might be okay I'll call toor the state council meeting for Thursday July 21th 2024 everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge alance 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 okay roll call Brian Wan here Kevin kadada here Tim Roode here Cindy fear here and Scott
here okay tonight's agenda go excuse me goes through 10 C in the additions deletions of Corrections to the agenda move to approve the agenda as preside motion by councilman palava second second my Council for any further
discussion all those in favor I I opposed motion carries approval of minutes consider approval of the minutes from the July 11th 20124 regular meeting any addition deletions of Corrections to the minutes move to approve the minutes as
presented motion by council person F second by councilman kadada any further discussion all those in favor I opposed motion carries there are no public hearings on to excuse me presentation of
citizens petitions and comments comments limited to two minutes so if you're not on the agenda okay approval the consent agenda the monthly and additional bills the treasury report and the board of commission minutes would anybody like any of those items pulled for
discussion we approve the consent agenda motion my councilman kadada second second by councilman nor any further discussion all those in favor I opposed motion carries there is no old business onto
new business consider approval of a request submitted by rail 19 Bar and Grill LLC to temporarily amend their liquor licenses and close Railway stre Street Northwest Highway 19 to 2 Avenue Northwest Mr ER thank you mayor and
members of the council um staff received a request from uh rail 19 Bar and Grill to amend um amend their liquor license temporarily um to include a fenc in area contiguous to the south side of their building um the staff report says um Saturday and Sunday um actually it's
Friday and Saturday um they're looking at having an event Friday night um as part of so does not interfere with with Community dat uh this would include a portion of Railway Street Pat patrons would uh enter the
Fest fencon area by going through the interior of the building um ra Railway streets uh already been approved to be closed between um Main Street and the alley um so people can still access the driveth through and in the
ATM um be proposing to close Railway street from Highway 19 to Second Avenue so they continue to have access to the bank the post office the ATM I'm looking at times Friday 9:00 a.m. till Saturday 2 a.m. uh and this
would be similar to their um patio that that they have that's also listed on their their liquor license uh the fiscal impact to the city uh is none uh Alternatives would be to not amend um their liquor license as requested and
there are no attachments to the staff report um Jason and Lorie Graves owners of uh rail 19 are here to answer any questions that you guys may have make motion to approve motion by coun second second my councilman kadada
any further discussion all those in favor I oppose motion carries ask for it's going to be yeah do you want to give a little promotional speech or a [Laughter]
little we plan on having a ban that evening from 7 till midnight and this way it makes room for more members of the community to make it more of a weekend for Community Days sure good good well your building looks nice I'll
say that did a nice job with it yeah all right well good luck to you thank you consider approval to reschedule the October 31st 2024 city council meeting to Monday October 28th 2024 in November
28th 2024 city council meeting to Monday November 25th 2024 and then December 26th 2024 city council meeting to Monday December 23rd 2024 Mr thank you mayor members of the council um I believe every year we got
to reschedule the last meeting in in November due to Thanksgiving um and then just looking at the schedule um our next our last meeting in December would be the day after um Christmas I know um sometimes people take off that week or have have other plans um we'd be
recommending that um the December 26th meeting uh just get gets moved to earlier in the week Monday the 23rd um same for Thanksgiving November 25th I'm sorry November 28th uh to Monday November 25th um and then again just
looking at the calendar and and um talking with staff um requesting that the October 31st meeting get rescheduled to um earlier in that week as well because of Halloween and kids and things like that
so there's any questions staff would recommend that the those meetings be changed as as proposed or rescheduled motion my councilman kada second second my council person fear any further
discussion all those in favor I I opposed motion carries consider approval of resolution 2024-25 Trail Improvement
project council at the June 27th meeting the council approved the plans and specifications and authorized obtaining quotes for the project as follows Al one was uh the trail on Ash Street between 8th Avenue and Birch
Street um that was going to be a reclaim and overla project um with adding some drain tile alternate number two was on E AV Southwest between C 4 and the Heritage Drive be a new 8ot Trail connecting the pedant that they put in
on Casa for last year with down to um Heritage Drive uh quotes were received on July 16th two quotes and they are summarized in the table there with bkj Land Company being the
apparent um the project did specify that it can be either alternate one can be chosen alternate two can be chosen or both alternates can be chosen uh 10 contract we sent the plans to 10 contractors however many of them are busy so that is why we only got the two
quotes by the winner but was bkj uh the low quote for each alterate approximately 4 to 6% below the engineers estimate which is good um bkj has done some work in the city they did the skate park last summer um and that
turned out great um the contract indicates that substantial completion will be by September 16th and final completion by September 30th there will be an right of entry form that will need to be obtained from the house on the corner there um that we can get that
before construction starts the of this project is there the 2024 budget allocated $150,000 for trail repairs um however Council has discussed using these funds for the pickle ball court and other Park Improvement projects so there are four
Alternatives um alternative one is award a contract for alternate one in the amount of $1 17,34 to bkj alternate number two is for the alternate number two for
$2,621 alternate three would be both of them awarding both of them for 9,967 or don't award any um due to current budget Avail the budget available and other Park Improvement uh projects and priorities City staff is recommending to award the
construction for alternate number two the eth Avenue Trail of 4,621 to bkj for the 2024 TR projects that
STS questions answer those what would be the timeline Joe for doing the other Trail project if if we do if we do yeah if we do Alternet to I guess
um I would have to say depending on where pickle ball lands um if that would be post pickle ball courts is what I would probably say that um those bids are coming in on the 30th I believe
um while we reviewed the park budget for for next year at the last budget meeting and it was we're not anticipating doing any any Trails other than some minor repairs in house um I don't was upstairs I had uh how much of the fund balance that 150 was available um but you know
I'm supposed we could talk to the contractor to you know the council wanted to um spend the full amount or get as much done we could talk to the contractor to see how much of that Ash Street Trail we we could get done is he would he do a total reclaim or or that contractor do a total reclaim
on Ash Street Trail if we would do a portion of that for sales in house would that I guess I could price that out you know I'm just if we if we wanted to get it all done I would say it would be it would
save some mhm I mean it's what do you think life it's couple years and it's done done I mean it's pretty rough right what what do the park board recommend just alternate
to I think that's just it didn't go to the park just because the bid was um last week I believe after the meeting yeah otherwise it would be till whatever the third Monday of August I
guess we could definitely have those discussions to see to see what we could get done right I mean you know and I don't want to put a lot on your plate either but if it's a way to save money and get more done while they're in town right yeah I think I think those discussions could be had absolutely um
and talk with the contractor you know maybe it's you know we got 20 years out of this trail with no drain tile on there you know maybe maybe there's parts of it that we'd be fine leaving out um just to get it done MH I think the drain F was
16,000 I think we do have some wiggle room if the contractor is willing to work with us right I agree you should try and complete as much as you can I I mean trails are important to people they use them right constantly I would agree with that would
we have to have them rebid then if we said hey if we do the Reclamation work and then if we're taking work out no I don't have it'll be a more side conversation let's 2% or something like
that negotiate it out I'm sure yeah but we'd still have to improve that cost separately from alternate two though absolutely correct right we do that at the next meeting right yeah yeah two animals one's basically a new
Trail and right over way basically open right and move we approve alternate to in the amount of $ the bkj land company and enter n talk for cost savings on the other Trail project Mo councilman kada I'll second
that second M councilman Morin any further discussion all those in favor opposed motion carries oops so that concludes the planned agenda already Mr dorfield anything else thank
you mayor members of Council um we have installed the camera post at Spa Park we have installed the camera post at the compost site um I've contacted steela um very good news there we went from an estimated $ 6400 to install
power to $1,400 to install the power um so just waiting for that to get boarded underneath the road underneath Garfield there um waiting on pricing for a second electrician to wider the cameras um stases have given us the pricing I just
I need one more just to keep everybody in check um all nine t-box pads were poured at the colen and discol course the poles are up the garbage cans are installed the guys completed all the restoration uh with dirt work and grass
seed around all the tea boxes today um as soon as WSB gets out there and surveys the site the signs will be up and we're done um we got the utman pads poured today um so we just got to get a track skid
loader down there so we can kind of float above the swamp and get get those in um that'll be next week's project I I think a few days and and that should be all bolted together and done um the fuel Barrel pad was poured today it turned out amazing water main brakes um we're
all paved in conjunction with this uh area three here and we had a little power glitch at the old police station which um Excel Energy and staz's got that taken care of and the plan for Paving for caur is tomorrow and
the plan is to leave the road open all the wild very all I got for you guys thank you thank you for all your work sir thank you anything else yes thank you Mr Mayor and members of the Council on the engineering side the mill and overlay project just across the
street wrapped up now so that's good to be done with that as well as the M Street water is complete the water passed its bacteria tests and pressure test so that is now all active all valves are open out there and there is a booster station the preon is schedul for
next week on July 31st so that that's all I have thank you sir Mr Ericson uh working on the budget um received uh quotes for um both insurances uh property insurance and
health insurance um have a few questions on on each of those that need to get answers to attended election training had a conversation have yesterday um at the end of the day yesterday with a um developer interested in developing for
some housing so I'm going to provide them some some information on uh Z and where utilities are things like that so we'll see where that goes uh budget meeting on Monday and player board August
5th thank you sir Mr Cory uh thank you Mr Mayor and council members uh just want to report in that uh the the state Primary healthc Care Facility voting uh took place at The Villages um this week on the 23rd uh
thank you council member Fe for uh being one of the election judges on that day uh we're kneed deep in uh election training uh through Rice County right now with our law sale election judges uh we're having excellent participation uh
with the 15 judges completing uh four different training courses and then a two-hour online election judge um uh a training course so just we were just all gearing up for the Tuesday
August 13th 2024 State primary election thank you thank you for all your work thank you um so the library board met yesterday um we had to do a reschedule we didn't have Corum the pre previous
week so did a special meeting yesterday um primarily because we have to interview some folks which will happen next Wednesday for the open uh Library technician one position um some good news on the library front real good news
uh Furniture should be arriving first week in August uh next week power and network cable are going to be run and cellco will be in to help set up the network um great participation for the uh um summer reading program over 190 uh kids
participate in that so we had a real good turnout there and um uh the library uh was accepted the the staff um uh turned in a proposal to present at the MLA conference done in
Rochester uh October 24th and 25th on how to recover from a flood so they uh they were accepted for that so they'll be presenting at that conference so that's a pretty good honor for the library and congratulations to the staff so good we're getting close Library will be back open here real soon
so everybody's pretty excited for that and uh margarit did say she intends to have a regand opening and a little party so once we have the details on that let everybody know so be great if everybody could show up for that is everything working out well with between the
insurance claim and that are they yeah as far as I know C and things yeah I didn't hear any problems um they did actually get to um they they added the the picture book right viewers uh Minnesota milw workk did those for us and they were able to
significantly reduce cost um on those they were a wish and celco or it was not CCO uh yeah I think it's CCO whoever whoever the other Furniture is coming from Demco maybe Demco I that's one of anyway yeah so their their price was significantly higher in Minnesota Millworks actually
we got six for the price of two really out of Minnesota milor and they they look great saw him yesterday there's just a little bit of minor tweaking that's going to happen there's a drawer underneath so there's some um rails that are going to be installed so they slide easy they're pretty heavy which is good
you know books get heavy but uh they they look great uh the the desk is in there Minnesota mwork did a great job on the furniture it looks outstanding good thank you sir thank you for your work parks and planning and zoning met
uh two weeks ago I believe it was on a Monday um a couple things the Parks went over was a chapter 7 Park Trail and open space comp plan I think that'll be at our next meeting again um just revisiting that and seeing what we have accomplished since that in
2016 was that um we went through that and Parks we worked on our 2025 budget as well Planning and Zoning um fencing ordinance was Revisited and we cleaned up some language in that and that'll be coming to the Council next meeting I
would assume and um we'll be taking on parking pads and cleaning up language in that one next that's all I have thank you sir very well cons person the Eda met last week although I wasn't there so I will yield to councilman it to give an update
I'm prepared this week too usually she's got it all covered so yeah um so uh we discussed uh because you know we created new marketing videos to sell the industrial park and hey look at that they work right right got a smir
and Joel uh so um we discussed uh what we're going to do moving forward um and how we're going to work through that uh uh then we also worked uh met with uh Westra marketing to get a proposal on uh
additional promotion of Lonsdale uh through the Eda and social media management so we can actually have a social media presence for that so we're wa waiting for that proposal to come in um and then uh we did break out something that we haven't had in the past which was uh it used to be we had a
revolving loan uh but the amount kind of varied based on what we had in the operating fund for the Eda so we uh mooved forward and uh we we now have a set $50,000 uh in the uh setup specifically for that so it's a it's a
set number and we'll work to keep that you know budget set and and could grow from there but before it was kind of willy-nilly and you know somebody might call contact Joel and like what is available it's like I'm not really sure well this we have a budget budgeted
amount of Grand now so that's a to make up for it's a shortfall if somebody's trying to start a business or whatever it's not to um make them we're not a primary lender this would be a secondary type thing so so that's what we did
thank you sir thank you for all your work uh a few things as uh you may or may not be aware councilman plava is a Grand Marshall for this year's Community there's a new Marshall in town congratulations thank you but just you kind of touch on this a little bit but
you know now that our business park is full I think we have to start identifying the next location um and maybe you know between advisory boards you know the pnz or even Eda you know there's there's been some talk about going east from that existing
business park and and uh into those residents are kind of behind TR sh and down in that area but I guess my point is we should probably start that Vision as you knowes a long time to develop and and all that kind of stuff so maybe that can be an item on the uh some of the
advisory boards for for discussion um the dis golf I mean that's really cool I I think that's going to have to be promoted or maybe groundbreaking or grand opening I say you know something like that because I don't know how many people in town even realize that this is being constructed I
think it's it's pretty cool and it's you know something we want to maybe work towards you know um speaking of the housing I have had some discussions with Lumis as uh as in regards to the partial um at South Maine
and I I think he's uh pretty close to going down the path I don't know if he's going to start this year anymore but he did send over some uh preliminary numbers to finish up the uh developers agreement I again Joel of course has them and and I and then we did meet with the county to discuss their you know
their um C share in the project and all that kind of stuff and and I do want to thank uh commissioner Doc and an Rice County they're pretty open-minded about trying to renegotiate something to to enable uh lumus to move forward so I would expect that to uh come down the
path here in in in the near future um just a couple of the minor things that you know I I driving around town today and I you know those downtown businesses there's actually a lot of activity downtown I you know the uh the scatter cat deli and the uh you know the karate
guy and all that kind of stuff so it's it's good to see the life life downtown so that's that's really very very nice for our community then lastly I've K check on Monday so if anybody's got any uh things they want plugged or any jokes I should give gettinger or
anything so but other than that we're going to be done like within a half hour tonight so I think uh only should only be half pay tonight Joel sure well maybe not maybe we'll pay the whole thing all
right motion my councilman W second second my councila any F discussion all those in favor I I oppose motion carries this Mee journ