good evening everyone I'd like to welcome you to the ATO city council meeting tonight is Monday March 10th audre can you have the record show that our attorney is via Zoom this evening our city planner present our city engineer is present council member dun
Dunlap is present absent is council member gaty council member Tanner is present council member Len is present along with our city administrator at this time I'll ask you all to join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of 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 our first item of business this evening is a special presentation we
have in the audience Avery harala she is a fourth grader at Odo Elementary and she is the winner of the mayor for a Day essay contest that was put on by the league of Minnesota cities there were 852
submissions this program started in 2013 and this year one of the four winners is from oo so I'm going to invite Avery up to the podium first if you can come up to the podium and we are going to ask you just a few
questions because we're really excited that you're representing our community um Avery got to come early before the city council meeting and she um got to sit in my chair and we took some photos so Avery can you tell us about your article that you wrote I wrote about
Parks and Recreation because I thought parks are really fun for kids to play on and be safe great do you have a favorite Park andot sequel that you like to go to PR Park oh perfect council members do you
guys have any questions for our our mayor all right well let's give everybody a round Avery and then can you guys all come down and join me we do have a
certificate to give her and this would be a photo op time a do you want to that's all good all right since you are the mayor you should stand in the center and we will all FN in on the side how's that
[Music] um if anyone would like to meet ay again I did invite her to the park and rec meeting since her article and submission was focused around Park and wreck and how she wanted um more trails and additional parks and bathrooms I believe
she included in her essay and that we should make sure we sanitize things too so kids don't get sick which I I liked that part too um so we invited her to the next Park and wreck meeting um let her know so Cory and Michelle fantastic if you guys introduce her when she
attends if she's able to that would be great sure than all right we will move on to 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 all right we will close open forum and we will move on to item three to consider our agenda for approval does anyone have anything that they would like to add or delete at this time Madame mayor yes I move to approve the
agenda as written second motion by Ryan seconded by Corey is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes next item is our consent
agenda a motion would be in order Madam mayor yes right I move to approve the consent agenda as written second okay motion by Ryan seconded by Corey is there any discussion all those in favor signify by
saying I I I all those oppose same sign motion passes next is city council reports and updates does anyone have anything that they would like to add Adam mayor yes um the OPC will be meeting tomorrow um
first meeting of the Year Okay so looking forward to that it's about all I had perfect can we make sure they're aware that the front door isn't working over there mayor yes we will okay perfect unless you get it
to work I I it I had to go through the side side too okay yeah just let them know so they're not yep confused thank you all right does anyone else have anything for city council reports and updates Madam mayor yes sir uh there was no Planning Commission I believe the
next Planning Commission is scheduled for April 21st all right thank you we will move on to staff reports and updates mayor thank you Council uh staff would request a special meeting on March
24th 2025 uh open to time uh either 5:30 or 6 PM should accommodate the intended agenda items which uh the council will be asked to explore some offers on trail easements for two projects in the city
so okay would that be a close Mee then mayor yes it would I can make 5:30 or six work what is everyone else is schedule first six o'cl okay for first six six is fine okay thank you got
it all right then Michelle do you want to call for the meeting or do want me to I can I will call for special meeting uh a closed special meeting um for March 24th 2025 at 6m second motion by Jessica
seconded by Corey is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those oppose same sign motion passes all right Adam mayor few other
items here April 17th was uh sent out as a potential date for a joint city council and Public Safety commission meeting uh I did hear back from two of you that that was okay um does anyone have any conflicts that we need to explore a different date did I write
back I did not hear back from I like I was I rep yeah that one's good sorry Ryan did you read back okay okay perfect last item from me I will be on vacation uh this Friday
through next Wednesday I will likely not have access to my cell device so it's the heads up great like you're gonna throw it away or won't work for okay perfect kind of teasing is U Dan in
charge then I would recommend someone else mayor that's okay because Dan's gonna be out of town Ron I I assume direct calls to address since uh I'll send a note to the Council
on the person in contact I'll just get some conference uh okay conflicts as well so it'll be a light duty at the city hall okay all right thank M Madam mayor Yes actually Adam um April 17th is
that when that meeting was mayor that was the recommended date yes uh um I'll be in Colorado then it is Easter Easter okay well we will have to look at a different date sorry are you just going to send us like
a doodle PLL yes okay well for that Audra uh thank you Mary I have no updates okay Dave nothing to report thanks mayor thank you Dan mayor nothing to
report this evening okay Ron all right right County evening good evening evening so we received uh two emails over the weekend basically about the two issues of traffic on CER I believe it's it was
with overweight so both both of those uh emails very fresh so we're still kind of working on it in terms of the horse one um there was I don't know if it was brought up to you at all but we got an email on it but there's also a case someone actually did report it like at
the time the incident so but no contact like they were gone so those that he is still trying to follow up he's he's pretty adamant about finding this person so uh and as the local people that own horses so that and they don't recognize
it but uh I'm sure he'll find he's pretty about finding so we'll see um yeah so if someone if someone sees a horse in specifically County part
uh especially up by the river so please call it in so let us know so I think horses are allowed in most of the city parks here so uh yes so still work on both those uh doing lots of traffic during this what do they
call it fake spring so false spring so with all this warm weather lots of people driving but nothing much else to report believe so any questions or other comments or concerns at this time no sure thank you thank you see you
tomorrow yeah see you tomorrow thank you all right if no one else has anything then a motion to adjourn would be in order Madame mayor yes I move to adjourn second motion by Ryan seconded by Michelle is there any discussion all those in favor signify by
saying I I all those oppose same sign the meeting is ended thank you all for attending this evening