good evening everyone I'd like to welcome you to the ATO city council meeting tonight is Monday February 24th audre can you have the record show that our City attorney city planner city engineer along with all council members are present and our city administrator at this time I'll ask you
all to join us in pledge legance PL to the flag of the United States of America and to for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for
all thank you 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 since we have a very packed
house good evening uh jeie h County Commissioner just want to say thanks for all of you that came to the open house last week and to the constituents that came uh the highway department said they had over a hundred people come that was
probably the best attended that they've ever had for an openhouse for a a a new um roadway uh they said most people wanted to know what the um detour is going to be and when Costco was going to open so
we had a couple people that were there for the fox tailor that were concerned about the snow bile Trail but overall it was very positive and uh it was really nice to have uh those of you that were there on hand uh we really appreciate
that and then second um I I haven't been here so uh thank you to the new uh council members and Jessica for like like coming forward and and being uh instituted now for the next next four
years I look forward to working with you and um also we have a new County Administrator Greg kryer is our administrator um he W he he's been our civil uh division chief for the county
attorney's office and so he sat next to our administrator for the last few years um the nice thing is is now we don't have to uh pull anybody from the Civil Department from the from the attorney office because
Greg is well-versed in law and um we were surprised that he took it on as interm and he found out that he liked it and so we're very pleased we didn't have to go through the onerous uh process of looking for an
administrator uh he uh our administrators from our cities are very happy our business owners are very happy he's a really a great fit and so very very excited to go forward now makes a
difference when you can pull the interm off of that uh off of his title and we're GNA go forward and do great things so that's all I have does anybody have any questions yes Genie so um as you said
people from Fox tailor and oo River Riders were present there were comments um we did get email from the fox tailers and Chad has been cced on that yes um Adam did is a full did everyone in the
council get a copy of Chad's response if not can you send it to him because there were concerns um obviously with sidewalks the ditches on both sides um yes and you know obviously in both communities we do
support snowmobiling and we want them to be safe to do it so yes um so there's two things the next day I talked to Adam uh elville Adam and Adam Albert and and and I talk to
Chad so uh we did discuss that and and there is a potential of moving the the um you know on the south end moving the trail to go around where the Villa used
to be and then behind there because that's Wetland and then it would go behind the cemetery and scoot back up which would be ideal the only thing is that there's 200 feet of fencing that mind do owns that goes flush right up to
the to the parking lot of the villa which is now a dance studio so we are in we are contemplating uh seeing if that would would be something that they would be interested in and then going and talking
to mind do about moving that over just a a little bit that that fence line shows mind Do's uh easement so if we would tell mindat that it's just going to be that little 200 feet
would just be moved over so that they could access that that and then I I do know that the two atoms discuss maybe you know maybe one of them would not
plow like elville would say we wouldn't plow ours if that doesn't work they could do that plan like let's not plow our sidewalk and then just do the other the only problem is is that both atams
know that whoever doesn't plow theirs they will get the calls and say why didn't you plow so it's kind of like in the works we have time thankfully uh as you know the project isn't going to be done till August of
2026 uh so it's going to be a while that we can work it out we are very much uh like in tune uh St Michael worked out too when they redid 35 they were working closely with the fox
tailor to make sure that you know that that that was feasible for them so we it is something it's just not Chad said it's not feasible to buy more easement because it's $200,000 more
and who's going to pay for it I it would be $200,000 probably on the atgo side that would be the most feasible and the county and the city I'm sure don't want to incur that cost um and it's basically
to accommodate the groomer the the the a lot of the snowmobilers were find with the path it's just the Tom Bernie had a problem with the groomer yeah how white it is right right so and and there were
and obviously it seemed like the choke hold also is the bridge which yes it's only as wide as it is we need to get people safely over there but that was a big concern too the bridge is very unfortunate I did go to the city of Odo
that night of the open house they had their meeting Alber Albertville y the mayor's very frustrated that we don't have we're not getting a new bridge or a wiing bridge but Chad has said repeatedly unless the bridge is falling apart minda
will not do anything about it P in point the one over in monacello across the bridge people were backed up all the way to 94 to get to Big Lake they wouldn't do anything until it was structurally falling apart so that's now why we're
seeing them bre doing that bridge but it took a long time so Chad doesn't see that happening for about 20 years because it's a nice bridge and menot owns all those bridges right not the county not the city right
right now what they could do is if Albertville wanted a trail if they wanted to widen it and do a trail they could do what monel has with a covered bridge over the interstate but you know that incurs a lot
cost uh I don't know if they'll come and ask you guys if you want to connect or whatever do something had said that she like we should try to apply together um yeah because there Trail grants yeah yes
so I mean at this point just cross our fingers and hope mind plays with my one caveat to that though is that the bridge they put in in St Michael down by Pro River Gun Club you can't have
snowmobiles on so it takes care of The Pedestrian part of it but it wasn't answering kind of the concern of the two snowmobile clubs that were looking for the winter side of things so but but right now the snowmobile like they're
really not allowed to put Snow baales on that bridge right now uh they do it because I I asked some of the snowers because I'm not allowed to bike on that and and walk on that it says no pedestrian no bikes we do that every
once in a while just to connect because when my husband and I like to bike and you guys have all the trails and we want to get to elville um and they have said that that it is really tricky and that they have had snow bills like roll onto
the main road um so right now it's not advantageous I think it's going to be better that they're they actually have a dedicated spot for pedestrians and for snows but now I don't know like that's
that's GNA be tricky because do you then keep snow on it like or yeah I will go on record saying it seemed a little concerning to have pedestrians Crossing that close and not the separation I mean but that'll be
bigger conversations but I just wanted Adam to make sure and if you're aware I think you were on the email from the fox tailers so okay yeah so all right other questions Growing Pains but yeah but yeah thanks
every feel free to reach out to me anytime thank you hello hello hi hello my name is Renee Dean and I am representing the Rogers Youth Hockey Association many of our members are here tonight so I'll be
speaking on behalf and um yeah thank you guys for allowing us to speak so I'm sure most of you know that the Rogers doth Hockey Association is trying to build a second sheet of ice Anybody Everybody aware of that yes okay
so we are currently the largest Hockey Association in the state of Minnesota with only one sheet of ice when I volunteered to help with our campaign efforts I learned something that should matter to everyone here today and that's that over 55% of the families registered
with Rogers Youth Hockey are in fact from oo so more than half of the kids in our program ones who will one day represent oo in high school hockey are from our community so that's why I'm here today not just to ask for funding from you but
to ask you for a partnership an investment an investment in oo's hockey families an investment in our children's future and an opportunity to build something lasting together something many of us have asked ourselves in our utak Association is why
do we have to raise money for our Rings why aren't the cities providing this for us after all many hockey associations across the state are on their third or even fourth sheet of ice mostly funded by their cities but we understand the reality Rogers and oo are young growing
cities and there are many priorities and funds are needed in many places we aren't here to argue that the entire burden should fall on the cities but also shouldn't fall entirely on the families we as an association are exhausting multiple efforts to raise money from our first Gala that's going
to be this spring to selling Memorial bricks for The New Rink to marketing sponsorship and then just asking for donations it's been quite a challenge full transparency and we're still short a significant amount of funds we're not asking for the world but we are asking
for help and most importantly we're asking for a partnership I'll say it again a regional partnership between the city of oo and the City of Rogers a partnership that with your help will create both a stronger program and give us the opportunity to build our much
needed sheet of ice for our youth hockey players across Minnesota cities are working together to invest in Regional sports facilities and the results are overwhelmingly positive Partnerships like these ensure Equitable access shared costs and long-term
sustainability few examples right up the road St Michael Albertville the St Michael Albertville Arena is a joint effort between the cities of St Michael Albertville and ISD 885 they in fact contribute equally financially to their
estmate program even though the rink is only one of the two cities some more examples are the All Seasons arena in Mano oio Maple Grove chasa Chanhassen Becker Big Lake the National Sports Center in Blaine which is where we have
spent a lot of our time where seven of the eight rinks are financially supported by surrounding cities this shows that when cities invest together the benefits multiply because Regional Partnerships work they provide fairness stability and a voice in decision making so let's talk about oo
like I said 55% of our hockey players are from our city this is not about funding another City's project it's about securing oo's place in a vital community resource we know that oigo much like Rogers is a young and growing city and there's exciting talk of a
future where oo might have its own High School a vision that is necessary for the community's long-term success when that day comes wouldn't it be incredible to focus entirely on building a top tier high school without the added burden of trying to construct a brand new Ice
Arena the reality is costs are only going up waiting will make it harder more expensive and more complicated the smartest investment is the one made before the need becomes urgent so if we take action now when oigo is ready for its own high school we'll be already in
a strong Regional partnership with a home for both oo and Rogers youth hockey players and on that note I'd like to wrap up by talking about our kids from our mini mes to our high school Stars the talent in our program is undeniable we are watching something truly special
unfold a level of skill dedication and passion that could put Roger's youth hockey on the path to becoming legendary but here's the reality our program growth is outpacing our resources every year more families join every year more young skaters fall in
love with the game but without more local ice time we're limiting their opportunities not because of Talent OR effort but because we simply don't have the space Our Youth Hockey Association has a simple philosophy kids on the ice stay out of hot water and that's not
just a saying it's backed by research Sports keeps kids engaged it builds discipline teamwork and resilience studies show that kids involved in athletics are more dedicated to academics and more likely to give back to their community when we invest in new sports we invest in the very values that Define our
community we understand that some may see hockey families as just a small subset of the oo Community but that does not make us any less important or any less deserving of support in fact you could make the same argument about any sport facility or service each one
deserves and serves a portion of the community yet together they shape the identity and well-being of our entire city as City Council Members you all are committed to serving our our residents ensuring that every child every family and every passion has a place to thrive
and this is no different oo's hockey families are part of this community and our needs matter supporting this investment isn't just about hockey it's about upholding the principle that every group child and opportunity deserves consideration and tonight we ask that you stand with us just as you would for
any part of this great city thank you for listening to my very long speech do you all have any questions for me or us I should say so I did speak with Renee in the audience before um and I told her I was trying to do some
digging just trying to find out really what this looks like yes um and I could only find that it looks like the second sheet of ice is anywhere from like 15 to17 million yes the bids I
apologize let me interrupt you the bids that have come back have been higher than we anticipated so we're looking at 15 million we have funding from City of Rogers and about 6.5 million and we have um a gap right now of about five million that we're trying to raise and like I
said we are doing a lot of different things we're becoming very creative in trying to raise our funds but truthfully just thought about um with the city of oo and realizing how many of our families are oo more about forming a partnership instead of just coming and
asking it for money it's more of a long-term solution and something that will positively impact both of our communities and we'd love an opportunity to have a further meeting with you know the city of oo city of Rogers and the Rogers City or excuse me the Rogers um
board M May yes Miss Dean uh how much like ballpark would the association be contributing would our association yeah oh you know I'm not the treasurer the secretary I know that right now I can tell you the fund that we've raise so
far because I'm in charge of that but we have to to this dat in our account just with funds raised not like in our account based of other stuff we've raised $170,000 and right now we have I'm estimating about 1.5 million that's not sign seal excuse me 1 million that's not
signed sealed and delivered yet with some of our new M rates so so would this be like an arena or are we talking yes so when you're going down the 101 you've seen or going up the 101 when you see the new the new frame that's going up there yeah that's the indoor turf it's
going to be you know phenomenal it's going to serve lacrosse football baseball um soccer right in between there and our existing rink what's currently the rack is where we're wanting to build our second sheet of ice so it would be connected to our existing
sheet device and that that facility is that I saw with the park and wreck of Rogers right there correct is that totally them that yes yes it's run and maintained by the city of Rogers they should have gave you guys like part for
the ice arena that's too bad um I know that's why we're we are trying our best to get it one sheep and we are a very very fast-paced growing um Association as you all know oo and Rogers are growing
exponentially because of our location and and I think everybody in this room that's part of the association can agree with me our talent is it's really exciting and it's just so amazing for us it does draw a community together and it's great for kids yes um I would
ask Adam what would the best thing to do be maybe have her reach out to the city mayor I think Miss Rene clarified the the best course of action would be to have discussions yeah uh with all of
the partners that would be on this project and learn more about what the the actual ask or contribution might be but uh again being a a member at the table of those conversations would be step one yeah I I said that out in the
audience too that I think there's a lot of information that like I couldn't find it I was poking around on Rogers and just I couldn't find where your funding source was where how much you're short what are we looking at I mean obviously
it's you could say we're seven million short or something but what does that look like and is that to Capital is it for longevity of it I mean there's a lot of pieces to it and it's in another community and I'm not denying that there's hockey families because I told
you my son played hockey back in the day so um before we even had uh in Arena in Rogers our kids went everywhere else so yeah um this is has this has been going on for a long time he's gonna be 28 yeah well no you're exactly right
Jessica that's the thing is we and something that we why I really want to talk to you guys about today is like yes it's in Rogers but I've I've personally been reaching out to a lot of different hockey associations to see how that looks because yes we want it to be you know a fair and Equitable thing and make
sense for all cities involved and to speak to your point of why it's so hard to find on there it's because truthfully there's a group of parents that are like trying to put together and and do the fundraising and and it's it's it's a lot yeah no absolutely
you're volunteers right exactly so yes okay yeah I mean I I guess I look at it like I think it's fair to say that we should get the stakeholders at Rogers youth hockey we ask for both cities to
sit down what that looks like because to to give you a commitment oh it's just not feasible at this moment and there's a lot of pieces to it and and also intricacies of it not being in our community too so right I think that
we we would have a lot of questions absolutely at rightfully so and by no means expecting any type of answer today we just really wanted to engage you all and understand what we're trying to do what it's about and not because obviously through Pi said we don't want you thinking we're just coming to you
asking for a one-time donation and money it's so much more than that we really have a vision of what this could be as far as a partnership a regional partnership yeah Madam May um would I would caution you though I mean as city as a city council we have to prioritize
you know things Public Safety and absolutely other things so it know that yes understood thank you Ryan I was just goingon to mention I recently attended a a Community Partners meeting for
isd728 and I raised the issue of um as they're considering building that high school if there were an option for local sports team to or organizations to get involved and perhaps uh sponsor you know provide some donations for some various
Sports Fields there um I'm not sure if that's helpful to you because it might be a while um I was politely reminded that there are currently no plans for a high school and not ego because those plans haven't been developed yet but um that may be something worth uh looking
into as well seeing if what the plans are for isd728 if they would be open to being at the table right thank you for that I I would I guess that was going to be my question is that it's owned by Rogers but yet the high school hockey
team uses that yeah so how I mean there's got to be an exchange of funds then that the school is stepping it's it's between High School yes it's parking lot right I bet that's outside M yes but yeah our Rogers Youth Hockey Association includes everything up into
up into high school yes but I don't know the the relationship with the high school teams I think it would be fair to include them at the table too I mean absolutely they're take I mean obviously want our high school kids to have their hockey games but it does take time away from
you guys which then limits your ice time and is sending you to the super rank for example so you but I'd like to see what what their ultimate plans are when you put another high school I you talk about Partnerships for the anything up to high school but then what does that look like
is Right are we going to need to be building an ice Raina here in the city of oigo next to the high school one day too and so you know we have to look at that whole picture so yeah yeah ideally I think it would be amazing to have the city if like let's say the city of Oo we
have our own high school but there's again that home base still like Rogers and oo are already a regional partnership so that's not even on oo's to-do list at that point you know like like other Regional Partnerships well I'm going to direct this to
staff to start that conversation you get to call Rogers they came here I I believe our parking director has your contact so yes I'll be reaching out and uh look forward to meeting perfect okay and thank you all for
attending this evening yeah thank you thanks for n for coming up I'm sure it wasn't easy to do but thanks for the presentation and thanks for the ask so I appreciate that thank you thank you we can lower the podium there's
a does she want to speak in because we won't be able to hear if she doesn't speak in come out or yeah hopefully it goes low enough so we can see her oh y we're PR first do you want to pull the microphone
down to you hi my name is Mela Morgan I play for the u8 golfers I want a second sheet so I do not have to practice at other
ranks anywhere else I want to become a pro player and have a new rank will help me and all of my teammates do
that thank you thank you good job good job thank you I hope one day you do become a pro hockey player we'll have to hopefully somebody in the audience record all right uh we are still at open Forum
any other comments All right we will close open forum and move to item two to consider our agenda for approval does anyone have anything that they would like to add or delete at this time and just for audience members you're welcome to stay but if you also want to leave you're welcome to do that
too thank you thank you thank you thank you we'll just pause for a second let them get out just for the noise all right item two consider agenda for approval yes I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as written sir second
second motion by Corey seconded by Tina is there any discussion M mayor I'd like to bring down item 3.4 we can make that 4.2 any other discussion all those in favor signify by
saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes moving on to the consent agenda a motion would be in order Adam mayor yes Cory I make a motion to approve the agenda as consent
agenda oh right consent agenda as modified is there a second I second motion by Corey seconded by Michelle is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes
moving on to item 4.1 is a presentation of the wri County Sheriff's Office annual report good evening mayor and Council good even good evening Lieutenant Jeff mcmackin and I'm the district Lieutenant uh for the oigo area and uh hopefully
you all got some time to enjoy the nice weather today before we get back to Winter probably um I'm going to go through our annual report for 2024 pretty informal so if at any point anybody has any questions just
shout them out to me or throw a pencil at me or something to get my attention here um first couple Pages this is just our our mission statement and our guidance principles for the Sheriff's Office and
then the next page here is just a little letter from our Sheriff Shan daringer um giv some little background information about our Sheriff's Office and the next page here goes over kind of the the contract history and and
rates with our Sheriff's Office so um in January of 2023 was the last time we made any sort of changes to our contract and we've been providing 50 hours of coverage per day since then was about 18,200 hours a
year and that comes at with a 2025 cost of Just a Touch over $2 million there was a $5 an hour rate increase trans like about four and a half percent or so for this year this next slide here is just a
general overview of some quality of life type calls for service um um overall kind of the theme Here some some areas grew a little bit bit some
shrink a little bit overall stay pretty pretty consistent uh there's no no huge swings one way or another here um alarms were up about 15% we're seeing more alarms at businesses
uh somewhat of note uh given the population increase recently is you're about the only Community to experience a reduction in medical calls um it was small only 21 less than than 2023 but uh
those are something that other communities are seeing like a 10% growth in so and coupled with your population growth we we would have expected to see more not less um overall we responded to just shy
of 9,000 calls for a service uh last year in the in the city that is a very slight reduction from uh 2023 it's about 3% less that didn't quite translate to the number of reports we we wrote U where
we're pretty much even for 2023 uh at SEO traffic related calls um this is again one that uh uh some numbers kind of changed categories but overall uh we stayed pretty consistent of note worthy we had about an increase
of about 50% in our DWIs something we've noticed uh just Sheriff's Office wide we're we have been in remain in one of the top 10 deadliest counties uh for traffic fatalities believe we
had 13 or 15 last year and almost all of those included some some sort of impairment so that's something that as an agency we've just really focused on and uh countywide we had 471 DUI arrests last year
which as near as I can tell puts us number five in state U for an agency with the fifth most Bui arrests so that's something sorry just one question did you just quickly did you say it was a 50% increase in DW or
du s listed Ino correct y so in 2023 I believe it was either 35 or 36i arrests we had and then 2024 we had 53 and is there like um hot spots where
that's occurring not nothing that no they've been pretty much all over okay um you know we see more on major roadways and stuff but nothing that's clustered around one particular okay area okay
sorry to interrupt I just wanted to confir thanks yeah just keep the questions coming um Prime instances um again the total number of crime instances from 23 to 24
didn't really change that much just kind of the areas that they uh happened and changed slightly um fraud grew a lot um but that's not unique to ATO we've seen that just across the board in the county Statewide
nationally um there's been a lot of uh cryptocurrency scams going around um that's a new thing and takes a lot of investigative resources to try to track where all of that is going um
our state did pass some laws uh last year that help firsttime victims of cryptocurrency scams so that has been helpful uh in recouping some of that money for those victims otherwise uh the other
noteworthy thing on this uh graph here is burglaries so you're at four for this year 2023 you at I believe 27 so that's a huge reduction 2023 was a little bit unique
um we had a couple of juvenal that were going around breaking into and vandalizing new construction houses so 2023 was an outlier um we did uh catch those juveniles and they were charged and now we're back to much more
reasonable numbers but that is a big change from 2023 next graph just shows uh kind of a comparison of your population growth and calls for service um you'll see uh population has climbed pretty steadily but uh calls for service
surprisingly have not uh kind of matched that population growth we kind of remain relative ly steady there so that's been a nice Trend to see um this lower section here is uh basically just a
typed out version of that graph that compares 23 to 24 so you can see uh burglar 2023 was 27 we're back to four for 2024 so um there was total at the
bottom slight growth in total for 20 24 but uh just the increase in that fraud makes up for for that growth there was uh a lot of stuff that that stayed similar and a lot of stuff that that
reduced fraud and um the sex related crimes are the only two that are that kind of Grew From noteworthy there's I did look into that see if there was some sort of brend or something and it
just seems like a bad year there's not there's not anything really related amongst them Orum Trends to identify there so can you say if it's happening in our neighboring cities at all the same type of increase the in
this is a bigger increase than maybe some other cities have seen but we have seen increases and a lot of the Cities okay yep looks like we dropped substantially in our reg related charges yeah yeah so 2024 is
the first year first whole year that marijuana has not been a crime and so we've seen a lot of drug rated stuff drop all over because we're not seeing marijuana related charges okay I was wondering that yep our special investigation unit they
uh Focus primarily on narcotics but they are plain closed deputies and they will pel help out anywhere where plane closed uh police officers are needed so um it's kind of a breakdown of of things that they did within the city
um overall it's the again one of the we had this they had the same number of calls in your city as they did in 2023 just the areas kind of got moved around but that's just um as as we need them so
our Major Crimes investigation unit that is a fancy name for our crime scene unit and they did see a reduction of calls in ATO in 2024 and that's primarily because they did not respond to nearly as many
burglaries so they played an integral role in 2023 and kind of helping um solidify those cases against those juveniles and and gather evidence and stuff so um you'll see uh deaths are uh death and
crashes are kind of the the two biggest response categories for them um that is pretty consistent amongst all communities they'll respond to any sort of unexpected or unwitnessed death and just kind of help document things and try to answer any questions we can for
the families and our criminals criminal investigations division or kind of a breakdown of their call Lo um this graph or this chart here is pretty consistent with our 2023 there is
an overall reduction in the number of cases they handled um uh but uh kind of the types of cases here are all pretty consistent and theft by and large remains uh that the top one again
nothing that's unique to ATO but uh retail theft has has definitely been on the rise for several years our school resource officers so uh oigo has one uh SRO that's in our The
prair View schools um they saw a very slight increase in the number of calls they handled um an additional two in 2024 but again the breakdown uh is pretty consistent year over-year and from
school to school pretty consistent with what they're saying and this last page just gives a comparison to a couple of other neighboring cities um Os or excuse me iGo monello and St
Michael um by population monel is probably the smallest there but uh they have the bigger numbers um just uh being right on the interstate and a much larger uh kind of commercial industrial type area that
contributes to that um otherwise there's not much that stands out particularly noteworthy to me on here but uh if there's anything any questions I can be happy to answer them I have one question sure uh regarding school resource
officers so I know that obviously well all kids in opo go to I shouldn't say majority of the kids go to Rogers which is hennipen county does if an incident with that SRO officer which would be the city of
Rogers does that get transferred to the city of aigo so you're aware of it or how would what's the conversations that the two different uh departments have are you involved in any of that since those are
oo kids yeah so um Deputy hegerty is the SRO that's at schools in oigo here I know he does have a relationship with the excuse me the Rogers SRO um and they do communicate uh regarding some of
those kids um I don't I guess I'm hesitant to say exactly how frequent or often that is but I do know they have a relationship and at least when they feel necessary they they freely share information okay I mean I just because
when you look at some of the things about loss of property so it's obviously potentially could be happening at Rogers but some of the items might end up here at their home in oo so I I didn't know what or I just had a question on that so yeah absolutely good
question um I don't actually I don't actually know the answer to that question I'm going to guess that the answer is no but uh I can look into that and go back to you but uh we
uh we didn't hear the answer or the question so could you repeat it he asked IFA was number one for fireworks complaints you get back to us on that yeah yeah uh I it at a council meeting
is what it was so generally um I'm just trying to think back around the Fourth of July and I I remembered thinking to myself that we have had we haven't had nearly the number of fireworks complaints countywide that we
have had in previous years so I don't necessarily know that that was due to a reduction in the number of fireworks being launched because there was still a lot of those it did rain on the fourth of July this last year so that made it ru yeah for sure it rains all
day could be okay does any oh I just have one last page here um this just breaks down uh calls by time of day um nothing super noteworthy here um real early morning is
is uh you know 2 three four o'clock in the morning is our slowest time kind of peak in the evening hours that's uh pretty Universal Al uh the the norm of what we see and then calls by day of week this does vary by from Community to
community and I have no idea why um you are more consistent than probably any other city with just that that there's not a like a an out yeah an outlier of a a day um all those bars are at about the same
height so and the last page is just contact information for uh all of f staff at the Sheriff's Office does anyone have any questions oh just really appreciate it welcome do SEO this was uh your first
time in front of us right yeah it was yeah and thanks for having me I always enj the opportunity to talk about the work we do in your city so thank you thank you thank you all right moving on to item 4.2 was item
3.4 right yes madame mayor I just wanted to bring this down so a separate vote could occur I oppose this action because our city is able to receive excellent service from our existing contract providers at a price point that is cost efficient for the taxpayer is there a motion on yeah I'll make Tina
motion to approve pay application number two in the amount of 49 20 for work completed on the fire and emergency services facility project I'll second motion by Tina seconded by Corey is there any
discussion Madam mayor Cory uh I'll say that you know everybody has their own opinion and they're they're welcome to it I appreciate council member dlabs so point a view on this but
um I do have a hard time with once we've you know got something passed and each and other week going back at it and calling these out which that's his prerogative but it's unproductive to me we have a lot other um
responsibilities and uh considerations that that our constituents also care about so um that's why I'm voting forward to approve this and want it to comment thank you any other comments M mayor I would
just say I guess I I would be willing to stick with these types of commitments and then part of the as part of this motion and the project but that's not the motion that's before me um if this is approved and I'm sure it
will be the total spend will be $1.9 million to have a oneperson fire department with no station and no trucks yet um we can stop the bleeding anytime we want I think that's what we should do so I'm going to exercise my right to vote
no any other comments all those in favor signify by saying I I I I all those oppos same sign I motion passes 4 to1 moving on to Administration 5.1 is a
cold storage facility Adam mayor council thank you uh in front of you tonight is an RCA uh to authorize a public bidding process on the cold storage project so uh we do have Jake uh W from W here this evening
so I'm going to pull up a presentation from him uh very similar to the materials that are in your packet uh so uh everything that you'll see on the screen is already in your packet but with that I'm going to turn it over to Jake and then uh we can go connect with good evening good evening mayor council
members uh Jake BC for those who have not met me I'm a project manager architect at Gold Architects and Engineers um over the last couple of months we've been uh working on the bid package and construction documents for the public works uh cold storage
facility um if you go to the next slide please uh so the first image here is just the overall campus plan and you can see in the orange up on the top of the plan uh where the plan Cold Storage would uh would be going on the site uh just kind of north of the salt
Shad um I do have a schedule on here as well I can just run through that I think today Adam mentioned we're asking for Council approval to go out for bed um car Anderson would be uh publishing the bidding documents and looking to get bids from interested contractors at the
end of uh March looking at March 18th potentially for bid opening um and then looking to get approval and recommendations to the city for final approval of contracts uh March 24th and I think that schedule's um still in play
but could change depending on new factors so uh with that I'll go to the next plan the site plan here just shows the uh building a little closer up you can see um some of the pavement there's really uh limited pavement throughout
the site I think it's a mainly gravel um in and around the building and then on the right side there uh is an overhang which you'll see in some pictures in a moment um for uh protecting material and equipment that the public works department has uh we are doing are proposing to do that slab as an
alternate uh just to see what the pricing is and if uh we can afford it it would be I think a valuable asset to the facility to have that section paved underneath the overhang but all in all a pretty simple building another another maybe site component I'll note this building is pushed up onto the West Side
there's an existing fence line that we would be removing a section of to have the building act as a fence line on that West Side uh and then just reconnecting where the the two ends of the seever fents would be go the next one thank you uh this
isn't the floor plan again it's a pretty straightforward um design it's uh post frame wood construction so um there is no insulation it would be wood posts that go down below the frost line and we would put a concrete pucker foundation
for those to sit on underneath the ground uh there's three doors Two Overhead Doors uh and a concrete slab that uh drains out to those overhead doors um for the interior a few of the elevations here for
your for your reference there's I mentioned the two Overhead Doors a couple of the um the three man doors and then there you can see that overhang of the middle picture on the left and I think the next one Adam should show some of the materials so it
would be a metal clad um building we would propose materials that are similar to The aesthetic of Public Works in City Hall um and so some of those options are called out here for your reference so looking at kind of a base color and then a lighter material on top and then a
dark uh bronze Roo I think that's it so I can open it up for any questions or clarifications but appreciate your your time and consideration I have a question Jake what is um I guess what's the longevity of this
of these materials like Y what are the warranties on them for color fade uh the warranty in the building it is a it's a post frame wood construction so obviously it's not going to stand up to a F3 tornado um but I think the
materials themselves have a the metal materials are going to have a 25 to 30e warranty uh for color fade um but I mean beyond that I'd say the more you protect it and keep good care of it
the longer it'll last like anything else um but I would think yeah 30 to 40 year would if you take care of it would be a good life cycle for this type of building Adam mer yes Cory um my my question might be more for staff um do
we know what the security of of the building would have would it be within a fence or and who would have access to that and what kind of I guess equipment are we storing in there and it's and it's offence
mayor to clarify the question uh there is currently and would continue to be gated access into this part of the the property uh and as Jake mentioned there's uh fencing along the west side that would tie into the building and so the entire area would be uh secure um
and then as far as the doors go there would be similar controls that we have at the current city hall this building and the Public Works uh facility with fob access um and then working with about whether or not there would be any security cameras that would go along
with this project as well what kind of vehicles equipment would it be par Park here could you come to the podium nothing with a gross vehicle
weight over 10,000 am I correct part of the discussion points that uh we had here a number of weeks ago was if we were to store uh any commercial vehicles in there we would have to go with the fire suppression
system which was going to drastically Drive the cost of uh the building up right and so in discussion with with w and Ka uh we would just go about it with as an administrative control that nothing that was a commercial vehicle would be stored in there so it would be
your your lawn your your pickup trucks um everything small than a one ton really would this be sufficient you think for for you for the next decade and is it decade well 20 years 30 years something I'll take what I can get yeah
you know we've been we've been talking about this for for quite some time it's definitely going to help us um I think it buys us buys us some time um so it's going to be some you know equipment that's going to have electrical components and stuff like
that um how are we man managing um the um you know are we putting in some controls at the bottom where because it's because of the type of structure you don't actually have like a concrete Ridge that prevents rodents from getting
in you have wood and we all know what happens over time with wood and rodents and stuff like that and and what and water and water yeah well they'll use treated wood which you know um is pretty decent for a number of
years but um but in this scenario have you considered any any type of you know curve even on the inside it helps you know reduce the the transfer or even on the outside um so I think at one point
we were designing this as a pre-engineered metal building and we did have the curb coming up yeah it's almost a stem wall that came up a couple feet off the ground but direct a different price point for that yeah and so now we're kind of back to what you're talking about I can and check to see I
think there's most likely a detail to uh combat some of the issues you're bringing up I will say the grading around the building is sufficient so we're not going to have water pooling or ponding up against the building um but if there's a a different way we could think about that detail just to protect
the the base I don't think it's a bad point yeah it's you if you did it on the outside or you even on the inside just a it's another kind of Roadblock for them right um for getting in worked on these in the past um and then did you guys um
actually spec all wood materials and that type of thing or did you is it a um delegated the it'll be delegated so we yeah okay yeah we've identified the parameters and have a specification okay pin them down to what
they need to do great Kevin what would um what would you guys do with this in the the summertime that with with some of the parking Rec or Park guys work out there too or because they're kind of consider yeah it's
not just storage hocky I didn't mention it there is Lighting on the interior and then on the exterior um as well as pretty minimal on the mechanical side but there is duct work with air intake and exhaust just to
keep it up good work space if people do happen to be in there can you come to the podium sorry Kevin you're the worst audience member long um to your point on we currently have a contract ongoing with
Adams Pest Control so they're at City Hall on a monthly basis anyhow we could just add that to their yeah list of services for sure yeah I definitely do that regardless but the curves does does help slow them down a little bit yeah I think it we can look into it
and I I will uh we can get back to but I think it's a good idea so the Public Works sub committee check this out and it's you guys have any thoughts on it or comments think it's a good thing M mayor I would just
say that I I think uh I won't take any credit staff worked really hard to find something that was um within budget that was you know not ideal but it's something that's going to buy us some time like you said um and I
know that that was not a fun process so I want to thank everybody for for doing that um yeah I'm in full support I think this is something that we can we can use we do need it and it will help us by some time while we figure out what the
next steps are all right any other comments otherwise we have action that we need to take this evening May I'll make a motion thank you thank you thank you thank you yes motion to approve the plans and uh
specifications and Order advertisement for bids for the ATO P storage facility project second second motion by Tina seconded by Ryan is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I
all those oppose same sign motion passes thank you thank you thank you thank you all right next item is item 5.2 The Advisory commission appointments Adam mayor council thank you uh in your packet is a a short RCA kind of aligning the process as uh to what the council
conducted for advisory Commissioners uh you met in interviewed um numerous applicants on February 13th uh staff was directed to prepare a resolution which is in your packet uh there's also kind of an appointment schedule assuming that
the council did approve those uh what the next four years of appointments looks like for each of the four commissions so again there's a resolution in the packet for the council to consider all right also is Madame mayor
yes I'd like to poose a motion to adopt the resolution 202-10 appointing Commissioners to advise your commissions second motion by Michelle seconded by Tina is there any discussion M mayor yes
right um I move to amend the motion striking the line that reads alen Offerman Michelle oh Michelle or t requesting um I'd like to motion uh to
amend the uh resolution 25 202-10 appointing uh Commissioners to advisory uh commissions uh uh without Alan Offerman for the ter you're agree okay are you agreeing
yes second to remove Alan from oh no no no no that's Sor so we can talk about that separ and vote on that separately that we trying to do no his request oh I see was mayor
council said we have a a motion and a second to approve the resolution as written and there is uh a comment uh to amend that and so it would be up to the two individuals if they wish to am that DAV is that
Affair okay summation yeah the original moving party could I guess accept the amendment or if not then there would have to be a second to the motion to amend it so
okay oh misunderstood okay we have a motion a second request for change second right and they don't agree to it mayor so the first motion's on the
table yes right all right is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those oppose same sign I motion passes for okay all right
um P all right uh city council reports and updates Heritage preservation commission Cory thank you madam mayor um we did not meet this month but will'll be meeting in March parks and re
Michelle did not have this month was meting T mon there was couple events that did occur in February attended one of them win FAL another
one the thing winter festival is it now would be FY Festival exactly okay uh planning commissioner Ryan Mad mayor there was no Planning Commission the next meeting is scheduled for Monday March 3rd mayor there will be
no meeting on March 3rd the next most likely meeting date of the Planning Commission would be the first meeting in April at this point you're wiping out March all together huh nothing happening unless something walks in the door at this point so thank you
uh Public Safety commission Tina excuse me let's see um this seems like so long ago um let's see um Brian from Alina was um at our meeting um he mentioned that the
response times are 177% um down so that's a good thing um we're getting to we're responding in a good time so um that is good um we are going
to meet eventually with um Dr Dr Nick Mesa he is the um the medical director for uh St Cloud monello area so um I think I don't know if it was our next meeting or when we're going to but we
eventually we're gonna meet him um as the medical director of um alen um or I should say sorry St Cloud and um monel so looking forward to that um that's about
it that's really about it uh besides Daryl Woods I don't know if uh May 25th the two trucks are coming in unless that's changed but um yeah that's about it thank you all right we are still city council reports and updates does anyone
else have anything Madam mayor yes cor I was just going to mention that I had attended the Elk River chamber um newly elected official and business expo um probably 105 people at Boondocks a lot
of them were from the ed8 of uh do river and Sherburn County so um good friendly meeting nothing too outrageous but s it um three of us this last weekend
attended the Minnesota leago or Minnesota Le of League of Minnesota I'm getting twisted um event in pth um we did talk about it at our Workshop but that was um a good workshop for all of us to go to we talked a lot about
um how to work together as a team um good just a good opportunity for us to network well attended um in our session which was the advanced and I believe I didn't write down the number to you have it was it was a fairly good turnout for
um the newly elected which I know Michelle you attended a few weeks prior to that so um you know some years we get together on that second day and it's the whole group but they did not do that this year so they kept us separate it'd be nice if and maybe I thought they did this one
year where you kind of get together with your neighbors like Dayton or sort of thing they haven't done that for a while that I mean that was really good though yeah and then and as Jeanie said um a lot of us did attend the um open house
which as stated earlier as we talked in the beginning it was well attended there are some concerns that I think we heard from people that were present concerns about the roundabouts and but it really seemed a lot uh centered
around getting people safely from oo over to Albertville that pedestrian um crosswalk area so that that was a a concern and obviously we're up against a bridge that they say is good enough for now but that's a little concerning for
us so more to follow and um Adam did you send did you get a chance to forward the email from the stb club to us the council I will post council meeting yes thank you well you're over there with your mouse so figured do
that thank you so just I mean obviously I think there's just going to be a bigger conversation it sounds like with with a city or county engineer and including the city engineers and councils on what this looks like
so anyone else Madam May yes right um at the last council meeting U my ethics were questioned and an attempt was made to impune my character through certain statements it was claimed that council members should not submit time cards for Council photo session
when those photo sessions occur in the same night as a regular council meeting I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record time cards from February 2023 showing that all council members submitted time cards for a photo session that occurred on the same night as a
regular meeting including the council member who made the accusation against me I asked unanimous consent I didn't hear any objection mayor I don't know if unanimous consent would be required if I
understand council member Dunlap has some documents which I think are currently public record he wants to you know have Audra take possession of copies of those documents um I don't think there's a problem with
that I don't think it has to be attached to the minutes for the meeting or I mean there's no formal record of this meeting other than minutes and the recording so I don't know if there's a process
to formally by vote enter something into the record so I guess it's just a question of but you're asking for this of February of 2023 Ryan correct so I
guess my one comment a question and I I called Adam about this too can we all agree that we never called for a special meeting for those photos Adam sent an email to all of us to say here's when the photos are if I look back at the time cards from February of
2023 Audra sent out I mean it says on the top line that it says special media on it and you write Council photos so so are you questioning if we all got paid in February of 2023 Ryan I'm not
questioning and it's part of the record and I think it's it's more than a little curious that the last time the council all got together for photos every council member put it on their time card but this time I'm the only one that did so it's as if
a conversation occurred without me no I can tell you this much I turn in my time card first audre can you verif by that you did I turned in my time card first you sent me a message the next week that said are you including photos and I said
no so I don't know what anyone else did she asked me I turned in my time card I can't speak for anyone else but I will answer what you are asking and I typically am the first one to do my time card mine is always different so and I've never filled out a
time card before so I didn't know what I was doing mayor uh Council to clarify 2023 it was scheduled as a special meeting this time it was not just given the time uh it was done at the very prior to the very first city council of the meeting uh the
council had not met since December um so we did not call it as a special meeting but did post a notice of quum on the city websit so it was a quorum of the council but not a special meeting no because he sent ases an Emil saying we make that night
work but we wouldn't have had a city council meeting yet correct the the photo session in 2025 was not a called special meeting of the city council there was no call to order there was no motions to adjourn um it was posted as a
notice of Quorum well Madame mayor it was also stated at the last council meeting that council members not allowed to enter under their time cards attendance for meetings when they are not the appointed leaz on or alternate and that this practice of doing so has been a recent occurrence and that only I do
it I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record selected time cards from September 2015 through December 2024 showing 132 instances of council members other than me submitting time cards for attending commission meetings for which they were not the appointed
liaison or alternate or they were the alternate but the Lia was present this includes the very first time card ever submitted which shows that a council member attended a commission meeting to which they were not the leaz on or or alternate and reflects a decade of Precedence mam May yes um in my
statement I never ever said this is all directed at you I was asking for clarification because I noticed that it has changed in the last four years since I have been on
Council you chose to make it about you madam mayor right of the 132 instances 55 of them were approved by the member who made the accusation against me when he was previously on Council and that includes two instances of attendance at a meeting for which he was not the acting
liaison accusations were made against me without any proof being provided my due process rights were not protected and I was given no opportunity to prepare a defense these time cards exonerate me against the baseless accusations levied upon my character and should serve as a
reminder to my colleagues to not make claims about the ethics of fellow council members without having done the research and presenting the evidence Madam mayor Sor what caught my attention in getting up to speed was there were 17 or 19 in instances
where you attended Public Safety commissions and got paid for it that was not the way it worked for the existence of OT seagull so it caught my attention so that's why I was asking for
clarification mad mayor I appreciated the question personally because I'm still figuring things out Madame mayor the the comment that was just made by the member previous is contradicted by the record there were many instances where
council members attended meetings where they were not the liaison or the alternate and it was included on their time card it is not a recent occurrence it occurred on the very first time card Madame mayor I will say again that I was asking for
clarification and people's thoughts on this I wasn't accusatory I was bringing it to the council's attention and my comment would be that if council members in the past have had questions he always accept the time card
so I would tend to agree with I mean these were presented if people had questions which I've talked to you before and I would if anybody did it if I had questions I would ask them directly so we've approved your time cards and so for Corey to ask the
question I don't I guess I'm not sure exactly where it was going but I'm not questioning that you should have been paid for a Ryan if that's if you're thinking I have anything to do with it Madam mayor that was not my attention my intention was going forth what should
we be voting you can't change the past but understand where we're at because it there was a difference from what I observed and how we used to do it that's all May and I think moving forward we need
to again as we stated last time come together and figure things out because um there there's too many there's too many different things going on there's someone saying this someone's saying this and we just need something that is
going to be rectified and moving forward this is what we get period for it is an agenda item Wednesday mayor as requested at the last meeting it is added to the agenda for this Wednesday all right any other city
council reports and updates moving on to staff reports and updates Adam mayor council no additional updates from me tonight okay Adra thank you mayor I have no updates Dave no updates thank you mayor
yeah mayor no update you already told us that I right no updates mayor darl okay all right Kevin have to come the microphone all
right no other updates a motion to adjourn would be in order so moved second motion by Tina seconded by Corey is there any discussion all those in favor signify saying I I close same sign the meeting
is ended thank you all for attending