Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the ATGO city council meeting. Tonight is Monday, June 23rd. Audrey, can you have the record show that our city attorney is present, our city planner is absent, our city engineers present along with all council members and our city administrator. At
this time, I'll ask you all to join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. All right, our first item of business this evening is our open forum. This is the portion of the meeting where you can come to the podium, state your name and address, and limit comments to three minutes or less. Would anyone like to speak at this time?
Hi, my name is Casey Kutky. I live on 8360 Oakwood Avenue Northeast. I've been a resident here for 13 years. And I just want to talk to tonight about a simple change to allow golf carts and UTVs on the shoulders of our roads and electric
scooters on our paved trails. I started a petition to see how the community felt about this and I've gotten uh over a hundred signatures from Atgo residents who are in favor of it. A lot of people just want to be able to get around town in a slower, more relaxed way. Whether
that's to visit a neighbor, ride to the park, or just a quiet cruise. Golf carts especially help people feel more connected with the community. When people are out in their carts, they stop and say hi, check in with each other, and it just makes the neighborhood feel
more alive. At Seagull covers over 30 square miles, so not everything is within walking distance. golf cart or scooter gives people another way to get around, especially in the warmer months without having to jump into their car for every little thing. I know some
people had some concerns about safety and I've read the comments and people are worried about kids not paying attention while riding or parents not being aware of what their kids are doing and scooters or bikes going too fast around walkers. I get that. But instead
of banning things for everyone, we can focus on enforcing respect for other people, for walkers and kids, and for the roads and trails we all share. Most people use their vehicles responsibly. We shouldn't let a few bad examples take
away their option for the rest of us enjoy the community in a fun and safe way. It's just about giving the residents more ways to get around town, stay connected, and enjoy at Seagull. Thank you. Thank you. Any other
comments? Any other comments? All right, we will close the open forum um and move on to item two to consider our agenda for approval. Does anyone have anything that they would like to
add or delete at this time? Madame Mayor. Yes, Ryan. On the consent agenda, I'd like to bring down item 3.3. We can make that uh 5.1. Okay. And then I'd also like to bring down 3.5. We can make that 5.2.
All right. Any other changes? Then a motion would be in order. Madam Mayor, yes. I move to approve the agenda as amended. Right. Is there a second? Second. Motion by Ryan, seconded by Michelle. Is there any discussion?
All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Moving on to our consent agenda. A motion would be in order. Madam Mayor, yes, Ryan. I move to approve the consent
agenda as amended. Is there a second? Second. Motion by Ryan, seconded by Tina. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes.
Moving on to item 4.1 is a South Central water treatment phase one project. We have a presentation tonight by AE2S. All right, Madame Mayor Council. All right, you ready? Yes, sir. All right. So, South Central Water Treatment, uh what what's in front of us
this evening is the engineering agreement that would uh essentially kick off the design of the South Central Water Treatment. Uh larger project. It's really more of a program. Uh we do plan to come back uh
at a later date. I'll point it out on the schedule and have a more thorough uh discussion of some of the details of the project. uh when we're looking to come for the the Seymar and I'll explain some more Seymar. So, Adam, go ahead and get
into it. All right. So the the couple of bullets for this this evening, a little bit of background information uh about the project uh some specifics on the design scope and then get into the project delivery method which will be a little
bit new uh probably for many of the folks here and then a little bit of schedule and uh then go to questions. So next slide. All right. So, what's in front of you now is the draft uh more of a concept
site plan. Uh so, the this parcel was acquired a few months ago uh with with the intent of this being the location of the South Central Water Treatment Facility or Water Treatment Plant. The uh so there there will be a site plan.
This is slightly updated from the version that a few of you saw last week that uh Ron's group has the the wetlands dialed in a little bit tighter now. So some of that preliminary work on the wetlands is already happen and uh is all good news. Uh so anyway, that that's the
site plan. There'll be a lot more work that goes into the the planning of that site throughout the design. So go to the next slide. uh some more of the specifics in basically what's included in the what
will be this design package. Uh there's some additional wells. Two of the wells were already part of the test well package that had been uh bid last year. So part of that test well program will also result in public water service wells. Uh so more like a down payment
with those wells getting started. Uh there'll be some additional wells. So all of those wells will be to you know that'll be the water source that'll go into the water treatment. Uh then there'll be some on-site and some off-site
uh raw water piping. So that's the the water that will be conveyed to the treatment. Uh the off-site portion will be handled by uh Ron's group with the city engineer just because it it's paralleling the streets. It made more sense to go that direction. Uh so little
bit of a team effort there but and then getting into the site master planning. So within that parcel uh take a harder look at uh the future infrastructure the expansion. This is really the the intent right now is that we're we're doing the first phase of the capacity. It'll be
most of the the structure that gets built. Uh the more of the phasing happens on the the side with the wells, but this will be most the structure. uh some modeling on that site and then some of the civil amenities that go with it. Uh on the water treatments are really
the the heart of the system. Uh the big part is the all the process including the filtration. So this is the the part that improves the water quality uh removing that iron manganese radium that uh we've got in all all the other wells.
So we're expecting the new wells to have basically the same thing or similar to it and all the things that go with that. the HVAC electrical uh the civil site improvements. Uh additionally anticipating that there'll be a an administration portion to this building is going to be the central area for the
drinking water side of the utilities uh and a garage as well as a ground storage reservoir. Uh as we're continuing to grow need additional storage volume for that finished water and then getting that water then connected to the distribution system out to the customers.
Next slide. So this is the part that's probably a little bit new. Uh construction manager at risk. So this is a a delivery method that has been used extensively for public projects in other states. It was authorized explicitly in Minnesota for
public projects in uh 2023. So little bit of change in state law that helped us get to the point to consider this. Uh there's a lot of detail that we can go through with Seamar, but probably the biggest summary is that for vertical infrastructure projects, so buildings,
especially some of these process projects, uh there's a lot of advantages for the Seymour delivery method. Most of what it does is get a contractor involved during the design. So, it's more of a collaborative delivery method. Um, we're still planning to do the the
well drilling as the traditional design bid build as that it just that delivery method for that portion of the project just fits better with that type of construction. So, really trying to tailor the delivery methods for the the
different pieces of infrastructure. Um, there's a a little bit of a flow on the bottom there. Uh, Minnesota does require a two-step method. So, you start with a request for qualifications. So that's basically a you're trying to get to the point where you're really only
interviewing the uh the outfits that are truly qualified. So then it goes to a request for proposal stage uh anticipating there'll be interviews. There'll be a selection committee and then once there's a selection recommendation, negotiate that contract.
That'll all happen at about 30% design. So you're getting that contractor on board earlier. um some differences in roles and responsibilities. Once you start to get over to the actual construction phase, it's basically all the same at that
point. Other than that, this the team's been collaborating for months uh ahead of that point. It's not just, you know, starting to get the contractor engaged once the bids are advertised. So the next slide
uh council member Lond had uh suggested this one as a a good illustration of uh you know what is the difference and and really a lot of a lot of this delivery method is about cost control that with the integrated project delivery methods
of which Seymour is one of those integrated project delivery methods you're getting the collaboration a lot sooner when you can have that engagement Hopefully the I don't know if the colors are quite the same, but the it's more of a green. You're getting that
collaboration earlier on the timeline when you have a better opportunity to make changes and make adjustments when they're less costly. So, especially, you know, if we if we need we'll get real contractor costs earlier through the
guaranteed maximum price process that the CMAR does. If we do need to make adjustments, we can do those early instead of finding out on bid day that we're had a bad bid day. So, that's a lot of the part everything about building it is still the same. It's that
there's more overlap with the design stage. So, we go to the next slide. Uh, this one got a little bit busy, but tried to do a as brief of a summary along the top as I could for the different pieces of
infrastructure and still have a little bit of detail of what stage they were at. Um, and then take the blue boxes as, you know, where it'll be decision points for public works subcommittee. The green boxes where it'll be decision points for council or asking for approvals. uh where we're at today with the
engineering agreement. Uh we've already been through a couple rounds with public works subcommittee and had discussed you know a lot of detail around the semar delivery method uh to get to the point where we were comfortable bringing it to the full council. Uh so that's where we're at today is initiating with the
engineering agreement. I think when we the intent or what we've talked about is that we when we come back to request the uh the Seymar advertisement, we'll have a lot more detail at that time of uh details of both how we intend to the
details of the actual Seymar advertisement that we're we're going to put out and that as well as more details of the project. And so it uh what we're thinking right now is that that will probably be a special session that we'll we'll do a little more detail at that time. uh and then
put out that advertisement for the Seymar. We'll get we'll have a selection committee that works through that uh reviewing proposals, do the uh do the interviews. The Seymar is still completely separate from the design team, but they're they're interacting
through separate agreements with the city as the owner. Uh so in that respect, it's very similar to the construction where there's still separate agreements. uh it is explicitly not design build uh but the the teams will be collaborating through the
contracts with the the city as the owner uh basically trying to get the best project that we can uh and then it goes into you know there's a little bit of different language that goes with it uh the semar the GMP is the guaranteed maximum price that would be the
functional equivalent of a bid opening at that point we just there'll be draft GMPs working up to that and then there'll be a final GMP At that point, that's when it will be it will come back to the council with a recommendation uh to approve the final GMP. That would be similar to a recommendation to
approve bids. Uh and at that point now, it would be actual construction agreements to actually build the project. Uh there's a few other pieces on there that'll are more like the probably more what we're used to. The wells will still do a traditional design
bid build where we'll come ask for permission to advertise or authorization to advertise and we'll do the the actual bid recommendations. Similar with the pipelines. Those are delayed or further back just because of the the test well bid package. We need to get that test
well program done in 2026 so that we know where to locate the wells. Uh, and then the pipelines, there be some to work through with the the easements and getting the the pipes in the right spots and doing that design. Uh, and then, you
know, if all of this goes right, uh, couple years from now, we we'll be doing a ribbon cutting on a a new water treatment. Uh, that'll give us the ability to add a whole bunch more houses with our water system.
So that's the goal is really increase capacity of the water system while also having uh improved water quality. So next one uh with that we we've gone through the detail gone through uh a number of
different iterations of exactly what's in the uh the scope of services for the design. Uh I got a summary table here. The design team has gone through the effort to estimate hours level of effort and has come up with uh this amount for
the engineering agreement. Uh this would be scoped through uh it'd be bidding on the wells negotiation on the the semar side. So basically get up to that point where we would go to the construction phase with the intent as we've done with many of the other projects. Then we would do an amendment at that
construction phase. Uh when we at concurrently with the the contractor's contracts for the those construction phase amendments. Um generally it's the the standard contract language that we've worked through uh on a number of different
projects for the terms and conditions. Uh really no changes on that front end part. Back the back end of the scope. There are some adjustments for the Seymar that things that are just different because of the different uh delivery method and working through that
with uh the city attorney. It it's in for city attorney review. Probably I anticipate there'll be a little bit of back and forth there, but I've got a we've got a draft that's in for review right now. So, I think next one is
questions. I have one to start off. So you talked about this came to be in 2023 that there was the change for the seminar. Uh so I have you done other projects in other communities
and I guess were you impressed with you talked about collaboration on the front side of it and working through the process. Did you feel that you got something different by using this and which I know we have to now but did you
get to a different point or did you feel as though using the way that we used to do it and getting to a project was the same result? I think the the collaborative delivery really that interaction with the contractor during design like the people who will actually
be building it gaining that input throughout the design. It gives you the opportunity to do a lot of things that you're really looking for those items where you know if we make this adjustment it know the project is still
absolutely as good of a project. it just maybe costs less or there's a way to do it a little bit differently that allows it to get built, you know, more expediently. Also, just managing risk, getting a the contractor in the room when you're
talking about things that, you know, things like equipment delivery. You know, the last few years, we've had a lot of issues with particularly electrical gear. Like the those contractors have then like they're dealing with it directly every day. Like most of the information I get about
electrical delivery is from the contractors anyway. So this is just bringing them into the room, getting them on the team earlier so that we can do things like game plan the construction phasing just to make the project better because it if we can make if we can get the construction schedule
even a couple months better where those general condition costs are no longer cost because we're getting the project done. So it it really is about getting the people who are designing it and building it collaborating in general. I you that's my opinion on the
the Seymour. So I the first Seymour project I was involved in was in Arizona in 2007. So it like this has been around for quite a while. My opinion is that for vertical construction is the preferred delivery method for horizontal
like pipelines. It like it's not that you can't do CMR for the pipelines. there's just not nearly as much advantage for the pipelines for the the horizontal projects. So, it really is about the project type whether whether it's worth it to consider the the Seamar
delivery method. Um Adam, you want to push a couple slides down? I do have a list of so um went through what the the water wastewater projects that have been
initiated in Minnesota since that change about 18 months ago. Uh and it's it's a pretty healthy list considering the pretty short time frame. Um the the closest one would be Monaceel and their water plant that's uh went to Seymar
route. They're probably six, eight months ahead in terms of schedule at Monaceel and they they've just gone through their their seamar selection process in Monaceel. So I mean doesn't get a whole lot closer to that
uh or pretty similar project. Um so that's general Minnesota I think it was the next one include you know A2S projects across many of the other states. Many of these are just because other states have had it authorized for
longer. Um, you know, we have less of them at Minnesota because it's been a shorter time frame. Okay. Well, thank you for asking or answering my question. I obviously I'm not on the public works subcommittee, so you guys have talked about it a lot more, but we talked about it for three
days. Yeah. Okay, there you go. So I I mean as I read through it I'm like okay it kind of makes sense but I just but I I do think having the people in the room because they're the ones putting it in and they know all the steps to it. So having them in earlier or if it's like
hey we can double up and this could come in at the same time and we'll we're not letting it sit dormant for a little bit. Usually you get a faster delivery method too um for the project as a whole. You're not you're overlapping like the
construction team with the design team. So, you're able to make decisions in a quicker fashion versus like you go to hard bid, you do bid day opening and you're over budget. What do you have to do? You have to go back to the drawing board, redraw stuff, readvertise, resend
it out to bid. That extends the schedule out usually. Um especially when you're talking about a larger project such as this. um you know and the ris with the risks of tariffs and other things you are at a higher risk of um not
maintaining that budget during this type of scenario we have right now I could see it's more of it's the change orders that we're not going with or adding the alternates like so this almost takes away that piece of it that we're used to seeing you'll still have you'll still
have some of those things you'll have a different bucket to work with you'll have something called contingency which um will be something we'll get into more later. But um contingency is basically for those um unknowns or situations that
you run into during construction. You run into a bunch of pete in the in the soils and now you got to you got to esavate and soil correct and all that other stuff. And there's other things too. there's weather conditions that can play a factor into cost of a project
which could result in a change or this is you're just allocating a reservoir of dollars to deal with that. So, it's not money that um has to be spent and then you would still have alternates if you don't spend that money that you can maybe pull the trigger on.
It it does really help with risk mitigation. Yeah, big time. Yeah, Madame Mayor, I was going to say the the when we were having the meetings on this public works subcommittee, that was that was kind of my big concern as well is with the with sort of traditional design
bit build, we kind of have built-in checkpoints of, you know, the change orders and in the Seamar world, we probably won't hopefully won't have change orders because it would all be handled by the
Seymar unless it's something that, you know, completely out of scope, but we still have the checkpoints as well and and we still have someone who's ultimately responsible for the success of the project. And kind of the thing that swayed me towards Seymar was um
what the member previous pointed out in that slide or had that slide added which was it's kind of the 110 rule, right? If you have things you need to change, it's a lot cheaper to change it when it's just on paper. So, if you can get correct the people in the room that are going to be able to tell you what makes
sense, uh, that saves a lot of money, saves a lot of headache and a lot of frustration. Um, so that kind of swayed me towards we should probably use Semar in this case. Thank you. Any other questions?
I did have one quick one. Um it was one of the first couple slides uh the sort of the rough layout of the site. Okay. I think the last time I saw this the access drive had a wetland on it. Has that actually been removed? Yeah. So the
the preliminary the previous version called the last week version. It it was the it was the desktop uh where it it had we know we're pretty sure these are wetlands. these are ones you need to go check out in the field. Uh the boots have been on the ground now
and and that that was what that was eliminated is when actual got on the ground and were able to investigate better than the desktop version. It uh apparently turned out to not be a wetland. Yay. Which is good. Uh yeah, when I when I did look at this,
I was pleasantly surprised by how much less hatching there was. Okay, so good. So, thank you to Ron's group. Thank you, Ron. On the ground, tell us there's not
water, Nikki and Eric. There you go. All right. Any other questions? And if there's no more question, thank you, Scott. And we have a motion. Anyone like to make it?
Oh, okay. Um, I'd like to do the motion. Okay. And I haven't done this before, so Okay. All right. I uh motion to approve professional service agreement between the city uh city and advanced engineering and environmental services
LLC, AE2s. In other words, um, for the South Central Water Treatment Phase 1 project in the amount of 1,663,250, the final execution of the agreement pending review and approval by the city attorney. Second. Motion by Michelle,
seconded by Ryan. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you, Scott. All right, moving on
to item 5.1. Ryan, um, yes, I asked for this to be pulled down so there' be a separate vote. Uh, I oppose this action because our city is able to receive excellent service from our existing contracts providers at a price point that is costefficient for
the taxpayer. If this action is approved, the expenditures to date for our oneperson fire department will increase to 3,56,8712, which is over two and a half times the cost of the contracts. Is there any other discussion?
Otherwise, a motion. And there I'll make motion. Motion to approve pay application number six in the amount of $218,610.79 for work completed on the fire and emergency services facility project. Second. Motion by Tina, seconded by
Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. I motion passes four to one. Item 5.2.
Ryan. Uh, madame mayor, this is on the fire department's community risk reduction team. Uh, just a few weeks ago, we were presented with an internally conducted staffing study for the fire department. That staffing plan included a duty crew and paid on call
firefighters along with uh, college interns or high school cadets. It did not include anything related to a new community risk reduction team. In fact, it noted that these activities would be handled by the duty crew. Education and risk reduction was and
should be handled by our contract providers. However, we've told them that they are no longer welcome in our city. We've told them we don't need their help. Now, we're adding more staffing to fix a problem that we created. This is a textbook case of cost overrun and a
clear reminder of why we need our contract providers. None of these expenses were budgeted. As if that weren't already bad enough, this request comes with no budget, no specified number of positions, nothing. It's a request for a blank check, stripping
away what little oversight the council still has over fire department spending. For those that attended the joint public safety commission meeting, they may have noted that there was some confusion from residents because one of these so-called community risk reduction team members was already claiming to be a city
employee. They claimed to be working for the fire chief, which was surprising since the council retains all hiring oversight for city employees. Yet, we've had these team members running around in department garb representing the city. I think the reason the council was not
consulted on any of these decisions is because my colleagues have made it clear that this will get approved even without a thought. This was on the consent agenda because the administrative subcommittee has already given their blessing for this. How much is this going to cost? We don't
know and we don't care. How many employees will be hired for this new team? It doesn't matter. We are past the point of even bothering to budget for fire department expenditures. We have now transcended the constraints of budgeting and we have found the nirvana
of endless spending. We don't even need a council anymore because no oversight will happen. Now, I know what the response is going to be because there's an empty promise in here to keep the expenses within the non-existent budget. We'll just use the existing fire department budget. But if
that's the case, what isn't getting done with the money the council had already authorized for the fire department? Where are we pulling from? And why were we given a budget with that much bloat that a new team could be stood up from whole cloth without it impacting
anything? This council needs to do a better job of scrutinizing department budgets if there's this much extra taxpayer money just waiting to be spent on unplanned expenditures. The blank check and lack of a budget is bad enough, but this request and the
language within shows more planning should have been done here. The requirements of the job of a community risk reduction team member are as follows. Be over the age of 18, have a driver's license, have a high school diploma or GED. That's it. If you can
fog a mirror, you can join the team. But the job responsibilities mean we will have these team members conducting fire inspections without being licensed fire inspectors. They will be providing education on fire safety without having any background in fire safety. We're
going to have them develop fire safety initiatives without being trained in that field. They're going to analyze fire incident data after we've claimed that it didn't exist in the fire staffing study. But the real kicker is they will be operating fire apparatus and other city- owned vehicles without
having the required classification or training on those apparatus. One might think we would have the requirements that fit the role, but instead I'm sure the response is going to be, don't worry, we'll train them to fill the requirements of the role. And to that, I say, at what cost? Where is
that in the budget? What I think should be obvious to anyone who has followed this saga is that this new team is really a smokeokc screen for prehiring outside of the council's normal procedures. The narrative included in this request even hints at the fact that it's expected that these
team members will transition into being paid on call firefighters. So now residents have to pay for a fire chief before we even have a department, fire trucks that can't even be used and a team of firefighters that won't be able to fight fires. I will not be supporting this because the fire department
department does not need a squad of cheerleaders. It needs a reality check. any comments. I have a few Ryan actually. Um when we talked about this at admin meeting as you referred um to Corey and I said on that we went through this we
asked questions. Um so to say that it was just given a blessing I think is not a fair statement. Um we do have um upcoming events like we have community events of Touch a Truck, National Night Out, uh Night Unite,
Prairie Festival. There are things um that are already in the works for where we bring the fire truck to. Um there are certain uh community events that we anticipate them to attend. And so by saying there's
a blank check to it, we've already outlined that it's not just they're they're going to be working. It's $15 an hour if you look at what the cost is for this person or people. So um and also I would say that by meeting some of them
at the touch a truck event, most of them do have already existing fire background. So by saying that they just have to be 18 and breathe on a mirror, that's not a fair statement either. So, uh, just like any of our seasonals that
we hire in the other departments, this would we're hoping to get the best applicants for this. Also, I have a question. Um, Michelle, so Ryan commented on, and I'm not seeing it outlined in the description of the
program overview. They said something about they're going to be doing fire inspections and stuff. Um, I I don't see that in here at all. Um they they talk about smoke alarm installations, home safety checks, but that's not an
inspection specifically. Um but I guess I'm not sure where you were getting that information, Ryan. Yeah, the item C for job function as well as item I C under one. Yep. Okay, that's smoke alarm installation programs and home
safety inspections. Okay. Um, and which one? What's I I provide support fire prevention inspections as direct support, but not doing the actual inspections. The home one I, you know, maybe expanding on what
that actually means. But I I hear what you're saying. I would imagine for businesses and stuff like that, the inspections would be done by a licensed individual if somebody's checking to see if somebody installed a extinguisher in their home in the right locations or the
um fire alarms and stuff like that to check and make sure that they're in functioning order or helping somebody that can't reach to change a battery or something like that. I don't I I see that as fitting into this role, but um I guess um yeah
um so this is what the objective is just to have support member that's helping guide the rest of the team and get things set up is the way it seems for the most part plus doing some other beneficial stuff.
So whether it's organizing events, um I guess I'm asking a question as far as like is that's the way I'm interpreting this is it's really a support function like kind of a a broader broader than admin function. It's like we're going to
get things set up. We're going to pitch a tent. We're going to you know do some um announcements and communications also. Yeah. Mayor I I think what council member one is saying is accurate. These are these are not full-time. They are not licensed firefighters. This is a
transition staffing component to bring the department from where we are now to operational phase in 2027. And is this um uh to help set the stage for what's going to be a department um
and this will transition into a different role? Yes, I would anticipate that completely that once you have uh a staff group of paid on call and duty crew members that they're handling those key functions that a fire department fire inspections,
you would expect them to and these staff members would be operating in more of a support role. So, okay, Mor, I would just the way I read that is that is not the case. Um the second page of the narrative says that some members of the
CRR team are anticipated to have interest in the transition to roles as pay on call firefighters uh completing the required training and certifications. Others will continue to serve in CRR capacities and support community programs even if they are not fully qualified as firefighters. So it
seems to me like we're creating a whole another team that is going to exist as a separate team after we have firefighters. Well, I and it could go away as right. It could go away, but uh it I think they're just trying to leave the door open instead of saying for sure it's going to go away. It could expand
into a different capacity. So, I know in some communities they have like people that will help respond if there is a a fire event at somebody's house. Some a support member would show up with blankets and clothing and stuff for a family members that are suffering the
loss of their home. And I believe in others those communities they call that a search program instead of CRR. I know the public safety commission years ago looked at a search program. Madam Mayor, my understanding of CERT is that it's a communityr run
organization. It's not a paid well. It's not they don't it's not a municipal organization. They don't belong to the city. They're not employees of the city. It's a community run organization. believe at the time they were looking to figure out how they
could be volunteers but be hired through the city because there were some concerns with insurance. Am I correct on that, Adam? Yes. And mayor, that was approaching a decade ago that those things were under consideration. So, I'm not up to speed exactly on on that
conversation, but and it went a way out obviously. Uh, council member Dunlap is hinting at, you know, progression into future roles. And there would be additional job descriptions and recruitment by being hired as a CR team member in no way qualifies anybody to be a firefighter. There would be a separate
recruitment and hiring and background vetting process to maybe these people are interested in that when those positions exist in the future and they would have to apply and be qualified and interview and be hired by the city council for those positions at that time.
Adam to Ryan's comment about the budget. Yes, mayor. Uh so if you look at the total fire protection budget within the general fund, it's uh $1.593 million. So, the idea of finding
$750 to $1,500 to pay5 to 10 members, $15 an hour for anywhere from 6 to 12 specific events throughout the year is manageable by myself and the emergency services director to shift budget dollars from maybe a supply account or a
training account into paying for wages for the CRRT. So, where's the budget for the CRRT? How many people are going are we going to need? All of that is absent from this request. Mayor, council, we anticipate an initial hiring recommendation of somewhere
between 5 to 10 members. So again, we're targeting six to 12 events that may require anywhere from two to four members. A larger event maybe such as National Night Out or uh the Prairie Festival, maybe there would be more people. Uh maybe you have the whole 5 to
10 member crew working an event like that. But on a typical event, it's two to three people working two to three hours. Any other questions? I guess if that's the intent, again, it's not included in the request, but
the job major job functions and all of that kind of stuff does not lend itself to we just have people showing up to national night out. You know, it's just going to be a couple hours for a couple
people. The the job description is a lot more in-depth than that. And maybe that's because it's going to transition later on, but I'm looking at what's in front of me. So, mayor, council, that that may be fair. And to say that the job description hints at more qualifications because those are the
type of people that the city's looking to attract. We're not looking to attract 17year-old, 18y old kids who are not interested in fire service. We're looking at people that have some investment or interest in serving their community and a public safety factor. So the job description hinting at those
type of responsibilities or roles warrants attracting the right type of person to role. Any other questions or comments? A motion would be in order. I make a motion. Yes, Tina. Motion to approve the community risk reduction CRR team member
job description and authorize recruitment of team members. Second. Motion by Tina, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign. I.
Motion passes 4 to one. Moving on to city council reports and updates. Um, heritage preservation. Cory. Thank you, mayor. uh OHPC met on June 10th and discussed themes for the
Prairie Festival and 35th anniversary um and incorporating a possible time capsule. And they're planning to advertise that. Correct. Yeah. So, so they're talking about, you know,
building a a big booth with, you know, I guess advertising people to to come in and uh come up with ideas what to put in the time capsule. So more to come on that.
I'm excited. Mayor Council, there was an article in the current edition of the newsletter that references this and I believe uh communications posted a social media post and we talked about that at the admin. Yeah, but it would include a similar article encouraging people to share their ideas or bring
bring to the prayers. Exel. All right. Next is park and recreation. Michelle, um yes, we met last Tuesday. Um we talked about um Carrick's Landing. Um
sounds like the dock is going to be installed this week. Otherwise, the paddle ports have been delivered and um are ready for people to utilize um pending the dock, which will make it a little bit easier to get off here.
You told me it was dangerous. Yeah, it was for me. I tried it. We sent her down first. Send me down first. I needed help to get out of my kayak, which is like never a problem. It was just bizarre. Um, but
the dock wasn't there. So, no, no, no, it wasn't. So, I'm looking forward to the dock being there and then I'm gonna try it out for real this time. Um, so, and then the other thing that we talked about a big u large conversation around the Prairie Park master planning. Um, and so we reviewed kind of all the
different features that have been um kind of identified as key items to be included into the master planning effort. Um, and then talked about the different phasing. So, it's going to be broken up, it looks like, possibly two phases, um, and, um, kind of what
components are going to go into each phase and more to come on that as that develops further. Um, and, um, yeah, that's really the big announcement there. And just to confirm, I believe I saw a post that said June 30th would be
when it we go live. Mayor, that is the Sorry, that is the anticipated go live date. Okay. For the the city website does include a new button on the front page with the information kayak for the kayak rental and stuff like that. More
information there. They're going to be posting videos if they haven't already done. So some of the Maybe you could do the video show people how to get up. Yes. The right way and the wrong way. Yeah, I could do both. I have to learn the right way now. Well, when you told
me that, I was like, well, they talked about this dock and Yeah, it was just not installed yet. They had some delays on the um fabrication side of things, it sounds like. So, well, at least you didn't end up in Dayton. You would have just kept floating down. That's okay. I That's usually where I end up. Okay.
Well, maybe you could be in the safety camp. Yeah. Here's what you don't do, boys and girls. Yeah, who done by the show? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Uh planning commission,
right? Uh yes, madame mayor. The planning commission met last Monday. Uh we received some excellent training from our city attorney. Thank you. I found it very informative and helpful. Um the planning commission also reviewed and approved uh updates to the subdivision
ordinance. Uh the planning commission meeting that was scheduled for July 7th has been cancelled. Thank you. Um public safety commission Tina was absent. I was present. Um it was a short meeting. Information was passed on our packet from our three
departments. Um they are working on the mission statement, but at that time uh the commissioner that was working with Daryl and Heidi, our communications person. They were meeting the next day. So they anticipate to be bringing back some ideas and revisions uh to their
July meeting. And what I was going to add to that, but the resident left, but I believe Jason did speak with the res who spoke during open forum. Um, and I I'm he's shaking his head. I'm wondering if you invited him to the public safety commission.
Okay, good. That's what I was planning to talk to let him know that that would probably be a good start. We could also then talk with our planner. Um, we have visited this item years ago and so working with the Wright County Sheriff's
Department and staff and probably also park and wreck would be a very good fit since or Dave, do you have something? You looked at me. No, no. Oh, okay. Dave, you can be involved too. Not involved in parking. No, no. Right. Um,
I mean, he did talk in here about scooters and we can all agree scooters are already using our our trails and they go really really fast. Um, so well, it depends on what you mean by scooters, I think. Well, he just said scooters. Yeah. Well, here I guess I do have something. Okay. Yes. There's a u I
don't know if you've looked at this or anybody on the park and directs team has looked at this, but there's a guide the state puts out on I think it's called like low power and non-traditional vehicles or something like that. Okay. So, it addresses all these different things that people are grappling with right now, like scooters and golf carts
and ebikes and ebikes that are not exactly like ebikes because they're more powerful than ebikes. So, there's big range of products out there that cities are trying to grapple with whether they can regulate how to regulate because some of these are regulated. Most of these are regulated by state statute, but some are not or at least they're
technically partially or fully illegal under state statute. So, you might want to look at that guide as a starting point when you think about what kind of regulations the city wants to do. Sure. Could you make sure that you get us all an email of that and then also send that to the public safety commission? Yeah.
Um, have Katie send that to him. I just think having that information ahead of time just so they can look at since and I appreciate that people are very passionate one way. I've also gotten a lot of emails the other way for it too.
So, and I'm not sure where council is what if they've gotten emails either way on it, but um Madame Mayor, I I think I mean I most well I don't want to say whether I've seen more one or the other because it's just social social media, but um I did notice
that uh Forest Lake recently allowed theirs just a couple months ago. I think they reversed they used to have a prohibition and they they've changed it. One of the council members there said they were surprised. um they were initially against it, but they noted that they went around to the other cities that have allowed it and they
haven't seen any issues was that council member's comment in in in Forest Lake. Um and then I know Champlain also reversed their position on golf carts that used to be prohibited. Believe that was about two years ago and they went with kind of a licensing program. So I
think it would be a good idea to look at what we could implement here, what options are available. I can tell you a couple years ago when I was going door to door, it was a pretty hot topic. I had quite a few people say we need to change our mind on uh the golf cart
issue for on local streets. Um, so I would uh be in favor of us having a look at what ordinances would make sense for hot that mostly in Martin Farms where you uh most I would say mostly in the northeast
side of the city and then of course in the northwest they do it anyway. You see them on golf carts all over the place so they're not really following the ordinance anyway. But um you know I think uh probably some areas of the city are uh
would be better for this kind of ordinance. Sure. But I know when we looked at it last time it was it was very it was golf carts and UTVs. They did not want just golf carts. It was Yeah. One place to the other. Yeah. And that's where the disconnect. And tonight
he definitely said golf carts and he did say UTVs and then talked about scooters. Oh, so so but technically UTVs are allowed within the snow with the snowmobile ordinance right now today, but they can't ride in the ditch.
Correct, Jason? Me and Michelle are both in a snowball club and I know that they tell them no. Before he answers, I I was just going to say that's the thing that doesn't make sense to me is I believe we allow UTVs. We don't allow golf carts at all. So, no
UTVs. No UTVs. No, I thought that was four-wheelers. Snowmobile. No, no, just snowmobiles during snowmobile season. My understanding. So, the state recognizes the different classes of the vehicles. You have UTVs, ATVs, different
classes of ATVs. Golf carts are going to be a separate thing. We kind of look at the totality of the circumstances of each individual item to try to narrow what statutes we're going to go to because some of the statutes if I'm being honest with you seemed a little bit contradictory because we can kind of look at specifically you know city of
Seiggo make sure any trails absolutely not no motorized vehicle technically a power wheels would be in violation of it here in the city of Seiggo. Um but I assume you're not writing any tickets for that. No, we right I was like so but
to to point like how extreme we can technically take it so to speak to give that example um if you start going down into the ATV statutes there are different classes and each class has different rules and you could technically interpret some of the rules inside of our city uh the California
style roads pren Avenue avenue as it winds around you could technically take the state statute and interpret it different ways depending on how we're looking at it. So again, we use the totality of the circumstances to whether or not we're going to use even pull the vehicle over. Um, do I have a reasonable
articulable suspicion even do a traffic stop on this vehicle? Um, and then go down the line of do we need to do a citation with it. We write very few citations if any for some of these things. It's typically an education explain this is why this rule is in place or what our interpretation of the
rule is and go from there. We typically won't issue any sort of summon citation, traffic ticketing like that unless there's something egregious with the situation. Um, I just think there's too many things that are open for interpretation on there. Um, I kind of give you an example. If you
use a class 2 UTV, so you have a Polaris Ranger side by side, um, and let's say a Queens Avenue, you have a, you know, big wide road with these big wide shoulders. People will sometimes drive on the shoulder. Well, you're not technically
supposed to be on the shoulder. You're supposed to be technically in the lane of traffic because you're use you're you're using your blinkers like you're a normal vehicle and you're a registered vehicle. But then when you get to the turn lane, suddenly you're it's this super goofy situation of like, well, is it an ATV? Is it a motor vehicle? What
are you using it as? Uh some sometimes we see that with the golf carts, too. It's like, well, what what are you using this as right now? Is it a is it a motor vehicle? Is it a class one UTV? It's really kind of bizarre situation that quite frankly we just have to take each
individual incident or observation as its own thing and try to apply what we can at the time and essentially it comes down to is this a public safety issue or not and we make a decision from there. In regards to stoming I just want to answer that for you. So most of the
trails go through private land owners. For example, Wednesday is the landowners dinner. um that we do for all of Bre County. Those people sign off saying snowmobiles can go certain times that there has to be snow. We don't want to wreck their crops, wreck the fields. Um
but the only spot that you would be able to potentially, and I would even look at you for this, is 39. Otherwise, yeah, 39 is 39 is the only one. And I've never seen I think there's a couple other locations just but like you're coming
from like my section over by Quad. You're going through dark and so you're going Oh yeah. The trails it's all people's property. It's all private property. All the trails on the east side of the city are going exclusively through yards and property and trying to
get the certain approvals and it's Yeah. And those do not I've seen the the language on there does not include anything outside of snow bills in the winter. Yeah. So then like our our own city ordinance without getting into detail crazy detail we can certainly
table it for the uh public safety mission or commission with this stuff but yeah it essentially it tries to take the snowmobile map and ATVs and tries to put it together as one thing but then that leads to its own problems too. with interpretations of
and maybe I misspoke because I I'm thinking of ATVs, right? And I I my memory of the ordinance is that ATVs are allowed as part of that snowmobile map, but maybe I'm wrong. No,
no. We're in the club and we if anyone comes and asks we tell them it's only it's only personal and and I'm not refer you'd have to pull it up if we don't we don't have but Dan's not here tonight so yeah Dan would probably know so Ryan I think I know what you're actually
referring to there's how it interprets there's a couple things in our ordinance that will basically throw things on top of one another that says like a class two is equivalent to a snowmobile and that's where we're running into the problem is sometimes the city's ordinance with that basically saying um
you know the ATV class 2 uh use the same map as the snowmobile and we'll use that as the city ordinance. Those actually conflict each other a little bit with the state statute and that's where we kind of run into those problems. So I know I know what you're referring to and hence my confusion of trying to even explain it. I'm giving a very clear as
mud situation which I'm famous for but um quite frankly that's where we run into the issues is just these different things picking and choosing what is appropriate for them. So would you recommend that at the very least we clarify the ordinance? Yes.
That would be difficult to that was one of the one of the previous conversations we had even with the golf cart is because the golf cart would be potentially um conflicting with the state statute down there. And that was part of the discussion of trying to get
the the golf carts, class A, UTV, class 2 ATV, snowmobiles, all trying to put these different languages in there and making it that much more complex and then saying which roads. So essentially, if if I go into the history of that conversation, 2020, 2021, I can't
remember exactly when that was when we were having that discussion about the golf carts. Um, most of that came down to at that time we were having more road construction in the city than we've had in a long time. And we were recognizing because we don't have a tra traditional layout of the city, it was very
difficult to say it would work here, but it's really not going to work over here. And with the road construction, there's just not the time to be throwing extra vehicles into the into the situation because we were having all sorts of traffic complaints around the city. So that was one of the main reasons we I think that uh kind of got pushed away at
the time. And so that was part of the explanation that I gave to the resident that came that said public safety would be a good place to we can have a little bit more of an open conversation about this pull open the ordinances and we can I feel bad that he left but well I wanted to explain to him that again that with an open forum there's no requirement to have a discussion back
and forth right and like we can have the discussion down the line. Sure. So, I wanted to invite him to that and then we then the commission can have some sort of direction for staff or and we can have Dan and what we currently have get that to him. Um, have Dave get us copies
of what you were referring to. Pass it on. Okay. Thank you. I have the residence number. I texted him with the date of everything and he has anything else you can contact me. Okay. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. Thank you. I had reached out to him and I saw his
post and I said, you know, it probably be best for you to come to open forum like that and start the ball rolling if so. Sure. Thank you. Okay. Uh we are done with public safety commission. Um we're still in our city council reports and updates. Does anyone
have anything? Madam Mayor, I'm just going to mention council member Dunlap and Adam and I attended the Elbertville social. Okay. With our uh Elbertville friends. U was a big turnout. I thought it went really well. It was fun. I'm glad you guys went as wet ducks. I I
messaged them and I said, "I'm sorry. I It looked really bad at my house and I was like, it's I know where that tent is and it's a long way from where I need to park." There was no competition for parking though, so that's actually a good point.
I didn't think of it that way, but yes, I'm glad it was good. Yeah. Well, well, I have one more update. Yeah, I'm going to be attending the uh legislative update. Okay. Friday. Great. Thank you. That's at the county. Yes. Okay. Thank you.
All right. Anyone else? All right. Moving on to staff reports and updates. First item on here is to consider scheduling a special meeting for July 14th, 2025. Mayor, councel, thank you. Uh, if I could request a 5:30 p.m. meeting on July 14th, uh, for special
topics ranging from potential offers uh, for sale of city property, uh, budgets, uh, some updates on previous things that the council's discussed uh, earlier this year, including strategic planning, council handbook, and then also a
legislative update that uh, has some impact on city council. So, don't know if we'll get to all of those, but that's the right going to say it sounds like a lot if I have nine of these. We So, we may just continue it after. Correct. Okay. Or we'll limit the discussion to
the priority items. Okay. Um, is everybody good with the 14th at 5:30? Yes. Then I will make a motion to schedule a special city council meeting for the July 14th at 5:30. Second. Motion by
Jessica, seconded by Tina. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Meeting is scheduled. All right. Great. Now, Adam, thank you. Two quick updates. Uh,
please mark your calendars for July 28th. So, that is a tenative date uh to do a ribbon cutting for the West Wastewater Treatment Facility. Okay. Uh so more information to come from operations manager Neermier on that but just want to get that date out there. What what time are you specific not
defined but likely mid to late afternoon. Okay. Because it has a council meeting date. So yes it is. Yeah. And a reminder city offices will be closed uh next Friday for the independence day.
Thank you Audra. Thank you mayor. I have no updates. Thank you, Dave. Oh, thanks, Mayor. I think Ryan mentioned it. I did come to the planning commission a week ago, give a training. Um, I thought it went well. I'd like to
um start doing that on a fairly regular basis, maybe every other year, similar what I do for the council after election for the council, you know, as an orientation for new members, refresher for continuing members. I anticipate kind of doing the same thing for appointing commission. That kind of fell by the wayside. It wasn't happening for
a while after COVID, but I'd like to get it back on schedule. So, not probably not every year, but maybe every I think it was great. And I I did um appreciate Commissioner Canon when she said like, "Did something happen that we're in trouble?" Like, I think they were worried that you were Yeah. doing a
training, but been I typically don't attend a meeting. So, when the attorney shows up Yeah. Right. What And then you show them the graph and what to do and where they Yeah. So, so I just wanted to clarify. I was just there to give a training and there's no problems in it. Yeah. Thank you. All right, Rod. Thank
just an update on a few projects uh at Seagull Creek. That's pretty well wrapped up. I sent some photos to uh Adam and I expect in the next uh Friday's summary, he'll probably include some of those in there. Looks pretty good to me. So, it's tough to get to
right now. when Prairie Point fourth uh development moves forward um then the road crossing will be put in and some streets near it. So, but for now it's it's difficult to get to uh Odin Avenue water main uh this utility staff and I
are meeting with the HOA uh on July 1st because we will be putting a PR a pressure reducing valve within their property. Um, and we're sending those to adjacent land owners, but that's going to start probably prior to your next council meeting. Uh, the
2025 million overlay project throughout the city. Um, the city's crews have completed the storm or the sanitary sewer manhole rehab project. There just a few of them left. Um, so we're going to be doing the precon, but again, that
might start around by the time your next council meeting is. So, just want to let you know that that's going to be kicking off uh at the next council meeting. The trails, the two trails that the city got awarded grants for, uh we'll be considering those. Tanglewood second
grading is going on um down by 70th Street and near uh border of Albertville. Uh prayoint forth is going to start up. That's over by Prairie View Schools. And then uh other developments are wrapping up. uh Anna Acres, Zachman
Meadows, and Older Passport. So, lots of work going on in town besides uh the fire station going on, too. Thank you, Sergeant Almans. You should have just stayed up there.
Yeah, that better. Um, I did have not knowing that that was going to get brought up, but I did have in my list that we had a few complaints or a number of complaints, um, just warm weather. There's kids home from school. So, they're they're out at the parks and they're using different vehicles that
have little engines on it. Whether it is to your point, scooters with little engines on them or little mini ATVs. Um, that's not necessarily just a hot sego problem. That's countywide. We're getting those sort of things everywhere. you know, with the warm weather and they're out on the trails or in the
park. So, we're trying to again case by case basis for us. Um, you know, we're not going to be out sighting kids for anything. Um, so case by case basis, usually we just have a conversation with the parents, try to get them on board with limiting
that activity to just their yard or try to figure something out. Um, sometimes it's a little difficult, but um, it's a lot of conversation with parents, so haven't had any Are you knocking on wood? I'm not Well, I don't even say Well, I was gonna ask
if there's been any accidents. I No, I'm knocking on wood. Good. The second I said it, I don't like to jinx myself like that because for some reason when I talk up here, things transpire after. So, um, okay. Uh, couple other things. I
will go into this a little bit. I have this on my list just because I have another meeting that I have to go to that is going to directly talk about it, but I thought it was kind of interesting how it relates to ATGO. Um so uh on the 14th we had the the shootings that occurred in Brooklyn Park in the city of
Champlain. Uh that was Saturday morning that that had happened. Well that Saturday happened to also be um I kind of have it written down as all hands on deck for my the the title of my notes here. Um how it relates to
the right county sheriff's office on that Saturday had obligations obviously for our patrol division. We have contracts of how many cars need to be in each city um including at Sego. Uh we also had an obligation and a contract that day to support the Henipin County Sheriff's Office for a joint powers agreement at US Bank Stadium as a
concert. We had a number of people deputies that had to be at a concert. Um at the same time, we had a contract for Friendly City Days. We had a number of people, as I discussed at the last council meeting, we had a number of deputies that need to be there. Um everything that happened with the shooting, there was things that had
transpired. kind of slowly pushed into Reich County for some of the different obligations. That morning there was a scheduled demonstration or protest in the city of Adigo at Tom Ever's office over on Parish Avenue. Um there was
scheduled protests across the country, including one that was supposed to be in Anoka County, which was the probably one of the closest ones to the shootings. That event was cancelled because the governor essentially got on and said these protests are going to be a target for the shooter that is on the loose. So
that was relayed by the governor of menota and the ano was canceled. The atigo one was not. So the people that were going to go to the anoka anoko one came to. So, we ended up with the largest protest group that we've had probably of any
capacity in at Sego. Um, so I was in contact with the organizer for the at Sego one early that morning. Um, she gave me a schedule. This is what time we're showing up. This is what time we're leaving. So, I came in early to make sure I could just be present for it again with a ton of confusion as to what
was going on with the shootings that were happening in the metro area and what was transpiring with the investigation. Um, so I made sure that I was just there and present for the entirety of the protest. um some very minor things occurred there and that would be super minor um in in
the grand scheme of things. So that was um I guess some some conversations with different people but there wasn't any major issues and ex like I said when you have the organizer stated that was there was a thousand people I don't know if I would count it that high it was definitely in the hundreds for sure. Um
so we were there some of the other obligations that we had that kind of threw some threw us for a loop that day. We had representatives of ourselves for that live in Wright County again with confusion of what was going on with the shootings. We then had an obligation to ensure that we had protection for those
people into place. We started with just extra patrols. It got to the point where once the once night fell, we had uh deputies and mark squat cars on every single one of those houses of those representatives, state representatives for this uh in Wright County. Uh there was a number of them. Uh we the sheriff
Sean Daringer made sure he was in contact with each of them and made sure that they have an open line of communication as to what our game plan was and anything that they needed that we could facilitate that. I know I spoke to one of the representatives and was trying to get a good feel to say I don't want to feel like an occupation force with the extra patrol on your house but
at the same time I want to be close and again I have no idea what's going on with the shooting at that particular time and had no idea if if what next target was be there was a hit list um at the time that we weren't aware of um going from there the response to different calls that we had we then
recognized we needed to send two squad cars to basically every single call because with that particular ular time one squad car, you know, a fake squad car. So, we making sure that every single call we had two squad cars. Uh the FBI had different leads and tips and follow-ups that they needed to do in Ray
County. So, we needed to escort the FBI to most of these calls that so had they had marked squad cars to go them. Otherwise, they were showing up in plain clothes and and or you know, show another badge and having unmarked vehicles. So, we are going to go in there and fall into them. We increased the suspicious person's calls,
suspicious vehicle calls because naturally people are going to be aware of their surroundings. were calling 911 to say, "Hey, this car is out of place." So, those increased quite a bit. Um, we also were running into an issue of any world events that are happening. So, I give an example as there was attacks on
um at US base, a military base today in Qatar. Um there are a certain population centers of the population who go through uh psychological manic episodes where they believe that they are somehow involved in the incident and they're calling 911 having basically either PTSD
attacks, they're having manic episodes of different um psychological things. Well, as this was happening on on the day of the 14th, we were having a lot of those calls where people felt that they somehow were a part of it or so we were having to kind of sort those out because what's real, what's not, what's, you
know, what are those deals. So, um, it was definitely a test for us, I guess. And like I said, all hands on deck. The sheriff, um, the sheriff himself was up a little personal for him, but he was up visiting his granddaughter up in North Dakota and told his wife, "We need to get home." So, uh, the chief deputy even
came out that night. we it was anybody that could come in basically came in in some capacity. Um that's why I say all hands on deck with that. So um there was a little bit of a strain on the department and I'm I'm glad I guess on our end of things everything went pretty smooth considering. So I put in a nice
long day as well to try to get it sorted out. So thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you for your service and everyone else that didn't get personal time on a weekend. The to get into that, if I'm being honest with you, so the sheriff
has a very specific um way of handling this is he has a big picture standpoint when it comes to that family time, right? Is on a normal day, maybe a day like today, if somebody calls me and says, "Sergeant, I need to go home for this reason or this is going on. I need
some time for family or whatever." Done. He g the sheriff gives us authorization to make whatever adjustments he need to the to the schedule that makes sense. We can do that. Um that adds to the equity for the sheriff where family time, family time, family time, but
knowing when that set the type of day like uh the 14th when that type of day happens that the sheriff can go I need help and that he can kind of pull from that equity and recognize that that's this is one of the days that we need to kind of go the other way and make sure that we're supporting the sheriff and supporting the operations that are going
on. So that's a huge deal that we can do that. That's that's awesome. I I'm grateful for the staff that we have and the cander that the sheriff is um managing things. Yeah. Like I said, he came home
and he put a nice long day himself. So he was out and I know he said that his wife was driving home all the way from North Dakota and he was just on both phones the entire time. I could only imagine. I know he was in contact with all the other agencies. Um, every that next day the pretty much every single
SWAT team of some capacity in the metro area got uh involved down in the search down in Sibi County and then there was two incidents in Henman County that required a SWAT team. Uh, I know we ended up sending Maple Grove PD called us at one point actually said we need a drone operator to come. They had a SWAT
operation. They need a drone. All their stuff was down in Cley County it sounded like. So like I'll send you two. So we were able to fortunately send people down there and help them out. So he's at Sherburn County now, right? That's I'm going to guess he's up in the Sherburn County jail.
Questions. No, thank you. I think we we all knew that like we were in good hands and people were watching. For sure. I I had my right county mayor's association meeting last
Wednesday and Sean was talking about that about how busy it was. So, he just said he was thankful for all his deputies for stepping up um coming in when he needed it and that everybody rose to the occasion. So,
perfect. Yeah. Right. Thank you. Thanks everyone. All right. Does anyone else have anything? And the motion to adjurnn would be in order. Second. Motion by Tina, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion?
All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. The meeting has ended. Thank you all for attending.