Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the FPS meeting. Tonight is Monday, September 8th. Audrey, can you have the record show that our city attorney is present, our city planner is absent, our city engineer is present, along with all council members and the
city administrator. At this time, I'll ask you all to join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. Thank you. Our first item of business this evening is the open forum. This is the portion of the meeting that you can come to the podium, state your name and address, and limit comments to five minutes or less. Would anyone like to speak? Yes,
my name is Stuart Turnquist. Uh, was it my address that you needed as well? Yes, please. 111025th Street Northeast. Madame Mayor, council members, uh, LA last time I was here, I'm back.
I'm back again. last time and last time I'd like to again thank thank Dan Nick for assuring me that red and also farm store both are still
active under the fact that I have a farm even though the commercial status disappeared for some reason I'm still able to go forward forward thank and everyone for that. The uh
reason that I'm here to tonight though is uh that uh I'm concerned about the access the act with uh as I understood
uh what Ron Wagner Ron Wagner was saying is uh that the solution to the access is this this idea of of a duck in which is the if you're coming from say California
from the west or you're coming from I 94 from the south in order to get into that farm you've got to be in the westbound lane and westbound lane is where it gets messy
because if you're trying now you could be wiped now because of the aggressiveness of the drivers moving in and trying to get in the same lane. I'm trying to get in to turn left, get into the lane to turn
left also actually on onto a 19. So that the idea with with with the new uh design is as I understood it from uh Ron was that that you you come in
and you go in the roundabout and and then when you get to exiting the roundabout, you'll see a duck in uh uh lane there where you duck into it and you wait gap in the incoming traffic
and then seeing that opportunity then is when you sprint across to my home driveway to get I I I thought at the time that it really sounded to me like there's just a had low probability for success that that it
it really is for someone new guest arriving for the first time. It's bewildering. It's un it's kind of illogical to put yourself in that kind of a position. And if you take a look
and think about the B&B, if it's eight double rooms, that's going to be 16 people that are coming and going. If you're looking at this farm store, that's going to be a a daily perhaps
let's say it's 10. And if you're looking at weekends, it's probably 30 because what you're looking at because of the new concept of the farm and that's why I chose this location, this this 8 acres and the identity there being commercial
was that I could go forward with all of this at the uh the the problem with the roundabout is that I can't get into it.
But of all the alternatives, and this is where I brought these to hand out to each of you of what's what is happening on that
39. And as you see, and I've just highlighted because this is dated from 2019. I've been waiting a long time to get resolve on that intersection because it is such
a dangerous one that I had to vacate the 1918 farm and and uh so it's been vacated waiting for this solution and it's supposed to be the solution that the roundabout and I love the idea of a
roundabout but it turned out that after they would take most of my front yard from that 1918 they wouldn't get actually get into the roundabout. That's where it ends up if you study
roundabouts. Why, you know, anybody trying to get in has to go all the way back. If you're coming from the west or from the south, you have to go all the way back to wherever you can get into a l a turnaround that you go into
westbound 39 uh to get in. But even that's kind of destroyed now. So as I looked at all of it, it seems to me look at it in in more depth because that
whole idea of of interspecies city is that and looking globally. I'm thinking that this idea which that is a shared experience of all life forms is a significant concept and we're better realize it than on a farm. And when you
look at that farm because it's at borders on the Mississippi River to the north and to the big woods on the on the south, you look at the whole lay of it, it is physically perfect. And if you're talking about
this idea of celebration of all life forms, you're really having a mouthpull to take on. But I think that this landscape, this farm idea, all of it makes it possible to do this.
This is uh why I think it needs more discussion because I feared as as we left last time that the description of a of a uh that duck in and turning into it was significant enough to to to make
that the sure thing. And I think that that would make a big mistake because if you look at what you're getting on on that yellowy marking, it's that it is a really significant highway. It really is. It is a
has a sign signific trail. And so when you're looking at sort of like the the the uh fact that I can't get into that uh roundabout and mainly it's because the owner of the treatment
center objected to my farm having access because it would it would then access off that north stub as it is now. They're going to get exclusive access. But uh his uh response was it was going
to make it too confusing. I don't I don't buy that and I don't like all the things that I've been hearing. So that's why I'm trying to make this last ditch appeal once again
to take a look at that with real s let's say and look at in the end with this project if I go can go forward with it it's going to be a significant amount of money just you
know building that that that uh bed and breakfast and that having requires that access. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Ron, do you have any comments or have you met with him since the last time? Well, we did have a brief discussion
about it. It is a 2029 project, so it's it's a few years away. Okay. Um Oh, it's now moved further back. Mayor, it's either 28 or 29. Yeah. Okay. So, it's a few years away and we've had some discussions with the county even
since our last meeting here with Stuart. Um it it's a county project. They control access off the county road. We can have discussions with the county about what we'd like to see, but in the end of the day, the county makes the
decision on who has access and what type of access. It can be right in, right out only. Um and that's considered uh you know, access property. And there's plenty of houses in the city that have uh ended up with right in right out only
off of Cass Highways. So, um I don't think this is any different. Yes, it's a business, but we have businesses with right in right out only also. So, um if if he with the county to connect the two
access points, there's access to his his personal house and then a make that connection back over. that would help with the distance away from the roundabout and the continuous left that's already in existence. Uh likely stay in place beyond the roundabout. So
that the things aren't going to change that drastically, especially if if he allowed uh ingress egress across one property to the other and allowed the county to build that road, that driveway. Okay. And that that's one solution. I can't speak for the county, but that that's
been a discussion point as I hear that that was an advocacy for what is now going down and I thought as I don't sorry I don't think advocacy was
just uh reality in the discussions that we've had with them and they they have the control. Stuart, have you met with um it's Chad, right? Chad is our Chadman. Okay. With who? Have you met with Chad the Wright County? I have. In fact, I called return my
calls because you know when the first time they appeared all I had not been involved in discussions and when they first appeared was with the representative of the highway department and he was simply saying just the description that you gave, you know,
this is what I signed and I said I wasn't going to sign it. He said we're going to take it by imminent domain. So that's where it left off. Okay. And I think that I think the highway department is digging in and I'm not quite sure where the sign total
significance in this case of the treatment versus what looks like an old farm by a pretty ancient guy that ideally is going to die soon. Okay. That they could just push it through.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. from it. Ron, is there any way that you can just reach out? I know you said you've met with the county, but just to have them contact Steuart. It sounds like he said
they're not calling him back. So, if we could follow up with that. Yeah. Again, the the is has cons, you know, issues with elevations, proximity of the old farmhouse. So there's a lot of things that are going into this besides um just
supplying an an access point. It's it's multiple issues. So county's really trying to do what they can to provide access for this individual. Okay. Well, mayor, I would I would just add I don't know anything about the status of the
county project or any county legal action, but if they are if they have put it into eminent domain or they are going to put then they may be handling it through that process. So, you know, it may require the county attorney negotiating with the resident or his
attorney. Um, it's probably not some if it's in domain legal action, it's probably not something the city can resolve here with talking about. It's going to in court action. Sure. Now, I I stress again, I don't know anything about whether there is a court action right now or there will be in the
future, but Sure. If there ever is, they're probably probably resolved in that area. Okay. Well, and I'm just saying if for his com no one's calling him back, if we could just make that request that they call him back.
Sure, we'll do. Thank you. All right. We are still under open forum. Any other residents with comments? All right, we will the open forum 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. I move to approve the agenda as written. Is there a 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. Next item is our consent agenda. Madam, sorry. Sorry. No, I was just going to say a motion would be in order. Madam Mayor, I move to approve the
consent agenda as written. 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 city council reports and updates. Does anyone have anything? I have one item. Uh, this is for you, Ron. Um, lighting at the over in Great River Center target 87th Street. They're
starting the paint starting to come. Who responsible? Yeah, we we uh entered into agreement with Elk River Municipal Utilities for all those uh lights. I can have a conversation with them and see what the uh when the replacement or repairs will
be done. Just the bottom section. It's pretty heavy throughout all of them. Um Lions Club do road cleanup. So I just Okay. Was out there and all the paints coming out. So especially all the ones going into Target.
I'll contact they've been good to work with. So Okay. Thank you. Sure, there's a replacement cycle with them, but just nobody's brought wanted to pass it along. Um, any other reports and updates? I'll give you a reminder to the Osigo Prairie
Festivals this weekend. Come on down. We've got pancake in the morning starting at 9 and then a day full of fun and fireworks ending at around 9:00. Bands go to 10. Come. Come everybody.
I'll try. Perfect. All right. Anything else? Mary. Yes. Great. I was just gonna Adam um if you could tell uh Heidi thank you. She she hooked uh the OPC up with everything they needed um for the festival. So
appreciate it very much. We'll do. All right. Staff reports and updates. Adam, mayor, councel, uh on the website, the city has a community survey that's currently live. Uh Heidi communication
specialist will be out at the Prairie Festival this Saturday with tablets uh securing more uh responses to that. This morning there was already 400 plus uh responses jumped up a lot over the weekend. So uh sharing that and then I did look at the Wright County highway
5-year construction plan. The roundabout at 39 and 19 is shown in this 2028 project. Anything else? Nothing else. Okay. Audra. Thank you, Mayor. I have no updates. Thank you, Dave.
No updates. Thanks, Mayor. All right, Ron. Um, I'll just go through the project updates. So, yes, please. uh Marlo main and county road 137 that will area will be closed down for construction of a couple
roundabouts um uh September 15th that'll probably last at least six weeks probably eight weeks o remain along there which will close the trail be September 22nd starting
and then uh the trails on Cas 42 and 80th Street they are starting on CASAF 42 on the 10th and then we'll move over to 80th Street after that. So that's How long do they anticipate?
How long do will they be on County Road 42? Probably I'd say three three weeks. Okay. And then they'll probably spend three weeks over on the other one and probably pay both of them at the same time.
Thank you. Right. County. Jason, um I'm only bringing my computer up here just in case I so I don't actually have that much. Um we're just kind of preparing for a handful of there's just going to be road closures whether it's hot and want to sell St. Michael
different projects that are going on. So we uh just kind of have our our motto of speed trailers for the different detours. Um, anytime we have road closures, the detour are always seem to go through the places that people don't want people speeding. Um,
and then people always find a way to find an even better detour or a shortcut and it ends up going through somebody's uh, you know, residential neighborhood where it's a 25 zone or something like that. So, uh, let's be ready for that and enforcement if we need to do so. Uh it's one thing if people want to fly
down uh you know county roads, but it's another thing when we had this many people still out and about school started. We got we were just out on a call today and uh I mean we had to completely redraw how we were going to handle a high level call today over in St. Michael simply because there was
just buses and kids everywhere. So it's like we had to just completely redraw everything. So um that definitely applies to anytime we have detour zones as well. So that uh gets heavily taken into consideration where we put the squad cars and
those uh the school bus arm violations. Uh we're kind of taking them as they come. We're definitely getting quite a few of them. Uh again, I'm not going to say it's egregious by any means, but you can kind of you can look at the whole one bus Facebook page and they start posting stuff and that's you know every
day they post. So you can imagine how many uh different buses around the county in the area between vision and everything like that are having violations. Again, we we take those seriously. The deputy gets in immediately and they are immediately investigating it. The state
statute says we don't even tech do an investigation. State statute says if we have a license plate, we can technically issue a ticket to the owner of that vehicle willy-nilly. So obviously that's not how we do things, but that technically is how other agencies can do them, but we go forward
pretty pretty heavily with them. Put a each one of them. So uh other than that, I think I'll spend most of my time tomorrow on uh public safety and that's where I'll spend waste everybody's time.
Take care of everybody's time. Does anyone have anything? Okay. Notes on my computer. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. All right. If no one else has anything, then a motion to adjurnn would be in order.
Second. Motion by Corey. Michelle. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. The meeting has ended.
Thank you all for attending.