agenda didn't change at all. Uh just I'm just going to um add that um market study that I got here um later. Correct. Y All right, sit up straight.
I mean, we're at 50 or 100. No noise, Joe. We narrowed it down to jail. No laptops. All right, we're ready. Hello everyone and welcome to the city
council meeting tonight, Thursday, June 26, 2025. Call to order this meeting. Can all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of 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 Wmer here. Kyrie Miller here. Tom Berg here. James Oipka here. And Scott Palava here. All right. Thank you. Approval of the
agenda. Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda? We need to add Oh. Um, mayor, I'd request that um consider approval of a market assessment for market rate rental units submitted by Maxfield in the
amount of $5,600 be added to the agenda. We make that item E. Motion to approve with that addition. Second. All right. First seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All oppose. All right.
Approval of the minutes. Consider approval of the minutes from the June fall 2025 regular meeting. Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections to the minutes? Motion to approve. Motion by Miller. Second. Second by Palava. Any further
discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. There are no public hearings. So, presentation of citizen petitions and comments. Comments limited two minutes. So if you're not on the agenda, now is your time to speak.
Okay, seeing none, approval of the consent agenda. Uh we have items A through E. Uh they are as followed. Monthly and additional bill treasures report board and commission minutes. Consider approval of a certification of an on-site liquor license and Sunday
liquor license submitted by the American Legion and consider approval of resolution 2025-29. Um, does anybody want any of these items removed to discuss during new business? Uh, mayor, the only thing that I would
um add is that the uh American Legion has not provided the required certificates of insurance. So, um if if approved, it would have to be uh approved contingent upon uh receiving those and staff would not issue that
license until we receive the required certificates of insurance. Okay. Um I will seek a motion for that. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with that addition of meeting the certificates of insurance.
All right. Motion by Miller. Second. Second by one excursion. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. Motion carries. On to old business discuss city compensation
study. Tess in Melvin. Um, I can take the the lead on this. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. 18th, I believe it was. Um, some questions that that came up um during those meetings. Uh, Tesla and I were able to connect after our our
budget meeting and uh address the concerns that um that the council had. Essentially, they were uh longevity uh moving the library director to grade 12, placing the police officers on grade 11, uh making and then the the main
thing was making sure that no employees were in the red when it came to uh min and max salaries and year 10 uh compared to the benchmark communities. So, uh, included in the supplemental packet that I I sent out, uh, earlier
this week, it shows on the left kind of the or the positions and then the, uh, current with the red, white, and and green. And then as proposed, you can see that no one is in in the red. And I
think every employee uh for is between um as a minimum of 95% of the minimum for the benchmark and up to about 140% of the the max benchmarks. Overall uh the city's proposed pay scale min is
107% of the benchmarks at step 10 112% and then maxed out we have piece of information that was provided is a spreadsheet showing uh everyone's current grade and step pay and then uh proposed for uh each of those and then
also the proposed pay scale which was cut four add two then I also included our current pay scale for comparison. So, at this time, if the council has any questions or followup or wants to, I
guess, discuss any specific employees and their uh placement, now would be the time. Thank you, Joel. Uh Brian, I'm gonna kick this off with you. there's anything that uh you want to add or
No, I don't think so. Um, thank you for providing this breakdown. Um, save me a lot of time. I was actually going to hand write this out myself. This is this is I think it it addresses some of the numbers that I was
originally concerned with in our last discussion. All right. Thank you, Brian Curry. I don't have any questions that came out. Nothing at this point. So, I got a couple questions. Um, on the
left here, Joel, did you make this grade or this grid with the current employees you proposed? Yes. Okay. So, is that they are at as of right now. Correct. Okay.
Because my concern has always been, well, you know, we're taking away four steps and then we're adding two steps, but then people are moving back steps. And compared to this, I go through the liquor store staff and and I get the whole percentage
game with min and max and then the step 10. But I mean, I also look at this as the purview of this is not 100% to the top city that we pick. This is basically right in the middle line, the 50% of all communities. Correct. And so my thing is
is how can we get a competitive edge? And I I do have concerns looking even at the liquor store staff because I mean, you know, some of them are going 5'5 to 52 or 65 to 63.
Um public works, you know, we got guys that are taking steps back. And I do want to acknowledge, you know, tenure, that's a big thing. Has this gone to the committee that was developed for this pay increase?
Uh we had a working group uh meeting and we did go over what what was proposed. Yep. And kind of how they would move into the system. Um and we didn't go like line by line by like by employees, but we explained that when you cut it, how it would work. We kind of gave some
scenarios um and discussed that. And you make good points. I mean, you could argue that you're going backwards, but your max is growing. Um, you know, some would say I should stay on the same step, and you could do that. I mean, we could run that number,
but it would be a significant increase to the city. So, what we try to do is move those that were in the pink out of the pink and they're going to, you know, not be as far along as they should either. And if you were sitting kind of where you were supposed to,
yeah, the steps went, but you have room to grow, that helps their top five, you know, some of those things as well. But, um, if that's a concern, then I would say you need to be consistent all the way through then and look at longevity and like cut it off at like,
you know, 10 year. If you've been here five years, then you move another. Do you know what I mean? Push them through. Um, something like that. And maybe that's something us as a city or HR committee needs to really kind of go through as well. Sure. And you know, you're doing your job where it's making
sure we got green and you know, Midmax and your step 10. Um the one question that I also had was as far as the uh police officers, you know, we got them on grade 11 and our newest officer is
starting at step five where it's like, well, how can we up a grade because there was six at that time that were not used. And my thing was is how can we get a grade where our starting officer is
step one and then we have that amount of steps between, you know, our longer employed officers, you know. Sure. So I I kind of wondered about that instead of So I just want to ask you back just to make sure I understand what you're
asking. So they're basically your concern is they're coming into a grade 11 and the lowest one would be coming in at step five. Is that correct? Yeah. So our starting wage um the first three steps on grade 11 don't exist um in the
current pay scale that Oh, you mean? Yep. Yeah. And so I mean one way of looking at that is you could like gray them out for their contract. We just wanted to include it in one pay grid so that it's for the city. Um, and then
they got the adjustment that everyone else did and they we moved them along instead of just waiting till the next contract. Um, it would be so you could do it that way or you have room then for probation officer, you know what I mean? Coming in part-time. You can kind of
determine where they start on there and that's kind of by the hiring process. Um, but there's a couple ways of dealing with that if that's a big concern. We just wanted to because for pay equity when we look at it, we build one grid and we try to keep everyone on there because when they go and do their own
thing, then pay equity says, "Well, how come if you're an 11 and you're an 11, they're different. So, we tried to get them all back into the same um grid while still benefiting them and making sure that everything else was in line with the market.
I mean the best way would be for you to say we have unlimited funding and we create a whole new grid and we place everyone on there by their years of tenure but unless somebody found that I don't think that's how it us you know that's not how it's happens for implementation usually you try to move
them into the grid closest step to making sure it benefits we even said everyone would at least get a step so we tried to address the you know cut ad because you guys have done that in the past and I get as an employee, that can be frustrating, but at least you're updating your grid because the worst
would be to sit and be behind. Um, you know what I mean? So, I get that. But unless there's an unlimited funding to say, I was at a five and I should be at a five, that's just a lot of money for the city. So, that's how we try to do it. But, if you have money or concerns,
we can always look at that and set a, you know, we're going to move them one more step or push them through. Yeah. My my concern is is when we go and put advertise for a job position, we offer from this from this, but then when we
have people that are tenure and they're not even close to the top of it, I mean, sure, I feel like that's misleading. Well, and and usually when you hire, you usually have like a range too that you would hire. So, you probably wouldn't
start a new person at step 10 or they would leapfrog and then that would cause an internal issue. Um, so, but yeah, it I I get that. I've had employees that their max goes up $5 and they're upset because I was at a step 10
and now I'm at a step eight. But I'm like, your max is growing and you'll keep growing. Um, it's just that I don't know when the pay grid got out of whack, so I'm just trying to correct it today. Yeah, I hear you. I I had a question related
to that. Joel, um, you said that when you we advertise for positions, we have to put down what the what the minimum and maximum is. Correct. Correct. Now, is that based on the position overall or just based on the anticipated
uh grade they would be in? uh it would so what I do is I put the um whatever grade they're on the min and the max but so that it's not misleading because everyone wants right they put the applications in you know we want at the top so then then they also put um
anticipated starting wage as well so so they have some idea sure and like the police you could start it at that and I and just so I'm clear when I when I said that it's it's not Londale it's just I see it everywhere Oh yeah, I don't want
to fall into that voluntary thing too. So um I I think we do have a lot of tenure here. Um but uh I understand it it was the pay scale itself and the and the grade that
was really focused on. Um so what's the next step after this? Is this implementation recommend? You know, if you wanted to start it, I my recommendation would be just to start it with a full pay period because otherwise payroll is going to be um you know, so
then it's just, you know, payroll is is normal. Yeah. One one question I I do have that I recalled I asked last council meeting was that grade 18 um you know you look at step 12 and that is
the only step that um it's kind of essentially the highest rate. So then step 11 is still less than step 12 on grade 17. Does that make sense? Mhm. Um but all the other ones it
seems to be there's there's at least like three or four step increases um to make that grade like more of an improvement. So I I guess my question is is with grade 18 from when we went
through the slideshow that grade 18 made sense for this because it was at that point, you know, significantly more than this one. But why why is why was that so different
from this? And why does it seem like when you're step seven or step 12, grade 17, the only place you can go for a raise is grade 18, step 12? Like you you're going from maxed out to maxed out. Yeah. So the reason for that is
grade 18 we basically added so that we could move the public works and the police, do you know what I mean? To the 17. So we just kind of moved that to adjust the city administrators rate. So textbook would say all of your grades should have probably a 10% between them.
But when you start to take your current grid and then you look at the market, you try to match the two and it's never pretty. So there is like you could say there is compression. So we could make it a bigger percent so there would be room. But if I'm a grade 17 like the
public works director, I'll be maxed out at that 17 unless my job changes. Do you know what I'm saying? So you wouldn't move to the next grade just because you got maxed out. Okay. So the whole point of like a step system is you start
generally at step one, but it could be anywhere based on hiring and you move through annually if you're meeting expectations and then eventually you'll hit the max. But if you're moving with the market, you never quot maxed out because as you do cola adjustments, the
grid keeps changing. Do you know what I mean? you're always getting that cola and you kind of keep moving that way. Um it's just when you um don't do something for a while or the market track, you know, changes significantly.
Is there anything like for um longevity um like a separate little table or something for longevity increases in addition to the steps? Like so if somebody's been here 8 years, would they could they potentially get
like another 84 cents an hour? I'm just throwing I have no idea what it would be. Sure. If you do like a longevity pay, some instances will do that. So some will either say once you get maxed out then it's maybe a percent or cent. Do you know what I mean? Like 50 cents
or something like that. Some will do like you, let's just say you maxed out at year 12, they'll say at 14 here's another increase. But that would be like longevity. So that's something that wasn't included, but correct. If you wanted to, we definitely could look at it. Typically, it's I mean, everyone
does it a little bit different. So I could give you a couple of options if that's something you want to consider like how other entities do it. I think it would just be something good to look at. Sure. And it's just more incentive to retain those employees. Sure. And if it's something you wanted to do by
tenure, then regardless where they were in the steps, you could, you know what I mean? Do it that way. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Then you could kind of meet the mayor's concern and still have a pay grid and still account for tenure. Yeah. So, question to that.
Are you thinking um like a a an adjuster? If you reach certain milestones, you automatically get the adjuster added on regardless of where you are in the steps. Yeah. And usually it's like a lump sum. It won't add on to your So
let's say I was making $20 an hour. If that's my step, usually it's like a lump sum, whatever that's added on to that, but I still stay at the 20, but then I get that in addition. and then when I move next year it goes that way. It doesn't add on because if it did then you would never be on a step. Do you
know what I mean? Then you would kind of be floating. So usually it's you stay and then they do a usually they do lump sum because it's easier for payroll to do a one time if it's the beginning of the year. Yeah. Longevity bonus. Yeah. But it's nice to do it at once because
then payroll can collect it versus some will have like every it'll be every other pay period they get their Do you know what I And then it just gets really messy. And like at another contract that I'm familiar with, so if you reach like 12 years, you get the longevity bonus.
Yep. And then until you reach 15 years, you know, you don't get another Yeah. Yep. They cap it like by year-wise. Yep. So that's kind of what I would be interested in seeing. Sure. Just something like that. Yeah. So um with staff, one question I got to
ask, uh when we did this, was performance reviews that were uh taken or was it kind of acknowledging where people were kind of at? It was Yeah, there was there was no eval performance evaluation is done. It was just strictly where they are on the
current pay scale. Okay. So, those would be done on their uh anniversary dates. Okay. So, I don't know if this is off topic or not, but I think I think one of the things that I've heard, you know, It's more like through the grape vine, right?
But, you know, to your point, uh, Mr. Mayor, um, about moving back steps, things like that is getting to the max. It seems like that's kind of been a challenge. That's the theme that I've heard is sometimes it, you know, we feel
like we can never get to the top. You know, we've got several employees here that have been here 20 years, 20 plus years, several employees. I mean, and I think that's that's telling that we have a lot of people with that kind of longevity. Um, because there is volat volatility in this market. And for sure
we know the reason this whole thing has been implemented is because we were concerned about losing good people because we lost some and um I think as an HR, you know, as a member of the HR committee, I would like to see us do
maybe some more on an annual basis to make sure that we're moving people up like we should be. Sure. um you know and and I'd be open to and I feel like it's part of the responsibility maybe is as part of that HR committee is to do what we can to get
involved in helping with that to make sure that you know our reviews are moving people along the way they should and um but also you know off topic from that the I'd be curious to see what some options are around this this longevity it's an interesting concept to me um
everywhere I've ever event. It's like I got a hammock one year for a turkey, a ham. Yeah. Yeah. It was It was a nice hammock, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't a lump sum of cash. Um if you were a bus driver, they had the best longevity. It like added and then it kept even when you retired like it kept
like going. Um so that's why a lot of entities were like, "Hey, we're moving away from longevity." Well, it goes back to the pension model too, right? For sure. Yeah. I mean, um, even with the pension model, you know, you basically get your your inflators
for cost of living, I think, is the essential, but it's it's a lifetime benefit. Yeah. And I would say, so like the people that move back, like I get that that's frustrating, but let's just say you have five more years at the city before you retire, your top five grows because if you were maxed out and only
getting a cola, it wouldn't grow. So that's, you know what I mean? But I know that that's not money in my pocket right now. But we could I could run a quick analysis to say if you literally took all the employees and put them on by years of service in their current
position, I'm assuming, right? Yeah. Okay. We can see what that would be versus doing longevity and what the longevity could look like because, you know what I mean? It would be nice to see both and then you might be able to meet in the middle so that everyone's concern is met. Well, you know, and I I
guess I'm I'm not looking to necessarily reinvent the wheel there either because, you know, then we have to maybe start explaining like if we look back at some of these, you know, we talk about people that have been here a long time and I'm just thinking off the top of my head.
Um, yeah. So, you look back and like we've got the grade, but the step is step five, you know. Um, you know, you're talking about longevity. So, in my mind, if we're talking every year,
you should you should go up a step. And and and granted, I don't know when there were grade changes. Sure. In regard to that, you know, I don't know the process for reviews and all that kind of stuff. So, I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
I want to start fresh, say, okay, going forward. And and and I don't think this is necessarily something that um um but I'd like to throw it out there because I think it's something that maybe we should think about and talk about and you know, we we have a
committee and we should use it. Um one other last question that just came to mind. I know I said I didn't have any, but uh William do I assume it it shows 21 for grade and step. I assume that should be 111.
No, 115. Is that correct? I'm assuming that's just a uh the wage is correct. Yeah, the W I assume the wage is correct. So the grade step should be 115 instead of 21 because it looks like it's the same. Yeah, I must have missed that one.
And the only reason I caught it is because it's it's colorcoded to match all the other police. I figured I just wanted to confirm that that was correct um in what I'm interpreting versus what I'm seeing. So, perfect. Yeah, I I mean I I think the grid is
good. Um my thing is some corrections that were made from the last council meeting which I appreciated. Um but I I think the rest is kind of fallen on us kind of fine-tuned where people belong.
So I mean if uh the committee is okay and you know want to offer their guidance too, I'd love to hear it. So um does anybody have anything else they want to add?
No, I think I added I'm good. I'm good. Cory, go ahead. Joel, I'm fine. Thank you. Uh, yeah, if you're going to do July 1st, I would. Yeah, I mean, and I would say that it doesn't mean it's done. So,
what I would say is if you implement what the grid and what you have in front of you, that what I would say is phase one. In phase two is let's look at how longevity plays into this and then that can you guys can either budget that into your budget for
next year or do at a later time. I I think we're going to have to try it out with the police first and then uh try to come up with a game plan of how that works. Yeah. Okay. public or I I'm a I have a feeling if if you want
to try it out with the police first that might because that would open the contract. That would be a whole different discussion because that's a collective bargaining unit whereas this is a simple contract negotiation bringing in the longevity piece
significantly enough I believe changes the contract. You might know from experience but I believe that that's a significant enough contract where well we'll have to have some type of a memorandum of understanding to to address the new the new pay scale. Yep.
Right. Right. That's Yeah. Because when does their contract end? Uh this is the we're in the first of two years. Okay. 25 and 26. So technically if you did the longevity you could work it out and into the contract next year
and do it then for everyone if that's what you know what I mean. But as long as you keep moving and you don't leave it in the parking lot, that could be an option because you're right, they're going to have their input of what that looks like. And it would be nice to have something uniform for everyone. So you don't have
specifics by departments and and also, you know, I mean, we we kind of caused some ripples when we gave a midyear raise to the police before. So if we if we do it for one, I
feel like we should consider for all I would rather, you know, look at this more holistically than test run it on any one department because we're going to hear from the other departments and say why why them and not not us. And it's something you could bring to the committee too and see
what their thoughts are because it doesn't mean you have to do it. Do you know what I mean? You're not guarant you're not saying this is what we're we're just asking about what that could look like and if you are in negotiations next year that might be the time to like implement it so you can have those discussions.
So what is the pay period cut off so that this would be a clean uh this we're nearing the end of the first week of the pay period. So they're bi-weekly. Okay. Well, then July 4th technically would be
like the end of or the fifth. It probably ends on a Saturday. Yeah, Saturday. Uh, it ends on a Saturday, correct? Okay. So, yeah, it' be what? Yeah. July July 6th is kind of the target. July July 5th would be the end of the pay period. The
new one would start July 6th. Okay. So, that would be the date that would make most sense to soonest date. The soonest date to start. Correct. Okay. Yeah. that would allow payroll uh I think ample time to make the the changes to the you know people's wages and
depends on the system you use speaking as someone who worked in payroll soft before hopefully it'll all be manual well didn't you have a manual packet so he could I mean maybe that's part of his computer he could like write out all
the checks yes I'm right Joe we got another job for you have to take it You have to come up here and sign all that. Yeah. So, the city I worked in, we literally had a typewriter that literally had to type the checks. That's how old it was. Like, you would put it
in and it would like do it and then where the signature, it had a little picture and you had to like import it in there. Yeah. I'm like, okay. Hello, 1970s. So, if there's nothing else, um, I guess we'll will be entertaining a
motion to implement this. I'll make that motion uh to implement the uh current plan with the opportunity to review um to expand into
um a long-term longevity longevity. Sorry. All right. Thanks, Scott. Uh motion by Scott. Do you want it to specify like July 6th? July 6. Yes. as as as discussed. I'll second it. All right. Second by Miller. Any further discussion? Do do we need to specify
that uh this is being funded out of reserves? Because I I think that was something that we initially talked about the the the difference. It would be funded out of reserves. Correct. Because it's not budgeted. But does that need to be in the motion? I guess it's just a technicality. Uh I don't believe so. No.
Okay. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor? I All opposed. All right. Motion carries. Thank you, Tessa. Thank you. Yeah. Now, moving forward, this is something that we could look at in a
few. We should look be keeping it on the radar for like otherwise if you think you're fresh just so that you kind of get into the same for everyone. Otherwise, you always have to keep it and should clean it up
moving forward. Yeah, some will do every year and some will do like I would say based on it's basically like the payment improvement look at it every year or more frequently so you have less budget disruption so hopefully we don't have to
keep cutting and adding you can do recalibrations okay thank you and we were provided a cost for that with the initial proposal so okay cool thank you thank you very
All right, on to new business. Consider approval of an agreement for contracted comprehensive engineering services between the city of Lonsdale and Bolton and Minkers. All right. Uh, thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um, I got to get to that
page here real briefly. So earlier this year, the council um directed staff to uh issue an RFP for uh contracted engineering services. That was done. Uh we interviewed several firms. Uh at the May 29th, I believe it was council meeting. The city council
approved um going with Bolton Mink, making them our our city engineer directed staff to uh get a contract in place. Um I worked with um Jason Mollica of Bolton and Mink, our designated city engineer on the contract. Um just real
briefly, Bolton Mink will serve as our city engineer. Uh they agreed to assign an experienced and licensed engineer to us, attend uh staff meetings as needed. Uh attend council meetings. Uh any projects will be authorized by a special or a project specific service uh
agreement and a proposal will be provided. So if we, you know, milling overlays or we do a street reconstruction project, that would be under a a separate agreement. Um the rates are consistent with what was in uh the proposal. Uh they're
effective through the end of this year and won't increase more than 4%. Hours spent at council meetings will not be build. Uh the city will pay Bolton and Mink monthly. We got um liability language in there. nothing creates a
relationship with a third party. Um, Bolton and Mink is not responsible for contractor's work. Um, sometimes people think that since they're doing the inspections, they get to direct what the contractor does. Um, that's not the
case. It's more of a observation and um you know making sure that they are consistent with the plans and specs but it's not a inspector and they won't um direct the work of of the contractor.
Uh Bolton Bolton and Mink will own the documents created. The city will have a limited license with reasonable reuse relative to the city. Uh the initial agreement is for two years and shall automatically renew for additional two-year periods until terminated. As far as terminating the agreement, either
party can terminate it with a 7-day written notice. Uh Bolton and Mink can terminate the agreement if the city fails to make payment within 120 days. Uh you know, barring any non-disputed invoices. A termination will not occur if the other party cures the uh default
within 10 days of the notice. The agreement cannot be assigned or transferred to another party without prior written consent. And then as far as dispute resolution, parties agree to negotiate all disputes in good faith for 30 days. If that can't be resolved after
negotiations, uh mediation, uh alternatives are none. Uh you guys selected Bolton Mink as a city engineer and um as we talked about at our last budget meeting, we've got a lot of needs coming up and studies that we need to u get started alter or and then uh include
with my staff report is the the proposed contract Unless there's any questions, staff would recommend approval of the uh agreement between the city of Lonsdale and Bolton and Mink. Thank you, Joel. Gary, we're excited to have you and
excited to see what we can do. So, I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion. Motion by mailer. Second by Warian. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. Moving on to item B. consider approval of an agreement for
building inspection services between the city of Lzdall and Metro West inspection services goers. Uh well, with the um city going off for RFPs for building official inspection services, uh we received uh in response to our RFP, we
received four proposals. Uh they were reviewed again at the May 29th council meeting. council uh selected Metro West to be the the selected contractor and directed staff to negotiate a contract. Uh the agreement uh goes into effect July 1st. Uh Metro West uh is appointed
as the building official for the city. Um they are they say that they're certified by the state and hold the proper licenses. The agreement can be terminated by either party with 90-day written notice. uh they are to provide uh all building inspection services in accordance with
applicable laws and regulations. And then um as far as the specific duties, they were pulled right from their proposal that they that they submitted. Uh Metro West uh is to maintain records of uh all re plan reviews, inspections,
uh certificate of occupancies, things like that. Uh they are to provide all the equipment. We will provide them access to I work which is our uh building permit software. Uh the fees are consistent with their their proposal. Uh 50% of the permit
fee, 65% of the plan review fee, 50% of flat fees, and then um if additional work outside of that are reinspections are required, that would be build at $95 an hour. They are to remain an independent contractor.
There's uh defense and uh indemnification language in the agreement as well. Uh disputes are to be negotiated between the parties uh followed uh by mediation and arbitration and uh hopefully not but litigation as the last result.
They're also to comply with data practices. The agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of Minnesota and they cannot assign the agreement without consent of the city. Um staff did meet with Metro West uh I believe it was two week and a half ago,
two weeks ago and um you know kind of discussed the um transition from Gary Stabber to Metro West and how those inspections of projects that are in process will play out. Um, so we've got
a a plan for that. Uh, deal with the the Gary will essentially, you know, finish out the projects that that he has and then um any permits that come in quite frankly after Friday um will go to, uh, Metro West. So,
unless there's any questions, uh, staff would recommend approval of the agreement between, uh, the city of Lndale and Metro West. All right. Thank you, Joel. Jamie, you got anything? Yeah. Scott. Uh I saw on here. So this is this is a there's no sunset date on
this. This is an open end. Um it's just terminate after with 90day notice. Correct. Okay. So I know we had talked about that we we're wanting to hire an in the house uh uh building official. So
that would give us the opportunity. We're not we're not held to that exactly one year like I had mentioned before. was go with a short contract, but then we're um trying to fill it. Yeah, there there isn't a sunset date. So, we do have some flexibility. Okay. Yes. All
right. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Scott. Right. No questions, Harry. No questions either. I got none either. So, motion to approve the agreement between City Law and Metro West. Second. All right. Motion by Vavis, second by
Mateka. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. Carries. Consider approval of ordinance 2025-331, an ordinance to regulate cannabis business. Mr. Corey Hindu Zaba. Uh thank
you, Mr. Mayor and uh councel. Uh the public hearing for ordinance 2025331, an ordinance to regulate cannabis businesses, was held at the June 16, 2025 planning commission meeting. Prior to the hearing, staff re received public
comments from council member Oapka for the incorporation of the 14th license type uh the lower potency hemp edible wholesaler uh from the office of cannabis management and expanding the per uh permitted permitted zoning districts for
cannabis delivery service. Uh, also public uh, feedback was received by Rice County uh, environmental services senior planner Jeremy Edwards. Uh, comment regarding the addition of the lower potency hemp retailers to section two registration and to the definition
section. Um, after the plan after the the public hearing and the comments were incorporated into the draft or or the the comments were draft or incorporated into the draft ordinance. Uh at that point the the draft ordinance went to
the city attorney uh for review and um at this time we are compliant with all state laws. Um the recommendation tonight uh staff is recommending the council to discuss items of importance to finalize a resolution. Uh we do have a great um
ordinance right now by the way uh buffer zoning fees and uh the OCM approves and the city verifies zoning. So I just want to re uh uh reiterate that our part part here as a city is our responsibility is
to set the zoning and the buffers. So, um, once the council approves a resolution 2025331, it will go into effect, uh, when it's published in the newspaper, uh, in July 8th.
So, at this point, you have you've had time to take a look at the, uh, draft uh, of the draft attachment in the packet. Um, Mr. Ericson and I were talking earlier today about maybe we should suggest or recommend tonight
removing the conditional use permits uh per the licenses um to uh make the process more efficient for application or applications coming into the city. So uh Mr. Mayor and uh council or Mr.
Mayor, I'm going to turn turn it over to you. All right. Thank you, Corey. Scott, do you got anything? I'm sure something will come up as the conversation goes. Okay. Not at this point. Brian, um, you know, I like the, uh, suggestion
to remove the conditional use permits. Um, it sounds like a an in general thing that I like. Uh, I just feel like it seems like everything has to be a conditional use permit. I think we should really make sure that like if we
have a zone, we have a a use. That's the use. And then adding conditional uses, it's just more work. It's more busy work. It's more work for the staff. It's more work for the city. It's more work for the people applying. It's more of a process. I I I think it should be more
of a a limited thing much like eminent domain should be used very very sparsely. Um so I appreciate that. I I I do like that. Um trying to see here cuz I was so you said we we do not have any buffers specified
within the ordinance itself. Correct. That is correct. There's no uh buffer zones or buffer zones in this ordinance in in this draft. Right. And I don't so I I have been looking over the the law. Um
and I think you know the nice thing here for us as a city is the state covers this. I mean, you know, as I have questions, starting to research and and and look by, well, it's in the statute, it's here, it's in the statute here,
it's in the statute here. So, it makes it easy for us. We don't have to do it. Um, one question I do have is on the supplemental we have here because I I was looking at 342.13 from Minnesota statute and this is looks
like it's 342.27, but it starts at six. Uh, thank you, Mr. Sure. Um, thank you, uh, Council Member Wormerion. Uh, Council Member Vipka, uh, emailed, um, a statute 342.27,
uh, to me, uh, a day or so ago, uh, to make sure that, uh, it was shared, uh, here at the at the council desk, and council member was referring to, uh, subdivision 7, hours of operations. Okay, perfect. That's that's was my question. what what section are we
looking at here and what's not here? Um, you know, because it starts at looks like sub we get subdivision 4 item six. So, I wanted to make sure there wasn't something of significance that we're not seeing outside of what's
on this page. But um you know as far as buffers go I I know the statute gives the city latitude um which I like because it's a it's a may it's it's a permissive but it's not a
requirement within statute. So we we do have we maintain that local control. Um, I'm I don't think we should add any buffers to this. And here's my reasoning behind that is because one,
we're a small town and where all of our commercial zones are, we're going to run into some problem somewhere unless our buffers are really, really small, which what's the point? Um, and then if you do add buffers, then you
have to start talking about and considering uh, and I know I I believe this was brought up uh, in planning and zoning. Uh, Joel at one point, I I believe you brought it up was well, if somebody moves in, you know, who who's first? Who's there first? And then how
do you deal with those things? Right? If if one of these businesses sets up shop, they're doing just fine. There's no problems. And then we buffer it to say, "Well, I can't be near daycare." and then all of a sudden a daycare moves in next door because it's the ideal situation for you price whatever that's
the property they go in now we we're running into a potential violation of of those buffer zones and who's got to go right just seems like they should be reciprocal right exactly exactly so it it's a tough it's a tough
deal but um you know from what I'm reading within the statute I mean this This is this is not your old school head shot that you can run. This is not a you know fly by night chichin chong coming in setting up shop. I mean this is this
is a very um professional like there's a high bar that the state has put on these guys to get licenses. Um and they're hardly giving them out yet. I mean they've just started. So, you
know, we we don't even know who who's going to get them or uh whatnot, but but there's a really high bar here that they have to meet. And it's it's it's erased a lot of my concerns that I had at the beginning going into this,
getting to know the statute a lot better. Um so, I I I like what we have in front of us. Um I think staff's done a great job. I don't know what Corey's going to do after we pass something with
cannabis because I know you've been working on this for a long time. We'll find I promise you there's ask I have a lot to do. I don't want you to get bored with all this work, you know, off the plate now. You're going to
But yeah, so anyway, I I think what we have is good. I I don't think we need to to mess with it. I think a lot of work's gone into this. Planning and zoning's done a lot of work. Um, we're going to have to come back to it anyway. I guarantee you because the
state will change something and they will probably change it fairly frequently. But at least we've got something that we can can say we've worked hard on it and we've gotten um
a lot of thorough thought went into it from both sides. That's where I stand. All right, Krie. Well, Brian touched on a lot of the things that I was going to mention, so I'm not going to spend too much time, but um I agree about getting rid of the
conditional use piece of it. Um I I don't feel like we need buffers at this time either. And thank you so much for planning and zoning, all the work you guys have done, um people who put in input, and then city staff for all your hard work. It looks like a very thorough
ordinance that goes well with what the state has in place. Thank you, Carrie. Jamie, I'd like to thank Corey first off. He's put a lot of work into this and right before our public hearing, the state came out and changed. He had to rush and get that in
there. And um the one thing we can do is we can expand on the hours of operation. It's set at 10. Technically, they can be open till 2. And um for the cannabis delivery
service, it's pick up at that place and deliver to the house. I don't really need to deliver it to the zoning districts because it's technically the delivery driver that's licensed. They'll be holding the license out of
their own house. I I would agree with that. That's, you know, it's kind of like a, you know, Uber Eats or whatever. They're not going to have an office on Main Street and employ 15 people. And they
might actually Door Dash too on the side just on it. I would. You got that? You want me to pick up some tacos? I was a little double dip in there, but get the munchies. Well, from experience, it takes a long time to get a dasher
assigned when those orders come in in this this area. So, you know, you're going to be waiting. All right, Scott, I'll throw it back. No, that's uh the buffer thing was one of one of the things I've been kind of picking around, but as Brian discussed,
that's that kind of resolve that I don't think it's necessary. Okay. Yeah. I mean this is something that uh would be nice to be ahead of. I mean every city is uh you know looking at
this. Um I do trust the work that city staff put in. I know it was relentless and then same with Jamie Va and um you know I trust planning zoning too. So I'm in favor with uh removing conditional
use and um and not having buffers. um the hours of operation we can bring up maybe another time that's okay with you maybe or do you want to know that right now
so they're open but they can't And and this is strictly just for the flower. Okay. This one impact. Does that change anything, J? Well, but and I'm fine with I just wanted to just make the clarification
that is just just the flower to to kind of speak to that. I guess my my thought on that um the hours that we have in here match liquor store hours. So that's off sale. The difference here we're
talking about is a bar is consumed on site. You're not taking away. That's the 2 a.m. piece. If we if we match this to bar hours, then we're kind of
then we're skewing things from a offsale versus on sale perspective in my mind. Um I guess I I like the idea of keeping it consistent with with the liquor store hours for right now. Um,
and then let's wait and see because I mean we're just passing an ordinance here. We have no idea what's going to come in here. Um, and then once something comes in, if they come to us and say we really need to be open later,
let them make that argument. I would say I guess one other thing that just came to mind because we talked about fees. There's no No additional because they the state kind of did a bait and switch on us right with the uh
you're going to get a percentage and now it's just kidding we're going to keep it all that way% another% right so I believe the the option we have is we
can set a municipal sales tax on it correct correct up to 3% %. So, um I think we should address that because I don't it's not addressed in the ordinance. Correct. As of right now, there's it's not proposed to imp implement an additional tax. Correct.
Okay. Um you know, it's kind of one of those things where it's it's it's a double-edged sword. One, you don't want to be like, hey, let's tax because we can. Um, you know, it it it kind of it's frustrating when the state does
these baits and switch. I mean, and I I I don't want to hold businesses accountable to it. My concern also would be there's a lot of people, a lot of communities in the area that are also
looking at this stuff. I know from talking with investors and developers in other communities that have had conversations with other cities that like some of these cities are rolling out the red carpet to this industry. So we we have to be careful we don't put
ourselves in a position where we could potentially lose business tax revenue dollars coming into our tax base because of that. Um but I think it's something we should keep in mind. I again I don't I don't think we need to change the ordinance as
is, but something we should keep in mind um when we're talking to either our lawmakers or however we want to do this going forward because again it's a bait and switch and the amount of time and resources that we as a city have poured into this you know
multiply that by how many cities in the state and we're all thinking that hey you guys are going to get a cut now. Oh, just kidding. But also, we're not going to compensate you for all the time that's required to put these ordinances together. So, that um I bring it up
because I want it on record just like when I have frustrations with Mindot. I mean, you know, this way we can share them with those folks and say, "Guys, what what is going on here?" Because they're not coming and asking us. So, we have to have a way to get it out to
them. Yeah. And my concern is they're already paying a 15% tax. And you know, you look at California that went through this and then they said 13% was almost too much and then now the state is let's do 15% and let's force the cities to do
this and make these decisions and not pay them. And so me personally, I I think that it's up to us and and them to really push, like you said, to our legislators to say, "Hey, you You got to throw something back to the city if you
can't tax that much. There's no reason for it. The amount of money that they spend and I mean bad to see but well and the idea of the ordinance right is to get rid of the black market quote unquote. That's if we legalize it there won't be a black
market anymore. Yeah. Right. Well, in theory based on government's you know wisdom right again quote unquote wisdom. um oxymoron, but uh I don't disagree. I don't disagree. But again, you know, you
start raising taxes, you get 15%. 18%, 20%. And you're just going to perpetuate the black market because people are going to say, "Why would I go spend an extra 25% in tax when I can buy it from the guy
down the street who's growing it in his garage?" So, I mean, all right. So, um I guess uh Jamie, you okay right now for the hours of operation or do you want hours
of operation would be fine but okay. because it's based on the address that the license is issued to is what you're saying pretty much. And since they're 1099s basically is going to be their home
address. Got it. So I will, you know, would that be considered home occupation? We we currently allow home occupations. But but I understand what you're saying. Correct. Okay. So, hold on. Are we ready for a
motion? Jamie, do you want to make the motion on this little baby that you created and also the removal of the conditional use permits? Please. I motion we remove the conditional use permits and make the change to 3-3-9.
Can this delivery service open it up? I'll second. All right. Motion by second by Gersian. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. All right, motion carries.
Consider approval of resolution 20.5-30, a resolution approving a site plan for 836 Industrial Park Drive Southeast. Cory Hinsenberg. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, the planning commission reviewed and discussed land use application 2025-04
at the June 16, 2025 meeting. Uh the applicant Hanks Mini Storage uh the owner is Andrew King. Uh is requesting for the addition of a 40 by 140 foot uh mini storage uh to the existing north
end of the building at 836 Industrial Park Drive Southeast. Uh the subject property is guided and shown as I2 Medium Industrial according to city code 153-040 zoning districts. U L I2 medium
industrial uh special requirements all applications for building permits in the case of a new construction or expansion. The complete building plans have been submitted. Landscape design has been submitted um to the planning and planning commission. The the planning
commission shall review and approve before building permit and cert certificate of occupancy may be issued. The landscape design must identify size of all the screening within 60 days of submission of such plans and designs. The planning commission shall recommend
approval or disapproval of such plans. um at the last planning commission meeting uh like I mentioned before uh with the construction of the phase one 8,000 foot building
um in 2014 and 2020 2016 8000 and the proposed 5600T uh addition uh connecting to the north of the east building. So they're just Mr. mayor, they're just adding on. Um, it's the
same materials, it's the same lighting. Uh, the building inspector has signed off on it, the city engineer signed off on it, and then, uh, reviewing with the city administrator and myself, the internal site plan review. It's good to go. Uh, Andrew is excited about this
expansion. And, uh, Mr. Mayor, he wants to get going. Mhm. So, as I mentioned before, I2 medium zoning um the current lot size 2 point two a little over two and a half acres. All
the requirements are made as I mentioned before the building design and construction materials. Um he's keeping them exactly the same as what's out there already. Uh utilities, the site is served by sanitary sewer and water. However,
currently proposed property use may not utilize available services. Andrew is not putting an office or restrooms out there. It is a mini storage unit complex. Uh the drainage the grading and store drain grading drainage and storm water
has been signed off on several times and based upon city code and zoning requirements being met by Andrew King. Um the commission the planning commission is recommending the council to consider approval of this resolution 2025-30
approving the site plan associated with land use application 202504 submitted by Hanks Mini Storage. Um uh Mr. Mayor if you have any questions or uh councel I would like to get going or help andrew out here to get so we can
start this construction. All right. Thank you. Brian, you got anything? It's a good thing he's expanding. That's a good sign. Business is good. Let's do it. All right, Curry, I got nothing. Jamie, let him expand. It's nice to see
business expanding. All right, Scott. I agree. It's awesome to see it expanding. Although, it really tells you people got way too much junk. Um, I didn't want to say um the the question I have just looking at the plans. So it shows the complete complete
in the open and there's two label labeled NA. Is that future development? He's potential future. I just thought maybe it was not even on the on the books when it was labeled as an NA. I just thought council member of a safe guy is correct. Future and
Oh yeah, I I realize that. I just didn't. It's the first time I've seen that with and I just was looking at it as like ah I'm I'm done. Or he had different plans or something. So, I know I know it's a it's an old drawing. So, okay, that's all I had. That was the
same question I had. And um nice to see that business is booming for him. Um has he now this is his fourth. Okay. So, was there kind of a metric for him into
expanding you know from the first one to the second to the third to the fourth? you know, was there like a two-year gap or a three-year gap or when can we expect the future? Um, he's he's Andrew is pretty excited about this expansion and he's
looking at that uh area to the um I'd say the west of the central building to continue his growth out there. So, as far as the metric, every few years, two to three years, um like I said, where business looks like he's doing well and there's a need for mini storage in
Lawndale. Great. Okay. Well, and I'll entertain a motion for that. I'll make a motion. Motion by Miller. Second. Second by Palava. Any further discussion? All in favor? All opposed. All right. Seeing that motion carried,
let's go to approval of a market study by Max Joel Ericson. Right. So, the mayor and myself uh had a virtual meeting with a uh developer that develops apartment buildings. they're interested in in Lonsdale. Um they're
looking at a couple sites. Um I think the preferred one is the vacant property between McInths and the villages of Lndale. So the first thing that needs to be done is uh a market study to determine um you
know what how much can the market absorb and the the number of units, the size, the type. So uh reached out to Maxfield to get this proposal. Uh the scope uh and services associated with this uh to
complete an initial market assessment and develop concept recommendations. Uh as I said the fee is $5,600 and they can complete the work within uh the next 45 days. So the scope of services would be a
demographic review. Determine the uh appropriate draw area. How you know how far will this draw people where they currently live to to this apartment. Analyze the overall population and household growth trends to 2030. Analyze age distribution trends projected to
2030. Household incomes by age of the homeowner. Household tenure by age of uh homeowner. Competitive market review. They'll survey up to eight of the newest competitive market rate general occupancy rental units in our area. And
I should have said this before, but what they are looking at is is an apartment facility with at market rate rental. Um they are not anticipating any subsidized housing or or low income. This would
strictly be um market rate uh inventory. They also look at inventory. uh any pending housing developments that would uh be direct competition with the proposed development. Uh relate existing rental housing market conditions to the
potential demand. Uh and then as far as conclusions and recommendations, they would calculate the preliminary demand, identify predominant target markets for the property, and then provide general recommendations on the the mix of units,
the unit size, pricing, features, and amenities, uh and the ability of the proposed development to achieve rents that are economically feasible. provide a general assessment of the ability to support the additional units and then
project the pre-lease rate and absorption period. If um the city, you know, we can go on social media and we know everyone is looking for houses. Houses are expensive here in town and um there definitely is
a need for um afford or rental units uh in some type of a multifamily setting. I I think people would be surprised how many rental units there actually are in Lawndale as you know single family homes. Uh I would recommend that the
city pay for the study and we retain it as ours. So we can if for some reason this project doesn't happen, we can go out and try to court another developer and we have the information. It's not theirs tied to them. uh we would be able to share it with with other developers
that are interested in possibly constructing apartments here in Lndale. I know it's a quick review and put on the table before the meeting. Um unless you guys have any questions, I'd recommend that that we approve the proposal by Maxfield. All right. Thank you, Joel. Gary. Um, well, we already
know there's a need, so I just question spending the $5,600 to have the data to support the known need. Um, like if a developer wants to buy the land and build, then so be it. Why do we have to spend more
money to have data that we already know exists? Well, what this does is, again, it determines the amount. So if he's proposing a 60 unit and builds a 60 unit uh facility and only rents out 30 of them, he basic the the study will
basically determine um the number of units that the the project consists of. So he's not overbuilding. But when the developer, shouldn't they be responsible for their own market study to determine their profit uh of housing units that
they need to to build to make a profit off of it instead of the city? That certainly is is an option. I don't I just don't like spending more money, but I like the idea if we are going to have to spend this then we retain that in case this does fall and
and we would correct I guess. All right. Jamie, is the current developering that we do this? Yes. And then the other thing that I add is say it says we need
willing to pick up the additional units. So, there's a benefit to I'm all for it. All right, Scott. My initial uh reaction was similar to Ki as far as you know
that they they should be building their own performer and everything else on it. But granted, it uh it is nice to um how long Is a study like this good for? Usually any ideas?
I wouldn't say more than a year. Oh, okay. I mean, it just depends on how, you know, how much the market changes. Sure. You know, our surrounding community is putting up uh, you know, other apartments. Um, yeah. I I a major employer come into town. There's there's
a lot of moving parts that, you know, they they tend to have a short lifespan. Sure. Um, and I see on here they do it, give it to us in writing. Uh, they pretty much uh do the research and provide us the
the report. Correct. I believe in a memo memo format. Gotcha. Okay. Um, you know, I I I agree that we know there's a need. Um, there's there's no doubt about it. That's easy to determine. the the bigger
things that we don't know is um what what's a realistic range for rent here, you know, because we don't have a facility. The only facility we have is the villages where we have anything
remotely similar to an apartment. So, that's not a good idea or a good, you know, um benchmark to use because that's a different type of service facility. Um, I think this is good information for us to have in our pocket. And honestly, at the end of the day, I mean, we can
make the same argument we've made in the past about engineering drawups for projects that we've never done, right? We can put them on the shelf and we can pull them out and we retain that that information and we we've got it ready to go. We don't need to do it again. It's a, you know,
we've bought it. You know, we've used that argument for a lot of things in the past. Um, the difference here is this is significantly less than engineering services. So, you know, it's I I don't want to downplay, you know, $5,600 is is
a lot of money, right? But, I mean, we're we're all talking about the budget right now. This is a drop in the bucket. I mean, this is this is less than what a quarter, if not, you know, what we're approving to pull
out of reserves for offsetting the wage increases that we just approved. Um, and it won't even take a year of tax revenue on a project to to repay this. Um, it's going to give us better information,
even if it's not this developer. It's going to give us better information to sit down at the table to say, "We need apartments. Here's how many we need. Here's how much they should be. Go build and we, you know, we've got the
data to court them in." Like right now, you know, we're talking about we need development for housing because we've got no lots. Here's a good way that we can spur that development, get people in. You know, I mean, do we have a a
detached home right now because the kids came home from college and they're storing their stuff because they can't afford to live anywhere else? I mean, it's a realistic thing. I mean, turn on the news. They're talking about it all over the country. And if we can get
people from Dundis, you know, I mean, Dundus just built a whole big complex over there. If we can start to get some of those in. Northfield's been putting up apartments like crazy the last five years. Elco just built theirs. Yeah. And I mean
they're My mother-in-law just moved down there, so I'm very familiar with what what Northfield's done. And they're beautiful. They're beautiful units. They're they're not cheap. You know, that's the other thing that people worry about is, you know, oh, they got to come to Ldale. They're
only going to get, you know, a third or twothirds of what they would get in Lakeville. So they got to go cheap on materials. But that's not the case that I'm seeing in these other communities around us. But this is the teeth that we need to show these guys that you can come down here, build a quality product,
bill it fast, and you're going to get a decent rate. You're not going to get Lakeville numbers necessarily, but you're going to be maybe close. I don't know. We don't know because we need the study. So that's my my thoughts on it. All right. Thank you, Brian. Yeah. And also
on top of that, I mean, I've been looking at H Hallstead for even more development and adding more density down there and put a purchase agreement together right now for that land. They they work with other cities the similar size as Lonsdale so they can kind of get
an idea. Um, but at the same time, this study really puts a lot of things to bed. we always hear, well, we can't do this or we can't do that, and it's the same things passed down for years and years. This actually puts the numbers behind it and says, "Yeah, well, we can
do that." Um, so I, you know, I mean, I'm all for it and and this is what's going to help us get that new avenue squared away for that rolling rich marketplace. So, well, think how fast we're going to get a vote. 5,000
population. We won't even have to guess it anywhere. We don't need the demographer report. Just give us the money. And Brian, you're you're as to your point, you know, it was it's not just about the number of units, but the price. That was that's the thing about it is you can have demand, but if it's
priced too high, it's not going to go up, right? This gets them to know that don't come in here thinking you're going to get, you know, two bedrooms for $2,200 or whatever. You know, it's not New York and they're not going to be luxury luxury place, you know, needs to
be live livable wage or livable income. Yeah. Um I guess one that brings up a question as to the the type. Does this report only look at you know how many people potentially would come to the area? How many people have moved in the area? how much they're paying or does it
look at the type like these are the amenities they want too? Uh amenities are a component of it as well. Okay, great. So we can get an idea of what what people are looking for beyond just a I need an apartment. Yeah. So that's
one of the things when it comes, you know, if we do tax incremental financing, it's, you know, we get to have a good conversation of what we would like to see for a public amenity. You know, that's another tool we get to use with it. Um
Joe, if you want to add anything. No, also um amenities cost it and also number of bedrooms as well. So they don't build too many of one type and not the other. So a studio one, two and threebedroom. What I heard was the three
bedrooms are actually kind of more on the demand because people since co they like that extra room for office or you know the people that are retiring um that kind of want just that single floor and an elevator to get in and and
get down to the main floor of their car. Um that they like to have that extra room for guests, you know, um for their grandkids and whatnot. So, I think we'd actually be seeing more three bedrooms in the future than, you know, studios.
So, one thing to prove it there. We'll find out soon enough, right? Yeah. Yep. I'll make a motion to uh approve the the market study. All right. Motion by worms. Second. Second by Palava. Any further discussion?
All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. Motion carries. on to other business department and council reports. Jason, I'm going to throw it to you first. All right. Um, not a lot to report on having gotten started here,
but met with Mr. Ericson and Mr. Habara and Mr. Dornfeld last week. Um, just to touch on a few things high level. those being protection plant, water tower sighting study, uh improvements to the wastewater treatment
plant. We got things kicked off already on integration of the GIS system. Um we also talked about the CIP for this opportunity to be here. I'm thrilled and excited to work.
All right. Thank you, Jason. Joel, um, we've painted the demonstration lanes on Industrial Drive and Ash Street by the Villages. I've finally got the pricing for the
pickup to replace the van. The kind of in a low waiting for the 2026 pricing to come out. Um big news, the booster station pumps are in. Automatic systems was here today. Finalized everything. Um
so as of now it is running at full capacity. There will be one more delay with the codings of it. Um so I just have to send out some letters to notify the residents that it'll be down while the coatings are being put on. After
that we are done and good to go. Uh speaking of the population, um we have the population signs at each end of town are updated. So what number did you put on there? 4,9.99.
Do you know you did you take one off or you had one for my kid or I suggested that the last Can we scrape them off like those stickers? Can we scrape them off? We need that thing like now. We just hit
the button like the little thing. Add a piece. Just put a plus every time. Uh with the weather recently here, Crackville delayed again. Uh city of New Craig is the city that has our rental equipment. So soon as they're done, we
get it next. Um, and then the locate came in today for the lights to be installed at the flag at city hall. If anybody's wondering, that's why there are no flags up is because there are no lights. So, as soon as those get there,
we will be flying the flags. Um, the only other thing I have is I've got some bids out there to get the concrete replaced at the liquor store. Awesome. Thank you, Joe. Uh, Corey. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor, uh, the park board
approved rescheduling the monthly meeting to the second uh, Monday of the month with a new start time at of 6:30 p.m. And the next meeting is scheduled for Monday the 14th. And most importantly, my announcement here
tonight is that our city administrator has a birthday coming up. When When is your birthday? Uh, Sunday. All right. Happy birthday. Thank you. That concludes my report. All right, birthday boy, you're next.
All right. Uh, well, I want to start off by, uh, thanking the council for approving the compensation study. Um, I know myself and staff are very appreciative of that. So, thank you. Uh, since we're on birthdays, it's Britney's birthday on Saturday. So, happy birthday, Britney.
Um, getting back to work. um met with Skyworn uh end of last week to kind of go over some uh questions that they had as far as uh electricity and and things like that. Um working on the budget, met with um the public works director, met
with the police chief briefly uh here today. We met with our auditors to go over a couple questions that we had on the financial uh report that was presented at the June 12th council meeting. Um going to be meeting with the
contractor next week to get a price uh to get that ba that north basement wall fixed at the old city hall before we sell it. It was starting to to bow in. Um, we talked about the the apartments and uh, yeah, as the public works director said, um, I'll be meeting the
electrician here, uh, 6:00 tomorrow morning to, uh, get them in the building to, um, pull the power for those and hopefully we can get those, uh, lights installed right away and get the flags up cuz it's pretty sweet with the flags up. Yeah. So, thank you, Joel. You're
welcome. How do we plan on moving forward with the uh, Old City Oh, based off of discussion, it was um that we were going to sell it, but is that going to be through a bidding platform? Uh my recommendation going by
what the the amount of time it took to sell the old PD would be to just get it listed with the realtor. Okay. Then this way they can they're dealing with the showings. It's not me and it's just be a lot a lot smoother. Sure. Okay. Have to
resone that. Correct. and that that what will that zoning be? Uh we'll have to talk about that and bring it to the planning commission. Um you know I guess my recommendation would be just to look to see what the zoning in that area is and make it consistent with limited
business. All right. Okay. Very good. All right. So last week we had our library board meeting and EDA on the same day. So it was a marathon last Wednesday. Um so to speak to library
board summer reading uh program is in full swing. Um I know I've brought it up before but uh we had 319 people registered as of the library board meeting. That's children and adults. So we have the adult program this year. 234
kids, 85 adults signed up for our summer reading program this year, which is is huge. I mean, we're looking at record numbers. Um the uh the adult participation I think has far exceeded expectations. I think they were
targeting like let's shoot for 50 and see what we get. We got 85 as of last Wednesday. I'm sure there's probably more. um and the event surrounding it. Uh the they did a DIY fishing lures, uh a couple sessions of that that was fully
booked. There was, I believe, a waiting list to get into it. 25 attendees to the escape room. Um 33 kids and a total of 46, including adults, show up for story time with the Chiefs. So nice. You got uh you got your work cut out for you,
Mr. Mayor. Yep. Let's see if you can beat those numbers. uh told us the competition called told uh meet the chief. Yeah, but he had a gun. Well, you don't That's the beauty of it.
You I'm a surprise. You don't know if I got one. Uh we also had the Eagle Center uh this Wednesday, yesterday, uh down at the elementary school. I saw the picture for that. Looks like it was a big hit there, too. Um that always is. That was a big
um also want to put out a call July 17th through the 19th is the end of the program and for the end of the program they're doing a Mario themed part. Uh so again 17th through the 19th really need volunteers. So if anybody's got some
spare time um time should be listed on the library site or on the Facebook page. So if anybody can volunteer any of those days even for one shift that'd be great. I tell you what, do it. It's super fun volunteering for the library stuff. The kids get super into it. It's
just a ton of fun. You know, I've been doing the the u kickoff for a couple years now. It's one of my favorite things every year. Forward to it. Um I did the uh the Halloween party, which is a big event for the library last year, which will be similar to this. The kids
love it. They just try to find some time if you can. um EDA, uh you know, I'll just do a brief touch on it because I'll let Scott add his his uh um perspective on it as well, but one of the big things we discussed
with EDA was looking at where do we go next as far as business land availability. You know, um the business park will be full some days, hopefully sooner rather than later. Um, but the amount of time it
took to get the business park ready to be quote unquote shovel ready took a while. So, we really need to start getting ahead of it for where do we go next. Um, so that was that was a a a big discussion at the
and uh I'll leave it with that. All right. Thank you, Brian Curry. All right. Well, the liquor board were not meeting during the summer here because they're really busy. So, thank you to um the community for supporting our liquor store. Continue to do so safely, of
course. Uh for parks board, we're in budget discussions. Um we've been talking about um adding shade shelters or pavilions to a couple of parks um in a two to threeyear plan because it does cost some money to do that. Uh also
talking about adding in possible shuffle shuffle board um at a park and there's some trails that do need to be repaired. So that's a priority. Um also talking about um paving a couple parking lots,
Kina and Stika. And then uh we discussed the adoptive park program, but the public's work public works department does such an awesome job maintaining it. So, we were thinking more of an adopt a trail program um or potentially weekends or after events for organizations to
adopt those parks to help clean up. Um and then or adopting landscaping areas to lead. Um so like by the city signs or by the fire hall. So those are all discussions that we're having to get some more community involvement with maintaining our beautiful parks. And
that's all I have for now. All right. Thank you, Katie. The planning and zoning meeting was on the 16th of June. We had the public hearing for cannabis which we passed today and we also had to discuss you know land use application for law
storage which we also passed. We also had a review of a land use application for festival productions. They want to widen their driveway to allow for them to back on the car wash and keep them
open. As as we learned from Quick Trip, it's hard on the equipment to keep those closed. That will be going to public hearing on the 16th. We also heard about the billboard, which is that going to public hearing
next month or we still going to discuss the hopefully review and discussion at the next meeting and a motion to schedule a public hearing the following month. And then we did a little bit of discussion on design standards for single family
dwellings and accessory structures. Anybody has any input on that, it would be greatly appreciated. You need a vision to go. That's all I got for All right. Thank you, Jamie. Scott, as Brian pointed out,
uh we had EDA last week on the 18th because of the holiday on the 19th. Um the yeah, the the future business park idea that was uh was discussed. You know, we looked at uh some of the challenges we have where we ideally would like to continue moving east in
the air on that. Um also, we uh we review the marketing for the city's Facebook page. So, got that uh updated uh through August. Um and then um I'll just run it through uh
Smith uh Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation. Uh the EDA did u move to uh uh complete a funding request for them. Um and Smith uh for those that don't know, they were the they're the managing
partner for the Lonsdale Community Foundation. So they're the they're the official organization that kind of uh parents or oversees our local organization. So it's been a really good group uh to have on our side. Um the
thank you to the police department. Uh the chamber uh had badges and bobbers last Friday. Um and that was a a great turnout. Uh 25 kids were signed up and the weather was good and they caught fish and turtles and all kinds of stuff. So, it was very uh it it was a it was a
hit there. So, um that is uh all I have on those. All right. Thank you, Scott. Um yeah, tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. 10:30 a.m. at the library. It's beat the cheap for reading. Um it's a
pretty cool book. I got to be a little animated, so I won't be this. You got some bad stickers. I won't be dead. Yeah, I need some badge sticker. Don't give him an advantage. And your taser.
Uh, thank you Joel for uh joining uh Kch Check for me um on Monday. Um also happy birthday to uh early birthday to Joel and Britney. Um I do want to thank
everybody for the hard work that they've been putting in and continue to put in. Um I know I kind of said that last meeting, but I mean it's there's a lot of great things going on with Lansdale. So I'm really proud of all of you. So thank you for that. Um
other than that I have nothing. Um upcoming meetings July 8th, July 10th, July 28th, July 31st, all at 700 p.m. So if there's nothing else to add, one last question that just popped to mind. Um the monument sign. Do we know when
that's going to get updated here? Um the contractor has a call out to the uh electrician to disconnect the wires. So that's all that we're waiting on. Then they're actually going to uh take it back to their um facility. Okay. Make
their, you know, um essentially, you know, they we're redoing the retrofitting the lighting, reskin it, bring it back, and set it up. So I just you're just waiting for the electrician to come. Signs came up in the park thing. So y parked that one for me. So
thank you. All right. Well, if there's nothing else. All right. Second. All right. Uh motion by wearers, second by Miller. All right. Any further
discussion? All in favor? All opposed? All right. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you.