[Music] good evening this is our February 25th monthly or noal Eda meeting and with that Rebecca you want do a ro call H R ior here Jamie Roy here Daniel spring
here Adam beeding here Kathy Gable Jan thronson here all right right all right we have our agenda meeting agenda and um any like to make a motion to appr the
agenda I will that J second Jamie second it's a relatively brief agenda but a couple things we need to talk about so yep there's no other comments all those favor signify by saying I oppose
approved next item is our January 28th 2025 Eda minutes and um just one editorial under new business subdivision
B there's a seed instead of o oeda under the uh new business new business what am I looking for first word says o in of oh it's because it's oronoko Eda
board oeda is sorry I'm sorry no you're good no you're correct I had seed in my mind when I saw that no just my short hand thanks for correcting that make a motion we approve the
January 20 28 25 minutes second second all your comments those minutes see none those in favor second prob saying I I
post yes public input anybody okay thanks thanks for coming all right new business all right commercial permits update we do not have any new commercial permits that we uh have found out about
in the recent the recent month um for the community branding Proposal review we were going to go over the one that was submitted um that were in your packets when I mailed them to you last week um but we did receive two other ones today we gave them one last
shot to try and send them in so that we could get a little bit more opportunity and we did receive two other ones we got one from sers creative out of um uh sorry Redwing and then tulip tree out of Stewartville to go along with Cracker
Jack um from Rochester area I believe Elba Minnesota's their home base um what we were going to do tonight was talk a little bit more in depth about what we had um but since we got those I wanted to make sure that physical copies got into your guys's hands um so we can definitely talk about
what's inside of those today but I think we should maybe make the decision on which one we would recommend at our next meeting just because of the fact that we want to make sure that we take the time to go through it all and give everybody all the opportunity to dig in that they'd like can I make a motion that we
uh move that to do that as you said to the next uh uh month's meeting so that we all have time to review them to go over them yep don't even need a motion you can we can just go ahead right and do it and I will also reach out to each of the
individuals with the proposals and I'll let them know the schedule as well because once we have a good recommendation we'll have that all written up for Council um that'll be submitted then and then hopefully they can make their decision at their April meeting because unfortunately if we have
to wait till March that'll be after the March council meeting um and then hopefully we can actually have the project start right away in May so are these the three you are there others that you're these are the only three that we received deadline yeah yeah the only one we got by the deadline
was crackerjack the other two came in today um deadline was technically on the 18th but since we had only had the one I sent out another email to the individuals I had that had shown some interest um and then they submitted those uh for the total amounts I will
say the sver creative um if you look at trying to think they don't actually all have the second to the last of the pages but theirs is a total amount of $34,000 for their um proposal so that one is
substantially larger than both of the other two proposals that we have um for Cracker Jack they have given us the 7,500 that gives us the full study of it all doing all of the work finding out new logos but for some
of the implementation um for you know brand training and um spe specific marketing initiatives those would be additional on top of the 7,500 um I will reach out to her to see if she can give me think any any other
breakdowns of what she might anticipate costs to be um and then tulip tree there's um their total estimate for the entire project and that does include a rollout strategy it includes all the
project management um brand and logo design all of that that is completely included and that one is a $20,000 um our grant will give us 10,000 towards it so we will have that to put towards and then whatever Council may
want to do in addition um that was kind of where we talked a little bit about contingency funds today because we knew that the city had already discussed wanting to do a community branding initiative prior to us making the application so we just made the Assumption then that Council would be
looking to put some funds towards towards the project since it was discussed prior to even having a a grant available but we'll have to have that that discussion I guess with Council as that comes up was Cracker Jack the only one had
like a phase one phase two um so okay yeah the other two I didn't see any real breakdown it was all just kind of all of it together I just have one question for Cracker Jack and looking at phase two is that a pick and choose
okay good yep last couple Pages they have a timeline breakdown yep me it's not pH but that timeline breakdown oh yeah they do have a project schedule yeah um the one thing I would note um
that personally I thought was great was the tulip tree from um Stewartville they have a ton of samples and examples in the back of theirs of work that they've already done um they've got City of St Charles People's Energy they've worked
with um the Redwing Visitors Center which is interesting because the other one is from Redwing um Winona they also did um the city of Harmony so there's a whole bunch of the stuff that they've worked on that they've actually put some samples in so those are there in case you guys want to take a look at some of
those any the funding that we have for it is a matching Grant or is it just a straight out Grant just straight out grant for 10 and then um with your organization CA sometimes what's been helpful in the past to review responses to rfps as some type of decision Matrix does your organization have something like that in
your tools that would help us to evaluate these because sometimes you they're all set up differently so it's hard to measure like what is it against what is it delivering um do you have any tools like that or is that something that we could create you have capacity to create um I just think that might help the group evaluate this more
clearly as we come into discussion yeah spreadsheet um don't have anything like that currently I could certainly look into developing something like that but I think we'd have to be collaborating a little bit more on what what you guys would be looking for for that
um so typically I think because we put out a normal RFP correct like a an RFP so we can use it as a framework of like what was asked for and what was delivered on and then what were the extra pieces um and then the additional information um I don't know if it's
helpful but I'm more than happy to help with you help build something like that for you or with you if you want and then we can share that ahead of time before the next meeting if it's appropriate not let me know and completely up to you guys I do want to point out though that that will take away from the of the two days I have per month exactly so I don't
want to I don't want to waste too much time doing anything that's going to take away from the rest of the work but I certainly can throw something together yeah I think it's capacity question for the group if that's something we think is helpful or if we want someone to I mean I I can whip it together we riew RP
my professional role okay every single week so I could put something together for the group to respond to you Jason I could work with you if that's helpful or whomever or you know try to at least take a first crack at it and then give it to you I just don't what your capacity is right now and I know it's limited so it's up to the group for
discussion and it's you can read to it but I do think we need a guide of some sort just like doing a Personnel review you know try and go different employees with the same question so and I don't put my opinions in there it's just pretty much like you said it's a spreadsheet you put
the criteria and you're labeling everything so you can see those what's equaling out what's missing um and then you can have a good discussion as a group about you know this is missing we think this is more important or whatever it is app app yeah it's difficult to do
but I don't want to overstep either but I'm offering to help so either way it's totally fine if that's helpful then that's absolutely something we should do so I like I said I can start putting something together I might not put a ton ton of time into it but I'll get the basic structure all out if that helps
and then I can just forward it right on sound great what I see Rebecca I just looking this over uh tulip tree versus cracker or whatever the they show the first phase and yeah they come at
$7,500 I start looking at some of these other aspects and then it comes out and it says phase two additional costs where I see the these people are so really they're not I guess if I start preparing apples for apples here you can't quite
the $7,000 or $7,500 they're kind of like got their foot in the door once they got their foot in the door once they get the door oh by the way uh we got some add-ons here to do that and so I guess to be fair with everything is
that the criteria if they could break it down like these other people did as you're saying is is that so you know what what we're getting for the otherwise J from your perspective it sounds like this is what you've done in your position professional standpoint you
look rfps and greater magnitude probably these that the yeah and there again they sent some pictures they sent some different things where this is just black and white you know what I'm saying so they the presentation is better this way then this way this is kind of like we'll do
it and it's always good to have competition so you want to take the initiative to start it and you want to share it with everybody or make sure share am and add and I will reach out to crackerjack as well to ask them if they are interested
in providing us some of those additional numbers for the second phase um some estimates and then also um some samples of their previous work so I'll see if I can't get that right away and get that sent on to you guys as well the receivers creative we should get samples too if they have it
we're looking for everything to be as equal as we can so I think that' be Cracker Jack is willing to do that I think that would be we want to be fair and not be at a disadvantage but we can get everybody to that great
perfect um well we'll come back at our March 25th meeting go into more discussions about what comebacks with what you guys have sound CU yeah I will basically just go through the RFP and use that to perfect develop you know those general questions
that we can look at and insert some numbers and statistics in there too for you okay are you emailing me a copy of the RFP too yes absolutely I will send out a copy to everyone actually um and with that I will also send
digital copies of all three of the proposals so that you guys do have those digitally as well all of that will get sent out I can do that right away after the meeting tonight all right we'll just spend our time next month on in detail discussing
this so any other questions about any of these or things you want clarification on and if there is something that you see that you want clarification on please don't hesit to reach out shoot me an email and I'll make sure that I can get that for everybody that was the only question I
had was on the phase two so pick and choose okay yep all right um there's no other comments our next item was a small business survey um I don't actually have any new updates on that the the surveys are ready to go I just haven't gotten
into to meet with anyone yet um because of other the other projects um on to Old business just to continue I guess into this um with the ageef friendly Oronoco um we just found a new grant that came out that is the Taylor
Family Farms Grant um this year they are specifically trying to go for projects that are recreationally um and inclusive um related uh so we are looking at possibly using that because we can get up to $10,000 to put towards
park benches um and those types of things that we can use that can be all inclusive for everyone so I have put together one of those to submit so that's already done and ready to to roll so we'll see if we can't snag some extra money for the parks here so what was the deadline then or uh the 28th of this
month so in three days yeah is that awarded or you know um that one is going to be I think I even wrote it down uh looking at early April is when they're supposed to be announcing so we'll see if that can't help it um
and I will also be reaching out to some of our Parks Board just to make sure that I'm putting into the I put in right now that we'd be doing um some sidewalk a or path access in in uh one of the parks and then also for
benches um and garbage cans but I didn't know if there's anything else that you guys can think of that are more urgent needs so spring meeting last week we Rochester Family Promise and he's
also involved with County H prle um so he's going to send us their audit guide they did get funding to do six parts and Dave has reached out to Oro if we want to use one of those audits it's
$900 that we could come out and they have documentation that shows us how to do an audit um and we're going to bring that to the parks and trails meeting Monday night too I think so um so there's some auditing going on Pine Island has done
this um and of course Rochester has been Dave because we're all under the umbrella of Theon County he said we could use one of these audits the funding whatever it may be for whether it's um PR want have the parks department or have Public Works
involved with it for an hour so we could support their their salary or whatever the case may be your food and drinks and how many people are involved with it so so that'll be you'll hear more about that probably at the uh March meeting perfect I do think pickle ball courts
are age friendly and so if there's any you know allocation for fun storage pickle ball courts would be helpful for the community as a whole yeah that is something I've gotten a few emails on so actually that's a really good idea to maybe put that towards because 10 grand I think will go a long way for putting down some concrete at least and then it's one
of the topics we were not all to talk about at the council training on Friday pickle ball courts and urban chickens don't talk about Urban Chicken I bet Court that's down river park
so FR you put the U you put the ice rink out here so you could actually add on to what you had out here Pi we've talked about putting pickle ball lines here as well on this court too so you know I'm just saying is to be able to add on to what you have for the the R Place it serves many
purposes for Gold Rush for different things it's our ground whatever it is multiuse kids out here playing basketball during the summer though I will say from my time just sitting in here with working they do have they do play basketball out there at awful lot the point is is what you do there then is that you set your times up that like
everything else that at this time it's pickle ball at this time it's basketball and you know you're it's a multi-use court I again my whole point being to spend the money out there you got half the got the surface to add on there you get you would get more bang for the buck out
here an island actually Bloods their pickle ball court for their ice rank in the winter as well so it's a double use deal they have light lights and interesting too to think about like when the groups I don't know if this is
an RP or not but you could set up 10 pickle ball courts and try and you know set it up for a summer and just track usage and track interest and see and then that might inform later on investment or other grants but you know I've seen some smaller towns where they
might shut a street down that makes sense put them up you know and advertise it and see what the use is of it so for might be another way to consider that and less investment to start off with and then get more investment later as a potential path but probably out of our
scope of work let say I don't know if in three days I can get all of that um but I will I will try and get something in regarding pickle ball courts um to to see if we can't snag some of that funding then yes because
most of the grant is already written I just haven't put in all of the this is what we're GNA do with it set priorities to a certain extent too with your time so Y and I'm doing three of those grants so I'm doing them for other communities too
which is why it's just really easy for me to kind of kind of put them together and figured if I could if I could try to snag some more money I would all right um anything on your else on your January
report um what's the dimensions of a pickle b c we can ask that later do you anybody know what the size of it has to be got one in my chalk one out in my driveway footage wise what it's going to be it's a little less than a tennis or
tennis court I don't and I'll Google it the Nets are a little bit lower than tennis in lower to that's the main thing too yeah it's different than it Tes and that is the only thing that I'd say to keep in mind when thinking about like dual uses over two different seasons I think works really well but if you do
dual uses during the same season then it's a matter of who's going to be storing equipment um and who's going to be the one who's you know if somebody's playing basketball and then someone wants to do pickle ball who's going to be installing that net is it going to be done by someone who works for the city
is it going to be done by just anyone um and then you have all the damages that could potentially take place so it does have a couple other things just to throw in for For Thought processes on that one that there are a little bit more to to consider if we do that but totally not out of the
realm 44 by 20 that's what they are and then otherwise all I have down here is that I'm going to be starting to schedule March I should have my first uh meetings with some of our local businesses I did also want to check if there is a priority level that you guys feel are there certain businesses do you
think that I should Target first um over over others so I maybe just start alphabetically um but just didn't know if there was going to be something that you guys know somebody maybe who might be in need of of assistance sooner rather than later that we could pop in on and make sure that we we get in touch
with them as quickly as possible is what if they come before us um put all that property up there uh here several months ago that she she come before us and said that she would like to put a maybe a g the king king
property the king property up there is is that any where's that at is that is that just an idea Gold Rush we even got it on the map now Gold Rush Crossing no the Linden King thing is kind of it hasn't got legs yet so they're
working on that together so okay but that still there's still it's just not a dream it's actually there more than a dream I guess beond a Dream It's just matter of okay getting going okay everybody going the same direction so okay and there is also a very large um
infrastructure Grant and a tier 2 housing grant that can provide funding for cities um who work with residential development so I have sent the criteria for those grants um because you can get up to half of your infrastructure costs
paid for for putting in the roads and the water and sewer lines um for a residential development so I have forwarded that to our interested parties for residential development um if if they're able to make it fit with in
their project if those guidelines will work for them then that's probably something we'll take a look at because we can get up to half a million for that one so if they are interested we'll I'll be ready to roll with it but but that would be something where if
somebody is looking for maybe like tax abatement or a tiff situation and maybe council's not wanting to do that that might be able to help offset the cost for our developer to to make it the project more palatable how does that work from the is
it the developer that applied or we the city applies it would be the city and so they have to have a pre-planned development in order to identify if it is qualified for the funding I imagine yep we would have to have a development agreement with them um it might not have to be in place when we do the application but if we're awarded then we
would have to have it in place before they give us the funding so that way like they wouldn't have to fully commit to it we wouldn't have to fully commit till after we know we're awarded for it so we wouldn't have to do too much of the individual bits and pieces we just need to know what
their basic lot sizes are going to be the goals for what what you know the square footage of the housing that they're looking at putting in so what's typical for for like the time frame when a grant becomes available like is it just until the funds run out is it generally like a period of time you identified like like is there a
projection how long it'll be available just thinking in terms of like you know developments often times might be land around or chosen to based off of oh I need it for this to work Tiff and this and this and then the land cost okay it can actually work so so I'm just thinking about from the developers P perspective how
long how far long they need to be and and once they are aware of these funds and they say hey I want to go get those is it is it just a a waiting game as to whether or not it's awarded and then they do the project or don't because there's usually a deadline date to submit and then there is usually about a
month to a month and a half depending on the size type of program I believe this one we're supposed to have it be done in the end of April um and then and then it would be a month month and a half before they award it um this these both of
these program are one-time fundings through the legislature so it won't be something that comes up again um it's just a program that they decided to to put out there and unfortunately if you don't have a project in mind it's kind of out of need one in Out Of Reach y but
but where we're right now with these guys I is they already have an idea they have a basic layout a concept in mind we do have enough to make that application we just would need to to have them on board to work with us and have those conversations if uh if we were awarded
that would give us a a nice agreement with we' just get our City attorney to put together development agreement with them that's something that can think two I mean King King development but then also the townhouse development of was it 64 Town Homes going in is that something where we reach out to them and say hey
there's this too and and does it require a proactive reach out to the developer to to start that process or yep absolutely so we'll get it to to both both of the two developments that are looking at doing it so we'll see if we can't get them in there because I know that one of them
they were trying to say what would be considered affordable housing so I did reach out to the department um because nobody can give us a number what is affordable housing um so they did say that it was a certain certain percentage of either the the higher of the median income for our
area which would be the County versus the median income for the state and I believe because of Rochester we'll be going with the Statewide versus the the uh the county but I know the four unit condos are that whole development across the street from Two
Sisters is uh is meant to be Market based pricing and around 600,000 I think is what he was saying in the meeting 45 to 5:30 45 40 485,000 to 530 oh 500,000 okay is that per unit per unit okay that
one probably wouldn't qualify no it do um but I know that the other one they were looking at some of those maybe not the whole project is is those smaller units but they were looking at some smaller ones for portion of it and I think that that would qualify the project to get that infrastructure in
there can they between multiples is because since it's our grant right since we apply for it if we have multiples going on well it has to be for an approved project y so we can put both projects down like hey we've got this project for sure and we've also got this
project that we'd like to be able to put money towards as well we can certainly do that but then it does kind of add a little extra layer of complication to the application or we could just submit two applications one for each project um because obviously the majority of that application's going to be able to be
duplicated because it's all coming from the same Source we'd just be a matter of putting in both projects information so that is completely an option to be able to apply for both chances are we won't get both but those Hamilton part of that the Hamilton project as well is that yep
Hamilton I've already sent them to I've sent that information to them uh probably about three weeks ago but I'm going to send it to him again now because now the um portal just officially opened on February 20th so before it had just been a pre-announced program they hadn't had all the details
out so I did send it to them when I got the initial inform inform um but now that it's actually open and I've got all of it I'm going to send that out to to everybody what are we calling the town townhouse project how do we identify that what what is what are we calling
what are we calling a townhouse project so across from that still Cedar Woodlands four or something neighborhood R2 the Reps around where the Plus Garage is that y y so it say
there's two 2. 5 2.6 Acres that was where the mound is at and that's considered to be that's his R2 or B2 and then rest of it's R2 so this R B2 that be rezoned um and there's 14 buildings all
of them are Ford condos yeah for they just WRA this whole property um and they did have a public engagement meeting with the cedar Woodland so C Woodlands condos Woodland condos okay okay that's up sorry yeah thank you thank you we both attended that so it's a it's a
gentleman out of he's out of Rochester but he has projects all over the United States the architect comes out of um Tennessee and it's all very upper scale very nice looking concept that he showed
us so um that seems way way simpler than than or noal Crossings Gold Rush Crossings uh as far as the likelihood that they could get the grants I mean these guys seems like something that go a lot faster oh yeah less complicated
and so the Gold Rush Crossings is that other and and gold brush Crossings unlike the other two would be commercial versus residential um was the was it well received when you guys went to that meeting other items have we done with your jary report yes absolutely yep yeah
I mean so we were both we both attended it was well attended I would say there's probably 30 people in the room um and they just gave a brief overview of the pro project um and then created a great opportunity for discussion with the neighborhood I don't were you there I
don't think you yeah um it just I think there's a lot of lessons learned in the process like the talk about process and how they approached the community and wanted input and was really open to you know what what was the community's concerns and you know the neighborhood
shared just had some general questions you know about how how they were thinking about setting it up and what that meant um but they seem to be open to like there's a lot of um the children in the neighborhood walk those streets there's no sidewalks and so there were some questions about you know if their way if we're going to create more traffic how
do you create you know the streets or paths like what does that look like um there's a number of other kind of just general questions Green Space Green Space there's some questions about know say they are U wanting to move forward with a true Condo Association um there are questions about
short-term long-term rentals and that and that could be put into the deed um which they were open to as well so like um it'd be condo but a minimum I think standard is six months so you wouldn't get like a short-term rental in there it would have to be longer um so he did a
nice job the developer did a nice job saying we're really early on in the process there'll be more engagement so I thought the conversation I don't know if you have more to ask yeah yeah open Dr with Bill right name dragon and Bill um just Dragon was there I think um and Dan Dan
mcferson I think is maybe the realtor on the front of the project Dan mcferson oh he he was there yeah yeah yeah yeah great guy he's a nice guy um but yeah they seem some residents Express concerns about rentals um but but I I don't think that that would be real likely at the price point it wouldn't be
real sensible to make as an investment um but but one level living slab on grade no basement I mean that's that's what our community needs or maybe but but Rochester we don't have a lot of surplus ramale town houses and baby boomers are aging and it's a great uh I think a great space within our community
to have a buffer between the commercial and the the you know residential that's less dense um and then the one level living it seems like something that will sell so I couldn't imagine a development sitting there and and you know trip trip trip like River Park did when when things went South uh I think it would it
would go well the River Park was because every every other neighborhood all developments were going bad in 2008 n um well the addition of the water and sewer too I think that that increases the the the speed of the sail in the area too we're also contemplating a pool in
the nebor I forgot about that yeah because they had a whole Community Center area yeah the one thing I heard a takeaway to was the Landscaping the question about Landscaping on the east in you know across the street from
cedarland been more that was one of the takeaways I heard they were hoping to have more dense foilage trees or buffer buffer more of a buffer we talked about how like knowing that it's your woodlands and that neighborhood is I mean the neighborhood is fairly wooded like there's two streets are pretty
wooded and one street that's not so much wooded but if there's a way to blend so it doesn't feel so separate I mean we've defined this as a city almost like a pocket neighborhood but it's really not so like how can we you know we encouraged them to meet with Cedarwood L's HOAs and talk about what some of
their design guidelines are for their HOAs and so if there's a way to make it feel more connected um they he said he would be open to that as well so I think that for first kickoff conversation in a neighborhood it's good you know I think the tension maybe lies because of the
king development and this and potential of like extra traffic and what does this mean and not really knowing the zoning and the King development being like is there Apartments is there not um you know I think there's a couple residents that are further directionally challenged so um the ones that are
closer to the king um development and to this development I mean that's that there's Fair as there should be um lots of questions what does that mean for those streets and through streets and things so we encouraged um I think it was uh Joe that was here to U as we go
through of course traffic studies and other things be included in that and as we get down the path what could traffic calming look like and other things to make sure that the street stay safe for the neighborhood conversation I think they're looking at a phase system of those first four
buildings correct right across the street from um two sisters did those first two and three as they continue on and how the market responds so yeah they won't need to come here that was my followup question right they they'll go to pnz because they have to redo the
Zoning for one of the parcels but otherwise they would not normally make a stop here correct the Ed no not because of the fact that we're not there's no change of hands for for any of that no the only reason they would come to us if they were looking for any additional assistance um which if they did want to do some of
those Grant programs they have up to two years years to spend it so at least it wouldn't have to be like they have to build next year they we could totally stretch that out um but if you guys get to a point where you have questions though that you'd like to be able to provide additional feedback to council
we certainly can invite them in if if that's a conversation that you guys would like to have because I'm sure they'd be more than happy to I think a conversation with the owner to see if he wants the financing he may be all private financing too so we don't that's we
don't want to spend our Wheels thinking if we don't have absolutely yep do that extra work so yep exactly didn't have another question I don't know if it was addressed um at the last meeting um uh but Jeff's replacement so we have a position open
is that the only one that's open and um was there a like a discussion around that last meeting and how we're going to fill that or dieline no we did put on the website it'll bring in we're just waiting for applications to come in now is there any formal communication
that we do like through our social media like the city of Oro would we ever post on there it was posted it was a m get out there I'll just maybe I'll send it to the HOA heads and make sure that they're seeing
yet because yeah as soon as we get an application in we'll get whoever that is in front of you and you guys can applications are online or at City Hall and come off and send them in is the notification of the opening that that's sure people won't know to come and apply
if they don't know that it exists okay thank you one one thing that one of the Cities was doing um to get community engagement is they were actually putting up little Billboards so like it wouldn't be a
billboard but it' be like a um a little 12 by 14 with a QR code on it says I'm on the Eda and need help and it' be a big QR code that would go directly to the website and so like their Council and their edas and different members of
their when they were looking for people were putting out these signs in different parts of the Cities their personal yards and and different things so that was one one thing that um somebody recommended that help get
community engagement a community involved way to get community involved so we're actively seeking yeah yeah um would we be able to put that on like the city signs already posted it on the they're on out here yeah it's
running through the end of the month I it was said but it's one of the what does it what does it say I don't remember because it's a couple different opportunities and yeah I have to go back and look but I don't remember off my head I can I'll put it on I'll put it on
mind I think like Parks parks and trails we're putting an on the park sign in the par I put on my board up there it'll you'll advertise my bigger board up there that you have we have an open on Eda when they come into town yeah
because there's a lot of those like free QR code creators that you can use yeah that especially if you're not looking at getting a bu of Statistics from you're just looking for responses then yeah short um that's certainly something I can try to throw something like that together that we could at least hang up
on the on the door we could you know go put it over at at Till's do we have a spring uh Council letter going out anytime soon uh we have a spring newsletter but without staff it's going to hard to do that so soon as we get
staff in here we try and do we get information I'll connect to the HOA boards and get something out okay share it on our social media you want me to try and put together a QR code if you have capacity yeah it that doesn't take very long at all
one other question that's okay y um so uh you know the Eda um spoke at one of the council meetings to share about Jeff leaving and there was a offer to potentially do a joint session so we could talk about some joint goals and
roles and how do we work better together and I I just don't know if that's a conversation of our board coming in and talking with Jason or you know I know there's some planning that's coming and F coming for city council but I just wanted to make sure that that um we reminded ourselves that we did offer that and you know I think it would help
when we think about our priorities supporting City council's priorities and pz and others so I'm not sure the best way to move that forward but we did make that offer in our letter to the council that day um and I think it'll be important no matter what we do because clearly we continue to have investment
and interest and people that are um wanting to see the best for our community so however we can move that forward would be great in the right timing um knowing that there's a new many new council members and new people in so yeah and thank you guys all for showing up too for that was I I watched
the uh the video of most of it the next day so and I was gone to be able to do that volunteer RS said your plan trip to Years anyway I W there so
just evidently we lost a member because of the council saying that they didn't see things important or cut the budget so we lost a member off off our Eda here to do that and so my question is in the Le was
sent out how was it received by the city council uh because I wasn't there I was kind of curious how that was received do they feel that we're an important entity or do they feel that we're just kind of cuz I I understand we all take our
time to do this and you you hope we're making a positive difference but if you don't get some funny to see it the other way in my opinion you kind of wonder what why are we here and why we've had several people leave the board since we started for a number of reasons for a
number of different reasons but a lot of it is is I hate to say politics money or whatever but so so I guess I'd like to know uh what your what the board or the feeling was of the board of what what your take of the council come back
as because I see we have a new council member on our board that doesn't surprise me and um and stuff and so I guess if I'm going to be part of something I want to be part of something positive that knowing that that we do
are trying to make a difference so is someone kind of tell me well that night that that night there wasn't feedback so it it' be on there's not response to public comment but I I I'm happy to address you as far as I'm
concerned um in my position I've seen a lot of positive things come out of here um out of the Eda and I think you guys have done a great job uh with an agenda I think maybe as a council as a whole
there's uh a thought of we're at a point where people are going to be coming to us to develop so why are we spending money to reach out I think that's probably the main message that I heard
against from residents and from um other members um and so that's that's where I sit I think I've seen a lot of positive stuff I mean with the grants and the parks it's been nice to see and I think we've
been uh or you guys have been doing a really good job as far as pushing a vision like the vision is just as important as all the rest of it so getting goals and having a vision so that's where I stand on
it just little POS feedback I just B I missed that I would say that the council we have now is is very proactive and I think that's going to help when we come to our budget processing again in July uh it's unfortunately that we had the
in in J in our counseling and budget process sessions that we had leading up to approval but it was very for to keep what we had well there's always Growing Pains there's always Growing
Pains as long as we're continuing to move forward and show the value that that the council will continue to support and hopefully support um more as we see more it's hard it's hard to judge after a first year
especially when everything was still pending right right because there's so many grants that are still pending it's like well did we get him did we not don't know so um as a new person I'm excited to see what we can do with the time that we have and
hopefully we can prove that this is a positive thing to maybe expand because as I was approached when this was all getting developed by some people saying would you be willing to put it on I was a little taken back by some of the same
people doing what they did and I I I it it's hard to say would you step up to the plate to do things yeah and then they step away from you step away from it so I I I guess positive I always I enjoy coming I always see what can this
I it's it's the gold to me this is a diamond more than in a rough and I see things very positive that can happen here for everybody and I think that maybe the council can't do it all uh they're busy doing everything else for 88 kind of steps in and kind of helps
and guys because we have no control or anything it's got to go through Council anyway so um I've never turned down any help my life if someone's willing to help help us help us out guide us down the road it makes my life a little easier right if they see it as an unnecessary expense though if if the
council sees it as an unnecessary expense then it may be cutable and and at this size of government is it a necessary expense for the city for the city council that's that's for them to determine um you know and and I think what we've experienced so far in the last couple years has just been we haven't done a whole heck of a lot I
mean we've we've we haven't been out uh you know shaking trees trying to get people in or anything like that right we've just been discussing and planning but I think that we have put in community kind of forced Community input into what's happening and Community recognition of what is happening and I think there's a lot of value in that um
but but yeah it's it's hard to if if uh if we are needed and and it certainly feels already like you said a couple of people have left the group and we had some really really strong candidates when it first started and lost a couple of key key ingredients with some great experience um and and so I see that as
all all that as unfortunate but uh I I shared at the city council meeting when when we spoke just briefly that that I felt like uh we we can't avoid growth and and I wonder if the city council feels like like oh we can just put off growth and I
think where we are it's just not feasible it's coming it's not only do we have the infrastructure but we have the desired location that people want to be in um so unless one or two people owns all the land you can't say no and with that in mind if we are going to grow I feel like we need to grow responsibly and we need to plan for the growth and
identify what we should be doing as as a city and and so what I see the Eda is as a handful of community volunteers saying yeah I'll help I'll help and so far it's kind of like yeah yeah that's fine I don't want to volunteer my time anymore than I need to if it's not being
welcomed and there might be a time we we actually grow out of a job there might be a time that we may not need a job though if if directly the city council do we do we you know and it's and it's all the decision the The Authority all sits there at Council uh so we're we're like
a a group a subgroup or a you know and I'm not saying that we don't belong don't get me wrong I I think I I absolutely wouldn't be here if I didn't think that we should be planning for growth that's just not really seems to be I think everybody would agree the growth will happen it's just we're we've
had a little hiccup with uh with our budget uh we have a hookup with lack of staff that we're hiring we'll be hiring here um within the next six weeks hopefully we'll have staff on board and kind of get back to normal but we're really struggling and even though we're
two days a month or every other week I think it's um we'll just plot through this and we got great branding surveys I think those are two key things and U I think that would definitely help Inspire more enthusiasm amongst the city and the residents too so yeah and especially
because last year was a big establishing year you know we had to write bylaws we had to do all of those little background things that frankly they don't they don't look like progress but it it has to be done um and then we did all that Community engagement to kind of develop a plan so hopefully this year just looks
it looks better to people on the outside looking in because we hopefully will be able to have a lot more boot ground action that they can actually see touch and feel versus versus some of that background stuff that yeah it it does take time and we had to do it but at
least now we've we've got it it won't be be something that has to be dealt with again so I don't know that this is the only committee that has those feelings that you guys are having too right last year there was a lot that was happening in the background and a lot of people
were putting in a lot of work to get things set for these upcoming years um I think parks and trails have put in a lot Planning and Zoning have their extra committees that they're putting in a lot of effort in getting things so when we
are growing we're it's going to be a clearer picture so where I see this group is is creating the picture and then Planning and Zoning is putting it where it needs to be right and so there's been
a lot of leg work in a lot of different groups to get to where we are so if we just stay the course I think the fruits of the labor for everybody are going to start to show oh I mean that's that's why I
ran Faith you some faith in that and relating to responsible development development takes time I mean it it takes some time and unfortunately some people like to see things overnight some people don't quite know what you that goes into it heck I don't think any of us fully know what's
going to go into each of our projects um but but I do think that word of mouth is going to get out about different projects as they start coming and I I hopefully we'll see that we'll see that show through people's opinions of the Eda going forward but and I'm hoping to
get more Community engagement um or Community we've had a lot of community engagement this last year whether it was positive or negative right uh now we just have to take that step and get more community volunteers and maybe hopefully those people
um that left might want to step back in when they see things starting moving that that would be great but um I think too that the pnz and the codes we're doing with updating the codes the 151 codes is
critical to making sure we right yeah deliver on that and so we can move forward because there's people waiting about that so and one way that I usually we'll try to like describe an Eda is we're kind of that we're kind of the homework kids we do all that background
research before it has to get to pnz and before it gets to council so that we don't waste the time of councel we want to make sure we get as many of the questions answered for them the developer before they get to council so that they can be as prepared as possible
to be in front of them so I mean Eda obviously we're not making those decisions we can only make a recommendation but at least we can get together um all of that background work before it has to get to council so that Council can focus on on the decision- making process instead of those those
little bits right U good discussion comments at the end of the meeting here anything else think we got a exciting meeting in March when we look at these branding um we weren't planning on any of these companies coming to us to give a
presentation were we we discuss that just stick off just off those um now again though I will reach out and get questions answered if you have them or if there is a point you guys would like to have them attend via Zoom we can certainly set something up um but through the RFP process it didn't
request that and if we did that it'd be a Ed a decision not just one person so okay I'll make a journey one second that all right all in favor say I I less than an
hour thank you guys than you thanks for getting these packs together