of our
backup engines um during this period and we will we will uh not need to rent a replacement. Um Monzo Fire Department staff will trans or transport the engine uh to and from uh McQueen
so that they in Apple Valley to to help control the transportation costs. Um, a formal bid has been received from McQueen for the repairs. The fiscal impact, the total cost of the pump seal repair is
$13,737.94. Expense will be funded from our 2026 fire department repairs and supplies budget. Um, this represents approximately one-third of the budget allocated in a single repair event, which is a tough tough bitter pill to swallow, that's for sure.
Um, alternatives, the city council may choose to delay or deny the repair. However, continued operation with failing pump seals could result in in reduced pump performance or failure during emergency operations. And then the attachment that you guys
have is the bid from McQueen fire and safety for the pump seal players. >> All right. Very good. Thank you, Joe. Jamie, you got anything to add? >> Nope, I'm good. got >> um those seals, do we know are was there updates or anything that took place with
technology that they might be improved? >> That's good. That's a good question. I don't have that information. >> Yeah. The only other thing I would wonder is there anything that we can do whether it's during uh startup or shutdown or anything like that that might be able to uh prolong it. I I did
ask them why, you know, why why they thought that this would have failed by comparison to say our the LA engine 1994, which I don't think has ever had pump seal replacement. Um, we did have a previous engine, it was a 1983 that had to have pump seals. I want to
say around about this era when it was, you know, put into operation. So, I'm not exactly sure why one truck needs them versus another one doesn't. My guess is this is bad luck I guess but I don't it's been 10 years and
technology on and and this stuff is advanced so much you know >> some sort of yeah like a better material that was made out of or something like that I don't have that direct answer that >> that was just my that what I was curious about that and like I said I know that sometimes that there can be changes in processes to prolong equipment so
>> Yep. Yep. Yeah. And like I said the the other truck that we have has never had pump seals replaced. I don't know why this one at this age, but it looks like it's quite a quite an undergoing to apparently replace it to completely dismantling the whole work it sounds like. So,
>> yeah, it's not it's not an oil change. >> No. >> All right, that's all I had. >> Ryan, I guess the only question I have is I noticed here on their uh their estimate, >> they've got the invoice too to the street department. Is that normal?
>> I'm not sure why why that is exactly. >> Are you paying for this one, Joe? No, >> I hope not. >> That's not in budget. >> I mean, I saw maybe helping all your your fellow departments. >> I would uh I would assume we've dealt with McQueen
>> my entire time here um for our street sweepers. So, I would assume that's just how the account >> the account. Yeah, >> that's what my guess was, too. >> Okay. I just want to make sure there's no confusion or >> bureaucratic red tape because it's going to the wrong department or something. So,
>> I'll let him know for sure. You're always under budget. You got some extra. >> That's all I got. >> All right, Curry. >> No, we need it. So, >> all right. Entertain a motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion by mailer.
>> Second. >> Second by Palava. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. All right. Thank you, Joe. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. Item D, consider approval of resolution 2026-04, a resolution
accepting donations for the 2026 Founders Fest fireworks display. Joel Ericson. Right. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Uh, one of the items that the founders day committee has been tasked with is bringing back fireworks in 20 26 to celebrate Lndale's
history and the 250th birthday of America. Uh the council approved the fireworks display quote and among 18,000 submitted by Res Pyro at our November 13th, 2025 meeting. Uh the Snow Wizards and Great Ranch Auto Repair have made donations uh to the city for the
fireworks display. Uh cities can accept donations and gifts for the use and benefit of its residents uh per state statute 465.04. Uh by approving the proposed resolution, the council is accepting the donations and agreeing to dedicate them to uh
dedicate the funds to the founders day committee fund. Uh the fiscal impact uh is $3,500. The total of the donations for the fireworks display. Alternatives would be not to approve the proposed resolution. And then included with uh
staff's report is the uh proposed resolution 2026-04. Very good. >> Thank you, Joel. Scott, you got anything? >> Uh, no. It's It's nice to see that there's a uh beginning of the donation
process taking place. So, uh I'm sure there'll be more of that. Uh nice to see a couple of uh entities uh start, you know, kicking it off. So, thank thank you for doing that. >> Ryan,
>> big thank you to Snow Wizards and to Great Wrench. um appreciate the the support of this and I'm looking forward to bringing the the July celebration back to Ldale. >> Terry, >> I'm just super excited about this whole
thing. Um thank you Lndale Snow Wizards and Great Ranch for your initial donations. We really appreciate it and um there will be opportunity for other community members to get involved and donate as well. So, if people are interested in donating toward the event,
the fireworks, you can just make a check out to Lonzale and drop it off here at city hall or mail it in. Um, we appreciate any support to make this a success. And thank you to all the fellow community members on the committee helping to make this go. >> All right, Jamie.
>> A big thank you to the Snow Wizards and Great Wrench for the donation of the land. And another shout out to the Peeper family for donating the launch site. >> Yes. Thank you, Peepers. >> Yep. I agree. Thank you to the Snow Wizards and to
Great Ranch. A lot of people uh you know, when they start seeing some of these names as sponsors, you know, be good to go get your oil changes at Great Ranch and then uh try to get involved with Snow Wizards. So, I think it's a really
cool thing for the city. All right, entertain a motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion by Miller. >> Second. >> Second by Vita. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. All right.
Consider approval of the 2026 mosquito spray chemical free pilot park and future amenity survey and rollout option. Mr. Cory Hinsa. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh staff requested that the park board review and discuss the proposed 2026 mosquito spraying,
chemical-free pilot park, and future amenity survey and rollout options at the Jan January 12th, 2026 meeting. Prior to the meeting, staff shared the survey with the mayor and city council to collect their feedback. The feedback received was incorporated into the
recommended park board's uh recommendation that generated the 2026 mosquito spraying chemical-free uh pilot park and future amenities survey and rollout option uh which is in uh an attachment for the in the staff report. Changes included addition of 2025 uh
mosquito control cost uh requested um or optional property addresses and clarification that data received would be considered for the 2027 budget process. The park board discussed the proposed rollout options and costs associated with them. Uh they had a few
options here. Uh a direct mailing to lawn sale residential and commercial addresses. Uh there are 1,748 of them. Uh you can see the math there with the postage um with the uh with mailing the letter and then the return envelope was $2,622.
Option B, postcard mailer with QR link to Survey Monkey. Um you can see the fee there, which totaled $1,26428. And then insert QR link to Survey Monkey on monthly water bill invoice. Uh with a
twomonth subscription to Survey Monkey totaling $198. Uh due to the survey timeline, the park board recommended roll out option C in the amount of $1998. Uh the survey plan timeline timeline as
follows. Uh you could see that survey development. Um January 26 to the 30th. Uh water bills are coming out shortly. So February 10th, the water bills are mailed out from city hall. March 4th survey deadline. Uh March 4th and 5th
survey analysis. And then back to the park board park board on March 9th. Uh just for the long for the big picture here, uh the city council meeting approval for mosquito control for this year uh is slated for March 26 and then
the council approving mosquito control contract at the April 30th meeting. That's just to paint a overall picture of uh the mosquito control plan for this year. So uh alternatives tonight, do not approve the 2026 mosquito spraying uh
chemical-free pilot park and future amenity survey and rollout option or revise as deemed necessary by the city council for approval of the 2026 mosquito spraying chemical-free pilot park and future amenity survey with our uh recommended rollout option. So uh Mr.
mayor. >> All right, >> I'll turn it over to you. >> Thank you, Corey. Brian, you got anything to add? >> Um, I guess the only thing is looking at the survey itself, um, question number nine, I I think we should kind of I don't know
if we want to add a note or something, but make clear that these are just some thoughts. No guarantee that any of these would be necessarily implemented. I mean, um,
there's some pretty big dollar items on this list, and last time some of this stuff came up, it created quite a a kurfuffle around town, you know, and there was talk of a community center and a and a pool and things like that years ago. I just want
people to understand that this is just what are things that you would like to see potentially in the future, not not plant a seed that if you if you like these things, this is what we're going to really push to do necessarily. You know, I just maybe some clarity around that.
>> And council member Wormer Gersian, that was that that that point was discussed at the meeting. Uh the park board or actually Mr. Dormfield uh made the recommendation here for number nine to uh change that should we consider in the
future. So if it's word smithing. So the park board wanted to make sure that was clear that this is not happening. >> Well, >> most likely not happening next year. It's just to gather the input. So I could change that should to potentially.
Uh it's just a matter of >> Yeah. should potentially whatever. Yeah, I think that wording is >> but the park but I just want to confirm with you the park board did discuss that. >> Great. Great. Um, yeah. I just I don't want people to get the impression that the survey goes out and people think, "Oh, well, now they're they're pushing
for a a pool, community pool." >> So then, you know, you start getting a lot of phone calls about how much is this pool going to cost? When is this going to and, you know, when is the pool going in? That's the question we're going to get. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I think that's uh that's all I got on this. >> All right, Carrie. >> Yeah. Just going off of that, we just want to collect some more current data since it's been 10 plus years since the last community survey on anything similar to this. So, we want to get
updated info since we have a lot of newer um residents since we've expanded our um town since 2015. Uh and again just echoing that these are potential amenities that we would consider um because all of these are pretty big
dollar but just to get a feel for what the community wants and um get your voices heard. >> That's all I have. >> All right. I'm good. Scott, >> um did I see I I don't recall maybe it was in a discussion. Is there a paper
copy available for anybody that due to technology constraints or whatever that they could still complete it like come to city hall and get one? >> Uh, excellent question, Council Member Palava. Yes. Uh, there will be hard copies uh located here at city hall, the
library, and potentially the liquor store. >> Okay, great. And we know this is not like a a super official official survey since it's hard to collect um you know the addresses and things like that, but we just want a general consensus of what
people are feeling and thinking about these items on the list. >> Is it possible on the water bills to make note that hard copies are available to fill out in person? Uh, council member Wormer Gersian. Um, we are
working on this tomorrow. So, that is duly noted. >> Yeah. I just think if we're going to have because, you know, it doesn't say anywhere that that the hard copies are available in in um >> other than just now confirming it. So,
at least that way we can tell people when they get their water bill. If you don't have access to take it online, hard copies are available. the library at city hall. >> Uh, council member Miller, can you kind of define inclusive playground?
>> Um, I, if I'm recalling correctly, and Corey, correct me if I'm wrong, um, kind of like sensory type equipment for maybe um, children who have sensory issues and disabilities, things like that. just so that we have a playground that has
equipment that they would be able to utilize. >> That is correct. Handicap accessibility. >> Yes. >> Perfect. >> All right. Well, I'll uh entertain a motion. >> So move. >> Motion by Palava. >> I'll second. >> Second by Miller. Any further
discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. All right. Item F here. Consider approval of the ordinance 2026-337, an ordinance amending city code
153 d or t-077 off streetet parking on residential property. Cory Hinszero. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, the council discussed and reviewed ordinance 2026 337, an ordinance amending city code 153.077 off streetet parking and residential
property. At the November 24th, 2025 meeting, the agenda was tabled and council directed staff to bring the ordinance 2026 337 to a later meeting. Staff are still recommending the planning commission updates from the November 17th, 2025 meeting. Uh,
ordinance 2026-337 changes as follows. Update recreational vehic Oh, by the way, the red line copy is attached here uh to this staff report uh for your reference. Uh updated recreational vehicle seasonal uh to
include offseason vehicles shall not be parked in the front yard area. Deletion of a hunting waterfall boats uh from seasonal classification of recreational vehicles and associated trailers. Change low and high powered golf carts to golf
carts. Simplification of uh standard vehicle weight definition. Change one commercial vehicle shall be counted as two to one. uh that was uh recommended at the 1117 2025 uh meeting. Update utility trailer
definition from not to exceed 16 feet to 14 feet. Update uh standard vehicles side corner lot garage side pad setback from back of curb set back to 5T currently 10. Update standard vehicles
rear and set year rear. Update standard vehicle rear yard setback to five feet. Currently 10 feet. Update uh standard vehicles rear yard set back to five feet. And then update utility trailers front yard set back to 5T. Uh continuing
to page two. Uh update utility trailer side uh corner lot garage side pad set back from back of curb. Uh update minor recreational vehicle side uh corner lock garage pad set back from back of curb. Update major recreational vehicles side
corner lock garage side pad set back from back of curb. Update minor commercial vehicles side corner lock garage side pad setback. Don't worry the uh the uh the um zoning
districts was uh 11 pages long. So bear with me. I'm almost here. It's all good. >> Uh they incorporate alley inside corner lot into um setback measurement. Update surface only concrete or asphalt for driveways and parking areas. Update size
garage um or update C size garage side parking pads may be constructed up to 14 ft wide. Driveway access from single family detached dwelling shall not exceed the width of the garage at the property line maximum 36 ft whichever is
less. Addition of uh driveway permit was recommended at the 11725 meeting. Update vehicle shelters to not permitted. Removal deletion of screening requirements. Update maintenance content for non-parking areas. Addition three of
excluding active construction sites to contracting and excavating equipment. That was recommended from the 11 uh 1725 meeting. Removal of D exception for non conforming status. Removal of four other
unique situations for for special permits. Removal of five, issuance of special permit. Removal of six conditions of the special permit and removal of seven, termination of special permit.
Uh alternatives tonight uh do not approve the recommended change or ordinance 2026 337 or revise deemed necessary by the council for approval of the ordinance of uh 2026 337. Uh Mr. Mayor.
>> All right. Thank you, Cy. Curry, you got anything? >> No, I just thank you to planning and zoning for going through this whole big thing. Jamie. >> Well, planning and loaning started on this one in 2024. So, it's been a while.
Wow. >> There is one thing that was brought up and it was argued back and forth that the zoning level was the maximum number of standard vehicles. Um, for the average household, it's fine, but with for some of these households with three
kids or more, it could be a problem that you're only allowed to have four standard vehicles outside. Now, uh, Commissioner Harding also mentioned that we're limiting the number of vehicles because you have to be paid on a paved surface. So, we had a
different way to limit it on that one. So, it'd be up to council if we want to change that and get rid of that dealing with the fact that paved surfaces are also a limiting factor to vehicles on property. Mhm.
>> And another important thing to note, the parking pad permit is free. It's to make sure it's done right and we don't have any issues down the road. >> That is correct. >> I would actually make note of that in the ordinance that this permit is free
if possible. >> So all parking services needs to be paved. No grade five, >> no class five, no pavers, concrete or asphalt. >> Okay. >> If you want the paver look, you can skip
it. >> If you currently had a paved driveway, you >> grandfathered in legal. >> No, no, it would be. But if they wanted to put a if they wanted to put a parking pad adjacent to it, it would have to be
concrete or asphalt. Provided it doesn't cause any runoff issues. >> All right, Danny, that's all you got? >> No. And then it also notes that uh boats, ATVs, ATV trailers also need to be need to be parked on paved surfaces,
not in your backyard on the grass, not on class 5 on a paved surface. >> So if people currently have like a side parking area with class 5, >> it's grandfather grandfather in but they can't do it from henceforth. Okay.
>> As long as it was pre whenever that ordinance was enacted. Okay. All right, Scott, you got anything? >> Uh, no. The just those couple of questions, so nothing at this time. >> All right, Brian.
>> Nope. I watched the uh the planning and zoning meeting on this. I think due diligence was done. >> All right, entertain a motion. Do we want to change that limiting of four cars or leave it at four cars? is the question for council.
>> There's a lot of big families in town. I think Jamie, you made that point. So, >> I guess if we're requiring paved or concrete asphalt surface, if you can fit six cars on there, I
don't know. I'm fine with that. >> I don't like limiting things because people have cars, >> right? And that's just the driveway. That's not the street, your garage. Right. Property rights. Right. >> Yeah.
>> Mhm. >> So, do we need to make a motion? >> Motion to strike the maximum of four. >> I'll make the motion to strike the maximum of four. >> All right. Motion by Miller. >> Second. >> Second by Vipka. Any further discussion? >> Are we put a number in there or just
>> No. >> No. Just they have to fit on the >> the hard surface covers it, right? >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> I think my Yeah, like you said, Commissioner Harding made that point. >> Yep. >> Makes sense. >> All right. All in favor?
>> I. >> All opposed. >> All right. Now we need Now we need a motion. >> Now make a motion to approve the ordinance. >> I motion to approve the ordinance with the >> revision. Motion by Viska, second by
Warcrian. Any further discussion? Congrats on finally getting this achieved. >> Yeah, two years. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. >> All right. Consider approval of ordinance 2020. >> I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. Just for clarification. So, I have two motions
here. One for uh removing the maximum number of standard vehicles. Um um and then also approval of the ordinance. Uh you did me council member Vipka, you did mention parking pad application fee free. >> Y >> do you want that addition in in there
also just for clarification? >> I would otherwise people aren't going to do it because they think it's going to cost them an arm and a leg when it's actually free and ripping up concrete is not. >> Is that is that on our fee schedule? >> No,
>> it's not. What do we need to do to make it correct? Um, do we need to >> You could leave it as is or you could incorporate in the ordinance. >> Okay. >> Just at some point in time if there was a fee, >> you'd have to amend the ordinance. >> Yeah.
Well, when we put out the like if we make posts about this and things like that, we can just make sure people understand it's free. And then I think we should include that in the fee schedule so people see it's zero because that way >> it is free currently and we've had So we don't
could we could we have it in in the ordinance that um it would be as per the fee schedule. So there's not an actual it doesn't list it there and then it can change on the fee schedule. >> Yeah, you could >> do the other ordinances do that? >> No, >> I think I think we just leave it leave
it out of the ordinance and deal with it on the fee schedule, right? I think it's the easiest way to do it. And then council member uh Miller, you are correct. Uh as far as education efforts go in our social media uh initiative for coming this spring, we do
uh do several posts on spring permitting and this could be a wonderful or a great opportunity saying uh posting that parking pad permits are free. >> Yes. Perfect. I don't think we need to enter it into the ordinance.
>> Okay. maintain uniformity with all the other ones. >> Are you good on that, Corey? >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> All right. Item G. Consider approval of ordinance 2026-338,
an ordinance to regulate cannabis businesses, repeal of ordinance 2024-327, an ordinance regulating cannabonoid products. Uh, Corey Hinsa. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. the public hearing for uh ordinance 2026 338, an ordinance
to regulate cannabis businesses. The repeal of ordinance 2024 327, an ordinance regulating cannab can cannabonoid products, uh was held at the January 26 uh 26 planning commission meeting uh earlier this week. Uh no
publics public comments were received. Uh the planning commission is recommending approval of ordinance 2026 338 an ordinance to regulate cannabis businesses and that's just specifies only to repeal the uh ordinance 20 2024
327 an ordinance regulating cannabid products due to the office of cannabis management has taken over lower potency hemp edible licensing and how they will be issued. Everything that was previously covered in that ordinance or ordinance 2024 327 is accounted for in
ordinance 2025 331 which was approved earlier uh last year um to regulate cannabis businesses. uh the lawn and sale businesses selling lower quality hemp edible uh products will still have to apply to register
with the city uh in accordance to the 2025 3331 ordinance. Alternatives uh do not approve the repeal or do not approve ordinance 2026 338 an ordinance to regulate cannabis businesses which is the repeal of
ordinance 2024 327. Uh Mr. Mayor. >> Awesome. Thank you, Corey. Do you >> um we need to repeal it. The ordinance we wrote last year covers most of this and it is
2024 contradicts legal law on some deals. It was prohibiting delivery of cannabis and that's a license now. And for another part, uh you thought Corey said cannabis a lot now. You should have seen the planning and zoning meeting. He said it 62 times during the meeting and
hemp was said over 20 times. >> Were you keeping like tick marks? >> We were going to play a drinking game, but we couldn't make it through the that part of the ordinance. >> Council member Voska, I'm happy to entertain our audience. >> I don't know if you want to do a drinking game or something else can
>> with the cannibal not be out. >> All right, Scott. >> Uh, I have nothing. Brian, >> uh, no. Again, I watched the, uh, planning and zoning, and I think due diligence was done. >> Carrie, >> thank you to the planning and zoning committee for all the hard work. I know
it's a lot of work to do these revisions and ordinances. So, thank you. >> That's it. >> All right. Entertain a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion by >> second. >> Second by Miller. Any further discussion? All in favor?
>> All opposed? All right. Consider approval of ordinance 2026-339. Planning zone has just been busy. An ordinance amending city code chapter 153 tax 078 off streetet parking loading and
access. Cory Hinsa. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um the redline copy and the uh updated ordinance or is attached in the staff report. Um, the planning commission conducted a a
holistic review of this ordinance uh and is re recommending the following updates to city code 153.078 off streetet loading and access. Um I do want to also note here tonight that this public hearing or uh this public hearing
was also conducted and uh there was additional recommend additional recommendations made to it um at the planning and zoning committee meeting on Monday night. Uh those uh three recommendations have been incorporated
into the redline draft. And I do want to state that um the first one, page one, uh removal of stockpiling of snow from use of parking areas. Two and the second one is page six. Uh
number six, removing all light fixtures shall be downcast. And number three, page 12, removal of extend into the rideway and replace with to replace with to impede traffic on public street or while the trucker van
is being loaded or unloaded. Uh Mr. Mayor, you are at that meeting or you are serving on the planning commission. Those are the three uh recommended changes that we discussed. Um the other which uh you have the revised copies in front of you.
Um I can go through this list again. Uh as far as the recommended changes go, uh page three, removal of um of D. All driveways shall have the minimum width of 10 ft with pavement strength capable of supporting supporting emergency fire
vehicles. Page four, no change. Uh we the the recommendation was to leave this one alone except as allowed by lease agreement approved by the city. The site used for meeting the off- streetet parking requirement shall be under the
same ownership as the principal use being served as under ownership. Uh page four, removal of six, off- streetet parking located more than 500 ft from the main entrance may be allowed with the provision of private shuttle service removal of that. Page four, no
change to seven, um it was recommended to keep that the same. Page five, A1, single family residential dwellings width of the garage of property line of 36 ft uh or
whichever less. Actually, I this is a repeat of what I just uh stated earlier uh with our part um residential uh parking ordinance that we just approved tonight. Uh page five, removal of uh
removal five or or pavers. Uh exceptions one surface allowed per city code 153.07007 uh special parking situations approved by the city engineer or his design. Other materials such as decorative rock,
gravel and bare soil are prohibited. Um removal of the two sale of goods and for stockpiling of snow. Page 12, removal and commercial industrial off- streetet spaces shall be located at least 100 feet from the resident
residential residential district. And page 12, removal of se all loading spaces shall be located in side or rear yard. Uh, ordinance 2026 339 has been intensely
uh covered by the planning and zoning commission. Um, and Mr. Mayor, I'm looking for an approval to uh get this done tonight and approve. We can either approve it or revise as deemed necessary by the city council. Uh Mr. Mayor, >> thank you. Corey Scott, you got
anything? >> Nothing's jumping out at me at the moment. Brian, >> no. Again, due diligence was done. >> Gary, >> just thank you again for all the time spent going through this ordinance to update it. >> All right, Jamie. I think I got
everything I wanted when we did the revisions over the last 6 months. So, >> I'm good. >> And I promised I was not going to say anything the whole time that these ordinances were being proposed tonight. So, I'll entertain a motion.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> I'll make a motion. >> Well, Jamie, uh, the safe goodness did. Okay. You want to make the second? Yes. >> All right. Second by Miller. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. Very good.
Item I consider approval of the city's digital communication policy. Cy. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. The EDA has discussed and requested staff to draft a digital communications policy. Uh, council member Wormer Gersian asked if
council members can have access to and utilize the city's mass notification platform to increase communications with the public. Uh, staff has drafted the the attached policy for the council to review and discuss. A summary of the
proposal uh the digital communication policy is as follows. Intent uh purpose of mass notification messaging, text, email and voicemail is to communicate with citizens and encourage their
involvement, interaction and feedback. Uh social media is not to be used to transact city business unless a disaster uh administered uh in accordance with city's computer use policy which is also attached. Content created belongs to the
city. The city does not create or maintain social media accounts for elected officials. Social med our social media accounts include Facebook, YouTube, city's website and city's mass notification platform.
Definition of social media. Uh sharing and discussing information where users can post photos, uh video, comments, and links to other information to create content on any imaginable topic. policy pertains to city representatives,
including staff and independent contractors. Rules, uh, social media managers responsible for managing city accounts. Council members or department heads submit requests to the city administrator for access to accounts.
The city council should discuss who will have or one of our discussion points tonight is to determine the city council uh to discuss and determine who has access to the accounts. Um all sites need to have posted on them a link to
the city's website. All sites need to have displayed or link provided to a public notice that informs the public of the purpose of the social media presence and terms they agree to by accessing using and posting uh to the city's social media pages.
Compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and proper etiquette. Not to be used to collect resident data or private personal information. Not to not to be used to express personal views or concerns pertain pertaining to the city. Not to
be used to disclose resident residents private personal or sensitive information. Uh besides a disaster, not to be used to transact business, submit permit information, for example. Uh posts are not to be deleted, edited
by the city unless obscene or pornographic. uh threatening or violation of an intellectual property, private personal information posted, public safety compromise, commercial promotion, spam,
hyperlinks to any of the items listed above. If post uh is deleted, the person can appeal to the city administrator as to why the post should not be deleted deleted and compliance with subject to the Minnesota Data Practice Act. uh then
public notice will clearly be displayed on social media site or link provided uh to it. So uh Mr. Mayor uh the proposed digital communications platform was reviewed by the city attorney and uh it is open for discussion tonight. So Mr.
Mayor, >> awesome. Thank you, Cy Brian. So, um I think just to clarify, um within EDA, I brought up the idea of we have a system that's in place with
our our website that we the new website we rolled out was a year ago or two years ago about a year and a half ago. >> Um I used to work in this space. I worked for a competitor to the company that we're using for our website. I'm familiar with the communication tools
available. Um, and my thought was having the ability to different departments, the library, the public works, fire, police, whoever wants it, and potentially if individual council members and the mayor had, you know,
their updates, right? Like a legislative update that you could subscribe to. Um, and my thought was just kind of modeled after what like the legislature does. You know, I'm signed up for multiple lists from different legislators just to follow what the office is doing and you know, they've got their rules and their
guardrails around what they do. And that was kind of my thought with this. I did do some research um to see what other cities do. Um, it doesn't seem like there's a lot that do individual um council and or mayor
um newsletters. It's more of a sign up here for updates from the council. So, just seeing what was out there, you know, like I said, that's that's kind of what the the commonality was. I just threw it out there to see what people's thoughts were because, again, it's, you know, kind of a geek on it because I
worked on it for 10 years. So, I saw what a lot of cities around the the country, actually, frankly, around the world did because we had clients all over the the world that used our system at the municipal level. So, I'd seen that uh you know, like Portland, Oregon, for example, was one of our clients at the time, and they were sending out
individual council members, you know, and these are bigger cities, too, you know, where they're more of a full-time position, those councils um than we are. But, um yeah, that was kind of my thought process behind it. Cory and I did have a conversation after the last
EDA meeting and I volunteered because, you know, we don't really know what our capabilities are 100%. how many we can do, how how the the um um you know what can be attached, can you do you know u
graphical emails, you know, like we get from some of these other subscription services. Um, so I had offered to say, you know, one day if we want, I'll happily come in and help, you know, again, because it's an area I've worked in in the past for a decade, familiar
with the tools and just understand what we can and cannot do with the email. And and I want to be clear, I know it says mass notification, but my thought from the council perspective, whether it be individual council members or the council as a whole, updates from would
be an email and it' be an email list that citizens subscribe to. It's owned by the city. It's not owned by any of us. Um it's not something frankly I I think any of us would want or should have access to the list of the people.
It's just a matter of you create an email, you push a button, and it sends to whoever signed up to that particular list. That's, you know, and again, there's testing that we would have to look at to see. But that's been my experience with these tools in the past. So, um I guess my one question I have
for you Corey at the uh beginning here it said um so we define social medias including the mass notification but it says we don't um
I scroll past it here we don't provide them. So I guess is that contradictory or am I reading that wrong? um city does not create or maintain social media accounts for elected officials which
I I agree you know Facebook X those types of things but city's mass notification if we did say yes we want to do this for individual council members is that a a contradiction by saying
social media accounts defined Facebook YouTube city's website mass notification system So does that mean under this policy we're saying it's not possible >> not possible to >> have individual
email list that people can subscribe to for any of us individually. >> Yeah if the council wanted to do that. >> But is that what this is say? Is that how the policyy's written as presented here? I guess is my question. >> Yeah. At the end of page one, it says
the city does not create or maintain social media accounts. And but >> I think that's more so if you went out and created your own Facebook site. We're not right. >> We're not going to provide that. >> Yeah, absolutely. And I I Yeah, I think that's absolutely 100% >> and the mass notification comes from the
the city's website. >> Okay. Because it says, you know, social media account include right under that. So, I just want to make sure if we decide that we want to do that, we're not in violation of the policy or we would have to >> we could add it. Um, and that was one of the comments from the the city attorney
that, you know, does it really need to be included? >> And it probably doesn't hurt to include it. >> Okay. >> But, um, it would not need to be included. >> True. Okay. You know what I mean? >> The social media is more so for like communication back and forth, posts,
you know, >> where the >> uh the city's website. Yes. We're getting information out, but there's not a >> you know, >> two-way street. >> Exactly. Yeah. And I don'tification would be the same. >> Yeah. It's not a two-way street, right?
I mean, I'm assuming some people can try to reply, but it's usually like a do not reply type of >> you only reply. >> Yeah. I mean, they go they go somewhere. I know they go somewhere because again, >> yeah, they they go somewhere and somebody can access them if they want to, but generally it's it's more or less
a black hole when you reply to some of those emails. Um, but uh uh yeah, so I just that's kind of where I was coming from with with the question that I brought up. Um, and again, like I said, I did some research and and in Minnesota, I don't
see that there's a ton that have the individual members at the municipal level. Uh it's mostly council updates as a whole. Um but I don't know. I I just thought I'd throw it out there because, you know, again, one, I've worked in it,
and two, you know, I I see it from legislators and and I like getting those updates to kind of get a feel for what are the priorities coming out of that particular office. um um just kind of throw it out there to
see what other people think and and if uh I mean it it does create more work for us individually because I don't expect staff to be >> creating these things by any means but uh um curious to hear what other people think. >> All right, Curry. >> Well, I have my Miller Lansdale City
Council page on Facebook, but I don't have a lot of followers. So, it's kind of sad because I share the agendas and info. So, I don't know. I wouldn't mind having some kind of an email list to do quarterly updates or if there's something big going on, it'd be kind of
nice to push it out to people who are interested. Um, my main thing underneath the post are not to be a little deleted and edited by the city unless for the threatening if we can just update that spelling. And then could we include something about harassment
because I it could be considered threatening but I think harassment is pretty much its own category nowadays. Um just I think it's really important because it's I know about the harassment piece and it's
just it's not something that should just be sitting out there on a city post if it is truly harassment. So I don't know if we can do that. Uh, we could confirm with the the city attorney. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Otherwise, I think it looks good. >> Hey, Jamie. >> I didn't notice in the employee handbook it still references MySpace. For all these young people out there, MySpace was before Facebook and Tom was your
friend automatically. >> Everybody loved Tom. >> Not this time. No life. >> You weren't alive yet. >> Yes, I was. Yes, I was. Come on. I still got to hear on my chest. >> But um
other than that, I know from personal experience with um social media, you can campaign from one page, but once you become an elected official, you cannot campaign from your social media page. you can only use that for information
and when you go back to campaigning you have to use your other page. So that's why you'll notice a lot of politicians have two or more social media accounts on the same platform. That's all I got.
>> All right, Scott. Um, as to K's point about the threatening harassment, I kind of agree with that. Um this also this um the social media aspect for like Facebook and stuff that's all uh all be backed up via the
the archiving system. >> Correct. Yes, we have archive social. >> Okay. That's what it was. So that anything anything that would be removed or whatever would be documented and for whatever whatever we would need. Okay. >> Um yeah. And I don't know that I'm I'm a
huge fan of individual uh individual council members having having it not not anything wrong with it. I I just have a hard hard time un with the understanding of why based on the the smaller scale that we're operating in.
So that's all. >> Yeah. You know, and I view mass notifications as emergency service and I'd hate to see it get diluted. Um, newspapers have columns, you know, and
everybody gets the newspaper. Um, you know, then we also have our own uh social medias that we could use, too. And Happenings is always there if you want to go on it. >> Woohoo. >> Um, but I I really think the mass notification should be reserved for
public works or police department, fire department. Um, I get those alerts too from people that I didn't know. I even subscribe to as far as politicians go and I just do not even look at them and do not read them.
And when we uh start assessing this mass notification for emergency services, I don't want residents to just think it's another alert from the mayor or somebody else, I I want them to be able to look at it and say, "Oh, I got a gas leak for me or there's a fire next to me or road
closures or off- streetet parking." So I I have a hard time chewing on that. I I think that it's a good idea if you want to do it on your own. Um and then build up your own contact list. I think that's great. Um keep people
informed, but I don't really see a reason. >> So, I just want to clarify one thing though. This is something that we specifically were looking at when we were reviewing this website, this functionality. Um these are opt-in
lists. and we have the ability to create separate lists. Um, we just had, it was going to be something I was going to bring up in my council report, but we just had a strategic planning session with Celco for the library. And one of the big things that we got out of the community survey from that was people
wanted something that they could subscribe to from the library. And this I think we're confusing mass notification with emergency notification because they're two separate things. So we can create different lists for different subject matter and people opt
into the ones they want. So this isn't something that everybody in Lndale is going to get pushed to. It's you go onto the website, you click the link to sign up for the ones that you want and like the library I think absolutely should do this based on what we're hearing from our survey, our community survey and our
strategic planning. Um, so I think, you know, just to kind of clarify what we're talking about here, not text messaging. Text messaging is reserved for those emergency notifications for, you know, city works, for fire, for police, but
email is another piece to the mass notification. I think the terminology is kind of clouding the waters here. Um, and we can have multiple lists. We can have one for every department. I mean, we can have I I'm sure there's a limit, but I know
it's based on my conversations with city staff, it's been seems like it's a pretty high limit where we're we're not going to run into any problems with the number of departments that we have. And again, it's an optin. So, these are these are people that are going to the
website for specific information. Um, so to say that we should limit it to just police, fire, and city works, you know, ignores the liquor store. potentially we could be pushing out specials monthly from the liquor store using the the email list. People can sign up for that.
Um the the library absolutely again the community survey said there's an appetite from the community that wants some sort of an email list to sign up to. So I think we should keep that in mind. >> I think that's fine. I just don't see
the need for council members. I I would like the department heads to run their departments. >> Yeah. >> Um that's where I was specifically coming from. >> I think we should have a council one though, like a general council one. If you look at Apple Valley, Burnsville,
Lakeville, I went to all of them. >> They all have a a list you can sign up for updates from the council. If nothing else, we can be pushing out the the packets to the community because there's oftentimes there's a lot in the packets that isn't available to the
community when they come into the room and pick it up here. So that way they can have that digital copy of the packet. Um, you know, like I said, I just wanted to throw it out for for thoughts on what people thought about if we do the individual ones. And I'm not married to any of it, but I do think we should have a council one
where we're at least, if nothing else, pushing out the Monday before a council meeting. Here's the packet. >> Well, I think that as far as the packet goes, that's amending chapter 30 of our city code. Um, but then also making sure
that we can have that. Uh, I think we can do it now. I don't I don't know the details as far as the website and what um you know how much storage space we need on it if we need to increase it or
>> Yeah, we can figure it out if the council wants to pack it. >> Yeah, I I think that'd be good. I know every other city has it on the websites and um we can absolutely do that, but uh just kind of curious what the price
point is for that communication that you're >> It's part of our website, so there's no additional cost to this. Something we've already paid for. Yeah, like I said, we can definitely
check if there's a max amount of megabytes or or whatever that um but yeah, I guess it' be similar to uploading the the agenda, correct? >> Okay.
Well, what does council want to do here? I think I'm good with it if with the addition of the items that I mentioned. >> I'm sorry. What was that? >> I'm good with it with the addition of the item that I
>> Okay. >> talked about. >> Is that a motion? >> Sure. I'll make the motion. I didn't know. I wanted to make sure everybody know. >> Can you clarify that item again, please? the I'm adding um with threatening and harassment
including harassment. >> All right, you got a second. >> I second the adding harassment and I agree with Brian adding for the liquor store and library makes sense. I don't know about individual council members, but probably putting the agenda
up on the website wouldn't be a bad idea because I do get asked that all the time, especially the packets. >> All right, motion is seconded. Any further conversation? Entertain a motion.
>> You We have the motion, right? >> Oh, sorry. God, >> it's been a long day. All right. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? >> All right. And then uh >> So, Mr. Mayor, that was a motion to be
adding harassment to the content to the policy. Correct. Correct. That's what we just um was approved. Perfect. Thank you for the clarification. >> All right. Uh, let's go to acknowledgement of a Minnesota lawful
gambling LG220 application for the exempt permit for the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 586 Joel Ericson. >> All right. Since the last or since the packet went out earlier this week, I did receive the uh LG220 application for exempt permit that is on the DAS uh
submitted by the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 586. They are looking at conducting a raffle at uh the American Legion on March 28th, 2026. I'm not aware of any reasons not to uh
acknowledge the uh application uh with no waiting period. >> All right. With this one, I I'll just entertain a motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion by Miller. >> Second. Second by V. Any further discussion? >> All in favor?
>> All opposed? Item K, discuss consideration for a joint council and EDA meeting and priorities. Joel Ericson, >> uh, at our last EDA meeting, um, we talked about incentives and kind of priorities and vision and there was
discussion about meeting with the council to, um, I guess talk, communicate with each other what, uh, each board's visions, goals, priorities are. and then also um incentives. So um wanted to
bring this up to the council to see if there was a a date um that would work for you guys and if it was at a regular council meeting or uh a work session, but um would recommend that there be some type of meeting even if not all the
uh EDA members can can attend. Um, but I think it's important that there be some type of uh meeting and communication between the council and the EDA on kind of a economic development vision.
>> All right, Jamie, >> I'm all for it. It's been a long time since that's happened, so we should probably make that happen again. >> Yeah, a good idea on a on a date or an idea here. me or >> Yeah.
>> next council meeting maybe. >> Okay. >> Or shortly thereafter. >> Would it be Oh, sorry. I'm trying. >> Like could we meet at like 6 as a group to have the work session before the council meeting?
>> I guess we just depends on the council schedule. Okay. Staff's here. >> Coming in early really makes it hard for me. >> Okay. Okay. All right, Scott. >> Uh, no, I agree that we we should have that um as far as timing.
Um, yeah, during a meeting or, you know, if we need a special date, I'll just have to, you know, we'll have to see what it looks like. I don't My my meeting schedules are pretty filled up for this month. All
right, Brian. >> Um, I guess I'm kind of ambivalent on it. Um, this was something that the EDA members were kind of like, "Hey, we just think maybe a work session where we can all get on the same page." That
was kind of the message I got I got from it. Um Um, you know, just to to kind of get the feel for understanding what each is looking for. Um, so I almost feel like a work session would probably be a better
um a better meeting than say, "Hey, come to a council meeting." Um, just because I don't know how much time. I mean, I guess I I I can't give you a feel for how much time this would take because again, this is something that other members of the EDA were talking about
like I'd really like to do this, sit down, kind of all get on the same page. It's been a while since we've all talked, that sort of thing. So, I feel like a work session is probably what would be best, but um again, I'm pretty ambivalent. I I'll go along with
what works for everybody else >> or the EDA meets the third Thursday at 7 a.m. >> Yeah, I mean, there's that. >> We'll be there. >> I mean, we could we could just have the council come to EDA meeting. I mean, we we've done that before where EDA went to
somebody else's meeting to do a joint and >> quit proquo, right? Joel, do we have an update on the market study analysis for the commercial office retail space? >> Uh, right now, uh, Maxfield is working on that.
>> Okay. Um, right around a month or two, month and a half. >> I think they said from when they start 45 days. >> Okay. because I I think that that would be perfect to try to plan around because that will have a bunch of detail uh to
go through but then also we can discuss our zoning map comp plan uh our comprehensive 20 240 plan uh we can go through the new design standards. Um and then we can go through available
land whether it's the city owned or you know of course if it's uh FNB. So I I I do see this being a rather large conversation. Um, so I I think
bringing back work sessions would be a good idea for this year because I do know that we should have one with uh public works um with Joe Dorfeld. I was talking about the getting back to work sessions and getting you involved again. So
when uh hopefully that next council meeting maybe we might have a date for that market study analysis if it it's going to be there in a week or two or >> Yeah, I can follow up with them. Like I said, I believe it was
45 days from when they got the go-ahad. So >> all right, >> should be in the next couple weeks. Well, should we tenatively schedule something in March because it looks like February will be
that's already next week and I I think it should be a separate meeting, a work session, not combined with the council meeting. Just my personal opinion was I agree.
>> Yeah. Okay, let's do that then. Um, let's try to get a March date next or uh that February 12th meeting, bring it up for discussion to see if we can land a date on that for a work session.
>> Okay, that should give them enough time to see what they have. available too. >> And if anybody from EDA is listening, if you don't make it, it's no big deal, but we'd love to see you there. >> The next EDA meeting is not till the 19th, just FYI
>> of February. >> Yeah, >> that works perfect. We can just float it to him on the on the 19th after meeting on the 12th. Okay. All right. Did you catch that, Joel? I denied to
get my charger. >> Work session. >> Work session. Uh council, let's have a discussion on this on the 12th. Just a brief discussion for scheduling a date for March. Um after
that 12th meeting on the 19th, you can take it up with EDA and see if that date works for them and then provide a follow-up update with the next regular council meeting. So, the council's going to talk about it on the 12th.
>> Yep. >> And then EDA after that. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Give them an update. See if it works for them. >> And then the 26 finalize it. >> Yeah. >> Are we going to finalize it on the 12th?
>> Okay. Well, cuz what if we want to hear from them, too? do what they do for planning and zoning when we need a special meeting. Just email EDA for their ideas on a date right now or next week. >> Yeah, that would work.
That'd work. So, be looking at meeting in March or >> I just cannot do the first Thursday of the month because I cannot miss another auxiliary meeting. Okay. Okay.
All right, department and council reports. Joel, I'm going to let you kick it off over there. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the council. Um, today we finished up helping uh fire chief Joe Pumper had a request for
getting some parking lines on the floor at the fire department. Got that all done. They look great. Um, we've had a safety meeting um and a safety training at public works. Um, and what we've just been doing with the cold weather is going through our mock ocean inspection list.
Um, those lists that we get at public works are kind of reoccurring. So, we just keep pulling them up and just making sure everything's tidy. Been working on getting some quotes for the air raators. working with uh John with Bolton Mink with the wastewater treatment plant
facility study to expedite of um that part of the study to give the council a letter of recommendation so that um we have confidence and backing in the decision with the airators that are selected. I've received quotes for bugs for the bio augmentation.
Um I was absent from the last meeting but what a change in weather we've had. We went from melting the entire rink to starting over and it is been subzero. So, it is back and ready for skating. If you can brave the cold, go out and
skate. The JC lights are working. Um, got calls on two frozen water lines around town. Assisted them in the right directions. They both thought out. Um, it is reporting season. Uh, hats off to Jordan. We've been looking at compost
annual report, homeland security, empires, ESP water, the chloride variance progress report, DNR report. I'm sure it's leaving a few of them out of there, but uh it's a lot of information to get together um for the
whole year. So, those are all completed. Um coming up here, unfortunately, the dead ash trees that we have around the parks did not explode in the cold. So, we have to uh cut them down. So, we'll be working on that. Uh just getting
ready for spring with some banner bracket repairs. And another shout out uh to my guys. I got the best guys in the world. Um thinking outside the box, getting some repairs done to our snow equipment, just things around the shop. So, good job, guys. That's all I got for you.
>> Thank you, Joe. All right, Corey. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to report that the uh founders day advisory board web page has been created and um and is function functioning. Uh
city staff or the city administrator and I met with Sophie and Steven Orlick for our introduction meeting. Uh they are new social media contractors for the city. Uh I want to point out that Sophie is also the chair of the founders day committee. So, she is heavily invested
in uh that fundraising right now for the fireworks display. And then uh making several changes uh to ordinance 2026 340, an ordinance amending uh city code 153 uh.040
zoning districts. And uh that public hearing is coming up at the next uh planning and zoning commission in on February 23rd of next month. So, Mr. mayor. >> Thank you, Cory. Thank you, Joel. >> Uh, I'll echo what the public works
director said, year end, beginning of year reports. Uh, we got our fireboard meeting on Monday night. Uh, touch base on social media. We had our monthly public works meeting. Um, assisting staff as needed. Um, we closed on our third housing rehab
grant. Um, we met with our state rep. Christy Purcell on our bonding bill request uh last week and coming up we've got a meeting with First National Bank on investments and uh liquor committee next week and be looking at renewing our
franchise agreement with Centerpoint Energy. >> All right. Thank you, Joel. Brian, >> so uh it's been busy since last um council meeting. Uh EDA met on the 15th for the first time this year. We talked
about a bit about that. Um library board was rescheduled from the 21st because of weather. We had a a lot of people that couldn't make it so we weren't going to have quorum. So we met last night. Um big uh highlights from
that uh we had the Celco stakeholders planning as I mentioned earlier on the 14th. Um uh thank you to Celco for their help with this. Uh basically we we had a bunch of stakeholders together. So staff, library board, some of the volunteers for the library were were
involved in that. You know, just kind of a review of the survey. Um the results of that survey and then brainstorming some some long-term planning uh for the library. Um next step is Celco kind of puts together the
framework. So they wireframe it, send it over to staff. Staff puts the meat on the bone, so to speak, and then it'll be presented to the library board for, and this is not like 10 year long-term planning. This is like three to five year long-term planning. Um, it hasn't been done for a while, but this is a
service that Celico provides as as uh um membership with that group. So, thank you to them. Um, winter reading programs underway. participation's been good so far, both from the adults and and kids. Um, a lot of things got rescheduled last
week due to the cold, cancelled andor rescheduled. Um, and the big thing is the book sales coming up February 19th through the 21st. So, the library is now accepting donations of books, people, if you got books you want to get rid of, you've read them, they're just sitting on your shelf, bring them to the
library. It'll go into the book sale. It's all for a good cause. It helps to fund all the great programming and special collections that the library does. So, um, also volunteer signups. So, if you're interested in volunteering to help with the book sale, it's easy
work. Volunteer for an hour, maybe two, whatever. Um, you know, essentially work the cash table, help people find things, help set up beforehand, that kind of stuff. I've done it myself. I'll be doing it again. It's It's not hard. It's fun. The people are great. Go volunteer
at the library. Um, and then another thing to mention is Carlton College History Department in conjunction with the Rice County Historical Society are sponsoring a wish wall which is up at the library right now. Um, I know Car you shared something on Facebook. Thank
you. Um, it's a board that people can add a card with their wish for the 250th anniversary of the United States. So, just encourage people to go out there and add to the wish wall. Again, this is something that's going to be collected and and displayed with the Rice County
Historical Society and uh you know, in conjunction with Carlton College History Department. So, um there's that. And then uh yeah, again, as Joel mentioned, we met with Representative Christy Purcell in regard to our um our bonding
request. I did follow up with a phone call to Senator Liski after that meeting and just said make sure you connect because she's looking for the House companion bill to the Senate bill that he says is drafted and ready to go. So day one that'll be the first bill that
uh Senator Lisky will be dropping into the hopper for us is that bonding bill. Um and then Saturday I did the uh welcome for the American Legion District 3 winter conference. just welcome to Lndale. Um, it was Saturday morning. It
was quick in and out. So, thank you to uh all the American Legion people that came for that uh winter conference, Brave the Cold. I told him to come out again when it's a little warmer and we have the fountain going at the Veterans Park. It's a lot nicer to see at that time.
And then uh Tuesday was the um chamber dinner. So, nice job was done by the chamber. Uh, good event. Had fun attending that. Congratulations to Rail 19, uh, new business of the year. Our revival
business of the year, Mark Sevenaller, volunteer of the year, and the Lawndale Ambassadors, um, nonprofit, I think, or charitable organization of the year. So, congratulations all the winners. Welld deserved. Um, and it was a good time. It was fun to see everybody out there.
>> And that's all I got. >> All right. Thank you, Curry. All right. So, on the 12th, uh, parks met and we basically just went over the community survey details, um, and just kind of looking ahead. And then we had the
founders day committee meeting after that. And as, um, Corey has mentioned multiple times, we're really excited about, we have some new donations that just came in. Um, anybody can donate to the cause and there are different sponsorship levels for recognition if
you are interested. Um, and I'm we're posting it all over um Facebook right now through the city page. Thanks to Sophie and Stephen taking on that new role. Um, Tuesday, thanks again to the chamber for the dinner. Um, and congrats to all the winners of the awards and I'm
especially thankful for the Lonzale ambassador since I'm part of them. So, um, and then Tuesday night coming home from the dinner, Joe, uh, Joel, the ice rink was packed at like 9:30 p.m. It was packed. It was so cool to see. So, good
job on that ice. And >> yeah, I'm just thankful to be here in Lndale. That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you, Curry. Jamie, >> uh, planning and zoning met on Monday and we had two public hearings which were both brought to council. One thing
to note is the cannabis repeal. We don't repeal ordinances too often in town and that is huge. We also, and I would have liked to burn it, but they said it smud off the smoke alarms and the sprinklers, so we won't do that. But feel free to
print your own copy at home and use it as rolling papers. We also finished up with the design standards for all the business districts. That has been a long time coming and it's 48 pages and we wanted
consistency. So, we went over it and over it and we beat it with the stick and we hope it's consistent now. It's going to public hearing at the next meeting. >> All right. >> And we also briefly touched on accessory
structures. We are going to bring that up at the next meeting and we are going to work on making it so the small plastic sheds do not get a fee. >> That's all I've got. >> All right. Very good. Thank you, Jamie. got
>> uh as Brian said, uh EDA met last week. Uh Morgan Kinsson joined the joined the uh EDA. Um congratulations to Brian who was elected the president of the EDA. Um
covered a lot of that information already. And then uh the safety committee met and we reviewed the uh library uh from the uh the Mac O walkthrough and then the liquor store.
So those items were all reviewed and uh identified uh how they are going to be corrected. So and uh Tuesday night was the chamber dinner. Thank every thank you to everyone that attended. Um uh Shana was uh a little little harried
there. We had a little bit of a logistics nightmare with uh some food and whatnot, but it turned out okay. Everybody got to eat and uh and uh it was good to see so many people out there. So, thank you all for coming. >> All right. Thank you, Scott. And
congrats on you becoming vice chair for EDA. Thank you. Uh big shout out to the all the winners and uh thank you for the chamber for putting that on. Um it was a great time and really appreciate it and thank you to uh Great Wrench and the
Snow Wizards for your donations. Um I did it I did have time to attend the Lonso Library and Rice County Historical Historical Society wish wall. >> Oh, I did too. I think >> and you were there. Yeah. >> And um that's pretty cool. I think they got it up for uh a month or so,
>> like midFebruary. >> Yeah. I I asked the question on the end date and nobody seemed to have one. So, >> they kind of said like midFebruaryish. >> Yeah. >> It'll be up there for a bit. >> Yeah. >> And then um spoke with the uh developer on Tuesday
about possibly building a 50,000 foot building on 5 acres of land in the business park on the city owned land. Um, this is going to be uh a big ordeal um if it happens and uh it'll be a hot ticket item if it comes up under
contract. Uh there are no incentives that are being discussed on the table, just land price and finding anchor tenants. Um and then two really big things to announce. Uh we did receive the full $182,000 that was applied for the community fund
project for body cams and squad cams for police department along with encrypted radios for the fire department. U massive shout out to all the city staff, you know, Joel Pumper and Jason Schmidtz and and also Joel Ericson. And um I know
that was a rather difficult application at first, but uh we ended up getting it done. And uh big thank you to Angie Craig and her staff and and also you had Amy Kolashar and Tina Smith even sign on to it and support the funding to pass the Senate and then our President Donald
Trump signed the appropriations into law. So it's a very big win whenever you bring in that kind of money back into the city of Londale. Um that was equivalent to a 5.7% tax levy and we were able to avoid it. Um, so I'm excited for the police
officers and the fire department and, uh, you guys are going to have to let me know how it all goes. But then also, uh, the city of Lonzville is officially welcoming Dayton Freight to the business park. Dayton purchased, uh, 16.2 acres into the business park along with dispatch trucking. Um, this is a very
exciting moment for the city. We kept this tight due to the wishes of Dayton COO. Main reason being is there is two locations Lakeville and Stewartville that are going to be re relocated here in Lville which is roughly going to be coming in with 70 jobs. Again, it was a
private transaction between GPM Ldale LLC in Dayton that was encouraged by us. All the land south of Commerce um and along with dispatch is currently closed on. We will be waiting for uh concept plans, preliminary and final plat
applications to come our way. will always solicit uh community feedback with that. Um there's a lot of things to discuss with this, especially the Highway 19 mill and overlay, which uh our senator Bill Lisky and Representative Christie Purcell both
acknowledged and are willing to work with us on. Um so just, you know, loose concept, the uh service center will be on commerce between TMI and Scanner Filtration. Dispatch will be remodeled and becoming a maintenance shop. and the
land off of Pond View will be an overflow for trailers and tractors along with a retention pond. Uh they have been phenomenal to work with up to this point. So, um I'm really excited for this moment. Uh we saw it with Quick Drip. Uh they like to have the land for
a year. Um Dayton kind of likes to do the same thing, especially since they have multiple locations throughout the nation where they're buying land and and doing these projects. So, the earliest um that we heard was 2027. Um that could
change in time, but that's a really big win for the city. So, I want to thank uh Joel Ericson especially for hanging with me on it, and this has been keeping me up late at night for the last nine months. But, um it's just good to see business
coming here to town. Um with that, I'm going to keep it short and that's all I'm going to say. So, our upcoming meetings are February 12th, 2026 at 7 p.m. and February 26
uh at 7 p.m. So, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion by Miller. >> Second. >> Second by Palava. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? This meeting is now
adjourned. Thank you. Have a good night.