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Welcome to the Mound City Council meeting for June 9th, 2026. We are in the council chambers. Can we get a call to order, please? >> Per the council's request two meetings ago, we've amended the agenda to have roll call now at the at the beginning. So, when you hear your name, please say

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here. Council member Herrick >> here. >> Council member Mcani >> here. >> Council member Pew >> here. >> Acting Mayor Castellano >> here. >> Thank you. All right. And can we now stand for the

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pledge of allegiance? >> Pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Right. Um, let's see. We have our main agenda. Do we have any amendments to the agenda? >> I have one amendment to the consent agenda which is in front of you. There's a it says 5G. It's 5 I. Um, we received

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a application for a gambling permit for from the Tonka Lions for Spirit of the Lake. So, this would be a consent item 5. >> Okay. All right. Can we get a motion to

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adopt the agenda with the amendment? >> Motion to approve. >> Okay, we have a motion. Can we get a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Um, all those in favor? >> I >> I >> I. >> All those opposed?

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That passes. Um, let's see. >> You got the >> second. I'm sorry. >> Oh, it's just public. >> Yeah. Okay. Adopt the agenda. All right. Um, we are on to the public comment

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section if there's anyone from uh the public that would like to speak about any item that is not on the agenda. >> Yep. You can come up and speak. >> Oh, going to put me on the spot. Okay. >> Yep. And if you're whoever's coming up to speak, just state your name and address when you reach the podium.

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>> Perfect. So, my name is Christina Meyer and I've been a residence here with resident here with my family for 13 years and we live on West Edge at 2676 West Edge Boulevard and we're here today because of the

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detour that is not being managed properly and it's increased traffic on our street a th000%. Um, we've even had property damage now since this started on June 1st. Uh, there's actually a police report filed about it. our mailbox was hit. Um it was hit so hard

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that it actually pulled the concrete base out of the ground and um it's making us concerned not only just that for our pets, for our kids most certainly because now school's out and I know that the speed was dropped down to 20 m an hour. That's not enough. I've

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noticed driving through the neighborhood that the sugar mill property or the sugar mill development they have clo road closed for through traffic and they have the luxury of having that at the sugar mill turn off of west edge and then also on Robin Lane which is on

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Lindale. It's eliminating the traffic for going around those areas because what's happening is it's backing up so far on West Edge it's pushing people down to Lindale. I've been in talks with Jesse multiple times. He had said that the detour was supposed to be pushed to 92. It appears that there's been a lot

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of problems that it has not been managed properly to keep the residents safe on West Edge. So, I'm here today to try to find out something better to do to protect everyone on that on that street. Lowering it to 20 m hour is not going to do any justice. Actually, putting the

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speed limit sign down to 20 m hour is not going to like cut down on the traffic. We need to close that road to through traffic and push that detour to 92. Not only are cars driving fast, we're having semis coming down there.

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Fullsize semiis going 30 35 miles an hour. That's dangerous. So, we really need to think about it and think put residents first. Okay, this detour is not supposed to be coming down West Edge. It says 92. We need to push

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that way and close off West Edge. That's that's what I want to talk to about. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is it No, it's not one. It's 92. >> Thank you. >> All right. Public comments are still

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open. Yep. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> You remember me? >> Class of 76, Steve Wland. uh 5544 Spruce Road a long time ago. >> Now it's Frankfurt, South Dakota.

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>> I'm back in town because it's our 50-year reunion and I've got an idea proposal and I wanted to thank the city, the council, um the mayor Holt, Jesse who I just met for a couple of minutes to bounce this off of you.

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My proposal is a day of recognition and remembrance for Mound City. That's what our city was called before it was incorporated. The maps that I brought, the fire department pictures back about the time the Pew family moved into town in the mid60s. Uh, your brother played

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on my dad's team. >> I was watching him get ready for the game tonight. Judge Walner was still alive then. Walt used to call the games when he wasn't being crabby in town. And I digress. The history is so rich that Prince had to

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put it in a movie. We live on a very special area. I still consider this my home. I was at Shirley Hills where I started. There's an burial mound right behind there that connects with the church.

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Serendipitous that there's a school and a church and dead Indians underneath that. My idea for the city, October 12th, my dad's birthday, >> Columbus Day, Indigenous People Day,

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and the City of Mound Day of Remembrance and Recognition for the Indigenous people buried underneath our soil. I have two Aabaskan Native Americans that are willing to come. They're both TV stars as well known as Mr. Sorbo and

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our friend Kevin. They were on the life below zero series. I've been up to Alaska a few times now. Um my proposal would be to bring down guest speakers. We have a day of recognition. It's going to start small like the Renfest did in Shock in Jonathan before it got so big.

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Now it's in shock. Publicity. Eric Perkins is on board with Care 11. Okay. Mayor says you don't have a events planner. Fine. I'll volunteer. I'm certified food safety planner. I've done business plans. I've got deep

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pockets. You need a buzz. You need publicity. You need people to come and visit the city, spend some money, eat some Native American food, go to a pow-wow, which they call a pot latch, have a dance on the lake, maybe down on the point on Harrison Bay by my uncle

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Frank, who served on the city council, planted a tree that's still there on the beach that we used to swim on. and people will come to quote James Earl Jones from Field of Dreams. It is a dream right now. I've tried to convince,

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thank you to John Golinson for helping drag some stuff out here with me. Uh we've got our 50-year reunion coming up in August. Uh I'll be back in a couple weeks to go water skiing with a friend of mine. >> Let's make the town as big as it was in

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the 70s when and you remember >> Yeah. >> move over Detroit. make way for Mound, Minnesota. I worked at Tonka Toys part-time. It won't cost the city anything except maybe an officer. We might even borrow an orno officer since they seem to

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overlap. Um the permits. I'll vet the food truck. You'll have Native American food. You'll have the real deal here and it'll be sustainable moving forward if the city wants it to be. If anybody has any

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questions, the mayor has my contact information. I think you do too, Jesse. I'm easy to reach because I'm old now. >> And I love coming back. It's only a 250 mi one-way trip. >> That's not bad.

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>> It's a straight shot out 212 if you want to come out and visit. Do you remember Terry Seaman? >> Yeah. >> He got sick and died out by where I live now. So >> Oh, >> just west of Watertown. Um, >> are you proposing October 12th

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>> around the weekend? Yes. Since it would be a approved >> well what a secular holiday since it's nothing to do with a Christian holiday or any religious thing. It would have to do with the city itself and the city would want to possibly parallel it. It

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would be up to the city to decide if you want it to run with indigenous people and Columbus Day. Nobody's going to get rid of Columbus Day. Hopefully, nobody's going to get rid of a day of recognition and remembrance. I did some digging. Nobody else has got one of these things.

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>> Not with a city like we've got. St. Paul doesn't have this yet >> yet. >> Well, it would be fun. I mean, I love history. We all love Mount History. So, >> you can make money. Think about Think about the Legion having more people than they can serve on that weekend.

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Think about the hotels, maybe a B&B in the area. Think about the publicity when Eric Perkins talks it up on TV and some other folks and it gets around and now you got people wanting to come down from Canada or over from South Dakota. Where are they going to stay? Well, maybe you

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build another hotel >> in 5 years. >> First, we got to get a few people here. First, we got to get a few people here. >> Sure. >> Get see what happens. I'll waste the money. Okay. I will pay for everything.

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That's very generous. >> Well, it's >> that includes appearance fees getting we're talking life below zero. Rico De Wild and Tig Strawber. Um and then Rob Fairbanks, if you want to write down those names, I can forward this to you. The contacts, they're the real deal.

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They're Nat Geio TV stars. They like me. >> They like that I came up there on a vacation and went wolf hunting. But >> it has to be about the Benjamins for the city. I hate to say it that way. It has to be about more than just the buzz. It

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has to be sustainable financially and I can make that happen with the city's help. It has to be a group effort. >> No, we're always looking for more events in that new park. And you know, you I got to shake your hand if you don't. >> Yeah, because um we had the um the new park. >> I haven't seen you.

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>> I know. I know. >> Richie came to my dad's funeral. >> Yeah. Uhhuh. >> That touched my heart. >> It's nice to see his gone. No, no. I'm Sherry. >> I'm the oldest. >> Don passed away. >> Yeah.

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>> Sorry. I >> Yeah. >> Wow. Don't get old. >> I got what everyone tells me. >> Your oldest. >> I'm the oldest one. Yeah. >> Your mom was my first bowling coach. >> Yeah. >> And I just went to Scott Kckler's funeral. Sorry. We need to do this off the clock. Are you getting paid for this?

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>> Well, anyway, what I was going to say is um >> Thank you. Can you repeat your name? Was it Scott? >> Steve. Steve. >> Steven with a V. That's what grandpa Wland used to call me when I was naughty. >> Are you Wand Park? >> Sounds like they know how to get >> Whan Park. >> That's my uncle. >> Oh, that's awesome.

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>> Wland. >> Wland. >> Yeah, >> please. >> Thank you. >> My middle name is Phillip and dad was a volunteer fire. >> You have you have deep roots. >> Uh Jacob, my great grandpa, grew up by St. Bonnie. That's why I brought

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>> the Wlands came over from Germany. Mhm. >> My grandpa was born in 1900 at home, but he's got a couple of older relatives that I remember when I was a kid. So, I can trace my roots back to when they came over through Ellis Island in the late 19th century.

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>> This ain't about >> no >> any of us. It's about the town. It's about the dead Indians that we walk on. It's about making some money for the future in a sustainable way. >> The the country needs this, folks. >> Yeah. >> We're so divided.

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Go to a reservation. Like I said, I'm friends with Kathy Palier. Go to a reservation in Minnesota. >> Any place they got them in Wisconsin. Go away from the casinos and go see where the people. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Well, Steve, we have

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>> and it will spread in a nice way. I I know this. >> Yeah. >> Crafts, all kinds of kids can There'll be stuff for kids, bead work, all kinds of stuff. You get them away from the darn smartphones. I'm digressing. Yeah, I'm passionate. your sister and talk to Richie. Tell them I was out here. Do

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that. >> I will. I will. I was going to say though that we we are trying to >> look at doing something for an opening of the new park. So downtown where the um >> Oh, by one of the old post office. >> Yeah, the old post office. You know,

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we're we're >> Lost Lake there. >> Yeah, it's Lost Lake Commons. >> Right back where Markson Company used. My dad used to have a shop right back there where Dr. Lowowers remember Dr. >> Low. We're we're having some historical signage that's going in there uh in the next couple of months and stuff. And so

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we've talked about doing some sort of dedication and maybe this could be the opportunity to make >> The only reason I picked Indigenous People Day is because I thought it was a fit because of the connection with the natives. >> No. And I think it's very

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>> I don't care if it's on Christmas. >> Okay. >> You can quote me on that. >> You wouldn't want to drive back on Christmas. Sure. >> That time of year, would you? >> Yeah. Um, I want to make sure >> I get around. I'm I'm a recovering Catholic. I'll just leave it at that. It's not pertinent in a political meeting. >> Thank you, Steve.

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>> Thank you. >> Thank you, Steve. >> Love you. >> An atabask. And that means thanks be to God for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Does anybody else want to speak?

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My name is Matthew Meyer, uh, husband of Christina who spoke earlier. Okay. 2676 West Edge Boulevard. >> Thanks. >> And again, I'd like to reiterate the fact that yes, you drop the speed limit, >> you put bags over the 30 mph speed limit

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and then about 200 yards down, you have the first small square 20 mph speed limit sign. Why wouldn't that be placed closer to the actual speed limit sign? Needs to be closer to that intersection so people

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know that they need to slow down. I mean, this is honestly it's getting ridiculous. Sitting out on my front porch watching this mayhem unfold. And there's seems like nothing is being done for us down by the trail crossing. Lots

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of park, no parking signs, green cones, this that everything. Our street, nothing. I went down my road yesterday and I put orange cows down the center of the road. They were sitting by my driveway.

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>> So, I felt that, hey, my children play out here. Other people play out here. People walking their dogs. I've seen people wait two to three minutes to cross the street in because traffic is not slowing down, heating to pedestrians. It's again the the original

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plan, Jesse. Correct. That's you. >> You are Jesse. Okay. My wife spoke with you and you said the original plan was to detour the traffic where? >> Well, the main detour is definitely 92. >> Okay. So, main detour, what what

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dictates that? Is that commercial vehicles? >> It would be all traffic. And I hate to do it to you, Matt, but I am going to defer to the city engineer for engineering questions. >> Yeah, defer to whomever you need. But I would say with the semi-truckss that are

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rolling down our street at the speed that they're rolling at, we just got a text message from a neighbor on Beachwood. There was a vehicle, construction vehicle taking a right from West Edge down Beachwood and lost the whole front end, gouged the road.

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>> I don't know. I didn't see any pictures, but >> just happened actually when >> Yeah, just happened >> 30 40 minutes ago. >> Like it's getting out of control. our mailbox got smoked by something, be it a construction vehicle or a vehicle traveling too fast. But either way, we

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need to think about children and the neighbors, the taxpaying citizens of Mound, and not worry about commercial vehicles that should be routed down 92 to the point where there's no trucks rolling down my road. I'll deal with the

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increase. I know that there's people that live in the neighborhood that it's the short cut through, right? Mhm. >> But vehicles that are working, commercial vehicles should not be going down our road. >> We can we all agree to that?

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>> Oh yeah. >> Like it's a residential street. We have no yellow lines. It's >> it's getting out of hand. We need either road close to through traffic. Obviously locals will get around that kind of like they get around, you know, the road

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closure in front of 15 on the weekends. No construction. people sneak by. I get it. That's okay. But speed limit, no construction vehicles, and let's, you know, put the priority of our children. I've got two of them here.

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They play outside in our front yard all the time. And it just seems like what is this going to take to to get something to change? You know, mailbox didn't do it. There's another vehicle that I just spoke about that wrecked. And I'm sure

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that's not the first. You could probably contact the police department. See, he's sitting back there. There's probably, you know, it's not the first time that they've been called for something like that. Speed definitely. But I'll digress. Use your better judgment and

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let's make some changes for the better, especially for the children of the neighborhood and people walking their dogs and just safety in general. >> Yeah, >> that's it. >> Thank you. Thank you for >> Well, we we hear you and we've had, you know, many conversations with neighbors just like you and

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>> Jesse is aware of it. Matt's aware of it. I mean, I don't know. Can they put signs on that on West Edge that say no commercial vehicles or >> you definitely reroute it? >> There's not a standard sign for that. So, Jesse and I talked about a little bit. I've been kind of racking my brain

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on what would make sense. We are still going to need >> How about no trucks? >> We We still need some trucks to get through. We need >> Well, obviously the local destruction. If they're doing the water tower, that's fine. But >> these big rigs like Yeah, I've seen them. They must be like lost.

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>> And that road, West Edge, was just redone what, four or five years ago. >> Double. >> You guys assessed us for it, so we should have a say in what goes on with our road. We paid for part of it. >> It It is a It's a collector street, so

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it is going to take more traffic. We We did look long and hard about discussing how to set the detours up. Kind of understood that no matter what we did, >> signs pe people within the the closure area take west edge.

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>> Okay. But signs I see there's so many signs, you know, detouring people this way, but there's no signs. There's actually a sign that says detour down West Edge. >> That is correct. >> That's where the detour is going. >> Yes. I mean, in full disclosure, I live

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on West Edge Boulevard, so I've been putting up with this nonsense for over 10 years. We had the same problem when we had constructions, and I agree with him. I had to pay an assessment, and now we've got damage to the road, the property of the city. Is that not a city street? >> Wait,

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>> or is it a is it a >> No, it's something else. >> City street. >> Okay, good answer. >> Um, >> well, what can we do to change that into a residential street? >> I want to know if you all find out. I want to know who did the damage to the road and we want to follow up and I want

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to make sure that their insurance covers the damage to our street. Now, the other point that I want to make in agreement with them is that we've got one 20 mph sign on the way here and I

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know that I'm sure Dustin probably made those. I don't know. But I think we can do better. we can be a little bit more clearer on the fact that, hey, this is 20 miles an hour now. And then I'm planning on having a discussion with our lovely police officer over here. I had a

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conversation with the gentleman on Friday that was here um actually at your house to write the report up about the mailbox. I saw it with my own eyes. He's not exaggerating. It pulled a blob of concrete right out of the dirt and their yard is a hill. So

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this car this car had to go off out of its way to hit it. Um, but I talked to the young gentleman that was there from the Orno Police Department and he kind of looked at me like I was half crazy. But you know what? If these cars, if the speed limits marked 30, if they're going

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31, I want a ticket written. We could finance the Orno Police Department next year with the traffic that's coming down West Edge right now. >> Absolutely. >> And I mean, if that's the speed limit, fine. And then if the speed limit's going to be 20, and believe me, I've driven down it. It's hard to stay at 20. That will deter quite a bit of the

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traffic in itself. This is insane. I mean, I watched a semi loaded down with sand or dirt or whatever it has. And I mean a big one, one of those I don't even know what it's called. Big long thing. And it's coming down West Edge down the hill at 35 miles

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an hour because they have a metered thing at the end of the street there. >> 35 miles an hour. And you could hear him hitting the brakes and the thing every trying to slow down so that he could get around that curve. I mean, someone is going to end up through that fence and down over the hill if they don't kill

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someone first. And I mean, I saw five little boys out there Sunday on their bicycles without him on. That's a parental issue, I'm sure. But at the end of the day, we have a certain responsibility to these citizens to protect these kids, and we're not doing it. We are failing

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miserably. >> Absolutely. Matt, Jesse, whatever we have to do, we need to get a handle on this. >> And to their point, there are pylons and everything else down by the trail crossing. And I I find it a little confusing, too, because it almost entitles those kids to walk out into traffic.

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>> Yeah. >> And I think that's bad. >> I don't know what I'm pretty sure there's a stop sign there, but I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure if you're five, you probably don't see that. You see a pile on, okay, I can go out, you know, and then they're on a bike and they're just it's just a matter of time.

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That's exactly. It's >> Yeah. So that's actually been interested. Um Brian and Drew worked with the staff over there that we got don't parking up all along there. And then the the cones, the delineators are meant to act more like a kind of a small

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bump out and make sure people are more aware that there that there's a trailer crossing there. >> I will tell you that's the alternate solution for these res. >> Was the city of Minitrista that did that? >> That that area is in the city of Minista. But are they the ones responsible for actually putting up the signs and kind of doing

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>> No, that's that's um the signs that are out there either directly from our project or kind of working. >> Okay. >> So, I didn't know that you spread the cones out center of the road. I thought maybe Dustin did that. >> No, I did because nobody else is doing anything to slow traffic down. We sit

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out, we scream at traffic. My girls like to do it, too. It's not a good habit to get into, but when there's obviously a car barreling down 35, 40 m an hour because, you know, oh, I'm a little late because, you know, traffic, no excuse.

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Like, again, what's it going to take? And I hope to hell that I'm not back here again because of something more severe besides our mailbox. >> I mean, the alternate solution is, and some of the residents have done this, they parked their car out in the road.

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And that's going to be the next step >> until you guys put no parking signs up there because it congests things too much because it slows people down. >> All right. Um,

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anybody else want to speak? Thank you. >> All right. >> So, I get here's one of these situations where how are we going to follow up with him? >> Matt, correct? >> Yeah. Matt. Yep. >> You have my address, >> Jess. No stranger.

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>> He's talked to me probably three times in the last week. >> Okay. >> So, I do I need to come back up there if I want to say one other thing. >> May. >> Yeah. Something planned. >> No, no, no. Just one quick thing because I know I'm not supposed to be talking about that, but you know, that's what I do. So, I just want to know, okay, if

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we're talking about this plan, can something be decided tonight? especially whether okay the signs need to come like sure more signs for 20 mph I'd rather see and I know there's a lot of residents on west edge that want to see that road closed through traffic push

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that detour to 92 yes that's an extra 6 miles one way 6 milesi back but that is a highway that can support it that's yellow line instead of putting them through a residential street whether you want to call it a city street or whatnot it doesn't have a yellow line okay so even just detouring

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not just the semis all traffic unless you're living in that area. We do know the the amount of traffic that goes through that. There's North Saunders, there's everybody that lives off of Hallstead, off of West Edge, all that stuff. We know the traffic, but this is 1,000 times different, intense. You can

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sit out there from 4:30 to 7:00 and it looks like gridlock and there is no patience from anybody when they're on there. I tried to turn into my driveway just coming home from Jubilee the other day. turning into my driveway. I live we're if you know West Edge, we're West Edge and Beachwood. We're right on the

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corner. We have Sprout, the rock pink caterpillar. It doesn't matter, but yeah. Turn. So, we're right before Beachwood. Okay. I slowed down with my turn signal on to turn into my driveway and I hear screeching from a Bronco behind me that didn't realize it and I

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almost got rearented. Another resident that is a family member of ours that lives on Westwood Circle. That's the culde-sac that's off of Evergreen. She was actually had her brakes on. She was turning into her culde-sac and someone came flying past her like trying to pass

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on top. There is no patience from people cutting through there as residents. Us trying to slow down just to get in our driveway. We're being cut off or we're almost rear ended. the safety there is such a serious factor right now that I want to feel I want to feel like when we

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leave here tonight this evening that we're heard and there's going to be change or something going into effect not next Monday. Let's have something happened sooner rather than later before someone gets hurt or something happens. We just had as my husband mentioned there was the semi that turned too quick and lost part of its load and it dug

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down Beachwood or down Beachwood. So all of a sudden we have that issue too. So something needs to happen faster, sooner rather than later. We don't want to wait until Monday for something or let's just see. We did the 20 mph. Let's see how that goes for a week. No, we're stuck with this until at least July 10th. And

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I've been informed that this detour is not just till July July 10th because they're still doing the water treatment p pro after the boat launch area. And if that's going to continue, we're going to still have a lot of traffic coming up West Edge again past July 10th. you're

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talking about almost the whole summer and we don't want to deal with the stress. We don't want to deal with the safety issues. We want something addressed now. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> I'd like to add one more point that uh

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maybe we should revisit again Matthew Meyer 2676 West Edge Boulevard. >> We should revisit lowering the speed limit on West Edge altogether. Instead of 30 miles an hour, it should be at least 20 or 15. It's it's a

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neighborhood. It's not just a road through Mound. You know, we need to slow people down through Mound. You know, everybody says Mound is a what is that? A pass through city. Nobody stays. Everybody just drives through it to get to where they're going. That could be another thing. Slow people down. Maybe

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we can get some restaurants, some business, something to draw. Like I like the He's gone now, but the gentleman that spoke after my wife, he doesn't live here and he almost has more pride in this town than half the people that

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live in it. You know, we need to do something to figure out getting businesses here, getting people to actually stay open. Vision Arcade, case in point. I used to take my daughters there when it was open. Every Thursday after school, I'd pick them up. would go

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to the arcade, have some fun, maybe buy a skateboard, maybe buy stickers, do whatever. They closed. >> Obviously, it's not the city's problem that a business, you know, fails or succeeds. But to get more people in here, opening businesses, tax revenue,

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things like that, and not just have it be a pass through town where you can go 45 through a residential neighborhood just to get through it because you live in St. Bonnie or elsewhere. But I mean, let's take some pride in our city and make it be something special.

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>> Well, you know, residents need to take some ownership with this, too, in this shop local. >> Absolutely. >> Because I talked to 15 of them in the last week that all bought their flowers at Costco when we have John's, Friday, and Pets >> with beautiful flowers and true value.

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And you know the problem is neither none of our small businesses can get the breaks that Costco can get. Costco loses an arm and a leg on their plants, but they don't care because they make up for it with u membership fees. So residents

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need to take ownership that you know um instead of going to Costco to get you know $6.99 geraniums, I'm going to go to John's Friday or or to the Hartford store. Yeah. So, and and that that matters for all of our restaurants, for

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everything. >> Um, so I agree with you, but but the city takes pride in businesses coming here. Sure. >> But truly, it's the residents who keep business open. >> Yeah. But that's very true. Like, >> it's participating

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>> But like Scotty Bees was the best thing that was ever here. Absolutely. >> And the fact that it's gone now, >> we all miss it. >> Two Mexican places. Like, don't get me wrong, I love Mexican food. We we eat it all the time, but I just >> Well, you know, you know, um Scotty, one

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of the Scotties is cooking breakfast at Allegian. >> At the Legion. Yep. >> And it it's just as >> I feel like we're done talking about construction. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. With respect to everyone's time, you guys are heard. You will get you will get followup. You know, everyone will make sure that you do. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Um, I think I said this before, but does anybody else want to make public comment or I'll move on to the next agenda item? >> Well, wait a minute. Um, can we make a motion for some sort of action to be

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taken at this stage? >> I don't know. I mean, we need to give >> them a chance to absorb the comments and see what those options might be. I think they say that, you know, to to ask the first round >> the staff by the end of the week >> to have some sort of resolution

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>> for this problem. I think >> is is that adequate time >> for you guys? >> Certainly. Um I don't think we need a motion and this um >> though obviously >> um >> just a direction from >> Yeah. Well, I think the direction's

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pretty well heard though, and I mean that earnestly, but um we've been talking about this since >> this morning already as far as >> how to direct trucks away from West Edge and construction vehicles for our projects are still going to be in the area. >> Yeah.

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>> Um part of it is being able to enforce, right? I mean, so we we can't we don't want to put something up that >> can't be enforced because OPD is going to need to be the ones doing the enforcement. and Sergeant Spencer, I think, will be able to speak to that in a little bit. But so we I think we can

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do something uh more directed towards those larger vehicles, the local ones, since we're not going to know who who's coming and going if it's just a a passenger vehicle. That's not really the something we can do, but we can do a better job directing towards 92. And then

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>> I sounds like Matt if you want to jump in that we could probably at least do something to fully direct vehicles that are larger that aren't directly related to like our construction or something local. >> Yeah, there are a a few sign that

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there's nothing that is very clear towards trucks, but there's a couple that we can look at putting in that are more directed towards tractor trailers. Like I mentioned, there's still going to be >> some construction traffic. We need some um >> dump trucks and things like that that are going to be going through and then

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then the vehicles that are carrying the back hose in and out of the the construction project as well going through there. Um, and as far as any other adjustments to the road, I we're we can keep trying to make tweaks, but short of closing it, there's really just

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it's kind of driver habit and what people that are in the area are going to do. So that our prerogative has always been to gather people from outside and then their detour is 92. >> But we kind of knew that people that live within Mount Trista, they were

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going to use West Edge to the the extent that they felt comfortable and >> we've been trying to make it less comfortable for them. the the mill and overlay that Minatrista is going to do is actually afterwards that kind of keeps the road a little bit rougher and kind of >> um

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>> could the um could the public works department put more cones so it goes the whole way down the road because that really slows you down. I I was driving home last night and I'm like where the heck did these come from, you know? Yeah. Thank you, Matthew. Now we know they came from you. But you know there aren't enough. So if we're going to do

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that it should be up the whole road. >> Every man will cover something like that. Yeah. >> Well, I think they have their >> I think >> I think they know what they'll follow up. >> And the other thing I will say when I was coming back from

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um town um I came northbound on 44 to West Edge and driving it. I literally had to look at the signage and I was trying to find out what was going on. There is one small sign that says northbound 110 and it's pointing that way. Um I don't know. I think maybe we

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could take a look at that and do a better job of that signage to clearly indicate, >> you know, >> coming into Mound is challenging for people that don't live here. They wouldn't have a clue what they're supposed to do. >> Yeah. I mean, if if that would divert, I would say quite a bit of the traffic because that's why it's backing up on

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Lynwood because all these cars are trying to turn left. So, if even half that traffic was going that way and they turned before they went down West Edge, that would alleviate traffic. It would also prevent the backup down there on Lynwood. Um, and I'm not going to say it

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again, but 20 miles an hour, we need to be better with our signage. That's not clear. >> Yeah, >> it's much clearer on the wind and trrista end than it is on our end. >> All right. >> So, I guess we we're clear. The staff understands >> our intent and >> they will respond appropriately.

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>> Okay. Um, I don't believe anybody else wanted to make comments. So, um, moving on to agenda item number five. Um, we have our consent agenda with an amendment. Would

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anyone like to read those off? >> I can read that. >> Okay. >> Where's the amendment? >> Um, I would go right there. Okay. So I can just read those through that.

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>> This y Okay. Uh consent uh consent agenda a minutes of the May 2626 city council regular meeting. Approve resolution 2642 approving variance for property at 4936 three points. Approve

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resolution 2643 approving public gathering permit for 2026. Go Bananas fun run on Saturday, July 11th that includes use of mound roads and mound parking deck for the

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event. D approve resolution number 2644 approving release of financial security for our de our TESA. Um E approve resolution 2645 approving the cancellation of special

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assessments. F pay requests number two in the amount of uh 79,07615 to American Liberty for the water treatment plant improvements well 9 PW2511

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G pay request number three in the amount of $240,756 to Peber companies for the Lost Lake Commons improvements phase 2 PW2410 H pay request number four in the amount

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of $466,700 to Minger Construction for the water treatment plant infrastructure improvements phase 2 PW25 and we're going to add I approving a gambling permit for the Northwest Tank Lions uh Spirit of the

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Lakes Festival Surfside on July 17th and 18th. >> All right, thank you for reading all those. Um, does anyone want to talk about any of these items or have any questions? Okay, hearing none. Um, can we get a motion to adopt and approve the consent

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agenda? >> Motion to adopt and approve the consent agenda. >> Okay, we have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I >> I roll call. >> Um, will we change roll call to the start? >> Oh, did we? Right. And now we don't do

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it again. >> We don't have to. Yeah. Okay. All right. We don't have to do roll call. Okay. Thank you. >> Um I think it's the first time we've done it that way, but yeah. So All right. Well, we have we had a motion. We have a second. Um all those in favor say I. >> I.

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>> I. All those opposed. >> All right. That passes. Um if you were here for any of the items on the consent agenda, those are all approved. >> Um next, >> good luck. >> Thank you. If I can add just so you know with regard to consent agenda there is no

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roll call requirement. It just has to be unanimous >> unanimous approval. >> Right. >> Y >> if not then you have to pull that item back doesn't have the unanimous approval >> and then uh review it and approve or deny separately. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> So we're good. >> All right. Um yeah I like to be roll

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call beginning. >> Yeah. All right. Number six presentations. Um I think we've got two here. Here we'll do or PD first council. >> Good evening.

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>> All right. So for looking over the uh activity reports for the month of May, uh they we had about 188 calls for service in uh the city of Mound. uh went up from 154 in uh April. So this is

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normal. That doesn't necessarily mean crime happening. It's just contacts, more people coming in area, nice weather. Um so like medicals, um just things that you know, we may have contact somebody that goes into our system as a contact. So it's nothing

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that I saw that was uh spiking up um other than just more foot traffic and more contacts with people and the public. So, uh, I have a few other things. I know you guys have your stuff with, uh, West Edge

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Boulevard. Um, just what I, what we're doing is everything we can. Um, we have four minimums right now starting that started right after Labor Day where we went from three officers to four officers

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minimums. Um the men and women that are out there during the day and during the nights, they are stopping cars. They are pulling cars over. They're doing all they can do. We can't we don't have the resources and we don't have the funding

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to put somewhere someone there or two people there, officers to babysit that and watch that at all times. We do have to take calls to the areas and make sure those are being answered as well. Um, it is a priority of us for our department

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to make sure that things stay safe. This isn't the first summer that we've dealt with severe uh road construction and every year we have these issues and we try to do our best to get uh men and women from the Lo Police Department out

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there stopping cars, being visible uh and doing everything we can. Uh we are going to be putting up our speed sign tomorrow that's going to track speeds and volume of traffic on West Edge so

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that you guys can have that data once it is obtained. I don't know how long it's going to run like a week or or 3 days, whatever you guys decided. Uh this was passed down to me from deputy chief. Um we do have guys out there um running

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lidar and stationary radar uh on a regular basis to deter and do what we can. But we all know that when a police car sits in an area, what's the first thing that happens? People start abiding by the laws and that's what's happening.

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>> Uh but we are still getting a good amount of stops and everything while we are out there. Again, there's four of us. We can't always be there, but when we're there, we try to do our best to deter. >> Are you focusing on um you know, rush

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hour both in the morning and at night? >> Yes. Because anybody goes through a road close, that's that is um unlawful. So, right away when that thing went in, just my crew alone, I think made close to like eight stops within a couple hours

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of people circumventing that um road closure sign. Uh there was a few this weekend I know they had to deal with um going through those and making sure >> people are not doing that because there is still hazards when they

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>> go through those barriers. So, but we're doing our best and we'll continue to do our best and hopefully kind of curb this the issue and stop the issue if we can. It's probably not going

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to be completely stopped, but at least if we're present, we can note things and and handle them as we need to. >> Thank you. I understand that you can't have a quota, but can we try to at least stop a car once an hour during rush hour

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and early in the morning >> if we can? >> I mean, you're more than welcome to park at the end of my driveway. There's a lovely little lilac bush you can hide behind. >> And >> and that's where the offenses start, right there at the top of the hill. I mean, they literally are >> cresting that hill and then, oh, wait a

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minute. I'm going to have to hit a curb. So, maybe I better hit my brakes. Yeah, >> but that little metered thing down there is showing like 32 miles an hour, 27 miles an hour. You know, even today when I got home, it was still going on. >> Y and we'll do we the the men and women that

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are out there. >> I know they're >> they're hungry. They they don't they want they want to do their jobs. So, they're doing their best and grabbing what they can grab and handling what they can handle. >> And you have my total permission to park in my driveway. >> All right. I'll let I'll let them know. >> Well, thanks for providing all the

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detail on that, too. Yep. >> Um and um deputy chief if you know that you guys are in contact so he's keeping him appraised of what we're doing and everything like that. So again note that we are doing absolutely most we can do

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with the resources that we have. >> Okay. >> So >> thank you >> and nothing else more than that. Just uh Mount Fish Ride went well. We had a couple issues, but they resolved quickly. And uh Chief Stenzrude has started his transition as our police chief. Uh he's going to have a lot on

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his plate for the next few months and a lot of transitioning to learn the job. Um but he will do everything he can to be present and make sure the the decisions are being made that need to be made. >> So, okay. >> Does anybody have any questions?

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>> No, but you have one more. >> I I have two questions. Just one, um Well, we can't reopen the middle. >> Can it be placed somewhere in >> not close to the stop sign? Because everybody starts going down

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>> pretty far back like where uh the when you're going southbound towards the four-way stop sign. There's that speed breeze right there. >> It's almost too close to the stop sign. People are already slowing down at that point. So, as far as the tracker and uh can we actually put that closer like

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closer to Beachwood? There's even an outlet right there. um right uh close to the Beachwood and West Edge. That would be nice because that's like middle ground. So that's where people are going the fastest where we could actually or at the bottom of the hill, you know. So that would be part one question. What if

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where would be the placement for that tracker to make sure that you're actually getting appropriate readings? >> You guys, I need to we can't reopen the public comment and you guys can definitely ask questions, but just do that in the hallway and >> Okay. >> Yeah, we just can't reopen the public hearing part. You guys are more than welcome to talk about it just in the

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hallway or after he's done with his presentation. >> One question then if it's just questions are open. >> No, no, we can't reopen the public hearing. >> Oh, it's not public comment. No, just >> Yeah. >> Um after the meeting or in the hallway, it's completely fine. We just got to move on with

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>> Yeah, that would be great. Thank you so much. >> Thanks. Thanks, guys. >> Thank you. >> All right. I don't we don't have anything else for Spencer. Thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Item 6B, tourka. >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council

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members. Um, I'm Jenny Vaderka. I work at Minnetonka Community Ed. Glad to be back again and see you guys. I've been here a number of years to talk about Tour to Tanka. So, um, it will be it's always the first Saturday in August, which will be August 1st this year. So, we can flip to the next slide and I'll

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just give you guys a little bit of an update. Um, again, we are part of Minnitanka Community Ed. This is one of the large community events that we do each year. And we can go to the next slide. Um we always want to make it affordable for families and community

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members to participate. So we do have a a lot of great sponsors that help support the event um listed there doing a variety of things from helping support transportation with our first student busing company to um park dental um financial sponsorship. Boyer helps build

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that arch that you see in the back of the picture there. So, lots of different people doing lots of different things. Domino's has pizza at the finish line for all our riders as well. So, we can flip to the next slide. Um, a little bit of a recap. Last year was our 20th anniversary of Tour to Tonka. So, we did lots of fun things to celebrate those 20

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years um and um bringing our community together. We've had riders from 22 states um last year and then 113 cities. So, um, great representation from across the street, the state with folks, um, riding through mound, and we'll tell you

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a little bit about some of that as we go on to the next slide. Um, each year we do survey our participants to learn all the things about the day that they like, don't like, things we can um, improve on and change for the future. So, um, we're

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really proud to say 94 99.4% of respondents said it was a wellorganized and well planned event. So, it takes a big team of volunteers and staff to make it happen. Um, and just positivity about law enforcement and volunteer presence, kind of the

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safety in the organization, the fun at our rest stops, and kind of just the community building um of the event. So, we can go on to the next slide to just talk about the upcoming year. So, we will have four routes for riders this year, the 16 mile, 24, 40 mile, and 58

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mile options. Um, we'll continue with an online merchandise store that folks can get special Tour to Tonka gear prior to the event. We're going to be adding a family zone at the end, just kind of fun activities for family at the high school when the event ends. Um, and we're going

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to have some designated cheering zones along the way for families to kind of be able to see their riders as they go through the towns. So, this is our big map. Um, we start and finish at Minnetonka High School. Um, that's new this year. All of our starts will be at

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the same location at the high school um and finish there as well. And then they make their way around town depending on the distance that they're riding. Um and our 40 and 58 mileers are going to be who will be coming through mound. Um they will have rest stops along the way

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where they can have food, get water, there'll be entertainment and we'll bike mechanics. So a chance to rest and regroup and then they'll be back on their way. Is Bethl still going to be coming? >> Yeah. And they're coming up maybe on the next slide. They are. There they are.

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So, um, our rest stop is at Bethl United Methodist Church and they are a fantastic community partner with us. So many people from the church come and volunteer on that day. They'll put up a tent and have like misters when it's hot out and they do all kinds of fun things. Um, so they have a great volunteer

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presence. Um, and we also have a big band, Little Chicago, that's there. So they're under a big tent having a lot of fun. Um, and it's a nice stop along the way before they head onto the trail. So, um, last year, these are the cities, um, and states that people were from that

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came through that rest stop. Um, but we're excited about another fun year, um, at the church for the rest stop. You can go on to the next one. Um, speaking of volunteers, it takes a lot of volunteers to make this event happen. Uh, at least 400 volunteers needed for various things. It could be helping

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check in people at registration. And it could be directing traffic at a corner, could be helping serve food at a rest stop, um sort of something for everybody in a couple of hours, or we have things where you could be with us all day. So, you can use that QR code to find a link.

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We have all the different um we have a great website that has all the different volunteer times, locations, what you're going to do, so you can choose your own adventure and sign up to volunteer. And on the next slide, um I have shared in the past we partner with our local ICA

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food shelf um as part of tour to taka. A portion of every registration goes to support that and uh participants can also choose to additionally donate to them along the way. And the amazing thing about the A is they have great buying power. I think it's one to four. They can uh buy four times more with the

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money they use by with the people that they buy food from. So, to date, we have donated over $105,000 to support them, and they're a great resource for families uh in our community. So, we'll be doing that. Again, a big shout out and thank you to all of our safety

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partners in law enforcement. Um we traverse a lot of ground on busy roads and they we have support from police and fire throughout the communities um to help us make that happen. And we also work a lot with our city partners as well to get permits and be coming

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through all of these different spaces. So the next slide just kind of your local folks. We really appreciate the work with Orno PD as well as the city public works um team. We've been coming through mound a long time and appreciate the continued support from your team.

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And that may bring me to the end of my presentation which is we hope to see you all on August 1st. I know some council members in the past have participated. Hopefully you guys have seen the crowds come through town. Um, and many have said it's kind of like a little bit of a

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scenic tour of the west metro for folks to say, "Oh, there's lots of cool places out here that I might want to come move or come back and visit and see." Um, so we thank you for your support of a big event coming through your town and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

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>> Um, I guess for people that are volunteering, I think that was like the QR code. Yeah. Is there like another way they can? >> Yeah, if you go to our our website, touritona.org, um there'll be a drop down that says volunteer and there'll be a link there. You can find it. So, if you find the community website or go to tour to Tonka, you find it there.

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>> Perfect. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Thank you, Jenny. It's >> always good to see you. >> Yeah, you guys do. Thanks so much. We'll see you next spring. >> Hopefully, it's another success this year for you. >> Yeah, you guys had good weather last year if I did. Yeah, a little bit of air quality concern, but no rain, no storms.

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So, we we can't win them all, but that one was Yeah, pretty good. Yep. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, moving on to number seven. No public hearings, no old business for number eight. Uh, new

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business. Uh, 9A, Mr. Bowman. Thank you, acting mayor and members of the council. Matt Bowman, city engineer. We got two items on the agenda tonight. Uh the first one is award of the 2026

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sewer televising project. Uh so annually the city staff public works goes around and they clean a section of sewer and then uh they we get quotes for doing the televising because the firms that do that are much quicker and a little more organized uh than city staff and helps

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spread the the work out. So we got four quotes this year. The low quote is American Environmental LLC. Um, and we do recommend awarding to them. Um, and then if you if you're interested, the areas that they're going to be working on are kind of all of 110, which is helpful since the traffic is lower on

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that. Um, they're going to be a little section of the northwest section of Dutch Lake area and then I think all of Tonka Wood area as well. With that, I'll stand for any questions. Otherwise, you have a resolution to award the the quote to American Environmental.

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>> Okay. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Bowman? >> Let's see here. I've got my >> I can read that. Is it going on 69? >> Yeah. So, if we do just 9A separately. Yeah, we need a motion um on that.

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>> Yeah. >> 2646. >> Yeah, it's 2636. >> 70. Oh, here it is. Okay. >> 68. >> Go back. >> No, one more. Just This is the motion. >> Oh. Uh motion to approve resolution 2646

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awarding contract for 2026 sewer televising project city project PW2604. >> All right, we have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All right, all those in favor. >> I All those opposed.

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>> That will pass. Um and then we can move on to 9B. >> All right. Thank you again, acting mayor, members of the council. Uh so the second item that I have on the agenda is to uh to award the 2026 CIP E3 area

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project. So that actually is it's a sewer lining project. And so the area itself is kind of around Emerald Lane um Avon Park and so that is one of the areas that uh has a significant amount of inflow and infiltration whenever we get big rains. And so we've rehabbed the

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the lift station and all everything around there and it still has some issues whenever there is a lot of rain. So we wanted to attack that by getting some of the the pipes lined and hopefully limit some of the the clean water that gets in there. Um so we went out for bids for that and we got five

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bids. This was last Monday and Vizu Sewer is the low bid and we would recommend awarding to them. They're 26% below the engineers estimate and 67% below the high. So it is is a good number. Um that again I'll stand for any questions.

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>> Does anybody have any questions >> exactly? What are they going to do again? >> So they it's called cured in place pipe. >> Okay. >> And so they they slip a >> kind of a soft sock with chemicals on it into the pipe and then they inflate that or one way or another and then that

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heats up and then turns into a solid pipe. sealant. Yeah. >> Within the existing and then they cut out the the services so everything functions as it should. But then then there's a lot fewer >> extends the life of the pipe then >> extends the life of the pipe. And there's a lot of clay tile in the ground. So that's I don't remember the

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exact distance but it's like every 3t there's a joint and those are not sealed. So that allows roots and water to get in there kind of wherever it wants to. So >> Okay. >> Expensive stuff no one can see. >> Yeah. >> Like buying new furnace. Yeah, exactly.

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Um, any questions for Mr. Bowman? >> Okay. Um, I think we need a motion on this, too. Is there um a motion for 9B? >> I can read it. Motion to approve resolution 2647 accepting bids for the

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2026 CIP3 area project PW2608. >> Okay, have a motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay, have a second. All those in favor? >> I >> I. >> All those opposed. And that passes as

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well. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you. Let's see. All right. Announcements. >> Um, let's see. I don't have uh we just go in alphabetical order here. I'll just go from left to right.

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>> Do you have any >> your left or my left? >> Uh, sorry. Really? >> Your their left? >> I was going to say, wait a minute here. We'll just go down the line. >> I don't really have any announcements um other than we do have um Jesse helped me out here. Uh Chief Peterson's

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retirement party on Friday. >> Yeah, >> that is >> um 5 to 8 p.m. I believe. >> Yeah. 5 to 8 p.m. What is it? >> Just can you >> enlighten us all? >> I was going to say I can either go at the end or now, but um since you mentioned it. Yes. So that one's one

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that his family was hosting. Of course, if you saw the invite, it said open. Um, we'll have Chief Peterson at our next council meeting for one last sort of round of applause uh in front of the council and then there will be an open

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house on the 30th from 2 to 4 which culminates in his final call out um which is I'm told uh kind of a tearjerker. So um that'll be obviously at the fire station. So >> yeah. >> Mhm.

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>> Okay. Um, and I was at the fish fry if you were too and that went really well. Um, I'll be anxious to see what type of numbers they pulled. Um, and what else did we do? >> Perfect weather. >> Yeah. Um,

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so yeah, I think that's about all I have. And also thank Ryan for his efforts to make signs and hopefully he can get a few more done. >> He's in Mexico. >> Oh, is he? But I'm sure someone else knows how to run that machine.

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It's brand new, didn't they? >> He's still on his phone. I can tell you that. >> That's all I have. >> Yeah. To piggy back off Michelle, a big huge thanks to all of the MFD. You know, that's just such a fantastic event and

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great bands and great fun again this year. And then I don't really have anything. our our planning commission meeting was a really small agenda and in fact the couple that was here for the three points variance we passed that so that was about all we had on our agenda

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>> so that's all I've got >> okay >> okay um for me the park the benches are in um and as the staff had told us while it seemed like we were ordering a lot of benches is there's still a lot of space.

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>> Yeah. >> To fill up, but I tried them out. They're accessible. They're easy to sit. They're the right height for people lifting themselves up and getting out and everything. And um and I think they they're really attractive. >> They look great.

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>> So, um that that was really good to see. However, um in talking with the um farmers market, they were informing me, remember originally in the design, there was supposed to be an extended

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area um past where the >> the coffee >> Yeah. where the coffee staging area. >> Yeah. Staging area past where those um shelters were for expansion. But now um because of infrastructure

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issues such as putting in sprinkler systems and I don't think the light lighting has anything to do with it but um they were told that they could not use that for expansion. >> Oh really?

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>> Yeah. And that there's sprinklers in the um between the parking tarp and the >> and the herd. So, it's like the end of the old parking lot and then there's like the staging area and then there's the new paper stamped area.

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>> So, the part in the middle. Is that what you're kind of >> talking about? >> Well, >> I thought that was kind of ended up for the expansion of the farmers market. >> Well, there was. Yeah, it was it was all along the trail. it was um you know

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extended beyond down to almost um where the sidewalk turns, where the trail turns and um so I guess I just you know um

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they were disappointed but they you know what can they do about it? Were they told they couldn't go there or couldn't can they get their >> They had a meeting with public works and >> Oh, really? >> and they were told that they could not expand >> Oh. >> beyond that. But in our original plan,

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we had always said that that was expansion area. >> And the market has gotten bigger. There's food producers now. >> Is that because of where the the bike thingies are going to go to block the way? Maybe that's something Ryan could follow up like at a future if that's

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indeed true or not. >> Right. Well, so I was party to the one meeting at city hall where we were talking about the expansion onto the the new um pavilion type area. And there was part of that conversation had to do with

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keeping trucks off of that, you know, sort of drop it, you know, drop your trailer or whatever at the edge of the trail so that people don't because some people have sort of assumed that was a parking area. Um our thought just offhand without knowing about that

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conversation is that that could just be because the um irrigation is just going in that I mean >> light traffic can definitely go over um irrigated areas. Right. So I I we'll just have to follow up with with Ryan or

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whoever they spoke with because I not fully grasping that. They do have a small trailer that they store their signage and their tables and tent and thing that they use. And I know they used to park it over there kind of behind the signage from the trail >> and so it was just a field so who cared,

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right? >> So it may be I haven't looked at it recently but that may be too close to the paved. >> But you're right, Sherry, the original plans were for the farmers market to be able to >> Yeah. overflow. >> Yeah. Overflow. Mhm.

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>> So, I'm glad you brought that up and uh you know, Mary's there every week, so >> Ryan can probably follow up with her and I >> think Matt for us here. >> Yeah, I just said because the the park improvements aren't done yet and we're still trying to get grass to grow and

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there there's actually some concrete that needs to be repaired. So, I'm just >> guessing that that's kind of what the the direction is from. We need to get all that stuff done and then >> Yeah. And I know we've had some difficulties with people driving up on

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the plaza, the prominade and parking. >> So >> there's quite a bit of cracked concrete when I walked over there. >> So spray that. >> So that that has gone on. Um let me see what else space.

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>> Since you brought that up, where are we with grass out there? It still looks awful full of weeds to me. Not looking any better. It's it's a process right now. They're getting the irrigation going again. >> But again, they have to redo some of the concrete. So, there's going to be little patches that could

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>> I'm talking about the main part of the thing. It's not grass. It's still weeds. >> Mud, too. >> This is year three and we're still not producing grass. We're producing weeds. >> So, the irrigation has been damaged a lot. So, that out there right now >> sections, right? Um then the the

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contractor, the one that was there last has been kind of given some direction to do some more to airate because there's a lot of trucks driving >> through there to be able to do some of the other concrete so they can kind of compact it >> in there and then have them add some more top soil, get scrape out some of the rocks that have shown up and then

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that'll >> take some more seed on top of that. And then as as the grass is getting better, then we can do a better job of spraying the weeds and then the grass is stronger. If they spray when the grass is too young and small, then it all dies and we're kind of >> right. So, but we're still not going to

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have grass by by September, then it sounds like we're going to have to do a lot of remediation work to get there. >> Good shape because you have irrigation and they're kind of cleaning up and working their way out now. >> Okay. >> Okay. But all in all, it's looking

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great. You know, really is something we can be proud of. Um, I think that's all I had. >> Okay. >> Um, I thought the tables look great, too. And but just wanted clarification

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where we left off. Didn't we order some and we wanted to see if they looked good and then we were going to order more or where we >> thought was going on. >> I think he ordered I I don't think the picnic tables are here yet. It's just the octagonal ones. >> They're here. >> Oh, and then the rectangle ones.

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>> Those are those are still coming. >> Sweet. Yeah. >> Yeah, they look really good. >> And I think they got six or eight of those. >> Okay. >> Did you have anything else, Sher? I'm sorry. >> No. >> Okay. Um I was just going to talk about the awesome tables, so I don't personally have anything either. Went

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for my old man walk around them three times last week and yeah, they look great. >> Um yeah, >> I don't know. I the grass thing. There's other parks that aren't in mound that I won't name, but you know, people have spent far more on sod and stuff and they get

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the same thing. It's like it's just all dead and it's frustrating. I wish it looked better, but it will. >> Well, I'm sure we'll get it in order because >> someday, >> you know, the turf in all of our parks is really great. >> Yeah. >> And so we know how to do it. It's just

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getting it done. >> Yeah. And we got to got to get the contractors >> Yeah. What contractor is in charge of grass, by the way? >> I think Blackstone for that particular one. >> One more time. >> What's Who's the contractor that's in charge of the grass? >> I don't remember the subs specifically

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that are in charge of this, but we have the new look did the first phase of the park and then so that they did a portion of it and then >> they subbed it out. >> Pmber was in charge of this next phase. So there's some overlap with those two pieces as well, but Pepper will be the one kind of cleaning up, especially

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where the work was done most recently. Okay, >> cool. >> Well, the lights look awesome, too. I think all those they're called pillars or not. They're like, you know, that >> there's some more on the way, so not quite right. >> Yeah, I think as you said last, there's somewhere to be >> when you want to go sit down there now,

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but >> and you know, I've been down there several times, too, and the tables are all being used almost. >> Every time I've been down there, there's people on all the tables. So, that's great. Now all we need to do, which would be beautiful, is to get some shade

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for for people. >> We're going to need to build some sort of shelter. >> Yeah, >> eventually. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um, if nothing else from us, uh, 10B, city manager report. >> I don't have any report. I was going to

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mention the Peterson stuff. >> Cool. >> Thunder. Sorry. >> That's all good. >> All right. Uh, next council meeting uh will be June 23rd at 6 PM on Tuesday. And with that, I will take a motion to

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adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Have a motion. Have a second. All those in favor? I. >> All those opposed. We are adjourned.