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Part 1 (Video ID: he6OVQQ6fpU):
- 00:05:18: Call to Order and Consent Agenda Approval
- 00:05:51: Raffles Gambling Permits: Fast Pitch, Theater, Cathedral
- 00:07:11: Liquor Licenses: Bavarian Blast and Lakes on First
- 00:08:48: Liquor Licenses: Renewals and Benny's Event Extension
- 00:12:35: Rodney's Tavern Liquor License Event Extension Pilot
- 00:14:59: Reports from Councilors and Mayor Updates
- 00:17:26: New Park and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan Introduction
- 00:19:44: ISG Presentation: Master Plan Process and Findings
- 00:28:09: ISG Presentation: Park Classification and Implementation
- 00:33:51: ISG Presentation: Prioritizing Connectivity and Finances
- 00:41:30: Master Plan Approval and Old Business: Trap Range
- 00:45:20: Trap Range Bids Rejection and New Business Introductions
- 00:46:52: City Summit Attendance, Annexation of Airport Property
- 00:51:52: Joint Meeting Schedule, Police and Fire Donations


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Noon. It is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. We'll call the city council meeting of the city of New to order. First item of business is the consent agenda. Councilors, what are your wishes? >> So move. >> Second. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion? Those in favor

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signal by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. That motion does carry. Item 2.1, raffles gambling permit for New Girls Fast Pitch Association. >> I'll motion to approve the issuance of a lawful gambling permit for the New Alm girls Fast Pitch softball association to

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conduct raffles gambling at the Jefferson Elementary School, 318 South Pain Street on Saturday, June 20, 2026. >> Second. >> We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I.

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>> I. opposed. That motion carries. Item 2.2 is a Raffles gambling permit for State Street Theater. >> I'll make a motion to approve the issuance of a lawful gambling permit for State Street Theater to conduct gambling uh Raffles gambling at the State Street Theater 1 North State Street on Sunday,

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December 13th, 2026. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. >> I. Opposed. That motion carries. Item 2.3 is a raffles gambling permit for

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Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. >> I'll offer a motion to approve the issuance of lawful gambling permit for Cathedral of Holy Trinity to conduct bingo pull tabs and raffle gambling at Brown County Fairgrounds/ Civic Center 1201 North State Street on Sunday,

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August 30th, 2026. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. That motion does carry. Item 2.4 is a temporary on sale intoxicating liquor

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license for Bavarian Blast. >> Madame President and counselors, I'd like to make a motion to approve the issuance of a temporary on sale intoxicating liquor license for Bavarian Blast to sell alcohol during their event at the Brown County Fairgrounds for the period beginning Thursday, July 16, 2026

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through Sunday, July 19, 2026. subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion. Those in favor signal by saying I. >> I.

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>> That motion does carry. Item 2.5 is a transfer of liquor licenses. >> A motion to approve the transfer of an on sale wine license, 3.2% 2% malt liquor license and on sale intoxicating malt liquor permit from Lakes on First

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Limited Liability Company doing business lakes on First to Reyger's Eery Limited Liability Company doing business as Lakes on First 108 Center Street for the period beginning May 19th, 2026 and ending June 30th, 2026, subject to

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compliance with all city and state requirements. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> Is the center street correct for the address because they're on first >> first? >> Um lakes on first 108 center street. >> Yeah, it should be 108 first street.

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>> Okay. Can we um just kind of make an amendment to the motion. >> I I'll amend the motion stating the correct address. >> Second. >> Thank you. Motion in a second. Any further discussion? Thank you, Councelor M. >> Yes. Those in favor signal by saying I.

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I. That motion does carry. Item 2.6, liquor license renewals for 2026 and 2027. >> I'll make a motion to approve the issuance of the following annual liquor licenses and permits for the period beginning July 1st, 2026, ending June

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30th, 2027, subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. On sale intoxicating liquor license, Sunday liquor license, offsale intoxicating liquor license, on-sale wine license, intoxicating malt liquor permit, brewer's tap room license, brewer

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offsale malt liquor license for growlers, on sale micro distiller cocktail room license, micro distillery offsale license, on sale 3.2% malt liquor license, offsale 3.2% malt liquor license. >> Second.

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>> Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Uh, I will just disclose that I serve also as the executive director for New Turner Hall and Wrath Skeller Incorporated, which does have a liquor license on this list. Any additional discussion? Those

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in favor signal by saying I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. That motion does carry. Item 2.7, general license renewals for 2026 and 2027. I'll have for the motion to approve the issuance of the following renewals for general licenses for the

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period beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30th, 2027. Subject to compliance with all city and state requirements, tobacco, fireworks, retail sellers, non- primary kennel, sheep, solid waste handler, taxi cab,

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and tree service. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I >> I That motion does carry. Item 2.8 is regarding Benny's liquor license

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extension for 2026 downtown events. >> Well, I can offer the resolution authorizing Benny's to extend their liquor license for the following chamber sponsor 2026 summer events to allow alcohol to be consumed, served subject conditions. Crazy days. Minnesota Street

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from First North to Center Street from Friday, July 24th at 2:00 p.m. till Sunday, July 26 at 12:00 p.m. Minnesota Streets from Third North to First North from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday,

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July 26th. and First North from Minnesota Street to Alley from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Car and bike and roll in Minnesota Street from 3rd North to First South Street from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Saturdays June 13th, July 11th, August 8th, September 12th. spiking in the street, Minnesota Street from 2nd North to Center Street from Friday, July 31st at 8:00 a.m. till Sunday, August 2nd at 3

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p.m. with the intersection of First North and Minnesota open till 4 p.m. Friday, August 1st. First North closed from Minnesota to Alley from 11:00 p.m. Friday, the 31st till 3:00 p.m. Sunday, August 2nd. Pray

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to Lights, Minnesota Street from First South to 4th North from 400 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 27th. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> Director Jorgensson, please call the role.

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>> Councelor Christian, >> yes. >> Councelor Wka, >> yes. >> Councelor Schmidtz, >> yes. >> Councelor Mack, >> yes. >> President Becker, >> yes. That motion carries. Item 2.9 is Rodney's Tavern liquor license extension for 2026 downtown events.

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>> And then u council president counselor before you make a motion on this one. This one is going to be unique as we will be closing um center street intersection uh for this event as a pilot um to potentially for 2027

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so that Rodney's and the Legion would be able to extend their liquor license to these events and then if there's no issues, no problems um with traffic flows and things like that, we would potentially include that uh in the event policy moving forward.

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>> Very good. Thank you. I'll take this one then. I'll make a uh offer the resolution and authorize the extension of Rodney's Tavern liquor license into Minnesota Street for the following events to allow alcohol to be consumed/s served subject to conditions. Crazy days. Minnesota Street closed from First

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North to Center from Friday, July 24th at 2 p.m. till Sunday, July 26 at 12:00 p.m. Minnesota closed from Third North to First North from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday, July 26th. and First North closed from Minnesota to Alley

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from 7 am to 4 pm relevant to BNL bar or >> you don't have to read those. Okay. Uh car and bike rollins Minnesota street closed from 3rd north to 1st south from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays June 13th July 11th August 8th uh September

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12th spiking in the streets. Minnesota Street closed from 2nd north to center from Friday, July 31st at 8:00 a.m. till Sunday, August 2nd at 3 p.m. with the intersection of First North and Minnesota open till 400 p.m. Friday the 1st. First North closed from Minnesota

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to Alley from 11:00 p.m. Friday the 31st until 3:00 p.m. Sunday, August 2nd. October Fest, Minnesota Street, close from First North to Center Street from Friday, October 2nd at 8:00 a.m. till Sunday, October 4th at 12:00 p.m. Close Center Street from Broadway to Minnesota

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from uh 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 3rd, including Center and Minnesota intersection. Parade of Lights, Minnesota Street, closed from First South to 4th North from 400 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. November 27th. >> Thank you. And a second.

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>> We do have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. >> Councelor Christian, >> yes. >> Councelor Warma, >> yes. >> Councelor Schmidz, >> yes. >> Councelor Mack, >> yes. >> President Becker, >> yes. That motion does carry. Uh, item three, reports from counselors, 3.1,

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summary of business conducted during board and commission meetings. >> Uh, park and wreck. There wasn't enough on the agenda, so we did not meet. Uh, I was unable to attend the EDA meeting. I'll defer that to President Bker for that report. city charter did meet uh

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last week. Just a few minor details. We're going to meet again in June or July and just opening up for out there. We are looking at three. We have to recruit three new members. We do have a quorum when we meet, but we're looking for three people. And again, we only

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meet max two, three times a year. I mean, that's it. That's it for me. >> I wasn't able to make it to the safe routes to school meeting, but uh nothing else is relevant. >> Thank you. I've got nothing. >> Madam President, councilors, I have nothing to add. Um, cable communications

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and um, Heritage Preservation yesterday did not meet due to a lack of agenda items. >> Thank you very much. Mayor, would you like to go? I I can have you kind of bundle in the EDA meeting because it was pretty short and sweet. So, >> well, um, what I'm going to do is I I've

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got, uh, things that are not necessarily commission related. Uh but let's start out with a pro two proclamations. One was for uh Willibaldal Biane events which was a very touching and emotional experience. And then last night uh the

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um service to mankind award to Ruth Classner uh by the sourwood club. And so we did proclamations on behalf of the city for both of those. We had a ribbon cutting for the Plaza Gabaldi new food truck. if we're looking for new food

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truck options. Uh I attended uh or provided programming for the third graders in our community at the public school and at St. Anony's the last couple of weeks. And it was interesting um to work with these third grade

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students and have them ask the mayor questions. Uh one of the questions that they had was um are you rich? and the explanation was not with money but with people uh like them and so that

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was a a great experience to be able to participate as your mayor. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um and just a quick EDA um nothing much just some changes and updates to annual figures for housing and things like that. So um so thank you

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very much unless there's anything else. Perfect. Uh item 4.1 is new park and recreation comprehensive master plan. Mr. Schugle, good afternoon. >> Thank you, Council President Ber and city council. Joey Schugle with park and recreation director. Uh here tonight

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looking for a resolution to approve the new park and recreation comprehensive master plan. Uh this was born from the adoption of our comprehensive plan in 2024. One of the things that that plan recommended is us to do a deep dive into our park and recreation system with our

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last adopted plan in 1989. Uh so this plan uh should establish a 15-year vision for the city's parks, open spaces, and ensure a position to meet the current and future needs of our community and align with our

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comprehensive and strategic plans. Uh so this process did start in April of 2025. Uh, so just a little over a year now. And some of the highlights and things that I'm most proud of throughout this year-long process is our significant

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community engagement from uh not only the our uh population and community members, but from our stakeholders, our many different user groups who uh really enhance our park and recreation system. and um and also the a system that was

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established that is very diverse and unique and taking a deep dive into how we can further enhance that over the next 15 years. Uh so today we do have our project managers from ISG here uh to give you a short presentation with a little more detail of this year-long

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process and I'd be happy to answer any questions either now or after their presentation as well. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Schugle. Hi, welcome. Yeah, I just want to make one comment before ISG gets up there. You guys were excellent to work with. I sit

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on the park and rec Commission, this 225 page is an excellent document. I'm glad that you listen to staff, admin, the general public. It's a good document. I hope you all read it. Thank you.

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Hi everyone. We are so excited to be here tonight um with the final park and recreation master plan to bring forward to your consideration. My name is Claire Roth. I'm a planner with ISG. I've had the pleasure of serving as the project manager on this project and also joining me tonight is my colleague Jay

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Lothhammer um who will finish out the second half of the presentation. So, I'll let him introduce himself um once we hand that off. So, we're going to get into it. Um the purpose of tonight's presentation is just to give a brief overview of some of the key findings and process um that we went through for this

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document. As we've alluded to, it's a very large document. Um and so we don't want to assume you all have read it, although that would be exciting. Um but just wanted to give a little overview of the process that we've gone through. So, as Joey mentioned, the purpose of this has been to establish that 15-year

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vision um focused on the city's parks, recreation, open, and public spaces. And this is really to ensure that we're meeting not only current, but future needs. And as he mentioned, we're continuing to build off of those previous efforts, the city's comp plan and strategic plans, which were both

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updated or created in 2024. Some of those goals again that Joey touched on a little bit but we will just revisit has been to establish that vision. Um we've worked to evaluate the existing system throughout this process and then as he mentioned we've engaged

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the community thoroughly. We really want this to be a document that is informed and communitydriven. Other objectives have included to establish an action plan to then complete the goals of the plan, which also includes development of a prioritization strategy um to help us

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prioritize um implementation of these improvements and then also just identification of best practices to make sure that we're managing the park system um in a sustainable manner going forward. Just to quick give a highlight of the

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schedule of the process. As Joey mentioned, we kicked over a little over a year ago. Um in April of 2025, the project was broken into three phases. The first phase was the assess phase um in which we went through and inventoried all of the parks. We looked over all of

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the programs and services offered. Um we then moved forward and applied the findings of the inventory to the phase two, which was the envision phase. So started to work with staff and the community to develop that vision going forward. And then um towards the

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beginning of 2026 we entered the third phase which is the implement phase which focused on implementing then the visions and recommendations of that. And you can see here also um just the process that we've gone through with engagement. Um we really wanted to make sure we were

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engaging the community in a variety of touch points throughout the project. And we'll dig in a little bit more shortly here on what um those specific tactics looked like and what some of the findings were. This is just an overview of the document itself. We have the cover page there on

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the left hand side and just um an overview of each of the chapters of the document to show how it is set up and what it includes. Um chapters one and two have some of the front-end introduct introductory content and context where we looked at things like demographic and

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recreational trends. We then summarized our engagement findings and process in chapter 3 and then chapter four really focused on what does NewL have today for parks and programming and partnerships. Chapters five and six then get more into some of the recommendations we prescribe

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across the system but also specific recommendations for each of the parks. And then chapter 7 buttons it all together with a strategy then to implement those recommendations. So, how did we arrive at these findings? This is just a summary of some of the things we took into consideration

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throughout that process. As Joey mentioned, we had really robust engagement. We heard a lot from the community, and that gave us great momentum to build off of and recommendations to integrate. Um, for the inventory, we assessed things such as looking at current and projected

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demographics, recreational trends, and then current parks programming, and partnership offerings. We also built off of past past planning efforts which included the comp plan and strategic plan, but it also included specific um parks plans for um specific parks like

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Pollinator Park. We continued to build on um efforts there. And then finally, professional recommendations. We're lucky to work with a lot of communities on similar projects and um had some great um process to carry through there. This is just a little snapshot of what

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the engagement process looked like. What were some of those tactics and numbers that we saw? Um, we had a variety of public events and meetings. So, we had an open house at the rec center back in January which was well attended. We had a booth at the National Night Out in

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August um to really get people as they were enjoying that event with their family, capture some feedback there. And then we also had a series of meetings with the different community groups, the organizations. Um, and throughout that we were able to engage with about 17 of those groups, which was a great number.

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We've met with the city a lot. We've had a lot of opportunities to work with staff. Um, you know, from our kickoff meeting in April all the way through twice monthly meetings with Joey, um, and through a staff workshop and two touch bases with the parks commission.

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And then finally hitting on the project website and digital outreach. We had nearly 500 responses to our online survey, which we were really impressed with. Um, it's very rare for us to see responses that high for a community of a similar size to New Alm. Um, there was

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an interactive map which people could also drop points if they had suggestions for specific items throughout the park system. Just going to highlight a few of the survey responses. All of them are in the document if you're curious. Um, but we could see here just a few trends that

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emerged. Um, for also did want to acknowledge that most of the people that completed the survey were residents, but not all of them. For which local park people visited the most, we found that German Park rose to the top, shortly followed by Herman Heights, Harmon,

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Lincoln, and then Nells. Um when asked about people's top priorities for this plan, um we saw that people prioritized updates to existing facilities along with growing the trail system, increasing access to Flandro, continuing to grow wreck programming,

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and then promoting physical activity and wellness. Similarly, when asked what amenities people would like to see, we saw that community gathering areas, permanent restrooms, um improved trail connections, unique play areas, and

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aquatics rose to the top. And then the survey, as you know, was not our only touch base with the community. Um all of those findings are summarized detailed in this report, but wanted to share some of those broad themes that we were able to capture from all of those elements. and we really

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carried throughout the recommendations of this plan. Um, first was maintenance and safety. Overall, we heard great things. The parks are regarded as well-maintained and people feel safe using them. Um, regarding expanded amenities, we heard a few repeated

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requests for amenities such as permanent restrooms, um, expanded aquatics and unique play features. Um, generally we saw a desire for increased communications. People sometimes they don't know what they know and knowing what options are out there for services

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and programming is definitely a desire. We saw increased interest in inclusive and adaptive programming options and a strong interest in environmental stewardship initiatives including access to more natural features such as the rivers.

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Finally, um arts and culture. We saw strong interest in increased programming in these areas, including partnerships with local organizations for more public art throughout the parks. And then for community partnerships, wanted to just echo what we heard from the community groups. They have a great relationship

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with the city. The city is well regarded um and they really want to continue partnering with the city um for their initiatives. I'm going to pass it over to Jay to finish us out. Thank you. My name is Jay Lothhammer uh

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with the ISG and as Clare mentioned, we work together on many different planning projects helping cities hopefully uh be able to continue to stay as good or improve. And my background, I actually for the first 30 plus years of my career, I worked for cities in the park

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and recreation departments. last 17 of my years as my career in city government as a parks and recreation director prior to joining ISG. Um, so I like to think that I've paid a lot of attention as I've gone to other communities park systems. And what I will tell you and

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what I'm going to tell you tonight is that this is a system that's really second to none and valued by all. It didn't take more than a few visits of going to some of your parks, to your community center, meeting with your staff, meeting with some of your

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community members to understand that this is really appreciated here in New unlike hardly anywhere else. And so I think that's important to know that where you sit today is good, but there is an opportunity to evolve as things

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change. As we think back to 5 or 10 years ago, what was different then? some of those things are going to be different in 5 to 10 years from now. So, this is a really good framework to be able to work from and as Clare had mentioned, a really good guide that your community has been highly involved in

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putting together, too. So, I'm going to take you from about page 140 to page 228. Not a deep dive, but kind of the overview. And you'll see in each of these sections, if you do do that deeper dive and look at the document, there's

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multiple pages behind each one of those sections that go into a lot greater detail. So, when you look at the level of service, it is what you would expect with a park map and the map of the city and some of those circles that tell you how far away are you from a park from a

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walking distance. But you'll also see one that talks about where your pickle ball courts might be located, where your play structures are located, where your ball fields are located. So, it can give you that appreciation for how close parks are and how accessible they are to

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the people of of New. And they're good. I mean, you can look at that map and clearly see that people have access. But, as we know, the city is going to continue to develop. And so you'll also see a map looking at where might you develop next and what might be some of

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those trigger points to develop and what are some of those barriers and things you want to think about as you're moving forward with future development over the next 5, 10, and 15 years. We looked at your park classifications, made sure that neighborhood parks were truly

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acting as neighborhood parks, community parks, special use areas like your dog park or your community gardens or your shooting facility, classified those, and also indicated what was going to be needed going forward for those types of

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facilities to continue to serve your community. Again, looking at some of those triggers, you'll see more looking at the trail system and then also looking at how do we, you know, go forward with what is that vision. It only took me one slide to uh

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thank you. So, here you see again that level of service and showing where the parks are located. You also see that parks classification um and the importance of that as you move forward and what might be some of

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the level of offerings that community park activities are in community parks and neighborhood park kinds of activities are in neighborhood parks. Again, that park search area, another opportunity to look at where might parks go in the future. um great access now,

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but one of the things that has really stood out to me is the topography also comes into play in New 2 as a barrier that isn't always present in other communities. So, something fairly significant to think about uh if you're biking up the hill, um that's that's a

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tough ride. And so, how do people access where their neighborhood park is? In some cases, you don't have to travel very far. In some cases, it could be a tougher travel to get there. Again, we want this to be actionable to be able

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to be a road map and a framework, but it's not 100% prescriptive. We know that things are going to change and we know that community engagement is still going to be an important part of making those decisions as they come to you on a year

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or annual basis. So on that implementation plan, you'll see sections on methods for implementing. What are some of those ways that we prioritize? Um how do you fund this? What are those capital

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improvements? What do they cost? How can you pay for those? What are some things that are short-term needed? What are some of those midterm? And what are those long-term? Again, this looks out 15 years years from now. And then, you know, DWAM has a a uniqueness in that

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you have a state park right here. Um, and you have a context of more of connectedness to other communities as well. And there's some opportunities that you'll have moving forward to even enhance some of those um implementation

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strategies and those connections to other communities. And then we get into those recommendations on on how you do it. So when we're thinking about prioritizing, we want to make sure that people understand what that is and why you

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would choose one thing over another. So if you look into the document in greater detail, it will show you some of that criteria of what's important and what takes precedent over other things. Obviously, an example like safety is

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going to be something that we looked at. you know, are there things out there that might need to be enhanced, made safer, or also some of those federal regulations of accessibility? If there's things that need to be enhanced to meet that, those get a a real high priority,

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too. And then that quality and function as another uh topic area to look at, but really um what is that level of of maintenance and the level of quality and and how do the community really spawn

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respond to your facilities and your parks that connectivity that comes up a lot. um I don't know of a trail system in a community around that can't be enhanced by additional connectivity or also some strategies of safer crossing

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or of more wayfinding that indicates better routes for people. So that's something that we really did uh look closely at and you'll see a map with some connections in there that you know will help guide future decisions on where to make those. And then that whole

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environmental stewardship too, not just keeping what you have, but enhancing what you have and maybe in some cases taking bluegrass that isn't used and maybe adding prairie instead that might have a lower level of maintenance and a

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higher value um to the ecosystem that's out there too. And so that's identified, you know, very specifically. And then last but not least is how do you plan for this financially and how might you stagger that over time and some of that

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goes back to the prioritization. But this document also identifies for you where can some of those unique funding sources come from so that it isn't just all shouldered you know on the taxpayers and on the residents of New Alm too. There's some suggestions and opportunities that are listed in there

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too. So, um, park specific recommendations, I want to touch on that. You're going to see that in alphabetical order. This just gives you an example here of what those pages look like and how it lists some things in

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priority level, you know, red being more immediate and uh, green being a little more uh, down the road. And on the right side, it does show you what some of those are based on each individual park. And even behind that, you'll see there's some spreadsheets too that um look at

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each individual park, but then also group it by neighborhood parks, community parks, talks about that, you know, first five years, next five years, and then the longer term and how to stagger um some of that funding or what you can expect to be able to to plan

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from a a dollar figure. And then last but not least, I guess we want to hit on these are more general recommendations and reactions that we had, but we had an opportunity to look at your org chart, meet with some of your staff, talk about

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your program areas. So, this isn't only about parks. Um, this is about the entire system and part of that system are the people that schedule the parks, program the parks, facilitate some of those volunteer organizations. And so we

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had an opportunity to look at that and what that staffing level is at and where it might need to go in the future as the community grows. We don't have any specific guidance at this time of the growth other than to say that as

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opportunities arise. It's a chance to look at some of those positions on should they have maybe a little bit different emphasis on the programs that they offer. you know, as the community has aged or as some of the trends in

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softball maybe have changed for adults, as growth in new neighborhoods and people wanting to have full day summer programs, how do you react to some of those things? And it may mean a little bit different opportunity for some of your program staff. Um, and those

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opportunities might come along when you look to hire due to people leaving for whatever reason that that might be or doing some internal adjustments as you move forward. On the maintenance side of things, you know, really continuing to look at what are some of those

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efficiencies when you remodel a park, when you add a park, are you choosing materials? Are you designing it in a way that can be at its most efficient when it comes to maintenance and time that it takes and also the cost that it might

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take to keep that park up. And so those are all important things to stay aware of to watch the trends as as they move forward. You know, whether it might be an autonomous mower in some cases that can be helpful and accomplish even more. Um those are things that you might want

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to continue to look at. The partnership piece of this I think is really important. Claire and I had the opportunity to meet on two different nights with separating your organizations of community groups. So, athletic associations, garden clubs, the biking club. And um what we walked away

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from is some people that are really passionate, really well organized, and really do a lot for this community outside of what the city already does, which is really important. And I think it will be important going forward. I

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think it's important to recognize that most of them are supported in some way by your parks and recreation staff, facilities, or buildings. And so recognizing that relationship and continuing to build on that is a way to continue to enhance what you're serving

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your community with without necessarily adding more or adding budget dollars to it, but recognizing those that important partnership that those groups play. And then looking at again that more design and thoughtfulness of how you design a

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park or put a building together, but what are some of those, you know, lasting and enduring products that might be there? How can you going forward think about without being cookie cutter? How can there be some standardization? You know, as things have evolved over

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time, if you think of the concept of eventually standardizing your park system, your park signage as you do the entrances, concepts like that that help with your branding, help with people's awareness that they're here in New um I think those are good things to think

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about and doing it in a really long-term sustainable material. Those are things that I know Director Schugall has been thinking about and has plans to be able to do going forward and I think you'll see more of that coming forward.

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Before I um pause for any uh questions, just again to say thank you. We enjoyed this opportunity to spend this almost year's time to come and visit New Alm to try several different restaurants when

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we've uh ended our meetings and so we've appreciated getting to know your staff and also your community even better too. So, thank you for that and we'll certainly answer any questions that you might have. >> Thank you. Uh being nobody has any questions again,

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long time waiting for it. You did an excellent job on it. I I have read the document in its entirety and Mr. Schugle gave me my paper copy today. So I'm going to offer a resolution approving the new park and recreation

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comprehensive master plan dated May 2026 for the city of New Minnesota. >> Second. >> Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. any further discussion. >> I just Yeah, I just also want to thank you. You know, over the past couple of years, we've been doing a lot of

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updating to, you know, plans and it was nice to see this one done cuz 89, that's Yeah, that's a long time ago. Um and um we really, I think, take a lot of pride in our park system and really take care of it. Um, and that comes from the

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leadership and um, I, you know, it's something that I think we want to maintain and expand and I look forward to going through it a little bit deeper. Thank you. >> Any additional comments? >> Uh, I just want to comment uh, one thing

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that I think Claire highlighted was the participation of the community uh, and the the way in which you went about uh, gleaning that information and comments and input from the community. I applaud you. Uh you tried and did it many different ways and to see the one

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response where you thought it was unusual uh for a community of our size to have that almost 500 or 450 to 500 responses. I think that speaks volumes of our community. People want to be

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involved in the process and do show up. So I want to thank you for the work that you put into this final document. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional discussion? All right. Those in favor? Oh. Uh, Director Jorgensson, please call the role. >> Councelor Christian,

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>> yes. >> Councelor Warma, >> yes. >> Councelor Schmidz, >> yes. >> Councelor Mack, >> yes. >> President Becker, >> yes. That motion does carry. Under old business, item 5.1 is a new trap range building. And once again, we have Mr. Schugall. Hello. >> Thank you, Council President Bker. City

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Council uh looking for a resolution rejecting all bids received by the city pursuant of the new trap range building project advertisement for bids and which were opened on April 28th, 2026 and then allow staff to work with the Sou Valley Gun Club on alternative options for a

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new trap building. So, city staff uh opened bids on as I mentioned Tuesday, April 28th uh and with RW Carlstrom who was uh provided professional services uh project management uh bids were separated into seven different trade

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categories and based on those bids submitted those two project scenarios came about. uh scenario A which you see in your packet for a little over 382,000 and scenario B with a little over 413,000 came in. Now as leading up to

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this project we were expecting to be in the ballpark of more 235,000. Uh so once those did come in um we met with the Sou Valley Gun Club and talked about options moving forward as they are providing uh significant funds for this

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project. And both sides are are recommending that we reject all bids uh pursuant of original um as as we outlined have the opportunity at bid opening to reject all

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uh qualified bids. Um and then again be able to work with the Sou Valley Gun Club for options moving forward for the new trap building on on the trap range site. So any questions any of you have? >> Thank you. Do we have any prospective builders,

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contractors that are a little more in line or so? Councelor Rona, one of the one of the things we found out after bids is um some of the contractors stayed away from the project due to some of the requirements with the DNR grant um funds that were part of this. Uh so

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we are working with the DNR on options as well and potentially um not moving forward with with those funds and looking at other options for that. So uh there are indications that uh a lot of the trades who are also participants with and members with the Sou Valley Gun

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Club are very interested in helping out with this project but stayed away due to that. Gotcha. And another option is to reduce kind of options. So the building was looking at clubhouse and storage. One of the options talked about with the

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the gun club is clubhouse first, use some of the storage already on site for the time being and look at expansion in the future. Perfect. I'll go ahead and offer the resolution rejecting all bids received by the city

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pursuant to the new trap uh range building project advertisement for bids in which bids were opened April 28th, 2026 and allow staff to work with the Sou Valley Gun Club on alternative options for a new trap range building. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion and a

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second. Any further discussion? >> Director Jorgensson, please call the role. >> Councelor Christian, >> yes. >> Councelor Warma, >> yes. >> Councelor Schmidtz, >> yes. Councelor Mack. >> Yes. >> President. >> Yes. That motion carries. Under new business, item 6.1 is attendance at the

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2026 NLC city summit conference. >> B. And I'm unable to go. I'll do this one again, too. So, I'll make a motion to approve the following to attend the annual 2026 National League of Cities City Summit Conference in Nashville, Tennessee from November 19th to the 2020

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or 21st, 2026. City Manager Chris Stalton, Mayor Kathleen Becker, Council President Andrea Becker, Councelor Tom Schmidtz, and Councelor Dave Christian. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> Have a good time. Learn lots.

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>> Yes. Those in favor signal by saying I. >> I. >> I. That motion does carry. Item 6.2 is ordinance number 2026-TBD, first consideration regarding annexation of property adjoining the Newm Airport. Mr. Schnowbreak. Hello.

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>> Hello, Madame President, members of the city council. Um, as you know, um, actually I haven't been actively involved in this project, but city engineersheim has, and uh, they

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have, uh, successfully completed the acquisition of six different parcels of property that will allow for the relocation and realignment of the grass crosswind

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runway at the airport. The runway will be 2,478 ft in length and 120 ft in width. Um, we are the owners of all of the

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property at the present time. All of that property is currently in Milford Township. So, we're taking the next step to enex the property. Uh we have a situation in which four of the parcels though are located in our

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orderly annexation area and we can enex that property by resolution and then we have two parcels that are located outside of that area and we would have to enex that property by ordinance. And

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following discussion with the city attorney, um he recommend recommended that we uh group all of the parcels together and that we uh do the annexation by

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ordinance. And so that's why you have uh first consideration at uh tonight's um meeting. I would note that um as you look at the documents uh for this particular item,

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you will see the property is labeled as track 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. So they each have a separate legal description and that totals 25.049

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acres. If you look at the um exhibits uh or the attachments, you'll see in exhibit C shows the location of those properties. So, all of the acquisitions

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that took place were at the end of the proposed runway. Um the um attachments include as I indicated the legal description of

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each property. There's a exhibit B is the boundary map which shows the uh corporate limits of the city and then the location of the uh airport and the location of the property being a next

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which is in red. Um that is a requirement of the state of Minnesota. So that's why you find that um in the ordinance. And then we have uh other documents um

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that um show the um the airport and the location of the property that has been uh acquired. That would uh conclude the um staff report. >> Thank you, Mr. Snowberg.

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>> I know this will be coming back to us again. Thank you staff for getting us all done with working all our negotiations with the acquisition of the property. Motion to conduct the first consideration of ordinance number 2026 approving the annexation of property identified in exhibit B and adjoining

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the new airport. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. That motion does carry. Item 6.3 is it schedule a joint city council

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and public city uh public utilities commission information meeting. I'll offer a motion to schedule a joint city council public utilities commission information meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 in the city

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hall council chambers to discuss the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31st, 2025. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. >> I. >> I.

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>> Opposed. That motion does carry. Item 6.4, police department donation. Chief. Hi. Welcome. Thank you. >> Council President Becker, members of the council. I'm Dave Borer, chief of police with the city of New. Um, in front of you is a a donation. and I had been

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contacted by Jeff Manderfeld and he had received a request for a donation from an outside law enforcement agency. In the process of doing that, he supports law enforcement, but he thought he'd like to make that donation locally. Um, he had mentioned that his father used to

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be on the police reserves and and he was proud of that that support for law enforcement. So, he approached us and asked to make a $100 cash donation. ask that it be used for the K9 program.

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>> Thank you very much, >> Madame President, counselors. Um, I'd like to offer the resolution to accept a monetary donation in the amount of $100 from Jeff Manderfeld to support the new ALM K9 program. >> Second. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any

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further discussion? >> Director Jorgensson, please call the role. >> Councelor Christensen, >> yes. >> Councelor Wa, >> yes. >> Councelor Schmidz, >> yes. >> Councelor Mack, >> yes. >> President Becker, >> yes. That motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, last item of business today, 6.5 fire department donation.

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>> Madame President and counselors, I'd like to offer this resolution to accept a $25 donation from Eugene and Gail Lutkkey. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. >> Councelor Christensen, yes. >> Councelor Warmut, >> yes.

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>> Councelor Schmidz, >> yes. >> Councelor Mack, >> yes. >> President Becker, >> yes. That motion does carry. With no additional business, today's meeting is adjourned. A work session will follow briefly. Thank you.