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All right, it is 6:30. We will call the Monday, June 22nd, 2026 city of mayor city council meeting to order. If you could please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. And with that, do we have any additions to the agenda tonight? >> No additions tonight, mayor. >> Hearing none, I'll look for a motion to

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approve the agenda as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Post sign. >> Motion carries. 40. That will take us to public comments. If there is anyone who would like to discuss anything that is not on the agenda, please come forward.

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>> And if you don't mind stating your name and address for the record, Jude, we'd appreciate it. >> Uh, yes. Uh Juloo 1458062nd Street. >> Thank you. >> So um I need to verify the amount of um restitution I owe the um city here on my

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um bulldozing expedition. I just got out today on u I got four more days left to serve on that deal. So I want to be uh um make sure I got the exact amount. >> Yeah. Um, I had it surveyed. There was

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no road there. It was a road stub. Uh, I think we all can agree on that, but um, at any rate, I need to know that amount. >> So, uh, I can end that. >> Get it to you. Email or I mean, we don't have the number in front of the city administer.

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>> Yeah. You know what? An email or a text. >> Email or text would be best. >> That would be great. >> Nick, do you have both? >> I should. Yes. Okay. >> All right. And then uh >> your your number and email hasn't changed, has it? >> No. >> Okay. >> And I have his number, too, if you need. >> But u please ask for a verification on it.

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>> Okay. >> As far as if I received it or not, >> we'll get that sent >> tomorrow, Nick. >> Yeah. Tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning I can get that out. >> Yeah. Yeah. Just reply back. Let us know you received it. >> Yeah. And please make sure you're you guys look at

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that because I'm disputing the amount. You know, at that point in time, you guys were going to stiff me for 48 >> and you cut it down to 30 uh as soon as I disputed it, which was the whole amount for the um city mayor's road

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projects. >> Okay. >> And um I'll leave it there. Uh secondary item in regards to the franchise. So um I own all along color no 30. So, if there's any cable running through my property,

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um I'm just letting you know it's going to be a problem. And so, >> this is a Comcast you're talking about. >> You know what? I don't know. Nobody's told me anything. But, um I was in negotiations with a um a company u several years ago. Uh we'll call it 19.

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And then, um and then the city claimed it to be theirs and u but it's not. So, um before things get along go too far with Comcast or whomever Jaguar

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uh we should discuss that item there and then um I guess in closing you know what I'm still in dispute on the plan and zoning and I really don't know what what happened there um I was following the plan zoning's proposal

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and all of a sudden there's 50 extra pages and you guys amended a document that you hadn't even approved yet. At least that's how it reads. And um I'm just wondering, you know, what is the

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planning and zoning ordinance? Uh because there's like 50 extra pages there and a lot of them apply kind of just to me and I'm concerned about that. >> So is this our policy you're talk our

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planning policy? You know what? You know what? I'm not uh um up on the terminology, but what I do know is that they proposed a new plan zoning deal. >> Okay. >> So, ordinance or code. I I don't know that. >> But and you guys uh kind of approved it,

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but you approved it for your review and then it came back. It was approved as amended. So, I don't know what you guys what the initial one was. It'll be all in our recordings and our me our minutes. Everything would have been recorded. So,

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>> Oh, I know and I understand that. But it's not it's not available to the public is what I'm saying. >> Is because it was something was approved and then it was amended. >> The policy should be on is that on is that on our website? >> Yeah. So, all of our ordinance which are

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proposed, we're required by law to post those on the city's website. So on the city's website, there's a section of proposed ordinances and we keep all of those on there. And then when we get done uh adopting ordinances a couple times a year, we have so we have the

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city code that's online. >> Yeah. >> And then the le uh the entity we work with uh American Legal Publishing, they will then update that code. >> So you don't publish the amendments then? uh we just published the final >> the final code and any discussion those

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the recordings will be are online. >> Okay. Because what it said online was there were too many amendments to publish and that you had to check >> um yourself online is what it stated. >> So when you have a very lengthy ordinance there are state law provisions

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which allow you to publish a summary of it. Yeah. because if we published the entire zoning code in the newspaper, it would cost a gajillion dollars. So, you're allowed to publish summaries of them. And then you always have a caveat. There's always language in there that says if a member of a public wishes to

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see the full text, get a hold of the city and then we'll email that out. >> Okay. >> Right. >> Okay. >> Email or print it or whatever method they want to receive it. And >> that's just for the newspaper that we have to put in the newspaper. The stuff that's in our online will have all will

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have the everything in there. >> Yep. >> Yeah. But then it said too many that you had a little >> accurate. That was just for the newspaper bar. Just like Nick said, it would have been pages and pages that we would have had to have put in there. >> Okay. Okay. I'll take a look on that. >> Perfect. And then um yeah, I I guess in

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closing um you know, it would be nice u if you guys share once again what your plans are in regards to the park and um you know this PUD going back to the planning and

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zoning. You know what it's it's just on my land, okay? It's not up on uh you know Stone Hedge or whatever up there and it it's and I have a PRD there and I don't get it. I don't get

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why my farmland was declared uh non homestead or residential, you know, and you pass that, ma'am. And um you know, that's income to me. Okay, that's 15 grand a year. And it's behind the sewer plant.

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You guys are more than welcome to go back there. It's a regular junkyard back there. I mean, it really is. And you plow up a wall and on the flip side on my side is where all the bags of all the compost are. And um

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you know what? It's been farmland forever and I don't get what the rush or the hurry was for it to change zoning. Okay. And the real deal is along the river, the boundary is the

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middle of the river and you guys went to shoreline and that creates a big problem with that little hump up on top there that's in Hollywood Township and it screws up all kinds of property descriptions and it's a big deal. It all

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of a sudden now my uh driveway is a road and it's a big deal. Okay? Because it's not my driveway that you're after. It's all of Hollywood. That's the bottom line of Hollywood Township. >> Okay? And that's the bottom line of Watertown Township. And that's 12 miles

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of property descriptions. Okay? And then you move down to that half section line where the trail is. You know what? There's another 12 miles on one side. So, uh, no offense, Nick, but when you, uh, plug in the new

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catalyst system and you hit the auto button, you just changed hundreds and hundreds of property descriptions and you shorted out Hollywood Township about 200 feet along the whole bottom line and it's a problem. >> So, let me interrupt just because we're

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trying to keep five minutes. I want to keep that. Thank you. And then you'll get your information tomorrow. Thank you. >> Yeah. I guess the really is uh I don't want to do any more time. So, let me know about that. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Jude. >> Thank you. >> All right. With that, we'll move to consent agenda. Anything on the consent

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agenda that needs to be pulled for further discussion? >> Hearing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> I sign. >> Motion carries 4. That will take us to

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our business items. consider approval to surplus limestone seating blocks. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh when we uh installed the fence or we're looking at installing the fencing around the splash pad, the question came up of what to do with the limestone seating block that

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had been existing. That was sent back to park board for some discussion and then they decided that we should remove that and that the seat uh limestone seats that existed and then go with uh regular park benches. So, we had public works remove that. They're currently sitting

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at the public works uh yard right now. Since then, Bo and I have had discussions thinking what we could do with them around town and staff. We don't have any recommendations on what to do with them or for their potential use. So bringing this forward uh to

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consider uh surplusing the seating blocks that would give staff the ability to advertise uh to sell either to a private part uh obviously would be private party but uh an individual versus maybe a landscaping company see what we could get for them. Um other uh

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avenues could be we just continue to hold on to them to see if anything could be done with them but bringing it forward for discussion and consideration. Perfect. Thank you. Any thoughts on on these 15 limestone blocks?

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>> I just feel like we could use them at some point. Maybe dog park or along pathways for a place to sit down. >> That's kind of what I was thinking. I was going to propose that we um maybe

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hold on to them for a year, take another look at them in a year and see if because I I mean they're nice. They're decorative. We could use them for something event. Maybe it's even permanent >> permanent uh uh barriers in the thing that we don't want people into. Or

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>> we got 15 of them, right? What about at each hole at the disc golf? >> Well, I talked about that a little maybe a few of them out there might be some nice landscaping, you know, but I would propose >> we hold them for a year. I don't want to go much more than that. And like I was

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talking to Nick and five years from now they're still sitting back there overgrown with weeds and we can't even see them. But >> I mean they're three $3,000 worth of them there and there. >> So Parkboard doesn't really know what to do with them. >> Vague ideas, but nothing specific.

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>> I just I mean I could see them along a trail as place to sit down. It's a maintenancefree bench. I mean I don't I don't know. That's kind of what my thoughts are. If you would, Nick, were your thought if

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we did put them up for a surplus item, was your thoughts are you you take them all or we'll sell we'll give you one or two at whatever you want or is it all or none or did you have any thoughts on that? >> We'd have to I think we'd want to piece meal them out. Not no one person I think

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is going to want 15 whole blocks. >> Not unless it's a what could they go for? >> Yeah. Like what could they go for? Uh we purchased them for 200 uh bucks a piece back when they were sourced by CRS when we built the splash pad.

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>> I think they go pennies on the dollar. >> I feel like >> we have room to store them. >> Yeah, they're currently at public works >> and it's it's not causing issues with storage. >> Nope. >> That's just my thought, but I'm I I'm not gonna be opposed to if we want to

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get rid of them, too. I'm f I think I could. >> Well, I mean, what if you look at getting rid of some of them? Just see what we could get for them. Uh I I only say like putting it in a grassy area now, you've got a weed whip around it.

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And if you don't maintain it, >> well, but you could do it nice. You could lay like a rock bed, you know, border it so you could mow around it decent. >> Right. I mean, I know it's added cost, but at the same time, like I said, it's a

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maintenance-free park bench as well or decorative or >> I mean, I don't think there's a harm in either option. If we want to hold and have this discussion, you know, our park board just thinks of it or we sell half of them and we still

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have, you know, seven of them, eight of them. Did they just not fit inside the fence or it didn't look good? Like >> they didn't really look good with a four foot fence and those being two or three feet tall. And >> I think people didn't like the texture for like sitting with like your swimsuit

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on. >> Yeah. >> They weren't like super comfortable, >> especially for kids. They were too tall for kids to do anything with, >> you know, they'd be more of a climbing up and falling off. But >> and seeing the fence now, knowing what the blocks look like, it would have

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looked odd. >> Mhm. >> Going with the regular park benches is the right move uh for seating in there now that the fence is in. So, it's uh looking at that they're repurposing. >> I mean, they're cool blocks and it'd be

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cool to use them for something. I just don't know what yet. So, I I'll look for if anyone wants to make a motion for either side of things, feel free. >> I'll make a motion to keep them for a year. See if we come up with any ideas.

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>> All right. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion to second. Any further discussion? >> Nope. >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Post. Same sign. >> Motion carries 4. Consider approval of closure of cold

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water crossing on July 11, 2026 for the Mayor Rising Community Festival Tractor Parade from noon to 3. But we do have a tighter timeline timeline now from the committee. Um on Thursday when he sent this, we didn't have that dialed in yet,

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which is what time, Nick? >> Uh they narrowed that down. They'd like to see it close from 1 to 2 p.m. tightening that window for an hour instead of noon to 3. But the pro parade route is the exact same one that was had last year. Starting over at the compost

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site going down 30 they'll go and then our ability to close down is that cold water crossing run and they'll go back on 30 up blue J ending your the festival site. So, if there's no questions for Nick,

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I'll look for a motion to approve closure of water crossing on July 11, 2026 for the tractor parade from 100 p.m. to 2 p.m. >> Um, I wasn't here last year. I just remember we had a big discussion about it. We didn't have any complaints about it last year.

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>> We had one. >> Okay. >> We had one complaint. Um, and the way it felt is I don't think there was any solution that would have been acceptable to that person. They just simply did not want the parade

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running through. They had a doctor's appointment and they were just really bent out of shape about that. But, uh, the committee last year, they put out flyers on the door hangers. I think it was a week in advance. Um, and they had signage along the road as it

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was leading up to it. So, I think the process was good and to have one property owner out of all of them have major >> I think if we do the same I don't see a problem with that. >> Yep. No, I mean I just I'm not a fan of closing a road like a residential road

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for a whole hour because if I lived there I probably would be annoyed. Um, personally, this is just me personally, but if we had one complaint from last year, I don't want to prohibit something that seemed successful last year and

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people did enjoy. So, if the majority of people, I just I struggle unless it's like a construction thing, not being able to get to my house, I think I would struggle with that. But um if we only had one complaint and people enjoyed it and it's a

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positive for the community then I have nothing against it. I think uh the other 10 agree you almost echo that exact sentiment. >> They're close from one to two, but if they get done in a half hour, as soon as the parade is over, the street can be used again.

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>> And based on what I saw last year, it couldn't have been more than 20 minutes, >> right? But it starts and it's like once the parade's passed, it's o, you know, so if you're at the >> the front end of it, >> right? >> It's open the second the parade is over.

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sneaking out either way. But >> all right. Any um >> Did we get a motion on that? I didn't think so. >> Okay. Do we have a motion to close water crossing on the 11th from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for the parade?

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>> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Post same sign. >> Motion carries 40. Now, we'll take a look and consider

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approval of the 2026 election judges. >> Thank you, mayor. We're back in election cycle after two after a year, year and a half off. Uh getting back into the swing of things and uh Alicia has been hard at work as our city clerk organizing the election. So, thank you to her for all

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of her effort on that. And the one thing we're kicking off with is we have a deadline coming up, July 17th, by which we need to uh appoint our election judges for the state primary. Uh we'll likely come back at a later date uh for when we at the general elections just to reaffirm the list if anything changes.

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Uh but this year uh we have our slate of election judges there. Uh they've been applied for and taken off the state list that were mandatorily required to take from. So we should be good to go coming up here. >> Perfect. Thank you. I'll look for a motion to approve the election judges as

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presented. >> Motion. >> We have a motion. We have a motion to second. Any further discussion? >> Theodore and Ted are two separate people. >> Theodore Samson and Ted Ted Samson.

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>> Good catch. >> Oh, good catch. >> One person. >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. I just Maybe it was like a father son deal. >> Oh, yeah. All right. Um

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any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppos same. Motion carries 4. That will move to city council report. Council member health. Anything report on? >> Nope. I have not had any meetings since.

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>> Council member Fosch. >> I do not have anything. >> Council member McNeely? >> Nope. >> And I do not believe I've had any meetings either. We are going to um love to get a a public works committee meeting for next Monday. We're hoping to start talking about the sonar of the of

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the ponds that we had discussed at the last meeting. Nick, do you want to give a quick um overview of some projects coming up? >> Sure. Ken, uh the Highway 25 trail was completed on Saturday, it sounds like. Uh it was looks I walked it this morning. Was a very clean install. There

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wasn't a lot of extra disturbance along the side. So restoration, what little there is to do will take place this week. A little back the minor back filling and seating, but it looks really really good. They did a good job on that. Uh next week we'll have the bio seal in the uh seal coat area uh uh the

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seal coating areas. So that'll take place uh this week on Wednesday. The parking lot will be closed down. Uh well, the accesses will be closed down for their reconstruction. That'll happen this week and then until next Friday for concrete curing because we need a week

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of that. Uh public works is going to be installing a temporary ramp access in the but so we have the north one, we have the south one that's going to go in the center there to still allow access to the parking lot on an interim basis. And then uh next week on Monday, Dakota

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Prairie Composting will be in town to chip the brush pile out at the compost site. >> Perfect. Thank you. Um, one thing I did forget to mention, the city administrator and myself did attend the meeting, the Fieldstone HOA meeting um,

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from last week and Nick gave a a brief overview of what was going on in the city and the community. And, um, uh, deputy, our uh, assistant chief Pat Barry was there also from the sheriff's department, gave a quick update on kind

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of the regionalization and kind of gave an overview of that. So that was well attended. Uh with that then I will look for a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion >> second. >> We have a motion to second. All in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. >> We are adjourned.